test-drb February 2013

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by sellam＠vintagetech.com

I am divesting myself of most of my large computers. I am soliciting offers for the next week or so and will sell once I receive an offer that is mutually deemed fair. Pick-up location is Stockton, California. While I would prefer local pickup, I can be convinced to palletize for freight shipping with high dollar offers. Symbolics 3600 - two separate units, both I believe are complete. I'm not sure if I have the monitor and keyboard for them anymore. IBM 3420 - two separate units. One fell off a truck and is heavily damaged but restorable with TLC IBM 3803 - to go with the 3420s PDP 8a Computer Automation Naked Mini - may not have front panel Honeywell DPS-6 - two units Plexus P75 - complete and should be working Microdata Royal E - complete and should be working. Includes terminals and keyboards Data Point Dual Carthridge Disc Drive Nuclear Data 9900 - just a rack and drive. VAX 9000 compatible. Slightly damaged. HP 2116C - complete and should be working PDP 11/44 - complete and should be working PDP 11/34 - complete system with RK05, RK05f, dual 8" floppy drives, serial bank, rack DEC TX78U (TA78) LMI Lambda - complete and should be working. Comes with documentation library Four Phase System IV/90 - poor shape but one of few surviving examples Diablo 30 carthridge disc drive and Nicolet 294 Disc Memory Coupler in a rack Tektronix Type 551 scope on rolling cart IBM Scalabe Power Parallel System 9076 See photos here: http://vintagetech.com/photos/bigiron/ -- Sellam Ismail VintageTech ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintagetech.com Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap...The truth is always simple.

11 years, 10 months

DEC manx volunteer(s) needed

by legalize＠xmission.com

Hi, There's a large amoung of DEC material on bitsavers alone that isn't indexed into manx. I'm looking for a volunteer who would be willing to get this information entered into manx. Before you roll your eyes thinking how much work it would be, I've mostly automated the process because the URL structure on bitsavers incorporates most of the metadata that manx wants: - company - publication date - publication title - part number I've also automated the process of even entering/pasting the bitsavers URl from which to extract this information by scraping up the Whatsnew.txt file from bitsavers and building a list of documents not yet known to manx. So while the process does take some manual effort, it is mostly checking over the data extracted by the URL wizard. Information can also be entered from other sources, but I don't have as much automation worked out for those sites. If you've been monitoring the RSS feed of new documents on manx, you may have noticed that the documents added are focused on terminals and graphics. That is because those are the documents that most interest me. Given the large quantity of DEC documentation not yet recorded in manx, several people could easily work on adding it focusing on their area of interest/expertise, as I have done with terminals and graphics. If you're interested in helping out, please email me off list. Thanks! -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" free book <http://tinyurl.com/d3d-pipeline> The Computer Graphics Museum <http://computergraphicsmuseum.org> The Terminals Wiki <http://terminals.classiccmp.org> Legalize Adulthood! (my blog) <http://legalizeadulthood.wordpress.com>

11 years, 10 months

Catweasel Z-II "S-Class" IDE Controller ( Amiga 2000 )

by gerardcjat＠free.fr

NOT affiliated with seller ! In Germany, with English text , 25 ? DHL International delivery : http://cgi.ebay.fr/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330868483890&ssPageName=A… ** IF ** of interest for someone on the Cctalk file ... >>"" In this auction I am offering: for Amiga2000 Catweasel Z-II S-Class Latest version of the IDE and floppy controller for Amiga2000! Combination of IDE Controller Buddha and Catweasel floppy controller. Finally use HD floppy and IDE hard drives in Amiga 2000! I offer an IDE to Dual Compact Flash Adapter in addition! Card is in good condition and works perfectly! "" <<

11 years, 10 months

strange Honeywell system

by rampaginggreenhulk＠yahoo.com

interesting if you live on the west coast somewhat less so when you live in New Jersey. especially when you have no knowledge of its innards. the seller speaks of the possibility of it having a rare IBM processor. some people consider the 486 rare

11 years, 10 months

Corvus Omninet for Apple ///?

by snhirsch＠gmail.com

Does anyone have a Corvus Transporter card for Apple ///? I have been able to get my hands on the software and documentation and had originally thought the Apple II Transporter would work. Unfortunately it doesn't, so I suspect there may have been a distinct version for that machine. If anyone knows for sure, would appreciate information. Even better, I'd like to purchase or trade for such a card! Steve --

11 years, 10 months

networking via SCSI?

by rampaginggreenhulk＠yahoo.com

Speaking of Ampro, does anyone have a later one, v40 or 80186, but in particular the pal chip and the means to read off the contents?

