On Sat, Apr 4, 2020 at 12:35 AM Mike Begley via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> Years and years ago I owned a Lambda, along with a couple friends. I'm > going to guess this was around 1993 or so, give or take a few years. It > had been owned by Ames Lab at Iowa State University. We had it running for > about six months and decided to sell it to someone I believe was in > Madison, Wi or Minneapolis. I always wondered what happened to that > machine. > Very cool. This machine appears to have been used at Rockwell International. Other than that, I don't know much about its history. Thus far I have it powering up and loading SDU diagnostics (/extremely slowly/) from an old Qualstar drive. I'd love to find the correct Cipher drive since it'll fill in that space in the top correctly and likely be a ton faster than this thing :). > I do have manual for it that had gotten separated from it before the > sale. "Introduction to the Lambda - A Guide for Programmers". It's about > a hundred pages or so, and it goes into the basics about setting up and > booting the machine, using the windowing system and zemacs, and general > environment information. I don't know if anyone would be interested in > this document. I'm interested in keeping the original artifact for > nostalgia reasons, but I'd be willing to scan it in if there was interest. > Scanning is always good, I'd like to see it for sure. I have several large boxes full of documentation, unfortunately removed from their original binders -- there was serious mold on them unfortunately, but most of the actual paper made it out OK. I have yet to go through and scan them (they're so musty I'm waiting until facemasks become available again before taking them on.). - Josh > > -mike > > -----Original Message----- > From: cctalk <cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org> On Behalf Of Josh Dersch via > cctalk > Sent: Friday, April 3, 2020 3:42 PM > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts < > cctalk@classiccmp.org> > Subject: ISO: Cipher F880 tape drive, Fujitsu Eagle disk drive > > I'm working on restoring an LMI Lambda, which is missing both its tape > drive and its disk drive. If anyone has a Cipher F880 9-track drive or a > Fujitsu Eagle SMD drive, drop me a line. Be nice if they were in working > condition, but so long as they're repairable I can work with 'em. > > Thanks! > Josh >
