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by ball.of.john＠gmail.com

I have come upon the mother of all Microchannel cards and now have in my ownership a completely maxed IrisVision card with the driver discs, cables and the technical reference manual. You would not believe how hard it was to get hold of this thing. While I already have a Microchannel system, a 55SX, it's running AIX 1.3 and it's not worth it putting this card into that. What I want to drop it and a few other nice cards I have collected like MCA sound and GPIB is something like a Model 95 but for some reason I have terrible luck with them. With the first one the deal went as far as paying for shipping before the guy reconsidered, refunded me and recycled it. The other system and a half that another collector had I almost got last month was working several years ago and was as maxed as you could possibly get but was put into a garage and over time due to poor placement and clueless relatives, both systems were first written off my the harsh pacific coast air and then thrown away because they looked to be worthless prior to them moving. I'm still on the hunt for one and got all the extras I would ever need like the Type 3 complex with an upgraded 5x86 processor, the reference manual and diskette and a few other accessories like an internal CD drive and recently I came across a 10/100 Microchannel card but still the 95 eludes me. Why are these systems so remarkably hard to find when you need them? I know someone who recycled about a dozen five months ago but of course, he didn't know I needed one. :P

15 years, 10 months

Seeking early Quantum AT drive specifications

by thomas.gardner＠sbcglobal.net

Hi I am looking for copies of early Quantum AT drive manuals such as QUANTUM PRODRIVE 40/80AT TECHNICAL REFERENCE MANUAL, REV. A dated 10/90, or any other early Quantum Prodrive AT drive manual. I'm interested in anything up to and including the ProDrive 425AT. I have data sheets but I would like more detail on the IDE implementation. Contact me off line. Tom Gardner (650) 941-5324

15 years, 10 months

yet another pdp-8 in a fpga, but this time running tss/8

by brad＠heeltoe.com

I know it's crazy, but I finally got my FPGA based PDP-8/I to boot TSS/8. http://colo3.heeltoe.com/download/pdp8/README.html It's been sort of working for a while but had some odd bugs. I did a lot of simulation and comparison with simh. I think it's pretty close to correct now. There are still a few bugs to clean up but it seems to run everything correctly and save files to the disk. I hope to agument my "disk maker" to extract and rebuild tss/8 file systems soon. It would be nice to build up disks from some of the decus programs. Right now it will extract and replace the main parts of TSS/8 but not the file system itself. -brad -- Brad Parker Heeltoe Consulting +1-781-483-3101 http://www.heeltoe.com

15 years, 10 months

Ultrix Media

by robert.jarratt＠ntlworld.com

I would like to install Ultrix on SIMH VAX. So far I have found only this: ftp://ifctfvax.harhan.org/pub/UNIX/thirdparty/Ultrix-32/ult400vaxdist-tk50/s up/, I was pointed there from here: http://gunkies.org/wiki/Installing_Ultrix_4.0_on_SIMH. Trouble is I am not entirely sure what to do with the individual files to make an Ultrix virtual tape. Anyone know? Regards Rob

15 years, 10 months

seeking atmel 29c256

by dgriffi＠cs.csubak.edu

Does anyone here know of a decent supply of 29c256 flash EEPROM chips or a drop-in replacement? I'm having a nasty time trying to source these for the P112 project. -- David Griffith dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?

15 years, 10 months

Asante EN/SC SCSI to Ethernet adapter

by healyzh＠aracnet.com

I know these were made for early Mac's, I have used one on my Mac SE/30. In the years since I lost mine in storage I've seen information about using them on other classic hardware. ISTR that at a minimum people have used them on Atari TOS systems. I finally found mine last night while working some more on the garage. Does anyone know what non-Mac systems these can be used on? Now to find the powersupply, that's with the Ethertalk to Localtalk converter I no longer use, as I've switched to an HP Jetdirect box. Zane -- | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator | | healyzh at aracnet.com | OpenVMS Enthusiast | | | Classic Computer Collector | +----------------------------------+----------------------------+ | Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, | | PDP-10 Emulation and Zane's Computer Museum. | | http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ |

15 years, 10 months

Looking for manual to a SD 20/24 PAL Programmer

by ragooman＠comcast.net

I found this at Breezeshooter's Hamfest last wknd in the Pittsburgh area. This is a PAL programmer made by Structured Design, SD 30/24 It even includes a Stringy Floppy cassette player, plus a spare cassette--I hope I can find these too. This is supposed to be a standalone programmer with just a serial port for console input and display. Would someone know where I can find a manual for this PAL Programmer ? I tried the usual websites, starting with bitsavers, but no luck so far. http://tinyurl.com/2fxwb26 thanks =Dan -- http://www.vintagecomputer.net/ragooman/

15 years, 10 months

OT Marilyn Levine

by tpeters＠mixcom.com

Those who might know Len Levine, this was forwarded to me by Dave Rasmussen. >Hi Everyone: > >I regret to inform you that Marilyn Levine ( Len's wife) passed away >last saturday. She had been hospitalized for about a week. As you know, >both Len and Marilyn were associated with UWM for a long time. > >Best, >kv > >PS; Please share this with your friends you think may know Marilyn. I was a volunteer operator on the TSS/8 system at UWM from the summer before my fresheman year in 1978 until they replaced it with a Vax. Len spotted me in his intro comp sci class on the first day of my freshman year and grabbed my schedule, wrote a course number on it, signed it, and said, "You don't need to be here- go take the languages class." And the rest is history. I continued to interact with him in various ways for the next 15 years, well beyond my college days. I still hear from, or about, him. I owe a lot to him and I'm very sorry his life-long companion has been taken from him. -T ----- 524. [Commentary] Any sufficiently advanced political correctness is indistinguishable from sarcasm --Erik Naggum. Another corollary to Clarke's Law. --... ...-- -.. . -. ----. --.- --.- -... tpeters at nospam.mixcom.com (remove "nospam") N9QQB (amateur radio) "HEY YOU" (loud shouting) WEB: http://www.mixcom.com/tpeters 43? 7' 17.2" N by 88? 6' 28.9" W, Elevation 815', Grid Square EN53wc WAN/LAN/Telcom Analyst, Tech Writer, MCP, CCNA, Registered Linux User 385531

15 years, 10 months

Bitsavers upstream?

by hachti＠hachti.de

Hi folks, as some of you might know I'm dealing with quite a lot of documentation in paper form. From time to time I scan some docs that cannot yet be found on the web (i.e. Al's bitsavers.org). A few month ago I posted some notifications about having uploaded stuff to a temporary folder on my website. But I have no clue if it has been taken by anyone or Al Kossow. This feels a bit complicated to me. So I'd like to suggest some possibility to upload stuff to bitsavers directly. Or to a special "incoming" folder or something like that. I'd like to have an easy and reliable way to offload my stuff. Without writing emails, asking for acknowledge and all that hassle. For me personally having some kind of access via scp would be perfect. Some people might prefer ftp/sftp. I could have written this in a private email to Al but I assume that it might be sensible to have some kind of discussion around the topic. Hope you're all fine! Kind regards, Philipp

15 years, 10 months

RK05 unit stickers

by hachti＠hachti.de

Hi folks, does anybody have a reasonable electronic form of the unit number stickers used on RK05 disk drives? I want to renumber some drives but don't have the numbers. So I decided to just print them onto labels and then add some glossy film. Will look quite original - if I have the right design. So if anybody has something useful that saves me some work, please answer! Best wishes, Philipp -- http://www.hachti.de

15 years, 10 months

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