Where to get a Vax or microvax

2015-06-29 Thread devin davison
I have had an interest in the DEC VAX line of computers for some time now and am trying to find a good place to get a system to start out with. The main pourpose being to have a machine to use VMS on. I have been running VMS on emulated hardware via SIMH, however i would like to move to running on

Re: Where to get a Vax or microvax

2015-07-01 Thread devin davison
I take it the buried vax 11/780 you found has been sold off by now? I would love to have one of the original larger machines such as the 780, although one of the smaller desktop machines would probably be a more sane decision to start off with.

seeking advice on moving PDP 11 and related gear

2015-07-01 Thread devin davison
Ive been trying to get a pdp 11 for quite a few years now, I recently found someone selling a 11/34 with related gear in a couple of racks Here in my state of florida. I jumped at the chance and bought it, i have not found anything for sale this close to me before, yet alone in my state. The plan

Re: Where to get a Vax or microvax

2015-07-01 Thread devin davison
Oh, a couple people asked my location. I'm in Vero Beach Florida.

Re: Where to get a Vax or microvax

2015-07-02 Thread devin davison
Ive got a large sgi altix 350 machine running here almost 24/7, uses quite a bit of power. Rivals the 2 air conditioners on power consumption. Power is not an issue, if i do get something bigger then ill just run the altix less and power up the vax. New house has an air conditioned office in the ga

Re: seeking advice on moving PDP 11 and related gear

2015-07-02 Thread devin davison
I can't thank you all enough for the insightful information. I was on the phone for a good 2 hours last night talking to someone who broke down what i needed to do step by step. The trailer being used is a uhaul 12x6 trailer, details here : :// www.uhaul.com/Trailers/6x12-Cargo-Trailer-Rental/RV/

PDP 11 - how to lock heads in a rx01 and rx02 - seeking advice

2015-07-10 Thread devin davison
I asked for advice a while back on what to expect with moving a pdp 11, I was told to lock the heads in the rx01 and rx02 drives. I'M getting pretty lost in all the information about the drives, are there any good guides or sites with lots of pictures of the drives taken from different angles apart

Re: PDP 11 - how to lock heads in a rx01 and rx02 - seeking advice

2015-07-10 Thread devin davison
I made a mistake. I was reading about the floppy drive and accidentally mentioned the rx01 / rx02. The hardware to be moved is actually RL01/RL02 hard drives, not the floppy drive. Please forgive the mix up, any help is appreciated. On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 3:31 PM, Matt Patoray wrote: > The RA60

Re: PDP 11 - how to lock heads in a rx01 and rx02 - seeking advice

2015-07-10 Thread devin davison
Once I do this myself i plan to put up a gallery of lots of pictures to help another newcomer such as myself. Not having seen the actual hardware is what gets me the most mixed up. On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 12:11 AM, devin davison wrote: > I made a mistake. I was reading about the floppy dr

Re: PDP 11 - how to lock heads in a rx01 and rx02 - seeking advice

2015-07-12 Thread devin davison
the carriage to keep it from rolling into the > > pack area. > > > > Of course, you don't want a pack in there while you are moving it > > around. :) > > > > It also mentions on that page a couple of shipping screws on the bottom > > of the drive to rest

Re: PDP 11 - how to lock heads in a rx01 and rx02 - seeking advice

2015-07-12 Thread devin davison
Excellent descriptive instructions. Ill print them out. Thanks. On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 9:21 AM, tony duell wrote: > > > Thank you all for the excellent information. I think i have a pretty > clear > > idea on what im dealing with now. Quick question though, what if there > is a > > pack in the

PDP 11 gear finally moved

2015-07-17 Thread devin davison
Devin here, I had asked for advice on how to move a PDP 11 as well as how to lock the heads on the RL Drives. It was quite a move. Ive never driven in a large city before, dealing with traffic was more trouble than it was to move and load up the equipment. Anyhow, i put a few images of what I got u

Re: PDP 11 gear finally moved

2015-07-17 Thread devin davison
Thank you for the detailed information. I need to figure out how im going to get it out of the rack and moved to a place where i can test it over the next couple days where it will not be in the way. Ill find some way to do a dummy load and do an extended test to be sure the supply is working prop

