Looking for Mark Whetzel
Peter A. Castro
I'm trying to contact Mark Whetzel. Mark, if you're out there, please
contact me via email. If anyone knows Mark's current email, please
contact me with it.
Thanks!
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Peter A. Castro (doctor at fruitbat dot org)
Larry Belan
> This is reguarding IBM PC/RT equipment.
> I'm trying to contact Mark Whetzel. Mark, if you're out there, please
> contact me via email. If anyone knows Mark's current email, please
> contact me with it.
>
> Thanks!
>
Peter,
Post your query....
I'm a bit behind the times, too, and if I can't answer your question,
we'll have to wait for Mark...
I think I have an old FAQ somewhere.
I still have two 6150's, but they haven't seen any power since 1998 :(
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Larry
Peter A. Castro
> Peter A. Castro wrote:
>> This is reguarding IBM PC/RT equipment.
>> I'm trying to contact Mark Whetzel. Mark, if you're out there, please
>> contact me via email. If anyone knows Mark's current email, please
>> contact me with it.
> Peter,
Greetings, Larry,
> Post your query....
> I'm a bit behind the times, too, and if I can't answer your question,
> we'll have to wait for Mark...
> I think I have an old FAQ somewhere.
> I still have two 6150's, but they haven't seen any power since 1998 :(
No, it's nothing to do with a problem with hardware or software.
Well...actually, in a way it is... :)
See, I'm actually trying to get rid of my RTs. Sad but true. I've reached
a point in my life where I've simply got too much clutter and I'm running
out of space to keep old computer stuff and it's time to get rid of a
good chunk of it. I've got 5 6150's, many harddisks and lots & lots of
various adapters, plus lots of software and manuals. Quite frankly I
haven't turn on an RT in over 6 years. Sad, isn't it?
I was looking for Mark because he has (had?) an interest in acquiring
various pieces of RT equipment and software and I figure if there was
anything he wanted out of the mount of RT parts and systems I have that
I'd find a way to ship it to him. I want to give Mark first crack at
this stuff because of everything he's done for the RT community in the
past as well as all the help he gave me in trouble shooting a broken RT
tape adapter way back when.
If I can't find Mark, then I was going to open it up to the general
community and perhaps auction stuff off on eBay. If nothing else,
there's always 'land fill', but I'm much rather see it go to someone
who might actually want it first.
Anyway, if you hear from Mark, please pass along that I'm lookin' for him.
Thanks
> Larry
Tripp Kinetics
> > Post your query....
> > I'm a bit behind the times, too, and if I can't answer your
question,
> > we'll have to wait for Mark...
> > I think I have an old FAQ somewhere.
> > I still have two 6150's, but they haven't seen any power since 1998
:(
>
> community and perhaps auction stuff off on eBay. If nothing else,
> there's always 'land fill', but I'm much rather see it go to someone
> who might actually want it first.
If you don't find him, I'd definitely be interested. I wouldn't mind
taking a crack at working on a NetBSD port.
Peace... Sridhar
Peter A. Castro
I will keep you in mind. As it happens, I have a copy of AOS (BSD) 4.3
and (I think) NetBSD-Lite for the RT. I've never even tried booting or
installing them, so I have no idea if either of them are usable, but
perhaps they might be fun for someone willing to experiment. :)
I'll search for MarkW a little longer. In the mean time I'm taking
inventory and will post this later.
>> Peace... Sridhar
John Moore
If you find him, send him my greetings. I originally gave him most of
his RT equipment.
I kinda doubt he has any interest anymore.
I was considering posting a free-bee add in craigslist to hope some
sucker will come by and take my complete set (10 RT's with documentation
and licenses, updated to latest AIX 2.2.1) They're quite a museum piece
already and might have some value 80 years from now as antiques. I've
got every hardware imaginable for it (including some array processors
with associated software drivers). 50 Kg Sony 19" monitor -- I have two!
