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by rcini＠optonline.net

All: I just upgraded servers again and this time I have a (formerly new) Compaq ProLiant 1600 rack mounted Pentium III Server. It has (going from memory) the following: dual Pentium III/533 CPUs, 512mb of RAM, a 9gb boot drive and 6x9.1g 7200 RPM drives in a RAID-5 configuration. It also has the Integrated Management Display. I forget the measurements, but it?s probably a 5U height. I also have some spares and accessories for it that?s part of the package, including rack rails (but they?re for a Compaq rack, which is different than the standard 19? rack in depth.) Right now it?s running Windows NT Server with no problems. I upgraded to a DL360 (1U) and a Quantum Snap NAS to reduce noise in the shop and to upgrade to Windows 2000 Server and Active Directory. This beast is heavy so local pickup from Long Island, NY would be preferred. If anyone?s interested, contact me off-list. I would be looking for $200 for it. I?ll throw in a 5g/10g DLT drive and cable with the sale. If I can locate the box for it I might be able to ship it but IIRC that was expensive. Rich -- Rich Cini Collector of Classic Computers Build Master and lead engineer, Altair32 Emulator http://www.altair32.com http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/~rcini/classiccmp

19 years, 2 months

Fujitsu M2442 9 track tape drive disposal.

by jkunz＠unixag-kl.fh-kl.de

Hi. Free for local pickup in Kaiserslautern Germany: Fujitsu M2442 9 track tape drive, Pertec interface, 1600 and 6250 bpi. Excellent condition, 19" rack rails included. Do not even think of shipping. Too big, way too heavy. -- tsch??, Jochen Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/

19 years, 2 months

ST506 WTB:Micropolis 1325

by ajp166＠bellatlantic.net

> >Subject: Re: ST506 WTB:Micropolis 1325 > From: "Paul Anderson" <useddec at gmail.com> > Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2007 20:10:32 -0500 > To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org> > >I have some 1355 drives, among others,but don't recall the difference. I am >also having sys problems, so feel free to call me if you have any questions. > >Thanks, Paul >217-586-5361 > > >On 4/5/07, Zane H. Healy <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote: >> >> At 11:02 PM -0400 4/5/07, John Kourafas wrote: >> >Also looking for a Micropolis 1325 MFM Drive, 71/80MB , I've seen >> >both the ST506 and Mic. 1325 on eBay for like 600.00 which I think >> >is crazy... >> >> A Micropolis 1325 MFM drive is a DEC RD53. The reason they go for so >> much is because there are systems still in commercial use that need >> these drives. >> >> Zane Unlikely to find even NOS 1325s as the most common problem is the head sticking to a rubber bumper such that it cannot load the heads. I have three of them I've opened, removed the offending bumper and use. One was opened recently for that fix as it had not been used and was good when stored. Allison

19 years, 2 months

Apple - Star Trek OS

by dasbooterror＠gmail.com

I apologized to everyone who has corrected me, I totally missed the title of the thread *head desk* -Josh

19 years, 2 months

11/45 RL02 faults when RX02 is on

by ajp166＠bellatlantic.net

> >Subject: Re: 11/45 RL02 faults when RX02 is on >> >> Ok, is there a known severe RFI problem with mounting a RX02 directly on top >> of a RL02 in an H960??? You have to be kidding me. I have that arrangement and it's solid. The RX02 bottom is well shielded as it the top of the RL02 logic. > >I've not heard of one, but then again, I've never actually tried that >mounting arrangement. I know DEC stated that certain peripherals should >have their own racks, I always figured this was, in part, to sell more >cabinets, but I assume there might have been some interference issues as well Most of that was for cooling and accessability for service. >> I went back to look at the "RL02 faults when RX02 is on" problem. I had left >> the rear top cover of the RL02 up in the service position (with the drive >> extended from the rack). I retested without touching anything. Sure enough, >> the problem was "gone". The RL02 wouldn't fault no matter what. So I put >> that rear top cover back down and screwed in the 4 screws, then pushed the >> RL02 back into the rack and voila - the problem reoccured. The RL02 will >> fault just after spinup IF the RX02 (which is mounted directly above it) is >> powered on. Aha... I was now thinking a cable problem! I figured pushing the >> RL02 in and out of the rack seemed to be the causative factor, bending a >> cable just right or something. > >The spindle motor in each drive of the RC02 is a fairly crude induction >motor. I could well believe it has enough stray field to cause >interferende (It's not that well shielded). Maybe that's being picked up >by the RL's head and upsetting the servo. > >Here's an idea. Take the fan plenum off the back of the RC02 (4 screws, >IIRC, and uplug the fan calbe). Then unplug the 3 pin connector on the >back of each drive (115V AC to the spindle motor). Try the system now. >Obviously the RC02 can't run (the spindles won't be turning), but if >there are no disks in the drives the system can't realise this. Have the >RC02 powered up (so its PSU is running, and all the logic is powered) and >see if the RL behaves now. If so, it pretty much confirms it's >interference from the RC02's spindle motors. > >-tony I've been doing it for years and it works for me. Allison

19 years, 2 months

Basic Four computer

by quapla＠xs4all.nl

A guy on a Dutch marketplace website is offering a Basic Four computer. De description reads 'Baisc Four computer, complete with monitor, printer, cabling, documentation and a box of tapes.' Link to the ad is http://computer-hardware.marktplaats.nl/sun-unix-en-sgi/86263921-basic-four… Not affiliated in anyway. Ed

19 years, 2 months

ST506 / ST412 - never see any 3 1/2"?

by ajp166＠bellatlantic.net

> >Subject: Re: ST506 / ST412 - never see any 3 1/2"? > From: Brad Parker <brad at heeltoe.com> > Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2007 12:59:57 -0400 > To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org> > > >Just curious, "back in the day" I touched a *lot* of 3 1/2" ST412 style >drives, mostly 10mb and 20mb. > >But these days I never see them. All the drives I see on ebay and elsewhere >are 5 1/4" monsters. I still have a few of them. Most are the 10mb and 20mb size making them handy to keep. The ST225 was a great drive but the st251 was a thermal nightmare. As a result any 225 is likely good and most 251s are likely bad(unless NOS or low time). My favorite st412 interface drive is the Quantum D540 (31mb 5.25 FH) also know as DEC RD52. I must have ten or more and they all work well. as drive of that style go it was fast and near unbreakable. > >Any idea why? I'd love to have a handful of 20mb 3 1/2" drives to use >for various things but I never see them. > >I'm talking about drives from Rodime, Seagate, Lapine, etc... cerca 1985. Most were unreliable, Miniscribe comes to mind. I have a few But use them and they work fine but I had to trash a pile of them to get a few good ones (when they were new!!!) and the ones that were good stayed that way. I likely have one of the largest assortments of ST506/412 drives from my first ST506 (5mb) to Maxtor2190 many still in use. That does not include the IDE piles and scsi piles. Allison

19 years, 2 months

Canon Cat HP printer driver

by awmolloy＠landsnail.com

Dwight, that is great news. I have a Cat dot matrix printer, but using an HP laser printer would be nicer. I wonder if the newer PCL 5 and 6 printers are backwards compatible? Are you using a LaserJet II? I'd like to get a copy to type in. Thanks! Andy ----- Original Message ---- From: dwight elvey <dkelvey at hotmail.com> To: cctalk at classiccmp.org Sent: Sunday, April 1, 2007 11:55:42 AM Subject: Canon Cat HP printer driver Hi All I've been able to create a driver to output to a HP printer running PCL. One needs to be able to enter the Forth mode. There were a few application softwares for the Cat that have locked out the Forth access. I've not gotten to these yet to look at how to re-enable the Forth mode. Still, most only have the normal Cat without anything extra. This code should be fine there. There is quite a bit that one can do with the Cat and just the ROM that came with it. Normally the Cat only had drivers for Canon printers and the FX80 type printers ( that were copied by several dot printers of the time ). Since the printer did formatted printing, it required a driver specific to the printer. Since I didn't have a Canon printer and was happy with my HP, I was interrested in adding code that would drive my HP. The Cat has an interesting feature in that it copies the entire RAM to disk. This means that any code entered can be made to come back on each boot without any additional operations. The Cat is programmed in Forth. I figured that I could make the needed modification my self. That was several years ago when I first got the Cat. What I didn't realize was that I had no idea how to decompile the current code or what the various escape sequences meant to the Canon printers. The first big break was finding a couple of manuals at the Stanford Special collections library, left by Jef Rasken before he died. These gave me the needed information on both the Forth and quite a bit on the printer drivers. Understanding a few other bits and pieces came from one of the developers of the Cat ( Charlie Springer ). I never did find anything other than a Japanesse document on the LIPS codes used for the Canon Laser Beam printers. I did fine some for the FX80 and the Canon Bubble Jet. With this information I've been able to determine quite a bit about writing the driver for the HP. I realize that most people would never use any of the printer escape sequences but Canon should make them a little more available. Back on subject. I've created a driver that one can type in. I've not setup propotional spacing yet but it does handle most of the needed operations. I've not looked at any of the foreign character printing yet but as long as one stays with regular the character set, it should be fine. One can use it for its intended purpose ( editor, mail list, speadsheet or whatever ) or one can put their Forth code in and print is all out on a HP with my driver. I hope to get it posted on Bruce's DigiBarn Canon Cat page but until then, if anyone is interested, send an email to me. Dwight dkelvey at hot mail dot com PS I just saw another Cat on ebay. That make three I've seen in the last year or so. _________________________________________________________________ Exercise your brain! Try Flexicon. http://games.msn.com/en/flexicon/default.htm?icid=flexicon_hmemailtaglinema…

