The collected works of uunix - Page 10

I have 2 but no apple made up specific power leaded.

chicaneuk wrote:

ClassicHasClass wrote: Bah. Try a Quad G5.

I just read the other day that the coolant used in those late liquid cooled G5's is especially toxic. I did have one for a while, but luckily it didn't leak - gave it away to another Nekochanner a couple years back.

Are they dead?

Do you think they would buy mine back?

Actually she's not a wicked witch at all, we spent 17 years married & a few years before & I still love her in a way.. but I just ran out of loft space and had to move on.

BUT, she's sold the house and emptied the loft, my daughter sent me the picture below of [some] of the stuff, well:

I see an 6100 System keyboard from my old IBM RT (I wonder if I still have that.
Boxed Sanyo PC 8086 (I think) dual floppies.
Some SGI Software, OS/2 Warp Red, Blue and Connect or Warp 4.
COMPUTER BATTLESHIPS!! WOO HOO!
Sega Saturn Steering Wheel.
A Christmas tree stand..
Can't make out what the unit is under the black box, looks like a cable has been cut off.

I actually would not mind one of those for my network install host Indy, I'm watching with a beady eye! But not on my top list, I bet Ian has them anyway.

Nyebodnye wrote: Don't get me started on power cables.
I'm in the U.K.
We've got a guy at our work doing tech support who collects euro power cables that come with new PC's.
Instead of throwing them away, he strips them down to copper and sells the copper to metal merchants.
Apparently if you give them the power cables you get less for them than for just the copper.

I know the type very well.

How neat and tidy is your setup.. NICE!

ivelegacy wrote: should we invent a time-machine, buddy?

The same machine existing in the same time.. you're asking for trouble chap!

Vladio wrote: I, surprisingly, have no font issues. Okay, an occasional panic but relatively stable for the most part. The damn centered windows though.......

Just curious, No one else drives two monitors?

I did try driving 2 1280x1024 monitors, but like your issue, smoke just sat in the middle.. PAH I thought, and went back to a single one.

I gave up very easily.

There probably is, your right, but after I used up all my effort getting the 1600sw to work on my Octane, then reverting back... it became a very quick decision.. give up for the time being.

Vladio wrote:

uunix wrote: How neat and tidy is your setup.. NICE!

The wires under the counter are really f'n with my ocd!

And that's why I never look under my desk.

It must be your Italian googletzi..

Received a pile of stuff tonight, had to take it to work to unload..
IPC / LX etc

This baby turned on first time after some 13 years

And more to go through tomorrow

ivelegacy wrote: I might have a plan for that Macintosh :

• remove the mobo-68000, and the VDU
• directly interface the CRT
• put an LC475-68040 mobo inside
• interface the LC475 video to the CRT (and adapt it, in case of need)
• put a 10Mbit lan on the mobo
• put my gentoo/m68k stage4 on an internal SCSI HD, or a debian-68k
• hack the first stage boot loader, and "bless" it with something that can load linux
• enjoy the yet an other text linux box (extremely good as … text console for Irix)

oh, well, and I am happy because I have sold out 2 SUN boxes (HD boxes) like yours
(honey money, 20 euro for 2 boxes, I can buy a lot of candies now )

I recall (well my daughter reminded me tonight) that we were going to make a fish tank out of it. Which is 100 times better than your loony loonix suggestion (give my regards to lady gaga)

The unicorn at the end of the end of the rainbows sells that kit for £10.

So, spent the day going through stuff..
Mac Classic works fine.. Never checked the date, but macs are so hippy, they probably don't care.
The SUN IPC has no hard drive, but does have BNC / AUI Ethernet and it's fully populated with simms (no idea how much).*
The SUN LX would not boot with a failure of Date/MAC Address and loopback issue (guessed it would be due to the clock). I had checked inside both machines for sign of leaky corrosion beforehand and all looked good.
So brought the LX back home and plugged into my INDIGO monitor and it failed to display! (13w3??? WTF) so, in my booty I also had a BELKIN to VGA convertor.. used that on a Sony SDM and it displayed fine.
Set the NVRAM to default and booted.
Excellent, logged in with my current admin type password and I was in to CDE. Set the Gateway, Nameserver and new IP address and it's up and running... BUT BY FUCK IT'S SLOW!! *I'm not sure I want to turn on the IPC considering how slow the LX is. It has CG6 built in and a 100MB Ethernet SBUS card that works fine. Found helloworld.c and come program I had written for coursework and can't make head nor tail of it!

Software wise, most versions of OS/2, and Netware and very old MAC system 7 stuff, also Lotus 123 for UNIX.. every UNIX except IRIX, SOLARIS & AIX PHAH!
An interesting Pioneer MSX system with a separate keyboard.
No RT as yet.

Oh and possibly the greatest find.. my INDY CAM!!!
Plugged in now, and it's spookily good!

Lots of serial, SCSI, strange cables.. all in all an excellent days hunting!

vishnu wrote: Glad you've finally got it all back! Guess you'll be adding some new imagery to your sig in the coming days...

I would, but only have 1 SGI and I have no idea how to get images of other machines.

On another note, yes the SUN LX lost it's date, but also lost the mac address and hostid. There are no stickers on the box with any info, anyone know if these are held in files on the system somewhere, it's SUNOS 5.7

tt0ny wrote: Connect with SGI 19 CRT Monitor.

Just a note, if you set console g then you must have a keyboard attached at the very least otherwise boot may fail.

If you have Keyboard / Mouse / Monitor, then you don't need a serial at your stage.

tt0ny wrote: hmm i see i dont have a root pw to login. I try to boot from irix 5.3 CD to reset the root pw , but I cant mount the disk . mount /dev/dsk/dks0d1s0 /root (invalid argument, file system unknown ) , I read about serial console connection but i dont have a null modem cable for Indy . Do i have any chance to install this machine new ? PROM reset to factory default ? thank you

Yes, you can install IRIX on a burnt piece of toast if you put the effort in..

You should carry out a resetenv [???? help.. can't recall] before you start the install.

Actually check Ian Maplesons site for good install guides.

OK, not sure if this will work, but I have a vague recollection I have done it before:
Turn the INDIGO ON
When the Amber light changes from Orange to Green hit ESC a few times.
Press 5 (At this point you should be in the PROM
Type setenv console g
press return/enter
type boot
press return/enter

You will be doing this blind, but it may work.
I'll try it myself tomorrow and check if I have the commands correct. If it works, you should at least be able to dispense the need for a serial cable.

LOL so true.. And now we have Windows 10.. windows Snow Poodle.. Windows 10 Labradoodle....... Windows 10 Crockadoodle

ivelegacy wrote: Audigy2 ZS should be compliant to PCI/5V (perhaps 5V tolerant?)
What is not clear to me if it has been really tested on IP30/Octane2 with success.

three levels of compliance

• 1) hardware side, IP30, XIO_PCI_shoebox
• 2) firmware side, IP30 mobo, the last revision of everything
• 3) software side, more specifically if Irix v6.5.27 is enough

oh well, then there is the Application side, where I'd like to hear a few WaveEditor Apps. The provided links above sometimes works, sometimes is broken, Yesterday I had success for just 40 seconds, so I just read a list of "something" but then the page disappeared again, next time I will save with Firefox

Are you sure you don't live in Korea?

Logans un

Hi all,

I have seen this http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/8GB-Kit-IBM-Power-5-Server-Kingston-KTM-P630-8G-PC2100-266MHz-ECC-Server-Memory-/131525656677?hash=item1e9f8a4065

8 GB Memory for IBM power5

I cannot find any info if this is compatible with my 285? It looks a nice price. Anyone confirm

Have found:
Compatible with IBM eServer i5 570,
pSeries p630 7028-6C4,
p630 7028-6E4,
p650 7038-6M2,
pSeries P5 575 (9118-575),
System p5 575 (DDR),
TotalStorage NAS 500 (5198).

So, I have had for some months, 2 Octanes sitting on my desk sharing a keyboard and mouse via a KVM, perfect.
Under the desk was an Octane 1. The Octane 1 never really got used, so I thought today, I'll swap the Octane2 that I turn on regularly with my o2 to save electricity etc.. if required I turn on the relegated Octane2 and set the display to the o2.. simple.. the Octane 1 goes in the loft!

The mouse on the o2 doesn't work with the KVM.. WHY THE FUCK NOT!!!!! GRRRRR!!!

It's never mattered, either machine on or off, never mattered if the kvm was pointing to the off machine while I powered up the other.. it was just darn perfect!

Now, sharing my PC & Power5 USB over KVM does require I focus the mouse on the Power5 on boot up.. but after that it's fine.

It's just so fscking annoying AJ!!!

I'll test it out with my R5000 o2 which in all honest seemed like a tank for reliability! Maybe it's just this particular o2.

Yup it's a 2 port KVM.. and yes it worked fine with 2 Octanes.. It's the o2 that fscked! It is now a horrid machine I think!

The closest you will get to running on an intel platform is MaXX desktop I think.
http://forums.nekochan.net/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=16729754

Anyway.. I have brought home a Pentium 4 with a rather cool case.. badged CyberMaXX

The Tavern drive is picked on this and I'm thinking I may put OS/2 on it, maybe server and see if I can set up an NIS domain or similar for it.

Fans a bit noisy, but I'll get that replaced, might swap out the o2 for it since I bet the KVM will work fine, but I was having a bit of fun with smoke and the indy cam ported through the o2 last night.. so I may have forgiven it.

Still haven't got the Sound Blaster working in the original 586 project.

And my wife to be has bought me a new lamp for the room since I've been without light for a month now.. how nice.

Thanks for the offer legacy.. I have another 8 sound cards to go through yet, and I suspect non are faulty, it is in fact my incompetence to actually install the correct driver and time travel back to the 90s when this kind of thing was second nature to me.

I am a god!! SoundBlaster working in project 1...
Actually.. not sure what I have done in the long haul.. but moving the card to another isa slot worked this time.

Now project 2.. OS/2

Apart from Video Panel - Utilities - Live Out, can I output say a movie (not worried about quality yet) through the default Out on the o2 AV2 Card?

At the moment, I'm outputting the screen to my VBOB and then to my Octane, but I'd like to pipe some video through it?

Chaaaaars!..

So.. (and excuse the fact I haven't looked up the device names).. mplayer filmX | /dev/AV/out ? in principle?

Thanks Robespierre

It is indeed a good find, I had a dual 900Mhz SB 2000 (literally the same machine) which served me for years, with xv500 graphics, 4 port Ethernet, and SUNPCi 3 (running winxp on it's own screen) to name but a few additions, that combination was a joy to use.

Currently I have turned on.. 2 x Octane 2 (1 fully loaded with DCD etc), 1x o2, 1xIndy (with ext DVD). 1 x IBM Power5 285, 1xVBOB, 2xPS3, 1xVHS Video player, 2x Fujitsu Primergy Servers, 2x i5 Shuttles, 1xi7 gaming type PC, 1 UPS, 5x Monitor / 2xTV & a printer, A few others bits that draw power.. & that's just my toasty warm room, the kids probably have a TV on and So does the wife-to-be. My electricity metre is showing 25pence an hour. It normally runs at about 11pence with just the intel stuff left on 24x7.

Luckily it's only a few hours a day I have all this stuff on.

I am also somewhat gutted I missed the boat on the donating.. kept thinking.. I'll do it when I get home!! I think next time you open up the donations you may have a situation akin to the January Sales here in the UK..

hamei wrote:

uunix wrote: My electricity metre is showing 25pence an hour. It normally runs at about 11pence with just ....

So it's like six pence in a pie, 12 shillings in a sixpence, four pounds in a litre and half a gallon in a haypenny ?

I never could get that English money thing straight

Decimal hamei old chap, in 4 hours I'd have spent a pound, which is 100 pence, which contains 2 lots of 50pence, 5 lots of 20pence, 4 lots of 25 pence, 50 lots of 2pence and of course back to 100 pennies.

Shillings and stuff changed the year after I was born thank god, now (although argued by older people as easier) was probably the most complicated good for nothing monetary system in the world, I mean WTF is 3 & 6pence..

This year (possibly) we are getting a new plastic pound note (or £5), it meant to make the money last longer.. I just don't see how that can work in my house, as soon as I have a fiver, someone has spent it.

My computers are dust bunny generators.. there were no dust bunnies until they arrived!

I have some interesting very old tapes in the loft, think they are VAX tapes. I have an appointment up there this weekend, I'll take a pic. Hopefully they are worth millions..