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Troubles copying RT-11 tapes on VT103 (continued)

by celigne＠celigne.freeserve.co.uk

I passed along Megan's suggested COPY command to the company who are trying to copy their one and only tape on a VT103. I have just received the following response. Any further suggestions would be appreciated. Out of curiousity, I asked what the machine was and whether they had any pictures. They have kindly passed along a scan of the original brochure, which I'll put online shortly. The VT103 is controlling a CNC milling machine for cams. It was made by a Swiss company called Macor SA, back in 1983. I'm not surprised they're worried about the longevity of the tape! --quote-- As for the copying of the tape no success as of yet, I tried the following: i) COPY/SYS DDO: DD1: I tried this twice the first time the following messages appeared :- FILES COPIED: ?MON-F-SWAP ERROR I then tried to boot the system using using the new copy and it said: ?BOOT-F-NO BOOT ON VOLUME The second time I tried the message was: PIP-F-DIRECTORY INPUT ERROR DD0: ii) COPY/BOOT RT11FB.SYS DD1: This caused the following: ?DUP-F-OUTPUT ERROR DD1: I don't know if this will mean anything to you but the following messages are what is shown on the screen when the system is booting up, I thought it might shed some light on the situation: RT-11FB V04.00 .SET TT: SCOPE .SET TT: WIDTH=120 .SET USR NOSWAP .RUN ID The last command loads up the program that's all I know, because on the tape there are two programs ID and IDT when we want to swap between them we press CTRL C then the message ?MON-F-SWAP ERROR appears and then we enter RUN ID or RUN IDT One thought I did have, do I need to format or erase the blank tape before copying on to it? --end quote-- - Paul

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Scans of HP3421 quick reference available

by carlos_murillo＠epm.net.co

I have finally gotten around to scanning pages 79-97 of the HP3421 user's guide. These pages contain the compact programming reference guide. They are not pretty (darn HP (Un)Intelligent scanning software!), but the info should be useful. They can be downloaded at http://nazas.autonoma.edu.co/hp3421/ Regards, carlos. -------------------------------------------------------------- Carlos E. Murillo-Sanchez carlos_murillo(a)nospammers.ieee.org

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COSMAC VIP documentation (was Re: Need help finding old IBM PC game)

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Aug 20, 7:50, Sellam Ismail wrote: > On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Pete Turnbull wrote: > > mpg123 tells me that Galaxians.mp3 is MPEG 2.0 layer III, 16 kbit/s, 22050 > > Hz mono, it's 520kB long, and "plays" for 1 min 25 secs, including the > > header. > > Isn't that just a linear recording? I don't think so, an equivalent duration WAV (uncompressed) or AIFF file would be 10-15MB (maybe 6-8MB for mono). -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

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HP gear

by carlos_murillo＠epm.net.co

At 01:44 PM 8/20/02 -0500, you wrote: >I've just come across an HP 9000/300 and 9000/220 in a dumpster over here >at University Salvage. I see that the 300 has a 68010 (first one I've >owned), but am not sure about the 220. Both have video and 'keyboard' >connections. > >I've found some 300 info using google, but nothing helpful on the 220. You probably have an hp9000/310 . I typed a little about them when I auctioned off all of mine: http://nazas.autonoma.edu.co/hp310.html http://nazas.autonoma.edu.co/hp310orange.html You need an HP-HIL keyboard and a monitor such as this for it: http://nazas.autonoma.edu.co/hp35731a.jpg In addition, you need an HPIB HD with the HPBASIC OS. These machines are OK for instrument control, although I find that my viper card (essentially the same system in an ISA card, which you can then use from DOS) is far more useful. The 9000/220 is the little sister of this one (9000/236C): http://nazas.autonoma.edu.co/hp9836c.html The monitors for these are very hard to come by, so a 220 without a monitor is hardly useful. The one above, with monitor, went for about $200 on ebay back in 2000. How much memory does it have? I think that 220 memory could work in early hp300 models (236 memory certainly worked). The 200 series machines are interesting if you have the software. >Also, are these worth anything? I've got no drives with them, but I did >get a bunch of lab I/O boxes (multimeter, and other things) with them. These could be interesting. Can you describe them? -------------------------------------------------------------- Carlos E. Murillo-Sanchez carlos_murillo(a)nospammers.ieee.org

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Here's something that I haven't heard of before ....

by rigdonj＠cfl.rr.com

IMSAI SYSTEM 8048 Control Computer. Anyone know anything about these? It's on E-bay at <http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2047601196> Joe

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VME chassis on EPay

by zaft＠azstarnet.com

Forgive the self-boosterism, but I'm selling this VMEbus chassis on EBay. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2047264888&rd=1 Gordon Zaft zaft(a)azstarnet.com

