test-drb June 2016

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by oscar.vermeulen＠hotmail.com

Some time ago, there were two posts asking how to operate the simh LGP-30 emulator. It is not exactly obvious from the rudimentary manual, and it seems nobody had figured it out completely. I am slightly obsessed with this machine at the moment (it happens), so here is a how-to on operating the emulator and running the tape library of Christian Corti on it - in the hope it's of use to others looking for clues: http://obsolescenceguaranteed.blogspot.ch/2016/06/using-simh-lgp-30-emulato… Corti's LGP-30 emulator, by the way, gives a much better feel for the machine. But simh source is available, which I needed because I'm making a replica hardware front panel for the machine. Regards, Oscar.

8 years, 6 months

VAX-11/780 Board Set on eBait

by jnc＠mercury.lcs.mit.edu

> From: Devin Davison > It looked like a good batch of boards and i was holding out on finding > a machine. I hope that "a machine" wasn't 'an empty machine to plug them into' - because AFAICT the chances are that happening are basically zero. (People seem to save either i) complete machines, or ii) just the boards - apparently not realizing that without the backplane, etc, the boards are only useful as spares.) > Any good place to get a 11/780 aside from watching the local scrap > centers with my fingers crossed one will be there? For some reasons, /780's seem to be pretty rare. I suspect it's a case of 'they were mostly all scrapped long ago in favour of later models which were faster and smaller' (we see the same thing in other lines). Don't get me wrong, I truly do fervently hope that you do find one somehow, but one has to be realistic, I think. (I'd love to have an RF11, but I'm pretty sure they almost all went to the big scrap-heap in the sky many moons ago; so I'm not holding on, waiting for one to appear - rather, I'm getting on with the stuff that _is_ still here.) Sorry to be such a downer... :-( Noel

8 years, 6 months

UNIBUS M9312 ROMS (Don North)

by michael.99.thompson＠gmail.com

> > From: Don North <ak6dn at mindspring.com> > Subject: Re: UNIBUS M9312 ROMS > > Actually the page listed below is a big out of date with respect to some > M9312 > images (it is not an up to date mirror). > The up to date page is at: http://ak6dn.dyndns.org/PDP-11/M9312/ > > -- > Don North > AK6DN > RCS/RI has some PDP-11/34 systems that booted, I think using DDCMP, via a COAX interface from a PDP-10 KL10. I think that it took four ROMs to hold the boot loader. You might not have a copy of those ROMs. -- Michael Thompson

8 years, 6 months

FS: (PURGE) all sorts of classic computer parts, computers, networking, ink/toner, etc

