My HP ScanJet 3p has started to squeal when the mechanism moves.
I assume it needs to be lubricated. Does anyone have a hardware
manual for the 3p or know how to disassemble it and what parts
to grease?
--
Paul
Monroe, Michigan USA
I've just rediscovered a bunch of ICL DRS6000 boards, cables, disks
and tapes that I'd like to pass on to anyone who could use 'em. The
boards are (I believe) a complete set, and the disks are a set of six
differential-SCSI drives from the same machine. There are also a few
quarter-inch tape cartridges but no tape drive.
Free to collector, north Bristol (M4/M5 junction), UK.
--
John Honniball
coredump(a)gifford.co.uk
Hi Ed
Although, I have no specific manuals, these systems
are quite easy to work on. I hope that no one has stripped
it for tubes or parts. There are many application books
published for analog computers. Programming these are
almost always similar.
I would love to work on bringing yours back to life
but am afraid that the distance is a little to great
( I live in Santa Cruz, CA ). Maybe something can
be worked out with the Computer History Museum,
here in Mountain View ( http://www.computerhistory.org/ ).
Some kind of loan or something.
I could work on it there, assuming that you could locate
a sponsor to cover cost of repair, patches, program resistor and
program capacitors.
You might also check with Doug Coward:
http://www.best.com/~dcoward/analog
He may have some information specific to Donner Systems machines.
Like I said, I'd love to play with it.
Dwight Elvey
>From: "ed sharpe" <esharpe(a)uswest.net>
>
>Please see the Donner analog computer at:
>http://www.smecc.org/analog_computers.htm
>
>we would like to get enough stuff and some docs to get it operational.
>
>Thanks Ed Sharpe archivist for SMECC
>
>Please check our web site at
> http://www.smecc.org
>to see other engineering fields, communications and computation stuff we
>buy, and by all means when in Arizona drop in and see us.
>
>address:
>
> coury house / smecc
>5802 w palmaire ave
>glendale az 85301
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "ed sharpe" <esharpe(a)uswest.net>
>To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>; <cctech(a)classiccmp.org>
>Cc: <jwest(a)classiccmp.org>
>Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2003 7:02 PM
>Subject: Re: HP2000 pictures
>
>
>> that is curious... but I see why the spread the weight of the three
>> drives...
>>
>> we used 2883 disc drives on the main system, and a 7900 on the test
>> system.
>> we also had a rack with a spare processor and reader with a hot spare...
>> but nice to have the reader on that processor too if we wanted to listen
>to
>> music on an am radio next to the processor!
>>
>> If you go to the www.smecc.org near the bottom of the home page there
>is
>> a b/w picture... you can click on it and see what I am describing.
>>
>> by the way can use a 2883 disc drive or two....
>>
>> ed sharpe archivist for smecc
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Jay West" <jwest(a)classiccmp.org>
>> To: <cctech(a)classiccmp.org>
>> Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2003 5:59 PM
>> Subject: HP2000 pictures
>>
>>
>> > Hey folks... just happened to come across some pictures of HP2000
>systems
>> > that I have never come across before. Shows some really nice
>> configurations.
>> >
>> > http://www.entrix.co.uk/nostalgia.html
>> >
>> > Jay West
Please call me if you have any Hewlett Packard VME or
Industrial Computers for sale, ie: HP 743/100, 744's or
745's.
Thank you,
Kelly J Francis
HP Specialists Since 1978
Monterey Bay Communications
1010 Fair Avenue
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
831-429-6144
831-429-1918
kelly(a)montbay.com
www.montbay.com
Hello,
I just acquired one of these units and I also would like it to drive a
device programmer except this one has its own power supply.
I need a low speed unit and they are getting to be difficult ot come by.
I would like to add a 3.5" floppy to this unit and learned in my search
that I need the ROM N.3 Bios. Do you have any idea were I can get these
chips or the file necessary to create them?
Thank you, Jurgen
Like the subject says, I'm looking for some more memory...I've got 16 megs
now with two pieces of memory installed, but I want to bring it up to all
32 megabytes. Would anyone on the list be willing to sell or trade? I've
got some VAX 6000 boards and other equipment...
Cheers,
Chris
Hello,
I just acquired a non-working osborne 1 (in excellent
cosmetic condition, though). I've cleaned it up a
bit, and verified that the power supply is good.
Are there any online technical docs I can use to bring
this machine back up? Any recommendations?
