test-drb August 1998

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by sinasohn＠ricochet.net

At 05:34 PM 8/24/98 -0500, you wrote: >It never ceases to amaze me that, when offered an opportunity to >celebrate in a positive manner, groups of people will choose to smash, >burn and destroy things instead. If it were some kind of demonstration Hear hear! I don't get it either! >Myself, I prefer dancing and singing to celebrate things. What happened >to dressing up in costumes and building floats and giving away free stuff >like candy or food? Well, here in San Francisco, people still do that on holidays... well, actually, they do that everyday... 8^) --------------------------------------------------------------------- O- Uncle Roger "There is pleasure pure in being mad roger(a)sinasohn.com that none but madmen know." Roger Louis Sinasohn & Associates San Francisco, California http://www.sinasohn.com/

25 years, 11 months

Memorex Telex update

by maxeskin＠hotmail.com

Speaking of Memorex-Telex, could someone please summarize their history? Just curious, always wondering. >Got it set. I got impatient and used GSETUP31 to initially set the >scrambled date, time and drive types to get it to boot and found the >setup program from Mem-Tel on the hard drive (duh). I copied it off for >future use so if anyone needs it just ask. > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Russ Blakeman > RB Custom Services / Rt. 1 Box 62E / Harned, KY USA 40144 > Phone: (502) 756-1749 Data/Fax:(502) 756-6991 > Email: rhblake(a)bbtel.com or rhblake(a)bigfoot.com > Website: http://members.tripod.com/~RHBLAKE/ > ICQ UIN #1714857 > AOL Instant Messenger "RHBLAKEMAN" > * Parts/Service/Upgrades and more for MOST Computers* > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

25 years, 11 months

Which track was least reliable?

by peacock＠simconv.com

> "On disk platters," he said, "the inside track > is the least reliable one." > This was true when drives were formatted with the same number of sectors on each track, regardless of position. Because the inner tracks had a shorter circumference, the bit density was highest on the innermost track. Now that drives are not directly addressed by cylinder/head/sector, the number of sectors can vary by track, so bit density is evenly distributed, outer tracks have more sectors than inner tracks. Where you see this limitation was on older MFM and RLL drives where the controller was not integrated onto the drive itself (pre-SCSI and pre-IDE). Jack Peacock

25 years, 11 months

Shame, shame, shame

by peacock＠simconv.com

>However, as a sysadmin, every so often I feel the primal urge to "get even" with the machines that are a constant pain in my arse. Disassembling a semi-functional Wang PC with a splitting maul is very cathartic when things get to that point. Does anyone still have that classic cover from an early issue of Interface Age? The one where the programmer has just buried a fire axe in an ASR-33 teletype. That's one every TTY user can identify with, watching your listing slowly crawl across the page at 10 CPS. Jack Peacock

25 years, 11 months

Floats (was: Shame, shame, shame)

by jimw＠agora.rdrop.com

At 05:34 PM 8/24/98 -0500, you wrote: > >Myself, I prefer dancing and singing to celebrate things. What happened >to dressing up in costumes and building floats and giving away free stuff >like candy or food? > >Ah well... Blame the lawyers and the liabililty laws... (from a one time float builder and one who remembers when it was actually fun to be in a parade) -jim --- jimw(a)agora.rdrop.com The Computer Garage - http://www.rdrop.com/~jimw Computer Garage Fax - (503) 646-0174

25 years, 11 months

Tips needed to repair Apple color composite monitor

by dastar＠ncal.verio.com

I just bought an Apple color composite monitor that needs some work. It comes on fine, and the screen goes to a bright white if I turn up the brightness. When I plug it into the computer the picture doesn't change a lick. I tried messing with all the settings to no avail. The picture stays a field of white. Any tips on how to proceed diagnosing this thing? I've got it opened up, the digital VOM is on and the soldering iron is hot. Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ever onward. September 26 & 27...Vintage Computer Festival 2.0 See http://www.siconic.com/vcf for details! [Last web site update: 08/09/98]

25 years, 11 months

by pjoules＠joules.enterprise-plc.com

Found these amongst Linux 'fortunes': PIC Punch Invalid Card POPI Punch Operator Immediately PVLC Punch Variable Length Card RASC Read And Shred Card RPM Read Programmers Mind RSSC Reduce Speed, Step Carefully (for improved accuracy) RTAB Rewind Tape And Break RWDSK Rewind Disk RWOC Read Writing On Card SCRBL Scribble to disk (faster than a write) SLC Search for Lost Card SPSW Scramble Program Status Word SRSD Seek Record and Scar Disk STROM Store in Read Only Memory TDB Transfer and Drop Bit WBT Water Binary Tree

25 years, 11 months

Cheap Computing

by jfoust＠threedee.com

I'm not sure if he falls under the ten-year rule, but here's a link to a columnist preaching the usefulness of "junk" computers on a regular basis: <http://www.andovernews.com/cgi-bin/news_column.pl?123> - John

25 years, 11 months

Shame, shame, shame

by fauradon＠pclink.com

Seen at: http://www.amnewsabuse.com/aafamily.htm -Quote Honey Sit On This For A Second So I Can Adjust It: - Corvallis OR is hosting Da Vinci Days beginning Friday - a three day festival featuring a contest to see how far you can hurl an obsolete personal computer with a big wooden medieval catapult. (Jul 15 '96) -End quote I think we should massively e-mail their chamber of commerce about the enormous stupidity of that event, this is an event supposed to celebrate technology not destroy it! Francois

25 years, 11 months

Name this chip

by jeff.kaneko＠ifrsys.com

At 09:12 PM 8/24/98 -0500, you wrote: > >< Oh, you mean like a National 8X300? > >No national 8x300 was the second source. ;) OIC. Hm, up to this point I thought it was all National's idea. Did the 8X305 belong to SMS also? Or was the enhanced chip a National invention? >SMS was the creator. An 8bitter design for DSP at better than 6mhz >throughput. Very non-Von machine with very seperate instruction and >data paths. That's a Harvard archetcture, right? Jeff

25 years, 11 months

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test-drb August 1998