Re: FTGH Large amount of DEC/Misc Classic computer hardware

[Peter C. Wallace via cctalk]

On Fri, 17 Mar 2017, Jon Elson wrote:


Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 21:02:34 -0500
From: Jon Elson 
To: Peter C. Wallace ,
General Discussion:  On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts 
;
Subject: Re: FTGH Large amount of DEC/Misc Classic computer hardware

On 03/17/2017 02:56 PM, Peter C. Wallace via cctalk wrote:

We need to move our business and I have about a ton of
classic cimputer junk in the SFBA that need to go or get scrapped:

You, too, Peter?  Wow, this is sure a small world!  I'm still getting rid of 
a few VAX items.


Jon



Yeah we have a new place but less storage room at least for a couple of years
I also thought I would be playing around with my old computer stuff when I 
retired, but I really dont see that happening (retiring soon or playing with 
old electronics for fun when I do) also significant pressure from SO to

"get rid of that junk"


Peter Wallace

Re: FTGH Large amount of DEC/Misc Classic computer hardware

[Jon Elson via cctalk]

On 03/17/2017 02:56 PM, Peter C. Wallace via cctalk wrote:

We need to move our business and I have about a ton of
classic cimputer junk in the SFBA that need to go or get 
scrapped:


You, too, Peter?  Wow, this is sure a small world!  I'm 
still getting rid of a few VAX items.


Jon

Re: DEC items

[Peter C. Wallace via cctalk]

On Fri, 17 Mar 2017, Paul Anderson via cctalk wrote:


Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 17:15:42 -0500
From: Paul Anderson via cctalk 
Reply-To: Paul Anderson ,
"General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" 
To: Peter C. Wallace via cctalk 
Subject: DEC items

Hi Peter,

Sounds like a nice collection. Which PDP11s do you have?


Unfortunately its pretty buried. Its in one of those narrow vertical cases and 
i dont think its a terribly desirable or fast one though ISTR that it does 
have a A-D card installed



Thanks, Paul



Peter Wallace
Mesa Electronics

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DEC items

[Paul Anderson via cctalk]

Hi Peter,

Sounds like a nice collection. Which PDP11s do you have?

Thanks, Paul

Re: Unix type OS things

[devin davison via cctalk]

YES please, thanks :)

-Devin

On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 3:49 PM, Electronics Plus via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:

> You guys want me to list these? Manuals, software, Tandy Xenix 6000 binder
> with 8" floppies and manual? Some old (but sealed IBM 8" floppies for I
> don't recall what (not blanks).
>
>
>
> Cindy Croxton
>
>

Re: FTGH Large amount of DEC/Misc Classic computer hardware

[Peter C. Wallace via cctalk]

On Fri, 17 Mar 2017, Kirk Davis wrote:


Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 13:08:31 -0700
From: Kirk Davis 
To: Peter C. Wallace ,
"General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" 
Subject: Re: FTGH Large amount of DEC/Misc Classic computer hardware

My Plate is full but I??m sure others would like to know the location of this 
stuff.



Richmond CA (Hilltop business park)




On Mar 17, 2017, at 12:56 PM, Peter C. Wallace via cctalk 
 wrote:

We need to move our business and I have about a ton of
classic cimputer junk in the SFBA that need to go or get scrapped:

Many Decstations (3100, 5000/1xx and 5000/240/260s series even a 5100)
many Vaxstations 3100s mostly
Vax 4000 300?
5" DEC hard drives
Many DEC mice
Small Alphas
Dec/HP  CRT monitors
HP ~1990s Unix workstations and parts
Versatec CE3000 plotter (huge)
test equipment (misc Tek scopes and plugins mainly)
Symbolics 3645? (from Guy Sotomayer a few years back)
HP 2115? mini
PDP 11
Couple 3 KW UPSs with bad batterys
SR22 calculator
Altos 5 15
etc

Would really like all to go to someone in the CC community who can take all and 
sort/distribute themselves rather than cherry pick but that may be optimistic...



Peter Wallace





Peter Wallace
Mesa Electronics

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Re: FTGH Large amount of DEC/Misc Classic computer hardware

[Kirk Davis via cctalk]

My Plate is full but I’m sure others would like to know the location of this 
stuff.


