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From: rdawson16 at hotmail.com
To: greenkeys at mailman.qth.net
Subject: The last fix for a "All Shook Up" 33
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2015 23:14:45 -0700
Wayne (ttyparts.com) and I had a disaster of a shipment on a ASR33, Fed Ex Ground did us no favors.
In spite of a handcrafted wooden case, clearly marked UP arrows and FRAGILE, these guys tossed this thing around.
The printer shipping bolts were installed. I told Wayne, are you sure you put them in? because I could not find them.
There they were, in the bottom of the crate, sheared off. Obviously they dropped and tumbled his custom TTY wood crate, that he has used for years.
HERE IS key is stuck, the printer rammed into the keyboard and bent it horizontal and vertical, fixed that.
Wayne sent a test tape and we verify the printer is OK.
Keys still do not print the correct letters, and tonight I find an actuator wire on the keyboard is broken.
If anybody ships a TTY, I recommend this: Make the box a, 3x, 4x TTY sized double wall cardboard box, filled with peanuts, and the TTY nestled in the core of the surrounding peanut cushion. They are going to shake and drop it, and all that foam and peanut will give the printer a cushion and lower the G's the TTY and printer will experience. An 'UP ARROW' means nothing, nor does 'FRAGILE'
Wayne's idea of a strong wood crate may have worked in the past, but today, it means 'don't care' this thing is packed for rough handling, they will toss it, drop it, tumble it because it is heavy as shit, and this wood case looks like it is built for this abuse.
Wayne is a super guy, and I highly recommend anybody buying teletypes work thru him. he completely redid my machine, took it down for a total refurbrishment, and built it back up. Weeks of testing and alighnment too. This guy is the best - and I can attest to this on all the time he has spent recovering from the shipping guys to get me online
Randy
KF7CJW
All,
Also while cleaning I found a box of HP Vectra docs & a couple disks.
Docs:
Getting Started With the HP BASIC Controller
HP 24540B & HP 24541B - Installation Guide
35743 HP Enhanced Graphics Display Installation Guide
HP Enhanced Graphics Adapter User's Manual
Disks:
VECTRA PC UTILITIES AND DRIVERS
ENHANCED GRAPHICS ADAPTER - UTILITY DISC
All of this in a HP 82301A BASIC Language box.
Again, beer money & shipping from 53714.
-Jon
Hi All,
I ran across the following while cleaning:
A set of "draft" manuals for SCO Integra database software. It looks to be a complete manual set in 4 hardbound volumes.
Also in the pile are 4 sequentially labeled 5 1/4" floppy disks that have "Dewitt" written on them. I don't have the resources to check the contents of the disks.
There is a single page color promotional flyer for SCO Integra.
Are these of interest to anyone?
Here's a picture: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jja572/albums/72157660431177871
Available for beer money and shipping from 53714.
-Jon
Can anyone confirm whether a Mac IIsi spits out sync-on-green (and only
sync-on-green) or not? I've found mixed info on the 'net so far.
I've got a system here which makes encouraging startup noises, but isn't
outputting any video to a VGA screen (adapter cable OK with my other Macs).
If it's SoG-only, well, there's my problem :-) If it does output h/vsync
like my other Macs then I need to look elsewhere (most likely nonsense
NVRAM settings, I expect).
cheers
Jules
> From: Guy Sotomayor
> Peanuts do *nothing* .. The heavy item will "settle" and have nothing
> surrounding it. The peanuts act a fluid during shipping.
I can attest to this. I bought a largish disk drive, and it was shipped in
peanuts. It came out the box at 45 degrees to the sides - it had gone in
parallel to the sides. Luckily, no damage ensued, but it was pure luck.
Noel
Hi Guys
OK I'm open for orders for the choice of the following:
PDP-8/e (Type A)
PDP-8/e (Type B)
PDP-8/f
PDP-8/m
Existing orders price as pre-paid
New orders price will be advised based on batch sizes
/f and /m are going to be a few dollars more as they need an extra
screen for the logos.
There are_twenty slots_ of which _five_ have already gone
Ask for the file of designs if you don't have it.
New panels in design stage for the 11/40 up to 11/70.
Scans, Photos and "I want one" for the above to me please.
Rod Smallwood
I'm trying to get my RLV11 working to eventually run my RL02, and am
having some trouble.
I have a PDP-11/23 in an H9273 backplane. I just got it working
reliably without the RLV11 boards installed, so now I'm giving them a
try again.
Here's my configuration:
Down the left side: M8186, M8044, M8044, M8043, M8013, M8014, and
M8012 (the BDV11) on the bottom.
I don't have the drive connected and am just trying to run the VRLAC0
controller test, which I believe should work without any drives
connected.