Re: PDP 11 gear finally moved

2015-07-17 Thread devin davison
I was operating the panel when i first got it, now the numbers do not light up, panel is unresponsive, and run light stays lit.(just describing the behavior, i will not start it back up till I work on the power supply) On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 3:50 PM, devin davison wrote: > I had to do some

Re: PDP 11 gear finally moved

2015-07-17 Thread devin davison
I had to do some cap replacement on some older Motorola tube radios,I have some basic soldering skills. I was under the impression that the capacitors in computer equipment this big from this year would have been of better quality and it would not be an issue. I have someone scheduled to come out

Re: PDP 11 gear finally moved

2015-07-18 Thread devin davison
Thank you all for the information. Ive been speaking with Paul Anderson on the phone, he went into great detail a general overview on how to get the machine apart and general beginner details. He referred me to the appropriate Documents on bitsavers, plan is to pick up some packs of paper and get t

Short test programs for pdp 11/34

2016-09-22 Thread devin davison
Hello, made some progress with the pdp 11/34 I picked up a while back. Managed to repair the faulty power supply. I am in the process of trying to get a minimal configuration of the machine up and running. I am looking for a short program to key in to try and test the functionality of the cpu. Is

Re: Short test programs for pdp 11/34

2016-09-23 Thread devin davison
On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 11:52 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote: > > From: Devin Davison > > >> If the machine HALTs on power-up, some micro coded diagnostic failed > > There are no microcoded diagnostics in the 11/34. The boot ROMs do contain > minimal CPU and memory d

Re: Short test programs for pdp 11/34

2016-09-23 Thread devin davison
Quite detailed information on the logic analyzer trace. I picked up a hp logic analyzer, never used it yet. Hopefully i do not have to get that in depth just yet. On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 4:47 PM, Jörg Hoppe wrote: > Noel, > > >> >> If the machine HALTs on power-up, some micro coded diagnosti

Re: Short test programs for pdp 11/34

2016-09-25 Thread devin davison
Thanks for all the helpful information. The machine looks to be working. I found a few different key in programs. I can get to the console emulator prompt on the attached vt100. I keyed in a few short programs to write to the vt100 and they worked as expected. One step closer. I am about to install

Picked up Commodore Amiga 2000

2016-10-04 Thread devin davison
A buddy located this just in time, it was out at a scrapyard and we are about to get hit with a hurricane over here in florida. Picked up a commodore amiga 2000 with the keyboard, no mouse or monitor. I hooked it up to a tv via composite and get to the boot screen. It appears to have a scsi hard dr

Re: Picked up Commodore Amiga 2000

2016-10-04 Thread devin davison
The toaster looks interesting but i have a stockpile of sgi gear that keeps me busy in the whole CG department. the video toaster, interesting hardware, but not something practical i would end up using much...Thanks for the info. if i can just cram any old vga card in there then that is what i will

Re: Picked up Commodore Amiga 2000

2016-10-05 Thread devin davison
Yeah, on the note of that battery, it looks fine, but is going to be replaced asap. Ive had a couple of apple computers turn to trash over that battery going bad in there. I know it is not really practical to turn it into a dos machine, but it would be a nice setup to me. If i can find a 286 and a

Re: Picked up Commodore Amiga 2000

2016-10-05 Thread devin davison
I would by no means ignore the commodore amiga software side of things. IM pretty excited to get to mess around with workbench. That FPGA graphics card project is impressive. On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 2:00 PM, Fred Cisin wrote: > I know it is not really practical to turn it into a dos machine, but

large Wire wrap cards

2016-10-10 Thread devin davison
I picked up 3 of these a while back, I am unsure of what kind of machine they go to. The plan was to use them to prototype on, but then I found some even better wire wrap boards and set these aside. I did not want to have to go through getting all the wire off of them. They are up for sale or trad

any interest in a power macintosh 6100/66?

2016-10-15 Thread devin davison
I picked up a bit of an odball power macintosh 6100 a while back. It has a 486 cpu at 66 mhz in it as well, so you can run dos on it or something. Overall looks to be in somewhat working shape, but does not boot. I do not hear the hard drive spinning, I am guessing it is bad.I can get it to power o

Re: any interest in a power macintosh 6100/66?

