I have paper copies of a few manuals I have no use for. Most of these
are single-sided photocopies made by others and sent to me for scanning
years ago. These are not originals. Almost all of them appear to be
available on bitsavers, but if you have a penchant for paper, this might
be your chance. Available by post (for whatever it costs to send them
plus the paypal fee) or by arrangement in Reading, UK.
MicroVAX Troubleshooting and Diagnostics. EK-O19AE-SG-005
MicroVAX Dual-Host Systems. EK-338AC-DH-003
VAX-11/780 Unibus Adaptor Technical Description. EK-DW780-TD.001
VAX-11/730 Diagnostic System User's Guide. EK-DS780-UG.002
VAX-11/780 Installation Manual. EK-SI780-IN-002
Translation Buffer Cache and SBI Control Technical Description.
EK-MM780-TD.001
VAX-11/780 Hardware User's Guide. EK-11780-UG-001
VAX-11/780 Console Interface Board Technical Description. EK-KC780-TD.001
FB780 Floating-Point Accelerator. EK-FP780-TD.001
MS780 Memory System Technical Description. EK-MS780-TD.001
* KA780 Centraler Processor Technical Description. EK-KA780-TD.001
* KA655 CPU System Maintenance. EK-306AA-MG.001
The last two (marked *) do not currently appear to be on bitsavers. They
do appear in my index of local files so I'll make them available to Al
sometime soon.
Send emails off-list please.
Antonio
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Antonio Carlini
antonio at acarlini.com
Hey all - We have had soft-launched it on our website calendar a few months
ago but I wanted to confirm that yes on October 16 - 18 2020 the first
annual "Kennett Classic" weekend is scheduled and a GO; venue booked and
implementation is under way.
The centerpiece of the weekend will be a contest between teams of vintage
computer hobbyists competing for the Kennett Classic Cup, an award to the
team with the best network of vintage hardware based on up-time and
connectivity. There will be a substantial prize awarded to the winning
team. We're really excited to share the details of this event, but stand
by for now. In addition to the on-site teams, we will open the contest to
any qualifying team worldwide. This is a first-of-its-kind world-wide
vintage computing networking event!
We're working on the registration pages now, and once they're live we'll
share all of the details. Think of the Kennett Classic Cup as a car rally
for vintage computers. We have many other activities planned for that
weekend, stay tuned.
Interested?
We look forward to making this a huge success.
Bill Degnan
Kennett Classic
Kennett Square, PA
https://www.kennettclassic.com
Hello,
Does anyone have the "Extended Industry Standard Architecture Revision 3.10"
specification either in printed/book form that they are willing to separate
>from or in some sort of electronic format ala PDF? I am mostly interested in
the sections on the syntax for EISA CFG files. TIA!
-Ali
Hi - I am looking for an IMSAI PCS 80-30 ROM image made for with the
Tarbell 1011 controller and Persci 277..anyone have this? I received a
system and drive but I think the ROM was replaced and since then I was told
the system would no longer boot.
In the meantime I am going to find a drive and controller that is
compatible.
Or, ug, have to try to edit the ROM I have (version 1.1) to operate with
this hardware. I would not having a copy of ROM 1.0 at least to start from
scratch with.
Thanks
Bill Degnan
One shot in the dark if anyone has the DSP development or interface toolkit for
NI's TMS320C30 Nubus cards. I have a bunch of boards but never found any software
to use with them. This is probably LabView 2 or 3 timeframe.
I see NI, who is normally pretty good with keeping manuals around doesn't even
have them online any more for boards like the DSP2300
Hi,
I have access to some DEC items for a month or two before a house is
sold. Photographs are linked here:
https://imgur.com/a/HqxI4JA
I can locate and forward any items, if still available, for actual
shipping costs and any nominal packaging material costs.
Summary:
Hitachi ESDI drives
RX50 drives (many)
TK50 tapes (many)
DEC Professional magazine 1987-1994
DECUS software abstracts
DECUS software catalogues
Controlling Software Projects (DeMARCO)
Programming in C with Let's C (Vine)
Surefire Programming in C (Stewart)
PDP-11 Systems and Options Catalogs 1983-1989
Various databooks, DECdirect, etc
DECUScope magazines
Copies of RT-11 SIG newsletter(s)
issues of digital Canadian Digest, 1980s
DECUS Canada mailings
digital news & review magazines ("The Independent Newspaper & Test Lab
of Open Computing for DEC Sites")
various PDU units (see pic)
RD52/RD53 drives
various empty chassis/backplanes (see pics)
BA23 shells (2)
various tapes, drives (see pics)
As I said, last call, gone in 1-2 months.
--Toby
I have my Sun-4/110C set up and running SunOS 4.1.4.
Were there any fun SunView applications or hacks back in the day?
Other than the demos, the only stuff I currently have is emacstool (built as part of emacs 18.59) and the PLATO client (which I haven?t actually built yet). I know I can read through the comp.sources.unix archives but I figure maybe some folks might remember things to look for.
-- Chris
Hello folks;
I've recently had some free time and decided to look at some hardware
failures in my small collection.? I fixed a couple of analog boards in
the compact Mac department, and a failed scsi disk in one of them
prompted me to test the small stash of such drives that I have.? Turns
out, about half of those marked as "working" in 2015 have failed now in
many different ways.? Oh well... sucks, but it was to be expected...
I decided to image some of the still working ones, both in the stash and
in working machines.?? The one in the vaxstation 2000 (a 1GB scsi with
5.5-2) turned out to have file system corruption (probably from? AC
power failures), which has taken a while to fix.? And then, I remembered
that said system originally came with an RD53 that has sat elsewhere for
25 years.? It passed a read test in 2005.? So I tried to see if I could
read it and maybe image it now, but no go. The disk spins up, initiates
a seek (the arm is not stuck in a gooey stop pad; I've read that this is
a common failure mechanism for Micropolis 1325's; I opened it and saw
the arm move) but then the arm returns violently (clacking) to the rest
position; it does this a number of times (two to four, usually) and then
it spins down. Applied voltages and currents remain ok as this happens.
I've seen plenty of internet content about solving the stuck arm
problem, but not this.
Advice, please?
Carlos.