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Problem restarting a SUN ULTRA 5
by Gregg Levine 11 Oct '24

11 Oct '24

Hello! I own of those rigs. Now the problem: Can anyone on the list tell me why a system would find itself stuck probing the keyboard, when it runs headless? And how to get things started again. It follows that the unit who was last running, call it seven years ago, and when I first started it up again, the thing complained about the NVRAM and the next problem was a complaint of it being the system calls itself unknown. ----- Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8(a)gmail.com "This signature was present when the impossible happened 23 years ago, twice."

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fellow looking for group purchase of Kembak-1 enclosures
by Jeffrey Jonas 10 Oct '24

10 Oct '24

forwarded from https://www.facebook.com/groups/1233645553343772/posts/27122189570729349/ <https://www.facebook.com/groups/1233645553343772/user/1210335479/?__cft__[0…> *Bob Darlington* <https://www.facebook.com/groups/1233645553343772/user/1210335479/?__cft__[0…> Looks like I'm building a reproduction KENBAK-1. The price to get the Bud enclosure made in qty 1 is pushing $900 from PCBWay. $500 from a shop stateside. And about $60 a pop in quantities greater than 1 (pretty much what I"m used to with metal shops). The cost is in the setup. I'm going to build a wall display unless there are other folks with an interest in such things. My shift registers came in this week. Do any of you know what the plastic carrier is called? Photo of the KENBAK-1 to grab attention.

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DEC RK05 part needed
by Dave McGuire 10 Oct '24

10 Oct '24

Hey folks, LSSM needs a door lock solenoid for a DEC RK05 drive. Would anyone happen to have a spare, maybe from a parts drive? They are easily extracted. Thanks, -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA

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Slightly OT Event
by Chris Fala 10 Oct '24

10 Oct '24

Did anyone hear of *JAWNCON.ORG <http://JAWNCON.ORG>* and if so are you going? I heard about it on the latest Hackaday newsletter. It is nearby me, but the cost is $100 and I don't want to waste the resources if it is a crap event.

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Internet Archive got hacked.
by Christian Liendo 10 Oct '24

10 Oct '24

A lot of us have logged into that site https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/internet-archive-hacked-data… Internet Archive's "The Wayback Machine" has suffered a data breach after a threat actor compromised the website and stole a user authentication database containing 31 million unique records. News of the breach began circulating Wednesday afternoon after visitors to archive.org began seeing a JavaScript alert created by the hacker, stating that the Internet Archive was breached. "Have you ever felt like the Internet Archive runs on sticks and is constantly on the verge of suffering a catastrophic security breach? It just happened. See 31 million of you on HIBP!," reads a JavaScript alert shown on the compromised archive.org site. The text "HIBP" refers to is the Have I Been Pwned data breach notification service created by Troy Hunt, with whom threat actors commonly share stolen data to be added to the service. Hunt told BleepingComputer that the threat actor shared the Internet Archive's authentication database nine days ago and it is a 6.4GB SQL file named "ia_users.sql." The database contains authentication information for registered members, including their email addresses, screen names, password change timestamps, Bcrypt-hashed passwords, and other internal data. The most recent timestamp on the stolen records was ta is September 28th, 2024, likely when the database was stolen. Hunt says there are 31 million unique email addresses in the database, with many subscribed to the HIBP data breach notification service. The data will soon be added to HIBP, allowing users to enter their email and confirm if their data was exposed in this breach. The data was confirmed to be real after Hunt contacted users listed in the databases, including cybersecurity researcher Scott Helme, who permitted BleepingComputer to share his exposed record.

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Teleprinter
by Ricardo 8-Bit Desk 08 Oct '24

08 Oct '24

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VCF Swap Meet is Saturday, Oct. 26 8AM to 2PM
by Jeffrey Brace 08 Oct '24

08 Oct '24

For some reason people were getting confused by another email chain with the previous date. I was advised to repeat that the swap meet is Saturday, Oct. 26, not any other dates. Thanks! Jeff Brace VCF Mid-Atlantic Event Manager

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Some notes on Bendix G-15 - See latest video
by Bob Roswell 08 Oct '24

