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

by Fedsouilles＠aol.com

hi , i am french and i just had a epson portable but it doesn't have any hard disk , only two floppies , could you help me finding one on the net i am really lost , or at least do you know what kind of HD do i need ? THANKS A LOT :))

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DEC manuals available

by Mzthompson＠aol.com

Earlier today I scribbled: > The DEC haul from last month included some manuals that I > already have so I will make them available to the list. > The manuals and the quantities: > TK50 Tape Drive Subsystem; User's Guide - 2 copies > TK70 Streaming Tape Drive; Owner's Manual - 1 copy > TZK10 Cartridge Tape Drive; User Guide - 1 copy > TZK12 525mb SCSI Tape Drive; Installation Guide - 2 copies > VT320; Installing and Using the VT320 Video Terminal - 2 copies The TK50, TK70, & VT320 manuals are all spoken for. The TZK10 & TZK12 manuals are still available. Mike

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My other computer is a Cray!

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

On August 6, Heinz Wolter wrote: > Most interesting is that Cray signed a sales/service distribution deal > with of all companies -DEC- but but later cancelled when they couldn't > sell enough units. The YMP-EL gave rise to EL-98, 94 and 92 models > and was the basis for the J90, J90se (100Mhz clock) and SV1(300Mhz) > systems. Later, Cray would use the DEC Alpha 21044 in the T3D & T3E > massively parallel systems - the start of the end for vector > supercomputers. Gotta correct you here, Heinz...The Cray MPP and PVP families have coexisted for some time, and will continue to do so for the forseeable future. Massively parallel scalar systems can't replace vector processors for all applications. They're not considered to be "newer" or "better" in any way, just different. The SV2, for example, is about to ship, with its successor in the design stages right now. -Dave -- Dave McGuire Laurel, MD

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Collections vs. accumulations, was Re: How many collectors?

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

> On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Douglas Quebbeman wrote: > > > Want a fuel injection "brain" from a 1968 VW Squareback? > > Had Bosch come up with EFI already by 1968? > yes. > > Every VW (and Audi & MB, etc) of that vintage that I've seen used > > CIS, which was a purely mechanical system. > Then you've never seen any VWs of that vintage. What I meant... > In 1968, ALL VW type 1 (beetle) and type 2 (bus) used a > single carburetor. What I meant was that if it didn't use a carb, all I'd seen was CIS. I thought EFI was a 70s invention; I stand corrected! And BTW, I seek-and-destroy Solex carbs; they were designed only for the purpose of being replaced by a Weber! > The type 3 was Botch electronic fool injection (Lots of wires and senders, > and a "brain" in the left rear fender). There was no type 4 yet. Ah, yes, the Audifans also use this "fool" designation... > through about 1964, the VW type 3 (squareback/ "fastback"/ and the > "rare" "notchback") had a single sidedraft Solex carb, with > single port heads. > Then they switched to to two Solex carbs ????? -2 and -3 > '67 VW type 3 had the two carburetors (with dual port heads) Audi created a monster in Europe with the Audi Coupe 100, which came in a version that had dual 32/36DGV Solex's... 130HP, not bad for that engine, if you know it's history (4 cyl OHV, the block got redesigned into an OHC for the Porsche 924 and some VW truck sold only in Europe, not to mention the Jeep). > In 1968, the type 3 switched over to Botch electronic fool injection. > It was a 1600cc engine. It required a little tweaking to make the EFI > work with 2180 (the maximum size that that block could be readily expanded > to.) So, prior to the fuel crisis and emission controls, what was the motivating factor for the use of EFI? And why bother with CIS once you have EFI (spraying fuel into cylinders at off-times never maid sense). > > I have seen a 1969 Audi Super 90 (wagon) that had an aftermarket > > Capacitative Discharge Ignition (CDI) System... by 1974, Audis > > had those as stock, while CIS was still 1 year off... > > My 1986 Audi 5000 CS Turbo Quattro uses a Motorola 6802-based > > controller... very simple to upgrade, too.... ;-) > > [every time somebody doubts the existence of stuff, I double > the price on it due to its obvious rarity!] I'll have to cruise by the E-Bay VW section... didn't know you were prevalent there too! -dq

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Fibre Optic Cable 1005-0078

by terryc＠woa.com.au

I've not had much luck with this on search engines. so I am trying it here as it must be close to being classic if not already. I am trying to identify a HP fibre optic cable assembly; P/N(?) 1005-0078. It is described as a 30 metre fibre optic cable assembly. If was dumpster recovered 5 years ago and comes on a plastic drum about 13" across, which is labelled with the above desctiption. It was fitted with two dissimilar cable anchorage. Does anyone have any ideas what it was/is? The cable actually looks like black figure 8 electrical wire (standard lamp stuff), but thinner. More to the point, the fibres are terminated with a screw on fitting, which I have never seen listed in any catalogue. My thoughts were to try and find a couple of AUI to FO converters and use it as part of my SOHO network between the garage(lab/workshop) and office. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: terryc(a)woa.com.au www: http://www.woa.com.au WOA Computer Services <lan/wan, linux/unix, novell> "People without trees are like fish without clean water"

