I just picked up the second batch of P800 stuff. The seller found some
more items that were meant to be part of the sale in the first place.
I also picked up a Nova 4 I bought off him too. Any pointers to Nova 4
documentation are extremely welcome.
The P800 stuff consisted of an extension cabinets with some cards,
some 8" floppies, and more X1215 disk packs.
Cards:
- 3 x MCU2
- 4 x AMA-8A
- HLVCUB
The HLVCUB is a card I haven't seen before. It's got two N8X300
microcontrollers on it, two SCN2652A serial controllers, and two
26-pin connectors. Looks like a hefty two-channel synchronous
communications card.
Floppies are labeled:
- "Tools : (LP) / IPL ADDR: 60C5 / Monitor: type (?)"
- "Rotterdam test system 29-03-'84"
- "T. Wilders / Test Software S.M. / BMEX0 in TSWCOM module / User:
BMEX Start: $RUN"
- "Very Special / Utilities R1.0 83-06-01 / P5011 / SYS / User: PRK300
/ ASG 1E0,DK,PRECDC"
- "Userid: TOOL Date 84.03.26 / :BASIC / Address of FL-Drives=03!!!"
- "CP101 83.11.25 / Userid: SYS"
- "RT Floppy"
- "$TDES"
- "Label: CP101 Date 84.01.10 / Userid: LUC"
- "RS740 MAGAZIJN / BASIC / RUN "I""
- "RS747 CARD CATALOG / BASIC I"
- "RS775 / CPU P857EB / EPS 811118"
- "RS776 / CP7R"
Disk packs are labeled:
- "CPU ISCOS 70 / 4022 250 0004.1 / PAB nr 8122 141 0470.1 / BD83"
- "Graphics 8P-A / 4022 226 3470.1 / PAB nr 8122 141 0286.1 / BD58"
- "VIP V12 / 4311 027 1629.1 / PAB nr 8122 141 0277.1 / BD51"
- "Ext Mem Mod 286 / 4022 226 2340.1 / PAB nr 8122 141 0456.1 / BD82"
- "DOM811 adr/02 intr/11 / terminal adr/10 intr/6 / update test
programs 27-09-84 / IPL/65C2"
- "X1216 IPL 63C2 / Test programs updare 85-12-18 / -DOM9 A/02 IT/10
FL/03 IT/11 / Userid: SDAPRO / s$$LOAD
- "LAB Backup"
- "TEST TP1 / R=0002"
- "FPPKENIA"
- 3 x PHILIPS unlabeled
- 2 x CDC unlabeled
- 1 x MEMOREX unlabeled
If anything sounds familiar, please let me know.
Cheers,
Camiel
Email decstuff at pdp8online.com to contact the seller. I was contacted
by someone looking to sell some DEC stuff. Looks like he's not trying to get
big $ for it so I'm passing it on. Wisconsin is too far for me.
> I also have some DEC equipment from the 11-03, 11-23 and one small VAX
> system. I have 2 LA120 printers, 2 LN03's laser printers, several H960
> cabinets, a couple of CDC 9762 67 Meg hard drives, and various
> Monitors and Interface boards. Are you or do you know of anyone interested
> in this equipment?
> I would like to move the equipment. One thought has been to scrap it;
> another to sell it. If someone has an interest, I would like them to get the
> equipment. Some of this equipment doesn't exist anymore. I would prefer to
> sell it but am very reasonable.
> The equipment is in Wisconsin and I would prefer that it would be picked up.
> I am not in a position to do any packing or shipping.
> The 11/73 system runs rt-11 with TSX. The Vax runs VMS.
I still have many many many large tomes and other printed material, including vintage docs, that needs to be committed to digital format. I'm always building something, and I gathered a hodge podge of materials in an attempt to fenagle my own document feeder (first thought I'd use a scanner or pair, later said screw that I'll just use a digital camera). Non destructive scanning isn't necessarily a whole lot more difficult in my estimation (using whatever curdled gray matter I have left), but who needs any more complexity then is necessary, so I opted for destructive scanning (where you rip the spine of the book apart and jam it in the mechanism). Then strolling through Target, I noticed the Epson Workforce 645 which allegedly can take a stack of 30 sheets and scan both sides. I'd prefer 30,000 sheets, but beggars can't always be choosers. So I bought it, but have yet to open it (my ethic states I shouldn't crack an item unless I'm somewhat positive I'll
keep it. I _rarely_ return something I open. It bothers me to). So I would just like to ask if any of you all have delved into this. A piddly 30 sheet document feeder still requires you to "be there", although I suppose I could catch up on twiddling my thumbs at least while I reduce oh 300 books to bits and bytes.
