cctalk Digest, Vol 123, Issue 24 - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

25 Nov 2013

I have one as well, tethered to a IBM 5170.  I have pretty full documentation and also
have the OS media, though I have never checked it out to determine if it works.  I bought
my 5364, with PC card and cable, on Ebay in 2004 for $101 from digitaldinos.com.  Thought
it was a pretty decent deal at the time . . .

-W

 On Fri, 22 Nov 2013, at 09:45:51 Colin Eby <colineby at isallthat.com> wrote:

I have one, but couldn't quote you a fair price.  They're rare enough, but without
having the DEC collect-ability cache. I would advise anyone acquiring one to be sure they
get the customer console adapter and cable with the system.  The system has to be pretty
permanently tethered to a PC.  I believe the PC needs to be a fairly compatible XT, though
I've so far failed to get mine to boot properly, so take my advice on this with a
grain of salt.   I also have the docs for one.  Not sure they've made it to bitsavers
yet, so might be useful.  I believe other people on the list have the OS media. 
That's something I currently lack. 

-Colin
On 22 Nov 2013, at 01:43, Benjamin Huntsman <BHuntsman at mail2.cu-portland.edu>
wrote:

...
  Anyone have or have seen a 5364?
 Any idea on a fair price?

 Thanks!

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Message: 14
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 02:13:04 -0500
From: Paul Birkel <pbirkel at gmail.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic Posts Only" <cctech at classiccmp.org>
Subject: DEC VAX-11/730 Boot Tape
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I've thus far been unsuccessful locating any TU-58 emulator "tap" files for
booting an old 11/730.  Or any "tap" files specific to, or appropriate for,
the 11/730.

Is it just that my google-fu is bad, none are posted, or possibly none
exist?

Thank you for any guidance or commentary that anyone cares to offer,

paul

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Message: 15
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 01:20:12 +0000
From: Rich Alderson <RichA at LivingComputerMuseum.org>
To: "cctech at classiccmp.org" <cctech at classiccmp.org>
Subject: CompuServe PDP-10 programming?
Message-ID:
	<539CFBE84C931A4E8516F3BBEA36C7AA01858066BB at 505MBX2.corp.vnw.com>
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I'm currently pulling the CIS-local code out of DECWAR in aid of installing
it on the DECsystem-1070 (KI-10 #587) running at the museum.  It would be
very helpful to (1) talk to someone who programmed in Macro-10 on the CIS
systems, or (2) at least find someone with UUO and programming environment
manuals.  (I don't see either CIS or CompuServe on Bitsavers, but I may be
missing something.)

Does anyone reading CCtech/CCtalk want to confess to having experience in
these matters?  Privately or publicly?

Thanks,
Rich

Rich Alderson
Vintage Computing Sr. Systems Engineer
Living Computer Museum
2245 1st Avenue S
Seattle, WA 98134

mailto:RichA at LivingComputerMuseum.org

http://www.LivingComputerMuseum.org/

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Message: 16
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 08:26:14 +0100
From: supervinx <webmaster at supervinx.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
	<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Subject: Re: IBM 5364 System/36 PC
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Il giorno ven, 22/11/2013 alle 01.43 +0000, Benjamin Huntsman ha
scritto:
...
  Anyone have or have seen a 5364?
 Any idea on a fair price?

 Thanks!

  I have three and a half... but I acquired it almost for free...
A fair price is near to zero :)
You need also the special cable and the PC receiver, besides PC software
and a suitable host pc acting as a console (usually an XT).
I have some software disk images, also...
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Message: 17
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 10:41:50 +0000 (GMT)
From: P Gebhardt <p.gebhardt at ymail.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
	<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Subject: Re: Alphaserver 1000 diagnosis?
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Hi Tom,

thanks for sharing your experience with the list !
There are two 1000A Alphaservers in my collection also waiting for a revival. They had
been used by a german TV-sender to broadcast publicity. I think I'm well prepared now
when I'm going to find the time to fire the systems up regarding pitfalls known about
these machines.

Kind regards,
Pierre

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Pierre's collection of classic computers : http://classic-computing.dyndns.org/

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 Von: Tom publix <ittybittybytes at gmail.com>
An: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk at classiccmp.org> 
Gesendet: 23:06 Donnerstag, 21.November 2013
Betreff: Re: Alphaserver 1000 diagnosis?

I got A AS1000 on ebay as we speak. It woks fine but getting it ready I
found out a few things. TRU64 is really picky. If you have unsupported
cards or even supported cards with the wrong or outdated firmware you can
get machine checks.

Older version of BSD's Net, Free and Open will machine check. I use NetBSD
6.1 and it works fine in almost any configuration and even with cards with
outdated firmware (it will complain though)

If you have the StorageWorks backplane misconfigured it can machine check.

By the way, I had the Storage works backplane configured just to use the
qlogic 1020 controller and not the raid card, and I had concurrently 50/68
and SCA containerss and the AS1000 running Netbsd identified them all
correctly and I was able to read and write to all the disks even the SCA
one!!.

tomp

On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 6:52 PM, Daniel Seagraves
<dseagrav at lunar-tokyo.net>wrote:

  (I think I asked this once before, but I
can't remember the result and I
 can't find the thread in the archive)

 I have an Alphaserver 1000 that I would like to resurrect. It periodically
 hangs or reboots. When it reboots the error is usually "Machine check while
 in palcode". When it hangs, the hang is so severe the halt button does not
 work. Either way, it always happens within 20 minutes of booting. I ran all
 of the diagnostics you get by moving the CPU card jumper (cache memory
 tests, RAM tests) and they run for an hour or so with no error. (I am
 assuming the diagnostic halts on error instead of just looping again, is
 that correct?) During the course of these I moved the jumper to the wrong
 place and wiped out SRM, so I had to reload SRM from floppy using the
 failsafe loader. That worked. The SRM diagnostics will also run for as long
 as I want without error. Does anyone have any idea what's wrong here or is
 there some kind of XXDP-like thing I can run that will better test the
 machine?

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Message: 18
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 11:31:41 +0000
From: Adam Sampson <ats at offog.org>
To: "General Discussion\: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
	<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Subject: Re: Getting ITS running under simulation
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Josh Dersch <derschjo at gmail.com> writes:

...
  the KLH-10 page (and all the others I've found)
link to
 ftp://ftp.its.os.org/its/klh10/pi-its-a11110.tar which is dead, and I
 don't see it archived elsewhere. 
I had that file sitting around from when I'd played with ITS some ten
years ago, so I've uploaded it to archive.org:
  https://archive.org/details/KLH10-PI-ITS

The instructions I actually wound up using to build an ITS system were
these ones, though:
  http://www.cosmic.com/u/mirian/its/itsbuild.html

-- 
Adam Sampson <ats at offog.org>                         <http://offog.org/>

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