This is mainly for Phil Pemberton, but for everyone else who's never seen a CD player like this before it's worth taking a look at :) Must've been the only way of keeping costs down back in those days since the only 2 motors needed were the transport and head motors; everything else required wetware to function correctly. http://www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk/traycd.html cheers -- adrian/witchy www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - the online computer museum www.snakebiteandblack.co.uk - monthly gothic shenanigans

I had one of those drives, but I didn't purchase it at Radio Shack. The drive was about 0.7X, I think, but it was a lot less expensive than any other drive that was available at the time. -- Eric Dittman dittman(a)dittman.net Check out the DEC Enthusiasts Club at http://www.dittman.net/

Hi folks, Been having a good look round for my DNAS 2.2 CD and I'm pretty sure it's currently out on loan with an ex-colleague so I'm checking and will let you all know when it turns up. I found its box but what use is that :) While I was rooting through my boxes of stuff I found a lot of CDs and tapes I'd forgotten about that might be useful in the future so here's a quick list: (from memory) CDs: InfoserverVXT Infoserver 1000 Infoserver Disk & Tape access VXT Host software (VAX) OpenVMS AXP V1.0 OpenVMS AXP V1.5 OpenVMS AXP V6.1 OSF/1 T1.0 is in there somewhere; need to dig that one out too. OSF/1 V1.3 Alpha firmware updates from about v2.x up to 5.x (on floppy too) Ultrix 4.2 VAX and RISC Ultrix Layered Products, 1994? OpenVMS Freeware from 1.0 to 5.0 OpenVMS Internet Product Suite 1.1 All versions of OpenVMS from 5.5 to 7.3, VAX and Alpha Digital UNIX V3.2 Digital UNIX Layered Products Tru64 V4.0D and 4.0G Tru64 Layered Products VMS Layered Product sets from around Sep 1992 up to 1999/2000, also current LPs, VAX and Alpha (many boxes!) Tapes (TK50): VMS 5.0 VMS 5.2 VMS 5.3 VMS 5.3-1 VMS 5.4 VMS 5.4-2 + MUP VMS 5.4-3 VMS 5.5-2H4 + MUP plus there's some I remember picking up that must be in another box I haven't found yet, like VMS 5.5, VMS 5.0-1, VMS 5.0-2, Dibol 4.2, DECwindows etc. MVII Diagnostics Bootable PDP11/73 tape, probably RT/11 V5.4 & CTS300 V8.2 Yes, I'm a hoarder :o) -- adrian/witchy www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - the online computer museum www.snakebiteandblack.co.uk - monthly gothic shenanigans

The Infoserver VXT and 1000 images are on the OpenVMS Freeware disks and downloadable from the Compaq/HP website, but the disk and tape access aren't, so I'd like to see them. I'm also interested in the Tru64 layered products CDs, if they are recent. -- Eric Dittman dittman(a)dittman.net Check out the DEC Enthusiasts Club at http://www.dittman.net/

<snip> I'm hoping I'll be able to use EasyCD Creator to do bit by bit backups of some of the CDs so I'll let you know how I get on, assuming my burner is behaving itself - it has a habit of going offline and the only thing that brings it back is a power cycle which takes bloody ages on this machine since it's all UltraSCSI. Having said that it doesn't take as long as a Compaq Proliant ML370 :) Yep. You needed a VXT with a minimum of 10mb RAM from what I remember, which is why I never played with it as all our VXTs had 4mb. I wish I'd saved more of them now but I only had room for 1 :( Thank my ex-ex-company for binning the whole lot when it suddenly became 'legacy' and they started chasing the M$oft dangling carrot! cheers -- adrian/witchy www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - the online computer museum www.snakebiteandblack.co.uk - monthly gothic shenanigans

Funny you should mention that - I'll probably be buying one v.soon.....4 speed burning is just too slow these days :) -- adrian/witchy www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - the online computer museum www.snakebiteandblack.co.uk - monthly gothic shenanigans

That's 2 votes for Nero then. I'll post an ISO sometime today for the list to play with - Infoserver Disk Access. Ta for the offer, but what I plan to do is put them on my FTP server for people to download and burn themselves. cheers -- adrian/witchy www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - the online computer museum www.snakebiteandblack.co.uk - monthly gothic shenanigans

Hi Stuart, It's done :) However I didn't post the FTP address after I watched Fred NvK download it to his ISO store and realised I'd have to throttle upload speeds since it really slowed my router down, and that was just one upload!. If Fred doesn't pick up on this and post his links contact me off list and I'll tell you where to get 'em. cheers Oh - I've just checked my transfer log and you've got 'em anyway :) -- adrian/witchy www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - the online computer museum www.snakebiteandblack.co.uk - monthly gothic shenanigans

----- Original Message ----- From: "Witchy" &lt;witchy(a)binarydinosaurs.co.uk&gt; To: &lt;cctech(a)classiccmp.org&gt;rg>; &lt;cctalk(a)classiccmp.org&gt; Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 3:40 AM Subject: RE: Attn. Witchy -- Infoserver tape and disk access ISO question <SNIP> NvK speeds I'll Witchy, Thanks so much! Fred told me where to get them and I did. I'll be glad to make a CDR for anyone for the cost of shipping, assuming I'm not inundated, for folks that don't want to download & make their own - or can't. Regards, Stuart

It's not just you, John. I'm on DSL here and they still take several minutes per pic to land. However, Mike did say he's still learning to use his camera so it's not like he's posting massive pix for the hell of it. cheers -- adrian/witchy www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - the online computer museum www.snakebiteandblack.co.uk - monthly gothic shenanigans

I noticed that the original poster has already made multiple resolution versions of his pics. Change the LG to SM for thumbnail, and to MD for "normal" web resolution. EG: http://vic.dyndns.org/pics/2003-01-25/LG-2003-01-25-033.jpg John A. Mike wrote: