- test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org - classiccmp.org

by mmcfadden＠cmh.edu

>From http://www.alyon.org/InfosTechniques/informatique/drives/digital/all/9312060 02.html RZ26L High Performance, Low Profile 1.05 GB Disk Drive HIGHLIGHTS o New SCSI disk offered in one-inch-high, 3.5 inch form factor o 15 percent price/performance improvement over RZ26 disk o Features new, five year warranty PRODUCT DESCRIPTION To meet the need for follow-on products in the same capacity range as Digital's RZ26 and RZ26B 1.05 Gbyte disk drives, Digital is introducing the RZ26L drive. This one-inch-high, low profile SCSI disk expands the performance and price/megabyte curves of the previous generation of Digital 3.5 inch disks. In addition, its state-of-the-art seek and access times and industry standard spindle speed make it Digital's highest performing 3.5 inch SCSI disk today. The banding technology used provides maximum transfer rates (in the 3.5 inch form factor) of up to 5.5 Mbytes per second. The RZ26L disk comes with a five year warranty (one year of onsite warranty and four years of extended, Return-to-Digital warranty), demonstrating Digital's higher quality standards and enhanced maintainability standards. (See the "Enhanced Storage Warranties Span Up to Five Years" article in this issue.) Note that the RZ26L drive is not a direct substitute for the RZ26 drive in all applications. The RZ26L drive cannot be placed in an existing RZ26 stripe and/or shadow set. However, a new stripe and/or shadow set can be created when all members are RZ26L disk drives. COMPARISON WITH DIGITAL'S OTHER 3.5 INCH DISK DRIVES RZ25L RZ26 RZ26L RZ28 Capacity (MBF) 535 1050 1050 2100 $/MB $1.89 $1.23 $1.05 $1.16 Height 1" 1.6" 1" 1.6" Average Seek Time (ms) 10.5 9.5 9.5 9.5 Average Access Time (ms) 16 15.1 15.1 15.1 RPM 5400 5400 5400 5400 Servo Type Ded Emb Emb Emb Maximum Transfer Rates from Media (Mbytes/sec) 2.9-5.2 3.3 2.7-5.5 2.7-5.5 Maximum Bus Bandwidth (MB) 10 10 10 10 Buffer Size (KB) 240 512 512 1024 AVAILABILITY AND ORDERING You can order the RZ26L drive today, with availability in 30 days or less. Order No. Description RZ26L Disk Drive: RZ26L-EJ 1.05 GB formatted SCSI disk for DEC 3000 Model 400, 400S, 500, 500S, 500X, 600, 600S, 800, and 800S systems; includes mounting hardware; factory or field installed RZ26L-EP 1.05 GB formatted SCSI disk for DEC 3000 Model 300 and 300L systems; includes mounting hardware; factory or field installed RZ26L-EK/EN 1.05 GB formatted SCSI disk for MicroVAX 3100 Model 30, 40, 80, and 90 systems; includes mounting hardware; field installed/factory installed RZ26L-VA 1.05 GB 3.5 inch disk for StorageWorks systems, mounted in single 3.5 inch storage building block with snap-in carrier (RZ26L-VA currently supported in BA350 and BA353 StorageWorks shelves on HSJ40 and HSC K.SCSI controllers, MicroVAX 3100, DEC 3000, DEC 7000, and DEC 10000 systems) 4A-RZ26L-VA Spare for all variations of RZ26L disk drive SOFTWARE SUPPORT The RZ26L drive is supported in OpenVMS VAX V6.0 and OpenVMS AXP V1.5. FUTURE SUPPORT Support for the RZ26L disk is planned for the VAXstation 4000 Models 60 and 90, for DEC 2000 AXP workstations, and for DEC 4000 AXP systems. Future software support is planned for the ULTRIX V4.4 and DEC OSF/1 V1.3 operating systems. SERVICES Digital is supporting the RZ26L drive with a complete range of services, including (but not limited to) onsite hardware service, telephone assistance, installation, and extended warranty programs. DECmailer unit exchange is available through the Customer Returns Center (800-225-5385). __________ OSF/1 is a registered trademark of the Open Software Foundation, Inc. Mike mmcfadden(a)cmh.edu

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Lovely period furniture: VAX 4000-500

by flo＠rdel.co.uk

I've just found a VAX 4000-500 sitting out in the rain at work with a scrap note attached, so I've relocated it to my house. I figure that if I carefully dry it out and remove all those funny bits of plastic and metal from inside, it'll make a lovely bedside cabinet. Heh heh.

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storage media

by Scott.Miller＠vandenberg.af.mil

I was thinking about the possibility of building a miniature C-64... you could probably squeeze the whole thing into an FPGA, but the VIC II and SID chips might be a problem. It'd probably be easier to use an off the shelf embedded controler and adapt the VICE emulator. A 2 or 3 inch color LCD would make a nice monitor, but fabricating the miniature keyboard could be difficult. You could always use a cheap membrane-style keyboard, I guess. How about a 1541 disk drive that takes smartmedia cards? Speaking of VICE, in a fit of boredom I set up an AlphaStation with VNC to launch remote C-64 emulation sessions, sort of a C-64 ASP. You just fire up your VNC client, point it at the server, and you get an emulated C-64 with a bunch of old game disks. I haven't had it running since I moved over the summer, but if anyone's interested I can fire it up and publish the address. Scott -----Original Message----- From: Megan [mailto:mbg@world.std.com] Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2000 3:52 PM To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org Subject: RE: storage media >"IBM used to send out its salesmen with little 1/24 > models of their Mainframe installations to do site > planning on the desktop first before bringing in the > actual HW. With Moore's Law and the progress of > miniaturization, you could Build a system that big > now that actually works." > >Only with more power. Imagine putting together a little model of, say, the PDP-10 system on the back cover of one of the PDP-10 reference manuals, but build an imbedded x86 machine into the model, with one serial line... run linux on the the embedded machine and Timothy Stark's pdp-10 emulator running TOPS-10... :-) Megan Gentry Former RT-11 Developer +--------------------------------+-------------------------------------+ | Megan Gentry, EMT/B, PP-ASEL | Internet (work): gentry!zk3.dec.com | | Unix Support Engineering Group | (home): mbg!world.std.com | | Compaq Computer Corporation | addresses need '@' in place of '!' | | 110 Spitbrook Rd. ZK03-2/T43 | URL: http://world.std.com/~mbg/ | | Nashua, NH 03062 | "pdp-11 programmer - some assembler | | (603) 884 1055 | required." - mbg KB1FCA | +--------------------------------+-------------------------------------+

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IBM 6150

by Derek.Overton＠sanderson.co.uk

Has anyone experience of getting data off a 6150 using a SCT drive and loading onto Mvbase running on NT ? Derek

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pdp 11s to be auctioned at Goddard

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

On March 21, Bill Sudbrink wrote: > For those in the Washington DC area, the 3/29 auction will include > several pdp 11s. Look at: > > http://sales.gsfc.nasa.gov/items.cgi?salenumber=80322620010016 > > I've never been to one of these (I keep wanting to but can never seem > to make the time), but I understand that stuff goes at scrap prices. I've been to several of these. While otherwise wonderful, these auctions have classic "government auction" problems. You'll see, for example, a lot consisting of three pallets of stuff...one will contain a Dynabyte or something like that with ZERO cash value but that you'd really love to get, and the rest of it will consist of 2.5 pallets of dead VGA monitors. During the auction you'll find some guy who bids the lot up to $3,000. Wondering why, you watch him loading it into his truck at the end of the day...and underneath the dead VGA monitors will be one HP 8566B spectrum analyzer or something like that, that he will have ALREADY SOLD on his cell phone for $20,000. The bottom line is this...these types of auctions are great and lots of fun, and people like us can get good stuff cheaply through them. But keep in mind that there are hardened, experienced professionals that show up for every one of these, and make a ton of money doing it. If you get in their way, you will be steamrolled...that's all there is to it. My intention is not to discourage anyone from going and trying...by all means, go! Just watch out for the guys I talk about above...you'll recognize them as soon as you see them start bidding. And if you do go to this one, and happen to see an overweight guy with big bushy brown hair, that's probably me. :) That said, I may try to make it out for that one. There are a few RK07 drives in one lot as well...I love RK07s! :-) -Dave McGuire

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10Base5/Thicknet (was Re: SUN networking problems)

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Mar 21, 22:31, Mike Ford wrote: > >Is there currently a source for the tap part for the older, boxy transceivers > >that have removable media bits? I remember reading in the O'Reilly Ethernet > >book that it was common to remove the transceiver from the tap and leave the > > Most likely I have it, no matter what that "it" is regarding older network > stuff. Email me directly with, hopefully, an idea of what exactly you need > and I will look in my boxes. > > What I think they are talking about with the tap etc. is that you have the > thick coax, then you have a thing that taps into the coax, and that "thing" > typically has a AUI 15 pin connection with a cable to the AUI on your > computer. Disconnecting the cable is what I think they mean. Not quite. The part with the 15-pin AUI connector is the trasnceiver. The tap is the part of the transceiver that fits to the coax. In some cases, the tap has sockets, and you fit it by cutting the coax, fitting plugs to both cut ends, and plugging them in to the tap. Thats' not very convenient when you want to connect to a network that's in use (the entire segment will be ou of action while you do it and there's a risk of damage to other transceivers as well), so tha alternative is a "vampire" tap. That's a gadget that you fit by drilling a hole in the outer insulation and braid (screen) of the coax, then applying the tap. It has a pn that penetrates to the core conductor, and a part that makes contact only with the braid. Then you fit the rest of the transceiver onto the vampire tap, and fit a drop cable between the AUI connector on the transceiver and the AUI on your machine. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager Dept. of Computer Science University of York

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Lovely period furniture: VAX 4000-500

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

On March 21, Paul Williams wrote: > I've just found a VAX 4000-500 sitting out in the rain at work with a > scrap note attached, so I've relocated it to my house. I figure that if > I carefully dry it out and remove all those funny bits of plastic and > metal from inside, it'll make a lovely bedside cabinet. Heh heh. Good score! The 4000-500 is a *nice* machine. *drool* -Dave McGuire

