Fw: [rescue] Very Last Chance - E6000 and/or parts

[Arno Kletzander via cctalk]

Hi everybody,

as I don't recall seeing this offer around here (may be just rusty memory on my 
side however...), I thought I'd forward this for good measure.

(I'm trying a second time, to cctalk, now as it seems I fell out of the 
classiccmp universe somewhere around 2016-17. Sorry if this appears twice. 
Hadn't actually realized this as I subscribe to several digests of related 
topics, seems like it was a somewhat gradual process of cctalk seemingly 
"drying up". Funnily I can't even get an email reminder into my inbox to check 
whether something got upset in my account settings.)

I'm considering making the 2k mi trip together with my Dad but would do so only 
as a last resort to save the machine from being scrapped.

I think I have some excess CPU boards, maybe a clock board, spacers and PCU/fan 
boxes from a gutted E4k class machine here (southern Germany) so I might be 
able to help people looking for parts.

So long,

Arno // DO4NAK

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> In spite of my efforts to find a good home for my 18x250MHz Sun Enterprise 
> E6000 a couple of months ago, I still have it. Unfortunately, the house is 
> now sold and the E6000 needs to be gone by next Sunday.I can store it at work 
> for a few weeks whilst sorting out shipping etc for any takers.
> I am located on the Isle of Man, so most of you won't be able to just drive 
> round and pick it up!
> Thus I'm willing to split it up into it's constituent modules - if you need 
> PCMs, CPU/Mem boards, I/O boards, a disk board, clock module, peripheral 
> power supply, Sun FC transcievers, memory DIMMs, QFE SBus cards, keyswitch 
> module, peripheral cable harness, etc to keep your E3000/4000/5000/6000 
> sprightly and running,*please*  drop me a line, ASAP. At a pinch, I might 
> even be able to extract the 16-slot Gigaplane backplane from the steel 
> chassis.
> Alternatively, if you know of anyone else who might be interested,*please*  
> pass this message and my email-address on to them.
> I'll post the full list of component modules/parts here in a day or so.
> -- Mike Spooner

Fw: [rescue] Very Last Chance - E6000 and/or parts

[Arno Kletzander via cctalk]

Hi everybody,

as I don't recall seeing this offer around here (may be just rusty memory on my 
side however...), I thought I'd forward this for good measure.

I'm considering making the 2k mi trip together with my Dad but would do so only 
as a last resort to save the machine from being scrapped.

I think I have some excess CPU boards, maybe a clock board, spacers and PCU/fan 
boxes from a gutted E4k class machine here (southern Germany) so I might be 
able to help people looking for parts.

So long,

Arno // DO4NAK

> Message: 5
> Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2019 14:26:06 + (UTC)
> From: Mike Spooner
> To: The Rescue List
> Subject: [rescue] Very Last Chance - E6000 and/or parts
> Message-ID:
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> In spite of my efforts to find a good home for my 18x250MHz Sun Enterprise 
> E6000 a couple of months ago, I still have it. Unfortunately, the house is 
> now sold and the E6000 needs to be gone by next Sunday.I can store it at work 
> for a few weeks whilst sorting out shipping etc for any takers.
> I am located on the Isle of Man, so most of you won't be able to just drive 
> round and pick it up!
> Thus I'm willing to split it up into it's constituent modules - if you need 
> PCMs, CPU/Mem boards, I/O boards, a disk board, clock module, peripheral 
> power supply, Sun FC transcievers, memory DIMMs, QFE SBus cards, keyswitch 
> module, peripheral cable harness, etc to keep your E3000/4000/5000/6000 
> sprightly and running,*please*  drop me a line, ASAP. At a pinch, I might 
> even be able to extract the 16-slot Gigaplane backplane from the steel 
> chassis.
> Alternatively, if you know of anyone else who might be interested,*please*  
> pass this message and my email-address on to them.
> I'll post the full list of component modules/parts here in a day or so.
> -- Mike Spooner

Re: Dobbertin 4003 Eprommer driver, moldy floppy rescue in .de?

[Arno Kletzander via cctalk]

> Tried contacting Dobbertin directly (...) ?

Sorry, forgot to mention that. Owner of the device contacted them nearly two 
months ago, no reply.
I asked him to try again in case his mail got lost in some spam filter.

Arno

OT: Germany: Looking for transport opportunity Cologne -> VCFe or Nuremberg or Offenburg

[Arno Kletzander]

Hello dear listmembers,

sorry for the off-topic request.
I have a chance to get two beautiful optomechanical Mettler lab scales from a 
gentleman in Cologne for a very nice price, but the seller states outright that 
he won't ship them (which probably wouldn't end nicely for the goods anyway!).

So I'm looking for someone able to collect those (approx. 20*40*40cm and <10kg 
each) in Cologne sometime soonish (payment would be effected independently by 
bank transfer, there is one externally accessible transport safety screw on 
each device which would have to be checked/tightened) and deliver (timing for 
this step is largely uncritical) to either my home near Nuremberg BY, hand them 
over at VCFe in Munich BY on April 29th to May 1st, or meet me at a field day 
near Offenburg BW on April 7th to 9th (additional opportunities may appear).

Compensation for fuel and time will be paid, please enclose your asking amount.
Thanks in advance,

yours sincerely

Arno Kletzander // DO 4 NAK

Re: Datamation, May 1972

[Arno Kletzander]

Paul Koning  wrote:
> Interesting. From around 1975 or so (...) A few years later (...) 

