Well it's been awhile and things have slow. One of my finds yesterday was
AT&T UNIX PC with KB and mouse. Unit powers up find but then wants a logon
id and password, I got the unit at Goodwill for $30 so no manuals or other
information about it. My question is to anyone out there is there a way to
break this protection so that I can get to the harddrive ? This week I
also picked up a LISA with KB and mouse for $15 and it loaded with a OS
>from Sun Remarketing and works great, I also got some upgrade parts for the
LISA and will be installing them so I hope. I picked a large qty of
computers, printers, and other items that do not meet the 10 year
requirement yet but someday will and the prices were too low to pass on, so
I will not list them here yet. Some of the computers in that lot were MAC
Plus's, mice, and KB but I have not tested them yet. Got a TRS-80 model
100 that works but has one missing key that broken off so the guy gave me
the unit for free. Got something called a Tektronix 4211 with kB and mouse
for $5 (someone else got the 19" monitor for it) does anyone know what this
is ?? Also a Pulse Generator Datron SPG2000 unit anyone know this one ?? A
VTECH model L-128PS unit seems to work need to find more info on this one
too. A Apple Peronal Laserwriter NT for $5 but it needs some work powers
on but will not print anything ? A Hitachi CD-rom model CDR-1700S no way
to test this baby yet (it was free). A Laser128 $5 not tested yet, a HP
ThinkJet model 2225C not test yet free, Zenith model ZFA-138-42 free and
not tested yet. Last was a HP 1727A Oscilloscope with manual that works for
$5. I end here as I could write book, I hope to have my web site up in
January there you can see my collection. Keep Computing.
Your Adam is a rarity, if it works. I've got one (I gave away another last
year).
The interesting thing about Adams was the P/S was in the (serial daisy
wheel (!!)) printer.
manney(a)nwohio.com
Well, it seems that my Series/1 is not working right. I plugged it in and
turned it on, and everything(CPU, FD, small HD and I/O unit) SEEMS to be
working OK. Except that it won't boot. I took all the cards except CPU, FD
controller and 4978 terminal I/O cards out and setup the floppy drive as
the primary IPL device. Threw in a floppy labeled IPL(unknown if it really
is), set the CPU to auto-IPL on primary device, the LED's on the
programmer's panel lit up and did a few things and then it freezes(I waited
a around 15 minutes before I gave up) with LED's 8, 9, 10, 13 and 15 on.
Nothing happens at all, when the Series/1 is powered up the 4978 terminal
displays a "=" in the top left corner and does nothing. Right now I'm not
sure if the problem is in the CPU or floppy drive(I haven't had time to
clean out the floppy drive). Does anyone have any idea what's going wrong
or know someone who would know? I think the system was originally setup to
IPL from one of it's four 200MB hard drives, which are still up in the
garage(and I can't plug it in because of only 1 220v outlet. not good with
three racks needing power) along with two tape drives and another 4959
expansion unit. Well, at least it was free...
-JR http://members.tripod.com/~jrollins/index.htmlhttp://www.geocities.com/Area51/Lair/1681/
I'd like to buy your disks (no manuals needed.) e-mail me.
manney(a)nwohio.com
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> From: classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu
> To: Manney
> Subject: Re: Finds and info needed
> Date: Saturday, December 20, 1997 1:29 PM
>
> Greetings,
> I have a PILE read manymany, copies ofDOS 4.0x and 5.0 MD-DOS for the
Laser
> Machines...anybody want 720k disks? GRIN the DOS 4 has a MS-DOS Manual
and
> the DOS 5.0 is on 5 5/14 INCH disks..
> looking for Osborne III (for no apparent reason) or any ready ANY amount
of
> $$ to further the collection..not looking to get rich but save cubic
space
> in the storage unit..well thats the secret isn't it
>
> Take care
>
> Bill Marx
> billm(a)teleport.com
From: Desie Hay
Email: desieh(a)southcom.com.au
museum_curator(a)hotmail.com
can anybody help me find a lisa video daughtercard for my lisa 2/10 i
would be very greatful
how can i tell if my floppy controller is stuffed, i mean on mine it
could be that or the floppy drive itself, the floppy drive glows so it is
getting power....
anybody got a Lisa 1 they want to sell....
