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by vcf＠siconic.com

I'm looking for the following software for a client: Microsoft LAN Manager 2.1 for OS/2 IBM LAN Server 2.0 for OS/2 "Message Port" by Nuko Information Systems "WinPort" by LANSource Technologies, 1.0 version The common thread is that all featured serial port sharing technology over a LAN. If you have these or know of any other software that had this feature (excluding Artisoft's Articom or LANtastic) then please contact me. I always share the profits with those who help me out! -- Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org * Old computing resources for business and academia at www.VintageTech.com *

23 years, 1 month

FA: HP 9153 with BASIC, 9000 200 computers, 9122C drives

by rigdonj＠cfl.rr.com

I've been cleaning out my storage shed and getting rid of some the HP equipment that I still have around. I just listed a HP 9000 220 computer, a 9000 217 computer, a HP 9133B hard drive with HP BASIC Version 5 and HP 8753 network analyzer software installed and a HP 9122 C floppy drive on E-bay. All working and in good condition. See <http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewSellersOtherItems&userid=rigdonj>. Joe

23 years, 1 month

Locating older systems & parts... (was: RE: making disk images)

by cb＠mythtech.net

>Hoping to find a PCjr show up here is probably impossible. I thought I offered the PCjr to the list when I saw it there. No one responded, although the price they were asking seemed steep. $12.50 IIRC, for JUST the PCjr. No power brick, no keyboard, no monitor. Although it did have the parallel port sidecar. Alas, I only have one PCjr left myself, and I'm hanging on to that one. I had 50 or so a number of years ago, but they were all donated to a local school system. I might have an extra monitor left however, but I'm not sure. I should still have some PCjr video to CGA pigtails, but they are all home made (not by me, but by another employee here), and I think someone on this list posted the pinouts for such an adaptor some time back. -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

23 years, 1 month

DEC RD54 from Maxtor

by franco.tassone＠inwind.it

Hi all, unfortunatelly one of my two RD54 hd (by Maxtor) in my mvaxII kept doing strange sounds at startup. It isn't coming on line as before, now it takes a lot of time while a continuous noisy sound comes from it, and after it seems sufferig of read problems at bootup. Any info/advices about RD54 and it's strange sounds will be greatly appreciated. ... Franco Tassone

23 years, 1 month

Locating older systems & parts... (was: RE: making disk images)

by cb＠mythtech.net

>Where I am now, most of the Salvation Army/Goodwill thrifts have big "NO >COMPUTERS!!!" signs out front so they won't even take them in just to toss >them. Yeah, that's what the one near me does. They won't even take them in anymore. What's worse is, they will take all the parts... just not the CPU. So they breakdown otherwise complete systems. Although, I am humored when the occasional computer makes it thru, like the other day they had a PCjr. It just shows that they know nothing about the stuff. If it doesn't look like a modern WinTel box, they don't seem to recognize it. -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

23 years, 1 month

fair price for apple articles

by cb＠mythtech.net

>> 2 Apple II GS, a IIc (claimed to be new in box), a Mac Plus, couple monitors, >> external floppy and hard drives and "scads of software and manuals". > >$100 is fair. WOW! I can't believe Sellam of all people over priced this bundle. $100 is very generous for what is listed. Unless there are some really unusual monitors or software/manuals, then I don't think the lot is worth more than about $20, and that is more as a "thanks for letting me have it" gesture. I have aquired everything mentioned above (catagorically, obviously I don't have specifics on the monitors, drives, software, manuals), from the curbside garbage in the last six months. There could be things that bump the value up a bit. Such as the IIc being truely brand new never opened (and not just clean and reboxed). If the IIgs are Rom 0 units (or Woz units), and if the monitors or hard drives are large (20" monitors, and 10+ gig drives). The software and manuals, unless it is current release stuff, exotic hard to find stuff, or things you care about owning real copies of (vs abondonware copies), then it is of little value. Bear in mind, even if there are parts that pump up the value, you need to overcome the $20 "thank you" price first, so you start at $0 and go up, not start at $20 and go up. -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

23 years, 1 month

Stratus and 220V

by kenziem＠sympatico.ca

My name is at the top of the list for a Stratus high availability server that is going out of service. Is there anyone here interested in these machines? This has dual G86010 cpu's, expansion cabinet. It was recently in use as a test switch for an ATM network. There is a second machine that will be available in a years time. Is it a simple task to switch a machine from 220 20a to run off household current 110 15a?

