test-drb March 2017

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FTGH (you come get): VAXstation 100 terminals

by cctalk＠ibm51xx.net

You snatch two - 1 for now and 1 for backup :). Plus it is in your neck of the woods or dessert to be more accurate. . -------- Original message -------- From: "Mark J. Blair via cctalk" <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Date: 3/6/17 8:18 AM (GMT-08:00) To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Subject: Re: FTGH (you come get): VAXstation 100 terminals Ugh, this leaves me feeling so conflicted. One or more of these rigs sounds so tempting, but both my house and my 11/730's Unibus cage are full. Do I stash one in one of my sea containers in the hope that someday find time to let it timeshare a desk in my house, and also find a place to plug it in? Or do I do the sane thing, and pretend I never saw this posting? :) -- Mark J. Blair, NF6X <nf6x at nf6x.net> http://www.nf6x.net/

7 years, 8 months

UNIBUS RK611 (RK06/RK07) controller available

by jnc＠mercury.lcs.mit.edu

So I have a complete RK611 (backplane and boards, no cables, sorry). I doubt very much I'm ever going to have any RK07's to use it with, so it's available if anyone has a use for it. It seems to be in reasonably good condition, but I have no idea if it's working or not. Noel

7 years, 8 months

I hate the new mail system

by jnc＠mercury.lcs.mit.edu

> From: Christian Corti > My complaint ... is, that if you reply to a message on the list, the > author of that message gets a private mail, too, as he is listed in the > Reply-To:-field. This is *wrong* and must be corrected (i.e. removed)! Good grief. Just about every email from every mailing list I'm on which I reply to, I have to manually remove additional addresses from the reply. It takes about one second. Just deal with it. Noel

7 years, 8 months

Another batch of tapes, 9845C, Tek 4051, VAX, Tek Misc

by pete＠petelancashire.com

https://goo.gl/photos/nTH55jvTqC9Mc2Uq8 Many of the DC300 size carts have broken bands. and a Tek 4041 PROM tray. -pete

7 years, 8 months

Model 16 Keyboards

by bill.gunshannon＠hotmail.com

I have a pair of Model 16 Keyboards for sale. If interested make an offer. Allow at least $10 additional for Priority Mail with the USPS. bill

7 years, 8 months

PDP-11/34 rails?

by jnc＠mercury.lcs.mit.edu

> From: Josh Dersch > I'm looking to rack up my PDP-11/34 so I can get it off my bench. I'd > like to track down something similar to (if not exactly) the original > rackmount rails (the ones that allow the chassis to pivot 90 degrees I'm not the sure BA11-K (10-1/2" box) mounted 11/34's could do the rotate thing; the last 10-1/2" one that could was, IIRC, the 11/05. (I don't think any of the 5-1/4" boxes could rotate.) The BA11-K had that incredibly heavy H765 power supply, maybe it was too heavy to safely rotate? > I'm not sure what the original part number or manufacturer was. Anyone > have this information handy? Anyway, I've seen BA11-K boxes with several different kind of mounting slides. The tall, grey-coated ones are made by Chassis Trak, a division of General Devices of Indianapolis. The 4 I looked at, all idential looking (except for handedness), all had different numbers on the CT sticker, so I don't know what the model number is! This one says '060RH'. I've also seen BA11-K's with narrower (height-wise) slides, in some sort of bright metal finish. I don't know who made those. GD is still in business; I looked on their web site and found similar slides. I didn't order any because they were kind fairly pricy. BTW, does anyone know that they grey coating is? Is it some sort of phosphate plating, or perhaps some sort of early powder coat, or what? Mine are rusty, and I'd like to blast them and get them re-coated, but I can't figure out what that coating is. Noel

