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From: nmil@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Nikola Miljkovic')
Subject: Memory upgrade questions (was: Dram chipss)
Originator: news@ernie.Princeton.EDU
Keywords: ram, memory
Organization: not organized
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 03:52:25 GMT

In article <1992Mar29.184549.6461@polari.com> ape@polari.com writes:
>     I just bought a 7300 with 1 meg and am wanting to upgrade to the 2 megs
>that are capable on the motherboard (at least I THINK the motherboard can handle
>2 megs on it).  Since I only want to open up the case once, what kind of dram
>chips do I get.  Are there 1 meg drams or do I use the 256k drams??  Are there
>different kinds of 256k drams and if so, what kind do I need?  What is the
>problem of converting the board to use simms (not that I really plan to go
>to that much trouble).  Thanks in advance.
>
Checking the old notes I found that chips needed are 256x1 drams.
One needs 36 for a Mb due to parity. I got the chips and machined
sockets (AUGAT, narrow type).

After opening the case I realized that I won't be able to finish the job
that fast. The first thing is that holes for the memory were filled up
and so I need to desolder them first. 

One also needs  15 Cx's and 12 Cw's. That is how they are denoted on the
board. Cx is obviously a capacitor and it has 104 written on it what
should be 100nF, although they are really small. (Is this right?)
Now Cw's should also be some kind of capacitors since they are there in
the same way as Cx's and they are "C". But they don't look as if they
are capacitors (at last to me). I could only read 103M on them. Their
shell is transparent and they look more like  diodes. Can anyone who
have done the upgrade share the insight with net.

There are also 4 resistor packs missing. What is the resistance?
I couldn't see the label.

I hope that there is someone who did this and can tell us how to finish
the job. Thanks.

Nick
From: azog@thoth.rent.com (Billy D'Augustine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: strings
Date: 10 Apr 92 05:21:15 GMT
Organization: Cranial Construction Corp

Anyone know where I can snarf the source for that handy little program
strings? Thanx


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
From: am749@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Constance K. Fawcett)
Subject: Re:  terminfo
Reply-To: am749@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Constance K. Fawcett)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 92 02:12:09 GMT


Hi.  While digging through my foundation software, I did find the
terminfo install disk.  I did install it.  It turns out that tic is on
that disk.  Unfortunately, compress is also on there, and the version on
the install disk overwrote the newer version which I had compiled
myself.  I also got a ton of terminal entries that I don't need.
Someone had sent me some uuencoded compiled terminfo binaries, which
worked fine, so in retrospect, I wish I hadn't installed the stuff off
the install disk.  I have only about 600K left on my hard drive, so I
have to be careful.  Anyway, at least I know where everything is.  The
previous owner of my machine never bothered to install terminfo, and I
didn't realize that it was part of the foundation set, and not part of
the dev set.  Thanks for all the input.
-- 
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			r1ckf@vax1.cc.uakron.edu
			r1ckf@vm1.cc.uakron.edu
From: jwbirdsa@picarefy.picarefy.com (James W. Birdsall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Re: IN/ix from Chicago
Date: 10 Apr 92 01:56:49 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Green Tiger Software

In article <1992Apr9.045317.10306@nwnexus.WA.COM> frank@nwnexus.WA.COM (Frank Higgins (Courtesy Account (1/21/92))) writes:
>Has anyone who purchased IN/ix from the Chicago stuff ever gotten it to
>run? The whys and wherefors of success or failure are of interest. Those
>who aree having difficulty want to know why the others are successful.
>So would I. The only success story I know of is the owner in Chicago who
>used an AT&T 6300 with an 8 mhz 8088 cpu chip.

   Well, I got it running on an original-equipment XT (4.77MHz 8088) with
an original-equipment 10M drive. I haven't fooled with it much, but it did
boot up OK; I was able to log in as root and create a user account for
myself, then log in as that and compile "Hello, world".

   It's pretty slow, and I didn't install the office software that comes
with it, which is why I was able to fit it on a 10M drive.

