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

by pat＠purdueriots.com

Does anyone have a good source for new DSDD 5-1/4" floppy disks? I've got a bunch I can probably recycle here, but I'd like to get new ones to use with my Altos, Osbornes and IBM 5150. Thanks -- Pat

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FREE: SGI IndigoR3K 2M SIMMs

by mrbill＠mrbill.net

(hey, i'm back!) I've got 16 SGI Indigo R3K SIMMs, free if you pay shipping. First come, first serve... (for those of you waiting on shipments of drive sleds, etc, I should be caught up completely this week) Bill -- Bill Bradford | "Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. mrbill(a)mrbill.net | Hate leads to using Windows for mission-critical Austin, TX | applications." -- What Yoda *meant* to say

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This week's find

by rigdonj＠cfl.rr.com

At 08:36 AM 5/9/02 -0500, you wrote: > >What types of parts should one be looking for exactly? I know of a couple of people that are looking for 1101 memories to go with their 8008s. Joe

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[sdyoung@well.com: PDP-11 up for grabs.] (Calgary)

by mrbill＠mrbill.net

Please contact him directly. ----- Forwarded message from Steven Young <sdyoung(a)well.com> ----- Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 14:30:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Steven Young <sdyoung(a)well.com> To: mrbill(a)pdp11.org Subject: PDP-11 up for grabs. Hi. I have a PDP-11 I need to get rid of quickly due to space concerns. See www.well.com/~sdyoung/pdp.html Thanks, Steve. ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Bill Bradford mrbill(a)mrbill.net Austin, TX

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adjusting a Digital VRT19-DA... a.k.a. Sony GDM-1960

by DAW＠yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu

> From: ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk > > > > > Well, my 12 year old 19" monitor works pretty nice, except for > > having the Bright and Contrast cranked al the way up... > > You might find a cautious tweak of the 'screen' control (normally on the > flyback transformer, and not the one marked 'focus') will help with that. > - That would be inside the cage, which I think I'll stay away from for now. That whole self-preservation instinct kicking in... :) Actually, the better question is, how dangerous is it to get to that control? > > Anyway, can anyone tell me how to adjust the Horizontal center and > > Sony were generally fairly friendly about labelling things inside > monitors --.. > > Often there's a control marked horizontal phase. While this is not > actually a horizontal centring control, it can have that effect to the > user. Strictly, horizontal centring moves the raster relative to the CRT > edges. horizontal phase appears to move the video relative to the raster. > In your case, horizontal phase might be just what you need. > - Found all those controls, including the pincusion and stuff, along the side of the cage. That did the trick. > Don't fiddle with any magnets/rings on the CRT neck on a colour monitor... > - Well, considering the voltages inside monitors, and my lack of experience with that, you don't have to worry about me touching stuff I wasn't told to... -- --- David A Woyciesjes --- C & IS Support Specialist --- Yale University Press --- mailto:david.woyciesjes@yale.edu --- (203) 432-0953 --- ICQ # - 905818 Mac OS X 10.1 - Darwin Kernel Version 5 Running since 01/22/2002 without a crash

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Would this model IBM monitor do me any good?

by fernande＠internet1.net

I'm looking at IBM monitors on Ebay. Would a model 9504 monitor, at .11 dot pitch do me any good? It is a fixed frequency mono (grey scale?) monitor. I'd want to use it with an RS6000 7013-530 or a PS/2 77 running OS/2 Warp 3. The 77 is currently equipted with an XGA2 card, but that could be changed, I supppose. Chad Fernandez Michigan, USA

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Apple Lisa 2 keyboard ?

by uban＠ubanproductions.com

I'm looking for a keyboard for an Apple Lisa 2. Does anyone have one that they would be willing to part with? --tnx --tom

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pics of SGI SIMMs

by rschaefe＠gcfn.org

Here's a few JPEGs of an SGI 4D/35 SIMM-- it's either a 2MB or an 8MB SIMM, I don't know which. The 4MB SIMMs have only half the RAM chips installed. Oh-- http://www.yubyub.net/ratio might be helpful. At least I didn't have to put it in a followup! Bob

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Interesting QBUS Card RDC-16

by Antonio.Carlini＠riverstonenet.com

>As an aside. does anyone know what processors the Clearpoint >Research DCME M30/16MB cards work with? KA640/KA650/KA655. Clearpoint have some info in their archive section: http://www.clearpoint.com/archives/dec.html http://www.clearpoint.com/archives/dec/dec28.html Sadly, no manuals. Antonio