2016-10-15 Thread devin davison
Located in Vero Beach Florida, 32967 Sorry, forgot to mention location --Devin On Sat, Oct 15, 2016 at 11:43 PM, wrote: > Or Atlanta perhaps? > Todd Killingsworth > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Oct 15, 2016, at 11:28 PM, Paxton Hoag > wrote: > > > >>

A good shipping service for large computers?

2016-11-25 Thread devin davison
I have purchased 3 large SGi crimson computers and need them shipped from california to florida. I am uncertain of a good service to use for the task, i need the machines to be packaged up / put on a pallet at the pickup location, the owner is unable to do so. Usualy I would use YRC freight, howeve

Re: SGI Indigo, WTB Power supply? Burning smell?

2016-12-09 Thread devin davison
I have a indigo that is not getting much use. I believe it has the R4000 with the better power supply, and maxed out ram.(whatever that may be, i want to say 192 Mb, but i coud be mistaken, i can fire it up and verify if needed) I have not used it much. Prom battery is dead, i used to jump it with

Moving PDP 11 gear - Status update

2015-09-24 Thread devin davison
Hello. It has been a while since i have posted anything on this list. Last time i posted i was asking advice on how to properly load up and move a pdp 11 with related gear. It has been quite some time since i picked all this stuff up and figured i would give a status update here to let others know

DEC BA11K Fan repair

2015-09-25 Thread devin davison
I have a BA11K power supply out of a pdp 11/34 that has frozen up fans. They are frozen up pretty bad. I heard from another list member here they are repairable, any advice on how to do so? --Devin

Re: FS: Cray J932SE system

2015-10-10 Thread devin davison
That is quite an impressive pile of sgi. Do you have any of the big sgi gear around still? I have a bunch of the smaller workstations but have not managed to get any of the bigger desksides. On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 2:51 AM, wrote: > SYS_CRAYHOST="wopr" >> :-) >> -- >> Chris Elmquist >> > > :-)

Microvax 3800 Soon to arrive

2015-10-28 Thread devin davison
Hello. I seem to be getting quite a big assortment of DEC equipment over here as of late. Back in July I made a trip to Miami to pick up a PDP 11/34 with related equipment a while back and posted about it here on the list. I'm still working on getting the power supply on the pdp 11 fixed but am mak

Purchased a Microvax 3800

2015-12-01 Thread devin davison
I purchased a Microvax 3800 a few weeks ago. I have not really had the time to really take a good look at it until now. I still do not have the needed power cord to power it Up. Looks like a standard PC power cord with a notch in it. I found a place that sells them online, still waiting for it to

Re: Purchased a Microvax 3800

2015-12-02 Thread devin davison
he battery, but that is next on my list, thanks for the suggestion. --Devin On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 12:03 AM, Glen Slick wrote: > On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 7:25 PM, devin davison wrote: > > > > Just figured id post about it here, to show my progress twords getting > it > > r

Re: Purchased a Microvax 3800

2015-12-03 Thread devin davison
Well that works out. I've got a couple Of dssi controllers now. Not sure what that 50 pin cable could have gone to either. I have not opened the top half of the machine yet. Thank you for the pictures of where the battery are. I was looking on the main cpu board itself. Ive yet to take that apart

Re: SCSI Questions (Was: "Re: Purchased a Microvax 3800")

2015-12-08 Thread devin davison
Connecting a scsi dlt or dat drive is something i had not considered. I thought i would have had to buy and use DEC branded tape drives. I already have a scsi dat and DLT drive in use on my SGI octane. I could probally write the image with the octane and then move the drive over to the microvax t

Re: SCSI Questions (Was: "Re: Purchased a Microvax 3800")

2015-12-08 Thread devin davison
"So a 9-track open-reel SCSI drive should work just as well as a DDS, DLT, SLT drive." Oh wow. i had not even considered that. I have a pdp 11 with a beast of a 9 track tape drive in is's own rack, that would be interesting if i could get a scsi tape drive for the vax and use some big tapes to mov

Re: Best 200 buck I have ever spent!!! Deal of a lifetime!!!