The switches on M8014 are configured to the defaults, according to:
http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/dec/qbus/EK-RLV11-TD-001_RLV11_Contr…
That would be a vector address of 330 and a base address of 174400.
Unfortunately, VRLAC0 doesn't look like it can see anything, but I'm
not sure I'm reading its output correctly.
What follows is the VRLAC0 output. I also looked at 17440 myself and
get 005737, though I'm not sure what it should be.
This is new territory for me, so any help would be welcome. Thanks!
.R VRLAC0
VRLAC0.BIN
DRSSM-G2
CVRLA-C-0
CVRLAC RLV11 RL01 DSKLESS DIAGNOSTIC
UNIT IS RLV11
RSTRT ADR 145702
DR>START
CHANGE HW (L) ? Y
# UNITS (D) ? 1
UNIT 0
11/23 PROCESSOR (L) Y ?
BUS ADDRESS (O) 174400 ?
VECTOR (O) 160 ? 330
DRIVE (O) 0 ?
BR LEVEL (O) 5 ?
CHANGE SW (L) ? Y
DROP ON ERROR LIMIT (L) N ?
AUTOSIZE (L) N ?
CVRLA SYS FTL ERR 00000 ON UNIT 00 TST 001 SUB 000 PC: 017066
CAN NOT ADDRESS RLCS
CONTROLLER: 174400 DRIVE: 0
CVRLA SYS FTL ERR 00001 ON UNIT 00 TST 002 SUB 000 PC: 017164
CAN NOT ADDRESS RLBA
CONTROLLER: 174400 DRIVE: 0
CVRLA SYS FTL ERR 00002 ON UNIT 00 TST 003 SUB 000 PC: 017262
CAN NOT ADDRESS RLDA
CONTROLLER: 174400 DRIVE: 0
CVRLA SYS FTL ERR 00003 ON UNIT 00 TST 004 SUB 000 PC: 017360
CAN NOT ADDRESS RLMP
CONTROLLER: 174400 DRIVE: 0
CVRLA SYS FTL ERR 00100 ON UNIT 00 TST 005 SUB 000 PC: 017454
CAN NOT ADDRESS RLCS
CONTROLLER: 174400 DRIVE: 0
CVRLA SYS FTL ERR 00101 ON UNIT 00 TST 006 SUB 000 PC: 017550
CAN NOT ADDRESS RLBA
CONTROLLER: 174400 DRIVE: 0
CVRLA SYS FTL ERR 00102 ON UNIT 00 TST 007 SUB 000 PC: 017644
CAN NOT ADDRESS RLDA
CONTROLLER: 174400 DRIVE: 0
CVRLA SYS FTL ERR 00103 ON UNIT 00 TST 008 SUB 000 PC: 017740
CAN NOT ADDRESS RLMP
CONTROLLER: 174400 DRIVE: 0
ILL INTER 004
PC 017770 PS 000341
ILL INTER 004
PC 014460 PS 000005
DR>
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Ben Sinclair
ben at bensinclair.com
For reasons too abstruse to explain in detail I'm on the lookout for
terminals that are, physically, really small - especially serial and
coax 3270, and possibly twinax 5250.
Yes you could do things with small laptops and PDAs with PCMCIA cards
and adapters and software - I know a guy who kept a Psion Organizer
configured especially for use as a terminal with SGI boxes. But that's
Not The Same, and NOT what I'm after; I want dedicated purpose-built
terminals; switch it on and It Works.
And both DEC and IBM made 'real' terminals in a 'small pizza box' form
factor, using a separate standard VGA monitor as a display; one could
use those with a small LCD screen and achieve a similar result, and I
might do just that - can anyone remember the model numbers of IBM 3270
and 5250 terminals that were built this way?
But really I'd prefer a compact all-in one solution; a one-piece
terminal. Any suggestions? I'm open to both LCDs and *small* CRTs.
Preferably colour!
Thanks
Mike
Hi Guys
I need to get some comments on the following.
1. Would a matt finish be better than the current glossy one?
2. Should the round holes be pre-drilled?
Regards
Rod
Hi folks,
ROM problems aside does anyone know of a way I can test the actual CRT?
Last night I borrowed the screen from another PET just to see if I get a
garbage pattern from the board I'm repairing, but this one stays similarly
dark so I need to sanity check both of them.
Back when I was fixing my broken TRS80s I could use the CRT from a B&W TV,
is there anything oddball about the PET CRT that would stop me going the
other way and putting the tube in one of my spare TVs?
Ta!
--
adrian/witchy
Owner of Binary Dinosaurs, the UK's biggest home computer collection?
www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk
