> Big time right on. Being an exDEC terminals and printers widget I have
> yet to find a terminal emulation on the PC that does a correct
> VT100(series) or remotely passable Vt2xx/3xx even the the latter have
> very similar key layouts. They are universally broken.
The vast majority of emulators out there (both freeware and commercial)
are badly broken. The closest I've found is:
1. MS-DOS Kermit from http://www.columbia.edu/~kermit/ (unfortunately,
this page seems to be broken this weekend; but you can always ftp
from ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/
2. DEC LK250 keyboard (VT-220-type key layout, plugs into a PC-clone.)
3. The LK250 config file that comes with MS-DOS Kermit.
There are some failings of the above combination, but it works
fine with me for 99.99% of the stuff I have to do.
A very excellent emulator test is Dickey's "vttest"; see
ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/vttest/ for details.
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The RD53's were Micropolis 1325's. If you can find a 1325 you need to
install a jumper in R7 location on the main board to make it look like an
RD53. Also install jumper blocks on W1, W2, and DS3.
Dan
-----Original Message-----
From: Computer Room Internet Cafe <netcafe(a)pirie.mtx.net.au>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Date: Sunday, November 22, 1998 5:36 AM
Subject: 85mb Micropolis in a Microvax II?
>Hi all,
>
>Just pulled a Micropolis 85Mb MFM Hdd out of a genuine, but dead, IBM 286.
>Model is 1335, and is also marked as being an ST506.
>Am I correct in assuming it would work in a Microvax II that presently has
>a single RD53, as a second drive?
>If so, is there deep magic involved in the install?
>I seem to recall seeing something about needing special
>software that is not supplied with the Microvax to put in a
>non DEC drive.
>The Microvax is currently running VMS 5.4
>
>TIA
>
>Geoff Roberts
>Computer Room Internet Cafe
>Port Pirie
>South Australia.
>netcafe(a)pirie.mtx.net.au
>
I am having no success getting the files from the list server. Here are the
commands I am issuing. I address these commands to listproc(a)u.washington.edu
with no subject heading.
First I did:
index classiccmp
This gives me a list of all the files available.. This works. Then I did:
get classiccmp classiccmp.log9706
For some reason i never get the file sent to me.. this has worked for me in
the past.
I have a VT 102. The only info I can find thru searches is that it is very
similar to the VT 100 and has some sort of paging capability like a
Tektroniks 4014 terminal. Also, there were a lot of pointers to terminal
emulators that have VT 102 compatibility. No help from them either.
Could anybody point me to info on this terminal or at least describe what I
have got and if it would be useable with VMS (the paging feature)?
Thanks for the help!
Regards, Chris
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Marvin wrote:
>Having *finally* gotten a CD-R unit hooked up, it occurred to me that
>perhaps recording all the cassette data tapes to CD would be a worthwhile
>thing to do. Has anyone else tried this? I would think it would be
trivial
>to hook up a stereo to computers, and thus load both data and programs.
You mean record the audio on to a different track? Yes, it certainly is
possible. There was a commercial device out for the Sinclair Spectrum in
1990 that included 30 games on one CD. I think it was made by Codemasters.
I've only seen it once at a car boot sale but it appeared to be a basic to
be a basic CD player with some leads to plug into the tape port.
< >it is a WD10i, also marked Fuji Electric FK301 (also 508100625). Look
<
<Micro House doesn't give jumper settings for it, but it does list the f
<
<
<4 heads, 306 cylinders, 17 sect/track, 10 MB formatted capacity.
There are few jumpers and they are drive select and the like.
I was more curious than anything else. It's a working drive! I pulled
it from a YATUXT (Yet Another TUrbo XT).
Since I have a few of these I pulled the drives, ISA boards and any loose
components, the rest are junk.
Allison
I seem to be once again in need of 16mb ISA token ring cards. I don't
suppose someone out there has any they're selling real cheap/free?
IBM-branded ISA preferable... must be capable of 16mb.
Also, if anyone has any 486 EISA motherboards that are capable of fitting
in modern mid-tower and desktop cases, I might be interested. (The only
one's I've got (a couple of huge ALR's with the CPU and cache on
daughtercards) are waaay to large to fit into anything but the larger
tower cases...which I don't have any extra of either!)
thanks,
af
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http://delphid.ml.org/~afritz/
"Animals who are not penguins can only wish they were."
-- Chicago Reader, 15 Oct 1982
Hi all,
Just pulled a Micropolis 85Mb MFM Hdd out of a genuine, but dead, IBM 286.
Model is 1335, and is also marked as being an ST506.
Am I correct in assuming it would work in a Microvax II that presently has
a single RD53, as a second drive?
If so, is there deep magic involved in the install?
I seem to recall seeing something about needing special
software that is not supplied with the Microvax to put in a
non DEC drive.
The Microvax is currently running VMS 5.4
TIA
Geoff Roberts
Computer Room Internet Cafe
Port Pirie
South Australia.
netcafe(a)pirie.mtx.net.au
They have it on their Faxback service 800-262-9867 then 3 for the faxback
service.
Dan
>Does anyone have a spare copy of the Maxtor XT-2190 manual, or is anyone
>willing to make me a photocopy of it? A Maxtor XT-1140 manual would be
>almost as good.
>
>Thanks!
>Eric
>
On Nov 16, 5:39, Doug Spence wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Nov 1998, Tony Duell wrote:
> > The 2114 is getting hard to find now. A few companies still have them
in
> > stock, but AFAIK it's no longer in production.
>
> Ack! I need a bunch of these to get a PET 2001 going (all of the 6550s
> are bad, and I was told that the 2114 is the same part?) and a VIC 3K RAM
> Expander fixed.
They're NOT the same. I can't find a pinout, but they're a different
(physical) size and ISTR they use different voltages as well. MPS6550s
will be very hard to find as they were never second-sourced by anyone, as
far as I know. They're 22-pin (0.4" wide instead of 0.3") 4096-bit (1024 x
4) SRAMs. 2114's are 18-pin 4096-bit (1024 x 4) SRAMs.
Even MOS Technology didn't make them for very long, which is why only the
earliest PETs used them.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
