Here is detailed pics of the SGI origin 2000. Its in my shop tonight
hoping we can identify whats here.
Image heavy
https://imgur.com/a/mdlCW
Also these 19 racks came with it and it looks like some old cluster stuff
in them
https://imgur.com/a/feoEq
On Fri, Feb 9, 2018 at 3:24 PM, Paul Hardy wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I have an old PDP-11 RL02...
>
Thank you for the kind responses to my request for help reading an RL02.
I am planning to meet someone who is within a day's drive of where I live.
I feel safer hand-delivering the disk pack than m
On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 01:10:27AM +, PhreakShow Telephone Company via
cctalk wrote:
> Here is detailed pics of the SGI origin 2000. Its in my shop tonight
>
> hoping we can identify whats here.
Some of it at least, not everything is possible to see from looking at
the hardware.
>
> Imag
I know of 3 desk side DS's, one was fully operational before going into
storage, all ran when I got them.
boxes of new Tru64 still shrink wrapped, and a binder full of keys for > 20
Alpha's
-pete
On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 9:25 PM, Benjamin Huntsman via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> Pla
Lucky snatch, especially the Tru64 boxes (envy)
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A: Benjamin Huntsman; General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Oggetto: Re: AlphaSer
>
> How many more years do you think it'll take before decent, practical-sized
> Alphas, like the DS15, and to some degree, the DS10, will be obtainable at
> hobbyist-friendly prices?
>
A former colleague of mine has a DS10L. I don't like these very much. It
makes the wrong kind of noise, a loud
An interesting discussion, especially considering the stuff usually
spoken in comp.os.vms regardiong the viability of X86 boxes.
I have had 3 Alphas. Two of the office refrigerator sized boxes
and one of the PC Tower sized boxes. All three have died. In
the meantime I have X86 based boxes that
Several people have now mentioned they have dead Alphas. What is generally
failing about them?
Kyle
In my cases all three just one day became inoperative.
I have heard of power supply failures, but none of mine had that.
The first two had redundant PSU's and the third had a standard PC type PSU
and the disks and CD's worked even after the motherboard became dead
enough to not even do the POST
>
> Several people have now mentioned they have dead Alphas. What is generally
> failing about them?
>
The B-Cache on the CPU card on every Alphaserver 1000A I have laid eyes on has
failed at some point. It can be disabled with a jumper but this makes the
machine a lot slower for some tasks. I h
> On Mar 13, 2018, at 7:44 AM, Kyle Owen via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> Several people have now mentioned they have dead Alphas. What is generally
> failing about them?
>
> Kyle
When my 1000 started failing, the manual lead me to believe it was b-cache, but
the jumper map wound up to be wrong, it w
On 13 March 2018 at 05:25, Benjamin Huntsman via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Anyone out there do Alphas anymore?
I never got my hands on one, although there was a time when I coveted one.
(Now as I am -- well, not homeless, but I don't have a house any more,
or indeed an apartment of my own -- I am confin
The Quest for a Universal Translator for Old, Obsolete Computer Files
To save bygone software, files, and more, researchers are working to
emulate decades-old technology in the cloud.
by Jessica Leigh Hester
March 08, 2018
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-to-open-old-computer-files
___
So, B-Cache is a common failure; any idea what specifically is failing
about it?
I've got a 1000A, but its been years since I've tried booting it. It was
successfully booting when I last tried it, however. I think I've got Tru64
installation media somewhere around here, too...
Kyle
On Mar 13, 2018, at 12:26 PM, Liam Proven via cctalk
wrote:
> On 13 March 2018 at 05:25, Benjamin Huntsman via cctalk
> wrote:
>>
>> Anyone out there do Alphas anymore?
>
> I never got my hands on one, although there was a time when I coveted one.
>
> (Now as I am -- well, not homeless, but
If anyone is in or near Portland Oregon and interested, they are available.
There are also at least 2 x 14 drive SCSI arrays, cables, etc.
At one time I was offered a 5 rack fully redundant Alpha setup based on 3
40's or 45's Two servers were running with one is hot standby, the 3rd was
a cold st
>
> When my 1000 started failing, the manual lead me to believe it was b-cache,
> but the jumper map wound up to be wrong,
>
There are a number of variants and the manuals are extremely unclear.
>
> it was actually failed RAM.
>
I forgot. I had that too. The firmware is supposed to specify whi
I seem to remember issues with Alpha's even when new. I was asked to help out
somewhere running VMS on Alpha and we had a couple of failures on the CPUs over
the few months I was there...
.. contrast this with working on IBM xServers and we had over 100 servers and
only ever had failures on real
On Tue, 13 Mar 2018 cctalk-requ...@classiccmp.org wrote:
> Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 04:25:26 +
> From: Benjamin Huntsman
> Subject: AlphaServers
> Message-ID:
>
>
>
> Anyone out there do Alphas anymore?
I'll pile on with my $0.212 (two cents plus tax).
I started with a VAXStation 4000
> On Mar 13, 2018, at 5:44 AM, Kyle Owen via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> Several people have now mentioned they have dead Alphas. What is generally
> failing about them?
