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uridium
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Wrote on the subject of VMS ‘swoosh’ logo with Vernon at Aug. 17, 2012, 9:09 p.m...

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Sodomy Non Sapiens. VMS is NMF :-)

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What's all that about?

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uridium
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Wrote on the subject of What HP/DEC/Compaq do we have. at Sept. 19, 2012, 2:16 p.m...

@Winilli
Heya. This is not really related to the newer gear, but your Multia should be narrow SE in a 40-pin scsi arrangement much like the tadpole sparcbook3's and some early 68k mac laptops (520?). Anyway. I have a couple of narrow SE stratos cards, the Aztec Monster. This:

http://www.amibay.com/showthread.php?t=18378

Really not sure why it says "UltraSCSI-3" ..given the wire's just a standard 50-pin job. Was highly suspicious of this when I first spotted it.

Works Ok in the Amiga with a bit of fiddling for transfers with more modern 4/8gb cards. The second one is in the VS4000-m90A, technically it's in a BA350 on the side as there's no internal disks in the machine. It "just works" with a 2gb CF flash card I had laying about. Very snappy for file reading. Writing feels like a few meg/sec. Planning to see if the pdp-11/70 likes it with the 128mb cards hopefully this weekend if I can.

Al.

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Wrote on the subject of What HP/DEC/Compaq do we have. at Sept. 19, 2012, 7:04 p.m...

I can confirm it works in my A500+ with a GVP Impact Series-II + newest ROM image from here:

http://babel.de/amiga.html#gvp

Burnt and fed to it. Max multiple setting needed reducing from default with faster cards.

I can also confirm that it works in my VS4000-m90A off a BA350.

Sadly, I cannot test a Multia as I've not spotted one in the wild still functioning that's not already gone Chernobyl for at least 6-7 years.

:-\

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Wrote on the subject of DEC Prioris 5000 HX 590 non-DP at Nov. 13, 2012, 10:45 p.m...

Greetings!

I have a 590 I recovered from an abandoned block of land a few years ago with a trolley from the shops (yeah really not kidding and getting stopped by the wallopers at 1am pushing a trolley 3kms from the nearest shops with a dead and super-rusty ancient computer the size of a bar fridge isn't sufficiently suspect, separate story. Anyway..moving right along). Sadly it's in not a great state. It's still missing the front drive door covers for the built-in BA350 sadly. When I got it it had a failed BIOS update and was bricked. I managed to coax it to boot (after tracking it down) a crisis repair floppy and got it going. It promptly went fut at the next bios update (correct one ..definitely!).

So, I replaced and manually flashed a prom for it. Hurrah. NetBSD, ended up using the thing pretty heavily as a daily driver with C/C++, CLiSP, GST, etc .. some actual work, scripting.. general what not. Oddly, I really enjoy using the thing.

Right. Yay. So. There's this model the 880WW and the 881WW which are the same machine, but one is SMP capable and shipped from DEC as such and one that isn't. I have the povo "isnt" edition. The CPU+RAM carrier board appears to be capable of DP .. it has two sockets and the full compliment of RAM sockets. Does anyone know if it's possible to get a HX590 and turn it into a HX590DP ? Coz.. that'd be rather nice as my oldest current x86 SMP box is a Fujitsu/Amdahl TeamServer 700i (6-way PPRO).

Ideas? Thoughts? (be nice) Sources of spares?

It's still running and doing double-duty as both a daily driver and lounge room TV stand (note to house-proud Gf: DEC's can be useful furniture!) I oddly love it.

Also.. I think the alpha 2100's were in a similar (very?) case. Anyone have a line on the front BA350 door cover?

Al.

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Wrote on the subject of WHat do we all do (occupation)? at Nov. 21, 2012, 3:56 p.m...

Default fictional answer is usually "I'm a vibrator tuner" .. which I imagine to be a stimulating and deeply rewarding career.

Less glorified response is a dev with some admin duties for the dev/build boxes.

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Wrote on the subject of New-to-Me HP 9000/375 at March 25, 2013, 8:48 p.m...

Beautiful system

I've got a 425 back home at dad's and I recall a larger 040 based system in the late 90's I helped a friend get running. Sadly I think he junked it when he moved to the UK.

I still have media going back to 8.0 for some of my older systems, but does anyone have v5, v6 or "possibly" v6.x that would work on a 9000/310 or 9000/300? I've two with hard+floppy disk systems that have been awaiting software for more than 10 years.

Al.

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Wrote on the subject of Nabbed an RS/6000 7043/43p, figuring out what to do with it at Feb. 9, 2014, 3:06 a.m...

AS/400's enjoy 520byte sectors. If I understand it correctly, you've got 512bytes for data, and 8 bytes for virtual memory extension tagging. They don't have "swap" per-say, merely things may exist and run from Primary Storage or Secondary storage.

520 byte sectors ought make most systems barf.

Low leveling it as was suggested ought slip it the bullet.

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Wrote on the subject of My 9114-275 saga continues to the next chapter at Feb. 9, 2014, 3:16 a.m...

These things'll happily run 7.1 after a firmware update. I've got a couple in the other room configured for 5.3 and 7.1.

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uridium
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Wrote on the subject of SIMM memory in HP 9000 at Aug. 26, 2014, 2:12 a.m...

C3700 && C3750 also used IDE chipsets. Kernel driver has just enough smarts to drive a simple block device for the PATA dvdrom.

You'll run into trouble with the PCI card being initialised differently (irq/dma/ports) on the systems compared to a PC. There's a lot to do kernel module wise. Still.. would be fun.