Also, could anyone point me to a set of disk images
and any Osborne 1 related utilities, info, etc?
Thanks,
David.
Dave <dfnr2(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
> Are there any online technical docs I can use to bring
> this machine back up? Any recommendations?
http://www.spies.com/~aek/pdf/osborne/
-Frank McConnell
A blast from the past... this is an old (1992) Windows 3.1 screen
saver.
In cleaning out and cataloging old books and SW in our basement I
tracked down the installation disks and serial number for this screen
saver. The last time I had installed it was on a 33 mhz 486 with 8 mb
of RAM, and the screen saver would make the system noticeably slower
in restarting and would make debugging in Borland's IDE slightly
unstable. And I only heard the sound through a tinny PC internal
speaker.
So... on a lark I installed it on Windows 2000 SP 2. The installation
apparently failed and aborted at the update of the AUTOEXEC.BAT file,
according to the log:
[23] Using Straight copy of file: 'c:\autoexec.bat', to:
'c:\autoexec.adk'
However... the next time I rebooted, "After Dark" was running in the
system tray at startup. I put it in demo mode... no sound... cured by
setting the sound system to "Windows 3.1 Multimedia" from "PC
Speaker". And yes, it still wakes up at the programmed time you set.
My favorite scene is Spock ... "PAIN!" (the horta).... strumming a
Vulcan lyrette, singing "bitter dregs"... getting a blast of mind
altering pollen from that plant, followed by "Spocks' Love Theme"...
Spock with a beard... phasering holes in the screen display... Spock
himself looking kind of wrinkled... honorable mention to the flying
brain cells, and the sick bay display.
As a software developer, I'm really impressed by the backward
compatibility of Windows. A 32 bit OS playing a 1992 program with
sound.
Fred Cisin <cisin(a)xenosoft.com> wrote:
> Yes, there was a PC-DOS 1.00
> Yes, there were single sided drives
> Yes, they sucked
The drives, or PC-DOS 1.00?
> I didn't void my warranty for 72 hours.
Smaller, faster, cheaper: about a month ago I bought a $30 broadband
router from CompUSA. I powered it up once to poke at it and make sure
it powered up. Then I soldered a JTAG connector in and connected the
debugger....
-Frank McConnell
It kills me to let this one go, but it is too far away for me to get.
Damn, damn, damn. I'd love to have it myself.
> Hello again Jim,
>
> Yes, you can forward my information to the classic computer list but please
> obscure my email address until we have a positive taker.
> The model is a PCS-II with 32K Ram & uses BASIC language,. It was
> originally purchased in 1976 and we have an instruction manual and some 5.1
> /4" floppy discs or minidiskete's as they used to be called. We also have a
> printer which is compatible with the computer and which we can also supply
> free of charge. If you need any more info then please let me know.
>
> Many thanks,
> Syd.
As for the whereabouts, from another email:
> Syd Atherton.
> Design Engineer
> Tyco Flow Control,Dewrance
> Technology Management Centre.
> Moss Lane View,
> Skelmersdale,
> Lancs.
> England.
If you are interested, please contact me and I'll forward it to Syd, as
he doesn't want his email published on a public repository like this.
Thanks.
Hi folks,
I've finally published the schematics and software for
the Documation M-series card reader interface I built
this summer, which connects the reader to a PC with
USB. I've built two of them, actually, one for my HP
version of the reader that uses differential signalling,
and one for the standard Documation TTL interface,
which is going to the Computer History Museum. The
schematics and firmware for both are included.
The schematics and software are available
at http://www.quarterbyte.com/cardread.zip. It's
all GPL'd.
The zip file doesn't include a bunch of reference
information mentioned in the manual but you can
download them from the URL's provided in the
.PDF'd manual (although for some reason the hyperlinks
aren't active, sorry).
Someday, when I have time for fun again, in the far,
far, distant future, I'm going to extend the
IBM 1130 simulator to use this interface so you
can run real card decks into it :)
Brian
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
_| _| _| Brian Knittel
_| _| _| Quarterbyte Systems, Inc.
_| _| _| Tel: 1-510-559-7930
_| _| _| Fax: 1-510-525-6889
_| _| _| Email: brian(a)quarterbyte.com
_| _| _| http://www.quarterbyte.com
If the manuals don't show up elsewhere, I have both the 880D30 and
880S8 manuals. I am actually using them right now, as I am trying
to recover files from the 8 MB drive, but you are welcome to
photocopy them, and keep the originals, send me the photos. I actually
think I may have 2 copies of the 880D30 manual, in that case you
can have one.
