Fw: [rescue] Very Last Chance - E6000 and/or parts
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 > 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: > <90bb83ae79ec6fac.9de3eb44-8314-4e62-b390-172d0a547...@mail.outlook.com> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > 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
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: > <90bb83ae79ec6fac.9de3eb44-8314-4e62-b390-172d0a547...@mail.outlook.com> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > 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?
> 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
Dobbertin 4003 Eprommer driver, moldy floppy rescue in .de?
Hi fellow classiccmp'ers, seeking help for the head of our local HAM club chapter, who bought an EPROM programmer (Dobbertin 4003) complete with the associated PC interface card, at an estate sale. After some rummaging through moldy cardboard boxes of media in a damp basement, we were even able to come up with a 5 1/4" floppy labeled as holding the associated (presumably DOS based) driver/software. A quick look on the media surface however revealed a multitude of tarnished spots that look to me like fungus growth. Having read about dirt and fungus on media, moisture causing sticky shed syndrome, cleaning and baking procedures and the like here, but not yet having gone through it myself (and thus afraid to botch it if I tried it), I asked him not to read the floppy on his own right now but let me ask for help. Best bet would probably be if an experienced media rescuer, ideally within Germany for ease of shipping, could be cajoled or bribed (with a reasonable amount of course) into having a look at that floppy and trying to read the contents. Except of course be if someone already had the driver software available :-) One probably also needs the manual as I've read there is a memory address selection feature on the interface and you need to supply the correct address to the driver upon installation. Yours sincerely, TIA & vy 73 Arno // DO4NAK
