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

by jss＠ou.edu

I will be picking up a PDP-11/70 in a few weeks, but it needs a front panel. If anybody has an extra, please e-mail me. -- Jeffrey S. Sharp jss(a)ou.edu

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NeXT '040 Cubes

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Mar 19, 17:19, MTPro(a)aol.com wrote: > Hi there, I have two cubes, both original 1988 boxes. One is a 25MHz '040 with a hard drive and an optical drive. The other is a 33MHz '040 (Turbo?) with just a hard drive. Both power on fine, do their system test and then say loading from network. The picture looks like a coaxial "T" connector with a cable that has "data" rolling through it. First, put a 50-ohm terminator on that connector, so the NeXT thinks it is connected to a live (but very small!) network. Then read the NeXT FAQ: http://www.peanuts.org/faq-serve/cache/66.html They will not do anything else. I've been going crazy looking on the internet for days, but have not found a way to bypass this. I know you can "boot" into single user mode and then reset passwords, but how? The FAQ describes how to do it. I recently acquired a slab, and had to do that. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager Dept. of Computer Science University of York

25 years, 3 months

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plato terminals

by uban＠ubanproductions.com

Does anyone know where I might still find a Plato terminal of the UIUC 512x512 plasma display variety (not the later CDC implementation)? I know that there were several models, but I don't recall the variations. --tnx --tom

25 years, 3 months

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IBM 3380 disk drives / info?

by ip500＠home.com

Among my pickups over the weekend were a pair of these HUGE IBM 3380 drives. Couldn't even begin to find room for the entire unit with its cabinet and controllers, but did scavange the drives and motors out of the cabinet. Biggest drive I've ever seen. Belt driven! from an external 1.5 HP motor ..these things are Big! Cast alluminium housing w/14" discs, the whole assembly seems about 1/2 the size of a V-6 auto eng! IBM site has several references to them, circa early 80's I gather but they sure look older than that. What I'd like to find is IBM publication #GC26-4491 [IBM 3380 Direct Access Storage Intro] and/or IBM pub #GX26-1678 [Storage Reference Summary]. Neither seems to be in the on-line library from IBM. Any other info or dating is always welcome too. Thanks, Craig

25 years, 3 months

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PS/2 P70

by mark_k＠iname.com

Hi, On Mon, 19 Mar 2001 Russ Blakeman wrote: > I think Jeff has already answered this for you. I've been busy downloading > all of the PDF format files and trying to work out a good print-from-browser > scheme for the ones that are only in Bookmanager/Bookreader format as one > day a genius at IBM is going to pull the plug on openly displaying their > older manuals for us to use. You should be able to find the original bookmanager files for those documents somewhere on an IBM web or FTP site. (ftp.redbooks.ibm.com???) There is bookmanager reader software for at least DOS and OS/2 on one of IBM's FTP sites. Having the bookmanager file is much simpler (only one file to download), and can, I assume, be converted to HTML with the same program IBM uses. -- Mark

25 years, 3 months

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Carter AFB.. he he!

by rigdonj＠intellistar.net

At 09:44 AM 3/13/01 -0800, Grumpy Ol' Fred wrote: >> On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Mike Ford wrote: >> > This is the only computer list I can think of where arguing about a >> > carburator problem posted by a virus is perfectly normal. We are >[insert your opinion here] > > >On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, R. D. Davis wrote: >> computers. Aren't there some engine control computers by now that are >> about 10 years old? > >FSOT: Bosch fuel injection ""computer"" from 1969 VW type III >(squareback). working when removed; with some (not necessarily all) FI >components and sensors > >Over 30 years old, and called a computer. Cool! It IS a computer. The injectors were pulse width modulated. Somewhere I have the manual for that thing. My mother had a '70 VW type III with that system and it ran great. Joe

25 years, 3 months

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Aardvark Journals

by dkuhn＠acsworld.net

Hello there, I just joined this list. I don't know how many are subscribing to it. If anyone is interested, I am selling off my original newsletter style Arrdvark Journals on ebay. http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1223027850 This was a newsletter for owners of Ohio Scientific machines. I am sadly selling off all my old stuff. Dave

25 years, 3 months

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IBM 3380 disk drives / info?

by jhellige＠earthlink.net

Were these the 8" 5 and 10meg units? When they required their own special controller prior to switching to SCSI? Jeff >I've got one better, do you remember the old Bernuolli removable disk drives, >the original big beasts in IBM PC/XT cases??? Well, there used to be a >serious problem with their power supplies, you would be working in a lab and all >of a sudden you'd hear this loud thunderous "thump" type explosion and out from >the box would pour out this white nasty ozone'ish smoke. After nervously >pulling the plug, you would slide off the cover to find one of the coke-can >sized cap's had completely blown off the top and if you looked at the inside of >the top cover there would be this spectacular meteor-crater shaped carbon mark >where the capacitor had blown upward and scorched the inside of the case. >Now thats quality assurance!!! :-)

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IBM 3380 disk drives / info?