7 years, 8 months

Rack-mounting a TU56

by ard.p850ug1＠gmail.com

I have been given an H960 rack :-). I intend to use it for my PDP8/e system (currently piled up, not connected), which consists of the : PDP8/e processor, Full of cards, memory extension, EAE, 32KW core, boot diode matrix ROM, RK8e, RD8e, RX8e, PC8e, etc. PC04 paper tape punch/reader (acutally, I converted a PC05, but that doesn't matter here) RK05 (well, there's an RK8e in the backplane and I have a spare RK05 so I might as well use it) RX01 TU56 (single drive version, ths is not a TU55 as some have suggested!). Various PSUs and step-down transformer for the TU56 and PC04 I think I have the right slide rails for the first 4 units too... Anyway, does anyone have experience of rack-mounting a TU56? It clearly doesn't go on slide rails, it bolts directly to the rack (hinge down the front panel for access). I have the manuals from Bitsavers, they imply there is some kind of spacer block that goes under the TU56. Does anyone know what that is exactly so I can attempt to make one if it is needed. -tony

7 years, 8 months

WTB HP 98036A serial I/O card

by pdaguytom＠gmail.com

I recently acquired a HP 9825 and have a project planned that will need serial i/o. If anyone has one of these interfaces they'd care to sell, I would be interested in visiting about it. Thanks, Tom

7 years, 8 months

What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own?

by rickb＠bensene.com

A selection of some of my more unusual computer-related stuff: - A Tektronix 4132 Unix workstation using a National 32016 CPU and a 4.2bsd port called UTek - A Digital Equipment PDP 8/e system with 2 RK05 drives, high speed paper tape reader/punch, RX01 Dual 8" floppy drives, 16K of DEC core memory(commonly runs with a 32K NVRAM board), 2 serial ports, EAE, RTC, Memory Extension/Timeshare board, Diode boot board (RK05 boot) - Wang 300-series calculator field service parts kit (two wooden briefcases) - Friden 6010 Computyper Diagnostic Console - Friden Electronics Training Course manuals (1960s) - Wyle Laboratories WS-02 punched card programmable electronic calculator (1964) - Busicom 207 punched card programmable electronic calculator - Altair 8800 with Altair dual 8" disk drives - IMSAI 8080 kit built in high school as a school project in 1976/1977 - Televideo Personal Terminal - GE transistorised current loop acoustic coupler modem (110 baud) - Hewlett Packard 9100A and 9100B programmable electronic calculators - Tektronix mini-Board Bucket computer and many boards for it (EPROM Blaster, TI TMS9918-Based Video Board w/RTC, SASI Interface, 6809 CPU, 6809 ICE CPU. 32K Static and 64K Dynamic RAM Boards, 300-Baud Modem Board, 5 1/4" Floppy Controller - SWTPC TV Typewriter - A large format (4'x5') Summagraphics digitizing tablet with GPIB interface - A Tektronix 4052 desktop computer (bit-slice implementation of Motorola 6800 CPU) with very rare RAM Disk module installed under keyboard - Wang Laboratories dual-cassette drive for 700 series calculator - An old fluorescent-lighted, two sided sign advertising Denon electronic calculators - Some original Digital Equipment System Modules (Used by DEC for making some of their early computers) --- Rick Bensene The Old Calculator Museum http://oldcalculatormuseum.com

7 years, 8 months

PDP-11/34 rails?

by jnc＠mercury.lcs.mit.edu

> From: Pete Turnbull >> I'm not the sure BA11-K (10-1/2" box) mounted 11/34's could do the >> rotate thing > The two I've had .. both rotated. Ah, right you are - brain fade, late at night. I went looking in my BA11-K collection, and found a couple that do have the rotate - the part that bolts to the box has a huge 3/4 circular plate, and a metal strip that runs to the front of the box with a huge (~3") handle bar at the front, which releases it to turn. I have this bit set that the outer slides (the parts that bolt to the 19" rack) are the same for the rotating inners, and the non-rotating ones (as used on, e.g., the RK05 and the BA11-F). > I've also seen BA11-K's with narrower (height-wise) slides, in some > sort of bright metal finish. I don't know who made those. I went and had a look at some, but there is no name, or number, anywhere on them. BTW, these also rotate. Noel

7 years, 8 months

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test-drb March 2017