OpenVMS Alpha V7.3-2
Hi, A plea, does anyone have a copy of OpenVMS Alpha V7.3-2? I have looked at all my archives and only have it for VAX. An upgrade would also work as I have V7.3. If someone has a copy in VMS so-called ISO format that would be great. Just got a Personal Workstation 500au fully working and would prefer to keep it on V7 VMS. Many thanks, Mark
Re: Getting rid of dec writer II pdp11/83 vt320s
Hi Phil, Very interested, I worked on a similar system at the Didcot coal fired power station that has now been flattened when I worked at DEC. Is the PDP part of the bundle as well if so very interested. I am in the UK. Mark Sent from my iPhone > On 23 Mar 2020, at 19:34, philmac750 via cctech wrote: > > Hello all, I hope you are all staying safe and healthy in current times. > Forgive the cold email, I got your email addresses as collectors of DEC > computer history. The reason for email is that I am clearing out some of my > stuff as we are thinking of moving house, I live in Wakefield. In February > 2019 I salvaged a PDP11 which was used in a simulator for a coal fired power > station steam turbine unit at DRAX Power Station, where I was working as a > contractor up until Dec 2019.In the same building I was also allowed to take > a DecWriter II, some manuals and a couple of VT320s with some other smaller > hand held kit. I have supporting documentation from the power station to > state that these items are now mine. They were all in working order as the > simulator was last powered up in Nov 2019. I am not in a position to power > up the PDP 11 at home, but have plugged in the VT320s and the DEC Writer and > they all work. The dec Writer has 1 sticky key, and has the original > product/shipping notice stuck inside the unit dated 1977 !! I even bought > some new ink and ribbons, as my intention was to get these and the PDP11 > setup and working in my office. I used the Dec Writer in school, many many > years ago, my first introduction to computers, paper tape and punched cards, > a foam modem through to the college from my secondary school ! (Fortran IV) I > simply could not let these items go to scrap, which is where they were > heading, so I approached the manager of the building at Drax and agreed to > remove these items from site at zero cost to Drax. The entire simulator, all > it’s hand built boards and electronics were simply heading for the skip as > they were demolishing the entire training centre in favour of new Gas turbine > plant. I am wondering if you know any forums or contacts that might be > interested in purchasing these items, I am not asking silly money as these > need to go to a collector and preserved, the issue will be shipping or I > might even transport them myself, as they are extremely heavy items. If not, > I will google a little more and failing that, contact a UK museum to see if > they would be interested in these historic pieces. Thank you for reading. > PhilSent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.
Re: Your Vale Coaches order has been received!
It is and that would have been a very expensive sandwich… I am sorry for being the root cause of something to talk about off the usual topics! Back to Classic Computers please…. :) Mark > On 31 Dec 2019, at 17:14, Nigel Johnson via cctalk > wrote: > > I thought that mysen, then I saw the title. I believe what is offered is a > coach ride to get the sandwich at an event of the Royal Horticultural Society > > Perhaps a little more upscale than the average MacDonalds? > > > On 31/12/2019 12:09, John H. Reinhardt via cctalk wrote: >> On 12/31/2019 10:15 AM, Adrian Stoness via cctalk wrote: >>> ? >> >> >> I know!!! 69£ for a sandwich lunch??? Talk about price gouging! >> >>> >>> On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 8:16 AM Mark Darvill via cctalk < >>> cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: >>> >>>> Good news! After a bit of a configuration nightmare (it is more >>>> complicated than Worldpay) I have got it working. >>>> >>>> I will test a couple more times and then figure out what we need to do to >>>> make it live. >>>> >>>> Mark >>>> >>>>> Begin forwarded message: >>>>> >>>>> From: Vale Coaches - Office >>>>> Subject: Your Vale Coaches order has been received! >>>>> Date: 31 December 2019 at 14:11:32 GMT >>>>> To: mark.darv...@mac.com >>>>> Reply-To: Vale Coaches >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Thank you for your order >>>>> Hi Mark, >>>>> >>>>> Just to let you know — we've received your order #10075, and it is now >>>> being processed: >>>>> [Order #10075] (31st December 2019) >>>>> >>>>> Product QuantityPrice >>>>> RHS Cardiff Flower Show - Saturday 18th April 2020 >>>>> Pickup Point: >>>>> Sturminster Newton >>>>> Packed Lunch Sandwich: >>>>> Egg & cress on brown >>>>> Packed Lunch Drink: >>>>> Apple Juice >>>>> 1 £69.00 >>>>> Subtotal: £69.00 >>>>> Payment method: Barclaycard >>>>> Total:£69.00 >>>>> Billing address >>>>> >>>>> Mark Darvill >>>>> Test >>>>> April Cotatge >>>>> Sackmore Lane, Marnhull >>>>> Sturminster Newton >>>>> Dorset >>>>> DT10 1PN >>>>> 01258 820871 >>>>> mark.darv...@mac.com >>>>> Thanks for using valecoaches.com! >>>>> >>>>> Vale Coaches >>>>> Site built by Marnhull Computers Marnhull Computers >>> m...@marnhullcomputers.com> >>>> >> > > -- > Nigel Johnson > MSc., MIEEE > VE3ID/G4AJQ/VA3MCU > > Amateur Radio, the origin of the open-source concept! > > > You can reach me by voice on Skype: TILBURY2591 > > If time travel ever will be possible, it already is. Ask me again yesterday > > This e-mail is not and cannot, by its nature, be confidential. En route from > me to you, it will pass across the public Internet, easily readable by any > number of system administrators along the way. > Nigel Johnson mailto:nw.john...@ieee.org>> > >Please consider the environment when deciding if you really need to print > this message
Re: Your Vale Coaches order has been received!