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Partnership

by vp＠mcs.drexel.edu

> From: sani_ad(a)excite.com > Subject: Partnership > > Dr.Sani Adams > E-mail:saniadams2001@yahoo.com > fax:234 1 759 0807 > 16,Kingsway Rd, > Ikoyi, Lagos. > > REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE - STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL > > ATTN:FRIEND/PARTNER, > [... rest of junk removed ...] Needless to say that this is a very old scam to get at bank account numbers. Don't even bother replying. **vp

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IBM DDYS 07N3255

by NetSales＠hbtusa.com

please forward to purchasing: IBM DDYS 07N3255 9 GB 10K RPM 1" 80 pin price : US$ 69,00 price : US$ 72,00 with 80-68 connector 1" 1 year warranty 2000 units Min. order 480 units NEW Factory sealed in IBM boxes This email can not be considered spam as long as we include: Contact information & remove instructions. This message is being sent to you compliance with the current Federal legislation for commercial e-mail H.R.4176 - SECTION 101Paragraph(e)(1)(A)) AND Bill s.1618 TITLE III passed by the 105th U.S. Congress. Not reponsible for typographical errors. Availability of product subject to change. Further transmissions to you may be stopped by clicking remove link. www.oc2net.net/tradedesk/RemoveEmail.asp?ContactID=120

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IBM DDYS 07N3255

by DAW＠yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu

Fred, now that's an idea I like! > ---------- > From: Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) > > It is pointless and futile to try to explain to this bozo how bogus his > redefinition of spam is. > > Instead, why not send him an invoice? > Explain that the governing rules of the list are rigidly enforced, :-) > and prohibit off-topic posts as free listings; and that the fee structure > for advertising rates on the list for advertising bulk quantities of <10 > year old stuff is computed at $10 * the number of subscribers that the ad > was sent to. At THAT rate, Jay's new system can be paid for VERY quickly! > > -- > Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com > > > On Fri, 10 May 2002 NetSales(a)hbtusa.com wrote: > > please forward to purchasing: > > IBM DDYS 07N3255 > > 9 GB 10K RPM 1" 80 pin > > price : US$ 69,00 > > price : US$ 72,00 with 80-68 connector 1" > > 1 year warranty > > 2000 units > > Min. order 480 units > > NEW Factory sealed in IBM boxes > > > > > > This email can not be considered spam as long as we include... > > -- --- David A Woyciesjes --- C & IS Support Specialist --- Yale University Press --- mailto:david.woyciesjes@yale.edu --- (203) 432-0953 --- ICQ # - 905818 Mac OS X 10.1 - Darwin Kernel Version 5 Running since 01/22/2002 without a crash

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Windows V3.2?! -- OS/2 PM shell for Win 3.1

by SUPRDAVE＠aol.com

In a message dated 5/10/2002 8:14:21 AM Central Daylight Time, spectre(a)stockholm.ptloma.edu writes: > > Odin rocks, mainly because OS/2 and Win32 are so similar in design. :) > > Except that OS/2 works and Win32 doesn't ;-) (smile, duck'n'run) > > Previously, I mentioned having an OS/2 desktop replacement that installs in Win 3.1 called wpsfwin. It replaces the program mgr with something that looks like the OS/2 WPS. If anyone wants a copy, LMK.

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Interesting QBUS Card RDC-16

by dave＠naffnet.org.uk

I have just received an interesting QBUS card from Germany after an EBAY auction. It is a quad card that is a MSCP RAM-disk (16MB), which additionally gives 4MB of QBUS Memory (well, it could scarcely give any more, since that's all Q-22 can address). This beastie is the RDC-16 from See First Technology, and came with a manual dated May 1988. According to this document, this card can have its capacity extended with up to two RDE-32 cards (you guessed it - 32MB each), with these cards being connected in a similar way to LMI - via a ribbon cable. So, if anyone happens to have a RDE-32 just kicking around then I'm looking for a couple... This card is even bootable, with the correct jumper settings, although the talk is of one extension board and MicroVMS:- I somehow doubt that OVMS 7.2 would fit too well! Anyway, the card is alive and well in the MVIII. As an aside. does anyone know what processors the Clearpoint Research DCME M30/16MB cards work with? Cheers, Dave.

