[cctalk] Re: More Free stuff in Somerset, England
Finally, one piece of DEC kit I didn't mention last time is the Magtape drive. This is the sort that takes up the top 18U or thereabouts of a rack, but doesn't go very deep. I've been sorting through my Unibus cards (some of which are taken, but others may appear here), but I have no idea what cards would drive this tape machine. Can anyone help? Well, thanks to Tony, I now know that it should have a whole card cage full of cards. It doesn't! The TU16 is therefore mechanism only, for spares. Another monster (which I'm amazed I even kept through the house move!). It calls itself a "D-Scan Colour Hardcopy". It is an enormously heavy box that takes in video on six coaxes, I think at CGA resolution, and uses special rolls of thermal transfer paper. One of the layers actually has magenta, cyan and yellow pages in rotation, for transferring to the paper at the appropriate point. Anyway, if anyone is interested, free as before. If not, in the skip... I have some photos which can upload if people want. Philip.
[cctalk] Re: More Free stuff in Somerset, England
A Penny & Giles 7000D double QIC drive. No idea what that conencts to. If it's anything like the 7100 single-drive unit I have here, it has an RS232 interface and is designed for use in data logging systems. That sounds right. Finally, one piece of DEC kit I didn't mention last time is the Magtape drive. This is the sort that takes up the top 18U or thereabouts of a rack, but doesn't go very deep. I've been sorting through my Unibus cards (some of which are taken, but others may appear here), but I have no idea what cards would drive this tape machine. Can anyone help? Not without some clues, like a model number... Oops. TU16, I think. Philip.
[cctalk] More Free stuff in Somerset, England
Hello again. Before I begin, this is a re-send of a message I sent to cctech, which didn't get through. So, if there are still plans to keep the cctech address live, could someone look at this, please. Anyway, to get to the point: I have been doing some more digging, mainly in my basement. The following stuff is available for free to anyone who can come and collect it. DEC networking stuff: DECServer 300 Multiport repeater DEMPR-AB DECRepeater 200 DEC Microserver DEMSA-A Another piece of network kit: Retix 2265M 802.3 bridge A Compaq 2260 "Portable II" lunchbox PC A Penny & Giles 7000D double QIC drive. No idea what that conencts to. I'm starting on my (surprisingly large) collection of printers and related stuff. This may require some sorting when people collect - there is at least one box of printer parts containing things like paper guides, winding knobs, and even tractor feed attachments, which need putting with the correct machines! Anyway, the following have already surfaced, and there is more to come: TI Silent 700 terminal, model 743KSR Mannesmann Tally MT80+ (little 80-column impact dot matrix machine, quite nice packaging, slight chip on cover,) HP9195AB Scanjet Plus flatbed scanner Nicolet Zeta 8A pen plotter Finally, one piece of DEC kit I didn't mention last time is the Magtape drive. This is the sort that takes up the top 18U or thereabouts of a rack, but doesn't go very deep. I've been sorting through my Unibus cards (some of which are taken, but others may appear here), but I have no idea what cards would drive this tape machine. Can anyone help? The same disclaimers as last time apply: Everything is offered as seen. Most of it doesn't work. You have been warned. Finally, I have set up an e-mail address for you to reply to if you are interested: declut...@axeside.co.uk. I hope to spot replies to the list too, but it will help if you copy them to that address as well. Thanks again, Philip.
