Tandem 6526 information?

2019-04-27 Thread Chris Hanson via cctalk
A friend not on the list obtained a Tandem 6526 terminal. In the process of trying to refurbish it, the first 80 bytes of its ROM got trashed. Does anyone happen to have one so she could recover from this? Also, she has no keyboard, and no information about Tandem’s block mode or other protocol

Re: Modern Rack Rails in Classic Racks?

2019-04-27 Thread Zane Healy via cctalk
> On Apr 27, 2019, at 3:31 PM, Steve Malikoff via cctalk > wrote: > > Zan said >> How safe is it to put modern rack rails (HP) in a classic DEC Rack? The DEC >> racks have small holes, while the new HP racks, IIRC, have big square holes. >> It looks like the rails will work, they just won’

Re: Modern Rack Rails in Classic Racks?

2019-04-27 Thread Steve Malikoff via cctalk
Zan said > How safe is it to put modern rack rails (HP) in a classic DEC Rack? The DEC > racks have small holes, while the new HP racks, IIRC, have big square holes. > It looks like the rails will work, they just won’t clip flush. > > Zane I have been modifying quite a few hodgepodge pairs of

Re: Modern Rack Rails in Classic Racks?

2019-04-27 Thread Adrian Stoness via cctalk
doesnt really mater the moder design just made it so u could use different screw sizes on them

Modern Rack Rails in Classic Racks?

2019-04-27 Thread Zane Healy via cctalk
How safe is it to put modern rack rails (HP) in a classic DEC Rack? The DEC racks have small holes, while the new HP racks, IIRC, have big square holes. It looks like the rails will work, they just won’t clip flush. Zane

Re: Ultrix 3.0 VAX

2019-04-27 Thread Dennis Grevenstein via cctalk
Hi John, thank you for the idea. I finally managed to boot and install Ultrix 3.0. I prepared a new harddisk image under Ultrix 4.0. I could find /usr/sys/SAS.net/vmunix in the Ultrix 3.0 distribution tapes. This is a standalone kernel that will start the installation process. It can be booted lik