On 9/7/20 2:26 AM, Veit, Holger wrote:
> Could this be a PGC card clone?
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_Graphics_Controller
That had crossed my mind at one point, but there's no horsepower to this
card at all - it's just TTL, RAM, BIOS and the 6845.
The color output *appears* to be TTL level - or, at least, that's what it's
using at power-on. It's not impossible, I suppose, for it to be switchable
to some kind of analog mode, thereby giving more color depth.
I'm wondering if it doesn't have some form of high-resolution bitmap mode
for visualization, i.e. display construction would be processor-intensive
and intended for static images/diagrams. I don't know if that really makes
sense though because it would also imply having to switch the monitor -
i.e. starting the machine with a CGA type display plugged in, then
physically moving to something else later.
On the back of that, I just found this thread too which refers to an
identical board:
http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?48718-3-Weird-Video-Cards-any-ide…
... nothing there really "helps", but someone's comment about the medical
field and a higher-resolution display via the RCA jack is interesting -
that would at least get around the need to switch monitors (well, unless
there was some special autodetecting analog/digital monitor that was sold
to go with the hardware, I suppose).
It's a shame that the hard disk in the machine is either snafu or has been
wiped - the contents would have helped shed light on things. There's an
EPROM as part of the video hardware; anyone know of a DOS-based util to
poke at the contents and/or snarf them into a file on disk? It's possible I
suppose that there might be some useful strings hidden away in there.
cheers
Jules
Does anyone have any idea where I can get install media at various
support pack levels and / or support pack install files for NetWare 5.1
and / or BorderManager 3.5?
I'm playing with some old things in VMs and can't get BorderManager 3.5
(sp0?) to work on 5.1sp7 / 5.1sp8. I need older 5.1spX or newer
BorderManager.
BorderManager patches would be bm35sp2.exe or bm35sp3.exe.
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1. ftgh 95 ohm coax (Don Stalkowski)
2. Re: AW: CGA card (Mitsubishi Electric) with 192K RAM?
(Jules Richardson)
3. Re: ISO: DEC VR100 and early X releases (Matt Burke)
4. Re: NetWare 5.1 / BorderManager 3.5 (Liam Proven)
5. Re: AW: CGA card (Mitsubishi Electric) with 192K RAM?
(Liam Proven)
6. RE: ISO: DEC VR100 and early X releases (Electronics Plus)
7. Re: AW: CGA card (Mitsubishi Electric) with 192K RAM? (Fred Cisin)
8. Re: AW: CGA card (Mitsubishi Electric) with 192K RAM?
(Doug Jackson)
9. Re: AW: CGA card (Mitsubishi Electric) with 192K RAM? (Fred Cisin)
10. Re: NetWare 5.1 / BorderManager 3.5 (Grant Taylor)
11. Re: ISO: DEC VR100 and early X releases (jim stephens)
12. Re: NetWare 5.1 / BorderManager 3.5 (Grant Taylor)
13. Re: NetWare 5.1 / BorderManager 3.5 (Liam Proven)
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2020 12:33:07 -0400 (EDT)
From: dstalk at execulink.com (Don Stalkowski)
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
Subject: ftgh 95 ohm coax
Message-ID: <20200908163307.241BDBEEAD4 at cel2.x>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
ftgh: a few lengths of 95 ohm coax
pickup-only here in London, ON
------------------------------
Message: 2
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2020 16:12:09 -0500
From: Jules Richardson <jules.richardson99 at gmail.com>
To: Fred Cisin via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Subject: Re: AW: CGA card (Mitsubishi Electric) with 192K RAM?
Message-ID: <30e83f7c-26ee-0ad0-907d-cd6a3efa4e56 at gmail.com>
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On 9/7/20 6:18 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
> Floppy boot seems like the next step.
OK, it boots off a DOS 3.3 floppy if that floppy is inserted before it
attempts to boot from the hard disk. If I wait for it to do its "system file
not found" bit, followed by a subsequent prompt to insert boot media and
press a key, it attempts to access the floppy drive but then goes off into
la-la land. Odd.
