Xerox 6085 in Kansas City
I happened to mention to one of my son's schoolmates parents that I recycled
computers and now I am the lucky recipient of a complete Xerox 6085 system
including external 5 1/4 floppy, complete manuals, software, hardware, every
thing except the Xerox 4045 laser printer. The previous owner was the
original owner.
If anyone needs copies of the manuals I will make copies for cost.
I found when I hooked it all up and powered up I get a 4 digit code in the
upper left corner. I suspect that the system battery may have died. I have
6 large boxes of manuals and software can anyone give me a hint in which
manual the hardware troubleshooting guide is found? Is there a guide or
index to all the manuals?
I remember the great gray or orange walls of DEC manuals, but at least there
was an excellent index.
Mike McFadden
mmcfadden(a)cmh.edu
computer hound, I sniff out the good stuff
All musings are my own, no one else thinks like or for me.
>Actually I was thinking of it talking to the real network. That way if I
>was running say RSX-11M with DECnet under the emulator I could connect to
it
>from a VMS box. Or if running RT-11 with TCP/IP I could then connect to
the
>Sunsite archive (whatever they're calling it this week) via FTP.
>
> Zane
That would be messy. RSX and others like to play with the MAC add. For the
commercial emulator I am familiar with it requires a second Ethernet card
for the emulators use if you also want to use NT networking at the same
time.
Looks good. I sure wish I had some time to play like that.
Dan
As usual, contact the poster, not myself...
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Some old stuff is looking for a new home before it goes to the shredder:
Mail me if you have interest, I will then forward any orders to the owner.
Location:
Davos in Switzerland/Europe
Presen owner:
Meteological Observatory, used for lab data capturing/processing
State:
Was running last time it saw power. The VT100, one PDP8/A, one TU56
I have seen running 4 weeks ago.
Hardware:
2 * DEC PDP8/A, 20-Slot (big) Omnibus case, core memory (I do not know
how much), with the optional octal front pannel
2 * DEC RK05, removable disk drives 2.4MByte
1 * DEC RL01, removable disk drive 5MByte
1 * DEC RL02, removable disk drive 10MByte
2 * DEC TU56, dual tape drives (small reel tapes)
1 * big reel tape drive, no manufacturer/model written on it,
just lable: 9 track 800/1600 BPI 45IPS see ASCII art below
1 * chassis 19", 54cm wide, 76cm deep, (+19cm deet), 127cm high
2 * chassis 19", 54cm wide, 76cm deep, (+19cm feet), 180cm high
2 * Calcomp 836, plotter, ca 2m wide, 30cm deep, 20 cm high
beige plastic ends, blue metal middle
1 * Centronics 6085, printer, ca 1m x 1m x 1m
There is also 1 * DEC VT100, terminal 80x24, but I am having that :-)
I may manage to find space for one PDP/8A with 1/2 the 2 disk drives and
1 TU56, but that is still open. If someone else want both of them (or 2
people want one), they can have them, I am actually into PDP11s (the
system was billed as a 11, but turned out to be 2 8s).
Software:
- OS/8
- rts/8
Manuals:
- Operation Manual PDP8/A
- User Manual FPP12A
- Maintenance Vol3
- RK05 Maintenance
- RL01 Users Guide
- Teletype 33ASR (no hardware, has been scrapped years ago)
- Calcomp above
- Centronics above
ASCII of 9 track tape drive:
---------------------------
| | |
|.--. .-------. | |
|| |/ \ | |
|| | / \ | |
|| |`-' | | o o | lamps "Monitor" "Diag"
|| | o | | o | lamp "WT EN"
|| | | | o o | lamps "BOT" "EOT"
|| \ / | |
|| \ / | o # | lamp "Load" + square button
|| `-------' | o # | lamp "Online" + square button
|| | o # | lamp "Rew" + square button
|| .-------. | o # | lamp "Reset" + square button
|| // \ | |
|| // \ | o # | 3 lamps + rocker switch
|| || | | 8 # | "PE" "Remote" "NRZ"
|| || 0 | | | (this if my sketch is not wrong)
|| || | | |
|| | / | |
|| |\ / | o | lamp +
|`--' `-------' | # | rocker switch "Power"
| | |
---------------------------
Sorry that my small pencil sketch drawn 4 weeks ago (just before going
on holiday) is not better.
