The good news is that I recently acquired a VAX 8350 in good condition
along with a back plane full of cards. The bad news is that, despite all
the cards in there, the previous owner had removed the CPU cards (both of
'em, this being a dual processor machine!).
Does anybody have a KA825, T1001-YA cpu card that they'd be willing to
give away, sell, or trade for other VAXBI cards? One CPU's enough (I'll
settle for an 8250!).
And does anybody have a boot diskette (BOOT58) for an 8250/8350 that I
could copy?
Thanks much
Bob Armstrong
Doing some clean-up, I have SCO XENIX System V and Netware v2.2 (286) manual
sets & S/W
I am probably going to put them up for trade (or free) but before I do that
does anyone want some of them scanned?
I also have an ALTOS III terminal user's guide
-Scott Quinn
It looks like the KA43 is bad-the internal SCSI cable worked when I connected
it to another SCSI card (via one of the drive connectors), it recognized and
mounted a disk under Linux. If anyone has another KA-43 or similar, I might be
in the market.
-Scott Quinn
Hello, cctech!
I recently recieved a call from a friend of a friend regarding a laptop
that has come into her posession after a coworker of her died. She was
doing some sort of environmental research, and all her work is stored on
this computer.
I tried taking the path of turning it on and just doing a copy that way.
No such luck - the plasma display has a garbled and not stable display -
text is garbled to the point that I can't read it, and it basically
looks like it's about to go straight to hell. It does boot from harddisk
- I feared that the plasma might be sensitive to power variations or
something like that, and thus tried getting the machine apart.
After struggling to get the harddrive in sight (the braindead (%(/%
&(/?/&%# engineers at Toshiba made the screen cable plug
non-detatchable!!) it has a strange plug and from what I can tell has
about 26 pins (I was counting on the ribbon, and I'm quite tired, so
that may be wrong) and the disk seems to be of JVC manufacture.
What does the plasma shakiness/garbledness mean?
What type is the disk? Can I get it out and use it on another machine,
or do i have to put the POS back together?
Is the floppy drive 1.44M?
Has anyone heard of an Ashton-Tate program called FrameWorks? If and
when I get the data off, I will need to convert this to a newer format -
what is it? Text processing? Database?
If I get the data off this machine, very cool things will come my way -
at least an LSI-11, and maybe a lot more!! *giggle like schoolgirl* So
any help is greatly appreciated!
MTIA,
--
Tore S Bekkedal <toresbe(a)ifi.uio.no>
Any X11 R3 fanatics on the list? :-)
I'm trying to get xearth to compile on this 'ere Tek XD88, which only
has X11 release 3 - xearth uses a few odds and ends which only showed up
in R4.
Question - is there an equivalent of XListPixmapFormats in release 3 or
is it something I'm going to have to bodge myself?
The other two functions for which I haven't found an R3 equivalent are
XSetWMNormalHints and XAllocSizeHints - either there isn't one or
they're lurking under different names...
I *think* there might be a R4 upgrade for the XD88 floating around on
the 'net, at least I've seen reference to one. How involved (or
complete) it is I don't know though.
cheers
Jules
More on the saga of getting the DS/DD drive working in this machine...
I borrowed a tape demagnetizer (Radio Shack doesn't carry them anymore) and
picked up some anhydrous isopropyl alcohol ($3.55 US for a pint).
Demagnetizing and cleaning the heads has done the trick. I now have two
genuine IBM (Qumetrak 142) disk drives running nicely. On the plus side, I
now also have a 30MHz scope. A fellow ham has given me one that he was not
using, with the understanding that if he needs it back he can have it.
The big question is what am I going to do with a full pint of alcohol? I
have some 8" drives to finish refurbing, but then I'll still have 99.5% of a
pint left.
Thanks for all the help.
Kelly
Thanks for everyone's help in the past- adamg helped me get my Apollo running
and Dwight Elvey gave me more info on the Polymorphic Card (don't have a kbd
yet- nor any firmware so that project is on hold for a while). The S-100
manpage is great-the only manuals I couldn't find were the IDS modem and the
Digital Systems 8" floppy.
Now I'm trying to get my first VAX up, and it's having SCSI issues.
(VS3100/76, 32MB, no GFX option, no kbd/mouse, no drives,10bT tranceiver
With the cable plugged in (no devices), bus A fails with FFFFFFFF FFFFFFFF
FFFFFFFF FFFFFFFF FFFFFFFF FFFFFF03 FFFFFFFF FFFFFFFF.
If you take off the cable from the KA43, it passes the test. Presence or
absence of the terminator on the bus makes no difference.
If it were not for the fact that it works without the cable, I would assume
that the system board was dead, and probably toss it (it doesn't look easy to
replace the 5380s) but I don't want a VAX to die unnecessarily, and I'm not
sure where to go from here as far as troubleshooting.
When I got it, the SCSI cable was unplugged so it might have been yanked on
before someone realized there were clips, but it doesn't appear obviously
damaged.
Does anybody know how Digital marketing explained the 68-pin SCSI and MMJ as
improvements, or did they even try?
-Scott Quinn
