I have a few systems in rough shape, and need parts. Let me know what you
find, i am interested. I mainly run my unibus 11/34 systems, but i have a
few q bus syatems in need of parts and repair.
Thanks,
Devin D.
On Thu, Oct 19, 2023, 8:02 PM Mark Linimon via cctalk
wrote:
> I sincerely doubt I
Hello All,
I am working to get my two microvax systems working, I have a couple of
microvax 3800 systems.
While I am waiting to get the real hardware going, I would like to set up
simh with vms to use for testing.
I don't really need the latest version of vms, any old version with tcp/ip
would w
alk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> On 5/30/2023 9:57 PM, devin davison via cctalk wrote:
> > I picked up boxes of these disk heads when i picked up a warehouse
> > stockpile of pdp 11 computers.
> >
> > Any idea what they are to? I want to say floppy? I have 2 different typ
I picked up boxes of these disk heads when i picked up a warehouse
stockpile of pdp 11 computers.
Any idea what they are to? I want to say floppy? I have 2 different types
of heads, in boxes. Please see pics, and if anyone needs heads, im the guy
that has a bunch to part with now.
Let me know wh
Richard via cctalk
wrote:
> In article n_2eyb3pds7jqbk+xkoyqzlvkirav...@mail.gmail.com>,
> "devin davison via cctalk" writes:
>
> > I have a sgi tezro for sale.
>
> Devin I sent you an email off list, but I often end up in people's
> spam folder
I have a sgi tezro for sale. My last sgi machine, i used to have crimson
and onyx2 desksides.
The front plastic is a little torn. It has a dallas battery problem. I
recall getting it to boot by manually typing in the boot info, but it may
require soldering to fix the battery.
Open to offers. My l
I have a 170. Im in melbourne fl.
I have been unable to move it, its in my living room, but you would need to
load it into the car. It ipl's to a working install, but not sure what
version. Sold off all my twinax terminals a while back.
On Tue, Mar 21, 2023, 10:14 AM Peter Ekstrom via cctalk <
cc
Hello, thank you for the advice on repairing the failed power supply parts.
I do intend to repair them, my intent was to get one system working, and
then move along to the others. I will admit i am anxious to get a running
rsx system running. I have been working to repair cateract and power suppl
Hello,
I have many rl02 disk packs for my pdp 11/34 and 11/05. I have just been
stacking them upright, but that has not been the safest or the most space
efficient. Were any kinds of shelves made for these disk packs, perhaps
similar to 9 track hanging tape racks? Trying to make things look more
o
know you can run 7m as I have a couple 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,
> >>
> >
Much appriciated, i will check 7m out now.
Thanks for the link to the files.
--Devin D.
On Fri, Jul 29, 2022, 11:41 PM Warner Losh wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 29, 2022, 8:58 PM devin davison via cctalk <
> cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
>> Thank you for the suggest
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
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
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
I will need to get the details. I have some spare power supplies, tape
drives, and a couple hard drives, although im not sure if they are scsi or
dssi.
Im looking to get some offers and see what i can expect to get for them. I
might have put in too much in the first place when i bought them , hope
Hello,
I had picked up these machines fresh out of high school. I actually worked
a deal with the buyer to make payments out of my paycheck for a few weeks
till they were paid in full. i have not had the time to focus and get them
running.
one machine i have had up to the cpu monitor, no internal
I work at and IBM Data Center and there were a lot of spare keyboards in
the back please direct message me and I can get you an exact model number
of the keyboards I have on hands and a quote on the shipping cost
On Tue, Dec 21, 2021, 2:52 PM Kevin Parker via cctalk
wrote:
> Hi folks - I'm looki
Greetings,
I had quite a few arcnet cards laying around a while back, I had picked up
a ton of them from the back storage of a datacenter that was clearing out
surplus equipment. I am uncertain of how many I still have in storage. How
many do you need?
If you are able to wait a couple days, I can
> > Where are you located? We have a small amount of Modcomp docs here and
> > could take on a box more of the most useful paper docs for
> posterity-sake,
> > to round out what's already here.
