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Repair Workshop Jan 2019 INFO
by Jeffrey Brace 06 Jan '19

06 Jan '19

As a reminder the workshop is $10 *per* person, *per* day. Sorry this InfoAge's rule and not our decision. So that means for two days it is $20. Sign up quickly to guarantee a table. DATE: January 12 & 13, 2019 LOCATION: InfoAge Building 9032A - (2201 Marconi Road, Wall Township, NJ) TIME: Start about 10 A.M. on Saturday and ends whenever we go to sleep. End about 5 P.M. on Sunday. (Starts around 10 A.M. Sunday morning) SIGNUP: < https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Vhb9sEi7ZjuQ6h_OK0EwCw-rR2xS0yO4N99… > COST: - $10 per person, PER day. This is required by InfoAge for us to pay for renting the space. - $25 for those wanting to stay overnight (Money goes to InfoAge). Please pay me when you get there so that I don't forget and then have to spend time chasing you down. OVERNIGHT: Bring your own pillow, blankets, soap etc. We provide a bed frame and an uncovered mattress. There are showers and a kitchen for your use. - You can pay via PayPal to paypal(a)vcfed.org. Make sure to put a note in there that it is for the January worshop EQUIPMENT: - VCF will provide a table and you can use any available electrical outlet. - Bring your own tools, power strips, power cords, and supplies etc. - If you need particular tools that you don't know or particular parts, please post to the list for those going. They may have what you need. Let them know ahead of time. - Please bring an extra one or two power cords as these are often forgotten by people. DRINKS: You should bring your own. I would recommend bringing a cooler of some type. FOOD: You provide your own. We usually order pizza, subs or go out to a dinner and everyone pays their own way. Usually, we make a decision when everyone gets hungry. GATE: During the hours from 1 pm to 5 pm close the front gate behind you. We want museum visitors to go to the front lobby and not wander through the middle of the campus. Outside of those times, you can feel free to leave the gate open. PARKING: Park across from 9032 or 9010A on any blacktop area. InfoAge doesn't like us parking on the lawn anymore. QUESTIONS? Contact Evan : 646-546-9999 or evan(a)vcfed.org or myself (Jeff) : 732-759-1783 or jeffrey(a)vcfed.org Have fun everyone! -- ========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President Vintage Computer Federation

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Straight 8 teletype
by David Gesswein 06 Jan '19

06 Jan '19

Can someone look to see if the teletype by the PDP-8 has a cable coming out with a DB-25 connector? I know the PDP-8 does now but wasn't sure if I got to it the last workshop. Seeing what I need to bring to the upcoming one.

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Looking for a Kalok IDE drive
by Jason Perkins 06 Jan '19

06 Jan '19

I’m looking for a working Kalok IDE drive. Yes, a stepper motor IDE. I believe the models KL-3100 and KL-343 are both IDE. I’d also entertain another stepper IDE drive. I already have a Seagate 157a and 351a. Why??? I’m looking for something to use with an IDE adapter on my Lisa, and want it to sound interesting. Thanks! -J -- Jason Perkins 313 355 0085 Sent from my iPhone

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Andy's 2019 Clean out - more complete systems
by dillera＠gmail.com 06 Jan '19

06 Jan '19

Hello- I'm really trying to clean out my stuff and get rid of things that work but that I will never use. Some are of little value, and I've been bringing that stuff up and giving it away (a bunch is coming next Saturday). However I have a few systems (Mac, Amiga, Powebook etc) that are of some value and I want to see them go somewhere useful. But due to recent shipping hazards I'm not willing to ship them- so meeting in person at InfoAge is a great solution to this problem. I don't expect ebay crazy prices for them- just something fair. And I want to solve for some people finding out before others... therefore... What I've decided is to do a first-price sealed-bid auction - anyone interested should reply to me off-list. I'll send you a list of the stuff. You reply back with your bid. Friday I'll announce to the entire group who has won what. I'll bring the stuff to InfoAge. If you don't show up to claim it, it will go to the next bidder. If there are issues beyond that I'll get rid of it at InfoAge to someone, or do it again for the Feb Repair Day. thanks, -andy

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(OT) Ride needed for Jan Workshop
by Joseph Oprysko 05 Jan '19

05 Jan '19

If there's anyone in the Philly/Willow Grove area (or passing through and wouldn't mind mind making a pit stop) I live literally 5 minutes from the Willow Grove PA turnpike exit and would like to be able to make it to the workshop. It's just very difficult for me to drive long distances due to medical issues and would greatly appreciate if someone could help me out. Thanks, Joseph Oprysko

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Anyone ever adjust the yoke on a 1970’s Sony trinitron?
by corey cohen 05 Jan '19

05 Jan '19

So I have a 1974-75ish Sony KV-9200 color Trinitron TV and I need to rotate the yoke a little because the image is crooked. I removed the rubber wedges but the yoke won’t budge. I decided to walk away for a few hours and just took another look and I did just notice there is a small clamp on the end of the tube neck that could be loosened up, but before I do that I was wondering if that is what it’s intended for to hold the yoke in place against the rubber wedges? I don’t want to have to adjust the convergence so I haven’t loosed it yet just Incase that is wrong. I’m also worried because the neck is the most fragile part of the tube and don’t want to break it. This is all I have left to do on this TV. I replaced every electrolytic cap, adjusted b+, cleaned all the controls and refreshed the entire exterior. Any advise would be helpful. Thanks, Corey corey cohen uǝɥoɔ ʎǝɹoɔ Sent from my iPhone

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Museum report
by Evan Koblentz 05 Jan '19

05 Jan '19

About a dozen visitors today. Tony stopped by and showed me an idea for how we can demo more microcomputers without taking up more space. I did more work on the IA website between visitors. Updated the Linux software on our workshop PC. Jeff Brace is docent tomorrow.

