On 18/01/2025 16:53, Frank Leonhardt via cctalk wrote:
This is what ChatGPT said about me:
Is this the latest variation on goolging one's own name ? :-)
It doesn't know me at all. I'm assuming that means I'm safe ... for now.
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noticed because neither Space Karen nor Zuck care about old
computers (and let's hope it stays that way).
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That's a different Roswell, right? It's not like I can pack two visits
into one day? :-)
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:-)
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the first
donor steps up :-)
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ain, if you win, you generally get your legal expenses paid by
the other side.
So swings and roundabouts.
None of this is legal advice and if things were this easy then lawyers
would be starving. Ones man's truth ...
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oil hat too, to save on postage, but those
are already on eBay :-()
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e gap
between them syringed too.
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u are
likely to want to run it, but the hardware may fail at any time.
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gally transferred to you).
The only difference is that you didn't have to subvert the LMF.
Sad and mildly irritating, but nothing we can do about it.
This bit is true.
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0004&LH_Sold=1&LH_Complete=1
Looks like $20 is about the going rate.
-Henry
The first hit on ebay.co.uk is £399, so I sense an arbitrage opportunity
:-) It may take a while to sell, but I'm patient !
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+ years of not fiddling with OpenVMS on a
daily basis :-)
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ime. Or at least they remain
beyond my goolge-fu.
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a TL866II Plus?
Anyway, thanks in advance for any suggestions or ideas.
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csi.com/docs/Compatibility.
There are reports of ZuluSCSI working with some Alpha systems too.
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ier" would be a more
accurate claim?
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VAX 9000 :-) Having competing teams wasn't
unusual in DEC, at least for a portion of its history.
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cally prohibits autonegotiation, so
10G should not drop down to 1G or 100Mb/s.
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ces" is
technically correct (the best kind of 'correct'!) but I have yet to be
convinced that it's not describing the null set :-)
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they're closed like KyroFlux.
At ~£25 you're unlikely to lose much with either of the two front
runners :-)
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) that will build an
IMD file. DOS will be easy, CP/M is probably simple enough, but after
that I expect that you'll potentially need to do some digging for each
new format.
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if that's actually true.
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https://www.youtube.com/@SamZeloof/videos.
I don't think he's done a CPU but he was up to ~100 transistors on a
chip when last I looked.
Maybe one day he'll be able to fabricate working Qbus transceiver chips ...
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On 19/01/2023 20:25, Sellam Abraham via cctalk wrote:
At least the machines care ;)
Sellam
That's possibly the best epitaph any of us will ever get :-)
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oo interested.
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On 21/11/2022 21:45, Antonio Carlini wrote:
I have two more I can open up and look at, but I cannot get to them
tonight and I'm probably out tomorrow too. But I think I can get to
those other two supplies on Wednesday. Hopefully at least one of them
will be readable! Otherwise I can des
ink I can get to
those other two supplies on Wednesday. Hopefully at least one of them
will be readable! Otherwise I can desolder the diode from one of the
other two and hopefully find a useful marking.
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ocation of the offending parts
that might help me identify them more quickly (always assuming that they
are marked at all, of course).
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ork on a Rainbow and some uV3600 PSUs
first before I get back to working through uVAX/VS 3100 PSUs (I also
have 5 H7821 PSUs there, so I expect that I'll be back ...).
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On 24/10/2022 21:07, Antonio Carlini via cctalk wrote:
the bitsbox one may be a teensy bit to large but the ebay one should
fit nicely. Neither is too expensive even with postage so I'll buy a
few, given that I do have a fair few PSUs knocking around.
Just a quick follow-up in case it
just that it happens to be very cheap.
You should check out Usagi Electric on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/c/Nakazoto/videos, he's putting together a
valve-based recreation of 1-bit processor (the MC14500B). He makes his
own PCBs too :-)
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you
had to replace? Mine look fine but there are some other large
electrolytics in there (two large brown 470uF voltage unclear, and one
large black cap by the mains input on which I cannot see any of the
markings).
Thanks
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On 24/10/2022 21:07, Antonio Carlini via cctalk wrote:
the bitsbox one may be a teensy bit to large but the ebay one should
fit nicely. Neither is too expensive even with postage so I'll buy a
few, given that I do have a fair few PSUs knocking around.
Turns out both sets of X2 caps I b
the 1800uF ones just to see what it
looks like underneath, and maybe measure its value too. Mouser wants
£1.10 each (for 10+) and also charges £12 minimum shipping, digikey
seems similar; eBay does have a UK seller doing 10 for £6, which might
be a better option if I need to go that way.
solder it to be sure?
Thanks
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er if anyone has considered a MiSTer core for it?
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68-*B* is 220/240V and they are not auto-ranging. So shipping outside
the US (at least to the UK, but probably other places too) is not worth
the trouble for another reason too.
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Ethernet Personal Computer Adapter", without "Bus".
