test-drb June 2010

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CS/SS-80 HP-IB Bering 8940 Econopac 4Gb on Ebay in CA

by rdbrown＠pacific.net.au

Bering 8940 Econopac 4gig Fixed Disk Drive rev. B S/N 0206A005 Item number:380244025020 Item location:Irwindale, CA, United States www.bering.com/doc/brochure/econopac.pdf www.bering.com/doc/man/econ8000.pdf

14 years, 6 months

Amiga 1200, some AV gear, and some test equipment from CL

by brianlanning＠gmail.com

I've been talking to someone who posted an amiga 1200 on craigs list. This is in the chicago area. She has a lot of AV and test equipment also. I have no relation to her, I'm just passing the list along incase anyone is interested. I'm also pasting in a description of the amiga from another thread. Contact her directly (Amy) for pics and details: smittygal7 at hotmail.com The seller replied with some pictures. It's a normal amiga 1200 with a GVP (jaws) 68EC030-40 accelerator without a scsi controller. Unknown ram. It's the model that didn't come with a hard drive, although one has almost certainly been added. There's a vga adapter on the back of the 1200, but it appears that it's not a flicker fixer. They probably had it attached to a monitor that would sync low enough. She's including a 1084s monitor with the machine. The tower has two time base corrector boards installed in what looks like an 8086 type clone motherboard. I'm guessing this because it has the fat 5150 style keyboard connector. Chances are, this motherboard is there only to make the power supply spin up and to provide ISA slots to power the TBC boards. I was hoping it was some sort of expansion chassis that could add zorro or video slots to a 1200, but no dice. 1. Datacom Technologies ET-2 V.35 Error Rate Test Set, brand new wtih manual, case, power pack, etc... 2. Used, Black Box SAM 232-60 3. Plantronics Wilcom Model T336B Circuit Test Set 4. ADK A Joslyn Company 720- TEST Adam-720 test set 1. SHARP XG-E1200U LCD Projector BRAND NEW in BOX w/REMOTE 2. Yamaha RX 595 Natural Sound 2ch stereo Reciever 3. Astrodesign Inc. Digital Video Generator VG-814 GREAT CONDITION, LIKE BRAND NEW 4. Plantronics Wilcom Digital Circuit Test Set M#:T336B 5. TOA-9000 Power Amp/Mixer/Matrix BRAND NEW IN BOX 6. SONY STR-GX800ES HI-FI FM/AM STEREO RECEIVER BRAND NEW 7. Pioneer VSX-3300 2-channel MONSTER Audio/video Receiver/Used in great condition 8. Technics Stereo RS-TR232 Double Cassette GREAT USED 9. Panasonic AG-1960 Pro-line Video Cassette Recorder 10. Onkyo TA-R401 Vintage Stereo Cassette Tape Deck RI 11. Realistic STA-116 Digital Synthesized AM/FM Stereo Reciever 12. Panasonic PV-S7670 BRAND NEW IN BOX SUPER VHS-VCR 13. Panasonic Omnivision Video Cassette Recorder PV-4464 Brand new in box 14. SENCORE CR70 UNIVERSAL CRT ANALYZER AND RESTORER 15. Panasonic Professional Video Cassette Player AG-5100-P new in box 16. Denon Audio CD/Cassette Combi-deck- BRAND NEW IN BOX 17. Tenma Monitor Tester 16 Scan Formats 72-1070 brand new 18. Tenma Dummy Loader 72-4060

14 years, 6 months

DEC RQZX1 and KDJ11-E boot problem?

