Need info for a VAX Station 3100 SPX / VS42A-DA

2016-04-01 Thread Pete Lancashire
Won the guy on the big auction site, put the minimum bid down and $50 later it showed up on the doorstop. http://petelancashire.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=6027 Sorry for the bad photo's but the sun was going down fast. Been trying to find the display interface specs, pinout, freqs, etc. but

RE: RSX-11 trouble

2016-04-01 Thread Mark Matlock
> > Well... > REM ...AT. worked since an AT entry was present in the TAL output > INS $BIGIND not > INS -- File not found > > Disk (RD51) has 850 blocks free after some cleaning up. It had 738 before. > Thank for your answer. > I'll try your suggestions. > It's RSX-11 and I've found some troubl

Re: Need info for a VAX Station 3100 SPX / VS42A-DA

2016-04-01 Thread Glen Slick
On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 7:45 PM, Pete Lancashire wrote: > Won the guy on the big auction site, put the minimum bid down and $50 later > it showed up on the doorstop. > > http://petelancashire.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=6027 > > Sorry for the bad photo's but the sun was going down fast. > > Bee

R: RE: RSX-11 trouble

2016-04-01 Thread supervinx
Here I am! RSX-11M V4.2 BL38B I have two RX50 disk units and Kermit. 512kb and one RD51 fixed disk. I planned to archive separately every [*,*] and image the disks. I tried and can write back and read RX50 disks with a properly setup PC. I need only RSX-11M installation disks images but I'm confid

Re: Need info for a VAX Station 3100 SPX / VS42A-DA

2016-04-01 Thread Jarratt RMA
> > On 01 April 2016 at 03:45 Pete Lancashire wrote: > > Won the guy on the big auction site, put the minimum bid down and $50 > later > it showed up on the doorstop. > > http://petelancashire.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=6027 > > Sorry for the bad photo's but the sun wa

Re: R: RE: RSX-11 trouble

2016-04-01 Thread supervinx
Well, let me understand better... 1) VFY reports errors on some files (-4 and -101), but ELI DU0:/SH reports no soft or hard errors. I have a defective disk or the file system is broken? 2) No ICX.TSK. Only ICP.TSK, (-4 and -101 errors with VFY) 3) I've found only tape images for RSX-11M. I have

Shipping big things across the atlantic.

2016-04-01 Thread Pontus Pihlgren
Hi. I'm considering to ship an empty full height rack from the USA to Sweden. It is definitely something I wont find here so it might be worth the cost and effort. What are my options to get it here safely? If you have any experience I would greatly appreciate if you could share them. Thanks i

Re: Shipping big things across the atlantic.

2016-04-01 Thread Mike Ross
If you're in no hurry best bet is an international mover on 'consolidation' - basically it's delivered to the mover and it's loaded in a shared container and it only moves once the container is full. And if you can pick it up at the arrival end that saves big-time too. Mike On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at

Re: Shipping big things across the atlantic.

2016-04-01 Thread Jonathan Katz
When I moved from the US to Belgium we used http://upakweship.com/ You can ship a single pallet worth of stuff; the fees are done by cubic volume, so you may want to load up that rack. On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 11:53 AM, Mike Ross wrote: > If you're in no hurry best bet is an international mover on

Re: Shipping big things across the atlantic.

2016-04-01 Thread jwsmobile
On 4/1/2016 2:48 AM, Pontus Pihlgren wrote: Hi. I'm considering to ship an empty full height rack from the USA to Sweden. It is definitely something I wont find here so it might be worth the cost and effort. What are my options to get it here safely? If you have any experience I would greatly

Re: Sun keyboards, yellowed

2016-04-01 Thread Mouse
>>> I collected some Sun keyboards for a customer, but some are too >>> yellowed for him to use. [...] >> Oh perfect timing! What's the interface on the Type 4 cable? >> 15-pin D or DIN? I'll probably have one in any case; there are >> adapters :-) The type-4 uses miniDIN-8; as far as I know no

Favorite Resolution && favorite monitor, sound, video, and capture (retro)

2016-04-01 Thread Swift Griggs
Since I doubt I'm the only one on the list with failing eyes. I thought I'd ask about monitors. Now, I'll preface this with the fact that I have some macular degeneration in my retinae. So, I prefer lower resolution monitors (so that fonts can't get too tiny). I also prefer as many NITs, CD/M

Re: Favorite Resolution && favorite monitor, sound, video, and capture (retro)

