I recently bought a Maxtor IDE along with other HDDs at a hamfest. When I
got it home, I noticed that it "clunked". No response when I hooked it up,
so, I took it apart...
The head had gouged its way through the entire thickness of the platter; the
remaining part of the platter was lying loose around the hub! It must have
made a horrible screeching sound for days (months?), but I guess no-one
noticed.
The head is ground away, of course, but the arm's still intact.
Anyone ever seen a worse failure?
manney(a)lrbcg.com
Found this on Usenet. A fellow in Colorado's looking for a home for a
DS3100. Any takers, please contact him directly.
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From: jimvela(a)aol.com (JimVela)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: DS3100: Free to good home
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Greetings...
I have a DS3100 system which I picked up cheap, and was planning to play
with NetBSD or OpenBSD on it.
As it turns out, I've picked up a couple of other projects and will
probably never get 'around to it'.
I'll give the system away to anyone who can pick it up- I'm near Boulder,
CO.
The system is a DecStation 3100 with a VR299 monitor and Dec Keyboard. I
don't have a mouse, or hard drives. I believe that there is 16Mb of Ram
installed. As far as I know, it works fine. (I never got further than
realizing that the mouse was generating an error on boot, and never made a
loopback connector to go further.)
Anyone that's interested, reply via email...
Regards,
Jim Velasquez
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Bruce Lane, SysOp,
The Dragon's Cave BBS (Fido 1:343/272)
kyrrin {at} j<p>s d[o]t n=e=t
"...No matter how hard we may wish otherwise, our science can only describe
an object, event, or living creature, in our own human terms. It cannot possibly
define any of them!..."
Before I go calling around to drive repair places, does anyone happen to
have the service manual for a Fujitsu 'Eagle' (M2351 series) that they feel
they could part with? I'd be happy to pick up postage for such.
Thanks in advance.
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(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..."
Found in comp.sys.northstar:
>Hi,
>I have three functional Northstar Horizons (at least they were working
>when they went into the basement) that I'd like to find a good home
>for.
>
>For history buffs. the systems used to belong to Dr. Tim Lineham in
>Olympia Wa. and served as one of the very early Z-Node bbs systems.
>Gar Nelson
>Seattle, Wa.
Reply directly to the original author (elli12(a)gte.net) .
Rich Cini/WUGNET
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ClubWin! Charter Member (6)
MCP Windows 95/Windows Networking
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Now the RA is hardware visible. As opposed to the RA81, where you CAN'T
plug it straight into the controller, the RA92 likes that. Go figure.
Anyway, I boot up and say HARDWR LIST.
It sees 2 devices off the UDA50, the RA81 and the RA92. It identifies the
RA92 as a RA92 also.
Now, I try to DSKINT the 92. I get to where it asks me for
pack clustersize. The default here is 32. When I type 32, it says
?Illegal clustersize specified
and prompts me again. Nothing works.
Apparently 32 is too big a number, but it's the required number, so
I've shot myself in the foot.
Is this a known bug? Have I screwed up here? Is there something I can change
in RAM to let me go ahead?
I can't find any mention of this anywhere....
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From: Lawrence Walker <lwalker(a)interlog.com
To: Sam Ismail <dastar(a)wco.com>
Subject: Re: Wang PC XC3-2
Reply-to: lwalker(a)interlog.com
Date: Sat, 2 May 1998 15:02:08
On 2 May 98 at 22:48, Sam Ismail wrote:
>
> Ok, what do you all know about the Wang PC XC3-2 circa 1984? I got one
> today. Unfortunately it was just the system itself with no documentation,
> but I did get some software. This one has a 5.25" disk drive and a
> half-height hard drive. I haven't dug into it yet so don't know many more
> details but from the labels on the interface cards on the back it has an
> IBM Monochrome emulator board among all the basic stuff (winchester disk
> controller, serial, parallel, etc.)
>
> Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
I posted on a trash find about 2 weeks ago on virtually the same machine,
with no response. Ditto on some newsgroups. That in itself is fascinating.The
one I have is a PC-S3-2. The only info I was able to find on Wang's venture
into the world of MS-DOS was on the Wang users bbs and this was pretty slim.
They call it a "classic" Wang, (Apple anyone ?) I was able to get a start-up
file from them but it seems to be an orphan like the Atari PC. There's quite a
few Wang CP/M enthusiasts sites but like the TRS m.2 little info on this beast.
even tho, like the TRS m.2, many were sold to the business community.
Most likely quietly fed to dumpsters around the world since most small
businesses don't have garage sales. You were fortunate ( mind you didn't find
it in the garbage) to have some means of IO. Mine had the 2 winchesters
removed and nothing else. I find the MB interesting with its mix of Zilog,
Motorola and Intel chips. Old Wang was known for it's interesting innovations
and IIRC many of it's people went on to illustrious careers with other
companies , like the original DEC, Xerox, and Atari crews did. I don\t have the
URL for the WUG handy but it should be readily available thru a search. They're
a Brit group IIRC and I wasn't about to pay $35 for the privelage of joining
their discussions. Could you give me some info on the FDD's , KB , etc.
ciao larry
lwalker(a)interlog.com
<Bingo! They are a single head version of the FD55F which was their
<'quad' density drive - 96tpi and 250k data rate.
<
<What other info would you like?
Thanks Don, that conformed what I thought. They are used in Visual 1050
CPM3 systems as 400kb drives. I'm looking at fitting them with a 3.5"
drive to be compatable with my other CPM systems at 720/780/1.44.
Allison
I dragged the RA92 up here, plugged it in as DU1, and started RSTS,
but RSTS says DU1 doesn't exist.
This is RSTS/E v8.0-07.
Is there some trick to do to make the RA92 work, or am I up a creek?
I'll play with it to make sure it's not my cabling, but I have it the same way as the RA81, so I doubt it...
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Ok, what do you all know about the Wang PC XC3-2 circa 1984? I got one
today. Unfortunately it was just the system itself with no documentation,
but I did get some software. This one has a 5.25" disk drive and a
half-height hard drive. I haven't dug into it yet so don't know many more
details but from the labels on the interface cards on the back it has an
IBM Monochrome emulator board among all the basic stuff (winchester disk
controller, serial, parallel, etc.)
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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Anyone have or know where I can find specs for TEAC FD55E drives?
I know they are single sided half height but I suspect they are 96tpi
80track drives.
Allison