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Windows V3.2?!?

by nemesis-lists＠icequake.net

> Only a certain version of Win32 though. I do not remember however. I tried > once to get hotmetal pro working under OS/2, but I think the Win32 version > was higher than what OS/2 could use. Note that Win32S is a subset of Win32; Win32S support allows 32-bit interfaces to some of the Win API. It's not the same thing as having a true Win32 OS like 95 or NT. Programs written for Win32 operating systems will requre Odin (odin.netlabs.org) to run under OS/2. Odin is an executable and library translator that basically takes Win API calls and maps them to OS/2 system calls. Odin rocks, mainly because OS/2 and Win32 are so similar in design. :) -- Ryan Underwood, <nemesis at icequake.net>, icq=10317253

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free DEC M7555 card

by mbg＠TheWorld.com

>This is a RQDX3 ESDI hard disk controller. RQDXn is not ESDI at all.. it is MSCP. Megan Gentry Former RT-11 Developer +--------------------------------+-------------------------------------+ | Megan Gentry, EMT/B, PP-ASEL | Internet (work): gentry!zk3.dec.com | | Unix Support Engineering Group | (home): mbg!world.std.com | | Compaq Computer Corporation | addresses need '@' in place of '!' | | 110 Spitbrook Rd. ZK03-2/T43 | URL: http://world.std.com/~mbg/ | | Nashua, NH 03062 | "pdp-11 programmer - some assembler | | (603) 884 1055 | required." - mbg KB1FCA | +--------------------------------+-------------------------------------+

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This week's find

by tothwolf＠concentric.net

This certainly has to be one of my better finds to date. I'm now the proud owner of 6 brand new i8008 cpus (sorry, not for trade, as I have plans for these.) Finding them the way I did was kinda strange... A couple of days ago, on a whim, I called a local electronics dealer and asked if they had any i8008 chips in stock, and much to my amazement, he had 6 in the parts bin. :) -Toth

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Floppy Disks

by csmith＠amdocs.com

> -----Original Message----- > From: Pat Finnegan [mailto:pat@purdueriots.com] > Does anyone have a good source for new DSDD 5-1/4" floppy > disks? I've got > a bunch I can probably recycle here, but I'd like to get new > ones to use > with my Altos, Osbornes and IBM 5150. Nobody in particular, but I've had luck finding things like that still available from "bulk" media producers. At least one I've seen in the last few months still does 8" (soft sector) disks, too. Chris Christopher Smith, Perl Developer Amdocs - Champaign, IL /usr/bin/perl -e ' print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n"); '

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IRIX on Personal Iris

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On May 9, 10:47, Doc wrote: > Seriously, I saw the sets I'm thinking of in one of 2 places. One > shop has provided memory for my PS/2s (with MCA RAM board) DECstation > 3100 and my vs4000/60, the other such niceties as 32M sticks for a SS5, > 8M ??? for my HP 9000/735, and 64M modules for an HP B132. If I can get > a good look at what you need, I'll end up in both shops within a week or > 2 anyway. Model/Part numbers won't help as much as pictures. Then you may gaze with wonderment at the low-res barrel-distorted image generated by my IndyCam and a desklamp, at http://www.dunnington.u-net.com/tmp/capture-00000.jpg -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

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IRIX on Personal Iris

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On May 9, 9:42, Tothwolf wrote: > On Thu, 9 May 2002, Jeff Hellige wrote: > > > > No. The Indigo^2 / Indy where the first SGI workstations that used > > > PS/2 keyboards and rodents. > > > > I rather like the PS/2-style granite colored SGI keyboards/mice. The > > keyboards have a nice feel to them. > > How hard is it to find key caps and micro switches for these keyboards? I > think I have one of the granite keyboards somewhere, but it has some > missing/damaged keys. If I can find a source for the parts, it might be > worth repairing, since the rest of it appears to be in good condition. > > Are these keyboards true PS/2 type keyboards, or are they only compatible > with the newer SGI systems? The granite ones are genuine PS/2 interface and they work fine on PCs though I've heard rumours that the reverse is not always true. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

