All,
I have a MMD-2 which is missing the 4 ROMs. I'm looking for either the HEX
files for the ROMs or if someone has an MMD-2 and could copy them that would
work also.
Thanks
-Neil
Hi,
I found this old message of yours, any chance your friend still has one of
these LAPC-1 cards? Please let me know. Thanks.
- - - -
MPU-401/LAPC-1
Hans Franke cctech(a)classiccmp.org
Thu Jan 9 12:52:45 2003
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I just taked to my friend. The cards are LAPC-1s. He still
has two new units, and he'd be willing to part for 40 Euro
each (~42 USD), plus shipping. So if someone still wants to
build a early 90s game PC, just drop me a note.
Gruss
H.
Steve,
I built a working 8008 computer in ''73 from circuit boards from a bankrupt
canadian company. I still have the computer and I have a number of books
>from Scelbi Computers on 8008 source for basic as well as debuggers, etc .
I would really like an 8008 emulator that I could run the source on my
modern PC. The roughest beta would be fine.
I ran across a blurb about your emulator in cassictechpub/jan9-02. It had a
link to your website but I was not able to get in due to lack of login.
Would you be willing to send me the emulator? Not necessarily for free
either. It does not have to be perfect and I will not require any support.
Thanks.
Terry Young
youngt(a)isecfdeo-emh1.army.mil
Hi, I also just found my portable TI Silent 700 data terminal. Also in very
good condition. I used it to access various systems after hours on the job.
I curious, what kind of information did you learn? Would you share any with
me?
Thanking you in advance!
Sincerely,
Pamela Barnard
Hi Everyone,
I solved the issue with mounting the RL02 on my Vax4000-200 last night. I
took the advice of one of the people who responded back about what the
settings and vectors are, compared to what the system expects.
Turned out: a. I had a bad RLV12 card
b. My 2nd card was setup for 22bit addressing
So I reset it back to factory 18bit settings, plugged it on, did a
mount/automatic dla3: and viloa! Up is came, I set sef to it and did a
directory listing and there were the files all sitting patiently waiting to
be read once again.
I have a backup across 3 rl02's as bak files, now I am going to work on
doing a restore to a dia1: drive that I have in my system as a scratch disk...
Thanks again to everyone who has helped out on this, now does anyone have
a spare rk05 decpack and a qbus controller they want to sell or loan me???
Curt
Whilst Browsing - ran across this fascinating - and well designed! -
group of pages on IBM's site. Includes a whole section on "IBM Dress"
rather tongue-in-cheekingly called 'The Way We Wore'...
http://www-1.ibm.com/ibm/history/
Enjoy. There are many sections that go into great detail about
historical IBM gear and systems, many fine pix, etc.
Cheers
John
ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk wrote:
> 1) What's the space on top, under the printer cover, for? I've found the
also floppies, the side of the compartment near the printer is deaper
to accommodate 2 (maybe 3) floppies on their side.
**vp
On Aug 6, 9:54, Peter C. Wallace wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Patrick Rigney wrote:
> > James Sissel wrote"
> >
> > > > My pet peeve is people who don't know the difference between
your and
> > > > you're.
> >
> > Mine is "utilize" and all its forms. What is wrong with "use"?
> Mine is Architected. It always makes me think of someone bludgeoning
> people by swinging an architect around by his/her ankles...
Mine is "burglarized" (or "-ised"). The noun is "burglar", the verb is
"burgle", and the past tense is "burgled". "To burglarize" would be to
turn someone into a burglar.
On Aug 6, 13:00, John Lawson wrote:
> "Verbing nouns wierds language"
Indeed :-)
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
Hi,
I ran across a reference to your webpage;
searching for a power supply for my 386-25 .
If you haven't given away your computer,
I'd like to suggest that you hook it up, as an X-10 box,
for home automation .
The freeware that comes with X-10; probably won't
run on a machine that old; but I'm told that the device works
off a serial port; and that there is software out there; that
was written specifically to use this standard on "older"
machines .
Also, take a look at the big manufacturers of home/industrial
electrical contracting equipment .
There are clock boards, eprom cards, your old box,
is still valuable, TO YOU .
