Heathkit H8 and other items on Minneapolis craigslist

2020-05-05 Thread Mike Begley via cctalk
Hey, all. I was browsing various craigslist places around the US and found someone selling off a substantial collection of classic micros outside Minneapolis His ad is here: https://minneapolis.craigslist.org/csw/sys/d/silver-lake-vintage-computer-collection/7100922754.html Through our email ch

Re: Looking for old Suns

2020-05-05 Thread Kevin Lee via cctalk
I used to work for sun at one time and would glad give some hardware you have a good home. What is your inventory list please and your asking prices. I would be an honor to rehouse something like those old troopers. Cheers Kevin From: cctalk on behalf of Joha

Re: Pdp11/05 boot media

2020-05-05 Thread Eric Smith via cctalk
On Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 5:43 PM Jay Jaeger via cctalk wrote: > RX01's are, IIRC, just standard IBM 3740 format, yes? > Yes. The RX02 double density format is the one that's incompatible with everything else.

Was looking for old suns

2020-05-05 Thread silvercreekvalley via cctalk
Hi Thanks for the replies with the Suns, hopefully I will be able to get one up and running :) As I should probably clear a bit of space in the ‘office’ - I have several bits of kit available. I’m in the UK. HP Visualise 86000 - complete system with keyboard/mouse - nice condition Several QBU

Re: Pdp cpus

2020-05-05 Thread Eric Smith via cctalk
On 5/2/20 5:10 PM, Kevin Lee via cctalk wrote: > Interesting stuff > https://github.com/1801BM1/cpu11 On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 4:23 AM Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > Eric Smith's work on the WD CP1600 chipset's > various microcode [links] I've verified that the microcode dumps of the Soviet 581

Re: Looking for old Suns

2020-05-05 Thread Johan Helsingius via cctalk
I have a bunch of the pizza box SPARC ones that need to find a proper home, but they are somewhat special as they were the ones from one of the first pan-European Internet service providers (EUnet). Julf On 03-05-2020 17:22, silvercreekvalley via cctalk wrote: > Hi, > > Every now and aga

Re: Hopefully on topic

2020-05-05 Thread Martin Crockett via cctalk
Hi all, I apologise if I posted this request in the wrong forum, but I'm new to this; not electronics, I've got over 30 years bench experience, but asking for help :-) The answer you have given me is perfect. It confirms my suspicions that it is C14. Now I have a value, I'll check it out in the m

Re: Hopefully on topic

2020-05-05 Thread Jay Jaeger via cctalk
On 5/5/2020 2:08 AM, Brent Hilpert via cctalk wrote: > On 2020-May-04, at 8:10 PM, Martin Crockett via cctalk wrote: >> .. >> I noticed there is a capacitor that has vaporized, but I cant determine >> what value it is. >> >> I have the DEC VT-100 maintenance guide but it is very blurry in the >> re

Looking for old Suns

2020-05-05 Thread silvercreekvalley via cctalk
Hi Kevin/Stefan/Salik Thanks for the replies much appreciated. Looks like there might be a few of these systems around, so will see if I can pick one up. Willing to pay a reasonable fee for a system of course. Thanks Ian

Re: Hopefully on topic

2020-05-05 Thread Brent Hilpert via cctalk
On 2020-May-04, at 8:10 PM, Martin Crockett via cctalk wrote: > .. > I noticed there is a capacitor that has vaporized, but I cant determine > what value it is. > > I have the DEC VT-100 maintenance guide but it is very blurry in the > relevant area. > > I cant even read the board designation. >