New A/UX manuals, QS DP 1GHz CPU, TribeStar LT to EN bridge

[olePigeon]

I found a few things at my local surplus. First, in the FREE section, I almost had a heart attack. A large, brown, Apple box that said A/UX Media & Manuals. Unfortunately no media, but the manuals were shrink wrapped. Probably why it was in the free section. It looks new. Just too bad it doesn't have the CDs.

They also had a QS G4 "For parts" for $15. It was stripped of the HDD, optical, RAM, and power supply, but it still had the motherboard and a dual 1GHz CPU in it. So I snagged it for the CPU to fix my QuickSilver. I have to keep reseating the CPU on it otherwise it freezes, it might be on its last legs. I'm hoping this CPU will fix it.

The last thing I got was for $5, and it's a TribeStar LocalTalk to Ethernet bridge. I managed to find a working power supply for it and it powers up. Now I just need to find the software.

 

[TheIanMan85]

I'm not familiar with that exact LocalTalk Bridge, but does it actually need drivers? Usually they just require at least one LocalTalk device on each side and the bridge just lets the ethernet LocalTalk device(s) talk to the serial LocalTalk device(s).

If I'm wrong someone will step in and magically know exactly what you need, where to get it, and what to do. It's what we do.

 

[olePigeon]

I'm not sure. My other bridge has nifty drivers so I can do stuff like set the link speed, enable/disabled ports, etc. It's entirely possible this one doesn't need anything. I can't seem to find anything for it, anyway.

 

[Unknown_K]

Which version of A/UX did you get the manuals for?

 

[olePigeon]

3.0

 

[beachycove]

Please, please scan and post! The lesser used manuals that get into the guts of networking, compiling, etc. are impossible to find (short of heart attack moments had in the local surplus).

 

[TheIanMan85]

Is the 3.0 manual this one or a different one? Playing with A/UX is on my list of geeky things to do, and has been for some time.

Regarding the LocalTalk Bridge, there may be a driver or utility. I'd Google it, or just hook it up and find out what happens!

 

[beachycove]

There was a large box of spiral-binder manuals, most of which were not available in digital form. The one linked is installed, as I recall, by A/UX itself, and available within the MacOS layer of the system, but it did not get into the details of working with certain features of A/UX in quite the way the others did. In fact it refers tantalizingly to these others ... which of course most of us never get to see.

Part of the reason I would dearly love to get hold of them is that the one referenced is so well-conceived, having been written in Apple's user-centric days. The rest are likely to be of much the same character, whereas most UNIX manuals are made of stuff that only initiates into the mysteries can understand — and I am not one of those. But I would like to learn UNIX better, and doing so on an antiquated system does not trouble me particularly.

Soon, the mods will clamp down on this thread, citing copyright issues.... We do not have much time....

 

[Unknown_K]

The thin spiral bound manuals were sold with the WGS95, the big 3 ring binders were retail releases.

 

[olePigeon]

The manuals in the box are:

Road Map to A/UX [spiral Bound]

A/UX Installation Guide [spiral Bound]

Setting up Accounts and Peripherals for A/UX [3-ring Binder]

A/UX Networking Essentials [3-ring Binder]

X11 User's Guide for A/UX [3-ring Binder]

MacX User's Guide [3-ring Binder]

A/UX Essentials [3-ring Binder]

 

[olePigeon]

If these are the manuals in question, I can begin scanning them in a couple weeks. I'll be starting summer break, and while all the computers are busy imaging away, I can hop on the big Xerox scanner and have them OCRed and PDFed.

 

[beachycove]

The only ones available in digital form are linked here: http://www.cilinder.be/docs/appleux/ . It would be great to see the rest of the set -- not sure whether you have them all or not, but i hope so.

There are some pics of the full set at the botton here: http://www.aux-penelope.com/screenshots.htm .

 

[Unknown_K]

Bitsavers has A/UX 2.x and X11 2.1 manuals

http://bitsavers.org/pdf/apple/mac/a_ux/

 

[olePigeon]

Yep. Everything except the media folder.