Re: Chip in first Apple AirPort WiFi

If I recall correctly, as you've noted it was a WaveLAN / Orinoco silver card ('HERMES' chipset), connected via PCMCIA to a SBC based around an AMD ELAN SC400 - 33AC 486-like CPU. It had something like a couple megs of RAM and maybe 512K of FLASH. I don't know what OS it ran, if anything 'off the

Re: Convex documentation online (C220 arrived)

My Convex C220 arrived about a week ago, so I now have a C1, C1 XL, and a C220. A C240 will follow in a few weeks. Along with the C220 came some installation tapes, and a large volume of documentation (some 300 documents). As long as I don¹t receive any objections to the being online from HP

Re: Convex C220 lives

managed to bring a Convex C220 (dual vector CPU mini supercomputer from 1988) back to life. Both CPUs are working, but I¹m running with a single CPU because of the power it draws with two CPUs. Next challenges: the Convex C1, and quad vector processor C240 (not before I¹ve upgraded the power

Re: Looking for someone in North Carolina to assist person re-seat chips

Is there anyone here who'd be willing to help a person with an Amiga 2000 re-seat his CPU board's chips? The symptoms he describes for a machine that worked last week indicates that this is what is needed. (blinking power supply lights, etc.) Anyone available? If so, please contact me

Re: formatting MFM drives on a IBM PC

Hi, trying to check some MFM drives I have on my shelf. Have an IBM PC AT, with an WD1003 controller in it. So, what is the best(?) or easiest piece of software, to format the drives, check for bad blocks, etc.? I think I remember something like "ontrack" for doing it, but didn't touch PCs for a

Re: I REALLY need a scrounger in Richmond, VA

Just a friendly bump. Did anyone post this on vcfed or any mac collector forums?  I went there. There was no Apple stuff that I saw, mostly 386 and 486 computers. He is a scrapper as a retirement job in RVA and does a lot of Hamfests, been doing the for many years. Prices are based on eBay

Re: way off topic- EXOGEN bone stimulator

Does anyone here know how to reprogram an Exogen bone simulator? I had one of those things from when I broke my leg in a segway accident. Don't remember the brand. My guess was they were IR configured. They won't ever reprogram them or reuse them since it's a cheap to produce medical device

Re: formatting MFM drives on a IBM PC

IIRC, the first time I had problems with the low level format was with one of the early IDE controllers and a 230MB Maxtor. Crapped out the entire firmware, was never able to get it to admit who it was again. Seemed to work okay with earlier MFM/RLL 40 MB and 80 MB Conner drives (I think, it's

WTB: Sun Voyager carry bag

If anyone knows a source for the bag that holds the Sun Voyager computer w/ keyboard + mouse I am interested. Would like to keep mine together. - Ethan

Re: Cases (display) for beloved ISA cards?

IBM's ISA cases come to mind, wonder if these are available, I have this one: http://vintagecomputer.net/ibm/IBM_ISA-Card-Case_Open.jpg http://vintagecomputer.net/ibm/IBM_ISA-Card-Case_Closed.jpg Bill Neat!!! -- : Ethan O'Toole

Cases (display) for beloved ISA cards?

Anyone have suggestions on a nice solid plastic case that could hold up to 13" ISA card? Something that isn't terribly larger than the card, but has room for anti static foam cutout for the card, and is clear at least on the top? So far the closest thing I can find would be cases from the

Re: BBS software was Re: looking at buying a pocket PC / PDA

I'd get a RS232toWIFI dongle, they're cheap and easy to make a connection via simple terminal software to an outside telnet target. I don't think the RS232 to WIFI dongles from the one guy are often unavailable. I think the creator hand solders them in small batches or something.

