Hi,
On 5/3/19 3:22 PM, Pete Turnbull via cctalk wrote:
> Anyone know much about early MIPS workstations? I'm trying to get a
> MIPS RS2030 to boot, without much luck so far. It goes through the
> selftest but stops with the internal LED display at "5" accompanied by
> a continuous beep.
>
> Known problems:
>
> - The Dallas DS1287 battery is flat; I can hack a 3V lithium onto that.
> I assume it should still work to some extent
> even if the contents are lost?
I have the same problem with a cloned MIPS machine, a Sumitomo
Sumistation SP300. The biggest problem with my machine is that the
NVRAM holds the ethernet address. If it goes flat, there seems to be
no way to reprogram the NVRAM. If you find any solution for this,
please tell me.
Aside from the now broken ethernet, the machine works fine. It?s a
25MHz R3000 with 32MB RAM. The box runs SEIUX, something like
Risc/os 4 in SVR3 mode with extra japanese localization, but adapted
to the hardware.
Some people said that some of the old MIPS machines used a M48T02
NVRAM and that you could plug the NVRAM in a SPARCstation to restore
the ethernet address. So far, I have found no mentioning of the DS1287.
A special problem with my machine is that most parts are soldered,
including the NVRAM.
Dennis
While digging for a KY11-LB for a fellow list member, I came across a few
operators panels and programmer panels for 8-As. Sorry, I don't remember
the part numbers. I have extra M8315s, M8316s M8316s, and a bunch of other
8-A boards. Please contact me off list if you have any interest.
Thanks, Paul
On 5/13/19 11:58 AM, Grant Taylor wrote:
> On May 12, 2019, at 10:17 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
>> Don't know a thing about gaming and never wanted to--wrong generation, I guess.
>
> Perhaps ?gaming adapter? is the wrong term for this audience.
>
> Let me describe it as a type of switch that you plug the wired computer into, go to a management webpage there on and give it the wireless network information.<snip>
I don't want to get into a long discussion; I merely wanted to point out
that you're unlikely to find the term "gaming adapter" in Linux tech
docs as they're not written for that audience. And it's very likely that
something with the Debian kernel will be used on an OPZ.
--Chuck
Hi
I was wondering if there were any people who were wanting to sell any HP 1000 computer peripherals. Preferably disk oriented Such as a disk controller or a 79xx drive
(I live in the UK so shipping may be an issue for larger things)
Thanks for the tips. The reason I?m not using Ethernet cable is because the
Vintage Computer Room (where this PC resides) is on the 2nd floor around a
couple of corners, and my DSL modem/router and unfiltered phone line are in
the 1st floor study. Would take a long run and some drilling, or duct taping
it to the banister and hoping the dog and cats don?t eat it ;)
However, after finally giving up on the wireless cards... I realized that I
had a simple Linksys LNE100TX Ethernet card in the PC junk pile. I installed
that (it was recognized by 98SE and the drivers worked first time too), then
brought my laptop upstairs and set it up as a bridge. That works, but is
clumsy and requires another computer.
My next idea was to find a wireless device to connect to the Ethernet card.
I found out about WLAN, bridging, and most importantly, that many models of
router can be reflashed with dd-wrt software, and act as the bridge I
needed! Also in the closet was a Linksys E1200 router, which is one of the
models supported by dd-wrt. So I flashed it and hooked it up.
After a bit of struggle (incomplete directions but I managed to fill in the
missing pieces) I now have wireless network and Internet access on the old
machine :)
Incidentally, PUTR now works perfectly since I?m running 98SE/DOS.
> From: John Foust
> I missed the start of this discussion... exactly why did you want to
> rely on a wireless connection and couldn't string a network cable?
The list archive:
http://www.classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctalk/
is your friend. (That's actually how I read it, so my emailbox won't
get buried in sludge.)
Noel
>You could have installed a gaming adapter, opened the web page,
>connected it to the wireless and been done.
Sure, but you assume I know anything about online gaming (I don't); it would
require purchasing one, *and* I already had the Linksys router and card,
just gathering dust for years!
I like to improvise with what's on hand rather than spending money on a
really ancient PC :)
So, I've been porting Frotz to TOPS-20.
https://github.com/athornton/tops20-frotz
It's been going fine, except that I have something going on with the linker
I don't have enough expertise to understand.
On Mark Crispin's panda distribution, "cc -o frotz *.c" does the trick.
But on TOPS-20 on the LCML's TOAD-2, I get a bunch of undefined global
symbols, which all seem to be from libc.
That suggests to me that KCC at LCML isn't configured to automatically
trigger the linker with the right library path (something like
unix:<root.usr.lib>) for the C standard libraries.
So the first question is: where's the KCC configuration stored, so we can
add the right library path, and the second one is, failing that, how do I
link all my .rel files against the C library to get a working executable
(an answer simplified from "read the linker manual" would be appreciated;
I've started that but it's a little daunting and I suspect it will take me
a while to chew through)?
Adam
JUST? ?DOWN THE? ?ROAD A? FEW? HOURS? FROM? US HERE!
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In a message dated 5/11/2019 2:33:48 AM US Mountain Standard Time, cctalk at classiccmp.org writes:
Great! Good luck with the visit. The other day I wrote to Kristina to express interest.
> On 11 May 2019, at 04:38, Fritz Mueller via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
>
>> On 5/10/19 6:42 PM, Adam Thornton via cctech wrote:
>> I have been invited out to the site tomorrow morning to take an inventory of what?s there (I live near the machines).
>> I imagine that I may well have a lot of photos that I bring to the list and say ?what is this??
>
> Standing by to help out!? Go get it, Adam -- (come on, you can _make_ room! :-))
