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by Mark.Nias＠SurfControl.com

hi Folks... i have an IBM PowerStation 530 free to a good home in the UK (Cheshire) if anyone is interested in it. It appears to be non-working... it powers up, but the status indicator seems to show it's not booting properly. I dont have a monitor or keyboard to test it. I saved it from the skip about 18 months ago with the idea of resurecting it, but the lack of manuals & software make it pretty hard. http://homepage.ntlworld.com/mark.nias/images/power01.jpg http://homepage.ntlworld.com/mark.nias/images/power02.jpg http://homepage.ntlworld.com/mark.nias/images/power03.jpg http://homepage.ntlworld.com/mark.nias/images/power04.jpg http://homepage.ntlworld.com/mark.nias/images/power05.jpg http://homepage.ntlworld.com/mark.nias/images/power06.jpg if anyone is interested in it, drop me an email... if not it's heading for the bin! thanks mark Get the latest news on SurfControl and our products, subscribe to our monthly e-newsletter, SurfAdvisory at: http://surfcontrol.us-hosts.com/sc/subscribe ********************************************************************* The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you believe that you have received this email in error, please contact the sender. *********************************************************************

23 years, 2 months

VXT X terminal question

by msokolov＠ivan.Harhan.ORG

Fred N. van Kempen <Fred.van.Kempen(a)microwalt.nl> wrote: > > Someone on the PUPS / TUHS list has ported 4.3BSD-Tahoe and / or > > 4.3BSD-Reno to the VAX4000-7xx. AFAIK he had some porblems with > > interrupts at autoconfig time, but got it running. > Heh. This is not too hard, but *only* if he used the machine with > a KFQSA (DSSI-to-MSCP) controller, rather than the onboard SHAC. > > It'd be a start, though. Michael, was this you? Not me. My 4.3BSD suffix is Quasijarus, not Tahoe or Reno. But my opinion on SHAC is radically different from yours. SHAC is a darling beauty. It is a problem only for cheap OSes like NutBSD and Linsux. Since SHAC is a true CI host adapter with the true Generic VAX Port (GVP) it is perfectly supported by the SCA CI port driver present in every proper VAX OS with SCA such as Ultrix. Although DEC killed VAX Ultrix before MicroVAXen with SHAC came about, source examination shows that the Ultrix V4.20 CI port driver supports SHAC (on XMI). Some day I will lift the SCA code wholesale from Ultrix and plop it into 4.3BSD-Quasijarus. MS

23 years, 2 months

Sun 4/470 in Salinas, CA

by jplist＠kiwigeek.com

I was contacted by a chap who spotted on my page that I had a 4/470, and wanted to know did I want another one... Unfortunately there's no way in heck I can afford to ship one from California to Iowa, so I'm passing it onto you fine folks to take it off his hands... His wife says to get rid of it, he's already tried to donate it to a local college and even a surplus store, with no takers. He lives in Salinas, CA, which is near Monterey, but he commutes evenings to Santa Clara. He can be contacted here: "Dougherty, Paul" <Paul.Dougherty(a)idt.com> JP

23 years, 2 months

HP-IB Mass Storage Emulation (Help)

by jdnews＠ultrasw.com

Tony Duell beat me to this when he wrote: "There have been many devices which implemented the IEEE-488 bus (GPIB, HPIB) using a standard parallel interface chip like the 6821 or 6522 together with buffers." My Osborne 1 (Z80, 64K, CP/M, 5 1/4 floppies, tan case, '82) labeled their parallel port "IEEE-488" (aka HP-IB) and wrote low level routines for the eight basic HP-IB commands into the bios. They used a 6821 PIA to drive the port, an interesting mixing of chip families. My computer whiz high school son and I built some software around their stuff and I used the Osborne (personal) at work (DOD R&D) for several years to talk to, among other stuff, Nicolet digital scopes. I don't remember much about the details and don't know whether I can find anything useful, or readable, on the software, but the bios routines should be available in the Osborne tech literature. I still have the Oborne, but haven't tried to run it for several years, will have to see if it still lights. My next laptop was a Toshiba T1200 (80C86, 1MB, 3.5 floppies only, MSDOS, '89) which had a bidirectional parallel port implemented in a custom gate array with eight additional control signals. I remember that we tried to do a klunge to run '488 on that but can't for the life of me remember whether we were ever successful. I'll have to dig around some more in the old stuff and see what I can find. Good luck on the project Vassilis. Dave Dykstra, Tucson Vassilis Prevelakis wrote: >I have been working for some time on a pet project to make a mass >storage emulator for HP-IB systems. and: >So I looked hard at the HP-IB bus itself (using the schematics from the >Series 80 adaptor) and it looks like a simple parallel bus. So why use >a custom card, if the PC parallel port can be adapted to drive an HP-IB >bus. etc

