9 Mar
2004
9 Mar
'04
12:26 p.m.
Hi All,
Well it was a good day for classic stuff at the U of A auction today.
For a whopping $2.50 i got:
A HP 9000 200 (double stack), have not looked inside yet. powers on but I need
to make a cable for a serial console.
A HP 7673 Controller! Whatever that is (same kind of case as the 9000 200)
A HP external storage case w/HDD a floppy with HP1B connector
A HP 9000 Apollo series 400, boots fine but has no HDD.
AND a box of around hundred and fifty 5 1/4 floppies that included:
1 complete set of AT&T Unix PC V.3.0 (32 disks) and probably 3-4 more
"broken"
sets that are missing a few disks.
I wanna kick myself for passing on the AT&T 7300 in pristine condition about
two months ago for about $5.00 concluding I'd never find the Unix to go with it.
Go figure.
Cheers,
Tom
9 Mar
9 Mar
12:55 p.m.
Well, at least your ass won't get sued by SCO =)
-John Boffemmyer IV
At 09:26 PM 3/9/2004, you wrote:
Hi All,
Well it was a good day for classic stuff at the U of A auction today.
For a whopping $2.50 i got:
A HP 9000 200 (double stack), have not looked inside yet. powers on but I
need to make a cable for a serial console.
A HP 7673 Controller! Whatever that is (same kind of case as the 9000 200)
A HP external storage case w/HDD a floppy with HP1B connector
A HP 9000 Apollo series 400, boots fine but has no HDD.
AND a box of around hundred and fifty 5 1/4 floppies that included:
1 complete set of AT&T Unix PC V.3.0 (32 disks) and probably 3-4 more
"broken" sets that are missing a few disks.
I wanna kick myself for passing on the AT&T 7300 in pristine condition
about two months ago for about $5.00 concluding I'd never find the Unix to
go with it.
Go figure.
Cheers,
Tom
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12:58 p.m.
great stash!
congrats!
ed sharpe archivist for smecc
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Ponsford" <tponsford(a)theriver.com>
To: <General Discussion :>; "On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 7:26 PM
Subject: A good day at the Auction.
Hi All,
Well it was a good day for classic stuff at the U of A auction today.
For a whopping $2.50 i got:
A HP 9000 200 (double stack), have not looked inside yet. powers on but I
need
to make a cable for a serial console.
A HP 7673 Controller! Whatever that is (same kind of case as the 9000 200)
A HP external storage case w/HDD a floppy with HP1B connector
A HP 9000 Apollo series 400, boots fine but has no HDD.
AND a box of around hundred and fifty 5 1/4 floppies that included:
1 complete set of AT&T Unix PC V.3.0 (32 disks) and probably 3-4 more
"broken"
sets that are missing a few disks.
I wanna kick myself for passing on the AT&T 7300 in pristine condition
about
two months ago for about $5.00 concluding I'd
never find the Unix to go
with it.
Go figure.
Cheers,
Tom
10:18 p.m.
At 07:26 PM 3/9/04 -0700, you wrote:
Hi All,
Well it was a good day for classic stuff at the U of A auction today.
For a whopping $2.50 i got:
A HP 9000 200 (double stack), have not looked inside yet. powers on but I
need
to make a cable for a serial console.
They don't make a double stack HP 9000 200. It's probably a 9000 300. All
the 300 series are simply marked as 9000 300 but there's some big
differences. The actual model number is usually shown instead the grill on
the back that covers the power supply. You may be able to see it without
removing the grill but there's only two screws holding the grill in place.
Or pull the CPU card and tell me what kind and speed the CPU is and I'll
tell you what model it is. You might as well see what cards are in it at
the sme time.
A HP 7673 Controller! Whatever that is (same kind of
case as the 9000 200)
Hmmm. Never heard of a 7673 but found this on the net
<http://www.gcmsservice.com/032.htm>. It says that it's an Autosampler.
Probably not very usefull to you but it might be worth good money to a
reseller or on E-bay.
A HP external storage case w/HDD a floppy with HP1B
connector
With a little luck, it has software for the 9000 300. Nice finds!
Joe
A HP 9000 Apollo series 400, boots fine but has no
HDD.
AND a box of around hundred and fifty 5 1/4 floppies that included:
1 complete set of AT&T Unix PC V.3.0 (32 disks) and probably 3-4 more
"broken"
sets that are missing a few disks.
I wanna kick myself for passing on the AT&T 7300 in pristine condition about
two months ago for about $5.00 concluding I'd never find the Unix to go
with
it.
Go figure.
Cheers,
Tom
7 Apr
7 Apr
8:27 a.m.
New subject: Another day at the Auction: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.
Well I had another good day at the auction. For $7.50 I got two pallets o'
stuff, a pretty good haul. Even had some stuff given to me by the pee-cee crowd.
The Good!
A VT220 in REALLY good shape, no discoloration, no cracks or scratches and No
burn-in. Even the "digital" label on the front is not even faded!!. This is
the best VT220 I've ever seen.
A SUN GDM-5010PT. Fully operational 20 inch, switchable VGA/13W3 monitor in
great shape. (He-He)
A external DDS half-height tape drive. Type unknown till I hook it up.