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Speaking of 3380's

by xds_sigma7＠hotmail.com

Since everyone is talking about them, I'm going to ask that if anyone has manuals for them, or 3880 controllers, or a 4381 model group 21, that I could really really use them... And if anyone finds a 3380, 3880, or 4381 in a scrapyard or something, I need a full set of panels for each machine, i.e. 3 sets of panels total, I cannot run the system without the panels in place. I also need other miscellanous parts, such as hinges, etc. TIA, Will J _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

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classiccmp-digest V1 #547

by jruschme＠mac.com

>From: Tom Owad <owad(a)applefritter.com> >Subject: Re: VCF East > >>> I would ask for the New Jersey Expo Center in Raritan NJ to be considered. >>> It's right off the NJ Turnpike, the only road outsiders consider to >exist in >>> NJ anyways. >> >> Yeah, isn't that amazing? I grew up in NJ, and I go there from time >>to time. I rarely see NJ license plates on the Turnpike. Weird. >> >> I'd also like to see it happen somewhere toward the "middle" of the >>coast. While it's true that the southern states (at least NC, SC, and >>GA) are less densely populated than the Great New England Sprawl, >>there *is* life outside of Boston. >> >> If VCF East is reasonably accessible to the Washington DC area (and >>I'd say NJ counts) you can count on me and at least a half dozen of my >>friends to help out with all the setup stuff. And I'd plan to >>exhibit, as well. > >If its held in NJ/PA I could help out and exhibit, also. The Raritan >center is a nice location. Another NJ option might be the South Jersey Expo Center in Cherry Hill. It's about 30 minutes further south on the NJ Turnpike, but about as accessible (as well as being accessible to I295). Basically, it's over the river from Philadelphia as opposed to the Raritan Center which is basically over the river from NY. <<<John>>>

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pdp 11s to be auctioned at Goddard

by bills＠adrenaline.com

For those in the Washington DC area, the 3/29 auction will include several pdp 11s. Look at: http://sales.gsfc.nasa.gov/items.cgi?salenumber=80322620010016 I've never been to one of these (I keep wanting to but can never seem to make the time), but I understand that stuff goes at scrap prices.

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10Base5/Thicknet (was Re: SUN networking problems)

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Mar 21, 9:26, Ethan Dicks wrote: > Is there currently a source for the tap part for the older, boxy transceivers > that have removable media bits? I remember reading in the O'Reilly Ethernet > book that it was common to remove the transceiver from the tap and leave the > tap on the Etherhose, presumably to avoid damage and in case someone wanted > a computer at that location again in the future. Yes, it was fairly common. And I've seen "boxy transceivers" recently in some network suppliers catalogues (but in the UK, which might not help Ethan). And they were pretty expensive in the catalogues (rarity value, probably). FWIW, all the ones I've seen which used the removable type of tap, had the same fiting, so my BICC, 3Com, and Cabletron transceivers and taps are interchangable. I never had any vampire taps (hint: I want one for my display) but I wouldn't be surprised to find they were interchangable too. If you didn't know, there are two screws visible near the top of the transceiver; take those out (they're quite long as they go almost all the way through the body) and the tap part should come off quite easily. The screws don't screw into the tap, they go through holes in it and screw into the rear of the transceiver body; they are only there to stop the tap falling off (or in the case of cables of the floor, to stop the transceiver falling off the tap it's hanging from!). > I have a couple of the > (Cabletron?) units of the same model, one with a vampire tap and one with a > BNC for 10Base2. Worst case, I guess I could make some N-to-BNC thing and use > a 10Base2 transciever. Yes, that would work. Some of my taps have an N connector on each end, some have a sort of BNC T-piece, and some just have a single BNC (bring your own T). N-to-BNC adaptors are fairly common and cheap. > I keep fostering this fantasy of putting up a 10Base5 > segment for Histerical Raisins. I don't have an operational 10base5 segment at the moment, but I do have all the bits, and I do use some of the old transceivers (with BNC fittings or adaptors) and real thick blue drop cables for my Vax and '11s. If it wouldn't cost so much to ship, I'd trade some of my thick yellow cable for a vampire tap :-) -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager Dept. of Computer Science University of York

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NeXT '040 Cubes

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Mar 21, 10:07, MTPro(a)aol.com wrote: > << First, put a 50-ohm terminator on that connector, so the NeXT thinks it is connected to a live (but very small!) network. >> > > Is this something I can pick up at say Radio Shack? Does it looks kind of like a little metal cap that fits on the coaxial connector? Yes, it looks just like a BNC plug with either a metal or plastic cap. In fact, I have a couple that have been made by soldering a 1/4 watt 50-ohm resistor into an ordinary 50-ohm BNC plug (BNC connectors come in two types: those with a characteristic impedance of 50 ohms, used for test equipment, thin Ethernet, etc; and those with a characteristic impedance of 75 ohms, mostly used for TV and video signals). > "yp: server not responding for domain "sewp" ; still trying." > > This will just keep repeating, give a count as to trys, etc. Would a terminator stop this? Can I bypass it looking for a host? I don't think this is going to be solved by fitting a terminator, though it may help a little (by improving the timing!). What you need to do is find out what it's trying to do that it needs to find a NIS server. Most likely it's trying to look up a machine name, possibly to mount a remote filesystem. Now I haven't had my NeXT very long, so I'm not sure if the relevant files are quite the same as on the Unix systems I'm more familiar with, and it's not here to check. But I'd look at the file "/etc/resolv.conf" and see if there's a line that looks a bit like "hostresorder nis files" or "hostresorder nis local" -- if there is, change it to "hostresorder local bind" (or anything to remove the "nis"). That line tells the network software how to look up name-to-address mappings ("host resolution order"). the possible options are NIS (Network Information Service), "local" (a local file containing mappings, called "/etc/hosts"), and BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Daemon, which is what DNS servers use). Changing hostresorder will redirect the lookups, and the system may just stop trying. The real solution, though, is to prevent those lookups that aren't going to work. If the reason for the lookup is to mount a filesystem from a remote server's disk(s), the place to look (on a Unix system, at least) would be /etc/fstab. Remote filesystems are identifiable as type NFS or by having a server name and a colon ':' prefixing the filesystem name. Comment those out by prefixing the line with a hash symbol. > The other NeXT Cube is indeed a 25MHz 68040 logic board with 48mb of RAM and a 350mb hard drive. I have given it the command to boot from the hard drive "bsd -s" and it seems that it begins too by displaying "boot sd (0,0,0) -s", but then it has an exception error: > > "Exception #2 (0x8) at )x100b9dc" > > Is the hard drive bad? Is it just blank or in need of formatting? I appreciate all of the help. Possibly not. sd(0,0,0) may not be the correct partition to boot from -- what does the working one do? The numbers are the controller, drive ID, and partition (section) of the drive to load. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager Dept. of Computer Science University of York

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Tektronix 2213 Service Manual

by bob.renshaw＠dial.pipex.com

Hi, I am looking for a full service manual or the power supply diagrams for a Tektronix 2213 scope. Can anybody help? Regards Bob Renshaw UK

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Need Tandy 6000 Keyboard (fwd)

by vcf＠siconic.com

Can someone help this guy out? There may be a Tandy 6000 in it down the road. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 11:20:53 -0500 From: Club 27 <thomas_disher(a)sympatico.ca> Subject: Need Tandy 6000 Keyboard Dear Museum founder: Have a Tandy 6000 HD system operating in Xenix. Have all the original 8 1/2" floppies for the OS, and for 'Scripsit' (Word Processing), and for 'Unify' (a RDMS) -- including all the Owners Manuals, and even the Technical Service Manual. However, I really need to keep this old mini-computer working for another 2 years before I pass it along to some collector or museum. I am prepared to make a deal (YOU can set the terms) with the individual who is directly instrumental in providing the assistance I need to keep my keyboard operational or who can assist me to acquire one or preferably two old keyboards for this unit. The problem is that the individual key contacts are failing, one after another. They are easily repaired/replaced -- but I have run out of the ability to switch the sound contact pads from the seldom used redundant keys to those that have failed. I am unable to find a source for these wee electrical contacts, and am looking to - beg, borrow or steal, or buy - a whole keyboard or two >from which I can pirate the needed parts. Can you help me, and/or redirect me ? What would be your terms ? Tom - at Club 27 --- Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org

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Unix filesystem checks

by JRichardson＠softwright.co.uk

OK, calling all Unix people... See the other post on the status of the Tek Unix system - I got that going with another disk and it booted to single-user mode, complaining about filesystem errors. I ran fsck and it worked this time on the new disk (I vaguely remember before that it used to give up halfway with the old failing drive) Lots of errors, to which I just answered 'y' to each one (if that was the wrong thing to do then say - I still have an image of the old, corrupted drive). I now have a clean filesystem, and lots of stuff in /lost+found Any ideas what the next step is? Do I just have to look at the contents of files and directories in /lost+found (they're all numbered rather than named - by inode or something?) and try to figure out what everything in there is? (there's a lot of files there - I suppose I'm quite lucky the system even booted) That's going to be painful (and probably impossible for some of the data) - presumably the original filenames have been lost in the corruption? I'm only used to fsck on linux where it always seems to sort itself out - I've not had to rebuild a filesystem like this before! cheers Jules --

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pdp 11s to be auctioned at Goddard

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

On March 21, Bill Sudbrink wrote: > > I've been to several of these. While otherwise wonderful, these > > auctions have classic "government auction" problems. You'll see, for > > example, a lot consisting of three pallets of stuff...one will contain > > a Dynabyte or something like that with ZERO cash value but that you'd > > really love to get, and the rest of it will consist of 2.5 pallets of > > dead VGA monitors. During the auction you'll find some guy who bids > > the lot up to $3,000. Wondering why, you watch him loading it into > > his truck at the end of the day...and underneath the dead VGA monitors > > will be one HP 8566B spectrum analyzer or something like that, that he > > will have ALREADY SOLD on his cell phone for $20,000. > > In your expirence, and using the above example, could you approach the guy > and make an offer for the Dynabyte or will he get pissy or greedy? That works sometimes...unless it's a big machine and the guy is planning on scrapping it for gold. I lost out on a gorgeous Convex C3800 supercomputer about two years ago that way. The $3000 I had in my pocket was less than the scrapper got for the gold in the machine. For smaller stuff, though, as long as they don't smell money, that approach does work. -Dave McGuire