23 years, 1 month

Compaq Portable & Portable III Free to a Good Home

by bill＠timeguy.com

I have an orginal Compaq luggable (green screen) and a Portable III (orange/amber plasma screen) that are under foot. If you can pick them up in Nebraska, they're yours. If you want me to ship them, I'll let Mailboxes Etc. do the packing and shipping, so it won't be cheap. Both work fine and are in excellent condition. The III is like new; I replaced the old plasma screen (which was badly burned in and faded) just before I quit using it. It also has a removable "backpack" on it with two ISA card slots for network cards or whatever. First come, first served.

23 years, 1 month

PDP-11/34 PSU Yet Again

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Mar 6, 0:50, Jeffrey Sharp wrote: > My testing shows that I have the correct voltages on all the right pins, > including -15V. However, the LED on the H745 (-15V) does not light. What > does this mean? It probably means you have one of the ones with an incandescant bulb, not an LED, and the bulb has burnt out. That's a common problem, and easy to fix by replacing the bulb with an LED and dropper resistor. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

23 years, 1 month

List Management & Reception... (Possible OT)

by Edward.Tillman＠valero.com

Hello? Can someone please help me with my reception of this list? I'm registered both at work and at home, but I don't seem to be getting the same traffic at both locations (time and subject differences accounted for). At work, I get several list entries from/for all diferent sorts of addresses. At home, I see only one. Any assiatance appreciated. Note: It this it too far OT, please respond off-list to both edward.tillman(a)valero.com <mailto:edward.tillman@valero.com> and ETILLMAN(a)satx.rr.com <mailto:ETILLMAN@satx.rr.com> . Thanks for your time. Cheers... Ed Tillman Store Automation Tech Support Specialist Valero Energy Corporation San Antonio, Texas, USA Office: (210)592-3110, Fax (210)592-2048 Email: edward.tillman(a)valero.com <mailto:edward.tillman@valero.com> [demime 1.01a removed an attachment of type image/bmp which had a name of Valero5.bmp]

23 years, 1 month

HP 7850B plotter

by avickers＠solutionengineers.com

I know of someone who is looking to dispose of a HP7850B plotter, stands about 4ft tall, prints on A0 paper. Located, I think, in Norfolk. If anyone is interested, let me know ASAP, and I'll get the chap to grab hold of it. -- Cheers, Ade. Be where it's at, B-Racing! http://b-racing.com

23 years, 1 month

VAXstation 4000/60 /90 question

by healyzh＠aracnet.com

I've managed to find the pieces (or at least the most important, which is one of my two RD54's) to do some performance testing on Doc's recent idea of using a network disk instead of a local disk to get better performance than a RQDX3/RD54 combo offers. As a result I'm trying to get either a VAXstation 4000/60 or /90 setup so that I can use it as the host. In doing this I ran into a slight problem with VAX/VMS V5.5-2, it doesn't like my 3rd party SCSI disks that I've got in the /90. Not a big problem as I've got some brand new (!) RZ25's that I can put into one of the systems, and I want to put a RRD42 into one of them as well. Stupid question, how to I go about getting the cover off of the 5 1/4" bay, and am I supposed to have another piece of plastic to go there? If it requires another piece of plastic (that I don't have), I'll just hook the drive up internally long enough to do the install. Now to decide which system gets a V5.5-2 install, I'll probably go with the /90 as it's my fastest VAX, and will therefore be the best for building software on. Zane -- | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator | | healyzh(a)aracnet.com (primary) | OpenVMS Enthusiast | | | 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/ |

23 years, 1 month

Amiga Term Softs needed

by Edward.Tillman＠valero.com

Hmm... Aren't semantics fun? Ed Tillman Store Automation Tech Support Specialist Valero Energy Corporation San Antonio, Texas, USA Office: (210)592-3110, Fax (210)592-2048 Email: edward.tillman(a)valero.com <mailto:edward.tillman@valero.com> -----Original Message----- From: Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) [mailto:cisin@xenosoft.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 10:57 PM To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org Subject: Re: Amiga Term Softs needed > >> Hmm... What's a P$Uer? And what are "softs"? Is "Term" and adjective?