   PC/IX, IN/ix's predecessor (SysIII instead of SysV) is known to be VERY
picky about the hardware it will run on. I was unable to get PC/IX going on
my GoldStar XT clone, or on "The Beast", which is an original XT
motherboard but with a lot of additional hardware. However, PC/IX came up
just fine when I acquired an original-equipment XT with original-equipment
10M drive. IN/ix may have some of the same problems.

-- 
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From: dburr@nixhub.UUCP (Donald Burr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: (Ka9q) Making TELNET do a /bin/login...?
Date: 15 Apr 92 06:58:44 GMT
Reply-To: dburr@sbphy.physics.ucsb.edu (Donald Burr)
Organization: NixBBS Public Access UNIX, Carpinteria, CA


I remember somewhere, someone posted something that said basically that
you could have TELNET server in ka9q do a /bin/login (ie. .if someone
telnets to you machine, they get a login prompt)  I think he mentioned
that you needed the pty driver for this.

Well I've got the pty driver, ka9q internet package, and time.  How can I
set this up?

Also how can I get SLIP to dial out to a host and establish a connection?
Or do I have to do that manually , with cu, etc.?

basically I've got a serial line to a modem and would like to be able to do
SLIP between my computer and a friend's computer (he also runs ka9q)

Please send email to dburr@sbphy.physics.ucsb.edu.  Thanks.
 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
From: pjh@mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg)
Subject: Re: No BOF at TCF '92?
Organization: The College On The Other Side Of Route One
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 16:16:01 GMT

In article <3248@hico2.UUCP> kak@hico2.UUCP (Kris A. Kugel) writes:
=For the past 2 or more years, there's been a unixpc/3b1/7300 BOF
=meeting at the Trenton Computer Festival, which is next weekend [11-12].
=But I have not heard a word about one this year.

In the past, Dave Shevett and Lisa Holsberg did the UPC BOF. Because of
the pressures of planning their forthcoming marriage (May 17, in case
you want to send gifts ;-), they have not had time to set one up this year.

There is a "UNIX Users Group" meeting scheduled on Sunday from 1-3:30
and I'd be happy to turn an hour or so over to UPC BOF-ing if you'd like.

=I've also heard that news distribution is screwed up somehow.

In what sense?

Pete
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Internet: pjh@mccc.edu       Trenton Computer Festival: April 11-12, 1992
From: swenson@jupitr.enet.dec.com (Walter Swenson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: 3B1 FAQ List?
Date: 13 Apr 92 16:32:09 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


	Does anyone have a copy of the most recent faq posting..,.I had it 
but can't seem to find it now...Thanks...Walter
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
From: hybl@umbc4.umbc.edu (Dr. Albert Hybl (UMAB-BIOPHYS))
Subject: My 3b1 quit--Need help
Organization: University of Maryland Baltimore Campus
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 17:25:09 GMT

My AT&T 3b1 quit sometime after 11 PM Apr 14.  The next morning
the screen was dark, the keyboard unresponsive, the fan and HD
were not spinning.  There was NO power failure (all the electronic
house clocks were correctly set).  Turning the machine off and
then back on did nothing.  This machine had been rock solid up
until it quit.

I opened the plastic box to expose the power supply, HD and FD.
Although there was plenty dust, nothing was burnt or
melted.  After cleaning everything that I could, I replaced
the power supply with a spare one.  (Both power supplies are
Model PS 1610-1.)  Reapplying power did not bring the machine
up; the fan and HD did not even quiver.  I established that
the power switch in the rear of the machine was working and
that power was available inside the machine, but nothing
else seemed to be working.

Do I have two dead power supplies or is there something
simple that should be checked?  Can the 3b1 power supply
be safely powered up outside the 3b1 (with no load)?
What voltages are expected at what locations?  What voltages
can I safely check inside the machine?

I am not an electronic hotshot but can do some simple probing.
Any help, advice and/or suggestions are welcome.  I know that
I have a hardcopy of the 3b1 FAQ postings somewhere but now that
I have a need, I can not find them.  Can someone please e-mail them
to me?

