< I imagine I was just lucky and the DEC disks came in to the
<shop separately, but a nagging idea of the Rainbows ability to boot
<msdos came to mind. I also finally found a DEC k-b for a long-dormant
<Rainbow which has a 5meg Seagate. When I get the 15-pin video cable
<I'll be able to check further.
Rainbows did run MSdos versions 1.1 and 2.11.. I may even have a copy of
2.11(rx50).
Allison
At 07:46 AM 3/9/98, you wrote:
>>I'll give you $40 for one to kill two birds with one stone: I'll get an
>>HX-20, and we'll establish the going market price for them.
I hate to say it, but there is a market for them, (one of which is right
here) and $40 for a machine as described (assuming it works) is rather on
the cheap side. Probably closer to $75, maybe even $100+ if you put it up
for auction on eBay.
Something tells me I should really be tracking what I pay for my
machines... I guess I'll start doing that.
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Found in comp.os.vms:
>Hello all,
>We have several (currently 6, more to come) VaxServer 3100's that
>we have retired from service. They had been doing Macintosh file =
>serving,
>for the last 5 years and have been replaced with NT boxes.
>Our current options are either 1) find them a good home, 2) send them
>to State Surplus Equipment, or 3) throw them out.
>I can offer them FREE to anyone who wants them, PROVIDED you
>arrange to either pick them up or have them shipped to you at no
>cost to us.
>Also available are a couple of Storage Expansion units for these boxes,
>a few VT320's, and 3 TLZ04 tape drives.
>The 3100's are rather minimally configured, nothing beyond the base
>memory (8MB? maybe 16MB?) and a relatively small hard drive
>(250MB?). I'm not primarily a Vax person, so I'm not sure what other
>information anyone might need, but feel free to ask.
>These machines do work. They came out of service between September
>and now, and were under DEC service agreements until June 30th, 1997.
>We intended to donate them to a sister college, who later decided they
>didn't want them, and we tried a used equipment dealer who didn't want
>them either.
>If anyone's interested, please reply to me by email. If we don't get =
>rid
>of them by the end of next week, the whole lot goes to State Surplus.
>Tony Harris
>Network Administrator
>Community College of Vermont
>harrist(a)mail.ccv.vsc.edu
I'm looking for a manual (hardware / service / etc.) for an
HP "9869A Calculator Card Reader". Just for clarification,
this is a 50 pound table-top beast from the mid-70s that
seems to be a full 80/40 column hollerith. Has 117v primary
and a 34pin "ribbon" ("centronics-style") connector for I/O.
I can probably make it "go" without docs, but it will be
easier to repair and adjust if I have the specifics.
Of course, the usual offer of payment for copies or (preferably)
originals is in effect.
Thanks for any info,
Gary
<2)Let's take the GRiD server as an example (I have never seen a GRiD
< machine, BTW). How does it differ from any desktop system?
Too broad a question. What is a desktop system? I can come up with
several that might surprize you.
<3)Have there been any machines that made extensive use of a truly
< unusual architecture? What I am looking for is twofold: I am
< interested if anything ever used a neural network-like arrangement,
< and I am interested in something that had a processor that
< interacted w/the user and a separate one to do the processing
< (ie a real-time system capable of doing all that a normal one can)
IS there one or three questions in there?
yes there have been some very unusual machines like transputers,
connection machines, vector processors, Turing machines.
the latter half of your question is too broad. My z80 s-s100 crate would
qualify as the OS was distributed over several z80s but only on had the
user interface. The Vax-11/780 had a qbuss PDP-11 as a diagnostic fromt
pannel. An xterm on an eithernet to a server could even qualify.
Allison
At 03:55 PM 3/9/98 -0500, you wrote:
>> [Not too heavy?]
>>
>> No, it's just actually not as heavy as it looks. Most of the insides are
>> air.
>
>Well, that is true. Most big IBMs are that way. IBM still managed to use
>some very heavy parts - heavy gauge steel chassis, big stiff transformers,
>and disk drives with really big motors.
>
>Still, once a computer tips the scale over 300 or so pounds, I consider it
>heavy.
>
>William Donzelli
>william(a)ans.net
>
>
Heavy? Not if you add the optional System/34 Transport Attachment (shoulder
harness/hernia belt), IBM PN 74G5666.
Sorry, couldn't resist.
David
dwollmann(a)ibmhelp.com
At 08:54 AM 3/9/98 -0500, Ward Donald Griffiths III wrote:
>> Well my 3B2 and 6300 cases match exactly. (Brown bottom, white tops, black
>> inserts, etc.)
>
>Check for the suffix WGS after 6300. The 6300 WGS (_much_ more PC
>compatible than the original) had that color scheme, the original had
>a mostly black front. Does it have the DB-25 video connector? I'll
>accept an interim color change that I might have missed -- I only
>dealt with AT&T equipment when the WGS systems were just appearing
>and the original 6300 and 6300+ had been discontinued -- but the
>store kept so much old stuff in inventory that I shouldn't have
>missed anything like that.
I don't recall if there was a "WGS" or not (in storage now) but it does have
the 25 pin video connector. The color scheme is brownish-black base with
the top being approx 1 1/2" white bordered and about half of the middle
section being black, the other half, or course, depending on the color of
the drives in the system. Sorry the above is so confusing.
Les
>--
>Ward Griffiths
>Dylan: How many years must some people exist,
> before they're allowed to be free?
>WDG3rd: If they "must" exist until they're "allowed",
> they'll never be free.
>
>
I have, at some what short notice, been told I am going to Taiwan
tomorrow (for two weeks). :-(
I shall be able to redirect my e-mail, but past experience of such
things shows that I usually get my list subscription forcibly set to
"postpone" after about a week under such conditions.
However, (and this is the real point of the message), I shall probably
have some space for souvenirs on the return journey. Does anyone on the
list know of _any_ Taiwannese computer equipment which could be
considered a classic? (Preferably not a PC clone!)
Philip.
It looks like I am now the proud owner of a LINC-8 carcass - stripped of
everything but the front panel, backplane, scope, supplies, and core
stack. The LINC-8s are interesting machines in that they are a PDP-8s
(staight-8s) with strapped on LINC processors. They were made for a few
years in the 1960s until the PDP-12 came about.
I am looking for ANY of the small DEC Flip-Chips in the R, S, B, G, A, or
W category (I do not yet have numbers). These are much smaller than the
more common modules found in later PDP-8s and -11s, but still have the
familiar plastic handles found on the M series boards. These have no ICs
on them, but may have weird looking hybrid grey SIP packages (at least I
have seen some on R107 modules).
Any leads would be appreciated. Thank you.
William Donzelli
william(a)ans.net
"Bob Wood" <altair8800(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>I am in the market for a Sol 20 and and/or an Imsai 8080.
A few weeks ago, a couple Altair systems on ebay.com went for
more than $1500 each. However, an IMSAI was recently sold for
$126 on comp.os.cpm. Prices are all over the map, from $0 to
$1500 it seems.
Aren't you the guy who's always posting messages to newsgroups,
saying you're looking for these machines? Are you a collector
or an arbitrageur? Judging by author profiles at www.dejanews.com,
it looks like you deal in all sorts of collectables. Can you
tell us more about your business?
- John
Jefferson Computer Museum <http://www.threedee.com/jcm>