> On Mar 17, 2017, at 12:56 PM, Peter C. Wallace via cctalk 
>  wrote:
> 
> We need to move our business and I have about a ton of
> classic cimputer junk in the SFBA that need to go or get scrapped:
> 
> Many Decstations (3100, 5000/1xx and 5000/240/260s series even a 5100)
> many Vaxstations 3100s mostly
> Vax 4000 300?
> 5" DEC hard drives
> Many DEC mice
> Small Alphas
> Dec/HP  CRT monitors
> HP ~1990s Unix workstations and parts
> Versatec CE3000 plotter (huge)
> test equipment (misc Tek scopes and plugins mainly)
> Symbolics 3645? (from Guy Sotomayer a few years back)
> HP 2115? mini
> PDP 11
> Couple 3 KW UPSs with bad batterys
> SR22 calculator
> Altos 5 15
> etc
> 
> Would really like all to go to someone in the CC community who can take all 
> and sort/distribute themselves rather than cherry pick but that may be 
> optimistic...
> 
> 
> 
> Peter Wallace
> 

FTGH Large amount of DEC/Misc Classic computer hardware

[Peter C. Wallace via cctalk]

We need to move our business and I have about a ton of
classic cimputer junk in the SFBA that need to go or get scrapped:

Many Decstations (3100, 5000/1xx and 5000/240/260s series even a 5100)
many Vaxstations 3100s mostly
Vax 4000 300?
5" DEC hard drives
Many DEC mice
Small Alphas
Dec/HP  CRT monitors
HP ~1990s Unix workstations and parts
Versatec CE3000 plotter (huge)
test equipment (misc Tek scopes and plugins mainly)
Symbolics 3645? (from Guy Sotomayer a few years back)
HP 2115? mini
PDP 11
Couple 3 KW UPSs with bad batterys
SR22 calculator
Altos 5 15
 etc

Would really like all to go to someone in the CC community who can take all 
and sort/distribute themselves rather than cherry pick but that may be 
optimistic...




Peter Wallace

Unix type OS things

[Electronics Plus via cctalk]

You guys want me to list these? Manuals, software, Tandy Xenix 6000 binder
with 8" floppies and manual? Some old (but sealed IBM 8" floppies for I
don't recall what (not blanks).

 

Cindy Croxton

Re: I the new mail system (our system observed elsewhere).

[jim stephens via cctalk]

On 3/17/2017 8:42 AM, Dave Wade G4UGM via cctalk wrote:

-Original Message-
From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Tor
Arntsen via cctalk
Sent: 17 March 2017 15:38
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts

Subject: Re: I hate the new mail system

On 17 March 2017 at 14:43, Philipp Hachtmann via cctalk
 wrote:


On 03/16/2017 10:07 PM, Mike Stein via cctalk wrote:

I'm pretty confident that every member of the list appreciates the
time, effort and whatever else you and certain others have
contributed to keep this list humming as well as it almost always
does;

Full ack, of course!

But the new addressing scheme still sucks, sorry.
I had occasion last night to go over one of my emails which is 
subscribed to probably 10 different lists.


I found that three of them have converted as long as a year ago to a 
scheme with nearly identical entries in the From:  field which is being 
complained about.


I don't know if the solution converted to here was made up by our own 
maintainer (who I don't know, apologies), but worth pointing out that 
many were doing the same.


This included some Yahoo group mailings as well, but not all.
thanks
Jim

I still maintain that the change solved every issue I've had, reading with 
gmail.
No more posts ending up in the spam folder unless I configured 'never send
to spam' (which has its own issues), no more of the weekly or bi-weekly
automatic de-registrations, and addressing (when replying) at the same level
of difficulty as before (i.e. not much, just edit out what's not needed).

The same here. Much better.

Dave

Re: AC magnetic field strengths

[dwight via cctalk]

Al

 You should also measure at about 1 inch. It is an inverse square decrease

with distance. The rate of drop off is related to the starting point and the

shape of the field.

Some have a flat field out to some distance before they start the inverse square

drop off.

Dwight



From: cctalk  on behalf of js--- via cctalk 

Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2017 5:06:09 PM
To: gene...@classiccmp.org; Discussion@
Subject: Re: AC magnetic field strengths


That is in fact how I spot degauss CRT screens, but using a flat wood
boring bit (metal, obviously, instead of a paint stick) with the magnet
stuck on the end, spun around with a drill.

