> Do you happen to have a 128D in the collection? What is in the Commodore
> collection?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bryan
Nope.. I believe there are 2 or 3 breadbox 64's, 3 flat 128's, a 16, a +4, a Vic20, Monitors, Printers, reu, 1581, piles of disk drives and disks, cables, etc...misc..
-Linc.
I have two cards that have eight of these on each one. A quick search
<http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=ibm+memory+FRU+70f9973&btnG=Google+Sea
rch> shows that the SIMMs are used on the Artic 960 card and one some IBM
RS 6000s. These are parity SIMMs and look like regular PC SIMMs except
that the notch in the bottom corner is much shorter therefore these won't
fit some/all(?) PCs.
Trade for ???
Joe
Anyone interested in Apple II and Commodore computers and associated
peripherals? ?I have a sizeable collection that needs a new home. ?Price or
trade is negotiable.. ?I am looking to get a better machine to use as my main
Linux box - somewhere around 500mhz would be great.. ?Other things I am
looking for are Playstation games (especially anything using a lightgun), and
a video camera with a composite output that I can tinker with.
The collection is located in Easton Pennsylvania and my preference would be
*not* to ship it (there is quite a bit). I would rather not break it up
piece by piece either however splitting it up between Apple and Commodore is
not out of the question.
-Linc.
In The Beginning there was nothing, which exploded - Yeah right...
Calculating in binary code is as easy as 01,10,11.
I picked up a portable computer since it had a disk in it that said CPM.
I can't get it to boot but it looks interesting so I thought I'd try to
find ut more about it before I decide to fix or junk it. The computer is
labeled "AEHR Test System ATS-312". It's about 1 foot tall x 1 foot wide x
26 inches deep. It has a keybord that folds down from the front and exposes
two 5 1/4" disk drives and a built in CRT. Inside most of the cards are
marked "Computest Inc Made in USA" but the motherboard is marked "Fox
Motherboard II". A couple of the plug in cards init are marked "64 point
switchboard II" and have 64 pin ribbon cable sockets on the back.
Underneath it has what looks like the CPU card. On it has what I think is
the CPU. It's hard to read but it looks like it says "SGS Z84008B-1". Is
anyone familar with that chip? I can't find any record on it. Does anyone
know anything about the computer itself? AEHR makes test equipment, mainly
for IC wafer testing. I couldn't fin anything out about Fox or Computest.
They're both common names but all the occurances that I cound find were for
unrelated businesses.
Joe
Sridhar,
anyway your comment about R5 got me experimenting and I found about the
tertiary_vmb.exe.
R5:0 does not work at all.
>From LANACP logs I can see that 6300 downloads NISCS_LOAD.EXE, but after that
it just freezes.
22-FEB-2002 13:12:02.04 Volunteered to load request on ESA0 from LARGE
Requested file: DISK$OVMSVAXSYS:<SYS10.>[SYSCOMMON.SYSLIB]NISCS_LOAD.EXE
22-FEB-2002 13:12:04.35 Load succeeded for LARGE on ESA0
MOP V3 format, Tertiary loader,
DISK$OVMSVAXSYS:<SYS10.>[SYSCOMMON.SYSLIB]NI
SCS_LOAD.EXE
Packets: 544 sent, 544 received
Bytes: 136509 sent, 1632 received, 133241 loaded
Elapsed time: 00:00:02.13, 62554 bytes/second
But by setting R5:100 and using the TERTIARY_VMB.EXE it works better; and
then TERTIARY_VMB loads NISCS_LOAD.EXE.
22-FEB-2002 17:36:27.60 Volunteered to load request on ESA0 from LARGE
Requested file: LAN$DLL:TERTIARY_VMB.EXE
22-FEB-2002 17:36:28.82 Load succeeded for LARGE on ESA0
MOP V3 format, Tertiary loader, LAN$DLL:TERTIARY_VMB.EXE
Packets: 318 sent, 318 received
Bytes: 79736 sent, 954 received, 77824 loaded
Elapsed time: 00:00:01.05, 74118 bytes/second
22-FEB-2002 17:36:38.36 Volunteered to load request on ESA0 from LARGE
Requested file: DISK$OVMSVAXSYS:<SYS10.>[SYSCOMMON.SYSLIB]NISCS_LOAD.EXE
22-FEB-2002 17:36:42.08 Load succeeded for LARGE on ESA0
MOP V3 format, System image,
DISK$OVMSVAXSYS:<SYS10.>[SYSCOMMON.SYSLIB]NISCS
_LOAD.EXE
Packets: 544 sent, 544 received
Bytes: 136541 sent, 1632 received, 133277 loaded
Elapsed time: 00:00:03.55, 37543 bytes/second
On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Julius Sridhar wrote:
> I thought you were trying to boot from an InfoServer image. If you are,
> then you have to set R5. If you are simply trying to clusterboot, then
> R5:0 should work. Is the system disk set up properly on the cluster boot
> server and is the boot server configured to serve disks?
