> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ethan Dicks [mailto:erd_6502@yahoo.com]
> Not AFAIK. It's the TK50Z-FA doesn't play nice with others.
Well, then he should be fine ;) Sorry -- I have both, and haven't
paid much attention to model numbers for a while.
> > Well, I've never heard of anyone getting it to work with anything
> > else. :) You could try it. It's the one without the ID selector,
> > right?
> Nope... the -FA is lacking the ID selector (device '5' always, ISTR)
> and doesn't like sharing the bus with anyone else.
That's interesting -- so you might be able to plug it into a MicroVAX
3100 with dual SCSI busses, for instance, if you allowed it to take
the whole bus for itself. (what a waste :)
> you could put -FA ROMs in it for use with a MicroVAX 2000, but I
Probably would need set to ID 5.
> don't know that you are required to do that. I don't own a -GA
> to test the theory, just a few -FAs.
I have one, but really would rather not swap the ROMs around just
now. I'll eventually get a programmer and save the ROMs in everything
I've got to a CD or something like that -- at that point, maybe I'll
try it.
> You will not enjoy depending on a TK50 as a primary backup device.
> It holds 95MB *max* per tape (it streams and if there isn't any
Not so bad, considering that people were "backing up" to zip disks
only recently, which hold 95MB max.
> data, it writes filler) and takes multiple passes to read one tape
> (the head physically moves up and down to read different portions
> of the tape on each pass). It is *sloooow*. Personally, I prefer
Yes, that's a problem...
> 1600 bpi magtape to the TK50, even though it take at least two reels
> for equivalent capacity.
I like them better than QIC- ... well, QIC-anything. :) If I were
recommending backup for this machine, though, I'd say a cheap 4mm
(DDS), or 8mm (D8) drive would be great. Forget about hardware
compression, though, just to be safe.
Chris
Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Lafleur [mailto:bob_lafleur@technologist.com]
> Maybe it would be easier to get a MicroVAX 2000 to hook the
> TK50Z-GA to!
> I bare-bones MV2000 must be fairly inexpensive, right? Anyone got any
> extras?!
Well, if after reading Ethan's post (which says I got my models
backwards, and your drive ought to work ok...) you'd still like
one, I have a few, but you'd need to be willing to pick one up,
since I'm not so sure about shipping anything just now. I'm
still behind on shipping things. (Sorry Owen!)
Chris
Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
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>Also keep in mind that you need time stable sources for the video
>inputs. If you want to use VHS VCR's you'll be disappointed, and you'll
>need a couple full fram TBC's as well. As a video professional, I'd
>think twice before getting a Toaster for hobby video . . . the new
>digital cameras and digital editing is far easier to implement.
The draw backs aren't really going to matter after all... your initial
price of $400 puts one out of my price range. I can't very well even
justify it for using it for editing when I have a perfectly good firewire
setup with my DV Cam and iMac that so far is doing everything I need. I
would like a 2nd video deck, so I would rather put the money towards a
2nd camera. (that is why I stopped hunting for a good deal on an SVHS
editing system... as much as I would love to have one some day, they are
still too expensive for me to justify when I can do everything with my
camera and iMac)
I was kind of hoping by some miracle, the 4000 with Toaster would be
almost worthless, and I could have gotten away with offering a very low
price. Alas, it appears to be worth some money like I figured it was.
Thanks for the info.
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk [mailto:ard@p850ug1.demon.co.uk]
> Actually the 'bow is one of the few DEC machines that can
> format its own
> disks, and there was even a formatter program included with later
Does this annoy anyone else? That the systems can't format their
own media, I mean :)
Chris
Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
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> > Rather than pdf, consider ... LOT more compact
>
> How PDFs are made will effect their size.
> On the moremanuals site I found some files
> like m3100ma1.pdf at 800+KByte/page
> and others, like SC41MS.pdf at 12-KBytes/page
> it depends on the tools and care used.
Very true. I like DjVu, and was the source (I think)
of Boris finding out about it...
But I still prefer PDFs. I scan text-only pages at
600dpi in line-art mode, which creates hi-res bitmaps
instead of greyscale files. While intuition might say
that greyscale is better, when printed, most people
will not be able to tell the difference.
For pages with extremely detailed info, I use 1200dpi
line art; for photos, I use greyscale, and do my best
to clean them up. Halftone images require de-screening.
-dq
Is the classic computer sources finally drying up to become E-bay
collector items only so most people can't see a real machine anymore?
--
Ben Franchuk - Dawn * 12/24 bit cpu *
www.jetnet.ab.ca/users/bfranchuk/index.html
>Rather than pdf, consider using DjVu; it's a
>LOT more compact (I recompressed some pages
>from the RT-11 Software support manual that
>I'd scanned a while ago with DjVu, and went
>from about 900 Kb/page to 30-40 Kb/page).
