7 Jun
2000
7 Jun
'00
11:53 a.m.
This person has a DEC VAXstation II GPX that needs a new home. Please
contact the original sender directly.
They are located in Bellingham, WA. Phone: 360 733 8111
Reply-to: mbennett(a)aerotechsports.com
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 14:41:04 -0700
From: Mike Bennett <mbennett(a)aerotechsports.com>
To: vcf(a)vintage.org
We have a DEC Vaxstation II GPX with a 19 inch VR290 DA monitor. It
have Keyboard and mouse. We have since abondoned the unit for smaller
faster systems. We are looking to sell or donate the the equipment to any
intersested party. We would appreciate ant assistance you might be able to
provide.
Best regards,
Mike Bennett
Preident
Sellam International Man of Intrigue and Danger
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7 Jun
7 Jun
1:39 p.m.
How come all the cool stuff is on the west coast? The coolest thing I've
seen in the midwest is two, still shrinkwrapped IBM 370 mainframes IN A
DUMPSTER. One of those economy sized dumpsters you use to throw away houses
with. Alas, my sunbird won't quite hold one...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Vintage Computer Festival" <vcf(a)siconic.com>
To: "Classic Computers Mailing List" <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2000 11:53 AM
Subject: DEC Vaxstation II GPX needs a home
This person has a DEC VAXstation II GPX that needs a new home. Please
contact the original sender directly.
They are located in Bellingham, WA. Phone: 360 733 8111
Reply-to: mbennett(a)aerotechsports.com
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 14:41:04 -0700
From: Mike Bennett <mbennett(a)aerotechsports.com>
To: vcf(a)vintage.org
We have a DEC Vaxstation II GPX with a 19 inch VR290 DA monitor. It
have Keyboard and mouse. We have since abondoned the unit for smaller
faster systems. We are looking to sell or donate the the equipment to any
intersested party. We would appreciate ant assistance you might be able to
provide.
Best regards,
Mike Bennett
Preident
Sellam International Man of Intrigue and
Danger
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VCF East: Planning in Progress
See http://www.vintage.org for details!
1:22 p.m.
On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Jason McBrien wrote:
How come all the cool stuff is on the west coast? The
coolest thing I've
seen in the midwest is two, still shrinkwrapped IBM 370 mainframes IN A
DUMPSTER. One of those economy sized dumpsters you use to throw away houses
with. Alas, my sunbird won't quite hold one...
WHAT!? And you made no attempt to rescue them?
Fie!
Sellam International Man of Intrigue and Danger
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Looking for a six in a pile of nines...
Coming soon: VCF 4.0!
VCF East: Planning in Progress
See http://www.vintage.org for details!
11:22 p.m.
On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Sellam Ismail wrote:
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 10:22:06 -0700 (PDT)
From: Sellam Ismail <foo(a)siconic.com>
Reply-To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: DEC Vaxstation II GPX needs a home
On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Jason McBrien wrote:
That's what I was wondering. A car being too small is no excuse.
Superglue yourself to the 370s, and demand that the refuse-truck
driver pick it (and you) up and take it (and you) to your house or you
won't unglue yourself! Some things just call for drastic
measures. ;-) ...and don't forget to offer to pay the driver a nice
tip for his time. If that fails, just tell him his truck will go
{k.*.a.*.b.*.0.*.0.*.m} if he doesn't cooperate, after all, you are on
a mission of computer preservation, which, as we all know, may call
for drastic measures (oh, yeah... don't worry, I'm sure the members of
this group might consider helping with the legal fees if the wrong
people take what you say too seriously. ...or we'll at least send you
a cake with plans for a making file hidden in it. Won't we? :-) :-) :-)
Seriously, did you not contact someone about allowing you to have this
hauled to your house, where you could have at least kept it outdoors
in shipping pallets and covered with a tarp, as well as the wrap,
until someone could have rescued it?
--
R. D. Davis
rdd(a)perqlogic.com
http://www.perqlogic.com/rdd
410-744-4900
How come all the cool stuff is on the west coast?
The coolest thing I've
seen in the midwest is two, still shrinkwrapped IBM 370 mainframes IN A
DUMPSTER. One of those economy sized dumpsters you use to throw away houses
with. Alas, my sunbird won't quite hold one...
WHAT!? And you made no attempt to rescue them? 
8 Jun
8 Jun
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2:38 p.m.