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NeXT '040 Cubes

by MTPro＠aol.com

I would like to thank everyone who responded to my earlier post, I have made some progress with the cubes. << Those are not 'original 1988 boxes'. The original 1988 NeXTcomputer had a 25 MHz 68030 board in the backplane. >> Sorry, I described them poorly. They are indeed original 1988 NeXT Cubes, this copyright date is on the cases. I assume that their original logic boards were replaced by NASA with the '040 boards. << First, put a 50-ohm terminator on that connector, so the NeXT thinks it is connected to a live (but very small!) network. >> Is this something I can pick up at say Radio Shack? Does it looks kind of like a little metal cap that fits on the coaxial connector? <<Then read the NeXT FAQ: http://www.peanuts.org/faq-serve/cache/66.html>> Excellent stuff here! << Here is the procedure for breaking the password: . . .>> Thanks Lawrence! It worked well. I can get into the NeXT ROM monitor on both. So . . with the Turbo, it is indeed a 33MHz 68040 logic board with 32mb of RAM and a 350mb hard drive. I have reset the root password and can start system services. The only problem I am facing now is that it gets to a place where it is looking for a NASA domain server: "yp: server not responding for domain "sewp" ; still trying." This will just keep repeating, give a count as to trys, etc. Would a terminator stop this? Can I bypass it looking for a host? The other NeXT Cube is indeed a 25MHz 68040 logic board with 48mb of RAM and a 350mb hard drive. I have given it the command to boot from the hard drive "bsd -s" and it seems that it begins too by displaying "boot sd (0,0,0) -s", but then it has an exception error: "Exception #2 (0x8) at )x100b9dc" Is the hard drive bad? Is it just blank or in need of formatting? I appreciate all of the help.

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Syracuse big iron

by LFessen106＠aol.com

In a message dated 3/21/01 11:34:44 AM Eastern Standard Time, brian.roth(a)firstniagarabank.com writes: > I recall someone posted that he had seen some big VAX and IBM iron in a > Syracuse recycler yard. I live about two hours away and might be interested > in a rescue mission. > > Repost? > > > Brian. Ditto here.. I am 2 hrs away as well and would *love* to get another VAX (I have a 3100 now). -Linc.

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Syracuse big iron

by brian.roth＠firstniagarabank.com

I recall someone posted that he had seen some big VAX and IBM iron in a Syracuse recycler yard. I live about two hours away and might be interested in a rescue mission. Repost? Brian. Brian Roth Network Services First Niagara Bank (716) 625-7500 X2186 Brian.Roth(a)FirstNiagaraBank.com

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VCF East

by LFessen106＠aol.com

In a message dated Tue, 20 Mar 2001 6:29:45 PM Eastern Standard Time, Tony Eros <tony.eros(a)machm.org> writes: <<I'll second the NJ location since it's nice and close to me -- unless we could have it in my back yard... :-) -- Tony >> I'll third it.. NJ would be great! -Linc Fessenden

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Kerrvile TX pictures

by mtapley＠swri.edu

All, Two members of the list have kindly offered to web-host the pictures I took this weekend. Goldarg has his site up: >I've put them up at http://gecko.myftp.org/ClassicCMP/ and they are listed >off of http://gecko.myftp.org as "Mark Tapley's pictures for the ClassicCMP >mailing list"' Dan Veeneman is working on putting them up at another site, details to follow. Thanks to both, and to everyone else, surf away! - Mark

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Data General Nova stuff

by jhellige＠earthlink.net

Did anyone else notice the approximately 2 dozen Data General Nova items that were just placed on eBay? It includes hardware, papertape software and manuals. Thought some of you Nova types might find it interesting if you hadn't seen the posts. Jeff

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IBM P70 solution

by jhellige＠earthlink.net

It turns out that the IBM Bios on the Future Domain MCS700 SCSI board was conflicting with the ESDI controller built into the P70. The solution was simple...one of those things so simple you don't even consider until someone else points it out. I pulled the BIOS off of the SCSI card! I had initially tried disabling the BIOS in the system setup but that didn't work. Now that I've pulled the BIOS physically off the board, the conflicts have disappeared and I had both a CD-ROM and external 1gig SCSI hard disk running off of it's SCSI-2 connector in no time, using the IBM drivers for OS/2 and the Future Domain PowerSCSI 4 drivers under DOS. Too bad I lose the bootability doing this, but that's not an issue at the moment. Jeff

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Mac SE30

by donm＠cts.com

I am trying to un-stuff a driver for the Stylewriter 1200 (the driver itself is actually for the 1500 color unit) but Stuffit 1.5.1 cannot handle the driver's .sit archive. This is being attempted on an SE30 under 7.0.1 OS. Unfortunately, I am not able to find anything on Aladdin that will update that 'early bird'. Can anyone offer any suggestions as to how to solve my dilemna? Thanks, - don

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SUN networking problems

by Arno_1983＠gmx.de

Hi all, we're running a *small* network consisting of two Sun SPARCstations (1+ and 2) and a CalComp CCS600 ES laser printer. They're all connected to "Transceivers" with 15-pin Sub-D connectors on them which sit along a yellow cable (approx. 10mm = 4/10" in diameter). AFAIK this concept is called "Thick Ethernet" (IEEE 802.3), am I right? Now in an effort to connect our modern PC to this network as well, we've put another transceiver on the cable strictly according to the installation guide that came with it (drilling hole into cable with recommended tool etc...). Since we've done that, it's no longer possible to print from one of the SUNs to the CalComp although the PC is not yet connected to the transceiver. We couldn't test whether each SUN can see the other one as one of them is currently "down" (yes, the NVRAM's bad again...) The whole assembly looks somewhat like this: TermRes _______ _______ _________ _______ TermRes I-------I TC1 I------I TC2 I------I TC3 I------I TC4 I------I I I I I SUN 1+ SUN 2 CalComp (planned) PC TC1, 2 and 4 are from Intergraph, TC3 is a InterLan NV1000. Many thanks in advance for any help with that problem. Arno Kletzander -- GMX - Die Kommunikationsplattform im Internet. http://www.gmx.de

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Hp85a

by elecdata＠kcinter.net

Does anyone have info on an hp85a, I found one in excellent condition and works, but I lack paperwork and basic info. Thanks Bill elecdata1

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Ohio Scientific 4P & 3" Amstrad Diskettes

by Innfogra＠aol.com

Hi; I have a couple of items that I think the group might be interested in. First is a complete Ohio Scientific 4P computer with attached drive. I have had it for 11 years. Unfortunately it went through my house fire about 10 years ago. It suffered smoke damage because it was in a room several rooms away from the fire. It doesn't show any signs of heat damage. It has it's attached floppy disk drive but I would assume the drive would not work. The outside is pretty ugly from the smoke damage. I could provide photos is anyone is interested. I am offering it to the list first. Unfortunately I am not looking for trades. I am moving soon and need to sell for cash. Please contact me offline at Whoagiii(a)aol.com if interested and if you have questions. The other item I have is on eBay and is closing tonight. It is a box of 3" CF-2 Amsoft Amstrad diskettes, new and still sealed. It's URL is http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1222515348&r=0&t=0&s… Tutorial=0&ed=985162040&indexURL=0&rd=1 Thanks Paxton Portland, OR

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VCF East

by mbg＠world.std.com

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VCF East

by r_beaudry＠hotmail.com

Oh great and mighty Sellam, have you considered the Worcester Centrum Centre, located in sunny Worcester, MA, about 1 hour from Boston, and 1 hour >from Providence, RI (straight shot down Rt. 146)?? http://www.centrumcentre.com/, or Worcester's Centrum Centre 50 Foster Street Worcester, MA 01608 Phone: 508.755.6800 Fax: 508.929.0111 I have NO affiliation with them, but it's about a 1/2 hour drive from my home, so I do have a somewhat vested interest :-) Worcester has all the usual big city amenities, and even it's own airport! Thanks! Rich B.

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Northstar Advantage 8/16 problems

by r_beaudry＠hotmail.com

>Have you considered that perhaps the keyboard has gone bad? > >Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival >- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- >International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org Uhh... Yeah, but it's just a matrix of contacts, and not an "active" keyboard, IIRC. So if there's no parts to fail other than the keys, I find it hard to believe, though not impossible, that EVERY key died at the same time. Perhaps all on a row or all on a column, but not ALL keys. I figured if anyone knows what chips on the mainboard read or handle the keyboard, they could point me in the right direction for replacements, or things to test... Rich B. P.S. -- I get the digest, so I can't reply immediately...

25 years, 5 months

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"Adventure" using a laser disk player and a "PC"?

by ss＠allegro.com

Hi, Does anyone remember an adventure-like game implmented using a computer (PC? Apple II?) and a laser disk player with a serial interface, and a laser disk of Rollerball? One of my co-workers thinks there was such a beast, and suggests I try to find it and get it running with the Sony Lasermax LDP-1550 I just got (assuming I can get a disk of Rollerball, of course :) thanks, Stan Stan Sieler sieler(a)allegro.com www.allegro.com/sieler/wanted/index.html www.allegro.com/sieler

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VCF East

by mbg＠world.std.com

I second the worcester centrum, although I'm sure it would be too costly to rent, what with all the monster truck shows and such that they put on there... :-) Megan Gentry Former RT-11 Developer +--------------------------------+-------------------------------------+ | Megan Gentry, EMT/B, PP-ASEL | Internet (work): gentry!zk3.dec.com | | Unix Support Engineering Group | (home): mbg!world.std.com | | Compaq Computer Corporation | addresses need '@' in place of '!' | | 110 Spitbrook Rd. ZK03-2/T43 | URL: http://world.std.com/~mbg/ | | Nashua, NH 03062 | "pdp-11 programmer - some assembler | | (603) 884 1055 | required." - mbg KB1FCA | +--------------------------------+-------------------------------------+

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VCF East

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

On March 20, Billy D'Augustine wrote: > I would ask for the New Jersey Expo Center in Raritan NJ to be considered. > It's right off the NJ Turnpike, the only road outsiders consider to exist in > NJ anyways. Yeah, isn't that amazing? I grew up in NJ, and I go there from time to time. I rarely see NJ license plates on the Turnpike. Weird. I'd also like to see it happen somewhere toward the "middle" of the coast. While it's true that the southern states (at least NC, SC, and GA) are less densely populated than the Great New England Sprawl, there *is* life outside of Boston. If VCF East is reasonably accessible to the Washington DC area (and I'd say NJ counts) you can count on me and at least a half dozen of my friends to help out with all the setup stuff. And I'd plan to exhibit, as well. -Dave McGuire

