test-drb August 2009

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169 discussions

by oldcpu＠rogerwilco.org

David Ryskalczyk, on Thu Aug 27 23:24:24 CDT 2009 said > > Looks like direct reply failed so I'm posting to the list: > > Can you hold on to this one for a day or two? I assume it's working. > Also are any peripherals included? > On Aug 28, 2009, at 12:15 AM, "Curt @ Atari Museum" <curt at atarimuseum.com > > wrote: > > > > I need to make room in the garage, so my spare 11/750 has to go, > > includes a box of tu58 tapes, a crate of spare boards, a stack of > > dec schematics and technical print outs, some admin binders. Its > > {snip} Ooo...TU58 tapes, for/from an 11/750! Are these by any chance the various diagnostic and maintenance tapes, i.e. BD-xxxxx-DE numbers? Finding images of that whole 11/750 series has so far been unfruitful for me, and, as it turns out, I'm just about ready (finally, after nearly two years of infrequent fiddling with faulty power supplies) to fire up my 11/750 for the first time. I'd think it would be A Good Thing to have those tapes for checking everything out. If those tapes are indeed the diagnostics, I'm up for assisting in getting them imaged. So far I have been able to gather (with the gracious help of Barry M.) tapes: 1,2,3,5,6,7,8,9,17,20,33,41,33,44 and 51. I'd like to fill the gaps and will happily put my functioning TU58 drive to work getting more images if that is possible. Also, I'm looking for some blank/scratch TU58 tapes if anyone has some gathering dust. Happy to cover shipping, etc. Many thanks. -- Jared

15 years, 3 months

Looking for measured power consumption of some old DEC minicomputers

by jgkoomey＠stanford.edu

I've emailed Ed Thelen at the computer history museum to contact the PDP1 restoration team. How can I get in touch with Rich Alderson? Thanks, Jon Jonathan Koomey wrote: > I got measured power data for the DEC PDP-1 > > Power use > Watts > 1960 Digital PDP-1 2160 From Gordon Bell I'm sure the PDP-1 restoration team would be happy to give you the figures for the machine running at the CHM. > 1975 DEC PDP-10 (KL10/DEC2060) Rich Alderson should be able to get the figures for the 2065. Also, are you just talking about the CPU, or including peripherals? __________________________________ Jonathan G. Koomey, Ph.D. Project Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Consulting Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University P.O. Box 20313 Oakland, CA 94620 (Please Email me to get a street address before mailing anything that has time urgency to it) 510-654-9634 Home and office 510-547-7860 Msg/fax 510-708-1970 Cell jgkoomey at stanford.edu numbers at numbersintoknowledge.com http://www.numbersintoknowledge.com http://www.analyticspress.com/ http://www.koomey.com

15 years, 3 months

PCI RS232 Card With Vista 64-bit Support

by nico＠farumdata.dk

> Does anyone know of an inexpensive PCI card with two RS232 ports which has > a > Vista 64-bit driver? I have so far found this: > http://www.roalan.com/Serial%20RS232%20Comms%20PCI%20PCI-X%203.3V%2064%20Bit > %20Cards.htm#200LP. It looks OK but I would prefer one that actually has > the > ports built into the blanking plate, rather than have a cable dangling out > the back, and a little bit cheaper would be nice too. > You can find the boards at http://www.moxa.com/product/PCI_Boards.htm Drivers can be found at http://www.moxa.com/support/software_type_c.aspx?os_id=71&pl_id=22 Nico

15 years, 3 months

PCI RS232 Card With Vista 64-bit Support

by robert.jarratt＠ntlworld.com

Does anyone know of an inexpensive PCI card with two RS232 ports which has a Vista 64-bit driver? I have so far found this: http://www.roalan.com/Serial%20RS232%20Comms%20PCI%20PCI-X%203.3V%2064%20Bit %20Cards.htm#200LP. It looks OK but I would prefer one that actually has the ports built into the blanking plate, rather than have a cable dangling out the back, and a little bit cheaper would be nice too. Thanks Rob

15 years, 3 months

Decwriter LA120 flashing 8

by chrise＠pobox.com

Bringing a Decwriter III LA120 back to life here and it's the first one I've worked on. Mechanically and cosmetically its in great shape but unfortunately, power on yields flashing "8" on the LED display. According to the technical manual this means "Microprocessor Failure". Hmm. Seems there's enough of a microprocessor there to get the display running and flashing 8 but apparently not enough to be a printer. Any words of wisdom as to likely suspects in this failure mode? The technical manual is great-- with lots of tests documented and scope photos etc so I'll eventually get there but of course I am looking for any hints as to common failures that others have already dealt with. Thanks. Chris -- Chris Elmquist

