test-drb March 2000

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by KB9VU＠aol.com

I have an operational H/Z-110 low profile computer with the Zenith Color monitor. Unit has dual hard drives and a floppy installed internally. MB is the last revision produced and has 768K loaded. The optional Gemini card to run PCDOS (IBM) native programs is also installed. Outboard Zenith 8" floppy drive in the factory enclosure. Original User Manuals, Technical Manuals and Service Manual set with all service bulletins included. ZDOS, MSDOS version 2, CP/M-80, CP/M-86 operating systems. Several applications software items including Wordstar, Multiplan, Condor, and others (15 original 3 ring binder documentation sets) and other user software totalling over 200 5.25" disks. $150 for the whole lot. Pick up in the St. Louis area. I need to get this system out of the way and into a new home for someone to use. Help! Thanks Mike Stover, Florissant, MO

25 years, 12 months

iOpener

by lsommo＠hotmail.com

This now appears when you begin a purchase transaction on the Netpliance web site. By purchasing the i-opener you are agreeing to use the i-opener Internet service. The fee is $21.95 a month and will be billed to your credit card approximately 2 days after the i-opener is shipped to you. i-opener Internet appliances shipped after March 20, 2000 can no longer be reconfigured in the manner described in recent reports. Modification of the i-opener in any way is in violation of our terms and conditions. >From: Brian Roth <broth(a)heathers.stdio.com> >Reply-To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org >To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org >Subject: Re: iOpener >Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 22:29:30 -0500 > >Its possible that they could goo the area with epoxy which will make it >very >difficult but not impossible to add the drive. I have seen other manu's do >this as a quick fix until a more permanant solution can be >engineered.(remember Videocipher?) > >I still have one ordered hoping the mod will still be possible. > >Brian. > >Megan wrote: > > > >OK, I got a 6.4 GB laptop drive hooked up and right now the iOpener is > > >running DOS/BATCH V10-01A on an emulated PDP-11/40+RK05 system. I love > > >it!!! > > > > >It's going to take some real butchery to get the case closed, but I >guess > > >that's to be expected. The low-profile 3M connector barely fit under >the > > >CPU heat sink w/o needing it to be clearanced, that was nice. > > > > >BTW the CPU seems to be 200 MHz, not 180 MHz. But it still gets only > > >about 80 BogoMIPS, pretty slow. > > > > I heard last night that Netpliance is making modifications so that >people > > can no longer do this... they are apparently losing a LOT of money >selling > > the machines, having expected to recoup it in the service charges... > > > > Can someone confirm this... and maybe confirm the change that they > > have done (which I understand is simply removal of the cable connector > > for the drive). > > > > Oh, and supposedly back-ordered units will have the mod... > > > > Megan Gentry > > Former RT-11 Developer > > > > +--------------------------------+-------------------------------------+ > > | Megan Gentry, EMT/B, PP-ASEL | Internet (work): gentry!zk3.dec.com | > > | Unix Support Engineering Group | (home): mbg!world.std.com | > > | Compaq Computer Corporation | addresses need '@' in place of '!' | > > | 110 Spitbrook Rd. ZK03-2/T43 | URL: http://world.std.com/~mbg/ | > > | Nashua, NH 03062 | "pdp-11 programmer - some assembler | > > | (603) 884 1055 | required." - mbg | > > +--------------------------------+-------------------------------------+ > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

26 years

Acorn A4 website?

by netsurfer_x1＠hotmail.com

Does anybody know where (if?) there is a dedicated website for the Acorn A4 laptop? All my searching turned up nil. ____________________________________________________________ David Vohs, Digital Archaeologist & Computer Historian. Computer Collection: "Triumph": Commodore 64C, 1802, 1541, FSD-1, GeoRAM 512, Okimate 20. "Leela": Macintosh 128 (Plus upgrade), Nova SCSI HDD, Imagewriter II. "Delorean": TI-99/4A. "Monolith": Apple Macintosh Portable. "Spectrum": Tandy Color Computer 3. "Boombox": Sharp PC-7000. ____________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

26 years

I need some PDP-11 RT11 archiving software

by dylanb＠sympatico.ca

-----Original Message----- From: CLASSICCMP(a)trailing-edge.com <CLASSICCMP(a)trailing-edge.com> To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org> Date: Friday, March 31, 2000 12:42 PM Subject: RE: I need some PDP-11 RT11 archiving software >>I am spending all my time right now packing and rackmounting - I have no >>time to write anything. I will have some people come over and feed in the >>paper tape this weekend. While I won't be able to archive most of it, I do >>hope to at least read in most of the source code on paper tape. (I have over >>310 PDP-1 paper tapes alone). >> >>This program needs to be *very* easy to use and hopefully supports >>X/Y-MODEM. I will set up a terminal program at this end that supports 32 >>character file names (windows 98). This program would have to run under >>RT11-V3B, or RT11V4 BL. Hopefully it would send the code down a serial line >>separate serial port. > >Umm, what's wrong with Kermit? The latest Kermit for RT does just fine under >RT-11 V4, and Kermit is available for just about every other piece >of hardware ever created. See ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/ > >>It would be really nice if this software just asked the end user to load a >>paper tape, then huit return, and it sends the data read out a separate >>serial port, then prompts to load the next one. > >What sort of paper tape reader are you using? If it's a serial reader, >you can hook it straight up to a PC-clone running MS-DOS and MS-Kermit >(or Linux and C-Kermit) and archive the tapes that way. Both MS-Kermit >and C-Kermit include powerful scripting languages. PC05 with a PC11 controller. > >Remember, you *don't* have to start from scratch, others of us have >been archiving this sort of stuff for many years. > I appreciate that. Do you have this archived: PDP-1 source code. PDP-11 source code - Dos/Batch-11 , RT11. I also have source code to most of the packages they released. If you have this stuff then I won't bother archiving all the source code I have and pass it on. I did get almost all the source from the original minicomputers dec knocked out.. alot of it was internal. john >-- > Tim Shoppa Email: shoppa(a)trailing-edge.com > Trailing Edge Technology WWW: http://www.trailing-edge.com/ > 7328 Bradley Blvd Voice: 301-767-5917 > Bethesda, MD, USA 20817 Fax: 301-767-5927 >