23 years, 1 month

Amiga Term Softs needed

by Edward.Tillman＠valero.com

Hmm... What's a P$Uer? Ed Tillman Store Automation Tech Support Specialist Valero Energy Corporation San Antonio, Texas, USA Office: (210)592-3110, Fax (210)592-2048 Email: edward.tillman(a)valero.com <mailto:edward.tillman@valero.com> -----Original Message----- From: Jeff Brendle [mailto:brendle@ems.psu.edu] Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 1:57 PM To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org Subject: Re: Amiga Term Softs needed Marlin: Since you are a P$Uer, I think there used to be an Amiga user group on campus, you might want to check to see if that still exists as a mailing list or some such thing here, who knows, there might still be people that putz around with the old beasties? Will try to recall who it was of my old coworkers at CAC who was the Amiga guy... thinking that it was Doug Bischoff, and if I remember correctly he is still e-reachable at his role-playing site, xanodria (sp?), will have to think more on this & get back to you. -j On Tuesday, March 4, 2003, at 01:11 PM, Marlin Bates, IV wrote: > Hello, > > I am currently resurrecting an Amiga 2000, but I have neither an > Ethernet card or Terminal software. There are tons of programs on the > net, but getting them from the net to the Amiga is proving difficult. > If anyone can help me in this chicken/egg scenario, I would REALLY > appreciate it. > > Thanks > > -Marlin > Jeff Brendle Office: 248A Deike Bldg./(814)865-3257/fax 863-7708 Desktop Support Spv. Home: #210 Parkgate 349 Toftrees Ave. Penn State - Coll. of E&MS State College, PA / (814)861-8180 Mailto:bli@psu.edu AOL/MSN/Yahoo! IM - JSBrendle

23 years, 1 month

MINC-11 for sale on eBay

by stuart＠stuartsjohnsonfamily.net

There is another MINC-11 on eBay for those prepared with some $$$ in their pockets. The opening price is $19.99 and the auction will run for 9 days (until March 15th at 10:02 PM Pacific time). Here is the title: "DEC PDP MINC-11 System (RARE)" and the link: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=1247&item=3404934502… d=1 This one appears to be pretty complete; it has the dual floppies and a monitor with it. Enjoy, Stuart Johnson

23 years, 1 month

Looking for data on the MAN2815 display and Nat'l Semi DS8867

by mhstein＠canada.com

-------------------------Original Message----------------------------- Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 07:29:01 -0800 (PST) From: Ethan Dicks <erd_6502(a)yahoo.com> Subject: Looking for data on the MAN2815 display and Nat'l Semi DS8867 <snippage> ...I'm trying to assist in the reverse engineering and can *not* find any data on the LED display itself, a MAN2815, nor one of the chips that seems to be driving it, a National DS8867. I have googled for an hour looking for them. No results. Anybody heard of these parts? -ethan ------------------------------------------------------------------ Can't help ya with the display, but I do have specs on the DS8867: 8-segment constant current LED driver for 3 and 4 cell battery systems, designed to be driven from MOS circuit(s). Pins 1-8: Input 1-8, 10V max Pins 17-10: Output 1-8, 14ma typical Vcc:18, 6V max GND:9 Sorry, don't see a segment map in the databook; assume 1=a etc. Anything else ya need to know? mike

23 years, 1 month

osborne 1

by grrepa＠hotmail.com

Hi there, I have an old osborne 1 with a fan, software, and several issues of fog. I wondering where I can sell or donate this computer. It looks like new & I believe it still works. thanks grrepa(a)hotmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE*

23 years, 1 month

DOS compatible mode for HP 9127?

by rigdonj＠cfl.rr.com

The HP 9127 is a HP-IB 5 1/4" floppy drive and normally it reads and writes a LIF format but there's supposed to be a way to have it read and write disks in a MS-DOS compatible mode. Does anyone know how to do it? I've been playing with different formatting options but so far I haven't found the right one. Joe

23 years, 1 month

HP 59501 docs?

by rigdonj＠cfl.rr.com

Does anyone have docs or at least some instructions for the HP 59501 HP-IB isolated D-A/Power Supply Programmer? Joe