Joe Heck
Reply to original sender below, not affiliated with seller, etc, etc.
-Toth
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 05:23:20 -0000
From: max6328 <maxa(a)ix.netcom.com>
To: TekScopes(a)yahoogroups.com
Subject: [TekScopes] Old scopes and equipment in need of a new home
As I posted before, I just cannot keep this wonderful stuff any
longer. Have had for many years and never have time to work on them.
Most have traces and trigger. Am short a few plug-ins for the 647s
Still looking for these.
I have approximately inventoried my garage. More in storage
locker.List is still growing but this is more complete than before.
I want to sell as one LOT as I do not have the time to sell piece by
piece.
Scopes
1-Tek546
4-Tek 547
1-Tek575 curve tracer
1-Tek 661
1-Tek 556
2-Telequipment S54AR
2-Tek647Rack mount
1-647 parts frame
1Tek 564 storage
1 561B
1-561B Military version rack mount
1-Tek 647 Rack
2-561A Rack mount
1-519
1-Tek 585A
Misc Plug-ins
1-53/54k
1-Lavoie Labs clone LA265L
1-4 trace plug-in for 561
3-boxes of manuals for above
2 Scope carts
1-General Radio 736A wave analyzer
1-HP302A wave analyzer
1-Tek 127 dual plugin supply
1-Tek 132 single plugin supply
1- Measurements Model 80 RF gen to 400 MHz
2-TS497B/URR clone of Measurements Model 80 RF gen to 400 MHz
1-HP650A test oscillator, phase shift type to 10 MHz
1-Sierra Electronics Wave analyzer
1-HP 200CDR
1-Auto Radar trap circa 1959
1-Tek 122 preamp
1-GR RF bridge 1650A
1-Pek Labs 10V 50A Arc lamp supply
1-HP410A
1-Rhode and Schwarz secondary time standard (second to NIST in
quality)
1-Sorensen DCR600-2.5 amp supply 600V at 2.5 A max
Equipment located in Saratoga Ca adjacent San Jose in the south SF
bay area..
Yes, I know it is very sad.
Any interest??
Max Artusy
408 867 5461
Original Message:
>Hi Roger,
>
>I saw you had posted something about a Quantum Lightning Drive. I have an
>Apple branded Quantum ProDrive LT SCSI. You have any idea how to set the
>scsi number on these things?
>
>Thanks--if you can help.
See <
http://www.maxtor.com/en/documentation/pdf_jumper_settings/prodrive_scsi_ju
mpers.pdf>
Good lick! Steff
FYI:
I finally got around to posting some pictures of the Alpha Micro 1000
that I picked up a couple of weeks ago. Here's a link;
<http://www.classiccmp.org/hp/am-1000/>
Unlike the AM-100 this one has no buss system in it but does have a
connector for an optional I/O
card on the left size (facing the computer). It also has a connector for a
daughterboard on the right side. Mine has an AM-706 memory card there. I
also have an optional I/O card installed in the left side. The card in mine
is a PIICEON SR 1000-8P. It adds 8 additional serial ports to the system.
(there are 3 serial ports built in). The main circuit card is a large
custom card that is almost as big as the case. The card hinges up to
reveal
the power supply and hard drive and floppy drive (if equipped). This one
has no floppy drive but does have a 190 Mb Maxtor hard drive. I've been
able to get it to run self test and everything passes fine except that the
system says that there's no har drive contoller in it. Since it doesn't
think there's a HD controller it never boots. I haven't gotten around to
troubleshooting it so at the moment it's just collectiung dust.
Joe
Hi guys :)
The time of my life has finally rolled around that I can have a good crack
at getting my VAX 11/750 up and roaring (as i'm sure David Brownlee would be
pleased to note!)
I'd like to canvass your opinions on the absolute minimum of hardware that I
need in there (I know f'rinstance that I can remove the floating-point card
and the RDM) to have something that should at least get to console.
I would also like to know what sort of power load we would be talking per
card, if anyone is privvy to that sort of information, or at least an
informed guess.
Same applies for the system blower - does anyone have a ballpark figure on
how much air it should be pushing?
Thanks
meltie/alex
[ps apologies for any previous badly formatted copies of this message.