Has anyone got a service manual handy for a MiniScribe 3438P?
I yanked one from an XT clone to use with my SwTPC S/09, but
it won't format, and the most obvious possible problem is the
jumper settings. There are four that are obviously for drive
selects 0..3, and three others that might be the troublemakers.
I've tried some random settings, and in most of them it comes
up to speed okay, selects, and then after about three seconds
starts a probably unhealthy wobbling, sounding as if it is rapidly
seeking a million different tracks, one after the other. In
at least one setting, it doesn't always recognize when it has
got up to speed, and continues ramping up to a frightening pitch.
With the jumpers set as they were in the XT, it selects okay,
but I get error messages any time I try to read, write, or
format the thing. It still works okay in the XT though.
Anyway, help would be appreciated. I've already searched the
web quite a bit. Found some specs, and a thread in which people
were looking for the right settings to use in a PC, but nothing
about what the jumpers mean (or how to set them for an S/09!).
In other news, I recently realized that I can upgrade my S/09's
memory just by slapping 4164's into the unused IC sockets. I
had a few lying around, so it got an immediate 64K upgrate. 192K
more is on order. I can still remember when this would have
cost money! :-)
Cheers!
Bill.
i saw a complete tandem computer system for sale for $8 today. it has the
usual desktop case, a monitor and two external 5.25 floppy drives with what
appears to be a seagate mfm drive with each floppy drive! the system is
complete, and everything is connected together, but was unable to test it. is
this thing worth getting, or is it just another pc compatible? i have plenty
of xt and 286 variants to keep me going for a long time. if its something
else, or has significant historical value, i'll go get it.
david
I just got an IBM Series/1! This is going to be fun, but it's going to take
a long time to get running. It's filled with more dust than I've ever seen
in a computer, and it uses 230v which means I don't have much of a choice
of where to plug it into. And the manuals... That's going to take WEEKS to
go through! But hey, I got four 200MB hard drives, a 4956-K00 CPU, a few
I/O units and an 8 inch floppy drive out of it! Whheee! I LOVE those 8 inch
drives!
OK, thats going to take a while to sort through everything. On to the PC card.
I found this strange 8-bit card labeled:
Scan Doubler S/N 1179
PGS P/N8403001
It has two DB-9 connectors on the end, and it was pulled from an old PC.
It's probably about a half length card. Any ideas on what it is? I was
thinking some sort of dual-monitor video card...
TIA
On Tue, 16 Dec 1997 18:47:09 +0000 (GMT),
Tony Duell <ard(a)odin.phy.bris.ac.uk> wrote:
>>Yes they are (at least, they are on all my RK05's). It's easiest to remove
>>the entire front panel from the drive (4 Phillips screws), when you can
>>trivially see the PCB that holds the switches and the lamps. The lamps
>>plug into little sockets on the PCB - just pull them straight out.
>>We call these lamps T 1 3/4 (That's 'T' one and three quarters) bi-pin
>>bulbs in the UK. No idea what they're called elsewhere.
The T 1-3/4 size exists here in the US, too, but I most frequently I see
it in referring to LEDs. The T 1-3/4 incandescent bulb size is E-5 (for
5mm), I think.
Anyway, so long as I am replacing these lights, why can't I replace them
with amber LEDs? I figure that I can plug an LED-resistor combo into the
same socket and tune the brightness with the resistor. I remember reading
somewhere that the lamp power is 8v. I'll test it first, but does this sound
right?
Thanks for the info, Tony.
Rich Cini/WUGNET
Charter ClubWin! Member
MCP Windows 95/Windows Networking
Hello -
I am still using my HP 71. Do you want to sell your HP 71 service
manual?
John
> I remember that at the HP calculator conference 5 years ago I bought an
> HP71 service manual. Now, this manual is not common, and it came in the
> original shrink-wrap. Having got it, I ripped off said shrink-wrap, opened
> the manual, and started reading. You see, I didn't buy the manual as an
> example of HP shrink-wrap. I bought it to learn about the HP71. And that's
> something you can only do when you've opened the manual.
>
> >
> > No flame wars please, just the random philosophical question...
>
> Well, it's your machine, so you have to decide what to do in the end...
>
> >
> > -jim
>
> -tony
>
>
>
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