>Needless to say, I was very impressed.
900KB/page seems high. The scanner I use
produces LZW compressed TIFFs and wraps
them in PDF - that ends up in the 200-250KB/page
for US Letter size at 600dpi.
Getting to 30-40KB/page with *lossless* compression
would certainly be very impressive.
However, it's taken pdf quite a while to become
the defacto standard. I doubt that it will lose
that mantle until something else comes along with
(at the very least) an openly published spec.
Anyway, I use PDF because that's what the
scanner gives me. If someone wants to convert
to some other format, that's absolutely fine
by me.
>The DjVu viewer plugin for various browsers if free, and a program which scans images to individual files is >also free from http://www.djvu.com/. I first heard about DjVu on this list, and it is one of the neatest
>pieces of compression software that I've seen.
Thanks for the pointer - I'll try to give it
a go sometime soon. Is the compression lossless
(I took a quick look at their pages and could
not tell). Is the format published i.e. could
I write my own viewer. I don't think I would want
to, but I'd be much happier if I knew I could
if I absolutely had to (I didn't see any OpenVMS
support on their pages ...)
Antonio
Hi,
in my VAX 11/780 I have the PDP-11/03 alias KC780. And it has
the following memory board right now:
M7944 MSV11-B Q 4-Kword 16-bit MOS RAM (external refresh)
But, since I'm planning to upgrade to an 11/785 I need additional
RAM. When it showed up on ePay I buyed a
M8044-DA MSV11-DD Q 32-Kword 16-bit MOS RAM
but the boot program will not load with this. Why would that be?
From the error I got it appeared as if may be there is just some
jumpering to do, but I have no clue as to where and what.
Looking at the UNIBUS/Q bus field guide beginning from M7944
and then scanning forward to the next MSV11 I find:
M7955-AD MSV11-CD Q 16-Kword 16-bit MOS RAM with on-board refresh
and then the family of M8044s
M8044-AA MSV11-DA Q 4-Kword 16-bit MOS RAM
M8044-AA (Also M8044-AB, -AC, -AD)
M8044-AA Refs: EK-MSVI1-OP, MP-00566
M8044-BA MSV11-DB Q 8-Kword 16-bit MOS RAM
M8044-BA (Also M8044-BB, -BC, -BD)
M8044-BA Refs: EK-MSVI1-OP, MP-00566
M8044-CA MSV11-DC Q 16-Kword 16-bit MOS RAM
M8044-CA (Also M8044-CB, -CC, -CD, -CE, -CF, -CH, -CL, -CM)
M8044-CA Refs: EK-MSVI1-OP, MP-00566
M8044-DA MSV11-DD Q 32-Kword 16-bit MOS RAM
M8044-DA (Also M8044-DB, -DC, -DD, -DE, -DF, -DH, -DL, -DM)
M8044-DA Refs: EK-MSVI1-OP, MP-00566
Does that mean that I should have the M7955-AD RAM instead?
This is confusing. And I'm not even asking for Q22 bus or PMI
memory stuff. What's the thing I'm missing?
thanks,
-Gunther
--
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Medical Information Scientist Regenstrief Institute for Health Care
Adjunct Assistant Professor Indiana University School of Medicine
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>in my VAX 11/780 I have the PDP-11/03 alias KC780. And it has
>the following memory board right now:
>
>M7944 MSV11-B Q 4-Kword 16-bit MOS RAM (external refresh)
>
>But, since I'm planning to upgrade to an 11/785 I need additional
>RAM. When it showed up on ePay I buyed a
>
>M8044-DA MSV11-DD Q 32-Kword 16-bit MOS RAM
>
>but the boot program will not load with this. Why would that be?
> From the error I got it appeared as if may be there is just some
>jumpering to do, but I have no clue as to where and what.
There's some 780 console information at DFWCUG
too, but I doubt that it covers this (it's at home
and not to hand right now so I cannot check).
I do have an 11/03 user guide (with a fair bit of
technical info - it's a -TM- part number) and I
can ftp that to you if it might help. I can look in
it tonight to see if it has any helpful comments.
I can also ftp it to you if you don't fancy waiting
a month or so for it to appear on DFWCUG.
Antonio
>Well, I'd appreciate it. I do have the M8189. I have found the specs on
>that (really brief ones) but they don't tell me enough. The PDF would be
>handy.
I have the individual pages scanned, I just need
to clean it up and put it all together. It should
be done by the weekend.
Do you have anywhere I can FTP it to?
The full manual will be in the region
of 200MB.
Otherwise you'll either have to wait for
it to make it across to the DFWCUG site
(maybe another month or so) or I can
extract the first couple of chapters
which cover specs & installation.