23 years, 2 months

DEC Monitor

by survey-admin＠justASKthem.com

Frank - I found an old post at http://www.classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctech/2002-July/000309.html You list a VR201-C PRO monitor. My neighbor (& landlord) runs a tractor repair business. He's an old farmer who doesn't like to change much, and has been using the same DEC inventory system since 1986. For 16 years, he's maintained a service contract, but now that DEC was bought by Compaq, and Compaq has merged with HP, he's facing an $800 annual bill for a service contract which has only been used to replace burnt out monitors and printers (2 of each in 16 years) The monitor includes a 15-pin connector, which I'll gues is db-15, and an RJ-11 keyboard jack. Does your monitor include these connectors? Would it work on a DEC Unix system? If so, do you still have it and how much would it be to ship it to NJ - 08825? Thanks Alan Runfeldt survey-admin(a)justASKthem.com

23 years, 2 months

OT: The best way to stop this dribble...

by mranalog＠attbi.com

I heard tons of opinions being spewed, not a fact in the bunch....followed by genuine shock that not everyone has the same opinions. My opinion is that the best way to stop this dribble is to put the whole cctalk list on digest. That would make it much harder to carry on an argument. --Doug P.S. When I'm tempted to reply to one of these tirades, I think about it after I finish the message. Thats why my drafts folder is so full. ========================================= Doug Coward @ home in Poulsbo, WA Analog Computer Online Museum and History Center http://dcoward.best.vwh.net/analog =========================================

23 years, 2 months

digital finds

by jrkeys＠concentric.net

Picked up six VT420 models today 1-C2; 1-A4; 3-A2's. None tested yet? On Tuesday I got four VT510's none are tested yet. Also got a TRS-80 Color Computer MiniDisk and Controller.

23 years, 2 months

Gateway 2000 Handbook 486 question

by Edward.Tillman＠valero.com

If your 486 is a DX, if you have 64Mb RAM, and if you had 20Mb of disk space to spare (minimum requirements for W98, excepting W98SE), you can load W98 in its "lite" or laptop version from bootable disks. W95's another matter though -- You'd need a copy of DOS 5.0 or better up and running to load it. Either way, you'll also need to remember your formatting and partitioning: 98/85 run on FAT16, and are limited to 2GB partitions (98SE allows FAT32, and can hand 4TB partitions). Is/are your drive(s) compatible? Cheers! Ed San Antonio, TX USA > -----Original Message----- > From: cctalk-admin@classiccmp.org@PEUSA On Behalf Of "Douglas > Wood" <dbwood(a)kc.rr.com> > Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 12:12 PM > To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org > Subject: Gateway 2000 Handbook 486 question > > I have a Gateway 2000 Handbook 486. Does any one know if Windows 95/98 > will > load on it? > > TIA. > > Douglas Wood > Software Engineer > dbwood(a)kc.rr.com > ICQ#: 143841506 > > Home of the EPICIS Development System for the PIC > http://epicis.piclist.com [demime 1.01a removed an attachment of type application/ms-tnef]

