At 12:21 PM 5/6/03 -0400, TeoZ wrote: 10/100 nubus cards, once scarce, seemed to have pretty much disappeared. I've been doing a search on ebay without any luck for a couple weeks. NOBODY really needs one anyway, nubus and 68k macs just don't speed up more than about double a standard 10bt. I figure my best chance of finding one is hunting in a pile of scrap higher end nubus macs like 8100 servers etc. SCSI cards are a LOT easier to find, but most sellers seem attached to about $25 pricing. Same for the IIgs SCSI cards. I have a few with no interest in selling them below top price, or really selling them at all even though I have a Focus card with IDE drive. Only the latter so called Fast SCSI card supports removable media, so don't waste your money on the early cards.

At 04:30 PM 5/9/03 -0400, TeoZ wrote: For at least the last 5 years the MAJOR problem with Apple II related items is that they don't sell for high enough price, often enough, to keep more than a small percentage of systems from going directly into gold recovery bins. I hate to think of how many items that we griped about the silly selling price on ebay that are now gone, and never likely to show up at other than wild prices if at all. 16 MB IIfx ram simms, eventide sound cards for the IIe, Tokamac IIfx 68040 cards. Nobody is making a lot of money in classic computers, its more like sifting a LOT of sand for a few small nuggets.

--- Greg Elkin <ClassicComputers(a)bouncy-castle.demon.co.uk> wrote: Hmm... How far did you dismantle it for shipping? Did you haul it or did you leave it in the hands of a common carrier? Just like the Qbus, the Unibus has several signals that need granted. More, in fact. If you know that the NPR jumper is in place (i.e., it's an empty slot or had a *non-DMA* peripheral), you can use a G727 single- height grant card. If you pull a DMA peripheral (RL11, for sure, probably the RX211 as well), you must either install a dual-height grant card (G7273 or a Software Results GC747) _or_ put the NPR wire back on the backplane and use a G727. Now... the "good" news is that this only affects interrupts and DMA requests. AFAIK, console ODT (the '@' prompt) has nothing to do wth interrupts. You should be able to stuff the CPU, a DL-11 and little else (probably a bus terminator at the end of the CPU backplane, and maybe some memory) and get the prompt when you power on. First order of business, though, is to check your voltages. The fact that you have no DC OK light is a blatant symptom. It could be because of a short, or perhaps something got rattled loose in a PSU during shipping. Investigate the PSU fully before moving onto the cards. Reduce your system to the system backplane only (if you have any DD11-DKs or the like). Look into the backplane slots themselves with a flashlight (for a washer or other conductor that might have dropped in there). Check the back of the backplane for any bent pins that might be causing a short. Disconnect the backplane from the PSU and check it for shorts electrically. -ethan The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com

What did you dismantle for shipping? Is it possibly you forgot to plug something back in inside the 11/34 power supply? OK, so it's getting mains as far as the transformer. HAve you checked the DC power supply rails at the backplane? That would certainly be my first test. You do need grant continuity cards in the Unibus. In fact there are 5 grant lines -- 4 BG lines for interrupts and an NPG line for DMA. There are 2 sorts of grant continuity cards. Single-height ones go in slot D only, and connect the 4 BG lines. You have to put a wire-wrap jumper between pins CA1 and CB1 on the back of the backplane for the NPG line. Dual hight ones go into slots C and D and complete all 5 grants. (1) check the PSU! -tony

The 11/34a I collected recently (BA11-L chasis, H777 PSU) and had difficulty getting to power up is in better shape now that it's had a good clean ; backplane inspected and all the dust & debris removed have had their edge connectors cleaned (india rubber) to be nice and shiny. Switching to DC ON, the fans whirr happily and the front panel now has "DC ON" and "RUN" LEDs on, with 000000 on the 7seg LEDs. If I try to halt (keypad CNTRL + HLT/SS), the RUN LED stays on and BUS ERR LED also comes on. I can enter an address via LAD, and DISADD shows it again, so the keyboard seems functional, but I can't change any memory with DEP or EXAM as the thing is "RUN"ning... No $ display on the console terminal yet either. Do I need to have the RX02 and RL01 drives connected & powered up for the CPU box to do anything? I shall try to get some grant cards to replace the RL11, RX211 and whatever the (non DEC) DR11 card is and see if I can at least get the console emulator to pop up on the terminal. Off to read the 11/34 Users Manual next (many thanks to Al Kossow for his site hosting this and so many other usefull docs) ta, greg Card configuration is : 1 AF M8266 KD11EA-control 2 AF M8265 KD11EA data path 3 AF M7840 KE11-B blackened/hot bits of PCB round resistor DIPs? 4 AB M9132 (soldered wires to FPanel) CF M7859 KY11-LB J1 to (FPanel) 5 AF M7891 128K*18 MOS mem 6 AF "Dr11 PHI733-1" card, unknown 7 AF M7762 RL11 controller 8 CF M7856 SLU/RTC option 9 AB M9032 terminator CF M8256 RX211 interface

Hello Mike, I couldn't help but noticing the message below from you a little while back, and I also remembered you messed with some apple and macintosh stuff. If you have any National Instruments Nubus NB-DIO32F boards, and the price is right, I might be able to buy all that you might have available that are in good condition. Best Regards At 10:27 PM 5/11/03 -0700, you wrote: