test-drb November 1997

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by IVIE＠cc.usu.edu

Kip Crosby wrote: >At 09:52 11/15/97 -0800, you wrote: >>Came across an interesting find recently....a >>Pertec-interface TBU that uses, of all things, a VHS cassette mechanism to >>back up as much as 2 gigabytes to a normal T120 VHS tape. >> >> I'm just curious if anyone else has crossed paths with this unit. It's >>called a 'Gigastore.' > >Such a device, maybe not this particular make, was the standard OEM backup >for Alpha Micro minicomputers. Mid-eighties. Not madly reliable. The backup unit an Alpha Micro sysadmin _i_ knew converted the data to video to get it onto the tape; i.e., it wasn't a Pertec interface, but used standard everyday VCRs. Roger Ivie ivie(a)cc.usu.edu

27 years, 6 months

Hard drive rescue: Update

by kyrrin2＠wizards.net

It seems that my initial post about a couple of hard drives and enclosures looking for a home was partly in error. The fellow's just offering the drives, and intends to keep the enclosures. Sorry for the inconvenience. -=-=- <snip> -=-=- >X-Sender: cyber(a)prismnet.com >X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) >Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 02:14:17 -0600 >To: Bruce Lane <kyrrin2(a)wizards.net> >From: Tom Ray <cyber(a)prismnet.com> >Subject: Re: OLD hard drives and enclosure need RESCUE! > >actually, Bruce, what I was offering specifically was just the drives >themselves, not the external SCSI cases. I plan on using those. I'll send >the cables with the drives but there was nothing fancy about the enclosure. >They don't even have a fan to keep them cool, just a powersource and the >external SCSI connector. I'm still fairly new to SCSI so I am not sure what >I do or don't need out of the case. Let me describe as best I can. <remainder snipped> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Bruce Lane, Sysop, The Dragon's Cave BBS (Fidonet 1:343/272) (Hamateur: WD6EOS) (E-mail: kyrrin2(a)wizards.net) http://www.wizards.net/technoid "Our science can only describe an object, event, or living thing in our own human terms. It cannot, in any way, define any of them..."

27 years, 6 months

DOS 3.31

by manney＠nwohio.com

>In a message dated 97-11-14 13:04:53 EST, you write: > ><< I can supply original DOS disks for 3.31 >> > >I would most certainly appreciate it. The computer these would be used on is >actually a Visual Technologies Commuter--a colleague noted that although this >unit runs intel 8086, 8088, 80286, it can boot into DOS 6.22. I have yet to >find out if this is true or not; however, what can we work out so that I may >get those disks? Even a PC (8088) will run DOS 6. E-mail me privately with your address, and we'll work out details. manney(a)nwohio.com

27 years, 6 months

Classic Computer Rescue Squad

by SUPRDAVE＠aol.com

off topic, but speaking of JTS, egghead is/was selling JTS 1gig drives for $99. i bought one, and works great! quiet, and has a 3 year warranty. all i got was the drive in a box, but then again, that's all i wanted. david In a message dated 97-11-14 05:22:36 EST, mr hotze put forth: > Well, it won't help you now, but a company called JTS Corporation has the best > HDDs I've seen in a LONG time. I was using a WD Caviar 2.0 GB, and it was > LOUD!!! It also had a fairly good HDD Test Score: 2.6 by the Norton > Utilities > benchmarks. I ran the test with my NEW 2.0 GB JTS, which got a 4.0!!! Also, > > it's about $20-$40 cheaper than the equivelent Caviar. The best part: It > has a > cover with rubber on the outside. I had it IN THE OPEN for about 3 weeks, > and > it still worked just fine. The cover protects it from static electrictity > form > jerks like me, and from shock, stuff like that.

27 years, 6 months

Classic "Laptops"

by manney＠nwohio.com

>I've recently heard of someone who told me about an 8080 laptop from >someone who has been into computers longer than I have. He said that >there was a laptop... in the 1970's, that was smaller than the origional >Compaq. It was soupossed to only have a little RAM, and it was used by >journalists, who would connect with a modem an upload the files. Is >this true? If so, what on earth ever happened to these? (Does this >sound like something else... H/PC come to mind? Journalists around here used the Radio Schlock thingie (Tandy 100?) Don't know the processor, tho'.