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IBM 5150 PC

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

Spaketh Russ Thus: > True and half of mine are the older 16-64's and the other half are the newer > 64-256k types. I've had people locally tell me that they had an "orignal IBM > PC" and when I got to look at it the thing only had one 5 pin DIN (no > cassette port) and had 8 slots - of course they were 5160 XT's. I did get > one free once that ended up being some sort of metwork controller built > in/around a 5150 but it was toasted and I've since gotten rid of it (it had > a totally different number like a 34xx or something) Someone else on the list recently mentioned having a bunch of the m-boards, but I never determined whether they were the 16-54s with the casette interface or not. I've still got an original case waiting for an m-board w/casette and hopefully a BASIC ROM... Regards, -dq

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pigware (Descent)

by mjsnodgr＠rockwellcollins.com

Jeff Hellige <jhellige(a)earthlink.net>@classiccmp.org on 08/06/2001 03:13:26 PM Please respond to classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org Sent by: owner-classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org cc: Subject: Re: pigware >>True... For grins-n-giggles I loaded up DOS on my AMD T-Bird 900 MHz box >>with 512M or RAM when a certain bloated pig'ware OS crashed because it was >>"out of resources" and ran Descent - a game designed to run on a 50MHz >>processor... It ran like a spotted ape! Wonderful framerates! >> >>I like the tagline BTW, and Descent came out in um.... 1993 I think, maybe >>1992. So it's almost vintage. <grin> > > The 3 CD's of the 'Descent I and II - The Definitive >Collection' are copyrighted 1997 but I know that Descent I came out >long before that. 1992/93 sounds about right though. It was always >one of my favorite 3D shooter games. That and Marathon on the Mac. >The specs listed for Descent I are a 486DX2-66, DOS 5 and 8MB of RAM. >Descent II required Win95 and was accelerated for the S3 Virge 3D >chipset. > > Jeff >-- > Home of the TRS-80 Model 2000 FAQ File > http://www.cchaven.com > http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/lakes/6757 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 8 Meg... <grin> true, true. The version of D2 you have may "require" win95, but the Win95 "port" (well, it was more of a wrapper for the game really) of Descent 2 came out ummm... 9 months or so after D2 was released. Interplay released it as a DOS game originally, (I think in 1994) and then Win95 came out a year later and they released the "Win95 enhanced version." <grin> with much pomp and circumstance. (On that note, FASA/Hasbrough (?) released Mechwarrior Mercenaries a similar way: write the game as a DOS game with IPX network support, with a Win95 wrapper so win95 would think that it was a wingame. ...now back to your regularly scheduled programming... - M.S.

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Vax 6000 (fwd)

by thompson＠mail.athenet.net

Contact original poster. -- ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 16:02:27 -0500 (CDT) From: rachel(a)arthur.avalon.net To: port-vax(a)netbsd.org Subject: Vax 6000 We have a Vax 6000 series, I don't have it near me so I don't know the exact model right now, I think it was a 480, or something akin. It has some kind of upgrade, since the badge on the back says upgraded to. 65BUA-AF Which is a 400/500 upgrade for the 6000 Vaxen. Right now all I have that wasn't bought is the CPU rackunit, and all of the cards, in the original state that they same in on. I also have a Dec Array 650 that came in with it, though Ibelieve one drive may be missing. They are very heavy, and I am sure more costly to ship than the item is worth. I am in Iowa City, Iowa. I'd like to find this thing a great home. I am also aware that the NetBSD vax port went Multi-CPU, and well, supports many of the 6000 series now. So I will give any help to anyone that wants data on it, or perhaps even eventually send the non-heavy cards to people that may be developing or have a good use for them.

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Collections vs. accumulations, was Re: How many collectors?

by Gary.Messick＠itt.com

> > pulled the plug on that one, so I think they're using a PPC > derivative now. > > Would it be one of the 400-series embedded chips I enjoy playing with? > > Peace... Sridhar > Again, I'm not sure. When I left they were working on a software development console previous to any hardware being designed. The software development console was VME based and used a MOT PPC601 if I remember correctly. Not sure whatever made it into production. Gary

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Wildly OT: RE: Blanket insults for one's peer group, was Re: VCF East makes The Economist

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

> > The Economist stands head and shoulders above most US media > > in terms of the depth of thinking in most of its articles. > > Perhaps you could browse their web site to see what I'm > > talking about. Obviously the author was referring to the > > Windows PC, the mostly commonly used type of personal computer > > on the planet, at least among those of us who don't live > > in their parent's basement. > > Now THAT's a pretty shitty thing to say. Personally, I moved into my > own place when I was 19, thank you very much, and have been > supporting a good portion of my family for several years. Dave- Actually, I probably resemble R.D.'s remark more than anyone else on the list, but regardless of his intent, I can't take it as an insult. I moved into my parents' basement in 1969. By 1975, it had become such a popular place that coming in through the front door (which required screening by the folks) got to be too much of a bother, so people would just knock on the window and we'd pull it out and them in. I stayed there until I moved out to shack up with some fellow hippies***. I stayed there until I realized I was the only hippie with a salary and all mine was going into the group support (though life there did have its compensations). I then moved back home to the parents' basement where I remained until they died. Now it's my basement. I immediately moved upstairs into the master bedroom. And no curtain climbers to distract >from the accumulation, er, hobby... However, the basement today is a lonely place... Regards, -doug quebbeman *** The 1967 "Death of Hippie" at the Human Be-In at People's Park in Bezerkly notwithstanding.

