test-drb June 2009

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Fwd: [alt.folklore.computer] Workstation Computervision CDS 3000-20

by legalize＠xmission.com

This message has been forwarded from Usenet. To reply to the original author, use the email address from the forwarded message. Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2009 09:58:10 -0700 (PDT) Groups: alt.folklore.computer From: rainer at terpe.de Org: http://groups.google.com Subject: Workstation Computervision CDS 3000-20 Id: <1c674f21-02d6-4b7a-b81e-26a45e73e2b2 at l32g2000vba.googlegroups.c om> ======== I do not have time enough and I do not have space enough. Therefor I really want to offer my very old workstation Computervision CDS 3000-20. The workstation is made of 2 seperate devices, one device contains mainboard with CPU board, memory board and interface boards, the other device contains hard disk drive and magnetic tape drive. There is also a huge CRT and keyboard. Inside the workstation there is a SUN 2 working. This offer includes various magnetic tapes and some documintation also. I'm not able to say a lot about technical condition because I haven't switched on the workstation for some years. The installation effort is quite high. If someone is interested or is knowing someone who could be interested, please answer to me. I really do not want to scrap this machine. Kind regards, Rainer

15 years, 1 month

1964 Antique MODEM Live Demo

by vp＠drexel.edu

Jim Battle <frustum at pacbell.net> wrote: > Golan Klinger wrote: > > Disclaimer: I wouldn't normally post this sort of thing but I'm > > confident it will be of interest to more than a few on this list. > > > > "1964 Antique MODEM Live Demo" > > <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9dpXHnJXaE> > > Something weird there -- at 6:20 or so, he has a URL on the screen. It > looks to me like "http://ww.wikipedia.org". And it connects. But it is > "ww" not "www". There is no reason for him to go and fake it, but it > bugs me nevertheless. Maybe the missing "w" was mangled by line noise. In this session, echoing is done by the remote system (that is why we don't see the passwords), so it is possible that he typed the "w", but the echo had a parity error and was dropped by the terminal emulator. Remember these modems do not do any error correction, so any line noise results in mangled characters. Nevertheless, line noise usu results in strings of mangled characters, but 300 baud may be slow enough that only one was damaged. BTW 300 baud? Isn't 1964 a bit early for 300 baud? **vp

15 years, 1 month

For pickup: VAX-11/750 and RK07

by pat＠computer-refuge.org

I've got a VAX-11/750 and DEC RK07 that I picked up from a friend a few months ago, which I need to divest myself of. Both have some issues; I'm not sure what the issue is with the RK07 (though I do have the service manual for the drive), and the 11/750 has some sort of issue with its console. I haven't touched either one, this is what the previous owner has told me. They're available free for pickup, or I can deliver them within about an hour's drive of here for some gas money. The machines are in West Lafayette, IN 47906, USA. If they aren't gone by Sunday, June 14th, they'll go on ebay. Pat -- Purdue University Research Computing --- http://www.rcac.purdue.edu/ The Computer Refuge --- http://computer-refuge.org

15 years, 1 month

TI Silent 700 model 733 manual

by hamren＠sdu.se

> If I remember correctly, someone was looking for a TI 733 manual. That was me, a few weeks ago. > I found one today while sorting some boxes. Which manual did you find? I am looking for a service/repair manual. I already have "Model 733 ASR/KSR Operating Instructions, 959227-9701, Rev C" revised October 1974. > This is the large TI terminal, not the portable one. Mine is the large one with casette drives, pictured here: http://www.sdu.se/computer-automation-museum/pub/gallery/ti--silent-733-asr… Thanks in advance /Lars Hamr?n

15 years, 1 month

Master of Orion (was: PDP 11/73 on the Internet)

by ethan.dicks＠gmail.com

On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 12:09 AM, Zane H. Healy<healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote: > At 2:36 PM -0400 6/6/09, Ethan Dicks wrote: >> >> I happen to enjoy playing corny-looking games, but I happen to own >> original copies and was playing them when they were the latest thing. >> I still have Master of Orion I close at hand, plus a few others. > > Take a look at the Mac version if you can find it. That might be a little bit obscure, but I'll look for it. I never did much Mac gaming, mostly Risk and NetTrek (and the occasional Infocom game). > ?I forget just how large > of a screen it supports, but it's most of a 1024x1280 display (not all). Nice. > ?Same with Warlords II, while on DOS you're limited to 640x480 for both. Yeah. I remember playing a lot of DOS games, and they held their own until 800x600 became the norm. Thanks for the tip. -ethan