--
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Nerd, Geek, Hacker, Unix Guru, Sysadmin, Roleplayer, LARPer, Mystic
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Hello Frank McConnell
Thanks for posting the wireing of that terminal cable
Regards Jacob Dahl Pind
Public Pgp key available on request
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= IF this computer is with us now... =
=...It must have been meant to come live with us.=
= (Belldandy - Goddess First class) =
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>I had a NCR tower with the 15 pin ports and didn't have TOO much trouble
>connecting a terminal. Basically, I was able to trace the leads back to the
>drivers (1488 / 1489) and determine which pins were for output and which
>were for input.
>It's basic RS232 stuff except the pinouts are funky.
okey I`ll have a look at it, a soon I have brougt some of those
15pin conectors.
Regards Jacob Dahl Pind
Public Pgp key available on request
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= IF this computer is with us now... =
=...It must have been meant to come live with us.=
= (Belldandy - Goddess First class) =
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> * The 15 pin ports are proprietary serial ports for the NCR
> terminals. I don't know if they can be broken out to something
> more standard or if the system needs anything special that
> the NCR terminals provide.
Thank you very much for your infomation. There is a small box on top
of tower32, it`s a switch bow it has a 9pin and a 15pin in and a
25pin dsub out, I guess it must be somekind of converte to allow
a normal serial port to connect to it.
Regards Jacob Dahl Pind
Public Pgp key available on request
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= IF this computer is with us now... =
=...It must have been meant to come live with us.=
= (Belldandy - Goddess First class) =
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On Fri, 22 Sep 2000 16:12:13 -0500 Joe <rigdonj(a)intellistar.net> writes:
> A couple of weeks ago I found a box in a scrap yard with a half
> height 8" floppy drive it in. The box was marked "Gen-Rad" and looked
like
> part of a old piece of test equipment. I picked up the box just for the
floppy
> drive
Actually, this was a good score; mostly because many of the non-dec
floppy/hard disk subsystems could be used to format RX01 and RX02
floppies (standard RX drives can't do this-- you have to buy the media
pre-
formatted from DEC!).
I've come across a few GenRad systems; most were UniBUS (PDP-11/44,
11/04, etc.) I found one that used to have a PDP-8!
Jeff
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>>>>> "Mike" == Mike Nealey <mlnealey(a)earthlink.net> writes:
Mike> Hi All, I have a need for info on the TI Explorer. Anyone
Mike> have anything on this? It was an add in LISP board for Mac
Mike> computers. I am specifically looking for docs and any
Mike> software.
I have a TI explorer here at the AI lab. No one uses it for
centuries... There are dozens of manuals for it, and dozens of QIC
tapes. I tried to read a couple of them, but they are not tar or cpio
format.
Cheers,
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--- Jacob Dahl Pind <rachael_(a)gmx.net> wrote:
> My friend has found a NCR Tower32 machine, seems to be
> build around a motorola 68020 board with a vme bus, it
> has a number of dsub 15pin ports on tha back, seems to be
> somekind of terminal interface.
It's an oddball RS-232 connector.
> Does anyone have any infomation about such a machine ?
Such things are out there... I wouldn't mind knowing myself - I have
a Multibus NCR tower that I've never powered on (it's in a friend's
attic).
-ethan
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It's the colour variant of the VT520 and is only 4-ish years old. Housed in
a Multia-style case and should take a standard SVGA monitor. You can
probably still find info about them on Compaq's website in the Digital
portion - go to search then 'search digital'.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Olminkhof [mailto:jolminkh@nsw.bigpond.net.au]
> Sent: 21 September 2000 14:06
> To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
> Subject: VT525
>
>
> I've found this neat little box labelled a VT525.
> What is this?
>
> Maybe I can keep it and use it as a terminal when I eventually get my
> PDP11/23 going?
>
> It has a module missing from the front and doesn't do
> anything except click
> when keys are pressed.
>
> Hans
>
