RE: M688 Flip Chip Unibus Power Fail Driver Modules

Van: Ethan Dicks via cctalk Verzonden: donderdag 7 januari 2021 01:55 Aan: Noel Chiappa; General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Onderwerp: Re: M688 Flip Chip Unibus Power Fail Driver Modules

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On Wed, Jan 06, 2021 at 02:01:17PM +0100, Patrik Schindler via cctalk wrote: > Hello Tomasz, > > allow me to send ahead, that it’s a pleasure to have a conversation > going on with you. And it is a pleasure to have a conversation with you, too. Perhaps because this place is full of goodwilling

Re: M688 Flip Chip Unibus Power Fail Driver Modules

> On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 5:24 PM Noel Chiappa via cctalk > wrote: >> Anyone need/want a couple of these? Someone has a group of 5 for sale on >> eBait >> (#184317666245), and I want a couple, but not _5_. The seller didn't respond >> to a request to split up the lot, so I'd like to go in with a

Re: M688 Flip Chip Unibus Power Fail Driver Modules

On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 5:24 PM Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote: > Anyone need/want a couple of these? Someone has a group of 5 for sale on eBait > (#184317666245), and I want a couple, but not _5_. The seller didn't respond > to a request to split up the lot, so I'd like to go in with a couple of

M688 Flip Chip Unibus Power Fail Driver Modules

Anyone need/want a couple of these? Someone has a group of 5 for sale on eBait (#184317666245), and I want a couple, but not _5_. The seller didn't respond to a request to split up the lot, so I'd like to go in with a couple of other people on the. Any takers? Noel

Re: Bendix G-15 and Control Data 160 console on ebay

On Wed, 6 Jan 2021, Van Snyder via cctalk wrote: I hope it ends up in a proper museum and hopefully it can be displayed in running condition. The Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA has one, but it's not in operating order.I don't know whether they have a mag tape drive. The VCF

Re: Bendix G-15 and Control Data 160 console on ebay

On Wed, 2021-01-06 at 08:30 +, P Gebhardt via cctalk wrote: > If anybody of you has been looking for a Bendix System or a CDC 160 > console and has deep pockets: That's your opportunity ;) > ebay numbers 203239156838 and 203239181341 > Not affiliated with the seller. Just saw the listings -

Re: Bendix G-15 and Control Data 160 console on ebay

On Wed, 2021-01-06 at 08:30 +, P Gebhardt via cctalk wrote: > If anybody of you has been looking for a Bendix System or a CDC 160 > console and has deep pockets: That's your opportunity ;) > ebay numbers 203239156838 and 203239181341 > Not affiliated with the seller. Just saw the listings -

Re: Bendix G-15 and Control Data 160 console on ebay

On Wed, 2021-01-06 at 08:52 +, Ed Groenenberg via cctalk wrote: > It can be debated of the price for the Bendix is high or not, but it is truly > a nice > and rare machine. And by the looks of it, it seems to be complete too. > Not sure tough if the rack on the right belongs to it. > > I

Re: Bendix G-15 and Control Data 160 console on ebay

On Wed, Jan 06, 2021 at 08:52:51AM +, Ed Groenenberg via cctalk wrote: > It can be debated of the price for the Bendix is high or not, but it > is truly a nice and rare machine. And by the looks of it, it seems to > be complete too. This was the machine I learned to program on. (What was

Re: Bendix G-15 and Control Data 160 console on ebay

On Wed, Jan 06, 2021 at 09:54:23AM -0600, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote: > The G-15 was obsolete within a year after it was introduced, but it stayed in production, especially in highway departments, for many years afterwards. mcl

Re: Bendix G-15 and Control Data 160 console on ebay

On 01/06/2021 03:12 AM, Adrian Graham via cctalk wrote: Not affiliated with the seller. Just saw the listings - can't believe that such cool systems are still stored in some warehouses in the U.S. for business purposes ... Business purposes? No WAY! The G-15 was obsolete within a year

RE: DEDICATED HOBBYIST ALERT: IBM AS/400 9406-F2 for cheap sale in Germany

There are people that tried, it doesn't work. There's something proprietary written at low level that gets erased doing a low level format ( required to change the sectors ). The specifics were never released... With this I mean that the trick is not the firmware of the disk, but low level

Re: DEDICATED HOBBYIST ALERT: IBM AS/400 9406-F2 for cheap sale in Germany

Hello, Am 06.01.2021 um 13:37 schrieb mazzi...@tin.it: >> What I understood from your last posting is that once you reformat an AS/400 >> disk for 512 Bytes per sector as used by commodity hardware, you can’t use >> it again on AS/400, even by reformatting. > > Yes, that's correct Hm, I

Re: Bendix G-15 and Control Data 160 console on ebay

January 6, 2021 9:30 AM, "P Gebhardt via cctalk" wrote: > If anybody of you has been looking for a Bendix System or a CDC 160 console > and has deep pockets: > That's your opportunity ;) > ebay numbers 203239156838 and 203239181341 > Not affiliated with the seller. Just saw the listings - can't

Re: DEDICATED HOBBYIST ALERT: IBM AS/400 9406-F2 for cheap sale in Germany

Hello Tomasz, allow me to send ahead, that it’s a pleasure to have a conversation going on with you. Am 06.01.2021 um 03:35 schrieb Tomasz Rola via cctalk : >> If you’re new to the platform, I agree. :-) > To be frank, I am "new" to many things out there. I’m sorry for being ambiguous. With

RE: DEDICATED HOBBYIST ALERT: IBM AS/400 9406-F2 for cheap sale in Germany

> Yes, I know about that and can confirm. What I understood from your last > posting is that once you reformat an AS/400 disk for 512 Bytes per sector as > used by commodity hardware, you can’t use it again on AS/400, even by > reformatting. Yes, that's correct And I doubt that there's an

Re: DEDICATED HOBBYIST ALERT: IBM AS/400 9406-F2 for cheap sale in Germany

Hello, Am 06.01.2021 um 02:04 schrieb mazzi...@tin.it: > Yeh, I know for a fact you cannot setup Hdds for an as/400 unless with the > ibm factory tool. ( saw people using AS for a lot of years professionally > discuss this ) > You had an as400, you had to buy the spares hdds sold by ibm and

Re: Bendix G-15 and Control Data 160 console on ebay

> On 6 Jan 2021, at 08:46, Adrian Stoness via cctalk > wrote: > > how come when ever people post these numbers can never find the item > http://ebay.com/itm/203239156838 http://ebay .com/itm/203239181341 >> ebay numbers 203239156838 and

RE: Bendix G-15 and Control Data 160 console on ebay

> -Original Message- > From: cctalk On Behalf Of Adrian Stoness > via cctalk > Sent: 06 January 2021 08:47 > To: P Gebhardt ; General Discussion: On-Topic and > Off-Topic Posts > Subject: Re: Bendix G-15 and Control Data 160 console on ebay > > how come when ever people post these

Re: Bendix G-15 and Control Data 160 console on ebay

how come when ever people post these numbers can never find the item On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 2:30 AM P Gebhardt via cctalk wrote: > If anybody of you has been looking for a Bendix System or a CDC 160 > console and has deep pockets: That's your opportunity ;) > ebay numbers 203239156838 and

Bendix G-15 and Control Data 160 console on ebay

If anybody of you has been looking for a Bendix System or a CDC 160 console and has deep pockets: That's your opportunity ;) ebay numbers 203239156838 and 203239181341 Not affiliated with the seller. Just saw the listings - can't believe that such cool systems are still stored in some warehouses