2015-12-09 Thread devin davison
That is an impressive pile of stuff. Well worth the money. Post back with some pictures of it all running if you can. On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 11:12 AM, Mike wrote: > I was searching Craigslist and found this post with 7 boxes of C64 stuff > One C64 was still in the box, hard to find games great

Re: Purchased a Microvax 3800

2015-12-09 Thread devin davison
, Dec 8, 2015 at 3:37 PM, devin davison wrote: > "So a 9-track open-reel SCSI drive should work just as well as a DDS, > DLT, SLT drive." > > Oh wow. i had not even considered that. I have a pdp 11 with a beast of a > 9 track tape drive in is's own rack, that would be

Re: Decisions you regret

2015-12-17 Thread devin davison
I Volunteer constantly at the salvation army looking for such things to show up. The local salvation army office is a mess. Anything remotely heavy looking is scrapped if they do not know what it is. They would rather have $5 in hand for scrap rather than try to find out what something is, what it

Re: For you SGI fans...

2016-01-12 Thread devin davison
Dear god. Thank you. On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 3:19 PM, Ian Finder wrote: > This is a great start, but I wouldn't install this version. > Try to install the 6.5.22 overlay or greater. It does indeed require some > disks from this media set, but is more compatible with newer open source > software

Re: For you SGI fans...

2016-01-12 Thread devin davison
is this allowed? i thought it was under a restrictive licence and was not allowed to be shared freely like this? I am not complaining at all, im making about 500 copies of everything on that page ,ive been stuck outta luck with a sgi crimson without the irix 6.2 install disk needed to make it work.

AIX for IBM system 370

2016-02-01 Thread devin davison
I have been messing with the Hercules emulator, and have really been wanting to take a look at ibm AIX, and get a working install on an emulated system 370. I have found no mention of install media or disk images of a working system for download online. Is there a good place to get the install med

Re: AIX for IBM system 370

2016-02-01 Thread devin davison
nal Message- > > From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of devin > > davison > > Sent: 01 February 2016 23:11 > > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > > > > Subject: AIX for IBM system 370 > > > > I have bee

Re: AIX for IBM system 370

2016-02-01 Thread devin davison
. Pretty interesting big machines though. --Devin On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 10:39 PM, Guy Sotomayor wrote: > If you want a "Unix" experience on the mainframe, the easiest/best way at > this point > is Linux. > > TTFN - Guy > > > On 2/1/16 7:09 PM, devin davison wrote: &

VMS 4.4 source code microfiche

2016-03-08 Thread devin davison
I purchased a DEC VMS 4.4 source code microfiche set a while back. A buddy of mine works at a local library where there is a fancy microfiche scanner, I'm planning to scan it all. Some of the film is scratched pretty bad, does anyone else around here have this set, so that i can recover the full pa

Re: VMS 4.4 source code microfiche

2016-03-09 Thread devin davison
I do not know much at all about what it would take to compile this into a working system. My first step is going to be to get over to the library and get everything into a digital format. Ill be putting everything i scan up online. If there is a copy of the source on CD that someone can spare that

Re: VMS 4.4 source code microfiche

2016-03-11 Thread devin davison
scanner now and can make a digital copy. here are the first 12 pages i scanned off the first sheet. https://www.slashflash.info/~devin/Uploads/images/vms_fiche/ --Devin On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 4:03 PM, John H. Reinhardt wrote: > > On 3/9/2016 3:44 PM, devin davison wrote: > >>

Re: VMS 4.4 source code microfiche

2016-03-11 Thread devin davison
the images. Once i get it all scanned, I will post a link to it. --Devin On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 7:50 PM, Antonio Carlini wrote: > On 12/03/16 00:30, devin davison wrote: > >> I made a trip to the library today and set up the reader. Expensive nice >> piece of equipment, howe

Re: MiST - Amiga ST FPGA + intro

2016-03-31 Thread devin davison
Cool to see another SGI guy around here. Welcome to the list. Im scheduled to pick up a couple of Tezro's next month along with some related hardware and software. ill post back with some pictures to show what I pick up. On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 12:18 PM, Swift Griggs wrote: > > http://lotharek.

