At 08:32 AM 2/2/2021, geneb via cctalk wrote:
>On Mon, 1 Feb 2021, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
>>and it is the software and the knowledge of what you need to do when
>>recovering media in volume these guys have no clue about
>
>How about helping out instead of bitching from the sidelines?
I was quite eager to hear Kossow's insights. Any engineer or programmer
(or both) worth their salt eagerly seeks and accepts the "but it would be really
handy if it did X, Y and Z" insights, especially if they're coming from
someone with decades of experience in the field in question.
How else will products improve?
- John
Indeed this site is great for reference but alas are too lo-res for good museum display images.
I do use this as a reference source? but need paper copies sometimes? to hi res scan some times!
Ed#
On Tuesday, February 2, 2021 Richard Milward via cctalk <rsmilward at frontier.com; cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
You can find HP Journal issues at
https://worldradiohistory.com/HP-Journal.htm
<https://worldradiohistory.com/HP-Journal.htm>
The World Radio History site is a fantastic resource in general, I use
it regularly.
**Richard
Adam, I have a VAXstation sitting about three metres from me. As is
usually the case, "it worked when I turned it off 20 years ago" I don't
remember how many years ago I turned it off. I think it is a model 30
but casually looking at the box does not show me what model it is. I
pulled out the nicad battery pack many years ago and it is sitting by
my left hand and it does not leak.
I have the system box, the expansion box with its little SCSI disk drive,
the RRD40 and its wierd disc caddies, and the VR--- monochrome monitor,
and probably the keyboard and mouse and documentation if I look around
for half an hour.
I have no idea where you are but I can send it to you for the price of
shipping which would be astronomical I expect. I hesitate to ship the
monitor - that would be had work - but the other components can be managed.
--
Richard Loken VE6BSV : "...underneath those tuques we wear,
Athabasca, Alberta Canada : our heads are naked!"
** rlloken at telus.net ** : - Arthur Black
As long as we?re talking about divesting: if anyone has a VaxStation that they?d sell me for substantially less than eBay prices, I?d be interested. I have a 3100M38, but it doesn?t POST; indeed, a replacement mainboard would be a place I could start. (I did try burning new ROMs and replacing them, but that wasn?t the problem). I?d even consider swapping an 11/730 in unknown condition (this is from the Kaur collection) for a working VaxStation, on two conditions: you have to pick it up, and you have to take an RM80 drive with it and dump it far enough away from my house that no one thinks it was me what done it.
Adam
I have received a few of the above-mentioned DC300-sized QIC carts for
recovery. The usual stuff about tension bands applies, but I'm a bit
stymied.
The official specs for these tapes say that they're SLR 3. I've tried
Tandberg SLR 3, 4 and 5 drives (any of which should be able to read
these) with no luck. I've even tried an SLR2 QIC525, though why someone
would pay for more tape than they need is a mystery.
These would be ca. 1990 and most likely on a Mac, although the latter is
pure conjecture.
Before I unspool some of this tape and have a look with developer, am I
missing something?
--Chuck
> I'm too burned out to look at the engineering drawings and get the part
> number to confirm; I'll do that 'soon'.
The BA11-K FMPS gives the male shell part numbers as 12-09350-06 and -15; the
DD11-C lists the female shell numbers as 12-09351-06 and -15. Those look like
they are DEC numbers:
https://gunkies.org/wiki/DEC_part_numbers
So I'm not sure those are much use. (I'm not going to bother trying to look up
what they translate too; we already have the AMP numbers needed to order them;
so not much to be gained.)
> I took a picture of the male shells, and added it to the CHWiki page
> (I'll add the females tomorrow).
Done.
Noel
TL;DR: getting tired of separating the wheat from the chaff
I have an odd but potentially useful idea for the list server ...
Until we have an AI that can properly read a message and re-write the
subject line,
perhaps the list server would *auto generate* a new subject line
after, say, the 29th reply with the same "Re:".
After 29 "Re: APL\360", the next such msg would have subject line
rewritten to "New topic 1", and the next (up to) 28 "Re: APL\360"
would be similarly re-written (the '28' is decremented for every "Re:
APL\360"
and every "Re: New topic 1").
At that point, the next "Re: APL\360" or next "Re: New topic 1" gets
rewritten as "New topic 2".
(After a reuse counter for a subject has been 0 for two weeks, it could be
reset to 20, to allow much later legitimate replies.)
Yeah, tired of getting hopeful seeing "Re: APL\360" and seeing instead
a discussion of pints, or endianness (big rules, for a number of reasons ...
*even the creator of Intels's memory chip admitted that*), or bit numbering,
or counting sheep!
:)
(And I'm not even complaining about the needless copying of the entire
prior post :)
At 04:58 PM 2/1/2021, geneb wrote:
>I've got one (F7+ Lightning version) and I've used it with 5.25" and 8" disks. I've got plans to use it with 8" disks, but I've not done it yet. You'll need to get the FDADAP from here: http://www.dbit.com/fdadap.html in order to use it with the GW.
Already have one of those. Did you say you have it working with eight inch?
- John