by bqt＠softjar.se

"Zane H. Healy" <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote: > Now for an interesting bit of info. Apparently there are two > different types of Firmware. One for the PDP-11, and one for VAXen. > I'll see if I can get a little bit more info on that. Huh? That sounds extremely weird, and until you find very good proof of that, I would say that it is false. In the end, it's a Qbus device, and talks Qbus just like anything else. It's also an MSCP controller, which means it talks MSCP, just like any other MSCP controller. And they work the same no matter if they are controlled by a VAX CPU or a PDP-11 CPU. > Now for the important part, the whole manual. > http://www.avanthar.com/~healyzh/RQZX1.pdf Excellent! Thanks for putting this up there. > Looking through the list of supported hardware I see where this is a > board that is of use to very few Hobbyists. It is interesting that > the older versions of the OS's can't support it, when they support > something like a Viking QDT just fine. It is worth pointing out that support OS versions is just a list of the versions that was current when the manual was written. That does not mean that the board don't work in previous versions. The RQZX1 is an MSCP/TMSCP controller, and thus will work with any OS version where the MSCP/TMSCP driver exist, and work. So, it's no different than the QDT, or any other MSCP controller. More or less the same is also true for disk drives. Most any SCSI drive will work fine. The same is probably also true for tape drives. Pros with the RQZX1: It's easy to set up. Switchpacks are easy and obvious. You can boot into the internal diagnostics. You have the option of 2*MSCP or MSCP+TMSCP. You have a floppy interface in there as well. Cons with the RQZX1: It's a quad board. No more than 4 disks on one controller. No more than one tape on a controller (it is rather inflexible). Still, if you have one, it's a nice board to have around. Johnny

14 years, 7 months

Post-VCF GB drink

by lproven＠gmail.com

If there're any VCF people about, a few of us are in the Park Hotel for a pint. MK2 2SN - just past the railway bridge. Sent from my Nokia phone

14 years, 7 months

DEC RQZX1 and KDJ11-E boot problem?

by nigel.d.williams＠gmail.com

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Zane H. Healy <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote: > Okay, here is what I learned. ?My comments are in parentheses. This is great! thanks for taking the time to chase this down. > 1. When writing an image out to the HD, you must have the exact same number > of blocks for the image and the HD. ?(This is why I'd suggested dd'ing the > HD to an image, using that image with SIMH to do the install, and then > dd'ing it back.) Ok, this is easy to test, I will report back with the results. > 4. RSTS/E might only support up to a 2GB drive (I use a 2GB drive). I will be using 1GB (or thereabouts) drive.

14 years, 7 months

So who'll be at VCF UK?

by pnt1＠york.ac.uk

I already said I will be there. I'm going sometime tomorrow (Friday) and I'll be there on Saturday at least. Anyone else staying in Bletchley on Friday night or Saturday? Fancy meeting up? -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

14 years, 7 months

ebay nike miltope 8" floppy drive NOS #310225342321

by legalize＠xmission.com

ebay item #310225342321 "Miltope Corp. Vintage Flexible Disk Drive P/N 465490F, P/N 13049073, NSN: 1430-01-124-2671 NOS Condition. Never Installed. Complete and intact. Should be completely functional. Used in the Western Electric Nike System. 8" Floppy Disk Drive. Used for running simulation programs. Smoke Free Environment. Please e-mail with any questions. Sold as is. No Warranty. USA Address Only. LAST ONE!!!" FYI -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 draft available for download <http://legalizeadulthood.wordpress.com/the-direct3d-graphics-pipeline/> Legalize Adulthood! <http://legalizeadulthood.wordpress.com>

14 years, 7 months

Fujitsu M2442AC tape drive and Emulex QT13 controller issues...