23 years, 1 month

DaynaFile

by ericj＠speakeasy.org

Has anyone managed to find drivers for the DaynaFile? I have a couple I'd like to experiment with. One non-functional, unfortunately, but I pulled the rom on it to image it and attempt a disassembly. I have another that appears to work, or at least responds to a scsi inquiry. I plan to hook it up to a logic analyzer to get a memory map of the board. The logic boards on the two I have are simple, with common parts in clip-friendly 40-pin dip packages: scsi: DP5380 floppy: WD2793 micro: 8031 Documentation is available for all of these, so a person could potentially write new firmware. Probably much easier than disassembling the rom. I remember using a DaynaFile on a NeXT cube with an old (ca.1990?) version of Nextstep, so there are potentially Nextstep drivers out there as well. Regards, -- Eric Josephson

23 years, 1 month

resurrecting a PDP-11/10

by Andreas.Freiherr＠Vishay.com

Barry, didn't you ask (under the pseudonym of Fred Feuerstein) for a description of the switches on a DS120 Terminal Controller? I managed to find a user manual from the stone age, stating that the "Logic Card" is part number 512000-2. Not quite the 5120000-1 that you mention in your posting, but possibly close enough to provide hints for what functions might be there. YMMV... This is what the manual says about the DIP switches: SWITCH FUNCTION 1 Carriage motor disable (test only) * 2 Reverse channel override * 3 FDX/HDX override * 4 Local Auto-LF override ** 5 Parity odd (ON) parity even (ON) ** 6 Parity enable (ON) parity disable (OFF) 7 AUTO-LF from line (ON) disable (OFF) ** 8 X-on, X-off handshaking enable (ON) disable (OFF) * On DECwriter models with the 8-key control pad, these switches are duplicated on the keyboard. Those models with the 3 rocker-switch panel must control these features with the DIP-switches. ** See Appendix B, "Additional User Information", for a functional description of these switches. End of cite. Appendix B talks a lot about half-duplex modes, which I presume will not be used with your PDP-11. Hence, you will want to have switches 2 & 3 in the OFF position. The description of switch 5 obviously contains an error. For even parity, the switch needs to be in the OFF position (says appendix B). Another noteworthy cite: "If parity is disabled by DIPswitch #6 "OFF", then DIPswitch #5 provides 8th bit spacing when "ON" and 8th bit marking when "OFF"." In other words, you actually cannot select "no parity", but you can set "mark" or "space" parity. You report having trouble with the 20mA interface. Maybe you need to switch from active to passive or vice versa? - Here's what the manual has about it: 3.1.3 20 MA CURRENT LOOP A 20mA current loop interface is provided featuring a photo isolated receiver and transmitter. The receiver and transmitter may be configured to operate in either passive or active mode. Unless otherwise specified at the time of purchase, the DS120 comes configured with a passive transmitter and receiver. Although specified at 20 mA, the signal line currents flowing in the receiver loop may be as high as 80 mA without harming the interface. Any current in excess of 15 mA will be interpreted as a mark, and any current under 3 mA is interpreted as a space. 1500 volts of isolation is provided by the photo isolater if passive is employed. The jumper configuration for the current loop interface is as follows: W1 W2 W3 W4 W5 W6 W7 W8 W13 W14 ------------------------------------------------------------------- PASSIVE Out In In In In Out Out Out Out Out ACTIVE In Out Out Out Out In In In In In The connections for this interface are as follows: PIN 2: Transmit - 3: Receive - 5: Transmit + 7: Receive + End of cite. Hope this helps. If you need more information, I can get whatever is printed in the manual for you. I do have a LA36, but it features the original DEC controller board, so I have no way of actually trying anything. -- Andreas Freiherr Vishay Semiconductor GmbH, Heilbronn, Germany http://www.vishay.com