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The answer is: Mekel 460XL Microfiche scanner

by Antonio.Carlini＠riverstonenet.com

>There are approximately 400 fiche/ft and 100 11x17 images >per fiche or 200 8.5x11 images per fiche. So that's maybe 320,000 US Letter size pages. Assuming 70KB/page, I make that 21GB or 30-ish CD-ROMs (or a mere 5 DVDs, if they're cheaper over there these days). Assuming a scan time of 10s per page, you will need over 37 days of scan time to get all the data (I'm guessing you can run it in unattended mode...) I assume you are going to make this available on a web page or two, I think I can download it all in just about 60 hours. Looks good to me :-) >it. The plan is TIFF with G4 compression which works out >to be half the size of an equivalent PDF and can be converted I think if you PDF stuff that has been G4'd you'll find that the size increase is minimal. Stuff I've scanned comes out of the scanner as PDF but *not* G4 compression, that's why it's a little bigger. >to PDF by the consumer if desired. I haven't found a good >way to convert a PDF back into a TIF... We shall see >how good the process works... I believe that Acrobat 5 can go from PDF to other stuff, but I think we only have V4 kicking around, so I cannot check. No problem - just supply TIFFs and I'll happily turn them into PDFs myslef (just this once, you understand :-) ) Seriously, if this works, I'll dig out my four linear mm of fiche and send them over (always assuming they're not already in your stack). Antonio

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IRIX on Personal Iris

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On May 9, 23:30, Doc wrote: > I'm gazing with wonderment, all right.... :) > Looks like an IndyCam image to me. :-) > Also looks just like the modules I > saw somewhere in the last few weeks. Now all I gotta do is remember > _where_. Sets of 4, right? Yes, that's right. Though maybe Bob only needs three ;-) -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

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IRIX on Personal Iris

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On May 9, 21:16, Robert Schaefer wrote: > this one has a 75R at R9, R6 is open, R8 is open, and 222 at R5. Does that > make this an 8MB SIMM? The RAM chips are marked 4C4001JDJ-7. Huh. _Is_ it > an 8MB SIMM? Sucks that I only have one... It would be odd if all the chips were 4C4001JDJ-7, that's a 1M x 4-bit chip, such as would be used for the parity bits. But yes, it sounds like an 8MB SIMM. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

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The answer is: Mekel 460XL Microfiche scanner

by zaft＠azstarnet.com

At 08:19 PM 5/8/2002 -0500, you wrote: >On Wed, 8 May 2002, Clint Wolff (VAX collector) wrote: > > > The question is: What do I now own? > > > > <grin> > >The question is: where are you located, and when can you start scanning >*piles* of fiche? :) The obvious pile of fiche to scan, IMHO, would be VMS source code.... G

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ADV: Harvest lots of Target Email addresses quickly !

by rose＠china.com

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Tom Pittmann Tiny BASIC

by paul＠wccnet.org

Tom Pittmann is putting up a web site that contains his Tiny BASIC. http://homepage.mac.com/IttyBittyComputers/ Paul R. Santa-Maria Monroe, Michigan USA

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Floppy Disks

by mythtech＠mac.com

>Uhm, that URL redirects me to http://www.microcenter.com/, which doesn't >have anything but 3.5" floppy disks. > >Any other suggestions? They used to carry them... but MEI recently officially changed their name to just MicroCenter, and changed their format from a bulk dealer of media and supplies to more that of the million other catalog/online dealers. Alas, their prices have started to go up as well, and some of their more hard to find items like DSDD 5.25s have vanished. <sigh> -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

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adjusting a Digital VRT19-DA... a.k.a. Sony GDM-1960

by DAW＠yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu

Well, my 12 year old 19" monitor works pretty nice, except for having the Bright and Contrast cranked al the way up... Anyway, can anyone tell me how to adjust the Horizontal center and size? And how about the Vert. size too? When I am at the SRM chevron (>>>), the first two columns are gone, so I see only one of the '>'. Those adjustments must be inside the case somewhere. Hopefully I won't fry myself opening this thing up... Another quickie... I assume the Video-Out BNCs on the back of the monitor is Sync on Green also, just like the inputs... And should the switch be set to High Scan or Low Scan, when hooked to a DEC 3000/400? -- --- David A Woyciesjes --- C & IS Support Specialist --- Yale University Press --- mailto:david.woyciesjes@yale.edu --- (203) 432-0953 --- ICQ # - 905818 Mac OS X 10.1 - Darwin Kernel Version 5 Running since 01/22/2002 without a crash

