On 17/04/2021 18:03, Zane Healy wrote:
On Apr 17, 2021, at 9:24 AM, Antonio Carlini via cctalk
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If anyone has any suggestions for how to clean CDs to recover data,
I'm all ears.
Do you have access to a Record Store that deals in used CDs? I kno
error free or not: in
the latter case a dnesg snippet.
Anything else worth adding while I'm at it?
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Documentation Library May 1989
:-)
I'll check them out in SIMH later on tonight, but if they look suitable
I can probably make the ISOs available via dropbox or similar.
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than "I'm still
blank")?
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On 26/03/2021 10:30, Pete Turnbull via cctalk wrote:
On 26/03/2021 09:15, Antonio Carlini via cctalk wrote:
This, for example, is clearly his last piece of "blanc" paper:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Blanc-sheet-of-paper-04/254895244594 (or
maybe it's French paper ...) :-)
Possibly a
can't imagine
they sold for that price
Supply and demand. As the number of units remaining drops, the price
goes up. This, for example, is clearly his last piece of "blanc" paper:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Blanc-sheet-of-paper-04/254895244594 (or
maybe it's French paper ...) :-)
s after I get around to testing them!) but
I'd be really reluctant to ship those at all. I have no idea how much
shock-proofing they would need to withstand the 1.5m drop that the
parcel carriers all quote!
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ity, I have a few that
might work once the dirt is cleaned off ... I'd be willing to trade for
a small PDP-11 :-)
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ing back in the
day. There might be a few from the old MARVIN cluster too but nothing as
interesting as the VAX or semiconductor conferences.
FWIW I think the person who originally saved those details might have
been Paul S. Winalski, but that might be my memory playing tricks on me.
Antonio
.
There was the RWZ01 (replaced by the RWZ52), which was 1.2GB per disk.
This was re-writeable.
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you need to track yourself (although if you use ebay for that
too then it might list it).
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r 105 MCU. The "blue pill" STM32F103 is quite a
bit more capable.
Glad people finally tumbled to this.
Indeed. The important part is that someone's written some firmware. Oh,
and it's cheap too, of course.
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present. So when you really
do want an assignment and a conditional all in one go, you use the extra
set of brackets and everyone (you, the compiler, future you) know that
you really meant it.
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not read data written by an RQDX2 on an RQDX3
(again, AFAICR).
I think that the (even older) RQDX1 was very similar to the RQDX2 but
had a design fault that meant it had to be the last module on the bus
(it failed to pass on the grant signal, I think).
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the docs I have and make sure that
all the unique ones end up on bitsavers :-)
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bly higher on the
"confidential" scale than this one and they are freely available, so
I've no idea why this one might be missing.
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sical console access" is not at all secret:
it used to be in the OpenVMS FAQ and (iirc) in the manuals. It's fine to
discuss it anywhere. VMS Engineering would have told you to make sure
you ensured that physical console access was only available to
authorised personnel.
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(compared to 2.4 VUPs for the original uVAX 3100).
No issues (afaik) with OpenVMS booting off disks greater than 1GB and it
will take up to 128MB of memory.
Nice and clean too (as is the VT520).
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* it understands the image format.
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? like the Professional 380 which is badged as "Vax Console"?
As long as the CPU boards are in there, then it should just work.
There's no separate console processor.
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are using chrome to access the FTP area, maybe that's it?
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place? :-)
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/motolola_government.htm ?
I think the "i" wasn't an "ell" it was an "I" as in "I think ..."?
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at 300dpi going forward.
I think bitsavers sets a minimum of 400 dpi to allow for certain
post-processing work, so I'd suggest sticking with 600 dpi. Unless of
course, you really meant 14GiB (and not 14MiB) in which case it must be
quite a document :-)
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been scanned (if there's a working
Online link). It's always possible that there's a copy somewhere that
no-one has told manx about, but that doesn't often happen in my experience.
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ours won't
be the first "restricted" document on there.
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ecking the alignment.
Anyone got any useful suggestions?
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hem
before freezing?
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On 02/09/2020 11:11, Antonio Carlini wrote:
So I'm rather confused about what's happened. More importantly, I
don't know how to fix the drives I do have.
I thought I should follow up with further information, so as not to
pollute the archives with mis-information.
The one tape unit
't
know how to fix the drives I do have.
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wo cartridges without a leader. Is this
something that can be rectified?
Thanks for any useful information.
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just ask :-)
Thanks
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doesn’t even have that much space.