>
> Peace... Sridhar
>
>
--
Saku Set?l?
System Planning Manager
Kolumbus Oy http://www.kolumbus.com/
Elisa Communications Group
Hi there!
The "stereo" jack is not for audio at all -- rather, it is for a pair
of LCD shutter goggles that work in conjunction with certain monitors
to display a stereoscopic 3D image. This functionality is REALLY
common on higher-end video boards (e.g. SGI, Intergraph, etc), and
apparently was used primarily in computer aided chemistry visualization
and things like that.
I don't have a pair of requisite shutter glasses to try the concept,
but it always seemed kind of chintzy to be used in a high-end setup.
Sort of like a pre-HMD semi-immersive sort of display technology,
although it's still around...
Kind regards,
Sean
--
Sean Caron http://www.diablonet.net
scaron(a)engin.umich.edu root(a)diablonet.net
Today I spotted what looked like programmer's panel. However upon
inspection it turns out that it's a control/test panel for some kind of
disk drive. I've seen several of these before so it must have been a MOL
standard device despite it's decidedly homemade appearance (bright finished
aluminium box about 15" cubed. A sticker inside said that it was made by
Magnetic Peripherals. Is anyone familar with these? What type drives coud
it operate? Is it worth picking up? This one appeared pretty intact, some
key tops were missing but it had the cables still stored inside of it.
Joe
Hi,
anybody here knows, if I can use the color option of a /350 in a /380
PRO ?
If not, what is the right one to use there ?
cheers & thanks
P.S. Talking about the CTI boards 001002 & 001403
> > In order to really use it, you have to be playing a Quadraphonic
> > recorded record right? LP's were it back then, right?
>
> Wrong. Some quad reel-to-reel tapes were produced. LPs were *mostly* it
> -- Dark Side of the Moon was probably the biggest selling quad LP. The
> opening "cash register" sounds on "Money" produced an excellent effect.
Woa! Best selling? The copy I have is the only other one
I've ever been aware of! Now I know of two....
> There were at least two different quad formats. IIRC, one required
> decoding in the hardware (my Fisher has an "SQ decoder" switch).
>
> I'll bet it's next to impossible to find a working quad turntable these
> days. I could convert some stereo recordings to "simulated" quad for
> playback on a four-track cassette, but it would be more fun to find a
> 'table and some original quad records.
The British import copy of Electric Ladyland says it's stereo,
but it is in fact SQ-encoded; listen to Jimi's guitar swirl
around all four speakers on "And the Gods made Love".
-dq
> From: Jeff Hellige <jhellige(a)earthlink.net>
> I'm about to experiment with hooking a 20 year old Technics
> turntable up to my B/W G3 using a small pre-amp between them. It'll
> allow me to convert all my old vinyl to MP3
Not to suggest that your uninformed, but you *do* know that MP3 is lossy
compression? I know some people like MP3 due to the small size of the
files, but they sound like dirt to me. Why not just convert 'em to
CD-ROMs???
Glen
0/0
> There were three competing systems: QS (Sansui), SQ (Sony) and CD-4
> (JVC). Only the CD-4, which used a supersonic subcarrier a la FM
> broadcasting, required a special stylus on the cartridge (Shibata).
I bought and assembled the Southwest Technical Products CD-4
decoder, but could never get it operational (SWTP == on-topic).
If anyone on the list knows of anyone with experience
with this decoder, I'd appreciate a pointer in their
direction...
Joe <rigdonj(a)cfl.rr.com> wrote:
> Is anyone familar with the Bering HP-IB disk drives? I found one that
> looks like it uses the 8" Bernoulli cartridges.
I'm not really familiar with them, but this is the sort of business
that Bering has been in for a while: plug-compatible replacements for
HP-IB disc and tape drives. More recently they have used Zip and Jaz
and magneto-optical drives. I wouldn't be surprised to find that this
plays like a 790[567].
They have a web site at http://www.bering.com/ but it doesn't go
much into their older products. You might be able to send them
e-mail about it though.
-Frank McConnell
> From: Chad Fernandez <fernande(a)internet1.net>
> I don't do any recording, although, I do have some very old records that
> I've thought about copying to CD. I don't have a turn table that would
> be handy, However :-(
Showing My Age Dept: Turntables seem to be more available now. I went out
to purchase one around '94 or so and at the first three stereo shops I
visited, the young person behind the counter said "You mean a record
player?? Why do you want one of those?" Sheesh.
