On Tue, 22 Mar 2016 13:45:38 +0100, John H. Reinhardt
wrote:
Anyone can also get a free membership at Encompasserve by ssh to
eisner.decus.org and creating an account.
Good to know -- many thanks, Peter! Most of the ones I tried were long
defunct.
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On Tue, 22 Mar 2016 12:29:18 +0100, Peter Coghlan
wrote:
You also need to be a member of a user group such as DECUS
or Interex or whatever it is called this week. Some of these have
membership
fees but as far as I know, there is at least one international group that
anyone can join for f
On 12/03/2016, at 12:54 PM, Marco Gariboldi wrote:
> 2016-03-12 0:06 GMT+01:00 Roland Schregle :
>
>>
>> Have the Tessar on a 3.5B (aka MX-EVS). Excellent expect when wide open as
>> mentioned here, though I wouldn't call it entry level. I think Zeiss made
>
Hi James,
FWIW, I have slightly more recent Sun 4/330 (SparcServer 330) in my basement in
Germany looking for a new home. Not familiar with the 260 and how they differ
tho.
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On 12/03/2016, at 9:56 AM, James Vess wrote:
> Howdy there folks,
>
> I've been k
On 11/03/2016, at 8:01 AM, Zane Healy wrote:
>
>> On Mar 10, 2016, at 10:05 PM, couryho...@aol.com wrote:
>>
>> I wonder if the tele tessar was a true tessar design or just a use
>> of 'the name' ? I have seen snipits in google referring to it being a
>> true
>> telephoto... with
On Thu, 10 Mar 2016 14:23:34 +0100, Peter Coghlan
wrote:
FWIW, here's a thermography (hope the link works) of the B-cache
section of the KA-675 after being powered up for ca. 30 mins:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/2nsx1dfngp1jfq5/TH710065.BMP?dl=0
Note that the rightmost chip just below th
On Thu, 10 Mar 2016 00:09:02 +0100, Peter Coghlan
wrote:
I have two KA-675s for this beast: Board #1 (originally installed) has
a failed B-cache (console reports SUBTEST_35_12,
DE_B_Cache_diag_mode.LIS) and crashes with an asynchronous write memory
failure when booting VMS from CD.
On Wed, 09 Mar 2016 21:59:27 +0100, Robert Jarratt
wrote:
I think one day I will have to equip myself and learn how to desolder
and resolder surface mount chips. I don't know how many chips implement
the B-CACHE, but perhaps you could replace all of them, assuming you
know which ones th
On Wed, 09 Mar 2016 23:22:04 +0100, Dennis Boone wrote:
The RF72 disk is a 1GB DSSI drive, and I think it's supported by the
base /400 machine. Once you have a working CPU, you can actually do
some testing on this disk drive with just the VAX console firmware,
because it's intelligent, and you
On Wed, 09 Mar 2016 23:20:16 +0100, Glen Slick
wrote:
On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 12:59 PM, Robert Jarratt
wrote:
I don't have a 3200, nor can I find a manual, but since it looks to be
more modern than a 2000, and apparently supports an RD54, then I would
have thought the console firmware c
On Wed, 09 Mar 2016 20:29:56 +0100, Robert Jarratt
wrote:
You could run the 3200 by netbooting it from a SIMH instance of VMS. If
the RD54 was formatted (and working!) then you could transfer VMS onto
the disk from the boot node.
G'day Rob, thanks for the quick reply.
I've contemplated
Dear all,
I have two VAXen that I'd like to resurrect simply for the sake of playing
around with The Real Thing[tm] running VMS. Note that I'm completely new
to VMS and DEC hardware -- hence the interest!
Box #1 is a VAX4000 model 400 with no working CPU (KA-675) and 2x 32Mb
RAM, an RF72
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