- test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org - classiccmp.org

by unruhclan＠worldnet.att.net

I've just acquired some Plus Development hardcards for my 286 powered Tandy 1000 TL/2. I'm looking for the driver loaded in Config.sys called plusdrv.sys needed to run the cards. Does anyone have a copy of plusdrv.sys? Can anyone point me in the correct direction? I've done the google thing and looked on Maxtor's website. (Maxtor acquired Quantum who acquired Plus Development) with no luck. HELP! Thank you, Carey Unruh

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How much does a Zenith Z120 worth

by vax3900＠yahoo.com

I got a Zenith Data System Z120 (model EIA-416). It has 5 S-100 slots with two boards installed. One is a disk controller board. It has a green build in CGA-like monitor and two 5.25'' floppy drives. The case is good. It boots into MS-DOS. I googled and found it had both 8085 and 8086 or 88. Since I am a VAX guy I am willing to convert this beast (maybe 50LB or more) into some resource (another word for money) that I can use to buy VAX stuff. How much do you guys think it worthes? If too little I will not place it onto epay. Thank you. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/

22 years, 2 months

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HP1650B Logic Analyzer, diskette format?

by vp＠mcs.drexel.edu

Tom Jennings <tomj(a)wps.com> wrote: > Does anyone have any idea what the diskette format is? It's not DSDD 512 > byte sectors, eg. dd won't read it on a linux box. If its like the 1630 then the diskettes are LIF format either single sided or double sided. Have a go at reading the disks on an MSDOS or Windows PC using the LIFUTIL program. LIFUTIL was released by HP to allow the transfer of data from HP LIF floppies to MSDOS systems. Initially they sold it, but now its free. ftp://ftp.math.jyu.fi/pub/hpil/lifutil **vp

22 years, 2 months

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More DEC VT520 terminals available

by vcf＠siconic.com

I've listed more DEC VT520 terminals for sale ($25 each) on the Vintage Computer Marketplace: http://marketplace.vintage.org/view.cfm?ad=391 http://marketplace.vintage.org/view.cfm?ad=394 http://marketplace.vintage.org/view.cfm?ad=395 These are excellent terminals that emulate a bunch of other terminals plus allow multiple physical and virtual connections to different hosts. Setup is through on-screen windows. This is quite a deal...I've seen refurbished units selling for around $250. Go get 'em! -- Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org [ Old computing resources for business || Buy/Sell/Trade Vintage Computers ] [ and academia at www.VintageTech.com || at http://marketplace.vintage.org ]

22 years, 2 months

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OT: Cisco IOS 11.2 Software Kits w/Serial Numbers Available (2)

by patrick＠evocative.com

I have two Cisco IOS 11.2 Software Feature Packs (IP) available. Both kits have original serial numbers in the box. I don't have the routers any more (2500 series). Up for grabs to first responder(s) (private reply please) for cost of shipping. They're outta here, or they're in Monday's trash. :-) --Patrick

22 years, 2 months

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new find: Sun Ultra 10

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

Hi, Zane. On Jan 30, 20:38, Zane H. Healy wrote: > It's not some much that I want to use it, as I want to run it :^) http://groups.google.com/groups?q=Softwindows+HOSTID+group:comp.sys.sgi*&hl… SoftWindows 5.00 is on one of the O2 demo CDs. I think 4.00 is on one of the older Irix CD sets. Be warned, it writes things to various .cshrc files, .mime-types, and several other places. Various things will either break, or believe that any file ending in .doc (and others) should be handled by treacle^H^H^H^H^H^H^HSoftWindows and it will take you a while to track them all down. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

22 years, 2 months

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Need help with interesting computer card

by lyosnorezel＠yahoo.com

Hey ya'll... need a little help. I recently took apart a nonfunctioning ControlNet Communications Interface (Allen-Bradley) and I would really love to be able to find Datasheets, manufactures specs, and/or schematics/pinouts (this last is most preferable). Here is a description of the board (I tryed scanning the image but it didn't work... too dark, and I don't have a digital camera): the board has 2 floppy drive type connectors (not Hard disk IDE but the similar, smaller, connector used by the floppy drives) labeled J3 and J4, 2 IC's labeled MCM6502CJ25 and underneath is TQQAA9333 (date code I think), the are 4 LED's, 1 AC14 IC, 1 AC174 IC, 1 74AC32 IC, 2 ACT280 ICs, and many others there is a PAL chip labeled PALCE16V8M-15JC/4, 5 IC'S that I've never seen before... 3 labeled DA05M and 2 labeled HP 2601, and last but not least is 1 parallel port AND next to it is a CAT5 connector (the 8 pin phone connector, or T1). Anyone have any info on these? I would love to be able to use them in a 6502 computer I building but I need the schematics/pinouts for that. Any info would be greatly appreiciated. Thanks. Lyos Gemini Norezel --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it!