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Wrote on the subject of Speed of NextStep on PA-RISC at Aug. 26, 2014, 2:17 a.m...

I had a B&W '030 Slab for many years. The king gecko I have is noticably faster processing wise. Disk wise it's much of a muchness with Fast-5.

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Wrote on the subject of Товарищ! A PDP-11 in the palm of your hand! at Aug. 26, 2014, 2:20 a.m...

Love it!

Look forward to seeing details of the MK-90!

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uridium
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Wrote on the subject of Octane 2 dual R14k, 4.3gb ram, GigE, ESI+TRAM at Aug. 26, 2014, 4:19 a.m...

My Octane 2 used for dev work, desktop and generally daily-driver UNIX system.

It's a delight to drive an Octane series system after nearly 8 years and moving east. Today I managed to get an video card working in it. THe v8pro I purchased off fleabay is DOA sadly and I didn't have the ability to test it 2 years ago when I was acquiring parts. I've learnt. I've been using an O2 180Mhz since '07 when I moved to Sydney and doing >95% of my fiddling and coding on it. It's just too slow when I'm building larger things and memory is low. So, here is my workhorse to augment the O2.

Thanks veganman for the prodding and advice to get this thing up and running to it's current state again

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   hound 1# uname -aR;hinv -vm
   

   IRIX64 hound 6.5 6.5.30f 07202013 IP30
   

   Location: /hw/node
   

   PM20600MHZ Board: barcode MXK598     part 030-1778-001 rev  C
   

   Location: /hw/node/xtalk/15
   

   IP30 Board: barcode LLP714     part 030-1467-001 rev  D
   

   Location: /hw/node/xtalk/15/pci/2
   

   PWR.SPPLY.S2 Board: barcode AAC7450960 part 060-0038-001 rev  C
   

   FP1 Board: barcode KVH259     part 030-0891-003 rev  G
   

   Location: /hw/node/xtalk/13
   

   XTALKPCI Board: barcode KXB369     part 030-0952-005 rev  E
   

   Location: /hw/node/xtalk/11
   

   MOT10 Board: barcode HRE724     part 030-1241-002 rev  G
   

   2 600 MHZ IP30 Processors
   

   Heart ASIC: Revision F
   

   CPU: MIPS R14000 Processor Chip Revision: 2.4
   

   FPU: MIPS R14010 Floating Point Chip Revision: 0.0
   

   Main memory size: 4352 Mbytes
   

   Xbow ASIC: Revision 1.4
   

   Instruction cache size: 32 Kbytes
   

   Data cache size: 32 Kbytes
   

   Secondary unified instruction/data cache size: 2 Mbytes
   

   Integral SCSI controller 0: Version QL1040B (rev. 2), single ended
   

   Disk drive: unit 1 on SCSI controller 0 (unit 1)
   

   Integral SCSI controller 1: Version QL1040B (rev. 2), single ended
   

   CDROM: unit 6 on SCSI controller 1
   

   Integral SCSI controller 2: Version Fibre Channel QL2200A, 33 MHz PCI
   

   IOC3/IOC4 serial port: tty1
   

   IOC3/IOC4 serial port: tty2
   

   IOC3 parallel port: plp1
   

   Graphics board: ESI with texture option
   

   Integral Fast Ethernet: ef0, version 1, pci 2
   

   Gigabit Ethernet: eg0, PCI slot 2, firmware version 12.4.10
   

   Iris Audio Processor: version RAD revision 12.0, number 1
   

   PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x10a9, device 0x0003) PCI slot 2
   

   PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x1077, device 0x1020) PCI slot 0
   

   PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x1077, device 0x1020) PCI slot 1
   

   PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x10a9, device 0x0005) PCI slot 3
   

   PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x1077, device 0x2200) PCI slot 1
   

   PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x10a9, device 0x0009) PCI slot 2
   

   hound 2#

History of the system:

I pushed the chassis and skins through Sydney streets on a hand-trolley with Freespace (Steve) as he needed a PSU for his Octane(1) and we had no idea where in Redfern we were going. It was just a PSU and a chassis and xbow. He stashed the case here at my place for a number of years and I stared at it longingly. After 4-5 years I asked him if he was still interested in it, and if he'd consider selling it. He was apologetic and had forgotten about it and offered it to me for free (Awww.. :~) .. so after a health scare for $aging_parent, I headed back to Perth and started cleaning out my room of crimes. I broke down my old Octane(1) with v1.3 xbow and sent the ram and video cards to Sydney. So I then assembled bits, fleabayed some CPU's and a defective v8pro (grr!), and here are. Foolishly I took the ESI's off the mounting boards and left them. Not bright. I then cut and shaped some metal to hold things 'just so' (tm) and here we are. The v8pro's holes don't line up and the one I purchased had no hook clips. Hook clips I took off when I left the old carrier boards which is back in Perth. (..not my brightest hour).

Recently I stumbled across the GigE card on fleabay for cheap. It's nice.

This'll be very pleasurable compiling C/C++, Fortran, Ada and running LiSP code compared to the puddly O2.

Al Boyanich
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uridium
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Wrote on the subject of Thinking of grabbing a POWER server at Feb. 26, 2015, 11:11 p.m...

@ CommodoreJohn:
If you find someone doing a prod run of the HIL<->PS/2 please let me know. I've got a 425T I'd like to get doing some useful things. Not sure if it's stuck in domain mode.

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uridium
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Wrote on the subject of Octane 2 dual R14k, 4.3gb ram, GigE, ESI+TRAM at Feb. 26, 2015, 11:20 p.m...

Maybe.. I'm in Perth atm.. system is back home in Sydney. Will be back in a month or two.

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