Zane
What do you use to go from SATA to SCSI (SCSI-1 even)?
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was a little surprised by the statement that AUI cables
cannot be hot-plugged safely.
I certainly don't remember any such restriction back in the day
(although it's entirely possible that I was never told or have forgotten).
Anyone got a definitive statement from anywhere?
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items, you'll have to find another link!
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do remember the VRE01 appearing in the DEC catalogues of the 1990s but
I never saw one in real life. Perhaps the $11K price tag explains that :-)
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recycled in a few weeks.
Contact me offlist if you'd like to give these (or some of them) a new home.
I did also notice a "VAXft System Services" manual in the same box. I
can't remember if this is part of the set or not, but it too is available.
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On 29/03/2020 11:27, Antonio Carlini via cctech wrote:
The following four monitors are available free for pickup in the UK
(OX17 postcode).
All appear clean but are untested. All are believed to have been
functional when stored but that was ~2002/2003-ish.
DEC VRT19-D3.
Vision Master
entec
came to an end.
OK.
I remember the name Stuart Brook. I wonder if http://www.brook.ca/ might
be (or have been) his website.
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y licensed other code. The OpenVMS BLISS
compiler was released on the Freeware CD, but I bet DEC still thought
they owned it.
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they never
actually said why they decided not to do it, many of us had our
suspicions.
I'm curious. What suspicions?
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On 29/07/2020 14:19, Paul Koning wrote:
On Jul 29, 2020, at 4:28 AM, Antonio Carlini via cctalk
wrote:
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For those of you with hobbyist licence PAKs, I presume that pakgen.c will work
on all versions that VSI doesn't support. I know it's frowned on but it's not
really different
fry and whoever supported the hobbyist before is no longer
there or no longer interested in doing so.
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:-)
The systems are now all provisionally spoken for. I can still try and
get some photos etc. of the various innards.
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to their
current location.
I'm hoping that someone can step forward and offer one or more of these
machines a new home. Please contact me off-list (once you're sure you
understand what you are getting into :-)).
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how I got it,
but if you end with with a VAX 8000 before I do, let me know and we can
cut a deal :-)
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small. It wouldn't be hard to hold on to.
As it's now known to be on github, then I'd suggest simply cloning the
existing repo. If the original ever goes away, then you can set up your
own repo (for free).
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llow those digital.com pages back out into the
open again?
(I'm asking here because I think there's at least one person on this
list who might be able to provide a reasonably authoritative answer).
I did happen to notice that dec.com is back too ...
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newed by re-registering with Unisys and then downloading and
installing a new package."
Maybe I'll wait a few weeks before requesting a licence?
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inded me that I have a CF->40-pin
IDE adapter on hand. Thanks!
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ot;busless" one was the DSW21/DSW41/DSW42.
I can't find a WANDD SPD either locally nor online, but (iirc) V1.2 was
Phase IV and certainly ran on V5.5-2.
A bunch of stuff changed radically in V6.0 so if there was a Phase IV
release for V6 then it would almost certainly have been post-V1.2.
e done to get one of the DSV11 modes to work properly at 64k
even in pathological cases, so maybe other, lower-end interfaces didn't
get the same love).
Above 64k would not have been a normal use case back in the day - I
don't have any data handy to check what should work though.
Antonio
close: DST32, DHT32, DSH32, DHW41, DSW41!
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cause" and the answer was surprisingly large (in the region
of 50+ although I can no longer remember the details.
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act as a computer room, then that might change.
But for now, my VAXstation 4000 M9x is faster than almost all of my
other VAXes (not counting SIMH).
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no battery.
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is
willing to release their backups of some of DEC's internal NOTES
conferences, we'll possibly never know.
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the MicroVAX I is considerably more convenient.
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, but (a) I can't find
them right now and (b) they're only user manuals.
When I come across them, I'll send you an email.
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with a 13W3 video connector. Not VT240/Rainbow. Remember me telling you
about the static shock trick you could pull on people? :)
Cheers,
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1 was ever used on the DECstation 5000 series.
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TTT (or OXO) without youtube then you've got no
chance with ... well pretty much any game :-)
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works well for managing pages and PDFs. I've used pdfshuffler too,
when I want a "visual" tool.
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Dijkstra was a computer scientist not a computer programmer. The two are
only tangentially related!
I only ever managed to get to one of his guest lectures, which I found
to be very entertaining. I'm glad I was never one of his students :-)
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ally find on the module).