Re: Convex Computer Corporation manuals

Does the content exist online / scanned? Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2017 01:29:37 +1100 From: Unibus via cctalk Reply-To: Unibus , "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" To: cctalk@classiccmp.org Subject: Convex Computer

Re: R: Sparc Laptops

There's also the S3000 in that category (luggable SPARCs). On the RS/6000 ThinkPad side, I have an 860 and a currently refusing-to-boot 800. Are the 860 and 800 worth hutning down? All of them have 2.5" SCSI drives as well I assume. -- : Ethan O'Toole

Re: R: Sparc Laptops

I'd be interested as well if any are left. I sold a Sparcbook a while back that was missing the hard drive caddy. I just couldn't find a caddy and had a random buyer that wanted it for a museum. It did have it netbooting though, and they are fun machines! Sparcbook and the IBM RS/6000 laptop

Re: Nekochan has been shut down :(

I didn't see it being mentioned here on cctalk :( http://archive.is/dJgyQ but I'm hearing some refugees saying that the chances of the site going back online are not looking good I just posted my SGI Indigo PSU repair to that site and was planning to copy it over to my personal blog this

ISO: Seattle Computer Producs 300 S100 board

I jumped the gun and bought a SCP 200B board. I grew up a DOS kid, so figured it would be fun to run 86-DOS. I found out about the SCP 300 board, that contains the boot loader and serial port. Anyone have an extra they would be interested in unloading? Thanks -- : Ethan O'Toole

RE: New Listings for Sellam's Collection Sales

Some of the Q-BUS stuff is very cheap. Pity I am in the UK. I thought the Atari Mega ST4 was a little expensive given its untested. I know it needs a special video lead to test but mine popped a video driver. Also technically it doesn't usually boot from disk. The OS is in ROM but it will read

Re: QEMM

The old extended/expanded memory manager for DOS. Anyone remember? I remember it! It was useful. Here is the manual: https://www.jumpjet.info/Application-Software/DOS/QEMM/Manual.pdf -- : Ethan O'Toole

Re: Pine (was: Re: cctalk Digest, Vol 17, Issue 20)

A minor problem - A lot of mail that I receive won't display pro[perly on PINE (such as the first letter of your name in your signature! I end up forwarding some mail FROM PINE, TO GMail to be able to read it! The UTF-8 subject lines are the worst :-( Other than that, pine for 20 years (well,

RE: Livingston Portmaster 2e

I was curious as to what this was so I Googled it. A couple appear on epay - https://www.ebay.com/itm/Livingston-PortMaster-2E-Communications-Server-/400327660103 Wow - not sure of that’s a realistic expectation of what they're worth or not. I used to do quite a bit with Livisington

Re: Password reset for ~1998 AIX on RS/6000?

Is there a standard procedure for recovering lost passwords for these systems, or for resetting passwords? I do have physical access to the machine; it’s possible I can find an AIX install disk but it’s *highly* desirable to preserve the contents of the existing hard drive. Image the hard

Re: Large HP plotter on the curb in Arlington, MA

The pen plotters came from Tektronix and the inkjets either free or via -pete Late to the thread but I owned a HP DesignJet 1050C until recently. It's similar to what was on the curb in Arlington, MA I believe? They're beautiful machines. The ink carts can be had expired and will run. The

Re: how good is the data reliability with BD-R (Blu-Ray)

My BD-R story: For a little bit I was trying to go Blue Ray for backup of conference talks I was recording at the time. I picked up a Samsung BD-R drive and some memorex media. The media for BD-R comes in a High to low and low to high versions. One is dye based not for long term, the other

Re: Thicknet/10base5 Test Segment: The Cable is In!

Allied Telesis made a "multi port tap" that provided four AUI ports off a single Ethernet tap. I don't know if it was a repeater/hub inside, or what. It was much smaller than a DELNI or DEREP. That totally sounds like the one located in the Cray. My guess is most people would hook AUI

Re: Thicknet/10base5 Test Segment: The Cable is In!

