test-drb May 2014

test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

171 participants
188 discussions

by earl＠baugh.org

Folks, If you're in the area (Atlanta), PLEASE take some time and get out and come visit us at VCF SE 2.0!! (you can also the excellent nice weather this weekend!) We'll be tweeting photos and info with #VCFSE if you want to follow along on Twitter. Earl

10 years, 7 months

Overland Data OD3210 error codes -- solved

by js＠cimmeri.com

Many thanks yet again to the very kind _Bernhard Wulf_, who took time out of his busy day to save my OD3210 by sending me a special procedures document which details resetting the NOVRAM and conducting a few calibration tests after servicing. Anyone with any Overland tape drive, feel free to email me directly and I'll send you the .pdf file... but send your thanks to Bernhard. So, to recap, replacing the battery on my 3210's PWB caused the battery backed-up non-volatile memories to get scrambled, resulting in an 4x/second flashing ALERT upon after-service POST. Using the special procedures (not documented in the user manual where they should have been), I was able to reinitialize the NVRAM contents and recalibrate the drive. I know for a fact that this same problem has stymied several people before me, some of whom probably disposed of their perfectly good drives as a result. Thanks also go out to Chuck Guzis and Tony Duell for their clues and suggestions. - John S.

10 years, 7 months

ADDS Regent 25

by salgernon＠me.com

Hi all, I recently acquired the above mentioned terminal in great shape. On power on, it shows a white screen with black characters, all keys work and echo locally. But when connected to a known good serial cable with a 9600 getty, I get maybe a little gibberish and no more local echo on keystrokes. Tweaking the baud rate dips has no effect, and possibly of note, the dip for toggling between white on black and black on white has no effect either. So, looking inside I don't see anything obviously wrong, no blown caps or damaged traces, but there are some unlabeled dip switches on the main board. Before I go further diagnosing, does anyone know what these switches do, or what their default configuration should be? Is anyone else operating one of these that could share experiences. Thanks, --sma

10 years, 7 months

a terminal emulator for the Amiga

by sales＠elecplus.com

http://www.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-wrap/getdoc/slac-r-370.pdf Talks to Vax and IBM mainframes. Sorry, files not provided. Cindy Croxton Electronics Plus 1613 Water Street Kerrville, TX 78028 830-792-3400 phone 830-792-3404 fax sales at elecplus.com AOL IM elcpls

10 years, 7 months

Control Data CDC Plato system available in Minneapolis

by woolfson＠telswitch.com

If someone buys this, let me know. I own one of the IST terminals and use it regularily on Plato (Cyber1). Paul Koning provided me with a copy of the binary resident , and I wrote a wrapper to load it into the terminal upon power-up; so that the terminal will speak Plato ASCII protocol to cyber1.org via a serial cable connected to a PC which wraps things in IP over to cyber1.org port 8005. ----- Original Message ----- Subject: Re: Control Data CDC Plato system available in Minneapolis Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2014 13:00:28 -0500 From: Jason T <silent700 at gmail.com> On Mar 6, 2014, at 8:58 PM, Paul Koning wrote: > PLATO computer? Or PLATO terminal? I would guess terminal is meant. Looks like the owner tired of my (and other) attempts at getting him to ship it and has....decided he can ship it, after all. At quite a premium: http://www.ebay.com/itm/1980-Control-Data-IST-II-Plato-Terminal-/1813681495…

10 years, 7 months

FS: Cycle 5 Sun 1+ System Board Upgrade

by slandon110＠gmail.com

I have a pretty rare Cycle 5 Sun 1+ System Board upgrade. It replaces your system board in your Sparcstation 1+ 2 and so forth with a new board that has a 200mhz CPU on it. This comes with 128MB RAM installed, the board supports 50 pin SCSI drives and has a CGSIX Framebuffer Card. Tested working with NeXTSTEP 3.3 and OpenStep 4.2, along with Solaris 9 You get the following Cycle 5 System Board upgrade CGSIX Framebuffer Card Sparcstation 1+ Power Supply $200 dollars shipped or best offer. or will trade for other Sun Equipment. Looking for SCSI Drives for a Sparcstation 5. And the cables to a Aurora Multiport 800S Card. Im located in Michigan and local pick up is always welcomed Thanks Steve

10 years, 7 months

DEC VT320s and LK201 keyboards

by sales＠elecplus.com

I have 1 pallet packed nicely and ready to go that contains qty 27 DEC VT320 terminals and qty 5 LK-201 keyboards. 2 of the keyboards are missing some keycaps, but they all functioned well enough to use to test external modems several years ago. VT320-A2, 2 power on, 2 no power VT320-B2, qty 1 power on VT320-C2, qty 13 power on, qty 9 no power LK201 keyboards, qty 5, 2 of which are missing keycaps. None of the housings are cracked. All are dirty/yellowed/ink or marker. Screens may or may not be screen burned. Cindy Croxton Electronics Plus 1613 Water Street Kerrville, TX 78028 830-792-3400 phone 830-792-3404 fax sales at elecplus.com AOL IM elcpls

10 years, 7 months

A super easy OS bootstrap method for the Sol-20 + Northstar controller

by philip＠neoncluster.com

http://www.neoncluster.com/projects-...bootstrap.html Much thanks to: - Dave Dunfield for his NST Northstar Utils (and his fantastic repository of all things old and awesome). - Jim Battle for his SOLACE Sol-20 emulator, and his NSISVN DOS program. - Corey Cohen for his Sol-20 specific NST stub. Have fun Phil

10 years, 7 months

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test-drb May 2014