>
> Kyle
My DEC AlphaStation PWS 433au lost a PCI slot, after I used it for a few years.
I ran it like that for several years unt
On 03/13/2018 02:52 PM, Fred via cctalk wrote:
I'm always hunting for more! (an iSeries, perhaps a Multiprise 3000,
etc ...
If power / cooling / noise wasn't an issue, I'd also be interested in an
Multiprise 3000.
But, I'm happily married and I would like to keep it that way.
--
Grant. .
On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 12:25 AM, Benjamin Huntsman via cctalk
wrote:
> Anyone out there do Alphas anymore?
I did a bit of work on Alphas from 1997-2003 but at home I have...
DEC 4000 AXP - works fine, haven't powered it on in a while. I have
to unplug my VAX 8300 to plug the DEC 4000 in - I on
On Tue, 13 Mar 2018, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote:
Really on the VAX side, emulation makes sense. For $75, I picked up a
HP i5 system that’s dedicated to running SIMH 24x7, and I also have SIMH
running on my HP i7 ESXI system, and on a RPi2. The i7 is my fastest
“VAX”.
Zane, what's the hos
On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 4:36 PM, Ethan Dicks via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 12:25 AM, Benjamin Huntsman via cctalk
> wrote:
> > Anyone out there do Alphas anymore?
>
>
I am working through some new to me VAX/Alphas/QBUS parts from the other
weekend.
http://vi
>> I am not at liberty to post the document.
>
>This?
...
>Also:
...
>If so, it might be this:
...
There's a difference between "I am not at liberty..." and "what anyone
can google...".
On Tue, 13 Mar 2018, Ken Seefried via cctalk wrote:
I am not at liberty to post the document.
This?
...
Also:
...
If so, it might be this:
...
There's a difference between "I am not at liberty..." and "what anyone
can google...".
There do exist situations where somebody is NOT at liberty
So for the most part, no hobbyists are running DS15’s? I’m sort of surprised
that there’s that many still in critical production roles. Where’s all the VAR
guys trying to help people migrate? Haha.
Sent from my iPhone
> On Mar 13, 2018, at 2:09 PM, Bill Degnan via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> On T
On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 4:36 PM, Ethan Dicks wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 12:25 AM, Benjamin Huntsman via cctalk
> wrote:
>> Anyone out there do Alphas anymore?
>
> I did a bit of work on Alphas from 1997-2003 but at home I have...
>
> DEC 4000 AXP - works fine, haven't powered it on in a whi
> DEC PC-form-factor motherboard. I can't remember the model number,
> but this fits in a standard PC tower case. Made to run WinNT or UNIX.
Probably one of the 164LXes or similar. I have a 164LX here running Tru64
and OpenGenera.
--
personal: http://www.ca
On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 6:40 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Mar 2018, Ken Seefried via cctalk wrote:
I am not at liberty to post the document.
>>>
>>> This?
>>
>> ...
>>>
>>> Also:
>>
>> ...
>>>
>>> If so, it might be this:
>>
>> ...
>> There's a difference between "I am not at liber
> On Mar 13, 2018, at 4:22 PM, Benjamin Huntsman via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> So for the most part, no hobbyists are running DS15’s? I’m sort of surprised
> that there’s that many still in critical production roles. Where’s all the
> VAR guys trying to help people migrate? Haha.
A better questio
There are two gzip'ed files up now of analog digitized 9 track data under
http://bitsavers.org/projects/9track containing two files of 16 bit incrementing
data patterns blocked 512 bytes/blk and the tach signal from a Qualstar 1260
running
at 50 ips.
The data can be viewed using Salea's Logic app
ken said
>>> I am not at liberty to post the document.
>>
>>This?
> ...
>>Also:
> ...
>>If so, it might be this:
> ...
>
> There's a difference between "I am not at liberty..." and "what anyone
> can google...".
The Wayback Machine has it on archive.org
https://web.archive.org/web/20150608173633/h
On 03/13/2018 08:33 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
> There are two gzip'ed files up now of analog digitized 9 track data under
> http://bitsavers.org/projects/9track containing two files of 16 bit
> incrementing
> data patterns blocked 512 bytes/blk and the tach signal from a Qualstar 1260
> run
During my browsing, I've run across mention of the Emerson "Tape Pac"
2000 series, a half-inch cartridge tape system targeted at
minicomputers, and it seems, the PDP-11.
Here's a mention in IEEE Computer, about the new products at the 1976 NCC:
https://www.computer.org/csdl/mags/co/1976/06/016473
comp for 1 - 7/8 IPS like to get all tracks digitized
https://photos.app.goo.gl/IMcgjxugzKMuIvKv2
will put on open file server then sell the tape
-pete
On 03/13/2018 09:39 PM, Pete Lancashire via cctalk wrote:
> comp for 1 - 7/8 IPS like to get all tracks digitized
>
> https://photos.app.goo.gl/IMcgjxugzKMuIvKv2
>
> will put on open file server then sell the tape
>
So, someone with an old Ampex PR-500 deck? I saw one for sale on eBay
a few y
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