[HN Gopher] Driving across America again for a DMS-10 [video]
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Driving across America again for a DMS-10 [video]
Author : CaliforniaKarl
Score : 35 points
Date : 2023-08-31 19:54 UTC (1 days ago)
(HTM) web link (www.youtube.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.youtube.com)
| dylan604 wrote:
| I love love love the fact the title says Driving across America,
| and the opening scene is footage of them using air travel to get
| there.
|
| Of course they had to truck it back, but it's just one of those
| things
| luma wrote:
| The title didn't say "driving twice across America".
| Animats wrote:
| Collecting large objects is hard. Once things reach the point
| where you need lifting equipment, value goes down rapidly.
| Linotypes and locomotives tend to be free.
| I_Am_Nous wrote:
| I'm lucky! I get to play with a DMS-10 all day if I want to at
| work. It's a really cool piece of tech and seeing how little
| circuitry is on each of the MANY add in cards just reminds me how
| old it truly is. It has a two CPU system which swaps back and
| forth between the "cores" every day, and has a really scary "One
| Bus" error light when there's an error with the CPUs. Luckily
| I've never seen that lit!
| signaturefish wrote:
| Do you have a copy of the hardware manual for the thing? If so,
| I believe the Connections Museum would love to borrow it :)
| I_Am_Nous wrote:
| I took a look at our CO and we have a bunch of different
| Northern Telecom DMS Documentation binders. Stuff like
| Installation Manual (Module 00 to 18), Volume 3 Power-up
| Methods, DMS-10 Family OMP/RLCM Book 1, DMS-10 Family Volume
| 1 Generic: 400 Part 2. We also have a bunch of old CDROMs
| with documentation on them, as NT started just sending
| documentation like that instead.
|
| But yeah there are books upon books of stuff here, and
| Northern Telecom isn't a company anymore from what I
| understand, so finding documentation is pretty limited if you
| don't already have an in.
| Aloha wrote:
| That equipment is still being serviced out there (it was
| Genband, but I'm not sure who now0, so its not completely
| lost.
|
| Though the particular manual mentioned in the video may be
| unobtainium.
| randombits0 wrote:
| Disagree. It's somebody's job somewhere to have this data
| on-hand. You just have to find them.
| I_Am_Nous wrote:
| I've been looking through everything we have (including
| the CDROMs from 2002-2003) but the main issue is that the
| publication numbers listed for the physical manual they
| need (03-4200) is quite different than the publication
| numbers for all of our stuff. Everything we have uses a
| publication number like 297-3601-450, so it's possible
| that installation manual is a separate, special manual
| you/the company installing the switch would have for the
| initial physical install and the rest of the publications
| assume you already have an installed DMS-10.
|
| There's a chance we never even had that manual ourselves,
| if that's the case! I did find our original installation
| proposal documents - our DMS-10 was installed in
| 1989/1990 :)
| Aloha wrote:
| Yeah, thats the rub, it would have been held by the
| Nortel Installers.
|
| Do you have a copy of 297-3401-000?
|
| Edit - I think the document we're looking for is IM
| 03-4200
|
| Assuming the number is correct - the Installation Method
| documents appear to be NN-NNNN rather than NNN-NNNN-NNN
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