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Floppy Disks

by gehrich＠tampabay.rr.com

I have some on consignment. Not sure how many though till I look. How many do you need? I think that I can sell them for $2 (box of ten) plus shipping. Let me know off list if interested. Gene

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IRIX on Personal Iris

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On May 9, 9:50, Robert F Schaefer wrote: > On May 9, 15:02, Jochen Kunz wrote: > > So, if I "upgarde" the 4MB SIMMs to 8MB SIMMs, I can put in more than > > one bank of "upgraded" SIMMs? Or is this bug speciffic to the 4MB SIMM > > ASIC and the 2MB and 8MB SIMM ASICs are different? > The 2 meg SIMMS are full o' chips, the 4 meg SIMMS are only half-populated, > fill it out to make an 8 meg SIMM. It would appear that the ASIC is the > same on the 4 meg and 8 meg SIMM. I would like to know if the ASIC is the > same on the 2 meg SIMM. I have a number of them, and I would rather > unsolder the old RAM chips and replace them than screw with the only set of > working 4 meg SIMMs I have. Good idea. Yes, the ASICs are the same on all the SIMMs: LSILOGIC L1A6569, DDM1, Rev.C, SGI 9700832. The date codes and manufacturer code/batch number may vary from SIMM to SIMM, of course. If you upgrade a 2MB SIMM (514256 chips) with 514100 chips, remove the 75-ohm resistor at R6 (may be marked 75R or 750) and fit a new 2K2 resistor at R5. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

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Installing Win9x (was: Re: APPLEVISION Monitor)

by acme_ent＠bellsouth.net

Jeez, this list has gotten so OT . . . > From: Richard Erlacher <edick(a)idcomm.com> > I don't see how it could be any easier to install than Win98. I just put the > CD in the drive and reset the machine. Then I go away, to lunch, perhaps, and > when I'm back the drive is freshly formatted as a single partition under FAT32 > and the OS is completely installed, the drivers in place, the modem ready to > align with the internet parameters it wants (server names, addresses, etc) and > then I can install applications. Richard, I don't know what version of Win98 you are using, and I'm not familiar with your hardware, but I do two or three installations of Win9x every day, and in 95% of the cases I have to provide device drivers for something in the system. It is rare that Win9x will provide all of the drivers for the sound, modem, video, and IDE controller. Perhaps you are using a "restore" disk which came with your eMachine, Compaq, HP or Gateway computer? Glen 0/0

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TI3100 laptops?

by jwest＠classiccmp.org

I have seen some discussion on the list recently regarding the Toshiba 3100 laptops... I was just curious - is there some reason that these are sought after? I believe I know where a pretty decent sized stack of them is (about 15 or so). Wonder if one would take an ISA HP-IB card to interface with some of my other bench gear...would they take a pcmcia card for my wireless network at home? Thanks for any input Jay West

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Write Ring Fights (was Fwd: Re: Tae Rings?)

by erd_6502＠yahoo.com

--- Frank McConnell <fmc(a)reanimators.org> wrote: > <http://www.mythtech.net/rings.jpg> > ... unless, of course, your operators are fun-loving sorts who > like to throw write rings at each other and relish the opportunity to > throw something that looks similar when it's moving fast but is a bit > less flexible. We never threw the packing rings, but since we did ship software to customers on magtape, we had *cartons* of write rings. Fridays, starting at about 16:45, from one corner of the cube space or another... zing... then it was like a cloud of cicadias - the air filled with yellow rings. I used to use a 3' cardboard tube as a launcher - I could get a ring 4 or 5 cubes away. The end to our write-ring wars came when, after a particularly fierce battle, I grabbed a 3 cu ft box *full* and climbed onto my desk, then slowly along the tops of the cube walls (not modular furniture, hard walls made of 2"x4"s and sheet rock, 6' tall) and dumped the entire box on an unsuspecting combatant. -ethan __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Mother's Day is May 12th! http://shopping.yahoo.com

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FREE: SGI IndigoR3K 2M SIMMs

