The three people who have yet to get the P112 kits they paid for have
been emailed to verify that they're still at the snail addresses I think
they're at. I will have a very small number of kits left over after
this. I'm not saying how many until I've purchased some more parts and
am ready to take orders.
--
David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu
A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/180729353405
well, this is pretty sad. someone just scrapping the contents of a "company museum"?
"Thsi auction is for a front panel from one of the last Wang 4000 Computers made
This is one of only about a dozen made that was in a company museum they slated for scrap
I salvaged a few parts and got some great pictures before it was dumped"
> In Adrian's photo of the Intel MDS225 here,
> http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/6826/intel2.jpg
> you can see a row of eight push buttons with LEDs in them just below the
> CRT.
> They are a really nice push button that I have a certain affinity for.
> Does anyone know who made/makes those or have a modern source for them?
C&K Digitast. There are knock-offs by others that look similar and are cheaper...
but don't feel the same.
http://www.ck-components.com/digitast/key-switch,10465,en.html
Most of the C&K switches from the 70's are available almost verbatim (modulo
ROHS and whatever) today.
Tim.
I'm doing a review of all the IBM stuff which I took from the Datacenter in
the last cleaning. Having one 3279 in working state and one 3278 almost (the
logic board needs replacement), plus one 3178 still alive and one 3174 ready
to work with Hercules, I should like to get one 2741. As difficult as the
lottery, I suppose, but for try it...
Regards
SPc.
this puppy just showed up as a donation from a company thats gone belly up
sadly but its now got a home.
software manuals drawings even the prom reader righter could be a usefull
machean.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/1ajs/6171038488/in/photostream/lightbox/
anyone seen one of these befor anything need to be done befor atempting to
run it?
Does anyone know where source code is for the SC curses based spreadsheet -
specifically, a version that will compile on OpenVMS on VAX? I have sc-7.16,
but I'm not having much luck getting it to compile (it compiles OK on
Linux). I saw some indications that pre-7.x versions will still compile on
VMS, but 7.x and later will not.
Executables would be OK, but obviously not as good as source.
I'm dusting off my ZX81 with 16k memory pack (the pair cost me $200 in
1981!) and have already discovered that the Z80A chip has definitely
gone bad. (The HALT\ output pin sits at an indeterminate-level 1.2
volts even with the logic IC removed, and the CPU is halted). I had a
Z80L (good for only 1 MHz and the clock is 3.5 MHz) in the junk box,
but even so, swapping it resulted in lots of activity on the address,
data, read and write lines, etc. as well as video pulses coming out of
the custom logic chip, pin 16.
http://www.mainbyte.com/ts1000/good_schematic_hi.jpg
I'd like to take the output from that pin, which currently goes to a
"canned" RF modulator through a couple of resistors and a diode, and
instead convert it to NTSC video, as I also have a 9" monochrome CCTV
monitor (75 ohm input) which would make a compact display. Can someone
help me with a simple circuit to generate the appropriate RS-170 1
volt p-p video signal?
thanks
Charles
Hi,
I am trying to archive my tapes. I am having difficulty reading the
tapes. I tried 2 tapes that are of low importance.
I am able to read the first 2 records (the first record is 14 bytes
and the second record is 512 bytes). I see the tape
move for the read as well as the backspace operations.
I setup a simulated environment to test prior to using real hardware.
Using a slightly modified version of SIMH along
with PDP11GUI and a virtual tape, I successfully read virtual tapes.
Now that everything is working on a simulator, I am using the same
code on real hardware.
The real hardware is a PDP-11/10 with 32kw core memory, TMA-11
controller with TS03 tape drive. I also have
a RK-11 controller with an attached RK05j drive which is available,
but is not used during this scenario.
I don't know the actual format of the tape. My goal is to get a
binary copy of the tape suitable for use with SIMH.
Now that I am using real hardware, I am getting a Record Length Error.
I set the read buffer to 2048 bytes (1024 words).
The values I have from the TMA-11 registers is as follows:
MTS 001105
MTC 160202
MTBRC 000000
MTCMA 000000
MTD 000000
MTRD 000000
I am looking for some source code to figure out what is going wrong.
I have reviewed the simple example in the TMA-11 documentation, but
proper error handling is not performed.
Thanks!
; +===============================================================
; | read
; +===============================================================
; |
; | Read record from tape. When an EOF is detected, 'rsize' is
; | set to 0. When the second EOF is detected (ie. end of tape)
; | 'exit' is set to TRUE.
; |
; | On Entry:
; | rsize has the number of bytes in the buffer
; |
; | On Exit:
; | all registers unchanged
; +---------------------------------------------------------------
read: mov #MAXTRIES, @#retries ; maximum number of retries
retry: tstb @#MTC ; is controller available?
bpl retry ; no, wait for controller
1$: bit #MTATUR,@#MTS ; is tape unit ready?
beq 1$ ; no, wait for tape unit
dec @#retries ;
bpl 2$ ; retry
halt ; too many reties (bails out here)
2$: mov #rbuf, @#MTCMA ; read buffer (buffer begins at end of code)
mov #174000, @#MTBRC ; max buffer size (2048 bytes)
mov #60003, @#MTC ; unit #0, 800bpi, read, go
3$: tstb @#MTC ; is read complete?
bpl 3$ ; no, wait for completion
mov @#MTS, R3
mov @#MTC, R4
mov #0, @#rsize ; assume EOF reached
bit #MTAEOF,@#MTS ; did we hit EOF? (MTAEOF is 040000
bne done ; yes, so we are done
tst @#MTC ; error?
bpl 5$ ; no error
mov #-1, @#MTBRC ; number of records to backspace
mov #60013, @#MTC ; unit #0, 800bpi, read, go
4$: tstb @#MTC ; is backspace complete?
bpl 4$ ; no, wait for completion
br retry ; try read again
5$: mov @#MTCMA,@#rsize ; determine number bytes read
sub #rbuf,@#rsize
done: inc @#reccnt ; another record (or EOF)
rts pc
I've two HP 7920 RTE IV-B cartridges one Grandfather and a primary system
disc for the HP 21MX both seemed to be unused and have been in storage
forever..(and should be cleaned for use !)