- J.

On 3/16/2017 6:37 PM, dwight via cctalk wrote:
> It sounds like one can make a fine tape degausser by connecting
>
> a super magnet to the end of a paint stirring rod and use a drill
>
> to spin it.
>
> Dwight
>
>
> 
> From: cctalk  on behalf of Tapley, Mark via 
> cctalk
> Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2017 11:51:07 AM
> To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
> Subject: Re: AC magnetic field strengths
>
> On Mar 15, 2017, at 12:01 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk  
> wrote:
>
>> I bought an AlphaLabs GM-2 Gaussmeter for another project, and measured the 
>> AC magnetic
>> field strength touching these devices yesterday, since I really didn't have 
>> any idea beyond
>> order of magnitude what they might be
>>
>> Handheld tape head demagnetizer: 40 Gauss
>> GC Elec 9317 CRT degausing coil: 70 Gauss
>> Audiolab TD-3 desktop bulk eraser: 1000 Gauss
>> Inmac 7180 or
>> RS 44-233A handheld bulk tape erasers: 2000 Gauss
>>
>>
>>
>> also the DC field of a 1/4" button super magnet like on the
>> backs of clip on badges is about 3000 Gauss
> More context available at:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_of_magnitude_(magnetic_field)
>
> ranging from 50 femtoGauss (what the Gravity Probe B SQUID magnetometers 
> measured with several days’ averaging) to 100 MegaGauss (strongest pulsed 
> field ever obtained at Sandia Labs).
>
> Interestingly that page claims 12.5 kGauss for a "neodymium–iron–boron (Nd2 
> Fe14 B) rare earth magnet” (subscripts on the atomic symbols got converted to 
> plain text during cut-n-paste). Guess the badges have weaker versions?
>
> Interesting to compare earth field and the badge fastener field to practical 
> exposure limit for pacemakers - only about a factor of 10 at the poles - and 
> to loudspeaker coils, which are 5000 times above the recommended pacemaker 
> limit.
>
> Now I know why people with pacemakers don’t like rock music (and name tags)!
>
> :-)
>
>  - 
> Mark
>
>
>

Re: Architectural diversity - was Re: Pair of Twiggys

[Chuck Guzis via cctalk]

On 03/17/2017 11:41 AM, Paul Koning wrote:

> Not quite true.  ALGOL was the first choice for a couple of
> architectures: Electrologica X8, and the Burroughs 48-bit mainframes.
> And I supposed you could claim that status for Bliss in the case of
> VAXen, though in a different sense there was a whole set of high
> level languages that were there day 1 because the architecture
> envisioned all of them (and any combination of them).

I'll also consider that there are probably other exceptions.  Did
FORTRAN or RPG have the honor of "first implemented"  on the S/360 Model
20?  My gut says RPG.

--Chuck

Re: Architectural diversity - was Re: Pair of Twiggys

[Chuck Guzis via cctalk]

On 03/17/2017 11:41 AM, Paul Koning wrote:

> Not quite true.  ALGOL was the first choice for a couple of
> architectures: Electrologica X8, and the Burroughs 48-bit mainframes.
> And I supposed you could claim that status for Bliss in the case of
> VAXen, though in a different sense there was a whole set of high
> level languages that were there day 1 because the architecture
> envisioned all of them (and any combination of them).

Well, okay--the European-American divide must be taken into account--and
the Burroughs B5000 architecture was sui generis.

But by and large, FORTRAN, at least in North America, was the first
language of choice in implementation--after assembly, if one can call
assembly a language--many would call it "symbolic coding"; using symbols
instead of numeric addresses.

--Chuck

Re: Architectural diversity - was Re: Pair of Twiggys

[Paul Koning via cctalk]

> On Mar 17, 2017, at 2:26 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk  
> wrote:
> 
> ...
> It wasn't until the microcomputer era with BASIC, I think that FORTRAN
> wasn't the first HLL to be contemplated for a new architecture.