> > Thanks
> > Bill Degnan
> > kennettclassic.com
&g
Hello,
The person that refered me to my present job at a datacenter passed away
this past monday. He was a hardware / software engineer for modcomp
computers. He left me all of the computers and documents. there are too
many books to keep, stuff concerning the modcomp computers that is not
saved
org> wrote:
> On 17/09/2021 12:37, devin davison via cctalk wrote:
>
> > I'm working to get my pdp 11/34 and 11/45 running. I was curious what
> > versions of unix or bsd would work on the machines i have. I wanted to
> set
> > up the systems with a bunch of dumb te
Hello,
I had asked this question on the tuhs discord channel, no response yet so i
figured i would try here.
I'm working to get my pdp 11/34 and 11/45 running. I was curious what
versions of unix or bsd would work on the machines i have. I wanted to set
up the systems with a bunch of dumb termi
Here are pictures of the HP 9000 computers for sale. I have the related
terminal breakout cable, powers on to bios or similar, but doesnt boot.
The one that is the rack has all the associated mounting hardware and
beighe baffles to make it look as on solid flush rack. Local pickup or
freight onl
Updated list of items soon to follow.
The S100 boards and chasis are sold.
This 286 ibm computer is for sale.
Ill post back with more items / pictures once i find more i decide to part
with.
Yes. i have shipped a few things out already. I am working to get a
hardware inventory on the sgi tezro posted, and some pictures of the hp
9000 and terminals.
On Fri, Jul 2, 2021, 12:01 AM Ali wrote:
> > I am making room to work on my pdp 11 and mainframe computers. The
> > following things are
I am making room to work on my pdp 11 and mainframe computers. The
following things are for sale :
3 Dec decmate computers with kb and monitor. Partway loads into the WP os
but the floppy is bad, and i dont have more
Sgi tezro
Hp 9000 desktop for hp -ux with cables
Working microvax 3100 with in
I picked up a microvax 3100 this past weekend from a office that was
shutting down.
I was able to start the system up, it boots up to a login prompt for VMS
VAX 7.3.
I do not have any login info for this machine, is there a procedure i can
follow to reset a password to an account?
Image of sys
I have a bankers box worth of dec ultrix 32 reference manuals in grey dec
binders. Im looking to sell the box of books for a few $ plus the cost of
shipping.
Hoping to find these books a good home.
--Devin D.
Greetings everyone, it's Been a while since i posted here.
I had picked up some modcomp minicomputers over the past couple years. A
modcomp classic, with a nice front panel with binary swiches, similar to a
pdp 11. There is a modcomp 32 as well, the machine boots from internal
floppy drives.
I wa
find that the electrolytics in the power supply are leaking.
> Please don't quote me on this. Where is this stuff located?
> GOD Bless and Thanks,
> rich!
>
> On 7/28/2020 11:00 PM, devin davison via cctalk wrote:
> > Greetings. It has been an interesting day. Rather late in
Greetings. It has been an interesting day. Rather late in the day, a buddy
notified me of a local thrift store that went under, and mentioned there
may be some computers on site up for grabs. Upon arrival, the place was a
mess, but the folks there were friendly and gave me the tour, everything
had
Greeting. Its been a while since I have posted here. A while back I picked
up a large Modcomp classic minicomputer. Recently the person i picked the
computer up off of gave me a call to come and get many books and software,
among much more hardware. I have picked up hundreds of 9 track tapes. The
m
numa link cables for sale as
well. Itanium based system.
On Tue, Jul 23, 2019, 5:49 PM Seth Morabito wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 23, 2019, at 12:32 PM, devin davison via cctalk wrote:
> > I am big into sgi equipment, I have many deskside coputers and a full
> onyx
> > 1000 rack. I hav
Hello, Havent posted here for a while. I usually post about pdp11 and vax
stuff.
I am big into sgi equipment, I have many deskside coputers and a full onyx
1000 rack. I have just about every machine in the sgi linup and I need to
clear out most of my big sgi stuff. I was big into the nekochan foru
Greetings, im not sure if it would be of help, but i know someone who is
quite far along with an emulator for the sgi crimson. He bought my sgi
crimson a while ago and has been reverse engineering the hardware. Not sure
if that would be of help, i could put him in contact with you if needed.
On Su
Hello, ive been reading on the list here for a while. I'm usually in the
background not seen much, I figured i would give a status update on my pdp
11/34 system. I have been moving quite often for work over the past couple
years, and still have not gotten my machine running since picking it up
over
About a week ago, "drlegendre" posted looking for some 386 and 486 boards.
I said i had some, but was quickly overwhelmed with work and have not had
time to post back till now.
