FTGH VME Microsystems VMEbus DMA interface card manual

[Steve Malikoff via cctalk]

VME Systems VMEbus DMA Interface card manual. 1991 reprint from 1986. About 
100+ pages, schematic, asm test routines
http://web.aanet.com.au/~malikoff/blah/

I didn't see it on bitsavers. I don't have any VMEbus gear so no point it 
taking up space here. Yours for postage from Brisbane, Oz.

Steve.

RE: HP vintage boards being sold as scrap

[CuriousMarc via cctalk]

> From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Guy
> Dunphy via cctalk
> Incidentally I've identified those boards. The ones with the pull rings:
> 
> https://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTIwMFgxNjAw/z/ZrUAAOSwI5Fdg5KH/$_57.j
> pg
> 
> They are 12/13 bit isolated DtoA, either voltage or current out. 44429A or
> 44430A.

These are the current ones, recognizable by the blue 4 screw posts (the
voltage ones have 8 screw posts). So it would be a pile of 44430A. I have a
working HP 3497, so I could use one or two!
Marc

RE: HP vintage boards being sold as scrap

[Electronics Plus via cctalk]

I have contacted the seller and asked what it would take to get these boards
ESD wrapped and properly packaged to me in TX. We will see if he is
willing...

-Original Message-
From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Electronics
Plus via cctalk
Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2019 5:38 PM
To: 'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts'
Subject: HP vintage boards being sold as scrap

https://www.ebay.com/itm/174036836066

 

Cindy Croxton

Electronics Plus




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Re: HP vintage boards being sold as scrap

[Jay Jaeger via cctalk]

On 9/25/2019 2:00 PM, Brent Hilpert via cctalk wrote:
> On 2019-Sep-25, at 3:07 AM, Guy Dunphy via cctalk wrote:
> 
>> Does anyone else recognise some of the other boards?
> 
> 
> There is a stack of IO interface boards, including HSTs, for the HP 2100/1000 
> series there.
> 
> Lower-right stack in this pic, 7 boards, boards have one red and one grey 
> handle:
>   https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/n08AAOSwjY5dg5Kd/s-l1600.jpg
> 
> "HS Terminal" is discernible on one of them, and the one on top looks to be 
> an HS Terminal as well.
> Can't be certain about the others but they have the same size IO connector, 
> they may all be HSTs.
> 
> HSTs are the basic RS232 & current loop, async serial-line interface boards, 
> 12531D, used for the console and such in the 2100/1000 series,
> going back to the early machines of the series.
> 
> (HS is 'High-Speed', but that's relative to the late-60s, billed for up to 
> 2400bps, but it is possible to operate them at higher speeds).
> 
> I'd buy one for, say 60$, if someone picks up the bunch and wants to flog one.
>  
> 

I would be in that same camp, assuming one of these would also work in a
2112B ("M Series") machine.

JRJ

Houston "clearance"

[Electronics Plus via cctalk]

https://www.ebay.com/sch/m.html?_ssn=jonnyadler

_PrefLoc=&_from=R40&_trksid=p2499338.m570.l1313.TR12.TRC2.A0.H0.Xkeyboard
.TRS0&_nkw=keyboard&_sacat=0

 

These are the kinds of prices you can expect from the guy in Houston. It was
posted earlier as a warehouse clearance.

 

Cindy Croxton

Electronics Plus

 



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Re: WTB Metcal workstand

[Marvin Johnston via cctalk]

A friend of mine, Harold Fue, has been selling new and used soldering 
equipment for many years, and may well have what you are looking for. My 
knowledge of Metcal is limited, but I bought a number of new tips, a 
used SP-200 unit with handpiece and the handpiece holder from him a 
couple years ago. A search on google for "harold fue santa barbara" came 
up with his contact information. He has been selling at Dayton 
Hamvention for who knows how many years, but an auto accident a year or 
so ago totaled his vehicle and slowed him up (he is in his mid 80's) 
from doing that.


Marvin




On Sep 25, 2019, at 6:58 PM, Alexandre Souza via cctalk  
wrote:

Dear sirs

I'm looking for a metcal MX500 (so you know what handpiece I have) workstand. 
Also, cheap tips and a new handle, mine is broken and fixed up man times

I don't know if this request is apropriate on this list, but who knows? =)

Thanks
Alexandre

PS: I know there are some on epay?



Is there a good source for cheap Metcal tips?  I got mine through this list 
about 20 years ago, and IIRC, I still need tips.

Zane

Re: HP vintage boards being sold as scrap

[Al Kossow via cctalk]

On 9/26/19 7:24 AM, Patrick Finnegan via cctalk wrote:
3. Just because you have different opinions doesn't mean their ways 
are wrong.


