In a message dated 98-07-03 22:22:55 EDT, you write:
<< Anyone that's having problems putting the ever-terrible Windows 98 on
your Compaq machine should view:
http://www.compaq.com/athome/win98/
Keep it real, only machines that 98 could run on, not the oldies.
>>
harrrumph, don't feel bad, it seems like almost 100% failure rate when end
users are upgrading to windont98 on IBM aptiva models as well. seems to be
that there's always something that is not working correctly. so much for
backwards compatibility! most users dont also know about fat32. once you
convert, you cant go back and you cannot do the best thing which is remove 98
altogether!
david
Hi Every One
This sounds really great!
I am blind and do have a love for machinery mechanical as well as
eletrical,
What I know about computers is self learned, I always wanted to aquire a
main frame computer, so I could learn about it.
I am building a small net work of my own, could I use a main frame as a
hub, I know it might be a dumb question, but you don't know unless you ask,
right?
I ran across the garage full of computer equiptment and thought here
is my chance.
But, I don't know about the equiptment and am looking for imput. What do
you think?
Can we get me setup?
I'll found a speech synthasiser screenreader for unix based systems, here
again do to lack of familarity I don't know what OS these machines are
using.
Any impute or coments would be fine!
Write to: blindpete(a)stratos.net
or: blndpete(a)raex.com
Again thanks!
Pete Persuric
Net-Tamer V 1.11 - Registered
Anyone that's having problems putting the ever-terrible Windows 98 on
your Compaq machine should view:
http://www.compaq.com/athome/win98/
Keep it real, only machines that 98 could run on, not the oldies.
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At 02:18 AM 03-07-98 -0700, Kevan Heydon wrote:
>Saying this my collection could start making a profit soon because I have
>one of my old machines out on loan to a company that is paying me. I
>didn't ask for the money, they offered.
I've loaned out bits of my PDP-8A via a friend to an organization that
still uses them to drive some machinery (I've never asked, and no one has
ever offered to tell me what they're used for - I just know that it's
something in a government department. Perhaps it's being used for code
breaking :-)
I've never asked for money, but surprisingly, the bits always return in a
box with a nice bottle (port or whisky). I feel happy to have helped and
it's just a nice gesture to attach something on it's return.
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CL>CharlesII(a)nwonline.net wrote:
CL>> Do any of you folks know of any electronic recorces for teaching
CL>> yourself how to program the c64?
CL> Try Jim Brain's page at http://www.jbrain.com/ as there are many
CL>C64/128 links there. I have a C64 BASIC 2 programming manual I never use
CL>that I might sell.
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CL> Phone: (502) 756-1749 Data/Fax:(502) 756-6991
CL> Email: rhblake(a)bbtel.com or rhblake(a)bigfoot.com
CL> Website: http://members.tripod.com/~RHBLAKE/
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There dosen't seem to be any links at the web page mentioned. Are you
shure that is the right address?
OK, now so I know how much these things are worth besides how much the
buyer wants to pay for it, would you people pay this much?
>Respond directly to the seller, not to me, if you want his Lisa 2. If
it
>turns out to be a Lisa 1, don't tell me about it :-)
>
>-- Doug
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 17:27:07 +0000
>From: Rich Bull <rbull(a)post.cis.smu.edu>
>Subject: LISA
>
>Mine has a 5 or 10 meg hard drive....Its a completed system with mouse
and
>keyboard and is in exceptional condition...neat little machine...If
your
>interested I need $200.00 and you pay shipping...
>
>Thanks
>rbull(a)mail.smu.edu
>
>Richard E. Bull email: rbull(a)mail.smu.edu
>Information Technology Services voice: (214)768-3450
>Southern Methodist University Fax: (214)768-9999
>Dallas, Texas 75275-0262
>
>
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At 08:07 AM 7/3/98 -0400, you wrote:
>
>I went back to the Salvation Army store where I picked up the Wang PC last
>week, and was shocked to find that ALL of the computer junk had been
>replaced by shelves full of lamp shades!
>
<snippage)
>
>I asked the employees what had happened to all that 'old computer junk',
>and was told that it had all been THROWN OUT LAST WEEK. :( I was assured
>that it was already gone, not just sitting in a dumpster outside.
Sad, but be warned... If they are anything like the ones up here, while
they will usually refuse to negociate even a little bit on a price, they
also will not hesitate to call the police if they find someone 'dumpster
diving', since they convieniently manage to rationalize it as 'theft'.
(and no, it was not me in the dumpster...)
An odd lot that... Even more annoying when I heard a story on the news
yesterday that the 'Goodwill' stores are a $36 million per year business!
When you consider that (nearly) all of the items they are selling are
donated, one might think that they could afford to be a bit less militant.
-jim
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On Sun, 28 Jun 1998 blindpete(a)stratos.net wrote:
> Hi
>
> I used to have an old wang whith a 8086 cpu in it, it had a monotor whith
> two cords coming out of it.
> one was power and the other one was for the data, they both pluged into
> the card whith two plugs on it.
> the one I had used the round ps2 stile plug maybe a little bigger, like a
> keyboard plug.
Humm, sounds like the monitor plugs into the IBM Mono Emulator card, then.
It has a 5-pin DIN connector and an 8-pin DIN connector. I would suspect
that the one labeled with the (+) might be the power, and the one labeled
with the pie slice might be the video connector.
The IBM Mono Emulator card din't look like it had parts on it that could
handle supplying power to a monitor, though.
I hope the Wang monitor isn't too specialized, else I'll NEVER get to see
this thing work!
I think I'll plug another machine into it today, using a null modem, to
see if the Wang expects a terminal hanging off its serial port.
Pray that nothing blows up.
> Pete
Doug Spence
ds_spenc(a)alcor.concordia.ca
http://alcor.concordia.ca/~ds_spenc/
<Agreed. I've not bought a new computer for over 10 years (!). The last
<machine I bought was a Tandy CoCo3. Everything else (apart from my HP48SX
<calculator, which came in the 'it's a neat toy that I just have to have'
<category) is even older.
The only machines I've purchased new are the Altair, NS* horizon and a
complete TI99/4a when they were having the firesale. It's been a while
since I've purchased new systems. Over the years I think the biggest
purchase was memory and disks!
Some of the most fun machines were free or just about that.
Allison
At 02:32 PM 7/2/98 -0700, you wrote:
>Wern't the original Altair 8 inch drives hard sectored?
Yes...
-jim
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