I still have a bunch of vintage computer parts I'd like to find homes
for.
If you are interested either in components for a DEC VAX or in a PDP
11/34 embedded system complete with card cage, please visit my website
for details and contact information.
http://www.hpfriedrichs.com/hpfparts/hpf
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> From: Liam Proven
> Apologies if this is old news...
Is this Manuals Plus? They said at the start of the year that they were going
to close, and I bought a whole bunch of stuff, but then things seemed to go
quiet.
Noel
I was twittering Jason about it yesterday.
Bill Degnan
twitter: billdeg
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On Aug 15, 2015 7:03 AM, "Liam Proven" wrote:
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> Apologies if this is old news...
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On 10 August 2015 at 22:39, Eric Christopherson
wrote:
> He corrects that in the video itself :)
Indeed so. Just watched it through for a second time, actually. Great
fun and I too am jealous. :-D
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Al,
I shared the images with J. David Bryan. One of the tapes
had a bad spot on it so, there was one file that was
unrecoverable. I think he was able to recreate a complete
FOS tape. My images are on a system that is currently in
storage so, it is not too easy for me to get my hands on
them. I al
On 8/15/15 5:56 AM, Steve Robertson wrote:
Al,
I shared the images with J. David Bryan. One of the tapes
had a bad spot on it so, there was one file that was
unrecoverable.
Ah, good. I was hoping he got copies of them.
Mike,
I have a complete micro/37 that I'd be willing to part with. It
was last booted about 2 years ago when another list member was
trying to his a system running.
Is is mounted in one of the short / narrow HP racks with 3x670H
HPIB drives. I think the total disk size is about 1 Gb. That
seems
On 8/15/15 5:35 AM, Steve Robertson wrote:
Mike,
I have the original 9-track system
tapes (FOS), some spare NOS tapes
have you imaged all of these tapes?
This is Manuals Plus. I've been in conversation with them for a lot of the
year, talking about the where and when for the final closedown. This is the
final closedown, and they're going to start throwing the inventory out
Monday. The project I'm doing is to go onsite on Monday and Tuesday and
take
This looks like fun..
http://mightyframe.blogspot.com/2015/08/qic-24-tape-data-block-format-decoding.html
On 8/14/2015 11:56 PM, tony duell wrote:
>
>> There is no play in the spindle at all. Certainly not 1/2 track worth.
>> Can't wiggle it at all, no visible wobble, etc.
>
> Not necessarily play. Anyway, half a track width is just over 10 thou
> and I am not sure I could notice that amount of run
Certainly this thing is old enough. But I don't see how it would ever
work if that were the case.
When the media is on center, it works flawlessly, including interchange
with another drive.
One thing I am going to try today is to manually center the media with
the AC power disconnected (not spin
Hello Paul,
I sent you an email, not sure if you received it, maybe antispam?
Thanks
Andrea
no, just a lot of emails, and a list member is coming Monday with a 24 or
28 foot truck he wants to fill.
On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 10:55 AM, shad wrote:
> Hello Paul,
> I sent you an email, not sure if you received it, maybe antispam?
> Thanks
> Andrea
>
I have a number of laboratory instruments that are from the 1990 time
frame. They produce digital data that is the digitized signal from a
detector, the data can be from 512 to 65K samples long. The ADC used in
these instruments is a 16bit 100ksample/sec design. The ADC is in a 3
by 4 inch m
I have a number of laboratory instruments that are from the 1990 time
frame. They produce digital data that is the digitized signal from a
detector, the data can be from 512 to 65K samples long. The ADC used in
these instruments is a 16bit 100ksample/sec design. The ADC is in a 3
by 4 inch m
> Except that when the media is aligned to the spindle correctly, the
> drive performs flawlessly, including exchange with another drive. If
> the spindle itself were wobbling so much as to cause the other symptoms,
> I don't see how it could ever work right.
> On these drives, the centering co
I went and stared at some of my 8" drives for a bit this morning.
It occurs to me that if your top guide frame is laterally "warped", the
centering of the hub clamp assembly won't work.
If you've got a wiggler gauge handy, you may want to see what the
deviation is when the hub clamp mates wit
On 8/14/2015 11:56 PM, tony duell wrote:
>
>> There is no play in the spindle at all. Certainly not 1/2 track worth.
>> Can't wiggle it at all, no visible wobble, etc.
>
> Not necessarily play. Anyway, half a track width is just over 10 thou
> and I am not sure I could notice that amount of ru
On 8/15/2015 11:51 AM, tony duell wrote:
>
> In every 8" (and 5.25") drive that I've seen the spindle (the bit driven,
> maybe
> indirectly, by the motor) has a female cone on the end. There is then the
> clamping
> cone, often plastic which fits into it through the hole in the disk.