If you follow their listings, the seller has been trying to move this 
stuff for a while.

Re: HP vintage boards being sold as scrap

[Patrick Finnegan via cctalk]

On Wed, Sep 25, 2019, 17:26 Guy Dunphy via cctalk 
wrote:

> At 02:59 PM 25/09/2019 -0500, John wrote:
> >What, isn't anyone going to speculate on the value of the gold here?  :-)
>
>
> The seller would seem to have been pulling rare boards from many old
> machines,
> probably scrapping the systems (since they would have been more saleable
> with
> the boards installed) then trying to sell the boards in bulk as scrap
> metal.
>
> If that's the case, I'd rather speculate on how many blows to the head with
> a blunt object, it would take to teach that person the error of their ways.
>


1. I've got boxes of boards that are useful, which came out of undesirable
systems, incomplete or otherwise broken systems, boards that were purchased
as spares, etc.

2. The systems are harder to ship than the boards. I doubt if you're
unwilling to have a pile of boards shipped to you, that you'd pay shipping
on a whole system.

3. Just because you have different opinions doesn't mean their ways are
wrong. Hell, they even seem to be willing to work with people interested in
single boards. I'm sure they're putting "GOLD!!!" in the title for
advertising's sake. It seems to have worked just fine for advertising here
..

4. Maybe just quit whining? If you can't get what you want where you are,
to quote the immortal words of Dave McGuire, "Time to move!"

Pat

>

RE: HP vintage boards being sold as scrap

[Electronics Plus via cctalk]

He is in RI, and I am in TX. Your shipper is in Calif.

You might consider contacting one of the computer museums in Rhode Island to
see if they will assist you.
http://www.ricomputermuseum.org/
https://www.rcsri.org/

Cindy


-Original Message-
From: Guy Dunphy [mailto:gu...@optusnet.com.au] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2019 10:39 PM
To: Electronics Plus
Subject: RE: HP vintage boards being sold as scrap

At 04:46 PM 25/09/2019 -0500, you wrote:
>If enough people want them, and someone gets a winning bid, then they can
>come to me and I will repackage and ship them for the actual cost of
>postage.
>
>Cindy

Thanks for the kind offer. Where are you, relative to the seller?

I can see a problem though. Isn't it impossible to have ebay-won 
items shipped to other than one's ebay-verified address? I'm not sure...
I know to get things sent to my reshipper, I have to have them set
as my 'real address' before bidding. 

That's why I asked if anyone is close enough to pick up the boards.
Not to mention sidestepping the seller's problematical packing intentions.

Guy



>-Original Message-
>From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Guy Dunphy
>via cctalk
>Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2019 4:01 PM
>To: Brent Hilpert; General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
>Subject: Re: HP vintage boards being sold as scrap
>
>At 12:00 PM 25/09/2019 -0700, you wrote:
>>On 2019-Sep-25, at 3:07 AM, Guy Dunphy via cctalk wrote:
>>
>>> Does anyone else recognise some of the other boards?
>>
>>
>>There is a stack of IO interface boards, including HSTs, for the HP
>2100/1000 series there.
>>
>>Lower-right stack in this pic, 7 boards, boards have one red and one grey
>handle:
>>  https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/n08AAOSwjY5dg5Kd/s-l1600.jpg
>>
>>"HS Terminal" is discernible on one of them, and the one on top looks to
be
>an HS Terminal as well.
>>Can't be certain about the others but they have the same size IO
connector,
>they may all be HSTs.
>>
>>HSTs are the basic RS232 & current loop, async serial-line interface
>boards, 12531D, used for the console and such in the 2100/1000 series,
>>going back to the early machines of the series.
>>
>>(HS is 'High-Speed', but that's relative to the late-60s, billed for up to
>2400bps, but it is possible to operate them at higher speeds).
>>
>>I'd buy one for, say 60$, if someone picks up the bunch and wants to flog
>one.
>
>
>
>Sigh. And here I am putting together a rack with a HP 1000 system.
>Though, some of those edge connectors look corroded.
>
>I really would like those DtoA boards. So many! I have both a 3497A and the
>3498A extender
>plus a need for lots of cards for them. Plus I have the service manual with
>schematics
>so can repair them.
>
>Anyway... the seller is listed as being in Warren, Rhode Island, United
>States.
>I'm in Australia, and have a reshipper in the US. BUT, the reshipper is on
>the west coast.
>
>Is there anyone on this list who lives in that area who could pick them up,
>then pack and post
>small sets of boards? I can afford to bid (fingers crossed), but _can't_
>afford the postage
>of "90 lbs" across the continent. Let alone to Australia.
>
>The one existing bid, is that anyone here?
>
>Guy
>
>
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