I don't have a HP 7920 drive I do have a HP 7906 in unknown condition and a
HP 2113B which I love to see running RTE.
So I'm looking for someone willing to : sell or trade me a HP 7920 drive, or
someone transfer the data from the packs to tape or disc or any other
solution which provides me with the RTE-IV software for the HP 2113.
If can't get a HP 7920 then the packs are for trade.
I'm living in the Netherlands so picking up a 7920 in Europe is possible,
shipping the packs to the US also but only .
Please react off-list
-Rik
Hi,
I have one complete Northstar Dimension and another only missing some parts of the power supply.
Northstar Dimension computers are quite rare machines from the era of transition from S-100 to the IBM PC clones.
There are also a couple of Northstar Advantages in the original boxes. The Dimensions are also in the original boxes.
There are some spare parts for the Dimensions and Advantages including some software and maybe some documentation.
One more item is a NorthStar 15MB external hard drive. This is quite a large and rare unit. At least this is the only one I've ever seen or heard of.
I am not 100% sure but it looks like it may be a 14" hard drive platter. Seriously, this thing is as big as a full sized S-100 chassis by itself.
Due to the nature of these items, they are for local pick up only. I am not interesting in shipping these items.
There is also some NorthStar software in original boxes, packing, etc
TSS/A HD Horizon
Order Entry and Invoicing HD Advantage (2)
Inventory Control and Analysis HD Advantage
Graphics BASIC DOS
PIO Advantage
Info Manager II HD Advantage
TBS/OS Advantage
Enhanced WordStar Advantage CP/M (5)
Enhanced WordStar Horizon
dBase II Advantage CP/M (3)
dBase II Horizon
8/16 Upgrade Advantage
Accounts Receivable HD Horizon
NorthPlan FD Advantage
NorthWord II FD Advantage
TurboDOS 1.1.1 Horizon
NorthNet Advantage (with board)
CP/M 2.2 Rev L1.0 Horizon
General Ledger HD version Advantage
Accounts Payable HD version Advantage
Image Maker Advantage CP/M
TurboDOS
I am willing to sell but due to size these need to be picked up (Ohio) in person. Please contact me for more details.
Thanks!
Andrew Lynch
In Adrian's photo of the Intel MDS225 here,
http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/6826/intel2.jpg
you can see a row of eight push buttons with LEDs in them just below the
CRT.
They are a really nice push button that I have a certain affinity for.
Does anyone know who made/makes those or have a modern source for them?
Chris
--
Chris Elmquist
On 24/09/11 8:32 PM, stephen price wrote:
> Needs new home:
> If you want it& want to give me a couple of $$ for range fees - or trade something - cool - otherwise just come get it!
> No clue as to any current condition .... trying to clean out house& garage - haven't powered any of this stuff up in years.
> Really do not want to box it up / ship etc - prefer local pickup - or meet somewhere in DFW area.
> ...
> Several dead LCD monitors (mostly dell) that just need new capacitors in the power supplies
I can vouch that this is an easy repair. I've fixed four out of four
LCDs - by replacing only the visibly bad caps - in the past few weeks
(Samsung, Acer, and DCLCD). One shudders to think of how many fine
working screens must get thrown out every day for such a trivial fault.
For the first time I did it, I found the threads at http://badcaps.net/
helpful.
--Toby
> Argh - More junk I just haven't categorized yet ....
>
> Anybody interested?
> Contact me off-list please if you are....
> It's all to the recycle/metal scrapper in about a week unless spoken for .....
> North Fort Worth TX 76148.
>
> regards
> steve
> _______________________________________________
> rescue list - http://www.sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/rescue
>
Another "take it or it's scrapped in a week" offer.
--Toby
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [rescue] Stuff needs new home
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2011 17:32:01 -0700 (PDT)
From: stephen price <sd_price at yahoo.com>
Reply-To: The Rescue List <rescue at sunhelp.org>
To: rescue at sunhelp.org <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Needs new home:
If you want it & want to give me a couple of $$ for range fees - or
trade something - cool - otherwise just come get it!
No clue as to any current condition .... trying to clean out house &
garage - haven't powered any of this stuff up in years.
