If my house were on fire and I had to pick what to save, near the top of
my list would be my MicroVAX in a BA123 enclosure. It is by FAR my
favorite computer. Sadly, there was a tragic accident and the
ventilation louver, just about the power switch got broken. I know, I
know. How could this happen? I am overcome by guilt. I can't rest until
my poor, sad VAX is fully repaired and back to it's perfect condition.
I've tried to repair it, but not had satisfactory results. Is there
anyone out there that would be willing to sell me a replacement?
Not an essential manual but for completeness I would like to find a
copy. If anyone has one would they be willing to scan it please or I
can arrange to get it done.
The list of manuals for the DECwriter I LA-30 are:
(missing) EK-OLA30-OPLA30 DECwriter User's Manual
(online) DEC-00-LA30-DC1972-08LA30 DECwriter Maintenance Manual
(online) LA30 Engineering drawings Nov-1973
(online) via Manx or bitsavers.
If anyone has paper for these printers in the right size I'd be glad
to have some (whatever would fit in an large envelope). LA30 is fixed
sprocket position, needs 9-7/8 inch wide (1/2 inch pitch x 0.150 inch
diameter feed holes) continuous paper.
The M24 I got the other day has the bus converter, whereas the other M24
that I already had does not. I bought a bus converter for the "old" one, but
then realised I didn't have any mounting bushes or spacers in order to
install it. I thought of removing some of the bushes from the new one to
share with the old one, it wouldn't be as good but at least I would be able
to install the converter.
It looks like I might need some kind of special tool to remove the bushes
>from the new machine. Is there a way to do this with ordinary tools? Does
anyone know if the mounting bushes are any kind of standard part that could
still be bought somewhere?
Thanks
Rob
Won the guy on the big auction site, put the minimum bid down and $50 later
it showed up on the doorstop.
http://petelancashire.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=6027
Sorry for the bad photo's but the sun was going down fast.
Been trying to find the display interface specs, pinout, freqs, etc. but so
far have been overwhelmed with just about everything else.
Other things I guess I'll need are
Also what keyboard should I be looking for ?
What options do I have for an O/S ?
The last time I logged into a VAX was one of many 11/780s the company I
worked for was like 198? something.
A LONG time ago ..
-pete
Hi,
I'm putting the finishing touches on my efforts to re-draw the M865
schematic for the website www.so-much-stuff.com (which has a
collection of similar drawings). I am looking for photos of the
front and back, reasonably square-on, with enough resolution
and light to make out the traces easily. My intent is to "trace
over the traces" with my CAD software (Eagle 6.6), to document
the board while simultaneously verifying the work I've done to
draw the schematic.
Does anyone have photos of the component and solder sides
of an M865? It's the older Omnibus serial card, with the current
loop cable soldered in.
Permission to use the photos on the website would also be
great.
The folks I've found so far who own boards can't get photos of them
for a week or more, and I'd like to finish these drawings before my
motivation fades. (I know from experience how long it can take me
to get back to half-finished projects!)
Vince
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I collected some Sun keyboards for a customer, but some are too yellowed for
him to use. They are all complete, including the cable, if it is supposed to
be attached.
I am asking $10 each plus shipping. They are not tested or cleaned. I don't
have any Sun terminals left to test them on.
Type 4, qty 2 (deeply yellowed)
Type 6 USB, Unix, qty 10 (moderate yellowing) 320-1273
Type 6 USB Unix, qty 12 (no or very slight yellowing) 320-1273 asking $20
each plus shipping
Cindy Croxton
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Here I am!
RSX-11M V4.2 BL38B
I have two RX50 disk units and Kermit.
512kb and one RD51 fixed disk.
I planned to archive separately every [*,*] and image the disks.
I tried and can write back and read RX50 disks with a properly setup PC.
I need only RSX-11M installation disks images but I'm confident they can be found somewhere on the net.
I'll give a look to BRU...
Thanks!
>
> Well...
> REM ...AT. worked since an AT entry was present in the TAL output
> INS $BIGIND not
> INS -- File not found
>
> Disk (RD51) has 850 blocks free after some cleaning up. It had 738 before.
> Thank for your answer.
> I'll try your suggestions.
> It's RSX-11 and I've found some troubles on the disk.
> I ran VFY with the /RC option.
> Some files can't be read (it reports -4 and -101 errors, parity error
> and forced error mark).