Getting an ibm as/400

2016-04-12 Thread devin davison
A local recycling center called me and said they are to pick up an ibm as/400 mainframe from a working environment. I left a deposit and am scheduled to go pick it up in the next day or so. I am not even sure of what all it comes with or what can be run on the machine. Any advice in advance on wha

Re: Getting an ibm as/400

2016-04-12 Thread devin davison
​Gotcha. i didn't want something interesting to get away so i kinda reserved it without knowing exactly what it is yet. I will post back with the model, thanks.

Re: Getting an ibm as/400

2016-04-12 Thread devin davison
ate where it says AS/400 there will be the model nuimber under that and > we can figure out what you have from that. > > Once you have that info, we can have a better idea what you are in for :) > As such can help you accordingly. > > On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 2:09 PM, devin davison >

Re: R: Getting an ibm as/400

2016-04-12 Thread devin davison
f the front > plate where it says AS/400 there will be the model nuimber under that and > we can figure out what you have from that. > > Once you have that info, we can have a better idea what you are in for :) > As such can help you accordingly. > > On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 2:09

Re: Getting an ibm as/400

2016-04-13 Thread devin davison
I called in again yesterday night, still not ready to pick up though. The guy assured me the drives were being wiped not removed, which is good. How does the whold 70 day licence thing work. Is that a specific limitation to os/400 or built into the hardware of the machine itself?

Re: Getting an ibm as/400

2016-04-13 Thread devin davison
Alright. Picked up the machine today. Much smaller than expected, but everything needed seems to be included. I got a terminal as well as a box of cables. I managed to boot the machine up to the login screen. However I do not know the username or password. I was speaking with someone on the phone t

Re: Getting an ibm as/400

2016-04-13 Thread devin davison
r? > > /P > > On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 08:09:02PM -0400, devin davison wrote: > > Alright. Picked up the machine today. Much smaller than expected, but > > everything needed seems to be included. I got a terminal as well as a box > > of cables. I managed to boot the mach

Getting an ibm as/400

2016-04-13 Thread devin davison
Couple of pictures. http://s20.postimg.org/zf5twva0d/20160413_210749.jpg http://s20.postimg.org/dephg8rcd/20160413_210826.jpg http://s20.postimg.org/61eov0wod/20160413_210836.jpg On Wednesday, April 13, 2016, devin davison > wrote: > The size of two pc towers. I am trying to figure o

Re: Getting an ibm as/400

2016-04-14 Thread devin davison
Original message From: devin davison < > lyokob...@gmail.com> Date:04/13/2016 10:57 PM (GMT-06:00) > To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" < > cctalk@classiccmp.org> Subject: Re: Getting an ibm as/400 > > The size of two pc towers. I am t

Re: NEC ProSpeed 386

2016-05-31 Thread devin davison
I have 6 model M's around at last count, plus many more for parts. Good keyboard, i set them up at the 2 front computers at work. On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 2:18 PM, Paul Berger wrote: > On 2016-05-31 2:36 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote: > >> On 05/31/2016 10:15 AM, Chris Hanson wrote: >> >>> On May 30, 201

Looking for rack rails for a pdp11

2016-06-04 Thread devin davison
I am in need of a set of rack mount rails for my pdp 11/34. I have a second Cpu chassis that has been tying up my desk since i picked it up. If anyone has these for sale or knows of modern rails that will work i am interested. I do not expect modern rails to do the flippy bit to work on the bottom

Re: VAX-11/780 Board Set on eBait

2016-06-07 Thread devin davison
well there goes my plan of trying to keep it under the radar. On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 1:46 PM, Noel Chiappa wrote: > Here: > > http://www.ebay.com/itm/282059544477 > > Low starting price. > > Noel >

Re: VAX-11/780 Board Set on eBait

2016-06-09 Thread devin davison
sch wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 3:48 AM, Noel Chiappa > > wrote: > > > >> > From: Devin Davison > >> > >> > well there goes my plan of trying to keep it under the radar. > >> > >> Sorry, I didn't mean to upse

