On Wednesday, September 18, 2013, Tony Duell wrote:
>
> I once repaired some kind of Tektronix workstation (I believe it was
> originally intended to run Smalltalk)
Perhaps one of the 4404/5/6 line, which were variously marketed as
Smalltalk workstations or AI workstations. Though Tek had other
workstations that might have run Smalltalk, such as the 4300 series.
The 4404 family originally ran a Unix clone whose name escapes me, but
switched to UTek, derived from BSD 4.2. My hazy memory suggests that UTek
1.x might have been the clone, and UTek 2.x and later BSD.
I called Keytronics, and they said they have not made these since 1992 or
1993. They gave the name and phone of Mil-Key in WA, 509-891-6425. They
said they MIGHT still have some available there.
They also said Cherry capacitive keyboards use the same technology, and are
still in production.
Last tidbit of info, she said these foil and foam pads are also known as
"deccofelt pads".
Cindy Croxton
All,
I was talking with someone a month or two ago about picking up some old Sun
gear. They were in NOVA and I was planning on swinging by, since I'm in DC
for work (and I drove out fro IN.) .... who was I talking to? I can't find
the person's contact info or even a list of what was available. I know they
posted here about the stuff. My brain has turned to swiss cheese. I want to
say it was like a SB2000 or 280R or V240 or something along those lines.
Thank you!
--
-Jon
Jonathan Katz, Indianapolis, IN.
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Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 15:51:40 -0500
From: Garrett Meiers <me at GarrettMeiers.com>
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Subject: DEC TSZ07-CA 9-track Drive
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I have a DEC TSZ07-CA 9-track drive, in a desktop cabinet, that I got a
couple of years ago. It was one of those situations where I had to have
it, but had no use for it! Dug it out to play with, but it doesn't seem to
power on.
Anything special to get this thing to turn on? I'm assuming the PSU
doesn't work, or has issues, but I've not tried to figure it out yet.
Just wondering if it won't turn on because there is no tape loaded, etc.
There is probably something wrong with it, but thought I'd ask.
Whose drive is it? DEC didn't make any 9-track drives themselves. I
looked it up, and it
looks like a Cipher. We had one of those direct from Cipher, and it was
a total piece of crap. You had to open up the top and manually help it
to thread, and as the drive powered the NCR SCSI adapter hung on the
back, you had to leave it powered on all the time to not hang the SCSI
bus. About every month or two, a read channel chip would die. We
got a bunch of the custom chips from Cipher, but it became too much
hassle to replace these chips constantly. The Cipher would definitely turn
on without a tape, but I guess there's just a power LED. The only way
it knows there is a tape is to try to load it.
Jon
Jon
Right but naturally who would have thought that a bunch of fanatics would be trying to use the hardware after 30 years or that the foam would even do that. I would have never expected that black tar to show up if i hadnt had to clean it up or hear others experience it as well.
Does anyone know what systems these types of cartridges were used in?
I have 10 of these, and they are all filled with IBM 8" Floppies as shown.
I am curious, because they don't go to anything that came in the large lot
of items I got last year, and have been a mystery since. I doubt they are
useful for anything, but are pretty neat.
Garrett Meiers
www.linkedin.com/in/theunixguy
Looking for the following NeXT hardware
NeXT Laser Printer
NeXT Cube
NeXTstation, can be mono, color, turbo or whatever
And any and all related NeXT items
Thanks
Hi all,
I'm finally starting to learn using a PDP-11 OS and one thing I'd like to
(continue to) do is working on some text. So I've starting to learn (or
cope?) with TECO. Found a TECO.SAV on some RT-11 Sigtape to run on RT-11XM.
But as the SimH console running the RT-11 is happy typing in lowercase
letters, it all goes uppercase inside of TECO.
Is there something I need to do to get lowercase working for TECO?
.SET TT: LC doesn't seem to work and doesn't seem to be needed as the RT-11
prompt happily accepts (and shows) lowercase. It's just that TECO seems to
be flipping the console or input to uppercase.
Any ideas or standard tips&tricks/hacks on using TECO on RT-11?
With kind regards,
Reiche
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