I picked up what appears to be a dual-height QBus SCSI card (50-pin
connector, and an NCR 5380 chip), labeled as a TDL-12 from T.D.
Systems. Can't find anything much on the 'net (there was a posting to
classiccmp a few years ago...). Anyone out there have any info on this?
Thanks,
Josh
On 19 Jan, 2009, at 05:10, cctalk-request at classiccmp.org wrote:
>> The steel parts are fine, but the rest has a white material over
>> most
>> of it. I'm not sure what sort of metal it is, looks a bit dark for
>> aluminum but the white material looks similar to aluminum oxidation.
>> What's a good approach to cleaning it up?
>
> I seem to recall that the drums on 02x keypunches were brownish
> (probably an anodized coating) and silver-metallic if you scratched
> them or they wore through. I suspect that the drum is a magnesium-
> aluminum die casting.
>
I always through they were rubber covered, but from the picture it
looks like I'm wrong. My 836 (like an 026) came without its drum and I
was told that all leased machines had their drums removed and the
customer got to dispose of the rest. Maybe it was rubbish. A couple of
them have come up on eBay in the last five years and both went for
silly money which to me means there are more keypunches than drums.
Roger Holmes.
Hi Mike,
?Interested in the 68020 ISA card if it's still available. Thanks.
--- On Mon, 4/6/09, Mike Maginnis <mmaginnis at gmail.com> wrote:
From: Mike Maginnis <mmaginnis at gmail.com>
Subject: A few free items
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic Posts Only" <cctech at classiccmp.org>
Date: Monday, April 6, 2009, 5:02 PM
A few items to give away.
I came across a box of stuff as I was cleaning out the server room.
Might be of interest to someone, might not.? I'd prefer local pickup
(Denver, CO area), but could be persuaded to ship if you cover S/H.
* CHIPS Enhanced Graphics Card Rev 1.0
???
* Headland Technology 16-bit ISA VGA video card VGA-16 650-0122 (c) 1988
* GPIB IEEE-488 board, unknown manuf. 8-bit ISA.? "6323706 REV A
667523" printed on PCB, next to a logo like a palm tree with a small
"2" next to it.
* Adaptec AHA-1542B 16-bit ISA SCSI card
* Unknown board from "The Palantir Corporation" (c) 1988 - has a
Motorola 68020.? 16-bit ISA.? Maybe a co-processor board?
* 5 9-track tapes,3M and Memorex. One is labeled "MultiNet 3.2 Rev A",
another "MultiNet 3.2, Rev B".? Others are hand-labeled.? No idea
what's actually on them.? They probably haven't been used since the
early 90's.
All of these items are untested and provided AS IS.? Anything
unclaimed goes to the recycle bin.
I'll put some images up tonight when I get home from work, if anyone's
interested.
- Mike
A few items to give away.
I came across a box of stuff as I was cleaning out the server room.
Might be of interest to someone, might not. I'd prefer local pickup
(Denver, CO area), but could be persuaded to ship if you cover S/H.
* CHIPS Enhanced Graphics Card Rev 1.0
* Headland Technology 16-bit ISA VGA video card VGA-16 650-0122 (c) 1988
* GPIB IEEE-488 board, unknown manuf. 8-bit ISA. "6323706 REV A
667523" printed on PCB, next to a logo like a palm tree with a small
"2" next to it.
* Adaptec AHA-1542B 16-bit ISA SCSI card
* Unknown board from "The Palantir Corporation" (c) 1988 - has a
Motorola 68020. 16-bit ISA. Maybe a co-processor board?
* 5 9-track tapes,3M and Memorex. One is labeled "MultiNet 3.2 Rev A",
another "MultiNet 3.2, Rev B". Others are hand-labeled. No idea
what's actually on them. They probably haven't been used since the
early 90's.
All of these items are untested and provided AS IS. Anything
unclaimed goes to the recycle bin.
I'll put some images up tonight when I get home from work, if anyone's
interested.
- Mike
Hi Eric,
Good day to you !
I found you through internet google under TDX FORMAT TAPES. These
tapes are use for Production Test Program using Sentry Tester.
Can I help you? What are going to do with these Tapes? I maybe able
to help you.
We are specialized in providing service to our Customers to
repair/service Sentry Testers and as well as software development.
Regards,
Jimmy Lim
CHERTEC SEMICONDUCTOR SERVICES
Tel: +65-67491633
Fax: +65-67478429
21 Apr.2009
I probably posted this before but, its been awhile so, here I go again.
I have a Litton Monroe OC-8820 I would really like to play with. Only
problem is no OS. It is an early 80's cp/m box. If anyone has access to
a copy of the boot disks I would really love a copy. A few Monroe
applications would make my day.
There was a member of this list, Warren Wolfe (wizard at voyager.net) ,
that posted about having one of these around 2007. That email just
bounces now and I can't find any trace of him since then. If anyone has
a new email address for Warren hopefully he can help me.
Does anyone here want an 8250 UART? Free for shipping.
--
David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu
A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
It's good to be back. I had to unsub because I changed jobs and lost my
old email address, evidently just as subscriptions went AWOL.
Preface: This is for a commercial environment, and work will be more than
pleased to pay for anything we can use.
The short version is that I need to support the HP/Agilent SmarTest
suite on HP-UX 11.0 or later or Linux, controlling an HP83000 test frame.
That requires a driver for the PCI optical interface to the 83000
mainframe. The card is marked E2777B, p/n A3850-0583 (SmarTest will not
run if the interface is not detected). As far as I've been able to
determine, there's no publicly released driver for any OS but 10.20, nor
documentation for the interface card sufficient to write a driver
in-house. The only drivers we've found come with the SmarTest suite.
The problem is that SmarTest for the HP83k is only known to run in
HP-UX 10.20, and 10.20 does not run at all on the PA-8700 CPUs in the
j6700. There are patches to enable PA-8700, but they can be applied
only to HP-UX 10.26 ("trusted" HPUX) and 10.30 (which HP apparently
distributed for a VERY brief time).
Our preferred solution would be to run SmarTest on HPUX 11i (or Linux
or anything that will run on a machine faster than a C3600).
One of our engineers is convinced that there was, probably internal
to Agilent, a version of SmarTest that supported HP-UX 11.0 and the
HP83K. However, Agilent has sold all that to another company which
would basically like to forget that the HP83000 ever existed.
Finally, although the HP83000 API is well-documented and there is
software to replace SmarTest, this company has a huge investment in
SmarTest test programs and would like to avoid porting them. Same goes
for moving to HP93000 test frames or later, with the addition expense of
the hardware.
So. I'm looking for, in order of preference:
A Linux version of SmarTest (which exists) *with* kernel drivers for
the E2777B interface card (which Verigy denies exists).
A 64-bit HP-UX 11/11i driver for that card. Extra points if it's ia64.
Someone who has the resources and immediate time to develop one of
the above, or to design a "shim" such that SmarTest running on Linux
connects to the C3600 with the optical interface but thinks it's talking
to the card.
A copy of HP-UX 10.30 or 10.26 for s700. Actually, I think 10.26 was
available only for s800.
Again, we're not looking to bypass or violate any licensing or
copyright. We just can't locate even anyone who will discuss this.
Doc Shipley
Does anyone have a pet source for:
DM74S287
DM74S571
??
Jameco has the first part number at 13.00 each (ouch) and there are some
on eBay at nearly that. The 571 seems to be pure unobtanium, unless you
count 50 hits of *&ssholes who want you to submit an RFQ and won't deal
under $250 a shot.
I need a small number (~5-6) of each.
Steve
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