That's maybe 30 pages or so and will
be between 5MB and 10MB - probably small
enough to email as two PDFs (assuming
your end can handle that).
Whoever scanned the KA780 and FP780 "Technical Description" documents
and put them up on the moremaniuals site ought to be given thanks
and praise! These are wonderful in depth description that I had been
searching for and that none of the "architecture manuals" etc.
ever delivered. In the end the KA780 description may even obviate
how to do the kind of microcode programming that I would like to
try, may be to implement some part of a Java virtual machine as
native KA780 machine language. (JaVAX-11/780, the true javax :-)
cheers,
-Gunther
--
Gunther Schadow, M.D., Ph.D. gschadow(a)regenstrief.org
Medical Information Scientist Regenstrief Institute for Health Care
Adjunct Assistant Professor Indiana University School of Medicine
tel:1(317)630-7960 http://aurora.regenstrief.org
Rumor has it that David Woyciesjes may have mentioned these words:
>This guy thinks this set will put the VAXStation3100m38 up to 32 MB
>of RAM...
Well, it's hard to say if *his* set is the full monty, but I just *happen*
to have a VAXStation3100/m38 with 32Meg in it, so it is possible!
Shipping on the rest of the VAX shouldn't be that bad -- it's a fairly
bulletproof system, and not that big...
>And good news is he's got RAM for auction, for my DEC 3000/400! Woo-hoo!
Sure... I'm sure you didn't post _that_ link to keep me bidding against you
for that -- for my DEC 3000/300! Mine's only got 64Meg; and I heard VMS is
rather doggy in that amount... (tho I'd doubt that it'd be any worse than
Tru64 Unix, but that's just speculation...)
Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
--
Roger "Merch" Merchberger --- sysadmin, Iceberg Computers
Recycling is good, right??? Ok, so I'll recycle an old .sig.
If at first you don't succeed, nuclear warhead
disarmament should *not* be your first career choice.
> From: Roger Merchberger
>
> Rumor has it that David Woyciesjes may have mentioned these words:
> >This guy thinks this set will put the VAXStation3100m38 up to 32 MB
> >of RAM...
>
> Well, it's hard to say if *his* set is the full monty, but I just *happen*
> to have a VAXStation3100/m38 with 32Meg in it, so it is possible!
>
> Shipping on the rest of the VAX shouldn't be that bad -- it's a fairly
> bulletproof system, and not that big...
>
- Yeah, my 3100m38 has 32MB also. I'm just not positive if he's
identifying the boards right. I mean, he's not even positive. :)
> >And good news is he's got RAM for auction, for my DEC 3000/400! Woo-hoo!
>
> Sure... I'm sure you didn't post _that_ link to keep me bidding against
> you
> for that -- for my DEC 3000/300! Mine's only got 64Meg; and I heard VMS is
> rather doggy in that amount... (tho I'd doubt that it'd be any worse than
> Tru64 Unix, but that's just speculation...)
>
- Sorry Roger, it's more of a "Please let me have it! Don't bid on
it!" kind of begging... :)
Well, wait, IIRC, the 3000/300 uses different kind of memory sticks
anyway, doesn't it?
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doc [mailto:doc@mdrconsult.com]
> Like most, I'm still looking for the display. Bill Bradford beat me
> to the VRE01 at Goodwill this week. And I actually owned
> (and operate)
> a couple of Classics before any of my DEC stuff. I just didn't know
> they were Classics....
You could plug it into an analog multisync that will do sync-on-green and
the proper rate -- if you're not adverse to building an adaptor...
Err, wait, that would work if you had color, anyway. I guess if you don't
mind a green display, or if the other (red, blue) channels wouldn't be
harmed by the sync signal, you'd be fine. (That's not my area of expertise,
obviously)
Chris
Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
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>>
>>
>> Since we are talking about scratched glass, do you
>> have any ideas on how to remove scratches from the
>> face of a CRT?
>>
>> I use Jewelers rouge I got from a Jeweler friend many
>> years ago. It works well on surface scratches such
>> as those you get from laying the monitor on the tube
>> face.
>
>Any particular grade of rouge? I've got a couple of lenses with minor
>scratches that would probably benefit from gentle polishing. But the
>jeweler's catalogue I've just looked in (H.S. Walsh) lists about a dozen
>polishing compounds, none specifically for glass. Or doesn't it matter
>too much? Jeweler's rouge is amongst them (and is not too expensive).
>
>-tony
>
Hi Tony
You can order the right stuff for optical work from
places like Newport Glass and William-Bell. You can also
use cerium oxide ( what I prefer to use ). It is a liitle
less messy than rouge and slightly faster.
Dwight
I have some floppy disks, apparently for an Intel MDS 800 whatever that
is. ISIS-III system disk. Also what i'm assuming goes with this, are
some CP/M and Quelo 68K assembler software.