I think I've seen reports of multi AUI port taps. Correct? I think my Cray has a 4 port AUI box w/ 1 x 10base2. It has DB15 ribbons going to each of the IOSV CPU cards. Allied Telesyn might be the mfgr. -- : Ethan O'Toole

Re: Who is eBay's customer was RE: SMS floppy disk controller

Yeah, well that is the age old argument. As far as I am concerned he who ponies up the cash is the customer. The sellers may be "customers" for eBay store front ends or advertising but the main business/revenue model is the fee on sale of items and that is paid by the buyers when all is said

Can anyone identify this S100 serial board?

Trying to identify the S100 serial board in my Imsai 8080. https://imgur.com/eZyOVT5 I assume it was a kit. There are wires from behind one of the ICs that go to DB25 on the rear, along with other DB25s with a few pins (maybe cassette input.) Any help appreciated. -- : Ethan O'Toole

Re: Can anyone identify this S100 serial board?

___ From: cctalk on behalf of Ethan via cctalk Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2018 6:43:12 PM To: cctalk@classiccmp.org Subject: Can anyone identify this S100 serial board? Trying to identify the S100 serial board in my Imsai 8080. https://imgur.com/eZyOVT5 I assume it was a kit.

Re: Replica IBM 5150 PC motherboard

What about the ASICs, Ethan? :D (An A500 recreation was made - the board was RED! :D ) Sockets. The battery damage has wiped out a ton of a3000 mobos, but the ASICs should be good. Just move the custom ICs over. -- : Ethan O'Toole

Re: WeirdStuff going out of business

forgot about that.. wonder why they do that? Outside linking to images can crush bandwidth, especially if they end up on a popular site. Glad I got to visit the warehouse before it went away. Bummer when things like that go away. Commercial rents are too high. Real estate values are too

Re: SGI Indigo Power Supply Pinout?

I Have an indigo that has not gotten much use aside from when i first picked it up. It has the bigger power supply as well and is maxed out on memory. As a last resort, I could sell you my machine. It boots, I had rigged a peice of jumper wire to the battery to overcome a flat battery, i did not

SGI Indigo Power Supply Pinout?

Howdy, Working on fixing an old SGI Indigo of mine in prep for VCF East. The issue is once any sort of IRIX kernel is running, it craps out WARNING: Power Failure Detected at a high rate. The SGI Indigo and a few other similar models could push out that error on the local console and

Re: PATA hard disks, anyone?

Hitachi 3 and 4tb are VERY good, as are the equivalent Toshiba from when WD divested themselves of the Hitachi hi-end line. Been runnning 4 HGST 4TB for a long while now at home and have been really happy. My best disks. 1tb was the switchover point to vertical recording, so those (and esp

Re: PATA hard disks, anyone?

The advantages of working for a small company... the sysadmin is a long-time employee who's just moved into that role, he and I are good buddies. And there's not anything worth $$$ data recovery on them anyway. I hate seeing perfectly good working equipment reduced to low-value scrap, so I'm

WTD: Dell ML6000 (or similar) LTO library, Mid-Atlantic East Coast

While this slightly deviates from classic computers, I've been on the hunt for a surplus LTO library around the mid-atlantic East Coast for a bit. The Dell ML6000 which is made by someone else is what has my eye. We have one at work, lame robot that is very slow at changing tapes and looks

Re: Digitising collections of microfiche - Re: Looking for opinions...

DOES ANYONE READ OLD POSTS HERE?? >> Some of us... Do the math. Scanning all of that fiche is man-centuries of work with all but the most expensive equipment. Quite. Maybe someday 9600 dpi scan heads will be cheap, but not soon enough for most of us here today to care. We

Re: RAID? Was: PATA hard disks, anyone?

I know of no RAID setup that can save me >from stupid. I use rsync. I manually rsync the working disks to the backup disks every week or two. Working disks have the shares to other hosts. If something happens to that data, deleted by accident or encrypted by malware. Meh. Hardware like

Re: Digitising collections of microfiche - Re: Looking for opinions...

You figure if a couple of college kids can build a robot that can solve a Rubik's Cube in 380ms, a bunch of really smart old guys should be able to cobble together a DIY microfiche scanner. g. Mentioned it in an IRC channel. Friends started talking about it. The open source hughin software

Re: SGI Indy power supply: identify this diode?

