On Sun, 2022-09-04 22:19:29 -0700, Glen Slick via cctalk
wrote:
> Reviving a year old thread, did anyone get around to dumping the
> VAXstation 100 firmware?
>
> I don't see it where I looked here:
> http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/vax/vaxstation100/
> http://www.bitsavers.org/bits/DEC/
I don'
On Thu, 1 Sep 2022, jim stephens wrote:
I've never heard of anyone making 8" Flippy Diskettes.
BASF had the FlexyDisk 2N. They are intented for single-sided drives and
can be flipped. They have two index hole cutouts.
Christian
On Sun, 4 Sep 2022, jim stephens wrote:
On 9/3/22 17:38, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
Well, it ain't in the 5150/5160 range!
The 5100 new was $10K to $20K.
I had a 5100 that a dentist had bought as soon as it came out and he added
the floppy drives and printer. It was a direct IBM buy for 310
Well, it ain't in the 5150/5160 range!
The 5100 new was $10K to $20K.
On Sun, 4 Sep 2022, jim stephens wrote:
I had a 5100 that a dentist had bought as soon as it came out and he
added the floppy drives and printer. It was a direct IBM buy for 31000.
On Mon, 5 Sep 2022, Christian Corti via c
On Mon, 5 Sep 2022, Fred Cisin wrote:
Well, it ain't in the 5150/5160 range!
The 5100 new was $10K to $20K.
On Sun, 4 Sep 2022, jim stephens wrote:
I had a 5100 that a dentist had bought as soon as it came out and he
added the floppy drives and printer. It was a direct IBM
Reviving a year old thread, did anyone get around to dumping the VAXstation
100 firmware?
I gave my VAXstation 100 system unit to Dave McGuire last year (I
didn't need it since I lost interest in UNIBUS sized hobby equipment).
Perhaps he could make a copy of its ROMs.
--
Lee K. Gleason
On 9/4/22 18:20, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote:
I will be at the VCFMW both days. I am bringing a bunch
of stuff to sell. I have a big box of Q-bus boards from
my Micro-VAX II system. I also have two ESDI disks that
have VMS 4.7 on them, and an Emulex QD21 controller. I'm
hoping somebody at t
Lee Gleason wrote:
> I gave my VAXstation 100 system unit to Dave McGuire last year (I
> didn't need it since I lost interest in UNIBUS sized hobby equipment).
> Perhaps he could make a copy of its ROMs.
Thanks! I asked, and he said he's willing to dump the ROM.
> >> Are you sure about that? The 5100 doesn't support floppy drives. And
> I've
> >> never heard of third-party drives (that would need IMFs, too) for the
> 5100.
> >
> > $3100 is about what IBM charged for a fully loaded 5150. (PC)
> > THAT is not a 5100! $3100 for a 5100 would have been a barg
If I tell you that they are not, will you think I am just trying to get
the QD21 from you? I need one to replace the Sigma ESDI controller that
failed, and no its format is not the same either.
They also had a choice of hard vs soft sectoring. I believe Emulex and
Dilog handled the RCT differ
It continues to blow my mind that the Apple Lisa is worth anything. They
used to be sold for almost nothing as Mac XL's, and tended to be
temperamental.
So when will the Apple Newton or Mac Plus be worth anything? :-)
C
The Lisa is the first consumer grade GUI computer to come to market. The
Xerox 8010 with the Star operating system preceded it by a couple years,
but that was a high-end $50,000 (in 1981 dollars) workstation with big
businesses as the target market. So it has some historical significance in
that
I played briefly with a pre-release Lisa (Berkeley Smalltalk). But then
didn't see them again. I almost bought one later as a cheaper substitute
for a Mac!
It is historically significant.
So is the 5100.
But, they are totally different categories. It's like when I traded a
Honda for a Leic
On Mon, Sep 5, 2022 at 12:49 PM Fred Cisin via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Haven't heard from you for a while!