23 years, 2 months

cctalk digest, Vol 1 #464 - 51 msgs

by alhartman＠yahoo.com

Sellam Babbled: > > So, let's get back to discussing Classic Computers... > > We'd better, since some of us seem too naive to > seriously discuss politics. I wouldn't call you naive, simply misinformed and combative... You'll come around once you go out into the real world and get the data. This is the best country in the world to live in. Not perfect. Can't say we don't make mistakes, or haven't in the past... We are only human, after all... But, I think we are doing the Human thing, and the Nation thing better than any other country out there. The fact that you like to promulgate left wing lies and self abusive statements doesn't change the facts, or reality. You'd do better to keep your fantasys (disguised as politics) off this list. But, there are several lists devoted to Horror and Fairy Tales that might find your posts in this vein humorous. I know they gave me a HUGE laugh... Why do even live in America if you think it's so evil? Try living in Iraq, Iran, or ANY Muslim country and check back with me... OK? Al

23 years, 2 months

RL02 docs in PDF (re:11/44)

by GOOI＠oce.nl

As I am the "scanner" of all the docs at mainecoon, I have the original CD's (and in the mean time some 3 more...) I could investigate the conversion to PDF, but it is quicker if Jay tells me what he did. I might (if sufficient interest from CC) create some webpages that helps to get to the PDF-part that contains the info you need. Saves on downloading other parts that are less interesting. Better filesnames (no spaces, e.g.) would also make life easier. Ed will have a real fast Internet connection soon, and he has many Gb's room. We meet several times a year, and Ed already suggested to host all the data. So ... - Henk. > -----Original Message----- > From: Jay West [mailto:jwest@kwcorp.com] > Sent: maandag 17 februari 2003 21:06 > To: cctech(a)classiccmp.org > Subject: RL02 docs in PDF (re:11/44) > > > I noticed the docs on maincoon for the RL02 were all in tiff > format. I got > them all converted to pdf in case someone needs them in that > format and > doesn't have the tiff to pdf conversion utilities. If more > than a few people > ask I'll put them up on classiccmp.org. > > Jay West

23 years, 2 months

6871B

by aw288＠osfn.org

More chip dredging revealed an MC6871B - a sort of oddball 1 MHz clock driver/oscillator for the 6800. Interesting metal and ceramic package. Anyone interested in this for postage? $2.00 in the U.S.? William Donzelli aw288(a)osfn.org

23 years, 2 months

TI-99/A

by kittstr＠access-4-free.com

Hi, First off I want to thank all who contributed on using VHS tapes as storage, I really appreciate your input. Now my problem is with my TI-99\A home computer. I have noticed that the keyboard is dying. I have been having to hit the keys harder and harder and now some don't work at all. I took it apart and the keyboard seems to be one unit (not disassemble-able). The keycaps don't seem to want to come off either. I was hoping to take the keys apart and clean the contacts but I don't want to break them, if they aren't so posed to come off. Does anyone have any experience cleaning these keyboards? If they are a "toss and replace" component, does anyone know where I could get one? Thanks for any help you can provide. Andrew Strouse ( kittstr(a)access-4-free.com )

23 years, 2 months

Floppy drive for Zenith 100

by rigdonj＠cfl.rr.com

At 09:57 AM 2/19/03 -0500, you wrote: >Hello, > > Do you know if it is possible to install a 1.44MB floppy drive in a Zenith >100? > > Thank you. > > Ken. > Yes I know. Joe

23 years, 2 months

Tranfer of Files From RSX-11------II

by Fred.van.Kempen＠microwalt.nl

ALl, Andreas writes: > > I'm not sure if the MSDOS version of kermit (which is free) > will work under NT, but it might be worth a try. The win95 version is > the commercial version (which costs money). > > OK, so if the Win95 version is also commercial, then the DOS variant > remains. And I believe, if MSKERMIT will not run on the WinNT PC > (which I am afraid will be true), at least DOS will hopefully run on > the PC to support MSKERMIT. Then, you need a disk partition formatted > as FAT (not NTFS), and you can move the files in through MSKERMIT and > out (after rebooting into NT) with "Windoze Exploder". Hmm. I still use my (Classic ;-) MSKERMIT V3.0 on my PC's, when I need to, and this always worked fine under NT (4.0), and it works fine, too, under W2K Pro. Version info is: ------------------------------------------ MS-Kermit>vers IBM-PC MS-Kermit: 3.00 16 Jan 1990 MS-Kermit>quit ------------------------------------------ If anyone wants it, contact me offlist and I'll email it.. its small. Fred