Apologies my error, working on a website, please disregard. Mark > On 31 Dec 2019, at 16:15, Adrian Stoness wrote: > > ? > > On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 8:16 AM Mark Darvill via cctalk > mailto:cctalk@classiccmp.org>> wrote: > Good news! After a bit of a configuration nightmare (it is more complicated > than Worldpay) I have got it working. > > I will test a couple more times and then figure out what we need to do to > make it live. > > Mark > > > Begin forwarded message: > > > > From: Vale Coaches - Office > <mailto:off...@valecoaches.com>> > > Subject: Your Vale Coaches order has been received! > > Date: 31 December 2019 at 14:11:32 GMT > > To: mark.darv...@mac.com <mailto:mark.darv...@mac.com> > > Reply-To: Vale Coaches > <mailto:off...@valecoaches.com>> > > > > > > > > Thank you for your order > > Hi Mark, > > > > Just to let you know — we've received your order #10075, and it is now > > being processed: > > > > [Order #10075] (31st December 2019) > > > > Product QuantityPrice > > RHS Cardiff Flower Show - Saturday 18th April 2020 > > Pickup Point: > > Sturminster Newton > > Packed Lunch Sandwich: > > Egg & cress on brown > > Packed Lunch Drink: > > Apple Juice > > 1 £69.00 > > Subtotal: £69.00 > > Payment method: Barclaycard > > Total:£69.00 > > Billing address > > > > Mark Darvill > > Test > > April Cotatge > > Sackmore Lane, Marnhull > > Sturminster Newton > > Dorset > > DT10 1PN > > 01258 820871 > > mark.darv...@mac.com <mailto:mark.darv...@mac.com> > > Thanks for using valecoaches.com <http://valecoaches.com/>! > > > > Vale Coaches > > Site built by Marnhull Computers Marnhull Computers > > <mailto:m...@marnhullcomputers.com <mailto:m...@marnhullcomputers.com>>
Fwd: Your Vale Coaches order has been received!