Re: VAX-11/780 Board Set on eBait

2016-06-10 Thread devin davison
day i do manage to find one and it need a board. On Jun 10, 2016 6:03 AM, "Noel Chiappa" wrote: > > From: Devin Davison > > > It looked like a good batch of boards and i was holding out on > finding > > a machine. > > I hope that "a machin

Re: Tandy TRS0-Model 2000 Computer Monitor required

2016-06-29 Thread devin davison
I have a buddy with 2 2000's , one of witch does have a color video board. Would the machine with the color video board be of interest to you? We picked them up a couple years back, but could not get much done with them. --Devin On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 1:44 AM, Tothwolf wrote: > On Wed, 29

Re: DEC boards at recycler

2016-07-13 Thread devin davison
I would be extremely interested in the cpu boards. Pick them up please. I have a spare unibus chasis and am have been looking for a cpu card for a while. The memory boards M8067, real time clock M7856, and serial card M8043 are of interest. The cpu boards are of the highest interest to me. If yo

Re: DEC RRD40 CD-Rom Drive caddy

2016-07-15 Thread devin davison
Are the caddys specific to that drive or pretty standard? I picked up a stack of caddys recently, if you can get me a reference picture i can see if any of them are the same. --Devin On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 5:24 PM, Peter Coghlan wrote: > > > > Greetings > > > > The DEC RRD40 CD-ROM drive requi

Found some stuff at the scrapyard

2016-07-17 Thread devin davison
Actually found a pretty nice hp machine with a bunch of peripherals. Thankfully it came with the keyboard. Also a external hard drive and floppy, as well as a tiny printer. HP 362 "controller" Hp thinkjet 2225A printer Hp 9153B - HD and floppy Also a IBM wheelwriter 3 with the parallel interface,

Re: Found some stuff at the scrapyard

2016-07-17 Thread devin davison
t 8:34 PM, devin davison wrote: > > as well as what im > > assuming is a s100 backplane. > > > https://www.slashflash.info/~devin/images/scrapyard_lot/IMG_0148.JPG > > > https://www.slashflash.info/~devin/images/scrapyard_lot/IMG_0149.JPG > > > Looks earlier

Re: Found some stuff at the scrapyard

2016-07-17 Thread devin davison
Very good information to know about the printer, thanks. I am assuming that the new cartridges I get from staples should not have the toxic ink? Will it still be corrosive? There was a second printer over there, missing the plastic cover and scratched up. I think i will pick it up too for parts.

Re: Found some stuff at the scrapyard

2016-07-17 Thread devin davison
, though. > I never bothered to dig into what's different about them, since > they were available cheaply on eBay when i was working on the data > recovery project. > > > On 7/17/16 9:43 AM, Al Kossow wrote: > > > > > > On 7/17/16 9:21 AM, devin davison wro

Re: Found some stuff at the scrapyard

2016-07-17 Thread devin davison
Well, i will have to see if i can find any matching wire wrap cards to plug into the backpane and i can perhaps make something of it. I did not pay much for it, its no big liss if it is useless.

heap of floppy disks

2016-07-22 Thread devin davison
I picked up two crates jam packed full of floppys today. Bunch of random old utilities in there, borland turbo asm, turbo pascal, windows for workgroups etc. I found a set of disks with the DEC digital logo on them. 4-5 disks, says dos for the dec pc. Some utilitys too. Are these of any use to any

Re: heap of floppy disks

2016-07-23 Thread devin davison
I indeed do have procomm plus. disks 1 and 2. Let me see if they can be read. On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 8:04 PM, Tothwolf wrote: > On Fri, 22 Jul 2016, devin davison wrote: > > I picked up two crates jam packed full of floppys today. Bunch of random >> old utilities in there, bo

Re: heap of floppy disks

2016-07-23 Thread devin davison
disks. They will be available on my server, and ill put them up on bitsavers or something of the like. --Devin On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 3:19 PM, devin davison wrote: > I indeed do have procomm plus. disks 1 and 2. Let me see if they can be > read. > > On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 8:04

formatting and checking floppy disks for bad sectors

2016-07-30 Thread devin davison
I have a heap of floppy disks on hand. Most with old junk on them. Some are going bad, and have bad spots in the middle of the disk. Is there a good utility for either windows or dos that can format a floppy and mark the bad parts of the floppy to not be used? If anything, such a utility can let m