Hava-goodun,
Ken .
On Aug 5, 21:43, Tony Duell wrote:
> > I've been asked about a quarter-inch tape standard from 1976,
called
> > ECMA-46.
> I have here the manuals (user and technical) for a Penny and Giles
'Data
> Logger' -- actually a QIC drive with a RS232 or current loop
interface.
> The user manuals says
>
> Recording Media : DC300A, DC300XL or equivalent 1/4in. data cartridge
> conforming to ISO4057 (ECMA 46)
>
> Recording Format : 1600 bpi phase encoded data to ISO 4057
[...]
> What I don't know is wherte ISO 4057 and ECMA 46 are essentially the
same
> thing, or whether the latter just specifies the physical form of the
> cartridge (The manual could be interpretted either way).
Neither do I, offhand, but virtually all the ECMA standards are
available online. Unlike some standards bodies, the ECMA believe they
should be accessible if people are to adhere to them. Anyway, ECMA 46
is at
http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/files/ECMA-TR/TR-046.PDF
BTW, many ECMA standards were adopted verbatim by ISO, so if you need a
copy of an ISO standard, and you know there's a corresponding ECMA one,
just download the ECMA version.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
Speaking of former Soviet (ne Russian) programmers -- When was the last
time one of *US* developed a tetris, or programmed a rotating Rubik's cube
to be both defeatable and indefeatable? They got some pretty sharp cookies
over there...
Cheers...
Ed Tillman
Store Automation Tech Support Specialist
Valero Energy Corporation
San Antonio, Texas, USA
Office: (210)592-3110, Fax (210)592-2048
Email: edward.tillman(a)valero.com <mailto:edward.tillman@valero.com>
-----Original Message-----
From: Joe [mailto:rigdonj@cfl.rr.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 5:20 PM
To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: Primate Programming
At 10:05 PM 8/5/03 -0400, R. D. Davis wrote:
>Quothe Tillman, Edward, from writings of Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 08:06:20PM
-0500:
>> And both management and users treat/pay us like lower-level primates
too...
>
>The interesting thing about this is that a large percentage of
>management and users are much closer to primates, intellectually
>speaking, than we are.
>
>> From: Vintage Computer Festival [mailto:vcf@siconic.com]
>> This pretty much sums up the current state of the IT job market in the US
>> right now ;)
>
>Do you mean that an IT job market still exists in the U.S.? That is,
>aside from the H1 visa employees imported for cheap labor along with
>the cheap outsourced overseas labor.
>
I saw a funny article the other day. In it the Indians were whining
about all the programming jobs that THEY were losing to the Asian and
former Soviet countries.
Joe
Anyone know of software that will test a VGA cards available resolutions?
I have a stack of old VGA cards here, and any that don't support at least
800x600 at 8 bits are no good to me. I was thinking of just plugging them
in turn into a Windows machine and letting windows tell me what
resolutions it can use, but that's slow and clunky.
I'm looking for some kind of a DOS utility that I can run that will test
the card at different settings. Something that I can put only a bootable
floppy so I don't have to wait thru the long windows boot, change, reboot
cycle.
Any suggestions?
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
Hi there,
Read with great curiosity the thread about the above. I own 3
DSD880D30s
and 1 DSD880S8. All are Q-bus. I have the original manuals, and
probably
the floppies that came with them. Also have the RT-11 v4 and v5
modified
drivers. We used them at one of my old jobs for quite some time. If
you
have any questions about them, feel free to email me.
On another note, the 880S8 seems to be dead, but I don't know if it is
the drive or the electronics. The Q-bus controller is fine, as is the
cable,
as they run the D30 just fine. So I am looking for either a good drive
or
a good S8 box to test with. Anything like that in the group of units
you were
talking about?
Thanks
Joe Heck trash4(a)splab.cas.neu.edu
Hi all,
Re-posted with picture in case anyone is interested:
I have a couple of new boxed ribbons as shown at
http://www.comprec.org.uk/ribbons.jpg
The box indicates that they're suitable for the following printer list...