On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Tony Duell wrote:
[Legal help for computer rescuers]
So, that's what FTP originally meant! :-) :-) :-)
--
R. D. Davis
rdd(a)perqlogic.com
http://www.perqlogic.com/rdd
410-744-4900
people take what you say too seriously. ...or
we'll at least send you
a cake with plans for a making file hidden in it. Won't we? :-) :-) :-)
Is that what's known as a 'file transfer protocol'?
4:30 p.m.
I. It would not have fit in my garage much less my house.
II. My dedicated 220V Line is being taxed enough as it is.
III. I was alone and far far from home.
IV. As I approached the dumpster the manager of the property disposition
started chasing me with a broom.
V. I've already rescued a Data General Nova 3 which is much more fascinating
to play with. BLINKENLIGHTS!!!
----- Original Message -----
From: "R. D. Davis" <rdd(a)smart.net>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2000 11:22 PM
Subject: Re: DEC Vaxstation II GPX needs a home
That's what I was wondering. A car being too small is no excuse.
Superglue yourself to the 370s, and demand that the refuse-truck
driver pick it (and you) up and take it (and you) to your house or you
won't unglue yourself! Some things just call for drastic
measures. ;-) ...and don't forget to offer to pay the driver a nice
tip for his time. If that fails, just tell him his truck will go
{k.*.a.*.b.*.0.*.0.*.m} if he doesn't cooperate, after all, you are on
a mission of computer preservation, which, as we all know, may call
for drastic measures (oh, yeah... don't worry, I'm sure the members of
this group might consider helping with the legal fees if the wrong
people take what you say too seriously. ...or we'll at least send you
a cake with plans for a making file hidden in it. Won't we? :-) :-) :-)
Seriously, did you not contact someone about allowing you to have this
hauled to your house, where you could have at least kept it outdoors
in shipping pallets and covered with a tarp, as well as the wrap,
until someone could have rescued it?
--
R. D. Davis
rdd(a)perqlogic.com
http://www.perqlogic.com/rdd
410-744-4900
On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Sellam Ismail wrote:
> Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 10:22:06 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Sellam Ismail <foo(a)siconic.com>
> Reply-To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
> To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
> Subject: Re: DEC Vaxstation II GPX needs a home
>
> On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Jason McBrien wrote:
>
> > How come all the cool stuff is on the west coast? The coolest thing
I've
> > seen in the midwest is two, still
shrinkwrapped IBM 370 mainframes IN
A
> > DUMPSTER. One of those economy sized
dumpsters you use to throw away
houses
with. Alas, my sunbird won't quite hold one...
WHAT!? And you made no attempt to rescue them?
5:07 p.m.
On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Jason McBrien wrote:
I. It would not have fit in my garage much less my
house.
No problem. Put in in the front or back yard in a make-shift shelter
and just use it in the winter, attaching ducts and fans to your house
to save on your heating bill (if you heat via natural gas, oil, coal
or wood). :-)
II. My dedicated 220V Line is being taxed enough as it
is.
No problem. A call yo your utility company can get you more
power. :-)
III. I was alone and far far from home.
No problem. That's what office movers are for. Better yet,
pretend to be a property owner and call a refuse company to "empty"
the dumpster... that is, into a waiting truck a few miles away.
IV. As I approached the dumpster the manager of the
property disposition
started chasing me with a broom.
No problem. Just use an RL02 cartridge as a shield. :-) ..or grab the
broom away from him and pretend you're insane, while offering him a
bribe.
V. I've already rescued a Data General Nova 3
which is much more fascinating
to play with. BLINKENLIGHTS!!!
Ok, I can't argue with that. ...Although you can add blinkenlights to
the IBM system, as there's plenty of sheet metal there to drill holes
for light sockets into. :-) :-) :-)
--
R. D. Davis
rdd(a)perqlogic.com
http://www.perqlogic.com/rdd
410-744-4900
7 Jun
7 Jun
2:01 p.m.
New subject: Where the cool stuff is (was: Re: DEC Vaxstation II GPX needs a home)
Jason McBrien wrote:
How come all the cool stuff is on the west coast?
Huh? How come all the unused Floating Point Systems stuff is
in the midwest and all the Sequents are in Florida? :-)
The coolest thing I've
seen in the midwest is two, still shrinkwrapped IBM 370 mainframes IN A
DUMPSTER.
*sighs*
--
Chris Kennedy
chris(a)mainecoon.com
http://www.mainecoon.com
PGP fingerprint: 4E99 10B6 7253 B048 6685 6CBC 55E1 20A3 108D AB97
8 Jun
8 Jun
6:29 a.m.
New subject: Where the cool stuff is (was: Re: DEC Vaxstation II GPX needs a home)
> The coolest thing I've
> seen in the midwest is two, still shrinkwrapped IBM 370 mainframes IN A
> DUMPSTER.
*sighs*
Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.
That's the stuff i'm realy missing over here (BTW, I got my
/390 compatible mini system two weeks ago - thanks to John Z.)
Gruss
H.
--
VCF Europa 2.0 am 28./29. April 2001 in Muenchen
http://www.vintage.org/vcfe
http://www.homecomputer.de/vcfe
15 Jun
15 Jun
6:28 p.m.
How come all the cool stuff is on the west coast? The
coolest thing I've
seen in the midwest is two, still shrinkwrapped IBM 370 mainframes IN A
DUMPSTER. One of those economy sized dumpsters you use to throw away houses
with. Alas, my sunbird won't quite hold one...
Ah, but do you have a trailer hitch........ Be sure to bring back the dumpster.
7:51 p.m.
How come all the cool stuff is on the west coast?
The coolest thing I've
seen in the midwest is two, still shrinkwrapped IBM 370 mainframes IN A
DUMPSTER. One of those economy sized dumpsters you use to throw away houses
with. Alas, my sunbird won't quite hold one...
Ah, but do you have a trailer hitch........ Be sure to bring back the dumpster.
from bursting into laughter? That hurt!
Zane
8:17 p.m.
New subject: Apple III motherboard
Speaking of searches, I have been searching and searching
for an Apple III motherboard. Mein ist kaput, I am afraid.
Anyone have a spare they would like to part with?
Louis
16 Jun
16 Jun
1:09 a.m.
New subject: Miniscribe 6086?
I was digging in the bone yard of a surplus place (where the nobody would
buy this carcai are assembled before a bulk sale as junk), and found a
Miniscribe 6086 (I think) hard drive setting in a old 386. Looked like it
had 3 connectors, something smaller than IDE, a slotted edge connection
like a floppy drive, and maybe some sort of power connector. Full height
5.25" size, and note looking very easy to remove. Anybody interested? Might
even be a couple of them.
1:51 p.m.
New subject: Miniscribe 6086?
On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Mike Ford wrote:
I was digging in the bone yard of a surplus place
(where the nobody would
buy this carcai are assembled before a bulk sale as junk), and found a
Miniscribe 6086 (I think) hard drive setting in a old 386. Looked like it
had 3 connectors, something smaller than IDE, a slotted edge connection
like a floppy drive, and maybe some sort of power connector. Full height
5.25" size, and note looking very easy to remove. Anybody interested? Might
even be a couple of them.
I find no listing for a Miniscribe 6086. However, there were a 6085 and
a 6985E which were 71mb and ST506 MFM and ESDI RLL respectively.
- don
2:47 p.m.
New subject: Miniscribe 6085?
On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Mike Ford wrote:
Most likely it is the 6085. Sounds like it isn't worth removing though.
I was digging in the bone yard of a surplus place
(where the nobody would
buy this carcai are assembled before a bulk sale as junk), and found a
Miniscribe 6086 (I think) hard drive setting in a old 386. Looked like it
had 3 connectors, something smaller than IDE, a slotted edge connection
like a floppy drive, and maybe some sort of power connector. Full height
5.25" size, and note looking very easy to remove. Anybody interested? Might
even be a couple of them.
I find no listing for a Miniscribe 6086. However, there were a 6085 and
a 6985E which were 71mb and ST506 MFM and ESDI RLL respectively. 
17 Jun
17 Jun
2:35 a.m.
New subject: Miniscribe 6086?
I had a miniscribe 6085 in my 286 in the late 80's. It is an MFM (ST506
interface) drive with the same parameters as the Seagate ST4096. I think
cylinders are 1024, heads at 9, and sectors per track at 17. The RLL
model would have an 'R' appended to the model number and would have 26
sectors per track.
You might be able to run the RLL model on an MFM controller as the
difference between the two variations is mainly the platters. Rarely are
the drives much different. I ran a 3650 for a couple of years on an
Adaptec ACB4070 bridge controller and believe it or not they worked
perfectly though they weren't rated for RLL linear density.
Despite thier poor reliability record, I still like Miniscribe drives.
They sound neat. "Peeep wobble wobble Peep". Western Digital bought what
was left of Miniscribe and produced some really aweful drives when IDE was
beginning to really catch on. I remember stacks of dead WD 40mb 3.5"
drives at a company I worked for in 92/93. We called our 'boneyard' "The
Closet of Shame". The drives were an MFM mech with an IDE board attached.