Re: For trade: beautiful Data General Nova 820 w/ Diablo Drive & controller

2016-08-12 Thread devin davison
I am interested in the data general nova 820. I have a pdp 11, i have been looking to get into the data general machines for a while now. I have many sgi machines around here. Sgi crimson, tezro, many octanes, octane 2's , indigo, indy indigo, etc. tons of related software for the sgi machines too

Re: For trade: beautiful Data General Nova 820 w/ Diablo Drive & controller

2016-08-12 Thread devin davison
Whoops. mailed the whole list sorry. On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 1:02 PM, devin davison wrote: > I am interested in the data general nova 820. I have a pdp 11, i have been > looking to get into the data general machines for a while now. I have many > sgi machines around here. Sg

Re: For trade: beautiful Data General Nova 820 w/ Diablo Drive & controller

2016-08-13 Thread devin davison
alright, best of luck in the symbolics hardware search. --Devin On Sat, Aug 13, 2016 at 9:43 PM, Ian Finder wrote: > Thanks for the mails and interest- a few details: > > No, I am not interested in selling. Trades only please, sorry. :( > > No, I am not interested in 90s workstation hardware- r

Re: Scsi tape and compatible tapes that are available

2017-07-23 Thread devin davison via cctalk
I have quite a bit of sgi gear and have been moving quite a bit of data from a linux machine to my sgi gear via tape recently. dat dds4 and dat 72 drives work good and the tapes are easy to come by. i have many dell branded dat drives that work without any special configuration. for larger capacity

Re: Scsi tape and compatible tapes that are available

2017-07-23 Thread devin davison via cctalk
my sgi onyx just came with a 8 mm drive. i picked up some tapes cheap, they are pretty limited in capacity. i have had read and write issues even after using a cleaning tape and a new box of tapes. my ibm as 400 used them too similar issues. kept complaining the drive was dirty even after running a

HP 900 model 300 monitor

2017-10-01 Thread devin davison via cctalk
I found another HP machine at the scrapyard today. I have another similar model that boots up to HP basic. I do not see an exact model number anywhere on it, all i see is Hp 9000/300 on the front. It appears similar to the other machine i have, although this machine lacks the vga port and has what

Re: looking at buying a pocket PC / PDA

2017-10-28 Thread devin davison via cctalk
If you are interested I have a HP jornada 680 with the charger and the serial cable. I used it as a serial terminal until I replaced it with a netbook. I have not used it in a while, when you need something compact with a real keyboard, it gets the job done. --Devin On Sat, Oct 28, 2017 at 4:01

Picked up tandy 1000 TX

2017-10-29 Thread devin davison via cctalk
I picked up a tandy 1000 TX with a color CM 11 monitor. Both are in the original boxes with keyboard,monitor and the printer cable. It powers on but i can not seem to get it to boot from the floppy drive. Ive tried writing 720K boot disks from my windows computer but it is still not booting. Some b

Re: Picked up tandy 1000 TX

2017-10-29 Thread devin davison via cctalk
mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of devin > davison via cctalk > Sent: Sunday, 29 October 2017 10:37 > To: General Discussion: On-Topic Posts > Subject: Picked up tandy 1000 TX > > I picked up a tandy 1000 TX with a color CM 11 monitor. Both are in the > original boxe

Picked up job at electronic recycling center

2017-10-29 Thread devin davison via cctalk
I recently picked up a job at an electronic recycling center. Harris is right around the corner from us, as well as a bunch of technical schools and aerospace related businesses. All of thier old stuff ends up at the shop to be resold as surplus or broken down and scrapped. There tends to be to mu

Picked up beige Mac G3

2017-12-11 Thread devin davison via cctalk
Someone just dropped off a mac g3 at the scrapyard I work at and I picked it up. It has a failing hard drive. Replaced the drive, downloaded and burned a disk with mac os 8 on it, but it refuses to boot to it. How do I go about installing the software on this machine? Not sure if this is the place