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PowerUser external SCSI HD

by mythtech＠mac.com

>Today I picked up the subject item at a thrift. It seems to be quite >similar to the Iomega Jaz V1000S except that it is a single platter >thing instead of having four heads as the Jaz does. Aside from the PU >name and a serial number it offers nothing else to help identitfy it >further. > >Can anyone shed any further light on this critter? PowerUser was the house brand name used by PC/Mac Warehouse. I know they made a line of assorted equipment for the Mac, so I assume they also made stuff for the PC. Most everything was just repackaged items made by others. Based on the name, I would figure it to be a standard external SCSI hard drive. A fairly standard item for the Mac, and quite commonly found in the early Mac days. I might even have a PowerUser SCSI drive kicking around some where (not sure, I had a number of brands, I wasn't very brand loyal, so when I needed a drive, I bought the cheapest... after I got burned on the Jasmine/Rodime fiasco, I stopped worrying about who had the best rated, and just bought on price and price alone) -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

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COSMAC VIP documentation (was Re: Need help finding old IBM PC game)

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Aug 20, 12:30, Sellam Ismail wrote: > On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Pete Turnbull wrote: > > I don't think so, an equivalent duration WAV (uncompressed) or AIFF file > > would be 10-15MB (maybe 6-8MB for mono). > > That doesn't sound right at all. Typical MP3 recordings at around > 128Kbps end up at around 1MB per minute. Which is why people use MP3s, which are compressed, instead of of uncompressed WAV (which is almost exactly the same as AIFF) :-) If you make an ordinary audio CD (ie to use in a CD player not an MP3 payer) you end up with roughly 10MB/min, or a little over 600MB/hour. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

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Great finds at Auction Today and at Thrift

by jrkeys＠concentric.net

It was a great day at the auction, I was able to get these items: 1. 3-Nextstation Color's was is missing the harddrive need to get a sound box from the warehouse to test them. 2. 1-Nextstation Turbo powers up but no OS on it. 3. One mono display and one 17' color display, cable for both was in the lot. 4. One Next laser printer. 5. IBM 7208-001 8mm 2.3GB external tape unit ($2.50). 6. Several IBM terminals will have get the numbers next time I'm down to the warehouse. 7. Several computers from different mfg. have not tested any yet. Best find of the day was at a thrift (I only had time to stop at 2 of them) it was a Atari 2-player table console titled Missile Command. It has a coin slot for 50 cent to play the game. You sit at this unit and put your hands into the controller pocket that has a big yellow trackball and three fire buttons for each player. They did not have the key to get into the unit and I have not plugged it in yet to test. It's in great shape and is model number 23601. I checked on google and could not find any information on the unit. Anyone know where I can get spec's on this unit and what it cost new?

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Z8000 was Re: Olivetti M20 boot prom dump?

by dwightk.elvey＠amd.com

Oops, meant to send to Chris but I guess others might be interested. Dwight >From: "Dwight K. Elvey" <dwightk.elvey(a)amd.com> > >Chris > Did you see the stuff at: > >http://www.cpm.z80.de/source.html > >Dwight > > >

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RT-11 Memory Issues

by mbg＠TheWorld.com

>I've finally got this old PDP-11/24 up and running. The system has 1 meg >of RAM, but keeps giving insufficient memory errors when trying to run >various programs (like ADVENT.) I can't believe that ADVENTure would eat >up more than 1 megabyte of ram. Is there some tuning bit that I am >missing here? Unless the program has been designed to use extended memory overlays, or specifically designed to use extended memory directives, it is limited to the standard virtual memory address space of 56kb, minus whatever is used by the monitor (and this is carved out of the low 56kb of the machine... the rest of the 1mb is unused). As I already mentioned in another post, you could try using VBGEXE to run it in its own 56kb space. Megan Gentry Former RT-11 Developer +--------------------------------+-------------------------------------+ | Megan Gentry, EMT/B, PP-ASEL | email: gentry at zk3.dec.com (work) | | Unix Support Engineering Group | mbg at world.std.com (home) | | Hewlett Packard | (s/ at /@/) | | 110 Spitbrook Rd. ZK03-2/T43 | URL: http://world.std.com/~mbg/ | | Nashua, NH 03062 | "pdp-11 programmer - some assembler | | (603) 884 1055 (DEC '77-'98) | required." - mbg KB1FCA | +--------------------------------+-------------------------------------+

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Z8000 was Re: Olivetti M20 boot prom dump?

by dwightk.elvey＠amd.com

Chris Did you see the stuff at: http://www.cpm.z80.de/source.html Dwight

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COSMAC VIP documentation (was Re: Need help finding old IBM PC game)

