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by sipke＠wxs.nl

I've also found a RF72 drive. I first thought it was a RD54 but on closer inspection it turns out to be a RF72. What i've read is that it has a capacity of 1GB and needs an DSSI-controller Can any one tell me what DSSI is and if there exists a DSSI-controller for a uVAX II ? I Don't know if the beast is still in working order but I'm curious anyway. Sipke de Wal

26 years

OT: Paging Bill Bradford

by nerdware＠laidbak.com

Sorry about this, but I was corresponding with Bill about some items and haven't heard from him since the 21st....just wondering if he was having email difficulties or hardware problems.... Thanks. Paul Braun NerdWare -- The History of the PC and the Nerds who brought it to you. nerdware(a)laidbak.com www.laidbak.com/nerdware

26 years

pdp11/70 / MK11

by ethan_dicks＠yahoo.com

--- CLASSICCMP(a)trailing-edge.com wrote: > >> Sure, get a MJ11 memory box (or, rather, 4 times as many MJ11's as you > >> had MK11's) :-). > > >Umm... sure. _That's_ an improvement. > > Hey, but it's real core! Ah! That _is_ an improvement. I only have core on my 11/20 (unrestored) and 11/05 (similarly unrestored). All of my working PDP-11s are MOS-based. -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!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com

26 years

The VAX stuff

by lemay＠cs.umn.edu

Since Anthony Clifton volunteered to drive to minneapolis and grab virtually al of the small VAX stuff that i mentioned yesterday, i'll just let him have the stuff (assuming thats ok with the professor who is disposing of the stuff). Thanks for your interest, and i'll keep posting if i find more stuff that i dont want or need. -Lawrence LeMay

26 years

VAX 11/730 available

by ethan_dicks＠yahoo.com

--- Lawrence LeMay <lemay(a)cs.umn.edu> wrote: > There is a VAX 11/730 available in Minneapolis. Obviously i'm not shipping > it, or having anything to do with it. if you want it, and can come tpick it > up in minneapolis, i can put you in contact with the person who has it. > > Otherwise, i will of course attempt to grab any useful boards and such > before it goes to the recyclers. At that time, i would then post what > is available to the list. Which style is it? One style has disks above and below the CPU (11/730-Z?), the other has the CPU in something that's more like a BA-11 with the TU-58 at the top of the rack. I have one of the ultra-cramped ones with the CPU in the middle. I don't have one with the CPU at the top. -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!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com

26 years

pdp11/70 / MK11

by ethan_dicks＠yahoo.com

--- CLASSICCMP(a)trailing-edge.com wrote: > >Does anybody know if it's possible to run an 11/70 without the MK11 memory > >box ? > > Sure, get a MJ11 memory box (or, rather, 4 times as many MJ11's as you > had MK11's) :-). Umm... sure. _That's_ an improvement. > There are several other third-party memory boxes/cards available too. How many of these are floating around these days? Serious question, no smiley. I have two PDP-11/70s, both with, I assume, MK11 boxes and am interested in low-power alternatives for memory. > Out of curiosity, why can't you use your MK11's? Not enough power to > run them and the 11/70 at the same time? I had to take multiple 15A > circuits to run my 11/70 with MJ11 memory boxes. In _my_ case, power is the issue. I have a 60A circuit for the entire outbuilding that houses my larger stuff, none of which is powered on at the moment. I need to wire up a 30A Hubble Twist-n-lock outlet so I can plug in either an 11/750 or an 11/70 out there, but once I do, I'll be interested in firing up one of the beasts. Just so I'm not making a serious assumtion here, an MK11 is the high- density memory cabinet for the 11/70, right? What I have is an entire H960 rack with one BA-11 that houses 16 256K boards (mess-o-4116 DRAMs) and some incidental memory controller cards. Do I have what I think I have? -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!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com

26 years

pdp11/70 / MK11

by CLASSICCMP＠trailing-edge.com

>> Sure, get a MJ11 memory box (or, rather, 4 times as many MJ11's as you >> had MK11's) :-). >Umm... sure. _That's_ an improvement. Hey, but it's real core! >> There are several other third-party memory boxes/cards available too. >How many of these are floating around these days? Serious question, no >smiley. Probably pretty difficult to find. >> Out of curiosity, why can't you use your MK11's? Not enough power to >> run them and the 11/70 at the same time? I had to take multiple 15A >> circuits to run my 11/70 with MJ11 memory boxes. >Just so I'm not making a serious assumtion here, an MK11 is the high- >density memory cabinet for the 11/70, right? What I have is an entire >H960 rack with one BA-11 that houses 16 256K boards (mess-o-4116 DRAMs) >and some incidental memory controller cards. Do I have what I think >I have? The "original" MK11 goes up to 1 Mbyte in a box, according to my books. It certainly was common to see them upgraded in the field to the configuration that you have, though I don't know what the official DEC designation for the high-density version was. -- Tim Shoppa Email: shoppa(a)trailing-edge.com Trailing Edge Technology WWW: http://www.trailing-edge.com/ 7328 Bradley Blvd Voice: 301-767-5917 Bethesda, MD, USA 20817 Fax: 301-767-5927

26 years

iOpener Update

by CLASSICCMP＠trailing-edge.com

> > Package a) a sole device USD 499, > > Package b) the device and a 24 Month contract USD 99 + 24 x 20 > Or the common package C) box is part of the service and "rented". Cable > boxes especially encoded ones are that case here (usa). Yeah, but there are many places in the US where it is essentially illegal to hook your own cable descrambler to the cable line, not too much different than the old Bell System limits on third-party equipment hooked to phone lines. There are some attractions to cheap and uniform guaranteed service for all, but I don't think I want Internet access to become the monopoly that phone service used to be or cable service is today. It's bad enough with some ISP's threatening that they only support Microsoft Windows and that if you've got trouble accessing their service from any other OS you're out of luck. Actually DSL from some companies is already worse than that - you have to have a PCI-bus PC-clone running Windows to use their service, because the only interface device that will work requires that hardware configuration and the only drivers available are for MS-Windows. -- Tim Shoppa Email: shoppa(a)trailing-edge.com Trailing Edge Technology WWW: http://www.trailing-edge.com/ 7328 Bradley Blvd Voice: 301-767-5917 Bethesda, MD, USA 20817 Fax: 301-767-5927

26 years

One of only 3 "enigma machine" stolen; A piece of ENIAC was up for auction.

by ethan_dicks＠yahoo.com

--- John Lewczyk <jlewczyk(a)his.com> wrote: > http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_698000/698804.stm > > An Enigma machine used by the Nazis to send coded messages during World War > Two, has been stolen from the code-cracking Station X at Bletchley Park, > Buckinghamshire. The machine, worth about £100,000, is one of only three in > the world. It was brought to the UK after the war. > > I bet it was somebody on this list who grabbed it! Fess up! ;-) The closest I've come is photographing the one at the Deutches Museum on my recent trip to visit Hans. -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!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com

26 years

Watcom C

by xds_sigma7＠hotmail.com

John, I have VAX C also if that would help... I'd offer you OS/32 C, but I don't think you have an Interdata/Perkin-Elmer/Concurrent, heh. Will J ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

26 years

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