Re: Alphaservers for free in Athabasca, Alberta

2019-08-05 Thread Richard Loken via cctalk
On Mon, 5 Aug 2019, Boris Gimbarzevsky wrote: A mere 579 miles from Kamloops. Unfortunately have to talk to my wife who thinks I have too many computers even though I've given away bulk of my DEC stuff. Never got a chance to play around on Alpha as it came out during my Mac days. A mere 1,

Re: Alphaservers for free in Athabasca, Alberta

2019-08-05 Thread Boris Gimbarzevsky via cctalk
Had to give away my Minc system with 2 RLO2 drives and 2 RK03 drives but it did go to a good home. Have a couple of 11/23 systems left but have been in storeage long enough that can't fire them up without first totally going over power supplies as large electrolytics don't age well. My wife

Re: Alphaservers for free in Athabasca, Alberta

2019-08-05 Thread Grant Taylor via cctalk
On 8/5/19 8:40 PM, ben via cctalk wrote: Now why could it not be a nice little PDP 11. I thought that it could be if it was running emulation software. Or was that more that the VAX-11 could emulate a PDP-11 up to a specific version & hardware combination? (Read: Did this functionality not g

Re: Alphaservers for free in Athabasca, Alberta

2019-08-05 Thread Richard Loken via cctalk
On Mon, 5 Aug 2019, ben via cctalk wrote: Now why could it not be a nice little PDP 11. Ben. I once had a pDp11/04 which I let go, it did not seem like much at the time but now I feel differantly. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV: "...underneath those tuques we wear, Athabasca, Alberta

Re: Alphaservers for free in Athabasca, Alberta

2019-08-05 Thread ben via cctalk
On 8/5/2019 6:51 PM, Boris Gimbarzevsky via cctalk wrote: A mere 579 miles from Kamloops.  Unfortunately have to talk to my wife who thinks I have too many computers even though I've given away bulk of my DEC stuff.  Never got a chance to play around on Alpha as it came out during my Mac days.

Re: Alphaservers for free in Athabasca, Alberta

2019-08-05 Thread Boris Gimbarzevsky via cctalk
A mere 579 miles from Kamloops. Unfortunately have to talk to my wife who thinks I have too many computers even though I've given away bulk of my DEC stuff. Never got a chance to play around on Alpha as it came out during my Mac days. I have access to 3 ES45s, a DS15, and an RA8000 in a tall

Control Data Cyber 960 available

2019-08-05 Thread William Donzelli via cctalk
I just received a pile of goodies from BT Federal, the last remaining bit of Control Data. Part of the goodies included a complete set of spare CPU boards for a Cyber 960. This means my extra Cy960 is surplus to my needs - I bought it strictly as a source of spare parts. So it needs to go. The wor

mid-range IBM systems [was RE: IBM Series/1]

2019-08-05 Thread Rich Alderson via cctalk
From: Jay West Sent: Monday, August 05, 2019 10:38 AM > I used to run a system at Anheuser-Busch in the late 80's, ISTR it was a > 4331, 4341, or 4381. The 4331, 4361 and 4341 are slightly more than waist high. The 4381 is a high-boy cabinet.

Re: Alphaservers for free in Athabasca, Alberta

2019-08-05 Thread Alan Perry via cctalk
On 8/5/19 12:50 PM, Mark Linimon via cctalk wrote: On Mon, Aug 05, 2019 at 10:39:01AM -0600, Richard Loken via cctalk wrote: Athabasca, Alberta is about 1.000km North of the US Montana border and 10,000km from nowhere And 2,248 miles from my house, according to Google Maps :-) I'll bet it

Re: Alphaservers for free in Athabasca, Alberta

2019-08-05 Thread Mark Linimon via cctalk
On Mon, Aug 05, 2019 at 10:39:01AM -0600, Richard Loken via cctalk wrote: > Athabasca, Alberta is about 1.000km North of the US Montana border > and 10,000km from nowhere And 2,248 miles from my house, according to Google Maps :-) I'll bet it would be a pretty road trip but I think I'll have to p

Re: MULTIPROCESSING FOR THE IMPOVERISHED Part 1: a 6809 Uniprocessor

2019-08-05 Thread ben via cctalk
On 8/5/2019 1:40 AM, Steve Malikoff via cctalk wrote: Ben said Where are all the articles about a TTL designed computer? Yes I know about (Homebuilt CPUs ring) but that is mostly today. What about the Late 70's and Early 80's? Well there's the EDUC-8, based on the PDP-8 instruction set and was

Re: Alphaservers for free in Athabasca, Alberta

2019-08-05 Thread Tapley, Mark via cctalk
> On Aug 5, 2019, at 1:03 PM, Seth Morabito via cctalk > wrote: > > I'm tempted, but... I don't know where I'd put it. I'm clean out of room for > a whole rack :( Seth, you just need to think about this objectively. Alphaserver rack ….. refrigerato

Re: Alphaservers for free in Athabasca, Alberta

2019-08-05 Thread Seth Morabito via cctalk
On Mon, Aug 5, 2019, at 9:39 AM, Richard Loken via cctalk wrote: > I have access to 3 ES45s, a DS15, and an RA8000 in a tall blue Compaq rack > in Athabasca, Alberta. All the in-service disks were removed but all the > spares are available. The box also has the fibre switches used the connect

RE: IBM Series/1

2019-08-05 Thread Jay West via cctalk
I used to run a system at Anheuser-Busch in the late 80's, ISTR it was a 4331, 4341, or 4381. Under VM/370, It ran SMI's (Systems Management, Inc) Pick/370 OS. IBM terminals could attach direct or via an establishment controller, but dumb serial terminals could connect via the series/1's which a

Alphaservers for free in Athabasca, Alberta

2019-08-05 Thread Richard Loken via cctalk
I have access to 3 ES45s, a DS15, and an RA8000 in a tall blue Compaq rack in Athabasca, Alberta. All the in-service disks were removed but all the spares are available. The box also has the fibre switches used the connect the RA8000 to the servers and the cables, much of the paper documentati

Needed: instruction manual for AVA 103C

2019-08-05 Thread William Sudbrink via cctalk
I just picked up an AVA Model 103C Floppy Exerciser. While it has a few quick tips silkscreened on the bottom of it, I think it would be helpful to have the full manual. I've done a fair bit of googling, but all I've turned up is several repair manuals for other equipment, suggesting the 103C a

Various Mac PowerPC, Dec and Sun equipment available in Houston TX

2019-08-05 Thread David Williams via cctalk
The clearing continues... I have several system that are free to anyone who wants them before they get tossed. Local pick up gets preference but I'll ship if you are willing to pay for UPS packing and shipping. None of the systems have been powered on in several years and the DEC and Sun equip

Re: MULTIPROCESSING FOR THE IMPOVERISHED Part 1: a 6809 Uniprocessor

2019-08-05 Thread Steve Malikoff via cctalk
Ben said > Where are all the articles about a TTL designed computer? > Yes I know about (Homebuilt CPUs ring) but that is mostly > today. What about the Late 70's and Early 80's? Well there's the EDUC-8, based on the PDP-8 instruction set and was published from 1974 to 1975 by Electronics Austral