> What's the Joystick for?
Spacial control -- left, right, front and rear. This replaces the
two-directional balance control found on stereo amps.
> In order to really use it, you have to be playing a Quadraphonic
> recorded record right? LP's were it back then, right?
Wrong. Some quad reel-to-reel tapes were produced. LPs were *mostly* it
-- Dark Side of the Moon was probably the biggest selling quad LP. The
opening "cash register" sounds on "Money" produced an excellent effect.
There were at least two different quad formats. IIRC, one required
decoding in the hardware (my Fisher has an "SQ decoder" switch).
I'll bet it's next to impossible to find a working quad turntable these
days. I could convert some stereo recordings to "simulated" quad for
playback on a four-track cassette, but it would be more fun to find a
'table and some original quad records.
Glen
0/0
On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Eric Dittman wrote:
> Okay, the ISL is loaded. What did you get when you tried
> to select the VAXVMS_072 service (I think that's the name)?
Well, actually there is no infoserver running. Just found the file name
>from OpenVMS installation documents and also from OpenVMS 7.2 disk, copied
it to [MOM$SYSTEM] and surprised it worked at all.
Anyway that proves to me that the network is not totally broken.
Regards,
--Saku
Well, I'm sure most everyone has heard about the awful flood we had down
here in Houston last year. Quite abit of stuff I had stored away was
damaged, but not totally ruined.
Today I found several boxes of 10MB Bernoulli cartridges I had stored
away, which were covered with a gray powder-like mold. It seems to be easy
to clean off the plastic housing, but I found it has also started to grow
on the magnetic media itself.
Does anyone know of a way to remove the mold that won't damage the
magnetic media? Also, does anyone remember the trick to opening the
shutter on these 8" cartridges?
-Toth
> Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 23:56:51 -0500
> From: Chad Fernandez <fernande(a)internet1.net>
> To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
> Subject: Re: Questions about a PDP11/93
>
> Doc Shipley wrote:
> > So the questions:
> > Can anybody point me to pictures of an 11/93 that's NOT in a BA23?
>
> The BA23 is rackmountable. Maybe it is a rack with two PDP11/93's in
> it.
>
> > What's it worth, obsession aside? It's probably going to cost me about
> > $0.50/lb, USD. That's delivered to my garage. I'm guessing that's in
> > the $200 realm.
>
> I think, the 11/93 is a 20mhz J11 CPU. I've seen the 18mhz J11 cpu go
> for well over $100 on Ebay, so I'd think the 11/93's cpu would be worth
> quite a bit. Plus, I don't usually hear of the 11/93 on this list, so
> that may mean that they are one of the more rare PDP11's. Comments
> anyone?
Maybe it is a dual-box BA23 system. You can tell by looking at
the back of the box(es) where the dual-box system has one (6U) back
cover spanning the two boxes.
Does the rack have extra-thick side panels with cooling fans in them?
That would be the "elephant ears" add-on which was typical for such
a system.
carl
--
carl lowenstein marine physical lab u.c. san diego
clowenstein(a)ucsd.edu
I picked up a Honeywell 316 from a local scrap yard today. I gave the inside
a good looking over, and it looks perfect. It's also so clean, that I don't
really think I could help it by cleaning the boards. So I guess I'm ready to
power it up, which leads me to my question: Lacking a power cord, how do I
plug it in?
The power supply has no cord coming out of it. What is does have is a
standard 3-prong plug sticking out of the back, just like the kind that
plugs into the wall. So, can I just run an extension cord from it to the
wall, or is there something more to it than that?
Owen
>Did you use the right felt washers sold for VCR repair, or try to use the
>stuff from a craft shop? The latter is not going to work properly.
Yeah... I specifically bought VCR clutch felts. When those didn't work, I
considered buying craft store felt, but never saw anything remotely close
to the right thing (craft store felt is too soft and flexible)
>And let me guess, service manuals are unobtainable?
Bingo... if I was an authorized repair shop, I could buy a manual... but
then, if I was an authorized repair shop, they would look up the part
number for me, and sell it to me.
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vintage Computer Festival [mailto:vcf@vintage.org]
> I have here an excess NEC MultiSync Color monitor (model
> JC-1401P3A) that
> is very useful for the vintage microcomputer enthusiast. It
I have one of these myself. It works well, though I have trouble
getting it to connect to the monitor port of my Amiga 1000.
Haven't tried that in a while. Come to think about it, I ought
to see if it will attach to the Atari ST.
Chris
Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
Amdocs - Champaign, IL
/usr/bin/perl -e '
print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n");
'
The initial response to the Computer Garage fundraiser has been
phenomenal. So far, we've gotten pledges worth $821. We need just $179
and we're at the $1000 goal. The generosity of the pledges received so
far is wonderful.
