Thanks David, and everyone else for helping me with getting these files
off. Starting on Friday I hooked up a serial cable and null modem to my
laptop PC, got getty running, and logged into this 7300 as install.
Escalated to root and went over to his directory. The big problem is the
system di
Hi, Warren. We've spoken a few times through the decades, but a have a
friend with a delightful relic of PC Unix history: the original 286 UNIX
port, well before SCO with Xenix.
Bela is in Mountain View, CA so he's on the wrong continent for you, but I
figured you might know of an appropriate home
On 7/18/20 7:37 PM, Marc Howard via cctech wrote:
> Hi,
> I live in the Bay Area. Maybe those of you with connections to CHM could
> see if we could read the tapes on the 1401. Or maybe one of you has a 7
> track driver in your junk file. All we really would need is the head and
> we could put
Hi,
I bumped into an old friend of mine today. We both talked about a pair of
machines we worked on that no longer exist as far as we cant tell. They
were both Adage machines and had the same base digital architecture. Their
names are Ambilog 200 and AGT-30. The Ambilog was the predecessor to
On 7/19/20 12:42 PM, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote:
Now I have a big crate with "Convergent technologies" sitting in my truck, I'll have to figure that one out next. Also more Perq manuals and
floppy disks.
Probably a miniframe or mightyframe, considering the 7300 is a Convergent
machine under
there was a 7970b hp tape drive that was 7 track drive at one tine I
had the fortune to get one that came from a 2000 system that wrote
telemetry from crash dummies and found a good customer for it. all
that aside... it would interface with an hp 2100 or 21mx
I have a MicroVAX 3100 which has a H7822 power supply. The power supply
and the machine itself mostly work (there is a problem with the SCSI
interfaces but that's another story) except that the two fans in the
power supply don't run. If left on for a long time, the machine gets
too hot and a ther
It did not seem to work and ping from the command line was not found. So
it might not be on there.
That said I picked up a bunch of manuals and one of them was on TCP for
the 7300 (red ATT manual). Maybe some floppy disks in there. I'll also
keep an eye out for loose 5.25 floppies if this is t
Let's see. Key floppies I have right now include:
System Software V 3.51 EIA RAM Combo board expansion disk
Tape backup Diagnostics
Tape backup system drivers
Tape backup 1.0
Telephone manager disk
Communications patch
Async Terminal Emulation disk
In the back of the owner's manual there are two
And one big binder (8.5*11) called Reference Manual which seems to have
all the theory of operation and whatnot.
C
On 7/20/2020 10:31 AM, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote:
Let's see. Key floppies I have right now include:
System Software V 3.51 EIA RAM Combo board expansion disk
Tape backup Diagno
On 07/20/2020 07:00 AM, Peter Coghlan via cctalk wrote:
I have a MicroVAX 3100 which has a H7822 power supply. The power supply
and the machine itself mostly work (there is a problem with the SCSI
interfaces but that's another story) except that the two fans in the
power supply don't run. If le
Bela Lubkin
We have a winner! Al Kossow does want it -- he didn't say whether for
Bitsavers or Computer History Museum...
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On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 4:11 AM Robert Lipe via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Hi, Warren. We've spo
In theory console can be set to anything but its usually 9600/8/n/1 as
I’m sure you’ve tried.
Oh yea, I see the diags at that speed but everything else is noise. Memory
is kind of hazy since it was 2008 era, but back then I had a Livingston
Portmaster PM-25 hooked to all the colo hosts and I s
Jon Elson wrote:
On 07/20/2020 07:00 AM, Peter Coghlan via cctalk wrote:
> I have a MicroVAX 3100 which has a H7822 power supply. The power supply
> and the machine itself mostly work (there is a problem with the SCSI
> interfaces but that's another story) except that the two fans in the
> power
> > Hi, Warren. We've spoken a few times through the decades, but a have a
> > friend with a delightful relic of PC Unix history: the original 286 UNIX
> > port, well before SCO with Xenix.
> > Bela is in Mountain View, CA so he's on the wrong continent for you, but I
> > figured you might know of
On 07/20/2020 10:55 AM, Peter Coghlan via cctalk wrote:
I was thinking about wiring them to 5V because it was only
marginally
overheating after running for a long time. However, I
started
poking around with the multimeter and discovered a low
resistance
across one of the connectors for the
On 7/20/20 9:43 AM, Cameron Kaiser via cctalk wrote:
Hi, Warren. We've spoken a few times through the decades, but a have a
friend with a delightful relic of PC Unix history: the original 286 UNIX
port, well before SCO with Xenix.
Bela is in Mountain View, CA so he's on the wrong continent for yo
Hi - I read on teraterm's forum or something like it that teraterm is not
really equipped to receive an inbound papertape reader dump into an ascii
file. What do those of you who have both windows and a tape reader use?
RealTerm? If so, what settings? I have been wresting with this for a
while..
On 07/20/2020 10:55 AM, Peter Coghlan via cctalk wrote:
>
> I was thinking about wiring them to 5V because it was only
> marginally
> overheating after running for a long time. However, I
> started
> poking around with the multimeter and discovered a low
> resistance
> across one of the conne
I may be able to track down floppies for 7300 TCP, if we can confirm it is
extinct in the wild...
On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 1:31 AM Al Kossow via cctalk
wrote:
> On 7/19/20 12:42 PM, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote:
>
> > Now I have a big crate with "Convergent technologies" sitting in my
> truck, I'l
That could be helpful. There seems to be a need for it (at least one),
and it's going to take awhile to sift thorough everything to find all
the disks.
Also I'm wondering if this system had a 70mb disk originally and was
replaced with a 40mb disk from another 7300. That could explain why the
Working on it. Question: Was the 67mb drive in a 7300/3B1 a miniscribe 6085?
C
On 7/20/2020 2:58 PM, Ian Finder via cctalk wrote:
I may be able to track down floppies for 7300 TCP, if we can confirm it is
extinct in the wild...
On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 1:31 AM Al Kossow via cctalk
wrote:
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