I did have a quick hunt on the net for IPBs for any of these systems,
but with no luck. manx shows a few service manuals but they had the MS4x
numbers.
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.
DEC VRC21-W3.
Obviously with the current restrictions on movement these cannot be
picked up, but they need to be gone soon after the restrictions are over.
Expressions of interest offlist please.
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st you can
do with this.
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On 21/03/2020 21:43, Ethan Dicks via cctalk wrote:
The SYSTEM password is MANAGER.
Just like the old days.
Times were different then :-)
Wasn't the FIELD account password SERVICE?
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the work to copy the system in a form we could use.
Wow. A CDC mainframe still running: I don't know why I'm surprised
(given this list) but surprised I am!
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require more effort than you think it is worth ... but at
least you'll have the source code.
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. They
do appear in my index of local files so I'll make them available to Al
sometime soon.
Send emails off-list please.
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the end of 2021 at least.
I registered two days ago. Can I claim my hobbyist licences now or
should I wait two weeks until I end up on some internal system?
Thanks
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that then that
might be more interesting.
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nks again,
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eople have managed to get inside (I can see their results) so I
must be missing something obvious ...
Thanks.
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with my analysis and were perfectly satisfied.
Just simple people skills required :-)
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On 07/12/2019 18:10, Antonio Carlini via cctalk wrote:
I'm going to set it to one side for now and get to the same stage with
the Acorn A3000 (which looks OK but the battery really has to come out
now ... it will eventually fail I suppose).
I might as well tackle both at the same time
s well tackle both at the same time ...
Maybe I'll take photos as I put it back together, sort of "Haynes manual
in reverse".
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useful if a manual turned up and I could
just perform a system reset and get past the password that way!
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know for sure that it will fix the problem.
I've looked for a password reset jumper of pads but I can't see one.
I think someone has been here before me as the four screws that hold the
two halves of the unit together are all missing.
Any hints welcome.
Thanks
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what you are looking for ...
Unless, that is, you discard the graphical representation and keep only
the OCR result. In which case all bets are off.
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8/vt78.jpg
That's exactly what mine looked like when I picked it up a decade and a
half ago. Works too. Well worked then, not sure about now.
I left the table behind. I promise to kick myself ...
Nice use of the word "minimal" ... have you lifted a dual RX02 lately :-)
Antonio
think of DECnet's Network Control Program first,
so I *do* think that DECnet used NCP :-)
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m/gXk9CvKT/looking-for-ra80-service-manual-ek-ora80-sv
but seemingly with no luck.
I think the FMPS must be on bitsavers but I hit this first:
https://usermanual.wiki/Document/MP01286RA80Mar82.3622064137
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?
(The title is "RWP04 moving head disk subsystem maintenance manual", so
it's at least in the right ballpark!)
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With the hyphen it sounds like it's related
to BI, but I suspect that's a red herring.
paul
It must be BISYNC - DEC had many bisync comms products over the years.
VAXBI stuff on TU58 doesn't make very much sense to me !
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a year now and just don't seem
to have found enough free time, so if you get bored waiting, then go
ahead ...
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be
converted to PDF (I think).
V6.0(ish) onwards was on the DEC website as PDFs, although whether
anyone saved complete sets (and all the different version) or not I
don't know. The PDFs might also have been on later CONOLDs, but I don't
recall for sure.
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the
right tool for finding manuals.
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ect ones I guess). However that points at codeplex, which MS
have made read-only, so I don't know what the correct mechanism might be
to get things fixed. I guess the owner needs to move the code somewhere
else ...
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[1] Actually I think that the VAX 8600 ("Venus") was slowed down to get
it reliable enough to ship at all (and it was quite late at that, iirc).
The VAX 8650 ("Morningstar") followed just over a year later and was
(more or less) what the original VAX 8600 should have been.
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On 20/07/2019 21:15, Dave Wade wrote:
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From: cctalk On Behalf Of Antonio Carlini
via cctalk
"VAXstation 4000 VLC
The VAXstation 4000 VLC workstation is the first workstation in the industry
to break the $3,500 price barrier. Offering 6.2 SPECmarks (6
t tell how "low" it really was :-)
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need the space, this
has to go" or time (water damage, pages sticking together, mice/worms,
whatever).
Which reminds me, I need to find online copies of Personal Computer
World so I can sell off a few boxes worth :-)
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from but I do have a licence PAK for
WordPerfect: 7-NOV-1991 to 2011.
You could just run with a date in the past ... seems somehow apropriate :-)
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