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WTD: daughter board for BocaRAM/AT
by Richard Cini 04 Jan '19

04 Jan '19

All – I just replaced an old Intel InBoard with a BocaRAM/AT (not the AT PLUS version) in my PC/AT “lab” machine. Would anyone happen to have the mezzanine/daughter card for the BocaRAM/AT, maybe from an otherwise non-working board? If so, please let me know off-list. Thanks! Rich -- Rich Cini http://www.classiccmp.org/cini http://www.classiccmp.org/altair32

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SGI O2s
by Stephen A Edwards 04 Jan '19

04 Jan '19

I have a handful of SGI O2s and parts that I'd love to sell/trade to a good home (I'm in Manhattan). Feel free to contact me. W.r.t. the Sun 3/60 thread, I managed to set one up running SunOS 4.1 diskless off a modern Linux machine. It's not that difficult (basically configure DHCP, TFTP, and NFS, all of which live on in modern software) and solves the noisy SCSI drive problem.

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Sun 3/60 lives again
by Mike Loewen 04 Jan '19

04 Jan '19

This has been on my TODO list for years, so it's a good way to start off the new year. I have a Sun 3/60 with 24MB and CG4 video which I've been meaning to set up as a diskless client from my Linux server. Until I get a keyboard adapter cobbled together for a Type 4 keyboard, I'm using a serial console. Diagnostics all check out from the PROM. There's a document floating around which describes one user's efforts to netboot his 3/60: http://sites.inka.de/pcde/help/sunos_network_boot.html I used that as a starting point, but it was written in 2004 so there are additional steps required. For one thing, bootparamd is no longer included in Fedora Linux (since FC25), so I had to make some changes to the FC24 SRPM for bootparamd to get it compiled and repackaged for FC28. Also, FC28 by default has NFS version 2 disabled so you have to change options in /etc/nfs.conf to enable UDP and version 2. Here's the console log of it booting SunOS 4.1.1: Mike Loewen mloewen(a)cpumagic.scol.pa.us Old Technology http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Boot: le(0,0,0) Booting from tftp server at 192.168.202.1 = C0A8CA01 Downloaded 101800 bytes from tftp server. Using IP Address 192.168.202.104 = C0A8CA68 hostname: sun360 domainname: (none) server name '192.168.202.1' root pathname '/export/root/sun360' root on 192.168.202.1:/export/root/sun360 fstype nfs Boot: vmunix Size: 893160+189568+202104 bytes SunOS Release 4.1.1 (GENERIC) #1: Sat Oct 13 06:05:48 PDT 1990 Copyright (c) 1983-1990, Sun Microsystems, Inc. mem = 24576K (0x1800000) avail mem = 23486464 Ethernet address = 8:0:20:0:56:5 si0 at obio 0x140000 pri 2 st0 at si0 slave 32 st1 at si0 slave 40 st2 at si0 slave 24 st3 at si0 slave 16 sr0 at si0 slave 48 sd0 at si0 slave 0 sd1 at si0 slave 1 sd2 at si0 slave 8 sd3 at si0 slave 9 sd4 at si0 slave 16 sd6 at si0 slave 24 zs0 at obio 0x20000 pri 3 zs1 at obio 0x0 pri 3 le0 at obio 0x120000 pri 3 cgfour0 at obmem 0xff300000 pri 4 bwtwo0 at obmem 0xff000000 pri 4 bwtwo0: resolution 1152 x 900 bwtwo1 at obmem 0xff400000 bwtwo1: resolution 1152 x 900 hostname: sun360 domainname: (none) root on 192.168.202.1:/export/root/sun360 fstype nfs swap on 192.168.202.1:/export/swap/sun360 fstype nfs size 62500K dump on 192.168.202.1:/export/swap/sun360 fstype nfs size 62472K checking filesystems Automatic reboot in progress... Fri Jan 4 03:46:34 GMT 2019 checking quotas: done. starting rpc and net services: portmap keyserv. mount -vat nfs mount: 192.168.202.1:/export/exec/sun3.sunos.4.1.1 already mounted mount: 192.168.202.1:/export/exec/kvm/sun3.sunos.4.1.1 already mounted 192.168.202.1:/export/home mounted on /home starting additional services: biod. starting system logger starting local daemons: auditd sendmail statd lockd. link-editor directory cache preserving editor files clearing /tmp standard daemons: update cron uucp. starting network daemons: inetd printer. Fri Jan 4 03:47:01 GMT 2019 sun360 login: root Jan 4 03:47:11 sun360 login: ROOT LOGIN console Last login: Fri Jan 4 03:31:46 on console SunOS Release 4.1.1 (GENERIC) #1: Sat Oct 13 06:05:48 PDT 1990 sun360# date Thu Jan 3 22:47:22 EST 2019 sun360# ifconfig -a le0: flags=63<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING> inet 192.168.202.104 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 192.168.202.0 ether 8:0:20:0:56:5 lo0: flags=49<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000 sun360#

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