I ran across an IBM Portable Personal Computer (Model 5155) today in a
thrift store sans keyboard ("sans" = "without" for the English language
purists). The price was $50. I'd be happy to buy it and ship it to
someone who would want this. I don't know if it works, but I believe I
may be able to test it. I imagine shipping would be about $25 to the
farthest corners of the country (I'm in California, 94588), more for
out of the country of course.
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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Steve, and all,
Its in here:
ftp://204.146.167.81/pub/pccbbs/refdisks
should be atdg207.*
look in the gen_text directory for allfiles.txt for a list of all the
bbs stuff.
-Mike Allison
Steve Przepiora wrote:
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> Hi, does anyone have the setup utility for the IBM AT BIOS?
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> Thanks,
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> Steve Przepiora
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Hello, all:
I got a no-name "shoebox" drive for my Sun 3/50M workstation. It has a
Maxtor 300mb SCSI hard drive and what appears to be a 60mb DC600 tape drive.
After reading the Sun FAQ, I'm left clueless on how to get it to boot
>from the hard drive. The workstation that I got appears to have been a
remote-boot type, because it looks for an Internet address at startup.
Dirst off, how do I change the default boot device? Second, what are the
appropriate SCSI device IDs for the hard drive and tape drive? Right now,
they are set for tape:6, drive:4 (I remember from somewhere that the Suns
look for a drive on ID=6).
Thanks!
Rich Cini/WUGNET
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>>Anyway, the place I saw them is called HMR Global Recycling. They
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>> 5 Mac Mice $6.00 ea
>
>This reminds me... can any of you recommentd a good mailorder place where I
>can find a couple of inexpensive Mac ADB keyboards and ADB mice (2 each)?
Hmmm... Perhaps I could pick up some for you next time I'm there? What
are you willing to pay for keyboards?
Say, anyone in the Bay Area wanna get together there sometime? I work from
home (generally) MWF, and can be somewhat flexible about my time. Lemme
know...
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Roger Louis Sinasohn & Associates
San Francisco, California http://www.crl.com/~sinasohn/
If you have any 3270pc stuff laying around, I'm still in the market for
documents, software, parts, pieces or systems. Lemme know.
Or, if anyone is in Cleaveland and might be willing to go to the Lewis
Research Center to pick up items and send them to us, lemme know.
There's a beer in it somewhere....
-Mike
At 09:54 AM 2/6/98 -0800, you wrote:
>Heheh. So true, unfortunately. The other extreme is the
>fat-pud-who-eats-while-he's-hacking stereotype and then the
Ever see "Cloak and Dagger"? Y'know the
fat-pud-who-eats-while-he's-hacking character who gets killed? I got into
a couple of fights because people said that that was me...
P.S., I think real hacking is basically just a strong sense of curiosity,
coupled with a need for adventure. A lot of people go rock climbing or
skydiving or skiing or what-have-you to get their adrenalin flowing, and
some get that same rush from getting a tricky program working (Like that
web page generator I wrote a couple weeks ago) or from getting a circuit up
and running.
I think innovation comes not necessarily from a desire to innovate, but
>from running out of challenges that have been done before. The first time
you write a "hello world" program, it's great. But pretty soon, that, and
G.P.A. average programs and Tetris-clones get to be old hat, and hackers
start looking for new challenges, only there's nothing left they can say
"hey that's neat, I think I'll try and do something like that" and they
have to find something like "Hmmm... what if I used that thing to make
doing this thing easier..." and voila, you've got Visicalc or whatever.
P.P.S. warezloosers are just liquor store robbers in disquise. Doesn't
take much intelligence to copy MSWord on to a CD or upload it to an FTP
site.
P.P.P.S. For them what was interested in my web page generator, I'm working
on documenting it and will put it up on the web Real Soon Now.
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Roger Louis Sinasohn & Associates
San Francisco, California http://www.crl.com/~sinasohn/
At 04:55 PM 2/5/98 -0700, you wrote:
>Anyone know where there's a good IBM program and/or doc archive that
>goes back beyond last month? Really into the 80's Looking for original
>PC stuff...
IBM has one -- internally. I was just e-mailed some good info on the IBM
9075 PC Radio's I have in response to form I filled out on their web site.
(Sorry, I don't know where...)
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Roger Louis Sinasohn & Associates
San Francisco, California http://www.crl.com/~sinasohn/
I've had my eye on a little toy Panasonic, improved sinclair clone.
Anyone know what's inside? It's silver with a nice keypad, letters with
basic functions, tape port, tv port, etc. and 32k
Can't remember the name off hand.
Just wanted to know before a spend the whole 6 dollars. (yeah, I'm
becoming a bit of a baby).
But I coould pull down the Apple ][ + with a Z80 card....
I'm leaning towards the Z80.... but it's twice the price : -}
-Mike
Well, you need a ProFile interface card :)
That's going to be hard to come by. If you are an extremely persuasive
person, you may be able to get one from Sun Remarketing (www.sunrem.com),
but you'll have to talk 'em into it.
The cable is simply a DB25-DB25 straight through.
Kai
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard A. Cini [SMTP:rcini@email.msn.com]
> Sent: Friday, February 06, 1998 5:41 PM
> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
> Subject: ProFile interface/cable needed
>
> I just got a ProFile /// hard drive off of eBay. What is the interface
> card
> that I need for it?
>
> Rich Cini/WUGNET
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