Re: fix? Repair? or leave alone? http://rcade.camden.rutgers.edu/2020symposium.html

2019-09-28 Thread ED SHARPE via cctalk
opps  sorry  yes it is I. In a message dated 9/27/2019 9:23:05 AM US Mountain Standard Time, cctalk@classiccmp.org writes: On 2019-Sep-27, at 6:47 AM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: > I make it a habit to assume that every email which contains just a link but > no explanation is a scam with a

Re: HP3000/917LX available in Vacaville

2019-09-28 Thread Stan Sieler via cctalk
I've had two people contact me saying they're interested. When the first one came in, I put him in contact with the guy who knows the Vacaville HP3000 owner. I let the second person know they were next on the list (had the second come in before I attended to the first, I'd have sent both names

Re: HP3000/917LX available in Vacaville

2019-09-28 Thread Stan Sieler via cctalk
Lee writes: > This is a *very* nice entry-level HP3000/MPE system based on PA-RISC > architecture. But one note - the 917 had the soldered TOD battery on the > motherboard, vs. the FRU TOD battery in the later 918. Not a reason to skip > if you are interested in this machine. True, there's been

Re: Data General AViiON AV300D docs?

2019-09-28 Thread Chris Hanson via cctalk
One thing I’ve done is dump the ROMs in my two AV300D. They’re identical except for the last 4 bytes, which I suspect is where their host/Ethernet ID comes from. Unfortunately while the ROM is a JEDEC 1Mbit part, my dump doesn’t look coherent, in that there’s no simple ASCII text like appears