15 years, 3 months

VCF East 6.0 update

by evan＠snarc.net

Hi everyone. Some updates re: VCF East 6.0: Sellam is working on the vintage.org site; he says the problem is his AT&T high-speed connection. A tech is coming to look at it tomorrow morning PST. If it's not fixed then Sellam will temporarily host the site elsewhere. He and I both apologize for the inconvenience. We're up to 18 exhibitors so far, and I've heard that people are coming >from California, Florida, New Hampshire, and Ohio. So, the rest of you cctalkers have no more excuses. :) Looking for lodging nearby the VCF East? Our venue is at 2201 Marconi Rd., Wall, N.J., 07719. There are several mainstream motel/hotel chains nearby. Anyone who arrives Friday night (Sept. 11) to help us set up gets a free VCF t-shirt. This year's shirts are black with a very cool (and funny) server room design in bright green. Vince Briel is still taking registrations for his PockeTerm workshop. It's only $60. While the VCF site is down you can directly access Vince's site at http://www.brielcomputers.com/workshop.html .... the workshop is Sept. 12 at 10am. David Ahl, of the former Creative Computing magazine, will lecture on famous blunders in microcomputer history, Sunday at 1pm. His lecture was an audience favorite at VCF East 4.0 in 2006. Saturday at noon is the first-ever VCF music concert! The warm-up act is MARCH's own Bill Degnan who will perform "Fool on the Hill" on his Altair 8800, exactly as done by Steve Dompier at the Homebrew Computer Club in 1975. The BASIC Programming Challenge. Go wild. Live restoration of an IBM 026 keypunch on our exhibit floor. Bring your kids!! Tickets are FREE for ages 17 and younger. - Evan

15 years, 3 months

VT420 Serial Lines

by healyzh＠aracnet.com

Is there some special setting I'm missing to make both lines talk to a computer, or are some VT420's only capable of talking to a printer on line 2? I typically have two computers plugged into the same terminal, or two lines on the same computer, but with this VT420 I can only get line 1 talking to the computer. Zane -- | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator | | healyzh at aracnet.com (primary) | OpenVMS Enthusiast | | MONK::HEALYZH (DECnet) | Classic Computer Collector | +----------------------------------+----------------------------+ | Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, | | PDP-10 Emulation and Zane's Computer Museum. | | http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ |

15 years, 3 months

Urgent help needed reading 5 1/4" floppies

by len＠shustek.com

The Northern California Innocence Project at Santa Clara University (http://law.scu.edu/ncip/) works to get wrongfully convicted innocent people freed from jail. Such convictions are infrequent, but tragic when they happen. In a case they are working on they just received permission to access reports of interviews done in 1986 which were recorded on 5 1/4" floppies. The problem is that the disks are in storage at the Fresno Department of Justice, and they will be given only one day to examine them there: this Tuesday, or possibly Wednesday. We suspect the disks -- about a dozen -- were written by an IBM PC. But all we know for sure, because we have a photocopy of one label, is that they are DS/DD soft sectored. They are looking for someone reliable who can bring a computer (or more than one?) to Fresno on short notice to read the disks and take copies of the files. Can anyone help? This is a 20-year-old wrongful conviction case and the stakes are very high. If you can help, please email me (len at shustek.com) or call me at home (650-851-3176). Thanks. -- Len Shustek

15 years, 3 months

need to sell off some stuff, sadly...

by dgahling＠hotmail.com

I have the following I need to sell off, contact me off-list if interested. otherwise it's going to CL/fleabay, etc (located in toronto, if that helps) DEC 3000/300 - 1 vaxstation 3100 m76/SPX - 1 vaxstation 3100 m76/non-spx - several (maybe half-dozen) vaxstation 4000/60 - 1 sun sparc 5 (non-ultra) - at least 1, possibly more sun sparc ultra 10 - 1 SGI O2 - 1 nextstation (bare, no ram, no drives, just unit) - 1 and only for a good trade/etc wyse terminals - 2 (I think) non-classic bits: sun sunfire v100 servers - 2 cisco 1605R routers - 2 (I think) cisco 1900 switch, 2501s, others assorted switches/routers - contact me off list if interested I've been out of work too long, need cash, and no longer have space to store this stuff Dan. _________________________________________________________________ Stay on top of things, check email from other accounts! http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9671355

15 years, 3 months

Oops....

by evan＠snarc.net

Sorry folks, the previous message was supposed to be private between Curt and I.

15 years, 3 months

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test-drb August 2009