test-drb March 2012

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Updates to partial list of double height Q-bus boards

by useddec＠gmail.com

Have a lot more to be added later when I find them like the RXV21, etc. A few boards have a broken purple plastic handle and I can take $5 off if anyone wants them. M3106 DZQ11 $35 M3107 DHQ11 40 M7090 35 M7195-FA MXV11 125 M7270 11/03 CPU 45 M7504 DEQNA 35 M7546 TK50 25 M7552 RRD50 was listed as 7952- thanks for pointint it out M7555 RQDX3 60 could be more typos M7559 TQK70 50 M7651 DRV11-WA125 M7740 RC25? M7818 90 M7940 DLV11 20 M7941 DRV11 100 M7944 MSV11-B 20 M7946 RXV11 45 M7949 LAV11 30 M8017 50 M8028 40 M8043 DLV11-J 85 M8044 MSV11-DD25 M8047-AA 100 M8047-CA 150 M8059 65 M8186 11/23 CPU 100 M8192 11/73 CPU 150 Option names may be off. I have some CPU?s without chip sets. $10 s/h for up to 4 boards within US. Please contact me with mail codes for overseas shipping quotes. Please contact me off list. I am working on quad boards and hope to have a list in a few weeks. Thanks, Paul

14 years, 1 month

DECsystem-20 9 Track Tapes

by rickthornquist＠gmail.com

All - Wow, you guys are great - I already have someone who kindly volunteered to dump the tapes for me. We're going to give it a try tomorrow. Pontus, I'm in Seattle right now and the volunteer is quite close to where I am. I'm not sure of the tape density - the label don't say and I'm not really a 9 track tape guy (my realm is pretty much microcomputers). Zane, if I can get the data off, and it's worth something, I'll likely bundle it on a DVD with the book. - Rick

14 years, 1 month

DECsystem-20 9 Track Tapes

by rickthornquist＠gmail.com

Hi All - I have some old DECsystem-20 9 track tapes that I'd very much like to get dumped. As I mentioned previously, I'm writing a book about Infocom. One of the Infocommies kept some tapes from the early days of the company, circa 1981, and I'd love to get a dump of what's on them. I realized there are services that do this, but I hoping to avoid the cost (which, I suspect, would be out of my reach). Does anyone have a system that could read these tapes and dump the data (or know someone that does)? I'd appreciate any help that you could give me on this. - Rick

14 years, 1 month

old == worthless.

by cclist＠sydex.com

Yeah, eBay seems to be full of this kind of thing. I won an auction for some minor stuff a couple of months ago. Silence, then a note >from the seller saying that he didn't notice that the auction had closed--followed by a note saying that he dropped the item and the plastic case had cracked. When I asked him to send the item anyway (I wanted the guts, not the case), he said he'd thrown it away already. Funny thing is that the item had a metal case... I tend to trust the Chinese sellers more than the domestic ones, all things considered. --Chuck

14 years, 1 month

Anyone Having Problems With CHD's RX01 Emulator and Ubuntu 11.10?

by mcquiggi＠sfu.ca

A short update on this problem: Further info, I am going to try to unload the kernel's "lp" and "parport" drivers to see if they are interfering with the emulator's access to the parallel port. "lsmod" shows them loaded, I recall that I can "rmmod" them (or some similarly-named command). I am not a native Linux person, BSD is much to my preference! This was necessary for proper operation of a JTAG programmer that I was using to "unbrick" a dead router a few months ago. Ubuntu's (Debian's) "lp" drivers interfered with the utility's manipulation of the parallel port signals when talking to the router's JTAG port. I am hoping that this will be a similar situation. I'm going to try it when I get home from work. Kevin Message: 6 Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2012 19:19:47 -0800 From: Kevin McQuiggin <mcquiggi at me.com> To: "cctalk at classiccmp.org" <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Subject: Anyone Having Problems With CHD's RX01 Emulator and Ubuntu 11.10? Message-ID: <F312C8E2-D262-48F8-B452-6576C4AAE4EE at me.com> Content-Type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Hi All: Since my upgrade to Ubuntu 11.10, the excellent RX01 emulator from Charles Dickman that i have been using on my pdp-11 11/34 has stopped working. This interfaces to a PC using the PC's parallel port. I gather from the rather confusing mass of Ubuntu support information that several parallel port printers stopped working and failed to be recognized after an upgrade to 11.10. I have checked some of the fixes quoted but they don't apply to my installation. Anyone else have this problem? I can downgrade my Ubuntu to an earlier version, but if there's someone else who has solved this problem, I therefore thought I'd ask on the list first! Thanks in advance for any info, Kevin Sent from my iPad

14 years, 1 month

Minuteman Computer

by dm561＠torfree.net

----- Original Message: Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 00:54:49 -0800 From: Brent Hilpert <hilpert at cs.ubc.ca> > Up here in the dastardly and dangerous foreign territory of Canada, I get > this from ebay: > Unfortunately, access to this particular item has been blocked due to > legal restrictions... ----- Reply: Guess they're worried about all the ex-pat Chinese and you rabble-rousing anti-war ex-hippie trouble-makers out there on the left coast; no problem accessing it from staid, conservative, trustworthy old Toronto...

14 years, 1 month

Minuteman Computer

by dm561＠torfree.net

----- Original Message: Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2012 00:59:47 -0800 From: DC <mc68010 at gmail.com> > I would be more worried about Canada getting nuclear weapons than Iran any > day. Damn straight! And we doan need no steenkin' missiles to deliver 'em neither!

14 years, 1 month

cctech Digest, Vol 103, Issue 5

by michael.99.thompson＠gmail.com

> From:?DC <mc68010 at gmail.com> > Date:?Sat, 03 Mar 2012 11:16:00 -0800 > Subject:?NCR Computer ID M05? > This poor thing is in really bad shape and full of dead spiders and dirt. Can anyone tell me what it is from and if it is worth saving ? It's really disgusting and not sure I want to put it in my car to drag home from it's current location. I don't mean like a couple dead bugs in it. There are thousands and physically it's pretty damaged. > > I can find a few references to NCR M05 cpu's but, no pictures of the actual guts. ? The label does say M05 on it anyway. > > It's bigger than the pictures make it look. Probably 3' x 2' or a bit larger. > > http://imgur.com/a/Cja2y The boards look like the ones in the NCR 8250 at the RICM. http://www.ricomputermuseum.org/Home/equipment/ncr-8250 -- Michael Thompson

14 years, 1 month

Anyone Having Problems With CHD's RX01 Emulator and Ubuntu 11.10?

by mcquiggi＠me.com

Hi All: Since my upgrade to Ubuntu 11.10, the excellent RX01 emulator from Charles Dickman that i have been using on my pdp-11 11/34 has stopped working. This interfaces to a PC using the PC's parallel port. I gather from the rather confusing mass of Ubuntu support information that several parallel port printers stopped working and failed to be recognized after an upgrade to 11.10. I have checked some of the fixes quoted but they don't apply to my installation. Anyone else have this problem? I can downgrade my Ubuntu to an earlier version, but if there's someone else who has solved this problem, I therefore thought I'd ask on the list first! Thanks in advance for any info, Kevin Sent from my iPad

14 years, 1 month

Wanted: CD drive for Sun SS20

by kurt.m.nowak＠gmail.com

Does anyone have a unwanted Sun CD drive for an SS5/20 or any Aurora chassis box? The one in my SS20 seems to have died and I cant find one on ebay... The P/N for my broken one is 590625-D0. email me off the list if you have one! Many Thanks!

14 years, 1 month

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test-drb March 2012