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

by pietstan＠rogers.com

I spotted a few cards at the local dismantlers the other day, and I wonder what they are: - dual-height (2 card edge fingers) with a sticker reading " MTI Model MSV05B" and a 50-pin header at the outside edge of the card - quaad-height with a silk-screened Dilog logo and DQ130 model number and 2 50-pin headers at teh ccard edge. What are these?? They had several of each of these, condition unknown (they were already pulled out of the machines), which I asked them to put away for me for a few days. Does anybody need any? One machine I also spotted there was labelled VaxStation II / GPX in a BA123 enclosure. I"m not interested in the machine, but if anyone wants cards from it, let me know....

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PDP 11/44 working

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Oct 6, 21:34, Don Maslin wrote: > On Sun, 6 Oct 2002, John Lawson wrote: > > It boots from two Micropolis 51/4" half-height drives sitting in the > > card bay of a card-less 11/23 chassis... which has been re-badged by > > Centaur Software. The front panel switches control write-protect, now. > > I don't have models right now, since I didn't work on that device yet. > > But they connect to a Dilog DU686 controller card - a quad-height card > > with one common 34-pin ribbon and individual 20-pin ribbons going to each > > (of 2 drives). This is... MFM, no? the original owner called them SCSI > > but somehow I think not.... Anybody have Doc on this Dilog card? > > Certainly not SCSI, but are either ST506/411 (what you called MFM) or > ESDI. Check the controller capabilities or the interface of the drives > before you swap in a different drive that "looks the same". The > connectioons are NOT the same. DQ686 is an ESDI controller, with MSCP protocol. Don's right, do not connect ST506/412 drives to it or you'll release soe magic smoke! -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

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10 years

by xds_sigma7＠hotmail.com

I have a Newton.. also the complete, never-used programming kit.. And a spare LCD should anyone need one... Will J _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com

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Mystery QBus cards

by xds_sigma7＠hotmail.com

MTI MSV05 = emulates DEC TSV05.. I have the manual for it... I think its a a QIC controller, not sure off the top of my head.. Will J _________________________________________________________________ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com

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Mystery QBus cards

by xds_sigma7＠hotmail.com

MTI MSV05 = emulates DEC TSV05.. I have the manual for it... I think its a a QIC controller, not sure off the top of my head.. Will J _________________________________________________________________ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com

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Help needed with reading Altos 3068 disks

by xds_sigma7＠hotmail.com

should be 5.25", I think 1.44MB, and UNIX. _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx

23 years, 8 months

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PDP 11/44 working

by jpl15＠panix.com

Yesterday (and into the night), I powered up one of the two 11/44 machines rescued from San Diego. Did the usual thing of taking out the cards, documenting cables, cleaning, dusting, and then turning things up slow and watching voltages - no worries, the systaem came up and was subsequently reassembled in it's as-acquired config. It boots from two Micropolis 51/4" half-height drives sitting in the card bay of a card-less 11/23 chassis... which has been re-badged by Centaur Software. The front panel switches control write-protect, now. I don't have models right now, since I didn't work on that device yet. But they connect to a Dilog DU686 controller card - a quad-height card with one common 34-pin ribbon and individual 20-pin ribbons going to each (of 2 drives). This is... MFM, no? the original owner called them SCSI but somehow I think not.... Anybody have Doc on this Dilog card? The machine currently runs RSX-11M V4.2 G Build 58, or so it says. File creations run from 1980 to 1997, when the machine was shut down. The physical devices are mostly from '79 to '83. It has Fortran, Basic, and Oregon Pascal V2 installed. There is an RL02 system, working nicely, and couple of multi-line EIA muxes, one DEC (M7819) DZ11 and a Ditronics 16-line EIA mux. There is also a Digital Pathways SLC-1 real-time clock/calendar that sits in the Console line and responds to certain interrogatories from the System... fairly funky, IMHO. It came with printsets for all major subsystems, and the Blue Wall, and about 20 RL02 packs, most of which are blank. If everything goes as planned, I will bring this machine to VCF5.0 and let it be Played With. And, looking back into the Files, it was Bill Bradford who first brought this machine to the attention of Chris Kennedy, who referred it to me, and voila! here it is warming my (pleasantly) chilly garage while we wait to see if Autumn is going to actually stay for a while. It was pushing 90 here this afternoon... wierd! Should be fixing to snow.... So - now to wake up the Second System. Since this was a mission-critical machine, there are actually two complete identically-configured 11/44a and disk subsystems. The RL02 is shared by changing cables to the machine in use, and the TTY lines are all hooked up to a bank of DPDT mini switches (also by Centaurus Software) so that, if one system crashes, the other can be cut over by changing one connector and flipping the switches. Anyway - not a particularly 'rare' or 'significant' system, but certainly fun to mess around with. It certainly gets stares from my nieghbors. One of the local kids looked in while it was running this evening and asked "what's *that* thing?". I told him it was a computer. "No Way!!" Cheers John