Re: Free stuff in Somerset, England
Times like this make me wish i could drive... I'm not even that far away, just down from Bournemouth. I'd be very interested in the 11/10 and the VT100 though, if only i could figure out a way to collect them. Good luck to all anyway. And if anyone is going past Bournemouth on the way here, give me a shout :) -- Original Message -- From: "Philip Belben via cctalk" To: cct...@classiccmp.org; declut...@axeside.co.uk Sent: Monday, 27 Jun, 2022 At 19:06 Subject: Free stuff in Somerset, England Dear all, The cost of living crisis means that I can no longer afford to rent the space to store all my collection. I have therefore decided to give some stuff away to anyone who will come and collect it. Some stuff is in a storage container in Wells; the rest is in my basement between Shepton Mallet and Radstock. (I will give you the actual address and instructions to find the place when we've agreed an appointment for you to visit.) As noted above, these addresses are in Somerset, England. The following stuff is definitely available. Visitors will also be welcome to look around my basement and ask for stuff. I don't guarantee to let it go, but I want to (a) empty the storage container and (b) make enough space in the basement that I can get at anything I want to work on, and work on it. DEC PDP11 stuff: A complete 11/10 system - processor box (in a 3U rack mount box - this is, I am told, unusual, but it is original), one expansion box, RKO5. All mounted in a later (1980s era) half height rack. (I gave the original full-height rack to Toby) An 11/34 processor box. Don't know whether I have all the innards. (No idea where it came from!) The remains of my 11/44 system. I bought the complete system - processor, expansion box, two RL02 drives, RX02 drive, RA80. I started buying stuff to add to it - tape drive, a couple of CDC multi-platter hard drives. I then sold a basic system - processor, one RL02 drive, RX02 drive, all in one rack - but have all the rest (except the RA80, which I gave to Tony Duell). So there's a lot of stuff, but probably not all the boards (no RL11, for example). But if anyone wants to build an 11/34 system from the bits, they're welcome to try! A number of DEC hex-height boards and other Unibus stuff. Probably some spare boards for the 11/10. And a couple of racks from the 11/44 system. Other stuff: A DEC VT100 with no keyboard a motherboard from an Alphastation (Rod Smallwood has first call on this - it was supposed to be in one of the alphastations I gave him years ago.) A Teletype 43 A Perq 2T2 in bits. It has no working monitor, but I think I can find all the other bots. A Silicon Graphics Personal Iris, also with no monitor, but I have found its keyboard and mouse, and some additional boards that may belong to it. an IBM "portable" PC, i.e. an XT with built-in monitor in a luggable case. Lots of DEC manuals - I've not sorted this box. A Calcomp 1039 plotter. Five HP Series 80 machines (85, 86, 87) and a box of manuals and accessories. (You are not allowed to take any accessories unless you take at least one system unit!) The other stuff in my basement was mostly acquired from car boot sales and clearouts at work in the 1990s and early 2000s, so there's a lot of 1980s micros there. I have several Commodore PETs of various flavours; I'm probably going to keep my first ever 2001, and an 8296, but most of the stuff in between can go. Please let me know if you are interested, and I can post photos and/or more detailed descriptions. If I don't get any interest, the CDC drives and probably the Calcomp plotter, will have to go to the tip. Everything is offered as seen. Most of it doesn't work. You have been warned. Finally, I have set up an e-mail address for you to reply to if you are interested: declut...@axeside.co.uk. I hope to spot replies to the list too, but it will help if you copy them to that address as well. Many thanks, Philip.
RE: Free stuff in Somerset, England
Philip A kind offer of DEC stuff to those of us in the UK May I express an interest in things Q-bus, LSI-11 and paper tape : other than any PT stuff, primarily backplanes, CPUs, memory and serial cards. I'm looking for components for Q-bus test rigs. Storage hardware and interfaces I shall pass on. It will most likely be late July before I could come your way as although down in Dorset, I have a pacemaker bedding in and as it followed an episode of syncope another 3 weeks before I can drive again. Indeed it would probably be prudent to suggest early August. Best Regards Martin -Original Message- From: cctech [mailto:cctech-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Philip Belben via cctech Sent: 27 June 2022 19:07 To: cct...@classiccmp.org; declut...@axeside.co.uk Subject: Free stuff in Somerset, England Dear all, The cost of living crisis means that I can no longer afford to rent the space to store all my collection. I have therefore decided to give some stuff away to anyone who will come and collect it. Some stuff is in a storage container in Wells; the rest is in my basement between Shepton Mallet and Radstock. (I will give you the actual address and instructions to find the place when we've agreed an appointment for you to visit.) As noted above, these addresses are in Somerset, England. The following stuff is definitely available. Visitors will also be welcome to look around my basement and ask for stuff. I don't guarantee to let it go, but I want to (a) empty the storage container and (b) make enough space in the basement that I can get at anything I want to work on, and work on it. DEC PDP11 stuff: A complete 11/10 system - processor box (in a 3U rack mount box - this is, I am told, unusual, but it is original), one expansion box, RKO5. All mounted in a later (1980s era) half height rack. (I gave the original