I've assembled some notes from old manuals and other sources
on the formats used for on-disk file systems through the
Seventh Edition:
http://www.cita.utoronto.ca/~norman/old-unix/old-fs.html
Additional notes, comments on style, and whatnot are welcome.
(It may be sensible to send anything in the last two categories
directly to me, rather than to the whole list.)
All,
I just received this e-mail. I have no idea who Wendy is, but
perhaps the things she has stashed away may be of some interest to you.
Warren
----- Forwarded message from Wendy Murphy -----
>From jendywo(a)yahoo.com Sat Aug 31 08:22:00 2002
Message-ID: <20020830222155.14119.qmail(a)web14907.mail.yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 15:21:55 -0700 (PDT)
From: Wendy Murphy <jendywo(a)yahoo.com>
Subject: computer inventory for hardcore geeks
To: clintw(a)colorado.cirrus.com, xds_sigma7(a)hotmail.com, eric(a)brouhaha.com,
iking(a)microsoft.com, mcquiggi(a)sfu.ca, emu(a)ecubics.com, dworkin(a)village.org,
russell283(a)attbi.com
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In my quest to get the house clean so I can get out, I
decided to inventory the computer stuff. It's like
inventory by the technologically blind! I got just so
far before I got frustrated and gave up.
Pat and Rob took the sillyscope (with the intention of
selling it, I believe) and the RT, I think it was
called (to keep for my ex-).
Dworkin took the PDP-11/73. I asked him for $84
because that's what I need to keep Xcel from shutting
off my electricity, but he chose to give me a check
for $500, which I have not cashed and won't until he's
had the stuff long enough to ascertain that it works
and tell me so, or for two weeks, whichever comes
first.
That leaves:
(Note: sizes are eyeballed by someone with a lousy
eye)
IN THE GARAGE:
various cables, keyboards, mouses, plugs,
cabinets, broken TVs, VCRs, and a Laser disk player,
and miscellaneous hardware
a box about 1'x1.5'x2' with a 3.5" and a 5.25"
drive, and seven flat buttons with colored lights and
symbols, like turtles, rabbits, and lightning bolts.
an Alpha Micro 1000E
Raster Tech monitor
D-SCAN, an 8"x8"x1" board with 17 female cable
plugs in three rows labeled "In" "Out" and "CH", six
columns labeled "R G B H V C"
a 3'x3'x2' dec RXO2 and RLO2
exposure timer & power supply unit
Sharp electric typewriter, and another electric
typewriter up too high for me to read anything off it.
a couple of Apple II+s (Dad wants to keep one as
he has some information on a 5.25" floppy formatted
for that computer)
SCM152 dry copier
microfiche reader ?
Kennedy model 9300 tape drive
AlphaWrite documentation, and several 3-ring
binders of documentation I just didn't feel like
thumbing through for particulars right now (but can
later, if you like)
and the infamous 78 2'x2' floor tiles. (Dworkin
said he's seen them advertised for $9 apiece, new.
They're not quite in new condition, but that gives a
ballpark for what they ought to be worth)
I didn't check IN THE LOFT, because it's too high for
me to reach or see.
IN THE FURNACE ROOM: I saw
an Amdex 300A video monitor
NEC multisync 2A monitor
Raster Tech monitor
ADDS (?) monitor
and at least one other monitor with no words I
could identify
An okidata printer
an ALPS ALQ200 printer
an IBM selectric II typewriter
a Minolta fax 261
and a "stack" -- y'know, a computer, with two
3.5" and one 5.25" floppy drives and buttons that said
"turbo" and "reset", but no brand name I could make
out.
IN THE CAVE: there remains
a Scientific Atlanta receiver
IBM monitor
IBM 3.5" floppy drive
HP LaserJet printer
Smith-Corona electric typewriter
Data south DS 150 printer
Microscience International Corporation thing that
says it has 7 heads and 855 cylinders, but won't tell
me what it uses them for
digital h3350; I don't know what it is, but it's
the size of a deck of cards
a couple of EMLock security door thingies
(magnetic)
various boards (green things with solder and
little batteries and stuff on them)
a couple of Alpha Micro video cassettes
That's what I had the energy to see. Can you
enlighten me as to what these things are and what
ought to be done with them? I can't even get at the
other stuff in the furnace room/garage until some of
it gets moved.
~ Wendy the technologically incorrigible
----- End of forwarded message from Wendy Murphy -----
Sokolov wrote:
> Johnny Billquist <bqt(a)update.uu.se> wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to figure out a way of getting the MSCP driver from Ultrix
> > available for porting to NetBSD.
>
> I don't support NetBSD, but Ultrix' MSCP/SCA code is available to everyone.
I know you don't support it. :-)
> > The problem is that it's (c) by Digital, now HP.
>
> It is a problem only if you choose to honor copyright laws. Since that is your
> personal voluntary choice, it is your problem.
Yes, and it's *that* problem I'm looking for a solution to.
> > Could I be lucky enough that Ultrix actually have been released?
> > And I'm talking Ultrix-32 here, not Ultrix-11.
>
> The International Free Computing Task Force has freed the Ultrix-32 V2.00 and
> V4.20 sources. They can be found on our FTP site in
Freed as in "legally freed", or just "made available".