If only! That question has been asked many times on SGI forums like nekochan, for the Sony PSU (like this one) and also the Nidec. No-one has ever claimed to have seen one, and the chances are Sony wouldn't ever have released them. Yea I was looking for the Nidec one for the Indigo, as mine

Re: SGI Indy power supply: identify this diode?

I'm hoping I don't have to breadboard a 1kV supply and find a lot of multi-megohm resistors to try and estimate the breakdown voltage - and then guess at the forward current rating. Is it possible to get the schematics? - Ethan -- : Ethan O'Toole

Re: R: PATA hard disks, anyone?

Certainly, but it's fruitless to use logic in cases such as these. Chances are that someone once read the paper from the 1990s that said it was possible to recover overwritten data from a drive using, IIRC, an STM--at a rate of what was it? 1 kbit per hour? AFAIK there has been a bounty out to

Re: PATA hard disks, anyone?

Are they functional or decorative? 3TB Seagate They will likely fail. Defective model. Know someone that doesn't even RMA them, straight to trash. Replaces them with WD. (Note that all Seagate models have the issue, just something wrong with a 3TB model.) - Ethan

Re: Digitising collections of microfiche - Re: Looking for opinions...

I'm probably WAY over simplifying this because I don't have a grasp of the optics involved, but wouldn't it be possible to get a good image of individual pages on a microfiche by using a DSLR with the right lens and a CNC X/Y table made from one of the large (8x10) LED illuminators used to

Re: Looking for opinions...

I found a stack of DEC microfiche a few nights ago. It's probably about 12 inches tall, and contains PM Procedures, IPBs, Manuals, Tech Info, and several type of Logistics, BOMs, vendors, etc which I will deal with later. Most of it is "company confidential", not that it matters anymore. The

Re: Picked up a couple 386 machines

That is a very standard IDE drive that you can replace with just about any IDE drive you can find, at least to get things up and running. The controller won't support the faster transfer speeds of later drives, and may not support the full capacity of the larger drives, but the newer drives

Re: Paul Allen - RIP

https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/microsoft-co-founder-paul-allen-dies-at-65/281-604572895 Paul Allen just died. Zane Bummer! -- : Ethan O'Toole

Re: OTsorta : Old phone system(s) avail

I'm still looking into whether these devices will help me. I'm at the point of figuring out what the unknown unknowns are, as I'm new to telephony. Where are you located? I am in London, UK. I'm aware that due to the likelihood of shipping there's a good chance this won't work out. It's an

Re: Microsoft-Paul Allen

I thought it was just hilarious that Microsoft chose The Rolling Stones' "Start Me Up" for the theme song at the launch of Windows 95, unaware of the later lyrics in the song (not played during the launch, IIRC They wanted R.E.M.'s "End of the world as we know it" but R.E.M. said no.

Re: Selling keyboards without the terminal

OK I  am sorry  I  do not  understand  why the keyboard  went  this high? Please... Please... someone  explain? Ed# Race for the loudest keyboard. Bragging rights of the rare? An Adlib card sold for $3100 a year ago or so. Friends were suspicious that people were driving up the price of their

Re: Selling keyboards without the terminal

Here is a great example of why the keyboards and terminals are getting separated I sold a working luggable computer. The keys were a bit clicky but I put on the auction to try to thwart the keyboard collectors. I shipped it working, buyer claimed it wasn't working when arrived. Ended up

Re: Selling keyboards without the terminal

The quality of modern keycaps is poor. These guys are after mechanical boards with double-shot keytops. If you do find modern double-shots, the fonts they use are crap. The kb I'm typing on cost me about $300 after having to buy replacement caps for almost the same price as the kb was. I had

Re: Selling keyboards without the terminal

Woof! I have a complete, working IBM 3101 terminal (got it from a former co-worker who used to use it to work from home at CompuServe) and it's tempting to sell just the keyboard. -ethan Just use an arduino to make an adapter so you can use a USB keyboard with the 3101 terminal. If you used

Re: Updates at retroarchive.org...

