I have two TU58 bare drives, also picked up from eBay about a year or so
ago. I've decided that I'm unlikely to ever use them, and would like to
see them go to a good home. I've never tried them and can't guarantee
they work, though I was told that they were functional when I got them.
I'll be happy to give them away (but please reimburse me for shipping if
possible) to the first person who sends me a note to ask for them, and who
has an actual use for them (i.e., is actually maintaining a VAX-11/750, a
PDP-11/44, or some other system that uses these drives).
Please respond to me only - no need to clutter up the list (replies sent
to, or cc'ed to, the ClassicCmp mailing list will be *ignored*)
--Pat.
In tidying up a bit this weekend, I've unearthed one of my eBay purchases
>from about a year or so ago. Apparently a couple of Farallon prototypes,
marked "Farallon - Project Emily"; they're brown, sheet-metal cases, with
two RJ45's marked "ETHERWAVE" (and one sub-marked "ETHERNET", along side
an Ethernet AUI connector), an RJ45 connector marked "ISDN U", a mini-DIN
connector marked "CONFIG CONSOLE", and another RJ45 marked "PHONENET
LOCALTALK".
I really don't know what these are, and neither did the guy I got them
>from - I just bought them on a lark. I can only guess that they are some
type of Ethertalk/Localtalk-to-ISDN router/bridge. Does anyone know what,
if any, product these might have been prototypes for?
--Pat.
Well, after spending the last several hours transfering the files for a
2.11BSD Boot tape over to my RSX-11M system I proceeded to try and write
them to tape. Not sure if I was doing it right because the TZ30 proceeded
to eat the TK50!
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get a TZ30 to rewind a tape and
spit it out? It looks to have wound the entire tape around the spindle.
It acts like it tries to rewind the tape, but then it just sits there with
the three lights flashing.
Now someone mind reminding me *why* I'm even trying to load 2.11BSD on my /73!
Zane
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Yesterday I picked up one of my more unusual finds, a Beehive MicroB
terminal that looks like it's new in the box. See pictures at
"http://www.intellistar.net/~rigdonj/beehive/b4.jpg" through
"http://www.intellistar.net/~rigdonj/beehive/b9.jpg". You can see in
picture b7 that it was still sealed up in a plastic bag inside the box.
Does anyone want this? I don't need it and I don't have room to keep
it. I powered it up today and it appears to work. You can see in the last
picture that it does have a raster and cursor. I don't have a systemn that
uses a terminal so I can't test it beyond that. The screen is normal but
the camera frooze the raster in mid sweep so it appears that only half the
screen has a display. Again, the screen is ok and it does have a full
screen display. Youcan see the cursor in the top LH corner above the
highlighted portion of the screen. If anyone is interested in it, contact
me directly. It's located in central Florida. The buyer pays shipping and a
modest amount for my time.
Joe
Here's something else that I picked up in a load of old computers last
week. It's one of those oversize lunch box computers with the keyboard that
folds up against one side and covers the screen. It has six ISA type card
slots that lay horizontal in the main unit. There's also a piggy back unit
that has three more ISA type slots that stand vertical. The logo on the
keyboard says "Tekelec" and ChameLAN 100-S". After some work, I finally
got it to boot. The first surprise was that the LCD screen is a backlit
color screen. The next surprise is that it boots into some kind of UNIX. I
never did see a name for the UNIX but it pops up a number of different
copyright notices including one for DOLCH, Tekelec and the usual UNIX ones.
I couldn't get past the login id/password prompt. Any suggestions about
how to get around it?
It has some strange cards in it including several that appear to be very
fancy Ethernet cards and another that has four fiber-optic connectors. The
three boards in the piggy back unit are physicaly bolted together and each
one has a four pin power connector similar to a 5 1/4" disk drive. There
is a cable that connects to a each of those power connectors and a power
outlet on the motherboard. The external connectors on these boards are
marked "Bypass Control", "TR1" and "TR2" and "AUX". One of the boards has a
big IC that's marked AMD AM79C830GC on it. I haven't been able to find a
refernece to this chip. One of the other boards has an AMD AM7984AJC/20 on
it. I haven't found a reference to that one either. Does anyone know what
they are?
The main computer is a 32 Mhz 486 with 16 Mb of RAM. The hard drive is a
type 11 245 Mb IDE drive and it has a 1/3 height 1.44 Mb floppy drive.
There are also extra LED indicators on the front of the computer that are
marked "Ring Op" "Pri" "Sec", Signal Detect" "A" "B" and "Active" "A" "B".
Does anyone know what this machine is made for or anything else about it?
Joe
>Same here. I was trying to find the pinouts and specs on a TRS-80 Model 1
>power supply when I got the bad news. (Bad news, ha ha ha, pun not
intended
>but somewhat funny?) I did find them somewhere else, though.
Break it open and replace the thermal fuse just under the winding tape.
Thats
the most common problem. You can erify that this is the problem by OHMing
the
the primary to see if it open.
Allison
Who owns the Commodore Trademark now?