Mutter mutter crappy webmail clients mutter...]
peter tremewen wrote:
> Found a little something in a "lucky dip" so to speak
> with some other boards I "needed" Any one have any idea what the
> hell it is?? Follow the link:
If I were to make a wild guess, I would say that it is
a "BAR CODE" controller from an old point-of-sale
system manufactured by ICL Retail Systems of Dallas.
--Doug
Hi Roger,
I saw you had posted something about a Quantum Lightning Drive. I have an
Apple branded Quantum ProDrive LT SCSI. You have any idea how to set the
scsi number on these things?
Thanks--if you can help.
Tim
----------------
Tim Martin
Top Step Design http://www.topstepdesign.com
(Graphic, Package, Web Design)
208-683-3000
Taking your project to the next level.
Hi, everyone!
I've become the new owner of a nice MicroVAX 3100, and I'm trying to learn
more about it. I had a few hardware-related questions, and I'm hoping that
someone here can give me some insight.
This is what I know about the system so far -- it's got three RZ26 drives
in it, although one appears to have died, since SHOW DEV only reports two
installed. If I were to replace the failed one, do I need to get my hands
on another Digital drive, or will any SCSI drive work with VMS? Also, I've
heard that some vaxes (or was it VMS, or both?) have limits on the size of
the drive it will work with...what would work best in this system?
My VAX came with VMS 5.5-2 installed, but I'd like to go ahead and get the
hobbyist license and move to 7.2. Will my little VAX handle it? It's got
16 megs of memory and about 2 gigs of hard disk space (unless I can coax
that other RZ26 into working...) Also, I don't have a CDROM, or a place to
put it in the case. Again, if I get an external SCSI case, does it or the
CDROM I put in it need to be specific to the VAX?
Thanks in advance for your help! I'm really looking forward to putting
this machine back into service...
Cheers,
Chris Cureau
While out looking today I found a Super Famicom with one controller for
$6.96 and the lady in the back room was telling me that this was the second
one they had sold. She also said that she had tossed the ac adapter for it.
Does anyone know if I can use a regular SNES ac adapter with it?
Hi all,
Found a little something in a "lucky dip" so to speak with some other boards I "needed" Any one have any idea what the hell it is?? Follow the link:
http://www.geocities.com/australianvintcomp/Temp/Temp.html
Any info would be apreciated.
The Sinister Dragon.....
Sellam,
>>
http://www.geocities.com/australianvintcomp/Temp/Temp.html
> Just airing a pet peeve here, but I won't traverse any link through
> Geoshitties with all those gawd damn pop-ups of theirs unless I absolutely
> have to :(
Just go here then ..
http://www.geocities.com/australianvintcomp/Temp/
No .html, no popups. You can then look at the two .jpgs
Lee.
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Does anyone have a copy of Virtual Valerie for the Mac? I need it for a
project I'm working on. Please reply privately.
Thanks!
--
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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I've picked up a crap load of early IBM software and manuals in the last
two weeks and got another load today. I got some neat stuff (MS-DOS 1.0,
CP/M-86 v1.0) but I've got way more than I have room for so I'm selling a
bunch of it off. I have a LOT of technical reference manuals, all kinds of
compilers, lots of early IBM software and more. Most of it appears to be
unused. I think I'm going to keep the PC Hardware Maintenance and Service
manual since I have an early PC that I'm hanging onto, I haven't decided
about the CPM=86 and DOS V1.0 yet. See
<http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewSellersOtherItems&userid=rigdonj>
and keep checking back, I've got lots more to post.
Joe
Doesn't someone here on the list have an early Alpha Micro machine? If
so let me know who you are. I remember talking to someone a few years ago
about them but I don't remember who it was.
Joe
> Just go here then ..
>
> http://www.geocities.com/australianvintcomp/Temp/
>
> No .html, no popups. You can then look at the two .jpgs
Except that the site's now hit its bandwidth limit (probably all those pop-ups
;) which in the case of Geocities seems to be about 2 bytes per week... :-/
cheers
Jules
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Visit our help area for more information.
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That'll teach you to post to such a large group.
Dwight
>From: "Davison, Lee" <Lee.Davison(a)merlincommunications.com>
>
>Sellam,
>
>>>
>http://www.geocities.com/australianvintcomp/Temp/Temp.html
>
>> Just airing a pet peeve here, but I won't traverse any link through
>> Geoshitties with all those gawd damn pop-ups of theirs unless I absolutely
>> have to :(
>
>Just go here then ..