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Mac SE/30

by donm＠cts.com

OK, one more dumb question about the SE/30. I have just Mac formatted a Toshiba 834mb drive to install in lieu of the puny 31mb unit that came with it. Is it possible to partition this drive into two or more bootable logical drives? Say, one for MacOS 7.n and another for some ?nix derivative? Perhaps another for CP/M-68K? Thanks! - don

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Apple parts seller

by lgwalker＠look.ca

I just purchased some A2 items at extremely good prices and felt I should pass on to the list this info. I am not in any way connected to him other than as a delighted customer. I bought : >> 8 Appletalk connectors at .50 ea $4.00 >> 4 DuoDisk cards at .50 ea $2.00 >> 1 Apple DOS Manual $1.00 >> 1 Apple ProDos manual $1.00 >> 1 Apple DOS System Master disk .50 >> 1 Apple ProDos disk for 64K machines .50 >> 1 Apple ProDos User's Disk .50 >> 1 Apple System Utilities Disk .50 >> ---------------------------------------------- >> Total for goods $10.00 US ------- Forwarded message follows ------- Date sent: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 06:43:58 -0600 (CST) From: "Craig J. Larson" <larson(a)tcfreenet.org> To: Lawrence Walker <lgwalker(a)look.ca> Subject: Re: DUO Disk Controller Larry, I always ship the same day payment is received. I don't mind if you give out my email address. I've been liquidating the assets from a former Apple II user group for about 3 years now and after 400+ packages shipped, I'm not aware of anyone who was not satisfied. I'm not a dealer and am not replenishing anything that is sold. Over 2/3rds of the material is gone. Most of what is left are just common cards like disk controllers, Super Serial cards, parallel printer cards, AIIe extended 80 column cards, power supplies, programming books etc. I have a few Platinum Apple IIe machines, and a few Apple IIgs machines left. I also have a few color and green screen monitors left, but these are generally too expensive to ship. Since I used to service these machines for the general public, I have a lot of IC chips left for replacement on boards, and replacement key switches for repairing keyboards. Also component parts for repairing power supplies. I do not have a complete list of these items and haven't had time to take inventory. I work over 70 hours per week at my job. I also deal with antique radio parts, vacuum tubes, and 16mm films and supplies. Those are just a few of my hobbies. Craig in USA ------- End of forwarded message ------- Reply to: lgwalker(a)look.ca

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Northstar Advantage 8/16 problems

by r_beaudry＠hotmail.com

Hello all, I have a Northstar Advantage 8/16 that I am having some problems with. It is the 2-floppy version, and it does the same thing whether or not the ADV-16 CPU card is installed.... It does not recognize the keyboard. The system turns on, beeps, and displays "Load System" (all normal, according to the docs). However, when I insert a disk, and press enter, no attempt is made to access the disk. Also the "Control-C" combination does not drop you into the monitor, as the docs say it should. One quick diagnostic test said to press the "All CAPS" key repeatedly. The light on the key should go off, then on, then off, etc. It does NOT. It stays lit no matter how many times I press the key. Same for all other lit keys ("Crsr Lock", etc.). I took the case apart, and reseated the cables, made sure all the chips were correctly socketed, looked for burns, hot spots, etc. All seemed fine... Unfortunately, most of the paths in the tech manual end in "replace the main board". I cannot for obvious reasons do this, so my question: Has anyone had an Advantage 8/16 with a seemingly unresponsive keyboard, and how did you fix it? Thanks! Rich B.

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And someone has one... Re: Virus Alert !!!

by jpero＠sympatico.ca

> Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 15:50:25 -0800 > To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org > From: Mike Ford <mikeford(a)socal.rr.com> > Subject: Re: And someone has one... Re: Virus Alert !!! > Reply-to: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org > >To drag this topic kicking and screaming back towards the list topic, as > Lots of motorola, 68k etc. Hmm, > > A well adjusted carburetor does a pretty good job, but a modern engine is > close to amazing at just how well the it works given the cost. I drive a > 4,000 lb full size Lincoln, with a 285 hp engine that gets 18 mpg around Cold engines is major emssions problem and do poorly on mpg while it's running rich to assist cold engine operation. Your car should get better MPG on highway, 20 to 24 is what you should see, recheck your driving habits and do full tune up, get emissions up to snuff and change that themostat are suggested. 18 mpg city is not bad, highway not. My brother owns 20+ yr old heavy car w/ V8 and he said he can get 24mpg highway in that thing, btw it does have carb because I grew up w/ that nanny's, now his car. Oh remembered that, my other friend with a '89 caravan LE w/ V6 3.0L 3spd auto get that in city driving and bit better on road. Another friend has '90 caravan 2.5L n/a, 3spd auto got that terrible MPG too when O2 sensor was bad and no tune up till we did it. > Also my guess is that 'average' engine hp has about doubled in the last 2 > decades, and that reduces mpg. Actually, the torque went up, HP much less for given engine types but MPG *went* down and still is in '01. The fault is in weight have risen due to more options and safety stuff that is needlessly added for *no reason*. N.american big 3 didn't bother to develop more efficient enegines with latest stuff more especially on MPG and give us vehicles with less weight. Also Big 3 makers I think quit making small and compact vehicles. And didn't address the new vehicle cost. 24,000 is still much for same thing. Which I consider this a big must to survive this gas price crunch. Toyota, honda and VW and few other did their homework 20 years ago and still doing it now. For example, VW 1.8TDI get very good MPG and compareable HP compared to Chrysler's 2.5L turbo or 3.0 V6, both has less MPG and already 14 years old, same n/a 2.4L but it's still doesn't give good mpg, my brother car w/ v8 beat it that. There's more examples but I will leave this one alone for you to consider. I know I'm bummed for comparing gas to diesel but honda, toyota and others does produce efficient gas engines as well. This is my view because I'm keeping my eye on mailing lists and on newsgroups, websites so I'll be aware when looking for first vehicle of my own when I land job. I'd prefer to have a reliable bit-crunchy vehicle with seatbelt and manual stuff in it, leave computer alone just for that engine, and manual tranny, 40+MPG and bit nimble if I have to avoid accidents. I cannot find this in most vehicles for last 8 years. You can see I'm not looking at Honda, Hyraduai, KIA, I'm looking at older VWs, older 4 cylinder Chryslers, many Toyota and Nissan. Cheers, Wizard

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Offers invited for VT52

by celigne＠tinyworld.co.uk

I've received the following email from Joe Hoggood, whose email address is jhoggood (at) hotmail (dot) com. Joe is in SC. Please contact him directly. --- forwarded message --- I saw your VT100.net site and thought I would see if you might know of anyone interested in buying a VT52 that I have. Thanks

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This is CLASSIC COMPUTERS.

by red＠bears.org

Would you guys mind it at all if we could please stick to discussions about classic computers? This isn't the Classic Cars list. This isn't the Classic Carbeurators list. This isn't Fuel Efficiency Monthly. This is the CLASSIC COMPUTERS list. Maybe we should become moderated. Furrfu. ok r.

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Whitechapel Hitech 20 on offer (fwd)

by peter＠joules.org

Does anyone in the south east of England want this? -- Regards Pete ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 23:20:10 +0000 From: john_a_s(a)hotmail.com To: peter(a)joules.enterprise-plc.com Subject: Whitechapel Hitech 20 on offer Hi Peter, I saw your name on the 'Classic Computer Rescue List' and am e-mailing you as I have a re-built Hitech 20 I no longer need. This is a UK designed and built MIPS R2000 based machine, with 24MB RAM, ethernet, and SCSI. The machine doesn't boot, but can display the boot ROM messages on screen. I don't have the correct display, but have lashed up a lead to my SVGA monitor which allows you to see what is happenning. The unit was rehoused at sometime into a standard AT case, but otherwise seems original. Please let me know if you are interested, I am looking for offers. It is rather heavy, and I would prefer someone to collect it (so at least I can show it partly working). I am in Felixstowe, Suffolk, which is a fair way from Shrewsbury, but I thought you might be interested. Regards, John

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Found one oddball 13w3 cable and it's for trade.

by mmcfadden＠cmh.edu

I have many of them in use. They are great for connecting IBM P70 17" monitors to PC type machines. My desktop monitor used to be a 21" RS6000 monitor which required 13w3 to HD15 cable. Mike mmcfadden(a)cmh.edu

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VT1200 and Vaxstation 4000 VLC Kansas City

by mmcfadden＠cmh.edu

I just came across two Vaxstation 4000 VLC's and one VT1200. Each of the Vaxstations has 24 MB of memory and a RZ23L drive. I bought one for $10. The Vaxstation uses a 3w3 monitor, is the cable rare? Can I use a VT420 instead? It also has a big scsi connector on the back. I probable need to revisit the VAX/VMS FAQ. Anyone want the other one if I can get it? Mike mmcfadden(a)cmh.edu

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VT1200 and Vaxstation 4000 VLC Kansas City

by xds_sigma7＠hotmail.com

FYI, in case someone gets confused, the 4000/60 has a very different case than the 4000/VLC... the 4000/VLC and VT1200 use the same case, and it is only about an inch and a half or so tall, it doesn't have a spot for removable media, only one internal HDD. The removable media bay is present in the 4000/60 case, however. Again, not trying to pick nits, just wanting to provide clarification. Will J _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

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Tango Schematic capture, PCB layout and autorouting programs

by shreljac＠hi.hinet.hr

Hi! I have just searchinh for Tango Route and I found your post. As I see you have Tango Route which I need. I have Tango PCB and Tango SCH but not Route... If you still want Tango SCH I can send you...and please if you can send me Tango Route Tnx.

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VT1200 and Vaxstation 4000 VLC Kansas City

by LFessen106＠aol.com

In a message dated 3/20/01 11:04:11 AM Eastern Standard Time, mmcfadden(a)cmh.edu writes: > > Anyone want the other one if I can get it? > > Mike > mmcfadden(a)cmh.edu > YES! -Linc Fessenden.