But anyway, taking the successful floppy boot route, I can certainly access
the hard disk in terms of bringing up directory listings and TYPEing files
to the display. So far, attempts to run anything from the drive just result
in a lock-up (keyboard immediately unresponsive, hard reset required).
There appear to be DOS utils on the drive, and command.com, but I've not
checked for hidden system files yet. fdisk shows the partition as active.
> Got an IBM "Advanced Diagnostics" floppy to try?
No, but I see that the minuszerodegrees site has an image, so I'll write
that out and see what happens.
Looking at the drive contents, incidentally, I didn't see anything that
explains (or interacts with) that unusual video hardware - it basically just
holds DOS and a bunch of documents written by the original owner.
Maybe they got suckered into buying this fancy graphics hardware without
having any actual need for it, and then of course EGA and VGA came along and
rendered it obsolete anyway.
> XT controllers tended to NOT be interchangeable, even between various
> OEMs of Xebec!
Yes - something that people often seem to forget, too. I've run into that
quite often, where someone will hang onto an old drive because of the
contents, but they'll dump the controller that it was formatted against.
> I don't know what the incompatability was.
I don't think there was any kind of standard at all for what the low level
looked like - vendors were free to do what they wanted in terms of what
values they used for flags and how they actually ordered things within the
sector header. I suppose there were some tweaks made over time for
optimization or reliability (or at least, recovery) reasons, too, which is
why even a single vendor had a few different incompatible formats.
I expect it was the same in the SCSI and IDE worlds, but of course with
those "the controller" which handles formatting is really part of the
package, so it wasn't an issue.
Jules
------------------------------
Message: 3
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2020 23:11:01 +0100
From: Matt Burke <matt at 9track.net>
To: Josh Dersch via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Subject: Re: ISO: DEC VR100 and early X releases
Message-ID: <91d46a24-04df-20c7-d154-d17064116c6f at 9track.net>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
On 05/09/2020 20:19, Josh Dersch via cctalk wrote:
> While I'm at it -- anyone know
> precisely what I need to use this under VMS? I believe 4.7 was the
> last VMS release that supported it, but there were additional packages
> that needed to be installed to support it, and I'm not entirely sure
> what they are.
To use the VAXstation 100 with VMS you need to install the "VAXstation
Software" layered product. I have not come across any original copies
however DEC later contributed the source code to the DECUS library under
submission V00376. The submission consists of a CMS library and some other
source files. The only place you can reliably get this from is DECUServe as
you need to get the files whilst preserving their RMS attributes. Then you
need to compile the code and create an installation kit to use the software.
The good news is that I've already done all of this so here is a link to the
source and installation kit on Simh tap files:
http://www.9track.net/bits/dec/vs100/v00376.ziphttp://www.9track.net/bits/dec/vs100/vsta012.zip
This was built on VAX/VMS V4.4 with:
Bliss-32 V4.3
FORTRAN V4.7
Pascal V3.7
CMS V2.3
MMS V2.2
I also have a VAXstation 100 that I hope to get working some day but I need
the M7452 card and a VS10X-EA mouse. I did win an M7452 on eBay about 10
years ago but the seller then said that he had already sold it.
I've not seen another one since (well not one for an affordable price. I did
find a reseller that wanted $1000 for one).
Matt
------------------------------
Message: 4
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2020 00:42:19 +0200
From: Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Subject: Re: NetWare 5.1 / BorderManager 3.5
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On Tue, 8 Sep 2020 at 08:18, Grant Taylor via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:
>
> Does anyone have any idea where I can get install media at various
> support pack levels and / or support pack install files for NetWare
> 5.1 and / or BorderManager 3.5?
Something like this any help?
https://winworldpc.com/product/netware/5x
I have physical media of this somewhere:
https://archive.org/details/Netware_5_Operating_System_3_User_Demo_Novell
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Message: 5
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2020 00:46:18 +0200
From: Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Subject: Re: AW: CGA card (Mitsubishi Electric) with 192K RAM?
