[rescue] Cadmus 9200s in Estonia

[Mike Spooner]

Is the 9200 the one with a 68K CPU on a (DEC) QBUS backplane? I remember
working with one of those in the 80's, porting the Whitesmiths C compiler
and some criss-assemblers to run on it.

-- Mike Spooner

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Today's Topics:

1. Cadmus 9200s in Estonia (Meelis Roos)
2. Re: Cadmus 9200s in Estonia (Peter Koch)
3. Re: Cadmus 9200s in Estonia (Meelis Roos)

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Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2017 22:15:46 +0300 (EEST)
From: Meelis Roos <mroos at linux.ee>
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Subject: [rescue] Cadmus 9200s in Estonia
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Hello,

it seems I have come across a bunch of Cadmus 9200 systems in Estonia
(EU). There seems to be about 5 pairs (of system box + storage box),
some storage boxes have disk+tape, some only disk, plus 2 monitors and
keyboards (terminals)?.

I intend to keep the best complete set for my museum but some of the
rest might be interesting for others. Please drop me a line if you are
interested in something in it.

I will robably go there tomorrow to see more details.

--
Meelis Roos (mroos at linux.ee)

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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2017 23:46:31 +0200
From: Peter Koch <pk1234 at web.de>
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Subject: Re: [rescue] Cadmus 9200s in Estonia
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Dear Meelis Roos:

2017-06-25 21:15 GMT+02:00 Meelis Roos <mroos at linux.ee>:

> Hello,
>
> it seems I have come across a bunch of Cadmus 9200 systems in Estonia
> (EU). There seems to be about 5 pairs (of system box + storage box),
> some storage boxes have disk+tape, some only disk, plus 2 monitors and
> keyboards (terminals)?.
>

This is GREAT unexpected news. I have been working with Cadmus machines
for many years at the university of Duisburg. And I would love to restore
one
of those systems.

I do not collect old computers - I'm only interested in those machines
that
I have worked with myself, i.e. Cadmus 9200, Sun 3/60, Sun IPC, Sun SS20

Last year I got 7 Cadmus 9200 boxes. Unfortunately most of them were
empty. That was a very dissapointing experience. Have a look at
www.pcs-cadmus.de

Software is a major problem. I could not find any images so far but a
computer museum in the netherlands might have some. Also there's
only one complete Cadmus 9200 machine here in germany that
I know of. But it has not been powered on for years. I partly remember
how to create a boot-tape from a running system. If one of those
estonian system does run (would be a miracle) than creating a boot-tape
should be the first thing you should do.

Please keep me informed about what you find in Estonia. I would love
to see some pictures.

There are very few people out there that are familiar with Cadmus boxes.
Even here in germany. The manufacturer PCS does still exist but they
are in a totally different business now and there's nobody working at PCS
that knows anything about old PCS machines.

Or am I wrong? Anybody out there that owns a Cadmus 9200 (or a 9600)?

Hope to hear from those estonian boxes soon

Peter

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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2017 01:23:59 +0300 (EEST)
From: Meelis Roos <mroos at linux.ee>
To: Peter Koch <pk1234 at web.de>
Cc: The Rescue List <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Subject: Re: [rescue] Cadmus 9200s in Estonia
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> it seems I have come across a bunch of Cadmus 9200 systems in Estonia
> (EU). There seems to be about 5 pairs (of system box + storage box),
> some storage boxes have disk+tape, some only disk, plus 2 monitors and
> keyboards (terminals)?.
>
>
> This is GREAT unexpected news. I have been working with Cadmus machines
> for many years at the university of Duisburg. And I would love to
restore one
> of those systems.
>
> I do not collect old computers - I'm only interested in those machines
that
> I have worked with myself, i.e. Cadmus 9200, Sun 3/60, Sun IPC, Sun
SS20
>
> Last year I got 7 Cadmus 9200 boxes. Unfortunately most of them were
> empty. That was a very dissapointing experience. Have a look at
> www.pcs-cadmus.de

Ah, that was you I found from Google. You do not have a contact there so
I asked from Hack42 for your contact, have not received one yet.

> Software is a major problem. I could not find any images so far but a
> computer museum in the netherlands might have some. Also there's
> only one complete Cadmus 9200 machine here in germany that
> I know of. But it has not been powered on for years. I partly remember
> how to create a boot-tape from a running system. If one of those
> estonian system does run (would be a miracle) than creating a boot-tape
> should be the first thing you should do.

They were supposedly taken down from working condition but 20 years have
passed and I do not hold much hope...

> Please keep me informed about what you find in Estonia. I would love
> to see some pictures.

Will do. I clicked a couple of dozen pictures today, mostly from the
qbus cards.

> There are very few people out there that are familiar with Cadmus
boxes.
> Even here in germany. The manufacturer PCS does still exist but they
> are in a totally different business now and there's nobody working at
PCS
> that knows anything about old PCS machines.
>
> Or am I wrong? Anybody out there that owns a Cadmus 9200 (or a 9600)?

I do have a 9600 too but I never got any output on console when I tried
to boot it.

I know a guy in Estonia who restored a 9700 or 9900 years ago. They
might have the software too.

--
Meelis Roos (mroos at linux.ee)

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