full-height rack to Toby) An 11/34 processor box. Don't know whether I have all the innards. (No idea where it came from!) The remains of my 11/44 system. I bought the complete system - processor, expansion box, two RL02 drives, RX02 drive, RA80. I started buying stuff to add to it - tape drive, a couple of CDC multi-platter hard drives. I then sold a basic system - processor, one RL02 drive, RX02 drive, all in one rack - but have all the rest (except the RA80, which I gave to Tony Duell). So there's a lot of stuff, but probably not all the boards (no RL11, for example). But if anyone wants to build an 11/34 system from the bits, they're welcome to try! A number of DEC hex-height boards and other Unibus stuff. Probably some spare boards for the 11/10. And a couple of racks from the 11/44 system. Other stuff: A DEC VT100 with no keyboard a motherboard from an Alphastation (Rod Smallwood has first call on this - it was supposed to be in one of the alphastations I gave him years ago.) A Teletype 43 A Perq 2T2 in bits. It has no working monitor, but I think I can find all the other bots. A Silicon Graphics Personal Iris, also with no monitor, but I have found its keyboard and mouse, and some additional boards that may belong to it. an IBM "portable" PC, i.e. an XT with built-in monitor in a luggable case. Lots of DEC manuals - I've not sorted this box. A Calcomp 1039 plotter. Five HP Series 80 machines (85, 86, 87) and a box of manuals and accessories. (You are not allowed to take any accessories unless you take at least one system unit!) The other stuff in my basement was mostly acquired from car boot sales and clearouts at work in the 1990s and early 2000s, so there's a lot of 1980s micros there. I have several Commodore PETs of various flavours; I'm probably going to keep my first ever 2001, and an 8296, but most of the stuff in between can go. Please let me know if you are interested, and I can post photos and/or more detailed descriptions. If I don't get any interest, the CDC drives and probably the Calcomp plotter, will have to go to the tip. Everything is offered as seen. Most of it doesn't work. You have been warned. Finally, I have set up an e-mail address for you to reply to if you are interested: declut...@axeside.co.uk. I hope to spot replies to the list too, but it will help if you copy them to that address as well. Many thanks, Philip.
Free stuff in Somerset, England
Dear all, The cost of living crisis means that I can no longer afford to rent the space to store all my collection. I have therefore decided to give some stuff away to anyone who will come and collect it. Some stuff is in a storage container in Wells; the rest is in my basement between Shepton Mallet and Radstock. (I will give you the actual address and instructions to find the place when we've agreed an appointment for you to visit.) As noted above, these addresses are in Somerset, England. The following stuff is definitely available. Visitors will also be welcome to look around my basement and ask for stuff. I don't guarantee to let it go, but I want to (a) empty the storage container and (b) make enough space in the basement that I can get at anything I want to work on, and work on it. DEC PDP11 stuff: A complete 11/10 system - processor box (in a 3U rack mount box - this is, I am told, unusual, but it is original), one expansion box, RKO5. All mounted in a later (1980s era) half height rack. (I gave the original full-height rack to Toby) An 11/34 processor box. Don't know whether I have all the innards. (No idea where it came from!) The remains of my 11/44 system. I bought the complete system - processor, expansion box, two RL02 drives, RX02 drive, RA80. I started buying stuff to add to it - tape drive, a couple of CDC multi-platter hard drives. I then sold a basic system - processor, one RL02 drive, RX02 drive, all in one rack - but have all the rest (except the RA80, which I gave to Tony Duell). So there's a lot of stuff, but probably not all the boards (no RL11, for example). But if anyone wants to build an 11/34 system from the bits, they're welcome to try! A number of DEC hex-height boards and other Unibus stuff. Probably some spare boards for the 11/10. And a couple of racks from the 11/44 system. Other stuff: A DEC VT100 with no keyboard a motherboard from an Alphastation (Rod Smallwood has first call on this - it was supposed to be in one of the alphastations I gave him years ago.) A Teletype 43 A Perq 2T2 in bits. It has no working monitor, but I think I can find all the other bots. A Silicon Graphics Personal Iris, also with no monitor, but I have found its keyboard and mouse, and some additional boards that may belong to it. an IBM "portable" PC, i.e. an XT with built-in monitor in a luggable case. Lots of DEC manuals - I've not sorted this box. A Calcomp 1039 plotter. Five HP Series 80 machines (85, 86, 87) and a box of manuals and accessories. (You are not allowed to take any accessories unless you take at least one system unit!) The other stuff in my basement was mostly acquired from car boot sales and clearouts at work in the 1990s and early 2000s, so there's a lot of 1980s micros there. I have several Commodore PETs of various flavours; I'm probably going to keep my first ever 2001, and an 8296, but most of the stuff in between can go. Please let me know if you are interested, and I can post photos and/or more detailed descriptions. If I don't get any interest, the CDC drives and probably the Calcomp plotter, will have to go to the tip. Everything is offered as seen. Most of it doesn't work. You have been warned. Finally, I have set up an e-mail address for you to reply to if you are interested: declut...@axeside.co.uk. I hope to spot replies to the list too, but it will help if you copy them to that address as well. Many thanks, Philip.
