Re: Vintage HP 1000 Floating point processor ( EBAY )

On Tue, Aug 8, 2017 at 10:48 AM, GerardCJAT via cctech wrote: > Seems it found a new home !! ( One bid ) > > I am curious : From someone on this forum ??? > > PS : I was NOT interested by this processor ;-)by now, I have my 1000 > Lseries to play with, that is

Re: RL02 to image file

On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 10:28 AM, JCWelch via cctech wrote: > Hello, > Does anyone have a setup to image RL02 packs to a pc file that can be mounted > with simh? I have a couple of dozen I would like transferred because I am > downsizing. I have a bunch of gear I can

Re: VAX Q-bus identical to PDP-11 Q-bus?

An M5976 KZQSA is not MSCP compatible so it wouldn't do any good with a PDP-11 system. It's really only useful for RRD4x SCSI CD-ROM drives with VMS on a VAX 4000. On Dec 6, 2017 9:47 AM, "Aaron Jackson via cctech" wrote: I'm looking after a VAX 4000 for a friend, which

Re: DEC BA213 and BA213 S-boxes?

On Sat, Mar 31, 2018 at 9:04 AM, Bill Degnan via cctech wrote: > > FYI - Not sure if I mentioned this but I too am working on setting up a > DECServer 550 to be an 11/83. Useful tips recently, thanks all. > b Using an M7554 KDJ11-D DECserver 550 CPU (in which case it

Re: VAX Lisp, Macsyma, Maxima

On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 4:07 PM David Coolbear via cctech wrote: > > Does anyone know if any of these are still available for OpenVMS VAX? 917AA VAX LISP/VMS [LISP030] or [LISP031] was on VMS Consolidated Software Distribution CD sets from at least Jan-1990 to May-1993 I have [LISP031] that I

Re: Removing PVA from a CRT

On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 10:41 AM Alan Perry via cctech wrote: > > Also, I have never worked on a CRT before. I am trying to find a local person > who can observe me and stop me from doing something stupid. If I can’t find > someone, what am I more likely to do wrong? How can I be sure I

Re: OT Parts houses & scrappers

On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 9:48 AM Jay West via cctech wrote: > > Kudos to Jesse for working with me offlist, I feel I've gotten a good deal. I > appreciate the offers to help purchase, very much, but I got this taken care > of directly with Jesse and I'm happy. > > We have to understand, as

Re: Looking for 12016-60002 HP Single Ended Cable

On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 9:01 AM Jesse Dougherty via cctech wrote: > > 12016-60002 - SE Cable - card edge connector to 50-pin low density bail > lock (M) - 2m (6.6ft) long > > If anyone has any of these, let me know, I can use about 4 of them. > > Thanks > Jesse > Cypress Technology Inc > Good

Re: 11/70 - original or 570 model more desirable?

On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 7:49 PM Bill Degnan via cctech wrote: > > Random question > would you prefer having, if you had to pick only one, the original PDP > 11/70 or the newer "blue cabinets" PDP 11/70, assuming both were complete > configurations with racks of storage etc as they would have been

Re: Abandoned FACOM system in Italy?

On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 4:14 PM shad via cctech wrote: > > Hello, > do you know the people who made the video? > I think the factory is the Satilai in Saronno. > > Andrea I believe those guys are based somewhere in the US. Sometime in the last few months they made a trip exploring several

Re: HP 1000 A900 ("Magic") Questions

On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 4:14 AM Paul Birkel via cctech wrote: > > Aficionados; > > I'm interested in acquiring an HP1000 A900, in any form-factor. > (http://www.hpmuseum.net/display_item.php?hw=594) > > Basic need would be a chassis/backplane/PS and minimal set of >

Re: Pertec Interface Cable Length

On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 7:44 PM Chuck Guzis via cctech wrote: > > On 8/11/19 6:00 PM, Douglas Taylor via cctech wrote: > > > I just looked at the TC02 and the Qualstar, there are termination > > resistor packs on each. The Qualstar has a bunch of 74LS240 IC's near > > the J1 and J2 pertec