19 years, 2 months

ST506 WTB:Micropolis 1325

by useddec＠gmail.com

I have some 1355 drives, among others,but don't recall the difference. I am also having sys problems, so feel free to call me if you have any questions. Thanks, Paul 217-586-5361 On 4/5/07, Zane H. Healy <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote: > > At 11:02 PM -0400 4/5/07, John Kourafas wrote: > >Also looking for a Micropolis 1325 MFM Drive, 71/80MB , I've seen > >both the ST506 and Mic. 1325 on eBay for like 600.00 which I think > >is crazy... > > A Micropolis 1325 MFM drive is a DEC RD53. The reason they go for so > much is because there are systems still in commercial use that need > these drives. > > Zane > > > -- > | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator | > | healyzh at aracnet.com (primary) | OpenVMS Enthusiast | > | MONK::HEALYZH (DECnet) | Classic Computer Collector | > +----------------------------------+----------------------------+ > | Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, | > | PDP-10 Emulation and Zane's Computer Museum. | > | http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ | >

19 years, 2 months

What is an HP1858-0054 transistor array?

by ard＠p850ug1.demon.co.uk

I am working on the reset circuit of an HP9816 computer. The output side is rrlatively conventional, but it takes an input from a chip that I can't identify. The chip is a 16 pin DIL package marked with the HP house-number 1858-0054. That's not in my equivalents list. The chip seems to have been made by RCA, and tracing the connections to it show that 2 of the pins are grounded, but none of them go to any power line. I susepct it's a transistor array, therefore (HP1585-xxxx numbers tend to be transistor arrays too). I've unsodered the chip, but trying to work out the internal arrangement is non-trivial, partly because there seem to be parasitic diodes, and secondly because I am not convinced it's just transistors brought out to the pins. There may be a long-tailed pair, for example. It doesn't match any of the arrays in my RCA databook. As I said, it's on the main processor board (the big board at the bottom) of an HP9816 computer. It's U115 on this board, at the front left corner, just behind the 16MHz clock oscillator can. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what it might be? Anyone have an HP9816 with this IC labelled with somethign other than an HP house number? -tony

19 years, 2 months

Free to good home: Commodore 8032 in Los Angeles

by molists＠yahoo.com

My closet is full, and its spring-cleaning time. This unit needs a fuse / fuseholder, but as I recall, it did boot when I jury-rigged one. It is a little scratched, and a couple keycaps are loose, but otherwise complete. Contact me off-list to arrange pickup. Regards, Mo ____________________________________________________________________________________ The fish are biting. Get more visitors on your site using Yahoo! Search Marketing. http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/arp/sponsoredsearch_v2.php

19 years, 2 months

Cromemco program tape on ebay

by silent700＠gmail.com

Not mine, but thought it would be of interest to someone here, and hate to see it lost to the dumpster: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=018&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA…

19 years, 2 months

ST506 / ST412 - never see any 3 1/2"?

