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OpenVMS VAX Software Products Library 2007 now available

by xdelta＠meta.ua

By the way, I am looking for CD_CONTENTS.DAT from the following SPL releases: 1989 September, November 1990 March, July, September 1991 March, May, November 1992 May 1993 September, November 1994 March, September 1995 June, September 1996 December I can be wrong in some release month names however, they were deviating from year to year (November-December, May-June). -----Original Message----- From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of Ian McLaughlin Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2014 10:35 PM To: DEC discussion list.; hecnet at Update.UU.SE Subject: [HECnet] OpenVMS VAX Software Products Library 2007 now available Hello All, Thanks to the kind donation of CDs from Scott Martin from the Vintage Computing linkedin group, I now have the OpenVMS VAX software product library collection from December 2007 available on my site. Feel free to grab a copy. http://www.vaxhaven.com/CD_Image_Archive If anyone has images or disks from other dates, I'd be more than happy to rip them and put them up. Ian=

10 years, 11 months

TK50 issues

by jhfinedp3k＠compsys.to

>Cory Smelosky wrote: Evening all, Got a nice haul of equipment today...aside from the TK50 issues and the smoking VT340 everything seems to be okay! However: CARTRIDGE PRESENT HEAD AT TRACK ZERO POSITIONED AT BOT TRK NUMBER 00 LOGICAL TRACK NUMBER = 0. PHYSICAL BLK# 0000 PHYSICAL BLOCK NUMBER = 0. LOGICAL BLK# 00 LOGICAL BLOCK NUMBER = 0. TAPE POSITION 000EFB TAPE POSITION = 3835. DRIVE STATE 035E RD/WRT STATE 1937 OPERATION FLGS 0201 CNTRLR STATUS 0C DRIVE ERROR DRIVE ERR CODE 93 AMPLITUDE ON HEAD 2 TOO LOW and an error about it being unable to find calibration track 2 on the second drive lead me to believe the drives may be faulty. The leader isn't broken and I've reattached it to the arm on the one where it had come off. How would I do about cleaning one? Are the drives bad and a cleaning wouldn't help? (Yes, I tried multiple cartridges) Over 95% of the time I had a "bad" TK50, it was because the heads required cleaning. After sitting around for more than a decade, the TK50 tapes no longer leave the heads very clean. Cleaning the TK50 head is quite easy once the drive has been removed from a drive bay and the 3 bolts holding down the cover have been removed. A smaller screw driver can then remove the bolt holding the piece in front of the head. I use Q-tips and isoproponal. The whole procedure takes less than 5 minutes. No alignment is required if just the piece in front of the head is removed since it blots back into exactly the same position. Probably the rollers should also be cleaned as well. I usually had to clean the heads every time the equivalent of a complete TK50 tape was used. If the TK50 drive is going to be used frequently, it is best to leave the drive out of the drive bay. with the cover off. However, be sure to keep the same power source from the backplane. While a hard disk drive seems to accept a PC power supply as the power source, the TK50 seems to require the same power source as the backplane which is used to power the CPU and other boards. If necessary, use an extension for the 5v / 12v plug that the TK50 requires. The normal 20 pin (??) cable for signals to the controller board is usually long enough to stretch to some other convenient location outside the drive bay. Jerome Fine

10 years, 11 months

OpenVMS VAX Software Products Library 2007 now available

by jg＠jordi.guillaumes.name

El 13/05/2014, a les 21.35, Ian McLaughlin <ian at platinum.net> va escriure: Hello All, Thanks to the kind donation of CDs from Scott Martin from the Vintage Computing linkedin group, I now have the OpenVMS VAX software product library collection from December 2007 available on my site. Feel free to grab a copy. http://www.vaxhaven.com/CD_Image_Archive Nice and thanks! Jordi Guillaumes i Pons jg at jordi.guillaumes.name HECnet: BITXOV::JGUILLAUMES