Re: Picked up beige Mac G3

2017-12-11 Thread devin davison via cctalk
Battery does not appear to ahve leaked but is planned to be replaced. I was unaware of having to press a key to boot to cd. Ill give it a go. Thanks for the quick response. --Devin On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 6:54 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: > On 12/11/2017 03:35 PM, Adrian Graham via cctalk w

Re: Picked up beige Mac G3

2017-12-12 Thread devin davison via cctalk
Thanks for all the advice. Oops,A little late reading whole brittle plastic warning. nothing important is missing, but there are little chips of plastic everywhere now. The plastic does not age well. The hard drive had failed, i replaced it. Im going to find a newer ide cd drive and try swapping th

Re: 40 pin Berg cable connector recommendations for PDP-11 projects?

2018-01-03 Thread devin davison via cctalk
good timing to ask. i ordered a similar connector that should do the job off digikey. i am still waiting for it to get here in the mail. It was $20 or so after ordering the pins and the shipping. the particular connector i ordered has a key on it that will need to be filed off to fit. once it gets

Re: Any interest Risc 6000/250

2018-01-11 Thread devin davison via cctalk
I would be interested in taking a look at such a machine so i could check out AIX. does it take standard vga video and a ps2 keyboard / mouse? can the os install media still be purchased or downloaded? if you are looking to trade i have to choose from acouple sgi indys, some tandy gear, and a coup

Re: Google, Wikipedia directly on ASCII terminal?

2018-01-16 Thread devin davison via cctalk
I personally have had a hard time even trying to get a traditional POTS phone line installed over here. The only offerings from atnt and comcast are voip nonsense. Its kinda redundant and buggy trying to dial up over a comcast voip line. ive tried it, it drops constantly. The sales staff do not eve

Picked up a couple 386 machines

2018-02-28 Thread devin davison via cctalk
While working at the scrapyard today, i managed to get a couple 386 machines right as they were being dropped off. One is a pakard bell with monitor, in pristine condition. The other is a Tandy 2500 with monitor, in rough looking shape but working too. The monitor is pretty beat up for the tandy bu

Re: Picked up a couple 386 machines

2018-03-01 Thread devin davison via cctalk
It is the 2500 SX. The drive is a quantum prodrive LPs 105 AT. The drive spins up but is not recognized. On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 9:43 AM, Jon Auringer wrote: > Hi Devin, > > - Original Message - >> From: "devin davison via cctalk" >> To: "General Disc

Re: Instruction video on laserdisk

2018-04-01 Thread devin davison via cctalk
I am a big collector of laser disks, i have many players and over 300 disks. I would be interested in a copy of the disk for my collection, it would be interesting to have something related to both laserdisks as well as my digital computers. if you are just looking to have it digitized and put onli

Re: SGI Indigo Power Supply Pinout?

2018-04-07 Thread devin davison via cctalk
I Have an indigo that has not gotten much use aside from when i first picked it up. It has the bigger power supply as well and is maxed out on memory. As a last resort, I could sell you my machine. It boots, I had rigged a peice of jumper wire to the battery to overcome a flat battery, i did not wa

Re: BBS software for the PDP 11

2022-06-22 Thread devin davison via cctalk
dia.org/wiki/CoSy_(computer_conferencing_system) > > On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 8:45 PM devin davison via cctalk < > cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > >> I have both a pdp 11/34 and 11/23 and am trying to find some bbs software >> to run. Preferably something that will run und

[cctalk] Dec pdp 11 ultrix

2022-07-29 Thread devin davison via cctalk
Hello, Been a while since i last posted here. I have a few pdp 11/34 systems. The drives i am using are RL02 drives. Is it possible to install Ultrix on a 34? I have been testing out Ultrix in the simh emulator. I see during the install the 34 mentioned as a recognized cpu type, but later in the

[cctalk] Re: Dec pdp 11 ultrix

2022-07-29 Thread devin davison via cctalk
ple of RL01 packs with 7m on them. > You needed two drives. > > RSX11/M 4.2 would probably be the best OS for a 34. > > On 7/26/2022 11:52 PM, devin davison via cctalk wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Been a while since i last posted here. > > > > I have a few p

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