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Aug 19, 20:45, Ethan Dicks wrote: > > --- Sellam Ismail <foo(a)siconic.com> wrote: > > On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, Ethan Dicks wrote: > > > > > One of my ultra-low priority projects is to locate the tape, slurp > > > it into a modern machine and cut MP3s of the programs and see if I > > > can use my Rio PMP300 (or portable CDDA/MP3 player) as a load device. > > > > MP3 won't work. I've tried it. Also, I've been told it won't by people > > who know better than me that it is too lossy. > > Have you tried monsterously large bitrates? I have no personal > experience with it, but I can see your point about lossiness. > I'm just curious if it's possible no matter what the file size. > > > Use a straight WAV file recording instead. > > My fallback is 44100 KHz audio files and a portable CD player. I found a couple of MP3 files for my Exidy Sorcerer on the web, and they loaded fine at 1200 baud. I suppose the success rate depends on the quality of design of the cassette interface, and the bit rate in the MP3. mpg123 tells me that Galaxians.mp3 is MPEG 2.0 layer III, 16 kbit/s, 22050 Hz mono, it's 520kB long, and "plays" for 1 min 25 secs, including the header. I've heard of other people using MP3 files for BBC micros at 1200 baud too. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

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Fluke Stuff

by NAVIGATE87＠aol.com

Joe, I use some of them, I had a all or nothing deal so I got them all. The tapes are 18.00 each min order 10. The pod I am looking for is a Z8000 my error. I have a 9100 mainframe also, but It seems to be so software dependent that I haven't figured how to load and save my programs. I need to figure how to hook the 9010 and/or the 9100 to a pc so I can key in my very long programs and save them, or at least load from a PC. I used to use the 9010 but the company policy was not to allow techs to do anything beyond insert tape and run the test. Now I work for a new company and I have to figure how to do all this other stuff oh fun of wearing many hats. Thanks, Don

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TTY spares request

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Aug 19, 22:19, Bill Sudbrink wrote: > > Dan Cohoe and I both made the rounds of the TTY spares on the balcony > > of the Armory in NJ (thanks again, William!) I do not recall seeing > > anything of that nature amidst the bits. Spare keytops, plattens, > > chad bins, springs and more, but no keyboard butterflies. > > Oh wow! There are chad bins there? I need one for my 33. Is anyone > going back that way? I need one too -- is anyone willing to mail one to the UK for me? -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

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Semi-OT: Has any interfaced a 360K floppy to a pentium-class PC?

by dlormand＠aztec.asu.edu

Sorry I can't help with the original intent of this thread. I've got enough 360Ks and 1.2Ms kicking around that if I find one that doesn't cooperate, I pitch it and grab another. If the Toshiba won't work, and the BIOS supports the format, get another drive. They're easy to find, and inexpensive. >Windoze XP. But my BIOS doesn't recognize it either, >and it has settings for 360K. >I'm using the floppy controller on an old WD RLL >HD controller. I don't recall if I ever had a 360K floppy on the mb's >floppy controller or not. I got "refreshed" at work, and the new peecee (Compaq Evo) won't recognize my 360K. I NEED that 360K to transfer stuff to my TI-99/4A here. The BIOS doesn't appear to handle anything other than 1.44MB drives (A and B; why would you ever want two 1.44MB?). Is this just a stupid Compaq thing, or is it becoming common among BIOS and motherboard producers to drop support for older formats? I didn't think about using a peripheral card with a floppy controller; I've got a few kicking around in my "lab" at home. With my luck, this Evo won't have ISA slots, though. I'll bet there aren't any PCI cards with floppy controllers... But even if you put a controller that can handle 5.25" drives, doesn't the BIOS still need to be set to 360K? If it isn't there, it isn't there, seems to me. Pardon my peecee-ignorance, it is NOT my favorite platform.

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Housecleaning -- Free -- Pathworks for Mac docs

by zaft＠azstarnet.com

Free for cost of shipping (from Tucson, AZ 85719): Pathworks for Macintosh manuals: Perfect bound: Dantz Retrospect Remote (backup software) User's Guide MacTCP Administrator's Guide (2 copies) Client Administrator's Guide for the VMS Server(2 copies) DECnet for Macintosh User's Guide Mail for Macintosh User's Guide Spiral bound: Pathworks for Macintosh -- MacX User's Guide (1.1A) Pathworks for Macintosh -- MacTerminal User's Guide Pathworks for Macintosh -- MacTerminal User's Guide (1.1A) Pathworks for Macintosh -- System Administrator (2 copies) Pathworks for Macintosh -- Network Services User's Guide Pathworks for Macintosh -- Network Services User's Guide (1.1A) First person to respond gets his pick, if there's more than one responder I'll give the second person the 2nd copies. Before you ask, I don't have any software, just these manuals someone gave me. They're going in the Dumpster (R) on Friday if no one takes 'em. Please email to me and not the list or I will undoubtedly miss it. Gordon Gordon Zaft zaft(a)azstarnet.com

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Various NOS backup tapes available

by SUPRDAVE＠aol.com

I've a large assortment of QIC and other format types including some syquest carts. If interested, see the list at: www.nothingtodo.org/tapes.htm Still plenty of every type available, although I have no idea what would use a tiny DC100 tape...

