DEC Unibus backplanes/options

I have the following backplanes, most have all the boards with them. DB11-A bus repeater DH11-A 16 chan com DP11-PA DR11-B general purpose interface DV11- RK611-I have one put aside for another list member RM11-A massbus TM03 tape formatter Several DD11-D backplanes- 9 slot spc Please con

Old VCF East/West videos are going online

Good news! A bunch of old VCF East/West videos are going onto YouTube, thanks to ANTIC / Atari Podcast's Kevin Savetz stepping forward to do the grunt work. The first batch are talks from VCF East 6.0 (2009). YouTube playlist is at https://t.co/yYRr7rP7R4. We also asked Jason Scott to bring

Re: Reinstalling SunOS 4.1.4 without CD drive

On Fri, 2 Oct 2015, Eric Christopherson wrote: > > The SCSI drives will transparently map out bad sectors, presenting a > > apparently defect free disk (except while a sector as actually failing > > :) so the image should be fine to any SCSI drive of that size or > > larger (or an sd2scsi type dev

Apple IIe Platinum key mechanism replacement

Making my junk look less like junk. Nothing groundbreaking for the engineers in this group but may be of interest to those voyeurs/nostalgerists that like looking at close-ups of the keycaps...or not... http://www.classic-computers.org.nz/blog/2015-12-27-appleiIIe-plantinum-keycap-replacement.htm

Re: Looking for 3COM 3C905-TX Drivers

On 12/27/2015 04:44 PM, Jerome H. Fine wrote: Since I am a real Windows dummy, I hesitate to upgrade to a current I7 CPU with SATA hard drives. Is there any reasonable possibility of using an I7 CPU with Win98SE? Are there still I7 motherboards which support at least one floppy at a time - eit

Re: Looking for 3COM 3C905-TX Drivers

>Robert Jarratt wrote: -Original Message- From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Chuck Guzis Sent: 27 December 2015 20:34 To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: Looking for 3COM 3C905-TX Drivers On 12/27/2015 01:57 AM, Robert Jarratt

Re: IBM channel-attached DASD emulation

On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 10:29 PM, Henk Stegeman wrote: > Hi Mike, > > Here are the options to attach 3340 DASD emulation to an IBM System/3 > > 1) direct connect to the internal channel of the S/3. Some disk OEM's did > this. > Requires a FPGA with at one side MST-1 interface logic and at the othe

Re: New Commodore 64 is Finally Here--For Real! PC MAG Snip

Yeah, Commodore USA folded years ago, far as I can tell. On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 11:22 AM, Mark J. Blair wrote: > The manufacturer links are all 404 and the video was from 2011. > > -- > Mark J. Blair, NF6X > http://www.nf6x.net/ > >

RE: Looking for 3COM 3C905-TX Drivers

> -Original Message- > From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Chuck > Guzis > Sent: 27 December 2015 20:34 > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > > Subject: Re: Looking for 3COM 3C905-TX Drivers > > On 12/27/2015 01:57 AM, Robert Jarratt wrote:

Re: Looking for 3COM 3C905-TX Drivers

On 12/27/2015 01:57 AM, Robert Jarratt wrote: Thanks Marc. The drivers from the HP Enterprise site worked, although for Windows 95 I have been unable to get TCP/IP working. DHCP is not working and ping moans about a wrong protocol. It looks like I am missing VUDP.386 and I could not find it on t

RE: IBM channel-attached DASD emulation

Actually the DASD themselves are easy to emulate when fully buffered and error free as IBM does today in its mainframes. What is really hard to emulate is the Storage Control Unit and the appropriate set of CCWs associated with a specific Storage Control Unit and attached DASD. If I were doing

Re: New Commodore 64 is Finally Here--For Real! PC MAG Snip

> Would you buy the new Commodore 64 ? ? ? > The new system, which also starts at $595, is a little more modern: > it's got a Dual Core 525 Atom processor, an Nvidia Ion2 graphics > chipset, 2GB of RAM (upgradeable to 4GB), a 160GB hard drive, and > built-in Wi-Fi. [...] No, I would not buy this