Binder 1550, 8510, 8510A
C.Itoh 1550, 8510, 8510A, Prowriter 7500
DEC CLA 45-14602, LA50
HP 85
Leading Edge Prowriter 2-1550 8150AP
NCR 6411
NEC PC 8023A/B/C
Toshiba P1150, PA7251, PA7252
These are FREE (via an SAE to the UK, or a small PayPal donation). If
you have any of the above equipment and are interested, please email me
directly at elec37(a)york.ac.uk.
Cheers now,
Ben
~~~
Computer Recycling Project
University of York, UK
www.comprec.org.uk
hi,
i find the following lines incidentally
------------------------------------
Hi all, I don't know if anyone is doing anything with the original
PC, but when I had mine I converted it to an XT with a 15meg
hard drive. I ended up typing in the PC monitor and modifying
it so the bios had a drive entry for the hard drive I had purchased
(actually I bought a 10meg and they gave me a 15meg instead).
I have a zip file that has both the orginal source and my modified
copy if anyone is interested. Just email my privately and I will
pass the ZIP on.
best regards, Steve Thatcher
------------------------------------
i am trying to write a system and cant find bios source code.
could you email me your copy?
sorry to bother you.^_^
jedi
Hi,
I am interested in buying the hard card 40 you have.
Let me know how to go about it ?
One more thing.
I currently have a hardcard in an old system which is
not showing any display. so i took out the hard card
and plugged in a 486 system but now the system wants
to use it as a start up disk
any idea how can i prevent system to do that so i be
able to retrieve data from hard card. because if i let
hard card be start up disk then i get a bios address
error.
Any help will be appreciated.
infact i dont need a hardcard any more but if your
suggested solution works i 'll buy it :)
Cheers
Thanks,
Nauman
I saw a post of yours from last year.
I have a manual for this item if you still require it.
I am actually looking for a replacement for our STR LINK IIa, or at the very
least, the belt for the tape drive on it.
Jack
And both management and users treat/pay us like lower-level primates too...
Cheers...
Ed Tillman
Store Automation Tech Support Specialist
Valero Energy Corporation
San Antonio, Texas, USA
Office: (210)592-3110, Fax (210)592-2048
Email: edward.tillman(a)valero.com <mailto:edward.tillman@valero.com>
-----Original Message-----
From: Vintage Computer Festival [mailto:vcf@siconic.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 7:33 PM
To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: Primate Programming
On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Joe wrote:
> Everyone should read this! <http://www.newtechusa.com/ppi/main.asp>
This pretty much sums up the current state of the IT job market in the US
right now ;)
--
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer
Festival
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
International Man of Intrigue and Danger
http://www.vintage.org
* Old computing resources for business and academia at www.VintageTech.com
*
Saw your post about DEC manuals you've collected. I just inherited two
DEC LN-03 printers. Would appreciate copy of anything you've got for
this unit.
Thanks.
The word "prolly" in written communication is like fingernails on the
blackboard of my mind. I prolly shouldn't get so upset about it.
Larry
"Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of one's
native tongue it the most vital asset of a competent programmer."
- Edsger W. Dijkstra
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk-admin(a)classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-admin@classiccmp.org]On
Behalf Of ghldbrd(a)ccp.com
Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 10:59 AM
To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: RE: Grammar, was RE: Work In KC Area?
The lastest ones are "have gotten" and "enthused", which have become
commonplace in our English.
May Edwin Neumann have mercy on our fractured words.
Gary Hildebrand
St. Joseph, MO
> My pet peeve is the use of "I've got..", "You've got...", "They've got..",
> etc.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Sissel [mailto:James.Sissel@labone.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 9:19 AM
> To: kclug(a)kclug.org
> Subject: RE: Work In KC Area?
>
>
> My pet peeve is people who don't know the difference between your and
> you're.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Monty J. Harder [mailto:lists@kc.rr.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 8:42 PM
> To: kclug(a)kclug.org
> Subject: Re: Work In KC Area?
>
>
> "Steven Elling" <ellings(a)kcnet.com> wrote:
>
>> I wish I would of known that before I went to DeVRY. I would of just
>> went
>> to Goodland VoTech and saved a bunch of money in tuition and living
>> expenses. Plus, I would of been better off.