2016-04-01 Thread Swift Griggs
On Fri, 1 Apr 2016, Swift Griggs wrote: Favorite LCD Monitor line: NEC Multisync, Dell Ultrasharp I almost forgot the king daddy 4:3 monitor, the Samsung 214T 21". It does 1600x1200 at 300 cd/m, has HD15 VGA, Supports DVI-I, Composite, Svideo, and does PAL && NTSC, IIRC. I had one of these

Re: Favorite Resolution && favorite monitor, sound, video, and capture (retro)

2016-04-01 Thread Paul Koning
I remember looking at an SGI PC years ago, with a plasma panel display. That was when plasma displays cost thousands of dollars and LCD displays hadn't quite arrived yet. I almost bought one but decided against it. It sure was impressive to look at. Plasma displays have a reputation for exce

Looking for M865 serial card photo

2016-04-01 Thread Vincent Slyngstad
Hi, I'm putting the finishing touches on my efforts to re-draw the M865 schematic for the website www.so-much-stuff.com (which has a collection of similar drawings). I am looking for photos of the front and back, reasonably square-on, with enough resolution and light to make out the traces e

Re: Looking for M865 serial card photo

2016-04-01 Thread Paul Anderson
I can text you one over the weekend. Contact me off list. On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 12:00 PM, Vincent Slyngstad wrote: > Hi, > > I'm putting the finishing touches on my efforts to re-draw the M865 > schematic for the website www.so-much-stuff.com (which has a collection > of similar drawings). I

Re: Favorite Resolution && favorite monitor, sound, video, and capture (retro)

2016-04-01 Thread Swift Griggs
On Fri, 1 Apr 2016, Paul Koning wrote: I remember looking at an SGI PC years ago, with a plasma panel display. That was when plasma displays cost thousands of dollars and LCD displays hadn't quite arrived yet. I wonder if it was one of these that you saw: http://www.geocities.ws/hinv.geo/sgip

Re: AT&T Uverse IPv6 vs. Mac OS X 10.6

2016-04-01 Thread Jerry Weiss
> On Mar 27, 2016, at 11:36 PM, Tapley, Mark wrote: > >> On Mar 26, 2016, at 5:19 PM, Jerry Kemp wrote: >> >> Just curious if something specifically is broken or non-fixable with the >> 10.6.8 IPv6 stack? >> >> I'm specifically wondering if you did any troubleshooting to resolve this? >> Or

Projectors - Re: Favorite Resolution && favorite monitor, sound, video, and capture (retro)

2016-04-01 Thread Toby Thain
I don't think you'll have trouble finding very bright projectors. I recently bought one of these, 1300 lumens: https://www.amazon.ca/Optoma-HD80-1080p-Theater-Projector/dp/B000R4J69K ... definitely bright enough for our needs although we use it only at night anyway. This NEC model is almost 3

tumble under BSD

2016-04-01 Thread Al Kossow
Out of curiosity, has anyone ever gotten Eric Smith's tumble pdf creation program running under any version of BSD? I ran into a problem porting it to OS X, in the way it used rewind() and was wondering if anyone else ran into that on other BSDs

Re: Projectors - Re: Favorite Resolution && favorite monitor, sound, video, and capture (retro)

2016-04-01 Thread Swift Griggs
On Fri, 1 Apr 2016, Toby Thain wrote: I don't think you'll have trouble finding very bright projectors. Based on that list, I guess not! I find the idea of a laser based projector pretty awesome. Now I just have to find enough space to set one up. :-) It also looks like every one of those p

Re: tumble under BSD

2016-04-01 Thread Diane Bruce
On Fri, Apr 01, 2016 at 11:55:50AM -0700, Al Kossow wrote: > Out of curiosity, has anyone ever gotten Eric Smith's tumble pdf > creation program running under any version of BSD? > > I ran into a problem porting it to OS X, in the way it used rewind() > and was wondering if anyone else ran into t

Re: Favorite Resolution && favorite monitor, sound, video, and capture (retro)

2016-04-01 Thread Paul Koning
> On Apr 1, 2016, at 1:19 PM, Swift Griggs wrote: > > On Fri, 1 Apr 2016, Paul Koning wrote: >> I remember looking at an SGI PC years ago, with a plasma panel display. That >> was when plasma displays cost thousands of dollars and LCD displays hadn't >> quite arrived yet. > > I wonder if it w

Re: Favorite Resolution && favorite monitor, sound, video, and capture (retro)

2016-04-01 Thread Pete Turnbull
On 01/04/2016 17:07, Swift Griggs wrote: I was curious what folks liked? Since I mess with a lot of consoles and still occasionally play with the Amiga or MiST, I like to have the option to do composite video. Keep in mind is all geared toward retro users. I konw there is "better" gear than this