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An analogue tale

by mranalog＠home.com

This is a short story I promise. About two years ago I pick a couple of op-amps off of eBay. I'm pretty sure I actually bought them from Rich Cini. These op-amps are Philbrick Researches, vacuum-tube type, K2s. Anyway, one of the amplifiers had cracks down both sides of the Bakelite base. Someone had broken it open to see the insides. So, I decided to get a little arty, and took a photo of two K2-Ws, one with and one without it's Bakelite case, laying on top of a data sheet for the K2-W. And I put a copyright notice under the picture on my little museum. http://www.best.com/~dcoward/analog/k2w.jpg Then last month, I received an email from a graphic arts company in Palm Springs saying that they wanted "this title only" rights to use the picture for a college textbook. > "McGraw-Hill Higher Education in Burr Ridge, > IL is preparing a college engineering text > called Engineering Circuit Analysis 6/e, by > Hayt, Kemmerly and Durbin. They would like > to use one of your images from this Website > in the text:" > "George A Philbrick Researches 1952 -Model K2-W > opamp with and without it's Bakelite shell/ > @ Doug Coward, 2000" . I mailed back the release about a week ago, and there is no guarantee that the picture will not be cut, but maybe I've made it to hard cover. --Doug ========================================= Doug Coward @ home in Poulsbo, WA Analog Computer Online Museum and History Center http://www.best.com/~dcoward/analog =========================================

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pigware

by mjsnodgr＠rockwellcollins.com

Matthew Sell <msell(a)ontimesupport.com>@classiccmp.org on 08/06/2001 01:21:53 PM Please respond to classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org Sent by: owner-classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org cc: Subject: Re: Blanket insults for one's peer group Nor did the average computer user REQUIRE 64 Megs of RAM and 60 GB drive space to run that word processor, either.... : ) - Matt "One World, One Web, One Program" - Microsoft Promotional Ad "Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuhrer" - Adolf Hitler Many thanks for this tagline to a fellow RGVAC'er... ----------------------------------------------------------------------- True... For grins-n-giggles I loaded up DOS on my AMD T-Bird 900 MHz box with 512M or RAM when a certain bloated pig'ware OS crashed because it was "out of resources" and ran Descent - a game designed to run on a 50MHz processor... It ran like a spotted ape! Wonderful framerates! I like the tagline BTW, and Descent came out in um.... 1993 I think, maybe 1992. So it's almost vintage. <grin> - M.S.

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Blanket insults for one's peer group, was Re: VCF East makes The Economist

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

> -----Original Message----- > From: R. D. Davis [mailto:rdd@smart.net] > Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 3:34 PM > To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org > Subject: Re: Blanket insults for one's peer group, was Re: VCF East > makes The Economist > > > On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Dave McGuire wrote: [..Dave's comments snipped...] > Agreed. When some miniscule-brained nitwit insults all of us who > appreciate well-designed computer systems, and who appreciate a > variety of different systems, and then defends a biz-'driod propaganda > sheet and that glorified example of bug-filled code called Microsoft > Windows that was originally designed to run on poorly engineered > hardware, then it's time to do take action. Heh, what he doesn't know > is when to expect that action (1 day or 5 years from now), or what it > will be... and even funnier, he probably thinks this is a bluff. Dang. Thanks to someone's screwed up message quoting, I quoted Dave and thought he was quoting you, so you'll see a message briefly in which I attribute to you remarks you appear not to have made. Sorry! My message isn't bad, but I don't like things attributed to me that I didn't say, regardless of the remarks or context, so I'd expect you might feel likewise. Again, sorry, but I think you'll be more amused by the post than anything else... Regards, -doug quebbeman

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PDP-11/23 PLUS and FDF11 option

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

On January 5, SP wrote: > I saw the board was sold :-( Eeek, sorry, that was me... > But, thinking about purchase one if the occassion is present... > How exactly could be done the connection ? We have the M8189 > and the M8188. Where or how is connected one board with the > other ? The FPF11 has jumpers along the bottom which determine which backplane pins it uses for power and ground. These allow it to be plugged into either a Qbus or a Unibus backplane, for use with a pdp11/23 or a pdp11/24. As far as I recall, it uses no signals from the backplane...only power and ground. It connects to the processor via a 40-pin flat ribbon cable which terminates in a 40-pin DIP header. This header plus into one of the MICROM sockets, where one would normally plug in the floating point microcode ROM chip. It should work with any F11-based system. -Dave -- Dave McGuire Laurel, MD