>
> I suggest that a bit broader education, which includes some English to
> go
> along with the technical classes, would _have_ served you better yet.
> You used the word 'of' four times above, and three of (heh) them should be
> 'have':
>
> 'would have known'
> 'would have just gone' (not 'went')
> 'would have been'
>
>
>
> There. I'm the freaking Grammar Nazi.
I recently purchased one of these old sigma cages with DEC and other hardware
inside. Anyone out there have information on how to "strap" the I/O cards so
that the 9 pin serial port for the console is active? According to the DIP
switches it is set to 9600 Baud. I know there is more to it than that.
Thanks
Ken
My apologies for the tackiness of posting a "for sale" ad to a list
where I'm not a regular, but this seems to be the best hope of finding
a good home for this stuff.
I'm about to become another of those "Silicon Valley refugees", so I
need to get rid of a bunch of "formerly useful" and "maybe someday"
items so I can spruce up the house and put it up for sale. Many of
them will be of interest to classic computer fans. These are the ones
that I think are "on-topic" here:
1. A lot of LSI-11 parts.
One DEC chassis (BA-11N, I *think*) with a minimal front panel and
about 8 hex slots.
Enough boards to build 2 or 3 working systems. CPUs: an 11/03, an
11/23, an 11/73, and a fourth one whose model I forget (I think
it's a different flavor of 11/73, but I'm not sure). Multiple
dual-wide RAM boards (and a 128KW quad-wide one in the garage,
somewhere, I hope). Various DEC and non-DEC serial cards.
An MTI MLV-11 MFM controller, with two Syquest drives and about 10
10-megabyte cartridges.
A prototype of a UDA50 clone with a couple of ESDI drives (I think
they're 760Meg, but don't hold me to that. They were "pretty
big" 10 years ago, when I was working on it ;-). I'm pretty
sure there's a QDA-50 to run it, too
Assorted cables and other parts.
All of the boards should be good: they came out of systems that were
working back in my DEC-peripheral-consultant days, and were properly
stored in anti-static bags. The Syquest drives were never especially
wonderful as a family, but these seemed to work fine while I used them,
and I think the odds are better than 75% that at least one of them will
work. And the odds are better than 90% on the UDA clone.
My preference is to have someone come by and pick up the whole lot for
$100 (trade offers will be considered: there are a few small items,
like hard drives to revive a couple of old PCs, that I need). If that
doesn't happen, I'll recycle the drives, and sell the boards by mail.
The other items are "free to good home", but I'd appreciate it if you
offered something in exchange (like an IDE hard drive or CD-ROM for the
PCs I'm fixing).
2. A Mac II, with MMU (so you can run Linux on it ;-), 8-bit color
card, and one of the drives with a bad case of the infamous stiction
problem. I have a couple of possibly-good replacement drives, but
never got around to trying them.
3. An "OS/2 starter kit", including Warp 3, Warp 3 Connect, some
aftermarket books with CDs, a few Hobbes archives on CD, etc. If
nobody local claims this, I'll mail it to someone willing to pay the
postage.
4. DC-600 tapes: an assortment of a couple or three dozen. Nearly all
used (though generally not heavily: most were distribution tapes that
I used once or twice for backups), but a few still shrink-wrapped. If
nobody claims the lot, I'll sell the new ones by mail.
5. A Tandon 1/2-height 8" floppy in a Corvus enclosure (model FLP-1). I'm
about 90% certain this was working when it went into storage 10 years ago.
6. A Voterm II. Condition unknown: somewhere on its journey through the
surplus food chain, it got whacked in a way that smashed its fuseholder,
and I never got around to trying to fix it. From what little I was able to
find on the web, I gather that this is something of a rarity, so I'll
entertain requests to ship it if nobody claims it locally.
I'll check the list archives for replies, but it's probably better to
contact me directly at netgate.net (userid "ran") to save bandwidth. I
have a pretty fascist set of procmail filters in place, but putting the
word "zaurus" at the beginning of your response will get you past them.