Re: Favorite Resolution && favorite monitor, sound, video, and capture (retro)

2016-04-01 Thread Swift Griggs
On Fri, 1 Apr 2016, Paul Koning wrote: http://www.bytecellar.com/2008/02/13/the_sgi_1600sw/ It looked like that one, but I'm 98% sure it was plasma, not LCD as that one says it is. They had a couple of models, I've only ever seen the LCD one, but there was another model (if you look close, on

Re: Favorite Resolution && favorite monitor, sound, video, and capture (retro)

2016-04-01 Thread Swift Griggs
On Fri, 1 Apr 2016, Pete Turnbull wrote: I have couple of NEC Multisync LCDs as well, and they're nice because although they don't have a composite input as such they will handle the frame rates from older home computers. I share your reasoning. I also use scan-doublers to overcome the lack of

Re: Need info for a VAX Station 3100 SPX / VS42A-DA

2016-04-01 Thread william degnan
On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 11:36 PM, Glen Slick wrote: > On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 7:45 PM, Pete Lancashire > wrote: > > Won the guy on the big auction site, put the minimum bid down and $50 > later > > it showed up on the doorstop. > > > > http://petelancashire.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=6027 >

Re: Need info for a VAX Station 3100 SPX / VS42A-DA

2016-04-01 Thread Pete Lancashire
Sounds good, your reply and Glen's kicked me into remember I have somewhere a couple of the serial cables and DB25 adapters, just have to remember from around 15 years ago where they are. -pete On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 9:36 AM, william degnan wrote: > On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 11:36 PM, Glen Slick

Re: Favorite Resolution && favorite monitor, sound, video, and capture (retro)

2016-04-01 Thread Pete Turnbull
On 01/04/2016 21:24, Swift Griggs wrote: On Fri, 1 Apr 2016, Pete Turnbull wrote: Lots of 1280x1024 here. 4 of them on one machine :-) Whoa. What's the story there ? Are you using some specialized system or is just that they fit on your workspace well and you like multi-head? The latter, re

AT&T 3B2 floppy format

2016-04-01 Thread Seth Morabito
I finally have my own AT&T 3B2/300, and I'm having a heck of a time getting disk images transferred to physical media. I have here a set of AT&T SVR3.2 diskette images, apparently made (not by me) using dd. I would like to transfer them to physical media in such a way that they're usable by the 3B

seeking EK-OLA30-OP - LA30 DECwriter User's Manual

2016-04-01 Thread Nigel Williams
Not an essential manual but for completeness I would like to find a copy. If anyone has one would they be willing to scan it please or I can arrange to get it done. The list of manuals for the DECwriter I LA-30 are: (missing) EK-OLA30-OPLA30 DECwriter User's Manual (online) DEC-00-LA30-DC1972-08

RE: RSX-11M trouble

2016-04-01 Thread Mark Matlock
> The SYSVMR.CMD shows that the Indirect Command Processor is named ICP.TSK. > Sadly, ICP.TSK is one of the four tasks that have read issues... > > I need another info: BAD is destructive or not destructive? > BAD is destructive to the data on the disk! If there are only four tasks that have read

Broken BA123

2016-04-01 Thread David Coolbear
If my house were on fire and I had to pick what to save, near the top of my list would be my MicroVAX in a BA123 enclosure. It is by FAR my favorite computer. Sadly, there was a tragic accident and the ventilation louver, just about the power switch got broken. I know, I know. How could this ha

Re: Broken BA123

2016-04-01 Thread Pontus Pihlgren
On Fri, Apr 01, 2016 at 09:25:38PM -0700, David Coolbear wrote: > If my house were on fire and I had to pick what to save, near the top of my > list would be my MicroVAX in a BA123 enclosure. It is by FAR my favorite > computer. Sadly, there was a tragic accident and the ventilation louver, > just

VMS Software

2016-04-01 Thread Pete Lancashire
Pulled these out of the trash http://petelancashire.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=6062&g2_navId=x09e4617c The first picture are for VAX the yet to be check in the second photo are VMS for Alpha. Now that I have that little VAX 3100 I only want to get it configured. Is someone other there I shou

Re: AT&T 3B2 floppy format

2016-04-01 Thread Curious Marc
It looks like you did everything right. However I thought one specifies interleave directly in the BIN2IMD command using the DM=3 option. I see you have DM=4 on your command line. But since you can load the kernel that might not be the source of your problem. Having a disk being formatted in one