They used stepper actuators and sucked eggs for reliability. They did
sound neat though.....
--
-----------------------------------------------------------
technoid(a)cheta.net
-----------------------------------------------------------
3:19 p.m.
New subject: Miniscribe 6086?
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 02:35:19 -0400
From: technoid(a)cheta.net
Subject: Re: Miniscribe 6086?
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
Reply-to: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
Snip!
drives at a company I worked for in 92/93. We called
our 'boneyard' "The
Closet of Shame". The drives were an MFM mech with an IDE board attached.
They used stepper actuators and sucked eggs for reliability. They did
sound neat though.....
WD was chip maker till they bought out Tandon. In that few years,
all of their 20-40-60MB were all steppers and exact same design that
Tandon originally designed for 3.5" years back. WD's early HH 3.5"
was the basis for all their early 1" height drives but it was so
utter unreliable still.
Miniscribe was bought out by Maxtor for no reason. Maxtor was
famillar enough with voice coil and not as good as Miniscribe still
back then. I wondered why many time "Why was the Maxtor looking for
when they have Miniscribe's IP in hand?" Only I can see is their
Maxtor-designed 7000 series that it. What else?
Now, Maxtor is getting better now I think hopefully.
I find that stepper has their place and with my experience all die
when they're faster than 65ms average seek time. Including Seagate.
To seek faster, voice coil is the solution.
I once saw a Miniscribe or Maxtor 5.25" FH with 8 or 10 platters w/
voice coil type in a natural colored potmetal oval clamshell split
in the middle where spindle axle is and ribbed in whole length of it.
What was the series of this one?
Wizard
7:44 p.m.
New subject: Miniscribe 6086?
On Sat, 17 Jun 2000 jpero(a)sympatico.ca wrote:
IIRC, Miniscribe was just anout to go belly-up, and Maxtor prevented
that.
- don
Date:
Sat, 17 Jun 2000 02:35:19 -0400
From: technoid(a)cheta.net
Subject: Re: Miniscribe 6086?
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
Reply-to: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
Snip!
drives at a company I worked for in 92/93. We
called our 'boneyard' "The
Closet of Shame". The drives were an MFM mech with an IDE board attached.
They used stepper actuators and sucked eggs for reliability. They did
sound neat though.....
WD was chip maker till they bought out Tandon. In that few years,
all of their 20-40-60MB were all steppers and exact same design that
Tandon originally designed for 3.5" years back. WD's early HH 3.5"
was the basis for all their early 1" height drives but it was so
utter unreliable still.
Miniscribe was bought out by Maxtor for no reason. Maxtor was famillar enough with voice coil and not as good as
Miniscribe still
back then. I wondered why many time "Why was the Maxtor looking for
when they have Miniscribe's IP in hand?" Only I can see is their
Maxtor-designed 7000 series that it. What else?
Now, Maxtor is getting better now I think hopefully.
I find that stepper has their place and with my experience all die
when they're faster than 65ms average seek time. Including Seagate.
To seek faster, voice coil is the solution.
I once saw a Miniscribe or Maxtor 5.25" FH with 8 or 10 platters w/
voice coil type in a natural colored potmetal oval clamshell split
in the middle where spindle axle is and ribbed in whole length of it.
What was the series of this one?
Wizard
7:08 p.m.
New subject: Miniscribe 6086?
On Sat, 17 Jun 2000 technoid(a)cheta.net wrote:
I had a miniscribe 6085 in my 286 in the late
80's. It is an MFM (ST506
interface) drive with the same parameters as the Seagate ST4096. I think
cylinders are 1024, heads at 9, and sectors per track at 17. The RLL
model would have an 'R' appended to the model number and would have 26
sectors per track.
You might be able to run the RLL model on an MFM controller as the
difference between the two variations is mainly the platters. Rarely are
the drives much different. I ran a 3650 for a couple of years on an
Adaptec ACB4070 bridge controller and believe it or not they worked
perfectly though they weren't rated for RLL linear density.
Despite thier poor reliability record, I still like Miniscribe drives.
They sound neat. "Peeep wobble wobble Peep". Western Digital bought what
was left of Miniscribe and produced some really aweful drives when IDE was
Not so, Maxtor took over Miniscribe. WD bought Jugi Tandon's hard drive
business.
