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by rodsmallwood52＠btinternet.com

Hi ??? Well I now have a bootable SCSI drive on my 11/93. Its not RSTS/E (yet) but it is RT 11 and reliable. Its a bit baseline but it runs. So next up was to see if we could get the RQDX3 to co-exist with the SCSI controller. I switched the base address to 160336 and it does not stop the SCSI drive booting as DU0. Had the RQDX3 been on the normal base address I think you would get the HD as DU0 and the two halves of an RX50 as the next two drives. But what happens to the RX50's when you move the RQDX3 to 160336 ? Rod --

7 years, 2 months

How to format Dectape (TC08 + TU56)

by cramcram＠gmail.com

Hi, I fired up the 8/A tonight and the TU56's are failing diags. I want to format a tape for scratch use but I can't find the MAINDEC that does this (along with flipping up the backplane switch. Can someone refresh me on the proceedure? Thanks, Marc Howard

7 years, 2 months

RIP: John Parsons

by wh.sudbrink＠verizon.net

I have unfortunately just discovered that John Parsons, who shared my interest in the Cromemco Cyclops and spoke at VCF East XI, passed away on March 29th: https://www.kentandpelczarfh.com/obituary/john-parsons Bill S. --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

7 years, 2 months

Reddist offer: PDP-11/34a available for free in the Coachella Valley

by lproven＠gmail.com

https://www.reddit.com/r/vintagecomputing/comments/bunk5m/pdp1134a_availabl… -- Liam Proven - Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lproven at cix.co.uk - Google Mail/Hangouts/Plus: lproven at gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/Flickr: lproven - Skype/LinkedIn: liamproven UK: +44 7939-087884 - ?R (+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal): +420 702 829 053

7 years, 2 months

Post?

by mark＠meba.com

Did my post for the HP printer get posted? I haven't seen it. Mark

7 years, 2 months

How to format Dectape (TC08 + TU56)

by michael.99.thompson＠gmail.com

> > Date: Tue, 28 May 2019 21:21:43 -0700 > From: Marc Howard <cramcram at gmail.com> > Subject: How to format Dectape (TC08 + TU56) > > Hi, > > I fired up the 8/A tonight and the TU56's are failing diags. I want to > format a tape for scratch use but I can't find the MAINDEC that does this > (along with flipping up the backplane switch. > > Can someone refresh me on the proceedure? > > Thanks, > > Marc Howard MAINDEC-08-EUFB should work on both TC01 and TC08 controllers. -- Michael Thompson

7 years, 2 months

Hewlett Packard 2601A Printer

by mark＠meba.com

I have an old daisy wheel printer by Hewlett-Packard, their 2601A. We got this from an estate cleanout and I would like to sell it. It has been powered up and the power light comes on and the carriage moves to the starting position. It is a large, very heavy machine. I have it on ebay for $150 (https://www.ebay.com/itm/223533138720) but that was just a shot in the dark. There is a better description and more pictures in the listing. Any reasonable offer considered. I have no way to ship this item from here but will drop it off at the ups store. The buyer will have to make their own arrangements for packing and shipping with ups. Mark mark at meba.com

7 years, 2 months

Abandoned FACOM system in Italy?

by evanlinwood＠hotmail.com

Andrea (Brent & Glen) Nice work spotting the factory .. Needless to say, it might not even be possible to do anything, but hopefully someone takes an interest!

7 years, 2 months

11/93 rebuild - Major and Significant Result.

by rodsmallwood52＠btinternet.com

Hi ???? Due to the help from Glen Slick. (The only guy to answer the question as asked.) ???? What to do is interesting. How to do it will get you there. I now have a SCSI drive on the 11/93 that thinks its an RD54 and is trying to boot RSTS/E. It fails gracefully during the boot? giving an error message. So we have a working Hard Drive and Controller on the target system. No to find out what it does not like. The transfer rig is now working OK. So I can try out more drives if needed Rod --

7 years, 2 months

11/93 rebuild

by jnc＠mercury.lcs.mit.edu

> From: Holm Tiffe > You have to have an already existing parition structure on the disk and > an OS that knows what todo with that. The "--list" command to 'dd' gives a whole bunch of stuff: Win32 Available Volume Information \\.\Volume{cd4ae459-0daa-11e2-9625-806d6172696f}\ link to \\?\Device\HarddiskVolume1 fixed media Mounted on \\.\d: \\.\Volume{f3c65dd6-01af-11e1-a511-806d6172696f}\ link to \\?\Device\HarddiskVolume2 fixed media Mounted on \\.\c: \\.\Volume{f3c65dd7-01af-11e1-a511-806d6172696f}\ link to \\?\Device\CdRom0 CD-ROM Mounted on \\.\m: \\.\Volume{a531c21e-b869-11d9-9977-806d6172696f}\ link to \\?\Device\Floppy0 removeable media Mounted on \\.\a: \\.\Volume{89bdc974-217e-11e8-96f6-00038a000015}\ link to \\?\Device\Harddisk2\DP(1)0-0+7 removeable media Mounted on \\.\e: NT Block Device Objects \\?\Device\CdRom0 size is 2147483647 bytes \\?\Device\Floppy0 \\?\Device\Harddisk0\Partition0 link to \\?\Device\Harddisk0\DR0 Fixed hard disk media. Block size = 512 size is 20020396032 bytes \\?\Device\Harddisk0\Partition1 link to \\?\Device\HarddiskVolume2 \\?\Device\Harddisk1\Partition0 link to \\?\Device\Harddisk1\DR1 Fixed hard disk media. Block size = 512 size is 10262568960 bytes \\?\Device\Harddisk1\Partition1 link to \\?\Device\HarddiskVolume1 \\?\Device\Harddisk2\Partition0 link to \\?\Device\Harddisk2\DR6 Removable media other than floppy. Block size = 512 size is 15833497600 bytes \\?\Device\Harddisk2\Partition1 link to \\?\Device\Harddisk2\DP(1)0-0+7 Removable media other than floppy. Block size = 512 size is 15829303296 bytes some of which appear to be entire disks, not partitions. Since I was trying to write into a specific area of an SD card connected via a USB adapator, I took the path which seemed to be that of least resistance, which was to use a partition which covered the blocks I wanted to write. If I needed to write the boot block (which contains the partition table), I'd have probably tried using some of the other devices in the list, but since I didn't need to, I decided not to get diverted from my real goal by trying other devices. Maybe it won't work for what he needs to do. But it worked fine for me, doing something very similar, so I thought I'd mention it. Noel

7 years, 2 months

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