On 4/20/20 7:09 AM, Andy ZL3AG via groups.io wrote:
I've being trying to hunt down VXI stuff and it comes up on the Google,
but points to web/ftp hosts that no longer exist. :^(
?? I use VXI a lot, and I have tons of VXI documentation in PDF format
for lots of different things.? Email me if you're looking for something
specific, or if you want to sync up documentation collections in some
way.
I started a dedicated vxi group at groups.io a while back and there's a
few members there but no action yet. There's a database of VXI modules,
incomplete but slowly getting there, and I just uploaded all the
Win95/NT VXI plug&play config files I've found (for VXI modules and
normal HP TE) there so people can get them if they need them.
Maybe another database of VXI documents could be an idea?
That would be good. I started such a thing about eight years ago,
using MediaWiki, but it was overrun by spam pretty quickly so I shut it
down. I had left it open for automatic creation of accounts, but there
were already bots that knew how to perform that interaction
automatically, and I built up several GBs worth of advertisements and
spam (damn suits!) in less than a day.
I would certainly do it differently now if I were to try again. It
seems clear that just throwing stuff up in files sections of groups.io
mailing lists is kinda silly, as it is then once again subject to
corporate whim.
I'm just gathering stuff together right now so I can hit the ground
running once the shack is complete - being in isolation has helped as I
trim pine trees first thing every day and then while the rest of the
family are dragging the branches around, I can sneak off and build the
shack uninterrupted. :^)
Excellent.
Trees and branches...I addressed that problem by purchasing a piece of
property with a building on it that has a footprint of exactly the same
square footage as the property. B-) Life is too short for lawn maintenance.
One item I'd love to obtain is an E1323A or E2441B preprocessor card so
I can sniff the VXI bus with my 16702B for the "interesting" modules
I've obtained that don't have any documentation. There's one on eBay but
they want US$100 for it, and add the international shipping it becomes
well over $200 of NZ dollars which is a bit much for me right now.
Yeah I've been wanting to do that too, but realistically the free time
to do it will not materialize. But clearly someone needs to start doing
this for some of the less-well-documented modules.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
Dave McGuire