22 Sep
2000
22 Sep
'00
10:16 a.m.
Sounds like a control computer for a GenRad automated pc-board
testing system. They used various pdp11 machines to run their board
testing machines. I'd say it's a pretty nice score.
-Dave McGuire
On September 22, Joe wrote:
A couple of weeks ago I found a box in a scrap yard
with a half height 8"
floppy drive it in. The box was marked "Gen-Rad" and looked like part of a
old piece of test equipment. I picked up the box just for the floppy drive
and brought it home. Today I started to take it apart and found that it was
made by Scientific Micro Systems and has a number of DEC cards in it as
well as a Maxtor XT-1085 hard drive. My question is what is it and weather
it's worth keeping or is it just good for parts?
Here's the details; It's marked "Gen Rad 2295 Central Station" on the
front. The back is marked "Scientific Micro Systems" "model
MDX01170".
It's about 9" w x 11" h x 17" deep. On the back it has eight DB-25m
ports
on the back. They're marked "TZ0" through "TZ3", "LP0"
and "TT0" through
"TT2". Inside it has a DEC M7957 quad board, a half size board made by
Sigma Information Systems Inc (connected to the TT* and LP0 ports), a half
size "Q RAM 11" board made by Clear Point (memory?), a DEC M 8186 half size
card, and a half size SMS card (1002001-0001/0004220-0001) that is also
connected via a jumper to the last card, a full quad size SMS card
(1001939-0001/0003770-0001). The last card has ribbon cables that connect
to the floppy and hard drive.
Does anyone know what it is? Is it worth anything? FWIW I haven't tried
to connect a terminal to it yet but it appears to power up and boot.
Joe
2 Oct
2 Oct
12:42 a.m.
I hooked up the box this weekend and it seems to work fine except that I
don't know any of the account names or passwords so I couldn't log on to
it. Can anyone tell me how to break into RSX-11M? I don't know anything
about RSX-11, are there any on-line references to it? I was able to set the
time and date and to tell it to verify the hard drive and it did that with
no problems. I also used the Help files extensively. Besides RSX-11M, it
also has a lot of Gen-Rad utilities installed. They also have a lot of help
files. Everything appears to work perfectly except for not being able to
log in.
Joe
On September 22, Joe wrote:
A couple of weeks ago I found a box in a scrap
yard with a half height 8"
floppy drive it in. The box was marked "Gen-Rad" and looked like part of a
old piece of test equipment. I picked up the box just for the floppy drive
and brought it home. Today I started to take it apart and found that it was
made by Scientific Micro Systems and has a number of DEC cards in it as
well as a Maxtor XT-1085 hard drive. My question is what is it and weather
it's worth keeping or is it just good for parts?
Here's the details; It's marked "Gen Rad 2295 Central Station" on the
front. The back is marked "Scientific Micro Systems" "model
MDX01170".
It's about 9" w x 11" h x 17" deep. On the back it has eight DB-25m
ports
on the back. They're marked "TZ0" through "TZ3", "LP0"
and "TT0" through
"TT2". Inside it has a DEC M7957 quad board, a half size board made by
Sigma Information Systems Inc (connected to the TT* and LP0 ports), a half
size "Q RAM 11" board made by Clear Point (memory?), a DEC M 8186 half size
card, and a half size SMS card (1002001-0001/0004220-0001) that is also
connected via a jumper to the last card, a full quad size SMS card
(1001939-0001/0003770-0001). The last card has ribbon cables that connect
to the floppy and hard drive.
Does anyone know what it is? Is it worth anything? FWIW I haven't tried
to connect a terminal to it yet but it appears to power up and boot.
Joe
7:10 a.m.
Well there's a chance that the previous owner was lazy... Try 'system'
'system' for user/password.
BTW, a short intro...
I'm Jim Arnott. A former system admin for a LAN using: 11/24s, 11/23s and an
11/44. O/S rt11sj, rt11sj and rsx11m+ respectively. All Decnetted together.
(Coordinate measuring machines talking to the data gatherer.) It's been a
number of years, but I do remember a bit... Also was hooked to the ibm370
through RJE-HASP.
Since then, Macs exclusively.
I'll not be much help from the hardware end (aerospace contractor, full-boat
Dec service contract!) but I might be able to help out with o/s issues from
time to time.
Jim
Joe wrote:
I hooked up the box this weekend and it seems to work fine except that I
don't know any of the account names or passwords so I couldn't log on to
it. Can anyone tell me how to break into RSX-11M? I
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