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PDP-11/23 PLUS and FDF11 option

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

On August 5, Tony Duell wrote: > > The FPF11 has jumpers along the bottom which determine which backplane > > pins it uses for power and ground. These allow it to be plugged into > > either a Qbus or a Unibus backplane, for use with a pdp11/23 or a > > Actually, +5V and ground are on the same pins on Unibus and Qbus slots. > The jumpers on the FPF11 determine which pins on the bus will be shorted > together, thus giving either a Unibus style grant continuity or a Qbus one. Ahh, I stand corrected. I need ECC in my brain. I thought those were for power. > I'd like to see you fit one in a Pro350, though :-) (you did say any > F11-based system). But actually, if you could power it somehow, I think it > would work with the Pro. I thought of exactly that when I typed it...and I'm considering trying it! :-) -Dave -- Dave McGuire Laurel, MD

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FS: DZV11's (M7957) w/ cab kits

by cmcmanis＠mcmanis.com

Found some more boards that are of no use to me, for the price of dropping them off USPS priority ($7.50) you too can own a DZV11, the original four port serial card for the Q-bus. They come with a 40 pin ribbon cable and the 4 port DB25 bulkhead. (you can also use these bulkheads on the DHV11s and others. Why would you want one? Perhaps to create a period accurate PDP-11/03 or PDP-11/23. Or perhaps to experiment with Qbus serial cards. Why don't I want them? I've got a dozen DHV11's (8 ports) that are just as useful and twice as dense). They are quad width cards. Work well in the BA11 chassis and they are old enough that even Ultrix 1.2 knows how to talk to them. You do _not_ want to put them in a high speed VAX (like anything faster than a MicroVAX 3500). Max serial speed is 9600 baud. So they aren't particularly fast either. --Chuck

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A few more Apple ][ cards

by ard＠p850ug1.demon.co.uk

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Collections vs. accumulations, was Re: How many collectors?

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

> I am now looking into some of the offspring of convergence > and hunting down the embedded machines. > Does anyone know what sort of machine is in the car's > onboard controller? A few pictures I've found make them > look like PC104's. These machines are hitting zero value > quickly and may not last 10 years unless picked up now. What car? They don't all use the same controllers, you know... -dq

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SunOS (er... Solaris)

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

Yes. By leaps and bounds. -Dave McGuire On August 6, Master of all that Sucks wrote: > > NetBSD/sparc and NetBSD/sparc64 are even better. > > Peace... Sridhar > > On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, wanderer wrote: > > > Dan Wright wrote: > > > > snip > > > As far as I know, Solaris 7 was the last OS to support the sun4c architecture > > > (ss2, IPX, IPC, ELC, etc). Solaris 8 will run on sun4m machines (5, 10, > > > 20...most (all?) machines with mbus processors + the sparc5 and a > > snip > > > > S8 will run on sun4m (LX, ZX, SS5, SS10, SS20 ) & sun4u (Ultra's, > > blade's, Ex500 & Ex800 ) architectures. > > > > BTW, Redhad does (did?) have Linux for Sparc, performance is not bad > > at all. > > > > Ed > > > > -- > > The Wanderer | Politici zijn gore oplichters. > > quapla(a)xs4all.nl | Europarlementariers: zakkenvullers > > http://www.xs4all.nl/~quapla | en neuspeuteraars. > > Unix Lives! M$ Windows is rommel! | Kilometerheffing : De overheid > > '97 TL1000S | weet waar je bent geweest! > > -- Dave McGuire Laurel, MD

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My other computer is a Cray!

by healyzh＠aracnet.com

> There was a T-shirt that sold on ebay recently that says: > "My other computer is a Cray"..;) Strangely enough, Apple did have > some deal with Cray to offer Macs as front ends to Crays... > > Heinz Why is this so strange? I've seen Mac's used as intelligent terminals on a Honeywell DPS-8 Mainframe, and I use one as the front-end to my OpenVMS cluster. Zane

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SunOS (er... Solaris)

by mjsnodgr＠rockwellcollins.com

I realise that this isn't the answer you were looking for, but FYI the Solaris 8 ISOs for Sparc and x86 are available for free from Sun. (Alternatively you can pay an $80 "media fee" to Sun and they'll ship you the CDs WITH pretty lables <grin> and some printed material.) - M.S. George Lewis <schvin(a)schvin.net>@classiccmp.org on 08/02/2001 09:34:16 PM Please respond to classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org Sent by: owner-classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org cc: Subject: SunOS Hello all, I've tried checking ebay every once in awhile for SunOS media, and the best I've found is the occasional box of documentation or whatever, but no media. I was not blessed with my very own unix machines until after Solaris had come to be popular, but I'd like very much to put SunOS on some of my sparcs now, just for grins. Does anyone know where one could pick up some SunOS media? I'm kind of hoping that there is a school or corporation that has a bunch sitting in a cabinet, or am I just pushing my luck, and most likely they've been tossed by unknowing or uncaring personnel? Or does one just have to get lucky and find someone with an extra set lying around? Thanks! George -- http://schvin.net/

