Free to a good home... (fwd)

Free to a good home... (fwd)

[Warren Toomey]

All,
	Just a message to say that the PUPS mailing list DOES exist :-)
It's just very quiet, so please feel free to wake it up. I should
send in a list of new things in the PUPS Archive.

We now have:
	152 people subscribed to the mailing list
	100 people with access to the PUPS archive
	1502 SCO Ancient Unix license holders.

Finally, John Dodson in Australia (who is not on the list), asked
me to forward this message to you all.

Cheers,
	Warren

----- Forwarded message from John Dodson -----
 From: John Dodson <johnd at physiol.usyd.edu.au>
 Subject: Free to a good home...

Free to a good home...

	Complete set of RSX11-M manuals. (Yes it ran on a PDP11 ;-)

	Complete set of Ultrix manuals. (Oh Ok so it ran on Vaxes ;-)

	One or 2 PDP-11/23's + some i/o cards (I'm not making a list, YOU must
			look, decide & negotiate with me to let them go...)
			A volunteer prepared to make a list would be OK.

Contact:

John Dodson,					Dept of Physiology, (F13)
johnd at physiol.usyd.edu.au			& Faculty of Medicine,
http://www.physiol.usyd.edu.au/johnd		University of Sydney,
Phone	+61 2 9351 3277				NSW 2006
Fax	+61 2 9351 2058				Australia.

Bring a strong friend when you pick it up. You have a week before the docs are
trashed. The machines & cards I'll keep for a while till they find a good home.
Sorry I cannot (will not) deliver.
----- End of forwarded message from John Dodson -----

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Well as the list does live (a bit) let me introduce myself, maybe I can get
out some discussion.

My name is Wim Fournier (for known people and friends (not that I have any)
it's Wimpie).
I'm a student of 19 years old and currently doing Technical Informatics...
That is something like system engineer with much knowledge.
I'm higly interrested in electronics; High Frequency radio; computers;
computer hardware; Old stuf (audio/compu/etc);unix/Linux

I own a PDP11/94 with modem-lines / dr11c / tu80 / etc
I have not got it working yet (hacking!!!)
It's from the dutch telecom company KPN who has used it for semaphone
(beepers and stuff) It came with a 19" rack (all black + heavy) and a switch
box for American plugs.
When I put the box and the PDP on power and switch on the switch and set it to
local on or power on, only the switch goes on... the PDP does not react.. I
have got one suspect: the wire between the switch and the PDP (3-wire in the
back)... it was broken and I re-wire it 1 on 1 but do not know if this is OK.

Further more I haven't got a disk yet. I'm searching for an old apple disk
(scsi-1) as someone told me it should work. 

If someone has got an answer to my frustrating problems.. I'm listening.. 8*}

Well... that will be the end of this shout for help plus introduction.. 

Greetings,

Wim Fournier

Unix Support Netherlands (practice training company for my study)

PS: sorry for the bad English if any.. My keyboard doesn't type English that
good... 8*))

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To: A.F.R.Bain at dpmms.cam.ac.uk (Alan F R Bain)
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> 
> Wim Fournier wrote:
> >Well as the list does live (a bit) let me introduce myself, maybe I can get
> >out some discussion.
> >
> >I own a PDP11/94 with modem-lines / dr11c / tu80 / etc
> >When I put the box and the PDP on power and switch on the switch and set it to
> >local on or power on, only the switch goes on... the PDP does not react.. I
> >have got one suspect: the wire between the switch and the PDP (3-wire in the
> >back)... it was broken and I re-wire it 1 on 1 but do not know if this is OK.
> 
> Why not try powering up the PDP independantly of the power controller?
> You can make an american socket -> dutch plug lead, or just swap the plug.
> There's also most probably a circuit breaker on the back of the PDP.
> Check that this hasn't tripped (or been damaged in transit!).
That's a good one.. I saw the breaker.. it's holding the floor of the pdp..
But what I'm wordering is what the power consumption is (at 220V) in ampere,
because I will be feeding it from an normal home-socket (line/null/mass) at
+/- 230Volt 10 Ampere.

> 
> The H??? power controller is just a box with a big relay for switching
> everything on at once.  There came with it two little short ciruit
> plugs for testing (there is a power on line and and power off due to
> overheating line).  I you do need a new three wire power controller
> cable, I have a box of hundreds of them, email me and I'm sure I can
> send you one.
Well.. I didn't get the test plugs.. but that's OK.. I'll nuke them myself 8*)
And as of the power controller cables.. How much does it cost to send from
your house (where do you live anyway?) to The Netherlands (I live near Utrecht
(about the center of NL))
> 
> >Further more I haven't got a disk yet. I'm searching for an old apple disk
> >(scsi-1) as someone told me it should work. 
> 
> This depends upon the controller cards installed in the PDP.  
> 
I'll send you a list tommorow..
> Alan
> 

Thanks

Wim Fournier

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1502 SCO Ancient Unix license holders!  (Or is it 152?)

Wow, that's $150,000 to SCO for supporting the effort.
That should probably be enough to pay all the lawyers, etc.
(Even if it's only $15,000.)  I hope Warren got a cut, too.  :)

Dave

Warren Toomey wrote:
> 
> All,
>         Just a message to say that the PUPS mailing list DOES exist :-)
> It's just very quiet, so please feel free to wake it up. I should
> send in a list of new things in the PUPS Archive.
> 
> We now have:
>         152 people subscribed to the mailing list
>         100 people with access to the PUPS archive
>         1502 SCO Ancient Unix license holders.
> 
> Finally, John Dodson in Australia (who is not on the list), asked
> me to forward this message to you all.
> 
> Cheers,
>         Warren
> 
> ----- Forwarded message from John Dodson -----
>  From: John Dodson <johnd at physiol.usyd.edu.au>
>  Subject: Free to a good home...
> 
> Free to a good home...
> 
>         Complete set of RSX11-M manuals. (Yes it ran on a PDP11 ;-)
> 
>         Complete set of Ultrix manuals. (Oh Ok so it ran on Vaxes ;-)
> 
>         One or 2 PDP-11/23's + some i/o cards (I'm not making a list, YOU must
>                         look, decide & negotiate with me to let them go...)
>                         A volunteer prepared to make a list would be OK.
> 
> Contact:
> 
> John Dodson,                                    Dept of Physiology, (F13)
> johnd at physiol.usyd.edu.au                       & Faculty of Medicine,
> http://www.physiol.usyd.edu.au/johnd            University of Sydney,
> Phone   +61 2 9351 3277                         NSW 2006
> Fax     +61 2 9351 2058                         Australia.
> 
> Bring a strong friend when you pick it up. You have a week before the docs are
> trashed. The machines & cards I'll keep for a while till they find a good home.
> Sorry I cannot (will not) deliver.
> ----- End of forwarded message from John Dodson -----

Free to a good home... (fwd)

[Warren Toomey]

In article by David C. Jenner:
> 1502 SCO Ancient Unix license holders!  (Or is it 152?)

Whups, typo :-)
 
> Wow, that's $150,000 to SCO for supporting the effort.
> That should probably be enough to pay all the lawyers, etc.
> (Even if it's only $15,000.)  I hope Warren got a cut, too.  :)

No, no cut for me, just happiness that people can use the archive.
We're currently just back up from a campus-wide power failure. I knew
it was coming. Every time minnie get over 100 days uptime, we have a
power failure.

Cheers all,	
	Warren