I received this email today offering a VAX 11/750. I have no
connection with the current owner. I have set the Reply-To for this
message to the owner. Hopefully someone can rescue this.
-- Richard
=-=-=-=-=-=-= Original email
We have a Digital VAX 11750 in storage that we need to find a home for.
We have never used this as it was acquired by us when we purchased another
company and was simply put into storage at that time. Do you have any
idea if anyone would be interested in this? I would hate to see it hauled
to the garbage if there is someone out there that would like to have it.
Thank you for any help that you may provide.
Regards,
Lori G. Lee
Quintek Technologies, Inc.
208-847-3618
208-847-3619 Fax
llee at quintek.comwww.quintek.com
I've got a line on one of these old Nixie-tube calculators at a fair
price. I know they used an outboard processor, making them little
more than (very pretty) terminals to a central CPU. Are they of any
use other than a doorstop or eye candy for the collection? (And don't
say "harvest them for the Nixies!")
--
jht
At 10:10 -0500 9/7/07, cctalk-request at classiccmp.org wrote:
>Hi there,
>
>What's the score with obtaining o/s installation disks for NeXT,
>please? I have a slab here which I obtained a while back but which
>(to my shame) I haven't gotten around to tinkering with. I believe it
>has a fresh o/s install, but I'd feel more comfortable if I knew I
>had all the facilities to do a reinstall if necessary.
>
>Is NeXTstep considered abandonware yet? Or should I be looking on
>eBay for the latest version?
>
>Cheers,
>
>Stroller.
Vendors I know about:
http://www.blackholeinc.com/specials/blackhardware.shtmlhttp://www.channelu.com/Turbo/NeXT/software.html
Have dealt with the latter, he's a good guy. Don't know about the former.
EBay is not a bad bet. For an early cube or slab, be sure you get the
boot floppy with the media, or if not let me know and I (?) think I
can write one for you.
You'll also need the correct cable and a 512-byte SCSI CD drive; a
FAQ that should help with that is pointed to from:
http://www.museplan.com/projects/next-mac-faq/next-mac-faq.html
Look down to the Q: Where can I find the main NextStep FAQ?, follow
that link, go to section 5.6.
Hope this helps.
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PRODUCT ASSURANCE TECHNICAL BULLETIN
BULLETIN #39
6/3/86
*****************************************************************
SUBJECT: PATCHES TO BDOS.CON TO CORRECT BUGS DEALING WITH DOS
MEDIA ON CONCURRENT DOS 4.1 SYSTEMS
PRODUCTS AFFECTED: ALL SYSTEMS USING CONCURRENT DOS 4.1 WITH DOS
MEDIA
PROBLEM: Two bugs have been identified by Mickey Singer from
Personalized Programming in the BDOS.CON module from Digital
Research. These two patches deal with a bug in the LRU buffering with DOS
media, and a record locking bug in subdirectories in DOS media.
These two patches have been recommended by Personalized
Programming, but are not
official Digital Research patches. CompuPro is not currently
installing these patches in the 4.1 releases of Concurrent DOS, but
recommends that they be installed if using record locking with DOS media.
SOLUTION: The solution to this problem is to patch the BDOS.CON
module and then regenerate the CCPM.SYS file from this patched
module. The procedure for this patch is listed below:
PATCH PROCEDURE: Make a back-up copy of BDOS.CON before using
SID86.CMD to make the following changes. User entries are underlined.
0A>SID86
SID86 1.0
#rBDOS.CON
START END
XXXX:0000 XXXX:5AFF
#XCS
CS 0000 YYYY (Where YYYY=XXXX+8)
DS 0000 YYYY
SS WXYZ .
#LA3A,A3A
XXXX:0A3A JNZ 0A59 (LRU BUG)
#aA3A
XXXX:0A3A JNZ A9A
XXXX:0A3C .
#L2189,218F
XXXX:2189 MOV AX,[0BB9] (RECORD LOCKING BUG)
XXXX:218C MOV [0882,AX
XXXX:218F MOV AX,[08E7]
PRODUCT ASSURANCE TECHME39.DOC 6/3/86 PAGE 1 of 2
#a2189
XXXX:2189 CALL 1EF4
XXXX:218C JZ 21A2
XXXX:218E NOP
XXXX:218F NOP
XXXX:2190 NOP
XXXX:2191 NOP
XXXX:2192 .