Not quite true.  ALGOL was the first choice for a couple of architectures: 
Electrologica X8, and the Burroughs 48-bit mainframes.  And I supposed you 
could claim that status for Bliss in the case of VAXen, though in a different 
sense there was a whole set of high level languages that were there day 1 
because the architecture envisioned all of them (and any combination of them).

paul

Re: Fwd: Re: Architectural diversity - was Re: Pair of Twiggys

[Chuck Guzis via cctalk]

On 03/17/2017 11:09 AM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:

> and, although we don't know when YOU were playing it, the march had
> been around half a century, so was probably playing on the radio to
> inspire Backus.  Does that mean that Dan. might be right about it
> being the predecessor to FORTRAN?

Valdres March has been around for more than a century--it's at least 113
years old.

So FORTRAN has some catching up to do.

It wasn't until the microcomputer era with BASIC, I think that FORTRAN
wasn't the first HLL to be contemplated for a new architecture.

--Chuck

Re: Fwd: Re: Architectural diversity - was Re: Pair of Twiggys

[Fred Cisin via cctalk]

In response to a question of who provided the Lisa FORTRAN, guy who
insisted that Valtrep was the predecessor of FORTRAN 'course he also
had OS/2 for the PDP-11, and a PROGRAM that could duplicate alignment
disks, . . .

Isn't "Valdtrep" a Norwegian march by Johannes Hanssen?

It's Valdres https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valdres and Valdres
march.

Oh, I know--I was making a joke.  It's a fine march and I've performed
it in conCert bands many times.


and, although we don't know when YOU were playing it, the march had been 
around half a century, so was probably playing on the radio to inspire 
Backus.  Does that mean that Dan. might be right about it being the 
predecessor to FORTRAN?



OB_Trivia: Originally "FORTRAN" was a portmanteau of "FORmula TRANslation".
cf. Lewis Carroll, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/portmanteau
(Q: Why would anybody make a computer language out of a big suitcase?
 A: for portability!)
In 1992?, the revised standard changed the official spelling from FORTRAN 
to Fortran, (Fortran 8X, Fortran 90)
Valtrep came long after FORTRAN, and had no discernable influence on 
Fortran.



--
Grumpy Ol' Fred ci...@xenosoft.com

Re: Fwd: Re: Architectural diversity - was Re: Pair of Twiggys

[Chuck Guzis via cctalk]

On 03/17/2017 10:06 AM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:

> Oh, I know--I was making a joke.  It's a fine march and I've
> performed it in convert bands many times.


Er, make that "concert bands"

--Chuck

Re: Fwd: Re: Architectural diversity - was Re: Pair of Twiggys

[Chuck Guzis via cctalk]

On 03/17/2017 06:46 AM, Torfinn Ingolfsen via cctalk wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 4:31 AM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk 
>  wrote:
>> On 03/16/2017 08:19 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Isn't "Valdtrep" a Norwegian march by Johannes Hanssen?
> 
> It's Valdres https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valdres and Valdres
> march.

Oh, I know--I was making a joke.  It's a fine march and I've performed
it in convert bands many times.

--Chuck

sealed packets of DOS 6.22 and Win 3.1

[Electronics Plus via cctalk]

If anybody wants them:

https://www.elecshopper.com/dos-6-22-and-windows-3-1-on-3-5-inch-floppy-disk
ettes.html

 

 

Cindy Croxton

RE: I hate the new mail system

[Dave Wade G4UGM via cctalk]

> -Original Message-
> From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Tor
> Arntsen via cctalk
> Sent: 17 March 2017 15:38
> To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
> 
> Subject: Re: I hate the new mail system
> 
> On 17 March 2017 at 14:43, Philipp Hachtmann via cctalk
>  wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 03/16/2017 10:07 PM, Mike Stein via cctalk wrote:
> >>
> >> I'm pretty confident that every member of the list appreciates the
> >> time, effort and whatever else you and certain others have
> >> contributed to keep this list humming as well as it almost always
> >> does;
> >
> > Full ack, of course!
> >
> > But the new addressing scheme still sucks, sorry.
> 
> I still maintain that the change solved every issue I've had, reading with 
> gmail.
> No more posts ending up in the spam folder unless I configured 'never send
> to spam' (which has its own issues), no more of the weekly or bi-weekly
> automatic de-registrations, and addressing (when replying) at the same level
> of difficulty as before (i.e. not much, just edit out what's not needed).