22 years, 2 months

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new find: Sun Ultra 10

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Jan 30, 18:43, Zane H. Healy wrote: > Personally the systems I'd like to get Softwindows running on would be > either my SGI O2 R12k/270, or a OpenVMS system :^) Don't bother. It's like treacle, and it won't run any recent version of Windows. SoftWindows 4.0 is faster than 5.0, but I think it emulates a 486, so it won't run pentium-specific code. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

22 years, 2 months

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Qube Box

by cburrou5＠ford.com

Hello Friend I have one of those old qube boxes. It is complete, but since the Qube system is not available any longer, it does not look. Please let me know if you would be interested in it. I collect goofy things like that. Chris

22 years, 2 months

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Multispin4xc

by alfa2mil2000＠yahoo.com

Sorry... I see your pictures of your Multispin4Xc cdr-c302 and is like one I got, please: how can I use in Win98 or XP systems?, I can´t get the drivers... ...at first thanks for your help and for if you send me those drivers alfa2mil2000 --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it!

22 years, 2 months

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new find: Sun Ultra 10

by rigdonj＠cfl.rr.com

Found one of these today. Tried to boot it but it goes into terminal mode because I don't have a keyboard attached. It has a 20 Gb hard drive and all four SIMM sockets are filled. It has the biggest, strangest SIMMS that I've ever seen. They're shaped kind of like a T and the top is longer than the bottom and are crammed full of ICs. No idea of the amount of memory or CPU speed since I can't get to the OS. It's a model 380-0111-01. Does anyone know where I can get the specs for that specific model? Joe

22 years, 2 months

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Looking for SGI Iris 1000 manuals

by vcf＠siconic.com

Hi. I need a manual set for the SGI Iris 1000. Anyone got some for sale or trade? Please contact me directly. Thanks! -- Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org [ Old computing resources for business || Buy/Sell/Trade Vintage Computers ] [ and academia at www.VintageTech.com || at http://marketplace.vintage.org ]

22 years, 2 months

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GRiD PalmPAD 2350s

by doc＠mdrconsult.com

I picked up a couple today, mostly because they were there. On has no stylus, and neither has an AC adapter, so I'm not likely to do a whole lot with them. They don't look beat up, and there's one carry case. So, choice one would be to find an AC adapter, and whatever other accessories, Real Cheap. Choice two is does anybody need one or both for parts spares? Choice most likely is they go into the "Cute Things I Have Part Of" drawer instead of the refiner. :) Doc

22 years, 2 months

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HP1650B Logic Analyzer, diskette format?

by tomj＠wps.com

I'm getting close to off-topic, but it (1) is > 10 yrs old and (2) contains a computer... :-) Does anyone have any idea what the diskette format is? It's not DSDD 512 byte sectors, eg. dd won't read it on a linux box. Luckily the analyzer's OS has a disk-dup feature, so I can make copies, but it would be nice to archive a copy. (On a related note, if anyone has a PDF of the users manual I'd appreciate it... I bought this used for the University, I figured out most of the big chunks but a manual would sure be handy. I have the Maintenance manual, which tells you how to unpack it and shows all the various interesting flavors of power cord.)

22 years, 2 months

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LXY11 and LXY21 DIAGS

by doc＠mdrconsult.com

I was sorting through all the bulk-erased DEC media last night listing the OS's and software "I coulda had", and found one item I'm pretty sure hasn't been degaussed - the "LXY11 and LXY21 DIAGS", P/N YM-Z049D-AA on paper tape. It looks like it's never been run. Slick. It's a darn shame I don't have a reader. Doc

22 years, 2 months

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Voltage & Current..

