At 14:01 18-03-2000 -0500, you wrote:
>Try the linux router project - fits on a floppy or whatever, very similar
>to sharethenet (which if I remember correctly was a deriverative of
>LRP) at www.linuxrouter.org. It's free and there are packages for
>everything!
I've looked at it, yes. However, the configuration instructions are not
that clear to me. There doesn't seem to be a "HowTo" where setting it up is
concerned, only to add packages.
Thanks, though. I'm still working this...
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Not sure what happened last time I sent this. I'll try again...
> The "serial" bus is actually a bastardised implementation of the IEEE-488
> bus, which CBM had used on the PET series. Data is transferred serially (at
> 300 baud) instead of in parallel, other than that I believe it's pretty much
> IEEE.
Are you _sure_ it's 300 baud? I thought it was 2400. We had a 20K byte load
module that took about a minute to load - this corresponds to a little over 300
_bytes_ per second. Same load module from tape took SEVEN minutes! No wonder
speed loaders and things were popular! (Typical disk speed loader used 2 of the
wires in the serial bus for data, doubling the throughput. May have used higher
baud rate as well - I never had problems with 4800 baud in software on a PET.)
Philip.
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Hello ClassicCmp and Port-vax,
I am trying to track down the compatibility of the VS3100/MS SCSI bus with
"modern" SCSI drives. The case in point is that I'm trying to connect a
SeaGate Barracuda (ST32550N) drive (2.54GB SCSI) to the internal bus,
replacing a 426MB Seagate drive. When the drive is installed the system
gets indigestion. I'm currently attempting to disable parity on the drive
in case that is an issue.
Has anyone done something similar? Is there some caveat I've missed?
Obviously the DEC manual isn't much help :-)
--Chuck
40 hrs with only a 20min catnap but I have a rental truck full of
goodies from a midnight run. Latest stuff: PDP04,34,05, many expansion
bus's including a brand new RP11, box's of RT11 on RX floppies, Box's of
microfiche, paper tapes, engineering drawings, half dozen MVAX II's, I's
with VR260's etc. Small handbooks blah blah.
Time for bed...
Brian.
Received this and a later request to post here. As normal, please
contact Mr. Hamilton directly.
- don
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Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 12:20:58 -0700
From: DJ Hamilton <djhamilton(a)uswest.net>
To: donm(a)cts.com
Subject: Old Kaypro's Home?
Can't bear to throw my old Kaypro II and manuals in the dumpster.
Does anybody out there want it or the Okidata 92 that goes with it?
Would any foolish old sentimental collectors want parts for their
museum? The sound the Kaypro would make as it crashes into the
bottom of the dumpster would be more than I can take.
Any suggestions?
DJ Hamilton Denver
(303) 355-2833
This is an integrated file server that runs a hacked up
version of MS-dos, along with 3+Share, which was 3Com's
Networking software. It came standard with a 70Mb
hard disk, 60MB tape (Wangtek 5099EN24) and 800k memory.
It differs memory-map wise from the PC in that, of course,
there is no ISA bus nor video adaptor, hence they could
allocate more memory to MS-DOS.
You could get a Cache card for it, which allowed LIM 3.0
expanded memory operation for disk caching. The 3Server3
uses an 80168 cpu at 8Mc (IIRC).
I used to make a fairly decent living maintaining these;
then Novell took over, and we all know what happened after
that.
Jeff
On Fri, 17 Mar 2000 12:10:35 -0600 "McFadden, Mike" <mmcfadden(a)cmh.edu>
writes:
> I just came across a wierd computer box. It is labeled 3com 3server3
> and
> has a dc-300 cartridge tape drive it it. I haven't opened the box
> yet. I
> looked on the 3com website and it says that it is a PC server from
> 1984.
> Does anyone know anything more?
> TIA
> Mike
> michaelmcfadden(a)sprintmail.com
>
>
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>While debugging SCSI I noticed that there was another board sitting
>"over" the mainboard on my VS3100. When I run 'Test 50' is shows up as
>'? SPGFX xxx.xxx' which, I'm guessing, is a color graphics board and
>there is something wrong with it. (the '?')
I believe so... either 4- or 8-plane color
>Does this mean that there is simply no monitor attached?
>
>Is this frame buffer compatible with the QDSS?
Can't answer
>Was there ever a "skunk box" version of the QDSS? (I found some "right
>angle" QDSS cables that would work in a BA213 but I didn't think there
>was ever an S-box cab kit for the QDSS.
There was no skunk box version of the board (meaning it has the
S-box handles)... but there is a skunk-box version of the
break-out panel so that one can be used... I have one such
unit on my uVaxIII at home... works just fine...
And yes, the cable with the right-angle connector is required,
otherwise the cabinet front won't close...
Megan Gentry
Former RT-11 Developer
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While debugging SCSI I noticed that there was another board sitting "over"
the mainboard on my VS3100. When I run 'Test 50' is shows up as '? SPGFX
xxx.xxx' which, I'm guessing, is a color graphics board and there is
something wrong with it. (the '?')
Does this mean that there is simply no monitor attached?
Is this frame buffer compatible with the QDSS?
Was there ever a "skunk box" version of the QDSS? (I found some "right
angle" QDSS cables that would work in a BA213 but I didn't think there was
ever an S-box cab kit for the QDSS.
--Chuck
On the SCSI drive, disabling parity made it work. Without parity disabled I
would get a machine check ?21 CORRUPTN. Weird, DEC usually leans in favor
of error detecting/correcting protocols.
On Mar 17, 9:53, W.B.(Wim) Hofman wrote:
> I got an IBM disk (from a PS/2 55SX) I would like to use. It is
presumable
> an SCSI one with the following flood of numbers on it.
> P/N 6128256 FRu P/n 6128272 MLC C13052 Model WD-387T
> Is there somewhere a site with data of such a disk, with the pinnout or
can
> anyone send me the data?
I don't have any figures for geometry or access times, but I do know that
it's a 60MB ESDI drive, not SCSI.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