08 Oct '24

David (Usagi Electric) has posted his 12th video on his restoration of our Bendix G-15. The full list of videos is https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnw98JPyObn3QSIwUz5Iv6NA1x-uGFqAa In the most recent post he gets the unit to boot! Well worth the watch! Henry Harrison (1917-2010) collected 4 Bendix G-15s. His sons lent one of the G-15s to the federation's museum in Wall. The Harrison estate auctioned that unit S/N 3 https://www.rrauction.com/auctions/lot-detail/347709906735051-bendix-g-15-t… The Computer Museum @ System Source purchased the remaining three units #1 Is on display at System Source #2 Is on loan to VC Federation and is on display in the museum at Wall to replace the unit that was auctioned #3 Is on loan to Usagi Electric and is being restored. We have had volunteers scanning led by Rob Kolstad scanning our library of G-15 Documents. The docs are https://rbk.delosent.com/g15doc.html Most of the documentation we have was from a local Baltimore company that was called Greiner Engineering. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._E._Greiner_Company Greiner Engineering did the design work for many roads and bridges in Maryland. A side note about Greiner Engineering. They had a long history of winning contracts in Maryland by participating in payoff screens involving a the former Baltimore County Executive, then Governor of Maryland, and then US Vice President Spiro T. Agnew. A good summary is in Time Magazine from August 1973 https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,907711-1,00.html Bob Roswell broswell(a)syssrc.com 410-771-5544 ext 4336 Computer Museum Highlights<http://museum.syssrc.com/> [cid:image001.jpg@01DB18AC.A53F4430]

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Slightly O/T
by Martin A. Flynn 07 Oct '24

07 Oct '24

I donated a pair of Carrier Access ADIT600 channel banks in the factory rack kit to VCF a while back. Anyone know where they are in the warehouse at Camp Evans? Martin

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] vcf-midatlantic Digest, Vol 77, Issue 2
by David Waybright 03 Oct '24

