The RICM has an NCR3300 PC that was missing the disk drive when it was
donated. We installed the right part number 200MB SCSI drive but don't
know what the SCSI ID should be set to. We tried all IDs and never saw
it try to boot from the disk. We tried to boot from a floppy, but it
asked for a password. It has a Phoenix BIOS 1.05.00, Setup 3.05.00.
Does anyone know how to get around the boot password on this system?
Do we need a setup diskette?
Any idea where to get one?
--
Michael Thompson
Digging for something else in the basement, I came across my owners
manual for the VLC I used to have. I should not have gotten rid of
that sweet little box. Anyone out there got one to spare, preferably
cheaply, to a good home?
I'm in Madison, WI.
Thanks,
William
--
Live like you will never die, love like you've never been hurt, dance
like no-one is watching.
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Alex White
The Living Computer Museum project of Vulcan, Inc., is looking to hire an
expert on IBM System/360 hardware maintenance to guide the restoration of
a 360/40 which we have acquired. The official job posting can be found at
https://jobs.vulcan.com/
as Sr. Systems Engineer (Vintage), job ID 2258, posted 13 Feb 2012.
(There doesn't appear to be any way to provide a link directly to the posting
because of the programming model used.)
I'm happy to answer questions, in the group or offline. I will ignore any
flame fest similar to the last time we posted a job.
Rich Alderson
Vintage Computing Sr. Systems Engineer
Vulcan, Inc.
505 5th Avenue S, Suite 900
Seattle, WA 98104
mailto:RichA at vulcan.com
mailto:RichA at LivingComputerMuseum.orghttp://www.LivingComputerMuseum.org/
>> No No No ... that was T-nix followed later with U when the
>> programers could
>> club meat, build fire and recite most of the Alphabet*.
>
> I guess I'm a total anorak, but there was a TNIX..
>
> [Tektronix Unix, running on a PDP11/23-based development sustem]
>
> -tony
>
I used a TNIX system for most of the 1980s, with an 8540 microprocessor
emulator connected to it.
IIRC TNIX was a stripped-down version of Unix version 7, with most of
the programming tools and compilers and other useful stuff removed,
these could be bought separately. There were Tek-specific commands added
to operate the 8540. On top of that we ran Tek's Pascal development
software for 8086. The first version of the compiler was rather awful;
very limited symbol table capacity and lots of weird bugs. The
consumption of weed and shrooms among the compiler developers must have
been remarkable.
The manuals are on Bitsavers.
I also saw in an old thread here that Tony has an 8560 running TNIX.
Nice machine, but very slow.
/Jonas
I was just thinking that when we dump a ROM/PROM contents we get a
binary file out. In order to understand that binary file we need to
know some metadata about the data, such as:
- what is the organization of the chip/data?
Is it 2048x1 bit or is it 256x8 bits?
- is it a character generator table for a terminal?
- is it microcode for a CPU?
- is it code for a commercial microcontroller/microprocessor?
if so, which chip is it for? (8086, 8051, 6809, etc.)
- what part number information is on the chip package?
- if there is a printed label on the packge, what does it say?
(i.e. version number label on an EPROM)
- who performed the dump of the data?
what is their contact information?
It seems to me that this small amount of metadata could easily be
housed in an XML manifest file and an XML schema could describe the
allowed tags and attributes and their expected values. Yeah, I know
XML is "bloated", but there are plenty of tools for processing XML
files and there are editors that are schema aware and prompt you for
allowed elements. The schema can be made extensible if there is a
need for that.
--
"The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 version available for download
<http://legalizeadulthood.wordpress.com/the-direct3d-graphics-pipeline/>
Legalize Adulthood! <http://legalizeadulthood.wordpress.com>
Does anyone have the PDF for this manual? On manx the link to it is dead and
it does not seem to be in the mirrored copy I have. The part number is
EK-265AA-OM-001.