Really do not want to box it up / ship etc - prefer local pickup - or
meet somewhere in DFW area.
qty 3 x sun v120 - currently no disk - 650 mhz proc - 1gb ram I think
qty 1 x sun v210 - currently no disk - qty 1 x 1.2 ghz proccessor - 1 or
2 gb ram I think
qty 2 x clariion fiber channel DAE
qty 1 x clariion ATA DAE
A big stack of fiber channel drives with trays, and a few ATA trays for
the clariion
A small stack of little 9gb sca drives
A couple of 18gb sca drives, maybe an odd 34gb or 72gb as well
qty x 2 DEC 10gb DLT changer
Miscellaneous qty of 35/70 DLT drives (mostly from changers)
14 bay Athena IDE to SCSI drive array - with qty 14 x 250gb ATA drives
installed
Overland Data single drive 35/70 DLT autochanger - (10 cartridges)
(I have a superDLT 320 drive that I had planned to replace the 35/70dlt)
Sun 711 case
Sun single drive 811 case
qty 2 x 16port USB serial ports (solaris certified)
qty 2 or maybe 3 IPX lunchboxes that have the TurboSPARC upgrade cpu chips
several Cisco soho 91 home routers
HP LJ4 (has additional memory, network card and Postscript chip)
HP 4101mfp (has additional memory, scanner, fax attachment, network)
Several dead LCD monitors (mostly dell) that just need new capacitors in
the power supplies
Argh - More junk I just haven't categorized yet ....
Anybody interested?
Contact me off-list please if you are....
It's all to the recycle/metal scrapper in about a week unless spoken for
.....
North Fort Worth TX 76148.
regards
steve
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rescue list - http://www.sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/rescue
I recently acquired a bunch of Amiga equipment that I'm not sure I'm ever going to get a chance to use. I'm currently looking for someone who might want this equipment. I got it for free so I will pass it on at no charge as well.
Just briefly, the main items are:
1) Two Amiga 500 computers
2) A sidecar style hard drive for one Amiga 500
3) an Amiga CD32 game machine
4) a Paravision SX-1 attachment for the CD32 with lots of additional ports to allow the CD32 to be used as a computer
5) two 1084s monitors
6) numerous floppy drives including a number of 3.5" drive and one 5.25" drive
7) software and manuals for most if not all of the hardware
I've seen one Amiga 500 boot from the hard drive into Workbench. I've also seen the CD32+Paravision unit boot into Workbench from a floppy. I don't know the state of the second Amiga 500 but it appears to be in good condition.
I'm in southern NH and would like someone to take all of this equipment.
Thanks,
David Betz
Has anyone ever come across a 'Microcolour' terminal? It was made in the
UK by Microvitec, who were better known for monitors (often BBC micros
were used iwth Microvitec Cub monitors).
I have a couple of the Microcolour base units here, no monitors or
keyboards. Here's what I've discovered so far...
On the rear are connectors for 'Host' (DB25 plug), 'Printer 1' (DB25
socket), 'Printer 2' (DB25 socket), Monitor (DB25 plug), Keyboard (DE9
socket), mains in/out (mormal IEC connectors, a couple of fuses and the
on/off switch. The only feature on the front is a green power-on LED.
Insdie is a PSU (the 2 units I have differ in the PSU design, but that's
not vert important at the momnet0 nd a crdcage containg 3 PCBs (with
aslot for a 4th). These plug into a backplane at the front fo the machine
using 64 pin A+B DIN41612 connectors.
The loweremost PCB carries the Host, Printer 1 and Keyboard connectors.
On this board are the processor (6809), EPROMs, RAM (some of which is
battery-backed -- I have removed the leaking NiCdsm there is no other
damage), 4 6551 serial chips (for the printer 1 port, which is RS232 DTE,
even though it's on a socket :-(), the keyboard port (TTL level), and the
host port (it uses 2 6551s for this so yuo can have split baud rates I
guess), a 6821 (used at least for the Printer 2 port which is thus a
parallel interface, a cable rund from a SIL header on the PCB to the DB25
socket o nthe chassis), etc. One of the EPROMs has a label 'Regis' which
seems to suggest what protocol it may use.
The other 2 boards are video-relates. One seems to be text video (6845,
several 6116 RAMs in a row on one edge, another couple of 6116s which may
well be programmable character generator, there's no EPROM on this
board), and lots of TTL. There's a 10 pin header which is linked ot part of
the monitor connector.
The last PCB seems to be graphics related. It contains 128K of DRAM, some
74S189 SRAMs for a oolour palette and again lots of TTL. There's a 15 pin
header that links to the montior conecetor.
Now for the monitor connector. It's a DB25 plug. One pin is not fitted,
one is wired to chassis ground. 9 of the remainder go to the text PCB
(one pin on the header is not used), the remaining 14 go to the graphics
board (again one pin on the header is not used).
Now fo the odd thing. All those signals are TTL level. The output of the
graphics board (12 pins on the header) are the outputs of those palette
RAMs. In other words 12 bits digital (I asusme 4 bits each for R,G,B).
The otuput fo the text board is similarly a 4 bit value (I think). And of
course there are 2 sync signals, which I could identify.
Vsync is 50Hz (not too suprising), HSync is 21.8kHz. In other words, EGA
rates .Sothis thing used a specail EGA-like monitor with many more input
bits. I suspect I am goign to start by hooking up a normal EGA monitor
(assuming I can find one, I think I have a 5154 around here) to see if I
can get some output, albiet with fewer colours than I should have and
then try modifying such a montiro t oincrease the numebr of bits on the DACs.
As for the keyhoard, at least it's synchronous serial (of the pins on the
DE9, there's TTL level TxD and RxD, ground, +5V, +12V, -12V). I have no
idea of the baud rate, etc, but if necesary I cna use a logic analyser to
see how it initialises the appropriate 6551.
-tony
As shocked to see that I haven't been bounced off the list by now, Floodgap
and all of its hosted projects are back in full operation on a new T1 from
AT&T/DSL Extreme.