by rescue＠hawkmountain.net

Hi everyone, I am looking to clean out some of my stuff. I'm 'buried' in it. This is just the begnning.... so if you are looking for anything in particular; PC, Mac, Sun, SGI, misc, feel free to inquire. If you want to get heard above the noise when replying (spam sucks), add PURGE into the subject line.... that will help me find responses or inquiries fast. So, here is the first batch of stuff, organized by drives, misc, kvm, wireless, PC, laptop, Sun, SGI, Apple, Digital (DEC), Cisco, and finaly toner and ink cartridges. Obviously there are so many items here, it would take time to price all this stuff. So I'm open to reasonable offers. I'm not trying to make it rich, I'm looking for a reasonable amount so that you get a decent deal, and I get this stuff move on out. Eventually if it doesn't move it will go into storage, recylced, or dumpstered. I've got to get some space back. There are lots of parts here, but also some completed (or mostly complete) Macs, PC, Sun, SGI, etc. I have some older PC laptops to list, and I'll have more Mac, Sun, SGI, and more to list as time goes on. But I have to start somewhere.... so here is the list.... Drives (hard drive, optical drive, mo drive, etc) ------------------------------------------------- SCSI hard drives (too many to list) (I have a number of Sun and generic, i.e. good number of ST11200N, and some ST31200N for an example) IDE hard drives (too many to list) SATA hard drives (qty of 250G, a few others) ESDI hard drives (a few) MFM hard drives (some, i.e. Maxtor XT1140, Maxtor XT2190, Micropolis 1325, etc) (I'm not dumping these, just listing them for those who know what they are and want to inquire with real offers, so this is listing for completeness, not to make space like most things here) Misc ---- 15" XVGA LCD monitor, no stand, but includes a wall mount bracket. Power supply included. RJ45F to DB25M kits. Still sealed, make your own pinout Canon SX printer parts (inquire with what you are looking for) New Compaq Ipaq, was only charged and tried once, it has sat in a box since. Original packaging not present Qty 6 MeanWell ESP240-27 power supplies (27V 8A) AGA Discus 600M MO drive (external) Cabletron MT-800 MAU, 8 port AUI ethernet 'hub', untested Digtal DELNI-BA MAU, 8 port AUI ethernet 'hub', untested (may have 4 bad ports (4 labelled with an 'X' under them) Whistle Interjet (internet access/server appliance (google it)) HP Printer PAL (turn your PCL printer into a FAX receiver), new in box, never opened syquest SPARQ1A1 internal IDE 1.0G removable media drive (like the IOMega Jaz), untested (don't have media to test with) Ayquest SQ555, SCSI interface, 5.25" removable media drive, 44M capacity, no media, working pull KVM Stuff --------- Qty 3 Avocent Outlook 2160ES KVM (each has 16 ports, supports 2 consoles) (these can be daisy chained) Qty 17 Avocent KVM cables (106-2326-00) for the 2160ES (and other Avocent KVMs). Each cable supports 2 systems. Wireless Stuff -------------- 5 Summit SDC-CF10G 802.11G compact flash wireless cards with laptop style antenna connector, and one antenna lead/connector pig tail 5 Summit SDC-PC10G PCMCIA to Compact Flash adapters for the SDC-CF10G (and others?) wireless compact flash cards PC Stuff -------- Qty 1 Mouse Systems PC Jr Optical Mouse Gateway G6-200 PC (will got for a nice AT tower if all you need is a case) Qty 12+ Pentium III heatsink/fans. Server grade with IBM 22P4370 part # on them. Qty 3 VXI VRMs (073-20742-30) (IBM FRU 1K7371) 150W PC AT power supply ('mini AT' ? not the full size from the IBM AT style case) PowerTronic TK-4230DC full size AT power supply Qty 1 Generic 400DPI PC Bus Mouse, excellent condition (Logitec 'half moon' style, but generic brand) Qty 1 Ditto I080Fi internal tape drive Multiple PC AT Keyboards Multiple Pentium motherboards, some with cpu, some without, no manuals Qty 4 3COM 3C597 Fast EtherLink EISA Laptop stuff ------------ Qty 6 new Latitude D600/610/520 (and others?) battery, not the recalled ones, the good ones, need charging as they've been on the shelf for a long time Dell Latitude D520 palm rest, new in box, with trackpad component missing, a used working trackpad is included but not installed Dell Latitude D520 palm rest, new in box (with new trackpad as delivered from Dell) Dell Inspiron C840 UXGA 15" TFT Screen, new in box from Dell Sun Stuff --------- Mini-DIN console cable (Mac modem cable), new