27 Sep
2011
27 Sep
'11
9:56 a.m.
A fellow's posting over at Erik's VC Forum that he's got a good load
of Tek 4170 stuff looking for a home:
http://www.vintage-computer.com/vcforum/showthread.php?27400-
Tektronix-4170-CAD-systems-for-sale-trade
2 Oct
2 Oct
4:22 p.m.
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 9:56 AM, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
A fellow's posting over at Erik's VC Forum
that he's got a good load
of Tek 4170 stuff looking for a home:
http://www.vintage-computer.com/vcforum/showthread.php?27400-
Tektronix-4170-CAD-systems-for-sale-trade
I picked up this lot of stuff.
(4x) Tektronix 4170 CPUs. They might all have hard drives.
(2x) Tektronix 4207 color graphic terminals with spare keyboards.
(2x) Tektronix 4662 8-pen flatbed plotters
A box full of spare system boards of unknown condition.
Spare hard drives of unknown condition.
Boxes of manuals.
Hundreds of 5.25 inch floppies
I haven't powered anything up except the terminals. Both seem ok.
Richard has one of these. Anyone else?
http://legalizeadulthood.wordpress.com/2008/10/03/tektronix-4170-local-grap…
Has any of the manuals or software for these been archived anywhere?
I'll have to inventory the manuals and floppies I have when I have the
time.
3 Oct
3 Oct
9:20 a.m.
In article <CAM2UOwLJMUtGQ3QwfPiATOjx4aEg+D2g7BTd=XGxh+xKcSdv4A at mail.gmail.com>,
Glen Slick <glen.slick at gmail.com> writes:
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 9:56 AM, Chuck Guzis
<cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
Dang, beat me to it. I've been so busy moving the computer graphics
museum collection to a new space that I haven't had time to monitor
this list or do much else besides clean/pressure wash, paint and move
stuff every night for the past several weeks.
Was it really "a cargo van full" of stuff?
A fellow's posting over at Erik's VC
Forum that he's got a good load
of Tek 4170 stuff looking for a home:
http://www.vintage-computer.com/vcforum/showthread.php?27400-
Tektronix-4170-CAD-systems-for-sale-trade
I picked up this lot of stuff. (4x) Tektronix 4170 CPUs. They might all have hard
drives.
(2x) Tektronix 4207 color graphic terminals with spare keyboards.
(2x) Tektronix 4662 8-pen flatbed plotters
A box full of spare system boards of unknown condition.
Spare hard drives of unknown condition.
Boxes of manuals.
Hundreds of 5.25 inch floppies
I haven't powered anything up except the terminals. Both seem ok.
Richard has one of these. Anyone else?
Paxton Hoag posted that he has some CPU boards. I've been talking
with him about getting them as I have two 4170 units, but one is
missing the CPU board.
Has any of the manuals or software for these been
archived anywhere?
I have some 4170 manuals that I've scanned but not yet PDF-ized. I
have no software other than what's on the hard drive(s) of the units
that I have.
I'll have to inventory the manuals and floppies I
have when I have the
time.
I'd love to see a picture of the haul! I have a hard time believing
it would *fill* a panel truck.
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9:58 a.m.
On Oct 3, 2011 9:25 AM, "Richard" <legalize at xmission.com> wrote:
Was it really "a cargo van full" of stuff?
Filled my van with boxes stacked at least 2 high. Would have been a couple
pallets worth at least to ship freight.
Paxton Hoag posted that he has some CPU boards.
I've been talking
with him about getting them as I have two 4170 units, but one is
missing the CPU board.
2 of the 4 systems have CPU cards in them and look complete. The box of
spares has at least a half dozen CPU cards. Some look better than others.
Most are missing EPROMs, which is easily fixed. I'll have to check them
out. One nice thing is that an extender card was included which should help
with debugging. I hope to have some good CPU spares left over after getting
all 4 systems running.
I have no software other than what's on the hard
drive(s) of the units
that I have.
I'm curious to see what is on the drives and all the floppies I have.
I'd love to see a picture of the haul! I have a
hard time believing
it would *fill* a panel truck.
--
Ok maybe half full as it wasn't stacked that high. I'll take some pictures
before I unload it.
-Glen
9 Oct
9 Oct
5:19 p.m.
I went through the pile of 5.25 inch floppies that were included with
the Tekronix 4170 systems and here's a list of the ones that have
original Tektronix labels. There are multiple original sets of these
so when I get around to creating disk images I can verify that the
original disks binary compare and are hopefully good.
I'll have to try to get TEKNICAD up and running. Should make for a
good period demo for the 4207 graphics terminals.
4100P01 CP/M-86 (R) OPERATING SYSTEM
VERSION/LEVEL 1.1/1.2
COPYRIGHT TEKTRONIX, INC. 1984
TRADEMARK OF DIGITAL RESEARCH INC.
4100P01 DTI AND BIOS SOURCE
VERSION/LEVEL 1.1/1.2
COPYRIGHT TEKTRONIX, INC. 1984
TRADEMARK OF DIGITAL RESEARCH INC.
