On Thu, 13 Jan 2022, Mike Katz wrote:
Please let me know the cost and I will be happy to paypal it to you.
Okay, I will dig it up and find a box and get back to you on Monday.
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Richard Loken VE6BSV: "...underneath those tuques we wear,
Athabasca, Alberta Canada : our
I have, as far as I recall, a 8" single sided full height Shugart drive here
that I swapped out of my Trash 80 Model II for a pair of half height DSDD
drives many many years ago.
I can send it to you for the cost of postage if it is of use to you.
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Richard Loken VE6BSV:
On Sat, 29 May 2021, Christian Groessler via cctalk wrote:
Were there Unix versions of WS? Or any other solution with Unix? I prefer
the ability to log in from remote.
I think Gnu troff and/or ghostscript should have a suitable driver. Old
drivers are rarely deleted even years after they
The H8575s have found a new home.
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Richard Loken VE6BSV: "...underneath those tuques we wear,
Athabasca, Alberta Canada : our heads are naked!"
** rllo...@telus.net ** :- Arthur Black
Ladies and Gentlemen,
I was sifting through a huge box of industrial junk in my basement and
found two NIB DEC H8575-A DB25 to MMJ adaptors in their original bags
with a 1991 date code. The DB25 is female and the MMJ is, of course,
a jack.
Does anybody want them for postage from Athabasca,
Adam, I have a VAXstation sitting about three metres from me. As is
usually the case, "it worked when I turned it off 20 years ago" I don't
remember how many years ago I turned it off. I think it is a model 30
but casually looking at the box does not show me what model it is. I
pulled out the
So gentlemen, my Alphaserver 4100 shut itself down with a sad announcement
about a dead CPU fan. I have a parts mule which has donated a CPU fan a
couple years ago and I can take the second and last CPU fan from there but
then I have no more fans.
Can the CPU fan be obtained? Can they be
On Sat, 7 Mar 2020, John H. Reinhardt via cctalk wrote:
For those interested, HPE has finally, formally announced the end of their
participation in the OpenVMS Hobbyist Program. A number of people have
received the below message from HPE, probably everyone they have on record
as having
On Mon, 5 Aug 2019, Boris Gimbarzevsky wrote:
A mere 579 miles from Kamloops. Unfortunately have to talk to my wife who
thinks I have too many computers even though I've given away bulk of my DEC
stuff. Never got a chance to play around on Alpha as it came out during my
Mac days.
A mere
On Mon, 5 Aug 2019, ben via cctalk wrote:
Now why could it not be a nice little PDP 11.
Ben.
I once had a pDp11/04 which I let go, it did not seem like much at the
time but now I feel differantly.
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Richard Loken VE6BSV: "...underneath those tuques we wear,
Athabasca, Alberta
I have access to 3 ES45s, a DS15, and an RA8000 in a tall blue Compaq rack
in Athabasca, Alberta. All the in-service disks were removed but all the
spares are available. The box also has the fibre switches used the connect
the RA8000 to the servers and the cables, much of the paper
Lyndon, I have never heard of her before and had no idea. I am frequently
amazed when I discover just how much you know... Or how much spare time
to surf the web for obsure stuff... Either way you earn my respect.
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Richard Loken VE6BSV: "...underneath those tuques we wear,
I've seen that cat before but we printed them on a line printer since the
company did not like us using the high quality Diablo for such nonsense.
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Richard Loken VE6BSV: "...underneath those tuques we wear,
Athabasca, Alberta Canada : our heads are naked!"
**
On Sun, 24 Mar 2019, Tony Duell wrote:
On Sun, Mar 24, 2019 at 2:42 PM Richard Loken via cctalk
wrote:
I'm not in Canada but I have a Volker-Craig VC414 (APL version) _with the
service manual_. This is a poor copy (obtained from VC -- and they forgot
to copy half of one of the schematics so
On Sat, 23 Mar 2019, Mike Kenzie via cctalk wrote:
I have a several in Ottawa as well. A few different brands, ASR, Dec, VC
Do you have any Volker-Craig user or service documentation? Docs from
Canadian companies seem to disappear in a puff of green smoke.
