The collected works of pentium - Page 8

For starters, sounds like you cooked your PixLink.
Secondary, do you have your system set to run a madly high resolution?

Was helping a friend clean out his garage and noticed this sitting outside next to his deck.






It's in madly sad shape (rusted shielding and weathered plastics) since it's been sitting outside for a few years but it is indeed an ANS 700/150. It even has the keys!
The inside looks a lot cleaner so ther is still a chance it can be recovered. Erik and Shiner are the last sources of info on these beasts on the net however the necassary AIX 4.1.x software and installation media is the hard part. Linux is not an alternative (The linux kernels are just as ancient and useless now) so what do I do?

I recently had to help someone else clean up their collection.
It turns out the Compaq has a bad screen. No worries, there is yet another portable 386 that had been uncovered at the place I work. It would be nice if I could swap out the displays and then possibly sell whatever remains for parts.

Oh, that would be fantastic if I somehow got hold of that!

It's still over at the house but I'll try to haul it back to CelGen HQ sometime this week for a badly needed trardown and cleaning.

Dude, It's no dream machine with dual TU-56's, RK-05's, and core galore but it IS at the least a PDP-11. I know I could probably deliver one to a loving home and the "meh" unit of the bunch could possibly be traded for a nice Lisa.

Actually, should I be saying all that out loud?

Because it's madly expensive and toxic.

Welcome to the elite club of people who somehow broke those transistors off the system controller. from what I recall, they were plain vanilla transistors. I had more trouble finding a guy who would sell such small transistors than installing them.

http://recovery-cd.com/system/Apple/ApplePowerBook/Apple-PowerBook-2400C-Windows-7-Recovery-CD-295077.html

No explaination necessary.

Word has passed through Wikipedia that it might be possible to install Windows NT for PowerPC on an ANS *IF* it has a particular ROM SIMM installed. How on earth would I go around to confirm this? sure, it would be so slow that it might probably not be worth it but it's a screenshot worth waiting for I think.

First off, I would like to be very thankful to a man who I will only name "M" for making this moment possible.

Anyways, many hours and several phone calls later I am now in possession of one...


two....


THREE!


That's right, I now own all three systems and I'm very thankful that M was nice enough to do this.
Anyways, I powered one up immediately, I have yet to do another one and the nasty one I spent the afternoon stripping down and cleaning the entire system. It's a lot nicer now but to be on the safe side I won't try powering it on until the box dries out.
That floppy disk was also the RAID card configuration disk. I'm greatful that was not lost.

That was not all. Remember how when the Macintosh was released, they had the signatures of the team stamped inside of the case? Well when I took the front off, it appears the same applies here for the ANS team.


This is looking to become an awesome summer!

They don't call them "Big Blue" for nothing.

I uncovered a few things while poking around work. Some of it was some DecStations and MicroVAXen. The only box I can really rememebr though is a MicroVAX 2000.
I'm sure if I went in sometime I could build at least one or two decent boxes.
The rest of it might be in close proximity but what kind of use can I get from one? Apparently you could toggle them between a graphical singleuser workstation and a headless mutiuser one.

Uh oh.

Did I say something bad? ._.

If need be, I cna drag it all home (It's like four or five boxes in total) and get a better look at everything. I'm going in on the weekend to see what I can do. If you still want a trade, all might not be lost young man.

I decided to try reviving a small army of iPods stretching from the original 5gb iPod to the 30gb Photo. They all seem to have behaved well so far save for three.
Both of my first gens (5gb and 10gb) will charge over firewire but when connected to my laptops firewire port, they are not seen by the computer. The same goes for one of my third gens. One will dock and I can mess with it (It also says "format: Windows" in the About screen) but the other is not detected (it does not specify the format in the About screen).
I do have a second gen however and it is seen and works with my laptop no problem.
My suspicion is that the firmware on these three are just so old that it predates when Apple made the iPod available for the PC and because of such, the iPod itself is deliberately preventing me from seeing it and using it. My only idea on how to fix this is to plug them all into a mac and use iTunes running on it to restore and update the firmware to something newer and that is compatible with the PC. Is this correct?

oops. I meant the PC...
Ah, so my first gens are essentially useless until I plug them into my G5.
I tried the 3G on both USB and firewire. Both give the same result.

I would assume that a Windows formatted iPod will work on a MAc no problem as a mac supports both HFS+ and FAT and Windows does ont support HFS+.
I'll try plugging the 3G into a mac the next chance I get. If it fails to work there, I guess I can toss it as I got duplicates.

..I moved to vancouver almost a month ago....
Sure, if I can get this one working, you can have my 10gb 3G. It's the only duplicate I got.

Gentlemen, here be results.



There,s a VAXstation 2000 with keyboard and mouse, MicroVAX 2000 with some of 3-port MMJ adapter fitted to it, a VAXstation 3100, MicroVAX3100, and lastly a DECstation 5000/25 with just the keyboard and video cable.

I grabbed both the 2000's along with an ST-251 for the station and some monster 120mb Maxtor MFM drive for the micro and also dragged back the VAXstation 3100.
I left the 5000 behind because it really didn't look all that special aside from probably being faster and newer.
From what I can tell they look good. the 3100 has an 8-bitplane framebuffer and 16mb memory and the 2000 station has 4mb memory and a 4-bitplane framebuffer.

The one thing I don't understand on these things is the video output. Supposedly the keyboard, mouse and video share the same connector but all I got was a little box that breaks out into the keyboard and mouse but no video. :/

I still got my VT510 for terminal support but I still want to see what all the rage was about for late 80's Unix windowing systems.

I like orange.

I have that three port MMJ box on the MicroVax as I knew it was something important.
Also, I found a pinout for the keyboard/mouse/video connector so I'll look into seeing how easy it is to make a video connector. I'm assuming it would output something along the lines of RGB, Sync on green, correct?

I'm totally going to dig the super limited color pallette.

Punch the key harder.
It's fantastic to hear you finally got it running again.