I'm having reluctantly to admit to myself that I am not going to find the
time to do something with the PDP 11/34 and pair of RL01 drives that have
been sitting in my garage for far too long (18 months). There are also about
a dozen disk packs that supposedly have various versions of RT, RSX, and
Coherent on them and some manuals.
If you are interested in making a reasonable+ offer for part or all of
this please email me. In theory this is a collection only* offer but I may
be able to deliver within, say 50, miles for the cost of the petrol at about
25 mpg. Longer deliveries may be possible depending on location.
* Location is within 8 miles of Southend-on-Sea in Essex.
+ On eBay I believe I could get well over ?100, but probably not as much as
?200. Possibly even better if I split the manuals off and sold them
separately.
I have never powered any part of this on - the disk packs and drives should
certainly be properly cleaned before use and the precautions repeatedly
emphasised on this list should be taken before powering-on.
The arm of the breaker switch on the back of the processor has broken so
this will probably need replacing.
I have some other items of DEC and SUN (Sparc 5/10/20, Ultra 30) equipment
and a desktop HP Unix workstation that may be of interest.
Andy
I sent this before but with a useless subject title, sorry about that.
<>I measured the ones I have in my garage. The 3420 is 30" wide x 30" deep x 66.5" tall
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including the casters and control panel on top. The 3803 is 30" wide x
<>28" deep x 60" tall. The carrier estimated weight for both of mine was
1150 pounds.
Bob
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>
I thought I'd make this stuff available before I send it off the the
recyclers.
I really don't want to ship it, it's just not worth the time, but I can
deliver to the
Silicon Valley area or it can be picked up at my home in Santa Cruz.
Three IBM 5154 EGA type color monitors.
Three IBM 5151 Monochrome monitors.
PS2-30 with keyboard.
Three XT chassis missing the hard and floppy drives but
complete otherwise (motherboard, power supply, some I/O cards etc.)
Packard Bell XT type system with color monitor and keyboard. This
boots up and I can do a directory on the hard disk.
I did not try out the other stuff but it all came from the Dovebid Telogy
auction and so far everything I did test worked.
There may be more monitors and another system or two after I get them
all sorted out.
If anyone wants any of it, please let me know soon, I really need the space!
Bob
Unless somebody can convince me why it is a bad idea or is willing to
pick it up (in west central Ohio, USA), one functional LA180 is going to
be scrapped on Thursday (local trash pickup day).
I will probably save the base and figure out if it is possible to put an
ASR33 on top of it, but the rest will go...
... except maybe the head servo motor, some gears, pulleys and belts.
chd
Hi,
Can someone recommend me a freighter who can pickup a cabinet
and do all the necessary work including putting in on a pallet,
wrapping it in plastic etc and ship it?
Location is Westmont (IL) and is destined for The Netherlands.
URL's are of course welcome!
Please reply off-list.
Thanks,
Ed
Hi Guys,
Found a couple of docs on the net which proved useful.
One "A guide to the pick operating system" - a very brief
summary of the system, and gives a few commands...
2nd was a "hackers guide", which gave a list of common
accounts ... So I tried them on my system, and here is
what I found:
COLDSTART
SUPPORT
- These exist, but have unknown passwords
ACC
BLOCK-CONVERT
SYSTEM-ERRORS
- These exist, have no passwords, and drop you into a '>'
prompt, however it appears to have NO commands. No
matter what I try, I get:
ERRMSG [ERRMSG] 3
ERRMSG
- As above, except that the message I get is:
[3] What was that?
-- Now to the more interesting ones --
BACKUP
- Exists, no password, launches a tape backup menu.
It appears that I can do a backup of the system to tape
from here.
GAMES
- Exists, no password, launches a menu of games you can
play (there's quite a few).With the option "Press NL to exit"
Hitting return (blank line) drops you to the '>' prompt, however
this appears to be a fully functional TCL shell. You can do
WHO, WHAT, WHERE etc.
I found LISTVERBS and it shows 147 commands. Haven't tried,
but looks like I can format and manipulate tapes from here.
Also looks like I've got BASIC, and EDITor - there's a COMPILE
command, but I have no idea what for... Lots of others.
Btw - Hitting BREAK in any of the above accounts once logged in
does get you to the '!' debugger - END resumes.
Regards,
Dave
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dunfield (dot) Firmware development services & tools: www.dunfield.com
com Collector of vintage computing equipment:
http://www.parse.com/~ddunfield/museum/index.html
Al:
Weekends are best. Most Friday or Saturday evenings if you call ahead first. I'll send you contact info privately.
What are you referring to as the Tandy 16b that does not have 8" drives? What kind of computer was it? Do you have any pictures or online references to one?
Technically, Tandy/radio Shack did not swich to the "Tandy" name on the II/12/16/16b/6000 line until the 6000. I currently have at least 6 16b computers, and they are all labeled "TRS-80".
I have 4 6000 computers and they are all labled "Tandy"
However, they are essentially identical machines with a slightly faster clock speed in the 6000, and two PAL upgrades.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org
> [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of
> Alwrcker82 at wmconnect.com
> Sent: Saturday, April 15, 2006 1:15 PM
> To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
> Subject: Re: Tandy Model 16b computers availabe
>
>
> Hi there is a Tandy 16b, not a TRS-80 16b. and I would like
> the one you have
> with the 8" drive, when is a good time for me to come,
> weekends are best for
> me but I will work with you. My phone # 610.488.0212 after
> 6:00pm or weekends
> or I can call you if you want.
>
> Thanks, Al DePermentier
>
Hi there is a Tandy 16b, not a TRS-80 16b. and I would like the one you have
with the 8" drive, when is a good time for me to come, weekends are best for
me but I will work with you. My phone # 610.488.0212 after 6:00pm or weekends
or I can call you if you want.
Thanks, Al DePermentier