by SUPRDAVE＠aol.com

I've two of the 10meg boxes, complete with 100 disks, but no controller card. >From what I understand, it was a proprietary interface. In a message dated 3/19/01 11:16:40 AM Central Standard Time, jhellige(a)earthlink.net writes: << Were these the 8" 5 and 10meg units? When they required their own special controller prior to switching to SCSI? Jeff >I've got one better, do you remember the old Bernuolli removable disk drives, >the original big beasts in IBM PC/XT cases??? Well, there used to be a >serious problem with their power supplies, you would be working in a lab and all >of a sudden you'd hear this loud thunderous "thump" type explosion and out from >the box would pour out this white nasty ozone'ish smoke. After nervously >pulling the plug, you would slide off the cover to find one of the coke-can >sized cap's had completely blown off the top and if you looked at the inside of >the top cover there would be this spectacular meteor-crater shaped carbon mark >where the capacitor had blown upward and scorched the inside of the case. >Now thats quality assurance!!! :-) >>

25 years, 3 months

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The DOS 10 Commandments (fwd)

by ajp166＠bellatlantic.net

From: Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner <spc(a)conman.org> To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org> Date: Thursday, March 15, 2001 7:54 PM Subject: Re: The DOS 10 Commandments (fwd) >It was thus said that the Great Peter Joules once stated: >> 3) >> Thy hard disk shall never have more than 1024 sectors. You don't need that >> much space anyway. > > That's a BIOS limitation; talk to IBM about that one---they only allocated >10 bits for sector number in the INT 13h disk IO call. Wrong. 1024 was a hardware limitation of the early MFM controller cards and the bios honored it. FYI it was CYLINDERS not sectors. 1024 sectors would have only been 512k! >> 4) >> Thy application program and data shall all fit in 640K of RAM. After all, >> it's ten times what you had on a CP/M machine. Keep holy this 640K of RAM, >> and clutter it not with device drivers, memory managers, or other things >> that might make thy computer useful. > > Again, IBM is to fault for that one---the IBM PC reserved the memory space >above $A0000 for video and BIOS extentions. There have been PCompatibles >running MS-DOS that had more memory available, but only programs that used >MS-DOS exclusively would work on those machines. Other non -PC hardware such as Rainbow went out to 896k and some of the S100 based machines did the full meg using shadow rom. >> 5) >> Thou shall use the one true slash character to separate thy directory path. >> Thou shall learn and love this character, even though it appears on no >> typewriter keyboard, and is unfamiliar. Standardization on where that >> character is located on a computer keyboard is right out . > > While COMMAND.COM would only accept `\' as a path separator, MS-DOS would >internally use both `/' and `\' for path separators. There is an MS-DOS >call to change the option character (from the default of `/') but I don't >remember what it was off the top of my head. The other choise is the unix / or VMS [.....] form. > >> 10) >> Learn well the Vulcan Nerve Pinch (ctrl-alt-del) for it shall be thy saviour >> on many an occasion. Believe in thy heart that everyone reboots their OS to >> solve problems that shouldn't occur in the first place. > > Isn't that more of a Windows thing than an MS-DOS thing? It's really a hardware thing. Dos and most other OSs all see it and have an option to do what they care to. The real point is that RESET became the defacto solution for flakey code most of it outside DOS. > -spc (Doesn't remember MS-DOS crashing quite so much ... ) DOS being unprotected could crash, usually after the application wiped it from memory like CP/M! Any unprotected OS would be vunerable to being smashed by a runaway app. Experience with DOS 3.11 and 5.0 is that for an unprotected OS it was fairly solid and not inclined to kill itself. I have two systems that live as DOS with uptimes measured in months. Allison

25 years, 3 months

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Hp85a

by fauradon＠mn.mediaone.net

THe BASIC info can be found at: http://people.mn.mediaone.net/fauradon/index.html under TechInfo section. It's a scan of the BASIC syntax guide from the manual. Francois -----Original Message----- From: bill claussen <elecdata(a)kcinter.net> To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org> Date: Monday, March 19, 2001 7:46 AM Subject: Hp85a >Does anyone have info on an hp85a, I found one in excellent condition >and works, but I lack paperwork and basic info. > >Thanks > >Bill >elecdata1 >

25 years, 3 months

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PS/2 P70

by SUPRDAVE＠aol.com

In a message dated 3/19/01 12:28:18 PM Central Standard Time, pechter(a)pechter.dyndns.org writes: << > Anyone know if there is a NFS that runs under OS/2 <=3? I've got a wide > variety of boxes running on my network (I'm getting to be an expert at > heterogeneous networking :) and my OS/2 box (IBM Server 85) is quickly > depleting it's 450MB hard drive. Right now most of my boxes get their > post-boot disk space from my linux box which services appletalk, samba, and > NFS connections. It would be great to leverage it into my OS/2 box as well.. I think IBM's OS/2 v2.x supported NFS with their optional TCP/IP package. Pretty costly, though. >> You might want to search out at HOBBES.NMSU.EDU That's the OS/2 file library.