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Jan 26, 9:14, dvcorbin(a)optonline.net wrote: > >Bwahahaha, I've written 10 replies, but canceled them all, because I can't > >teach a house > >plant calculus. You Win. Yeah, I thought about explaining why the paragraph around the idea that .5mA kills is drivel, and gave up. > Seriously the TOTAL lack of regulation on "WallWarts" is quite common. I am currently (preofessionally) developing a product which normally operates off of AC power (via a wallwart), but needs to remort low AC conditions and fall back to battery. > > The load on this device is VERY dynamic ranging from under 10mA to over 850mA depending on what it is doing. The voltage fluctuations out of the wall wart (which is rated as 11.8V @ 1A) will rise as high as 17V when under a minimal load. > > Since the device is intended to have a very low production cost, they really cut some regulation requirements on the board as well, since the components WILL tolerate this range of voltages. > > Unfortunately, the side effect is that the voltage variation based on load is significantly greater than the voltage variation based on fluctuations in the AC (eg during a brown out). This has required the development of software that is constantly monitoriing the "active" state of many of the devices to "calculate" the current load, and then going through a transform to estimate the RAW AC that is providing power to the wart. Well, there might be a way to deal with the problem. Most of the poor regulation is down to the following. Most small DC wall warts consist of a transformer feeding a bridge rectifier with a moderate electrolytic capacitor across it. Under low or zero load, the capacitor charges to the peak voltage. As you apply more and more load, you get more and more ripple, and the average voltage goes down (in fact, because there is resistance between the transformer and capacitor, so does the peak). However, you could analyse the ripple and work out what the input was doing. At moderate loads, the capacitor will charge rapidly to something near the peak voltage on each half-cycle, and discharge relatively slowly; at high loads, you'll get a more symmetric ripple. If you want to know in detail, you could sample it, but my guess is if you're just looking for brownouts all you'd need to do is compare the amount of ripple to the average voltage and apply some rule of thumb. Or compare the slope of the rise to the slope of the fall. Of course when the ripple goes away completely you've got no mains input at all :-) -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

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Ultrix on an 11/730?

by msokolov＠ivan.Harhan.ORG

> is the tu58 basically a serial device? It is.

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Ultrix on an 11/730?

by msokolov＠ivan.Harhan.ORG

Curt vendel <curt(a)atarimuseum.com> wrote: > Ah! Sorry, I didn't get into Dec Vax stuff until 94' and didn't start > working with Ultrix till 95' I started my VAX life at an even later date! 1997. So yes, I am a late comer to the club. I saw a VAX for the first time in my life in 1997. But I wanted to run 4.3BSD and I was determined to do whatever it takes to do it. So I learned the VAX terminology and genealogy, learned how to make my way around the VAX world, and learned that original 4.3BSD ran only on VAXen so huge and so rare (an 11/7xx wasn't exactly a readily obtainable item even in 1997, much less today) that I would never be able to run one. I learned that to make 4.3BSD run on a VAX of the kind I could lay my hands on and run in an apartment I would have to actually do major work on the code first. Now imagine me back then in 1997-98 thinking about the prospect of making major changes to a VAX UNIX kernel while having virtually no knowledge of VAX architecture and system programming. But I was determined. A good ClassicCmp friend provided me with literature (VAX Architecture Reference Manual, VAX Architecture Handbook, and VAX Hardware Handbook), and I learned the VAX architecture and instruction set. I read and studied everything I could about VAXen. And it has paid off: I know VAX really well now, people consult with me on deep VAX hardware questions, I successfully maintain a VAX operating system, and I'm even working in the background (though not too many cycles dedicated to it right now) on the design of a new VAX CPU chip. > I remember we got into the lab I think it > was a Dec Infoserver, their first webserver and it was running Ultrix as I > recall, [...] > Actually, I think the infoserver was running OSF Unix??? Maybe we are talking about different things, but InfoServer runs a special proprietary embedded OS and it is not a web server, it talks a special proprietary protocol. Unless I'm totally mistaken on that one. (InfoServer was a fairly unusual beast.) MS

22 years, 2 months

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Sort of OT: Hakko Solder equipment

by doc＠mdrconsult.com

Nowhere near 10 years old, but ClassicCmp is the place most likely to know.... A surplus barn here is getting a huge lot of factory refurb Hakko 939 solder stations. He says he'll be getting $150 for them, with a 90-day warranty from Hakko. He has one as a sample from his supplier, and it looks NIB. That unit is much more sophisticated than I really need. I convert serial & graphics cables for my toys, touch up the odd dry joint or scratched-out trace, chase fire ants, and hack potentially lethal PSUs into my print servers. (Yeah, I had to go there) However, even a decent used setup that'll behave nicely for what I do is going to run me $100, so I'd rather splurge a little than inherit somebody else's scorch marks. Back to the point, has anyone on-list used Hakko gear? Like it, or not? Or does anybody have a recommendation for a better deal in the $100-150 range? Doc