23 years, 2 months

Fwd: Person seeking PDP-11 SCSI

by jss＠subatomix.com

Reply to the original author, please. ---------- Begin forwarded message ---------- From: timyen(a)semtronix.com Date: Wednesday, February 19, 2003, 11:12:06 AM Subject: PDP11 components I am in need of components for PDP11 mini. Among these are: a 1 Gb or more SCSI hard drive and the associated controller board. Hope you can help. Tim ---------- End forwarded message ---------- -- Jeffrey Sharp

23 years, 2 months

Floppy drive for Zenith 100

by kenneth.hurd＠navy.mil

Hello, Do you know if it is possible to install a 1.44MB floppy drive in a Zenith 100? Thank you. Ken.

23 years, 2 months

Wonder if there's any DEC stuff there...

by rdd＠rddavis.org

Not sure how I got the following e-mail (spam?), but in case anyone's interested, perhaps there are some useful bits to be found. I wonder if they're auctioning off any DEC inventory from Compaq... didn't have a chance to look through all of the inventory. It looks like minimum bids are $200. Lots of Sun equipment. In case anyone's interested, here's the info: IT EXCHANGE #22 AUCTION http://www.dovebid.com/Auctions/AuctionDetail.asp?auctionID=1689&referralta… DoveBid, Inc. is conducting the 22nd in a series of Major IT Equipment Exchanges with a wide range of high-tech equipment. Auction will include surplus assets to ongoing operations from Compaq, now part of the new Hewlett-Packard, Teledesic and New Focus. Auction also includes fixed assets of Napster, Inc., NextCard and others. This auction features assets by Apple Computers, Compaq, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Foundry, IBM, and much more! Place your bids from the comfort of your computer with DoveBid's Webcast technology! -- Copyright (C) 2002 R. D. Davis The difference between humans & other animals: All Rights Reserved an unnatural belief that we're above Nature & rdd(a)rddavis.org 410-744-4900 her other creatures, using dogma to justify such http://www.rddavis.org beliefs and to justify much human cruelty.

23 years, 2 months

Oops! Computer Systems Inc memory card?

by rigdonj＠cfl.rr.com

Oops! It might help if I added a Subject! > >Hi, > > Still sorting! Also found a Computer Systems Inc EXPANDABLE+ 64k S-100 memory card. I think it came out of the same system as the Computime cards. Does anyone have docs for this one? > > Joe

23 years, 2 months

(no subject)

by rigdonj＠cfl.rr.com

Hi, Still sorting! Also found a Computer Systems Inc EXPANDABLE+ 64k S-100 memory card. I think it came out of the same system as the Computime cards. Does anyone have docs for this one? Joe

23 years, 2 months

Computime S-100 card docs?

by rigdonj＠cfl.rr.com

Hi, I've been sorting through some stuff and I came across a couple of Computime S-100 cards. One is SB880 CPU card with a Z-80 CPU and the other is a Computime UFDC-1 card (floppy drive controller with a 1795 FDC IC). Does anyone have docs for either of these? Joe

23 years, 2 months

Tandy 1000

by vcf＠siconic.com

Tandy 1000 up for grabs. See below. Reply to original sender. Reply-to: trcatering(a)bmts.com ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 09:37:17 -0500 From: Tim Rodger <trcatering(a)bmts.com> Subject: Tandy 1000 Good morning. I have a Tandy 1000 from Radio Shack. It does not have any dos. The dos has to be loaded in before the system will work. There is no printer as well. Would you be interested in this computer? Best Regards, Timothy J. Rodger. C/O Tim Rodger Catering P.O. Box 562 Stn. Main Owen Sound, Ontario N4K 5R1 519-373-7270 trcatering(a)bmts.com -- 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, 2 months

