test-drb March 2001

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DEC 8MB parity 80 pin SIMMs... what are these from?

by JRichardson＠softwright.co.uk

> I was at the Dayton Computer show last weekend (at the Hara Arena, same place > as the Dayton Hamvention) and picked up a handful of, I thought, 8MB parity > SIMMs. They are, but they happen to be 80-pin, not 72-pin. I've got a feeling my Tektronix XD88 uses 80-pin stuff (they're bigger than 72-pin anyway). Will check this evening if I get a chance. cheers Jules

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PDP-11/70 Front Panel

by jss＠ou.edu

I will be picking up a PDP-11/70 in a few weeks, but it needs a front panel. If anybody has an extra, please e-mail me. -- Jeffrey S. Sharp jss(a)ou.edu

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NeXT '040 Cubes

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Mar 19, 17:19, MTPro(a)aol.com wrote: > Hi there, I have two cubes, both original 1988 boxes. One is a 25MHz '040 with a hard drive and an optical drive. The other is a 33MHz '040 (Turbo?) with just a hard drive. Both power on fine, do their system test and then say loading from network. The picture looks like a coaxial "T" connector with a cable that has "data" rolling through it. First, put a 50-ohm terminator on that connector, so the NeXT thinks it is connected to a live (but very small!) network. Then read the NeXT FAQ: http://www.peanuts.org/faq-serve/cache/66.html They will not do anything else. I've been going crazy looking on the internet for days, but have not found a way to bypass this. I know you can "boot" into single user mode and then reset passwords, but how? The FAQ describes how to do it. I recently acquired a slab, and had to do that. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager Dept. of Computer Science University of York

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plato terminals

by uban＠ubanproductions.com

Does anyone know where I might still find a Plato terminal of the UIUC 512x512 plasma display variety (not the later CDC implementation)? I know that there were several models, but I don't recall the variations. --tnx --tom

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IBM 3380 disk drives / info?

by ip500＠home.com

Among my pickups over the weekend were a pair of these HUGE IBM 3380 drives. Couldn't even begin to find room for the entire unit with its cabinet and controllers, but did scavange the drives and motors out of the cabinet. Biggest drive I've ever seen. Belt driven! from an external 1.5 HP motor ..these things are Big! Cast alluminium housing w/14" discs, the whole assembly seems about 1/2 the size of a V-6 auto eng! IBM site has several references to them, circa early 80's I gather but they sure look older than that. What I'd like to find is IBM publication #GC26-4491 [IBM 3380 Direct Access Storage Intro] and/or IBM pub #GX26-1678 [Storage Reference Summary]. Neither seems to be in the on-line library from IBM. Any other info or dating is always welcome too. Thanks, Craig

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PS/2 P70

by mark_k＠iname.com

Hi, On Mon, 19 Mar 2001 Russ Blakeman wrote: > I think Jeff has already answered this for you. I've been busy downloading > all of the PDF format files and trying to work out a good print-from-browser > scheme for the ones that are only in Bookmanager/Bookreader format as one > day a genius at IBM is going to pull the plug on openly displaying their > older manuals for us to use. You should be able to find the original bookmanager files for those documents somewhere on an IBM web or FTP site. (ftp.redbooks.ibm.com???) There is bookmanager reader software for at least DOS and OS/2 on one of IBM's FTP sites. Having the bookmanager file is much simpler (only one file to download), and can, I assume, be converted to HTML with the same program IBM uses. -- Mark

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Carter AFB.. he he!

by rigdonj＠intellistar.net

At 09:44 AM 3/13/01 -0800, Grumpy Ol' Fred wrote: >> On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Mike Ford wrote: >> > This is the only computer list I can think of where arguing about a >> > carburator problem posted by a virus is perfectly normal. We are >[insert your opinion here] > > >On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, R. D. Davis wrote: >> computers. Aren't there some engine control computers by now that are >> about 10 years old? > >FSOT: Bosch fuel injection ""computer"" from 1969 VW type III >(squareback). working when removed; with some (not necessarily all) FI >components and sensors > >Over 30 years old, and called a computer. Cool! It IS a computer. The injectors were pulse width modulated. Somewhere I have the manual for that thing. My mother had a '70 VW type III with that system and it ran great. Joe

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Aardvark Journals

by dkuhn＠acsworld.net

Hello there, I just joined this list. I don't know how many are subscribing to it. If anyone is interested, I am selling off my original newsletter style Arrdvark Journals on ebay. http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1223027850 This was a newsletter for owners of Ohio Scientific machines. I am sadly selling off all my old stuff. Dave

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IBM 3380 disk drives / info?

by jhellige＠earthlink.net

Were these the 8" 5 and 10meg units? When they required their own special controller prior to switching to SCSI? Jeff >I've got one better, do you remember the old Bernuolli removable disk drives, >the original big beasts in IBM PC/XT cases??? Well, there used to be a >serious problem with their power supplies, you would be working in a lab and all >of a sudden you'd hear this loud thunderous "thump" type explosion and out from >the box would pour out this white nasty ozone'ish smoke. After nervously >pulling the plug, you would slide off the cover to find one of the coke-can >sized cap's had completely blown off the top and if you looked at the inside of >the top cover there would be this spectacular meteor-crater shaped carbon mark >where the capacitor had blown upward and scorched the inside of the case. >Now thats quality assurance!!! :-)

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IBM 3380 disk drives / info?

by SUPRDAVE＠aol.com

I've two of the 10meg boxes, complete with 100 disks, but no controller card. >From what I understand, it was a proprietary interface. In a message dated 3/19/01 11:16:40 AM Central Standard Time, jhellige(a)earthlink.net writes: << Were these the 8" 5 and 10meg units? When they required their own special controller prior to switching to SCSI? Jeff >I've got one better, do you remember the old Bernuolli removable disk drives, >the original big beasts in IBM PC/XT cases??? Well, there used to be a >serious problem with their power supplies, you would be working in a lab and all >of a sudden you'd hear this loud thunderous "thump" type explosion and out from >the box would pour out this white nasty ozone'ish smoke. After nervously >pulling the plug, you would slide off the cover to find one of the coke-can >sized cap's had completely blown off the top and if you looked at the inside of >the top cover there would be this spectacular meteor-crater shaped carbon mark >where the capacitor had blown upward and scorched the inside of the case. >Now thats quality assurance!!! :-) >>

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test-drb March 2001