Re: ISO: Cipher F880 tape drive, Fujitsu Eagle disk drive
On Sat, Apr 4, 2020 at 12:35 AM Mike Begley via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > Years and years ago I owned a Lambda, along with a couple friends. I'm > going to guess this was around 1993 or so, give or take a few years. It > had been owned by Ames Lab at Iowa State University. We had it running for > about six months and decided to sell it to someone I believe was in > Madison, Wi or Minneapolis. I always wondered what happened to that > machine. > Very cool. This machine appears to have been used at Rockwell International. Other than that, I don't know much about its history. Thus far I have it powering up and loading SDU diagnostics (/extremely slowly/) from an old Qualstar drive. I'd love to find the correct Cipher drive since it'll fill in that space in the top correctly and likely be a ton faster than this thing :). > I do have manual for it that had gotten separated from it before the > sale. "Introduction to the Lambda - A Guide for Programmers". It's about > a hundred pages or so, and it goes into the basics about setting up and > booting the machine, using the windowing system and zemacs, and general > environment information. I don't know if anyone would be interested in > this document. I'm interested in keeping the original artifact for > nostalgia reasons, but I'd be willing to scan it in if there was interest. > Scanning is always good, I'd like to see it for sure. I have several large boxes full of documentation, unfortunately removed from their original binders -- there was serious mold on them unfortunately, but most of the actual paper made it out OK. I have yet to go through and scan them (they're so musty I'm waiting until facemasks become available again before taking them on.). - Josh > > -mike > > -Original Message- > From: cctalk On Behalf Of Josh Dersch via > cctalk > Sent: Friday, April 3, 2020 3:42 PM > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts < > cctalk@classiccmp.org> > Subject: ISO: Cipher F880 tape drive, Fujitsu Eagle disk drive > > I'm working on restoring an LMI Lambda, which is missing both its tape > drive and its disk drive. If anyone has a Cipher F880 9-track drive or a > Fujitsu Eagle SMD drive, drop me a line. Be nice if they were in working > condition, but so long as they're repairable I can work with 'em. > > Thanks! > Josh >
RE: ISO: Cipher F880 tape drive, Fujitsu Eagle disk drive
Years and years ago I owned a Lambda, along with a couple friends. I'm going to guess this was around 1993 or so, give or take a few years. It had been owned by Ames Lab at Iowa State University. We had it running for about six months and decided to sell it to someone I believe was in Madison, Wi or Minneapolis. I always wondered what happened to that machine. I do have manual for it that had gotten separated from it before the sale. "Introduction to the Lambda - A Guide for Programmers". It's about a hundred pages or so, and it goes into the basics about setting up and booting the machine, using the windowing system and zemacs, and general environment information. I don't know if anyone would be interested in this document. I'm interested in keeping the original artifact for nostalgia reasons, but I'd be willing to scan it in if there was interest. -mike -Original Message- From: cctalk On Behalf Of Josh Dersch via cctalk Sent: Friday, April 3, 2020 3:42 PM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: ISO: Cipher F880 tape drive, Fujitsu Eagle disk drive I'm working on restoring an LMI Lambda, which is missing both its tape drive and its disk drive. If anyone has a Cipher F880 9-track drive or a Fujitsu Eagle SMD drive, drop me a line. Be nice if they were in working condition, but so long as they're repairable I can work with 'em. Thanks! Josh
Re: ISO: Cipher F880 tape drive, Fujitsu Eagle disk drive
Ok, I think I have the 2312 or 2322. Could emulate an RM03 disk or two. Starting to work on digging things out of the shed, the Decsystem20 box is in the back there somewhere... C On 4/3/2020 7:21 PM, Alan Perry via cctalk wrote: The Eagle is M2351 with 270mm platters. On 4/3/20 4:13 PM, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote: Is the Eagle the little 8 inch one or the 2284? I have one of the smaller ones in my shed C On 4/3/2020 6:42 PM, Josh Dersch via cctalk wrote: I'm working on restoring an LMI Lambda, which is missing both its tape drive and its disk drive. If anyone has a Cipher F880 9-track drive or a Fujitsu Eagle SMD drive, drop me a line. Be nice if they were in working condition, but so long as they're repairable I can work with 'em. 2351 Thanks! Josh
Re: ISO: Cipher F880 tape drive, Fujitsu Eagle disk drive
The Eagle is M2351 with 270mm platters. On 4/3/20 4:13 PM, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote: Is the Eagle the little 8 inch one or the 2284? I have one of the smaller ones in my shed C On 4/3/2020 6:42 PM, Josh Dersch via cctalk wrote: I'm working on restoring an LMI Lambda, which is missing both its tape drive and its disk drive. If anyone has a Cipher F880 9-track drive or a Fujitsu Eagle SMD drive, drop me a line. Be nice if they were in working condition, but so long as they're repairable I can work with 'em. 2351 Thanks! Josh
Re: ISO: Cipher F880 tape drive, Fujitsu Eagle disk drive
Is the Eagle the little 8 inch one or the 2284? I have one of the smaller ones in my shed C On 4/3/2020 6:42 PM, Josh Dersch via cctalk wrote: I'm working on restoring an LMI Lambda, which is missing both its tape drive and its disk drive. If anyone has a Cipher F880 9-track drive or a Fujitsu Eagle SMD drive, drop me a line. Be nice if they were in working condition, but so long as they're repairable I can work with 'em. Thanks! Josh
ISO: Cipher F880 tape drive, Fujitsu Eagle disk drive
I'm working on restoring an LMI Lambda, which is missing both its tape drive and its disk drive. If anyone has a Cipher F880 9-track drive or a Fujitsu Eagle SMD drive, drop me a line. Be nice if they were in working condition, but so long as they're repairable I can work with 'em. Thanks! Josh