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Free: DEC/VMS "Orange Wall"

by mrbill＠mrbill.net

I've got an "Orange Wall" of VMS 4.x-era documentation free for pickup in Austin, Texas. Bill -- Bill Bradford mrbill(a)mrbill.net Austin, TX

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DEC manuals available

by Mzthompson＠aol.com

The DEC haul from last month included some manuals that I already have so I will make them available to the list. The manuals and the quantities: TK50 Tape Drive Subsystem; User's Guide - 2 copies TK70 Streaming Tape Drive; Owner's Manual - 1 copy TZK10 Cartridge Tape Drive; User Guide - 1 copy TZK12 525mb SCSI Tape Drive; Installation Guide - 2 copies VT320; Installing and Using the VT320 Video Terminal - 2 copies The plan: 1) Send an email reserving your manual(s) 2) I will email you to confirm your reservation 3) After confirmation of your reservation, shoot me $2 per manual via Paypal (mzthompson(a)aol.com) to cover the cost of mailing. Mike

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Ebay madness

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

Yup, I'd say $25 was leaving money on the table. -Dave On August 3, Stan Sieler wrote: > > > -> http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1260881309 > > > > Neat. The last one I saw went on eBay for well over a thousand > > dollars. Who's smoking that crack? ;) > > eBay item 1201705728 - Heathkit H-8 Computer w/16K > $404.00 (reserve met) > > eBay item 1242494415 - Superb 1977 Heathkit H8+H9 with manuals! > GBP 343.00 (approx. $474.15 ) > > eBay item 1245865102 Vintage Heathkit H8 Computer > GBP 118.88 (approx. $166.57) > > eBay item 1249920339 Heathkit H8 Computer-Complete-11 Manuals > $504.00 > > eBay item 1252795126 HEATHKIT H8, H9 Antique Computer OLD!!!! > $383.88 > > The last four are still viewable on eBay. > > Stan Sieler sieler(a)allegro.com > www.allegro.com/sieler/wanted/index.html www.allegro.com/sieler -- Dave McGuire Laurel, MD

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SunOS (er... Solaris)

by healyzh＠aracnet.com

> I was hoping Sun would open up 2.6 and later to the net like they did > with 8... but it appears either licensing issues stop them or they > are too interested in moving the new hardware. I don't think they see any reason to. However, I must confess to rather likeing 2.6 as I've got a bunch of S-Bus cards that won't run on higher (both 100Mbit Ethernet and SCSI cards). Still I was able to come up with enough HW to be able to run 8 on my SS20. > 8 cost me $100 even though I can't run it on my current hardware. > The server version of 7 with stuff like Solstice Disk Suite (in the 8 I > have) would cost over $3k... (as an upgrade to the SunOS license these > Sparc2's had). The desktop Sparc version is over $300 for the license > and $100 for the media. Why not just get the stuff on eBay? I bought my 8 kit on eBay for about $30-40 less than Sun wanted. It was still in the shrinkwrap. > I guess every Sparc sysadmin must've socked away sparc CD's from work to > support their home Suns... 8-) (or they're running FreeBSD and > Open/NetBSD) at home. OpenBSD seems to work pretty good. I've got it on some of my Sparcs at the moment. In the case of my SparcBook 3GS, it's the only thing I've got to run on it :^( > Meanwhile I just picked up a 21 inch Trinitron refurb monitor which > will handle BNC inputs so I can switch it between Vax and Sparc and PC. Nice! While a Sparc is almost usable on a 17", you really need a 19-21" :^) I've got to admit though, I've not even bothered to hook a monitor back up to my SS20, it's more convenient to either telnet in, or bring up its desktop on my Mac (same with my main VMS systems). Zane

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SLU pinout for DEC 11/53 KDJ11-D/S processor

by TRoach＠nationalsteel.com

Dear cognoscenti, I am putting together an old DEC 11/53 system, and so far am missing the SLU for connecting a console terminal to the processor card. The card has a 34-pin flat cable connector, but my (MicroVAX vintage) SLU has two cables (10-pin and 20-pin). The SLU sets baud rate and makes up the serial connections, that's about all, so with sufficient information I may be able to just cable up directly without an SLU. Can you suggest a source for pinout information for the subject processor/SLU interconnection? Thanks for your help. Tom Roach

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RDD40 External CDROM Caddy

by CAA007216＠mail.ono.es

Hello. I was yesterday reviewing some stuff I received recently >from USA and I've checked that one DEC RDD40 that I received don't has a caddy to insert the cd-rom. Obvious question: Where could be obtained one ? Thanks in advance. Greetings and Best Regards from Spain. Sergio