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Richard Loken VE6BSV
On Sat, 23 Mar 2019, ben via cctalk wrote:
I am building a project that needs to use a Stand alone dumb terminal like a
VT 52 or Similar. Alas I can't find any low cost Hardware Solutions here in
Canada. Low cost with shipping under is $150 Canadian
for me.Software terminal emulation is just
On Tue, 5 Mar 2019, Brent Hilpert via cctalk wrote:
TRIUMF was using /11s for cyclotron control I believe, that's not where
you anticipate UNIX showing up.
But was it Unix or something else like RT-11? Or was it a VAX?
Between 1985 and 1990 I became aquainted with a guy named Jim Stewart
On Thu, 24 Jan 2019, John H. Reinhardt via cctalk wrote:
I also know I think other have their dibs in first. But if they wash out...
Thanks John, I will keep you in mind.
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Richard Loken VE6BSV: "...underneath those tuques we wear,
Athabasca, Alberta Canada : our
On Thu, 24 Jan 2019, Jim Manley wrote:
I've got everything lined up to do a full pickup, except the timing. It
will have to be next Saturday, 2/2, or preferably 2/9, but I appreciate
that the owner has waited this long. The only potential bugaboo could be
the weather, but the cycle seems to
Gentemen,
All of you have at one time expressed interest in all or part of this
rack full of Alphaservers and one of you even talked about driving a truck
up from Montana and taking it all home.
Are any of you still interested?
First priority goes to anybody willing to come up here and pick up
On Tue, 18 Dec 2018, Tapley, Mark via cctalk wrote:
Not to start a flame war, but I?m well aware VMS supports clustering
pretty well, so I?m puzzled - does anyone know why the Product Description
called out Tru64 rather than VMS or both? Was Compaq de-emphasizing VMS
when that was written?
On Mon, 17 Dec 2018, Jacob Ritorto wrote:
There are contractors who have the hardware to correctly and contractually
perform mil spec data wipe in situations like this.
More thorough than leaving sitting on some shelf and crossing fingers that
one will find time to burn them or whatever.
I
On Mon, 17 Dec 2018, Kevin McQuiggin wrote:
I have a couple of compatible drives that I use on my Microvaxes, if you
could spare say 6 then that?d be great. I live in Vancouver and of course
would pay shipping!
Good! Six down, 114 to go! I will get six for you.
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Richard Loken VE6BSV
On Mon, 17 Dec 2018, Tapley, Mark via cctalk wrote:
Wikipedia reports there is some variability in ES45 models, including
number of CPU and amount of memory. Any idea what model/spec these are?
If I recall correctly the ES45s each have 2 CPUs. The three ES45s
are not intentical, the one that
On Mon, 17 Dec 2018, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote:
On 12/17/2018 04:02 PM, Richard Loken via cctalk wrote:
I have immediate access to four Alphaservers, an RA8000 raid server, and
the associated fibre switches in need of a new home.
Where are the servers located? Are they in Athabasca
I have access to a trove of maybe 10 dozen unused CompacTape IV cartridges.
These can be had free for the cost of shipping. I may be able to talk
them out of a few DLT4000 and DLT tape drives as well, I don't know about
that part.
Anybody besides me still backing up his data on DLTs? I have a
Ladies and gentlemen,
I have immediate access to four Alphaservers, an RA8000 raid server,
and the associated fibre switches in need of a new home.
There three servers that were running Tru64 Unix 5 when shut down a week
ago, they are a DS15, and two ES45s. There is also a third ES45 which
has
On Tue, 23 Oct 2018, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
How many graphical Unix desktops are sold or distributed in the world
today that are not Linux? Excluding Mac OS X as I specifically address
that point, I think.
I am replying to this email on a FreeBSD 10.3 box and Motif. I don't
know what
On Tue, 13 Mar 2018, Benjamin Huntsman via cctalk wrote:
Anyone out there do Alphas anymore?
Well my AS4100 is running OpenVMS even as we speak. I have an Alphastation
500 here doing nothing. I arranged for somebody to get two free DS20Es
last year so, yes, I still do alphas.
Intel? Don't
On Sun, 4 Feb 2018, Douglas Taylor via cctech wrote:
The alphaserver 1000a I have has a storageworks array.
