Hi Lawrence,
I see you got that PDP8/e chassis on eBay that I posted to the list. As you
now well know it wasn't me selling it, and while it wasn't anything I was
interested in, I thought one of you DEC collectors might be.
Bennett
Went shopping today and found one of these. Is anyone familar with them? I guess it does the same thing as a HP Logic Clip but it's bigger. It has a clip the attaches to a 16 pin IC then about a 18" cable. On the other end of the cable is a box that measures about 4 1/2" x 3" x 1/2" with a large window on one side. Inside the window is a black panel with two rows of holes with a LED under each hole. The odd thing is that one row has eight holes and LEDs and the other has nine! I've been playing with it and haven't seen the 9th LED light up yet so I'm not sure what it's for. There also a slot at the end of the box, It looks like it's intended for the user to make a THIN paper label and insert it under the window and between the rows of LED holes. I opened it up and it's made of individual components (including lots of diodes!) except for three 7404 ICs. The ICs used in this one are all dated 1972. The whole thing is grey except for the window and it says that it was made in West Germany. Anybody know exactly what the extra LED is for?
Joe
The following lot is available for the cost of postage (or pickup in
Orlando, FL). You must take them all. All on topic since they are over
ten years old. Please contact me offlist if you're interested.
CICS Handbook (Kageyama)
Programmer's Survival Guide (Ruhl)
1-2-3 Macro Library, 3rd Edition (Ewing)
Paul Mace Guide to Data Recovery (Mace)
Practical Image Processing in C (with diskette) (Lindley)
Novell Netware Power Tools (with diskette) (Edelhart)
Practical Guide to Database Design (Hogan)
MVS Performance Management (Samson)
Hard Disk Power (with diskette) (Jamsa)
CICS for the COBOL Programmer Part 1 (Lowe)
CICS for the COBOL Programmer Part 2 (Lowe)
All in great shape. If no takers by Friday 9-13-2002 these will become
dumpster food as per the Bullshit Reduction Act of 2002.
Later --
Glen
0/0
If I am not for myself, then who will be for me?
And if not now, when?
-- Pirkei Avot
A "small" list of what I have here, I would like to swap/sell it so I can
get new thingies for my own collection, but if someone really wants it
badly enough I might give it away.
The list :
DecNet MicroVMS V4.6
Decnet-11m+ V4.0 Deckit 16mt9
Decnet-11m+ V4.0 Netkit 16mt9
Decnet-VAX F/Func RX50
DECprint Printing Services V4.0 UPD DOC
DECprint Printing Services V4.0 UPD MT
DECprint V4.1 16mt9
Decserver 1.2 bin TK50
Decserver 1.3 bin 16mt9
HSC Software V3.9A DOC UPD
Lifespan int rtl2 VAX V2.2
MicroVMS V1.0
Pathworks VMS V4.0 TK50
RSX11M V4.2 update E MT:1600
RSX11m V4.4 BIN MT:1600
RSX11m V4.4 BRU64K MT:1600
RSX-11m-PLUS V4.2 BIN 16mt9
TU58#15 VAX TE16/TU45/77 DIAG
TU58#20 VAX SYS EXR/BUSINT
TU58#33 VAX BUS DIAGNOSTICS
TU58#43 VAX BUS TEST DIAG
TU58#5 VAX750 CACHEB/MEM/EXR
TU58#52 VAX TU80 DIAGNOSTIC
TU58#7 VAX 11 HARDCORE INSTR
TU58#8 VAX 11 INSTR
TU58#9 CR/DISK USER MODE
VAX ADA V1.5 bin TK50
VAX ADA/UVMS V1.3 bin TK50
VAX BASIC V3.4 UPD TK50
VAX CDD PLUS V4.1 BIN 16mt9
VAX CDD PLUS V4.1A TUPD 16mt9
VAX CDD PLUS V4.2 16mt9
VAX CDD PLUS V4.2A UPD 16mt9
VAX CDD PLUS V4.3 UPD 16mt9
VAX Fortran V4.5-V4.8
VAX PCA V2.2 UPD 16mt9
VAX RDB/VMS V3.0B 16mt9
VAX RDB/VMS V3.1A 16mt9
VAX RDB/VMS V3.1B 16mt9
VAX/VMS V4.4 BIN 16mt9
VMS/WS SFTWR V4.1 UPD TK50
VMS/WS SFTWR V4.2 UPD DOC
VMS/WS SFTWR V4.3 UPD TK50
VMS/WS SFTWR V4.4 UPD TK50
All located in the Netherlands btw but sendable all over the world.
yours,
Stefan.
re: google search not finding anything..