Do not ever do business with Time Warner Cable Business Class. They took six
weeks to do nothing, culminating in fairly nasty threats to their legal office
to get them to release me from the contract. AT&T took almost four weeks, but
at least they got the NIU in, and the router got activated today. Reverse DNS
is pending.
Sorry about the downtime.
--
------------------------------------ personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ --
Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckaiser at floodgap.com
-- ** COMMODORE 64 BASIC V2 ** 64K RAM SYSTEM 38911 BASIC BYTES FREE ----------
I'm cleaning out my computer room of things I don't use much anymore.
I'm mostly looking to sell, but there are things I might be willing to
trade for:
* 400+ MHz Alpha workstation since both of my alphas died :(
* DECstation 5000 since mine died as well
Location: Bloomington, IN 47408.
Terms:
* Unless noted, everything worked the last time I turned it on
* Cash only for local pickup
* Paypal for shipped items + actual shipping costs
SUN
---
* Sun Ultra 5 $75
333 MHz UltraSPARC IIi, 256M RAM, CDROM, Floppy, No ATA HD
* Sun 501-2520 $10
75MHz SuperSPARC II MBus Card
* Sun Type 5 Keyboard 320-1073-01 $5
No cable & Missing keycaps: Right arrow, whatever is right of
'compose'
and whatver is below 'open'
* Sony CDU-8012 SCSI CD-ROM (50 pin) $10
Apparent Sun part number 370-1312; Caddy Load
IBM
---
* IBM RS/6000 43p 7248 $35
133MHz PPC 604, 96M RAM, 2.2G SCSI Disk, CD-ROM
Digital
-------
* Digital VT-420 [will not ship] $50
Amber, No Keyboard, MMJ connectors only
* Digital VT-220 [will not ship] $50
Green, With Keyboard
* Digital BCC08 Console Cable $10
Used with a MicroVAX II console
* DECserver 200/MC $25
8 db25 ports, photocopy of the manual in binder
* VAX C 3.0 Manuals $5
Run-Time Library Reference, Guide to VAX C
* RA82 User Guide $2
* StorageWorks SBB w/o Drive $10 each
2x SCA Interface (DS-RZ1CB-VW)
4x 68-pin Interface (3x RZ28M-VW, 1x RZ28D-VW)
4x 50-pin Interface (3x RZ28M-VA, 1x RZ29B-VA)
Apple
-----
* Apple BNC Cable $1
Labeled "<<-/->>" on each end, Part 590-0540-A
* Apple DB9 Cable $1
Part 590-0197-A
* Nuvotech TurboNet Transceiver (2x) $10
Phone Net, with terminating resistor
* Farallon PhoneNET Plus Transceiver $5
No terminating resistor
Networking
----------
* Motorola SURFboard Cable Modem $10
* Xircom CreditCard Ethernet Adapter IIps $5
PS-CE2-10
* 3Com Megahertz 10/100 LAN PC card $5
3CCFE574BT
* Accton ISA 10Base-T Ethernet (2x) $5 ea
Plug-and-play
* 3Com 3C595-TX PCI 10/100 Ethernet $5
* 3Com 3C905-TX PCI 10/100 Ethernet $5
* Realtek 8029AS PCI Ethernet $5
Twisted Pair & BNC connectors
* Cisco Catalyst 1900 24-port 10BaseT Switch $15
Some cosmetic damage
* 10Base-T AUI tranceivers (10x) $5 each
12" cord
PC Stuff
--------
* NEC CDR-512 SCSI CD-ROM (50 pin) (2x) $5 ea
6x according to the web; Caddy Load; Cannot be used to boot Sun
boxes
* Sony CDU-561 SCSI CD-ROM (50 pin) $5
No Face Plate; Caddy Load; May work for Sun boot, depends on PROM
version
* 6' DB25 M-M Cable $5
Black/green dot; probably scsi cable
* Quick Shot Skyhawk Joystick $5
PC Compat, 15 pin.
* Mustek Matador 105 Handheld Scanner w/ISA Interface card $5
* 10' Printer cable $5
* Adaptec AVA-1505Ae ISA SCSI Card $5
db25 external connector (only); solder pads for internal 50-pin
* Adaptec AVA-2902E PCI SCSI Card $5
db25 external connector (only); solder pads for internal 50-pin
* Mitsumi ISA CDROM Interface Card $5
* GVC PCI Modem $5
model 5-1156/R2F
* Turtle Beach TB400 PCI Sound card $5
* Creative Technology Audio PCI CT5803 $5
* Trident TVGA 8800CS ISA Video card $3
Supports VGA and TTL output
* PS/2 3-button Mouse (w/o scroll wheel) (3x) $3
* PS/2 2-button Mouse (w/o scroll wheel) (2x) $3
* PC Serial Mouse (3 button) $3
* Industrial Computer Source PC-73 $15
8-bit ISA card; Software (5.25") & Manual
Looks like 8 channels of 12-bit A/D for thermocouples
Other
-----
* Serial to RJ45 adapter $5
DB25 (3x), DB9 (1x)
* 8" Floppy Disks $25
2x Verbatim Unformatted 1S/1D
5x Tandy Unformatted 1S/1D
15x IBM Previously Formatted "Diskette2" 2D?
* Logical Devices Prompro-XP Serial connection $10
Memory and Logic programmer; No software; Unknown condition; UV oven
* HP HIL->PS/2 Keyboard Adapter Module $10
With 12" HIL cable and PS/2 Keyboard/Mouse ports
Hi,
Can anyone provide a copy in some form of the "Electrostatic Loudspeaker
Design Cookbook" ?