Should anyone else be interested, I'm putting a link to some pictures of
what 386 and 486 boards i have. Some have corrosi
I have a complete working onyx deskside and complete terminator rack for
sale. Contact me if interested and we can discuss specs, negotiate price /
shipping.
On Mon, Jan 14, 2019, 1:53 PM kk via cctalk wrote:
> Does anyone have any SGI Onyx parts? Any parts. I am trying to resurrect a
> desksi
I have a stockpile of them. Will get you pictures tomorrow.
On Sat, Jan 5, 2019, 11:59 PM Will Cooke via cctalk
wrote:
>
> > On January 5, 2019 at 8:42 PM drlegendre via cctalk <
> cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> > I'm interested in finding a 386 or slow 486 machine or moboj ust for
> >
. in reality it was needed
> often as early comp. geAR had bad. mtf !..
> ed# get one... save one...
>
> Sent from AOL Mobile Mail
>
> On Monday, December 10, 2018 devin davison via cctalk cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> More of a computer list I know, but I need to c
More of a computer list I know, but I need to clean out and this needs to
go soon. Big ol tektronix scope on a cart. Was part of a community
workshop, i cleared out all their equipment and have not had the time to
repair it. I was planning to go over it and put it to work at my desk, but
i decided
t; --
> Anders Nelson
>
> +1 (517) 775-6129
>
> www.erogear.com
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 1:31 PM Al Kossow via cctalk <
> cctalk@classiccmp.org>
> wrote:
>
> > probably hdsp-2010
> > 1988 opto catalog pg 609 in the scan
> >
> > On 11/
Hello. Encountered a couple odd parts in the pile today, not sure if they
are anything special. Hp branded dip packages with gold leads. They appear
to be leds in 4 grid patterns on the face. Im curious what they are out of,
most likely an old hp computer or calculator.
Part number on the back is
Ive been kinda debating setting up a web store and stockpiling the nicer
pci, isa and agp cards that would be otherwise scrapped out at the shop. If
you are in need of a card, let me know and i can set you up with a deal,
tested worKing.
just send me an email with what you need and i will let you
Soon to be picked up and brought home. Lots of documentation with it as
well. Christmas came early, eager to get it home and set up.
https://postimg.cc/gallery/wb1z90m2/
--Devin D.
Hello, been a while since ive written to the list. I met someone the other
day that used to work for modcomp. He gave me a tour, he still has working
modcomp computers in his home. He was clearing out a bunch of stuff, he
gave me a bunch of terminals and dos era computers. Among the computers is
a
Generic 386 pcs are of interest to me, how many?
On Thu, Jul 19, 2018, 5:51 PM Fred Cisin via cctalk
wrote:
> Is there ANY interest in Courier 56K V.92 modems?
>
> Laserjet IIP printers?
>
> Parallel port and/or SCSI flatbed scanners? (home office, NOT
> professional)
>
> Oversized PC cases wit
e arrays.
>
> Camiel
>
> On 6/30/18, 3:53 PM, "cctalk on behalf of devin davison via cctalk" <
> cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org on behalf of cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
> A couple of boards from an unknown computer came in and i am trying to
> get
A couple of boards from an unknown computer came in and i am trying to get
them to a good home and not be scrapped. I was curious if anyone here knew
what they were out of. They were in the box with some small core memory
boards. If someone here wants to make an offer ill gladly take the ebay
listi
I have 3 sunblade 2000 workstations for sale. They arrived as surplus
equipment. One of the machines does not power on, the other two boot up to
sun os with proprietary software that was used from the company they came
from. THe drives must be wiped before i send them out. They are quite
heavy, so
Ive been hanging around on nekochan since high school. Its been my go to
forum for a while and im not sure what I will do without it. There was a
discussion on the forum itself a while ago about setting up some kind of
bot to scrape the forum posts and archive the content. I decided against
trying
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I did not expect so much feedback, thanks to everyone who responded. I am
still reading over all the replies.
I am indeed looking to run the hardware for a extended duration or non stop
if I can manage to get a good bbs up and running.
Power consumption and heat output is not an issue. The machin
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 under an os and not monopolize
the whole machine.
Any suggestions? i have not had much luck finding anything.
--Devin
I picked up an e series ibm as 400 a while back. it boots/ipl's a working
licenced install of os/400. I have a single terminal and misc related
cables. everything needed is there.
I am open to offers on the machine. Just looking to break even, not make a
fortune.
--Devin
Paul.