The same here. Much better.

Dave

Re: I hate the new mail system

[Tor Arntsen via cctalk]

On 17 March 2017 at 14:43, Philipp Hachtmann via cctalk
 wrote:
>
>
> On 03/16/2017 10:07 PM, Mike Stein via cctalk wrote:
>>
>> I'm pretty confident that every member of the list appreciates the
>> time, effort and whatever else you and certain others have
>> contributed to keep this list humming as well as it almost always
>> does;
>
> Full ack, of course!
>
> But the new addressing scheme still sucks, sorry.

I still maintain that the change solved every issue I've had, reading
with gmail.
No more posts ending up in the spam folder unless I configured 'never
send to spam' (which has its own issues), no more of the weekly or
bi-weekly automatic de-registrations, and addressing (when replying)
at the same level of difficulty as before (i.e. not much, just edit
out what's not needed).

Re: Architectural diversity - was Re: Pair of Twiggys

[John Forecast via cctalk]

> On Mar 17, 2017, at 9:05 AM, Paul Koning via cctalk  
> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Mar 16, 2017, at 9:28 PM, ben via cctalk  wrote:
>> 
>> But was FORTRAN that portable?
>> Other than the IBM 1130 I cannot think of a small computer
>> that had ample I/O and memory to run and compile FORTRAN. All the
>> other 16 bitters seem to more paper tape I/O.
>> I suspect 90% of all university computers ended up as IBM 360
>> systems. A few ended up with the VAX, but who knows what they
>> ran.
>> Ben.
> 
> I know of FORTRAN implementations for one's complement machines with word 
> length of 24, 27, and 60 bits, decimal machines (IBM 1620), two's complement 
> machines of 12, 16, 48 bit words, just to pick a few.  FORTRAN 
> implementations tended not to be all that demanding of resources: 4k words is 
> a typical minimum.  
> 
> I think a lot of high level languages are quite portable.  ALGOL is not as 
> widely ported but not because it's inherently harder.  PASCAL was ported to 
> many different machines too.  C is a bit of an anomaly because it's more like 
> a high level assembly language, so it has portability limitations that many 
> other high level languages don't run into.
> 
>   paul
> 

I just released a new version of the CDC 1700 simulator for SIMH. This is a 
one’s complement, 16-bit machine and the Fortran compiler is now functional in 
16KW of available space (a smaller version (12KW) was available but I don’t 
know if any copies survived). The source code for the compiler is available on 
Bitsavers - it’s written mostly in Fortran.

  John.

Re: HP 9000/382 Questions

[Pete Lancashire via cctalk]

An update

I acquired another 9000/382 with a hard drive. It booting into VUE and
eventually found out it is running HP-UX 9.10, As usual no root password.

I tried the -\ "hack" while a fsck was taking place and on the 2nd
try it dropped me into single user mode. From there the rest was easy

https://goo.gl/photos/rDN8bhjVxoeSCw7k8

Looks like a clean install of 9.10 with nothing else.

I'll do a dump of the drive and post the image when I get a chance, lots of
other projects going on.

Now to come up to speed on HP-UX and get it on the network.

Thanks to Frank Slootweg via comp.sys.hp.hpux for the keyboard characters
to try.

-pete



On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 2:00 AM, Christian Corti <
c...@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote:

> On Mon, 25 Jan 2016, Rik Bos wrote:
>
>> These tapes where used in a number of machine such as 9825, 9831, 9835,
>>> 9845,
>>> 9915, and 85A  There was also at least 1 external tape drive that
>>> used these
>>>
>> [...]
>
>> Aagh, I forgot about the HP85 some instrument programs where written for
>>
> [...]
>
> For me, the most obvious machines would be the HP264x terminals ;-)
> There are numerous software packaged on DC100 cartridges meant to be
> read/used with e.g. a HP2645 terminal attached to a HP system (HP1000 or
> HP3000)
>
> Christian
>
>

Re: Fwd: Re: Architectural diversity - was Re: Pair of Twiggys

[Torfinn Ingolfsen via cctalk]

On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 4:31 AM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk
 wrote:
> On 03/16/2017 08:19 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
>
>
> Isn't "Valdtrep" a Norwegian march by Johannes Hanssen?