Re: Pertec Interface Cable Length

On Sat, Aug 10, 2019 at 9:46 AM Douglas Taylor via cctech wrote: > > I bought the long cables off ebay, so they have to be good? Right? I > think the short cables came from a hamfest. > > The cables can be fairly long, I remember interfacing a TU80 to an > Emulex QT14 (maybe) and the DEC cables

Re: DEC MS630/M7609 Question

M7608 == 4MB M7609 == 8MB AFAIK the only DEC 16MB Q-bus board is the MS650 M7622 for the KA640, KA650, KA655, KA660 On Tue, Jul 9, 2019, 2:36 PM W2HX via cctech wrote: > Hi there. > > > I just acquired a board with the number M7609. It was advertised as an > M630-CA which my research tells me

Re: VAX & PDP-11 Stuff To Clean Out

On Thu, Nov 7, 2019 at 6:36 PM Jules Richardson via cctech wrote: > > On 11/6/19 12:16 PM, David Coolbear via cctech wrote: > > M5976-AA KZQSA SCSI Controller Q > > Hmm, I could sure use one of those... > > I bought a bunch of QBus boards from my recycler quite some time ago, but > the systems

Re: HP 1670E logic analyzer QUESTION ??

I forgot that at some point they switched from 3.5-inch drives to 2.5-inch drives. I just pulled the cover off my 1670E to check exactly what it has for a hard drive. It is an IBM Travelstar model DBCA-203240, 3.2GB, 4200RPM, 2.5-Inch Hard Disk Drive with ATA/IDE Interface, with a date code of

Re: HP 1670E logic analyzer QUESTION ??

The HP 16500 / 1660 / 1670 series which have hard drives use standard IDE drives. They might be slightly picky about which drives work. Any drive larger than around 2GB might have some issues. Why do you ask? On Sun, Jan 5, 2020, 6:42 AM GerardCJAT via cctech wrote: > This equipment is said

Re: Disabling SCSI parity checking to dump disk on ACB4000 MFM-SCSI adapter?

On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 11:51 AM Michael Engel via cctech wrote: > > Hi, > > still working on backing up the Tektronix 440x disks. My current problem > is that the ACB4000 SCSI-to-MFM adapter doesn´t support SCSI parity. > > I finally managed to find a PCI SCSI controller (Adaptec 2940) and a >

Re: XXDP diagnostic sources

On Mon, Mar 29, 2021, 8:02 AM Robert Armstrong via cctech < cctech@classiccmp.org> wrote: > Hopefully this is an easy question - are the sources for the XXDP > diagnostics online anywhere? I particularly looking for NKXA, the > Falcon-11/KXT11/DCT11 one. Source code listing scans are

Re: idea for a universal disk interface

I also have multiple ESDI controllers, more than one these flavors: Dilog DQ686 http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dilog/2120-0137-1_DQ686_Nov89.pdf Emulex QD21 http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/emulex/QD2151002-J_QD21_Jun90.pdf Sigma SCD-RQD11-EC (There seems to be multiple versions from different

Re: Alphastation 200 login (Wayne S)

On Wed, May 18, 2022 at 11:25 AM Wayne S via cctech wrote: > > I should have specifically said it’s Windows Nt. Issue is that it’s an > Alpha so can’t use the usual software to change or remove the password > unless there’s an Alpha version. Best suggestion so far is to use a version > of

Re: Alphastation 200 login (Wayne S)

On Wed, May 18, 2022 at 10:45 AM Craig Ruff via cctech wrote: > > > On May 18, 2022, at 11:00, cctech-requ...@classiccmp.org wrote: > > > > Got my Alphastation to boot but i can?t logon because i don?t the > > administrator password? Any ideas on how to get past that? > > For VMS, if I recall