Even a full list of what CDs Jason has there w/o indexing would be helpful. Trying to figure out what is there is a nightmare. For a while, I had about 400gb of cd images on bitsavers until we ran out of disk space. I probably have a few hundred more gb I've read since then. I've slowly been

Re: Updates at retroarchive.org...

You realize that you can click a button and get a text list of those "pretty pictures", right? Click the "Show Details" checkbox and you'll get a block of text that describes each one. g. I would assume he means text listings / directory listing type view. - Ethan

If you archive old data for the public...

If any of you are archiving old data for the public, like CD-ROMs or whatever, and you are low on disk space A friend gives me surplus data center hardware often, and I have some SATA disks. They have 4 years or so on them so backup / redundancy is important, but I can offer some to

Re: 2 huge warehouses full of old computers

Before anyone scoffs, warehouse space is expensive. It drove the company I was last working for to move out of Austin. Their business Depends when it was bought. Pre-bubble or after the largest real estate bubble in the history of mankind.

Re: Did anyone see Vintage Tech Hunters on Discovery Canada yet?

You can watch the second episode on the Discovery Canada website as well. I just watched both. Very nice on the credits by the way. I tried to watch it on the drive home from work today. Youtube video had a strike (takedown) so it's gone. The web site had IP geolocation and rejected my

Re: Did anyone see Vintage Tech Hunters on Discovery Canada yet?

On 2018-11-08 05:23, Santo Nucifora via cctalk wrote: I am sure this is not authorized in any way but here's a link to the first episode on Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iroAInAMfYo Going to watch this tonight! Excited! More TV shows to drive speculation on flipping old stuff

Re: NeXT Monitor Problem

The monitor works okay; slight burn in, but otherwise looks okay in terms of the phosphor. However, something seems to be wonky with the horizontal scan...the left edge is very wobbly. Replace all electrolytic caps with new Panasonic of Nichicon 105 degree caps from a source like Digikey,

Re: Did anyone see Vintage Tech Hunters on Discovery Canada yet?

I equate the reproductions to kit cars. If you are wanting something to play / drive without angsting about damage, then IMHO, reproductions & kits are a great way to go. Just don't pretend that they are the real thing. Know that they are a reproduction / kit and enjoy the experience.

Re: Wanted: LTO-5 tapes (used?)

If Ethan doesn't want them I'm morbidly curious what you would want for a drive and some tapes. Also, where you / they are at so that I can guestimate shipping. I am after LTO-5 as that is what my best drives are (untested of course, and they came from trash.. how bad could it end?)

Re: R: Wanted: LTO-5 tapes (used?)

Sorry to intrude, Those are LTO-1 tapes (I do have two for an hp drive I have) No worries, the tapes I am after are LTO-5 / Ultrium-5 -- : Ethan O'Toole

Re: helping to clean out an estate - a lot of CRAY

Hello Paul, I would be willing to take on the task of converting all the videos to digital format (as high quality as possible) for archive. Could pay shipping, but then would like to pass on the tapes to someone else. - Ethan O'Toole A friend of mine passed

Re: helping to clean out an estate - a lot of CRAY

I appreciate the multiple offers to digitize the tapes. I will try to get back to everyone next week. Maybe split the load? Looking for ideas here. My only rule is both museums get a copy and post it for public use. I do have a few requests for some of the original tapes. I was one of the

Wanted: LTO-5 tapes (used?)

Looking for used LTO-5 tapes that I can erase and add to my library at home for backing up spinning disk archives. I can use LTO-4 as well but 5 gives the most bang for buck. HMU - Ethan -- : Ethan O'Toole

Re: HIPPI devices

Anyone have any HIPPI stuff, preferably for sale? The machine I have uses the big parallel cables 100-pin but I guess there is a converter to serial fiber. Regards, Kevin I tossed a ton of 100 pin hippi network cables a good while ago. They came with my Cray systems. Never thought I would see

Re: Manual sources

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/09/introducing-the-archive-corps/403135/ Jim Tucker is still selling things on ebay. When we'll see the manuals from the archive, who knows? Does the Internet Archive actively have people scanning tons of manuals all the time? Oddly, I am

Re: sun model 47. code 4/40 does it have the nvram with battery?