No the unit I already returned (unopened) wasnt designed for big batches or even longevity necessarily, but document feeding, the crux of the matter, is no feat. People have and I seem to recall there even being one commercial product that turned a copier into a document scanner. Accurate and reliable document feeders are often left on the side of the road.
an awful lot of it seems to get done despite youre experience in the industry (10 years ago? 20?). We had something maybe a Canon, at a job 8 years ago, often reliably taking print and even that skinny fanfold garbage simultaneously. Did it draw 2 pages in periodically, short of spending ~a grand, Im sure anything will. I would think an 80-90% percent success rate for a relatively short job (i.e not long term professional activity) would be tolerable. You can always manually redo those wayfaring missed pages. This forum has nearly nothing to do with anything professional. But anything, including hobbies warrants some patience. And dumping significant cash or having people tell you it cant be done otherwise doesnt make sense.
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On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 10:51 AM PDT Dave McGuire wrote:
>On 06/16/2012 01:33 PM, Chris Tofu wrote:
>> No the unit I already returned (unopened) wasnt designed for big
>> batches or even longevity necessarily, but document feeding, the crux
>> of the matter, is no feat. People have and I seem to recall there
>> even being one commercial product that turned a copier into a
>> document scanner. Accurate and reliable document feeders are often
>> left on the side of the road.
>
> You haven't had to work on many of them, have you. ;) I worked on
>paper feed systems (Ziyad feeders for Canon CX engine-based laser
>printers, as well as the printers themselves) for several years when
>those printers were en vogue.
>
> That experience left me with the sincere hope that I never have to
>work on another paper-handling device again, as well as the insistence
>that any printer I own will be built to print all day, every day and
>likely end up being a two-man lift. (which they both are, HP 8100DN and
>8550DN)
>
> Yes, paper feeding is, in fact, a feat. Yes, it is done all over the
>place, and has been for many decades, but that doesn't make it any less
>a feat, nor does it make it any less failure-prone. Document feeding in
>particular is much harder, because (in comparison to printing) it
>suddenly matters if you pick up two sheets at once, and you can often
>bet that the paper is of less-than-straight-off-the-ream edge quality
>
> -Dave
>
>--
>Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
>New Kensington, PA
Luck isnt necessary. Ingenuity is.
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On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 6:41 AM PDT Dave McGuire wrote:
>
> Good luck..
>
> -Dave
>
>On 06/16/2012 09:35 AM, Chris Tofu wrote:
>>
>> There at least exists the possibility it will. I also dont have 5-800$ to spend. W/o building something or using a consumes product, I have to do it by hand.
>> ------------------------------
>> On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 9:58 PM PDT Dave McGuire wrote:
>>
>> >On 06/15/2012 09:50 PM, Chris Tofu wrote:
>> > Not at all insulting you for your purchase, but we all know how crappy
>> > the consumer stuff is nowadays. I'd return it and put your money into
>> > something beefy that'll actually last through those books.
>> >
>> > C: I don't have time to shop around for some old monster. If I did I might.
>> >
>> > The right tool for this job, however is "some monster", whether old or
>> >new. Do you really think using a consumer-level scanner will save you
>> >time on this particular project? ;)
>> >
>> > -Dave
>> >
>> >--
>> >Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
>> >New Kensington, PA
>
>
>--
>Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
>New Kensington, PA
Ebay #170861205626
Perhaps someone at the CHM could ask Peter Samson if he knows about it?
Mike Loewen mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us
Old Technology http://sturgeon.css.psu.edu/~mloewen/Oldtech/
There at least exists the possibility it will. I also dont have 5-800$ to spend. W/o building something or using a consumes product, I have to do it by hand.
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On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 9:58 PM PDT Dave McGuire wrote:
>On 06/15/2012 09:50 PM, Chris Tofu wrote:
>> Not at all insulting you for your purchase, but we all know how crappy
>> the consumer stuff is nowadays. I'd return it and put your money into
>> something beefy that'll actually last through those books.
>>
>> C: I don't have time to shop around for some old monster. If I did I might.
>
> The right tool for this job, however is "some monster", whether old or
>new. Do you really think using a consumer-level scanner will save you
>time on this particular project? ;)
>
> -Dave
>
>--
>Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
>New Kensington, PA