> Not long after, Lippold Haken created a keyboard that's continuous rather 
> than discrete (think of a keyboard like the fingerboard of a violin); a 
> successor of that is still sold today.

This thing here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuum_Fingerboard ? Seems a 
bit like a digital successor to, or at least inspired by, the analogue 1930s 
"Trautonium" device (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trautonium) developed by 
Trautwein and Sala in Berlin, which used a length of resistance wire suspended 
over a metal rail. Both position (pitch) and pressure (volume)sensitive 
according to the description.

Arno, DO4NAK

Re: Is anyone making replacement clear labels for DEC gear?

[Arno Kletzander]

On Thu, 29 Sep 2016 12:29:06 -0400, Paul Koning  wrote:
> There are inkjet printers that support white ink (or pigment). Those are 
> probably professional type machines, so they are likely to cost over $1000. 
> Possibly you can find a service bureau that will do the job. I think I've 
> seem them described as machines for making labels (to put onto bottles and 
> boxes etc.). Epson makes them if I remember right, and there are likely to be 
> others.

We have a couple @work to put datecodes, tracability numbers etc. on PCB 
assemblies, but they're probably more commonly used to print e.g. freshness 
dates directly onto cans, bottles etc. Ours are made by Markem Imaje in France, 
they can also do logos, 1D and 2D codes, and I _think_ there are white inks for 
them as well. They are also intended for integration into some machine or 
process as they depend on the material moving by and sensing its speed by an 
encoder. Ink droplets are continuously produced from a single nozzle and 
electrostatically deflected in 2 axes, either into a gutter inside the print 
head or out through the aperture and onto the medium. Using such to print onto 
clear adhesive label stock might be a start, but the resolution is 
hmmm...limited.

So long,
Arno

RE: PCS Cadmus/QU68000 systems

[Arno Kletzander]

> Hi,
>
> Is anyone interested in PCS Cadmus/QU68000 systems? We at Hack42 have no
> idea what to do with them. We need to downsize and these take up a
> significant amount of our space.
>
> See http://dev.ramdyne.nl/IMG_2750.JPG for photograph of the stack.
>
> If you know other people who are interested in beasts like these, please
> pass this information on.
> -- 
> Andreas

Looks like interesting machinery from a German manufacturer!

There is a short blurb about them on de:wp 
(https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadmus_Workstations) saying the PCS QU68000 were 
based on (who'd have guessed...) a 68000 processor on a QBus (!) while the 
later models sold under the CADMUS trademark held 68020/030 and, from 1985 on, 
MIPS RISC processors. They ran MUNIX, a V7 UNIX derivate, with some quite 
sophisticated cluster integration (network boot, "Newcastle connection" common 
superroot namespace, networked block devices) enabled by a board called the 
Intelligent Communications Controller.
The outfit even still seems to stick around here 
(https://www.pcs.com/en/company/history/the-history-of-pcs/), albeit 
manufacturing access/time registration/industrial data terminals nowadays.

As usual, if somebody from Germany conducts an operation on those and doesn't 
know where to put all of them, I'm willing to help out with collecting and 
re-homing. (I may also have an opportunity to collect a couple of them in the 
Netherlands if there are any left by/can be held onto until end of May 2016. 
I'd wish for one of each significantly different type but this is not a 
reservation but a "last resort" deal if they'd go to trash otherwise. 
Basically, if anyone else comes along offering a good home for them, I'm happy 
to stand back.)

TIA,

Arno

Re: H960 blank panel clips

[Arno Kletzander]

From: Charles Dickman: Tuesday, July 28, 2015 9:03 AM
 If the posts and balls are metal, the panel sockets are going to crack
 because there will not be any give in the shaft. If the ball and shaft
 is replaced with a solid pin, the panel sockets will get damaged
 because the socket will have to flex to conform to the pin.

Ah, sorry. I had not payed close attention to how the counterpart works
and automatically assumed it was some sort of metal spring fitted into 
a recess in the plastic panel that clips and holds onto the ball head.
As I see now, it is just a tube-shaped outgrowth of the panel plastic
itself. Phew... Anyway, thanks for clearing this up.

Arno

hp 1820-7730 datasheet? HP-PB J2146A LAN interface, SOT23 part missing

[Arno Kletzander]

Hello Folks,

with a bunch of HP 9000 equipment, I received a HP-PB 802.3 10Mbps LAN 
card that was missing the 10base2 BNC connector and the SOT23 SMD part
directly behind it. No idea why and by whom they were removed. A BNC
socket was easily found in one of my parts bins, but what about the
SMD component? My first idea was this might just be some sort of
transient protection device (I've seen a really old ISA NIC fitted with
a neon bulb next to the BNC for that purpose!) but there probably is a
bit more to it, as pin 1 connects to BNC Center and to pin 7 on the PHY
(U18, NatSemi SS9130AP also HP house-marked as 1820-7730), pin 2 is BNC
shield/ground *and pin 3 goes to pin 5 on the PHY*.

Unfortunately I was not able to find a datasheet for the PHY that would
probably give an example circuit - can anyone please either point me to
that or, if they have an example of that card available, look up the
marking of that SOT23 device for me?

Card would be for my HP9000-K100 PA-RISC, for which I'm also looking 
for one of the graphic options. One keeps popping up in the US 'bay
but the (commercial) seller wants real money for it - add SH to old
europe and it's waaay out of my confortable range.

Thanks in advance,

Arno