Re: HP-UX 5.1 for the 9836U?
Josh, Sorry don't have it, but I didn't even know there was a 9836 that ran Unix, so I learned something again. Does it look like a regular 9836C or is it a different form factor? Marc On Oct 14, 2017, at 3:25 PM, Josh Dersch via cctalk wrote: Hi all -- Anyone have media for the 9836U version of HP-UX 5.1? The copy on hpmuseum.net (http://www.hpmuseum.net/display_item.php?sw=581) only works on the 9000/310 and I haven't found much of anything anywhere else. Thanks as always, Josh
Re: tandem computers cartridge tapes
On 10/14/2017 6:45 PM, Lyle Bickley wrote: On Sat, 14 Oct 2017 13:00:30 -0700 steve shumaker via cctalk wrote: On 10/14/2017 12:39 PM, Jon Elson wrote: On 10/14/2017 12:22 PM, steve shumaker via cctalk wrote: found as part of the stack saved from an engineers estate: Tandem Computers cartridge tapes and docs Cartridges are appox 4x4x1 and the tape appears to be half inch. Some are in boxes marked "Cartridge Tape CT-130" All have labels indicated they are Tandem Computers "Site Update Tapes" with 1988, 89, and 90 dates. Cursory google produced nothing. Secondary label on one cartridge would seem to indicate they are used for software distribution. I have seven of the cartridges along with several Tandem Non-Stop manuals. Manuals have been scanned. Anyone interested? Free for shipping from 95006 (call it 5lbs wt) Steve Hmmm, they just has a Tandem Computers reunion in the Bay area last month, with over 400 attendees! If you aren't in touch with anybody from Tandem, I could mention this to my friend who used to work for them. He used to have a Non-Stop I in his basement. He built it from cast-off boards, some of them blank so he had to stuff them with chips. Jon feel free to inquire for me! I'm a former Tandem Product Manager (of Operating Systems). BTW: Went to the Re-union ;) Pictures of the tapes would be helpful. When I get them (or a link to them) - I'll post it to the Tandem Alumni group to see if anyone can identify and/or use them. Cheers, Lyle will do! Steve
Space-Time Productions Z80 board
Has anyone archived the contents of Joel Owens' Z80 project site that had documentation and software images for the above mentioned Z80 Master Controller Board? His website at joelowens.org has been replaced by some real estate rental page. Thanks, Amardeep
Re: tandem computers cartridge tapes
On Sat, 14 Oct 2017 13:00:30 -0700 steve shumaker via cctalk wrote: > On 10/14/2017 12:39 PM, Jon Elson wrote: > > On 10/14/2017 12:22 PM, steve shumaker via cctalk wrote: > >> found as part of the stack saved from an engineers estate: Tandem > >> Computers cartridge tapes and docs > >> > >> Cartridges are appox 4x4x1 and the tape appears to be half inch. > >> Some are in boxes marked "Cartridge Tape CT-130" All have labels > >> indicated they are Tandem Computers "Site Update Tapes" with 1988, > >> 89, and 90 dates. Cursory google produced nothing. Secondary > >> label on one cartridge would seem to indicate they are used for > >> software distribution. > >> > >> I have seven of the cartridges along with several Tandem Non-Stop > >> manuals. Manuals have been scanned. > >> > >> Anyone interested? Free for shipping from 95006 (call it 5lbs wt) > >> > >> Steve > >> > >> > >> > > Hmmm, they just has a Tandem Computers reunion in the Bay area last > > month, with over 400 attendees! > > If you aren't in touch with anybody from Tandem, I could mention > > this to my friend who used to work for them. > > He used to have a Non-Stop I in his basement. He built it from > > cast-off boards, some of them blank so he had to stuff them with > > chips. > > > > Jon > > > feel free to inquire for me! I'm a former Tandem Product Manager (of Operating Systems). BTW: Went to the Re-union ;) Pictures of the tapes would be helpful. When I get them (or a link to them) - I'll post it to the Tandem Alumni group to see if anyone can identify and/or use them. Cheers, Lyle -- 73 AF6WS Bickley Consulting West Inc. http://bickleywest.com "Black holes are where God is dividing by zero"
HP-UX 5.1 for the 9836U?