03 Oct '24

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ChargePoint Home Pro, CPF25, CPF50, CPH50, CT4000, CP6000, OnRamp, Express 100, 200,& 250 Certified Technician [cid:2b298971-deef-4621-bf0b-bba8a9c4ff33]<https://outlook.office.com/bookwithme/user/0f52d73c69ad43ffb4490b6e75ed0de2…> Book time to meet with me<https://outlook.office.com/bookwithme/user/0f52d73c69ad43ffb4490b6e75ed0de2…> ________________________________ From: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic-bounces(a)lists.vcfed.org> on behalf of vcf-midatlantic-request(a)lists.vcfed.org <vcf-midatlantic-request(a)lists.vcfed.org> Sent: Thursday, October 3, 2024 8:00 AM To: vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org <vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> Subject: vcf-midatlantic Digest, Vol 77, Issue 2 Send vcf-midatlantic mailing list submissions to vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.vcfed.org/mailman/listinfo/vcf-midatlantic or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to vcf-midatlantic-request(a)lists.vcfed.org You can reach the person managing the list at vcf-midatlantic-owner(a)lists.vcfed.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of vcf-midatlantic digest..." Today's Topics: 1. ISA bus via USB? Raspberry Pi? Beaglebone? (Jeffrey Jonas) 2. Re: ISA bus via USB? Raspberry Pi? Beaglebone? (Bill Degnan) 3. Re: ISA bus via USB? Raspberry Pi? Beaglebone? (Devin Heitmueller) 4. Re: ISA bus via USB? Raspberry Pi? Beaglebone? (David Riley) 5. Re: ISA bus via USB? Raspberry Pi? Beaglebone? (Neil Cherry) 6. Re: ISA bus via USB? Raspberry Pi? Beaglebone? (Jonathan Chapman) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2024 12:13:37 -0400 From: Jeffrey Jonas <jeffrey.scott.jonas(a)gmail.com> To: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> Subject: [vcf-midatlantic] ISA bus via USB? Raspberry Pi? Beaglebone? Message-ID: <CAOCNM4TQEkVWS78Sc12gMtSHFKMfQoH6BKOPBXJffrzYxBrD3Q(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" I have some 8, 16 bit ISA cards that I'd love to keep running. Are there any options such as ISA via USB? ISA on Raspberry Pi or Beaglebone? -- jeff jonas ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2024 13:35:06 -0400 From: Bill Degnan <billdegnan(a)gmail.com> To: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> Subject: Re: [vcf-midatlantic] ISA bus via USB? Raspberry Pi? Beaglebone? Message-ID: <CABGJBue=prsx=UN7_DCx-M+b=-zx9=Mte-Uhagrv+vasz8uhkA(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" time-wise, why not just get an IBM XT /clone and use that? I assume you already thought of this and don't have an XT lying around.... but what's the point if you don't have a system? Plus to really set up a USB solution you'd need an XT/AT system to confirm the USB solution works, at least for a while until you know for sure. b On Wed, Oct 2, 2024 at 12:14?PM Jeffrey Jonas via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > I have some 8, 16 bit ISA cards that I'd love to keep running. > Are there any options such as ISA via USB? > ISA on Raspberry Pi or Beaglebone? > > -- jeff jonas > ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2024 16:25:24 -0400 From: Devin Heitmueller <devin.heitmueller(a)gmail.com> To: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> Subject: Re: [vcf-midatlantic] ISA bus via USB? Raspberry Pi? Beaglebone? Message-ID: <CAJQgbyNxHCSHM7sFytah-Ted1q8rpQPmS694BRes62co4SZHHw(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Also, even if you were able to interface the ISA bus via USB, you still need software and drivers, which probably wouldn't be available on modern Linux embedded devices such as the Pi. I guess if you can tell us specifically which cards you are interested in using, we might be able to offer better advice. I probably wouldn't think it was worth the effort unless the board performed some specialized function (e.g. control some specialized piece of equipment). I can't imagine any world where it would be worth the headache for something commonplace like an Ethernet card, video card, etc. Devin On Wed, Oct 2, 2024 at 1:35?PM Bill Degnan via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > > time-wise, why not just get an IBM XT /clone and use that? I assume you > already thought of this and don't have an XT lying around.... but what's > the point if you don't have a system? Plus to really set up a USB solution > you'd need an XT/AT system to confirm the USB solution works, at least for > a while until you know for sure. > b > > On Wed, Oct 2, 2024 at 12:14?PM Jeffrey Jonas via vcf-midatlantic < > vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > > > I have some 8, 16 bit ISA cards that I'd love to keep running. > > Are there any options such as ISA via USB? > > ISA on Raspberry Pi or Beaglebone? > > > > -- jeff jonas > > ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2024 16:35:23 -0400 From: David Riley <fraveydank(a)gmail.com> To: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> Cc: Jeffrey Jonas <jeffrey.scott.jonas(a)gmail.com> Subject: Re: [vcf-midatlantic] ISA bus via USB? Raspberry Pi? Beaglebone? Message-ID: <1733C73A-C85B-4D1F-B7FC-F0C5E2C87B3F(a)gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > On Oct 2, 2024, at 12:13 PM, Jeffrey Jonas via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> wrote: > > I have some 8, 16 bit ISA cards that I'd love to keep running. > Are there any options such as ISA via USB? > ISA on Raspberry Pi or Beaglebone? I would point out that the PCI Express standard still maintains the subtractive addressing carve-out and I/O address spaces required for ISA cards, not least because some low-level elements of the PC architecture still use/emulate the old addresses. I believe there should be ISA expansion chassis available using commercially available bridge chips (a lot of PCIe serial cards are also just ISA or LPC (which is kinda-sorta serialized ISA) chips stapled onto a PCIe->ISA bridge chip as well) meant for industrial controls, but be warned that they're generally not cheap. There are also USB bridges, but I assume you'd need to write new drivers because there's no standard for tunneling ISA over USB like there is for PCI/PCIe. This is one such example. https://arstech.com/usb2-products/37-usb2isa-x3.html And it sounds like they also have a compatibility driver layer for it for many legacy operating systems: https://arstech.com/content/35-universal-software-layer For something like RPi or BeagleBone, you'd need to write your own drivers. - Dave ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2024 18:52:48 -0400 From: Neil Cherry <ncherry(a)linuxha.com> To: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> Cc: David Riley <fraveydank(a)gmail.com>, Jeffrey Jonas <jeffrey.scott.jonas(a)gmail.com> Subject: Re: [vcf-midatlantic] ISA bus via USB? Raspberry Pi? Beaglebone? Message-ID: <12dc5ab2-bcde-4e96-904d-5452b923bd01(a)linuxha.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed On 10/2/24 16:35, David Riley via vcf-midatlantic wrote: > PCIe->ISA bridge Using Dave's info in gogle: F85526 PCI Express to ISA Bridge IC And https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=putHMSzu5og Rest of the exercises let to you: -- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry kd2zrq(a)linuxha.com http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog Author of: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies KD2ZRQ ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2024 23:12:10 +0000 From: Jonathan Chapman <lists(a)glitchwrks.com> To: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> Subject: Re: [vcf-midatlantic] ISA bus via USB? Raspberry Pi? Beaglebone? Message-ID: <IU6u_3gL-zljVqSjCu_HTfsMNZFD94x7AXxRRWZDcDf-93M6rlCkHxQcBTkAQmgv20NruTadgBc1-jM58bUldxfO5L4BpVbw4_-XkzQE47U=(a)glitchwrks.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > I have some 8, 16 bit ISA cards that I'd love to keep running. > Are there any options such as ISA via USB? > ISA on Raspberry Pi or Beaglebone? I personally run little 4-slot industrial ISA backplane systems for ISA cards that support something important in the shop, like one of the EPROM programmers, or the NI GPIB-410 test/debug/sniffer board. You get to choose the CPU board, anything from 386SX to high-end Pentium III are common and available. I can then run whatever OS supports it without any extra work, and the hardware is more reliable than consumer stuff from the era. It's also pretty small! I know that's not a direct answer to the question asked :P Thanks, Jonathan End of vcf-midatlantic Digest, Vol 77, Issue 2 **********************************************

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