Thank you in advance,
Albert Hybl (hybl@umbc3.umbc.edu)
From: dnichols@ceilidh.beartrack.com (Don Nichols (DoN.))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Re: Connecting a US Robotics HST MODEM to a 7300 __THE ANSWER__!
Date: 10 Apr 92 04:06:23 GMT
Organization: D and D Data, Vienna Virginia

In article <1992Apr9.011048.15567@chinet.chi.il.us> wdp@chinet.chi.il.us (Bill Pfeiffer) writes:
>
>Finally after many failed attempts for help from this and other groups on
>the perplexing problem of connecting the USR HST to my 7300, the answer
>came quite by accident!
>
>It is all in thew cable.  The "hayes' setting is used and the cable must
>have only the following pins in use...
>
>As you face the front (pin side) of the rs-232 modem cable
>
>Pins 1 - 8 on the top (longer) row of the 25 pin connector 
>Pin  7 _ONLY_ on the lower (shorter) row of pipins 
      ^

	That should be pin 20 (DTR - Data Terminal Ready) in the second row.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
From: hans@mongo.hfconsulting.com (Hans K. Fiedler)
Subject: Screen blanking problem
Organization: HF Consulting
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 02:57:27 GMT

I've started having a problem in the last week with the screen blanking on
my 3b1.  If I have the screen blanking turned on in ua, when it blanks nothing
seems to get processed on the system till I hit a key and the screen comes
back.  One the screen redisplays, the system gets real busy for a minute or
two till it catches up.  The only system software that got changed about that
time was running dstconvert (since I hadn't done that after my disk crash last
fall).  I'm planning on reloading part of the system from the distributions
but was wondering if anyone else had seem this problem, I'm running 3.51m.

-- 
    [When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. - Raoul Duke(HST)]
Hans K. Fiedler, KD4DYG				hans@mongo.HFConsulting.Com
"Don't believe in luck, Rely on it"		HF Consulting, Louisville Ky.
From: dnichols@ceilidh.beartrack.com (Don Nichols (DoN.))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Re: Problems with STARLAN uucp link
Keywords: starlan 3B1 uucp HDB BNU 7300 unixpc
Date: 14 Apr 92 01:46:39 GMT
Organization: D and D Data, Vienna Virginia

In article <3257@hico2.UUCP> kak@hico2.westmark.com writes:
>I don't understand this: I hook up starlan, and my machines can't
>connect with uucp, but it breaks AFTER the successful login,

	[ ... ]

>think of, including the one shown below.  The reluctant machine
>is not running the default 3B1 HDB uucp, but still . . . .
                    ^^^^^^^     ^^^

	Well, the HDB package is *NOT* the default uucp for the 3B1.
Remember that that is an add-on package from THE STORE.  I have never gotten
the starlan software package (got the hardware, then I got ethernet cards
and software, and that was better for my purpose).  Since I have never had
the starlan software, I don't know how they got the uucp to work with it.
Perhaps it comes with a replacement version of uucico, in which case, that
version may be expecting the *REAL* default version of uucp, and not be
looking for a Permisssions file, etc, but looking under the OLD names for
the stock uucp.

	You probably should use cpio to extract the install disk contents
into /tmp and find out what software is there, and where the Install script
tries to put it.

	Good Luck
		DoN.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
From: hans@mongo.hfconsulting.com (Hans K. Fiedler)
Subject: which KA9Q to get for the 3b1
Organization: HF Consulting
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 22:49:46 GMT

I'm looking for a copy of KA9Q to run on a 3b1.  I've seen several versions
on different servers, and before I pulled all of them off thought I'd ask
for suggestions as to the 'best' version to use on my 3b1.  I've seen messages
in the past about people running this, but can't find them (if I remembered to
save them).  I've looked at 2 versions so far, but both seem to have different
problems.  
-- 
    [When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. - Raoul Duke(HST)]
Hans K. Fiedler, KD4DYG				hans@mongo.HFConsulting.Com
"Don't believe in luck, Rely on it"		HF Consulting, Louisville Ky.
From: wouk@alumni.cs.colorado.edu (Arthur Wouk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Re: HELP: I RAN DSTCONVERT  NOW KERMIT WONT RUN
Date: 10 Apr 92 19:52:42 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder