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Dec TU-56 Question

by cmcnabb＠4mcnabb.net

I've finally gotten the drive 0 reverse motor on my TU-56 tape drive working. It required the replacement of two transistors on the Motor Drive Control Board. The problem I now have is that the motor only runs at high (18V) speed, even when it should be running at low (9V) speed. Any hints as to where to look next? As an aside, I think fixing the things is more fun than running them.

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MicroAnalyst 2000

by bstater＠emi-inc.net

Ethan, In the archive I found a discussion where you mention a Northwest Instruments MicroAnalyst 2000. Do you still have it or anything about it. I've got a chassis, two state cards, one timing card and probes; but no software or PC interface. Bart Stater

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Gnarly Z80 based desk/computer on eBay

by mmcfadden＠cmh.edu

About packaging very large "old" computer in desk. Actually I live about 30 miles from Olathe, KS near Lee's Summit, MO. The hospital where I work ends up with all sorts of packaging, we get new x-ray equipment that is packed very well, of course it cost $250,000-500,000. I can scrounge some packaging if somebody needs some. Mike mmcfadden(a)cmh.edu

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Applied Microsystems EM 188

by foxvideo＠wincom.net

>Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 08:59:32 -0400 >To: cctalk@classiccmp >From: "Charles E. Fox" <foxvideo(a)wincom.net> >Subject: : Applied Microsystems EM 188 > > >>Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 08:54:44 -0400 >>To: cctalk(a)classicmp.org >>From: "Charles E. Fox" <foxvideo(a)wincom.net> >>Subject: Applied Microsystems EM 188 >> >> Over the weekend I acquired a goodly load of equipment, >> including an Applied Microsystems EM 188 "Diagnostic Emulator". While >> Applied Microsystems are still with us, they apparently have forgotten >> all about this product. >> Does anyone happen to have any information about it? >> >> Regards >> >> Charlie Fox >> >> Charles E. Fox Video Production >> 793 Argyle Rd. >> Windsor Ontario Canada N8Y 3J8 >> 519-254-4991 foxvideo(a)wincom.net >> Check out the "Camcorder Kindergarten" >> at http://chasfoxvideo.com > > > Charles E. Fox Video Production > 793 Argyle Rd. > Windsor Ontario Canada N8Y 3J8 > 519-254-4991 foxvideo(a)wincom.net > Check out the "Camcorder Kindergarten" > at http://chasfoxvideo.com Charles E. Fox Video Production 793 Argyle Rd. Windsor Ontario Canada N8Y 3J8 519-254-4991 foxvideo(a)wincom.net Check out the "Camcorder Kindergarten" at http://chasfoxvideo.com

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Semi-OT: Has any interfaced a 360K floppy to a pentium-class PC?

by archer＠topnow.com

Can't make my Toshiba 360K floppy drive work on my Athlon or P4 machine to save my life. I've tried every jumper setting I can think of on the drive. The best I get is a disk failure, where I try to access the drive, and the LED comes on and spins the disk for a while, then fails. Yes, I'm using the right cable. :) It has a 34 pin header plug (remember those?) that used to be standard on floppy cables all those years ago. Jameco still sells them. :) Yes, I set the BIOS to 360K. Still no dice. Anybody have any clues as to what might be going wrong? Thanks, even if nobody has any ideas. :) -- Ross

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Latest Delivery - DEC & Intel

by Mzthompson＠aol.com

I've said it before, but it is worth repeating. It is nice once you get 'em trained to bring the stuff to you. The problem is that you have to take it all, it just does not seem proper to pick and choose from their vehicle when they deliver it. Anyway, the latest: 5 DEC BA42 Storage Expansion boxes containing 8 RZ5x drives (RZ55 thru RZ58) also found an IBM drive mounted to a TZ30 mounting bracket in one of the boxes, hey SCSI is SCSI. 5 DEC binders, 3 are Ultrix Sys Admin volumes, 1 for the 5000/200, 1 for the DECstation 3100 AutoCad for the DECstation 3100 Ultrix 4.4 tapes (VAX) Kodak laser printer VME chassis and a couple prototype cards. 6 Gateway 486 desktops 9 Compudyne desktops, a couple are 386, the rest 486 I could have done without the Compudynes. Many do have network cards worth pulling. Also at least one has some 4mb 30 pin SIMMs. Mike

