Monday Haul

From: Julius Sridhar <vance_at_ikickass.org>
Date: Tue Feb 12 02:45:46 2002

Nice haul! I'm jealous.

Peace... Sridhar

On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Doc Shipley wrote:

> Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 01:05:19 -0600 (CST)
> From: Doc Shipley <doc_at_mdrconsult.com>
> Reply-To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
> To: Classic Computers <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
> Subject: Monday Haul
>
> And I do mean "haul".
> I found the stash at work today, and dragged it home.
>
> I had already copped the DEC 3000/300x Friday, and my boss told me he
> thought there was some more of that stuff around somewhere. So I
> snarked it.
>
> 3 DEC 3000/300x
> 2 untested as yet, w 2xRZ26E each and looks like 64M RAM
> also MAGMA 2+1 TC (serial/parallel adapter?)
> 1 w/2xRZ26E and 80M RAM. no MAGMA
> booting OSF/1 v3.2, Oracle
> 1 Mouse/KBD breakout w/mouse.
>
> 1 DEC SZ12 expansion unit with an RZ58 and a Seagate ST32430N
>
> 1 DEC MicroVAX 3100-90 w/serious problems - system board looks like it
> was wet & powered up. :o(
> Boots to console, but gets errors at several checkpoints and
> ends up with "normal operation not possible". Haven't done much
> trouble-shooting.
> Looks like 128M RAM
> *** RRD42 - with "OpenVMS v6.2 Binaries 1 of 1" in caddy!
> 2xRZ26-E 1G
> RZ26L-E 1G
>
> 3 DEC MicroVAX 3100-80
> 1)
> 72M
> RZ25-E 425M
> No OS
>
> 2)
> 40M
> TLZ06 4mm DAT
> 2xRZ25-E _at_425M
> OpenVMS 6.2
>
> 3)
> 40M
> TLZ06 4mm DAT
> 3xDSP3107 _at_1G
> OpenVMS 6.2
> RZ26-E
> OpenVMS 6.0
>
> 1 VSXXX-AA Mouse untested
>
> 1 VSXXX-AB Graphics Tablet & Puck. untested, and haven't found the
> Stylus yet.
>
>
> Do the RZ26-E drives always sound like a gravel-crusher, or are all
> these toast?
>
> All this cool stuff, and the other day I was heavily lusting after an
> MV3100-30 on eBay, and right now I'm just p*ssed because the '90 is
> broken. Spoiled, huh?
>
> Doc
>
>
Received on Tue Feb 12 2002 - 02:45:46 GMT