Any interest?
-Lawrence LeMay
Any particular grade of rouge? I've got a couple of lenses
with minor scratches that would probably benefit from
gentle polishing. But the jeweller's catalogue I've just looked
in (H.S. Walsh) lists about a dozen polishing compounds,
none specifically for glass. Or doesn't it matter too much?
Jeweller's rouge is amongst them (and is not too expensive).
I don't really know, what I have is in an unmarked tin that
was given to me as being 'the stuff I needed' to polish out
some scratches on an oscilloscope CRT face. I've used
it since to polish out scratches on other glass items. It's
probably best to ask a friendly jeweller for advice before
you buy.
Lee.
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Well I got back on Friday evening from my 5 day trip up to MN to pick up
some of my stuff still there. We rented a 26 footer from Uhaul but it
could not hold everything in one of my 10X20X30 storage units. I had to
rent a smaller 5X5X15 unit and leave the stuff there. I'm still
unloading the truck (we started late Monday afternoon). I will list some
of the good we have found in this load later.
I only went out today for about 4 hours and got about 25 different
items, but will list only some of them here.
1. hp 2392A terminal - $2
2. Another Mac SE with the factory upgrade HD20 added. - Free
3. IBM 3191 terminal (no key or keyboard) - $2
4. Telecorp Systems Inc. System 606 - $2
5. Radius PrecisionColor Display/20 - Free
6. 2- Apple IIc's no plus's - Both Free
7. Mac Classic - Free
8. Box various cables - Free
9. Sun SPARCstation IPX with a LANCAST ENT-4320 hanging on the rear - $2
10. hp model 715/100 full of memory - $12
11. 3 Atari cartridges, 2 for the 7800 and 1 for the 2600 - 99 cents
each
That's all I can tell you about the other stuff is too new for the 10
year rule.
I've got a CD labelled:
MasPar System Software
Release 3.24 for a
DS5000-based MP
9200-0010-B7
Does anyone know what this is? I got this out of a RRD40 drive, so I'm
guessing it was for a DECstation 5000.
-- Pat
> From: Christopher Smith
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: David Woyciesjes [mailto:DAW@yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu]
>
> > > Well, my m38 actually has an lk201, hockey-puck mouse, and 20"
> > > color monitor.
>
> > - oh, quit bragging so loud... ;)
>
> Well, err... I have a _MicroVAX_ 3100/m38, with a vt320. *duck* ;)
>
- Ohh, you're just asking for it... To the moon!
> > - What's with the mice with two wierd looking button
> > things, instead
> > of a ball?
>
> Pretty simple, really. The "button things" spin. Depending on
> which axis the mouse is following, one or the other button will
> do the spinning because of the way they're tilted. Nice design. I
> like them much better than ball mice.
>
> It seems most people do. Even in my pile of "spare" mice, I only
> have one of those. I also have the one on my m38, which was
> originally a ball mouse, but got replaced.
>
- Pretty neat! (After I'm done playing with the "thingies" on my
mouse...)
> > > Also worth mentioning is that it's one of what I assume was an
> > > older series of VAXStation 2000s with no AUI on the back (co-ax
> > > only).
>
> > - Interesting...
>
> One of perhaps two I've seen like that. I don't know whether to
> replace the casing with one that's got the AUI port, or keep it
> this way for the novelty.
>
I'd keep it as-is, for the novelty and rarity of it...
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> From: Doc
>
> ...I have an Idek Iiyama in starage that ISTR transmogrifies a mono-BNC
> input to B&W. I've been procrastinating bringing it home to see.
> Doesn't matter, as all my VS3100s have color options. Although I'd
> like to be able to do X in NetBSD....
>
> Doc
>
That is something I'd like to have on my 3100. I'm hoping to start
some work on getting X & NetBSD running on the mono framebuffer. Granted, I
have no idea about programming, but I guess I'll learn. :)
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I have some Word 4.0 for macintosh. Academic version, and anyways I'm sure
nobody is allowed to transfer a microsoft license... So its up to you
to buy a modern version of word and become legal, and then maybe you
can use the older version instead.
system requirements:
512K memory
Two 800K double-sided disk drives or one 800K double-sided drive and
a hard disk.
Mac 512K enhanced, Plus, SE, or II.
System 3.2 or higher
finder 5.3 or higher
supports the appletalk network.
Anyways, feels mildly heavy, must be a book or two in the box. Yeah thats
right, I'm not sure what exactly is in there because they still have their
original plastic wrap intact... Offer a few dollars plus shipping for
my hassles, and i'll mail one or two your way. The rest get tossed. 9
are available. Shipping via USPS only.
-Lawrence LeMay
lemay(a)cs.umn.edu