A friend of mine is looking for a copy but the cheapest one we can find
is $142 at abebooks.com
Regards,
Bert
Hi,
I'm trying to repair my RK05 drive. It seems that it doesn't find track 0
when loading the heads, thus moving the heads to the inner limit, forcing
a return-to-zero and starting all over again. I think the fault is on the
M7681 card (cylinder address and difference), the output of E16 pin 8
(CAD3 zero detect H) doesn't change, nor does the input on pin 10. And
here comes the problem: the M7681 isn't described in any DEC documentation
I've found so far (apart from the schematics), only the older M7702 card
(the function is practically the same, but they are completely different
designs). The new card contains several undocumented TTL ROMs (8223). The
output of pin 6 of E1 goes to the input pin 10 of E16, probably a
difference==zero bit.
So here comes my question: does anyone have a ROM listing of these ROMs,
especially of E1? I'd like to know what exactly that ROM is doing.
Christian
... I've never seen one of those mds computers before, but as soon as I saw it I realized that it is what the Speech Plus/Telesensory Prose 2000 Speech Synth card which I have was originally meant for/designed for.
The card I have is in a special speech plus 'prose 2020' metal case with its own power supply, and the two 'multibus'? edge connectors of the card are unused, power and serial and audio come from/go to special secondary connectors on the board.
But clearly, without the special prose 2020 case, the prose 2000 card would be used in one of those computers with 'multibus'.
Any chance you can dump the roms from the computer? Given that there don't appear to be any multibus cards installed, are there even any roms to dump?
Adrian Stoness<tdk.knight at gmail.com> wrote:
> whats in the front card slots
> http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/6826/intel2.jpg
> the back end
> http://img716.imageshack.us/img716/7705/intel1c.jpg
> http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/263/intel3q.jpg
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 10:54 PM, dwight elvey<dkelvey at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
> It looks like it might need a little work.
> The large board attached to the back of the unit
> is called the IOC board. It is just a terminal board for the
> keyboard/video. It also has various I/O such as the
> single density disk controller. It has a 8085 on it
> as well to run the terminal.
> It doesn't look like it is working correctly.
> It will need some trouble shooting.
> First check the voltages.
> Just curious, what boards do you have in
> the UPP. There should be three boards in it.
> The rear one is the controller and the two towards
> the from are the personality cards.
> Dwight
>
>
>
>> From:tdk.knight at gmail.com
>>
>> turned it on and the screen just shows this do i need to adjust the contrast nob in the back
>> also a load squeel comes from it when powerd on
>> http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/6826/intel2.jpg
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 8:20 PM, Adrian Stoness<tdk.knight at gmail.com
>> wrote:
>>
>>> yea just the one card with the buttonss on it.
>>>
>>> also got drawings for it
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 8:07 PM, Dave Mabry<dmabry at mich.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Adrian Stoness said the following on 9/21/2011 8:50 PM:
>>>>
>>>> this puppy just showed up as a donation from a company thats gone belly up
>>>> sadly but its now got a home.
>>>> software manuals drawings even the prom reader righter could be a usefull machean.
>>>>
>>>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/1ajs/6171038488/in/photostream/lightbox/
>>>>> anyone seen one of these befor anything need to be done before attempting to
>>>>> run it?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> I've got several of them. Love those old "blue boxes"!
>>>>
>>>> As for anything before running it, probably not. There is a
>>>> three-position switch on the back panel. One position is diagnostics and will tell the firmware to run some tests. I would do that before trying to boot it, just to see if it finds anything wrong. There can be a few
>>>> configurations of that hardware. The internal 8" drive can be single
>>>> density or double density. It depends on what is controlling it. If the ribbon cable to the drive goes to the back plane board (called the IOC
>>>> board) then the drive will operate in single density mode. If that ribbon cable makes its way to a two-board set in the cardcage, then likely it will operate in double density mode.
>>>>
>>>> ISIS-II is the operating system and will have to be in the density that the drive operates in.
>>>>
>>>> The standard 225 had a single-density internal drive, but there were
>>>> options available. Whether the options were installed would not have been reflected in any labeling on the outside, including the model number. The standard cpu on the 225 was a board wtih an 8085 cpu with 64k of ram. That was the only board in the multibus cage, unless options were purchased and installed.
>>>>
>>>> Open the cardcage under the monitor and tell me what you see for multibus boards plugged in. With that info I can probably tell you more definitively what you have.
>>>>
>>>> Dave
>>>>
>>>>
--
Jonathan Gevaryahu
jzg22 at drexel.edu
Folks,
Always nice when you've got a piece of good news ;)
I replaced all the mains filtering capacitors in the original DEC GIGI
power supply when one blew only to find that the power supply lasted
another 10 minutes before losing power completely. At this point I
decided given the relatively standard power outputs (5V 3A, 12V 1A, -12V
0.3A) I would source a replacement power supply.
This arrived and was installed yesterday. It I guess unsurprisingly is
substantially smaller and lighter than the original. The original
cooling fan was removed as it was basically transformed directly from
either the mains directly or one of the windings of the main
transformer. I used the fan out of an external SCSI enclosure as a
replacement, although I look to source a high quality brand new one. To
me it looks like the fan primarily is for cooling the PSU only - given
the fan location and the location of the plate that the PSU is mounted
on it looks unlikely that the main circuit board would benefit much.
The machine now happily powers on and I had an hours playtime last night
with the local BASIC monitor.