10 years, 11 months

OpenVMS VAX Software Products Library 2007 now available

by ian＠platinum.net

Hello All, Thanks to the kind donation of CDs from Scott Martin from the Vintage Computing linkedin group, I now have the OpenVMS VAX software product library collection from December 2007 available on my site. Feel free to grab a copy. http://www.vaxhaven.com/CD_Image_Archive If anyone has images or disks from other dates, I'd be more than happy to rip them and put them up. Ian

10 years, 11 months

Re: [DECtec] VCB02 issues

by b4＠gewt.net

Sent from mobile device that advertises itself for no good reason On 12 May 2014, at 23:03, Gregg Levine <gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com> wrote: Hello! Dave what are these grouchy examples of technology that followed Cory home? The other two are obvious. But the PDP-11/23 Plus seems to be an interesting critter. What's wrong with it Cory? Looks like the main crystal got knocked about and crushed. Haven't tested with a scope yet though ----- Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again." On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 10:59 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com>wrote: On 05/12/2014 10:01 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote: Trying to test the est of the haul. That means the VCB02 and VR290 at present. ;) Testing it ina MicroVAX II...I'm not even to the point of VMS! I've read it can be used as the console...but not in my case! The diagnostic LEDs on the VCB02 board never change at all. They all come on during power-on and never go off. The same behaviour was exhibited by ny dead 11/23+ board. Any ideas of what I can check? It's got to be some really obvious error. It can't be plain dead! Don't sweat it too much. I have lots of VCB02 board sets and can send you whatever you end up needing. Bear in mind that, on a KA630, it can take quite awhile for anything to come up on the display. Here's the LED definitions for the VCB02: During test: 111 state on power-up 001 power-up test in progress After test: 000 no faults detected 001 VCB02 base module fault 010 first VCB02 4-plane module fault 011 second VCB02 4-plane module fault 100 not used 101 keyboard fault 110 mouse or tablet fault 111 catastrophic fault -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA -- DECtec mailing list http://dectec.info To unsubscribe from this list see page at: http://dectec.info/mailman/listinfo/dectec_dectec.info -- DECtec mailing list http://dectec.info To unsubscribe from this list see page at: http://dectec.info/mailman/listinfo/dectec_dectec.info

10 years, 11 months

Re: [DECtec] VCB02 issues

by b4＠gewt.net

Sent from mobile device that advertises itself for no good reason On 12 May 2014, at 22:59, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote: On 05/12/2014 10:01 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote: Trying to test the est of the haul. That means the VCB02 and VR290 at present. ;) Testing it ina MicroVAX II...I'm not even to the point of VMS! I've read it can be used as the console...but not in my case! The diagnostic LEDs on the VCB02 board never change at all. They all come on during power-on and never go off. The same behaviour was exhibited by ny dead 11/23+ board. Any ideas of what I can check? It's got to be some really obvious error. It can't be plain dead! Don't sweat it too much. I have lots of VCB02 board sets and can send you whatever you end up needing. Cool! Thanks! Bear in mind that, on a KA630, it can take quite awhile for anything to come up on the display. Yeah, after awhile the screen starts flickering yet displaying nothing. Here's the LED definitions for the VCB02: During test: 111 state on power-up Never changes from this. 001 power-up test in progress Never gets to that one After test: 000 no faults detected 001 VCB02 base module fault 010 first VCB02 4-plane module fault 011 second VCB02 4-plane module fault 100 not used 101 keyboard fault 110 mouse or tablet fault 111 catastrophic fault -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA -- DECtec mailing list http://dectec.info To unsubscribe from this list see page at: http://dectec.info/mailman/listinfo/dectec_dectec.info

