At 08:34 AM 30/09/2013, you wrote:
>Near Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
>
>
> What connection is on the computer? I am assuming it is a
> type with nine holes and six pinjs in two rows.
I turned up two monitors of the ones easy to get at. One has
a bad plug, the screen lights but no video.
The other one works on an IBM PC, but it has a green screen.
When I get back out in the garage I will have another look.
Regards
Charlie Fox
>--
Charles E. Fox Video Productions
793 Argyle Rd.
Windsor Ontario N8Y3J8
519-254-4991
www.chasfoxvideo.com
I hope this is OK to post here.
I am looking to purchase a copy of Adobe FrameMaker 8.
Straight from Adobe, FrameMaker had always been a pretty pricy item, but I had
always managed to acquire a legal copy, sometimes years old, after the fact
through eBay, etc.
And through that method, I own legal copies of 5.x, 6.x and 7.x for Unix and Mac.
I had hoped to somehow purchase a copy of version 8 via a similar method, but
several years have passed by, and I have never seen a copy of version 8 for sale.
After version 8, FrameMaker was significantly changed and released for
dos/windows only. I believe that the current version is 10.x.
Also, in case it isn't obvious, this is for myself at home only.
Jerry
>
>(I think I asked this once before, but I can't remember the result and I can't
>find the thread in the archive)
>
>I have an Alphaserver 1000 that I would like to resurrect. It periodically
>hangs or reboots. When it reboots the error is usually "Machine check while
>in palcode". When it hangs, the hang is so severe the halt button does not
>work. Either way, it always happens within 20 minutes of booting. I ran all
>of the diagnostics you get by moving the CPU card jumper (cache memory tests,
>RAM tests) and they run for an hour or so with no error. (I am assuming the
>diagnostic halts on error instead of just looping again, is that correct?)
>During the course of these I moved the jumper to the wrong place and wiped
>out SRM, so I had to reload SRM from floppy using the failsafe loader. That
>worked. The SRM diagnostics will also run for as long as I want without
>error. Does anyone have any idea what's wrong here or is there some kind of
>XXDP-like thing I can run that will better test the machine?
>
I have three Alphaserver 1000A machines all of which have problems.
The bcache failed on all the CPUs - there is a jumper on the CPU card to
disable it and run with reduced performance (one of the SRM memory diagnostics
then fails spectacularly as it divides something by the size of the cache...)
On of the CPUs failed entirely. One of the machines used to randomly halt
and progressed to randomly powering itself off, possibly due to it thinking a
fan is faulty when it is not.
On the rare occasions when I've had one working, I found that the correct
positioning of the CPU in it's slot can be very critical.
I've also had problems with memory failure and found (by doing lots of swapping)
that the SRM can report the wrong memory slot as being the one with the problem.
The power supply sits there getting hot and consuming lots of power when the
front panel power switch is off making it necessary to disconnect it from the
mains when not in use.
I've had so much grief with mine I've lost interest in trying to fix them.
Opinions of the 1000A do not seem to be very high. I think the main
difference between it and the 1000 is that the 1000 has more (E)ISA slots and
the 1000A has more PCI slots. I don't know if they suffer from similar
reliability problems.
Regards,
Peter Coghlan.
Hi folks,
In my quest to find earlier versions of APL\11 I have come across
something called yale-apl, which is most likely from the Unix version
6 era. I can run Unix v6 under simh but I am at a loss on how to
transfer binary or even text files into it. I have been able to
transfer files from a Unix v7 without difficulty but v6 seems to be
quite different. There is no tar utility in v6.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Hello all,
I have a PDP-11/44 I want to get the basic tests done before I go further as I
have work ahead of me.
Backstory: all the cables in the rear were cut. (No big deal, I can rig up a
TU58, console, power, and other cables easily). I got the mains cable
connected and my Kill-A-Watt shows 13W with the 11/44 "on". This is far as I
have managed to get.
I do occasionally hear a clicking from the PSU...it's sporadic, unpredictable,
current draw does not increase, no smoke, and no visible arcing. It confuses
me.
I then decided to try the "jumper pins 1 and 3 or 2 and 3 or 1 and 2" to see
what would happen. The result? Nothing! I then decided to measure the
voltages using pin 3 as the reference. 1 (power request) and 3: -0.01VDC, 2
(power inhibit/emergency shutdown) and 3: 2VDC, 1VAC. This strikes me
as...bizarre. Should I have AC there or is my multimeter/my my multimeter
skills at fault?
I proceeded to follow this logic: "Hmmm. Emergency Shutdown is 2V...that could
mean the emergency shutdown state is set. I notice there's an "airflow sensor"
board in the PSU. Let's remove it in case it failed somehow." No change
there.
Any further ideas? The clicking confuses me...it's fairly quiet...something
I'd expect from something arcing internally and not a relay. The patterm in't
"click-click-click-click" like a relay toggling...it's more random and sporadic
with no reproducable cause. It seems to come from the lefthand side (with the
power cord on the left).
Does anyone have the pinouts for the console cable? I'll need to make one of
those up. Same with a cable for a DEUNA.
--
Cory Smelosky
http://gewt.net Personal stuff
http://gimme-sympathy.org Projects
I mentioned this over a year ago. I have between 6 and 12
boxes of fan fold paper which I will never use. They all have
sprocket holes, of course. They are three sizes ranging from
8.5" x 11", 9.5" x 11" and 11" x 14". The 9.5" x 11" has tear
off for the sprocket holes becoming 8.5" x 11".
I will be sending the paper to the blue box in about 2 weeks,
Local pickup in Toronto since this stuff is far too heavy to ship.
I also have a number of sets of DOCs for RT-11 which I will
discard within about a year. These range from incomplete sets
for early versions (probably V3 and V4) to complete sets for
early V05.0n DOCs. Since there are PDF files for the most
recent V05.06 and V05.07 DOC sets for RT-11, it does not
seem important to scan these, but maybe there is some interest.
If so, please advise.
Jerome Fine
Hi,
We just got a couple of these Intel PC Bubble Cards in today, and they
didn't have any software with them.
Does anyone have the software for these? Or know where I might find a copy?
Both of the two cards are pre-production versions. I am not 100% sure of
the model #'s.
One says Intel "MD-054", and the other says "MD # 25-54", SN#'s 180 and 191
respectively.
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.246762432147849.1073741851.237349…
I also received this in as well, and can't find any information about it.
The removable cassette is really heavy. Thinking maybe Bubble Memory? Any
help identifying it would be great!
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/rpsvjq55h7hlqog/ECmMraCxs3
Thanks,
Garrett Meiers
Founder, BitHistory.org &
President, ConsulNIX, LLC
www.BitHistory.orgwww.linkedin.com/in/theunixguy
My LJ4 sometimes repeats the last character on the control panel's VF
display - e.g. just now when I turned it on it said "warming upp". The
repeated letter (and sometimes it's repeated just once, other times more
than once) always seems to be fainter than the regular letters.
Has anyone ever seen this fault before? It's no big problem*, I'm just
curious as to what the cause might be. I think it only ever does it during
the startup sequence, but not during normal operation, which maybe suggests
it's heat-related and "fixes" itself after the printer's been on for a
little while.
* if it's something such as a ROM going bad then it might become more
serious - although the fact that the repeated chars are dimmer than the
normal ones suggests to me that it's a problem somewhere in the display
output stage rather than core logic.
cheers
Jules
