Re: PDP-11/45 RSTS/E boot problem

2019-02-14 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Jerry Weiss > I am trying to understand how the diagnostics didn't reveal this defect. Vondada #12: "Diagnostics are highly efficient in finding solved problems." :-) Noel

IBM terminals with keyboards, 3174 controllers, 4700 controllers

2019-02-14 Thread Electronics Plus via cctalk
Previously I have posted some vendors who have old hardware they are willing to sell. Earlier this week I was in San Antonio, and I stopped by an old friend to say hello. He has several 3174 controllers, and every imaginable add-on available for them. Pallets of them! Also IBM 4700 banking contr

Re: IBM terminals with keyboards, 3174 controllers, 4700 controllers

2019-02-14 Thread William Donzelli via cctalk
Any pics available? -- Will On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 12:20 PM Electronics Plus via cctalk wrote: > > Previously I have posted some vendors who have old hardware they are willing > to sell. > > Earlier this week I was in San Antonio, and I stopped by an old friend to > say hello. > > He has severa

RE: IBM terminals with keyboards, 3174 controllers, 4700 controllers

2019-02-14 Thread Electronics Plus via cctalk
I have asked him for pics. Cindy -Original Message- From: William Donzelli [mailto:wdonze...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2019 11:23 AM To: Electronics Plus; General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: IBM terminals with keyboards, 3174 controllers, 4700 cont

Re: Intel PC-BUBBLE Card documentation?

2019-02-14 Thread Eric Smith via cctalk
On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 5:39 PM Chris Hanson via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > Does anyone have documentation stashed away for the Intel PC-BUBBLE Card? > The PC-BUBBLE is an 8-bit ISA card that Intel produced for prototyping > bubble memory applications in the mid-1980s, the ROM on min

RE: Another dealer going under

2019-02-14 Thread Ali via cctalk
Cindy, Did Leslie ever get you a list of stuff she has? Thanks. Ali > -Original Message- > From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of > Electronics Plus via cctalk > Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2019 9:25 AM > To: 'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts'

Re: IBM terminals with keyboards, 3174 controllers, 4700 controllers

2019-02-14 Thread Jim Stefanik via cctalk
Yeah, pics would be good.  I'd be interested in a channel attached 3174. From: William Donzelli via cctalk Sent: Thursday, 14 February 2019 11:22 To: Electronics Plus; General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: IBM terminals with keyboards, 31

Vendor turned into recycler

2019-02-14 Thread Electronics Plus via cctalk
Just outside Dallas is a very large warehouse. I have been there before, and have posted about it before. It has been acquired by a recycling company, sort of. The old man who owns the stuff thinks of the equip as his children. A week from Sat I will be going to the warehouse with 2 or 3 guys fr

RE: mainframes and other stuff

2019-02-14 Thread Electronics Plus via cctalk
This post is being brought back to life. A fellow in Utica, NY has some T5140s. He is getting a list together for me. Local pickup available, or he will ship. -Original Message- From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Alex McWhirter Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2

RE: mainframes and other stuff

2019-02-14 Thread Electronics Plus via cctalk
This post is being brought back to life. A fellow in Utica, NY has some T5140s. He is getting a list together for me. Local pickup available, or he will ship. Apparently the email for Alex is no longer viable. Getting emails from other dealers also, wanting to know if complete systems are wanted,

RE: mainframes and other stuff

2019-02-14 Thread Electronics Plus via cctalk
Memory Ten in California has Sun Fire T1000 Sun Fire T2000 Sun Fire T5240 V490 V245 and more. -Original Message- From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Alex McWhirter Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2014 3:37 PM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts S

RE: mainframes and other stuff

2019-02-14 Thread Electronics Plus via cctalk
David Beinstein / Sr. Account Executive Vibrant Technologies 6533 Flying Cloud Drive, Suite 1200, Eden Prairie, MN 55344 dbeinst...@vibrant.com | 952-653-1749 (O) | 203-913-6967 (C) SKYPE Vibrant DBeinsteinTRILLIAN VibrantDavid Old DEC and Sun servers and other thin

RE: mainframes and other stuff

2019-02-14 Thread Electronics Plus via cctalk
Fred Dikeman Data Instruments, Inc O 1-770-919-2400 Atlanta GA area. Old Sun, DEC, Dell, mostly all vintage stuff. No IBM stuff. Pallets of old Cisco comm. equip. -Original Message- From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Alex McWhirter Sent: Thursday, November 2

Sun T5440 servers, configured

2019-02-14 Thread Electronics Plus via cctalk
Hello Cindy. I did have some of the Sun T5440's in stock. I can cover at least 4 units that would be configured. The config and cost is listed below. Let me know if you need the config adjusted in any way. Thank you. (qty-4) T5440/4x1.4ghz/128gb/2x300gbhd/DVD: $525 each BEN WILLIAMS SUN

Sun stuff in Canada

2019-02-14 Thread Electronics Plus via cctalk
WTS sun T5220, USED, qty 10, CALL, We have a huge qty of sun available interested let me know sun equip available now: 1X STORAGETEK 3510 FC 1X x4100 m2 1X sparc t520 3 x enterprise 250 1X SUN SPARC 220r 2 X SUNFIRE V210 4 X ENTERPRISE T5120 1X ENTERPRISE M4000 1X SUNFIRE V4440 1X sunfire

Sun dealer in CA

2019-02-14 Thread Electronics Plus via cctalk
Ken Bush - IT Solutions Specialist Parallel Technology, LLC 23510 Telo Ave #7 Torrance, CA 90505 310-320-8477 x1 Trillian "kenbush4sun" Lots of old Sun gear, will configure as requested. Please contact him directly. Cindy Croxton Electronics Plus 1613 Water Street Kerrville, TX 7

Re: Intel PC-BUBBLE Card documentation?