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BSD 2.9

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Oct 6, 12:52, Zane H. Healy wrote: > >5th or 6th edition would be more practical on this system, though you'd > >probably have to write a TU58 driver. > > > >Eric > > I thought 5th & 6th were limited to Unibus systems.... For that matter, > will 7th even run on a Q-Bus system? 7th Edition certainly runs on QBus. That's what one of my 11/23's is running, and it was a development machine for Heriot-Watt University, when they were the UK distribution centre. It has 256KB RAM and two RL02's on an RLV11 controller. With a small tweak, 7th Edition will also run on an 11/73. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

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School Auction Finds

by jrkeys＠concentric.net

Went to a large school auction Saturday and got lots of stuff real cheap. There was hundreds of computers stuff at this auction. I got; Epson PX-8 missing keyboard cover and ac adapter. 2 - IBM EduQuest Fifty-cs desktop computers that work fine, first time I had seen these. I have several of the all-in-one units. IBM type 3194 controller. NEC MultiSync 6FGp 20" monitor for $1 and it works great. Apple IIe platinum case and 6 external 51/4 floppy drives. IBM Thinkpad 350c no charger but only cost $1 Compaq Contura 3/25c no charger but also was only $1 And I got about 15 P166 Compaq for less than $1 each along with one P266 Compaq, several IBM 486's desktop all for less than $1 each. There were some Dell's in the lot also. Also got a box full of game consoles that I have not checked yet but saw a Genesis 16-bit and NES on top.

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hp items found today

by jrkeys＠concentric.net

Went to unload the van at the warehouse and stopped at a couple of stores and found these hp items: hp 82162A Thermal Printer with one roll of paper. hp 82169A HP-IL/HP-IB Interface unit. A plastic bag hanging on the junk rack with a hp ac adapter 82059D; hp 82160A HP-IL module; and three different length hp cables for the above units. Also picked up a power supply for the Zenith Supersport 286 notebook.

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Help Needed with NT 4 Password

by jrkeys＠concentric.net

Just purchased a digital Prioris HX 5133DP server at a auction and it is password protected. It powers up ok and then ask for the admin password. Does anyone know a work around to get into this system? Can put a new version of NT 4 on top of it? I do have a legal CD that I got last year that could install on top if I will not lose the drivers that are already on the machine. Thanks in advance for any help.

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Tek O-scope's Available in Oregon

by healyzh＠aracnet.com

Yesterday I ran across someone that has a fairly large supply of Tek Oscilliscopes available with all the pluggins (I believe they're the 7704A model). They were well cleaned prior to storage and they've been kept in a very clean environment. He said prior to storing them they all worked, but prior to selling any he'd want to recheck them. I gather he wants a fair price (it sounded reasonable to me), and would be willing to ship (for an additional cost). If anyone is interested, let me know and I'll put you in contact with him. Zane -- | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator | | healyzh(a)aracnet.com (primary) | OpenVMS Enthusiast | | | Classic Computer Collector | +----------------------------------+----------------------------+ | Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, | | PDP-10 Emulation and Zane's Computer Museum. | | http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ |

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Any Altos fans out there?

by xds_sigma7＠hotmail.com

After their Xenix 8086 systems, they made 68k-based *NIX servers... I think they were making x86 processor *NIX servers when Acer bought them.. I have a 3068EP, which is a 20MHz 68020 machine, needs manuals and software, plus assorted case parts.. Will J _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx

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Any Altos fans out there?

by fmc＠reanimators.org

Bob Shannon <bshannon(a)tiac.net> wrote: > Does anyone have a pointer to the general history of Altos? Whatever > happend to them? Bought by Acer. -Frank McConnell

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SIPP to SIMM conversion

by lgwalker＠mts.net

Does anyone on the list know a source for the kits to change SIMMs to SIPPs. I believe you soldered the tips on. Or better yet a source for these hard to get 30 pin RAM chips. Lawrence lgwalker(a)mts.net bigwalk_ca(a)yahoo.com

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SIPP to SIMM conversion

by jwillis＠arielusa.com

I have in stock many many many 30 pin SIMMS

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Excelan EXOS 8000S ?

by xds_sigma7＠hotmail.com

Well I used to have some model of EXOS ethernet interface that was QBus... They were, at one point, owned by Novell.. The board even had Novell silkscreened on it, was quite amusing to me.. I still have a multibus EXOS card for a Masscomp. _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx

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Excelan EXOS 8000S ?

by Fred.van.Kempen＠microwalt.nl

Hi all ! While reading in the *pile* of magtapes (on my left side; rightside for the viewers ;-) I found a tape which doesn't look very familiar to me: Excelan EXOS 8000-0101S TCP/IP NETWORK SOFTWARE SOURCE PRODUCT FOR OEM DEVELOPMENT PN: 4408000-0101S REL: 3.3Zv7 It has three more labels, all of which warn about it's contents being proprietary, confidential, yadda yadda. The usual :) Question: what is this? Does anyone know, or remember, what the EXOS 8000S was? The contents (2.3MB or so) look like a UNIX dist of some kind, with UNIX shell scripts for installation... the rest is probably a compressed file with the sources. Any ideas? Thx, TapeMa$ter Fred

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New finds on Thursday At the Thrift's

by jrkeys＠concentric.net

Got a digital DECstation 5000/240 $6.95 plus tax no keyboard, mouse or monitor with it. A dca IRMA Key/3270 keyboard in excellent shape. A dtk DLT-3311 laptop for $8 no charger with it so not able to test it yet. Apple mono monitor A2M2010 with cable. A DeLorme TripMate Hyperformance GPS unit for laptop missing software and manual, was free. A TI Passport Flight Computer was free. SyQuest SyJet 1.5 GB internal SCSI cartridge unit was $1.21 and I found one cartridge for it (the lady let me have it for 60 cents), and I also found the install 3.5 FD for it at a cost of 75 cents. Got some game cartridges for the NES, SNS, Sega CD, and some controllers for PS1 console. Also got several mousepads for that collection and some books/manuals.

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Penpoint! was Re: 10 years

by dwightk.elvey＠amd.com

Hi Bob Just thought I'd let you know that this last message was sent with an html attachment. You shouldn't sent html to news groups. Dwight

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Hamfest: Bedford Indiana

by Mzthompson＠aol.com

As mentioned in an earlier posting, there is a hamfest this weekend. It is at Bedford Indiana. It is not usually a big hamfest, but I seem to find better goodies there than some of the bigger events. It is also a reunion of sorts for a group of folks from all over Indiana and I get to see old friends from Civil Air Patrol days and the like. In addition to the Intel PC stuff mentioned in an earlier posting, I will have some other computer stuff. Under the heading of DEC will be some keyboards, mice (you awake Ethan), MMJ cables & adapters, as well as some free manuals (which I won't bring back). Also hope to take some spare NeXT parts. If you are interested in going, see: http://www.hoosierhillshamfest.org for a map, directions and GPS info. If you mention you are a Classiccmp'er, I'll give you a good discount and maybe even a free goodie or two. Mike KA9JWZ