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IBM 3380 disk drives / info?

by jhellige＠earthlink.net

>I've two of the 10meg boxes, complete with 100 disks, but no controller card. >From what I understand, it was a proprietary interface. I believe that the Bernoulli drives used a proprietary interface at least up until the 20meg 5-1/4" drives. They even produced a controller for the TRS-80 Model 2000 but the software didn't allow full use of anything larger than 10meg. Jeff

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FS: Zenith Minisport ZL-2 laptop

by whispermulch＠hotmail.com

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25 years, 3 months

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TRS-80 Model 2000 Color graphics adapter

by jhellige＠earthlink.net

For those such as Claude that have Model 2000's, there's an item that just popped up on eBay that might be of interest. It's the color graphics card for the machine. It's at: http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1223260404 I thought I'd pass it on since expansion cards for the Model 2000 are getting harder to come by. Jeff

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FWD: CoCo FD-501 floppy needed

by jhellige＠earthlink.net

Here's an email I got from someone this morning that maybe one of you may be able to help out on. Please reply to the original sender. Jeff ------------------- From: Brian Sumpter <bsumpter(a)emediadesigns.com> Organization: Emediadesigns.com Reply-To: bsumpter(a)emediadesigns.com Date: Mon, Mar 19, 2001, 11:38 AM To: jhellige(a)earthlink.net Subject: FD 501 Jeff, I was looking over your web site (http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/lakes/6757/index.html), and noticed you have some Tandy CoCo stuff in your collection. I'm trying to obtain a Tandy FD 501 Disk Drive -- the one with the ribbon cable that connects to the cartridge. I'm having quite a bit of trouble tracking one down, and was hoping you might have one or know someone who does that would be interested in selling it to me. Any help you could provide would be very appreciated. Thank you! -- Brian Sumpter bsumpter(a)emediadesigns.com

25 years, 3 months

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Classic source in Kerrville, TX. also old HP calcs.

by mtapley＠swri.edu

All, Cindy emailed again this morning to add that she also had some old, original HP calculators. I didn't see those, so don't know what models. - Mark

25 years, 3 months

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Classic source in Kerrville, TX.

by mtapley＠swri.edu

All, About 2 months ago, I reported that I'd been contacted by an electronics surplus vendor in Kerrville, TX, and would check out the site. After finally making the trip this weekend, I can report; been there, done that, got pictures. That address is sales(a)elecplus.com, by the way, phone 830-792-3400. I'm still in input overload. The place is simply amazing. Northern Californians will remember what Weird Stuff was like back before it was "cool"; this place is at least its equal, in my opinion. Among the things I saw and photographed that I thought folks on this list might be interested in were: MicroVax 3600 and 2 associated cabinets with RA82 and TU81Plus drives. Sadly, the processor cards were gone *but* were expected back. TRS-80 Color Computer, with external floppy and hard drives. Commodore SX64, complete. Dec DF03 modem (?) and 2 DEC Scholar Modems. A Fluke "interface pod" that looks like an ICE for a 6802 or 6808 2 Gridcase 1537 and 4 battery packs Large IBM terminal-looking thing with 2 8-inch floppies. Wang big iron cabinets, I forget what was in them. Things not photographed included: HP 7935A drives (no packs) a Compaq 386 luggable with a red plasma display and an electronics parts cross-reference program on it (historically interesting software?) There was a *whole lot* more. Workstations and large servers by Sun, Dec, and others. Laptops, CDs, modems, Laserdisk interactive players, printers of every type and size, plotters, scanners, power supplies, disks, etc. The ratio of classic to contemporary stuff looked to be *way* above 1:1. I brought my digital camera, and goggled and fluttered the shutter until an hour past their closing time (2 PM on Saturdays). They didn't say a word about that, by the way, until I said I'd promised my family I'd be back by three at the latest and they shocked me by saying it was 3:15 and would I like to use their phone to call? Which is a pretty good indicator of what kind of folks they are to deal with, and of how much fun I was having. So the bottom line is I have about 89 digital photos of the stuff that looked interesting to me, but no web site or good way to display it to you guys. I can mailbomb anybody that's interested with the whole 31.3 MB of jpegs, or you can tell me what type stuff you are interested in and I can try to pick for you, or I can send you a list of picture titles. If any of you have website space, time, and inclination, a better idea would be for me to send you the pictures, let you put it on your site, and post the url back here, and everyone else can go virtual catalog shopping. Ram, there were big piles of boards. I didn't check for, and forgot even to ask about, Transputers. Next visit I will, or you can email and ask yourself. Fantasy overload warning: Cindy, the owner, pointed out that I didn't even get around to seeing the historically "good stuff". Original-box type things, she says she has in her garage. I can't recall what all she says she has but it's probably worth an email if you have specific "want" items. She listed a lot off the top of her head, and I was too boggled to take notes. Minor caution: Cindy the owner is pretty straight-laced about not allowing any surplus military stuff to get out without being pretty sure it no longer has sensitive info on it. (Yes, DRMO is *supposed* to take care of that.) If you want something that *might* be sensitive, you'll probably have to work out some way to assure her that it's wiped properly before you get it. As before, I can help with transportation if needed. I have a '68 Plymouth Sport Suburban wagon (= Fury III wagon, really. 15.86 mpg on the 120-mi highway round trip to Kerrville, if it's of interest, Geoff), so I can get big boxes to San Antonio International airport, etc. without too much trouble. Disclaimer: Not affiliated, just a well-satisfied customer. Thinking hard about how to increase my alloted classic-computer storage space. Let me know here or at mtapley(a)swri.edu if you would be willing to web-host jpegs. - Mark