>
>
>
> On 2017-04-11 6:57 PM, devin davison via cctalk wrote:
>
>> I picked up a IBM 7208 222 8mm drive today. I got a bunch of tapes with
>> it. Going to wire it up and power up the machine. Do I need to do any
>> special config or commandsto make the drive a
ng on the tape
> firmware. Same consideration goes for booting from such tape drive.
>
> -Messaggio originale-
> Da: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] Per conto di devin
> davison via cctalk
> Inviato: martedì 11 aprile 2017 05:13
> A: Pontus Pihlgren
> Cc
d document your findings I
> would be very greatful. I have a model 170 on my todo-list.
>
> /P
>
> On Sun, Apr 09, 2017 at 12:21:17PM -0400, devin davison via cctalk wrote:
> > Alright, it was quite a while back that I picked up my ibm AS400 model
> 170.
> > I had as
ot be aware
> that you cannot just throw in any SCSI disk, the disks have to be the
> specific disks that are blessed for use in an AS/400.
>
> A quick google came up with a site http://www.ibmfiles.com/pages/
> as400e.htm that seems to have some of the 170 manuals linked.
>
>
I am being outbid left and right on those PDP 11 DOS books. Only a few
hours left, if someone else wants to step in and bid then, go for it, i can
not bid any further. Apparently one of them was not on bitsavers.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/361940854169
--Devin
On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 2:03 PM, Mattis
Alright, it was quite a while back that I picked up my ibm AS400 model 170.
I had asked some questions on the list, it was locked with a password and i
could not get into the machine. I finally got around to getting into the
machine and am at the main menu. Before i do anything, I want to back up
t
Did my reply not get through? I have a good scanner and placed the bid with
the intent to put it on bitsavets.
On Apr 6, 2017 1:05 PM, "Mattis Lind" wrote:
>
>
> 2017-04-06 14:43 GMT+02:00 devin davison :
>
>> Placed a bid, i have access. To a good scanner, will scan and upload once
>> it arrives
Placed a bid, i have access. To a good scanner, will scan and upload once
it arrives .
On Apr 6, 2017 8:28 AM, "Mattis Lind via cctalk"
wrote:
> http://www.ebay.com/itm/361940854169
>
> One of them does not seems to be at bitsavers.
>
> The shipping is way to high to have them shipped to Sweden a
Last of the pictures for tonight. Pictures of the zenith luggable, apple
IIc, and tandy 1400 box.
Time is kinda limited,running out of time in the day. i can take further
pictures or provide further info upon request.
https://postimg.org/gallery/1cgafa2tm/a2c8e318/
--Devin
On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 a
Many people have been asking for details on the Hp gear. Here are some
pictures of everything.
https://postimg.org/gallery/wdgbt8lm/
I have powered up the machine and it boots up to hp basic. I never fired up
any of the external drive enclosures or the printer. If someone wants to
tell me how to
Looking to make some space so i can work on some of the bigger gear i have
sitting around here. All this stuff was stored in a climate controlled
environment. I pick up interesting things whenever i can, be it at the
scrapyard, flea markets, etc, that is where most of this came from. I
worked in a
YES please, thanks :)
-Devin
On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 3:49 PM, Electronics Plus via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> You guys want me to list these? Manuals, software, Tandy Xenix 6000 binder
> with 8" floppies and manual? Some old (but sealed IBM 8" floppies for I
> don't recall what (no
Would not blow up my crimson, but indys are not exactly valuable. kinda
cool if they blow it up.
Wish i had that cdc mainframe from die hard before that encounterr with the
bullets
--devin
On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 3:55 PM, Paul Koning via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> Be sure to as
Wonder if they would ship my crimson just to get it on the show... Would be
cool. I have Indy's but you can get those for the cost of shipping...
On Mar 13, 2017 4:42 PM, "Oldcomputers via cctalk"
wrote:
> Get your systems on TV!
>
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> > From: Olivia Tanner
> > Date
The thing on the top has to do with the tape drives, i think it is the
controller. the drives plug into it, and from there it wires into a serial
port, at least as far as i can tell. Much appriciated on the offer to trade
for the memory board.
It has been slow going with my 11/34, if i can get this
This past week I managed to pick up a pdp 11/23. Excited to finally have a
qbus system, it is quite small compared to my 11/34.
Attached are some pictures showing what i picked up. I am in the process of
stress testing the power supply before turning it on. The whole machine was
quite dirty and i
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