test-drb October 2013

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205 discussions

VMS Administration as a modern career (was Re: free VAX 4000 VLC)

by ethan.dicks＠gmail.com

On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 11:48 PM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote: > A few years ago, I found that VMS on my tech CV was attracting a lot > of attention and a few interviews, when my Windows/Mac/Linux skills > seem to be of little interest to anyone any more. So my plan was to > brush up on my not-used-since-the-mid-1990s VAX skills with a > VAXstation, then see if I could get some VAX sysadmin work. > > However, VMS isn't attracting any interest any longer, AFAICS... The last time I got paid to do VMS was just over 10 years ago. I used to get pinged about open VMS positions (usually at that same place I had recently left), but even that dried up about 6-7 years ago. It's been nearly all Linux (with a wee bit of Solaris) recently. Ten years ago, there were still open positions in the States, and few individuals left with any recent experience to fill them (that was one specific complaint from the manager that hired me - recruiters kept sending him candidates that hadn't touched VMS in 5 years or more and would have to be relocated from one coast or the other. I had 3-year-old daily experience and lived 15 minutes from the office. That clinched the job). In the past 5 years, I've heard nary a whisper of VMS in commercial circles. Not saying it isn't there somewhere, but wherever it is, they aren't posting for new hires. -ethan

11 years, 2 months

corestore

by BHuntsman＠mail2.cu-portland.edu

Hi there! Anyone know how to reach the guy who runs the corestore.org website? Thanks in advance! -Ben

11 years, 2 months

Data General 6045

by nico＠farumdata.dk

Hi all How many sectors does the cartridge have (per track, of course) Thanks Nico -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. SPAMfighter has removed 1317 of my spam emails to date. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len Do you have a slow PC? Try a Free scan http://www.spamfighter.com/SLOW-PCfighter?cid=sigen

11 years, 2 months

Tygon tubing

by nico＠farumdata.dk

Hello all Recently there was (again) a discussion regarding the print "hammer" on a Teletype ASR33. It mentioned tygon tubing as a replacement for the unobtainable rubber thing. My question is : what is the diameter I need, inner or outer? Thanks Nico

11 years, 2 months

FS: OpenVMS documentation, LK-series keyboards, SCSI HDDs and more

by marcogb＠xs4all.nl

Here's what I have to offer: - DEC OpenVMS V6(.3?) full, paperback, documentation set in original Digital-branded carton, all in excellent shape; - HP-branded LK463 keyboard with USB interface and PS/2- converter, in excellent and practical new condition; - DEC (and Digital-branded) LK46W-A2 with PS/2 interface, very good shape (looks great), except one 'tilting leg' is missing; - DEC ball mouse with PS/2 interface, in the same beige color as the LK46W-A2; - various old and new 68-pin and 80-pin SCA/SCA2 interface SCSI disks, both in 2?" and 3?" form factors (mostly 'short' ones, thus not the 'taller'/older types) in and of various brands/models and capacities ranging from 1 to 300 Gbytes (contact me for more information); - various old 50-pin SCSI disks (idem ditto, except the capacities range from 1 to about 4? Gbytes and some are 'taller'), contact me for more information); - DEC RRD43 external CD-ROM drive, amazingly with original documentation(!) and SCSI-type converter and cables (Digital-branded, too) available; - HP DS2100 (Disk System 2100), UltraSCSI (either U160 or U320), for 4 * 3?" SCSI disks in HP "ring"-type sleds, in excellent shape and with rack-mounting 'ears' included; - loads of SCSI cables, practically all sorts and kinds; - loads of SCSI terminators, both active and inactive, mostly LVD/SE and quite a few still even in packaging; - loads of HP disk brackets/sleds, including the HP "ring"- type in both light/beige and dark gray/black that would fit in rx1600/rx1620/rx2600/rx2620/rx4640, DS2100, etc. and the like computer/storage systems, also many non-HP sleds for more 'PC'-like systems, like IBM ("x"), Dell and what-not (ask if you're interested); - DEC Multia/UDB VX40B with 166-MHz processor and 256 Mbytes RAM, 72-Gbyte U320 2?" SCSI disk (that I shoehorned in with necessary conversion), with HP Tru64 UNIX V5.1B-4 pre-installed and lots of extras; - DEC Multia/UDB VX42B with 233-MHz processor and an unknown amount of RAM, without (working, or actually, wired PSU connector) and in 'unknown' working state and in otherwise fairly good physical condition; - original DEC advertisement material, VAX and AXP/Alpha era marketing material (brochures, whitepapers, "Digital Systems and Option Catalog" booklets from several years and more), I'll make pictures of them if there's interest for it; - several OSF/1 and Tru64 UNIX workbooks, or at least one that I could immediately find; - a bunch of DEC, Compaq and HP cables, plastics and other types of parts; - a bunch of OpenVMS and Tru64 UNIX installation media, originals; - an original CD-ROM (in jewel case) installation medium of the Sybase database software for OpenVMS AXP; - loads of memories, including PC2100 ECC-registered DDR- SDRAM (like for several HP Integrity systems, many even original and HP-branded) and the "parity" type that would fit/work in the Multia/UDB (the exact type escapes me at the moment), also the type for DEC Personal WorkStation-series and likely more (ask for more details, I will then take a closer look); - a good quantity of *OpenVMS-compatible* (in fact, also HP-UX- and IRIX-compatible) _10-Gbit_ fiber-optical (i.e. 10GBASE-SR) PCI-X ethernet NICs and also LC/LC fiber-optical cables available; - several (mostly Ultra320) SCSI HBAs, PCI or PCI-X; - HP 8-port RJ-45/UTP KVM extender hub, I'll have to check the exact type (but it should work with fairly recent RJ-45/UTP KVM equipment); - Quantum Ultrium LTO-1 SCSI tape drive, full-height, in external enclosure and with various empty data cartridges; - several, mostly Sony (and possibly rebranded), DAT40/ DDS-4 SCSI tape drives and loads of empty DDS-2, DDS-3 and DDS-4 data cartridges, also cleaning tapes. I may have forgotten to mention some things, I may add those later on. (If you suspect I made a typo somewhere, feel of course free to contact me about it.) Anyway, I plan to recycle the majority of this in about a week or two, if these items haven't been spoken for by that time. - MG