DELQA was "DIGITAL Ethernet Local-Area-Network to Q-bus Adapter"
according to its user guide.
It's predecessor, the DEQNA, was "Digital ETHERNET Q-Bus Network
Adapter", according to its user g
le on his website:
https://www.curiousmarc.com/computing/hp-9825-scientific-computer#h.xrov16yr03br
The whole series was fun to watch (even though I don't have an HP9825)
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ave found useful. As usual, take with a
hefty grain of salt. (The ones that modify the tool to try and increase
the vacuum pressure seem particularly sketchy ... YMMV).
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On 14/04/2022 22:36, Antonio Carlini via cctalk wrote:
(OFFLIST, I think)
I will learn to get this right eventually :-)
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ust sit in a corner and be a useful table end or
something for a while?
I'm currently struggling with a uVAX 3600 PSu and a VAX 4000 PSU, so if
I ever fix those, maybe I can help with the AS2100 ...
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tapes. Whether a TZ87 will work in this drive or not,
I don't know.
The internal interface board in the TZ877 presents a SCSI interface to
the outside world.
I realise no-one is going to put a TZ-anything inside a Quantum tape
library, but just in case ...
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a commercial outfit
willing to work on something so old.
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t via tape. You still
needed to boot from TU58, which seemed to take roughly forever.
I imagine it was possible to hook up RX50s to a VAX-11/750 but I never
saw one configured that way. Why not use tape :-)
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younger and less
temperamental (and perhaps the same could be said about the people
feeding the drives floppies ...)
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.org/collections/mds-199909/cd2/decmpp/decacsmc.pdf
There are other docs that you can most easily find by searching for
"DECmpp" on manx.
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ually shipped with that stuff.
paul
The DEC 4000 systems (COBRA and the follow-on upgrade, FANG) use FB as
an I/O bus. DECnis also used FB as its backplane. They couldn't share
cards though.
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counteract this. This is the disk equivalent of the
Lorentz contraction. :-)
So the relative speed of your head over the platter is faster but the
observable effect (data transfer rate) is the same as it is on the inner
tracks.
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On Sat, Dec 4, 2021 at 10:20 AM Chris Long via cctalk
wrote:
Great.not.
Why do we need woke Lego?
Excellent use of compression on the list: a question that contains its
own answer :-)
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I suspect that
none of us has an archive.org mirror.
What about Wikipedia? There's Infogalactic, but that's a fork, not a
mirror.
You can download a copy of Wikipedia and set up a local copy - it's
probably bigger now but when I tried it, it was about 3GB.
Antonio
a website.
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g gone now.
(I also looked at the DEQNA UG but I couldn't find wiring details in
there ... but it was a very quick look).
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en expose
even more yellowing :-)
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itle, something like:
0002/MANUALS/EK/XMIADHB.PDF: "XMI Adapters Handbook"
Would that help, or is there more that I might be able to provide?
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C-part-number
and eliminate files that way, but that seems inexact at best. Or I could
just download the DEC subset of files (spread across the mirrors) but
that seems a bit antisocial.
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On 22/09/2021 17:05, Zane Healy wrote:
Interesting, I have 3 34GB drives in my cluster, and haven’t had any issue.
I think I was running OpenVMS VAX V7.2 on SIMH. IIRC it was fixed in
V7.3 (someone sent me the DECUS Hobbyist V7.3 release and that was OK).
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nnot do it or are not allowed to do it, but either way, they
won't).
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SCSI isn't complete and was
only intended for the tape unit. Whether its performance beats an RD54
will be interesting to see.
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Shoppa's site:
http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/scandocs.trailing-edge.com/ (they've
presumably moved at some point as Manx currently points to the wrong place).
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as it's much cheaper than SCSI2SD.
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ooks really good. It copes very well with black text on blue
background, so I imagine it would work well for the black text on
red/pink shading case.
What's the input to the process? G4 bilevel TIFF @ 600 dpi from the
looks of your example, but how do you scan the colour pages? 600dpi to
PNG?
but our past and present) by
having documents that are born digital.
That just leaves a few hundred years of printed matter to deal with.
Luckily noteshrink seems to do a good job.
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it a bit more as it looks
good. Thanks
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Thanks, I'll look into tumble.
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the scanner now at 600dpi PNG so I'll soon know
how that compares to JPG or B&W.
Thanks
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by non-jaggy scans).
So the final outputs will be:
manual.pdf - the whole manual, including whole pages scanned as colour
if any colour is present on them
manual_BW.pdf - the G4-encoded bilevel pages that were replaced by
colour pages
Thanks
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safety requirements) and the CRT
had to be the one for the 'wrong' hemisphere as a result.
DEC too had different part numbers for various monitors for different
hemispheres.
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he second version of DIGITAL's 16-bit UNIX
product. The first version was V7M-11 V1.0 software."