"xerox 820" returns http://www.spies.com/~aek/pdf/xerox/820/
as the first entry, which contains all of my scanned
documentation.
Unfortunately, spies is down right now. Hopefully it
will be back up soon.
I worked with one of the main programmers when we were both
in Apple ATG. It is a box full of ATT 32C DSPs.
It's worth saving. They were very neat devices at the time.
The Computer Museum will probably be interested, since I
don't think they have one.
I aquired an Apple 2 HPIB card from ebay,
without documentation.
Does anyone know where to find or have a copy of the
Apple ][ IEEE-488 Interface Users Guide?
You can find a picture of the cover here
http://member.nifty.ne.jp/apple2tree/manual/manual6.htm
Keven Miller
kevenm(a)reeltapetransfer.com
I'm going to be spending a few days in Minneapolis and then road-tripping
down to Chicago for a few more. Anything in particular I don't want to
miss in terms of classic computer surplus, museums, robots, etc?
Recommendations welcomed and appreciated.
> There is a very old patent, 1982, that Compaq owns that they claim covers
Exactly how long do patents last these days? Did it not used to be 17 years
(max - assuming the renewal fees were paid)? If so, has it not expired?
The IBM patent server should be able to track it down (given a few more details)
and (IIRC) it will tell you if it is still in force.
Antonio
http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/
Listed here without further comment :-)
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I've finally found the time to get my Amiga 3000 back up and running. It's
a pretty nice machine, though it has an early rev 6.1 Motherboard, I'd
upgraded it to 3.1 ROMs, and have it running with the latest rev's of all
the chips. I'd also gotten an Ami-Fast board to add 4 4Mb 72-pin SIMMs,
instead of using ZIPs, a Hydra 10Base2 Ethernet board, and a Picasso IV
video card. It currently has a 2GB HD, and an external 4x CD-ROM.
My first new upgrade has been a brand new copy of Amiga OS 3.9 (well worth
the $40+S&H). There is one slight problem, WinUAE is considerably faster.
As the first paragraph shows, the one thing my system is missing is an
Accelerator card. Does anyone happen to have either an Accelerator, or an
Amiga 4000 that they'd let go cheap or for trade?
Zane
If anyone has the below part, and want's to cough it up to help the
US military, let me know. Know this though, it's not my problem,
and I'm not too concerned about it. If you have it, you won't be helping
me, you will be helping your own military. I read that some of you
hate the government, etc., but some of you are also ex-military and
might be willing to assist them. I'm not going to release enough
information that would make it possible for you to contact them direct,
so it will go through me, or it won't go at all. If you're one of the ones
that generally spouts about dealer prices and prices on eBay being
too high, and feel that you should never pay anyone else very much
for anything, you better have a low price yourself, or we're not going
to be willing to have any involvement with you. After all, who of you
would want to have anything to do with people that say one thing and
do another. In Europe OK, shipping costs are not a problem. EOL
OSCILLATOR,NONCRYSTAL CONTROLLED
OTC-1CM-054-59-20P-A
last known company to build it.
Company Name and Address:
L-3 COMMUNICATIONS CORP - NARDA MICROWAVE DIV
107 WOODMERE RD
FOLSOM CA 95630
Phone: 916-351-4500
FAX: 916-351-4591
Bennett
At 03:19 AM 9/27/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>If anyone has the below part, and want's to cough it up to help the
>US military, let me know. Know this though, it's not my problem,
>and I'm not too concerned about it.
Why aren't you concerned about it? Our military needs something and
you're not concerned about it? What are you, some kind of commie pinko
or somethin'? I'm shocked, shocked!
>... I'm not going to release enough information that would make it possible
>for you to contact them direct, so it will go through me, or it won't go at
>all.
Whoa -- now it sounds like you want to act as a choke point on these
vitally-needed parts as well. I'm starting to get worried here, chief.
>... If you're one of the ones that generally spouts about dealer prices and
>prices on eBay beingtoo high, and feel that you should never pay anyone
>else very much for anything, you better have a low price yourself, or we're
>not going to be willing to have any involvement with you.
Just hold on one darned minute! You don't care if the military
gets the parts they need, you insert yourself as gatekeeper to ensure
they only get what you want them to get, now you want a low cost so
you can add some outrageous uplift and gouge the armed forces as well?
For shame!
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Well, after wading thru miles of corporate red tape, and jumping several
Dilbertian hurdles, we managed to rescue two 11/44s and two 11/23s from a
Big Company in San Diego.
Marvin Johnston drove from Santa Barbara (and back!) to get the
machines, which are all in one 7' DEC rack. There is also an RL02, 1 (or
2?) SCSI drives attached to one of the /44s, about 20 RL02 packs, and a
Blue Wall. It appears the machines are running RSX.