by brad＠heeltoe.com

Just curious, "back in the day" I touched a *lot* of 3 1/2" ST412 style drives, mostly 10mb and 20mb. But these days I never see them. All the drives I see on ebay and elsewhere are 5 1/4" monsters. Any idea why? I'd love to have a handful of 20mb 3 1/2" drives to use for various things but I never see them. I'm talking about drives from Rodime, Seagate, Lapine, etc... cerca 1985. -brad

19 years, 2 months

Apple - Star Trek OS

by dasbooterror＠gmail.com

> Did a copy of this x86 Mac OS ever leak out onto the net? > > Curt > >To the best of my knowledge no. As far as I know this was never seeded to >developers. > >OTOH, Rhapsody with the classic Mac OS interface was seeded. I forget if it >was DR2 or DR3 that first sported the Aqua interface, and the first >Developer release or two only ran on x86 boxes. The "Prelude to Rhapsody" >release first given out an the WWDC and then sent to developers was stock >OPENSTEP 4.2 and while intended to run on x86 could apparently also be >loaded on NeXT 68k systems as well as the correct HP PA-RISC or Sun Sparc >systems. > >One of these days I'd really like to boot OPENSTEP on a Sparc 5. It should >just be a matter of finding the time. Which translates to finding an >actual reason to make the time. :^) > > Zane Incorrect, If you look at some of the less scrupulous segments of the web you can find a copy of OSX that runs on x86 For example check out http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page As a warning if you are planning on actually obtaining a copy somehow, it will be a DVD sized image (think about 4GB) -Josh

19 years, 2 months

OT: VCF East 4.0 lodging info

by evan＠snarc.net

Hi all, Some of you asked me for VCF East hotel info. We now have a room block at the Courtyard Tinton Falls, for the evenings of Friday, June 8 and Saturday, June 9. The address is 600 Hope Rd., Tinton Falls, N.J., just down the street from last year's hotel. The Courtyard is much nicer, however it's also pricier -- single rooms are $159 per night. Unfortunately the much cheaper Holiday Inn which we used last year is booked already (wedding season, beach season), as are similar local places. Full details are at http://www.vintage.org/2007/east/lodging.php ... make sure you ask for the Vintage Computer Festival rate. - Evan PS - I'm signing the contract tonight so wait until Monday.

19 years, 2 months

TACCS / CTOS I / BTOS / UNISYS / 10186

by aek＠bitsavers.org

> Also any spare parts from these systems. Watch eBay. there have been a bunch of these dumped onto the market there recently. There is a group at the Computer History Museum who were ex Convergent Tech folks trying to find docs and software as well for this family of systems. Sadly, very little has surfaced. There is a book called "Exploring CTOS" that you may be able to find. http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Pines/4011/ has a bit of info as well

19 years, 2 months

ST506 WTB:Micropolis 1325

by trag＠io.com

>Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 20:57:00 -0800 >From: "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh at aracnet.com> >At 11:02 PM -0400 4/5/07, John Kourafas wrote: >>Also looking for a Micropolis 1325 MFM Drive, 71/80MB , I've seen >>both the ST506 and Mic. 1325 on eBay for like 600.00 which I think >>is crazy... > >A Micropolis 1325 MFM drive is a DEC RD53. The reason they go for so >much is because there are systems still in commercial use that need >these drives. > >Zane For what it's worth the ST506 was stock in some model of Packard Bell 80286 machines. So, if you run across any of those dinosaurs which have not been scrapped, crushed and melted, they could be a source. Back in the early 90's I upgraded our data entry staff's computers with new guts and the ST506 is what I was pulling out of them. If I had only known to hold on to the old drives... Jeff Walther

19 years, 2 months

Apple - Star Trek OS

by glen.slick＠gmail.com

On 4/5/07, Zane H. Healy <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote: > > Let's see NT supported x86, Alpha, MIPS, and what was the other > family? PowerPC They all got dumped out in the hallways and hauled away when support was dropped. -Glen

