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    DEC 4000/500 with no Operating System

    Sent you a DM.. Not 100% sure it went through..!
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    Affordable VAXCluster with DSSI running VMS 5.5-2H4

    Very nice. DEC3000 :love:
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    DEC 4000/500 with no Operating System

    Hi Pile-o-stone, Bit late to the party here - how have you gotten on? I'm either North of Sheffield or in Manchester and have a bunch of VAX kit I could help you with. If you want to get VMS onto your box, your best bet as someone else has mentioned would be to netboot it into a SIMH hosted...
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    New to Apple II & Troubleshooting

    Hi - sorry .. been away a few days. Pulled the chargen ROM and... flashing all white screen... flashes about twice per second. black/white/black/white.... No beep.
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    New to Apple II & Troubleshooting

    Thanks... okay.. so vertical sort-of-flashing white bars on the screen... yet I'm seeing what I *think* I should be seeing when 'scoping the 6502. Chatter on all the normal lines etc. Lower 16K RAM is in and I see what looks to be good RAS & CAS. I also see chatter on all Dout and A lines. F8...
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    New to Apple II & Troubleshooting

    I'm back!! I've armed myself with a T48 programmer, an LA1010 logic analyser and I'm revisiting the old Apple beastie! I've also been watching Ben Eaters excellent series on basic 6502 computers. Update: Using the Logic chip test functionality of the T48, I found a couple of duff chips. A...
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    Power Macintosh era Questions!

    Thanks all. I'll rough it out on the breadboard first before committing the solder!
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    Power Macintosh era Questions!

    Yeah slim pickings in the UK it seems. I'd be happy to pay the $20 for that one but they won't ship to UK. Others that will are charging $30+ for shipping.. Might look down the home-brew route. I should be able to get the parts for that $20 and repurpose an old VGA cable...
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    Power Macintosh era Questions!

    Thanks! OK good news on regular VGA panel! This is the card in the PDS slot although mine doesn't have any memory in the SIMM slots. So can I run the primary display from that 15 pin connector with an adapter? Is this a suitable VGA adapter? Seems like I might have a challenge getting one of...
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    Power Macintosh era Questions!

    Hi all, I picked up a Power Mac 7100/80 recently. Just the main unit - no keyboard, mouse or screen. Inside, there is a couple of sticks of DRAM regular memory (no idea the capacity) and what I'm learning is the ROM on a stick, and cache on another. Also, a 700Mb SCSI disk. I can probably get...
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    Databases etc...

    Thanks - I was going to ask where RMS fitted in actually - I knew it was intrinsic to VMS. I have a bunch of old Datatrieve's from 2.1 thru 4.2 but they're really old.
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    Databases etc...

    Hi all, I'm looking for some pointers.. I'm moderately 'OK' with MySQL, Python, PHP etc on Linux boxen. Creating simple apps around a database just for the fun of it really. What do I need in order to do similar on VMS (using DEC/VMS native stuff?) Looking for a step-by-step guide to installing...
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    DECSystem 5000/240

    It's a bare-bones single motherboard system. Everything is part of the mobo (SCSI, network etc). The only things I have to add are the storage peripherals. There's no frame buffer, serial console only. The only thing that is raising a question with me is the battery in the Dallas chip failed...
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    DECSystem 5000/240

    Found the OSF/1 kernel boot log. Fails with "cm_validate: invalid version". >>boot 3/rz5/vmunix Mips boot: memory from 0x605000 to 0x1fff000 Kernel virtual space from 0xc0004000 to 0xffa00000. DEC OSF/1 X2.0-8 (Rev. 155); Mon Jul 6 23:03:13 EDT 1992 cache sizes: 65536 inst 131072 data physical...
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    DECSystem 5000/240

    Hi PG31- I'm a bit late to the party here. I have a DECsystem 5000/133 with a bunch of Ultrices, happy to share war stories etc. I'm over in Sheffield & Manc so not too far away. Interested in your efforts to get OSF working. There are kits to build tapes around but I've never gotten it...
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