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On Tue, 8 Sep 2020 at 06:47, Fred Cisin via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
> 1) If the drive is larger than 32MB, then boot with DOs 3.31 or newer.
> Although even with the older ones, you can still do quite a bit. 3.31 is
> the first where DOS supports a partition larger than 32MB
> MS-DOS 5.00 is first where debug commands have a "/?" option to get a
> short reminder of usage.
Agreed. (Like I'd dare to differ with Fred.)
My 2?'s worth is just: for an XT, if you want to fit a CF card or
something, try DR-DOS 3.41. It's out there in various places. RAM
usage as small as MS-DOS 3.3 but offers most of the benefits of MS-DOS
4 and some of MS-DOS 5 (both of which take a *lot* more RAM on an
XT-class machine.)
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Message: 6
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2020 17:48:37 -0500
From: "Electronics Plus" <sales at elecplus.com>
To: "'Matt Burke'" <matt at 9track.net>, "'General Discussion: On-Topic
and Off-Topic Posts'" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Subject: RE: ISO: DEC VR100 and early X releases
Message-ID: <007501d68632$30c06410$92412c30$@com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
There is a DEC dealer in the UK that has M7452 cards listed as in-stock.
Contact Spencer Dye at sales at swancomp.co.uk.
Old mouse I have located, but he has to check if it is actually in stock,
and if it works.
Cindy
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From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Matt Burke
via cctalk
Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 2020 5:11 PM
To: Josh Dersch via cctalk
Subject: Re: ISO: DEC VR100 and early X releases
On 05/09/2020 20:19, Josh Dersch via cctalk wrote:
> While I'm at it -- anyone know
> precisely what I need to use this under VMS? I believe 4.7 was the last
> VMS release that supported it, but there were additional packages that
> needed to be installed to support it, and I'm not entirely sure what they
> are.
To use the VAXstation 100 with VMS you need to install the "VAXstation
Software" layered product. I have not come across any original copies
however DEC later contributed the source code to the DECUS library under
submission V00376. The submission consists of a CMS library and some
other source files. The only place you can reliably get this from is
DECUServe as you need to get the files whilst preserving their RMS
attributes. Then you need to compile the code and create an installation
kit to use the software.
The good news is that I've already done all of this so here is a link to
the source and installation kit on Simh tap files:
http://www.9track.net/bits/dec/vs100/v00376.ziphttp://www.9track.net/bits/dec/vs100/vsta012.zip
This was built on VAX/VMS V4.4 with:
Bliss-32 V4.3
FORTRAN V4.7
Pascal V3.7
CMS V2.3
MMS V2.2
I also have a VAXstation 100 that I hope to get working some day but I
need the M7452 card and a VS10X-EA mouse. I did win an M7452 on eBay
about 10 years ago but the seller then said that he had already sold it.
I've not seen another one since (well not one for an affordable price. I
did find a reseller that wanted $1000 for one).
Matt
------------------------------
Message: 7
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2020 16:04:44 -0700 (PDT)
From: Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Subject: Re: AW: CGA card (Mitsubishi Electric) with 192K RAM?
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.2009081521250.17983 at shell.lmi.net>
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed
On Tue, 8 Sep 2020, Jules Richardson via cctalk wrote:
> OK, it boots off a DOS 3.3 floppy if that floppy is inserted before it
> attempts to boot from the hard disk. If I wait for it to do its "system
file
> not found" bit, followed by a subsequent prompt to insert boot media and
> press a key, it attempts to access the floppy drive but then goes off into
> la-la land. Odd.
How large is the drive?
If it is over 32MB, then try to find DOS 3.31 or newer.
MY preference is MS-DOS 6.22
> But anyway, taking the successful floppy boot route, I can certainly
access
> the hard disk in terms of bringing up directory listings and TYPEing files
to
> the display. So far, attempts to run anything from the drive just result
in a
> lock-up (keyboard immediately unresponsive, hard reset required). There
> appear to be DOS utils on the drive, and command.com, but I've not checked
> for hidden system files yet. fdisk shows the partition as active.