in package Qty 2 SLC CPU boards (untested, I don't have an SLC/ELC to test in) Qty 3 ELC CPU boards (untested, I don't have an SLC/ELC to test in) Qty 1 Ultra 5/10 mainboard (working pull) (will sell with or w/o CPU) Qty 1 Ultra 10 riser PCB (370-3982) Qty 1 Ultra 10 floppy drive (370-3159) Qty 3 Sun 411 drive enclosures (old 'dotted' style) Qty 2 Sun 411 drive enclosures (new style, just sun diamond logo, no 'Sun' text) Qty 1 Sun 411 drive enclosure (new style, diamond shaped logo, and 'Sun' text/script) Qty 6 Sun 611 drive enclosures Qty 2 Sun 411 "dotted" style top case covers Qty 2 Sun 411 top case covers (new style with logo and 'Sun' text/script) Qty 1 Sun 1/1+/2 (and 3/80) power supply (300-1038) Qty 6 Sun 411 drive enclosure SCSI cabling/fan/'backplane' assembly Multiple Sun 411 fans Qty 12 Sun 370-1420 floppy drives (out of SS10, should work in others as well (one has no door/bezel) Qty 1 SS20 Hard Drive bracket Qty 1 set of the newer revised SS20 side vents Qty 1 Ultra 450 4 drive SCSI backplane Qty 1 Ultra 450 8 drive SCSI backplane Qty 12 Sun 411 drive enclosure 300-1090 power supplies Qty 3 Sun 411 drive enclosure 300-1105 power supplies Qty 1 Sun 411 drive enclosure 300-1037 power supply Qty 9 Sparcstation 10 power supplies Qty 1 SS5/SS20 power supply Qty 1 SS10 top cover Sun Unltra 10 workstation. Can't recall if this has a hard drive in it still or not. This was a working system when retired. SGI Stuff --------- 3COM 3C597 Fast EhterLink EISA cards (see misc section above) Qty 1 Indogo 2 Power supply PC4074 p/N 6064470 SGI Indy R5000, no RAM, no HD, no HD bracket, has XZ graphics card stack (030-8235 030-8234), has the better Sony power supply SGI Indy power supply, Nidec brand, 943-0813 SGI Indy power supply, Sony brand, 060-0008 Indy top cover Indigo purple top cover Indigo teal top cover Indog2 backplane (030-8104) Qty 4 3COM 3C597 Fast EtherLink EISA (can be used on SGI Indigo 2 (google it)) Apple Stuff ----------- Apple IIGS, nice condition, powers on fine, no setup to do a boot test with iMac KB and mouse, translucent ruby red iMac 450MHz iMac mainboard Dual Floppy Macintosh SE Workgroup Server 95 (may not have the WGS card, I'd have to check, w/o it's a Quadra 950) Macintosh IIsi Macintosh IIcx Qty 2 Macintosh LCIII Qty 3 new in box M7600LL/E Airport Card Qty 2 new in box M8881LL/A Airport Extreme card Apple IIc power supply Mini-DIN Mac Modem cable, new Apple Mac II Power Supply Apple Design keyboard M2980 Ingram Micro zip/etc tape drive bracket/bezel for Mac 7200/7500/others? Digital (DEC) Stuff ------------------- DELNI-BA (see misc section) Qty 2 Vaxstation 3100 M76 Qty 2 Vaxtation 3100 M38 Qty 1 Vaxstation 3100 Qty 1 VAxstation 3100 (larger enclosure (taller) Qty 1 AlphaPC64 Motherboard (21A02-A3), in original box, never used, I bought as new years ago and never used it Qty 2 Digital LN03 maintenance kits Qty 3 Digital LN03 toner kits LN03 font cargridges (LN03X-CY, LN03X-CB, LN03X-CR (qty 2), LN03-SX, LN03X-CW, LN03X-CR) Digital LN03 Programmer Reference Manual Cisco Stuff ----------- Cisco 1720 w T1 CSU/DSU WIC and power supply Cisco 3600 1E2T card w T1 CSU/DSU WIC Cisco 4FE card (74-3188-01) Cisco PIX515 power supply Cisco PIX515 fan assemblies Cisco PIX515 plastics Toner Cartridges ---------------- Qty 2 HP C4191A black (for 4500/4550) Qty 2 HP C4194A Yellow (for 4500/4550) Qty 2 HP C4192A Cyan (for 4500/4550) Qty 1 HP 98A (for 4/4+/4M/4M+/5/5M/5N) Qty 1 HP 98A new in open bag (for identification) (for 4/4+/4M/4M+/5/5M/5N) qty 3 HP 96A (for 2100/2200) Qty 1 HP C4092A (for 1100/3200) Qty 1 Brother TN530 Qty 1 Generic Canon SX refilled cartridge Qty 1 HP 92285A (for Laserjet/LaserJet Plus/LaserJet 500/Apple LaserWriter I) Qty 1 EP in open bag new (Laserjet/Laserjet Plus/LaserJet 500/Apple LaserWriter I) Qty 1 HP 15X (1200/1220/3300/3380) Qty 1 HP 12A (1010/1012/1015/1018/1020/1020plus/1022/3015/3020/3030/3050/3050Z/3052/3055/M1005mfp/M1319mfp) Qty 1 Xerox 6R902 (same as HP 95A) (Canon SX) (used, remaining toner amount unknown) LN03 toner and maintenance kits (see Digital section) Ink Cargridges -------------- Qty 3 HP #70 Photo Black (DesignJet Z2100, Z3100) Qty 2 HP #70 Light Gray Qty 3 HP #70 Light Cyan Qty 3 HP #70 Cyan Qty 2 HP #70 Yellow Qty 1 HP #70 Light Magenta Qty 2 HP #70 Magenta Qty 3 HP #70 Matte Black Qty 1 HP #97 (C9363W) Qty 4 Canon 24 Black (S200, S300, i320, i450, i470D, Multipass F10/F20) Qty 4 Canon 24 Color