Sun never made their own laptop, but they made a portable called the SPARCstation Voyager. I own a Voyager (Can bring it to the next VCF East if needed.) I have been looking for the padded bag that goes with it for a long time. Any leads appreciated! - Ethan

Re: Market improving for monitors?

On a recent Reddit thread someone claimed that old PC monitors and tube TVs are rising in popularity and price due to retro gamers. Is this true? SOME TVs. Not every TV. The gamers want the pro broadcast video monitors that have RGB inputs. Sony PVM and the like. Search ebay for Sony PVM RGB

Re: Market improving for monitors?

10ms-30ms of latency in most cases. One frame time at 60fps is 16ms, so if you wait for each picture to be completely scanned in over HDMI before you start scanning it out to the glass then that's going to set your minimum latency. And obviously if the input frame rate is less than 60fps it's

Re: Market improving for monitors?

If you want to avoid shipping you see if there's a vintage arcade game group in your area and see what they are looking for. Most people seem to be replacing tubes with equivalent size panels, though. BLASPHEMY! N! There are no LCDs that are 4:3 above 21". Not 25", not 27/29" models. The

Re: Picking tubular locks (WAS : Text encoding Babel. now PICKING LOCKS OR FINDING KEY MFR AND KEY #

The commercial tools are just a tube with slots and sliders, with variable friction. Almost trivial to make your own (as I did in High School), although a well machined one will be a joy to use. As such, sometimes just sliding that into the lock (WITH THE RIGHT AMOUNT OF TORQUE) will get each

Re: SPARCstation 20 with SCSI2SD

I was hoping to just emulate it for now to avoid potentially bad hardware, but seems like I need to use the real hardware to avoid potentially bad software! :) Ah cool. I was at a friend's brother's house on a work trip out to Silicon Valley. One of his friends was there, with something

Re: SPARCstation 20 with SCSI2SD

Well, got the last problem solved rather quickly: I tried using 512 byte sectors for the emulated CDROM instead of SCSI2SD's default of 2048 for a CDROM, and that did the trick. Working my way through the SunOS 4.1.3 installation process now on the SS-20. Was just thinking the 512 byte thing

Re: What is windoes doing?

I have a question. I use the USB port for serial. In my program, I use a fixed com port. When going to the control panel, I find that I see (in use) tags on some of the com ports. I'm the only one currently using the com ports but recently another (in use) showed up, requiring me to modify my

Re: NVRAM resuscitation (Was Re: SPARCstation 20 with SCSI2SD)

As an aside - once upon a time I worked for a company that made their own Sparc boards to fit inside a supercomputer and several of them were inside secure military/government establishments. Sometimes a board would fail and have to go back for a fix - and then the RTC/NVRAM chip had to be

Re: SPARCstation 20 with SCSI2SD

Also, to anyone buying NVRAMs on eBay, don't expect anything from China to actually be new NVRAMs. I've bought a bunch to disassemble, in the course Are any of the SMD NVRAMs with the battery caps compatible? Throw them on a DIP to SOIC PCB? - Ethan -- : Ethan

Microware OS-9 68K books

A friend and I went in on an Amiga 4000T haul last weekend, and with it were some nice hard binder and box Microware OS-9 68x00 books. I want to say there are two sets of two, and then some binders with photocopied style paperwork for BASIC. Is there any Microware fans that might want

Re: More old stuff incoming

Really? Show me one that is 1) in current production, 2) offers the full ISA bus (not just some decoded address lines and 8 data lines), 3) plugs into a PCI slot. Christian Surprised no one has used something like an ATMega or cheap USB connected ARM to build a USB to ISA adapter with tie in