Date and time of Command.com and any other DOS files will identify the
version number.
DIR /A or
DIR /A:H
will let you see the hidden files (presumably IO.SYS and MSDOS.SYS; PC-DOS
had IBMBIO.COM and IBMDOS.COM instead)
Can you COPY files from the HDD to floppy?
Being able to access contents of files, but not RUN them seems odd.
IF the DOS on the floppy misunderstands the partition table, then root
directory might look OK, but sub-directories might not be where it thinks
they are, . . .
>> Got an IBM "Advanced Diagnostics" floppy to try?
> No, but I see that the minuszerodegrees site has an image, so I'll write
that
> out and see what happens.
NOT a big deal. It's merely the only method directly from IBM for doing
low level format.
In most cases, Speedstor is more useful for LLF.
> Looking at the drive contents, incidentally, I didn't see anything that
> explains (or interacts with) that unusual video hardware - it basically
just
> holds DOS and a bunch of documents written by the original owner. Maybe
they
> got suckered into buying this fancy graphics hardware without having any
> actual need for it, and then of course EGA and VGA came along and rendered
it
> obsolete anyway.
It is probably completely CGA compatible, unless you invoke of of its
other modes.
The ROM on the video card may be a BIOS extension, in which case access to
extended modes may be handled internally in various programs. For
instance Windows 3.x, PC PAint, Pagemaker, and Xerox Ventura let you
configure for a variety of video hardware.
Otherwise, check to see if CONFIG.SYS has DEVICE commands to load any
device drivers, usually .SYS, although sometimes .COM
>> XT controllers tended to NOT be interchangeable, even between various
OEMs
>> of Xebec!
> Yes - something that people often seem to forget, too. I've run into that
> quite often, where someone will hang onto an old drive because of the
> contents, but they'll dump the controller that it was formatted against.
It always seemed counter-intuitive that makers of HDD hardware for XT
didn't slavishly mimic IBM's XT HDD. And especially counter-intuitive
that different vendor Xebec controllers didn't always interchange.
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com
------------------------------
Message: 8
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2020 09:16:42 +1000
From: Doug Jackson <doug at doughq.com>
To: Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com>, "General Discussion: On-Topic
and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Subject: Re: AW: CGA card (Mitsubishi Electric) with 192K RAM?
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I recall some of the high end cards in the CGA / EGA era had adon boards
that were connected with a 20 or 36 pin jumper cable across the top of the
boards - They also ran more than 64K or ram, such as the ATI Wonder
boards. Maybe it's like that - the ATI boards had 256K so they could page.
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On Wed, Sep 9, 2020 at 9:04 AM Fred Cisin via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Sep 2020, Jules Richardson via cctalk wrote:
> > OK, it boots off a DOS 3.3 floppy if that floppy is inserted before it
> > attempts to boot from the hard disk. If I wait for it to do its "system
> file
> > not found" bit, followed by a subsequent prompt to insert boot media and
> > press a key, it attempts to access the floppy drive but then goes off
> into
> > la-la land. Odd.
>
> How large is the drive?
> If it is over 32MB, then try to find DOS 3.31 or newer.
> MY preference is MS-DOS 6.22
>
>
> > But anyway, taking the successful floppy boot route, I can certainly
> access
> > the hard disk in terms of bringing up directory listings and TYPEing
> files to
> > the display. So far, attempts to run anything from the drive just result
> in a
> > lock-up (keyboard immediately unresponsive, hard reset required). There
> > appear to be DOS utils on the drive, and command.com, but I've not
> checked
> > for hidden system files yet. fdisk shows the partition as active.
>
> Date and time of Command.com and any other DOS files will identify the
> version number.
>
> DIR /A or
> DIR /A:H
> will let you see the hidden files (presumably IO.SYS and MSDOS.SYS; PC-DOS
> had IBMBIO.COM and IBMDOS.COM instead)
>
> Can you COPY files from the HDD to floppy?