Good news! After a bit of a configuration nightmare (it is more complicated than Worldpay) I have got it working. I will test a couple more times and then figure out what we need to do to make it live. Mark > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Vale Coaches - Office > Subject: Your Vale Coaches order has been received! > Date: 31 December 2019 at 14:11:32 GMT > To: mark.darv...@mac.com > Reply-To: Vale Coaches > > > > Thank you for your order > Hi Mark, > > Just to let you know — we've received your order #10075, and it is now being > processed: > > [Order #10075] (31st December 2019) > > Product QuantityPrice > RHS Cardiff Flower Show - Saturday 18th April 2020 > Pickup Point: > Sturminster Newton > Packed Lunch Sandwich: > Egg & cress on brown > Packed Lunch Drink: > Apple Juice > 1 £69.00 > Subtotal: £69.00 > Payment method: Barclaycard > Total:£69.00 > Billing address > > Mark Darvill > Test > April Cotatge > Sackmore Lane, Marnhull > Sturminster Newton > Dorset > DT10 1PN > 01258 820871 > mark.darv...@mac.com > Thanks for using valecoaches.com! > > Vale Coaches > Site built by Marnhull Computers Marnhull Computers > <mailto:m...@marnhullcomputers.com>
Re: Manuals looking for a home
Hi Mike, Could I take 3, 5 & 6. I am also in the uk. If that is ok, I will send you my details and payment for postage. Thanks, Mark Sent from my iPhone > On 21 Nov 2018, at 20:08, Mike Norris via cctalk > wrote: > > Hi Guys, > > > I have the following manuals looking for a home, free except for > postage/delivery. (Based in UK). > > > 1. > 11/44 Field Maintenance Print Set (includes memory inverter, MS11-M, TU58) > 2. > RWP04 moving head disk subsystem maintenance manual > 3. > RM05 Disk Subsystem User guide + RM05 Fault Isolation Guide + RM05 IPB + RM05 > Disk Subsystem Service Manual > 4. > DEC Station 220 Installation and Operations Guide > 5. > RA80 Maintenance Guide + RA81 Disk Drive Maintenance Guide + RA60 Maintenance > Guide > 6. > MDM Microvax Diagnostic Monitor User's guide + Wartips (Warrington Support) - > SID Registers, Boot lists, DCL Bits 7 Bobs. > > > Will happily give further details if required, otherwise these go into > recycling > > > Regards Mike Norris
Re: 8080/8085 Programming books available UK/EU
Hi Mark, I will take those if that is ok. I live in the uk. Mark Sent from my iPhone > On 7 Apr 2018, at 20:40, Mark Wickens via cctalk > wrote: > > A few seminal 8085 programming books available please see album: > https://photos.app.goo.gl/Rv7vy9eDrMfGK9gz2 > > > > Looking for £25 including postage to the UK or £20 plus postage elsewhere. > > > > Regards Mark >
Re: Microfiches on Ebay
Hi Mike, In the UK and used to have these sets when I worked at DEC but had to give them back! Can pick up. Please let me know. Mark Sent from my iPhone > On 12 Feb 2018, at 18:37, Mike Norris via cctalk > wrote: > > Hi Mattis at al, > > >> I cannot find the DW750 Technical manual online for example. But someone >> has bought that fiche now. Of course there are plenty of manuals for >> various printers and other esoteric devices which might be of less >> interest.There is a "DEC GT41/GT43 Graphic Display Terminal Install & >> Maintenance Manual" for which I cannot find any traces of online. What is >> GT41/GT43 BTW? > > I have three boxes of fiche here, looking for a new home, hopefully to > someone who won't sell them on ebay, but can use them in their hobby! > > I just looked for a few of the items raised, there is a manual for the > GT41/43 although there 3 fiches for the GT40 so it must have been quite a > beast to write code for, I suspect there were some updated command for the > GT41/43 although never saw one of these myself. > There is also the Tech Dec. for the DW750. > Can't find anything for the H7260 which I know someone was trying to track > down. > > I did try to scan the fiche but without any real success! > > Anyway I probably have the reader as well but will need to find that, I am in > the UK and obviously the fiche are fairly heavy so it would be expensive to > ship, but if anyone is interested please let me know, I can check through if > there is something you really need and can provide photographs, maybe able to > screen scrape of the fiche reader when I find if. > > Regards Mike Norris > >
Re: EBAY - DEC RX01/02 floppy disks - Andromeda Systems and AED utilities
I was outbid, so I hope that someone else on the list has purchased them and can image them. Mark > On 9 Sep 2017, at 00:51, Glen Slick via cctech wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 11:37 PM, Mattis Lind via cctalk > wrote: >> Someone in the UK is selling a lot of floppy disks (shipping to UK only). >> Labels mentions "Andromeda Systems WDLT DL/DY Utilities", "WDC11 support >> disk" and "Advanced Electronic Design WINC-05/8" >> >> Unless this type of software isn't already imaged and saved it might be >> useful if someone in the UK would buy them and image them. >> >> http://www.ebay.com/itm/222629853408 > > Sold for GBP 32.95 yesterday. Did someone on the list pick up these disks? > > I have a WDC11-C MFM disk controller. I believe it has no on-board > disk configuration and formatting utility and needs to run a host > based utility to configure and format disks. If someone here grabbed > these disks and they have a configuration and format utility for the > WDC11 it would be appreciated if disk images were made available.