25 years, 3 months

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The DOS 10 Commandments (fwd)

by mtapley＠swri.edu

(lost attribution: sorry!) >> MOST of the non-IBM MS DOS machines could take up to 768k of RAM. The >> Sanyo 550 and Zenith Z-100s both did. AFIK there's no limitations on using Tony said: >The DEC Rainbow could (officially) take 896K of RAM (128K on the >motherboard and a memory expanison card with 3 banks of 256K chips). The >oriiginal Apricot could be pushed to 960K -- actually, there was 1Mbytes >worth of chips on the board but the last 64K was taken up with the >boot/BIOS ROM and the video memory. A minor nit: my Rainbow 100A model has only 64K motherboard and 768k on the memory card (atop the 8087/8088 daughterboard), for a total of 832K. I think that's maxed out for an A model. What Tony says is correct for B or + Rainbows, AFAIK. Anyway that's yet one more number on the "max. mem" plot for 808(8,6) machines. - Mark

25 years, 3 months

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PS/2 P70

by donm＠cts.com

25 years, 3 months

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Carter AFB.. he he!

by jpl15＠panix.com

When I saw the message header, I thought that it referred to Carter Air Force Base, and, looking at the +20K length, I was sure that someone had discovered a long-forgotten warehouse stuffed full of classic Big Iron >from times gone by... But, LOL! Carburetors! OT: From my street-racing days: the Javelin was not a bad little ride, properly set up, and I drove a few of them competitively. Holleys were always my first carb choice, Carters being 'okay' jugs, and then there Rochesters... yuck, poo! Cheers John

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HP-UX media.

by harrison＠timharrison.com

A while back there was some HP-UX media that someone ran across, and someone was going to sort it out, and distribute. What ever happened with that? I'm still interested. -- Tim Harrison Network Engineer harrison(a)timharrison.com http://www.networklevel.com/

25 years, 3 months

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Need an IBM 9309-2 Rack Enclosure

by curtisauto＠qwest.net

Are you still looking for this because I have what you need. Jeff

25 years, 3 months

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IBM 3380 disk drives / info?

by SUPRDAVE＠aol.com

In a message dated 3/18/01 9:07:40 PM Eastern Standard Time, ip500(a)home.com writes: << Among my pickups over the weekend were a pair of these HUGE IBM 3380 drives. Couldn't even begin to find room for the entire unit with its cabinet and controllers, but did scavange the drives and motors out of the cabinet. Biggest drive I've ever seen. Belt driven! from an external 1.5 HP motor ..these things are Big! Cast alluminium housing w/14" discs, the whole assembly seems about 1/2 the size of a V-6 auto eng! IBM site has several references to them, circa early 80's I gather but they sure look older than that. What I'd like to find is IBM publication #GC26-4491 [IBM 3380 Direct Access Storage Intro] and/or IBM pub #GX26-1678 [Storage Reference Summary]. Neither seems to be in the on-line library from IBM. Any other info or dating is always welcome too. Thanks, Craig >> yup, those things are quite impressive when you open the access doors and quite noisy with multiple units running. Place I worked at back in 1992 had 4 strings of those which were eventually replaced by one hitachi unit. Capacity was up to 4gig IIRC. -- DB Young Team OS/2 old computers, hot rod pinto and more at: www.nothingtodo.org

25 years, 3 months

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carter afb

by paulc＠ns.sympatico.ca

Skipped content of type multipart/alternative

25 years, 3 months

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Apple IIgs to Commodore 1080 monitor hookup

by claudew＠videotron.ca

Hi I have been trying to get a IIgs working with a Amiga/Commodore 1080. This should be a simple hookup...108x and derivatives support around 15.75khz scan rates and should work in analog RGB mode selection... It's not working. I see the composite sync squashed with a scope when hooked up to the monitor. Also the color signals are hit. Nothing on the screen. I see the video for a split second when switching from digital to rgb on the commdore monitor, its outta sync but you can see for a fraction of a second, so video signals are making it through... I tried also a 1084 and a 1902 with no success...I have checked the pinouts >from several sources for both monitor and IIgs and they all match...RGB analog on the 198x series db9 connector...2,3,4...R,G,B and 7 composite sync...1&2 ground...simple enough no? I have tried long/short shielded and unshielded cables with no success. The IIgs RGB output is fine and works perfect with the original IIgs RGB monitor and cable... Anybody ever do this and have these problems...??? Or an idea? Thanks for reading Claude

25 years, 3 months

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Anyone have TU45 docs?

by DSEAGRAV＠toad.xkl.com

I have a TU45 I need to get working again. It doesn't load tapes. It might be roached, or it might just be out of adjustment. I will trade things for it if I happen to have something you want. -------