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IBM 3380 disk drives / info

by mmcfadden＠cmh.edu

one of my friends convinced the movers that he had two washing machines and they moved two 3380 drives from Missouri to Beaverton when he went to work for Tektronix. Mike mmcfadden(a)cmh.edu

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IBM Bookserver link

by russ＠rbcs.8m.com

Someone may find this useful, a page to most of IBM's bookserver "shelves" online. http://www.s390.ibm.com/bookmgr-cgi/bookmgr.cmd/Shelves

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link to elecplus site

by halarewich＠look.ca

hello here is a line to the electronics plus website inventory page http://www.elecplus.com/inventory.html just thought you would like to know thanx Chris -- # Netscape POP3 State File # This is a generated file! Do not edit.

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NeXT '040 Cubes

by MTPro＠aol.com

Hi there, I have two cubes, both original 1988 boxes. One is a 25MHz '040 with a hard drive and an optical drive. The other is a 33MHz '040 (Turbo?) with just a hard drive. Both power on fine, do their system test and then say loading from network. The picture looks like a coaxial "T" connector with a cable that has "data" rolling through it. They will not do anything else. I've been going crazy looking on the internet for days, but have not found a way to bypass this. I know you can "boot" into single user mode and then reset passwords, but how? Anybody lend me some suggestions? Keyboard shortcuts, etc. Also, I have an external 4gb hard drive that I have tried to connect to a working NeXT slab that I have, but it always has a SCSI error - no matter the SCSI ID or with or without terminator. Shouldn't I be able to use this with a NeXT and build a disk? Then couldn't I boot from the external if needed and build the internals? Thanks for any help, they sure are cool systems, x-N! ASA. Best, David

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DEC 8MB parity 80 pin SIMMs... what are these from?

by JRichardson＠softwright.co.uk

> I was at the Dayton Computer show last weekend (at the Hara Arena, same place > as the Dayton Hamvention) and picked up a handful of, I thought, 8MB parity > SIMMs. They are, but they happen to be 80-pin, not 72-pin. I've got a feeling my Tektronix XD88 uses 80-pin stuff (they're bigger than 72-pin anyway). Will check this evening if I get a chance. cheers Jules

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PDP-11/70 Front Panel

by jss＠ou.edu

I will be picking up a PDP-11/70 in a few weeks, but it needs a front panel. If anybody has an extra, please e-mail me. -- Jeffrey S. Sharp jss(a)ou.edu

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NeXT '040 Cubes

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Mar 19, 17:19, MTPro(a)aol.com wrote: > Hi there, I have two cubes, both original 1988 boxes. One is a 25MHz '040 with a hard drive and an optical drive. The other is a 33MHz '040 (Turbo?) with just a hard drive. Both power on fine, do their system test and then say loading from network. The picture looks like a coaxial "T" connector with a cable that has "data" rolling through it. First, put a 50-ohm terminator on that connector, so the NeXT thinks it is connected to a live (but very small!) network. Then read the NeXT FAQ: http://www.peanuts.org/faq-serve/cache/66.html They will not do anything else. I've been going crazy looking on the internet for days, but have not found a way to bypass this. I know you can "boot" into single user mode and then reset passwords, but how? The FAQ describes how to do it. I recently acquired a slab, and had to do that. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager Dept. of Computer Science University of York

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plato terminals

by uban＠ubanproductions.com

Does anyone know where I might still find a Plato terminal of the UIUC 512x512 plasma display variety (not the later CDC implementation)? I know that there were several models, but I don't recall the variations. --tnx --tom

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IBM 3380 disk drives / info?

by ip500＠home.com

Among my pickups over the weekend were a pair of these HUGE IBM 3380 drives. Couldn't even begin to find room for the entire unit with its cabinet and controllers, but did scavange the drives and motors out of the cabinet. Biggest drive I've ever seen. Belt driven! from an external 1.5 HP motor ..these things are Big! Cast alluminium housing w/14" discs, the whole assembly seems about 1/2 the size of a V-6 auto eng! IBM site has several references to them, circa early 80's I gather but they sure look older than that. What I'd like to find is IBM publication #GC26-4491 [IBM 3380 Direct Access Storage Intro] and/or IBM pub #GX26-1678 [Storage Reference Summary]. Neither seems to be in the on-line library from IBM. Any other info or dating is always welcome too. Thanks, Craig

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PS/2 P70

by mark_k＠iname.com

Hi, On Mon, 19 Mar 2001 Russ Blakeman wrote: > I think Jeff has already answered this for you. I've been busy downloading > all of the PDF format files and trying to work out a good print-from-browser > scheme for the ones that are only in Bookmanager/Bookreader format as one > day a genius at IBM is going to pull the plug on openly displaying their > older manuals for us to use. You should be able to find the original bookmanager files for those documents somewhere on an IBM web or FTP site. (ftp.redbooks.ibm.com???) There is bookmanager reader software for at least DOS and OS/2 on one of IBM's FTP sites. Having the bookmanager file is much simpler (only one file to download), and can, I assume, be converted to HTML with the same program IBM uses. -- Mark

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Carter AFB.. he he!

by rigdonj＠intellistar.net

At 09:44 AM 3/13/01 -0800, Grumpy Ol' Fred wrote: >> On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Mike Ford wrote: >> > This is the only computer list I can think of where arguing about a >> > carburator problem posted by a virus is perfectly normal. We are >[insert your opinion here] > > >On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, R. D. Davis wrote: >> computers. Aren't there some engine control computers by now that are >> about 10 years old? > >FSOT: Bosch fuel injection ""computer"" from 1969 VW type III >(squareback). working when removed; with some (not necessarily all) FI >components and sensors > >Over 30 years old, and called a computer. Cool! It IS a computer. The injectors were pulse width modulated. Somewhere I have the manual for that thing. My mother had a '70 VW type III with that system and it ran great. Joe

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Aardvark Journals

by dkuhn＠acsworld.net

Hello there, I just joined this list. I don't know how many are subscribing to it. If anyone is interested, I am selling off my original newsletter style Arrdvark Journals on ebay. http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1223027850 This was a newsletter for owners of Ohio Scientific machines. I am sadly selling off all my old stuff. Dave

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IBM 3380 disk drives / info?

by jhellige＠earthlink.net

Were these the 8" 5 and 10meg units? When they required their own special controller prior to switching to SCSI? Jeff >I've got one better, do you remember the old Bernuolli removable disk drives, >the original big beasts in IBM PC/XT cases??? Well, there used to be a >serious problem with their power supplies, you would be working in a lab and all >of a sudden you'd hear this loud thunderous "thump" type explosion and out from >the box would pour out this white nasty ozone'ish smoke. After nervously >pulling the plug, you would slide off the cover to find one of the coke-can >sized cap's had completely blown off the top and if you looked at the inside of >the top cover there would be this spectacular meteor-crater shaped carbon mark >where the capacitor had blown upward and scorched the inside of the case. >Now thats quality assurance!!! :-)

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IBM 3380 disk drives / info?

by SUPRDAVE＠aol.com

I've two of the 10meg boxes, complete with 100 disks, but no controller card. >From what I understand, it was a proprietary interface. In a message dated 3/19/01 11:16:40 AM Central Standard Time, jhellige(a)earthlink.net writes: << Were these the 8" 5 and 10meg units? When they required their own special controller prior to switching to SCSI? Jeff >I've got one better, do you remember the old Bernuolli removable disk drives, >the original big beasts in IBM PC/XT cases??? Well, there used to be a >serious problem with their power supplies, you would be working in a lab and all >of a sudden you'd hear this loud thunderous "thump" type explosion and out from >the box would pour out this white nasty ozone'ish smoke. After nervously >pulling the plug, you would slide off the cover to find one of the coke-can >sized cap's had completely blown off the top and if you looked at the inside of >the top cover there would be this spectacular meteor-crater shaped carbon mark >where the capacitor had blown upward and scorched the inside of the case. >Now thats quality assurance!!! :-) >>

25 years, 5 months

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The DOS 10 Commandments (fwd)

by ajp166＠bellatlantic.net

From: Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner <spc(a)conman.org> To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org> Date: Thursday, March 15, 2001 7:54 PM Subject: Re: The DOS 10 Commandments (fwd) >It was thus said that the Great Peter Joules once stated: >> 3) >> Thy hard disk shall never have more than 1024 sectors. You don't need that >> much space anyway. > > That's a BIOS limitation; talk to IBM about that one---they only allocated >10 bits for sector number in the INT 13h disk IO call. Wrong. 1024 was a hardware limitation of the early MFM controller cards and the bios honored it. FYI it was CYLINDERS not sectors. 1024 sectors would have only been 512k! >> 4) >> Thy application program and data shall all fit in 640K of RAM. After all, >> it's ten times what you had on a CP/M machine. Keep holy this 640K of RAM, >> and clutter it not with device drivers, memory managers, or other things >> that might make thy computer useful. > > Again, IBM is to fault for that one---the IBM PC reserved the memory space >above $A0000 for video and BIOS extentions. There have been PCompatibles >running MS-DOS that had more memory available, but only programs that used >MS-DOS exclusively would work on those machines. Other non -PC hardware such as Rainbow went out to 896k and some of the S100 based machines did the full meg using shadow rom. >> 5) >> Thou shall use the one true slash character to separate thy directory path. >> Thou shall learn and love this character, even though it appears on no >> typewriter keyboard, and is unfamiliar. Standardization on where that >> character is located on a computer keyboard is right out . > > While COMMAND.COM would only accept `\' as a path separator, MS-DOS would >internally use both `/' and `\' for path separators. There is an MS-DOS >call to change the option character (from the default of `/') but I don't >remember what it was off the top of my head. The other choise is the unix / or VMS [.....] form. > >> 10) >> Learn well the Vulcan Nerve Pinch (ctrl-alt-del) for it shall be thy saviour >> on many an occasion. Believe in thy heart that everyone reboots their OS to >> solve problems that shouldn't occur in the first place. > > Isn't that more of a Windows thing than an MS-DOS thing? It's really a hardware thing. Dos and most other OSs all see it and have an option to do what they care to. The real point is that RESET became the defacto solution for flakey code most of it outside DOS. > -spc (Doesn't remember MS-DOS crashing quite so much ... ) DOS being unprotected could crash, usually after the application wiped it from memory like CP/M! Any unprotected OS would be vunerable to being smashed by a runaway app. Experience with DOS 3.11 and 5.0 is that for an unprotected OS it was fairly solid and not inclined to kill itself. I have two systems that live as DOS with uptimes measured in months. Allison

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Hp85a

by fauradon＠mn.mediaone.net

THe BASIC info can be found at: http://people.mn.mediaone.net/fauradon/index.html under TechInfo section. It's a scan of the BASIC syntax guide from the manual. Francois -----Original Message----- From: bill claussen <elecdata(a)kcinter.net> To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org> Date: Monday, March 19, 2001 7:46 AM Subject: Hp85a >Does anyone have info on an hp85a, I found one in excellent condition >and works, but I lack paperwork and basic info. > >Thanks > >Bill >elecdata1 >

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PS/2 P70

by SUPRDAVE＠aol.com

In a message dated 3/19/01 12:28:18 PM Central Standard Time, pechter(a)pechter.dyndns.org writes: << > Anyone know if there is a NFS that runs under OS/2 <=3? I've got a wide > variety of boxes running on my network (I'm getting to be an expert at > heterogeneous networking :) and my OS/2 box (IBM Server 85) is quickly > depleting it's 450MB hard drive. Right now most of my boxes get their > post-boot disk space from my linux box which services appletalk, samba, and > NFS connections. It would be great to leverage it into my OS/2 box as well.. I think IBM's OS/2 v2.x supported NFS with their optional TCP/IP package. Pretty costly, though. >> You might want to search out at HOBBES.NMSU.EDU That's the OS/2 file library.

