On Tue, 8 Dec 2015, Brian Adams wrote:
Would be nice if more of you people with Kewl Machines posted pictures on there!
It's been slow recently, not many posts, and boring stuff.
So I post a picture of my workshop with 13 racks, including half a dozen
SGI Onyx2, a pair of SunFire 6800s, a C
I was contacted by a guy who works for a computing lab at a major US
University on the East Coast who is looking for an SP/2 they can display
in their lobby.
I have one, but it'll be a monumental pain in the to get out of
here. I wanted to drop a line and see if anyone had one they'd be wil
I had one of those Japanese Koan moments recently when someone asked me
"Why do floppy disks stop working?" and I realised I... didn't actually
know. I thought I'd throw it to the group and get some theories/proofs.
Let's work on the assumption we're talking about 5.25" and 3.5" disks.
Sever
On Thu, 6 Aug 2015, Dave G4UGM wrote:
Booting an old CDC 6000-series machine meant mounting a "deadstart"
tape, pushing the button just below the screens on the DD60, entering or
editing the equipment status table, then going out for a smoke (not me) or a
cup of coffee, while the system copied
On Tue, 19 Apr 2016, et...@757.org wrote:
They're something splendidly entertaining about a big honkin' graphical
workstation that you can roll up to and poke around the GUI on.
Only the Onyx series has graphics :-) Most of ours at NASA were headless with
nothing but a serial console, and lo
On Tue, 19 Jul 2016, et...@757.org wrote:
The Cray uses 5 x Pioneer magnetics power supplies that I believe are
identical to those in the Sun E1. The smaller rack with the VME chassis
and hard drives -- good chance the power supplies are okay with 110/120v. The
disk trays at least are jus
Greetings;
My googlefu is failing me and I was wondering if someone might be able to
help me identify one of the boot ROMs present in an M9312 bootstrap/term
board. The board has three ROMs, an RX01 (042130), an RX02 (042131) and
then a mystery code - 043127.
The M9312 ROM identification ta
On Tue, 6 Sep 2016, Don North wrote:
On 9/6/2016 9:23 AM, JP Hindin wrote:
Greetings;
My googlefu is failing me and I was wondering if someone might be able to
help me identify one of the boot ROMs present in an M9312 bootstrap/term
board. The board has three ROMs, an RX01 (042130), an
On Thu, 13 Oct 2016, Al Kossow wrote:
On 10/13/16 9:01 AM, Rick Bensene wrote:
These are neat machines, and I hope that they end up in the hands of
someone that can care for them rather than ending up scrap.
hope ht was one of us :-)
That's what I said when I quit bidding at $180.
I
On Sat, 3 Dec 2016, Holm Tiffe wrote:
Hi folks,
I have an HP1631D Logic Analyzer for some years now und got an HP9121
dual Floppy drive that fits to it yesterday.
I've tested the drive, formating disks, storing and reading data ist
working :-)
While reading the Users Manual of the LA I've foun
I have an nCube2 with the front-end Sun 4/470, card, cable and software. I
think having a complete system is probably reasonably uncommon.
I have no documentation on the thing at all, though, so I've never
actually powered it up. If anyone has anything, I'd love to hear from you.
Certainly le
On Thu, 12 Jan 2017, Andy Cloud wrote:
If you're willing to answer it would also be interesting to know what drove
you to spend as much as you did on that particular computer?
I got in a bidding war with someone and ended up paying $330 for six Onyx2
racks from Boeing surplus about ten years
Greetings to all;
All this talk of favourite machines and getting into the hobby has gotten
me amped up to work on my E10k. The E10k was always the "coolest" machine
for me - largely due to the timing of my entry into the industry.
I recently read Tracy Kidder's Soul of a New Machine and was
On Mon, 27 Mar 2017, Ben Sinclair via cctalk wrote:
I'm only a half hour from Boone. But, I can barely keep my 11/23 running,
so I don't think I would be a good owner for these. I offered to help the
poster if they want, as I don't want to see these scrapped either.