The GIGI now only exhibits one minor trait, and I'm yet to determine
whether this is down to the LCD panel it is driving being at limits or
whether there is a slight issue with the video generation circuit. Once
in a while, every couple of minutes or so the LCD looses sync and the
picture is dropped. This only happens for a fraction of a second, then
the picture is restored as was.
If anyone has any ideas I'm all ears. For reference I'm using a Iiyama
AS4637UT, an old but extremely capable 18.1" 1280x1024 native panel. If
anyone is interested I can post the horizontal and vertical frequencies
it is being driven at.
I plan on scanning the GIGI brochures I have for inclusion on bitsavers
shortly.
Regards, Mark
The form factor matches up to the Vector 22/44 0.156" card edge physical form factor standard.
Which doesn't narrow it down at all. Millions of custom industrial systems (some micro-based, but most not) were built using these plugboard style systems from the 60's through the 80's. Vector sold card cages and proto cards; the one-offs usually used the proto cards but something that was made in small to medium quantity might have used a Vector card cage (perhaps hand-wired) and etched PCB's.
Sometimes the backplane was a simple bus in the computer sense but usually not.
Looking at the chip logos and mix of analog/digital I'd suggest this is from the late 70's/early 80's and is some kind of DAQ front end or perhaps digital-math servo system. You can narrow the date range down from looking at the date codes on the chips.
Yeah, that's true. What you can buy today is gigantic compared to what was available not so long ago but now everything is digitized so stuff we used to keep on paper and video tape or 8 tracks and film negatives is now on the hard drive. There's never enough room any more and there probably won't ever be again.
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On 20 Sep 2011 at 16:20, Vintage Coder wrote:
> You guys and your extravagances!
>
> I couldn't mirror it on one of my Sun boxes, the biggest drive I have
> is 73G...
Well, I suppose it depends on your usage. To me, an 80G drive is
huge; I can't generate relevant content fast enough. To someone who
stores movies on their hard drive, it's unbelievably small. My
friend who's a photographer keeps buying TB drives to hold his work.
--Chuck
I have a VAX that I like to play around with. I don't know VMS very well,
and it's fun to learn new (well ok, maybe VMS is old now) things.
There's an application that I would like to compile, but it depends on
bison. I'm trying to compile bison, but that process seems to depend on MMS.
I'm assuming that MMS works like "make makefile" and you do "mms
whatever.mms" to make the app. MMS doesn't seem to be installed, so I
registered and loaded the license. The SHOW LICENSE command says that the
license is there. Now I need to install the application. I have the Montagar
CD mounted and I can browse it's tree structure, but I can't find the kit
that includes MMS. I thought maybe the C language kit and I tried:
@SYS$UPDATE:VMSINSTAL CC064 DUA2:[CC064.KIT]
...which reinstalled C, but no joy on MMS.
Any suggestions?
I'm still looking for some period-appropriate peripherals for my HP
2109E system:
7906 disc drive w/13037x controller, or 7906H (HP-IB)
7970E tape drive w/13183A contoller, or 7970E w/HP-IB controller
I'm in central PA so it would be awfully nice to find something within
reasonable driving distance. :-) If you have any leads on any of these,
please let me know off-list.
Mike Loewen mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us
Old Technology http://sturgeon.css.psu.edu/~mloewen/Oldtech/
The guy is a good seller but he's also a good businessman. He understands the supply and demand principle.
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Subject: Re: IBM Model M keyboard repair tip
Sent: 21 Sep 2011 12:01
On Tue, 20 Sep 2011, David Griffith wrote:
> That was me. I'm getting some screws from the guy who runs
> clickeykeyboards.com. Thanks for the offer.
Interesting site, but a little silly in that nearly everything is "SOLD"
and there's no apparent way to filter for available units. Or, am I
missing something?
(Glad I have a couple dozen Model Ms stacked in the storage unit)
Steve
--
Hello,
I have a DEC H-500 computer lab and there was some discussion on this mailing list back in 2005 about posting a pdf of the workbook...did anyone ever get around to doing this?? I would really appreciate a copy of it...
Many thanks,
Rob Fantinatto
I recently acquired a clean TTI (Transitional Technology) 8510 8mm SCSI tape drive. I've searched Google extensively - but have found no manual or even a switch settings guide.
It emulates an Exabyte EXB-8200/EXB-8500, a DEC TK50Z, an IBM 2.3 GB or the native TTI 8510 (from Google). It has twelve dip switches, three of which I've found to be the SCSI address - the others are a mystery.
Does anyone have a manual or guide to the switch settings for this tape drive?
Cheers,
Lyle
--
Lyle Bickley, AF6WS
Bickley Consulting West Inc.
http://bickleywest.com
"Black holes are where God is dividing by zero"
I was just trawling through some of my file archives and found my old
email address when at University:
mwickens at vax2.luton.ac.uk - from 1993 to 1996
At the time I wasn't really into VAXen, but subsequently have wondered
about the VAX that handled my emails during that time. In the last year
a new Alpha system came online, and new email accounts were set up on
that box.
Anyone had interested email addresses in the past, or an email address
which represented a nostalgic time in their life.
The fluidity of email addresses interests me academically and
professionally - I work on systems which traditionally have involved
postal communication, but are moving over to email based communication.
This represents a challenge due to the fluidity of email addresses over
the course of the years.
Regards, Mark.
Last weekend I promised to enable rsync access to the archives
(and mirrors) here.