I'll know more about them next week when I get them back up here to
Quincy in the northern Sierras.
Thanks go to Sellam who first alerted me to the deal *last year*, and of
course to Marvin who drove over 400 miles on very short notice...
More legacy machinery saved from the dumpster... if things work out I
am strongly considering exhibiting at least one of the /44s at VCF 5 -
along with a PR1ME 750 if we can get it's swap disk crankiness sorted out.
Cheers
John
Hi Bob,
Your work prompted me to spend some time on an assembler for the Imlac
and after a couple of nights of work on a brand new program, I can correctly
assemble the simple display program.
I will get you a copy once I clean up a couple of things. What kind of machine
would you like to run it on?
--tom
Hi John
Not all switcher are of the same high quality
as the ones you are testing. I've seen enough of them
that will turn the transistor on solid if the
the voltage is too low, in an attempt to bring the
output voltage up. This was more common in older
switchers than newer ones. Most are designed to
shut down, as John noted, now days. It wasn't
always that way.
Even so, there is little useful results of using
a variac on these new ones. The only capacitor that
you are bringing up slowly is the primary side filter.
The DC outputs will snap to level when the input
protection allows it.
Dwight
>From: "J.C. Wren" <jcwren(a)jcwren.com>
> "( note: don't use a variac on a switcher supply! )"
>
> Why not? We do it all the time, for checking what the low and high
voltage
>cut-off point of a switcher is. We also vary the frequency all over the
>place. I don't know switchers in general, but ours suddenly start
switching
>as the voltage hits 90V on the up-test, and about the same on the
down-test.
>
> It may not be *useful* do to so for testing the device, but it won't
cause
>any damage in any of the number of supplies we've tested.
>
> --John
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: cctalk-admin(a)classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-admin@classiccmp.org]On
>Behalf Of Dwight K. Elvey
>Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 18:16
>To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
>Subject: RE: Altair-what do I do first
>
>[ snip]
>
>( note: don't use a variac on a switcher supply! )
>Later
>Dwight
>
>
>
>
My condolences, Fred... Hopefully, through his contributions to the
computing community, he may have terminated, but his memory will stay
resident.
Will J
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I recently found what looked like a solid block of aluminium recently but on closer inspection it turned out to be a 64k x 18 core memory made by Quadri Corporation. It's part number is 1-0805-0015-02. It measures 1 1/2" x 6' x 9" and all the case parts are machined out of solid aluminium and it fits together so well that the joints are barely visible. It's very obviously military. It looks like it could survive WW III! I did some searching for Quadri and found that they used to be a manufacturer of high reliability core memory systems used in military aircraft, helicopters, tanks and other vehicles but they have been bought out by a company by the name of Agro-Tech and no longer exist. Does anyone know anything about the Quadri core memories or know anything about Quadri?
Joe
While looking through the pile of stuff I got with the PDP-8/E, I found a
tray of papertapes from 'ECRM, INC'. The tapes are labeled as follows:
5365 Board (Video Store) Diag (c) 1976 ECRM, Inc
5000 Series Panel Switches Diag (c) 1975 ECRM, Inc
BTCON 5000 (c) 1974 ECRM,
Inc
Beehive Terminal Diagnostic (c) 1975 ECRM,
Inc
ECRM Keyboard Diagnostic (c) 1976 ECRM, Inc
Dictionary Generator Program SW9122(G) (c) 1974 ECRM,Inc
AutoPrep 1 PaceSetter (c) 1974 ECRM,
Inc
Dictionary Generator Program SW9122(F) (c) 1974 ECRM, Inc.
5342 Board (Stok Search) Diag. (c) 1976 ECRM, Inc
5018 Board (Interrupt Mask) Diag (c) 1976 ECRM, Inc
5005 Board Serial Punch Diag (c) 1976 ECRM,
Inc
The use of some of these is obvious from the label, others are not. I am
assuming that the PDP-8/E was connected to something made by ECRM, but I
have no idea what. I do have one ECRM board, which is the 5005 Serial
Punch/Reader controller.
Does anyone know who ECRM is/was, and what kind of machine/system these
tapes might have been used with?
>WAP hacking is the new frontier. It's just too damn easy.
That makes it ideal for today's script kiddies... er um... sorry,
"hackers"... I wouldn't want to have one of those 13 year olds throw a
temper tantrum because I didn't use his prefered term.
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
Hello, all:
While flipping through PC Magazine this morning, I noticed the
following quote on page 26 of the 10/15/02 issue:
"You might expect highly technical security advice from Kevin
Mitnick, whose alleged 1982 hack into NORAD inspired the movie War Games."
This is the first time I've seen this reference. Is this true?
Rich