15 years, 1 month

Rescue Fwd: pld IBM P/S2 model 30 computer

by jfoust＠threedee.com

If interested, respond to Sue below. >From: "Sue Brenner" <suelaughs at cox.net> >To: <jfoust at threedee.com> >Subject: pld IBM P/S2 model 30 computer >Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2009 09:09:21 -0700 > >Greetings, > >I have an old IBM P/S2 Model 30 in excellent working order I trying to find a home for. >The monitor is the 8512 IBM color monitor. > >I live in the Phoenix area in Arizona. > >The exact model and serial number are: >Model : 8530-021 >Serial: 72-1134784 > >It is all the original issue except I added a Paradise VGA 16-bit internal card along the way. > >If you could put it to good use or know someone who would, I would be glad to arrange to get it to you. > >Jonathan Brenner ><mailto:gthalo at aol.com>gthalo at aol.com ><mailto:gthalo at cox.net>gthalo at cox.net > >

15 years, 1 month

free to a good home (York, UK)

by pete＠dunnington.plus.com

I've been tidying up again. Always a bad idea, and now I can't find shelf space for the following. All are free to collect from York, or I could post them if you pay P&P: HP JetDirect card, J2552-60001, 10Mb/s with BNC (10base 2), RJ45 (10baseT) and 8-pin mini-DIN (LocalTalk) connectors. Worked fine last time it was in a printer, but hasn't been tested in "quite a while". NEC Multspin CD-ROM drive. Takes a caddy (which I can supply), and may support 512-byte sectors -- ISTR using this to boot SGIs in the distant past. Worked last time I used it but that was years ago. Matrox G45 dual head VGA AGP card (G45FMDHA32DB). I used to use this for photo editing. IIRC it has 32MB on board. Sinclair Spectrum Centronics printer interface, made by Computers For All. Untested, but worked last time I used it. Lear Siegler ADM 5 Dumb Terminal Video Display Unit Users Reference Manual, March 1981. Looks almost new. Cromemco manuals: -- D+7A Input/Output Module Instruction Manual -- 16FDC Floppy Disk Controller Instruction Manual (I have two of those 16FDC manuals, for some reason) US Robotics Sportster 14400 Fax Modem, with PSU. V32bis + V42bis. Plessey Peripheral Systems PM-DDV11/B and PM-DDA11/B Disc Drives Manual for 5 Megabyte 1500 RPM Front Loader. Pair of spare heads for an RL01 drive. Used, taken from a working drive that was cannibalised. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

15 years, 1 month

UNIX on PDP-11s

by bqt＠softjar.se

Pete Turnbull <pete at dunnington.plus.com> wrote: > On 04/06/2009 19:43, Dave McGuire wrote: >> Wasn't the MSCP driver backported from 2.11BSD to something earlier? >> Hmm, come to think of it, I think that was 2.9BSD, not V7. >> >> Hmm, MSCP on my PDP-11/24. 8-) > > Yes, with a high-speed RD52 for authenticity ;-) Not possible. The only MSCP controller DEC did for Unibus was to SDI (tha UDA50). The only MSCP to MFM controller DEC did was for Q-bus (the RQDX series). 3rd party manufacturers also made MSCP controller for Unibus to SCSI. Might be that something more also exist, but I doubt very much you could find one to MFM. Johnny -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol

15 years, 1 month

Classic mac fun (and some questions)

by zmerch-cctalk＠30below.com

Rumor has it that Brian Lanning may have mentioned these words: >Does anyone make a scsi floppy drive that I could put in my external >enclosure? Do these even exist? What about zip/jaz/syquest drives? The only ones I know of were used in DEC machines, it was a standard floppy drive mounted into a "bridge board" which endowed the lowly floppy with "Super SCSI Powers!" ;-) They're tough to find (well, maybe not _around here_) and I do not know if they supported booting from them; but they do exist. In times past, I owned SCSI Zip drives, one each internal & external. Not sure if I even still have them; but they certainly exist and might be easy (if not cheap) to acquire thru ePay. I had kept the internal one for one of my CoCos "just in case" I acquired a SCSI card for it, but now that I have IDE, I'm torn whether to set it up with an available IDE zip drive I have, setup an IDE Castlewood Orb for that purpose, or inform my wife that I "Really Need[TM]" an upgrade for a my Nikon D70, so I could use my 1G compact flash cards currently allocated to that task for the CoCo. Hope this helps, Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- Roger "Merch" Merchberger | Anarchy doesn't scale well. -- Me zmerch at 30below.com. | SysAdmin, Iceberg Computers

15 years, 1 month

Radio Shack Science Fair manuals

by hall99＠windstream.net

Hi: I ran across your posting for Radio Shack Manual for a 28-249 200 in One Electronic Project Lab. I have the Lab and an 11 year old grandson, but no manual. Can you help me locate one? R Hall Nebraska

15 years, 1 month

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