I've set up the following rsync (no password required) archive sets here:
ftp : Public rsync access to ftp://ftp.trailing-edge.com/ area
pdp-10-tape-images : public rsync access to the PDP-10 tape images,
i.e. http://pdp-10.trailing-edge.com/
bitsavers-mirror : public rsync access to my local bitsavers mirror,
i.e. http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/
Suggested rsync commands would be, for example:
mkdir ./pdp-10-tape-images
rsync -rlptu -v www.trailing-edge.com::pdp-10-tape-images ./pdp-10-tape-images
mkdir ./ftp.trailing-edge.com
rsync -rlptu -v www.trailing-edge.com::ftp ./ftp.trailing-edge.com
mkdir ./bitsavers-mirror
rsync -rlptu -v www.trailing-edge.com::bitsavers-mirror ./bitsavers-mirror
Realistically the pdp-10-tape-images and ftp sites don't change often,
butm my bitsavers mirror is kept up to date.
I like to think my outgoing bandwidth (20 Mbit) is pretty much infinite,
this looks like a good way to find out :-)
ftp racks up to 3.5 Gbytes. PDP-10 tapes racks up to 2.2 Gbytes. And
bitsavers-mirror racks up to 126 Gbytes.
Tim.
A good source of Model M info is geekhack.org. There are some guys there with experience restoring/salvaging these keyboards.
They should also be able to tell you where you can find parts, etc.
I guess most of us on this list appreciate old and original copies of things. I have a small collection of old doc (although most of it is inaccessible to me at the moment) and record albums, photo albums etc. Things just seem to become unmanageable as the years go on and what was easy to find today can quickly disappear tomorrow.
I echo your sentiments and Chuck's. A huge thank you to Al and all the archivists who keep things available to others in this world of vanishing code, doc, etc.
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>
> Yeah, that's true. What you can buy today is gigantic compared to what
> was available not so long ago but now everything is digitized so stuff
> we used to keep on paper and video tape or 8 tracks and film negatives
> is now on the hard drive. There's never enough room any more and there
I guess that's how I manage to only need a tiny (by modern standards)
hard drive. Manuals and books are on paper, photographs are silver images
and audio recordings, well not 8-tracks, please... 1/4" recording tape.
> probably won't ever be again.
I think it's a well-known fact that you never have enough disk space (or,
indeed, physical space for uour machines, test gear, tools, etc).
Joking aside, biutsavers is a tremendous resource from both the
historical and practical standpoint. It is much appreicated here. Long
may it continue!
-tony
On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 19:30:36 +0100 (BST), ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony
Duell) wrote:
>
> Now schematics are unavaialbe and car manufacutrers perpetuate the
> myth
> that modern cars are harder to service than those or 30 years ago
> (hint :
> read the approriate workshop manuals, then decide, I have). What has
> gone
> wrong???
>
The car manufacturers certainly do their best to prevent their
customers
from servicing their cars. Somebody I know had a Volvo V70 that just
refused to start one morning. Nothing obviously wrong, it just would
not
start. It had to be towed to a Volvo dealer. IIRC the problem turned
out
to be that two of the car's computers decided they didn't want to talk
to
each other. A software upgrade fixed the problem. It may even have been
the case that none of the computers had to do with engine management.
The owner of the car is very clueful about hardware, software and cars,
but it would still have been a major undertaking for him to even find
the
problem, let alone obtain the software upgrades.
> And I realyl don't understnad why service information is not supplied
> with (or at least available for) devices that are almost cetainly
> goign
> to be owned and used by people with eelectroncis knowledge --
> soldering
> stations , mutlimeters, 'scopes, etc. I've still not bougth a new DMM
> after my Fluke failed last year because I've yet to find a
> manuafactuer
> who will supply a service manual.
>
Because they want you to either buy a new unit, or send the unit to one
of their own facilities to be repaired? In case of car manufacturers I
believe a significant portion of their profits comes from spare parts
and
service.
Do you have a mobile phone? Modern ones seem to be designed to break
down
slowly after about 18 months, they are full of custom parts, and the
people who repair them do their best to drive you mad. My work phone is
(hopefully) being repaired right now. It is 17 months old, the display
went permanently blank around August 6th, and the repair people have
most
likely not started working on it yet. I shall probably have to wait
another
2 weeks for it.
/Jonas
You guys and your extravagances!
I couldn't mirror it on one of my Sun boxes, the biggest drive I have is 73G...
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Sent: 20 Sep 2011 15:55
On 20 Sep 2011 at 8:21, Al Kossow wrote:
> It is currently around 130gb.
So you'd need to expand, what, 20-30 times to fill an inexpensive
consumer-level hard drive? :)
--Chuck
Amazing, I didn't realize any were still running. Last time I saw PLATO was in the 1970s. The terminals were touch screens, they blew everyone's minds.
I'm convinced that my house was built over an Indian burial ground. Or
it was owned by someone heavily invested in everything but DEC...
I powered up my AlphaServer 1000A last night and it looks like it has
problems too. It powers up and the drives & fans spin up. The lcd
showed 'ec.' only once, every other time it is blank. Nothing out of
serial port 1 and the onboard VGA never initializes.
I tried setting the 'failsafe boot' jumper and I put a blank floppy in
the drive just to see if it would try to read the floppy and it didn't
even try :(
Any ideas at all?
So now it looks like both of my alphas are shot (the PWS500au never
initializes video, does anything with serial, and turns off all diag
lights) and my DECStation 5000/120 has a bad power supply.
On the plus side, all of my terminals still work and both of my vaxes
(MicroVAX 3100/90 and VAXStation 4000/90) boot to VMS without
problems.
