RE: Box of HP 1000 series MUX cards - 12040
Guy wrote... Wow. Way to make everyone interested in restoring HP 1000 systems (me included) hate you. I'm thrilled that he took the time to post them here before they hit the shredder. Thanks Jesse, much appreciated!
OT Parts houses & scrappers
Kudos to Jesse for working with me offlist, I feel I've gotten a good deal. I appreciate the offers to help purchase, very much, but I got this taken care of directly with Jesse and I'm happy. We have to understand, as others pointed out, that if no one speaks up for stuff at a price that can keep the parts houses in business then the parts won't be around. By the same token, the parts houses have to know we can't pay typical full price that corporations/military can. We must be willing to pay something above scrap value, of course. I ask folks to keep an open mind and give Jesse a fair shake moving forward. Best, J
RE: Hewlett-Packard 3000, 9000, Itanium (HP-UX & MPE/iX) Servers, Storage Arrays, Replacement Parts, Maintenance, & Disaster back-ups
Grant wrote... --- Conversely "Hay everybody, check out what we have for sale this week!" is not so cool. -- I've dealt with Jesse before, at least I tried to. I needed a particular board that he had (part of a 12920 mux set) that has almost no commercial value. That board wasn't generally used under the more "still commercially viable" os's like rte. It was generally only used for HP TSB which isn't going to have commercial interest. He wanted somewhere around $1500 for it, and would not negotiate much really. ISTR that someone made mention that the stuff was pitched later, unsold. So sad. I agree that the general introductory blast post was a bit over the top. But I don't think it's been posted here regularly, and vendors that obviously contribute here get a little leeway (Cindy). I figure some may not be familiar with Cypress/Dougherty systems so one intro email per six months or year doesn't bug me. More often will draw some ire ;) If Dougherty Systems wants to participate in this mailing list, there needs to be some 'collector friendly' value, it's a two way street. I suggest that Jeff @ Cypress scan maybe a year of past postings by Cindy @ Electronics Plus, and emulate. J
List Server Maintenance
Sorry for the short notice folks (due to spotty communication between myself and the guy who handles backups), but I need to take the classiccmp server down for a day, maybe a day and a half. We need to get it off one cluster and on to another, and the backup goes from a moment in time snapshot, so we'd loose any list traffic after that point. There's ways around this, but far easier for me to do it this way. Rest assured, things will be back as quickly as possible (watching the tape spin). J
RE: Which Operating System for my DCC-116 E / Entrex 480 / Nixdorf 620 / Data General Nova 1200 clone ?
The 'other Jay' wrote... -- Diagnostics for DG systems are notoriously difficult to find. I have a few, in listing format. -- I have a full official DG-issued/labeled original diagnostic OS tape. I do believe it is at 800bpi though. If I had an 800 bpi drive (everything I have is 1600-6250) I'd image it for everyone. I have a nice S/130 rack that I was almost finished restoring till Bruce Ray stopped responding. It's been sitting in my workshop for years now and I may have to just get rid of it. Next to it is a pile of about 8 nova 800/1200 cpus (all stuffed with boards) that I was going to start on next, but was waiting till the S/130 was done. I'd like to get done with them so I can move on to other machines that need to be restored... but may have to just move them out altogether. I'm wary of just sending the tape through the mail for imaging maybe I can find someone local with an 800 bpi tape drive and eric smith's tapeutils. J
RE: Almost PDP 11/05 on Ebay
A guy recently contacted me that had an 11/05 for sale, stating his first preference was it go to a museum and if that failed, he wanted to sell it. I sure hope he's not parting it out on ebay Please don’t email me about it... if the museum he's currently talking to doesn't take it, I'll post it as 'equipment available' here. Best, J
RE: Joe Rigdon
I keep his pages online as he had a pretty huge amount of info and pictures. On more than one occasion over the years I have tried to locate him, and posted on the list about it. There have been no positive responses J
RE: Manual sought - Northern Telecom Spectron D101
John wrote... -- I saw your post online regarding the D-101 Datascope Manual. If you still have copy, I'm interested. Please let me know? Thank you. -- He must be referring to a post I had made... quite some time ago I was looking for manuals... I did find them. I'll reply to him directly off-list. J