10 years, 11 months

Re: [DECtec] VCB02 issues

by gregg.drwho8＠gmail.com

Hello! Dave what are these grouchy examples of technology that followed Cory home? The other two are obvious. But the PDP-11/23 Plus seems to be an interesting critter. What's wrong with it Cory? ----- Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again." On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 10:59 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote: On 05/12/2014 10:01 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote: > Trying to test the est of the haul. That means the VCB02 and VR290 at > present. ;) > > Testing it ina MicroVAX II...I'm not even to the point of VMS! I've > read it can be used as the console...but not in my case! The diagnostic > LEDs on the VCB02 board never change at all. They all come on during > power-on and never go off. The same behaviour was exhibited by ny dead > 11/23+ board. > > Any ideas of what I can check? It's got to be some really obvious error. > It can't be plain dead! Don't sweat it too much. I have lots of VCB02 board sets and can send you whatever you end up needing. Bear in mind that, on a KA630, it can take quite awhile for anything to come up on the display. Here's the LED definitions for the VCB02: During test: 111 state on power-up 001 power-up test in progress After test: 000 no faults detected 001 VCB02 base module fault 010 first VCB02 4-plane module fault 011 second VCB02 4-plane module fault 100 not used 101 keyboard fault 110 mouse or tablet fault 111 catastrophic fault -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA -- DECtec mailing list http://dectec.info To unsubscribe from this list see page at: http://dectec.info/mailman/listinfo/dectec_dectec.info

10 years, 11 months

Re: [DECtec] VCB02 issues

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

On 05/12/2014 10:01 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote: Trying to test the est of the haul. That means the VCB02 and VR290 at present. ;) Testing it ina MicroVAX II...I'm not even to the point of VMS! I've read it can be used as the console...but not in my case! The diagnostic LEDs on the VCB02 board never change at all. They all come on during power-on and never go off. The same behaviour was exhibited by ny dead 11/23+ board. Any ideas of what I can check? It's got to be some really obvious error. It can't be plain dead! Don't sweat it too much. I have lots of VCB02 board sets and can send you whatever you end up needing. Bear in mind that, on a KA630, it can take quite awhile for anything to come up on the display. Here's the LED definitions for the VCB02: During test: 111 state on power-up 001 power-up test in progress After test: 000 no faults detected 001 VCB02 base module fault 010 first VCB02 4-plane module fault 011 second VCB02 4-plane module fault 100 not used 101 keyboard fault 110 mouse or tablet fault 111 catastrophic fault -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA

10 years, 11 months

Re: [DECtec] VCB02 issues

by b4＠gewt.net

Sent from mobile device that advertises itself for no good reason On 12 May 2014, at 22:26, Gregg Levine <gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com> wrote: Hello! Then first make sure your MVII is a happy device with a different terminal. Oh and see how much information Google can tell you about your VCB02. And the VR290. The manual says this indicates a catastrophic failure. However the "doing tests" pattern never started ----- Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again." On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 10:22 PM, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> wrote: On Mon, 12 May 2014, Gregg Levine wrote: Hello! Does this mean you have a collection of dinos? Did you examine the electrolytics for the power supply? They've got a bad habit of going bad in ways and means that can be disturbing. PSUs seem fine enough to boot an MVII...just not the VCB02. :( ----- Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again." On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 10:01 PM, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> wrote: -- Cory Smelosky http://gewt.net Personal stuff http://gimme-sympathy.org Projects -- DECtec mailing list http://dectec.info To unsubscribe from this list see page at: http://dectec.info/mailman/ listinfo/dectec_dectec.info -- DECtec mailing list http://dectec.info To unsubscribe from this list see page at: http://dectec.info/mailman/listinfo/dectec_dectec.info

10 years, 11 months

Re: [DECtec] VCB02 issues

by gregg.drwho8＠gmail.com

Hello! Then first make sure your MVII is a happy device with a different terminal. Oh and see how much information Google can tell you about your VCB02. And the VR290. ----- Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again." On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 10:22 PM, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> wrote: On Mon, 12 May 2014, Gregg Levine wrote: Hello! Does this mean you have a collection of dinos? Did you examine the electrolytics for the power supply? They've got a bad habit of going bad in ways and means that can be disturbing. PSUs seem fine enough to boot an MVII...just not the VCB02. :( ----- Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again." On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 10:01 PM, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> wrote: -- Cory Smelosky http://gewt.net Personal stuff http://gimme-sympathy.org Projects -- DECtec mailing list http://dectec.info To unsubscribe from this list see page at: http://dectec.info/mailman/listinfo/dectec_dectec.info

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