22 years, 2 months

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Something different: Hewlett Packard 9868A I/O Expander W/ Interfa

by rigdonj＠cfl.rr.com

Hewlett Packard 9868A I/O Expander W/ Interface I've never seen one of these before but if I'm not mistaken it's for the old HP 9820 and 9830 (and similar) calculators. <http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2590646697&category=1504> Joe

22 years, 2 months

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LAST CHANCE (stuff going to dumpster tonight if unclaimed)

by cb＠mythtech.net

>> Misc PC cards: >> 16 bit ISA multi I/O card (2 serial, 1 parallel, 1 joystick, floppy, and >> ide) > >These are starting to disappear believe it or not. Yeah because people like me chuck box loads of them when we can no longer store them, and can't find anyone to take them. -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

22 years, 2 months

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Toy Computer K-30 and IMSAI 8080 go high on eBay

by jrkeys＠concentric.net

Check out the Brainiac K-30 for almost $200 I got one last year on eBay for under $25 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2781740056 Check out the IMSAI http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2780544749

22 years, 2 months

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Voltage & Current..

by dwight.elvey＠amd.com

Hi Ordinary glass glows a little redish yellow in a dark room, when melted. Quartz glass if definitely white hot, when melted. I don't think they are using quartz glass for neon signs, though. Dwight >From: "Teo Zenios" <teoz(a)neo.rr.com> > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Joe R." <rigdonj(a)cfl.rr.com> >To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" ><cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> >Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 4:18 PM >Subject: RE: Voltage & Current.. > > >> At 12:02 PM 1/29/04 -0800, you wrote: >> >> > I think perhaps it's best for Lyos to maintain his present beliefs >about >> >> > voltage and current. Over time I'm sure he'll collect more empirical >> >> > data to either confirm or deny his hypothesis (though quite likely at >> >> > some cost if he's as stubborn in his beliefs as I suspect the case to >> >> > be). >> >On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Gordon JC Pearce wrote: >> >> In other words, blows himself up with a 3kV-to-240v electricity pole >> >> transformer? >> > >> >Would that damage the transformer? (how many amps are those?) >> >> I believe that they're AT LEAST 1 Amp ON THE 3kV SIDE! The neon sign >> manufacturer's use them to step the 240 back up to 2 or 3 kV at 1 Amp to >> burn the gasses out of the glass walls of tubes that they use to make neon >> signs with. They run them at ~1 Amp for 24 hours and the tubes are almost >> white hot. >> >> Joe >> >Funny, All the glass/quarts tubes I have seen don't glow any color even when >melting. > > > >

22 years, 2 months

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Non-DEC DEC Field Guide?

by aek＠spies.com

all of the cards you have posted are Unibus, not Qbus the remex card is a reader/punch interface the DR11C is a 16 bit parallel i/o card L-10-B-2 appears to be a copy of a DEC M7800 serial line intf the CDS is some sort of disc interface and the DSD board is a unibus interface for a DSD440 floppy

22 years, 2 months

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LAST CHANCE (stuff going to dumpster tonight if unclaimed)

by jwest＠classiccmp.org

Narrow Carriage Dot Matrix printers (all believed working, good shape): Star NX-2430 Multifont TI Omni 800 855 w/font cartridge Star NX-1001 Multifont Epson LX-850 Honeywell Bull Miniature inkjet - about 2 inches tall, 8 inches wide, 5 inches deep. Centronics parallel IF, Cute! Viva Modem 24 (little tower, no PS) Dell Monitor, 14", model Vi1439U Packard Bell Monitor, model PB8538SVGA Complete Epson Equity I+ system, monitor, keyboard, system unit. All epson brand original set. Haven't opened it up but I suspect it's an 8080 or such, 360K floppy. Cute stylish setup. Misc PC cards: 16 bit ISA multi I/O card (2 serial, 1 parallel, 1 joystick, floppy, and ide) 16 bit ISA linksys etherlan16 network card 16 bit ISA VGA (JAX TVGA8900) 8 bit ISA Sound Magic (several creative labs chips) Last but not least... can't believe I'm going to let this one go, but it needs a better home. I have a Corona Data Systems PPC400-12. Jay West

