Thanks for the trip down memory lane.  I liked the 7980SX tape drives.  Did
you know that at high compression, you could store up to, are you ready for
this, one gigabyte of data, on a 2400 foot reel tape.  Wow!

:-)


Denys

-----Original Message-----
From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
Of Johnson, Tracy
Sent: Friday, June 02, 2006 9:48 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] Converting A 7980S to a 7980A for a Classic

It's a garage machine.  I wanted to get it running before the heat sets
in.

After I convert to Buffalo drives, I got a NIC card for it so I can put
it up on my home network.  

Someday I'll need help configuring Network Services on a Classic.

I have both platform 3P and 4 FOS and SUBSYS tapes with everything.*  So
installing NS shouldn't be a problem.

*  I mean SUBSYS with EVERYTHING, it was a gift from HP when they
stopped distribution of MPE/V.  I got SPL, FORTRAN, COBOL, BASIC,
PASCAL, (other s**t I've never even heard of,) ... the works.

Tracy Johnson
Measurement Specialties, Inc. 

BT







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> -----Original Message-----
> From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion 
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Denys Beauchemin
> Sent: Friday, June 02, 2006 10:38 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] Converting A 7980S to a 7980A for a Classic
> 
> 
> Good for you Tracy!   Now tell me, is this system in 
> production or just a
> hobby?
> 
> Denys
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion 
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Tracy Johnson
> Sent: Friday, June 02, 2006 2:40 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [HP3000-L] Converting A 7980S to a 7980A for a Classic
> 
> Having acquired 3 7980 tape drives, two of the A model and 
> one of the S 
> model, only the S model worked.
> 
> But I needed an A model to connect to my HP3000 Micro/XE.
> 
> The fix was easy, but figuring it out was a little more difficult.
> 
> This essentially means converting the S model from SCSI to HP-IB.
> 
> You can't just move the HP-IB card from the A to the S model.  The S 
> model had only 3 cards in the internal card cage.  The older A models 
> had 4.  The drive's display will neither show an HP-IB ADDR 
> or SCSI ID 
> display.
> 
> So I swapped the A model's 4 internal cards with the S models 
> 3 internal 
> cards and voila.  My Micro/XE recognized the HP-IB address and it was 
> able to make it's first full backup in 2 years.
> 
> Now I can move off it's lone 7937 Eagle drive and RELOAD it onto some 
> "newer" Buffalo chips I managed to acquire.  I think someone here was 
> looking for that Eagle.
> 
> -- 
> BT
> 
> Tracy Johnson
> Justin Thyme Productions
> Ye olde free telnet games at:
> http://hp3000.empireclassic.com/
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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