4100P01 FORTRAN
VOLUME 1 OF 2
VERSION/LEVEL 2.2/1.2
COPYRIGHT TEKTRONIX, INC. 1984
PROGRAM COPYRIGHT BY INTEL CORPORATION
4100P01 FORTRAN
VOLUME 2 OF 2
VERSION/LEVEL 2.2/1.2
COPYRIGHT TEKTRONIX, INC. 1984
PROGRAM COPYRIGHT BY INTEL CORPORATION
4100P01 GSX GRAPHICS SYSTEM EXTENSIONS
VOLUME 1 OF 2
VERSION/LEVEL 1.1/1.2
COPYRIGHT TEKTRONIX, INC. 1984
TRADEMARK OF DIGITAL RESEARCH INC.
4100P01 GSX GRAPHICS SYSTEM EXTENSIONS
VOLUME 2 OF 2
VERSION/LEVEL 1.1/1.2
COPYRIGHT TEKTRONIX, INC. 1984
TRADEMARK OF DIGITAL RESEARCH INC.
4170P73 PLOT 10 INTERACTIVE GRAPICS LIBRARY
FUNDAMENTAL SUPPORT FOR 4170 - VOLUME 1 OF 2
VERSION/LEVEL 1.0
COPYRIGHT TEKTRONIX, INC. 1983
PROGRAM COPYRIGHT TEKTRONIX, INC.
4170P73 PLOT 10 INTERACTIVE GRAPICS LIBRARY
FUNDAMENTAL SUPPORT FOR 4170 - VOLUME 2 OF 2
VERSION/LEVEL 1.0
COPYRIGHT TEKTRONIX, INC. 1983
PROGRAM COPYRIGHT TEKTRONIX, INC.
MODEM-86
VERSION/LEVEL 2-84/1.2
COPYRIGHT TEKTRONIX, INC. 1984
PROGRAM COPYRIGHT BY COMPUVIEW PRODUCTS INC.
IDD PROGRAM EXCHANGE
VERSION/LEVEL 3.2
4100 COLOR DRAWING BOARD
Free Demonstration Program
NOT TO BE SOLD.
4100P30 PLOT 10(R) TekniCAD SYSTEM SOFTWARE (4170)
TekniCAD EXECUTABLE - VOLUME 1 OF 5
VERSION/LEVEL 8.2
COPYRIGHT TEKTRONIX, INC. 1985
TRADEMARK OF DIGITAL RESEARCH INC.
4100P30 PLOT 10(R) TekniCAD SYSTEM SOFTWARE (4170)
TekniCAD EXECUTABLE - VOLUME 2 OF 5
VERSION/LEVEL 8.2
COPYRIGHT TEKTRONIX, INC. 1985
TRADEMARK OF DIGITAL RESEARCH INC.
4100P30 PLOT 10(R) TekniCAD SYSTEM SOFTWARE (4170)
TekniCAD EXECUTABLE - VOLUME 3 OF 5
VERSION/LEVEL 8.2
COPYRIGHT TEKTRONIX, INC. 1985
TRADEMARK OF DIGITAL RESEARCH INC.
4100P30 PLOT 10(R) TekniCAD SYSTEM SOFTWARE (4170)
TekniCAD EXECUTABLE - VOLUME 4 OF 5
VERSION/LEVEL 8.2
COPYRIGHT TEKTRONIX, INC. 1985
TRADEMARK OF DIGITAL RESEARCH INC.
4100P30 PLOT 10(R) TekniCAD SYSTEM SOFTWARE (4170)
TekniCAD EXECUTABLE - VOLUME 5 OF 5
VERSION/LEVEL 8.2
COPYRIGHT TEKTRONIX, INC. 1985
TRADEMARK OF DIGITAL RESEARCH INC.
4100P30 PLOT 10(R) TekniCAD SYSTEM SOFTWARE (4170)
TCADPLOT EXECUTABLE - VOLUME 1 OF 2
VERSION/LEVEL 8.2
COPYRIGHT TEKTRONIX, INC. 1985
TRADEMARK OF DIGITAL RESEARCH INC.
4100P30 PLOT 10(R) TekniCAD SYSTEM SOFTWARE (4170)
TCADPLOT EXECUTABLE - VOLUME 2 OF 2
VERSION/LEVEL 8.2
COPYRIGHT TEKTRONIX, INC. 1985
TRADEMARK OF DIGITAL RESEARCH INC.
4100P30 PLOT 10(R) TekniCAD SAMPLE SYMBOLS (4170)
VERSION/LEVEL 8.2
COPYRIGHT TEKTRONIX, INC. 1985
TRADEMARK OF DIGITAL RESEARCH INC.
4100P30 PLOT 10(R) TekniCAD SAMPLE DRAWINGS (4170)
VERSION/LEVEL 8.2
COPYRIGHT TEKTRONIX, INC. 1985
TRADEMARK OF DIGITAL RESEARCH INC.
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