test-drb February 2018

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by derschjo＠gmail.com

Anyone have any idea where one might track down a copy of TI System V for the S1500 series? I've had these two TI UNIX systems for awhile now, a TI S1505 and a TI S1507 (68030 and 68040-based, respectively). They came without hard drives or OS media and so they've basically been doorstops. I asked around about OS media back when I got them (in 2013) and at the time I got no leads; I'm guessing things probably haven't changed, but I figured I'd ask again just in case... Seem like nice machines, wish I could do something with 'em... - Josh

6 years, 6 months

Logic Analyzer software for the HP-IB/RS-232 bus pre-processor HP 10342B

by marc.verdiell＠gmail.com

This has probably been asked before, but does anyone have the software package that came with the HP-IB/RS232 HP10342 bus pre-processor for the HP1650 series Logic Analyzer (actually I have a 1670G)? It should have a config file and an inverse assembler file. I'm interested in the HP-IB files. Can't find it anywhere. - Marc

6 years, 6 months

Interest Check: Belden Thicknet 10base5 Ethernet Coax

by systems.glitch＠gmail.com

All, Per the recent discussion on thicknet/early Ethernet, I figured I'd see if there's any interest in cut-to-length Belden thicknet/10base5 Ethernet cable. I've got a local surplus guy who's got at least one 1100 foot roll. It's the real Ethernet spec stuff, sez so on the cable, and it has the bands to locate your vampire taps. If there's enough interest, I'll buy the spool off of him and cut it to length for whoever's interested in buying some. I can crimp N terminations on as well. Thanks, Jonathan

6 years, 7 months

Jobs, McGowan and Olsen

by dm561＠torfree.net

An interesting 3 hours on PBS last night: - 'Steve Jobs - One Last Thing': No description necessary. - 'Long Distance Warrior': McGowan/MCI's David & Goliath battle with AT&T and disastrous merger with Worldcom. - 'Digital Man/Digital World': Ken Olsen/DEC's growth and ultimate decline. (No doubt everyone here except myself had already seen this one ;-) Interesting comparison of the different styles and personalities of three men who profoundly influenced the tech world of today and their companies. Thoroughly enjoyed it. m

6 years, 8 months

Shipping a Flexowriter

by kylevowen＠gmail.com

Does anyone have any tips on preparing a Flexowriter for shipping? Any thoughts as to crate vs. pallet? Thanks, Kyle

6 years, 9 months

UCSD p-system manuals and disks?

by mattislind＠gmail.com

I received these nice binders. https://i.imgur.com/L80ZGusl.jpg I think that most of them are already available online. Not sure about the UCSD Pascal manual? One of the binders contained some disks. https://i.imgur.com/FYIBbmjl.jpg Are these disks available online already or should I dump them? Bitsavers seems to have the Mac version. /Mattis

6 years, 9 months

PDP11/03 BA-11M Front panel switch replacement

by dj.taylor4＠comcast.net

I have a BA11-M box with the usual front panel control, however it was damaged and all three switches have been sheared off.? The LED's and the circuit card that connects to the power supply appear to be OK.? I would like to repair it and put it back into service.? Is there a replacement for those switches? Doug

6 years, 9 months

Reading a PDP-11 RL02: Anyone Around the U.S. West Coast?

by unifoundry＠gmail.com

Greetings, I have an old PDP-11 RL02 that I would like to read, to preserve its data for archival purposes. Ideally I would like to extract and store every block on the disk. I am in southern California but would be willing to drive a day or so to anyone who still has an RL02 disk drive on a PDP-11 or VAX and can read it. I can bring a computer with X/Y/Zmodem/Kermit and RS-232 cables if that helps. Thanks, Paul Hardy

6 years, 9 months

Last sun3 ask: In search of a SCSI controller (VME) for a 3/260

by ian.finder＠gmail.com

Folks, sorry for the Sun spam. Everything was working in my newly acquired 3/260, and the monitor is even starting to shape up. It was a gorgeous machine until I tried to use the SCSI bus on it. The controller is dead, very dead. No fuses or obvious things. No matter the device or chain... including the original disks. ?getbyte error, phase mismatch? So again I plead- does anyone have a Sun 3 scsi controller, preferably of the internally pinned type, sitting on a shelf somewhere? Thanks, - Ian

6 years, 9 months

Picked up a couple 386 machines

by lyokoboy0＠gmail.com

While working at the scrapyard today, i managed to get a couple 386 machines right as they were being dropped off. One is a pakard bell with monitor, in pristine condition. The other is a Tandy 2500 with monitor, in rough looking shape but working too. The monitor is pretty beat up for the tandy but working. I have been on the look ut for a good 386 mahine for a while now, i got kinda lucky and picked up two working systems in one day. The pakard bell is up and running fine, it was a pretty standard machine and just needed a hard drive. The tandy 2500 is pretty nice as well, it has a cdrom and a hard drive installed, although the hard drive is dead and seems to only accept AT hard drives. I am still learning about tandy computers, on my other machines, i was unable to find an 8 bit isa cad that could support newer ide drives. On the machine i just picked up it looks like a 16 bit isa slot is free, if i were to install a 16 bit ide hard drive controller for use with newer ide drives, would it work, or cause some kind of conflict with the onboard hard drive controller? The floppy drive is quite dirty but reads disks sometimes, i need to clean it up. Im hoping to post back with a couple pictures of both the machines running. I do not need them both, I really like the packard bell, but if someone absolutely needs a 386 machine with monitor I am open to offers to get one shipped out and keep the other one. --Devin

6 years, 9 months

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test-drb February 2018