New day, new aggrivations...
I've been trying to get an ST-212 drive formatted up as an RD51 so I can
install a copy of Micro-RSTS onto one of my systems.
Got the parameters to format the drive on my VS2000, and that seemed to go OK.
Put the drive into the system (a MicroPDP 11/23), and it looked OK until I
told the RSTS installer to prepare the drive, at which point it started
complaining about various things, and claimed that the drive was an RD52?!?
Back to the notes... Find a note that drives formatted on a VS2000 are not
compatable with an RQDX1 controller... Whats in the 11/23? Yank the back
off... Figures... An RQDX1! FOO!!
Off to the board box... Locate an RQDX3, looks promising... Install it in
the system... Now the system completes its self test and immediately
complains about a "DU0 - ERR 15 Controller Error". WTH is this? Off to
the book shelf... NUTZ! Latest book I've got only gets up to the RQDX1!
Decide to bag it for the night... Put the RQDX1 back in... Same error???
AARGH!!!
So to the questions:
What is "DU0 - ERR 15 Controller Error" ?
Did the RQDX1 perhaps munge the format on the drive during the install
attempt?
Anyone have a list of the jumpers on the RQDX3 that might be of use ?
Can a RQDX3 be subbed straight across for an RQDX1 ?
If not, does anyone have a formatter disk (or whatever) for the RQDX1 ?
Why am I now getting the same error from the RQDX1 and the RQDX3 ?
Anyone got a spare copy of a manual that covers the various RQDX? ?
Foo!
-jim
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Just got this letter in E-Mail, and I knowing how valuable good
reference material is, am passing the message along so if any of you on
the classics list are interested please E-Mail him. I wish Delaware was
a stone's throw away but it would take quite a propulsion system from my
end of the U.S.
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Subject: computer magazines for sale
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 20:13:09 -0500
From: Ned Heite <eheite(a)dmv.com>
To: @goldrush.com
CC: hl(a)SFSU.EDU
I need your advice. I started subscribing to computer magazines around
1977 or 78, got all the early Commodore stuff like Compute! and the
others back before Compute!, and served a while on the InfoWorld review
board, doing Commodore stuff. Wrote for many of the short-lived computer
magazines of the early eighties. Anyway, I have about a pickup load of
circa 1979-1988 computer literature. Saved everything. Have two C64
computers I'll part with.
So far, you are the only person I have found who might know where I can
unload these goodies. I don't want to put them on the dump but Boss Lady
is getting a bit pissy about it.
Is there a place where I can advertise on the net? The stuff is in
central Delaware, about 2 hours from Philadelphia, Washington, or
Baltimore. First reasonable offer takes it all. Where to I advertise?
Please feel free to post this query on lists.
Ned Heite
eheite(a)dmv.com
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Larry Anderson
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At 12:22 PM 11/28/97 +0000, you wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>One of my recent finds is a Nixdorf 8810 (a PC/XT). It has one hard disk
>drive, and it doesn?t start. It?s a Miniscribe Model 3212.
>
>Does anybody know its physical parameters (heads, cylinders, sectors)?
>
>Thank you in advance.
>
>--
>Sergio Izquierdo Garcia
>mailto:henrio@edu.tsai.es
>
>
>
>
Today I adopted a 256k Apple ///. It has a single internal floppy drive and
two add-in boards from Titan Technology. One is labeled "///+//" and the
other is "///+//e". They are joined by a small 6-conductor ribbon cable and
one contains RAM chips. Any idea what these are?
Also, can someone point me to a good /// FAQ. Thanks!
Rich Cini/WUGNET
<nospam_rcini(a)msn.com> (remove nospam_ to use)
ClubWin! Charter Member (6)
MCP Windows 95/Windows Networking
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At 00:02 28-11-97 PST, you wrote:
>Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 00:17:07 +0000
>From: jpero(a)cgo.wave.ca
>To: classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu
>Subject: Re: Needed: Power Supply
>Message-ID: <199711280513.AAA22397(a)mail.cgocable.net>
>MIME-Version: 1.0
>Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
>Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT
>Bruce, Please ask other to rebuild that PSU this way. This is best
>and much easier because the electronic components inside those PSU is
>not that all strange and easily gotten. Capacitors are so cheap.
??? I'm not 100% sure I understand your syntax, but I think you're
suggesting that I repair the existing supply. That's a great suggestion,
and I would do it IF I had an adequate schematic diagram. Somehow, I don't
think DEC would be willing to part with such anytime soon.
Unless someone can suggest what component to look at (I think it's the +12
supply that's popping on and off), I will continue to pursue a replacement
for now.
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(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..."
Hi, folks,
I've inherited a DEC VAXServer 3100 with a trio of RZ23 disk drives and a
TZ30 tape drive. Looks like a fun unit to play with, but the power supply's
bad (the LED blinks at about one-second intervals and the thing never boots).
Anyone happen to have a spare PS? Failing that, can I yank the boards out
of a VS3100 power supply and transplant them to the larger housing?
Thanks in advance.
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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..."
Greetings,
I noticed you answered another person`s questions about their PC jr.
so I wonder if you could help me.
The pins where the monitor plugs in have been broken off.
Do you know of where I could get a new piece? Can I just use the A/V
jacks to plug into my TV? Also where can I get some software or an
IBM basic programming book?
I would greatly appriciate any information you could give.
Thank-You,
Art Brown
vice president
Old Technologies Inc.
<abrown(a)waveone.net>
>and an LCD screen (Apple) for the IIc. My questions are simple - I know
>about the IIe's, which are common, but what about the LCD screen and the
>///+? I had seen neither before in Australia, but this doesn't prove much.
>Are they moderatly common, uncommon or heaps rare? Although it is good to
>know why the LCD screen didn't sell - it works great, but you do have to be
>at a perfect angle, the screen is a very odd angle, and, although legible,
>it is still quite faint. Oh, and anyone know where I can get some Apple ///
>software? It came with some, but no Basic or games stuff.
Both the LCD screen and Apple ///+ are quite rare. I've seen both sell for
over $100 in auctions. The LCD screen is the rarer of the two. Not sure
where to get software for the ///+. I have an Apple /// as well and not a
single floppy for it. The Woz IIgs is one of my favorites, but its still not
worth much.
Sincerely,
Tom Owad
Hello all,
One of my recent finds is a Nixdorf 8810 (a PC/XT). It has one hard disk
drive, and it doesn?t start. It?s a Miniscribe Model 3212.
Does anybody know its physical parameters (heads, cylinders, sectors)?
Thank you in advance.
--
Sergio Izquierdo Garcia
mailto:henrio@edu.tsai.es
> PG Manney wrote:
>
> > I forget who (Murray Leinster?) wrote "A Logic Named Joe", which very
> > closely describes the information explosion of the Internet.
>
> Astounding Magazine, March 1946, under his real name of Will F. Jenkins.
> Anthologised several times. I know I've got it around here somewhere,
> have to track it down and reread it, it's been a few years.
> <http://www.lrt.org/18m.jpg> (The one with the beard)
Is it a fake beard? : >
