test-drb March 1998

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by sethm＠loomcom.com

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26 years, 9 months

Hitachi 2.8" (was Preserving old floppies, fixed disks...)

by adavie＠mad.scientist.com

Talking about disks for the Mattel Aquarius... Tony wrote... >on one edge. On the 3.5" disk the shutter can be easily opened >accidentally, and more importantly it can spring apart on the inside >edge. [snip/snip] OK, the floppies I have are NOT as described in Tony's last letter. These here disks are 77mm square, and do NOT have a shutter protecting the surface of the disk. I am sure the shutter is not missing; I have 10 disks all the same. From the circular midsection with a rectangular opening all the way to the edge, the access area on this disk looks like a large keyhole. Yet, the style is similar to a standard 3.5" floppy A side-note; these disks are advertised at having 144K unformatted capacity. Those interested can see the disks and drive at... http://www.comcen.com.au/~adavie/weird/aquarius/aqdisk.jpg http://www.comcen.com.au/~adavie/weird/aquarius/floppy.jpg I understand the drive is top-opening, like a CD-player, but I've yet to confirm this. I wonder if anybody knows of any other drives with this mechanism (floppies only!!) Cheers A

26 years, 9 months

Apple - PC

by zmerch＠northernway.net

;-) Clearing the snow from my glasses, I saw Kai Kaltenbach typed: >There is no way to read Apple II disks in a PC. Your options are: [snip] >2. Obtain an "Apple II-on-an-ISA-card" device (rare, no longer manufactured, >various brand names) Tho I'm not much of an Apple person (unless someone would like to send me a G3 for free... ;-) there is a place on the web that has some "Diamond Trackstar //e" boards for sale -- for $19 each (plus shipping, I believe). Dunno if that's a good price or not (or if the nomenclature is totally correct -- again, apologies for not being an Apple Nut -- CoCoNut is more my style) but it seems they have (at least) several... For the Webulators: http://www.ahhz.com/ Hope that helps someone... Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- Roger Merchberger | If at first you don't succeed, Owner, MerchWare | nuclear warhead disarmament should zmerch(a)northernway.net | *not* be your first career choice.

26 years, 9 months

Ooops... this Ultrix...

by kyrrin＠jps.net

Sorry, I should have clarified. I have Ultrix 4.3 for both VAXen and RISC. Based on the responses I've gotten so far, it'll end up being built around BSD 4.2-4.3, yes? I'm asking because I'll be book-shopping before too much longer, and I've had my eye on the O'Reilly books 'Unix in a Nutshell' and 'Essential System Administration.' Both seem to strike a balance between SCO and BSD. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Bruce Lane, Sysop, The Dragon's Cave BBS (Fidonet 1:343/272) (Hamateur: WD6EOS) (E-mail: kyrrin(a)jps.net) "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..."

26 years, 9 months

Apology, Info, Etc...

by bcw＠u.washington.edu

Hi all. It's come to my attention that there's some discussion on classiccmp regarding the administration of the list. I'll get back to those that have contacted me asap. I haven't read the list in months and only do basic addition and removal of addresses at this point. My work and personal lives have made it impossible to be any more active with classiccmp. I encourage you to organize as you desire, by whatever means you can agree on if you haven't already done so. I will continue to do basic list maintenance as much as I'm available. Please don't count on me for anything at this point. I think classiccmp is great and I'm glad to have done the initial arrangements, but I don't even know when I'll have the time to just read it again. If current arrangements are unworkable and someone else would like to take over with their own listserv, it would be simple to just transfer the subscription list, I think. If you can live with the current level of administration, I have no problem continuing to host the listserv. Sorry to have let you guys hang - I've been meaning to make a post of this nature for some time and it never made it high enough up the priorities list. -------------------------------------------------------- Bill Whitson bcw(a)u.washington.edu Network Administrator (425) 352-5209 University of Washington - Bothell Help Desk: 2-5275

26 years, 9 months

New to List

by DiesIrrae＠aol.com

Hello, I am new to the list and despite all this nonsencse about some guy named Sam, I am looking forward to gaining knowledge from this list. I currently own an Atari 400, 800, and Mac Plus. Really all I am here for is listening in and to ask a few questions when they arrive to my brain. Later, -Enrique!

26 years, 9 months

Apple - PC

by kaikal＠MICROSOFT.com

There is no way to read Apple II disks in a PC. Your options are: 1. Serial transfer 2. Obtain an "Apple II-on-an-ISA-card" device (rare, no longer manufactured, various brand names) 3. If you have access to a Mac, and have a 3 1/2" drive on the Apple II, you can transfer the disk files to ProDOS format and read them via the Macintosh, then either write them to PC format with a Mac SuperDrive, or read the Mac disks on the PC with the various utilities available. Kai > -----Original Message----- > From: Max Eskin [SMTP:maxeskin@hotmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 1998 4:32 PM > To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers > Subject: Apple - PC > > Is there a way to transfer files from an Apple II to a PC? I have a > //c. > > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

26 years, 9 months

Hitachi 2.8" (was Preserving old floppies, fixed disks...)

by lisard＠zetnet.co.uk

andrew davie was :Talking about disks for the Mattel Aquarius... yep, they're quick disks. and they probably belong in the same bucket as sinclair's microdrive and phi mag's floopy tape (anyone else remember this one?) - nice tries that just couldn't keep up, either in cost, capacity or genericity. if only our ql's microdrives still worked... they're a lovely little storage mechanism to look at. -- Communa (together) we remember... we'll see you falling you know soft spoken changes nothing to sing within her...

26 years, 9 months

Question for the Faq - If there is one.

by jfoust＠threedee.com

Sam Ismail <dastar(a)wco.com> wrote: >This may as well be the official location since the "official" location is >inaccessible. I hereby declare Doug's address above the new official web >address since nobody else will. I'll also volunteer to host a copy of the FAQ web page(s). I'll even help edit, write or update it - but you weren't asking for a new maintainer, were you? >B) It doesn't get sent out to new subscribers >C) People ignore it There's a few ways to handle this: send out a subscribe/unsubscribe/FAQ post every month, or put a short .signature on the digest or on every message, for a day once every couple weeks. - John Jefferson Computer Museum <http://www.threedee.com/jcm>

26 years, 9 months

Robots again

by aaron＠wfi-inc.com

I just finished watching that Discovery program on Robots and was wondering if anyone involved in the list has previously/is currently working in that field Also, does anyone know how much of an influence the use of computer systems by all of those AI reasearches in the late 70's/early 80's had on system designs? I'd be interested to hear any opinions/anecdotes/etc on this stuff. Aaron

26 years, 9 months

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