#L1EF4,1EF8
XXXX:1EF4 MOV BX,[BX]
XXXX:1EF6 OR BX,BX
XXXX:1EF8 JZ 1F08
#A1EF4
XXXX:1EF4 MOV AX,[0BB9]
XXXX:1EF7 MOV [0882],AX
XXXX:1EFA OR AX,AX
XXXX:1EFC MOV AX,[08E7]
XXXX:1EFF RET
XXXX:1F00 .
#wBDOS.CON
#^C
0A>
Save this new corrected copy of BDOS.CON so that the next time you
GENCCPM a system, you will use the corrected module. At this time, you
can regenerate your CCPM.SYS file as described in your documentation.
Any questions concerning this Technical Bulletin should be addressed to:
Product Assurance Department
CompuPro/Viasyn Corporation
26538 Danti Court
Hayward, CA 94545-3999
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Anyone need an ST-412 HDD? I am pretty sure this one works. Cheap!
Five bucks? Ten bucks? I think this should fit in a Flat Rate box, so
shipping anywhere US should be about 9 or 10 bucks as well.
--
Will
woodelf said:
> I don't want to see a 40 year nerd with no socks walking around ...
> Give me a 20 year old <censored> with no <censored> on making a quick dash
> instead. :)
Ha!
> Would that be a standard system 4 RX01's?
I don't think so. This system appears to be circa 1977, and my
oldest DEC handbook is from 1981, so doesn't even describe the
old short, 4-slot BA-11M box that houses the CPU. But the
handbook does describe a PDP-11/03 system with just the
LSI-11 CPU, 8KW (16KB) and a single dual-drive RX01 storage
subsystem. That would obviously be 'reasonably' the minimal
system possible, I suppose.
If you were a bit more willing to part with money, then you'd
have an 11/23 CPU with one or even two RL01 5MB removable
cartridge disks. Woohoo, huge step up in storage capacity!
- Jared
Today I set out to debug my other (previously donated/defective)
16K core board in order to have a full 32K in my 8/A. The board
was completely dead (0000 at all locations). A quick test program
to read all locations in field 4-7 and a little scope work (it's
handy to have a current probe) showed that one of the two
paralleled X Read/Write drive transistors was defective and so
that stack current pulse was only half amplitude. After replacing
the transistor, powering back up and booting OS/8 from my RL02, a
MEM command now showed "32K MEMORY!" :)
Everything pretty much seems to be working just like before (such
as LUNAR in PFOCAL, and various BASIC programs). But when I
attempt to run ADVENT I get the following bizarre error messages:
DIVIDE BY 0 ID("IL 0000
DIVIDE BY 0 ID("IL 0000
DIVIDE BY 0 ID:SIL 0357
DIVIDE BY 0 IE\/IM 0000
BAD ARG IE\/IM 0000
ID:SIL 0357
IANBII 0000
IEG8IM 0000
IEH?IM 0000
IE BIM 7240
IAVBII 0000
and then it either returns to the dot prompt or crashes.
This disk image works perfectly (including ADVENT) on my laptop
running SIMH.
This looks to me like part of a file is corrupted (the presumed
garbles are repeatable), but I don't know which one... any
thoughts? I haven't run a test pattern on the "new" core board and
wonder if it could be the source of this error. Rick M. are you
out there? ;)
thanks for any help.
-Charles
Adaptec ACB2002(a) Controller
I think this was an ISA MFM controller
Jumper settings: Adaptec ACB2002(a) Controller Card
Drive Type Table:
Type Head Cyl E.G.
0 2 612 Miniscribe 3012
1 2 306 Syquest 306
2 4 480 Miniscribe 4020
3 4 306 Seagate ST-412
Jumper Settings Tables:
Drive 0: Drive 1:
Type Inst Remove Type Inst Remove
0 MNOP 0 QRST
1 MN OP 1 QR ST
2 OP MN 2 ST QR
3 MNOP 3 QRST
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At 9:14 -0500 9/6/07, Dave wrote:
>Now the system boots up in multiuser mode and automatically
>logs in as "me" - so I got to play with NextStep which is
>kindof interesting (mouse is painfully slow however).