by p.gebhardt＠ymail.com

Hello everybody, Hopefully, somebody can help me out there... Lately, I?hooked?a M2442AC (which is basically the M2442A with an extra buffer) to a QT13-type coupler in a?microVAX, in order to save some tape contents to disk and CD-ROM. Unfortunately, when?read a tape on VMS with the DIR-command,?I get the following?console-output: %DIRECT-E-OPENIN, error opening UVAX33$MUA0:[]*.*;* as input -RMS-E-FND, ACP file or directory lookup failed -SYSTEM-F-TAPEPOSLOST, magnetic tape position lost VMSMUP050.A;1 ? Although there seems to be a problem, the name of the file can be read out. Copying doesn't work, though. I get the same error. ? Therefore, I launched the NVRAM-internal diagnostics of the Emulex-controller. The manual of the controller points out the NVRAM-settings for some types of drives, but not for drives made by Fujitsu :( The diagnostic tests, which can be run out of the diagnostics menu, all fail (except for "BOT/rewind"- and "host memory DMA"-tests) with the same error description: ? ** ERROR ** Blank tape read ? I can't find any furhter description to that error type. I tried to play this the NVRAM settings for the type drive and made repetitive tests, but each time, I get the same error. Does anybody uses such a drive/controller combination and give me some help regarding the settings ? Here are the current ones, which are stored in the QT13 for my fujitsu-drive: ? Drive type, 0=Start-Stop, 1=Streamer (0-1,def=1 dec) : On the fly commands (Y/N,def=Y) : Enable data busy timeout delay? (Y/N,def=Y) : Remote density (Y/N,def=Y) : CDC tape drive (Y/N,def=N) : Use IDEN line to select remote density (Y/N,def=N) : IDEN line true selects high density (Y/N,def=N) : Adaptive DMA (Y/N,def=Y) : Blank Tape Timeout value, in seconds (1-60,def=5 dec) : Max retry count for tape errors (0-10,def=3 dec) : uSec Delay between DMA bursts (4/8,def=4) : Adaptive DMA threshold (1-7,def=4 dec) : Tape Drive Speed thousands of bytes/second (0-65535,def=625 dec) : Support? 800 BPI Density (Y/N,def=N) : Support 1600 BPI Density (Y/N,def=Y) : Support 6250 BPI Density (Y/N,def=Y) : ? "def=" means that this is the currently stored value. ? Any ideas what might be the problem here? ? Thanks alot for any hints in advance ! ? Best regards, Pierre ? ?------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pierre's collection of classic computers : http://classic-computing.dyndns.org/

14 years, 7 months

HOPE conference

by evan＠snarc.net

Hi all -- For anyone attending next month's HOPE (Hackers On Planet Earth) conference in NYC, make sure you attend the vintage computing lecture on Saturday (7/17) by myself and Bill Degnan. We're scheduled for noon in the Lovelace room on the hotel's 18th floor. Topic is computer history of the local region. Also, if anyone is coming from way out-of-town, then ping me and we'll arrange tours of our computer museum here on the NJ shore. - Evan K.

14 years, 7 months

UNIBUS disk emulator board?

by julian＠twinax.org

Just curious, has anything been done with this? On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 9:40 PM, Guy Sotomayor <ggs at shiresoft.com> wrote: > > On Mar 15, 2010, at 1:00 PM, Julian Wolfe wrote: > > > I'd really prefer RP emulation. This would allow use of older OS > versions. > > I'd also really prefer to see a UNIBUS version. > > I'm planning on doing one that'll handle all of the disk types found on > Unibus PDP11s (ie no MSCP). The design is sketched out. It's just finding > the time... > > TTFN - Guy > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto: > cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] > > On Behalf Of e.stiebler > > Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 6:50 PM > > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > > Subject: Re: Solid State Disk replacement for RD53, 54, RK05, RL02/02 > > > > Rob Jarratt wrote: > >> There was a thread recently on the comp.sys.dec newsgroup which ended up > >> with the suggestion from David Riley that he would be prepared to build > an > >> FPGA-based board with a QBUS interface on one side and an SD interface > on > > > > Is there really still interest in it ? > > > > I put my design away few years ago, as I didn't see anybody interested > > enough to buy one. > > There is the seasonal talk of it for sure, but ... > > > > OTOH, they old ones show up on ebay frequently, and they are not that > > expensive. > > > > Remarks ? > > > > Cheers > > > > > >

14 years, 7 months

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