25 years, 3 months

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VAXstation 5000

by william.webb＠juno.com

Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 16:02:26 -0500 From: "Claude.W" <claudew(a)videotron.ca> Subject: Flea Market finds...: VAX 5000/200 point me to a faq please... Vax Station 5000/200 with 32Megs (?) $5 Can someone tell me more about the VAX? I know nothing about these things. Either point me to a good faq or a manual or just tell me how to check this thing out...I searched the net and after 20 minutes found close to nothing about this thing...the compaq site is a maze.... Unit powers on PS fans (3!) spin. Small leds in back (6?) near ports seem to cycle through in a "logical and non erratic way" at start up... There are 4 large memory boards. Counting the chips I suspect these boards hold 8 Megs each...4 boards...32Megs...built in ethernet from what I can see... Slot -0- in back does not have a cover anymore. There is nothing there...I suspect this held a video card (?) can I still hook this up headless to a terminal? I connected my trusty Wyse60 to this and after a short "POST" I get...: ?IO 5/rzl/vmunix (bb rd) >> Returns bring more >> prompts so I am talking to the box...So I guess it works... The thing has no floppy or keyboard connector...Just a SCSI port....how does it boot? -- from scsi cdrom? (linux something to try on this I suspect...?) Sorry about the questions but I know nothing about these VAX boxes... Thanks for the help Claude claudew(a)videotron.ca Claude, this is from memory so I'll put percentages of reliability next to each statement- 1- These machines were designed to run Ultrix (A flavor of UNIX sold by DEC) and will not run VMS (100%) 2- I think they're MIPS-based machines (80%) 3- There might be a BSD for them (30%) If you really need come up short I've got Digital Systems & Options catalogs back to 1993 and can get you some information about options but not detailed config/setup stuff. WWWebb ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.

25 years, 3 months

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My PDP11/53

by fernande＠internet1.net

I got my PDP11/53, but I can't get it to do anything. I loaded Tera-Term on my IBM Model 80, to use as my terminal. I dug out a serial cable, and bought a gender changer to hook the two computers up. What could I be doing wrong... I am not getting anything! I see lights on the cards, but nothing on the screen. Chad Fernandez Michigan, USA

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UNIX question [was: Re: VAX question]

by yoda＠isr.ist.utl.pt

>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Thompson <thompson(a)mail.athenet.net> writes: Paul> On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Vintage Computer Festival wrote: >> Did VMS have a built in utility that allowed to 1) time how >> long a given user was logged in, and/or 2) track what >> directories on the VAX the user entered? Paul> Two potential answers ACC/FULL/SINCE=whenever/USER= Paul> You could probably use ANAL/AUDIT to check what directories Paul> were entered but would need to have set up the ACL's ahead Paul> of time. Obviously not wanting to raise a UNIX vs VAX war, I was just wondering whether that kind of tracking would be possible using UNIX... Any suggestions/comments? Cheers, -- *** Rodrigo Martins de Matos Ventura <yoda(a)isr.ist.utl.pt> *** Web page: http://www.isr.ist.utl.pt/~yoda *** Teaching Assistant and PhD Student at ISR: *** Instituto de Sistemas e Robotica, Polo de Lisboa *** Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa, PORTUGAL *** PGP fingerprint = 0119 AD13 9EEE 264A 3F10 31D3 89B3 C6C4 60C6 4585

25 years, 3 months

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My PDP11/53

by Stiebler.External＠infineon.com

> > Chad Fernandez writes: > > > I got my PDP11/53, but I can't get it to do anything. I loaded > > > Tera-Term on my IBM Model 80, to use as my terminal. I > dug out a serial > > > cable, and bought a gender changer to hook the two > computers up. What > > > could I be doing wrong... I am not getting anything! I > see lights on > > > the cards, but nothing on the screen. Where did you get this 11/53 ? There are some versions (EPROMs) which are decserver versions. So you don't get anything on the screen until you go to the debug/configuration mode (try some of the modi on the bulkhead) And, another one: try an <ctrl> <c>, or <ctrl> <p>. If you got the "normal" version of the 11/53, it stops looking for the boot device and is talking to you. cheers

25 years, 3 months

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My PDP11/53

by uban＠ubanproductions.com

Another thing to try is to be sure that your terminal is working properly. Be sure that with the cable attached to the terminal and disconnected from the 11/53 there is no echo of characters typed at the terminal and when pins 2 and 3 are shorted together on the cable end that would attach to the 11/53 the terminal does echo back to itself. If this does not work, then you have not properly faked out the modem control signals that the terminal requires to work. --tom At 09:51 AM 3/15/01 +0100, you wrote: >> > Chad Fernandez writes: >> > > I got my PDP11/53, but I can't get it to do anything. I loaded >> > > Tera-Term on my IBM Model 80, to use as my terminal. I >> dug out a serial >> > > cable, and bought a gender changer to hook the two >> computers up. What >> > > could I be doing wrong... I am not getting anything! I >> see lights on >> > > the cards, but nothing on the screen. > >Where did you get this 11/53 ? >There are some versions (EPROMs) which are decserver versions. >So you don't get anything on the screen until you go to the debug/configuration mode >(try some of the modi on the bulkhead) > >And, another one: try an <ctrl> <c>, or <ctrl> <p>. > >If you got the "normal" version of the 11/53, it stops looking for the boot device >and is talking to you. > >cheers > >

25 years, 3 months

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Mailing list problem

by djg＠drs-esg.com

Anybody else having problems with getting multiple copies of the digest? I have gotten 20 or so copies of classiccmp-digest V1 #537 and just got another couple in the last hour. I have gotten 1 of 538 and 540 and didn't seem to get 539 (or possibly deleted thinking it was an extre 537).