It's Valdres https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valdres
and Valdres march.
-- 
Regards,
Torfinn Ingolfsen

Re: I hate the new mail system

[Philipp Hachtmann via cctalk]

On 03/16/2017 10:07 PM, Mike Stein via cctalk wrote:

I'm pretty confident that every member of the list appreciates the
time, effort and whatever else you and certain others have
contributed to keep this list humming as well as it almost always
does;

Full ack, of course!

But the new addressing scheme still sucks, sorry.

Kind regards

Philipp

Re: Architectural diversity - was Re: Pair of Twiggys

[Paul Koning via cctalk]

> On Mar 16, 2017, at 9:28 PM, ben via cctalk  wrote:
> 
> But was FORTRAN that portable?
> Other than the IBM 1130 I cannot think of a small computer
> that had ample I/O and memory to run and compile FORTRAN. All the
> other 16 bitters seem to more paper tape I/O.
> I suspect 90% of all university computers ended up as IBM 360
> systems. A few ended up with the VAX, but who knows what they
> ran.
> Ben.

I know of FORTRAN implementations for one's complement machines with word 
length of 24, 27, and 60 bits, decimal machines (IBM 1620), two's complement 
machines of 12, 16, 48 bit words, just to pick a few.  FORTRAN implementations 
tended not to be all that demanding of resources: 4k words is a typical 
minimum.  

I think a lot of high level languages are quite portable.  ALGOL is not as 
widely ported but not because it's inherently harder.  PASCAL was ported to 
many different machines too.  C is a bit of an anomaly because it's more like a 
high level assembly language, so it has portability limitations that many other 
high level languages don't run into.

paul

Re: VCF Europe

[Lawrence Wilkinson via cctalk]

Dave and anyone else thinking of going,

Last year I stayed at the Central Hotel-Apart, Josephsburgstraße 26, 
81673 München (http://www.centralhotelapart.de but doesn't seem to work 
right now.) It's 500m or so from the venue. The Hotel Eisenreich 
mentioned on the website is no longer there.


I'm not sure if I'm going - I probably need to get a move on organising 
how to get the stuff there. It looks like it's 3 days this year, and May 
1 is a holiday here too, but museums etc. were closed on that day so if 
I go I'll try to do a bit of looking around on the Sunday.


Lawrence


On 16/03/17 20:22, David Wade via cctalk wrote:

Folks,
   Rod has spurred me on to pay a visit to VCF Europe. I wonder if any one else 
on the list is going. If so any thoughts on Hotels? I will probably only manage 
the Saturday!
Dave
  



--
Lawrence Wilkinson  lawrence at ljw.me.uk
The IBM 360/30 page   http://www.ljw.me.uk/ibm360

Re: Looking for an Intel SRM

[Lee Courtney via cctalk]

Camiel - I have cross-posted this to the Intel Alumni list for you. I asked
anyone with info to contact you directly. Good luck!

Lee Courtney

On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 6:26 AM, Camiel Vanderhoeven via cctech <
cct...@classiccmp.org> wrote:

> Here¹s a long shot, about as long as they get.
>
> I received an Intel iPSC/860 supercomputer, but it¹s lacking the Intel SRM
> (System Resource Manager), without which the system is a boat anchor.
>
> The SRM is an Intel 386 desktop machine, with a SYP301 motherboard and a
> plugin card to connect it to the iPSC/860. There¹s a cable coming from the
> iPSC with a 25-pin D connector, which I believe is the connection to the
> SRM. It¹s not a regular serial port, but a bidirectional 2.6MByte per
> second connection. The interface card likely uses a bunch of Xilinx chips
> (the interface cards on the iPSC node boards do). I have not been able to
> find a picture of what the box looks like on the outside, so I have no
> idea. So, I¹m looking for one of these, preferably one the owner would be
> willing to part with :-)
>
> Camiel
>
>
>


-- 
Lee Courtney
+1-650-704-3934 cell

VCF Europe

[David Wade via cctalk]

Folks,
  Rod has spurred me on to pay a visit to VCF Europe. I wonder if any one else 
on the list is going. If so any thoughts on Hotels? I will probably only manage 
the Saturday!
Dave