People from all over the world have pledged. It's great to see such a
strong community spirit.
I'm hoping that by the end of today we'll have the $1000 raised, and then
we can move on to phase two, which is to get the money into the right
places to secure the Computer Garage collection, and then onto phase
three which is to move it to Kansas.
Thanks very much to all who have pledged to contribute.
There is still time to contribute. If you want to use PayPal to
contribute, you can send it to <vcf(a)vintage.org>. You can also send a
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Tothwolf wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Tim wrote:
>> I've got an HP C180 and want to fit some more drives, but I'm short of
>> the plastic rails you use to fit them.
>
> What do these look like? I've got piles of rails I'll likely never use,
> but I wouldn't know HP rails from another type...
As promised, I took a couple of snaps last night with the IndyCam (the
only thing that keeps this almost on topic :-). Apologies for the
poor quality, but you can't do a lot better with those things <g>:
http://213.152.32.6/hp/driverail1.jpghttp://213.152.32.6/hp/driverail2.jpg
If you do have any to spare which you could sell me, I would of
course be eternally grateful... Otherwise, it's off to the railway
modelling shop to follow the excellent suggestion of a resin moulding
kit!
Cheers,
Tim.
--
Tim Walls at home in Croydon - Reply to tim(a)snowgoons.fsnet.co.uk
Hi all,
I have been trying to netboot a Vax 6300 for a while now.
Only succeeded loading netbsd kernel via netbsd mopd, not too much help since
netbsd does not support Vax 6000 yet.
Another thing what works is "infoserver mopboot".
Ultrix 4.5 diskless boot does not work, OpenVMS 7.2 vaxcluster
diskless satellite boot does not work.
My Microvax 3100 and 3400 work fine on both cases.
I've pulled out all extra processors and interfaces, only ethernet left.
--clip--(So here's the Infoserver mopboot image which loads from OpenVMS 7.2
vaxcluster)
>>> B/R5:100/X:D/B:6 ET0
Initializing system.
F E D C B A 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 NODE #
A A . . M M M . . . . . . P TYP
o o . . + + + . . . . . . + STF
. . . . . . . . . . . . . B BPD
. . . . . . . . . . . . . + ETF
. . . . . . . . . . . . . B BPD
. . . . . . . . . + . . . . + . XBI D +
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . + . XBI E +
. . . . B1 A2 A1 . . . . . . . ILV
. . . . 32 32 32 . . . . . . . 96 Mb
ROM = 6.0 EEPROM = 2.0/6.0 SN = GA92000372
Loading system software.
Filename: ISL_LVAX_072.SYS
The filename for NICDrom MOP boot is: ISL_LVAX_072.SYS
* Passing control to transfer address
Network Initial System Load Function
Version 1.2
FUNCTION FUNCTION
ID
1 - Display Menu
2 - Help
3 - Choose Service
4 - Select Options
5 - Stop
Enter a function ID value:
--clip-- (earlier try with VMS, the same problem happens with Ultrix 4.5)
>>> SHOW BOOT
DEFAULT /XMI:E /BI:6 MUA6
KOE /XMI:D /BI:6 ET0
>>> BOOT KOE
Initializing system.
F E D C B A 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 NODE #
A A . . M M M . . . . P P P TYP
o o . . + + + . . . . + + + STF
. . . . . . . . . . . E E B BPD
. . . . . . . . . . . + + + ETF
. . . . . . . . . . . E E B BPD
. . . . . . . . . + . . . . + . XBI D +
. . . . . . . . . + . + . . + . XBI E +
. . . . B1 A2 A1 . . . . . . . ILV
. . . . 32 32 32 . . . . . . . 96 Mb
ROM = 6.0 EEPROM = 2.0/6.0 SN = GA92000372
?2D For Secondary Processor 2
?59 System serial number mismatch. Secondary processor has GA82000002
?2D For Secondary Processor 3
?59 System serial number mismatch. Secondary processor has GA82000002
Loading system software.
* Passing control to transfer address
Any suggestions?
Thanks.
--Saku Setala
saku.setala(a)kolumbus.fi
But still a couple of years "green".
I found a copy of Yggdrasil Plug-n-Play Linux today, the User's
Manual, CD & boot floppy.
It's the Summer '94 edition; Linux v1.1. I've been looking through
the HCL (so I can install it, of course!) and IDE/ATAPI CD-ROMs aren't
even mentioned. Neither are any of the graphics adapters I own.
Although I think the ET6000 will pretend to be an ET4k.
But this bloat-hog demands 4M RAM and at least 3M diskspace,
recommended 300M.
This might get hairy...
Doc