>
Yep, and I missed you at the VCF this year. I decided to re-join this list
when I happened upon it through a web search. The traffic is considerably
less than it used to be so it's a tolerabl
On 05/09/2022 18:04, Lars Brinkhoff via cctalk wrote:
> Lee Gleason wrote:
>> I gave my VAXstation 100 system unit to Dave McGuire last year (I
>> didn't need it since I lost interest in UNIBUS sized hobby equipment).
>> Perhaps he could make a copy of its ROMs.
> Thanks! I asked, and he said h
On 9/5/22 13:46, Nigel Johnson Ham via cctalk wrote:
If I tell you that they are not, will you think I am just
trying to get the QD21 from you? I need one to replace the
Sigma ESDI controller that failed, and no its format is
not the same either.
They also had a choice of hard vs soft sectori
So now, like me, you are stuck with a bunch of ESDI drives and no
controller!
I do have one DQ696, on my MVII in a BA123 box, but the other controller
was a Sigma that developed in internal faulure and which I used for RT11
on my 11/73 BA23 box.
Now I have to share the one controller betwee
I've got a printer for the IBM 5100 that I would like to sell. I can
bring it to VCFMW, but only if it is sold ahead of time (too heavy to
comfortably bring on spec.) Best reasonable offer.
Marvin
the 5100 has an external connector. The floppy drive is a floor unit
about the size of three AT units upright, with two single density
floppies in it. We used my unit as an engineering reference to do a
floppy interface project which required 3740 compatability from our
hardware.
And the
The Lisa is the first consumer grade GUI computer to come to market. The
Xerox 8010 with the Star operating system preceded it by a couple years,
but that was a high-end $50,000 (in 1981 dollars) workstation with big
businesses as the target market. So it has some historical significance in
that
On 9/5/22 08:53, Christian Corti via cctalk wrote:
On Mon, 5 Sep 2022, Fred Cisin wrote:
Well, it ain't in the 5150/5160 range!
The 5100 new was $10K to $20K.
On Sun, 4 Sep 2022, jim stephens wrote:
I had a 5100 that a dentist had bought as soon as it came out and he
adde
On 9/5/22 11:07, Tom Stepleton via cctalk wrote:
Are you sure about that? The 5100 doesn't support floppy drives. And
I've
never heard of third-party drives (that would need IMFs, too) for the
5100.
$3100 is about what IBM charged for a fully loaded 5150. (PC)
THAT is not a 5100! $3100 f
On 9/5/22 16:34, Nigel Johnson Ham via cctalk wrote:
If anybody out there has a DQ696 or an RQDX3 available,
I'd like to hear from you!
I DO have a DQ696 that I will be bringing to the VCFMW. If
it won't read my ESDI drives formatted on an Emulex QD21,
then it is of no use to me.
Jon
I have a spare RQDX3, but I really recommend finding an ESDI controller.
It is literally a slug compared to my MTI ESDI controller.
C
On 9/5/2022 5:34 PM, Nigel Johnson Ham via cctalk wrote:
So now, like me, you are stuck with a bunch of ESDI drives and no
controller!
I do have one DQ696, o
I agree, but in addition to getting the main system disk back up, I have
an ST506 emulator from David Gesswein that I would like to get working
after I built it. My Plessey DCV54 does not even offer a drive select
signal!
cheers,
Nigel
Nigel Johnson, MSc., MIEEE, MCSE VE3ID/G4AJQ/VA3MCU
A
Oh those things are so fun. Let me know off list, I'll start checking
through things to find it.
C
On 9/5/2022 8:16 PM, Nigel Johnson Ham via cctalk wrote:
I agree, but in addition to getting the main system disk back up, I have
an ST506 emulator from David Gesswein that I would like to get wo
Matt Burke wrote:
> I dumped the ROMs from my VAXstation 100 some time ago (along with many
> other DEC devices):
>
> http://www.9track.net/roms/
>
> 23-288E4.bin and 23-289E4.bin are probably the two main ones you are
> looking for. Do you just need the ROMs or are you looking for technical
> info
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