On 23/08/15 17:42, Nick Rout wrote:
On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 8:35 PM, Peter Simmonds
peter.a.simmo...@gmail.com mailto:peter.a.simmo...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi All,
Does it have a reel to reel tape, or punched paper tape storage
device by any chance?
Punched paper tape brings
Hi All,
Does it have a reel to reel tape, or punched paper tape storage device
by any chance?
Maybe components of the system would have value rather than the whole?
From an electronics perspective, a paper tape reader would be far more
interesting than a board full of 74LS logic devices. I
On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 8:35 PM, Peter Simmonds peter.a.simmo...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hi All,
Does it have a reel to reel tape, or punched paper tape storage device by
any chance?
Punched paper tape brings back memories of school.
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What DEC hardware was it ?
We used to have a Vax 11/750 running Ultrix and then 4.3 BSD in the
department
Of interest to see one saved if I can find one. Still have the source
code and maybe the tapes.
Ferrymead doesn't save computers -- not old enough. The old computer
group out there
is
Hi-ho,
I'm not sure of the model yet, at this stage all I know is that it's 6
cabinets with digital on some of them. That means it's not a minivax
but other than that I'm in a hold loop waiting for a date next month to
go and take a look. :-)
I worked on a PDP11 micro that was failing with
On 18 August 2015 at 22:20, Chris Hellyar ch...@trash.co.nz wrote:
Xenix
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenix
Really? Or same name different thing?
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That's the one...
Microsoft's long forgotten Unix. :-)
We had quite a few customers using it on Altos 386 and IBM PS2/80
hardware back in the day, and the customer with the VAX was in our
system as having a model 80.. So off I went with my 3.5 set of Xenix
disks and a smile.. Turned out to
Does it have to be PC/i386 stuff?
I'll be helping a firm pull out some old DEC hardware next month..
Serious big-iron they are going to have to pay to get taken away if
you're really keen.
It's not been powered on since about 1990, and you'll need a truck. :-)
On 17/08/15 18:57, Peter
On Mon 17 Aug 2015 20:07:20 NZST +1200, criggie wrote:
With all respect to Molten Media, if anyone's giving away drives do
make sure they're wiped first, with something like dban rather than
a casual wipe in $OS.
dban? dd is as good as it gets.
Paranoia is a good thing.
Ha. Just came from
scrub does it for me, not heard of dban before, will 'ave to have a look...
Anyway, spare drives I have, first in first served:
PATA:
1x WD400, 40G
2x Maxtor 20.4Gb (20G? is that even a thing? :) )
1x Hitachi Deskstar 82.3Gb
SATA: (Turns out two were not as old as the others!)
1x Hitachi
I have an old compac rack server sitting in the garage dual power supply
one cpu though don't know the specs but it is old
On 17 August 2015 at 18:57, Peter Simmonds peter.a.simmo...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hi Chris Others,
I know what it's like. Would you mind keeping an eye out for exotic
Hi Chris Others,
I know what it's like. Would you mind keeping an eye out for exotic
hardware, before it goes to molten media? They tend not to know much
about what they are scrapping.
As an example, I recently pulled an ordinary looking ISA card from an
absolutely shagged old 386. This
On 17/08/15 20:11, linux-users-requ...@lists.canterbury.ac.nz wrote:
I have an old compac rack server sitting in the garage dual power supply
one cpu though don't know the specs but it is old
Given Compaq stopped making servers at least 15 years ago, that box will
be a p3 xeon with maybe a
Hi Chris Others,
I think these may be useful when formatted with FAT32 and maybe on a
USB2 to PATA adapter. I have tried on many occasions to get various
livecd distributions to work on various hard drives. They always seem to
require FAT32, and frequently fail due to some other factor (I'm
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