The disk carriers are green in color, I see storageworks disks for sale on
ebay that are blue. What is the difference? Are they interchangeable?
Is it possible (or even wise) to open
On Sun, 4 Feb 2018, Pete Lancashire via cctalk wrote:
One of the Suns is a Sun1 pre-production
Perhaps a pre-production Sparc? I had a long personal relationship with
a Sun-1 and nothing there looks remotely like a Sun-1.
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Richard Loken VE6BSV: "...underneath those tuques we
On Tue, 16 Jan 2018, David C. Jenner via cctalk wrote:
This isn't malware, but back in 1962 when I was taking a college class in
assembly language programming for the IBM 709, my innocence led to the
following.
We might as well all contribute.
Back in college in 1969 we would submit our
On Sun, 3 Dec 2017, Mike Stein via cctalk wrote:
That seems to describe perfectly the approach to our (Canada's) federal
payroll system that's gone from a $5 million contract to $180m in two
years, with lots of employees still not getting their correct pay or any
pay at all
I think it
On Sun, 22 Oct 2017, Sean Conner via cctalk wrote:
By gum! Alpine does indeed translate the 'A' into a '?' and I never
noticed. It seems that my tiny mind simply translated the character
and moved on.
I have:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE=C
as part of my environment, and I'm
On Wed, 26 Jul 2017, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
Wit. There was a Mozilla build for VAX???
I have Netscape Navigator 3, but I thought that was the last VAX build. It
runs ... acceptably on my M76, though I wouldn't call it sprightly.
No, I remembered after I sent it. It would be
It seems to me that somebody recently was looking for an LK201 style
keyboard with the RJ style connector. If somebody is indeed looking for
such a keyboard then send me an email, I came across a couple today that
I may be able to aquire.
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Richard Loken VE6BSV: "...underneath
On Sat, 17 Jun 2017, Rob Jarratt via cctalk wrote:
I have cloned drives that way for VMS systems. Backup/image is the tool
for that.
So have I, but it doesn't work for tapes. Unless someone knows a trick
that I have not discovered?
No, backup won't do what you want. Backup is designed to
On Wed, 24 May 2017, Pete Lancashire wrote:
Displaying that Motif session on a 'real' CRT that takes 1/3 of your desk,
weights 50+ lbs and takes around 150W.
I had a lovely 21" trinitron CRT here that I sent to the dump last year,
it had sat idle in the storage room for ten years and I needed
My monster lives!
After being brought home in a dozen parts, cleaned with Windex and an air
compressor, and reassembled, my Alphaserver 4100 is once again up and
running OpenVMS. There were a couple minor snags while I went up to the
attic to find a CPU fan, move a ton of stuff to find an
On Wed, 17 May 2017, David Griffith via cctalk wrote:
I ask because I've been scraping together patches for xv and collecting them
into a Github repo[1]. I've finished adding all the patches collected by
Greg Roelofs, patches from OpenBSD, and now I'm working on eliminating unsafe
calls like
On Tue, 16 May 2017, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
Retirement as an attempt to gain more free time just doesn't work.
I have already learned that in only four months.
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Richard Loken VE6BSV: "...underneath those tuques we wear,
Athabasca, Alberta Canada : our heads are naked!"
On Tue, 16 May 2017, David Griffith via cctalk wrote:
Is anyone out there using X11 on VMS and the xv image viewer?
Yes, I am. My Alphaserver 4100 is down at the moment since I had to move
it and it has been waiting four months for me to put it back together.
XV works fine with VMS and
On Wed, 29 Mar 2017, W2HX wrote:
I might have missed it, but did you offer this on the greenkeys list (or
would you like me to forward it?) they are tty enthusiasts. Eugene
No, I have never been a member of the green keys list and there is no point
in joining now. Punt the message to the
So, my ex-wife sent my Model 28 RO and Model 28 ASR (along with a Conn
vacuum tube electronic organ) to the landfill yesterday. I am told by
my son that they went to the Eco Station Reuse Area at either the Ambleside
or kennedale Eco Station.
So, in the unlikely event that somebody wanting a 28
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