All the below applies to NS 3.3, don't recall for earlier versions
(none of which are recommended, with some minor caveats)
One of the "Dock" icons should be a clock/calendar (or some subset
thereof). Double-click that, and it'll bring up "localization
preferences". Click on the mouse, and you can change the mouse speed.
People always comment on how fast my mouse is...
As others have said, if a "me" password is set, you get the login
screen. If not, it logs you straight in as "me", which is not a
recommended way to run the machine (but if you've got boxed versions,
you can always rebuild the HD...)
To set the password, go back to Localization Preferences, and click
on the padlock.
To create other accounts, I always use UserManager (found in the
NextAdmin folder).
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All,
spotted in the San Antonio Goodwill Computerworks:
A Mac 512k, but with a minor difference. On the back side,
above where the power switch normally is and far away from the rest
of the connectors, is a 25-pin D connector reminscent of the Mac
"SCSI" connectors on Mac Plus and other machines. I did not
disassemble or power up the machine (no KB or Mouse in evidence), so
I don't know what it is.
Don't know whether they'll pak/n/ship. They were asking $5
for the machine. No connection. Let me know (off list for quicker
response) if you want me to go back for it and work on boxes and
postage for you.
Forgotten what the correct designation for those D-connectors
is, and wanted to get this out fast in case anyone wants it.
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Large Asteroids headed toward planets
inhabited by beings that don't have
technology adequate to stop them:
Think of it as Evolution in Fast-Forward.
Well I would call it a data logger.
Some DPM (Digital Panel Meters) have RS232 (or 458 balanced line)
outputs.
They can be set for one output per second. Just capture and store.
Rod
-----Original Message-----
From: cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org
[mailto:cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of woodelf
Sent: 07 September 2007 00:23
To: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: power brownout logger?
Richard wrote:
> Sorry if this is a little off-topic, but after hunting around on the
> net I couldn't find the right search term to find what I'm looking
> for.
>
> OK, my power company sucks. I have brownouts and power outages all
> too frequently. Yet when I look at the statistics recorded by the
> public utilities commission, it seems obvious to me that they aren't
> showing an accurate record of what happens at my house.
>
> So I'm looking for a device (I'm fairly certain I've seen these
> before) that I plug into a wall outlet and it keeps a log of voltage
> sags, brownouts and outages. Then I can use this to build a
> reliability profile of my power company as raw data to compete with
> their b.s. line that its never their fault when my power constantly
> sucks.
>
> Any suggestions?
check here.
http://www.sparetimegizmos.com/
I managed a buyout of genuine DEC H8571-J MMJ adapters awhile back and
just got them in. They are brand new and are in factory sealed DEC
packaging. I'm planning to list some on eBay and VCM, but I thought I'd
post an offer to the list first. They are $25.00 each + postage and I can
ship internationally. I also have about a dozen of the H8571-J work-alike
adapter+cable kits that I've been building for $20.00 each, but I'll
probably make some more once those are gone since they have been extremely
popular.
-Toth
> I am sure you're aware of it, but it instantly brought to mind the
> story of Jamie Zawinski's Dali clock
and from the URL:
> The original (Steve Capps) version of Dali Clock
Which is REALLY a port of the graphics from the XEROX ALTO Dali Clock.
I have a VESA multi-I/O board on eBay at the mo', and a clutch of
PCMCIA cards, mostly 3c589D NICs. On eBay UK.
Items:
- 270163133234
- 270163148732
- 270163155958
(I hope this is not against list rules, but AFAICR, I've not seen any
list rules...)
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I bought several eBay lots of floppies, one of which purported to be
cromix discs. It appears only one was a cromix disc, the rest appear
to be cdos. I haven't looked at them in detail. About half of them
have been read and are up under
http://bitsavers.org/bits/Cromemco/floppy
There are also what appear to be UCSD Pascal I.5 discs for CP/M up
under
http://bitsavers.org/bits/UCSD_Pascal/cpm
I know nothing about AIX or it's associated hardware
(oh ok I know it's made by IBM). I know little more
about HP-UX. All I know is I want a box/boxes I can
run this stuph on. This is a continual plea and the
cry of my heart :(. I know there's some of this stuph
out there for me. Question is how do I get it. Thus I
turn to y'all. Please help. Please...
