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by jim＠calico.litterbox.com

This one is of special interest to Tim Shoppa, but I figured the rest of the vax lovers here would be interested too. I just ordered an external SCSI cable for my VaxStation 3100 model 40 - which everyone said was terribly expensive due to it being a wierd connector. I ordered it from 1-800-digital and they want $58(us) + tax. For those with 3100 model 40s (it changes from model to model) the part number is 17-02-008-02. Generally speaking this is the second time I've ordered formerly VERY expensive parts through 1-800-digital and gotten them for a fraction of the price people were quoted in the bad old days. If you have DEC hardware and need some wierdo proprietary pieces for it - simms, cables, etc - I would encourage you to call them and get a current quote on the prices. It's been speculated that what's happening is Compaq is unloading the spares for post-end-of-life DEC stuff, so you might want to do it soon. -- Jim Strickland jim(a)DIESPAMMERSCUMcalico.litterbox.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Vote Meadocrat! Bill and Opus in 2000 - Who ELSE is there? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

27 years, 7 months

Doug! John! Marvin!

by dpeschel＠u.washington.edu

Your debate about eBay filled up about 1/4 of my mail this morning. It's obvious that you're at an impasse of opinion. The messages on the subject are funny but the humor is the desparate kind. Since there IS another list (as Megan and others pointed out) could you find some way to tone down the traffic? I swear, a few more of these arguments and I'll have enough data to create an eBay-argument-generating program! :) -- Derek

27 years, 7 months

WSESD (aka Sigma) ESDI QBus controller

by cmcmanis＠freegate.com

So I just got of the phone with David Webster: David Webster <david(a)wccusa.com> Phone +1-408-353-5252 Webster Computer Corporation Tollfree 1-800-5WEBSTER 16040 Redwood Lodge Road Fax +1-408-353-5253 Los Gatos, CA 95033-9260, USA http://www.webstercomputer.com Dave's company designed the WQESD controller and WOMBAT software and sublicenced it to Sigma and Qualogy. He's selling a copy of the manual to me. (Yippee!!) Since some of you have offered to buy my "other" controller I asked him if they had any left and he said he suspects they do. So if you need a Qbus ESDI disk controller card you might give him an email or a call. I have no idea what he would sell them for (didn't ask) but hey, you could get a 'new' one. --Chuck

27 years, 7 months

OT: Need info on Motorola CyberSurfer cable modem

by dastar＠ncal.verio.com

Does anyone know where I can get technical information on the Motorola CyberSurfer cable modem? I want to know if there's any way to hack it to do weird stuff. Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Always hasslin' the man. Coming in 1999: Vintage Computer Festival 3.0 See http://www.vintage.org/vcf for details! [Last web site update: 02/15/99]

27 years, 7 months

Parsys Ltd T9000 SuperCluster documentation & software

by rmeenaks＠olf.com

>I have the data books on the T9000 chip (one on the hardware, one on the >instruction set), but they're nearly 500 pages each, so rather >impractical to copy. > Well, he didn't really provide me with much information. I just sent him another email indicating exactly what he has (i.e., software, boards, docs, etc) That way, I can easily see if I can get him up and running. >IMS cards sound like INMOS, of course. I can't find the B013 in the data >book, though. It's not an ethernet TRAM (B407 or B431, I think), and I don't >think it's part of the B300 ethernet interface system. > I never seen or even heard of an IMSB013 board. I figured it was a modified B300 or ethernet tram. >> transputer motherboard that looks like a TMB12 from Transtech. He also >> has all the power supplies and the case. > >Probably a clone of something INMOS, or at least close to it. Is this a >board that takes TRAMs, or what? What host bus does it use? > The TMB12 is a 12-slot tram board from transtech, similar to the B008 from INMOS. He said it looked like it but used C012 crossbar switches instead. I got to see if I can get more info from him. Ram

27 years, 7 months

Tape drive identified!

by dburrows＠netpath.net

I have the docs on that board and additional info on hidden things in the setup for it. With a PAL change it can be a disk and tape controller as well. If we can find some blanks I could make a copy for you. Dan >Thanks to everyone and some additional snooping the tape drive is indeed an >Exabyte 8200 8MM SCSI tape drive. It is connected to a SCSI board labelled > "TD Systems Inc" > "VIK/QTO #2719" >and a rom labelled: > "Viking Q/B A3.1" >(presumably QBus) > >Now to see what OSes support the board and if I can find docs ... >--Chuck > >

27 years, 7 months

Tape drive identified!

by cmcmanis＠freegate.com

Thanks to everyone and some additional snooping the tape drive is indeed an Exabyte 8200 8MM SCSI tape drive. It is connected to a SCSI board labelled "TD Systems Inc" "VIK/QTO #2719" and a rom labelled: "Viking Q/B A3.1" (presumably QBus) Now to see what OSes support the board and if I can find docs ... --Chuck

27 years, 7 months

Lucky Day II

by fauradon＠pclink.com

Hey, Not all of us can find Altairs. So I had to brag about whatever it is that I got. (I would prefer to brag about an Altair though) How many of have the IBM PCjr Carrying Case? Francois >Francois, > > Whatever floats your boat! > > Joe > >At 09:25 AM 2/27/99 -0600, you wrote: >>Fine, >>I got a complete PCjr with pretty much all of the peripherals ever made for >>it, two joysticks, color monitor, a box of software and the carrying case. >>So there! >>Francois >> >>

27 years, 7 months

TI Silent 700

by rickb＠pail.enginet.com

I was feeling nostalgic tonight, so I went out to the loft in the shop and dug around and found an old TI Silent 700 portable terminal that I picked up somewhere along the way. It needed a little bit of work...the paper-advance stepper had seized up, but a little TLC there got it happy again, and the solenoid that pulls the thermal printhead away from the paper when the paper advances was way out of adjustment. After tinkering with it for a while, I powered it up, and it seems to work great. The machine is a "Model 745 Portable" with built-in acoustic coupler cups at the rear of the machine. It works at 300 or 110 baud. I actually dug out an old Western Electric phone (most of the new telephones today have handsets that won't fit into an acoustic coupler cup) and dialed up my Sun Unix system (which has a couple of 28.8 modems hanging off it), and stuffed the phone handset into the cups, and viola... a (upper case only) LOGIN: prompt! Heck, there was even a termcap for it! The terminal works great...I loaded up the PDP-11 simulator, and loaded the image for RT-11, and played around for a while. It brought back some memories, no doubt! The acoustic coupler worked fantastic...no glitches, except when the dog barked at a noise outside...and I got a few @'s printed. The first question for y'all is this: On the rear panel of the machine is a DB-15 male connector...my assumption this is for hooking up a (RS232 or current-loop) 'direct connection' to the terminal. I don't have any documentation for the machine, and am wondering if anyone out there might know the pinout for this connector. The next question is: Anyone know where I could find the thermal paper for this thing? I've got a good sized roll of it in the machine, and a spare roll still in the wrapper, but my guess is that as time goes on, it's only going to become more and more difficult to find. Anyone know if thermal FAX machine paper in roll form would work? Happy retrocomputing, Rick Bensene The Old Calculators Web Pages http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lab/7510

27 years, 7 months

Ooops, Typo!

by chris.holden＠gte.net

I happened upon your web site and noticed that the word "Beginning" is misspelled (you have it as "Begining"). The URL of the page is: http://www.heydon.org/kevan/mlists/classiccmp/1998-06/msg00626.html I hope this helps. Chris

27 years, 7 months

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