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On May 9, 9:10, Jochen Kunz wrote: > We had five R3k and one R4k Indigo at the Unix-AG. The PSUs died, only > one working is left. That is now in the R4k machine and I am afraid > about the day it will die and that this day will come soon. :-( You shouldn't put a PSU from an R3K Indigo inot an R4K -- they're not the same. The R4K version is a significantly higher rating, and an R3K PSU in R4K machine *will* die. The new PSU was one of the expensive parts of an R3K -> R4K upgrade. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

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2.11BSD kernel probs

by doc＠mdrconsult.com

Hi, all. I've been trying to build a kernel with TCP/IP & DEQNA support for the PDP-11/93. After reassigning some of the overlay inclusions, the kernel builds OK, and will boot, up to looking for the root filesystem. The boot fails with an error that there's no root fs at major, minor (5,0). I've verified that my root filesystem is indeed at that device. I can't figure out where I'm hosing the build. Any suggestions? I'll probably be going to RT-11 as soon as Mentec clears the hobbyist licensing, but I'd like to leave triumphant.... Plus, I promised a friend a login on A Real PDP-11. Doc

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IRIX on Personal Iris

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On May 9, 7:24, Robert Schaefer wrote: > D' you think a hairdryer would work? :) Probably not hot enough ;-) > Ok, seriously, any problems with > existing parts coming unstuck and getting blown around? Or is the nozzle > tight enough that other chips usually don't get hot enough? It depends on the nozzle, the temperature, and the technique. If you do one chip at a time, get the temperature right, and don't take too long, I'd guess you'd only melt the solder on the adjacent side of the adjacent chip, and it shouldn't move. I'd use a good quality low-temperature rework solder to minimise the risk. However, I'm not an expert, and maybe I've just been lucky. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

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The answer is: Mekel 460XL Microfiche scanner

by Antonio.Carlini＠riverstonenet.com

>Got a pile of the VMS fishies around here somewhere, but it would be >illegal to violate DECs copyright and trade secrets in such a fashion. >Even worse would be to admit to planning such a violation on an >archived mailing list. Good to see you're likely to be around long enough to get to operate that machine :-) Anyway, the OpenVMS listings are available on CD (at least from the V5.5-ish era onwards). (And the fiche is source listings, *not* sources). Someone from OpenVMS engineering commented (some time ago) in comp.os.vms that he was trying to get copies of the V1/V2/V3/V4 listings onto CD. No word on whether these would be made available (a la freeware) but it seems pointless scanning something that is known to exist electronically when there is so much other stuff on fiche that is not available online. My vote is 400dpi in PDF (or TIFF, but viewers don't seem to be so flexible for that ). Should be a nice stack of CDs if you manage to scan 4 linear feet of fiche! I suspect that indexing it (i.e. collecting manual#1, manual#2, manual#3 etc. into individual files) may well take you some time! Can you estimate how many pages of fiche four linear feet actually is? How many manual pages (assuming "full" fiche sheets) does that translate to? At 300dpi, an A4/Letter page turns out to be maybe 50-70KB; at 600 dpi I usually find that the PDFs turn out at 200-250KB per page. That should allow you to roughly estimate the amount of data you are likely to produce. Antonio

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Subject: Re: The answer is: Mekel 460XL Microfiche scanner

by mmcfadden＠cmh.edu

Microfiche trivia, my memory may be rusty The sample microfiche I have retrieved are 4" high by 6" wide. There are varying numbers of images placed on them. The layout of the images indicates what magnification of the originals was used. The ones I have are 12 columns of images across by 6 rows of images down. Of the 8 microfiche readers I have recently examined most are the 24X units. Some are dual 24X and 48X. There are supposed to be a 72X but I haven't ever seen one. I have examined a sample microfiche under an old microscope, vintage 1950, and used several different magnifications. Car parts listings are a typical usage of microfiche. Some microfiche were designed to be COM (Computer Output Microfiche), the images are landscape. On my sample microfiche each minified image is about 1/2" by 3/4". If you figure that on the 8 wide paper it takes 150dpi to accurately sample the original page. There are therefore 1200 useful dots reduced into 1/2". and then you need to scan the microfiche image at about 2400dpi to get an accurate reproduction. I'm trying a Nikon scanner at 1200dpi as an experiment, the main problem is getting enough light through the microfiche. YMMV Thanks Mike

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Bye for now.