Thanks,
Ran
Hi All,
I've been searching for some evidence of what happened to the company that produced WPS-80 and WPS-PC, and come up dry. I need at least the license and binaries, but the hard-copy documentation would be nice, too.
ADVthanksANCE,
Dale
can be found here:
http://www.cbi.umn.edu/IMAGES/index
--
out of curiosity, I did a search for "magnetic tape"
in CBI's search engine. While there were several hits
on documents describing various aspects of magnetic
tape, there were no indices for any tapes themselves.
Unfortunately, the companies whose archives are being
turned over to CBI, The Computer History Museum, etc.
saved the manuals and the photographs, but none of the
software. :-<
The only exception I've found so far was in the DEC
archives at CHM, which has one storage box of PDP-15
diagnostics on paper tape.
On Aug 7, 19:11, Fred N. van Kempen wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
>
> > The proper usage is to speak of "myriad OT threads" (as in "many OT
> Wrong, it's "a myriad *of* <something>" , defined as "a great number
> of things", "many things" and so on.
Not wrong at all. The Oxford English Dictionary defines it as "myriad,
a & n, ten thousand (of); an indefinitely large number". The original
usage was "myriad things"; "myriad of ..." is recent usage.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
The lastest ones are "have gotten" and "enthused", which have become
commonplace in our English.
May Edwin Neumann have mercy on our fractured words.
Gary Hildebrand
St. Joseph, MO
> My pet peeve is the use of "I've got..", "You've got...", "They've got..",
> etc.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Sissel [mailto:James.Sissel@labone.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 9:19 AM
> To: kclug(a)kclug.org
> Subject: RE: Work In KC Area?
>
>
> My pet peeve is people who don't know the difference between your and
> you're.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Monty J. Harder [mailto:lists@kc.rr.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 8:42 PM
> To: kclug(a)kclug.org
> Subject: Re: Work In KC Area?
>
>
> "Steven Elling" <ellings(a)kcnet.com> wrote:
>
>> I wish I would of known that before I went to DeVRY. I would of just
>> went
>> to Goodland VoTech and saved a bunch of money in tuition and living
>> expenses. Plus, I would of been better off.
>
> I suggest that a bit broader education, which includes some English to
> go
> along with the technical classes, would _have_ served you better yet.
> You used the word 'of' four times above, and three of (heh) them should be
> 'have':
>
> 'would have known'
> 'would have just gone' (not 'went')
> 'would have been'
>
>
>
> There. I'm the freaking Grammar Nazi.
I currently have a hardcard in an old system which is
not showing any display. so i took out the hard card
and plugged in a 486 system but now the system wants
to use it as a start up disk
any idea how can i prevent system to do that so i be
able to retrieve data from hard card. because if i let
hard card be start up disk then i get a bios address
error.
Any help will be appreciated.
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A couple of weeks ago I mentioned I'd obtained an HP Integral. I've now
had time to test the PSU, etc, and it seems to be fine. However, I have a
few questions about it.
1) What's the space on top, under the printer cover, for? I've found the
HP-HIL mouse (and cable) is an almost perfect fit there, and as a mouse
is a useful accessory for this machine, that's where I store it. But is
there a more official use?
2) One of the cards I have in the machine is the interface for the 82904
expansion unit. Alas I don't have the expansion unit itself :-(. The card
has a 64 pin Blue Ribbon connector on the bracket, which seems to mostly
carry a buffered version of the Integral's expansion bus. My first
problem, though, is that 64 pin Blue Ribbon plugs are not listed in any
catalogue I've looked in so far -- 50 is the largest we seem to get in
the UK. Anyone know a source?
3) Also, has anyone any information on designing I/O cards for this machine?
4) A really long shot, but that expansion unit card is taking up a slot
that could be better used for something else. So does anyone know where I
might find a serial card (either RS232 or current loop, preferably the
former) or a GPIO card?
I also think I need a hard disk. I have whichever version of the 9133 is
around 20Mbytes here, which I believe should work. However, I have
questions about that too
1) Inside there's a set of 4 links called the 'Ident Sea'. It appears
these tell the controller the geometry of the ST506 hard disk that's
connected. Anyone know what all 16 possible settings are for?