- don
beginning to really catch on. I remember stacks of
dead WD 40mb 3.5"
drives at a company I worked for in 92/93. We called our 'boneyard' "The
Closet of Shame". The drives were an MFM mech with an IDE board attached.
They used stepper actuators and sucked eggs for reliability. They did
sound neat though.....
--
-----------------------------------------------------------
technoid(a)cheta.net
-----------------------------------------------------------
21 Jun
21 Jun
11:50 a.m.
New subject: Miniscribe 6086?
Despite thier poor reliability record, I still like
Miniscribe drives.
They sound neat. "Peeep wobble wobble Peep". Western Digital bought what
was left of Miniscribe and produced some really aweful drives when IDE was
beginning to really catch on. I remember stacks of dead WD 40mb 3.5"
drives at a company I worked for in 92/93. We called our 'boneyard' "The
Closet of Shame". The drives were an MFM mech with an IDE board attached.
They used stepper actuators and sucked eggs for reliability. They did
sound neat though.....
I remember 3.5 " WD types that were mounted in a 5.25 bracket. At some
point
in their lives they would generate a lot of bad sectors in the outer cylinders.
(You
would expect the inner cylinders because of the higher bit densities).
To fix the problem: partially unscrew the drive from the bracket (with a
torck-tool)
an fasten it crosswise (like you would fasten a tire). The harddisk would
happely
run another couple of years.
Some supplier threw the bad ones out, and we asked the corpses for socalled
educational
purposes but quikly repaired them instead.
Sipke
18 Jun
18 Jun
2:21 p.m.
New subject: Try one more: Digital DECpc XL 466DX2 model 775-ww
Digital tower with processor card 486dx2 w/ 256K cache, six 72pin
slots and onboard scsi. DECpc XL 466DX2 model: 775-ww
I thought this would be best place to put in this list because so
many worked with digital/DEC equipment.
Tinkering with it produced few surprises, ram issue and several
undocumented jumpers on the processor card.
When trying to run 3 pairs of simms in it, I still get 16MB if as it
has 2 pairs of ram installed. This is one of few machines that must
be run with simms in pairs. I would love to get it to full capacity
of 24MB.
I need to know the jumpers on that processor card as well, this might
be a reason for this memory issue. Also must this machine require
parity simms? Didn't try it with non-parity simms yet.
And I'm looking for a pentium or alpha processor card for this
DECpc XL 466DX2
Thanks.
Wizard
6:56 p.m.
New subject: Try one more: Digital DECpc XL 466DX2 model 775-ww
On Sun, 18 Jun 2000 jpero(a)sympatico.ca wrote:
[DECpc XL 466DX2 model: 775-ww]
I thought this would be best place to put in this list
because so
many worked with digital/DEC equipment.
Yes, but real DEC equipment, not the Intel-impaired equipment made by
DEC during it's decline.
And I'm looking for a pentium or alpha processor
card for this
DECpc XL 466DX2
Perhaps you can trade it in on a classic computer and then not have
to worry about that.
--
R. D. Davis
rdd(a)perqlogic.com
http://www.perqlogic.com/rdd
410-744-4900
3:14 p.m.
New subject: Try one more: Digital DECpc XL 466DX2 model 775-ww
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 18:56:59 -0400 (EDT)
From: "R. D. Davis" <rdd(a)smart.net>
Subject: Re: Try one more: Digital DECpc XL 466DX2 model 775-ww
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
Reply-to: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
On Sun, 18 Jun 2000 jpero(a)sympatico.ca wrote:
[DECpc XL 466DX2 model: 775-ww]
No wonder with that ram size problem and using Intel chipsets. Oh
well, I can give it back or use it as is or sell it for some thing
else.
I thought this would be best place to put in this
list because so
many worked with digital/DEC equipment.
Yes, but real DEC equipment, not the Intel-impaired equipment made by
DEC during it's decline. Perhaps you can trade it in on a classic computer and
then not have
to worry about that.
Sounds good but this thing weighs about 25 to 30 lbs in that
configuration without any HDs. Heavy and will cost bit quite for
shipping!
Cheers,
Wizard
19 Jun
19 Jun
1:06 a.m.
New subject: Try one more: Digital DECpc XL 466DX2 model 775-ww
Since your only response so far was so rude, I decided to see what I could
come up with.
The system might not be old enough to be on topic, but it does look like a
nicely constructed piece of gear. Unfortuantly the only thing I was able
to dig up was a Systems and Options Catalogue, but it pointed me in the
right direction.
