12 Dec
2003
12 Dec
'03
5:05 a.m.
I managed to finally open up and look at the Westinghouse/Unimation
roboto controller that's been sitting out at Purdue Salvage for the
last few weeks, next to a robotic arm that probably weighs >1000lbs and
has been stripped of some of its parts.
To my suprise, I saw a bunch of what looked like QBUS boards in it...
pulled one out and said 'this looks like an 11/23 CPU board. cool!'
After getting it home, and seeing exactly what board it was, I
discovered it was an M8192-YB... an LSI-11/73 CPU. Along with that was
a 64kW SRAM board, a pair of DLV11-J 'clone' boards, and some robot
controller hardware...
This is a nice topping for the past week... so far in addition to this
I've managed to get (for next to nothing):
- A pair of Texas Instruments Business-Pro machines - 286-based DOS/
XENIX machines that looked complete (minus kb, monitor, cables)
- A SPARC IPX and a few Type 4 keyboards
- (OT) A Sun SparcServer 1000 with 3 boards and 5 cpus in it.
- (OT) An HP C200 workstation with a high-end 3d accelerated video card
- (OT) An IBM C20 workstation, maxed out with RAM
Now the real question: Does anyone know anything about the TI
Business-Pro machines? Specifically, what kind of monitor and keyboard
do I need for it? The keyboard connector is an 8-pin DIN, and I don't
see anything that looks especially like a video connector on it. Or
can I use a serial terminal with it? I'm doubting it since it's a DOS
machine, but not ruled it out yet...
Pat
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12 Dec
12 Dec
9:04 a.m.
On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 02:05:11PM -0500, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
I managed to finally open up and look at the
Westinghouse/Unimation
roboto controller that's been sitting out at Purdue Salvage for the
last few weeks, next to a robotic arm that probably weighs >1000lbs and
has been stripped of some of its parts.
To my suprise, I saw a bunch of what looked like QBUS boards in it...
pulled one out and said 'this looks like an 11/23 CPU board. cool!'
After getting it home, and seeing exactly what board it was, I
discovered it was an M8192-YB... an LSI-11/73 CPU. Along with that was
a 64kW SRAM board, a pair of DLV11-J 'clone' boards, and some robot
controller hardware...
Nice. Throw a disk controller on that (and some more RAM), and you'll
have a good start on a 2.11BSD box (or RT-11, or RSTS...) With 64kW,
I think you find that RT-11 is your best bet (but you'll still want
a disk card, unless you want to fiddle with a TU-58 emulator hung off
of your DLV11-J clone).
-ethan
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12:43 p.m.
On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
- (OT) An HP C200 workstation with a high-end 3d
accelerated video card
What card? I recently got in an HP Kayak XW workstation with an HP
Visualize fx6 that originally listed for $40,000(!) It takes up the AGP
slot and the adjacent PCI slot. It runs as hot as the Sun (and consumes
amazing amounts of energy).
They run on eBay for $75-$100 these days.
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12:48 p.m.
On Friday 12 December 2003 21:43, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
It's an fx4.
Pat
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- (OT) An HP C200 workstation with a high-end 3d
accelerated video
card
What card? I recently got in an HP Kayak XW workstation with an HP
Visualize fx6 that originally listed for $40,000(!) It takes up the
AGP slot and the adjacent PCI slot. It runs as hot as the Sun (and
consumes amazing amounts of energy).
They run on eBay for $75-$100 these days.
1:07 p.m.
On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
That listed for $26,205 in October 1997 (congratulations: you own a piece
of hardware that cost as much as your car did, but lost way more value).
It's still one bad-assed video card, but again, the problem is that they
consume megawatts of power (ok, not literally, but you get the idea). I
ran my server for a few minutes and then went to pull the card and it
nearly burned my hand. Those heat sinks need a couple fans.
By the way, (OT) the BIOS on my HP Kayak XW apparently got zapped. I'm
trying to run the emergency flash procedure (you set a swicth on the
motherboard and then it boots off the floppy, loading the flash program
and running it) but it's not working for me. The computer definitely
loads the program off the floppy but then hangs. I don't hear the beeps
I'm supposed to. I verified that the disk has no errors.
Anyone have any experience with this? I'd hate this server to go to the
scrap heap as it's mighty nice (on-board ultra-wide SCSI RAID controller,
512MB RAM, dual Pentium-II Xeon 450, diagnostic front panel LCD display).
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What card? I
recently got in an HP Kayak XW workstation with an HP
Visualize fx6 that originally listed for $40,000(!) It takes up the
AGP slot and the adjacent PCI slot. It runs as hot as the Sun (and
consumes amazing amounts of energy).
They run on eBay for $75-$100 these days.
It's an fx4.
2:03 p.m.
On Friday 12 December 2003 22:07, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
That listed for $26,205 in October 1997 (congratulations: you own a
piece of hardware that cost as much as your car did, but lost way
more value).
You're just about right on... my '98 Camry in Sept '97 cost about $23k.
However, it doesn't even come close to comparing to the toy I'm getting
next week... don't worry, I'll feel the need to boast about it on the
list once it's in the door. : )
What
card? I recently got in an HP Kayak XW workstation with an
HP Visualize fx6 that originally listed for $40,000(!) It takes
up the AGP slot and the adjacent PCI slot. It runs as hot as the
Sun (and consumes amazing amounts of energy).
They run on eBay for $75-$100 these days.
It's an fx4. It's still one bad-assed video card, but again,
the problem is that
they consume megawatts of power (ok, not literally, but you get the
idea). I ran my server for a few minutes and then went to pull the
card and it nearly burned my hand. Those heat sinks need a couple
fans.
By the way, (OT) the BIOS on my HP Kayak XW apparently got zapped.
I'm trying to run the emergency flash procedure (you set a swicth on
the motherboard and then it boots off the floppy, loading the flash
program and running it) but it's not working for me. The computer
definitely loads the program off the floppy but then hangs. I don't
hear the beeps I'm supposed to. I verified that the disk has no
errors.
I don't personally have any experience with them. I avoid anything that
is made by Intel that costs me more than $5. : )
Pat
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