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Recent Acquistions (Intel)

by Mzthompson＠aol.com

After I got the PowerMacs, I went back with an idea. Since he considers 486's and lower to be useless I made a suggestion. I would tear them down to cards, memory, drives, cables, etc. and I would take the stuff to an upcoming hamfest (see next posting) and sell it cheap. He agreed and we decided on a 50-50 split and I got 'skimming' rights to the machines as I tear them down to cover my time. We also decided to recycle the cases and motherboards to keep them out of the landfill. So after a few afternoons I got more PC stuff piled around here than even I can tolerate. Let me just say that I am not so naive as to believe that the majority of this mess will sell. I suspect the shop owner thinks otherwise. But who knows, someone might walk up and see that box full of hundreds of SIMMS and make me an offer that I just can't refuse. During those afternoons, he would come back and offer to give me this and that. I think he was happy to just be able to walk into the store room and see the empty space grow. Out of all his offers was a monitor for a PowerMac that had been recently uncovered. The thing that probably made all of this worth it is what I call the Borland Bonanza. Among all the machines were boxes of software. I got about two dozen sets of disks in unopened plastic wrap. It includes Paradox, dbase, Turbo C++, Turbo Pascal, ObjectVision, Delphi, etc. For some products there is both DOS and Windoze versions. Given that it is older versions, I suppose that it is available on their web site. Still there is something to be said for having the original disks. Mike

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Earlier Acquistions

by Mzthompson＠aol.com

I went into the local PC reseller's shop just over a month ago. He had gotten in a big mess of machines which included some Apple stuff. I managed to talk him out of three PowerMacs (not quite 10 years old yet) for 10 bucks each. The models were 7200/120 (with a 1.2 gb HDD), 7200/90, and a 7100/66. These weren't for me though and they are gone now. A friend of mine took them for his daughter's private church school. If it were not for his efforts they probably wouldn't even have that first machine. These were the machines only, no monitors, kybds, mice, etc. That has been partially rectified. See my next posting. Mike

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SCSI drive available

by Fred.van.Kempen＠microwalt.nl

> I probably have the room, but not the inclination. I am > really a software person - the hardware is just there to > run the software - well mostly - my wife certainly would > not agree when she she looks at the basement full of > PDP-11 junk. Ahh, but that merely takes a quick #ifdef WIFE # undef WIFE # define WIFE GEEK_WIFE #endif to fix... :) > As for using the RL02 and RK05 drives, while I have > one RK05 drive at the moment and a borrowed RKV11-D > (THANK YOU Ethan Dicks - which I am close to being > finished with) to recover some RK05 packs I obtained > last year in Montreal, I would NEVER consider using the > RL02 drives, let alone the RK05 drive, as a production > unit to fix software bugs, etc. So if I really want to run > some code which can only be run using an RK05 device > driver under RT-11, I would use Ersatz-11 and run the > code on a PC under Windows 98 SE/Ersatz-11. About > the only problem is that it will run TOO FAST - about > 15 times the speed of a PDP-11/93 right now and > eventually I hope to get to 50 times the speed of a > PDP-11/93 when a high end Pentium 4 is cheap enough. I do all my Ultrix-11 development under E11 too, simple because (a) it's a hell of a lot faster, and (b) I can take Falcon (the "machine") with me, including its four RA82 drives and all the others. :) Still.. I do try make sure it still runs (acceptably) on Real Hardware as much as possible. Which usually means teaming with retrogeek-friends for Yet Another retro-session. (did I mention the WIFE issue already? They usually seem to have issues with these sessions, too.. duuno why ;-) So... OK. I probably would not run a bunch of RP's for fun anymore. However, I have friends ['lo, ed ;-] that do, soo... :) --fred

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Oops...

by jimw＠agora.rdrop.com

Sorry gang, email/web site just came back on line (net seems to be having a bad week) and in trying to respond to some inquiries I see that the mailer responded back to the list. My bad. -jim --- jimw(a)agora.rdrop.com The Computer Garage - http://www.rdrop.com/~jimw

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Computer Garage - "Garage Sale"

by jimw＠agora.rdrop.com

Greetings all; Finances suck at present, and to be honest I don't know if I'm going to be able to make VCF this year. (foo) So... in an attempt to free up some much needed $$ and keep the lights on, (and maybe even get to VCF) I'm having a "Garage Sale". (appropriate, no?) The offering list and details can be found at: http://www.rdrop.com/~jimw/Gsale Any questions, drop me a note. Thanks! -jim --- jimw(a)agora.rdrop.com The Computer Garage - http://www.rdrop.com/~jimw