In article <1992Apr10.172517.10021@colorado.edu> wouk@alumni.cs.colorado.edu (Arthur Wouk) writes:
>When i rebooted, the top line of my screen was not established.
>
>i have NO date and time display.
>
>what did i do wrong?
>-- 
this one i found. dstconvert leaves the wrong permissions for smgr and
ph. i set them to 755 and that was taken care of.


however, now the new ph will not find the phone and does not permit 
kermit to run. does anyone know anything about this?
-- 
arthur wouk 
internet: wouk@alumni.cs.colorado.edu
From: visnucc@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Niagara U. Courtesy Account)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: WANTED: Development Set
Date: 13 Apr 92 05:53:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

Hello,

   I've got some people on this end that would really like to learn UNIX/C,
and feel that the UNIX-PC would be a nice platform to learn on, but I have
one problem.  I have some extra UNIX-PCs that I can give them, or can get
on the net, but don't have any Development Sets, only foundation sets.
If anyone has any extra Development Sets they would like to sell please
contact me at the address below.  I've got one for my machine (thanks PB!),
but would really like to help these guys out (work(ed) for Bell Aerospace,
and would like to learn some *new* systems, and not just Assembly lang.).
Thanks!

-Rich

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Niagara University                   BITNET: visnucc@ubvmsc.BITNET
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From: bheess@mcws.fidonet.org (Brian L. Heess)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Re: Bash-1.10
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 92 00:20:17 PST
Reply-To: bheess@mcws.fidonet.org
Distribution: world
Organization: midnight computer wiring society - Tujunga, CA, USA

forrie@morwyn.uucp (Forrie Aldrich) writes:

(back in January!  <GRIN>)

> | Yeah, but after ALL this time...what the heck is BASH, anyway...?
> 
> BASH stands for (gnu) Bourne-Again-SHell.  It's a POSIX implementation
> of /bin/sh with features of ksh, csh, etc... it has line editing, and
> lots of goodies.  It's big, and maybe a little slower than one likes,
> but it's the latest and you get src, and it works great (even though
> I about pulled all my hair out trying to compile the stinker).

Thanks Forrie!  I just now am starting to catch up on my news :-)
Here it is April, and I am reading January news....  Time to stay
on to of it!

Anyway, THANKS!  I want it now.  For the 3B/1's and 7300...  I think
it can make life a bit easier.  Heck, I'll have to get the src and
put it together on the system at work, too.

Can you remind me where to get yours and the original?

Thanks again!

-Brian


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From: jlowrey@skat.usc.edu (John 'Fritz' Lowrey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Shlib deficiencies
Date: 12 Apr 1992 18:30:17 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: skat.usc.edu

	Folks,
	I have been working on a "Bogosity Monitor" for the 3b1.  While
this is a program for my own enjoyment, it has pointed up a bit of an
interesting occurance.  Did anybody else know that neither acct.o nor
__cerror.o are contained in the shared library?  The manual says that
all of libc.a is contained in the shared lib.  Bothersome, eh?
	I overcame this by extracting the two needed object files, then
linking them explicitly in addition to the shlib.  What other libc.a 
functions have been excluded from the shlib, and is there a way to fix
this?  I suppose that I could find out for myself, but what have other
people encountered in this regard?

						Thanks
						Fritz

PS: BogoMonitor is going to be a widget like the Performance Monitor that
comes with OpenWindows.  It will monitor the accounting data for the
invoking terminal watching for processes that are being run.  You
will be able to set up a config file that has such entries as:

PROGRAM		BOGOVAL
======================
mail		UNBOGUS
sh		BOGUS
cc		REAL BOGUS
rn		WAY BOGUS
ua		OFF-THE-SCALE BOGUS

The result of my composite bogosity algorithm will be displayed as a 
marching bargraph in a small movable TAM window.  This is a toy, but fun,
later I'll write it for X-windows.
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         I hope I never see one,               | USC Computer Consulting
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         I'd rather see than be one."          | UUCP:     !uunet!usc!jlowrey
From: michaelb@wshb.csms.com ( WSHB Operations Eng)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Re: Replacement /bin/login?
Date: 7 Apr 92 13:45:07 GMT
Organization: WSHB, The Christian Sci. Monitor Syndicate, Pineland, S.C.

