Re: 2 microvax 3800's for sale

On Wed., Jan. 26, 2022, 16:47 Jonathan Stone via cctalk, < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > At the other end of the spectrum, the same seller had a lot of 4 microvax > and VAXstation (BA213/215) systems which went on eBay for about $3000. > Buyer paid air-freight to Scotland. I suspect they're a

Re: OT: looking for help remembering name/info about security bug

Your description made me think of Goto Fail: https://www.imperialviolet.org/2014/02/22/applebug.html > or using logical instead of boolean (or vice versa) logic I did find this: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/07/google-pushed-a-one-character-typo-to-production-bricking-chrome-os-devices/

Re: VAX4000 VLC diagnostics/console

On Tue., Jul. 13, 2021, 15:39 Zane Healy via cctalk, wrote: > > When I did all my testing about a month and a half ago, I used a VT320. > I’m not sure if I’ve ever tried to talk to a VAXstation with anything other > than a DEC terminal. > I had the serial console on a model 60 working connected

Re: irish cctech subscribers

I was in Dublin until recently. I actually had a vaxstation flown into Ireland from the states but it moved back with me to Canada recently. I do know someone in Galway area who had a couple Vaxen but he uses them as coffee tables and I couldn't seem to interest him in getting them booted. I'll

Re: Greetings

I'm just guessing here but I would suspect this had more to do with the hardware capabilities of the tape system. Not all tape drives could just pause to wait for more data then resume. If the data wasn't being steamed fast enough the tape would have to resync somehow which could even require

Raspberry Pi for vaxen turbochannel

I've had a plan to set up a raspberry Pi as the mopd and NFS server to bit my vaxstation for a while. To be a self contained demo I could probably fit it inside the vaxstation. One of the annoyances is that it would need another power cord and need a place to mount it inside. It occurs to me

Re: Concurrent Computer Corporation

Is there a part number on the nvram? The chips Sun used with the enbedded battery were a standard part available from Mouser. Or is there a visible battery on the board anywhere?

Re: MicroVax II

On Sat, Jul 30, 2016 at 5:09 PM, Greg Stark <st...@mit.edu> wrote: > headaches. Even the GCC in 6.1.5 is a bit buggy. I had to recompile > awk with -O0 or else various s/$/ configure scripts failed./ -- greg

Re: MicroVax II

On Sat, Jul 30, 2016 at 2:38 AM, Mouse wrote: >> What OS's can I use with this hardware? NetBSD? > > Yes. Recent (and some not-so-recent) versions are broken, in that they > can't self-host; as far as I know nobody knows exactly what's wrong. > My impression (as

Re: Cray J932SE (was Re: Straight 8 up on Ebay just now)

On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 5:47 PM, Mouse wrote: > For example, I once had a neighbour who replaced an outlet in his > kitchen. Turned off the breaker, removed the old one, put in the new > one, all very nice. Turned the breaker for that circuit back on and > popped the

Re: DEC items to either pick up, ship or drop off at VCF midwest

I'm new here so maybe I'm wrong but isn't the norm that sellers offer items for sale and buyers makee offers for those items? It doesn't seem reasonable to me for you to request buyers provide you with a list of what they would be interested in on the chance that you might have something they

RE: Excessive Bounces

Well with yahoo domain having a hard fail specified it looks like it's too stay. The typical troublemaker with yahoo mail is lists modifying message bodies or subject lines. Those practices will gauge have to end (and frankly it can't be soon enough imho). That said the usual consequence is that

Re: old friend is slimming down the warehouse

You guys must have much larger apartments (or houses I'm guessing) than me I would really like a vt220 largely because it seems like it wouldn't occupy much space. I'm guessing they withstand shipping better too. -- Greg

Re: AT 3b2 vs SCSI2SD drive replacement

n Jun 2, 2016, at 9:20 AM, Greg Stark <st...@mit.edu> wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 2:46 PM, Toby Thain <t...@telegraphics.com.au> > wrote: > >> Big +1 to inertialcomputing! > > > > > > Hm, any vendors inside the EU? This is above the thres

Re: 2 x Sparcstation LX and Ultra Enterprise 2 available in Sweden.

On 3 Jun 2016 10:55 am, "Mattis Lind" wrote: > > The location is Sweden. Isn't Sweden kind of a big place?

Re: AT 3b2 vs SCSI2SD drive replacement

On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 2:46 PM, Toby Thain wrote: > Big +1 to inertialcomputing! Hm, any vendors inside the EU? This is above the threshold where I would have to deal with VAT payable if I order it from outside. -- greg

Re: NEC ProSpeed 386

I just broke one of the pins on the ps2 connector on my model M :( Otherwise I would be using it on my headless server when it doesn't boot and needs a console to rescue it. -- Greg On 31 May 2016 6:36 pm, "Chuck Guzis" wrote: > On 05/31/2016 10:15 AM, Chris Hanson wrote: >

Looking for a small fast VAX development machine

I work on Postgres and we have always claimed to support VAX machines but have the caveat "Code support exists for M32R and VAX, but these architectures are not known to have been tested recently." in our documentation. Recently I started a project to get a member in our build farm building