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nearly complete Stack...

by mranalog＠home.com

Gene said: > Now all I need is a DC Hayes 300 S100 modem. :) I'm sitting here looking at a 80-103A "copyright DCHayes 1977-1978" S/N 00579 You should invite me over to see your simulator, I can bring the board with me. :) --Doug ========================================= Doug Coward @ home in Poulsbo, WA Analog Computer Online Museum and History Center http://www.best.com/~dcoward/analog =========================================

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Possible to read Amiga disks on a PC? Yes, actually

by fmc＠reanimators.org

Mark <mark_k(a)totalise.co.uk> wrote: > Take a look at http://fast.emuunlin.com/disk2fdi/index.html Try <http://fast.emuunlim.com/disk2fdi/index.html>. ^ note spelling correction -Frank McConnell

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WTB: DEC BA11-MA

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

Anybody have a spare DEC BA11-MA chassis in good shape with the red pdp11/03 label on the front? -Dave -- Dave McGuire Laurel, MD

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A few more Apple ][ cards

by Lee.Davison＠merlincommunications.com

MC3418 is a "Continuously variable slope Delta Modulator / demodulator" "Providing a simplified approach to digital speech encoding / decoding ..." It is, I must have entered an extra digit in the search. Well it is late 8^)= Lee. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- This email is intended only for the above named addressee(s). The information contained in this email may contain information which is confidential. The views expressed in this email are personal to the sender and do not in any way reflect the views of the company. If you have received this email and you are not a named addressee please delete it from your system and contact Merlin Communications International IT Department on +44 20 7344 5888. _____________________________________________________________________ This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service. For further information visit http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp or alternatively call Star Internet for details on the Virus Scanning Service.

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Memorex Telex Displaystation

by Lee.Davison＠merlincommunications.com

Have a look here... http://www.michaelsystems.com/periph/1472v.html > What is this: > http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1261907064 > > Is each box a computer system, and if so, of what kind? > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- This email is intended only for the above named addressee(s). The information contained in this email may contain information which is confidential. The views expressed in this email are personal to the sender and do not in any way reflect the views of the company. If you have received this email and you are not a named addressee please delete it from your system and contact Merlin Communications International IT Department on +44 20 7344 5888. _____________________________________________________________________ This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service. For further information visit http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp or alternatively call Star Internet for details on the Virus Scanning Service.

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Memorex Telex Displaystation

by optimus＠canit.se

What is this: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1261907064 Is each box a computer system, and if so, of what kind? -- En ligne avec Thor 2.6a. Amiga 4000/040 25MHz/56MB/20GB RetinaBLTZ3/VLab/FastlaneZ3/Ariadne/Toccata

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nearly complete Stack...

by technos＠nerdland.org

Hayes also made an Optima in 14.4 in the same aluminum clamshell. I had one way back when. At least I could *swear* it was a 14.4.. It's been a long time, and I've had dozens of Hayes. I'm now using the 56K version with the clone plastic clamshell, in fact. Jim On Sunday, August 05, 2001 1:11 AM, Gene Buckle [SMTP:geneb@deltasoft.com] wrote: > Minus the Hayes 300 that's still in storage, here's a complete Hayes > Stack. > > http://deltasoft.fife.wa.us/stack.jpg > > A friend of mine found the Optima 9600 for me today at a local thrift > > shop. > > Unless there is another device that Hayes made in this same aluminum > extrusion, this IS the whole set. > > Now all I need is a DC Hayes 300 S100 modem. :) > > Thanks to Jeff & Don for helping complete the collection. > > g. > > -- > http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind.

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Possible to read Amiga disks on a PC? Yes, actually

by mark_k＠totalise.co.uk

Hi, I don't know if this has been mentioned before, but there is apparently a program that allows Amiga floppy disks to be read on a PC with standard floppy controller and two floppy drives. The same technique can to some extent be applied to read other "exotic" disk formats. Take a look at http://fast.emuunlin.com/disk2fdi/index.html If you download the disk2fdi archive, there is an MS Word-format document (ugh) that describes the technical details. It's quite clever. -- Mark

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DILOG DQ-614

by xds_sigma7＠hotmail.com

I think I might have the manual for this board, I will check later and say for certain... Will J _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp

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Tektronix 31

by reyes＠orion.ae.utexas.edu

How much is a Tektronix 31 worth? Reuben

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Ebay madness

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

> Is the EconoRam a George Morrow design? I have four EconoRams that are Bill > Godbout/CompuPro products. Mine are 16K SRAMs, in this case, loaded with > 2147's. I believe some of Godbout's designs were done my Morrow, but perhaps not all. Godbout used to run an EPROM programming service. After having typed in the SOL's CONSOL source listings (sans comments), assembling it using the Intel MAC80 cross assembler, and testing the code under the Intel INTERP-80 simulator (each running on both the DEC-10 and the CDC-6600), I ran the Intel HEX output through a conversion so that I could punch a papertape on the CDC-6600's high-speed papertape reader/punch (a holdover from the days when IU had a CDC 3400/3600 system) and sent the paper tape to Godbout. Someone names Spencer who worked there burned my 5204 Eproms with the tiny fragile gold legs and got 'em back to me. I had *one* error in my entry of CONSOL that I never caught- Control-Z, which was the cursor down function, would crash the machine. Later, I got some SOLOS roms, and never looked back... > I also have a completely new/unused (not in the box, but never used) WunderBuss > somewhere. I'm not even certain it was ever assembled. Ah, the Wunderbuss... I found one S-100 line that had a copper gap from producton... but it wasn't a normally used line, at least in the Altair/IMSAI usage... maybe IEEE-S696 used it... -dq