22 years, 2 months

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Need RT-11 on RX02

by dwight.elvey＠amd.com

>From: "Dave Mitton" <dave(a)mitton.com> > >Folks, > I need some help. > >I'm trying to bring up my LSI-11 system (KDA11, BA11-VA Cabinet, RX02, >VT100), and due to a basement flood a few years ago, all of my RX02 media >has been water damaged. This was my last 8" floppy system. > >The diskettes are sticking to the jacket, and some bits of the lining are >sticking to the oxide, (or vice versa) anyways I cannot get anything to >boot. I've tried cleaning a few of the media with isopropyl alcohol, but >no success yet. Hi I assume you've removed them from the covers and run them bare. Also try cleaning the pulley surfaces on the drives. Even tiny grunk here will cause read errors. The belts tend to degrade and make blobs on the pulleys. Clean heads between each experiment. I had this same problem with a number of "high quality" floppies. It seems that the adhesive used for the liners would seep through the liners onto the disk. Someone mentioned using goof-off but I've never tried such and don't recommend it without some testing first. I cleaned with isoproponal(sp?). Dwight

22 years, 2 months

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Ultrix on an 11/730?

by msokolov＠ivan.Harhan.ORG

Brad Parker <brad(a)heeltoe.com> wrote: > Can anyone tell me if there is a version of Ultrix which will boot on an > 11/730? AFAIK DEC never dropped 730 support from Ultrix so I see no reason why would any given version, e.g., V4.00 which I have on my FTP site, NOT boot on a 730. > And if so, can I grab media files off the net somewhere? I've got the full V4.00 distribution on my FTP site: ifctfvax.Harhan.ORG:/pub/UNIX/thirdparty/Ultrix-32/ult400vaxdist-tk50/ This dist came into my hands in TK50 format, hence the directory name on the FTP site, but I see no reason why you can't write it to magtape as well. (6250 BPI would be easier, for 1600 BPI you may have to split it into multiple tapes and I am not sure how to tweak the metadata for the Ultrix installer so it knows from which tape to get what.) Or you can bootstrap from TK50 on a 730 with a TUK50 controller. You would, however, need to create your own TU58 media for Ultrix bootstrap. They can be constructed from file.01 and file.02 on the tape (which are on the FTP site), but I'm not sure of the exact algorithm and you'll need to look in the source code. I have complete sources for Ultrix V2.00 and V4.20 on the same FTP site. Not for V4.00, but since this stuff hasn't changed between V2.00 and V4.20 it logically follows that it should hold for V4.00 as well. Now even if you recreate the same Ultrix distribution TU58s that you would get >from DEC when buying Ultrix, you are still not all set. DEC's Ultrix distribution TU58s are not directly readable or bootable by the 730 console, and you need ANOTHER TU58, which is not part of any Ultrix distribution at all, with a sufficiently recent version of VMB.EXE and supporting stuff that knows how to boot non-VMS operating systems, probably the original version that came with the hardware in 1982 won't do. In other words you would be in for a lot of "fun". > (I know 4.3bsd would, and I'd like to fool around with netbsd but it > seems like ultrix might be a good way to bootstrap) 4.3BSD (either original or Quasijarus) is the easiest of all to bootstrap of any 11/7xx, including 730. Everything that you need is on ifctfvax.Harhan.ORG in the appropriate directory (/pub/UNIX/4.3BSD or /pub/UNIX/4.3BSD-Quasijarus0b): tape images and TU58 cassette image, and the TU58 is in RT-11 format directly readable by the 730 console, no VMB or other stuff is needed. Now here is something I want to ask you: would you happen to have an original DEC 730 console TU58 with the latest version of 730 microcode and console program they released? If you do, would you please make a block image (dd) of it? MS

22 years, 2 months

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off the wall PDP-11 question...

by chrisc＠addpower.com

I think I know the answer to this already...but I'll ask anyway. :) Can the PDP-11 use the frame buffer boards that a VAX would use for graphic displays?

22 years, 2 months

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PDP Tester on E-bay

by rigdonj＠cfl.rr.com

Here's an odd looking thing. It's some kind of "PDP Test Board" <http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=1247&item=2784092672> Joe

22 years, 2 months

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Non-DEC DEC Field Guide?

by rigdonj＠cfl.rr.com

Does anyone know where there's an on-line Field Guide for DEC cards that weren't made by DEC? I found some Remex, Charles River and MDB cards that I'm trying to figure out what they are. Joe

22 years, 2 months

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TMS1000 Processor (fwd)

by aek＠spies.com

> I wan to dump the program off a TMS1000 You'll have to decap the part and photomicrograph the ROM and PLAs I've put the programmer's manual up at www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ti/_dataBooks There is no way to read the ROM externally.