> INDEXF.SYS itself appears to have a bad spot.
> So I'm tempted to backup all relevant data and reinstall.
>
> BTW there's no [3,54] on the fixed disk.
Ok, if you don't have [3,54] then you must have RSX-11M not RSX-11M+. In that case you
should have two versions of Indirect:
[1,54]ICP.TSK
[1,54]ICX.TSK
ICP.TSK is the default, "full capacity" version and in V4.0 of RSX11M it shows up under TAS as:
>TAS ...AT.
...AT. 1.0 GEN 64. 00060000 LB0:-00114253
so try removing it as you did above and then INS the ICX.TSK and try it.
>REM ?AT.
>INS [1,54]ICX.TSK
>TAS ?AT.
...AT. 9.01 GEN 64. 00060000 LB0:-00114033
It would be good to know which version of RSX-11M you have and also a bit about the configuration.
You mention backing up your data, what disks do you have? To back up a system disk sometimes
it is best to use BRUSYS.SYS which on M should be in [1,51] It is a memory resident version
of BRU (running under RSX11S) that you BOOT and then can copy disks.
Good Luck!
Mark
http://lotharek.pl/product.php?pid=96
I recently picked up one of these devices. I'll apologize in advance if
you folks have already had a discussion about the MiST. Basically, it's an
FPGA that's capable of emulation (for lack of a better term) of many
platforms on a hardware level. I only got mine about two weeks ago, and
I'm still sifting through a ton of material and focused mainly on the
Amiga and ST platforms (stuff I played with as a pre-teen and teen). I
have to say, so far it's pretty awesome.
The coolest feature in my opinion is the standard joystick ports on the
side that "just work" with all the emulation targets. I always favored
using Sega Genesis controllers in those (rather than the rinky-dink little
"red joystick" of the time). They work oh-so-great with this rig.
The only issue is finding a monitor that doesn't have a fit over 15Khz
refresh rates. I use an NEC MultiSync with sync-on-green and all that fun
stuff. I'm still busy getting AROS running on "my Amiga" (which is
represented by an SD card with my ROM image from my A3000 and a metric
crapton of floppy images).
You basically hit a keystroke or joystick combo and you can swap floppies,
reboot, etc.. If you are into any of these, I can recommend the MiST:
* ST/STE (also on SCART 15KHz)
* Amiga 500/600/1200 ( AGA CORE BETA core)
* C64 (partially - still developed)
* Atari 8bit ( 96%)
* Collecovision
* ZX81
* Atari 2600
* ZX Spectrum with AY, aslo with DIVMMC and ESXDOS
* SEGA GENESIS
* Apple II(x)
* MSX
* AMSTRAD CPC (BETA)
* A few others, you'll want to check.
BTW, I'm new to the list (1st post). So, I'll introduce myself. I'm
just another IT worker with a background in Unix systems. I'm 41 and I
started with HP-UX 10.x (high school) and branched out to every kind of
Unix box I could get my hands on (Yes. I'm one of those Unix zealots, but
that might be too gentle a description). I spent the 90's with SGIs (which
I still collect, I have an O2+, two Indys, and a bruzin' Tezro fully built
out). I spent the early 2k's coding for supper as a "security engineer"
(read: writing exploits which I don't much care for now) and some stints
as a Tru64 admin. On the in between gigs and contracts I've touched just
about everything (and in the last 10 years a lot of new Unix hardware).
I've professionally admin'd or coded for IRIX, Solaris, Linux, Tru64
(OSF/1 or Digital Unix for some), FreeBSD, HP-UX, UNICOS, and AIX. As a
hobbyist, I've also tinkered greatly with NetBSD (maybe my favorite),
OpenBSD, and Minix. Then of course there is the spacey or rare stuff I've
put hands on. I'm talking about things like UnixWare, Xenix, SCO, SunOS,
BSDi, DG/UX, NeXTStep/OpenStep, A/UX, and even non-Unix stuff like Sprite,
L4, QNX, HURD, BeOS, Haiku, AROS, Genode, and others. I code fairly well
in C, shell script, and TCL. I code not-as-well in AREXX, Python, Ruby,
PHP, Lua, and a few other scripting languages. I'm pleased to be on this
list, and to make your myriad acquaintances.
-Swift
PS: My spell checker needs and ex-lax after going insane over this email
full of Unix variants and ancient platforms.