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RD53 repair

by dundas＠caltech.edu

I know Allison posted on this several years ago, but I couldn't find a collection of instructions. Maybe someone has put this together in a "cookbook." I have several RD53s that I'd like to get data off of. I opened one up as described in previous posts. However it's not obvious to my eyes where the failed rubber bumper is. Do any of you have any detailed instructions you can send or point me to regarding repairing these drives? Thanks for any help. John --------------------------------------------------------- John A. Dundas III Director, Information Technology Services, Caltech Mail Code: 014-81, Pasadena, CA 91125-8100 Phone: 626.395.3392 FAX: 626.449.6973 <mailto:dundas@caltech.edu>

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10 years

by xds_sigma7＠hotmail.com

ClassicCmpLite? Tastes great, less filling? heh _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com

23 years, 8 months

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Spectrum Issue 2

by Antonio.Carlini＠riverstonenet.com

I have a Spectrum (issue two) with a duff power connector. Does anyone know where I can get a direct replacement connector in the UK (other than ripping it off another similar Spectrum ...). Thanks Antonio arcarlini(a)iee.org

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10 years

by mbg＠TheWorld.com

Speaking of a C64... I know of someone who has one she wants to get rid of along with a disk drive... Contact Cesullivan(a)aol.com if interested... Megan

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10 years

by mbg＠TheWorld.com

>> I would actually like to see the "official" cutoff pushed out to 20 >> years, as 10 years just does not seem that long ago... > >We could start a second list: ClassicerCmp. Or named 'ClassicCmpLite' Megan

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Stuff on ebay

by Fred.van.Kempen＠microwalt.nl

> > ROCKWELL's 6502 (100% 6800 code compatible) > > He probably runs windows XP on it as well, using it as a > firewall/intranet server for the house. > > "It is best to keep one's mouth closed and be thought a fool, than to > open it and remove all doubt." Besides, wasn't the Rockwell chip the improved version of the original (MOS) 6502, called the 65C02? It had some nifty extra instructions and an extra addressing mode.. --fred

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Stuff on ebay

by xds_sigma7＠hotmail.com

One presumes his car doesn't have electronic fuel injection... _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx

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Paperwork to move classiccmps from .ca to .us?

by Robert_Feldman＠jdedwards.com

It used to be for some cameras that you could not import one if it had the logo/name intact. Just covering it with tape or goo was not sufficient -- the name had to be ground off! This condition was imposed by the official US importer, IIRC. -----Original Message----- From: Eric Smith [mailto:eric@brouhaha.com] Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 3:02 PM To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org Subject: Re: Paperwork to move classiccmps from .ca to .us? Mike Feher wrote: > Another thing that really helps is to declare that it was made in the > USA. Regards - Mike "Fred Cisin (XenoSoft)" <cisin(a)xenosoft.com> wrote: > That can SOMETIMES add to the problems! > A US company with a registered trademark can object to anything with > their trademark being permitted in! Surely they can't do anything to prevent a product they manufactured and that bears their trademark from being imported? Isn't that covered under the doctrine of first sale?

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SCSI drive available

by Fred.van.Kempen＠microwalt.nl

> > Ahh, but that merely takes a quick > > > > #ifdef WIFE > > # undef WIFE > > # define WIFE GEEK_WIFE > > #endif > > You forgot the step: > > #undef HALF OOps. > Also, the third step of your algorithm seems to be quite > difficult to achieve. Nobody ever said programming was easy... :) Much worse is the lack of share-ware (also called try-before-you-buy) these days... --f

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OSI disk basic disk

by Lee.Davison＠merlincommunications.com

Does anyone have an image of the OSI Disk BASIC disk? If not that disk any 'bootable' disk for any of the 6502 OSI Challenger, or compatible, machines. I've managed to replicate the OSI 610 disk interface and get it to read/write onto a DD 3.5" drive. Now I would like to try it out with some 'real' software. Ta much. Lee. ________________________________________________________________________ This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star Internet. The service is powered by MessageLabs. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit: http://www.star.net.uk ________________________________________________________________________

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10 years

by passerm＠umkc.edu

The point is that elitists years ago would have said the same thing about the C-64, which is now generally considered a classic.