RE: New Commodore 64 is Finally Here--For Real! PC MAG Snip

Who doesn't? Beyond being so clever, shhe is just beautiful! <3 <3 <3 Enviado do meu Tele-Movel Em 27/12/2015 15:41, "Fred Cisin" escreveu: > Would you buy the new Commodore 64 ? ? ? >> > No (and not just because I am (mainly) a Commodore enthusiast). > > "new" Commodore 64??!? > > although, I d

RE: New Commodore 64 is Finally Here--For Real! PC MAG Snip

Would you buy the new Commodore 64 ? ? ? No (and not just because I am (mainly) a Commodore enthusiast). "new" Commodore 64??!? although, I do have to admit that Jeri Ellsowrth's new Commodore 64 (built into joystick) was tempting. I like her cup-holder, and her flip-card mechanical digital w

Re: Seasons greetings

On 12/24/2015 04:47 PM, Murray McCullough wrote: To all readers/followers of this website - for those who love What's the URL for the website? Happy humbug -- Grumpy Ol' Fred ci...@xenosoft.com

Re: New Commodore 64 is Finally Here--For Real! PC MAG Snip

The manufacturer links are all 404 and the video was from 2011. -- Mark J. Blair, NF6X http://www.nf6x.net/

RE: New Commodore 64 is Finally Here--For Real! PC MAG Snip

> Would you buy the new Commodore 64 ? ? ? No (and not just because I am (mainly) a Commodore enthusiast). To me a computer is not defined by what it looks like. It is defined by the electronics, the firmware, etc. This is not even close to a C64, or in fact to any classic computer. It has no in

New Commodore 64 is Finally Here--For Real! PC MAG Snip

Would you buy the new Commodore 64 ? ? ? >From PC-World " The new Commodore 64 is, like the old 64, an entire system inside a (rather thick) keyboard. The old Commodore 64

IBM channel-attached DASD emulation

Hi Mike, Here are the options to attach 3340 DASD emulation to an IBM System/3 1) direct connect to the internal channel of the S/3. Some disk OEM's did this. Requires a FPGA with at one side MST-1 interface logic and at the other side IDE or SCSI interface. The availabe IBM documentation is comp

Re: Seasons greetings

On 12/24/2015 04:47 PM, Murray McCullough wrote: > To all readers/followers of this website - for those who love > classic/vintage computers - I want to wish all the best of the holiday > season no matter what your beliefs. In this day of political > correctness it is simply to acknowledge Mother

RE: Looking for 3COM 3C905-TX Drivers

> -Original Message- > From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Marc > Verdiell > Sent: 27 December 2015 08:44 > To: cctalk@classiccmp.org > Subject: RE: Looking for 3COM 3C905-TX Drivers > > >From: "Robert Jarratt" Does anyone happen > >to have drivers for this ca

Re: VAX 4000-500 PSU Overload?

Robert Jarratt wrote: > > > > -Original Message- > > From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Holm > Tiffe > > Sent: 25 December 2015 13:15 > > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > > Subject: Re: VAX 4000-500 PSU Overload? > > > > This Capacitor

Looking for WinXP drivers for Trident Video Cyber9520

In the series "looking for drivers". I have taken to using DolchPac 65's as my retro workhorses so I can multi-boot DOS, Win98 , WinNT, WinXP and Linux while sticking weird old PCI and ISA interface cards in it. One of the OS always ends up having some software for the card. It has a custom video

RE: Looking for 3COM 3C905-TX Drivers

>From: "Robert Jarratt" >Does anyone happen to have drivers for this card? I am not sure what OSs >this card was supported on, so any drivers at all would be appreciated. I have a few versions of the drivers. They are part of Windows 98SE and Windows XP distribution though, I had the card recogniz