2019-02-14 Thread Josh via cctalk
The empty 40-pin should be an Intel 7224 if the card is using 7114 bubble modules, and the 7220 if it's the 7110 bubble modules. For the card in question, I'm pretty sure it's the 7114 module. The IC is required as that's the bubble memory controller itself. On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 4:39 PM Chris

Re: PDP-11/45 RSTS/E boot problem

2019-02-14 Thread Alan Frisbie via cctalk
Ethan Dicks wrote: > I have had an RK11-C for a long time that I've never tried to > power up (I got an RKV11-D and used that on Qbus machines > instead). Wow, someone else with an RKV11-D! I thought I was the only person who had one. I modified mine (using the dead bug technique) to add 18-b

PDP-11/45 RSTS/E boot problem

2019-02-14 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Paul Koning > or a backup team of subsystem experts at the home office to call on. Actually, the actual hardware problem wasn't too hard for Fritz to find, I gather, once we knew exactly was failing (the RK11), and how (at 017, the XM incremented). It's not like it was a comes

Re: Intel PC-BUBBLE Card documentation?

2019-02-14 Thread Eric Smith via cctalk
On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 2:53 PM Josh via cctalk wrote: > The empty 40-pin should be an Intel 7224 if the card is using 7114 bubble > modules, and the 7220 if it's the 7110 bubble modules. > Although there is a datasheet for the 7224, I don't think it went into volume production. It looks like th

Re: PDP-11/45 RSTS/E boot problem

2019-02-14 Thread Fritz Mueller via cctalk
That's right -- I wasn't without an army, it was just a very small and quite dedicated army! :-) I think I'd have gone down many blind alleys without help and perspective provided by others here, and in particular a lot guidance provided by Noel over the past couple weeks in private corresponde

IBM 3174 C 6.4 Microcode Disks?

2019-02-14 Thread Kevin Monceaux via cctalk
Classic Computer Fans, I posted this to the IBM-Legacy-Hercules mailing list. I just realized it probably wouldn't hurt to post it here too. I'm finally in possession of a box that hopefully is capable or can be made capable of connecting a real terminal to Hercules. It's a 3174 11L. It was re

Re: PDP-11/45 RSTS/E boot problem

2019-02-14 Thread Jeffrey S. Worley via cctalk
I got a laugh out of this anecdote. Of course, folks heard me chuckle and I tried to share the joke but Way too geeky for public consumption. Back in 2000-ish, I was upgrading my DG MV4000/dc to 8mb so as to be able to run the snazzy AOS/VS II tapes I'd got along with the 9 track drive I hac

Re: IBM 3174 C 6.4 Microcode Disks?

2019-02-14 Thread Grant Taylor via cctalk
On 2/14/19 8:28 PM, Kevin Monceaux via cctalk wrote: I'm finally in possession of a box that hopefully is capable or can be made capable of connecting a real terminal to Hercules. It's a 3174 11L. It was retired last year where I work. I finally got the okay to save it from being sent to a sc

Re: PDP-11/45 RSTS/E boot problem

2019-02-14 Thread William Pechter via cctalk
> Message: 2 > Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2019 15:03:41 -0500 > From: Paul Koning > To: Jay Jaeger , "General Discussion: On-Topic and >     Off-Topic Posts" > Subject: Re: PDP-11/45 RSTS/E boot problem > Message-ID: > Content-Type: text/plain;    charset=us-ascii > > > > On Feb 13, 2019, at 1:20 PM, Jay

Re: IBM 3174 C 6.4 Microcode Disks?

2019-02-14 Thread Jim Stefanik via cctalk
Simon Systems should be able to get you the microcode diskettes. I think they charged me around $35 USD when I bought in Nov. 2017.  Send them an email and let them know what you need. https://simonsys.com/ On a side note, I may need to ping you off list...I've got an 11R and I'm curious if

Re: IBM 3174 C 6.4 Microcode Disks?

2019-02-14 Thread Kevin Monceaux via cctalk
Grant, On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 08:52:25PM -0700, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote: > Nice haul. I also acquired an RS/6000 7012-340, its 7208 8mm tape drive, and a couple of 9121 voice servers. It used to run DirectTalk/6000. > You mentioned telnet, which largely implies TCP/IP, which in combin

Re: IBM 3174 C 6.4 Microcode Disks?

2019-02-14 Thread Kevin Monceaux via cctalk
Jim, On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 10:23:30PM -0600, Jim Stefanik via cctalk wrote: > Simon Systems should be able to get you the microcode diskettes. I think > they charged me around $35 USD when I bought in Nov. 2017.  Send them an > email and let them know what you need. Thanks!! I'll check with t

Re: IBM 3174 C 6.4 Microcode Disks?

2019-02-14 Thread Jim Stefanik via cctalk
Kevin, No problem in the link. As for my system, I've got a z800 (a 2066-0A1 to be exact). It's got ESCON, so I've got an Optica converter box of which the model number escapes me; but it's the replacement/alternative to the IBM Pacer boxes. That allows bus and tag gear to connect up to ESCO

a timer for the PC - screen tme for the kids

2019-02-14 Thread Randy Dawson via cctalk
Before I develop this, I thought it may already exist, and the classiccmp mail list might be the place to ask. What we have, is the screen time problem with the kids. If we are not there hounding and policing them, they will be on for hours. All the medical community says, we need to limit the