22 years, 2 months

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Free to good home

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

The Computing Service here at York still has one DEC LG01 printer in use, but it's going offline for the last time at the end of this week. Rather than wheel it out to the skip, we'd prefer to see it go to someone who can use it. It's free to anyone who can collect it from York in the near future, and we should have some paper and spare ribbons as well. It you don't know what an LG01 is, it's a large heavy-duty fast (600lpm) 132-column dot-matrix tractor-feed printer in an integral soundproofing enclosure (floor-standing). We use(d) it for admin and finance reports, and multipart forms, originally on a VAX but now on one of our Alphas. It's been under a maintenance contract until recently, and it's in very good condition. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

22 years, 2 months

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Ultrix on an 11/730?

by msokolov＠ivan.Harhan.ORG

J.C. Wren <jcwren(a)jcwren.com> wrote: > They claim you're on crack. Well I say the same about them. I am at war with NetBSD and enemies in a war always say bad things about each other, it's the propaganda front of the war. I do not want to continue this thread further. No reply or followup to this message will elicit any reply or followup from me. MS

22 years, 2 months

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Ultrix on an 11/730?

by msokolov＠ivan.Harhan.ORG

J.C. Wren <jcwren(a)jcwren.com> wrote: > Wha? 'nyet' is Russian for 'no' last time I checked a dictionary. The Russian word of "no" is CE C5 D4 in Cyrillic alphabet in KOI-8. Transliterating Cyrillic in ASCII is always a pain and there is more than one reasonable way to do it. MS

22 years, 2 months

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Looking for M9404-PA M9405-PA QBUS Expension Cards

by vax3900＠yahoo.com

Well, I posted this on comp.os.vms and got no response so I repost it here. Hope it is not against certain rules. I plan to exchange with a pair of KDA50 cards (one M7165 and one M7164). Each side pays shipping by himself. Details: I ship you a pair of KDA50 cards, with two card covers. You ship me a pair of M9404, M9505 with the attached card covers. People on the list, please let me know whether it is a fair exchange. If not, I am willing to exchange for the M9404 only. Yes, there is a M9405 on ebay now, but what I really need is the M9404. Thank you. Btw, I changed my name to vax,3900 in mail.yahoo.com 3 days ago, but still my old (fake) name is shown in every email I send out. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/

22 years, 2 months

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Apple Turnover Software

by silviorf＠yahoo.com

Hi !!! I got a PC ISA card: Apple Turnover. The prob. is that I do not have the software for the card.... Can any1 help... please ???? Thanks in advance, Silvio Finotti ______________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! GeoCities: a maneira mais f?cil de criar seu web site gr?tis! http://br.geocities.yahoo.com/

22 years, 2 months

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8" floppy drive for PC, RS/6000, 68k Mac or Alpha

by india_50＠yahoo.com

hey, i'm lookin' for an 8" floppy drive for my pc too. i do hv a few of these disks (abs no idea what's in them). let me know if there's any in any region close to india. pls....... thank u urs subs ___________________________________________________________ BT Yahoo! Broadband - Free modem offer, sign up online today and save ?80 http://btyahoo.yahoo.co.uk

22 years, 2 months

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ping Christopher McNabb

by jkunz＠unixag-kl.fh-kl.de

Hi Christopher. You offered me a RL11 but I can't reply to your mail. I tried two different SMTP servers but I get allways: Jan 29 17:47:33 SirTobie sendmail[15295]: i0TGOxt15222: to=<xxx(a)vt.edu>, delay=00:22:34, xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=esmtp, pri=301051, relay=smtp.vt.edu. [198.82.161.8], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by smtp.vt.edu. On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 08:18:45AM -0500, Christopher McNabb wrote: > I have an RL11 available. You'd have to pay shipping from the US to > Germany, plus whatever it is worth to you. Thanks for the offer. :-) I would pay perhaps US$20 for the card and additionaly max. US$20 for shipping. I am looking for other UniBus cards as well: SMD disk controller. (MSCP or maybe R? emulation) Pertec 9 track tape controler for my cipher F880. -- tsch??, Jochen Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/