25 years, 3 months

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Looking for Someone with IBM PC (fwd)

by kevan＠heydon.org

Can anybody help this guy out? If so then reply directly to him. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 13:09:43 -0800 From: Lincoln Spector <lincoln(a)dnai.com> Subject: Looking for Someone with IBM PC Hi. I'm writing an article for PC World on the 20th anniversary of the IBM PC. I'm looking for someone with an original IBM PC (circa 1981) and DOS 1.0 on floppies. I'm not trying to buy the computer. I would just like to talk to someone who has one and might be willing to do a simple test on it for me. Thank you, Lincoln Spector Journalist, Columnist, Humorist 510-548-3725 lincoln(a)dnai.com www.thelinkinspector.com

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Complete Apple IIgs Tech Reference from Apple Pubs for trade...again

by claudew＠videotron.ca

Well I had an very interesting trade offer for a trade for these and I have been without news from the person in a long time now so these are up for trade again. I am sure they can be appreciated by someone. I have no real use for these myself and I am going low on space and wife also low on tolerance of space used up in basement by my collection. So here they are again, all the reference books by Apple Official Pubs for the IIgs and IIgs OS....most in excellent condition. Some (1 or 2) with the occassionnal very very rare pen or pencil scribbling. Some have seperated from the hardcover but its nothing a little glue cant fix...Some hardcover, some soft...Hardcovers all have paper cover intact... Here is the list...: Apple II GS... Hardware Reference (hard) Tech Intro to the Apple IIgs (soft) Firmware Reference (hard) Toolbox Reference Vol.1 (hard) Toolbox Reference Vol.2 (hard) Toolbox Reference Vol.3 (soft) Programmers Intro to the Apple IIgs (hard) Prodos 16 Reference (hard) GS/OS Reference (soft) >From Apple pubs but Non Apple IIgs specific but I can throw in: Prodos Reference Manual (soft) Apple Numerics Manual (soft) Imagewriter II technical Ref Manual (hard) Also if your gonna be doing 65816 coding I can add: 65816/65802 Ass. Lang. Programming (Fischer) Programming the 65816 (Labiak) This is a archive box full of big clean books. I wanna move these out. Please no money offers. I dont sell stuff, I only trade. I dont buy or sell on ebay. I am looking for 197x-198x micros to add to my collection. Would consider stuff like : Next, Apple III, TRS80 mod I and similar, Atari 1200xl, PET CBM, Kaypro, Osborne...CP/M systems etc...just ask me...I guess. Shipping is from Montreal, Canada -- nothing dramatic. Many trades with US collectors in past and never any problems. Ill be happy to trade these books to someone who can make good use of these. Claude

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Test

by celt＠chisp.net

Did this get through? I suddenly am not receiving messages any more, though I am subscribed. /mpm

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IBM System 36

by foxvideo＠wincom.net

I have just been offered a System 36 for my collection, (no charge and delivered. ) Can any one give me any information about this computer? Thanks Charlie Fox Chas E. Fox Video Productions 793 Argyle Rd. Windsor ON N8Y 3J8 foxvideo(a)wincom.net Check out: Camcorder Kindergarten at http://chasfoxvideo.com

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Computer garage sale Sat 17, So Cal