19 years, 2 months

TACCS / CTOS I / BTOS / UNISYS / 10186

by john＠kourafas.com

Looking for command reference, documentation, boot disks, anything that will assist me. Also any spare parts from these systems. It is a UNISYS labeled Convergent Technologies built TACCS system. (US Army's Tactical Army Combat Service Support Computer Systems) It has the following modules: CPU 10186 8 Mhz Memory 1MB I/O Video FH Controller Modem MP/EX ?? Controller FM-DTR ?? Micropolis 80MB MFM Drive Model: 1325 (Looking for one of these as well) Teac 1.2MB FD-55GFR Cipher Model 525 Tape Drive ( DC600A ) Tapes I also have the remote terminal which has: CPU 10186 8Mhz Video Board 1MB Memory Board I/O Board It doesn't have FD or HD as it "clusters" to the one above and boots from that via cable (in a perfect world) Along with documentation I am looking for a Video Board (1 is flakey) and a 1MB Memory board (1 is dead) The main system boots the following: T **************** L FH01 V1.2 EA:2 B,D,L,M,P,T:_ I am guessing EA:2 is an error code and B,D,L,M,P,T would be options for something..... Any and all information greatly appreciated, I did take a bunch of pictures, just need to upload them to my web site.... Thanks John Kourafas john at kourafas dot com

19 years, 2 months

Fwd: [comp.sys.dec] VAXstation II/GPX in Rochester, NY needs a home

by legalize＠xmission.com

This message has been forwarded from Usenet. To reply to the original author, use the email address from the forwarded message. Date: 5 Apr 2007 12:06:50 -0700 Groups: comp.sys.dec From: "Chris" <cchiesa1 at rochester.rr.com> Org: http://groups.google.com Subject: VAXstation II/GPX in Rochester, NY needs a home Id: <1175800010.745547.49550 at q75g2000hsh.googlegroups.com> ======== Hello all, Career events require me to move, so am hoeing out old computer stuff. Have a VAXstation II/GPX that is going to the curb next Wednesday morning unless someone else wants to come and take it away... First come, first served; respond via e-mail in case I don't get back here to check; I'm pretty busy these days as you might imagine. As-is. Has VCB02 8-plane color head & monitor. Loaded with VMS V5.4 with DECwindows and C compiler, maybe Fortran??? Licensing is left as an exercise for the reader. Three disk drives, don't remember the models/size, think they're about 700MB apiece. Has TK50 drive that doesn't work. Has third-party (Emulex?) dual-port SCSI card that appears not to work. No manuals (already went out in trash before I thought of offering machine here; sorry). Chris

19 years, 2 months

HP1611

by aek＠bitsavers.org

> Does anyone on the list have documentation for the 1611s? I have it. May even be scanned.

19 years, 2 months

Where the cool stuff is (was: Re: DEC Vaxstation II GPX needsa home)

by cchiesa1＠rochester.rr.com

Got a II/GPX going to the curb in Rochester, NY, if you're interested. ;-)

19 years, 2 months

Fujitsu M2442 9 track tape drive disposal.

by Billy.Pettit＠wdc.com

Richard wrote: Got one of these too. They were used on Suns mostly, I think. Sun even resold them under their brand for a while. Billy responds: Actually Sun sold off a large inventory that built up during a model transition. The tape units had the Sun colors, mods and logo already. Fujitsu also had an inventory to sell off when Sun buying went soft. For years, it seemed like everyone had 2442's to sell. Took about 3 years to burn off that inventory. Billy

19 years, 2 months

HP 1611 Microprocessor Logic Analyzer

by Billy.Pettit＠wdc.com

Does anyone on the list have documentation for the 1611s? I have the 6502 and Z80 systems. I need schematics, especially for the power supply and monitor. Will pay for copying or will scan and return originals. Thanks for any help. Billy

19 years, 2 months

NextStep 3.3 dmesg problem

by ingrammp＠earthlink.net

I have a minor NextStep 3.3 problem... on an otherwise perfectly working system, the command /usr/etc/ dmesg returns # dmesg Apr 4 19:32 Can't get kernel namelist which seems to imply to me, that I have some permission hosed someplace, but I haven't been able to figure it out. In / I have mach -> $BOOTFILE ( but I don't know what $BOOTFILE is supposed to be ! ) odmach is permission 444 sdmach is permission 444 ( and same size as odmach... 836616 bytes ) I tried changing permissions on /dev/kmem... no effect.... right now it's crw-r----- Any Next folks have any ideas ?? Does dmesg work on your machine ?? thanks Mike

19 years, 2 months

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