27 years, 6 months

Caution!

by lfb107＠psu.edu

>On Wed, 12 Nov 1997, Tim Shoppa wrote: > >> Tim Shoppa | Internet: shoppa(a)triumf.ca >> TRIUMF, Canada's National Meson Facility | Voice: 604-222-1047 loc 6446 > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > >Hey Tim, what is a Meson Facility anyway? > Mesons are simply either pions, muons, or kasons! That's all! LeS

27 years, 6 months

Classic Computer Rescue Squad

by mcquiggi＠sfu.ca

At 11:16 AM 97/11/15 -0500, you wrote: >> > The most amazing thing is being in a real computer room (i.e. dozens >> > of 14" drives) when the power suddenly goes *off*. The silence is >> > astonishing. >> >> What would be even MORE amazing is when the power comes back ON a second >> later, with all the power switches still on, and everything tries to spin >> up at once... >> Or is there some safeguard against that? A lot of mainframe/mini drives have a configuration option called "spindle delay" that allows for a settable delay between power on and spin up. One sets the drives to spin up individually rather than all at once. Kevin --- Kevin McQuiggin VE7ZD mcquiggi(a)sfu.ca

27 years, 6 months

Older computers FS

by manney＠nwohio.com

>On Fri, 14 Nov 1997, PG Manney wrote: > >> Our local NASA is selling off older PC and other stuff. I'm local, if anyone >> wants anything. >> >> Stuff is at >> >> http://www.lerc.nasa.gov/WWW/Logistics/sales.htm > >Lots of stuff I'd like to see preserved, however if I read the details on >the site correctly the bidding closed yesterday (13-Nov.) > >DRAT! ...but look at the other one, under Plum Brook. It has some Zeniths, closing on the 23rd, I think.

27 years, 6 months

Who Was Looking for the RSX-11/M Manual??? Please Respond!

by mcquiggi＠sfu.ca

Hi Daniel: I've copied the manual and will mail it today or Monday! Sorry for the delay, Kevin At 07:29 AM 97/11/15 -0600, you wrote: >I was the guilty party. > >Daniel Seagraves >106 West Forest Ave >East Peoria, IL 61611 > >I've lost addresses before, this is nothing new... > > > > --- Kevin McQuiggin VE7ZD mcquiggi(a)sfu.ca

27 years, 6 months

Classic Computer Rescue Squad

by manney＠nwohio.com

I dunno...I dropped one off my desk (2 1/2 ft), and it survived fine. I dropped a 1.2 GB HDD (WD, I think) BRAND NEW off my desk onto a carpet, and it died (couldn't have been a ST-157, no-o-o-o.) Depends on how it bounces, I guess. Anyone wanna try this with a 9 gig, in the interests of science? >Now.... just for fun, try to get a modern PC, drop it on your toe (A >sacrifice for science) and then watch it break into DOZENS of piece. Chip >out of socket, RAM out of socket, motherboard out of case, power supply out >of case, HDD crashed, disk drive not in a working condition, CD-ROM drive's >laser swears that there's no disk in. They don't make 'em like they used >to!!! > >---------- >From: Jeff Beoletto <jbeolett(a)ssi.net> >To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers ><classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu> >Subject: Re: Classic Computer Rescue Squad >Date: Saturday, November 08, 1997 6:28 PM > > > >On Sat, 8 Nov 1997, Daniel A. Seagraves wrote: > >> On Sat, 8 Nov 1997, Hotze wrote: >> >> > At 23:18 11/7/97 +0000, you wrote: >> > >I am conviced that a lot of people (probably not on this list) >wouldn't >> > >know a well-designed or well-built computer if it was dropped on >them... >> > >> > Naturally not, they'd be too busy limping around howling. >> > >> >> I DID THAT! I DID THAT! I successfully managed to crush Jeff Beoletto's >> (One of my friends) toes with >> a PDP-11/44. We were trying to move it sideways. BTW, his foot healed >up >> quite well. And he wasn't limping around, he was curled up in a little >> ball on the floor, cussing a blue streak :) A week ago we were moving >the >> RA81, and I almost did it again... >> >> >> > Seeing how it was me that Dan managed to drop it I can agree to >the limping, and ironically enough it's the same foot that I had broken 3 >times in the month before he crushed it. And just yesterday hauling a pc >down to our storagge office on the 5th floor I tripped and fell down the >steps and have just re-broken that very same ankle. Computers are >hazerdous to your health. =+) > > > >

27 years, 6 months

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test-drb November 1997