2) Is it possible to low-level format a 'new' hard disk on this unit? If
I found a replacement drive that matched one of the expected geometries,
how could I use it?
-tony
My father was emptying his office and broght home a box full of back ups.
I have readers for most, except the following 2 :
Sony 5 1/4 Magneto Optical Disk EDM-1DA1s Rewritable
Maxell HS-8/112 Helical-Scan 8mm Data Cartridge
I've googled around a bit and disovered very little about these medias
beyond the fact the MO disks can contain 600mb.
Question : what drives would be able to read these media? Would they be
easily procurable for cheap?
-Philip
The last post prompted a trip to the dictionary (Websters New Universal Unabridged [1983]), where "myriad of ..." (any indefinitely large number) is indeed listed.
Looking at adjacent entries, I did pick up a new, related word, the metric prefix "myria" (10,000) as in myriagram (10,000 grams), myrialiter (10,000 liters) and myriameter (10,000 meters).
-----Original Message-----
From: steve [mailto:gkicomputers@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 9:22 AM
To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: OT: RE: Grammar, was RE: Work In KC Area?
--- Nick Steel <nick(a)tcns.co.uk> wrote:
> As long as we're bitching, the hairs on the back of
> my neck stand up
> (all too frequently, as it's currently in vogue)
> when people try to be
> erudite (but prove the reverse) by referring to: "A
> myriad of...".
>
"A myriad of ..." is correct usage(although maybe not
preferred), myriad can be used as a noun, like " A
herd of cattle".
I was just given a Panasonic KX-P1123 24 pin Multi-Mode Printer. I have
zero use for it. Generally I refuse dot-matrix printers, but it was 24
pin, which I haven't seem many of.
Anyone want it? Free to a good home! Pick-up or you pay shipping from
southern Qu?bec (J0B 2C0).
-Philip
Ive got a bunch of IBM 8bit ISA cards available. I've got
floppy controllers
ASYNC card
full length prototype cards
host and extender cards for the expansion chassis
parallel card
a '32kb mem cd.' <?>
keyboard interface card for a 3270pc
something called a keyboard mux interface
MAXIMIZER multifunction card from sigma designs rev 3.0
dozens of 64-256k memory exp cards
Toshiba 2756d-20 EPROMS labeled with BIOS-related notes
AMD EPROMS 6231572 a33289 8720fp labeled with IBM MACH PN11F5062
AMD EPROMS AM27c256
TI 2764jl-25
tmm23256p-5879 copyright IBM
intel d27256-25
AMD 6212424
some labeled with IBM PN 25F9523 1990
Some more labeled IBM MACH PN 11F6368
Intel 6833145 8425 L4289089S
AMD 27256DC
I was told some of these chips are BIOSes for the XT, or AT or the XT/286
model although I have no way of telling. Any interest in this stuff? I only want
enough to cover shipping and maybe the cost of a soda on the way to the post
office.
--
Antique Computer Virtual Museum
www.nothingtodo.org
I hope someone can quickly let me know the answer.
Is it normal for an HP-71b that has been without batteries or use for a
while to refuse to start up once you put batteries in _until_ the PSU is
plugged-in? Once it's been started with the PSU plugged-in, it works
fine with only batteries. Is this normal and, if not, any idea how to
fix it?
Thanks in advance.
nk
===================================
Nick Koleszar vespasale(a)dsl.pipex.com
I am pretty sure, though that this drive is not QIC11 (I did wonder about
coverting it to that format once many years ago as I needed a QIC11 drive
for the PERQ).
--
Archive developed the movable head serpentine recording techinique that
begat QIC11 (and the 9 and 15 track formats) MANY years after 3M developed
the 1/4" DC300 series tape cartridge. Quantex and other vendors were using
this mechanism in the mid 70's (Tek 405x's, IBM 51xx's) with multi-track
fixed position head stacks, and many different recording formats.
This appears to be yet another area where there is a lack of documentation
for someone trying to recover old data from decaying magnetic media.
I picked up a Tek 321 scope, and I remembered a thread about a year or so
ago about someone with a Tek 3" scope looking for help getting it going.