Re: EBAY - DEC RX01/02 floppy disks - Andromeda Systems and AED utilities
I am in the UK and I have bid for these today and will image them if I win them. Mark On 6 Sep 2017, at 15:11, N0body H0me via cctalk wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: cctalk@classiccmp.org >> Sent: Wed, 6 Sep 2017 08:37:58 +0200 >> To: cctalk@classiccmp.org >> Subject: EBAY - DEC RX01/02 floppy disks - Andromeda Systems and AED >> utilities >> >> Someone in the UK is selling a lot of floppy disks (shipping to UK only). >> Labels mentions "Andromeda Systems WDLT DL/DY Utilities", "WDC11 support >> disk" and "Advanced Electronic Design WINC-05/8" >> >> Unless this type of software isn't already imaged and saved it might be >> useful if someone in the UK would buy them and image them. >> >> http://www.ebay.com/itm/222629853408 > > For once, an e-bay auction description of RARE is actually warranted > and accurate. In my experience, Andromeda Systems material of *ANY* > stripe is pretty rare-- and there's almost nothing on Bitsavers. > > These controllers show up in systems from time to time, but this is > the first time I've seen the software for them > > > N0body > >
Re: In Hong Kong any old computing places to go?
Although it is all new equipment, Wan Chai computer mall near Causeway Bay is worth a visit. I think it is on Hennessy Road. There are 100's of small stalls there, you can get some good bargains if you take cash and haggle. Mark Sent from my iPhone > On 27 May 2017, at 15:03, W2HX via cctalk wrote: > > If you ever have the chance to go to HK again, definitely also get your > Chinese visa. I used to travel to China and I used to only get 3 and 6 month > visas. But in the last year or two, they now grant 10 year visas which I > obtained although I have no current plans to visit china. Although I don’t > know of any electronic fleas in HK, definitely visit Kowloon. It is really an > amazing place. > > Good luck > Eugene > > > -Original Message- > From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Christian > Liendo via cctalk > Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2017 7:27 AM > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts; Pontus Pihlgren > Cc: jim stephens > Subject: Re: In Hong Kong any old computing places to go? > > Thanks everyone for the ideas, however I cannot leave Hong Kong and enter > China. That requires a different visa that I didn't obtain and I don't have > the time to travel that far.
Re: More DEC Alpha kit available, Newmarket UK
Hi Adrian, Can I put my hand up to claim the systems and rack to add to my collection? Thanks, Mark > On 21 Oct 2016, at 11:25, Adrian Graham wrote: > > Folks, > > We have another pedestal ES40 and rackmount ES45 to give away, as well as a > half-height Compaq rack (20U?). Has to be collected from CB8 7NY before the > end of next week otherwise they get recycled. > > Anyone fancy an early xmas present? :) > > -- > adrian/witchy > Owner of Binary Dinosaurs, the UK's biggest home computer collection? > www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk
Re: PDP-11/23 system available
Odd all I saw on the email that came to me was: Will, in IB Mark Sent from my iPhone > On 15 Jun 2016, at 18:51, azd30 wrote: > > - Original Message - >> From: "Mark Darvill" >> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" >> >> Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2016 10:35:54 AM >> Subject: Re: PDP-11/23 system available >> >> Hi Will, >> >> Where are you located? >> >> Thanks, Mark > > Looking at his signature, I'd guess he's in Yorktown Heights, NY or maybe > Rochester NY. Unless there's other IBM lands in NY ?!? > >>> -- >>> Will, in IBM land in NY >>>
Re: PDP-11/23 system available
Hi Will, Where are you located? Thanks, Mark Sent from my iPhone > On 15 Jun 2016, at 18:06, William Donzelli wrote: > > I have a PDP-11/23 with two RL02 drives, in a third party rack, that I > need to rehome. The PDP does not have any cards installed! Nothing has > been tested. > > Available! Cheap! Always open to trades. The rack is a shorty, and I > could deliver it within reason. > > I still have those MINC-11 cards, too. > > -- > Will, in IB
Re: General Question about UNIBUS backplanes
The core memory/CPU backplane is a special case and doesn’t need grant cards. If you have linked up to the expansion Unibus then you need to check you have the NPG jumper in row C, Pins A1 and B1 in each slot. If these do not have wire wrap then you will either need to wire wrap them or insert a G727 into the backplane slot. Without these the units will hang on attempting to use a card that requires DMA access. Hope this helps. Mark > On 22 May 2016, at 18:10, tony duell wrote: > > >> Are you saying remove all of the GC cards, just leave the slots blank? > > Yes, from the slots that are designed to take the core memory or its > controllers (I assume, given you have special backplanes, there are > boards with the core planes on, and more boards with the XY drivers > or the sense/inhibit logic on). > > Do you have a diagram of where the core boards should go. If so, are > there slots in the backplane left over. What are those 'extra' > slots for? > > -tony