by mikeford＠socal.rr.com

Please pardon me for the double post, I messed up the subject last time. Free copy of Egor the Animator to all offended parties. Computer garage sale Sat 17, So Cal Sat 17th of March, in Orange CA my amazingly full garage of computer and related stuff will be open and on sale for the first time since last summer (next one is July). I live about 10 miles east of Disneyland, in the foothills of Orange, CA. Take the 22 east til it ends, and that becomes the 55 freeway Chapman exit. Go east on Chapman a couple miles, and Chapman will bend to the left and go up a hill. Half way up turn right on Canyon View, then left on Brynhurst into the Chapman Townhomes. A short driveway, then left on the unmarked Stonebrook, a few houses then the road turns right and becomes Cadbury. I am at the end in the cul de sac 6036 Cadbury. About a third of the whole complex is planning on opening for sale about 7 am (I will NOT be ready that early, but feel free to stop and watch me work) so there will be more than just all my computer stuff. This is a link to yahoo maps for me. <http://maps.yahoo.com/py/maps.py?BFCat=&Pyt=Tmap&newFL=Use+Address+Below&ad… 036+Cadbury&csz=92869&country=us&Get%A0Map=Get+Map> Questions until the portable phone runs out of juice at (714) 771-7504 What the heck is in this garage to get me to drive all the way to Orange? Lots, mostly lots. AT&T old desktops, likely 386 Compaq and Dell up to about a P120, lots of great 486 boxes for Linux routers etc. a dozen IBM PS2 9595 servers, multiSCSI drive units, various cards Apple IIe, IIc, IIc+ and IIgs computers, joysticks, cables, etc. At least 2 dozen monitors, MOSTLY older, but great for older macs or workstations. Networking stuff, loads of 10bt cables, hubs, nics (nubus, isa, PCI, EISA, MCA). Rack mount PC chassis, keyboards, mice, and things. Software, a BIG box of $1 CDs, and many many boxes of weird software $1 Close to 2,000 different computer cables, Apple, PC, SCSI, serial, printer, starting at $1 50 macintosh computers, from plus to PPC, lots of odd bits and one of a kind items. Printers, and ribbons, and various printer parts, imagewriters, Laserwriters, stylewriters, old dot matrix. C64, Atari, just cause I didn't mention it, that doesn't mean I don't have a pile of it. ;) Around noon things will wind down, but last year it took me 4 hours to put stuff away, so I will be "around" much longer.

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somewhat OT

by jim＠calico.litterbox.com

Well, Macs have been around for more than 10 years, and lpd/lpr certainly has... Does anyone know how to set up a mac to talk to an lpd with an inkjet printer on the other end? I know the printer works in this configuration as I've tested it from another machine on the LAN. -- Jim Strickland jim(a)DIESPAMMERSCUMcalico.litterbox.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- BeOS Powered! -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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RFC: ROM dump archive

by mikeford＠socal.rr.com

Computer garage sale Sat 17, So Cal Sat 17th of March, in Orange CA my amazingly full garage of computer and related stuff will be open and on sale for the first time since last summer (next one is July). I live about 10 miles east of Disneyland, in the foothills of Orange, CA. Take the 22 east til it ends, and that becomes the 55 freeway Chapman exit. Go east on Chapman a couple miles, and Chapman will bend to the left and go up a hill. Half way up turn right on Canyon View, then left on Brynhurst into the Chapman Townhomes. A short driveway, then left on the unmarked Stonebrook, a few houses then the road turns right and becomes Cadbury. I am at the end in the cul de sac 6036 Cadbury. About a third of the whole complex is planning on opening for sale about 7 am (I will NOT be ready that early, but feel free to stop and watch me work) so there will be more than just all my computer stuff. This is a link to yahoo maps for me. <http://maps.yahoo.com/py/maps.py?BFCat=&Pyt=Tmap&newFL=Use+Address+Below&ad… 036+Cadbury&csz=92869&country=us&Get%A0Map=Get+Map> Questions until the portable phone runs out of juice at (714) 771-7504 What the heck is in this garage to get me to drive all the way to Orange? Lots, mostly lots. AT&T old desktops, likely 386 Compaq and Dell up to about a P120, lots of great 486 boxes for Linux routers etc. a dozen IBM PS2 9595 servers, multiSCSI drive units, various cards Apple IIe, IIc, IIc+ and IIgs computers, joysticks, cables, etc. At least 2 dozen monitors, MOSTLY older, but great for older macs or workstations. Networking stuff, loads of 10bt cables, hubs, nics (nubus, isa, PCI, EISA, MCA). Rack mount PC chassis, keyboards, mice, and things. Software, a BIG box of $1 CDs, and many many boxes of weird software $1 Close to 2,000 different computer cables, Apple, PC, SCSI, serial, printer, starting at $1 50 macintosh computers, from plus to PPC, lots of odd bits and one of a kind items. Printers, and ribbons, and various printer parts, imagewriters, Laserwriters, stylewriters, old dot matrix. C64, Atari, just cause I didn't mention it, that doesn't mean I don't have a pile of it. ;) Around noon things will wind down, but last year it took me 4 hours to put stuff away, so I will be "around" much longer.

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Fwd: Re: Dallas module battery replacement...

by ethan_dicks＠yahoo.com

> Organization: IRIT, Toulouse, France > To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org, rhblake(a)bigfoot.com, elvey(a)hal.com, > ethan_dicks(a)yahoo.com, Technoid(a)cheta.net > Subject: Re: Dallas module battery replacement... > Reply-to: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org > > Hi all! > > Just curious, but are are the prices of these Sun NVRAM timer chips > these days? Didn't notice they went up. I just bought some last year. Can't help you with a French connection, but I get mine from Mouser (www.mouser.com). I have, in an emergency, removed the old battery and added my own. All you have to is cut through the epoxy on the ends where the battery leads go down to the chip, not through the top or sides. I should take a picture and post the URL to the list, but I soldered a 9V battery clip to the exposed ends of the battery leads (which I severed from the top), superglued the wire to the case as a strain relief, then soldered a motherboard Lithium cell to the top of a former 9V battery and put it in a baggie to prevent it from shorting out on the motherboard or RFI shield in the case. Worked great, but for all the hassle, I'd rather pay a few bucks for a new NVRAM assembly. > Are the Dallas chips identical to the ST ones as concerns a Sun? I have no idea. There are some equivalents in the NVRAM FAQ. -ethan ===== Even though my old e-mail address is no longer going to vanish, please note my new public address: erd(a)iname.com The original webpage address is still going away. The permanent home is: http://penguincentral.com/ See http://ohio.voyager.net/ for details. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/