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IBM 3380 disk drives / info?

by jhellige＠earthlink.net

>I've two of the 10meg boxes, complete with 100 disks, but no controller card. >From what I understand, it was a proprietary interface. I believe that the Bernoulli drives used a proprietary interface at least up until the 20meg 5-1/4" drives. They even produced a controller for the TRS-80 Model 2000 but the software didn't allow full use of anything larger than 10meg. Jeff

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FS: Zenith Minisport ZL-2 laptop

by whispermulch＠hotmail.com

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TRS-80 Model 2000 Color graphics adapter

by jhellige＠earthlink.net

For those such as Claude that have Model 2000's, there's an item that just popped up on eBay that might be of interest. It's the color graphics card for the machine. It's at: http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1223260404 I thought I'd pass it on since expansion cards for the Model 2000 are getting harder to come by. Jeff

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FWD: CoCo FD-501 floppy needed

by jhellige＠earthlink.net

Here's an email I got from someone this morning that maybe one of you may be able to help out on. Please reply to the original sender. Jeff ------------------- From: Brian Sumpter <bsumpter(a)emediadesigns.com> Organization: Emediadesigns.com Reply-To: bsumpter(a)emediadesigns.com Date: Mon, Mar 19, 2001, 11:38 AM To: jhellige(a)earthlink.net Subject: FD 501 Jeff, I was looking over your web site (http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/lakes/6757/index.html), and noticed you have some Tandy CoCo stuff in your collection. I'm trying to obtain a Tandy FD 501 Disk Drive -- the one with the ribbon cable that connects to the cartridge. I'm having quite a bit of trouble tracking one down, and was hoping you might have one or know someone who does that would be interested in selling it to me. Any help you could provide would be very appreciated. Thank you! -- Brian Sumpter bsumpter(a)emediadesigns.com

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Classic source in Kerrville, TX. also old HP calcs.

by mtapley＠swri.edu

All, Cindy emailed again this morning to add that she also had some old, original HP calculators. I didn't see those, so don't know what models. - Mark

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Classic source in Kerrville, TX.

by mtapley＠swri.edu

All, About 2 months ago, I reported that I'd been contacted by an electronics surplus vendor in Kerrville, TX, and would check out the site. After finally making the trip this weekend, I can report; been there, done that, got pictures. That address is sales(a)elecplus.com, by the way, phone 830-792-3400. I'm still in input overload. The place is simply amazing. Northern Californians will remember what Weird Stuff was like back before it was "cool"; this place is at least its equal, in my opinion. Among the things I saw and photographed that I thought folks on this list might be interested in were: MicroVax 3600 and 2 associated cabinets with RA82 and TU81Plus drives. Sadly, the processor cards were gone *but* were expected back. TRS-80 Color Computer, with external floppy and hard drives. Commodore SX64, complete. Dec DF03 modem (?) and 2 DEC Scholar Modems. A Fluke "interface pod" that looks like an ICE for a 6802 or 6808 2 Gridcase 1537 and 4 battery packs Large IBM terminal-looking thing with 2 8-inch floppies. Wang big iron cabinets, I forget what was in them. Things not photographed included: HP 7935A drives (no packs) a Compaq 386 luggable with a red plasma display and an electronics parts cross-reference program on it (historically interesting software?) There was a *whole lot* more. Workstations and large servers by Sun, Dec, and others. Laptops, CDs, modems, Laserdisk interactive players, printers of every type and size, plotters, scanners, power supplies, disks, etc. The ratio of classic to contemporary stuff looked to be *way* above 1:1. I brought my digital camera, and goggled and fluttered the shutter until an hour past their closing time (2 PM on Saturdays). They didn't say a word about that, by the way, until I said I'd promised my family I'd be back by three at the latest and they shocked me by saying it was 3:15 and would I like to use their phone to call? Which is a pretty good indicator of what kind of folks they are to deal with, and of how much fun I was having. So the bottom line is I have about 89 digital photos of the stuff that looked interesting to me, but no web site or good way to display it to you guys. I can mailbomb anybody that's interested with the whole 31.3 MB of jpegs, or you can tell me what type stuff you are interested in and I can try to pick for you, or I can send you a list of picture titles. If any of you have website space, time, and inclination, a better idea would be for me to send you the pictures, let you put it on your site, and post the url back here, and everyone else can go virtual catalog shopping. Ram, there were big piles of boards. I didn't check for, and forgot even to ask about, Transputers. Next visit I will, or you can email and ask yourself. Fantasy overload warning: Cindy, the owner, pointed out that I didn't even get around to seeing the historically "good stuff". Original-box type things, she says she has in her garage. I can't recall what all she says she has but it's probably worth an email if you have specific "want" items. She listed a lot off the top of her head, and I was too boggled to take notes. Minor caution: Cindy the owner is pretty straight-laced about not allowing any surplus military stuff to get out without being pretty sure it no longer has sensitive info on it. (Yes, DRMO is *supposed* to take care of that.) If you want something that *might* be sensitive, you'll probably have to work out some way to assure her that it's wiped properly before you get it. As before, I can help with transportation if needed. I have a '68 Plymouth Sport Suburban wagon (= Fury III wagon, really. 15.86 mpg on the 120-mi highway round trip to Kerrville, if it's of interest, Geoff), so I can get big boxes to San Antonio International airport, etc. without too much trouble. Disclaimer: Not affiliated, just a well-satisfied customer. Thinking hard about how to increase my alloted classic-computer storage space. Let me know here or at mtapley(a)swri.edu if you would be willing to web-host jpegs. - Mark

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The DOS 10 Commandments (fwd)

by mtapley＠swri.edu

(lost attribution: sorry!) >> MOST of the non-IBM MS DOS machines could take up to 768k of RAM. The >> Sanyo 550 and Zenith Z-100s both did. AFIK there's no limitations on using Tony said: >The DEC Rainbow could (officially) take 896K of RAM (128K on the >motherboard and a memory expanison card with 3 banks of 256K chips). The >oriiginal Apricot could be pushed to 960K -- actually, there was 1Mbytes >worth of chips on the board but the last 64K was taken up with the >boot/BIOS ROM and the video memory. A minor nit: my Rainbow 100A model has only 64K motherboard and 768k on the memory card (atop the 8087/8088 daughterboard), for a total of 832K. I think that's maxed out for an A model. What Tony says is correct for B or + Rainbows, AFAIK. Anyway that's yet one more number on the "max. mem" plot for 808(8,6) machines. - Mark

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PS/2 P70

by donm＠cts.com

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Carter AFB.. he he!

by jpl15＠panix.com

When I saw the message header, I thought that it referred to Carter Air Force Base, and, looking at the +20K length, I was sure that someone had discovered a long-forgotten warehouse stuffed full of classic Big Iron >from times gone by... But, LOL! Carburetors! OT: From my street-racing days: the Javelin was not a bad little ride, properly set up, and I drove a few of them competitively. Holleys were always my first carb choice, Carters being 'okay' jugs, and then there Rochesters... yuck, poo! Cheers John

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HP-UX media.

by harrison＠timharrison.com

A while back there was some HP-UX media that someone ran across, and someone was going to sort it out, and distribute. What ever happened with that? I'm still interested. -- Tim Harrison Network Engineer harrison(a)timharrison.com http://www.networklevel.com/

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Need an IBM 9309-2 Rack Enclosure

by curtisauto＠qwest.net

Are you still looking for this because I have what you need. Jeff

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IBM 3380 disk drives / info?

by SUPRDAVE＠aol.com

In a message dated 3/18/01 9:07:40 PM Eastern Standard Time, ip500(a)home.com writes: << Among my pickups over the weekend were a pair of these HUGE IBM 3380 drives. Couldn't even begin to find room for the entire unit with its cabinet and controllers, but did scavange the drives and motors out of the cabinet. Biggest drive I've ever seen. Belt driven! from an external 1.5 HP motor ..these things are Big! Cast alluminium housing w/14" discs, the whole assembly seems about 1/2 the size of a V-6 auto eng! IBM site has several references to them, circa early 80's I gather but they sure look older than that. What I'd like to find is IBM publication #GC26-4491 [IBM 3380 Direct Access Storage Intro] and/or IBM pub #GX26-1678 [Storage Reference Summary]. Neither seems to be in the on-line library from IBM. Any other info or dating is always welcome too. Thanks, Craig >> yup, those things are quite impressive when you open the access doors and quite noisy with multiple units running. Place I worked at back in 1992 had 4 strings of those which were eventually replaced by one hitachi unit. Capacity was up to 4gig IIRC. -- DB Young Team OS/2 old computers, hot rod pinto and more at: www.nothingtodo.org