____________________________________________________________________________________
Pinpoint customers who are looking for what you sell.
http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/
>
>Subject: Re: power brownout logger?
> From: Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com>
> Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:36:29 -0700 (PDT)
> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
>
>On Thu, 6 Sep 2007, Richard wrote:
>> So I'm looking for a device (I'm fairly certain I've seen these
>> before) that I plug into a wall outlet and it keeps a log of voltage
>> sags, brownouts and outages. Then I can use this to build a
>> reliability profile of my power company as raw data to compete with
>> their b.s. line that its never their fault when my power constantly
>> sucks.
>
>Vertex (who were for a brief time authorized to distribute my XenoCopy)
>had such a device. It had a walwart and connected to a PC.
>Unfortunately, whenever there were power problems, it would crash and lose
>all the data. Therefore, it should only be used on systems with no power
>problems. Hmmm. wonder why it never caught on
Company the name I remember is DRANITZ made a power logger that could
report things liek brown or drop outs, length of disturbance and even
things like common mode or neutral to protective ground currents. Handy
device and like can be found at surplus equipment shops.
Allison
When one spoke of computer research and manufacture, you were speaking
of Massachusetts. And it was all clustered along Rt. 128 (except DEC).
Someone made a poster of it.
http://boston.craigslist.org/gbs/for/415042460.html
Link probably has a limited life expectancy.
James -
"I seem to be having tremendous difficulty with my lifestyle"
I have a Powerbook 150 running System 7.? and only really use it for
one purpose, which is to run the old MOTU FreeStyle and FreeMIDI tools.
My question is if there is an emulation environment available for a PC
which provides enough facility to run System 7 (or possibly 8) and these
applications which need to talk MIDI via one of the serial ports and
a MIDI interface?
--tom
Hey All!
Just a quick heads-up that things are starting to roll for the tenth
anniversary VCF event this November 3-4.
I'm working on some pretty incredible stuff behind the scenes that will be
announced in the next couple of weeks.
As of now we have about 5 registered exhibits. I'll be posting more
speakers to the roster in the next couple days and have several more to
confirm that will go up in the next several weeks.
If anyone has an idea for a talk or workshop they'd like to give I'd love
to hear it, so e-mail me off-list if you'd like to participate.
With two months to go things are going to start to move fast, so anyone
planning to exhibit at the VCF this year is encouraged to register ASAP.
http://www.vintage.org/2007/main/
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> Message: 24
> Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 12:24:55 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Chris M <chrism3667 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: Ancient 8086/80286 unixes?
> What was the purpose of offloading in this context?
> Simply acceleration? No, I can't think of any "whole
> puters" that could get plugged into a pc or at either,
> just thought I'd ask. But keep in mind you don't
> really need a distinct k/b and screen to do that.
> Years later they were quite common. I think it was
> Orange Micro or AST that came out w/286 Nubus cards
> for the early Nubus equipped Macs. I never bothered to
> get mine working, but I'm guessing the environment ran
> in a window on the Mac desktop.
> Nevertheless I think it would be very kewell to plug
> a whole 'nother puter into something vintij. Very kewell.
This was discussed in another thread a little while ago.
http://www.classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctalk/1997-November/092425.html
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Well, if you're gonna buy a ticket on the Titanic, you might as well go First Class.
Captain Audie Murphy, Texas Ranger, in _Roswell, Texas_ by L. Neil Smith, Rex May and Scott Bieser.
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Hi,
Meant to include this in my earlier post -
Amongst the other "treasure" I've got a decent sized assortment of old Motorola, Fairchild, Texas Instruments, Ferranti and National Semiconductor Databooks. These are all for chips - analog parts, ECL, MECL, TTL, CMOS logic, Special Function Devices, Memories etc. Date range late 70's to early '90s.
If anyone knows of a better home for these than the paper recycling please let me know.
My sense is that most of the data is available on the 'net now on the various archives.
Thanks!
Cheers,
Hugh