26 years

Messages Per Month

by steverob＠hotoffice.com

> -----Original Message----- > From: healyzh(a)aracnet.com [mailto:healyzh@aracnet.com] > Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2000 9:34 PM > To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org > Subject: Re: Messages Per Month > > > > I was just checking the number of messages that have come > through this year > > and it is pretty close to 3900 so far! Let's see. At 90 > days into the year, > > it averages out to about 63 per day. No wonder things get > lost in my inbox > > :)! Wonder how many it would be if Tony were still posting :-) Anyone know what happened to him? Steve Robertson <steverob(a)hotoffice.com>

26 years

IC ID help needed

by ethan_dicks＠yahoo.com

I've done the basic digging (www.chipdir.com, etc.) and can't find info on the following chips I found in a box of stuff some one gave me a while back: AMD 91L02 - I know it's some kind of SRAM but not the size or pinout. The 9101 is 256x4. This one is likely to be either 1024x1 or 1024x4 but I don't know which. NS 74C921 - The 74C922 and 74C923 are somewhat common keyboard encoders, one of which was used on the Netronics Elf-II design. I can't find any info on the pinout of the 74C921, but I did find several places selling them from $6 USD to 72 Danish Kroner (however much that is) I have a few of each, along with 2Kb of 21L02 chips (-2L and -4L speeds, whatever they are), all with 1979 - 1983 date codes. Any clues? Thanks, -ethan ===== Even though my old e-mail address is no longer going to vanish, please note my new public address: erd(a)iname.com The original webpage address is still going away. The permanent home is: http://penguincentral.com/ See http://ohio.voyager.net/ for details. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com

26 years

Qbus cards that need ID

by Innfogra＠aol.com

I have four Qbus cards that I am interested in finding out what they are. One is a Micro Technology QTS25. It has a 50 pin header. I was wondering if it was a SCSI card? The second is an Emulex QD331040100 Rev. J. This has a 60 pin header and two 26 pin headers. I was wondering if this was a SMD drive controller? The third is a Dilog DQ696-20.vThis has a 34 pin header and two 20 pin header. My guess is that it is a MFM or ESDI hard drive controller. In the same group of cards is a DEC M7546 which I believe is a TK50 tape drive controller. Why is it called a Maya Controller? Thanks for the help. Paxton

26 years

Qbus cards that need ID

by CLASSICCMP＠trailing-edge.com

>One is a Micro Technology QTS25. It has a 50 pin header. I was wondering if >it was a SCSI card? This is a TD Systems Viking controller, tape-only. >The second is an Emulex QD331040100 Rev. J. This has a 60 pin header and two >26 pin headers. I was wondering if this was a SMD drive controller? That's right, a QD33, MSCP emulating. It handles fairly fast SMD drives (i.e. Eagles, 2344's, etc.) >In the same group of cards is a DEC M7546 which I believe is a TK50 tape >drive controller. Why is it called a Maya Controller? I believe that Maya was the DEC development code-name for the TK50. The Aztec, IIRC, was the RC25. -- Tim Shoppa Email: shoppa(a)trailing-edge.com Trailing Edge Technology WWW: http://www.trailing-edge.com/ 7328 Bradley Blvd Voice: 301-767-5917 Bethesda, MD, USA 20817 Fax: 301-767-5927

26 years

Original ARPANET protocols (was: I need some PDP-11 RT11 archiving software)

by allisonp＠world.std.com

I thought the classic PDP-11 unix way was UUCP. Allison ..>On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Chris Kennedy wrote: >> >> Dunno, but I was using FTP in 1975-76. I'd guess that >> any behavioral resemblence is more a consequence of the >> two both having similar functions, i.e., moving files >> around, rather than any sort of common parentage... >> > >If you were using it in 1975-1976, it wasn't FTP as it exists today - >it would be the FTP implemented on top of the "old" ARPANET protocols >(sometimes referred to as "NCP", but I believe more properly referred to >as simply "Host-to-Host Protocol"). > >But that reminds me of a question I had while I was having lunch today ... >Was there ever an implementation of the old ARPANET protocols on a PDP-11 >or VAX Unix? If it ever existed, I'd guess it would have had to have been >on top of Seventh Edition, but I can't recall ever seeing any drivers for >an ACC LH/DH or DEC IMP-11 on any incarnation of that platform. Berkeley >Unix added TCP/IP in 4.1a, but I don't remember if there had been any >ARPANET support (for the old protocol) before that. > >--Pat. > >

26 years

I need some PDP-11 RT11 archiving software

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Mar 31, 14:57, John Allain wrote: > Funny, I've been using Kermit since 1981 and FTP since 1985 and > I still don't know which egg/chicken came first. > They seem awfully similar from a user's standpoint. > Anybody know If FTP is based on Kermit or Vice-Versa? They're fairly different "inside". For example, kermit assumes an "unreliable" connection, and does it's own error-checking, while FTP relies to some extent on a transport layer that already has error-checking. I suppose they naturally have some similarities on the "outside" because they serve similar purposes, though. Anyway, kermit predates FTP by a few years. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Dept. of Computer Science University of York

26 years

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