Another external "mystery" tape drive, looks like a QIC, but won't know till
I
hook it up.
A older external scsi CD burner, probably a 2x speed, needs a caddy.
About 4-5 1/2 height external scsi cases with centronic connectors. Unknown
hard drives.
A box o' scsi HDD's, mostly 1-2 GB, condition unknown.
A couple of printers 2-3 HP 5L and 6L's a epsom and 2 HP 890's. All seen to be
complete but they may/may not work. But Hey for $7.50!!
AND
A Vaxstation 4000 m90 in REALLY good conditiom, no disk, but has all the
sleds, and 64MB of memory, and a large video card (spLGC ??) (WOOHOO)
The Bad!
A bunch of dead monitors I had to haul away as they were part of the pallete
that had the SUN GDM, an a bunch of good 13/14"VGA monitors I'll try to give
away.
A bunch of truly useless and broken stuff.
The UGLY!!
Another Dec 3000 m400. I already have about 4-5 of these, but people keep
giving them to me. They are TANKS, the heavist "desktop" alpha I've ever
seen.
Full of ram, two "whiney" RZ26 and a CDROM, I took it only because the guy who
had it would toss it, if I didn't take it. The I/O on these things is
fantastic for its age though.
Two weeks until the next one... gotta clear out more space :-)
Cheers
Tom
10:32 a.m.
New subject: ot? HP 700/95 Terminal.....
Probably off topic...
Do I have to do somthing special for HP terminals to be 'online'?
I am trying to connect an HP terminal (700/95) to a linux box.
12:16 p.m.
New subject: ot? HP 700/95 Terminal.....
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Probably off topic...
Do I have to do somthing special for HP terminals to be 'online'?
I am trying to connect an HP terminal (700/95) to a linux box.
Do you have a getty running on the port you've connected the terminal to?
- --
Ottawa, Canada
Collector of vintage computers
http://www.ncf.ca/~ba600
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12:38 p.m.
New subject: ot? HP 700/95 Terminal.....
Ron Hudson <ron.hudson(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote:
Do I have to do somthing special for HP terminals to
be 'online'?
Get to where the on-screen function key labels are showing and include
"REMOTE MODE". There should be a * in that label (and preferably no
others, I think). If there's no *, press the corresponding function
key to toggle it.
It's been a while since I used a 700/9x so don't remember which
of the User and System keys you need to press to get there.
-Frank McConnell
8 Apr
8 Apr
7:38 p.m.
New subject: ot? HP 700/95 Terminal.....
On Apr 7, 2004, at 5:38 PM, Frank McConnell wrote:
Ron Hudson <ron.hudson(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote:
thanks I'll check this out soon too.
Do I have to do somthing special for HP terminals
to be 'online'?
Get to where the on-screen function key labels are showing and include
"REMOTE MODE". There should be a * in that label (and preferably no
others, I think). If there's no *, press the corresponding function
key to toggle it.
It's been a while since I used a 700/9x so don't remember which
of the User and System keys you need to press to get there.
-Frank McConnell
7 Apr
7 Apr
2:54 p.m.
New subject: Another day at the Auction: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.
Hmmm, where are you? half-height external SCSI enclosures and drives?
sounds appealing. even the external SCSI burner sounds good. Any going back
up for sale?
-John Boffemmyer IV
At 04:27 PM 4/7/2004, you wrote:
Well I had another good day at the auction. For $7.50 I
got two pallets o'
stuff, a pretty good haul. Even had some stuff given to me by the pee-cee
crowd.
The Good!
A VT220 in REALLY good shape, no discoloration, no cracks or scratches and
No burn-in. Even the "digital" label on the front is not even faded!!.
This is the best VT220 I've ever seen.
A SUN GDM-5010PT. Fully operational 20 inch, switchable VGA/13W3 monitor
in great shape. (He-He)
A external DDS half-height tape drive. Type unknown till I hook it up.
Another external "mystery" tape drive, looks like a QIC, but won't know
till I hook it up.
A older external scsi CD burner, probably a 2x speed, needs a caddy.
About 4-5 1/2 height external scsi cases with centronic connectors.
Unknown hard drives.
A box o' scsi HDD's, mostly 1-2 GB, condition unknown.
A couple of printers 2-3 HP 5L and 6L's a epsom and 2 HP 890's. All seen
to be complete but they may/may not work. But Hey for $7.50!!
AND
A Vaxstation 4000 m90 in REALLY good conditiom, no disk, but has all the
sleds, and 64MB of memory, and a large video card (spLGC ??) (WOOHOO)
The Bad!
A bunch of dead monitors I had to haul away as they were part of the
pallete that had the SUN GDM, an a bunch of good 13/14"VGA monitors I'll
try to give away.
A bunch of truly useless and broken stuff.
The UGLY!!
Another Dec 3000 m400. I already have about 4-5 of these, but people keep
giving them to me. They are TANKS, the heavist "desktop" alpha I've ever
seen. Full of ram, two "whiney" RZ26 and a CDROM, I took it only because
the guy who had it would toss it, if I didn't take it. The I/O on these
things is fantastic for its age though.
Two weeks until the next one... gotta clear out more space :-)
Cheers
Tom
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and Web Designer Boff-Net Technologies
http://boff-net.dhs.org/index.html
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