3 Apr
2020
3 Apr
'20
3:42 p.m.
I'm working on restoring an LMI Lambda, which is missing both its tape
drive and its disk drive. If anyone has a Cipher F880 9-track drive or a
Fujitsu Eagle SMD drive, drop me a line. Be nice if they were in working
condition, but so long as they're repairable I can work with 'em.
Thanks!
Josh
3 Apr
3 Apr
4:13 p.m.
Is the Eagle the little 8 inch one or the 2284? I have one of the
smaller ones in my shed....
C
On 4/3/2020 6:42 PM, Josh Dersch via cctalk wrote:
I'm working on restoring an LMI Lambda, which is
missing both its tape
drive and its disk drive. If anyone has a Cipher F880 9-track drive or a
Fujitsu Eagle SMD drive, drop me a line. Be nice if they were in working
condition, but so long as they're repairable I can work with 'em.
Thanks!
Josh
4:21 p.m.
The Eagle is M2351 with 270mm platters.
On 4/3/20 4:13 PM, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote:
Is the Eagle the little 8 inch one or the 2284? I have
one of the
smaller ones in my shed....
C
On 4/3/2020 6:42 PM, Josh Dersch via cctalk wrote:
> I'm working on restoring an LMI Lambda, which is missing both its tape
> drive and its disk drive.? If anyone has a Cipher F880 9-track drive or a
> Fujitsu Eagle SMD drive, drop me a line.? Be nice if they were in working
> condition, but so long as they're repairable I can work with 'em.
>2351
> Thanks!
> Josh
>
5:23 p.m.
Ok, I think I have the 2312 or 2322. Could emulate an RM03 disk or two.
Starting to work on digging things out of the shed, the Decsystem20 box
is in the back there somewhere...
C
On 4/3/2020 7:21 PM, Alan Perry via cctalk wrote:
The Eagle is M2351 with 270mm platters.
On 4/3/20 4:13 PM, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote:
> Is the Eagle the little 8 inch one or the 2284? I have one of the
> smaller ones in my shed....
>
> C
>
> On 4/3/2020 6:42 PM, Josh Dersch via cctalk wrote:
>> I'm working on restoring an LMI Lambda, which is missing both its tape
>> drive and its disk drive.? If anyone has a Cipher F880 9-track drive
>> or a
>> Fujitsu Eagle SMD drive, drop me a line.? Be nice if they were in
>> working
>> condition, but so long as they're repairable I can work with 'em.
>> 2351
>> Thanks!
>> Josh
>>
11:15 p.m.
Years and years ago I owned a Lambda, along with a couple friends. I'm going to guess
this was around 1993 or so, give or take a few years. It had been owned by Ames Lab at
Iowa State University. We had it running for about six months and decided to sell it to
someone I believe was in Madison, Wi or Minneapolis. I always wondered what happened to
that machine.
I do have manual for it that had gotten separated from it before the sale.
"Introduction to the Lambda - A Guide for Programmers". It's about a
hundred pages or so, and it goes into the basics about setting up and booting the machine,
using the windowing system and zemacs, and general environment information. I don't
know if anyone would be interested in this document. I'm interested in keeping the
original artifact for nostalgia reasons, but I'd be willing to scan it in if there was
interest.
-mike
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Subject: ISO: Cipher F880 tape drive, Fujitsu Eagle disk drive
I'm working on restoring an LMI Lambda, which is missing both its tape drive and its
disk drive. If anyone has a Cipher F880 9-track drive or a Fujitsu Eagle SMD drive, drop
me a line. Be nice if they were in working condition, but so long as they're
repairable I can work with 'em.
Thanks!
Josh
4 Apr
4 Apr
2:50 a.m.
On Sat, Apr 4, 2020 at 12:35 AM Mike Begley via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Years and years ago I owned a Lambda, along with a
couple friends. I'm
going to guess this was around 1993 or so, give or take a few years. It
had been owned by Ames Lab at Iowa State University. We had it running for
about six months and decided to sell it to someone I believe was in
Madison, Wi or Minneapolis. I always wondered what happened to that
machine.
Very cool. This machine appears to have been used at Rockwell
International. Other than that, I don't know much about its history. Thus
far I have it powering up and loading SDU diagnostics (/extremely slowly/)
from an old Qualstar drive. I'd love to find the
correct Cipher drive
since it'll fill in that space in the top correctly and
likely be a ton
faster than this thing :).
I do have manual for it that had gotten separated from
it before the
sale. "Introduction to the Lambda - A Guide for Programmers". It's about
a hundred pages or so, and it goes into the basics about setting up and
booting the machine, using the windowing system and zemacs, and general
environment information. I don't know if anyone would be interested in
this document. I'm interested in keeping the original artifact for
nostalgia reasons, but I'd be willing to scan it in if there was interest.
Scanning is always good, I'd like to see it for sure. I have several large
boxes full of documentation, unfortunately removed from their original
binders -- there was serious mold on them unfortunately, but most of the
actual paper made it out OK. I have yet to go through and scan them
(they're so musty I'm waiting until facemasks become available again before
taking them on.).
- Josh
-mike
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Subject: ISO: Cipher F880 tape drive, Fujitsu Eagle disk drive
I'm working on restoring an LMI Lambda, which is missing both its tape
drive and its disk drive. If anyone has a Cipher F880 9-track drive or a
Fujitsu Eagle SMD drive, drop me a line. Be nice if they were in working
condition, but so long as they're repairable I can work with 'em.
Thanks!
Josh
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