Gag!! Even have the hardware manuals for the peripherals. I was thinking
of placing them all underneath the house in the crawl space, to be
discovered about 80 years from now when the place gets demolished.
I suppose some artist could use the boards to make cool clocks and such.
What a waste of beautiful equipment. Some of these went for as much as
$100K each. I just wish I had given it all to Mark back when he might of
wanted it.
A friend took one of my best RT's that worked perfectly and took it to
school to have 4th graders take it apart (they demolished it). At first
I almost cried, but then, it sounded like a wonderful way to depart with
these boat anchors. -- Oops, this means I only have 9 to dispose of now.
"I wouldn't mind taking a crack at working on a NetBSD port"
Sridhar -- this would've been great back as late as 1991, perhaps. Why
make yourself suffer. One of my systems has the BSD-almost on it -- and
I have the AOL loaded somewhere on one of them -- what would you do with
it after porting NetBSD?
Cheers,,
John
Larry Belan
> Larry Belan <larr...@netscape.net> wrote:
>
>>Peter A. Castro wrote:
>
>
>>>This is reguarding IBM PC/RT equipment.
>>>I'm trying to contact Mark Whetzel. Mark, if you're out there, please
>>>contact me via email. If anyone knows Mark's current email, please
>>>contact me with it.
>>
>>Peter,
>
>
> Greetings, Larry,
>
>
>>Post your query....
>>I'm a bit behind the times, too, and if I can't answer your question,
>>we'll have to wait for Mark...
>>I think I have an old FAQ somewhere.
>>I still have two 6150's, but they haven't seen any power since 1998 :(
>
>
> No, it's nothing to do with a problem with hardware or software.
> Well...actually, in a way it is... :)
>
> See, I'm actually trying to get rid of my RTs. Sad but true. I've reached
> a point in my life where I've simply got too much clutter and I'm running
> out of space to keep old computer stuff and it's time to get rid of a
> good chunk of it. I've got 5 6150's, many harddisks and lots & lots of
> various adapters, plus lots of software and manuals. Quite frankly I
> haven't turn on an RT in over 6 years. Sad, isn't it?
<snip>
Sorry Peter,
Hope you find him.
I used to have a mini-RT museum myself, two 6150's, a 6151, and a dozen
of the PS/2 6252's that ran AOS. I never did get AOS to work. :(
Yep, even had one of the Megapel displays, but the card failed, and the
display was moved to storage and eventually disappeared.
Sorry I didn't reply sooner. I've been really caught up in personal
matters. :(
Hope Mark is out there somewhere. Good Luck on your search! Put me on
the list, too, if Mark is not interested anymore.
I could sit all this stuff next to my RT's, Apple ][c, TRS-80 Model 100,
an IBM PC Expansion Chassis, and Banyan CNS servers. Who remembers all
those goodies?? ;)
Take Care,
Larry
Dan Linder
> If you don't find him, I'd definitely be interested. I wouldn't mind
> taking a crack at working on a NetBSD port.
(Greetings from a classiccmp lurker)
NetBSD/romp seems to be quite the ever-elusive port. There's AIX on the
VRM (team thought it would be faster development) and AOS (BSD) on the
bare hardware (proved the AIX team wrong). I understand there's an
"almost" port of a newer BSD floating around, and a few OpenBSD guys did
some work (none of it public or in working condition I guess) a number of
years back.
I got an RT at a previous job and was intrigued by the history of ROMP
(starting out in an office product at IBM, first commercial RISC
processor, predecessor of POWER and PPC). I agree that having NetBSD on it
would be neat in a "for-neatness'-sake" kind of way (like NetBSD/sun2)
only here gcc needs to be resurrected, need bintools, etc, etc. Quite the
little project. I think I may have enough docs to get started, but life is
a busy, busy place indeed, and there always seems to be something "better"
to do than port an OS to a dead architecture, writing a compiler and a
full set of tools along the way.
Any crazy angel investors out there who also want to see NetBSD/romp? :)
Dan
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