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10 years

by passerm＠umkc.edu

Re: 10 yearsI find it interesting that I agree with this, but picturing the same text after a %s/PC/C64/g (and other appropriate adjustments) changes my attitude somewhat. --Mike

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What's wrong with this picture?

by jingber＠ix.netcom.com

It's been a long day. This was good for a laugh: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1772937615 Jeffrey H. Ingber (jingber(a)ix.netcom.com)

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First Indirect Addressing?

by xds_sigma7＠hotmail.com

Well I'm not sure as to indexing, but I know that the entire memory on the LGP-30 is the drum.. nothing else, well at least not programmable anyway.. and no, I/O devices aren't memory! heh _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com

23 years, 8 months

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Stuff on ebay

by dwightk.elvey＠amd.com

>From: "Fred N. van Kempen" <Fred.van.Kempen(a)microwalt.nl> > >> > ROCKWELL's 6502 (100% 6800 code compatible) >> >> He probably runs windows XP on it as well, using it as a >> firewall/intranet server for the house. >> >> "It is best to keep one's mouth closed and be thought a fool, than to >> open it and remove all doubt." > >Besides, wasn't the Rockwell chip the improved version of the original >(MOS) 6502, called the 65C02? It had some nifty extra instructions and >an extra addressing mode.. > >--fred > Hi Fred I have a Rockwell AIM65 and book. I'll have to see if there is anything extra. Having worked on both 6800 and 6502 code, I can assure you that there is no code compatability. The 6502 traded depth in instructions for more page 0 accesses. For most applications, this worked well. Those who worked with Apples will tell you that the OS over used page 0 and didn't leave enough for the users. As was mentioned, there was a 6501 that was pin compatable with the 6800. It was also not code compatable. Rockwell also made a number of embedded 6502 application processors. These are a pain because they are P-MOS and have non-ttl busses. I have these in my old Gottlieb pinball machine ( what we pinheads call spider chips ). Dwight

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TDU, TDF and "Doing magtape image archiving" [was: HP 7980S ...]

by Fred.van.Kempen＠microwalt.nl

All, Oooh... hrrm. Didn't realize there was such a lot of interest in those (already). The toolkit is basically an API in the shape of a C library, which handles all the nitty gritty of the TDF (Tape Distribution Format, aka Tape Dump Format) file format stuff. The user interface for reading physical tapes to image, writing the images back to physical tapes, and doing all sorts of weird stuff with the image files, is handled by a single program called TDU, the T... Utility. Its synopsis is similar to that of 'tar': -------------------------------------------------------- TDU version 1.0.15 for OpenBSD on VAX. Usage: tdu [-f file] [-m maxchunk] [-p path] [-v] cmd [args] where 'cmd' is one of {c|e|i|p|r|t|w|x} -------------------------------------------------------- Also, several conversion tools exist to convert between TDF and TAP (used in Ersatz-11 and SimH simlators) and raw formats. The tookit is currently in its final First Release testing, at version 1.0.15. It has been tested with the following systems: - DOS 6.22 and Win32 DOS box (with ASPI layers for tape I/O) - Windows 9X, NT 4.0 and 2K, Win32 console app - DEC Ultrix-32 V4.5 both VAX and MIPS - OpenBSD/vax V3.1 - DEC Ultrix-11 (on PD-11/83, both real and emulated) - SunOS 4.1.4 on SPARCstation - Solaris (cant memebr which one) - SGI IRIX Porting to VMS is being done by Robert Alan Byer, of SimH/VMS fame. Thanks to Tim Shoppa for helping me out with one of those 'does this ever happen?' issues ... :) I have added TDF support to SimH, so you can just do a simh> mount mt0: /u/dist/rsx11mplus-4.2-tp1.tdf /wprotect /tdf in SinH and then boot the tape. The goal, of course, is to be able to easly get an archive of software up and running. Here's sample output of what an RSX-11M Plus V4.2 tape looks like: -------------------------------------------------------- (vaxlab)$ tdu tfv rsx11mplus-4.2-tp1.tdf TDF version : 1 CRC-32 : 0x32b466df Part # : BB-J083H-BC Serial Number : ME109856 Tape Label : RSX-11M-PLUS V4.2 MT:1600 Description : BRUSYS STANDALONE COPY SYSTEM Copyright : 1989 Owner : DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORPORATION File 0 : blocksize 512 (439 blocks) File 1 : blocksize 80 (2 blocks) File 2 : blocksize 80 (1 blocks) 2 : blocksize 512 (2 blocks) 2 : blocksize 80 (1 blocks) 2 : blocksize 512 (1 blocks) 2 : blocksize 80 (2 blocks) 2 : blocksize 2560 (1 blocks) 2 : blocksize 80 (1 blocks) 2 : blocksize 4144 (28 blocks) 2 : blocksize 560 (1 blocks) File 3 : blocksize 80 (2 blocks) File 4 : blocksize 80 (2 blocks) File 5 : blocksize 80 (1 blocks) 5 : blocksize 512 (2 blocks) ....... -------------------------------------------------------- All I need to do is testing magtapes written with TDU, and I need the HP to work for that. The code will be released for more testing after I merge in Robert Byer's VMS stuff when he's done. Cheers, Fred

