> Anyone out there do Alphas anymore?
I'm lucky enough to be in a position where they drop out of the woodwork
into my lap, the biggest being a DS25 running Tru64 and the smallest being
the Multia NT Workstation. Ones in use fairly regularly are a DS10 along
with my VAX 3100/90 from an old workpla
Hi Folks.
It's time for the Commodore collectors to get their turn. I've created a
separate thread for Commodore and related items for sale from my
collection. I will be continuing to add Commodore stuff to this thread as
I come across it.
The list is here:
http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthrea
On 14 March 2018 at 11:06, Adrian Graham via cctalk
wrote:
>
> I'm in the process of giving
> some of them away though because they take up too much room.
The OpenBSD project are, or were, looking for donations of high-end
VAXstations. I offered them a VAXstation 4000/60 (Red Hat offered to
spons
On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 10:55:18AM +, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
But if anyone is willing to donate a /90 or similar, he might be
interested.
I'm guessing the lack of interest from Theo may have been because the VAX
port was dropped after OpenBSD 5.9[1]. Was rather sad when that happene
On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 12:44:15PM +, Kyle Owen via cctalk wrote:
Several people have now mentioned they have dead Alphas. What is generally
failing about them?
A number of years ago I had an AlphaServer 2100 running Tru64 that just
died. It worked fine one day and the next day started dis
I am looking into getting a VMS
Machines up and running and or
Open/netbsd you mentioned you had a few to donate or sale thanks.
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> On 14 Mar 2018, at 11:55, Liam Proven via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> On 14 March 2018 at 11:06, Adrian Graham via cctalk
> wrote:
>>
>> I'm in th
On 14 March 2018 at 12:54, Michael-John Turner wrote:
>
> I'm guessing the lack of interest from Theo may have been because the VAX
> port was dropped after OpenBSD 5.9[1]. Was rather sad when that happened as
> NetBSD's VAX support isn't in a great state these days.
>
> [1] https://www.openbsd.or
On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 12:02:24PM +, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
Cause/effect error. I offered my 4000/60 to him when I was leaving the
country in 2014. After some weeks of consideration, during which time
I packed it up and got it delivered to Red Hat in Farnborough, he
decided he didn't
On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 10:40 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> 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 th
On 2018-03-14 6:55 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
> On 14 March 2018 at 11:06, Adrian Graham via cctalk
> wrote:
>>
>> I'm in the process of giving
>> some of them away though because they take up too much room.
>
> The OpenBSD project are, or were, looking for donations of high-end
> VAXstati
> On Mar 14, 2018, at 4:10 AM, ftg888--- via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> I am looking into getting a VMS
> Machines up and running and or
> Open/netbsd you mentioned you had a few to donate or sale thanks.
If you haven’t, take a look at SIMH/VAX. I’m migrating much of my home VMS
activity over. I
On Wed, 14 Mar 2018, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote:
storage into my Cluster. Long-term I’m looking to drastically cut my
power needs by taking physical systems offline, except when needed.
A billion times this. :) I turned four physical machines (x86 servers)
into 8 virtual machines on a si
On 3/13/18 9:14 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
> Al, did you see this patent by Kennedy:
>
> https://patents.google.com/patent/US3947876
>
> --Chuck
>
No, I hadn't. Interesting it doesn't seem to match the circuit in any of the
manuals
I've scanned.
I've also been scanning some boxes of
so do the 3 macines go in the scrap pile ?
https://photos.app.goo.gl/fx4Dw6RrQgVJBXWo1
On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 6:54 AM, Toby Thain via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> On 2018-03-14 6:55 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
> > On 14 March 2018 at 11:06, Adrian Graham via cctalk
> > w
Benjamin Huntsman via cctalk wrote:
> Place your wagers...
>
>
> 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?
>
>
> I have an ES47 I got for a price I could
I hope the answer is "no" :S
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so do the 3 m
What models are these? You said they’re in Oregon?
Zane
> On Mar 14, 2018, at 9:14 AM, Pete Lancashire via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> so do the 3 macines go in the scrap pile ?
>
> https://photos.app.goo.gl/fx4Dw6RrQgVJBXWo1
The are in Oregon about 25 miles west of Portland. I don't remember the
model numbers. It maybe some time before I can get to them,
but they to go, where they are being stored needs to be emptied of
anything of value by early July. What is left will go to recycle or
metal scrap. I am looking for
>Maybe someone on CC can ID them
Looks like an 800, DS20 and either a 1200 or early DS20 which was built into a
1200 case.
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> On 14 Mar 2018, at 17:27, Pete Lancashire via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> Maybe someone on CC can ID them
> On Mar 13, 2018, at 1:54 PM, geneb via cctalk wrote:
>
> 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 syst
On Wed, 14 Mar 2018, Zane Healy 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 host OS that
> Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 14:28:11 -0600
> From: Grant Taylor
> Subject: Re: cctalk Digest, Vol 42, Issue 13
> Message-ID:
> <6a172546-d8f1-13b9-f843-8fdba5799...@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net>
>
> If power / cooling / noise wasn't an issue, I'd also be interested in an
> Multiprise 3000.
> B
> On Mar 14, 2018, at 2:03 PM, Fred via cctalk wrote:
>
>
>> Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 14:28:11 -0600
>> From: Grant Taylor
>> Subject: Re: cctalk Digest, Vol 42, Issue 13
>> Message-ID:
>> <6a172546-d8f1-13b9-f843-8fdba5799...@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net>
>>
>> If power / cooling / noise
> On Mar 14, 2018, at 12:40 PM, geneb via cctalk wrote:
>
> On Wed, 14 Mar 2018, Zane Healy wrote:
>
>> I’m currently using Ubuntu (I’ve run SIMH a lot of different UNIX & Linux
>> flavors over the years).
>>
>> With the ESXI and RPi systems, I’m using the version of SIMH/VAX that Ubuntu
>>
On Wed, 14 Mar 2018, Zane Healy wrote:
I’ve been using the HP SFF systems. I think the i5 I got specifically
to run SIMH is a 6300. It’s an i5-3470 3.2Ghz system with 4 GB RAM. I
had to add a hard drive, but had an old 500GB drive laying around.
That’s plenty big to backup and migrate the d
I have a couple of carts I'd like to read, found a drive today, talks SCSI but
not common command set.
It seems to act more like a disk than a tape (read block makes the tape move),
but mode sense doesn't
return anything sensible.
The only thing I've ever been able to turn up on these drives is
oh, and obviously, the Fujitsu carts, which sort of look like DLTs, can only be
read in this drive.
On 3/14/18 4:08 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
> I have a couple of carts I'd like to read, found a drive today, talks SCSI
> but not common command set.
> It seems to act more like a disk than
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