29 Mar
2004
29 Mar
'04
9:22 p.m.
I have just got an apollo 735 (couldn't resist it for 9 pound on ebay).
It has 96mb ram, 2 1gb hard drives, a framebuffer with a stereo +rgb
ports and what I think is a 99mhz processor. All is looking good except
it has no power supply. Anyone know where I can get such a beast. It
looks quite big if it fills up the mising hole, the machine already
weighs a ton it must be pretty heavy with it in.
Thanks
Dan
29 Mar
29 Mar
9:26 p.m.
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dan Williams
Subject: Apollo
I have just got an apollo 735 (couldn't resist it for 9 pound
on ebay).
It has 96mb ram, 2 1gb hard drives, a framebuffer with a
stereo +rgb ports and what I think is a 99mhz processor. All
is looking good except it has no power supply. Anyone know
where I can get such a beast. It looks quite big if it fills
up the mising hole, the machine already weighs a ton it must
be pretty heavy with it in.
Heh, if I'd known you were looking out for one of those I've got one here
you could've had! It's complete with monitor and hard drive too.
Cheers
w
10:11 p.m.
Witchy wrote:
I wasn't really, I was looking for something else and after seeing the
price "I haven't got one of those" flashed through my mind. It will
probably now go in the cupboard with other things with bits missing.
While i'm on the subject I need to get more working machines and less
projects (or what she calls shit in cupboards everywhere)
I've got 5 next stations either with no psu, memory or hard drives.
rs/6000 (I think it works, but I don't have the right monitor cable or
cd rom drive for it)
numerous vaxstation 3100's all working
empty r4000 external dissi pack
a few amstrad 1512/1640's (all working)
a couple of indigo2's with I think dead psu's
a working indy (dented case)
4000/60 with no psu.
Ultra 1/200 with dead mainboard.
a dozen ipx's with dead nvram
quite a bit of dechub gear repeaters, fddi, decservers etc.
I can't bring myself to throw these away, someone here would make use of
them
My main wants are a
kfqsa or a netbsd compatable dssi card
a psu for this apollo
amstrad cpc 664
any other vaxen then 3100's
But if anyone want's any of these for spares I'm in London pickup would
be preferable or I can sort out delivery if it's not too far away.
Thanks
Dan
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Message-----
Heh, if I'd known you were looking out for one of those I've got one here
you could've had! It's complete with monitor and hard drive too.
Cheers
w
29 Mar
29 Mar
9:50 p.m.
Dan,
the simpliest way is to get onother one.
I have just got an apollo 735 (couldn't resist it
for 9 pound on
ebay). It has 96mb ram, 2 1gb hard drives, a framebuffer with a stereo
+rgb ports and what I think is a 99mhz processor. All is looking good
except it has no power supply. Anyone know where I can get such a
beast. It looks quite big if it fills up the mising hole, the machine
already weighs a ton it must be pretty heavy with it in.
It is real solid state!
These machines are extremely reliable - if permanently powered on! I've
one in my office, just to have a real Unix machine within the Windows
world. It has now an uptime of 1102 days. The problems will arise, if
these machines are powered off, esp. for a longer period of time. From
my considerations the powersupply is damaging the cpu-board, probably
based on voltage-peaks.
- Andreas
30 Mar
30 Mar
7:27 a.m.
Hi Dan,
hope you get it working - it's a quite nice machine! I have one lyin' around
also, at the moment I'm not using it - but I will re-activate it, maybe as an
MTA or so.
My one runs perfectly well with HP UX 10.20 installed, don't try HP UX 11,
someone told me it won't boot. BSD is fine for it, too...
Unfortunately, it's a little bit difficult to get pre-compiled software for HP
UX 10, since HP has closed down all related sites - they only supply software
for 11...
But, if you get it workin', I have a pre-compiled gcc for it (Someone on he
list sent me the compiler - thanks again!). If you're interested, just drop
me a line and I'll send it to you.
Another tip: I didn't manage to get the frame buffer card to work (all my
monitors refused to work with it, although I bought a special converter to
VGA). But, the machine has also a serial port, which it activates when the FB
card is plugged out. This port can be used with a standard modem cable
(9600/8/N/1, not twisted), to access the machine and set it up.
I hope you get it runnin', it's a really reliable and useful machine. (My one
was powered off for I think 10 years or so, and had been stored in the cellar
- I switched it on, and it worked, without any errors - try this with a
"modern" PC, :-)) )
Greetings from germany,
have a nice hackin',
Harald
On Tuesday 30 March 2004 13:22, Dan Williams wrote:
I have just got an apollo 735 (couldn't resist it
for 9 pound on ebay).
It has 96mb ram, 2 1gb hard drives, a framebuffer with a stereo +rgb
ports and what I think is a 99mhz processor. All is looking good except
it has no power supply. Anyone know where I can get such a beast. It
looks quite big if it fills up the mising hole, the machine already
weighs a ton it must be pretty heavy with it in.
Thanks
Dan
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