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OT: Anybody have these Apple items??

by r_beaudry＠hotmail.com

Hello all, You knew this list would closely follow the free list :-) I believe all of these are too new to be on-topic, so my apologies... It never hurts to ask, right? If anyone has any of these items, please contact me OFF-LIST... Thanks! 1) Apple Localtalk Locking Connector Kit, DE-9 (for a LocalTalk PC Card). I have two cards, so I'd like two kits... 2) I recently purchased a 12" PCI-slot Apple PC Compatibility card, for a PowerMac 8500, but it did not have the three-connector monitor cable (one connects to the PC card, one to the monitor, and one to the Mac video output). 3) Apple "Superdrive" 1.44MB 3.5" floppy -- needs to be the AUTO-INJECT style, where the manual eject pinhole is directly to the right of the drive slot, and NOT where the pinhole is directly below the slot. You can also identify this drive as one WITHOUT the flap over the drive slot. The bare drive is fine, as I intend to put it in my own enclosure. I'd like to get two if possible. I guess that's it for now.. :-) Rich B. _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com

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HP 7980S scsi 9-track [GAIN]

by Fred.van.Kempen＠microwalt.nl

Hey all ! *grumpf* still not working. Although I can change the DENSITY setting with CONF 46, it doesn't "hold" it. The moment I try to write a tape, it switches back to the original 6250 setting. Meaning (apparently) that the host is forcing it to 6250... So... how does one tell that thing that host (SCSI) commands can **NOT** override the default density stored with CONF46 ? I grabbed the Sun manual, but that didn't say much about it, just that it had a DENSITY switch which mine doesn't have, and the info on the COFN46 stuff... --fred

