The collected works of OlaHughson

Either to buy cheaper than on ebay, or for free

1. An IBM 24P6893 VRM - for Rarity , so I can install a second CPU in it.
2. A 13w3 <-> VGA cable/adapter, that works with rs/6000 . ItsMeOnly suggested, that a SGI 13w3 adapter should work, so I will borrow it from a local hackerspace, shall its owner allow me to. But if I were to use this machine (which I actually did borrow for "unknown amount of time") from Trasz - I would strongly prefer to have something of my own, not to use two devices, from two different persons
3. Also, another video cable - through I have no idea which one - and I would need it only if I was fully aware that the machine has a video card - for a DECStation 5000/260, that is coming soon to me. Also, keyboard and mouse, maybe?

Well, those are the things I could possibly afford very soon, but if some of you have too much money, you can always look at the last column here This is a list of things I hope to buy some day. With few exceptions - in alpha part, it is a list of preferable models - if I get a more powerful ones, i delete the less powerful machines from the list.

I am not sure, however, if it would work - I used someone's 13w3<->D-SUB adapter , which works with SGIS (tested with Octane and Indy), and it works like this:
1. Monitor behaves like it got signal, but doesn't display anything.
2. The green LED starts blinking
3. It doesn't have the signal anymore.

I will try with a Sun one soon.
I would take Your cables, if I had my own SGi machine, of which I have none right now But thanks for an offer! eventually, of the Sun adapter fails, I might try to take them...
ALSO: I want to go to Tokyo, too!

Y U NO BUY AMIGAONE X1000 ?
Seriously, why could You possibly forget about the best OS ever made?



1. All operating systems support headphones. I tested it with OSX/intel, OpenBSD/sparc, OpenBSD/sparc64, MacOS 8.0/68k, MacOS8/ppc, MacOSX 10.4.11/ppc, also Solaris and many others. Even Haiku does support headphones.
2. Is a webcam really necessary for Your life?
3. Mouse -> look up. Even HP-UX does.
4. Codecs? I played [ slowly, and soundless - but did it] a video in .mp4 and .flv, on this.



I wish I was born back then, at least I could be like "we used it at work and now I can buy it cheaper~" instead of "i;'ve seen that it was awesome, and so on, and i can own it now~".

HI~!

I am gonna get this tomorrow.
I were thinking of installing OS/2 on it, but someone on the channel did remind me about AIX for PS/2.
Don't worry, I won't use it on the blanket. And the person I'll get it from is a son of a guy who is hoarding old hardware "because it might come in handy later". When I was first visiting him, i had to go over a CRT display, which was standing in the doors, to get in his room - it was THIS MUCH hoarded.

Now, to the fun part:

1. I seriously hope it's Model 80. Is it, right?
2. I'll try to install AIX for PS/2 1.3. Would be better if I had a SCSI controller for Micro Channel (I have 50pin hard drives already. Including RZ24.)
3. ^ Anyone selling a SCSI controller for this setup, in a reasonable price? (like, under $50 with shipping to Poland).
4. ^^ Ethernet would be cool, too. Because there *are* cards with a RJ45 socket for it.
5. Does AIX for PS/2 have the xwd utility?
6. ^ Can floppies formatted in AIX be readable on a modern-ish system?
7. ^^ How could I split files / compress on it, so I can decompress/join them on a modern-ish system?

Yes, I am aware that 2MB is not a lot of memory - but I highly doubt that I would be able to buy the MCA memory expansion.
Oh, and also I would be grateful if I could get a case for it ^^

So, it's a 80, I believe it's a 8580-071.

When starting up, it gave me errors:

601 [ General diskette or adapter failure]
161 [ Dead CMOS battery]
163 [ CMOS error; Clock is not updating]

The only thing I can do is to get into the BASIC interpreter.

1. I hope it's *not* the controller, but the floppy drive itself.
1.1. Anyone has a spare one?
2. It seems the HDD is working, but either there is no bootable system on it, or the computer is dependent on the FDD being plugged into it. Which failed.

I found a replacement battery chart, so I might get one and try to fix it.
Photos are here , and this is the setup I used.

I wrote the reference diskette image into a floppy and got the battery. I placed the battery into the socket at the speaker thing, and a floppy into the FDD .


At first time, it gave me all three errors, now just gives me those CMOS-related, and doesn't seem to want to boot from a floppy. It does nothing after printing error codes. When I get to the diskette animation and i try to boot from it, it tries to do something with the floppy and returns me to BASIC.

Cool we might go for it, just not right now - in few weeks, perhaps?


Yes please.

http://mypage.intergate.ca/~fspencer/8580d144.htm - cart-edge.

Joekster: I will have to think seriously about that. Unless I won't be able to get it to work properly, then sorry, no deal.

All: I borrowed another floppy drive, from Gl1zda. The same result, just now doesn't show the FDD error. ._.

I need a hard drive sled for Loviatar . The backplane looks like this: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/145 ... M_1224.JPG

Especially that most cool hardware - either free or even to buy - is iN US, while most people who would want it live in Europe/Asia/Australia/on the Moon. ;(