23 years, 1 month

DEC VS2000 and SCSI, was Re: DEC RD54 from Maxtor

by classiccmp＠crash.com

John Allain writes: . > Somebody should say here that it's pretty strange to have a > workstation that has all SCSI connectors on the outside and > an MFM disk on the inside. I did a mental doubletake on this > ("hey, this makes no sence") a short while ago. Since I haven't seen any other responses, I'll dive in... This is all speculation - I'd love to have someone with a line into DEC Engineering answer this properly. To put it another way, I may be completely off my rocker - reader beware! ;^) The VAXstation/MicroVAX 2000 was released in 1985 (cf. R.D. Davis' uVAX FAQ), which means development and planning may have started as early as 1983 - I'm just guessing here. In the early 80s large (> 20MB) ST-506 hard drives were still hugely expensive beasts. If you did find a native SCSI device, I imagine the costs would be much higher for the extra interface logic on the drive. Without native SCSI on the device, you needed a translator like the Adaptec ACB-4000 (SCSI/ST-506) or Emulex MT-02 (SCSI/QIC-02). The base VS2000 was a pretty small box - perhaps even ground- breaking for this timeframe, given it could run full 32-bit uVMS or Ultrix and had internal storage, unlike the Sun-2/50. Having to develop and wedge in a unique converter board may have been riskier than adapting a version of a board you were already producing/ designing for the other uVAX models like the RQDX3. Going back to that comparison to the Sun-2/50 may answer the question of why SCSI was acceptable for the tape interface. Since the tape drive was going to be external, there's plenty of room for that extra logic board. And it's only a tape drive, so if we can't get decent throughput out of our first (?) SCSI interface, well, who's going to notice when the tape drive is as slow as the TK50? ;^) After a few years of Apple, Sun, and others driving SCSI into the marketplace the whole picture changed and by the time the first pizza box workstations come out everything is SCSI. Anyway, that's my best shot at an explanation. Again, I'd love to hear from someone who was inside DEC (Megan?)... --Steve.

23 years, 1 month

Looking for data on the MAN2815 display and Nat'l Semi DS8867

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Mar 5, 7:29, Ethan Dicks wrote: > I'm trying to assist in the reverse > engineering and can *not* find any data on the LED display itself, a > MAN2815, nor one of the chips that seems to be driving it, a National > DS8867. > Anybody heard of these parts? Yes :-) The MAN series used to be popular but I'm afraid I don't have any data. However, I do have a data sheet for the DS8867 -- it gets a page-and-a-bit in the 1980 Nat Semi Interface Data Book: DS8867 is an 18-pin DIP 8-segment constant-current driver, designed to be driven from MOS circuits operateing at 8V +/-10% minimum, and will supply 14mA typical current to an LED display. Output current is not sensitive to Vcc variations. Features: internal current control - no external resistors 100% efficient - no standby power operates in 3- and 4-cell battery systems inputs and outputs grouped for easy PC placement Absolute maximum ratings: Vcc 7V input voltage 10V output voltage 10V Operating conditions: Vcc min 3.3V max 6.0V ambient temperature min 0deg C max 70deg C logical '1' input typ 4.9V max 5.4V logical '0' input typ 0.1uA max 10uA logical '1' output min -8mA typ -14mA max -18mA logical '0' output typ -0.5uA max -10uA Pinout is straightforward, pins 1..8 are inputs 1..8, pin 9 is ground, pins 10..17 are outputs 8..1 (ie the outputs are almost opposite the inputs), pin 18 is Vcc. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

23 years, 1 month

fair price for apple articles

by d_cymbal＠hotmail.com

I'm not up on what is considered a good deal for old Apple hardware, but I have a guy offering me the following and I'm wondering what I should be considering. I haven't personally seen the stuff yet so I don't have all the specifics, but he says it is all in good condition, running, yadda yadda "you won't be disappointed." 2 Apple II GS, a IIc (claimed to be new in box), a Mac Plus, couple monitors, external floppy and hard drives and "scads of software and manuals". Sorry I can't be more precise at the moment, but maybe if I could get some ballpark figures.... Thanks, dc

23 years, 1 month

DEC RD54 from Maxtor

by mbg＠TheWorld.com

>> Yes, going to SCSI would be nice, but you can't put one in >> your VAXstation 2000... > >Unless you use Wolfgang Moeller's modified ROMs - then I believe >that SCSI will work. (IIRC the modified VS/UV2K ROMs also >incoroporate the >1GB fix ... but it's been a long time since >I looked). I know the disk would fit, and I know it can talk SCSI, but I didn't know whether the SCSI cabling for the disk would fit inside the VS2000 box... That's all I meant. Megan Gentry Former RT-11 Developer +--------------------------------+-------------------------------------+ | Megan Gentry, EMT/B, PP-ASEL | email: mbg at world.std.com | | | | | "this space | (s/ at /@/) | | unavoidably left blank" | URL: http://world.std.com/~mbg/ | | | "pdp-11 programmer - some assembler | | (DEC '77-'98) | required." - mbg KB1FCA | +--------------------------------+-------------------------------------+

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