test-drb February 2021

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93 discussions

by trash80＠internode.on.net

Hi folks - there used to be a web site where you could register and list your "classic/old computer(s)". I'm not looking to do that but am trying to find something from years gone by that I think was on that site. I thought it was https://www.old-computers.com/ or http://oldcomputers.net/ but it's neither of those. My googlefoo has been unable to track it down assuming it still exists. I know at one stage the owner was thinking of closing it down because of hacks or spamming of forms or something like that. Does this ring a bell with anyone? Thank you!! Kevin Parker <https://t.sidekickopen08.com/s2t/o/5/f18dQhb0S7n28cFFdQW752kH81jkhdLW1_k-L- 1qZM43W3s0v_y2M0f8BF4c2NfHml5Hf6Bq4h603?si=8000000004908274&pi=997afdd6-85ea -4056-b2dd-7a9b54226840>

3 years, 10 months

Pinging Jay West

by jwsmail＠jwsss.com

Sent out a request via multiple channels to you WRT a local STL system.? can you give me a call or ping back. sent to your emails, discord and other channels. thanks Jim

3 years, 10 months

Funky electronics chain Fry?s is no more (Seattle Times)

by sieler＠allegro.com

Gavin Scott wrote: > We all had a love/hate relationship with Fry's, but they were an > institution and will be missed. Sometime after his story, Gavin moved to the Bay Area to work for my company. One day, I started to buy something at Fry's and they asked for my phone number. So, I gave the the office number. The salesman entered it, and said "thank you, Mr. Scott". I was still "Gavin Scott" to them 15 years later :) Oh, the "seal of quality". Not only did it scream "do not buy this item", but it was a very useful thing ... although not for reasons Fry's expected. Many times, I'd be looking at some newer tech item (e.g., a 4-bay RAID enclosure), and see that over half of them had the "seal of quality". I quickly developed a rule: two more seals meant: stay away from this product! Stan

3 years, 10 months

ISO IBM flex cables made by Chabin

by aek＠bitsavers.org

I'm making some replacement cables and paddle cards so I'm on the lookout for these connectors on cable assemblies. http://bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/dasd/21ED/chabin_4.jpg You'd think there would be piles of them around since they were used as the interplanar connecting cables in lots of IBM products.

3 years, 10 months

Original Intel 8085 training briefcase with tapes

by rdawson16＠hotmail.com

Just on a chance, would anybody have the paper workbook that goes with this kit? It is a 8085 SDK board in a briefcase, power supply and tape player that was probably part of a class they presented. Mine works fine, including the Sony Walkman in the case, I am listening to the 10 or more training tapes. The whole kit is pristine, but no paper - the workbook from the kit. Anybody help me on this, or want it? I revisit things now and then, and this is one of them. It may need a new home. Randy

3 years, 10 months

archive of DEC Notes

by spacewar＠gmail.com

Does anyone have contact information for the proprietor of this site: http://www.activityclub.org/decnotes/ The site has an index of messages archived from DEC's internal "Notes" (kind of their equivalent of UseNet). It appears from the "Download this site" page that at one time it was possible to download an archive of the actual content, but the hosting used for that only provides one week of free hosting, which has expired. I don't need the entire archive (though I'd like to get it), but I'd especially like to get messages from milkwy::23class_semiconductor and ricks::decschips.

3 years, 10 months

Massbus - was: Re: VAX 11/750

by michael.99.thompson＠gmail.com

The PDP-10 KL10 at the RCS/RI was used to control a real-time flight simulator at Sikorski. It had one of the RH20 Massbus controllers connected to a DTR01 cabinet holding a DR01 chassis. The DR01 was, I think, connected to a DR11 chassis that had A/D and D/A converters boards inside. You could use the same DTR01 subsystem to connect two PDP-10s together with Massbus, or connect a PDP-10 to a PDP-11 with Massbus. -- Michael Thompson

3 years, 10 months

FW: List your old computer

by erik＠baigar.de

Hm, just adding that my venerable SUN SPARC UII runs WEB server, ssh, web proxy, sub-version, and is my "cloud" via rsync and of course serves email. Over the last 7 years it got rebooted only twice, because the provider needed to relocate it in the server farm and during one of these reboots we replaced a failed disc in the array. I am pretty sure it would have ran without reboot the full 7 years with one good disc left...

3 years, 10 months

VAX 11/750

by jbglaw＠lug-owl.de

Hi! Just stumbled over https://www.ebay.de/itm/265064917329 . Is it a system somebody of you is offering? Given that it would need to be shipped through Europe and is in unknown condition, I'd probably bid a few Euros on it. MfG, JBG --

3 years, 10 months

FW: List your old computer

by cclist＠sydex.com

On 2/25/21 2:05 AM, Peter Coghlan wrote: > Chuck Guzis wrote: > I don't think so. My Raspberry Pi running Linux becomes choked by memory leaks > when I leave it running more than a few months. No amount of killing processes > or other fiddling with the operating system tools available allows it to > recover and the only alternative I can find is to reboot it. My VAX/ALPHA > machines/clusters just keep on trucking until the next power failure. I suppose it depends on what's being done. I've got an OrangePi PC running headless that's nothing more than an email relay and an Internet radio server. Until we had power cuts because of the summer wildfires, it ran more than a year. It's been running since power returned. I've got a OPi Zero hooked to a stereo system (headless again) running nothing more than mplayer. Various modems/routers and other appliances have been running BusyBox as an embedded OS. They pretty much escape notice. --Chuck

3 years, 10 months

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