This is for those of you in the Chicago area, and anyone else that
might be able to help me. I am just writing to ask if some of you
might be able to direct to some good classic computer sources in the
Chicago, Illinois area. I am leaving for Chicago for the weekend, and
will have some free time to browse thrift shops, etc. Any place that
might have a good stock of old 8-bitters?
Thanks,
CORD COSLOR
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In a message dated 98-05-14 05:40:03 EDT, you write:
<< Sorry, as it seems that I've become the maker of off-topic content, but now
after I've installed OS/2 (first 6 disks) Warp 3, using FAT (High
Performance File System didn't work), I get:
OS/2 !! SYS01475
OS/2 !! SYS02027 >>
if i remember correctly, that's the os2 version of: non system disk or disk
error. you might have to remove the floppy from a: drive or do a sysinstx
command to sys the hard drive.
david
Qoo, Tim!
At 12:38 14.05.98 +0300, you wrote:
>after I've installed OS/2 (first 6 disks) Warp 3, using FAT (High
>Performance File System didn't work), I get:
Wadda hell...
>OS/2 !! SYS01475
>OS/2 !! SYS02027
>
>So anyway, it freezes like that. This, BTW, is on a 2.1GB HDD, with no
>other OS'es currently installed.
It may be 2.1G that causes the problem - if it is used as single partition.
I heard that Warp3 isn't too well in handling big partitions. Try breaking
it into smaller pieces (<1G)
hope that helps,
-andy
Despite my former comments I'd say computers do have a place in education
as do television.
I went through most of school as an avid non-writer, managed good grades
despite it even in english so long as writing was not required. It was
word processing or actually a simple editor and printer that open the door
to writing, somehow made it less painful. It didn't help my bizzare
grammer or spelling but at least I wrote. The catalyst was writing code
and having to document it. Did computers help, yes. It wasn't pacman
or clicking icons just using the tool for what it can do best. What was
best was simply allowing me to bang down words and then peice them
together in some sensible way.
As to what computer to use, old! why old, no matter what they have
new now it will be old it a few years when they have to apply it. It's
better they understand so that the knowledge can be applied rather than
keystrokes. Students would do better to learn VI and ED than the latest
version of QARK or Word.
Allison
>Seem to remember I had the same problem when I tried to find out info
>about my /// a few years back... back then WAP had no web site, email or
>anything that I could find, which made life difficult for those of us
>stuck in the UK... hopefully things have progressed a little by now!
>
>(If you find a web address could you post it here please?)
http://www.wap.org/
-- Kirk
>I did pick up another Apple peripheral at the same time, which may offer a
>clue. It's a Modem 1200, Model A9M0301. The "clue", assuming it came
>from the same source, is the 8-pin mini-DIN connector. I don't know what
>uses that kind of connection for the serial port.
>
The //gs and Macs do, maybe the later //c or //c+
>Did the Apple 3.5" Drive have a mechanical eject? Fully manual, I mean,
>not just a push-button that tells the motorized ejection mechanism to wake
>up. Very un-Mac-like.
The manual eject was only on the drives designed for the // series.
-- Kirk
>> [wap]...
>>Thanks! We'll jump right over the the web pa....oh, you didn't post one.
>>Ok then we'll just call the phone numbe...oops, you didn't give us that
>>either. Ok, well I guess we'll just have to do it the hard way and write
>>a letter to...hmmm, no physical address.
:*)
Seem to remember I had the same problem when I tried to find out info
about my /// a few years back... back then WAP had no web site, email or
anything that I could find, which made life difficult for those of us
stuck in the UK... hopefully things have progressed a little by now!
(If you find a web address could you post it here please?)
cheers,
Jules
>
Greetings,
Last week, along with a boxload of other stuff, I picked up an external
3.5" floppy drive that apears to be intended for Apple machines.
It's a DS800 from DataSpace Corporation.
It physically plugs into my Apple //c, but I can't get the machine to
recognize it. The drive makes a noise when I power up the computer, but
that's all. Attempts to access S6, D2 or any other slot and drive
combination doesn't get anywhere.
It DOES respond to my Mac 512K, though. I plugged it into that machine
and shoved a Mac-formatted disk in it, and an icon and open window popped
up.
I don't think the drive can be intended for the Mac, though, because it's
got a MECHANICAL eject mechanism. In fact I was able to eject that Mac
disk (write protected, thankfully ;) ) and the Mac didn't notice.
Is there something I need to do to get my //c to recognize the drive? Or
is it intended for use on a //gs? Or did this company make a line of
dangerous Mac peripherals in an attempt to give the platform a bad name
for an overabundance of disk corruptions? ;)
Doug Spence
ds_spenc(a)alcor.concordia.ca
Sorry, as it seems that I've become the maker of off-topic content, but now
after I've installed OS/2 (first 6 disks) Warp 3, using FAT (High
Performance File System didn't work), I get:
OS/2 !! SYS01475
OS/2 !! SYS02027
So anyway, it freezes like that. This, BTW, is on a 2.1GB HDD, with no
other OS'es currently installed.
Ciao,
Tim D. Hotze
I just spent Saturday morning in an Ali Babas cave of old computers
ranging form a huge 6ft tall by 10 ft wide analogue computer through a
few DEC machines (see below, and old ICT 1301, a Telefunken TR4 a
burroughs 1800, a few French minicomputers and quite a number of
unidentified systems. Included were lots of tape and disk drives, boxes
of documentationa nd software. Just a dream come true!
The collection belongs to ACONIT : "l'Association pour le Conservation
de Informatique et Telematique" I guess that's pretty clear even to non
french speakers. It has been accumulated over since 1985 and is
currently stored in a warehouse in a town called Voiron near Grenoble.
ACONIT has acquired larger and more convenient premisies in Grenoble
itself and will be moving the collection there later this year and we
plan on setting up workshops etc to restore as many of these systems as
possible.
Among the DEC machines I saw was a complete PDP-9. How rare are these?
Anyways, if anyone is in the Grenoble region later on in the year drop
me a line and I can provide a personally conducted guided tour of what
we have.
I'll keep you all informed of what we are doing as thngs develop.
Regards,
Hans B Pufal
