> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tothwolf [mailto:tothwolf@concentric.net]
> On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, Christopher Smith wrote:
> > Well, on one hand, yes, but on the other hand, I like my
> Indigo 2 Elan with
> > no texture memory just fine. I'm also considering trying
> I didn't know you had another SGI box ;)
Yep.
> A couple people I've known who ended up with old SGI gear thought they
> were going to create some kind of fancy animations with this kind of
> hardware, so I never know what to think now.
Depends on what you mean by "fancy animations." It will probably do better
out of the box than most new peesees depending on what you'd like to
animate. (and whether it requires texture memory, of course) Both of my
SGIs, for instance, have analog video in/out, which is a start. On the
other hand, you can't really do a good animation with anything "out of the
box." It usually takes a lot of strange stuff.
The graphical prowess of the machines is still something, though. For
instance, the ability of the machine to provide individual color-maps for
different windows on the screen, without the nasty palette-flashing that's
seen in xfree86 on an intel box (for example) when you try the same...
> Sounds like you at least have an original VGX chassis then.
> It is possible
> someone upgraded some of the boards, but the only way you'll
> be able to
> tell is to pull them and cross reference the part numbers.
I'm thinking about doing that. The label on top of the chassis actually
says "4D/440 VGX" or something to that effect.
Regards,
Chris
Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
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>-> It is the laptop, and a toshiba carry bag for it. There was no power
>-> supply that I saw, or manuals.
>
>Doesn't need one. Uses standard 120vac power cord.
Humm... maybe I didn't pay enough attention (I wasn't really that
interested in it myself), but I could have sworn their was a port marked
DC and it was a small 3 pin jack that looked alot like the old Hayes
modem power jacks (squarish with the edges cut off).
But maybe in my quick glance I either looked at the wrong port, or just
had a brain fart at what I was looking at.
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
>Out of curiosity, how many here care whether or not the machines they
>collect are considered "collectable" or "top collectable?" Isn't the
>point of collecting these machines to have fun toys to play with?
>Collecting was more fun, and the machines were easier to find, when
>nearly everyone considered them worthless a decade or so ago.
As many other have said here, I try to hang on to only those machines that I
can put to use. One exception would be the various SBCs I own, but you
could argue that they are useful for learning about the procerssor they
host.
Also, like others, nobody is really impressed by my collection. I don't do
it for them, I do it for me....
My "lab" is in the finished basement of our new-to-us house (and leaking
into the garage). The previous owners left brown shag rug and paneling, so
it has that nice '70's look, to match the computers! :-) One friend of my
wife, whose husband works for the government, remarked upon coming down the
stairs and seeing my stuff scattered about: "This looks like one of those
places my husband goes into where the bust the guy for having all his kiddie
porn stashed on his computers". She laughed, I didn't... :-(
Rich B.
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My local Salvation Army store has a Toshiba 3100SX laptop for $8.00 if
anyone wants it.
It is the laptop, and a toshiba carry bag for it. There was no power
supply that I saw, or manuals.
Also, on the back there is a spot for what looks like a modem (don't
remember exactly what it said, something about phone interface though)...
but other than the cover plate, whatever is supposed to be installed in
that spot is missing (there is a whole in the plate, and you can see
inside to where something should be).
It was there as of Saturday, and they are closed on Sunday's, so it is
probably still there. If someone wants it, just let me know, I'll grab it
for them and ship it out.
Obviously if you want it, you cover actual purchase cost ($7.99 + 6%
sales tax) and shipping... I'm not interested in making money off it (but
if you want to slip me a buck for picking it up, that's always nice).
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
Hi,
this is a followup to the problem I'm having formatting a TK50 drive
with a VMS filesystem, needed to create a diagnostic tape. I am on
a VAX 6400 with VMS 5.4 or 7.2 (dual boot so to speak :-), nether
works. I do
$ INITIALIZE MUC6: ELAN
When that runs the tape scrunches and spins happily until suddenly:
%PBC0, Port is Reinitializing ( 45 Retries Left). Check the Error Log.
%INIT-F-VOLINV, volume is not software enabled
then in the error log I find what's attached below. This time, I
believe the critical entry is there. Could someone help me
interpreting this? I suppose it might just have a data error,
but this should really not make the whole thing stop. I had
several warnings when I wrote a tape with this drive on a
uVAX-II with NetBSD, and it still went on writing it all. So
is there an easy fix?
Could it be that the TK50 tape doesn't play well with the TQK70
controller? Would it be better if I hooked the TK50 to the DEBNT,
but where on the backplane rear do I connect this sort of thing
and how is the IDC connector wired on the VAXBI side?
thanks for helping out,
-Gunther
******************************* ENTRY 3695. *******************************
ERROR SEQUENCE 157. LOGGED ON: SID 0B000006
DATE/TIME 2-MAR-2002 14:18:55.32 SYS_TYPE 02400101
SYSTEM UPTIME: 0 DAYS 00:08:56
SCS NODE: VAX/VMS V5.4
ERL$LOGMESSAGE ENTRY KA64A CPU FW REV# 6. CONSOLE FW REV# 4.0
XMI NODE # 1.
I/O SUB-SYSTEM, UNIT _MUC6:
MESSAGE TYPE 0002
TAPE MSCP MESSAGE
MSLG$L_CMD_REF 6ADA0004
MSLG$W_UNIT 0006
UNIT #6.