Thanks
Rob
Hi, to let you know that there are more of the S-100 Z80 CPU board PCBs
available.
There is information here:
http://s100computers.com/My%20System%20Pages/Z80%20Board/Z80%20CPU%20Board.h
tm
http://n8vem-sbc.pbworks.com/w/browse/#view=ViewFolder¶m=S-100%20Z80%20C
PU
Many builders have gotten these boards to work and the board is "clean" with
no cuts and jumpers needed.
Thanks!
Andrew Lynch
-----Original Message-----
From: n8vem-s100 at googlegroups.com [mailto:n8vem-s100 at googlegroups.com] On
Behalf Of lynchaj
Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2012 10:58 AM
To: N8VEM-S100
Subject: [N8VEM-S100:702] Re: S-100 Z80 CPU board PCBs
Hi! Good news! The S-100 Z80 CPU board PCBs arrived!
Please let me know if you would like one.
They are $20 each plus $3 shipping in the US and $6 elsewhere.
Please send a PayPal to LYNCHAJ at YAHOO.COM and I will send your boards right
away!
Thanks and have a nice day!
Andrew Lynch
Hi again,
Guys I still have a problem to get my qbus VAx Memory boards working
thogether.
I do have an KA630CPU, Firmware 1.30, and want to get 2 8MB Memory Boards
to work thogether in a H9278 Backplane which has 3 CD interconnect slots.
I've tried all variants ot plug the boards and of the switch and Jumper
settings. The one board is an National NS638 the other is a Chrislin
CM-VI-8. For the memory sizing test I'm booting NetBSD 1.5.3 over the
network from my FreeBSD Workstation.
There are setting where I get a double fault while booting, think that is
why there is to small amaount ov memory enabled.
Mostly I get 9MB of Memory (1MB from the KA630 + one 8MB Board) but I had
10Mbytes too so that at least one of the boards must have worked as 1MB
Mem. There is also a setting where the machine doesnt boot at all.
The NS638 has a Jumper that can be set into the W1 and W2 positions,
have tried both of them.
I have additionally an MS630 Board with 4MB of memory, this board works
thogether with the crislin and the national board, I get 13MB of memory
total (8+4 +1MB KA630). An other MS630 with only 2 Mbytes is still
untested.
So please, please, does anyone here know whats happening here and what for
the jumpers and the switches on the handles of the 8MB boards are for?
Has anyone those boards too and can confirm this?
Regards,
Holm
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Freiberger Stra?e 42, 09600 Obersch?na, USt-Id: DE253710583
www.tsht.de, info at tsht.de, Fax +49 3731 74200, Mobil: 0172 8790 741
Hi guys,
I recently picked up a Compaq Portable 486c/66 for fun. It has no hard
disk and as I was checking out the bay to see if there was something
different in what it would take, I noticed it needed a 3,5" IDE disk
powered by a 3-pin connector, not the usual large 4-pin molex power
connector. It seems the Maxtor 7000 series was a series of drives with
these added power connectors as well as some Quantum Fireballs of
which I had one, but apparently has deceased on me.
?J3 ? DC Power and pin connector assignments
?-------------------------------------------
? ? ?+------------+ ? pin 1 ? ?+12 VDC
? ? ?| 4 ?3 ?2 ?1 | ? pin 2 ? ?+12 V Ground Return
? ? ?+------------+ ? pin 3 ? ?+ 5 V Ground Return
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? pin 4 ? ?+ 5 VDC
?J7 ? DC Power and pin connector assignments
?-------------------------------------------
? ? ?+---------+ ? ? ?pin 1 ? ?+ 5 VDC
? ? ?| 1 ?2 ?3 | ? ? ?pin 2 ? ?+12 VDC
? ? ?+---------+ ? ? ?pin 3 ? ?Ground
Anyone know what this connector is called and maybe even call out some
drive names/types for which I can start the hunt?
Kind regards,
Sander Reiche