Not so on
>
> Not so on these drives. On the Shugart SA-800 series, the spindle
> (driven by a belt from a motor) has a MALE cone on the end, and the
> clamp, from above goes around it (female if you like).
How does that work? The disk media must fit around that male cone. Is the
complete disk carried by
On 8/15/2015 11:59 AM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
> I went and stared at some of my 8" drives for a bit this morning.
>
> It occurs to me that if your top guide frame is laterally "warped", the
> centering of the hub clamp assembly won't work.
Agreed. But the darn thing is cast, with lots of fillets fo
> Not so on these drives. On the Shugart SA-800 series, the spindle
> (driven by a belt from a motor) has a MALE cone on the end, and the
> clamp, from above goes around it (female if you like).
I have just pulled the case on one of my HP9885s, which uses an SA801
chassis and HP electronics. Th
On 8/15/2015 12:32 PM, tony duell wrote:
>>
>> Not so on these drives. On the Shugart SA-800 series, the spindle
>> (driven by a belt from a motor) has a MALE cone on the end, and the
>> clamp, from above goes around it (female if you like).
>
> How does that work? The disk media must fit around
On 8/15/2015 1:35 PM, tony duell wrote:
>
>> Not so on these drives. On the Shugart SA-800 series, the spindle
>> (driven by a belt from a motor) has a MALE cone on the end, and the
>> clamp, from above goes around it (female if you like).
>
> I have just pulled the case on one of my HP9885s, w
> Certainly one of my thoughts along the way. But, the spindle cone does
> not rock or anything like that. And, I switched the clamping part out
> with another drive - neither was affected by the swap.
It strikes me that there are 3 main subassemblies associated with clamping the
disk :
The c
I have the following items that I want to get rid of. All are quantity one,
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Mike - this would be a good complete system for you Mike and good
it has tapes.
that may have the little cartridge drive in it too but beware the
cartridge drives they seem to all have gummy capstans... I ruined a
fos tape put it in... got error... pulled it out
On 8/15/2015 1:55 PM, tony duell wrote:
>
>> Certainly one of my thoughts along the way. But, the spindle cone does
>> not rock or anything like that. And, I switched the clamping part out
>> with another drive - neither was affected by the swap.
>
> It strikes me that there are 3 main subasse
Hi, does anyone know anything about the configuration of these boards?
(The document on BitSavers only covers the Q4B; the jumper configuration
on the Q4E is totally different.) They are 4MB quad QBUS memory cards;
PMI capable, I'm pretty sure.
I have two of them, one of which came out of an 11/84
On 08/14/2015 02:58 PM, Jay Jaeger wrote:
The way most of the old 8" floppies work is they have a cylinder with an
ID that matches the ID of the floppy hole. The floppy sits against the
face of the cylinder, and a plastic, springy cone is pressed into the
cylinder by a bearing and spring on
On 8/15/2015 8:31 PM, Jon Elson wrote:
>
> On 08/14/2015 02:58 PM, Jay Jaeger wrote:
No, I didn't write any of what was quoted. ;) If one is going to remove
the entire message quoted, then it probably makes sense to delete the
"wrote" line as well. ;)
>
> The way most of the old 8" floppies wo
On 8/15/2015 3:13 PM, Jay Jaeger wrote:
>
> To make matters worse, that test with the first SA 801 managed to smoke
> the 24V power supply on this system, so now I have to pull it all apart,
> and pull out the regulator transistor which is mounted from the reverse
> side through to the board and
On 08/15/2015 08:55 PM, Jay Jaeger wrote:
On 8/15/2015 8:31 PM, Jon Elson wrote:
On 08/14/2015 02:58 PM, Jay Jaeger wrote:
No, I didn't write any of what was quoted. ;) If one is going to remove
the entire message quoted, then it probably makes sense to delete the
"wrote" line as well. ;)
Sorry about the error in which side has the cone and which side
has the cylinder. I don't have a 800 here in front of me
to look at.
It still doesn't make any difference if the moving arm is a little
off. The piece that is mounted on the arm is designed to float
on the spring. It is still the spind
On 08/15/2015 09:49 PM, dwight wrote:
Sorry about the error in which side has the cone and which side has
the cylinder. I don't have a 800 here in front of me to look at. It
still doesn't make any difference if the moving arm is a little off.
The piece that is mounted on the arm is designed to fl
In July 2014 I mentioned that I did some reverse-engineering of a Quay
900 computer system, based on the Quay 90F/MPS single-board Z80
computer and two CDC/MPI 9406 double-sided 8-inch floppy drives. Back
then I wrote a simple monitor ROM and a floppy disk formatter program,
but at the time I didn
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