It brings me to a question: are the alpha systems inherently fragile?
The dead DECStation is an obvious hardware issue due to (probably) a
leaked capacitor which is understandable due to its age, but the Alphas
are just hosed in a software kind of way.
Brian
Hi guys,
I just picked up a Motorola M1000-355 CRT monitor (5in diagonal
open-frame industrial "thing", circa Jan 1987 so almost as old as I am!)
at the hamfest today.. Problem is, I don't have a suitable mating
connector for the card edge connector...
It's a 10-pin single-row card edge connector, with a 0.156in pin pitch,
although I suspect a dual-row (20 pins total, 10x2 layout) would work
fine too.
These are listed as "US stock only" or "Discontinued, obsolete" by every
supplier I've tried... Does anyone have one squirrelled away in a box
somewhere which I could buy or have (he says with a cheeky grin) ?
Or possibly a lead on a source for one or two of these, ideally with
keypins (but the latter isn't essential)?
I'd also rather like a copy of the datasheet for the monitor module if
anyone has it... I have a pinout (it's the standard 10pin pinout as
posted by Tony Duell quite a while ago -- IIRC either the Kaypro or
Osborne monitor uses the same pinout) and a sneaking suspicion that it's
CGA-spec, but no hard proof.
I do know that it pulls 12V DC at about an amp -- the first value is
printed on the PCB, the second was provided by the meter on my bench supply!
Cheers,
--
Phil.
classiccmp at philpem.me.uk
http://www.philpem.me.uk/
Now all you need is a couple hundred square feet of raised floor, 20 tons of A/C, some 3 phase, and a nice CDC box!
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Subject: MicroPLATO Pascal Course
Sent: 19 Sep 2011 06:19
Just arrived to PLATO World, I've encountered this while lurking:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1983-Control-Data-CDC-PLATO-Pascal-CBE-CAI-Course…
Regards
SPc.
I want to get the lid off one of my RD54s. Having unscrewed all the 12 torx
screws, the lid still seems to be held down by something. I have probed
around for any screws under the label but only found one curious red plastic
thing. Is there a trick to this or is it going to be just the rubber gasket
that is holding it down?
Thanks
Rob
Hi guys,
Well, we've got a thread on desoldering kit, so I'm going to start one
on soldering stations... :)
It seems my love-hate relationship with my Antex 660TC soldering station
has finally become one of almost pure hate. I sat down to assemble a
couple of DiscFerret boards tonight, and after about 40 minutes the
handle of the iron was too hot to hold. Tried again with the other iron,
same story. If I hold it any further back, then the whole thing is
completely out of balance...
So I figure it's time for a change. Hopefully to something which won't
try and roast my fingers.
I've narrowed my choices down to two manufacturers -- OKi-Metcal and
Pace. This is basically because they're the only two "professional"
brands Farnell carry (I did look at some of the Weller soldering
stations but they don't look much better than the Antex).
I'm looking for something that'll suit SMD work -- ideally one which has
"mini-wave" soldering iron bits (aka "hoof" bits) easily available, and
is designed for lead-free work. I do run an SnPb line as well, though
I'm slowly phasing it out (once I run out of 60-40 solder, which might
take a while...!)
At the moment the front-runners are:
- Pace WJS100 (with TD-100 and Instant Set-Back aka auto-standby).
Not overly keen on this one, seems overpriced when compared to other
Pace kit (especially when you consider that the WJS only works with
certain soldering bits and one type of handpiece)
- Pace ST50 + TD100. Seems about the same as the WJS100, but will run
the tweezer handpiece and a wider variety of bits. Catch is, I'd have to
special-order this from Pace UK if I wanted the ISB option (Farnell
don't stock the ISB "cubby" / iron stand).
- Metcal MFR-1110. Cheaper than the Pace (or so it would seem),
cheaper tips. Also seems to have "auto standby" as standard. What
concerns me is that it seems to run at a fixed temperature, though
OKi/Metcal claim that SmartHeat makes this a non-issue... I'm not
convinced...
Has anyone used any of the above, or anything similar?
Are there any other brands (or other soldering stations from the above
manufacturers) that I should look at?
Thanks,
--
Phil.
classiccmp at philpem.me.uk
http://www.philpem.me.uk/
Hi Zane,
Do you want to get rid of the 90?
Paul
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 9:14 AM, Zane H. Healy <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
> At 8:44 AM -0400 9/16/11, Brian Wheeler wrote:
>>
>> It brings me to a question: ?are the alpha systems inherently fragile?
>> The dead DECStation is an obvious hardware issue due to (probably) a
>> leaked capacitor which is understandable due to its age, but the Alphas
>> are just hosed in a software kind of way.
>
> I ran my PWS 433au for several years with a dead PCI slot. ?In fact before I
> gave up on it in favor of an XP1000, I believe something else had died.
> ?That actaully impressed me.
>
> My XP1000/667's powersupply died, I had to move the CPU over the the
> XP1000/500.
>
> At the same time, don't get me started on VAXstation 4000's. ?I have a 60, a
> 90, and a VLC. ?All three have issues, the 90 won't boot, the 60 is flakey,
> and the VLC has a bad powersupply.
>
> Honestly I need to get things setup so I can powerup and check all my DEC
> hardware, it's been months since I booted any of it. :-( ?I simply don't
> have the time anymore, and I can't afford to keep a VAX and Alpha running
> 24/7.
>
> Zane
>
>
>
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