Does anyone know if at any time in the past thirty years if the material
used to make capstans has changed? I.E. can one be more confident of tape
drives manufactured after some era to have non-goo capstan or is it that all
tape drives (including ones manufactured now are ticking time bombs?
Also how do you guys check capstans? Just stick long Q-tip in there? Thanks.
-Ali
> From: Liam Proven
> Well, as of last month, it's now FOSS.
Ah! If we hadn't lost him (sigh), DMR could now look at the code itself* to
see if they ripped off Unix... :-)
Love this line from the intro to the documentation: "COHERENT is what UNIX
used to be." Ain't dat de troof.
Noel
* https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt.folklore.computers/-/5B41Uym6d4QJ
Kyle, drlegendre and Jim,
Please keep sharing what you find out! I Just bought one of these machines,
to keep company to my two other mechanical Fridens. It hasn't arrived yet.
It was described as non-functional. So it looks like I will be asking
similar questions soon.
Marc
> drlegendre <drlegendre at gmail.com> wrote
> Hi Kyle,
> While I certainly cannot claim any level of expertise in the matter, I do
> happen to have a functional EC-130 here [...]Likewise, I have no service
documentation for it. But if I can be of any
> assistance, so far as providing voltage / resistance / component readings,
> I'll try to do my best as time allows.
>> Kyle Owen < <mailto:kylevowen at gmail.com> kylevowen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> A friend of mine gave me a Friden EC-130
>> Pictures here: <http://imgur.com/a/OjxCn> http://imgur.com/a/OjxCn
>> My understanding is that schematics are not available for the unit. Is
that
>> still correct? It wouldn't be a hard unit to reverse engineer; it's just
a
>> whole lot of components.
>>
>> If anyone has any advice to offer, it would be much appreciated.
>>
>> Kyle
I still have the install floppies and books for some reason. I liked
them as a unix reference.
On 2/2/2015 11:06 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
> I could never afford it& figured I wouldn't understand it if I did.
> But it sounded really cool.
>
> Well, as of last month, it's now FOSS.
>
> http://www.nesssoftware.com/home/mwc/source.php
>
>
I'm aware that "something" happened at the end of October 2014 and the
cctalk archives (http://www.classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctalk/ ) aren't
currently available before then. Is this a permanent situation?
I used to occasionally search through old archive postings for various
VAX information and found it very useful.
Just asking...I'm not trying to be pushy.
Quick Question, does anybody know the MMJ serial port wiring?
I have a MMJ cable with on one side a MMJ plug and want to put
a DB9 connector on the other end, but I can't find which wires
(of the 6) are used and which does what.
Thanks,
Ed
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Folks,
I rescued one of these from work yesterday, it's the slim desktop model with
external drive enclosure. Inside there's a daughterboard with 483-33
processor and co-pro socket. On this daughterboard is a VGA port and rotary
selector which either makes the machine work or not. (CMOS error beep code)
This is a very multi-position selector, anyone have a book of words that
explains what they all mean? Google and MANX have come up blank.
Cheers,
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collection?
A friend of mine gave me a Friden EC-130. It's in pretty good shape, though
it's missing quite a number of screws, as well as the bottom plate.
Pictures here: http://imgur.com/a/OjxCn
As you can see from the pictures, I don't get any distinguishable digits on
the CRT. Thankfully, most of the logic does seem to be working; entering
too many digits before the decimal place as set by the rotary switch
results in an overflow upon hitting enter. Entering thirteen 9s and
dividing by 1 takes about 2 seconds (the button stays depressed; quite
cool), whereas simple adding and subtracting returns the result right away.
Keyboard feels good, and you can see the CRT modulate differently depending
on what's to be displayed.
I've tried the obvious thing of reseating boards and rotating the pots back
and forth a bit, to no avail.
My understanding is that schematics are not available for the unit. Is that
still correct? It wouldn't be a hard unit to reverse engineer; it's just a
whole lot of components.
If anyone has any advice to offer, it would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Kyle
Hello Tony
Beeing an HP lover too, I am just wondering .....
Are you able to "see" this kind of item, on ebay, from UK ??
For myself, beeing in Paris, ( France, not Texas ;-) ) .... I am denied acces to these kind of item on ebay !!
Is there a "work around" trick ???
Regards
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