In a message dated 98-04-30 00:39:32 EDT, you write:
<< Heck, wasn't the name "Apple" licensed from the British record company of
the same name (Apple the computer company could use the name as long as
they didn't get into the music business. . .which made things get
interesting when people started doing MIDI stuff with Macs . . .)
>>
yea, wasnt it the beatles who had something called apple records or something
like that? i remember reading somewhere sometime long ago about the legalities
of it. obviously, apple records got precedence because they were there first.
did apple computer ever have to pay money for the resolution?
david
>> > Could you simply be overloading it? >>
>> as long as its an xt power supply and not one from a 5150 pc, there should
>>be
>> no problems. the 5150 was only 63watts, which was good for maybe floppy
>> drives. the xt has an ~80 watt power supply
> ...
hmm, I've overloaded a standard XT (80W) supply before trying to run a
couple of the original 10MB hard drives (amongst other things!). Guess
it depends on what cards and stuff you're running (some of those old
full-length boards drew a hell of a lot of power...)
I've got an old pre-XT machine somewhere with the 63W supply, I seem to
remember it wouldn't even power one 10MB drive with motherboard and a
single floppy drive in place... I can't remember why on earth I even
tried it though, I don't think the pre-XT machines (what was their
proper title btw?) would even run a hard drive...
cheers
Jules
> > Finally, Sam, could you put me on the VCF mailing list, please. I tried
> > to subscribe from the web page but we've just migrated to Lusedoze Not
> > Tolerable and Internut Exploder, with the result that I couldn't get it
> > to work...
>
> Hmmmm...I thought I tested it under MSIE and it should be working. I'll
> check again. If anyone else is experiencing problems with the forms
> features then please let me know. Thanks for the tip. And yes, I will
> add you to the notification list. To be addded to the mailing list I'll
> need your physical address, unless you just want e-mail updates.
Sorry, Sam, what I meant was our systems here are badly set up. And I
refuse to spend hours trying to get WNT to do things properly when it's
probably not capable of it. When I try to use your forms page, Internut
Exploder asks for a directory in which to store outgoing e-mails and
then won't accept any that I give it. (For the record, I am _not_ a
computing/IT/whatever person at work - it's merely my hobby. Eventually
I will get TCP/IP on one of my UNIX boxen at home and get a personal
connection...)
Physical address will follow by private e-mail.
Philip.
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At 07:14 PM 4/28/98, you wrote:
>GRID 8088 XT Laptop. Rugged Construction. 720k FDD, No HDD, 512k Mem,
>SER/PAR, Plasma Screen, AC Adapter Module substitutes battery. Works
>Perfectly. Good for diagnostics, automotive, marine, etc. Excellent
>condition. Buyer prepays with money order or check and pays shipping.
It sounds like a GridCase3. Probably worth $45 easy. That AC module is
definitely worth something. If I hadn't just bought a TRS-80 m600 and a
Televideo Portable PC, I'd probably go for it, but (luckily?) I already
have one. Sure would like that AC Module, though!
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I finally had enough time today to go to Canadian Tire and pick up a set
of allen wrenches, so I finally pulled the disk drives out of my ailing
Kaypro 2.
I moved the resistor pack to what was formerly drive A, and swapped the
jumper blocks, put everything back together... and it worked! The Kaypro
2 booted up WordStar with absolutely no problems.
Now drive B (formerly drive A) can't be accessed. It gets a "Bdos Err On
B: Bad Sector" on known good disks. So it's definitely the drive that's
bad.
Mechanically the drive seems sound, so I guess I have to assume that
there's something wrong with the electronics. I haven't done a
side-by-side comparison with a working Tandon drive to see if there's any
obvious differences, though.
Doug Spence
ds_spenc(a)alcor.concordia.ca
>On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Doug Spence wrote:
>> There were all kinds of small Apple cloners around, with various
Apple
>> variety and fruit names ("Granny Smith", "McIntosh", "Pear", etc.).
The
Any lawsuits there with that second item?
>> Apple ][+ was the lack of the Apple logo, and usually the presence of
>> lower case display (though not necessarily the shift-key mod, which
my
>> machine lacks). Some had additional stuff, though, like function
keys and
>> slightly differently shaped cases. Or maybe a different colour of
>> plastic.
>>
>> Maybe I should start collecting Apple clones, seeing as I see them
more
>> frequently than actual Apples (clones were more affordable).
I have seen a Franklin once, and the rest were real Apples.
>I think the clones are more interesting than the real Apples at this
>point. They are more varied and in most areas are less common. More
>importantly they do have a historical significance.
So how many of them were there (ballpark)?
>> So the Soviets pirated the Apple ][, who didn't?
>>
>> A shame about the price, though. Why pirate the Apple if your clone
is
>> going to be even MORE expensive than the real thing?
>
So that you can sell it back to the US and make a profit!
>
>> BTW, my clone fell ill a while ago, and I've replaced it with a
genuine
>> Apple //e (the clone is back in its original box). Thanks to
>> depreciation, the //e was *much* less expensive than the clone was.
And
>> it even had an additional 256K RAM card in it (now populated up to
512K).
>> :)
>>
>> Too bad the //e won't work with any of my Z80 cards. :/
>
There has been a Z-80 card made for the Apple //c, which plugged into
the processor socket. Has anyone seen it? I only saw it in a catalog.
>
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In a message dated 98-04-29 09:23:09 EDT, you write:
<< Hi. After getting a new M Board for my XT and a load of cards, I found
that
my Power Supply's now completely dead. So, where to I start? No fan, moves
a turn or two, I know that the power connections good.
Thanks, >>
heres a quick and dirty way to test one:
if you have a hard drive, plug that into one of the power connectors, then hit
the switch. that will let you know if its working or not. this test will work,
as i use an xt supply just to run a scsi drive for my mac when i bring it out
for testing once in a while. if not working, i have several extra xt supplies
i need to get rid of. message me privately if interested.
david
"James L. Rice" <jrice(a)texoma.net> wrote:
>I've acquired a Amiga 1000 with monitor, mouse, scsi sidecar that try's
>to boot up, but after booting kickstart, it asks for the Workbench 1.2
>disk. My disk seems to be defective because the drive cycles and the
>picture of the workbench disk comes back up. Does anyone out there have
>a copy?
The symptoms you describe could also mean that your disk drive is
out of alignment. Early Amiga OSes were floppy-bound and did a lot
of gronking, which wore out a lot of drives.
- John
Jefferson Computer Museum <http://www.threedee.com/jcm>
William Donzelli:
> I do not think the Cray-1s used 10K ECL - I believe they were custom parts
> and were faster (10K gates have a delay around 2 nS). Only four types of
> chips were used in the whole beast - I think two were OR/NOR gates, one
> was a flip-flop, and the other RAM.
It is some years since I looked at the Cray 1 in the Deutches Museum in
Muenchen (Munich), but I distinctly recall seeing lots of 10xxx chips in
it. I remember I had just been given a board from the CPU of a Cyber
two-hunderd-and-something (?) that had been thrown out by Muenchen
Technical University a few months earlier, and this board has lots of
100xxx chips on it.
Philip.