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PS/2 P70

by rhblake＠bigfoot.com

[ The following text is in the "iso-8859-1" character set. ] [ Your display is set for the "US-ASCII" character set. ] [ Some characters may be displayed incorrectly. ] You know the P70 hardware manual is online at IBM at http://www.pc.ibm.com/us/cdt/hmm.html and the book is in HTML Bookmanager format or downloadable PDF format as the Portabel Systems HMM Volume I. Very handy and yes the P70 is a neat little unit. My wife starting tinkering on mine and now I can't get it away from her, especially after the 486 upgrade and Win95 OSR2 on a 160mb drive and 16mb ram. I just added an Etherlink MC card and now the same woman that says she doesn't have need for a network is tied to it and wreaking havoc! Russ, have been unable to find a file that meets your description. Is it perhaps that 16mb pdf that is first on that page and is about PC300/PC700? - don

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Need software and/or docs for print server

by rhblake＠bigfoot.com

Have an Eagle Technologies NPE400 single place print server that I have no software for, just the adapter and server. It's a cigarette pack sized box that hooks onto the parallel port and has a BNC and RJ45 on back. If anyone has a source it would be appreciated as I plan on taking this donated unit and using it for my daughter's school as a donation of equipment and time to free up a machine they need that presently gets tied up with print jobs.

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The DOS 10 Commandments (fwd)

by ajp166＠bellatlantic.net

From: Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner <spc(a)conman.org> > Ah, that's what I get for not double checking the reference material. In >looking over it, it is indeed 10 bits for cylinder and six bits for sector >number. ;) you forgot the 4bits for head select. Allison

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Vax 6000 site

by geoffrob＠stmarks.pp.catholic.edu.au

Some more bits added to the 6000 website at http://www.stmarks.pp.catholic.edu.au/vax *Added the first pages of a photo tour of a 6000-430, (only the front views so far - back to follow) *The Txxxx adapter list is now somewhat more complete, the formatting is not fabulous, I will compile it into a proper table when I get time. For some reason, my first search for this on the compaq site came up empty. Same search, 3 hours later, and I went straight to exactly what I wanted. Go figure. *Minor changes and additions to the FAQ. I will add some line drawings here and there as I get time, for the owners manual deprived. cheers Geoff Roberts Computer Systems Manager Saint Mark's College Port Pirie, South Australia geoffrob at stmarks dot pp dot catholic dot edu dot au ICQ: 1970476

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VCF 5.0 date?

by uban＠ubanproductions.com

I don't see a date for VCF 5.0 ? Didn't someone say that they did? --tom

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Probably OT - 3480 tapes

by azog＠azog.org

I know some of you are IBM ironheads. I've got three packages of 10-packs of 3480 tape carts. Anyone interested in these, before they go out in the trash next week?

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Fwd: Sell Old PCs to the Egyptian and African markets

by mmcfadden＠cmh.edu

My wife probably believes that I might be able to fill a container with all of my stuff, of course she hasn't been up in the garage attic. My local computer surplus sends stuff to China, the stuff must be salvage, I have seen then take a hammer to a HP 4si case so that it was salvage. The last stuff in the container gets inspected by the customs staff in LA. I have seen a HP MO jukebox in the same container. They get about $5000 for an entire container. I asked about buying a container for a month and sorting the stuff and then giving it back to them for a total of $200 for the small amount of stuff I took out. No go. Lots of keyboards, CGA monitors, dot-matrix printers, IBM mainframe terminals in a load. Most of the stuff this spam asked for wouldn't be available a any surplus place I've seen. The local schools get 200 MHz Pentiums and any disks over 1 GB. Mike mmcfadden(a)cmh.edu

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What do you people use for tape cleaning ?

by jarkko.teppo＠er-grp.com

Hello, as the subject says, what do you people use for tape cleaning ? I have a few drives that desperately need cleaning, a HP 9144 and a HP 9145 (the 9145 is smart enough the blink the "CLEAN" (or something) led on power-up). The not-so-desperate cases are a QIC-24, QIC-150, HP 7979A and a HP 7974. The few docs that I have seem to recommend some sort of Freon based substance but for some weird reason I can't find it in the stores:) So, now my plan is to use isoprophyl alcohol but I'd like to be sure before I do any damage. Thanks in advance, -- jht

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Convergent Technologies workSlate

by gkrone＠pacbell.net

re request for workslate stuff - have a cassette or two would maybe trade for the box that split the output into serial and parallel - or perhaps just the diagram that shows how to route this without the box - back in its day i saw an article where somebody did this quite easily but i lost track of it

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