Transfer of Files From RSX-11 (fwd)

by fm.arnold＠gmx.net

cctech-request(a)classiccmp.org schrieb am 19.02.2003: >Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 13:54:07 -0500 (EST) >From: John Lawson <jpl15(a)panix.com> >Subject: Re: Transfer of Files From RSX-11 (fwd) > <snip> >The meta question is: what's he gonna do with the system once the data >is mined?? > >John > Well, knowing the degree of burocratism especialley in indian customs, I doubt very much if it will ever pass the border of this country again.... >> Yes it is a complete system. > > Ah... this makes the process *much* easier! A bit of info now would >be: what is the model of your DEC system? (ie PDP 11/23, VAX 11/750, >PRO350... etc) given the information that he has 8" diskettes, it will not be a PRO350. > >> I have checked Kermit but I could not find this S/W >> there. Might be my process was wrong. > > Hmmm... a lot of RSX systems had Kermit as part of the Distribution >Kit.. you can try: > > MCR> DIR kerm*.*,* > If he uses MCR on RSX, then shouldn't the command should be like: > >MCR MCR>[1,54]pip [*,*]kerm*.*,* /li MCR> ofcourse, if a catchall is active, it would pass the dir command eventually to DCL as well, but I don't think this will happen if you enter the comand to the explicit MCR> prompt (You are then talking to your own copy of MCR, just for you. And the catchall is not installed by default as far as I remember...) Frank

23 years, 2 months

Please remove my address from your mailing list

by neuro＠well.com

Thomas Dzubin wrote: > [snip] > > I subscribe to the cctech list, but I end up deleting most of the > email without even reading it. The only reason that I subscribe is > so I can send email to the list. > For the most part, I ignore the emails and read the list via web/http > at http://www.classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctech/ > > I wish there was a better way... > (I'd like to be listed as a subscriber, get no emails, but still be > allowed to send email to the cctech(a)classiccmp.org address) in that case, go to the URL you referenced, and change your subscription options so that you are set to 'nomail' - this will mean you do not receive emails from the list, but as a list member you are still entitled to post to it. -- _ __/| ___ ___ __ _________ "When Microsoft Office is your only hammer, \`O_o' / _ \/ -_) // / __/ _ \ pretty much everything begins to look like =(_ _)=/_//_/\__/\_,_/_/ \___/ a nail. Or a thumb." -- Rob Pegoraro U - Ack! Phttpt! Thhbbt! neuro at well dot com http://neuro.me.uk/

23 years, 2 months

Going OT Re: (no subject)

by Edward.Tillman＠valero.com

> If we lock down our country and hold everyone suspect, did not The > Terrorists win? How little we really change... Between these mythical "terrorists," and our own present regime in D.C., we're doing to ourselves exactly what Soviet Communism had in mind for us at the height of the "cold war." Our citizenry is becoming isolated from the rest of the world, and is also being fairly neutralized in the scheme of both national and international events... Cheers... Ed San Antonio, Tx, USA [demime 1.01a removed an attachment of type application/ms-tnef]

23 years, 2 months

OT: OT: OT: Re: Gateway 2000 Handbook 486 question

by Edward.Tillman＠valero.com

> On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, TeoZ wrote: > > > > There is a big difference between getting an OS to load and doing > anything > > usefull on the system you managed to barely load it on. > > Therefore, Windoze should NEVER be run on anything less than a 12GHz > Pentium-9 with 4G RAM. > For the most part this is true. However, I did manage to get W2Kpro to run on a pair of SCSI based mini towers with P75s, 64Mb RAM, and 2.3Gb single hard drives. Had 'em running as DHCP clients with ICS through an AMD Duron 450 server, also running W2Kpro. It was a trip, but they worked... :) Cheers! Ed San Antonio, Tx, USA [demime 1.01a removed an attachment of type application/ms-tnef]

23 years, 2 months

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