8 years, 6 months

Attend and Participate Information Security and Cyber Forensics (INFOSEC2017)

by radiotest＠juno.com

At 08:42 AM 6/10/2016, Joan Sali wrote: >I'm thinking this is a general discussion. This is a general discussion about classic computers. Will your conference address security needs of , say, CP/M computers of the 1980s, minicomputers of the 1970s, or mainframe computers of the 1960s? I suspect not, and if not the topic does not belong here and is therefore regarded by many of us as spam. Dale H. Cook, Roanoke/Lynchburg, VA Osborne 1 / Kaypro 4-84 / Kaypro 1 / Amstrad PPC-640 http://plymouthcolony.net/starcity/radios/index.html

8 years, 6 months

The life of Plastics

by rodsmallwood52＠btinternet.com

I just took my copy of RT11 mini reference (1985) off the shelf and the front cover fell off. Not through wear and tear but brittleness. I wonder what else is going to fall apart in the plastics line. Oh well at least I have the finest book cover repair material known to man to hand. What is it? Green packing tape! Rod

8 years, 6 months

Interlan DEC Ethernet boards

by billdegnan＠gmail.com

Other threads about DEC and Ethernet got me thinking....I have a couple of QBUS LSI Internal BD-NI2010A Ethernet boards. Anyone using these to connect to an Ethernet network on their system? It appears the ethernet address # is burned/hard wired into the card. Mine come from the University of Delaware. Bill -- @ BillDeg: Web: vintagecomputer.net Twitter: @billdeg <https://twitter.com/billdeg> Youtube: @billdeg <https://www.youtube.com/user/billdeg> Unauthorized Bio <http://www.vintagecomputer.net/readme.cfm>

8 years, 6 months

vintage computers in active use

by hilpert＠cs.ubc.ca

A friend notice this in the news, I heard it mentioned on the radio this morning too: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36385839 extract: The report said that the Department of Defence systems that co-ordinated intercontinental ballistic missiles, nuclear bombers and tanker support aircraft "runs on an IBM Series-1 Computer - a 1970s computing system - and uses eight-inch floppy disks".

8 years, 6 months

TK50 and xxdp+

by rodsmallwood52＠btinternet.com

Hi I'm renovating a TK50 . Its on my 11/83 and if use the PDP-11 format disk the Identify function finds and lists it. There should be a TK50 exerciser among the xxdp functions somewhere anybody know which one? Rod

8 years, 6 months

Big announcement tomorrow night

by cctalk＠snarc.net

There's a big announcement happening from the Vintage Computer Federation tomorrow night. :) Stay tuned...

8 years, 6 months

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