11 years, 10 months

My Kaypro II on Youtube

by terry＠webweavers.co.nz

My Kaypro II on YouTube. http://youtu.be/2LO6Pv2IXxc for those that might be interested. Terry (Tez)

11 years, 10 months

ebay IBM system/360 and DEC manuals ending soon.

by tmfdmike＠gmail.com

> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of cctech digest..." > Message: 4 > Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2013 19:38:36 -0800 > From: Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> > <rant> > > To let people know.. > > I have been buying these, scanning them, and putting them on bitsavers > and have had the same dick running them up to $20-$25 each time in the last second. > > If I DON'T do this, they will disappear in that black hole of the "mainframe collector" > > I don't know who this prick is, but I'm getting REALLY sick of this. > > </rant> If this is the same guy who was doing this on ebay years ago... didn't he have an ID something like sndshq (or some approximately similar combination)? I see to recall deliberately putting a 'teaser' item on ebay, and needless to say he was all over me like a rash with questions... IIRC he was from somewhere up north east... maybe New Hampshire? I have a hole, but it's utterly non-black. CHM have some clout; do you think there's any mileage in you trying to get IBM to re-open their archives. ISTR ?Jay Maynard? telling me years ago that they used to be open and helpful, then about ten years ago got locked down tight due to lawyer-driven BS. (that's getting so common now I think it needs an acronym of its own... LDBS?) (oh and the entire Corestore collection is now in New Zealand, for those who don't know! Film at 11 :-) Mike http://www.corestore.org 'No greater love hath a man than he lay down his life for his brother. Not for millions, not for glory, not for fame. For one person, in the dark, where no one will ever know or see.'

11 years, 10 months

Hazeltine 1500 on ebay

by rampaginggreenhulk＠yahoo.com

------------------------------ On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 10:44 AM PST Adrian Stoness wrote: >few yrs back found a pallet of them left outside to rot by the time i found >them the damage had been done though :( sun bleached water soaked I wouldn't always be so quick to discard or rule out the usefulness of water soaked sun bleached items especially if they're rare. If only there is the possibility to salvage parts. Water "damge" might not amount to much anyway. I feel I need to repeat this. I knew a guy who worked for Hazeltine years ago working on IFF systems or something. Never knew until recently they manufactured commercial items, but that might just be an assumption.

11 years, 10 months

Using two RL02 drives on OS/8?

by charlesmorris800＠centurytel.net

On Feb 4, 2013, at 12:00 PM, cctalk-request at classiccmp.org wrote: > I suspect that your "RL21" handler isn't really configured to address > drive 1. > > There's a known issue with OS/8 handler mapping that can cause issues, > but that doesn't look like your problem based on the mappings. What > does "RESORC /E" show? > -Rick Excerpted: (there are also the expected SYS, DSK, BAT, TTY and this build has RXA0 and RXA1 and DTA0 installed although unfortunately I don't have the hardware). # NAME TYPE MODE SIZ BLK KIND U V ENT USER 10 (6442) 37 RWF 22+ A 120 11 (6542) 37 RWF 22+ A 114 12 (6642) 37 RWF 22+ A 107 13 (6742) 37 RWF 22+ A 100 14 (6443) 37 RWF 23+ A 120 15 (6543) 37 RWF 23+ A 114 16 (6643) 37 RWF 23+ A 107 17 (6743) 37 RWF 23+ A 100 So, apparently eight distinct User types for the A-D drives on disk 0 and disk 1. Not sure what the "ENT" column is, but they seem to have the same pattern repeated twice? Is this normal? thanks Charles

11 years, 10 months

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test-drb February 2013