The "PDP-11/04 and floppy disk" I posted already was claimed by a
listmember. But after the fact, the owner sent me a picture. The listmember
who is getting it is getting a pretty nice system. One of the dec mid-height
cabinets that has the sloped front at the top. RX02 at the top, 11/04 under
that, and dec filler panels. Nice DEC magenta insignia on the slope at the
top front. Very nice.
Also - the dual 11/73 rack system has been claimed by another list member.
Best,
J
I received the following this morning....
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I recently acquired a pdp11/73 with dual CPUs and am looking to sell it.
Would you know anyone interested.
I would like this to survive and wish to find it a good home. I live In
Massachusetts.
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The person also gave me a picture, which I posted (temporarily) at
http://www.ezwind.net/pdp1173/
This particular machine is too new for my tastes, but the dual cpu (and
status panel) is rather unusual.
If anyone is interested, please email me off-list and I'll forward the
contact details.
Best,
J
This now has enough followers to move on to the next stage of the
approvals process -- gathering enough example questions...
http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/94441/
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I recently picked up an HP 9815s ( was originally an 'a' model but was
upgraded with an 's' cpu board and the option 002 i/o long before me), that
displays the "---------------" when turned on. I've scrounged through
Google and learned that this particular display is generated by the display
board when it has nothing else better to do to direct its attention. After
checking that the power supply was putting out the recommended voltages and
chasing the +5v around the cpu board and puzzling that for a bit, I've
checked for activity at the cpu and found no voltage at all being applied
at Vcc the cpu. I've been studying Tony Duell's schematic for the
9815(thank you Mr. Duell), but have not found a reason why this voltage
might not be present. Is Vcc switched somewhere? I done some meager
sleuthing of the traces around the 6800 and think I chased Vcc to a
transistor close by, but need to investigate further this weekend. Anyone
chased this type of failure on the 9815 or traced out wether this Vcc is
applied at power on or switched by some logic at the power supply board?
Puzzled, but determined,
Tom
At 09:25 AM 2/4/2016, Liam Proven wrote:
>A fair point, but then, one is not going to use MS-DOS to browse the Web in 2016, right?
In my world it is impossible for any one computer to do everything that I need to do with a computer, thus my five active PCs and many spares, plus old stuff like my CP/M machines in my personal museum. I don't use an MS-DOS machine to browse, and I don't use an NT-series-OS machine to run MS-DOS programs that need UART register access that NT does not allow.
Dale H. Cook, Roanoke/Lynchburg, VA
Osborne 1 / Kaypro 4-84 / Kaypro 1 / Amstrad PPC-640
http://plymouthcolony.net/starcity/radios/index.html
Is there a utility that will read .IMD diskette archive files and recover
the data? I've found a wealth of BigBoard & BigBoard II data (and lots of
other stuff too) on many different sites, all saved in .IMD format. Is it
possible to read these files and recover the data instead of writing a
floppy disk with DiskImage?
Thanks, Jim Simpson
Yesterday I dug out my NexTstation (68040 25MHz slab with 32MB of 100ns
SIMMs) which has OpenStep 4.2 for Mach installed. The lithium battery
was flat and it wouldn't boot so I've ordered a replacement and
temporarily kludged a pair of alkaline AAs to get it going. So far, so
good, though it thinks today is September 6 2001 :-)
Then I used SimpleNetworkStarter, set to "Use the network, but don't
share administrative data". I've also edited /etc/hostconfig and
reslv.conf to sensible values (eg TIME=-NO-) so it now boots quite quickly.
Is there a way to disable NetInfo completely, and if so will things like
DNS lookups still work?
Is there an easy way to make it get its time/date settings from my NTP
server? During startup it does claim to start netinfo, lookupd, ntpd
(see below), then inetd,
I have an SGI running IRIX which is my DHCP, DNS, and NTP server, and I
plan to set up the NexT to use DHCP to get its IP address etc (it's
static ATM).
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Pete
Delayed response, work has been busy. That deal was passed off to the first
responder so it has likely been claimed. If that deal doesn't work out, I'll
email the next person on the list :)
But do not fret... I just see another user sent me an email today about
wanting to get rid of a machine... will post that one shortly ;)
J
Seems Windows 98 has got a few mentions on the list of late - must have just
come into the "classic era".
A while ago a good friend approached me as he wanted to get an old game up
and running that he really likes - Recoil (might ring a bell with a few list
folk) - wants the real experience, not the VM experience.
I'd be happy to help him out anyway but he has thrown a few old machines at
me from time to time rather than see them go to the tip so he definitely
gets help.
The game is quite particular and will only run on Win 98. I've resurrected a
HP e-Vectra that I have (very nice little machine by the way) that has a
serial on it for Win 98 SE but I really need the "actual" HP Recovery media
for it as I'm having some dramas getting the right video and sound drivers
for it.
I've struck out at HP and have tried a few vendors that still list parts for
this machine but no joy.
Be most grateful if someone can help me out or point me somewhere please.
Thank you!!!
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Kevin Parker
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