Hi all -- Anyone have media for the 9836U version of HP-UX 5.1? The copy on hpmuseum.net (http://www.hpmuseum.net/display_item.php?sw=581) only works on the 9000/310 and I haven't found much of anything anywhere else. Thanks as always, Josh
Re: tandem computers cartridge tapes
On 10/14/2017 1:33 PM, Camiel Vanderhoeven wrote: On 10/14/17, 7:55 PM, "cctalk on behalf of steve shumaker via cctalk" wrote: On 10/14/2017 10:42 AM, Camiel Vanderhoeven wrote: On 10/14/17, 7:22 PM, "cctalk on behalf of steve shumaker via cctalk" wrote: found as part of the stack saved from an engineers estate: Tandem Computers cartridge tapes and docs Cartridges are appox 4x4x1 and the tape appears to be half inch. Some are in boxes marked "Cartridge Tape CT-130" All have labels indicated they are Tandem Computers "Site Update Tapes" with 1988, 89, and 90 dates. Cursory google produced nothing. Secondary label on one cartridge would seem to indicate they are used for software distribution. Sounds like DLT tapes. Similar shape and overall size but the shutter and leader hook are different The only other format I know of that era that comes close is IBM 3480, but that¹s less square, more like 5² x 4². Do you have pictures online somewhere? I did a very cursory google but didn't find anything. I'll take some photos tonight and post them. Steve
Re: tandem computers cartridge tapes
On 10/14/2017 12:39 PM, Jon Elson wrote: On 10/14/2017 12:22 PM, steve shumaker via cctalk wrote: found as part of the stack saved from an engineers estate: Tandem Computers cartridge tapes and docs Cartridges are appox 4x4x1 and the tape appears to be half inch. Some are in boxes marked "Cartridge Tape CT-130" All have labels indicated they are Tandem Computers "Site Update Tapes" with 1988, 89, and 90 dates. Cursory google produced nothing. Secondary label on one cartridge would seem to indicate they are used for software distribution. I have seven of the cartridges along with several Tandem Non-Stop manuals. Manuals have been scanned. Anyone interested? Free for shipping from 95006 (call it 5lbs wt) Steve Hmmm, they just has a Tandem Computers reunion in the Bay area last month, with over 400 attendees! If you aren't in touch with anybody from Tandem, I could mention this to my friend who used to work for them. He used to have a Non-Stop I in his basement. He built it from cast-off boards, some of them blank so he had to stuff them with chips. Jon feel free to inquire for me! Steve
Re: tandem computers cartridge tapes
On 10/14/2017 12:22 PM, steve shumaker via cctalk wrote: found as part of the stack saved from an engineers estate: Tandem Computers cartridge tapes and docs Cartridges are appox 4x4x1 and the tape appears to be half inch. Some are in boxes marked "Cartridge Tape CT-130" All have labels indicated they are Tandem Computers "Site Update Tapes" with 1988, 89, and 90 dates. Cursory google produced nothing. Secondary label on one cartridge would seem to indicate they are used for software distribution. I have seven of the cartridges along with several Tandem Non-Stop manuals. Manuals have been scanned. Anyone interested? Free for shipping from 95006 (call it 5lbs wt) Steve Hmmm, they just has a Tandem Computers reunion in the Bay area last month, with over 400 attendees! If you aren't in touch with anybody from Tandem, I could mention this to my friend who used to work for them. He used to have a Non-Stop I in his basement. He built it from cast-off boards, some of them blank so he had to stuff them with chips. Jon
Re: tandem computers cartridge tapes
On 10/14/2017 10:42 AM, Camiel Vanderhoeven wrote: On 10/14/17, 7:22 PM, "cctalk on behalf of steve shumaker via cctalk" wrote: found as part of the stack saved from an engineers estate: Tandem Computers cartridge tapes and docs Cartridges are appox 4x4x1 and the tape appears to be half inch. Some are in boxes marked "Cartridge Tape CT-130" All have labels indicated they are Tandem Computers "Site Update Tapes" with 1988, 89, and 90 dates. Cursory google produced nothing. Secondary label on one cartridge would seem to indicate they are used for software distribution. Sounds like DLT tapes. Similar shape and overall size but the shutter and leader hook are different Steve
tandem computers cartridge tapes
found as part of the stack saved from an engineers estate: Tandem Computers cartridge tapes and docs Cartridges are appox 4x4x1 and the tape appears to be half inch. Some are in boxes marked "Cartridge Tape CT-130" All have labels indicated they are Tandem Computers "Site Update Tapes" with 1988, 89, and 90 dates. Cursory google produced nothing. Secondary label on one cartridge would seem to indicate they are used for software distribution. I have seven of the cartridges along with several Tandem Non-Stop manuals. Manuals have been scanned. Anyone interested? Free for shipping from 95006 (call it 5lbs wt) Steve
RE: Giving away my collection to someone just starting out in the hobby
If anyone has interest in Digital Aeon's (aka Steve Landon) "offer to get rid of his collection", please contact him directly off-list, and let's not continue this thread here. J
Re: Is a Hitachi P/N 21-18470-01 64Kx1 DRAM a rebadged 4864?
On Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 5:05 AM, Ethan Dicks via cctalk wrote: > Hi, All, > > I have some Hitachi parts, marked 21-18470-01, that I pulled from a > DEC Professional 350 on an upgrade to 256Kx1 DRAMs. I am trying to > track down a specific thing about them. I found a vcfed.org post > about these same type chips in a DEC Rainbow and the question (but not > firm confirmation) that they could be Hitachi 4864s based on DEC parts > lists. Alas all I can tell you (from looking at the schematics) is that the Rainbow does full 8 bit refresh on both the motherboard and the RAM expansion board. So these ICs might be 7 bit refresh (since those would work with an 8 bit refresh address), they might not -tony
Re: Where is the memory on the AP-101S memory board?
On Oct 11, 2017 07:35, "Shoppa, Tim via cctalk" wrote: The AMD chips probably have two layers of legs. I doubt it, but without a close-up at a different angle it's hard to say. Are the AMD chips the memory, and the 54F the glue logic? I suspect so. Maybe backtranslating to a core memory bus? There was reportedly a lot of redesign throughout the computer, so I doubt it. Or are there memory SIP's on the other side? I doubt it, but we need more photos. In which case maybe the AMD chips might be some sort of error-correction LSI's? AMD did make ECC chips, so that is somewhat plausible. This is just 1 Mbyte of RAM but of course with a long manned spaceflight leadtime, date codes of 1986-1988 might imply a design from most of a decade before. Not in this case. 54F series TTL didn't exist decade before, and I don't think it was even on the drawing board yet. If it really was designed in 1978 or earlier, it would have used 54S. Maybe could have been designed for 54S and built with 54F, but I think that's unlikely, as it would have required a full requalification of the entire computer, for pretty limited benefit. Not something that's commonly done, due to extreme expense of requalifying flight hardware. I think it's more likely a design from 1982-1984. Possibly IBM FSD was redesigning the computer for multiple aerospace applications, not just the Space Shuttle.
Is a Hitachi P/N 21-18470-01 64Kx1 DRAM a rebadged 4864?
Hi, All, I have some Hitachi parts, marked 21-18470-01, that I pulled from a DEC Professional 350 on an upgrade to 256Kx1 DRAMs. I am trying to track down a specific thing about them. I found a vcfed.org post about these same type chips in a DEC Rainbow and the question (but not firm confirmation) that they could be Hitachi 4864s based on DEC parts lists. http://www.vcfed.org/forum/archive/index.php/t-24574.html It matters to me because I'm trying to find some 7-bit/128-cycle refresh DRAMs to stuff into a TRS-80 Model 4. I mostly have 4164s made by TI and such that are 8-bit refresh, so they won't do. If these are 4864s, then they'll do. http://www.minuszerodegrees.net/memory/4164.htm (I already have the GAL file for the Model 4 upgrade, so I don't need the reminder that the 128K upgrade needs more than just eight more RAM chips). Thanks, -ethan
Re: More tape drives - what is this one?