Point me in the right direction, and I'll hold my peace.
Gary Hildebrand
St. Joseph, MO
Are you still looking for copies of the TAM disks? I have a complete set,
and will complete whatever you're missing. Let me know what you can trade,
or send me the number of blanks and a postage paid mailer...
David
Hi,
I need some help with Procomm. I've been trying to log onto an Intel
320 computer that runs iRMX. I have a terminal connected to the Intel and
I've been able run the diagnostics and to load the OS and boot up but
didn't have the correct account names or passwors to log into the system. I
searched the net last night and found some iRMX manuals. Read them and
found a couple of default account names and passwords. Today I tried them
on the 320. The Superuser password didn't work but one of the regular
account names and password did work so I was able to get into the system.
:-) But once it logged in it executed the user profile and that changed the
terminal setting so that all I got was garbage. :-( (I'll go back to
reading and see if there's a way to stop it from executing the user
profile.) I also tried using a PC with Procomm as a terminal. Procomm will
emulate a lot of terminals and I thought that maybe one of them would
display properly. But I could never get Procomm to work. It always said
"Off-line" and I could never get anything to display on the screen. Data
was going out to the computer and data was coming back from it but none of
it showed up on the screen or in the log file. Any ideas? I'm guessing
some kind of handshaking problem. I connected up my data display boxs with
about six LEDs connected to the most important signal lines and everything
looked fine so it must be one of the less common signals. I used the same
cable and connected it to a terminal and set it for the same baud rate, #
of data and stop bits, parity etc and it worked fine. Also tried another
cable and it worked for the terminal but not for the PC with Procomm. I
have used this same PC with Procomm and the same cable to successfully
connect to other older Intel boxs with no trouble. Anyone have any idea why
Procomm doesn't recognize this system?
Joe
A better solution would be to write
a program that does a simple array-based look-up. Assuming the
Flex-o-writer uses EBCIDC, here's a chart that might be handy
--
you mean, like the one I posted here yesterday?
does ANYONE bother to read my posts here?
FWIW, it is NOT EBCIDC, and has upper/lower case state which
has to be remembered.
Guys, it gets better... I've got a working ISO and can boot to the
SYSBOOT> prompt (b/10000001 dua3) from sys1 on the CD but the system
Fails to boot further reporting DUA3 (CD/ISO) has been write locked
And mount verification is in progress..
I have seen this reported elsewhere for the 7.2 hobbyist kit..
So what's the fix?? How do I boot a vax without a vax (simh)
Installation?
Do I need to beg a dummy (minimal) system disk file from someone?(DUA0)
David
David at bitsolve dot com
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My RRD43 reads CDR's fine.
BTW, I know it was asked, but not sure if it was answered. I have read
VMS install CD's into PC ISO files using Nero, then used them with SIMH
to create a VMS system from scratch. I've also read the same discs with
Easy CD Creator (don't remember which version) and although the files
were slightly different sizes, they still worked fine.
I know I gave someone on this forum (was it you, Ethan?) some ISO's...
They were made with Easy CD Creator.
- Bob
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk-admin(a)classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-admin@classiccmp.org]
On Behalf Of Ethan Dicks
Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 1:38 PM
To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: RE: Reading a VMS CD-ROM for SIMH under Windows?
--- Antonio Carlini <arcarlini(a)iee.org> wrote:
> I've not actually attempted to use the results with SIMH, so all I'm
> reporting is that CDRWin is reading *something* from the CD! I'd burn
> the result to a CDRW if I thought any of my RRD4x devices could cope.
I already have verified that my RRD42 does _not_ like CD-R media. :-(
-ethan
hi eric!my name is alex and i am olso looking for documantation about nec\'s v20 controller.i search on their site but i found nothing.can you please send my what you could find about it?i am interested in anything about v20!thank you!
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On Aug 5, 23:48, Paul Williams wrote:
> No, that's ECMA Technical Report TR/46, "Security in Open Systems - A
> Security Framework".
Oops, sorry. However, you might like to look round the site -- there
used to be a way to order a free copy of most reports that weren't
online.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York