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Fluke Pods

by NAVIGATE87＠aol.com

Joe, I have pods for the 1802, 6502, 6800, 6802, 6808, 6809, 68000, 8048, 8080, 8085, 8086, 8088, 80186, 80188, 80286, 9900, Z80, and 24, 28, and 32 pin rom emulators Looking for a 9000 pod, the probe, and of course tapes. I talked to Breamar, they support the tape drive and sell tapes so that problem should be solved for now. Thanks, Don

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Mac benchmarking

by spectre＠stockholm.ptloma.edu

While trying to benchmark Fusion PC (as a IIci) on my AMD DOS PC, I threw together a small implementation of the Sieve of Eratosthenes and Ahl's Simple Benchmark to test integer and FPU performance. Like everything else in my life, this snowballed, so here is the fruit of my labours for people who are interested in benchmarking their 68K Macintosh. http://www.floodgap.com/retrotech/mac/ahl/ The reference is a Mac Plus running 6.0.8 with 2.5MB RAM and the stock 8MHz 68000 CPU. However, to make it really vintage, I tested it against a Mac Plus running System 1.1 and it worked! 512K RAM recommended. Just to prove I have a sense of humour, the benchmark is in Modula-2. Some of the tests ran on my classic Mac stable had rather startling results. For example, the Daystar PowerCentral control panel seems to accelerate FPU performance on the IIci, even with no Daystar hardware installed. Comments? -- ----------------------------- personal page: http://www.armory.com/~spectre/ -- Cameron Kaiser, Point Loma Nazarene University * ckaiser(a)stockholm.ptloma.edu -- For every action there is an equal and opposite criticism. -----------------

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RT-11 Memory Issues

by GOOI＠oce.nl

> The problem is that you actually have less memory available when you > run XM since it is a larger monitor. And we're talking about memory > in the critical area of the low 56kb. If VGBEXE is no solution to run ADVENT, try using the SJ monitor. I had exactly the same problem (in E11) and lots of memory available. Booting into SingleJob was the solution for me. Didn't help much getting throught ADVENT, but that a completely different story ... happy gaming, - Henk.

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TTY spares request

by wh.sudbrink＠verizon.net

> Dan Cohoe and I both made the rounds of the TTY spares on the balcony > of the Armory in NJ (thanks again, William!) I do not recall seeing > anything of that nature amidst the bits. Spare keytops, plattens, > chad bins, springs and more, but no keyboard butterflies. Oh wow! There are chad bins there? I need one for my 33. Is anyone going back that way? Thanks!

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PDP 11/24 Wierd Unibus Setup

by cmcnabb＠4mcnabb.net

I've pretty much got this PDP-11/24 up and running, except for one confusing detail. There are some (what I consider to be) strange cards plugged into one section of the unibus. In this box, there are three seperate sections of bus. The one on the right has 9 slots, and contains the cpu, memory, dl-11, etc. The one on the left has 4 slots and contains the bus terminator, as well as the controller for the RA-80. It is joined to the right hand bus by an extension cable. The middle section of bus is the wierd one. It contains some kind of power supply cable and a bunch of single-height flip-chips. Here is the setup: 1 2 3 4 A Power B M205 M660 C M116 D M113 E M112 F Anyone have any ideas what this is for? Thanks.

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IBM 3295 Plazma Display

by xds_sigma7＠hotmail.com

To the best of my knowledge, 3290s are meant to talk to 3274s.. But I think it depends on the exact model... I hope mine are for 3274s, I wanna use 'em on the 4381. Will J _________________________________________________________________ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com

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TTY spares request

by mross666＠hotmail.com

Hope someone can help - perhaps they're lying in a NJ warehouse! Been checking out my old ASR33s, a couple of them are missing the small bar (shaped like a 'double Y') which connects the keyboard mechanism to the printer. Anybody got any spares? Thanks Mike http://www.corestore.org _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx

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(fwd) FS: Various (fwd)

by jpl15＠panix.com

For possible List interest - DO NOT REPLY TO ME! Perhaps this Gentleman will be amenable to a 'reasonable' counter-offer... I dunno: FYI. Cheers John ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Jeff Kilgore" <the.weight(a)verizon.net> Newsgroups: rec.radio.swap,rec.radio.amateur.equipment Subject: FS: Various [much snippage of OT radio gear] Hewlett-Packard HP41CX calculator, with magnetic card reader, Advantage module, original manuals and boxes, and several additional books on the HP41. $275 shipped All items will be carefully packaged. Payment by USPS money order, PayPal, or personal check (personal checks must clear before shipping). 73, Jeff Kilgore, KC1MK -- end of forwarded message --

