Does anyone have a November 1983 issue of PC Magazine?
I did find one on eBay, but it apparently got lost in transit during recent
storms.
That issue has been digitally archived
https://archive.org/details/PC-Mag-1983-11/
But I was hoping to come across a physical copy.
Thanks!
Anyone partimg with some dang-old thing? It has to work. I'm leaning towards a mono screen. I'm leaning against Zeniths, got 2 Minisports. But anything is possible.
IBM produced a Kanji subbish laptop some years ago. I want to say it had a 286. Anyone know?
Thank you Martin and Fritz for figuring out the DLV11 wiring colours, that's exactly what I needed and I appreciate it very much!
Also there is a lot that I hadn't looked at before in those links, much appreciated. Certainly hadn't considered the wire gauge size too critically
but I'll use what I've got for starters. Chasing up the BC0n cable details led me to Malcolm/Avitech's BC01 cable page, which also helps.
I hope to power it up before Christmas, fingers crossed the M7270 and M8044 boards work. I have yet to check the jumpers on these.
I can relate to the locomotive paint story in a way. I have an old WWII jeep, and rivet counters obsess over the _exact_ shade of WWII Olive
Drab paint. This is exacerbated by most WWII film being black and white, and period colour film may not be regarded as perfect (although
George Stevens' WWII footage on Kodachrome might come close) so finding good unfaded/undamaged paint examples isn't always easy.
Now I had someone tell me they really thought my jeep was a great match to "real" OD, to which I replied that I had actually painted it in Khaki,
which is closer to a brown than a green. Being a completely flat paint, when it's wet it temporarily changes appearance to gloss dark green.
So I just say to people not to worry too much and the OD paint they use is bound to match exactly to at least one of the ~650,000 jeeps produced.
Thanks cctalk list, wishing you all ice-cold Chrissie beers and barbie (Oz BBQ) for the season,
Steve
I must have asked numerous times on numerous forums how this is done. Did you ever take a close look at the paint on a 5150 or 5170 (or hell even any IBM monitors that are age appropriate, but those aren't metal). Did you notive the wormy, orange pealy finish. I don't think anyone has seriously attempted to explain how to accomplish that. It's not simply a sligjtly gritty texture as in the case of modern atx cases, that can be done with a spray can, sort of.
Do they simply cause the spray gun to spit on the final coat, perhaps while the previous coat is still tacky?
Merry Christmas, everybody,
I am trying to do the above. ZRQC comes up and says four drives of
unknown type.
Has anybody done this? I figure there must be a configuration that
needs to be done, but found nothing in the documentation to do it.
cheers,
Nigel
Nigel Johnson, MSc., MIEEE, MCSE VE3ID/G4AJQ/VA3MCU
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After all is said and done, my observations since the time this
listserver was up in Washington is that anything OT has a very short
"shelf life." That would suggest most people here have a working brain
and thus, like the definition of pornography, they know OT when they see it.
A long way of saying OT or not is being well served by the choice of
most people here on what they post... with the exception of the waaay
too long discussion, Re: what is on topic?, currently taking place.
Sorry this post isn't about whether something is regarded as classic or not.
I am almost done putting together a little 4-card Qbus machine using a H9281-BA card frame. Eschewing a piece of plywood, the frame, power supply, fans,
Heeltoe POR board are all mounted on a clear acrylic A4-sized office 'In Tray' I picked up at a recycling centre. Hence I've named it PERSPEX-11 :)
So..
For a DLV11 EIA serial connection, I am about to wire up a fly lead cable to go from an M7940 SLU (no dash version) 40-pin header to a DB25P.
After finding the pinout on page 178 in the 1980 Interfaces Handbook, on header J1 I know only need the usual basic RS232 setup:
J - Received Data
F - Transmitted Data
B - Signal Ground
M to E loopback
I have a blank 40-pin header shell and a pile of DuPont leads of all colours ready to slot into their respective locations in the header. I could use
any colours but I'd really like to use the original colours for the above wires.
So, the only wire colour reference in the handbook is for a J1 and J2 header DRV11 pinout on page 275. Pin B is Black, and Transmit is Red but Pin J
Receive is marked as Orange/Ground, for that device. Also M and E don't have their colours specified for the loopback wire.
I've also looked at the Gunkies 'DEC asynchronous serial line pinout' page which has the pinout but it doesn't mention the original wire colours sadly.
Could someone point me to what colours the M7940 cable should be?
Thanks for any help,
Steve.
I think my original message didn't go through (forgot to select plain text instead of html.) If it did I apologize for spamming the list.
I'm clearing out some clutter so I can get to some more clutter to clear it out. Much of my clutter is classic computer related (at least by my definition.) But it needs to go.
I have an assortment of old dynamic RAM chips:
1M x 1 approx 35
256K x 4 approx 40 to 50
256K x 1 approx 80 to 100
They are various speeds, mostly between 100ns and 150 ns
If anyone wants them, let me know. You pay shipping. Otherwise they go to the landfill.
You can contact me off-list.
Will
I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men. Nikola Tesla
i have a VT100 that is working fine (powers on, navigates setup,
saves/restores settings, etc) but has an unpleasant burning/ozone odor
coming from the rear of it. i suspect something is running hot but i am not
sure what, i do not currently have an IR camera in my hands- working on
that. the original power supply has failed and is currently in storage, so
the terminal is being powered by an ATX power supply and adapter board for
the time being. this eliminates the usual R27 as being the culprit.
as best i can tell, the smell is strongest just above the power
distribution board, around the neck of the CRT. appreciate any suggestions
you might have!
This beast was given to me by a neighbor. Dual socket 604. Windows 2003 in some RAID configuration. I understand (or used to understand) RAID levels somewhat. But iinm he tells me the OS is "split" over 6 scsi drives. Not getting this, but I don't need all the redundancy/striping. I want it all on 1 drive. What to use to image what comstitutes 1 volume I guess. Norton Ghost? I have an extra scsi drive, I can always restore the image to the 1 drive (yes?), before or without alterimg the currently embedded stack.
This thing is heavy. I secured a copy of the Corel Linux Starter Kit and want to load it into the Poweredge. For chips and pringles. I have other pre uefi boxes around but this is lying dormant. And 6 drives for my purposes is stupid. And heavy.