>: Has anyone ever done a replacement for /bin/login? I would like to
>: have one that disallows root logins over the tty[000-006] lines?
>: (using mgr, when I first login to the machine as root, the tty is
>: /dev/console, but within mgr the ttys are the pseudo ttys)
>
>You could implement dialup password security, using the /etc/d_passwd
>file.  Now all you need is a special shell for root.  Copy /bin/sh to
>/bin/rootsh, and use /bin/rootsh as the login shell for root in /etc/passwd.

My 7300 has been dead for a while, so I can't try this, but I think this
will wind up giving root a restricted shell. This is not good. Pick a new
name for the root shell that doesn't have an 'r' in the name.

Michael
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
From: forrie@morwyn.uucp (Forrie Aldrich)
Subject: Zip/Unzip for 3b1 (??)
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 06:30:36 GMT
Organization: VISION GRAPHICS - Dover, NH - USA
X-Bytes: 589

I've been looking for the popular Zip/Unzip for the 3b1 for some time now.
I have some OLD version that refuses to unzip Zip files!  

If anyone out there has an up-to-date version, please either email it
to me, or tell me where to snarf it.

Thanks.
-- 
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           -------     morwyn!forrie@unhtel.unh.edu       -------
           ----                                              ---- 
           --        VISION GRAPHICS -- Dover, NH - USA        --
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From: ostroff@Oswego.EDU (Boyd Ostroff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Re: which KA9Q to get for the 3b1
Date: 14 Apr 92 17:16:12 GMT
Reply-To: ostroff@oswego.Oswego.EDU (Boyd Ostroff)
Distribution: na
Organization: Instructional Computing Center, SUNY at Oswego, Oswego, NY

In article <dburr.703224512@sbphy.physics.ucsb.edu> dburr@sbphy.physics.ucsb.edu (Donald Burr) writes:
>I have a related question.  I picked up a KA9q binary, as well as the
>source
>code for that binary.  Unfortunately, this came with almost NO docs

[....]

>Where can I find the docs on how to do this?  Or does someone with a
>similar setup have some config files you can mail me?

This was posted to comp.sys.3b1 last fall by Rob Stampfli.  I would still
appreciate any additional info available.  I haven't had time to play
with ka9q recently, but would like to get it running *someday* over a
direct connection to my Mac (running the Macintosh version of "Net").

.............................................................................
....Boyd Ostroff / Technical Director / SUNY Oswego Department of Theatre....
...............Voice: (315) 341-2987 /  Fax: (315) 341-3394..................
..............ostroff@oswego.oswego.edu / ostroff@cboard.UUCP................

Article 2515 of comp.sys.3b1:
From: lied@cbnewsc.cb.att.com (Bob Lied)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: DOS73 limitations
Keywords: DOS-73, 3B1, UNIX-PC, compatibility
Date: 6 Apr 92 15:35:01 GMT
Organization: AT&T

[Sorry to defile the group with talk of DOS.]

I just picked up a DOS-73 card, which works fine, thank you
for asking.  So, I humped right down to Egghead and bought
Andrew Tobias' "Managing Your Money", installed it and
voila! it failed magnificently.  The program can't find files
that DOS swears are there.  Tech support thinks there's
something strange in my configuration, but they never heard
of a UNIX PC ("You have a *4 MEG* Virtual disk?  What brand is
that?")

a)  Has anybody else run this particular program on a DOS-73?
Any hints?

b)  Where are the limitations on portability?  The manual
mentions a couple.  I vaguely remember that this implementation
of DOS steals some space out of RAM, so that programs that
are wedged tight in 512K may not run.  Anybody know of
other things to look for before I soil myself with more
DOS-ware?

c)  Are there other programs that are known not to work
on the DOS-73?  Send me your bad experiences and I'll
compile them; maybe put together a list for the FAQ.
Conversely, tell me the names of applications that do
run, and I'll compile those too.

	Bob Lied	att!ihlpl!lied

"We have no money, so we must think."  -- Lord Rutherford