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TTY spares request

by dwightk.elvey＠amd.com

>From: "Ethan Dicks" <erd_6502(a)yahoo.com> > >--- Mike Ross <mross666(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >> Hope someone can help - perhaps they're lying in a NJ warehouse! >> >> Been checking out my old ASR33s, a couple of them are missing the small >> bar (shaped like a 'double Y') which connects the keyboard mechanism to >> the printer. Anybody got any spares? > >Dan Cohoe and I both made the rounds of the TTY spares on the balcony >of the Armory in NJ (thanks again, William!) I do not recall seeing >anything of that nature amidst the bits. Spare keytops, plattens, >chad bins, springs and more, but no keyboard butterflies. > >It's a flat part and shouldn't be as critical on the manufacturing >tolerances as parts in the printer carriage - if you have one, it >should be possible to make duplicates. If you don't have any, someone >could throw one on a flatbed scanner... You might even be able to get >away with a plastic replacement - wouldn't be as durable (months/years >instead of years/decades), but you could make a stack of them. Hi The piece has to transmit quit a bit of torque to reset the keyboard. I'm not sure if a piece of plastic could handle it. One could carve it out of a piece of cold rolled steel using a dremel tool. It has a slot in the center to make it easy to remove and install with a screw driver but this part isn't needed. The rest is just cutting around the edges. I don't have a scanner so maybe someone else can make a picture. Dwight > >If you have any friends who are train buffs, especially those who make >their own engines/cars from raw materials rather than kits, they should >have the necessary tools/skills to copy a 1"x2" flat piece of metal >with a few notches and curvy bits. > >-ethan > > > > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs >http://www.hotjobs.com >

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Documentation for DEC T-11 evaluation board?

by Antonio.Carlini＠riverstonenet.com

>I'd like to find the schematics for the DCT11-EM board (or even >better, a board based on the J-11). I have a scan of EK-SBC02-UG-001 and it has schematics (and ROM and FPLA listings) for that system. IIRC it is T-11 based. That should eventually appear at the DFWCUG site. If you want it right now, I'm reasonably sure that it is a later version of http://www.spies.com/~aek/pdf/dec/pdp11/EK-KXT11-UG-PR1.pdf which you can get right now. I doubt that either of these are *exactly* what you asked for, but they may serve as a useful starting point. Antonio

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Documentation for DEC T-11 evaluation board?

by Antonio.Carlini＠riverstonenet.com

> > I just received a DEC T-11 evaluation board (part number DCT11-EM) I bought > > on eBay. Does anyone have any documentation on this? Compaq Assisted > > Services still lists the User's Manual for $142, but when I made an > > internal inquiry, I found it had been obsoleted and was no longer > > available. :-( > There are a couple of T-11 manuals at http://www.spies.com/~aek/pdf/dec/pdp11/ but I don't think either of them are for that particular system. They may provide some hints though. Antonio

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HeathKit Most Accurate Clock II manual?

by rigdonj＠cfl.rr.com

Does anyone have a manual for this? My clock appears to work except that it's not setting the time automaticly. It recieves WWV and the Data light blinks and the Capture light blinked a couple of times but the correct time never appeared on the display. Also what do the Hi Spec, Trim Up and Trim Dn lights mean? Joe

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IBM 3295 Plazma Display

by mross666＠hotmail.com

>>Before I give in to the temptation to e*** this critter, anyone know >>anything interesting about it or care to make me an interesting offer >>(sell/trade/etc.) on it? >> >>BIG IBM Mainframe (I think) display. Display unit only... >I haven't heard of anyone getting these to do anything other >than what they were designed to do. There *are* possibilities, since 'they were designed' to talk to 3174 controllers and *they* are intelligent devices that can do a lot with the right microcode. They talk coax 3270 to a 3174 controller. If you can get a 3174 with token-ring or ethernet connectivity (t/r is common, shows up on ebay from time to time, and is cheap; ethernet is like hens teeth and still worth a fair bit) and the latest microcode from IBM (C6 or better), the 3174 supports tcpip & telnet, allowing you to use the 3270 terminal to connect to any ASCII host across the LAN. I *think* that only applies to common or garden 3270 CUT devices however - and the 3290 series stuff is DFT, requires download (DSL)microcode from the 3174 to work, and can't be used for telnet. I *think*. I have a 3174 set up for telnet; I have a 3290. I'll get 'em together sometime and see if it works. Mike http://www.corestore.org _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx

