8 Jul
1999
8 Jul
'99
6:16 a.m.
Hello from the Bay Area! Thanks to Chuck McManis, I now
have another MicroVAX III board set which will be put to many
useful purposes the moment I get home.
I have also acquired, in my scrounging travels, a Dilog DQ686
board. It appears to be a QBus ESDI controller. Confirm? Deny?
Drool?
I've also acquired two new-in-the-box DEC KRQ50 controller
kits. This is the kit required to put an RRD40 or 50 CD-ROM on a
MicroVAX or MicroPDP-11. It consists of an M7552 controller, the
cabinet and cable kit, a bus grant card, the external cable for the
CD-ROM drive, and an installation guide.
I'm going to keep one, but I will be placing the second one up
for bid on Haggle's 'Antique Computers' section once I get back to
the northwest (Sunday/Monday).
I'll be picking up a Northstar Horizon system this morning, so I
gotta scoot. Catch up to you all later.
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Bruce Lane, Owner and Head Honcho
Blue Feather Technologies (www.bluefeathertech.com)
kyrrin(a)bluefeathertech.com
"...There's always a bigger fish..."
8 Jul
8 Jul
12:52 p.m.
---- Original Message -----
From: <kyrrin(a)bluefeathertech.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Sent: Thursday, July 08, 1999 9:16 AM
Subject: Confirm, please?
Hello from the Bay Area! Thanks to Chuck McManis, I
now
have another MicroVAX III board set which will be put to many
useful purposes the moment I get home.
Which set ? (which boards, a KA650 or Ka655 ?),...
I have also acquired, in my scrounging travels, a
Dilog DQ686
board. It appears to be a QBus ESDI controller.
Yes. it is an ESDI controller, but ...
there are version of this controller, that can't support the newer drives.
So don't buy disks, check first. (they can't deal with the freq of the
modern drives)
I've also acquired two new-in-the-box DEC KRQ50
controller
kits. This is the kit required to put an RRD40 or 50 CD-ROM on a
MicroVAX or MicroPDP-11. It consists of an M7552 controller, the
cabinet and cable kit, a bus grant card, the external cable for the
CD-ROM drive, and an installation guide.
WOW !!!
I'm going to keep one, but I will be placing the
second one up
for bid on Haggle's 'Antique Computers' section once I get back to
the northwest (Sunday/Monday).
...
Have a nice trip,
emanuel
9 Jul
9 Jul
5:58 a.m.
Date sent: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 15:52:47 -0600
Send reply to: classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu
From: "emanuel stiebler" <emu(a)ecubics.com>
To: "Discussion re-collecting of classic computers"
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: Confirm, please?
Originally to: <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Which set ? (which boards, a KA650 or Ka655 ?),...
This would be a 650. I'd like to find a 655, but I'm not holding
my breath.
No matter... subsequent efforts have netted me a DEC
3000/600 box which appears to be very much loaded with goodies
including the PMAG frame buffer. NetBSD/Pmax should be very
happy on it.
Yes. it is an ESDI controller, but ...
there are version of this controller, that can't support the newer drives.
So don't buy disks, check first. (they can't deal with the freq of the
modern drives)
This particular incarnation appears to be a 10 MHz version
(based on my noting what the clock oscillator in the upper right
quadrant of the board is).
Chuck has already laid claim to one of the KRQ50 kits, BTW. I
may or may not put the other one up for grabs.
Banzai!
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Bruce Lane, Owner and Head Honcho
Blue Feather Technologies (www.bluefeathertech.com)
kyrrin(a)bluefeathertech.com
"...There's always a bigger fish..."
6:22 a.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: <kyrrin(a)bluefeathertech.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Sent: Friday, July 09, 1999 8:58 AM
Subject: Re: Confirm, please?
I check this with mine,
cheers,
emanuel
Date sent: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 15:52:47 -0600
Send reply to: classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu
From: "emanuel stiebler" <emu(a)ecubics.com>
To: "Discussion re-collecting of classic computers"
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: Confirm, please?
Originally to: <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Don't think so. 3000/600 is an Alpha ;-))
Which set ? (which boards, a KA650 or Ka655
?),...
This would be a 650. I'd like to find a 655, but I'm not holding
my breath.
No matter... subsequent efforts have netted me a DEC
3000/600 box which appears to be very much loaded with goodies
including the PMAG frame buffer. NetBSD/Pmax should be very
happy on it. > Yes. it is an ESDI controller, but ...
> there are version of this controller, that can't support the newer
drives.
So don't
buy disks, check first. (they can't deal with the freq of the
modern drives)
This particular incarnation appears to be a 10 MHz version
(based on my noting what the clock oscillator in the upper right
quadrant of the board is).
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