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MIPS RISC/os 4.5 docs available

by liste＠artware.qc.ca

I was given a RISComputer M/120 with 2 boxes of documentation and many QIC tapes (RISC/os 3.0, 3.1, 4.0, 4.51, 5.0, Fortran, Pascal and Ingres). Funny thing is that the computer has 3.0 installed on it :) I'm going to keep the most recent versions (RISC/os 5.0) and pull all the data off the tapes and make "available" at some point. So, this means I have a complete set of RISC/os 4.5 docs that are destined for the recycling bin if no one claims them. Still in shrink wrap: User's Guide User's Refernce Manual Volume I (System V) User's Refernce Manual Volume I (BSD) Loose: Sysytem Administrator's Reference Manual Next 4 are in binders: Programmer's Guide Volume I Programmer's Guide Volume II Programmer's Reference Manual Volume I (System V) Programmer's Reference Manual Volume II (BSD) I also have the OS on QIC-120 tapes, release 4.51 which I'll give to whomever wants it. Note that all of this is very heavy, so shipping will be $$$$. I'd much prefer someone came to pick it up. I'm in Waterville, Eastern Townships, Qu?bec. First claim for both tapes and docs wins over someone wanting only the tapes. Speak now or this stuff becomes newsprint :) -Philip

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Amstrad PPC640 mains adapter

by piedro＠yucom.be

hello, my name is Piedro Vander Steene from Belgium. I'm having an old amstrad PPC512 that still is working, but i don't have any disks to start the machine up. Neither have i a manual. Is there someone who could help me please ? THANKS ! piedro(a)yucom.be

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DSSI Terminator

by matt＠knm.yi.org

Hi, I got a MicroVAX 3300 earlier in the year - a nice little(ish) box, but I was thinking the other day - It should have a terminator for the DSSI, which it doesn't have. The guy I bought it from had (at one point) had an expansion cabinate (he scrapped it!) which presumably had the terminator in :&/ So basically, I was wondering if anyone out there has a spare DSSI terminator, or as these as I suspect - very similar to gold dust -- Matt --- E-mail: matt(a)pkl.net, matt(a)knm.yi.org, matt(a)printf.net matt(a)m-techdiagnostics.ltd.uk, matthew.london(a)stud.umist.ac.uk mattl(a)vcd.student.utwente.nl, mlondon(a)mail.talk-101.com Web Page: http://knm.yi.org/ http://pkl.net/~matt/ PGP Key fingerprint = 00BF 19FE D5F5 8EAD 2FD5 D102 260E 8BA7 EEE4 8D7F PGP Key http://knm.yi.org/matt-pgp.html

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Ebay madness

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

> I have a few machines that I'll occasionally just sit and > admire, mainly the NeXT and the SOL-20 but on an asthetic level I > tend to find specific boards just as pleasing to look at as various > machines. There's just something about a well planned, well layed > out design, such as the mainboard of the Apple II or II+ or the > minimalist approach taken by the ZX-81. Amiga Zorro II/III boards > tend to be well layed out as well due to thier size. George Morrow's board designs always did this for me; I have an EconoRAM III 16K dynamic board and an early WunderBUSS in an Objective Design extruded aluminum frame. Which reminds me: has anyone written up the electrolytic capacitor reconditioning instruction into a FAQ? -dq

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Ebay madness

by cmcmanis＠mcmanis.com

At 03:08 AM 8/4/01 +0100, you wrote: >At 07:53 pm 03/08/2001 -0500, you wrote: > >I w onder what the posting fee is on a starting bid of $25K ?? eBay doesn't > >care if he doesn't get a bid either, they make a nice posting fee for that. Max listing fee is $3.30 so he could have a starting bid of $1,000,000 and still only pay $3.30 to list it. --Chuck

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Ebay madness

by Gary.Messick＠itt.com

Is it just me? What are the odds this guy gets it? http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1260881309

24 years, 11 months

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VCF East makes The Economist

by r.stek＠snet.net

BTW, I am gratified that the author of this piece noticed the authenticity of the two empty Coke cans and the twinkies I left on top of my Sol at VCF East. As Sherlock Holmes said, "It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles." Bob Stek Saver of Lost Sols