>
> Being able to access contents of files, but not RUN them seems odd.
> IF the DOS on the floppy misunderstands the partition table, then root
> directory might look OK, but sub-directories might not be where it thinks
> they are, . . .
>
>
> >> Got an IBM "Advanced Diagnostics" floppy to try?
> > No, but I see that the minuszerodegrees site has an image, so I'll write
> that
> > out and see what happens.
>
> NOT a big deal. It's merely the only method directly from IBM for doing
> low level format.
> In most cases, Speedstor is more useful for LLF.
>
> > Looking at the drive contents, incidentally, I didn't see anything that
> > explains (or interacts with) that unusual video hardware - it basically
> just
> > holds DOS and a bunch of documents written by the original owner. Maybe
> they
> > got suckered into buying this fancy graphics hardware without having any
> > actual need for it, and then of course EGA and VGA came along and
> rendered it
> > obsolete anyway.
>
> It is probably completely CGA compatible, unless you invoke of of its
> other modes.
>
> The ROM on the video card may be a BIOS extension, in which case access to
> extended modes may be handled internally in various programs. For
> instance Windows 3.x, PC PAint, Pagemaker, and Xerox Ventura let you
> configure for a variety of video hardware.
> Otherwise, check to see if CONFIG.SYS has DEVICE commands to load any
> device drivers, usually .SYS, although sometimes .COM
>
> >> XT controllers tended to NOT be interchangeable, even between various
> OEMs
> >> of Xebec!
> > Yes - something that people often seem to forget, too. I've run into
> that
> > quite often, where someone will hang onto an old drive because of the
> > contents, but they'll dump the controller that it was formatted against.
>
> It always seemed counter-intuitive that makers of HDD hardware for XT
> didn't slavishly mimic IBM's XT HDD. And especially counter-intuitive
> that different vendor Xebec controllers didn't always interchange.
>
>
> --
> Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com
>
------------------------------
Message: 9
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2020 16:28:39 -0700 (PDT)
From: Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Subject: Re: AW: CGA card (Mitsubishi Electric) with 192K RAM?
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.2009081624080.17983 at shell.lmi.net>
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed
On Wed, 9 Sep 2020, Doug Jackson wrote:
> I recall some of the high end cards in the CGA / EGA era had adon boards
> that were connected with a 20 or 36 pin jumper cable across the top of the
> boards - They also ran more than 64K or ram, such as the ATI Wonder
> boards. Maybe it's like that - the ATI boards had 256K so they could
page.
I had a CGA "double board" that did 640x400 or 640x200 by more colors.
It was not the same as this one, but might have been internally similar.
But I don't remember ATI premium CGA.
ATI had some interesting EGA boards, including one that had an add-on
that included the mid-board connector for Compaq luggable internal video!
Otherwise, you were stuck with Compaq CGA or Compaq EGA.
------------------------------
Message: 10
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2020 19:18:04 -0600
From: Grant Taylor <cctalk at gtaylor.tnetconsulting.net>
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: NetWare 5.1 / BorderManager 3.5
Message-ID:
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On 9/8/20 4:42 PM, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
> Something like this any help?
>
> https://winworldpc.com/product/netware/5x
I'm very familiar with WinWorld and VetusWare. I quite like them. They
are on the short list to find things like this. There is high overlap
between a number of these places.
That being said, I haven't tested that specific ISO. But that's mostly
because I've long had a version of NetWare 5.1. Now that I'm looking
for specific things, particularly patches, I decided to send a broadcast
message.
> I have physical media of this somewhere:
>
> https://archive.org/details/Netware_5_Operating_System_3_User_Demo_Novell
I've been focusing on 5.1 and I've not yet broadened my net to include
5(.0).
I was sort of hoping that someone might have had the support pack files
tucked away somewhere.
I'm currently working on re-organizing my 48 GB of Novell software.
Partially to normalize the names and location, as well as to be able to
tell what I do and do not have.
