Wow. Thanks for sharing. What a beautiful looking machine. I hope one of us
gets it.
Marc
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Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2015 18:36:20 +0200
From: Mattis Lind <mattislind at gmail.com>
Not really a 026 but maybe contemporary with the 029:
http://www.ebay.de/itm/Historische-EDV-Lochkartenstanzer-Card-Punch-von-1973
-2000-Lochkarten-/371439456530?hash=item567b845112
Not mine.
I was wondering if anyone has or knows anyone who has experience with
low volume sheet metal enclosure fabrication? I am looking for a
fabricator to build small (think game cartridge enclosure sizes)
clamshell units (or similar).
I thought before I start cold calling folks, I'd see if someone has
already had some success.
--
Jim Brain
brain at jbrain.comwww.jbrain.com
So does anyone have a trashed/dead front panel for a Data General S/130
(S/200 would also work) that can be a donor? All I need are two
switches/paddles/Covers, but my S/200 front panel is perfect so I don't want
to rob from that for the S/130 project. One light blue, one dark blue...
Crossing my fingers.....
J
I decided to raid the front panel of my S/200 to get a switch cover and a
switch for the S/130; what can I say - I got antsy to see if the S/130
worked ;) When taking the S/200 front panel apart I found it really wasn't
in great shape as it had appeared to be from the outside. A large number of
the incandescents had broken off and were sitting loose and one of the
switch covers was broken so someday I'll return to the S/200 but the S/130
restoration was completed as a result.
Pictures (…
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/131070638 at N02 but the first picture shows the
cpu up.
Once or twice, running the microcoded self-test produced a "Rom Error", but
almost always it produces the desired result and loops on that test (checks
microcode checksum, ability to execute and step microcode, a few CPU
instructions & paths, and tests the lowest 16Kw of ram). Raising switch 0
halts cpu at microcode address 2 just as it should.
I also noticed that on rare occasion, hitting "examine" on AC1 produces no
result - but other than that I can store and read AC0-3 as well as several
different sections of memory.
Next step is to locate a 4045 board and see if I can get a console hooked
up. After that, I'll need some way to get diagnostics into the machine. To
that end, I could try restoring a HD, 8" diskette, paper tape, or dual
cassette drive - but I'm wondering if there is any previous art for entering
a front panel ditty and stuffing diags down the console port (from a PC)?
Yes, google is my next stop ;)
Thanks to several listmembers and especially Bruce for pointers and advice,
as documentation is scarce and not organized the way my brain works.
Best,
J
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I'm pleased to be able to report the successful installation of OpenVMS
8.3 - Alpha on my 3000 M600
It now runs Dec Windows on the graphics screen and a terminal on the
serial port.
TCPIP works and I can get to my local network OK.
Now to find a browser. There must have been one
Rod
--
Wanted : KDJ11-E for my 11/94
M8981 KK8-E
M8300 KK8-E
M8310 KK8-E
M8320 KK8-E
M8330
OK, there does appear to be larger disk support... now how about for RL02?
Unfortunately the drive is not as smart as an RK (can't do spiral
read/writes) so that would complicate things.
However, each side of cylinder 0 is about 10KB, so 20K is available without
having to move the drive head. I bet that would be enough swap area most of
the time (it's not like most of us have 16 users all logged on
simultaneously) :)
-Charles
> Well, here's an 029 (not quite what the OP was looking for, but good
> enough for you all, I expect) for a not insane amount of money:
> http://www.ebay.com/itm/281796720725
So I see this sold - anyone know who got it?
Noel
> From: Marc Verdiell
> thanks for taking care of a rare 026.
Actually, IIRC this was an 029 - thread drift, after LCM (IIRC) enquired
about a punch - for them, an 029 seemed as good as an 026.
> this community is about celebrating people that have an interest in
> saving old valuable hardware.
Indeed, this whole list is about people saving computers that don't really
have any _practical_ use any more. By definition, from a purely _functional_
perspective, their …
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them as interesting and historic artifacts - and in that light, their true
value is set by that old mechanism, supply and demand.
So some antique computers go for what I find remarkably low prices (e.g. QBUS
-11 stuff) because there's a good supply, and other very similar machines go
for a lot (that 11/70).because they are un-common. And IBM punches are not
exactly common items...
Noel
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At 05:57 AM 9/20/2015, Liam Proven wrote:
>On 20 September 2015 at 05:58, John Foust <jfoust at threedee.com> wrote:
>> Someone's demonstrated you can hide in the firmware of hard drives.
>
>And access the hypervisor layer of an OS in various ways from programs
>executing inside a VM.
Yeah, that too. The easy recombination and modularization of malware
makes it so much worse. I suspect there are quite a few easy ways that
malware could hold hostage the typical VMware /…
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setups at many businesses, and easy money because it would be far easier
to pay the ransom than to perform full disaster recovery.
On a more classic-computer bent, though, I try to look backwards
for wisdom about how this problem could be solved, and it's such a
different world with the Internet and higher stakes and dependency
on networked computers... it's not easy to solve.
- John
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Something like two and a half years ago, I got a copy of
EL-00032-00-decStd32_Jan90.pdf, a one-image-per-page scan of a paper
copy of the VAX Architecture Reference Manual. I don't know where I
got it, but bitsavers has a file of the same name with the same MD5
checksum at /pdf/dec/vax/archSpec/EL-00032-00-decStd32_Jan90.pdf now,
so it likely was there.
I played with trying to build character-recognition software to convert
it to text and eventually decided it would be quicker and easier to …
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it myself.
I've just finished that. (I'm not sure whether it actually was quicker
or easier....)
The result is available from ftp.rodents-montreal.org in
/mouse/docs/DEC/VARM/EL-00032-00-decStd32_Jan90.txt for anyone who
would care to grab a copy.
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