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TMS1000 Processor (fwd)

by vcf＠siconic.com

Can someone help Charlie? (See below...) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 21:35:52 +1300 From: Charlie <techj(a)inspire.net.nz> To: info(a)vintagetech.com Subject: TMS1000 Processor I wan to dump the program off a TMS1000 so tha I can read and then make some improvements and then reload onto a current day processor. Cna you send me in the right direction to locate info on how to dump etc. for the TMS1000. Charlie Harris New Zealand -- Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org [ Old computing resources for business || Buy/Sell/Trade Vintage Computers ] [ and academia at www.VintageTech.com || at http://marketplace.vintage.org ]

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Anybody have an Applied MicroSystems Z-8000 emulator?

by aek＠spies.com

> PN 700-10470-04. Do you want it? let me take a peek inside the one I have > do you know if it really is Multibus? at one point, I had a maint manual for the 68k variety it may have started out that way, but from memory they used the P2 connector differently.

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Old MFM controller on a PCI bus machine

by cheri-post＠web.de

Sellam, I'm using a Gigabyte board with the HX-Chipset to test my MFM- and RLL-drives. It works fine, just make sure you turn of the onboard IDE-controllers and onboard floppy-controller. In general, MFM-drives take a long time to turn into ready state, too long for these kinds of motherboards such as they declare your harddrive faulty. So what I do is resetting the mainboard. Enough time is elapsed, the drive meanwhile ready to perform the "working test" done by the board. Pierre > > I haven't played with MFM hard drives and controllers in a LONG time > (about 10 years now) so I have some questions. > > I'll start off easy. Should there be any reason an old 16-bit ISA MFM > controller won't work properly in a Pentium-class PC with ISA and PCI > slots? I imagine I would just have to configure the BIOS to reserve the > proper interrupt (I believe it's 14, correct?) for the MFM controller. > > I did all this but the MFM controller wreaked havoc on the system. It > killed the on-board floppy disk and IDE controllers (not physically killed > but basically disabled them and the system couldn't boot). > > I'm trying to determine if there is a natural conflict before I venture > forth with this configuration. This may be a problem related to the PC > I'm trying to plug the card into because there are other oddities with the > IDE controller that is preventing the system from booting with 4 hard > drives installed (2 per IDE interface). It halts after it auto-recognizes > the drives on the primary controller. Weird. > > Anyway, any insight would be appreciated. > > I'm going to do more experimentation in the meantime. I'll get another PC > with ISA and PCI slots to work with, and will also find an old 386 to test > the MFM controller on to make sure it is working fine. > > -- > > Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org > > [ Old computing resources for business || Buy/Sell/Trade Vintage Computers ] > [ and academia at www.VintageTech.com || at http://marketplace.vintage.org ] > ______________________________________________________________________________ Erdbeben im Iran: Zehntausende Kinder brauchen Hilfe. UNICEF hilft den Kindern - helfen Sie mit! https://www.unicef.de/spe/spe_03.php

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DZQ11 Config Question

by jeff.kaneko＠juno.com

That did the trick! Thanks guys. It comes up as KB5 - 8 now, but hey, it works! I'm gonna enjoy multiple RT-11 sessions on this thing .. . . Jeff On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 11:09:54 -0700 Kevin Handy <kth(a)srv.net> writes: > jeff.kaneko(a)juno.com wrote: > > >Does anyone out there know what CSR Address and vector I should > >set this to to make RSTS/E happy? When RSTS INIT's, it bitches > >that the board doesn't interrupt, and happily disables it. > > > >I'm using it in an 11/73, with RQDX3, 1MB ram, TQK70, the > >aforementioned DZQ11, and a DEQNA. > > > >If I do a SHOW DEV, KB1-4 is listed, but no CSR. . . . > > > > > > > According to VMS (assuming that the TK50 and TK70 have the same > addresses) > there aren't any floating address/interrupts, so: CSR: 760100 > Vector: 300* > > $ run sys$system:sysgen > SYSGEN> CONFIG > DEVICE> rqdx3 > %SYSGEN-I-EQV_NOTICE, equivalent name - device RQDX3 will be output > as UDA > DEVICE> tqk70 > %SYSGEN-W-DEVNOTKNWN, device not known: /TQK70/ > DEVICE> tk50 > %SYSGEN-I-EQV_NOTICE, equivalent name - device TK50 will be output > as TU81 > DEVICE> dz11 > DEVICE> deqna > %SYSGEN-I-EQV_NOTICE, equivalent name - device DEQNA will be output > as QNA > DEVICE> Exit > Device: UDA Name: PUA CSR: 772150 Vector: 154 > Support: > yes > Device: TU81 Name: PTA CSR: 774500 Vector: 260 > Support: > yes > Device: QNA Name: XQA CSR: 774440 Vector: 120 > Support: > yes > Device: DZ11 Name: TTA CSR: 760100* Vector: 300* > Support: > yes > SYSGEN> > > > > ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today!