by jbdigriz＠dragonsweb.org

Folks, after my last reply to Jay, I see I'm going to need to be absent for a while. I'm busy with a lot of other stuff anyway. I will leave it to him to work out how the list is to be run, and I hope everyone else will, too. I just had to make my position clear, but I see it's going to make it difficult for the list if I stick around. No hard feelings towards him or anyone else. Ya'll be good. later, jbdigriz

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What is it?

by mmcfadden＠cmh.edu

Owen I seem to remember there is a receive only DECwriter that we used as a data logger at one time. This may be a pointer to more information http://telnet.hu/hamster/pdp-11/periferia.html Thanks Mike McFadden >Date: Wed, 08 May 2002 12:41:32 -0500 >From: Owen Robertson <univac2(a)earthlink.net> >Subject: What is it? >http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2022409053 >Anyone know what this is? Looks like a DECwriter with only numeric keys.

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Altos ports

by pat＠purdueriots.com

OK, since I have no available user manual, and google seems to be less than helpful on this subject, can anyone tell me what each port on the back of my Altos 580 and 8000 is? For the 580, I've got figured out that JA is for a parallel printer, JB&JD are RS-232 and JC is the RS-232 console. What is JE? For the 8000, I've noticed that JU-JZ seem to be RS-232 with JX the console. What is everthign else? Does anyone have pinouts for ports that aren't 'standard' like RS-232 ports? Thanks for the help -- Pat

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IRIX on Personal Iris

by rschaefe＠gcfn.org

Well, my latest toy is here, but it looks like I screwed up a little when I picked up an IRIX CD for it. I got 'IRIX 5.3 for Indy R4400 175MHz', but according to http://sgistuff.g-lenerz.de/ this version is Indy-specific-- I need the plain vanilla 5.3 CD, or 5.3 XFS. Anyone have one to trade? Or maybe even 4.x? Also, if anyone has a source for 8MB simms, keyboards, and mice I'd be interested. Thanks! Bob

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misc items found at a surplus store - anyone want them?

by jwest＠classiccmp.org

I went to a surplus store today and found the following items which may (or may not) be of interest to any listmembers. If anyone wants any of it, let me know off-list. Krown Research Porta-Printer II. This is a small keyboard, an accoustic coupler on the back, and a calculator-style 2.5" printing tape in the center. Think TI Silent700, that's kinda what it looks like except smaller and with the tape role. In a nice hardshell carrycase. Marked at $40.00. HP7045A X-Y Plotter - this isn't a "modern" plotter, looks pretty old technology-wise but fair condition. No price. Three 8" monitors, GBC brand with large (F-type??) 75ohm connectors, marked at $25.00 each. HP7550 plotter, looks to be in excellent shape, marked at $45.00 Two SyQuest "88MB C" 5.25 bare drives, no price. Noticed a scrap card that had a 8080AFC chip on it, $3.00. No clue what this is - DEC H343-A IEEE bus adapter with a few HP-IB cables, marked at $15.00. Alas - the TI3100 notebook computers with plasma displays are all gone :\ Regards, Jay West

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Tae Rings?

by cdl＠proxima.ucsd.edu

> From: Corda Albert J DLVA <CordaAJ(a)nswc.navy.mil> > To: "'classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org'" <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org> > Subject: RE: Tae Rings? > Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 16:28:02 -0400 > > They are 9-track tape write-enable rings. They fit into a groove > around the hub-hole of 9-track tapes. At one time, these used to > be all over the place. Since the demise of 9-track tapes as a > common media, they seem to have become scarce. Shurely someone > needs some? (I could use a few, but not a whole lot...:) > > -al- > -acorda(a)1bigred.com > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Chris [mailto:mythtech@mac.com] > > Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 4:15 PM > > To: Classic Computer > > Subject: Tae Rings? > > > > > > Does anyone know what these are for? > > <http://www.mythtech.net/rings.jpg> > > Excuse the 2d scan, my digital camera is at home, so I just tossed > > them on my flatbed scanner for the pic. > > > > I think they are rings for the tapes used on my old Zebra system > > (IIRC, it had some reel like tape canisters that fit in the top of > > it, but this is going WAY back). > > > > I have about 2 dozen of the yellow ones, and 5 or 6 of the orange ones > > (although not all orange, some are white/clear). The yellow are write rings, as pointed out. The orange or white ones are stacking rings, used to stabilize bunches of tape reels when they are shipped in a cardboard box. Putting a stacking ring between each pair of tape reels keeps them from sliding around parallel to one another. carl -- carl lowenstein marine physical lab u.c. san diego clowenstein(a)ucsd.edu