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Any interest? Basic Four on ebay

by mross666＠hotmail.com

Found on ebay... http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2044637798 Mike http://www.corestore.org _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com

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anyone in Boston or western MA?

by DAW＠yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu

> From: Derek Peschel [mailto:dpeschel@eskimo.com] > > > Hi everybody, > > I'm going to be in Boston for a few days next week and in western > Massachusetts (on the way to Tanglewood) next weekend. Is anyone > in either of those areas? This will be a nice opportunity for me > because I haven't been to VCF East yet and you New Englanders don't > seem to want to come to VCF West. :) > > -- Derek New Haven, CT, is probably about an hour or two out of the way... -- --- David A Woyciesjes --- C & IS Support Specialist --- Yale University Press --- (203) 432-0953 --- ICQ # - 905818

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Dynalogic Hyperion

by DAW＠yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu

> From: Sellam Ismail [mailto:foo@siconic.com] > > > On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Chris wrote: > > > >> Wasn't that one of the ones that IBM shut down for being > > >>TOO compatible? > > > > > >I think that was the Corona Data Systems one. They just > > >copied the ROMs from what I've been told. > > > > Does this mean my Corona luggable will sell for huge $$$ on > > ePay? Oh why > > oh why did I give my complete one to Dave :-( > > No, it means that it is obscure or forgotten and nobody will even know > what they are bidding on and it will languish there and end > up costing you the listing fees. > > Sellam Ismail > ---------------- You know, I should dig that thing out and fire it up one of these days. It got put in the basement computer room, and I haven't had a chance yet to start it. When I saw this mentioned, I was about to laugh at Chris for handing it over, but Sellam had to come by and burst the bubble... :/ -- --- David A Woyciesjes --- C & IS Support Specialist --- Yale University Press --- (203) 432-0953 --- ICQ # - 905818

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VAXcluster ?'s

by rschaefe＠gcfn.org

Well, I now have the fixings for an interesting VAXcluster in the basement: VAX 6000 320, VAXstation 4000 90, VAXstation 3100 40 (I think), VAX 4000 200, and some maybe-OT alphas (DEC 3000/300X, DEC 3000/700, and a DEC 3000/800). Also a TU-81+ w/ RA-81, and a RA-91 in the 6K machine. Support hardware includes a DELNI, DECserver 100, and an HP bridge to segment the cluster off the network proper. Now I have to figure out how I'm going to tie it all together. The plan so far is to cluster all the VAXen over the DELNI. I don't have any CI equipment, and in any case IIRC only the 6K would be able to use it. I'm not positive what I'm going to do with the alphas, but I'd like at least one of 'em in the cluster too, maybe dual-boot them into OpenVMS or NetBSD. I think OpenVMS 7.? still supports the old VAXen, and from what I've heard on c.o.v it's recommended over the 5.5-? currently installed on three of the machines. Ok, I confess this was partly to brag, but has anyone done something neat with a VAXcluster that I could do too? I'm not to the point where I can spark everything at once (need a new power circuit for the 6K for one thing-- did the 220V conversion already, thanks), but I'd like to have a direction early on, kind of a goal to work towards. Anyone want to share? Bob

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Copying tapes on a VT103?

by mbg＠TheWorld.com

>The VT103 unit has two tape drives and I think you can copy from one to >the other it just a matter of knowing the correct commands, hence the >reason for this email. Therefore I would be most grateful for any >suggestions you could suggest for the commands required to copy from >drive 0 to drive 1, we have so far tried the following: > >Note :- RT11FB.SYS = Boot program (I think) >i) COPY/BOOT RT11FB.SYS > TO: DD1 >ii) COPY/SYS > FROM? DD0 > TO? DD1 > >The second method kicks up the following: - PIP-F-FILE NOT FOUND If these are the commands as used verbatim, then it is looking for a *file* by the name of DD0. You need to specify the device name, so use 'DD0:'. (I'm surprised it didn't report the name of the file it didn't find.) So, the command should be: COPY/SYS DD0: DD1: Doing this, however, will not result in an optimized tape... it may actually take a relatively long time to boot. I actually got a TU58-based system to boot in as little as 30 seconds by judicious placement of the system files. If you (or other people) are interested, I could write it up... Megan Gentry Former RT-11 Developer +--------------------------------+-------------------------------------+ | Megan Gentry, EMT/B, PP-ASEL | email: gentry at zk3.dec.com (work) | | Unix Support Engineering Group | mbg at world.std.com (home) | | Hewlett Packard | (s/ at /@/) | | 110 Spitbrook Rd. ZK03-2/T43 | URL: http://world.std.com/~mbg/ | | Nashua, NH 03062 | "pdp-11 programmer - some assembler | | (603) 884 1055 (DEC '77-'98) | required." - mbg KB1FCA | +--------------------------------+-------------------------------------+