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carter afb

by paulc＠ns.sympatico.ca

Skipped content of type multipart/alternative

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Apple IIgs to Commodore 1080 monitor hookup

by claudew＠videotron.ca

Hi I have been trying to get a IIgs working with a Amiga/Commodore 1080. This should be a simple hookup...108x and derivatives support around 15.75khz scan rates and should work in analog RGB mode selection... It's not working. I see the composite sync squashed with a scope when hooked up to the monitor. Also the color signals are hit. Nothing on the screen. I see the video for a split second when switching from digital to rgb on the commdore monitor, its outta sync but you can see for a fraction of a second, so video signals are making it through... I tried also a 1084 and a 1902 with no success...I have checked the pinouts >from several sources for both monitor and IIgs and they all match...RGB analog on the 198x series db9 connector...2,3,4...R,G,B and 7 composite sync...1&2 ground...simple enough no? I have tried long/short shielded and unshielded cables with no success. The IIgs RGB output is fine and works perfect with the original IIgs RGB monitor and cable... Anybody ever do this and have these problems...??? Or an idea? Thanks for reading Claude

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Anyone have TU45 docs?

by DSEAGRAV＠toad.xkl.com

I have a TU45 I need to get working again. It doesn't load tapes. It might be roached, or it might just be out of adjustment. I will trade things for it if I happen to have something you want. -------

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VAXstation 5000

by william.webb＠juno.com

Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 16:02:26 -0500 From: "Claude.W" <claudew(a)videotron.ca> Subject: Flea Market finds...: VAX 5000/200 point me to a faq please... Vax Station 5000/200 with 32Megs (?) $5 Can someone tell me more about the VAX? I know nothing about these things. Either point me to a good faq or a manual or just tell me how to check this thing out...I searched the net and after 20 minutes found close to nothing about this thing...the compaq site is a maze.... Unit powers on PS fans (3!) spin. Small leds in back (6?) near ports seem to cycle through in a "logical and non erratic way" at start up... There are 4 large memory boards. Counting the chips I suspect these boards hold 8 Megs each...4 boards...32Megs...built in ethernet from what I can see... Slot -0- in back does not have a cover anymore. There is nothing there...I suspect this held a video card (?) can I still hook this up headless to a terminal? I connected my trusty Wyse60 to this and after a short "POST" I get...: ?IO 5/rzl/vmunix (bb rd) >> Returns bring more >> prompts so I am talking to the box...So I guess it works... The thing has no floppy or keyboard connector...Just a SCSI port....how does it boot? -- from scsi cdrom? (linux something to try on this I suspect...?) Sorry about the questions but I know nothing about these VAX boxes... Thanks for the help Claude claudew(a)videotron.ca Claude, this is from memory so I'll put percentages of reliability next to each statement- 1- These machines were designed to run Ultrix (A flavor of UNIX sold by DEC) and will not run VMS (100%) 2- I think they're MIPS-based machines (80%) 3- There might be a BSD for them (30%) If you really need come up short I've got Digital Systems & Options catalogs back to 1993 and can get you some information about options but not detailed config/setup stuff. WWWebb ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.

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My PDP11/53

by fernande＠internet1.net

I got my PDP11/53, but I can't get it to do anything. I loaded Tera-Term on my IBM Model 80, to use as my terminal. I dug out a serial cable, and bought a gender changer to hook the two computers up. What could I be doing wrong... I am not getting anything! I see lights on the cards, but nothing on the screen. Chad Fernandez Michigan, USA

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UNIX question [was: Re: VAX question]

by yoda＠isr.ist.utl.pt

>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Thompson <thompson(a)mail.athenet.net> writes: Paul> On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Vintage Computer Festival wrote: >> Did VMS have a built in utility that allowed to 1) time how >> long a given user was logged in, and/or 2) track what >> directories on the VAX the user entered? Paul> Two potential answers ACC/FULL/SINCE=whenever/USER= Paul> You could probably use ANAL/AUDIT to check what directories Paul> were entered but would need to have set up the ACL's ahead Paul> of time. Obviously not wanting to raise a UNIX vs VAX war, I was just wondering whether that kind of tracking would be possible using UNIX... Any suggestions/comments? Cheers, -- *** Rodrigo Martins de Matos Ventura <yoda(a)isr.ist.utl.pt> *** Web page: http://www.isr.ist.utl.pt/~yoda *** Teaching Assistant and PhD Student at ISR: *** Instituto de Sistemas e Robotica, Polo de Lisboa *** Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa, PORTUGAL *** PGP fingerprint = 0119 AD13 9EEE 264A 3F10 31D3 89B3 C6C4 60C6 4585

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My PDP11/53

by Stiebler.External＠infineon.com

> > Chad Fernandez writes: > > > I got my PDP11/53, but I can't get it to do anything. I loaded > > > Tera-Term on my IBM Model 80, to use as my terminal. I > dug out a serial > > > cable, and bought a gender changer to hook the two > computers up. What > > > could I be doing wrong... I am not getting anything! I > see lights on > > > the cards, but nothing on the screen. Where did you get this 11/53 ? There are some versions (EPROMs) which are decserver versions. So you don't get anything on the screen until you go to the debug/configuration mode (try some of the modi on the bulkhead) And, another one: try an <ctrl> <c>, or <ctrl> <p>. If you got the "normal" version of the 11/53, it stops looking for the boot device and is talking to you. cheers

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My PDP11/53

by uban＠ubanproductions.com

Another thing to try is to be sure that your terminal is working properly. Be sure that with the cable attached to the terminal and disconnected from the 11/53 there is no echo of characters typed at the terminal and when pins 2 and 3 are shorted together on the cable end that would attach to the 11/53 the terminal does echo back to itself. If this does not work, then you have not properly faked out the modem control signals that the terminal requires to work. --tom At 09:51 AM 3/15/01 +0100, you wrote: >> > Chad Fernandez writes: >> > > I got my PDP11/53, but I can't get it to do anything. I loaded >> > > Tera-Term on my IBM Model 80, to use as my terminal. I >> dug out a serial >> > > cable, and bought a gender changer to hook the two >> computers up. What >> > > could I be doing wrong... I am not getting anything! I >> see lights on >> > > the cards, but nothing on the screen. > >Where did you get this 11/53 ? >There are some versions (EPROMs) which are decserver versions. >So you don't get anything on the screen until you go to the debug/configuration mode >(try some of the modi on the bulkhead) > >And, another one: try an <ctrl> <c>, or <ctrl> <p>. > >If you got the "normal" version of the 11/53, it stops looking for the boot device >and is talking to you. > >cheers > >

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Mailing list problem

by djg＠drs-esg.com

Anybody else having problems with getting multiple copies of the digest? I have gotten 20 or so copies of classiccmp-digest V1 #537 and just got another couple in the last hour. I have gotten 1 of 538 and 540 and didn't seem to get 539 (or possibly deleted thinking it was an extre 537).

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Looking for Someone with IBM PC (fwd)

by kevan＠heydon.org

Can anybody help this guy out? If so then reply directly to him. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 13:09:43 -0800 From: Lincoln Spector <lincoln(a)dnai.com> Subject: Looking for Someone with IBM PC Hi. I'm writing an article for PC World on the 20th anniversary of the IBM PC. I'm looking for someone with an original IBM PC (circa 1981) and DOS 1.0 on floppies. I'm not trying to buy the computer. I would just like to talk to someone who has one and might be willing to do a simple test on it for me. Thank you, Lincoln Spector Journalist, Columnist, Humorist 510-548-3725 lincoln(a)dnai.com www.thelinkinspector.com

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Complete Apple IIgs Tech Reference from Apple Pubs for trade...again

by claudew＠videotron.ca

Well I had an very interesting trade offer for a trade for these and I have been without news from the person in a long time now so these are up for trade again. I am sure they can be appreciated by someone. I have no real use for these myself and I am going low on space and wife also low on tolerance of space used up in basement by my collection. So here they are again, all the reference books by Apple Official Pubs for the IIgs and IIgs OS....most in excellent condition. Some (1 or 2) with the occassionnal very very rare pen or pencil scribbling. Some have seperated from the hardcover but its nothing a little glue cant fix...Some hardcover, some soft...Hardcovers all have paper cover intact... Here is the list...: Apple II GS... Hardware Reference (hard) Tech Intro to the Apple IIgs (soft) Firmware Reference (hard) Toolbox Reference Vol.1 (hard) Toolbox Reference Vol.2 (hard) Toolbox Reference Vol.3 (soft) Programmers Intro to the Apple IIgs (hard) Prodos 16 Reference (hard) GS/OS Reference (soft) >From Apple pubs but Non Apple IIgs specific but I can throw in: Prodos Reference Manual (soft) Apple Numerics Manual (soft) Imagewriter II technical Ref Manual (hard) Also if your gonna be doing 65816 coding I can add: 65816/65802 Ass. Lang. Programming (Fischer) Programming the 65816 (Labiak) This is a archive box full of big clean books. I wanna move these out. Please no money offers. I dont sell stuff, I only trade. I dont buy or sell on ebay. I am looking for 197x-198x micros to add to my collection. Would consider stuff like : Next, Apple III, TRS80 mod I and similar, Atari 1200xl, PET CBM, Kaypro, Osborne...CP/M systems etc...just ask me...I guess. Shipping is from Montreal, Canada -- nothing dramatic. Many trades with US collectors in past and never any problems. Ill be happy to trade these books to someone who can make good use of these. Claude

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Test

by celt＠chisp.net

Did this get through? I suddenly am not receiving messages any more, though I am subscribed. /mpm

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IBM System 36

by foxvideo＠wincom.net

I have just been offered a System 36 for my collection, (no charge and delivered. ) Can any one give me any information about this computer? Thanks Charlie Fox Chas E. Fox Video Productions 793 Argyle Rd. Windsor ON N8Y 3J8 foxvideo(a)wincom.net Check out: Camcorder Kindergarten at http://chasfoxvideo.com