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erience of working on these PSUs?
Any pointers for common failure modes would be helpful.
Thanks
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nough to run more often!
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the back (but obviously Adrian has found that
... or he's pushed really, really hard into either the keyboard
connector or the phone connector :-))
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x27;t have to worry about the H8571-? being the correct "-?" for your
config (ISTR that there are a number of variants, each subtly different).
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http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-vax/2021/07/03/msg003903.html
WOW,very impressive!
Indeed. If only someone could get him a copy of DEC's AXE suite so he
can test it properly. Anyone have that available?
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some coursework). I would never have guessed that the tube got
changed as part of the process, but it looks like you probably bought
the modified VT100 from Digital Engineering rather than installing a kit
yourself.
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On 21/06/2021 17:10, Antonio Carlini wrote:
On 21/06/2021 15:39, Paul Koning wrote:
You're thinking of the VT200, which came in three colors, although at
DEC fortunately they never inflicted green on us :-). But all the
earlier DEC video terminals (VT05, VT50/52/61t/62, VT20, VT71)
phosphor and my VT420
is amber ... I like both.
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ing green, I think I remember seeing amber
and I believe that white was an available option.
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up. I couldn't remember whether
you could hot-swap mice or keyboards (I *think* you could, but I wasn't
*sure*) so I tested the slow way, with reboots and power-cycles (and a
long gap to give the VS4000-60 a breather in between!)
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and archive.org
won't serve it up (I did find the site owner's account of his battle
with archive.org to sto pserving copies of his stuff ... ironically on
another archive site!)
[1] The RSX FAQ, in case anyone else was more diligent than I was!
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1957 to he Present" book
(http://gordonbell.azurewebsites.net/digital/dec%201957%20to%20present%201978.pdf)
confirms the FY in which RSTS-11 shipped but not the version number.
The earliest manuals online seem to be the V4.x ones available on bitsavers.
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be helpful.
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the
box: the innards are the same. (So same as the 3500/3600 and 3800/3900
and the uV3100-30/40 etc.).
Both the uV3300 and the uV3400 use the KA640 board.
If you plug KA640 into manx you'll find two useful manuals online.
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I
needed loop.
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der groups 24, block size 8192, fragment size 1024,
minimum percentage of free blocks 0, rotational delay 0ms, disk
rotational speed 60rps, SPACE optimization
I also have a few OSF/1 CDROMs, which I assume are also the same format.
Any ideas? I can't be the first person to try to do this ...
ch-as-xxdp-on-rqdx3#post1209697
The OpenVMS driver is FYDRIVER. I can look for the listings if nobody
finds any better docs. Those listings might be
censored/incomplete/missing so I wouldn't hold out too much hope.
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They (I think) even work in the early Alpha workstations (the DEC 3000
stuff); I don't think DEC switched to PS/2 mice until the AlphaStation
name came out.
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On early
version of VMS, this can usually be fixed using Joe Meadows' "FILE" utility.)
In this case any corruption will be down to over-enthusiastic handling
20+ years ago.
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https://web.archive.org/web/20170824234825/http://h41379.www4.hpe.com/openvms/os/openvms-release-history.txt
(and also
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/vax/vms/openvms-release-history.txt).
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4 OS CD on VaxHaven at
http://vaxhaven.com/cd-image/AG-PXL1A-RE.iso.zip.
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an accurate list of contents?
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right now, I have to say
IBM (It's Better Manually) :-)
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tuff I've recovered so far has at most 4096 missing bytes
I think, which is 8 blocks at most. So the odds that you'd hit something
bad are quite small.
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% and just gone straight to the 1500 grit sandpaper, then I could have
saved my DVD-RW a few days of work.
I've just catalogued the VAX CONDIST/CONOLD sets I have and it comes in
at 14 or so. I'm hoping that someone tells me that they're already
archived before I start on thos
some more entries to. You can download it here:
http://www.9track.net/bits/dec/vms/spl.db.bz2
Thanks.
You can see the entries I've added with
SELECT * FROM spl WHERE rowid > 41236;
Now I just need to read up on SQLite :)
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,AG-PASMS-RE,AG-PCXXM-RE,AG-PFXCJ-RE,AG-PJ4YD-RE,AG-PNTPA-RE
%DFARS Y
I already have 1989-05/07/11, 1992-03/05/07/09/11, 1994-11, 1995-01,
1996-03/06/09/12, 1997-03/06/09/12 and 1998-03, so anything else (or
anything from any Alpha CONDIST release) would be cool.
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needs it :-)
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k I
won't be any worse off than I am now, i.e. all existing data will still
be there and all I'll be risking is data that maybe would have
eventually read before but now may not read at all. Is that right?
Successful reads are now ~20m apart, so I suspect that the remaining
da
eed the space on the google drive just yet, but I will have to
remove some images if I start to image a lot more (and I do seem to have
a fair few more).
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