Hi list,
Here is the current state of play with this:
Simon at Bletchley has kindly agreed to take and look after anything
anyone in the South wants, until they can collect it from Bletchley.
Ade Vickers has also kindly offered to look after anything wanted by
anyone in the North, however his storage is non-optimal so you'd best
be quick about retrieving whatever it is you want before it succumbs
to damp/cold. It looks like Ade will be taking everything that's "left
over" rather than it being landfilled :)
With that (and those who have contacted me on/off list) in mind, here
is the current list of what's earmarked for who. Please shout if:
* you're listed against something on here but you no longer want it,
or will be unable to collect it from either Merseyside or Bletchley
within a reasonable timeframe
* no-one is listed against something on here, and you want it
Here goes:
HP 85 - 5 machines (one or two may be missing a few keys). I posted
about these (and the 86Bs) on this list a while ago.
HP 86B - 3 machines. All work, for varying degrees of "work". One
seems totally OK, one seems to work but various characters of the
screen are stuck as "M" right from switch on, so I'm guessing video
RAM trouble. One has an unresponsive keyboard - a couple of the keys
work but that's it. This one also has keys missing, so is probably
best used as spares for the other two.
There are RAM cartridges and ROM drawers on offer with these as well,
also 5 off 9121 dual single-sided 3.5" HPIB drive and 1 off 9122 dual
double-sided 3.5" HPIB drive, also 3 brand new rolls of paper and 6
tape cartridges
All above to John Shadbolt, although I will look through the ROMs
first to see if anything needs to go to Vassilis to be archived.
Sun Ultra 2 300(ish)MHz - 384(ish)MB RAM
Sun Ultra 1 140MHz, not sure how much memory is in it
Sun SPARCstation 4, 110MHz, 96MB RAM, 1GB (I think) disk
Sun SPARCstation 5, 90MHz, there's some memory in it but not sure how much
Sun SPARCstation 2, 2 off, there's memory and disks in both
Sun SPARCstation IPX, 2 off, both have memory and disks I think
Sun SPARCclassic, faulty
Sun SPARCstation SLC, has memory
Sun SPARCstation ELC, has memory
Sun SPARCstation ELC (faulty) - not sure if this one has memory
Box of the system board and socket board combos from
died-of-video-problems SPARCstation ELCs. There are about 8 or so of
these, all have memory IIRC.
Sun EXP-2 disk pack (the 386i style one) - 4 (one is for spares only).
All have disks and/or tape drives in
Sun type 411 disk enclosure, DAT tape drive fitted
Sun type 411 disk enclosure, 4.3GB IBM harddisk fitted
Sun type 611 UniPack disk enclosure, 7 off, all closed-face type.
Most, if not all, have various low-ish size harddisks fitted
Sun type 711 MultiPack disk enclosure, takes 12 SCA harddisks in SPUD
brackets, complete with keys
Sun "SBUS Expansion" with card and cable
Sun GDM-17E10 17" monitor. Last known working, can't guarantee it still is
Sun CPD-1790 17" monitor, works
Sun GDM-20D10 20" monitor, 2 off. Both have different faults. One
works fine once it's warmed up, but while it does the size of the
screen "bounces" alarmingly all over the place. One has (as is written
on the casing in biro) "LINE JITTER PROBLEM". These are stunning
looking monitors - one even has its IR remote control. Make one good
one out of the pair
All above to Austin Pass
SGI 14" monitor. Yes, I didn't realise that
any 13w3 monitors were
ever made this small, but here it is. Don't know the model number
offhand, sorry
No-one yet
Huge box full of SBUS and UPA cards. Along with loads
of CG3 and
501-2015s and stuff, there are some rarities in here (Vigra VGA cards,
4 off; others as well)
Box full of Sun accessories - audio output breakouts, serial adaptors,
drive mounting sleds, all kinds of stuff
Above to Austin Pass
Huge box* full of SCSI cables of all varieties, from
Sun DD50 right up to VHDCI
To either Austin Pass, Bletchley, or split between
Huge box* full of serial cables and RS232/MMJ-related
adaptors
Bletchley? No-one yet, I don't think
Huge box* full of IEC 320 power leads
No-one yet
Boxes of mice (Sun SDB, PS2 and serial)
SDB ones to Austin Pass, no-one for the PC ones yet
About 10 PC keyboards
Bin ;)
About 10 Sun Type 4 keyboards
One or two Sun Type 5 keyboards
One Sun Type 6 USB keyboard
Two or three to Bletchley, rest to Austin Pass
DEC MicroVAX 3100-30 - not sure if these have memory,
they don't have disks
Simon Fryer/Bletchley?
DEC LA38 teletype
No-one yet. Will be kept rather than landfilled, though, assuming it
works, as I have a project in mind for it now :)
DEC VT510 dumb terminal - 2 off
DEC BA356 disk array - full of 4.3GB and 9.1GB drives. Has a
personality module fitted, but I couldn't tell you what kind it is
Other dumb terminals - there are about 20 of various kinds, including
a Lear-Siegler ADM-11 which is retro-tastic
No-one for any of this yet
Box of old SCSI ...
Bletchley
...and IDE harddisks
No-one yet
19" rack mount 10baseT network hub - 24 ports I
think
Drawer full of motherboards, 486 to Pentium era
Various old media (including some hard-sectored 8" floppes which I
think belong to something Tektronix)
Old floppies to Bletchley, no-one for any of the rest yet
3.5" floppy disk boxes - 3 of the
"square" style (2 disks wide) and
one of the "narrow" style (1 disk wide)
No-one yet
Mac Plus 1Mb. Also an Apple 20SC harddisk to go with
this - don't have
the cable, though.
Bletchley
Few miscellaneous external SCSI disk enclosures of
various sizes
Some x86 machines - few 486s, couple of Pentia (~120MHz) and two more
interesting machines:
- One DEC which has the CPU on a removable daughterboard (I have 3 of
said boards - two are a single 486 and one is two Socket 5 Pentia. I
can even give you the matched pair of P133 CPUs I bought to put in
this). This machine has onboard Adaptec Wide SCSI.
One Full Tower AT - will take (IIRC) 5 3.5" drives in a nifty
swing-out cage, and 5 half-height drives (CDROMs etc). Currently
fitted with a P200 with 64MB RAM and an Adaptec 2940W SCSI card.
No-one yet.
APC UPS system (don't know the model number
offhand, but a smallish
one) - batteries are duff, but I bought a slightly bigger battery
(which has to go outside the case) and all the necessary big wires and
connectors to be able to wire it in for use
Bletchley
Entire shelf full of CDROM drives, including 4
Nakamichi 5-disc
changers (two SCSI and two IDE)
Think the changers are spoken for by a friend of mine, no-one for the others yet
7 off 3.5" HD floppy drives
Several large bags full of various cables and x86 accessories (floppy, IDE, ...)
Few boxes of various ISA/VLB/PCI cards - mainly graphics and network
Probably a bit more stuff that I haven't listed, as well
No-one yet
The catch: you must take it ALL.
No longer the case. Just take some of it. Even just one item if that's
all you want.
How much? Make me an offer. The offer can be from
"free but I can have
it gone REAL SOON" upwards. I really wouldn't say no to some cash ;)
Definitely still applies given that my car has just failed its MOT :(
Ed.