MSLG$W_SEQ_NUM 0000
SEQUENCE #0.
MSLG$B_FORMAT 05
TAPE ERROR
MSLG$B_FLAGS 41
SEQUENCE NUMBER RESET
OPERATION CONTINUING
MSLG$W_EVENT 0068
DATA ERROR
READ DATA CHECK
MSLG$Q_CNT_ID 132B0008
0342F6A1
UNIQUE IDENTIFIER, F6A1132B0008(X)
TAPE CLASS DEVICE
TBK70
MSLG$B_CNT_SVR 00
CONTROLLER SOFTWARE VERSION #0.
0C
UNIT HARDWARE REVISION #12.
MSLG$B_LEVEL 01
MSLG$B_RETRY 2C
MSLG$L_GAP_CNT 00000000
GAP COUNT = 0.
MSLG$B_FMTR_SVR 00
FORMATTER SOFTWARE VERSION #0.
MSLG$B_FMTR_HVR 00
FORMATTER HARDWARE REVISION #0.
TK70 DEVICE/CONTROLLER DEPENDENT INFORMATION
DRIVE FLAGS 13
CARTRIDGE PRESENT
HEAD AT TRACK ZERO
POSITIONED AT BOT
TRK NUMBER 00
LOGICAL TRACK NUMBER = 0.
PHYSICAL BLK# 0004
PHYSICAL BLOCK NUMBER = 4.
LOGICAL BLK# 00
LOGICAL BLOCK NUMBER = 0.
TAPE POSITION 0100B4
TAPE POSITION = 65716.
DRIVE STATE 0A0C
RD/WRT STATE 2B3C
OPERATION FLGS 01A2
CNTRLR STATUS 02
RECOVERED BY RETRY
DRIVE ERR CODE 13
COMMUNICATIONS ERROR
****** ENTRY 3694., ERROR SEQUENCE 156. LOGGED ON SID 0B000006
ERL$LOGSTATUS ENTRY KA64A CPU FW REV# 6. CONSOLE FW REV# 4.0
XMI NODE # 1.
I/O SUB-SYSTEM, UNIT _MUC6:
MSLG$L_CMD_REF 6ADA0004
ORB$L_OWNER 00000000
OWNER UIC [000,000]
UCB$L_CHAR 0CC44038
DIRECTORY STRUCTURED
SINGLE DIRECTORY
"SEQUENTIAL BLOCK" ORIENTED
FILE ORIENTED
AVAILABLE
ERROR LOGGING
ALLOCATED
CAPABLE OF INPUT
CAPABLE OF OUTPUT
UCB$L_OPCNT 00000003
3. QIO'S THIS UNIT
UCB$W_ERRCNT 0001
1. ERRORS THIS UNIT
UCB$W_STS 0810
ONLINE
SOFTWARE VALID
CDRP$L_MEDIA 00000000
CDRP$W_FUNC 000C
READ PHYSICAL BLOCK
CDRP$L_BCNT 00000050
TRANSFER SIZE 80. BYTE(S)
CDRP$W_BOFF 0170
368. BYTE PAGE OFFSET
CDRP$L_PID 0001000D
REQUESTOR "PID"
CDRP$Q_IOSB 000001F4
00000000 IOSB, 0. BYTE(S) TRANSFERRED
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Adjunct Assistant Professor Indiana University School of Medicine
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Either of you guys want a copy of the
990 Computer Family Systems Handbook?
mike
-------Original Message----------
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 22:28:17 -0500
From: "James B. DiGriz" <jbdigriz(a)dragonsweb.org>
Subject: Re: 990
Merle K. Peirce wrote:
> I think they are both variations of the 990/12. One may be a model 8. I
> think one is a 13 slot chassis, the other a 17.
>
I have a /10 in a 13 slot chassis. ~512K installed, several more 192 and
<snippage>
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----- Forwarded message from Lorenzo Colautti <lcolautti(a)libero.it> -----
From: "Lorenzo Colautti" <lcolautti(a)libero.it>
To: <mrbill(a)pdp11.org>
Subject: Two PDP-11 in Italy
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 18:38:13 +0100
Hello!
I have two fully-functional PDP11-45 systems, with some spare parts, documentation, tests, ecc.
But in Italy I was unable to find any person or organisation interested in this.
Can you help me? I don't wont throw them!
Lorenzo Colautti
colautti.lorenzo(a)enel.it
Endesa Italia s.r.l.
Monfalcone (GO)
ITALY
----- End forwarded message -----
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mrbill(a)mrbill.net
Austin, TX
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doc [mailto:doc@mdrconsult.com]
> a copy of 3.1. I just haven't found the hardware combo to run it.
> I still don't know where I got this, but I found tarball & README.
> It's AfterStep, with a title & readme touting it as "OpenSTEP for
> Linux". Somebody's idea of a joke?
No, somebody just probably forgot to check their facts. :)
Chris
Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
Amdocs - Champaign, IL
/usr/bin/perl -e '
print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n");
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Just a quick note to let everyone know that Yahoo is having a free
listing day on Tuesday. I plan on putting a number of items there up for
auction that might be of interest to listmembers, and will post the URL
tomorrow.