Thank you for the reply Liam. You re-enforced the fact that I need to
get a better understanding of what /specific/ versions I have and the
things I know about are.
--
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Message: 11
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2020 20:25:19 -0700
From: jim stephens <jwsmail at jwsss.com>
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: ISO: DEC VR100 and early X releases
Message-ID: <7487c5f1-bfe6-0d6d-8b37-ee0668c2540c at jwsss.com>
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On 9/8/2020 3:48 PM, Electronics Plus via cctalk wrote:
> Old mouse I have located, but he has to check if it is actually in stock,
and if it works.
They aren't the "normal" DEC hockey puck mice.? it's sort of like a PS2
mouse with I think an odd ball.? I had hands on Josh's and one for Paul
Birkel (for too long, but they have them now), and the mouse was odd.
I don't know how Josh is doing, since is is working, but the cabling on
the mouse cord had degraded and had goo on it like the black crap you
get form the wrong type of rubber when it turns tar like.
Glad Josh got his going, pulling for Paul to get his running.? And
interesting they may be a third one.
So cool Cameron Kaiser collected two and passed them along.
thanks
Jim
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Message: 12
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2020 22:33:47 -0600
From: Grant Taylor <cctalk at gtaylor.tnetconsulting.net>
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: NetWare 5.1 / BorderManager 3.5
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On 9/8/20 7:18 PM, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote:
> I haven't tested that specific ISO.
The particular ISO that you linked to is Novell NetWare 5.1 (Support
Pack 0). So it needs support packs installed on it.
I've learned that there are different Support Packs, "Domestic" and
"International" having to do with the 128-bit vs 56-bit encryption woes
of the '90s.
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Message: 13
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2020 13:08:43 +0200
From: Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Subject: Re: NetWare 5.1 / BorderManager 3.5
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On Wed, 9 Sep 2020 at 06:34, Grant Taylor via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
> On 9/8/20 7:18 PM, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote:
> > I haven't tested that specific ISO.
>
> The particular ISO that you linked to is Novell NetWare 5.1 (Support
> Pack 0). So it needs support packs installed on it.
But that's good, isn't it?
I confess I may have misread your original message as being "I need
NW5.1 with no SPs." Was that wrong?
But if you have SP0, no bugfixes, then surely you can just install the
SPs on top of it to get to whatever level you want?
My $DAYJOB was part of Novell until about a year ago. I _may_ be able
to find internal download links still but I am not confident. Want me
to start asking around? I may need some fairly specific info as there
are few Netware folk left now. E.g. how many separate SPs did NW5.1
get? Do you need both US and ROW versions?
> I've learned that there are different Support Packs, "Domestic" and
> "International" having to do with the 128-bit vs 56-bit encryption woes
> of the '90s.
Oh dear...
TBH I have a suspicion nobody may have kept stuff like that, even
inside Novell... :(
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My Sunblade works fine with a generic USB keyboard, but does not
recognize the Type 7 USB keyboard I bought for it. OpenBoot prom
reports "no keyboard detected". If I boot with my generic keyboard
plugged in and then plug in the type 7, it sees it fine in OpenBSD. It
is the openboot prom that doesn't see it.
Can anyone steer me to the most current openboot prom update for the
SunBlade 100? I've looked like crazy on Oracle's site and all I find
are the instructions on how to apply an update, but not the actual
update.
This problem is firmware, not software or hardware. The Type 7
keyboard works fine on my PC, or if plugged into the Sunblade once it
has booted/started to boot.
Best,
Jeff
On Sep 7, 2020, at 6:24 AM, dstalk at execulink.com wrote:
>
> The description I have for AUIS (6.3.1) is:
>
> "AUIS (Andrew User Interface System) - compound document
> environment offering a word processor, mail/bulletin board
> reader/writer, drawing editor, spreadsheet, font editor,
> application builder, and many other facilities"
>
> Again, an application, not a windowing system per se.
Yes, the Andrew environment implemented proper layering, so ATK was made to work atop X and the applications (messages, ez, console, typescript, etc.) came along.
