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).
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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=
>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
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
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
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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
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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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
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New Kensington, PA
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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
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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. :(
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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.
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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. :(
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