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Items for free

by r_beaudry＠hotmail.com

Hello all, I have the following items available for free... You do need to pay for shipping, so send me your country or ZIP code with your requests, so I can get shipping quotes out. I accept PayPal, or money order for postage payments. This is *NOT* first-come, first-serve. In order to be fair to international and digest readers, I will pull names from my hat (or any other convenient place :-) ) to determine who gets what. PLEASE make all contact OFF-LIST.... No need to flood the list with replies... - HP Network Printer Interface for HP LaserJet IIIsi -- looks unused, comes w/ selaed manual, LANSpool Si test drive edition, original box - Dell Laser System Font Cartridge "R" - Qty. 2 SMC fiber-optic Arcnet cards, ISA bus, model PC-310, original box, w/ manual and registration card, sticker priced at $1295.00 each! - Qty. 2 proNET Model p2400 "Wire center" -- 4 ports on top, two on the sides, top ports labeled "node", side ports labeled "link". Each port has a switch for "in ring" and"out", and each port is a 15-pin D-shaped connector -- token ring??? - NEC ProSpeed Power-Block Battery Cartridge for the ProSpeed 286 laptop. Model no. PC-21-71. Probably dead, but looks in near-mint condition, and in original box/packaging. - Qty. 3 Connect brand Ethernet/PC 16-bit ISA Ethernet cards -- AUI/BNC connectors, original box, driver disk, docs (refer to BNC as "CheaperNet" connector, so you know it's old :-)) - Microchannel 3270 card -- no docs, but comes w/ "IBM Personal System 3270 Connection Diagnostics" diskette (Version 4.10) - Tiara LANCard/A, full-length 16-bit ISA Arcnet card, w/ original box, manual - Chorus Data Systems PC-EYE Video Capture card -- old, full-length 8-bit ISA card for video capture. w/ original box, docs, software. Manual seems to indicate it willwork with "standard" graphics cards, but install instructions only refer to Chorus cards - Excelan Etherport II ethernet card -- looks like a Macintosh NuBus, or PDS? (96-pin connector, 3 rows of 32) full-length card, no docs or drivers - Qty. 3 Madge Microchannel token ring cards, "SMART MC Ringnode", w/ original box, disks,docs. 2 boxes still sealed, one opened - Proteon ProNET 8-port Wire Center. similar to 4-port described above, but with 8 ports, not 4 :-) - Megahertz External Token Ring Adapter for Toshiba T1000SE/XE/LE, T1200XE, T2000SX, original box, manual, disks _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com

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HP 7980S scsi 9-track

by jfoust＠threedee.com

At 11:43 AM 10/3/2002 +0200, Fred N. van Kempen wrote: >I wrote my own ASPI layer for both DOS and Win32, and developed >a bunch of tools around them to handle the reading, writing and >archiving of tapes of various sorts. Did you release these tools on the web somewhere? - John

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SCSI drive available

by Fred.van.Kempen＠microwalt.nl

I used to have about half a zillion of these and other "anywhere between 2 and 9G" SCSI drives, mostly taken from old Compaq servers I had to service. Most of them have been given away, but I do have some 4GB's left. I *might* have a bunch of 9GB barracuda's left, too, which run at 7200. And get hot. :) --f

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SCSI drive available

by Fred.van.Kempen＠microwalt.nl

> Jerome Fine replied: > > But that is where I draw the line as far as "production" hardware > is concerned. I don't regard a 60 lb. RL02 drive as reasonable > because of BOTH the size and the weight - aside from the fact > that the capacity is only 10 MBytes. Yeah, but they are way cool, too, like the RK05's.... I truly wish I had the physical space to put up some racks with an 11/40, 11/34a and an 11/70 side-by-side -with- all the stuff that used to go with them... *sigh* --fred

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Info request : Tek 4052

by hansp＠aconit.org

We are exhibiting a Tektronix 4052 computer and I am looking for some info on the beastie: Year of introduction Price at introduction Memory size Processor Clock frequency Tape capacity Tape speed Screen resolution The web seems somewhat reluctant to divulge this info and I'd appreciate your help. Regards, -- Hans B Pufal

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HP 7980S scsi 9-track

by Fred.van.Kempen＠microwalt.nl

> > Bear in mind that you'll need some fairly specialized (and > expensive -- > > in the $300 region) software if you want to use that drive > on any sort > > of PC. > > Someone should have warned me about that before I started > using one with no special software whatsoever. :-) > > It responds to plain old SCSI tape commands, so any software > that talks to SCSI tape drives should work. Yeah :) I wrote my own ASPI layer for both DOS and Win32, and developed a bunch of tools around them to handle the reading, writing and archiving of tapes of various sorts. Kinda nice, because I can read in magtapes, store them in a single formatted file, enter the info on the tape label, and then let it sit on my server, or email it around. Later, one can re-write a tape using that file. The drawback is: many tapes [worldwide] have decided to gather up and move themselves to Holland, to find their eternal piece in archived format. In other words... gawd, I still have a PILE of tapes to go.... Anyway. The toolkit runs under most UNIXes, too, so no problems there. The 7980S is actually connected to a MicroVAX 3100 running Ultrix, and that box is my fast-tape-reader. Nice! It responds fine, no extra stuff needed. Cheers, Fred

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