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Need help finding information on the following transputer boards

by rmeenaks＠att.net

Hi, I am in the process of compiling a list of inmos transputer boards (excluding trams). I have information on most if not all of them so far except the following: IMSB013 - Did it ever exist and if so, what was it IMSB019 - ditto anything after IMSB020??? again, I am only looking for information on the IMSB series and not IMSB4?? trams... Thanks, Ram PS: Finally figured out what was causing the HTML messages. First of all, I apologize for that. Our confidential signature that gets added by Microshaft Exchange only supports HTML so even if you send your emails via text, the server sends them out in HTML. Our useless SAs, claim that it can not output plain text. Is this true???

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Microsoft vs Lindows

by rigdonj＠cfl.rr.com

At 10:47 PM 8/17/02 -0500, you asked: > >Why has Micro$oft not gone after "X Windows", this looks >even closer to the actual name of Windows, but since it >is freely available they cant zero in on anybody/company. For one thing they'd have to go after companies like AT&T and HP. MicroSlouth couldn't push them around the way that it does small companies. Joe

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Dec TU-56 Question

by Qstieee＠aol.com

If someone needs components (lights from real computers), the best place is http://www.digikey.com/ They don't specialize in vintage, but a surprising number of things are still standardized after all these years.

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New finds for Musuem

by jrkeys＠concentric.net

Well over the last couple weeks the Mac XL from eBay arrived in the mail but was DOA. It will go into the repair pile at the warehouse. Got a nice book by Dr. Jerry M. Rosenberg called The Computer Prophets from 1969. Here's a short list of some items I picked up. 1. Nice Next KB for the N4000A monitor at the local Goodwill (still looking for the computer). 2. Galactic Pinball cartridge for the Virtual Boy console. 3. I-O Corp. model 2677C terminals (3 of them) at a auction for 50 cent each. 4. IBM 3180-02 terminal for 50 cent at same auction. 5. Prc Realty System model 101 Data terminal based on the TI 745 portable. 6. IBM 8503-001 mono monitor. 7. Large box with a Mac Plus and all kinds of goodies for it for free at the auction. 8. hp 700/70 terminal for $3 powers up great but need the kb for it. 9. A Jetbook 386sx notebook for $10, needs battery charger. 10. Robot named 2-XL from 1978, needs a little care. 11. TurboGrafx 16 with 8 games on the HuCard for $20 at the flea market. 12. AS/400 Barcode labeling software. 13. About 20 more mousepads for the collection. That's it for now there were lots more items but some are too new to list. Keep on computing.

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Fwd: OT - What do do about the Nigerian Scam

by rhudson＠cnonline.net

There is a great website ( http://home.rica.net/alphae/419coal/ ) with information about what to do if you get one of those scam letters. The US Treasury department is collecting info and procicuting scammers. You can forward your scam letter to: 419.fdc(a)usss.treas.gov *** argh! bad email address, it's probably us.treas.gov, but I'll check. *** Be sure to mark it "No financial loss" ... unless you fell for the scam : ^ ) See the website above for info.

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OT - What do do about the Nigerian Scam

by rhudson＠cnonline.net

There is a great website ( http://home.rica.net/alphae/419coal/ ) with information about what to do if you get one of those scam letters. The US Treasury department is collecting info and procicuting scammers. You can forward your scam letter to: 419.fdc(a)usss.treas.gov Be sure to mark it "No financial loss" ... unless you fell for the scam : ^ ) See the website above for info.

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HP86

by lekrueger＠butlermfg.com

I'm looking for an HP86 as a backup for the one I use with a data acquisition system. Is it still available? This message is quite old so I'll be surprised if the equipment is still available. Thanks!

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Old Sun Equipment Available

by bill＠cs.scranton.edu

I have some old Sun Sparc systems that need to find a new home (preferably not the dumpster in the parking lot). Is there any one here who might be interested. I have SparcStation 1's I have SparcServer 330's and even a Sun4/something that was in a 7' high rack and includes a 9 track tape drive (which worked quite well the last time I used it.) All of this stuff is at the University of Scranton and would need to be picked up. It's free, although I wouldn't turn down some PDP or VAX trinkets (expcept async boards :-) in exchange. Please reply directly to me as I am currently not reading the list. bill -- Bill Gunshannon | de-moc-ra-cy (di mok' ra see) n. Three wolves bill(a)cs.scranton.edu | and a sheep voting on what's for dinner. University of Scranton | Scranton, Pennsylvania | #include <std.disclaimer.h>

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