Hey Ben;
Apologies for re
On Tue, 28 Mar 2017, Michael-John Turner via cctalk wrote:
Own a piece of gaming history! This Indy workstation was once owned
by Acclaim Entertainment, the legendary game publisher, and was
liquidated at Acclaim's bankruptcy sale in 2004. It sat untouched in a
Brooklyn warehouse for more
On Wed, 24 May 2017, Randy Dawson via cctalk wrote:
Hi Jim,
Anybody that is paranoid about telling their location and the computer
dinosaurs running in their basement needs a head alignment.
Another case of some guy over-estimating the worth of the junk we hold on to.
It is zero, of value
On Thu, 17 Aug 2017, william degnan via cctalk wrote:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Digital-Equipment-Corporation-DEC-PDP-lab8-e-Vintage-1970s-computer/15297190
I hope someone my most-often-traversed groups (CCTech or VCFed) gets this!
I'd love to keep 'an eye' on it, but I'm not sure I'd ever
On Mon, 17 Dec 2018, Evan Koblentz via cctalk wrote:
https://www.elecshopper.com/vintage-computers.html I really would rather
these go to someone who needs them to complete a system than to the
destroyers of keyboards.
I am trying to get more of the vintage stuff listed. If you want to see
it
On Fri, 9 Aug 2019, Electronics Plus via cctalk wrote:
I am being offered some sealed Sun memory modules, PN 501-3050. These are
512MB compatible with:
* Compatible with Sun Blade 1000 with 600MHz CPU, 1000 with 750MHz
CPU, 1000 with 900MHz CPU, Blade 1000 Workstation, 2000 Blade 2000 w
Morning all;
I was up in Minneapolis over the weekend and will probably be back next
weekend - I was wondering where the local geeks might go for some nifty
goodness (for sale or just to gander at)?
When I was up there I hit FreeGeek and picked up a SCSI SyQuest EZ135
external drive and a
Good afternoon all;
I picked up a ZDS Z183-92 laptop over the weekend alongside a Kodak
Diconix 150 portable inkjet printer.
The prior owner doesn't think he ever had a power supply for the Z183,
although he discovered that it does power up sort-of from the Diconix
power supply wallwart(!)
On Mon, 24 Feb 2020, Eric Christopherson wrote:
I picked up a ZDS Z183-92 laptop over the weekend alongside a Kodak
Diconix 150 portable inkjet printer.
Is that close to a ZWL-183-93? My partner just picked up one of those, and its
brick can be described as:
Model 150-308
DC 16.
A person on Reddit picked up what appears to be part of a Video Toaster
and is interested in getting it to someone who can actually use it. I
offered to pass on the message-
The system is in a PC case, with two full-height 5.25" Seagate SCSI disks
and a third-height 3.5" IBM SCSI disk, plus
On Sat, 11 Jul 2020, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote:
On 7/11/20 6:14 AM, Plamen Mihaylov via cctalk wrote:
Any clue who won this auction?
No.
But I bet there are some people that would be interested in it.
jpkiwigeek on YouTube comes to mind. Now that I think about him, I've not
seen an
As the title suggests, I'm looking for a copy of the EBBS][ software for a
friend who used to run an Apple based BBS many moons ago and is looking
out for a bit of nostalgia. So far he's been unable to locate the disks
the system used to be on (he suspects damaged in a storage space flood in
On Tue, 22 May 2018, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote:
so I use Thunderbird on a Linux platform. It is awfully slow. Sometimes it
takes 5 minutes to download 3 messages when I start it up.
At home I use Thunderbird with standard Linux smtp and pop servers and it
works fine.
Apologies to hijack
Hey all;
I'd love to talk to Alan Charlesworth, who used to work for Sun and (I
believe) CRS before that. I'm interested in his perspective on some
historical happenings and Sun design work.
If anyone knows him and might be willing to get me in contact with him I'd
very much appreciate it.
Good arvo all;
A family member recently purchased a rather large CNC which uses a
Micon16-II system (as well as a Fanuc 15M) to drive it. Unfortunately the
battery for the RAM died during storage prior to him getting it and all of
the ladder logic is gone.
We'd really love to try and find
d out to him already - but lost contact (presumably
he got busy, which is hardly a crime). We'll touch base again and catch
up.
Thank you;
- JP
On 07/22/2018 11:26 AM, JP Hindin via cctalk wrote:
Good arvo all;
A family member recently purchased a rather large CNC which uses a
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