Anyone know where I could get a replacement disk drive for a Digital
PDT-11/150? This is a machine with an LSI-11 processor and two 8 inch
floppy drives that runs RT-11. I've got two machines but one has a
floppy that doesn't work. I'd like to find a replacement drive if
possible.
Thanks in advance,
David Betz
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David Betz
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(603) 472-2389
I've seen a couple of posts in here that declare, in very firm terms
indeed, that machines like the MicroVAX and PDP's are not "home" computers.
For the sake of discussion in this list, and computer hobbyists in
general, I would like the world to know that I define 'home computer' as
any machine that you can:
* Comfortably fit through your door...
* Doesn't test the load limits of your target floor...
* Power and run without tripping your main breaker...
* (most importantly) Have fun restoring and working with... in your home!
Which just goes to show that such terminology is so relative, there's
little point in debating it. Why waste the bandwidth over something as
trivial as a difference in wording?
(No, I'm not trying to start a flamewar; I posted this because I'm
concerned that the current thread regarding 'home' computers may erupt into
one!)
Caveat Emperor!
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(Hamateur: WD6EOS) (E-mail: kyrrin(a)wizards.net)
http://www.wizards.net/technoid
"Our science can only describe an object, event, or living thing in our own
human terms. It cannot, in any way, define any of them..."
- "Fumbling the Future" by Douglas Smith and Robert Alexander
- "Halcion Days" By???
I would like to add these two titles to my HOME COMPUTER BIBLIOGRAPHY.
Does anybody have the name of the publishers and the year of publishing?
Thank you
enrico
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Sam Ismail <dastar(a)crl.com> writes:
> California Computer Systems, Model 2832 [has this big, black 3"x3" square
> and 3/8" thick block of resin on it, have no idea what it's hiding]
>
> Any idea what this stuff is?
Well, no. I pulled a CCS catalog (dated Feb 1981) and took a look,
and the only 28xx card was the 2810 Z80 CPU.
As I read the catalog, though, I might expect 28xx to mean some sort
of processor or coprocessor. Or maybe not; CCS weren't entirely
consistent with their numbering scheme and the sample sizes weren't
that large.
-Frank McConnell
> Even the kaypro, while fairly
> fast has the slowest screen on the planet. I
I beg to differ. The slowest screen on the planet is the Pro350.
Roger Ivie
ivie(a)cc.usu.edu
actually, ive heard the plural for unix to be unices, rather than unixen, or
also expressed as *nix, for the different flavours of unix out there. the
hacker's dictionary is great though, just to read the words and their
origins. i've now got everyone at work to use the term "virtual friday" which
i picked out of the dictionary! =D
<< > Is VAXen the plural of VAX ? Why?
Play on words. Like the plural of 'Ox' is 'Oxen', plurals of many things
involving computers that end in 'x' end in 'xen'. As VAXen, Unixen (for
the many variations on the Unix OS such as Venix, Linux, BSD, Solaris,
AIX, Xenix, and several others. You'll also see more than one box (as in
CPU) referred to as 'boxen'. Check out _The New Hacker's Dictionary_,
2nd Edition, from MIT Press, also available in many forms on the Net as
the "Jargon File". Currently (and for a long time now) maintained by
Eric S. Raymond. Try <http://www2.dictionary.com/dictionary.jargon/>.
(Actually, recommended to everybody who ever wonders what one of us old
farts is talking about).
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Ward Griffiths >>
david
WAHOO! I am in as Root! And I ain't gonna tell you what it was!
Now, anyone know what the Streaming Tape Drive device is called?
I can boot with this (an old Adaptec SCSI board) installed.
I also have 2 CB811 cards but only one seems to come up with a light,
the other one just flashes?
*** CB811 -- (C) Copyright 1986 Computone Systems, Inc.
(C) Copyright 1987, 1988 Texas Instruments Inc.
I can not boot with either or both of these installed. I haven't tried
real hard, maybe the console port changes with these in. But I also don't
hear all the beeps if these are in.
Here's my last bootup record
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sat Jun 28 23:11:07
*** CB811 -- (C) Copyright 1986 Computone Systems, Inc.
(C) Copyright 1987, 1988 Texas Instruments Inc.
Can't find any CB811 boards
Texas Instruments print screen v1.01
SPA initialization complete
Streaming cartridge tape v2.00[A] (int=3,dma=3,base=00000220)
Irootdev 1/40, pipedev 1/40, swapdev 1/41
JKL0L1L2L3disk[W] drive 0: cyls = 918, heads = 15, secs = 17
nswap = 5610, swplo = 0, Hz = 50
L4maximum user process size = 8655k
L5MNOPmem: total = 8064k, reserved = 4k, kernel = 1088k, user = 6
Sat Jun 28 23:11:08
972k
kernel: drivers = 4k, 0 screens = 0k, 600 i/o bufs = 600k, msg bufs = 8k
QRSTUVWXYZdisk[W] drive 1: cyls = 918, heads = 15, secs = 17
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
I have looked and can not find any docs on the CB811's or the Tape Drive
8-( 8-( 8-(
Anybody know anything about either of these?????
BC
> Is VAXen the plural of VAX ? Why?
hobson's choice, it just is. For some reason VAXes never caught in some
circles especally when you dealing with SMP and clusters of vaxen.
There are many stories why, most I've forgotten though as a millrat I should
be up on it.
Actually there are some good stories about node names on the DIGIAL network.
My favorites were MILRAT, and the other two cluster members MILROT and
MILDEW. They were apt names for vaxen located where straight down through
the floor meant you were in the pond.
Allison
Kevin, did you ever get that draft I emailed you?
What is going on with you book?
Bob Roswell
System Source
338 Clubhouse Road
Hunt Valley, MD 21031
(410) 771-5544 ext 336
broswell(a)syssrc.com
www.syssrc.com
David:
You can still get Tandy/RS software directly from their National Parts
service. Last year when I acquired a Model 100 system, I needed the DVI
(disk-video interface) diskette, I called them. The price: $5 each.
I can't seem to find the telephone number (it is an 800#, though), but it's
called "Tandy Consumer Mail Center". You should be able to get the number from
your local R/S.
Give them the catalog# and what you're looking for. They will probably refer
you to the Tandy Software Service Center, where you can order the diskette.
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Rich Cini/WUGNET
- ClubWin Charter Member (6)
- MCPS Windows 95/Networking
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Date: Sat, 28 Jun 1997 10:13:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: SUPRDAVE(a)aol.com
To: classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu
Subject: weekend additions
Message-ID: <970628101309_408583751(a)emout07.mail.aol.com>
i need some help on what i found this weekend.
a trs80 model III 48k. came with trsdos disk, but i havent tested it yet.
can anyone point to a source of software. now i need a model ][ to fill in
the blanks!