What we use to call "Instrumentation" recorders. I've changed many a 14 inch reals with 1" tape, that at time was recording at 120 ips. Thats 10 feet / 3 meters/second. A LOT spinning mass :-) You should see what happens when one comes off an unlocked hub at that speed. The ones in the Ebay listing were what we called portable. Portable only because they had handles and did not take 3 feet of rack space like the Ampex and the 3 or 4 other makers. Not really the 'good' days, but a lot of fun. -pete Yes .. no longer gray hair, but silver hair On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 4:12 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > On 10/13/2017 04:00 PM, Anders Nelson via cctalk wrote: > > Found on eBay: > > > > https://www.ebay.com/i/172896286711 > > > > Something out of the '50s? Just curious. > > Multichannel audio recorder, I think: > > https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/budapesti_multi_channel_tape_shr_21.html > > --Chuck > > >
DEC RRD40-44 Caddy Needed
Does anyone (UK preferably) have a caddy for a DEC RRD44 CDROM drive which they can spare? I've acquired a microVax 3100 with no software which I want to mount VMS on. Thanks Bob
RE: DEC RRD40-44 Caddy Needed
> -Original Message- > From: cctech [mailto:cctech-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Robert > Adamson via cctech > Sent: 13 October 2017 21:05 > To: cct...@classiccmp.org > Subject: DEC RRD40-44 Caddy Needed > > Does anyone (UK preferably) have a caddy for a DEC RRD44 CDROM drive > which they can spare? > > I've acquired a microVax 3100 with no software which I want to mount VMS on. > > Thanks > I may have one, whereabouts are you? Strictly though you may not need to use a physical drive. The way I do it these days is to net boot off a SIMH machine. Regards Rob
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 privately. I have had this happen to me in the past and fixed it that way. Not everyone is comfortable with opening a computer and doing such things, but it should only take a few minutes. I assume the person will come to you. Thanks Bill Degnan Has the battery been removed? If not... :-( -- : Ethan O'Toole
HP 7970 1/2" 9-Track Reel-to-Reel Tape Drive
Greetings to the List - Does anyone have a copy of the text of the actual ISO 1863 standard that defines, I think, the formatting of the ancient 1/2" magnetic tapes??? I am interested to understand better the format of the calculated LRC at the end of tape blocks, sync signals, record gaps and all the rest. I contemplate seeing if I can get an 1/2" tape drive operational with my 68K system by emulating the drive hardware control signals in software. ISO 1863 appears to govern that: https://webstore.iec.ch/publication/10668 I appreciate any leads. Regards from the Rocky Mountains, Jack -- Jack Harper, President Secure Outcomes Inc 2942 Evergreen Parkway, Suite 300 Evergreen, Colorado 80439 USA 303.670.8375 303.670.3750 (fax) http://www.secureoutcomes.net for Product Info.
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 privately. I have had this happen to me in the past and fixed it that way. Not everyone is comfortable with opening a computer and doing such things, but it should only take a few minutes. I assume the person will come to you. Thanks Bill Degnan
Re: DEC Alpha 3000 and OpenVMS 8.4
On 10/13/17, 3:36 PM, "cctalk on behalf of Jason Howe via cctalk" wrote: >Hi Camiel, > >Is there a solution for Hobbyists to get the VSI 8.4 Alpha release? > >Last time I checked/inquired it seemed like there was uncertainty about >it. And from what I understand the standard HP Hobbyists License PAKs >won't be of much use on a VSI system. > >Thanks, >Jason No, the HP PAKs won¹t work. There is no formal hobbyist program yet, but if you have a pressing need, or a good explanation of why you want to run the VSI version, you can contact VSI and we¹ll look at this on a case-by-case basis (not myself, but others in the company). You can use the general email address provided on the Contact page on our website (www.vmssoftware.com) Kind regards, Camiel Vanderhoeven OpenVMS Kernel Engineer +-+-+-+ |V|M|S| Software +-+-+-+ VMS Software, Inc. Research & Development Department http://www.vmssoftware.com Virtue can only flourish amongst equals. -- Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Men 1994 IDSM chapter 37 - Symmetric Multiprocessing