24 years, 11 months

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PDP-11/23 PLUS and FDF11 option

by quapla＠xs4all.nl

Sergio, The board was for sale....But yes, it could only be used with an 11/23+ or the 11/24 (they have the same CPU chipset). There is a flatcable which you put in one of the empty slots of the CPU card, and that's it basically. Ed SP wrote: > > Hello. I have a new question if somebody could answer it. > Actually on eBay is one M8188 board for sale, knowed too > like a FDF11 (Floating Point Processor) option (at least > this is what I deduct from the info that I've found in the Internet). > > The question is easy: Is this board useful to put it in one > system with the m8189 board (KDF11-B or PDP-11/23 PLUS) ? > > It appears like this board could only be connected into one > KDF11-A, or symply in another system different of the PLUS. > > Thanks in advance for the answer. > > Greetings and Best Regards from Spain. > > Sergio -- The Wanderer | Politici zijn gore oplichters. quapla(a)xs4all.nl | Europarlementariers: zakkenvullers http://www.xs4all.nl/~quapla | en neuspeuteraars. Unix Lives! M$ Windows is rommel! | Kilometerheffing : De overheid '97 TL1000S | weet waar je bent geweest!

24 years, 11 months

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PDP8 tutorials?

by mrbill＠mrbill.net

Anybody have a link to an online reference for someone who's never touched a pdp8 before? I just found the AWESOME PDP8 Simulator for MacOS X on www.emulation.net, so NOW I WANNA PLAY. 8-) Bill -- Bill Bradford mrbill(a)mrbill.net Austin, TX

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Which Vax is This?

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

On August 4, Jerome Fine wrote: > While trying to solve my timing problem with a PDP-11/83 in a BA123 system, > I thought it might be time to try one of the other BA123 boxes I have. It turns > out it had an M7626 CPU inside complete with 3 M7622 memory boards > and the correct 5016743 usual cabinet kit and Ethernet L4 50020061 cabinet > kit with the spaghetti cable harness. The cable to the DSSI cabinet kit was there > as well along with a 5 part cable for the memory (only four in use of course). Sounds like a KA660, VAX4000-200. 5VUPS. Nice little board, lots of bang for the buck these days. > One thing I am surprised about is just how few components there are on the > M7662 CPU board. I see 3 inch square chips (2 with heat sinks on top) > and 3 other somewhat smaller square chips (all 3 with heat sinks on top). > There is also what seem to be a 114.285 MHz crystal. Is this correct? > Is this the clock for the VAX CPU? Yup. It's divided by two for a clock of 57.1MHz. -Dave -- Dave McGuire Laurel, MD

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Ebay madness

by steven_j_robertson＠hotmail.com

>Some more interesting Ebay madness is that some nice VAX systems are going >quite cheaply. There is a 4000/300 on Ebay for less than $20, the CPU alone >is worth that, and if it has memory too... A 4000/200 in the nice BA215 >case sold recently for $60. So you see the market works as you would >expect, these things come out of the woodwork and the prices on ebay >reflect the increased availability. > >--Chuck > Seems to me that prices on eBay have dropped over the last year or so. This could be because of the depressed economy or the fact that some of us collectors are becoming "saturated". I've certainly slowed down on my purchases. Nowadays, a computer's gotta be really cheap before I'll buy it. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp

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Which Vax is This?

by jhfine＠idirect.com

While trying to solve my timing problem with a PDP-11/83 in a BA123 system, I thought it might be time to try one of the other BA123 boxes I have. It turns out it had an M7626 CPU inside complete with 3 M7622 memory boards and the correct 5016743 usual cabinet kit and Ethernet L4 50020061 cabinet kit with the spaghetti cable harness. The cable to the DSSI cabinet kit was there as well along with a 5 part cable for the memory (only four in use of course). One thing I am surprised about is just how few components there are on the M7662 CPU board. I see 3 inch square chips (2 with heat sinks on top) and 3 other somewhat smaller square chips (all 3 with heat sinks on top). There is also what seem to be a 114.285 MHz crystal. Is this correct? Is this the clock for the VAX CPU? There was also a few other boards like an RQDX3, a DHV11 and a DMV11. Each of these had their cabinet kits. Plus what is probably the parallel line printer M8020 module and its cabinet kit. While it is possible that I might eventually want to use it in a uVAX, it just seems too unlikely right now. Anyone interested in a trade? Or want to buy it? Otherwise, is there any way that I might be able to use one of these M7622 memory modules within a PDP-11 as a RAM disk. I remember that Megan Gentry once set up some old memory in that manner. Since there are three of these boards, maybe someone is interested in setting up the hardware for a couple of them and we could share the results by sharing the boards. I suspect that it would be quite interesting to have a RAM disk of 16 MBytes for a PDP-11. Actually, I think I have at least a couple of 4 MByte boards as well for a uVAX II, so even if it is not done with the M7622 boards, maybe with the others. Since the access to the memory is via the 50-pin cable over the top, any hardware designed for one such board should probably work on many other types as well. Sincerely yours, Jerome Fine

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