> ivan.Harhan.ORG:/pub/UNIX/thirdparty/Ultrix-32
harhan.org don't exist from where my dns is looking... :-/
Another machine I have access to managed to resolve ivan.harhan.org to
208.221.139.1, but there is no response at that address.
However, if it is just the sources, and not some legal notes available,
then I don't need to go there.
Johnny
Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus
|| on a psychedelic trip
email: bqt(a)update.uu.se || Reading murder books
pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol
Johnny Billquist <bqt(a)update.uu.se> wrote:
> I'm trying to figure out a way of getting the MSCP driver from Ultrix
> available for porting to NetBSD.
I don't support NetBSD, but Ultrix' MSCP/SCA code is available to everyone.
> The problem is that it's (c) by Digital, now HP.
It is a problem only if you choose to honor copyright laws. Since that is your
personal voluntary choice, it is your problem.
> Could I be lucky enough that Ultrix actually have been released?
> And I'm talking Ultrix-32 here, not Ultrix-11.
The International Free Computing Task Force has freed the Ultrix-32 V2.00 and
V4.20 sources. They can be found on our FTP site in
ivan.Harhan.ORG:/pub/UNIX/thirdparty/Ultrix-32
--
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Programletarian Freedom Fighter ESCONDIDO CA 92025-2154 USA
International Free Computing Task Force Phone: +1-760-480-4575
msokolov(a)ivan.Harhan.ORG (ARPA)
Let the Source be with you
Programletarians of the world, unite!
Hi. I have a small question for you.
I'm trying to figure out a way of getting the MSCP driver from Ultrix
available for porting to NetBSD.
The problem is that it's (c) by Digital, now HP.
Does anyone know of any persons who were involved in the old days when
code was exchanged between BSD and Ultrix? Those people might be a good
starting point for getting code today as well I suspect.
Does anyone else around here have any good clues on this?
Could I be lucky enough that Ultrix actually have been released?
And I'm talking Ultrix-32 here, not Ultrix-11.
Johnny
Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus
|| on a psychedelic trip
email: bqt(a)update.uu.se || Reading murder books
pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol
In article by Joe Dellea:
> What does one do in such a situation?
Hi Joe, I've passed the e-mail on to some mailing lists, and hopefully
you will get some eager mail about it soon!
Good luck,
Warren
----- Forwarded message from Joe Dellea -----
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 02:35:12 -0600
From: Joe Dellea <jjdellea(a)chisp.net>
To: wkt(a)tuhs.org
Subject: heavy to ship
Proffessor Toomey:
I have an interesting problem for you....
A friend of mine here in Denver, (Colorado,US) is in posession of a
PDP 11/73 and litterally a ton of peripheral hardware- it was left in
her house by her ex-husband who more than likely dumpster-dived it while
working for the phone company. The Ex is a talented Computer guy, but a
bit of an idiot in his personal life....
Friend wants to find a new home for this machine.
Friend is erratic. Also fairly pissed off.
Could probably use some money, but mainly wants the thing to go away,
rather than calculate actual dollar value or whatever.... Would be happy
if it went to a good home.
What does one do in such a situation?
In my case, I found your web-page near the top of a Google search.....
Regards,
Joe Dellea
jjdellea(a)chisp.net
----- End of forwarded message from Joe Dellea -----
Ian King wrote:
> > I suggest you now find a multi-port beer card, insert that into a
free
> > slot, add /dev/beer to the kernel, and abuse it lots... :)
> >
> > (rumor is, that 2.9bsd has much more space available for /dev/beer
> > buffers, though, so if 2.11 doesn't allow enough of it, just take
the
> > plunge and downgrade to 2.9... ;-)
> > Should he implement uubp?
Well, that's kinda store-and-forward. A bit dated, innit? Why
not go the modern way and go straight for the splattering-type
mbdp? For those who dunno: Multicast Beer Distribution Protocol.
One catch... given the kind of stuff we want distributed, we'd better
not have any (memory and/or session) leaks...
--f
Needed to tell someone, so I thought I would tell all of you!
My PDP11/73 now has BSD2.11 installed and working. I added a DEQNA card,
rebuilt the kernel and now ping, telnet, ftp et al is working.
The joy of telneting into my '11 from a Windoze machine is beyond words!
Many thanks to Warren, Fred and Joe for all the help and advice.
Regards
Kevin
I suggest you now find a multi-port beer card, insert that into
a free slot, add /dev/beer to the kernel, and abuse it lots... :)
(rumor is, that 2.9bsd has much more space available for /dev/beer
buffers, though, so if 2.11 doesn't allow enough of it, just take
the plunge and downgrade to 2.9... ;-)
--f
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Murrell [mailto:kevin@ps8.co.uk]
> Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2002 3:04 PM
> To: Pups Mailing List
> Subject: [pups] It all works!!
>
>
> Needed to tell someone, so I thought I would tell all of you!
>
> My PDP11/73 now has BSD2.11 installed and working. I added a
> DEQNA card,
> rebuilt the kernel and now ping, telnet, ftp et al is working.
>
> The joy of telneting into my '11 from a Windoze machine is
> beyond words!
>
> Many thanks to Warren, Fred and Joe for all the help and advice.
>
> Regards
>
>
> Kevin
>
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