At Carnegie Mellon in the early 1990s, you could (with only a little work, to use a console rather than graphical login) use either X or wm on some of the campus workstations. On a DECstation 3100 running Ultrix, if you weren?t going to run any X applications wm was *much* more responsive. I wasn?t around when the clusters had Sun-3 or IBM RT hardware but I can imagine the differences there were even more pronounced. (With wm, a DECstation felt as much faster than a Mac II as it actually was?)
Applications built against ATK could run atop either wm or X; I don?t know if there were distinct builds of ATK or if the conditional logic was in the framework itself, but the applications themselves worked just fine with either since Andrew implemented a shared library mechanism. (Yes, even on Ultrix.)
The publicly-released Andrew distributions don?t include the wm code, only the X version. I don?t know if they?ll actually build against the wm headers and libraries if they?re present, or if by the time CMU was releasing them publicly they had stripped that code out entirely.
? Chris
Hi folks - quite some time ago I picked up this little beauty (well I'm sure
some may agree or disagree with me) off of ePAY. I happen to like black IBMs
of any type.
Of course I got gouged at the checkout paying the princely sum of $1.04 AUD
- some might say I got robbed. In the photo with the other machines it's the
big one. Included was the machine of course, the tape drive, the monitor
(the keyboard is somewhere) and a heap of connectors and cables - and I did
get the key with it too. What was missing were the HDDs (which they trashed
to get rid of the data) and all the documentation (which they tossed before
they realised that they could flog it on ePAY and get someone else to take
it away).
http://koken.advancedimaging.com.au/index.php?/albums/as400/
But as I rationalise space in my increasingly small collection facility I
need to make some decisions about things so I'm looking for some suggestions
as to what I can do with this machine. At the risk of being applauded for
some ideas and being flamed for others some suggestions are:
1. Do nothing - it's a very interesting conversation piece and its worth
preserving.
2. Someone is looking for one of these for parts and will pay me a fortune.
3. Dump it.
4. Donate it to a museum - they'll need a truck and four big guys.
5. Trade it for scrap value.
6. Get it running - now there's a big leap I suspect!! I did manage to
procure some HDDs from another AS/400 but as to whether they are suitable or
this would even work is not even remotely my bailiwick.
7. Gut it and build a cluster inside it so at least it looks and runs like a
big computer so I can get some WOW factor from those who don't know any
different.
8. Gut it and turn it into a bar fridge.
9. Anything else...
Thank you
Kevin Parker
I have a number of old (2000-era) DEC StorageWorks disks that fail to
mount under VMS. They report MEDIUM OFFLINE.
They power up in a similar way to other disks that do work, but they
persistently click ina? "something isn't right" manner.
I've tried reorienting some of the disks to see if that makes any
difference, and for the ones I've tried, it didn't help.
I've read about the "freezer" trick, but mostly I've seen negative
opinions. However, those opinions mostly come from data recovery
specialists!
So I thought I'd tap the wisdom of the list. Is there any way that
people have used to successfully recover data from RZ28, RZ29 disks
(which all worked in 2003 :-))? Has anyone tried freezing a double
bagged drive? Was it successful? If so, how long did you freeze it for?
These disks are in StorageWorks containers ... should I remove them
before freezing?
Antonio
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Hi friends.
This rack is available for free. I am located in 10510 happy to drive, up to say 1.5 hours to meet up to transfer vehicles?
https://w2hx.com/ForSale/DEC%20Rack/20200719_114742.jpghttps://w2hx.com/ForSale/DEC%20Rack/20200719_114751.jpg
it is in very nice condition. Comes with wheels/casters, no panels. It is, I believe 24" wide, but it has a set of vertical rails at 19" in addition to 24" I think the space on the right would carry cables etc? Regardless, it will work fine with 19" equipment. Just the perfect think you need to complete your DEC VAX or other DEC set up!
Contact me directly.
73 Eugene W2HX
PS Please pass onto any other list you may belong to that might have an interest in this rack. Thank you