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Computer garage sale Sat 17, So Cal

by mikeford＠socal.rr.com

Please pardon me for the double post, I messed up the subject last time. Free copy of Egor the Animator to all offended parties. Computer garage sale Sat 17, So Cal Sat 17th of March, in Orange CA my amazingly full garage of computer and related stuff will be open and on sale for the first time since last summer (next one is July). I live about 10 miles east of Disneyland, in the foothills of Orange, CA. Take the 22 east til it ends, and that becomes the 55 freeway Chapman exit. Go east on Chapman a couple miles, and Chapman will bend to the left and go up a hill. Half way up turn right on Canyon View, then left on Brynhurst into the Chapman Townhomes. A short driveway, then left on the unmarked Stonebrook, a few houses then the road turns right and becomes Cadbury. I am at the end in the cul de sac 6036 Cadbury. About a third of the whole complex is planning on opening for sale about 7 am (I will NOT be ready that early, but feel free to stop and watch me work) so there will be more than just all my computer stuff. This is a link to yahoo maps for me. <http://maps.yahoo.com/py/maps.py?BFCat=&Pyt=Tmap&newFL=Use+Address+Below&ad… 036+Cadbury&csz=92869&country=us&Get%A0Map=Get+Map> Questions until the portable phone runs out of juice at (714) 771-7504 What the heck is in this garage to get me to drive all the way to Orange? Lots, mostly lots. AT&T old desktops, likely 386 Compaq and Dell up to about a P120, lots of great 486 boxes for Linux routers etc. a dozen IBM PS2 9595 servers, multiSCSI drive units, various cards Apple IIe, IIc, IIc+ and IIgs computers, joysticks, cables, etc. At least 2 dozen monitors, MOSTLY older, but great for older macs or workstations. Networking stuff, loads of 10bt cables, hubs, nics (nubus, isa, PCI, EISA, MCA). Rack mount PC chassis, keyboards, mice, and things. Software, a BIG box of $1 CDs, and many many boxes of weird software $1 Close to 2,000 different computer cables, Apple, PC, SCSI, serial, printer, starting at $1 50 macintosh computers, from plus to PPC, lots of odd bits and one of a kind items. Printers, and ribbons, and various printer parts, imagewriters, Laserwriters, stylewriters, old dot matrix. C64, Atari, just cause I didn't mention it, that doesn't mean I don't have a pile of it. ;) Around noon things will wind down, but last year it took me 4 hours to put stuff away, so I will be "around" much longer.

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somewhat OT

by jim＠calico.litterbox.com

Well, Macs have been around for more than 10 years, and lpd/lpr certainly has... Does anyone know how to set up a mac to talk to an lpd with an inkjet printer on the other end? I know the printer works in this configuration as I've tested it from another machine on the LAN. -- Jim Strickland jim(a)DIESPAMMERSCUMcalico.litterbox.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- BeOS Powered! -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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RFC: ROM dump archive

by mikeford＠socal.rr.com

Computer garage sale Sat 17, So Cal Sat 17th of March, in Orange CA my amazingly full garage of computer and related stuff will be open and on sale for the first time since last summer (next one is July). I live about 10 miles east of Disneyland, in the foothills of Orange, CA. Take the 22 east til it ends, and that becomes the 55 freeway Chapman exit. Go east on Chapman a couple miles, and Chapman will bend to the left and go up a hill. Half way up turn right on Canyon View, then left on Brynhurst into the Chapman Townhomes. A short driveway, then left on the unmarked Stonebrook, a few houses then the road turns right and becomes Cadbury. I am at the end in the cul de sac 6036 Cadbury. About a third of the whole complex is planning on opening for sale about 7 am (I will NOT be ready that early, but feel free to stop and watch me work) so there will be more than just all my computer stuff. This is a link to yahoo maps for me. <http://maps.yahoo.com/py/maps.py?BFCat=&Pyt=Tmap&newFL=Use+Address+Below&ad… 036+Cadbury&csz=92869&country=us&Get%A0Map=Get+Map> Questions until the portable phone runs out of juice at (714) 771-7504 What the heck is in this garage to get me to drive all the way to Orange? Lots, mostly lots. AT&T old desktops, likely 386 Compaq and Dell up to about a P120, lots of great 486 boxes for Linux routers etc. a dozen IBM PS2 9595 servers, multiSCSI drive units, various cards Apple IIe, IIc, IIc+ and IIgs computers, joysticks, cables, etc. At least 2 dozen monitors, MOSTLY older, but great for older macs or workstations. Networking stuff, loads of 10bt cables, hubs, nics (nubus, isa, PCI, EISA, MCA). Rack mount PC chassis, keyboards, mice, and things. Software, a BIG box of $1 CDs, and many many boxes of weird software $1 Close to 2,000 different computer cables, Apple, PC, SCSI, serial, printer, starting at $1 50 macintosh computers, from plus to PPC, lots of odd bits and one of a kind items. Printers, and ribbons, and various printer parts, imagewriters, Laserwriters, stylewriters, old dot matrix. C64, Atari, just cause I didn't mention it, that doesn't mean I don't have a pile of it. ;) Around noon things will wind down, but last year it took me 4 hours to put stuff away, so I will be "around" much longer.

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Fwd: Re: Dallas module battery replacement...

by ethan_dicks＠yahoo.com

> Organization: IRIT, Toulouse, France > To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org, rhblake(a)bigfoot.com, elvey(a)hal.com, > ethan_dicks(a)yahoo.com, Technoid(a)cheta.net > Subject: Re: Dallas module battery replacement... > Reply-to: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org > > Hi all! > > Just curious, but are are the prices of these Sun NVRAM timer chips > these days? Didn't notice they went up. I just bought some last year. Can't help you with a French connection, but I get mine from Mouser (www.mouser.com). I have, in an emergency, removed the old battery and added my own. All you have to is cut through the epoxy on the ends where the battery leads go down to the chip, not through the top or sides. I should take a picture and post the URL to the list, but I soldered a 9V battery clip to the exposed ends of the battery leads (which I severed from the top), superglued the wire to the case as a strain relief, then soldered a motherboard Lithium cell to the top of a former 9V battery and put it in a baggie to prevent it from shorting out on the motherboard or RFI shield in the case. Worked great, but for all the hassle, I'd rather pay a few bucks for a new NVRAM assembly. > Are the Dallas chips identical to the ST ones as concerns a Sun? I have no idea. There are some equivalents in the NVRAM FAQ. -ethan ===== Even though my old e-mail address is no longer going to vanish, please note my new public address: erd(a)iname.com The original webpage address is still going away. The permanent home is: http://penguincentral.com/ See http://ohio.voyager.net/ for details. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/

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PS/2 P70

by rhblake＠bigfoot.com

[ The following text is in the "iso-8859-1" character set. ] [ Your display is set for the "US-ASCII" character set. ] [ Some characters may be displayed incorrectly. ] You know the P70 hardware manual is online at IBM at http://www.pc.ibm.com/us/cdt/hmm.html and the book is in HTML Bookmanager format or downloadable PDF format as the Portabel Systems HMM Volume I. Very handy and yes the P70 is a neat little unit. My wife starting tinkering on mine and now I can't get it away from her, especially after the 486 upgrade and Win95 OSR2 on a 160mb drive and 16mb ram. I just added an Etherlink MC card and now the same woman that says she doesn't have need for a network is tied to it and wreaking havoc! Russ, have been unable to find a file that meets your description. Is it perhaps that 16mb pdf that is first on that page and is about PC300/PC700? - don

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Need software and/or docs for print server

by rhblake＠bigfoot.com

Have an Eagle Technologies NPE400 single place print server that I have no software for, just the adapter and server. It's a cigarette pack sized box that hooks onto the parallel port and has a BNC and RJ45 on back. If anyone has a source it would be appreciated as I plan on taking this donated unit and using it for my daughter's school as a donation of equipment and time to free up a machine they need that presently gets tied up with print jobs.

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The DOS 10 Commandments (fwd)

by ajp166＠bellatlantic.net

From: Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner <spc(a)conman.org> > Ah, that's what I get for not double checking the reference material. In >looking over it, it is indeed 10 bits for cylinder and six bits for sector >number. ;) you forgot the 4bits for head select. Allison

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Vax 6000 site

by geoffrob＠stmarks.pp.catholic.edu.au

Some more bits added to the 6000 website at http://www.stmarks.pp.catholic.edu.au/vax *Added the first pages of a photo tour of a 6000-430, (only the front views so far - back to follow) *The Txxxx adapter list is now somewhat more complete, the formatting is not fabulous, I will compile it into a proper table when I get time. For some reason, my first search for this on the compaq site came up empty. Same search, 3 hours later, and I went straight to exactly what I wanted. Go figure. *Minor changes and additions to the FAQ. I will add some line drawings here and there as I get time, for the owners manual deprived. cheers Geoff Roberts Computer Systems Manager Saint Mark's College Port Pirie, South Australia geoffrob at stmarks dot pp dot catholic dot edu dot au ICQ: 1970476

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VCF 5.0 date?

by uban＠ubanproductions.com

I don't see a date for VCF 5.0 ? Didn't someone say that they did? --tom

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Probably OT - 3480 tapes

by azog＠azog.org

I know some of you are IBM ironheads. I've got three packages of 10-packs of 3480 tape carts. Anyone interested in these, before they go out in the trash next week?

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Fwd: Sell Old PCs to the Egyptian and African markets

by mmcfadden＠cmh.edu

My wife probably believes that I might be able to fill a container with all of my stuff, of course she hasn't been up in the garage attic. My local computer surplus sends stuff to China, the stuff must be salvage, I have seen then take a hammer to a HP 4si case so that it was salvage. The last stuff in the container gets inspected by the customs staff in LA. I have seen a HP MO jukebox in the same container. They get about $5000 for an entire container. I asked about buying a container for a month and sorting the stuff and then giving it back to them for a total of $200 for the small amount of stuff I took out. No go. Lots of keyboards, CGA monitors, dot-matrix printers, IBM mainframe terminals in a load. Most of the stuff this spam asked for wouldn't be available a any surplus place I've seen. The local schools get 200 MHz Pentiums and any disks over 1 GB. Mike mmcfadden(a)cmh.edu

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What do you people use for tape cleaning ?

by jarkko.teppo＠er-grp.com

Hello, as the subject says, what do you people use for tape cleaning ? I have a few drives that desperately need cleaning, a HP 9144 and a HP 9145 (the 9145 is smart enough the blink the "CLEAN" (or something) led on power-up). The not-so-desperate cases are a QIC-24, QIC-150, HP 7979A and a HP 7974. The few docs that I have seem to recommend some sort of Freon based substance but for some weird reason I can't find it in the stores:) So, now my plan is to use isoprophyl alcohol but I'd like to be sure before I do any damage. Thanks in advance, -- jht

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Convergent Technologies workSlate

by gkrone＠pacbell.net

re request for workslate stuff - have a cassette or two would maybe trade for the box that split the output into serial and parallel - or perhaps just the diagram that shows how to route this without the box - back in its day i saw an article where somebody did this quite easily but i lost track of it

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