test-drb March 2010

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seeking DEC digital mps - microprocessor series monitor/control panel

by nigel.d.williams＠gmail.com

http://www.dvq.com/oldcomp/photos2/1k/dec_micro_panel.JPG I find this device quite fascinating (Intel 8008 plugged into a PDP-8 host), if anyone has one surplus I would be interested in negotiating. thanks. www.retroComputingTasmania.com

13 years, 8 months

GNT 3601 tape punch docs?

by chrise＠pobox.com

Probably a stretch but wondering if anyone has any info (manual, pinouts, service documentation) for a GNT model 3601 8-bit (1") paper tape punch. It was probably better known in the CNC / automated machining world than in computing but my hope is to resurrect it as a backup punch for copying tapes I use with my ASR-33 and thereby save wear on the -33's punch. The unit has serial and parallel interfaces on DB25 connectors but I do not have any pinout information for those. The serial one I can probably figure out. Unfortunately, the unit is a little more sick than "works OK" seemed to imply from the eBay seller. It has what I believe to be a power supply problem because as soon as you try to punch all eight holes with the front panel test button, the power LED dims and the punch jams, apparently from lack of umph to complete the mission. It could also be jamming to start with and that causes the power drop I suppose. In any case, looking for any docs before I open it up and start digging around. I have written to GNT without a reply so far. Chris -- Chris Elmquist mailto:chrise at pobox.com

13 years, 10 months

Apple Lisa 1 for sale

by sellam＠vintagetech.com

I have an Apple Lisa 1 for sale. Yes, it has the Twiggy drives. It includes the Twiggy systems OS disks (2), original Lisa 1 manual, keyboard, original Lisa (rectangular button) mouse. It works. Excellent condition. Normally I would not so brazenly hawk something but I need to raise funds for an imminent move of the VCF archives. I'm entertaining any and all offers. At a minimum, there should be three zeroes before the decimal point. Please contact me directly if you're interested. Photos and more detail will be forwarded upon request. Will ship galaxy-wide. Thanks! -- Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org [ Old computing resources for business || Buy/Sell/Trade Vintage Computers ] [ and academia at www.VintageTech.com || at http://marketplace.vintage.org ]

13 years, 10 months

Reading NorthStar Horizon hard sector disks on PC

by marvin＠west.net

> From: "Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com> > Not all Northstar diskettes are HS. One of the models (Advantage?) > isn't--and it's that format that the Microsolutions MatchPoint will > read, not the others. It's been too long since I've seen the darned > things... I think the machine you are thinking of might be the N* Dimension. The Advantage still uses 10-sector floppies. I've never seen the Dimension but vintagemicros on Ebay was selling one a while back and had a picture of it. Apparently it was MS-DOS compatible.

14 years

Looking for CMD CQD-200/TM or CQD-200/M EPROM images

by glen.slick＠gmail.com

Does anyone have a CMD CQD-200/TM or CQD-200/M and an EPROM programmer or other means of reading the EPROM images that could send me a copy? I think I have mostly figured out the CSR decode PAL for a CQD-200/T and programmed a new one and now it responds to both the disk and tape CSRs, but only the tape CSR looks like it has normal values. Maybe I also need to replace the EPROMs with CQD-200/TM or CQD-200/M EPROM images to get it to respond normally to the disk CSR. I have had encouraging results so far doing the same to convert a CQD-220/M into a CQD-220/TM and got it working with both a disk and a tape at the same time. -Glen

14 years, 2 months

PDP8/A for sale

by 1metalguru＠gmail.com

To those interested in my PDP8/A system: It contains: 1 - M8315 Hex Omnibus CPU 1 - H219B 16K Core Memory Module 1 - M8316 Option Board 1 with 1 - KC8AA Programming Panel 1 - M8317 Option Board 2 bootstrap 1 - M8342 Parallel Control 1 - M8357 RX8E Omnibus Interface 1 - M8326 Inter-processor Buffer 1 - PDP8/A Field Maintenance Print Set. 1 - PDP8 Internal Bus Options Maintenance Manual Vol 2 I am accepting offers to purchase this unit. I live in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. I have checked with UPS and Xpress Post and shipping to the continental United States would start at approximately $100, assuming a package 24x24x12 weighing 60 lbs. I also have a PDP8/I WO25 Core Memory Module mod 30-05256-2 made by Data-Ram Corp.: Darrell

14 years, 2 months

VMware appliances

by jfoust＠threedee.com

I was curious to see if anyone mentioned VMware as an emulation environment on this list. The archives show a brief conversation about it in 2002 regarding whether it could run OS/2. I've been using it for a client's servers for the past few months and it is mind-blowing. Drag-and-drop, super-fast start and stop of entire virtual servers. One of VMware's demo appliances is a DOS environment running old games. Linux large and small is a common OS in appliances, too. With the free VMware Workstation version, you can easily click-click and be running a downloaded appliance. So why aren't we using VMware appliance images to exchange pre-made, pre-set environments for running emulated OSes? - John

14 years, 2 months

Drive recovery

by jfoust＠threedee.com

Just my luck! I'm making the final backup copy of my old Mac G3, and one of the drives dies, and my other backup wasn't. I take it apart - it's a 20 gig IBM Deskstar DTLA-305020, just old enough for the (cough) ten-year-rule, and well-known prone to two modes of failure, click of death and NVRAM failure. I'm hearing the NVRAM failure sound as shown at: http://www.dataclinic.co.uk/ibm-deskstar-hard-disk-drive-data-loss.htm In googling, I saw one reference to someone replacing the 8-pin NVRAM themselves from a donor drive, but that seems risky to me. I think I'll send it to Gillware.com, a Madison, WI-based recovery place. They offer $400-700 Windows recovery but charge a premium for Mac recovery ($700-$1000) and Linux ($800-1000), with the higher price for "clean room recovery". (Hmm, I thought bits were bits.) Any other advice - besides a better backup strategy? - John

14 years, 2 months

HP-IB, Amigo/cs80, again, connectors

by emu＠e-bbes.com

OK, another question : a cheap source for the hp-ib, gpib connectors ? What I found so far is in the $ 20 range. (through hole, right angle, receptacle, ...) Cheers & Thanks

14 years, 3 months

I'm,looking for PDP-11 CPU tests

by brain＠jbrain.com

I sent the DEC ROM info to the VT220 Font author, and he responded with thanks and also wanted to know if anyone had PDP-11 CPU tests. I noted he might want to join here, but I thought I'd start the ball rolling on his request. Jim -- Jim Brain, Brain Innovations (X) brain at jbrain.com Dabbling in WWW, Embedded Systems, Old CBM computers, and Good Times! Home: http://www.jbrain.com

14 years, 3 months

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