On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Mark Davidson <mdavidson1963 at gmail.com> wrote: Ok, I'm embarrassed... the auction does point to more photos. My bad. :) Mark

On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Alexandre Souza - Listas <pu1bzz.listas at gmail.com> wrote: It is pretty clear. In the very 1st line of text in the description, it says: www.wintersweet.com/temp/Vitek.html -- Liam Proven ? Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/liamproven Email: lproven at cix.co.uk ? GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: lproven at gmail.com Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 ? Cell: +44 7939-087884 ? Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AOL/AIM/iChat/Yahoo/Skype: liamproven ? LiveJournal/Twitter: lproven MSN: lproven at hotmail.com ? ICQ: 73187508

What's DS1? Run Level? brian

Brian Lanning wrote: Probably "diagnostic status"... I've seen it before on various old UNIX hardware. Looks like a pretty sweet box, even if it is rather boring from the outside :-) Battery that size suggests it's got some standby capability. Wonder what the bus is? Thought it might be STE, but it looks like there's only two rows of pins and IIRC STE was three (albeit with the middle row missing). Looks to all be SCSI, too, so there's a chance the hard disk is still good - and a chance the fs could be mounted via a Linux box and the password reset/cracked. Whether it still *has* an intact OS is another matter. Console... hmm, my NCR Tower had the main console on port 1; port 0 was for remote diags - perhaps this does something similar. Or it's just using an oddball pinout, or the tested terminal's settings were just wrong... "early unix computer" makes me smile - I think I see some 1988 and 1989 date codes on those chips (which seems a couple of years too late for a 68010-based UNIX crate). It's a good ten years too late to be "early" :-) (but I really like UNIX boxen from that sort of era - old enough to still be interesting, new enough to run at a reasonable rate) Unfortunately the run-up to Christmas is not a good time for me to be buying vintage crap ;) If it were after tax season I'd be tempted to give it a shot, I think... cheers Jules

Vitek Systems had sounded really familiar to me because I think I encountered one at Salk that got replaced with a Bio-Rad. It was an automated testing system. I don't know anything more about it, but here is an altlaw case involving Vitek vs Abbott: http://www.altlaw.org/v1/cases/472761 -- ------------------------------------ personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckaiser at floodgap.com -- Business is war. -- Jack Tramiel -------------------------------------------