11 years, 2 months

XT-IDE V2 assembled and verified working

by LYNCHAJ＠YAHOO.COM

On VCGM, item # 115192 http://marketplace.vintage-computer.com/auction_details.php?name=xt-ide-v2-a ssembled-and-verified-working&auction_id=115192 Thanks and have a nice day! Andrew Lynch

11 years, 2 months

Sage IV info

by derschjo＠gmail.com

Hi all - Snagged a Sage IV machine, running p-System (IV.21) with the Modula-2 suite installed on the internal hard drive (which I believe is 20mb; I haven't disassembled the machine far enough to ID the drive and I don't have any of the hard drive utilities available on the machine to probe with). I'd like to back up the hard drive before I do anything else with this thing, especially since I don't think the Modula-2 software has been archived anywhere (if I'm incorrect in this regard do let me know). Plus there's a sweet half-finished Vampire novel on the drive that I simply must save. Anyone have any experience with these and have any backup suggestions? I'm considering writing a quick Modula-2 program to dump the drive sector-by-sector over the serial port but if there's some prior art here I'm a big fan of saving time. Incidentally -- anyone have any contact with David Erhart, the guy who runs sageandstride.org? His FTP site (which hosts a lot of the documentation, schematics & software) is currently down; I've e-mailed him to no response. (Anyone happen to have this stuff archived?) Thanks as always, Josh

11 years, 2 months

Fuel MNB 060-0140-004 repair, help to identify a resistance

by mazzinia＠tin.it

Hello, Long story short, a SGI Fuel psu MNB 060-0140-004 Rev b died with a bang and now the person who gave me the Fuel is looking at it to try to repair. He found a resistance blown (so bad that's unreadable) on the primary R25 Near the leveling capacitor on the rectifier. Any chance that someone has a datasheet or can read the value of R25 ? (good pics are also ok, I think) Thanks, Alessandro

11 years, 2 months

The U.Va. Computer Museum

by lproven＠gmail.com

This might give some pleasurable nostalgia... Sadly a few images seem to be missing. http://www.cs.virginia.edu/about/museum/ -- Liam Proven ? Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lproven at cix.co.uk ? GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: lproven at hotmail.com ? Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 ? Cell: +44 7939-087884

11 years, 2 months

S-100 80286 CPU board write-up

by monahan＠vitasoft.org

Hi everybody. I have just written up construction notes on this 80286 CPU board. Please see here:- for details:- http://www.s100computers.com/My%20System%20Pages/80286%20Board/80286%20CPU%2 0Board.htm Unfortunately there are some strange issues with the board running with RAM boards other than our 4MG Static RAM board (described here:-) http://www.s100computers.com/My%20System%20Pages/RAM%20Board/4MG%20RAM%20Boa rd.htm With that RAM board, the 80286 is rock solid at 11MHz (no I/O or ROM wait states required). Please see the bottom of the page for details. I am traveling all of next week but will explore further when I get back. Sorry about the bad news John

11 years, 2 months

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test-drb October 2013