>
> http://www.geocities.com/australianvintcomp/Temp/
>
>No .html, no popups. You can then look at the two .jpgs
>
>Lee.
>
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And thusly =?koi8-r?Q?=22?=stephen spake:
>
> >
> > Hello all,
> >
> > Has anyone heard of the Enermax power supplys? The model number from the
> > (now non-working) is EG150S-V.
> >
> > The special thing about this supply is its size: 4" W X 5" D X 2.5" H
> >
> > Thanks for any help!,
> >
> > Bryan
> >
> >
>
> enermax make some of the best and most expensive pc psu's in the world,
> all the overclockers use them.
>
> it sounds like you have something custom - maybe you should repair it.
>
It is from an older slimline case. Where would I find information on
repairing it?
Thanks!,
Bryan Pope
Anyone have any Hewlett Packard HP-IB cards they want to sell?
They're for NASA.
If you do, send a list of part numbers with asking prices to ...
tempmail.aa(a)verizon.net
> Are manuals online or available ?
I found an 8002A users booklet at the flea market this
morning. I wonder if this was running FORTH, given the
terminology they use (workspace, dictionary, etc..)
list server and web content is back up now, on the new hard drive. I was
hoping to just add the new drive, keeping the existing drives, copy the
content from one drive to the other, then yank the old drive and move the
new one to it's place. But nooooo there's only two hard drive power cables
in the chassis, and I had no Y cable with me. Sooo had to move all the
content to another server, replace the drive, move it all back... yikes.
Gigs upon gigs takes a LONG time to copy, even on 100bT.
Anywho, everything should be back up. Let me know if there are any problems.
I have the old drive home now, I'll blow that away and load a new copy of
FreeBSD on it with all the newest software we use, then sometime soon go
back to the datacenter and put in the new OS drive.
Oh, donations can stop... I have enough to cover the drive and the two
memory panels. I may put in the memory panels friday morning.
Sorry for the long interruption tonight!!!
Jay
Thanks. I was livid about this. Have older music devices that use 720K
disks to play Standard MIDI files. I was able to use your run command to
make 720K disks. Found your post on Google.
Tran Whitley
Hi,
I've read a post on the net where you said you have a CM100... I'd like to
receive the source code of the microchip in the drive and a copy of the manual
(if you have it) and I also need the pinout of the cable that connects the
drive with the control board CM153... I hope you can help me, 'cause I've
found that CD-ROM drive and I'd love to see it operating again...
PS: I'm Italian so I cannot speak and write in English very well, please be
patient...
Bye
On Aug 11, 15:03, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Aug 2003, M Jones wrote:
>
> > I have been looking for a solution to the problem of removing
grease
> > pencil marks on books. I noticed that some time back, someone
posted
> > this question. I do not know if an answer was ever given.
> I hate these stupid thrift stores that do that. Retards.
>
> Anyway, I never figured out a good way, short of using lots of eraser
> heads. It usually leaves a big blotch, but sometimes I can
effectively
> erase the grease pencil.
Since it's essentially coloured wax, I wonder if the technique used to
remove wax (candle wax, usually) from clothing might work? It's
basically a case of ironing a sheet of brown (wrapping) paper over the
wax. Paper-on-paper probably won't work as well as paper-on-cloth, so
I'd try it on something unimportant first!
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
Folks --
I need to part with my private collection's biggest (and boy is this thing
big) Albatros. I have 5360 with two tape drives, two printers and the
expansion cabinet. I've never attempted to power the thing up, but they
tell me it was working when retired. It's currently located outside of
Hartford, CT. Any takers?
Colin Eby
offline address : ceby2(a)csc.com
Anyone have a DG Eclipse S/130 or S230 they'd be willing to trade? I'm still
looking for a Nova 1200, Microdata Reality, and Pr1me too.
Contact me off-list if so, I've got DEC, HP, & Heathkit to trade.
Jay West
I MAY be going to the datacenter this evening, not sure yet, only a 50/50
shot. If I do, I will take the classiccmp machine down to look at the memory
slots, and to install the 160gb drive in place of the 20gb drive. This will
take a while, so expect to be down an hour perhaps. Then I'll take the 20gb
drive home, do a new FreeBSD install with the newer versions of mailman,
mysql, php, etc... then at some point I'll take that 20gb drive downtown some
other day and replace the existing 4gb OS drive.
Like I said, only a 50/50 shot - I may get tapped to do something else
tonight. But if not, I wanted to give the list a headsup.
Jay