ISO: Terak 8510/a Keyboard and Monitor

Hi all -- At long last my Terak 8510/a is working again! I'd repaired the power supply a couple of years back but the system simply would not behave properly. I traced it down to some very unreliable IC sockets (they were not high-quality when they were new, and the damp environment this

DEC's first use of PROMs

Well maybe not, but the first in the 23-001A1 sequence of part numbers was used in the PDP-8/e EAE. I was troubleshooting a problem with an EAE in which the step counter wouldn't load. There are 2 fusible PROMs in the circuit and I noticed they are 23-001A1 and 23-002A1. Maybe there is a

Re: Quadra 660AV what's with the "PowerPC" label?

fre 2016-06-17 klockan 16:09 +0200 skrev Liam Proven: > On 16 June 2016 at 22:09, Sean Conner wrote: > > It was thus said that the Great Liam Proven once stated: > >> It's a modern init. Most of panic is just headless running around. No, > >> it's not an old-fashioned simplistic

Re: thinking of the "ultimate" retro x86 PCs - what bits to seek/keep ?

It was thus said that the Great Maciej W. Rozycki once stated: > On Thu, 2 Jun 2016, Sean Caron wrote: > > > Oh, man, that brings back memories. Trying to bang Linux onto a 386SX-16 > > with > > 4 Meg RAM and some puny little hard drive ... My first NAT box! It was > > pretty > > excruciating

RE: media and software

Hi there! I would be interested in the AIX media, and any AIX-related discs. I am also keenly interested in the 9-tracks, and potentially newer tape cartridges if it's IBM stuff. Thank you! From: cctalk [cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] on behalf

Re: Set of mystery DEC boards: who can help me identifying these?

On 18/06/2016 06:32, P Gebhardt wrote: Hello all, I recently got a bunch of boards from somebody who was either not able to tell me where they were from. The boards seem to be unibus-based with numbers starting with X. I neither came across these before, nor could find any information in

The Great TK revival

Hi The great TK revival continues apace. There's a TK50 in my VAX 4000 running really well. Purrs like a cat I have TK70 in the RT-11 (11/83 QED) Machine that also runs. TK70 should read the TK50 tapes. It tries but complains about cant read the directory. So whats a common format I

AIX from Motorola

Hello, Anyone have Motorola based AIX installation cds at least 4.1.4r4 or newer? Regards, Plamen

VCFed auction update

Apple II (Rev. 4) sold for $4,056. Sol-20 sold for $2,878. Both were clean, autographed, and working. It is likely that bidders reached a little deeper because we are a non-profit.

Re: VCFed auction update

> On Jun 18, 2016, at 09:46, cct...@snarc.net wrote: > > Apple II (Rev. 4) sold for $4,056. Sol-20 sold for $2,878. Both were > clean, autographed, and working. It is likely that bidders reached a > little deeper because we are a non-profit. > Awesome! I hope you folks can do some really cool

Re: Quadra 660AV what's with the "PowerPC" label?

On Thu, 16 Jun 2016 16:46:41 +0200, Liam Proven wrote: > On 16 June 2016 at 01:47, Mouse wrote: > > So are Linux and BSD, right up until you start caring about the _legal_ > > definition of UNIX, which is why they call themselves as "based on > >