-----Original Message-----
From: Sipke de Wal <sipke(a)wxs.nl>
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Date: Monday, May 15, 2000 6:21 PM
Subject: Re: Is this for real -- a new C64/128
>The Comodore Trademark has been sold and resold in Holland in the last six
years
>as far as I can tell both the Tulip and the Escom company have at least
been
>holder
>of the trade mark and at least one of them payed no more than Fl 100,-
(=$40,-)
>I dont know if this applied only to a dutch (benelux) trademark or the
worldwide
>trademark.
>
>If the comodore company once again exists it is certainly not the same
company
>that gave us the VIC & the C64.
>
>My guess is that the trademark was for grabs once more and somebody
>is trying to beat a few more bucks out of it.
>
>Branding a run off the mill clone with the comodore logo and supplying a
>couple of emulators and a special keyboard with it, truely sounds like a
hype in
>the
>making. It'll blow over pretty soon.
>
>Sipke de Wal
>
>> > The site looks raw enough to dissuade me from believing anything will
come
>> > out of this. And how is it going to benefit with having a 6502 onboard
as
>> > claimed if there will also be a 200-500Mhz processor, and everything
else
>> > indicates emulation? It's obvious this will simply be a PC, and
putting
>> > together a machine with the specs this one will supposedly have
requires
>> > some expensive engineering.
>> >
>> > Look lower on their page, where they advertise the C= PC. I think that
>> > tells us what they truly are trying to sell. The "Next Generation C64"
is
>> > just hype to suck you in.
>
>
>From: Lawrence LeMay <lemay(a)cs.umn.edu>
>My PDP 8/L that I recently acquired, has a cable that i assume is for
>the console terminal. It has a 9 pin male connector with only pins
>1 through 6 present. Is this a standard serial connection? This was
>a papertape based system, so it may have been connected to a teletype
>ASR 33. Will I need to locate something that can do 110 baud to use
>as a console?
>
If it is the W076 on the other end of the cable it is a teletype.
It normally runs at 110 baud current loop. You can either create an
external RS-232 to current loop or make a new W076 to do RS-232.
If you want to cheat you can reduce the capacitor on the M452 to increase
the baud rate. The serial port is not double buffered so you may have
problems with overruns when sending tape images to the 8/L. I think
the BIN/RIM loader is fast enough but Focal is not. On the teletype the
data was held off by the reader run signal.
>Also, I'm very curious about the other cables comming from the 8/L...
>I have 6 flat black cables, similar to ribbon cable but thicker, with
>9 'wires' on each cable. possibly each 'wire' is something similar
>to coax, but i'm not sure... Each pair of these ribbon-like cables
>go together into a centronics 36 pin male connector. thus there are
>3 centronics connectors, which are labeled: "A D36", "B D35", "C D34".
>Any clues as to what this might be for?
>
Peripherals. This extends the 6xxx instructions to external equipment and
allows the external equipment to do 1 and 3 cycle databreaks (DMA). With
6 cables only programmed IO is supported, 10 or 11 are required for databreak.
The labels are the location they plugged into the the peripheral. I
think most DEC stuff like the DF32's I have on my 8/I use Flip chip
connectors on both side so it may of been a third party peripheral.
David Gesswein
>Is there a way to configure either RSX-11M or RSX-11M+ to boot up off of a
>disk that it can't write to? I just created a backup CD-R of my RSX-11M
>system, but since it could't write to the disk as it was coming up it
>didn't come up in a usable state. However, it did boot. Alternatively
>would it be possible to boot standalone backup off this CD or build a CD
>with standalone backup?
The CD you built can *probably* be used to boot into standalone BRU,
if it's the result of a fairly vanilla SYSGEN.
Boot it up, let it mount the system disk, get to the MCR prompt (control-C
and ABO AT. if necessary), and do a BOO [6,54]BRUSYS.
Tim.
As the saying goes, "If you don't live here you probably don't want to go
there." Basically Fry's sucks dead rodents through a hose. And most of the
stuff on the shelf seems to have been returned at one point and never do
they shave a penny off that price. I once heard someone brag that they
didn't need to buy a digital camera, they just bought one at Fry's and
returned it when they were done. :-( That and the fact that they drove the
decent electronics stores out of business makes me hate them even more.
However, they do get things now and again and if you know _exactly_ what
you want, they can be useful to have near by.
Other places stock the Ideal Industries tools, however the MMJ one is often
not stocked.
If you need one, I could probably be bribed with a couple of dozen
uncrimped MMJs to be your transfer agent and get you one. Contact me off
list if you want to go that route.
--Chuck
At 03:58 PM 5/19/00 -0600, you wrote:
>Well, I know where there's at least one full box of MMJ's but no crimp
>tool. Do you have an email contact or URL for us outlanders?
>
>Bill
>
>On Fri, 19 May 2000, Chuck McManis wrote:
>
> > The Fry's in Sunnyvale CA has restocked its supply of "crimp" tools and has
> > a bunch of the Ideal Industries #30-497 tools, this does RJ-45 *and* DEC
> > MMJ connectors. They get $40 + tax for it which is a lot less than Black
> > Box wants for theirs! They do not have crimp on MMJ connectors :-(
> >
> > --Chuck
> >