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The answer is: Mekel 460XL Microfiche scanner

by vaxman＠earthlink.net

The question is: What do I now own? <grin>

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IRIX on Personal Iris

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On May 8, 17:34, Robert Schaefer wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Corda Albert J DLVA" <CordaAJ(a)nswc.navy.mil> > > on one side of the simm. Did someone already mention that > > you can only have 1 bank of 4Mb simms in a system, due to > > a prom bug? There is no restriction on the number of other size > > simms. > > Isn't that just the Indy, or something? I remember reading it, but it > didn't (that I recall) mention the 4D/35. That does jive with the only > machine that has 4MB simms in it though-- only one bank (four SIMMS). No, Indys can use any mix of 4MB, 8MB, 16MB, 32MB SIMMS, and they (and Indigo2 and R4000 Indigo) take standard 72-pin fastpage-mode parity SIMMs. There's a bug in the ASIC (according to SGI) on the 64-pin proprietary SIMMs which means you can use any number of 2MB or 8MB SIMMs but only one set of 4MB SIMMs on a 4D/35 or R3000 Indigo. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

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OT: Windows V3.2?!?

by DAW＠yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu

> From: Cameron Kaiser > > > I was just using Calmira, makes windows 3.1 look like windows 95. > > Calmira is indeed very neat. I use it on my lone Windows machine (the only > other Windows machine in the apartment is the Macintosh! under VPC, > natch). > It makes the W3.1 interface more contemporary, at least. :-) > > -- > This is something I'll have to try! I have a Cardinal PC-10 all-in-1 '386 computer (looks like a Mac SE/30) that I was wondering what I could do with it... -- --- David A Woyciesjes --- C & IS Support Specialist --- Yale University Press --- mailto:david.woyciesjes@yale.edu --- (203) 432-0953 --- ICQ # - 905818 Mac OS X 10.1 - Darwin Kernel Version 5 Running since 01/22/2002 without a crash

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FW: Free to a good home: MicroVAX 3400 (in .AU)

by csmith＠amdocs.com

Hey guys. I found this on comp.os.vms. Chris Christopher Smith, Perl Developer Amdocs - Champaign, IL /usr/bin/perl -e ' print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n"); ' -----Original Message----- From: P.Young(a)unsw.EDU.AU [mailto:P.Young@unsw.EDU.AU] Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 10:02 AM To: Info-VAX(a)Mvb.Saic.Com Subject: Free to a good home: MicroVAX 3400 (in .AU) Due to the donation of a couple of Academics and an Alpha 8400 >from another University - the HSZ50, TSZ07 and disks having already arrived in my office - I'm running of space to do any work! I was keeping the MV 3400 to read 9 track tapes, however with a TSZ07 I no longer need it. It has 24Mb memory and a TU81 Plus tape drive. Either the TU81 or KLESI is broken - I suspect the KLESI. A 400Mb and 150Mb DSSI disk is included. I want this out of my office, so please do not ask "can I have part xyzzy" - it is a job lot. Equipment located at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

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Windows V3.2?!?

by SUPRDAVE＠aol.com

In a message dated 5/9/2002 3:18:32 AM Eastern Daylight Time, nemesis-lists(a)icequake.net writes: > > I remember a patch or add-on that was referred to as Win 3.2 - added > > supposedly 32 bit features to the old WIn3.x and I think was just really > a > > tinkering project in the development of 95. > > You're thinking of Win32S, which was the first attempt at a 32-bit > extension > to the Windows API. Not Windows 3.2. :) I think OS/2 can run Win32S > programs > natively through Win-OS2. > Only a certain version of Win32 though. I do not remember however. I tried once to get hotmetal pro working under OS/2, but I think the Win32 version was higher than what OS/2 could use.

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attn: list admins

by Adrian.Graham＠corporatemicrosystems.com

I've been trying all sorts of ways I can think of majordomo-wise to get off this list, and each time it tells me my email address isn't valid; if that's the case why am I still getting list mail both here and digest mail at home? It ceased to be interesting here months ago with all the bitching and in-fighting, so it would be nice to stop receiving the mails. Thanks. witchy

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