Digital tower with processor card 486dx2 w/ 256K cache,
six 72pin
slots and onboard scsi. DECpc XL 466DX2 model: 775-ww
I thought this would be best place to put in this list because so
many worked with digital/DEC equipment.
Tinkering with it produced few surprises, ram issue and several
undocumented jumpers on the processor card.
When trying to run 3 pairs of simms in it, I still get 16MB if as it
has 2 pairs of ram installed. This is one of few machines that must
be run with simms in pairs. I would love to get it to full capacity
of 24MB.
I need to know the jumpers on that processor card as well, this might
be a reason for this memory issue. Also must this machine require
parity simms? Didn't try it with non-parity simms yet.
The full capacity is actually 192MB apparently (it's also listed as 128MB),
though I wouldn't recommend trying to accomplish that. This system uses
the same RAM as some of my Alpha's, which means it rather expensive, unless
you find it used. You need True-Parity 72-pin SIMM's for this system. I
don't believe EDO will work. I know the Alpha's that use the same RAM are
fairly picky.
And I'm looking for a pentium or alpha processor
card for this
DECpc XL 466DX2
OK, I see such beasties are actually advertised as being eventually
available. Interesting. You might be able to find a Pentium processor if
you're very lucky, but I don't believe you'll be able to find a Alpha
processor for it, and if you do I imagine you'll be very limited as to what
you're able to run on it.
Zane
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18 Jun
18 Jun
9:35 p.m.
New subject: Try one more: Digital DECpc XL 466DX2 model 775-ww
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 22:06:11 -0700
From: "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh(a)aracnet.com>
Subject: Re: Try one more: Digital DECpc XL 466DX2 model 775-ww
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
Reply-to: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
Since your only response so far was so rude, I decided
to see what I could
come up with.
All I ask was few feedbacks then back to on topic on classics.
The system might not be old enough to be on topic, but it does look like a
nicely constructed piece of gear. Unfortuantly the only thing I was able
to dig up was a Systems and Options Catalogue, but it pointed me in the
right direction.
That little no wonder, compaq is too intent on killing off decent
Digital stuff off in favor of their compaq stuff that is looks like
top #1 which is really wasn't. Touch one and Compaq machine crashes
out.
The full capacity is actually 192MB apparently
(it's also listed as 128MB),
though I wouldn't recommend trying to accomplish that. This system uses
the same RAM as some of my Alpha's, which means it rather expensive, unless
you find it used. You need True-Parity 72-pin SIMM's for this system. I
don't believe EDO will work. I know the Alpha's that use the same RAM are
fairly picky.
Thanks that helps. No wonder this machine came to me with ram
and it's cdrom and hd stripped. These simms I used are true parity
type 12 chip type all 70ns, 1MBx36. I also have small stash of
matched pairs of 18 chip 2MBx36 simms to try later. But this
machine hold me little interest that I have found out it's limitions.
I have peecee (pentium and PII) parts but no case or two to stuff in
yet.
processor for it, and if you do I imagine you'll
be very limited as to what
you're able to run on it.
Thanks, this machine was real treat to look at besides the peecees I
worked at part time job on but two negatives about this case. One: 3
ext and 1int bays in a real heavy tower. Two: and very few choices
of FPM parity simms I have. PSU is very electric guzzler so I'm
scared of running it for any length of time without running up too
much bill.
Later on, I will offer up the few items to barter with for classic
machine to play with. What classic to not yet decided. Wink wink.
:-)
Zane
Wizard
10:21 p.m.
New subject: compaq SLT PSU dead.
Compaq SLT PSU dead. Power DC plug is DEATACHABLE from power
brick, model number: 2687. Other SLT PSU bricks aren't
deatachable. No signs of power and fuse not blown.
Uses compaq's relabeled common UC3842 pinout PWM ic, yes I traced
enough from the UC3842 datasheet. Single chopper tranny is MOSFET
(BUK456-800A by philips). R512 and R500 are now ashes. I need the
resistor values on these.
What good subs for this MOSFET? And any gotchas?
I have looked up on this specs on this transistor but I'm not so
sure and *very* diffcult to buy that correct part so I need to sub
this transistor out from bunch of choices that has 1-MOSFET PSUs
with different types of 8pin UCxxxx PWM on it.
Everything else are fine.
Cheers.
Trying to get SLT 286 going because other bunch of SLT 286 and SLT
386s/20 was given away with own working bricks. Those working
bricks was not correct model like this kind I have in pieces and this
is remaining SLT 286 I want to keep.
Wizard
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