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Anybody have an Applied MicroSystems Z-8000 emulator?

by aek＠spies.com

I have one, and a Z8002 pod. Docs would be nice to find..

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cow-orkers Was: Re: Estimated Price Of A "Classic" PDP-8?

by n2hqc＠earthlink.net

-----Original Message----- >Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 01:12:06 -0000 >From: "Witchy" <witchy(a)binarydinosaurs.co.uk> >Subject: RE: cow-orkers Was: Re: Estimated Price Of A "Classic" PDP-8? >> -----Original Message----- >> From: cctalk-bounces(a)classiccmp.org >> [mailto:cctalk-bounces@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Jules Richardson >> Sent: 26 January 2004 23:31 >> where did that start? I'm sure I remember seeing the "cow orker" typo in >> usenet postings about ten years ago, but maybe it has a history far >> older than that... >> > >I'm sure it's been in common parlance for longer >than this, but my other online home at www.b3ta.com >(currently offline for upgrades) coined the term >'orking' for a picture of an animal that had its nose >too close to the camera lens, and from that the 'new' >term of a cow-orker was born, but from sniffing around >USENET archives it seems it's been around for longer >than the last couple of years :) > >cheers Hello, My first try on this list. Hope this works. :) I recall using cow-orker as early as my FIDOnet days (up til 1993). It seems to go back as far as the late 80's. I just loked around and found this URL... Excerpts from http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?CowOrker ------------------ The earliest reference in GoogleGroups is from a signature file posted to alt.sca on June 27, 1989... The same author used it in his signature file for posts to alt.sca through August 11, 1989... --------------------------------

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looking for a few items.

by TRASH3＠splab.cas.neu.edu

I have a KXT11-AA, which is an M8063. Never thought it was good for much, but now maybe I have to reconsider. The M7676 is the -AB model, I think. Joe Heck

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Anybody have an Applied MicroSystems Z-8000 emulator?

by rigdonj＠cfl.rr.com

The title says it all. Joe

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RX8E printset?

by djg＠pdp8.net

>Can someone e-mail me a URL of where I can pick up a pdf of the RX8E >schematics? My goal is to examine how this guy wired up his RX8E >interface to a posi-bus machine, then look at *building* an RX8L >from M-series modules (since I have no spare RX8Es lying around). > http://www.pdp8.net/pdp8cgi/query_docs/view.pl?id=238 Search finds it by everything other than RX8E, will have to fix that. David Gesswein http://www.pdp8.net/ -- Run an old computer with blinkenlights

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RX8E printset?

by aek＠spies.com

they're on Kevin's site http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/pdp8/hardware/rx8.tif I'll see about putting a pdf up on bitsavers.

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Voltage & Current..

by dwight.elvey＠amd.com

>From: "Lyos Norezel" <lyosnorezel(a)yahoo.com> > >The phone required interior positive an that was, indeed, what the power supply was. So the wrong connector for the psu my foot... OK smartasses... what could have gone wrong now, eh? Voltage was EXACTLY the same... PSU had the correct connector and nothing inside the phone was shorted (I checked), same with the psu (nothing shorted). The ONLY difference was the difference in the amount of amps supplied. Come on... explain that one, eh? Bet ya can't >Lyos Gemini Norezel > Hi First, one should mention that even though you measured the phone to see if there was a short, it still may have had a failure ( that blew the first wallwart ) that only shows up when powered. Adding the additional current may have simply switched the balance of what smoked first, the wallwart or the phone. In other words, the phone was bad to start with, you just finished it off. I'm still not surprised or even slightly confused by the fact that it blew up. I've seen much stranger things. The solution, I just stated, is one of many that can still be provided. Dwight

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TI 990 minicomputer

by dpitts＠cozx.com

Jay: Saw your message dated Oct 1, 2003 about the TI system. Did you get it running? I too, have some TI hardware and I've written some cross support software that may be of interest (cross assembler, cross linker and a simulator). You can access the stuff at: http://www.cozx.com/~dpitts/ti990.html Good luck. -- Dave Pitts PULLMAN: Travel and sleep in safety and comfort. dpitts(a)cozx.com My other RV IS a Pullman (Colorado Pine). http://www.cozx.com/~dpitts

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