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Test # 3 -Delete now

by truthanl＠oclc.org

inbox sort test from listserve - Please disregard

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FW: Test Message #2 - delete it now

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Busting CRTs (was Re: Gold price was: Re: ebay feedback)

by dylanb＠sympatico.ca

-----Original Message----- From: Ethan Dicks <ethan_dicks(a)yahoo.com> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu> Date: Tuesday, December 07, 1999 12:46 PM Subject: Busting CRTs (was Re: Gold price was: Re: ebay feedback) > > >--- Joe <rigdonj(a)intellistar.net> wrote: >> You can safely let the air in (or vacuum out) of a CRT by breaking the >> "tit" on the back end of the CRT where the air was evacuated. It may be >> covered by the plug for the electrical connections. If it is then just >> break the plug off. The glass is very thin there and I've seen may people >> just use a karate chop motion with almost any metal object to break the end >> of the tit off. That will let the air in and the rest of the tube stays >> intact. > >I just did that accidentally to a Mac SE. :-( I was trying to remove a >cable from the innards and my hand slipped and wacked the board on the >back of the CRT and skewed it far enough to bust that little tit. Now I >have *more* spare Mac parts. Do you know how many of those week lost at Queens Park?? One guy in my department nailed CRTs 2 in one week... You never forget that "hissing" sound that comes out of the unit... then the expression on the person working on it. The SEs also had those bad hard drives... the Principal Secretary actually had a large screw driver next to his SE... Every time the drive wouldn't spin up he would beat the crap out of it. Apple came down and they agreed to replace all the flaky hard drives free immediately. Entire legislative assembly had those things everywhere. I was visiting one MPP (member of provincial parliament) and will never forget what he did.He hated the SE so much that he actually asked me "how do I get a new real computer?".. I told him the only way was if this one broke. .. Well, in front of me he pushed it off his desk and hoped that it would smash when it hit the floor. It didn't break so I decided to help him out and offered to bring it back to my department and have one of our Junior Programmers put a new drive in it. He then yelled out in the hallway "Someone trip Bordnik! He's got my computer and I don't want that piece of shit back.". Good times. john http://www.pdp8.com > >-ethan > > >===== >Infinet has been sold. The domain is going away in February. >Please send all replies to > > erd(a)iname.com >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. >Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.yahoo.com >

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Old usenet news?

by jfoust＠threedee.com

I thought this topic had been chewed once or twice on this Classic Computer Collectors mailing list, but I couldn't find it in my archive. I often lament that there may never be an archive of news in the middle era between the start of Usenet news and the birth of the Web. Deja News only goes back to about March 1995. The <http://www.archive.org/home.html> archive appears to be down right now, but it has a simple archive of a few years' worth of early Usenet news. I think there's a gap of at least ten years between its archive and Deja News. Henry Spencer supposedly archived everything into the early 90s, but did he save the tapes and shift them to new media in time? <http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/index.html> has an archive from May 1981 to May 1982, apparently based on his files. I found a news story on archive.org at <http://www.newmedianews.com/042597/ts_inetarchive.html>. Hmm. I had to blink twice, the picture of the guy running it looks enough like me to confuse myself. Fortunately, he didn't look like me in other pictures. He's a net god of sorts. He founded Thinking Machines, and later sold other companies to AOL and Amazon. archive.org is trying to archive all Web sites. <http://www.sflan.com/> is another project he funded - near and dear to my heart, because I'm typing this on a VNC window on a 4.5 mile wireless link. According to <http://www.deja.com/help/faq.shtml>, Deja has 300 million messages, accounting for more than 500 gigabytes of disk space. They say Usenet posts are increasing geometrically. At least with old news, you can know there's only a finite amount. I seem to remember that in 1983 or so, all of Usenet news was only pumping a meg or two a day. Can anyone confirm this, or supply any other data points along this curve? How many megs of Usenet posts might there be in this gap between, say, 1983 and 1995? What are the chances that someone, somewhere, has an archive of everything from these years? I guess we only need to find one. :-) - John

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I am buying someone a Sun SPARC?. What do I buy?

by dylanb＠sympatico.ca

I have 0 experience with Sun. I have a friend who really likes Sun but has a Sun SPARC IPX?. What model does anyone here recommend I buy for just under $2K US. I see the Sun IPXs are selling cheap on eBay so are they a low end machine? [thats what he has right now]. I am buying this for an XMAS present - probably on eBay. I see right now: Sun SPARC 10,7,5, Ultra 1, and others. Any recommendations? john http://www.pdp8.com/

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PDP-8L (was PDP-11/70)

by ethan_dicks＠yahoo.com

--- John B <dylanb(a)sympatico.ca> wrote: > Do you have docs for the PDP-8Ls? I have a running desktop PDP-8L coming in > next weekend and am not sure if I am getting the docs or not. I have a couple of the relevant handbooks (c. 1970) and a B-sized printset that is marked: DEC-8/L-HR2A-D, PDP-8/L MAINTENANCE MANUAL Volume II, 3rd printing - March 1972 I can't scan 11"x17" documents, but it's only a few dozen pages - processor flow diagrams, logic diagrams, module placement and module schematics. I can get it copied for you either as trade in kind or for the cost of duplicating plus shipping. That's all I've got for the -8/L. -ethan ===== Infinet has been sold. The domain is going away in February. Please send all replies to erd(a)iname.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.yahoo.com

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DEC Front Panel

by ethan_dicks＠yahoo.com

--- Bill Pechter <pechter(a)pechter.dyndns.org> wrote: > > I think DEC never made the remote protocol available or public. Not surprising. > Probably it could be done with someone with an 11/70, an RDC and a > line analyzer to trap the connections. Only if you could wedge the line analyzer in between the 11/70 and the remote support device on the other end (i.e., a live session). I do happen to have a couple of HP line analyzers - the ones that use TU58- sized tapes, not the floppy version. I can follow the traffic and, indeed, even synthesize some. We had some home-grown software that would simulate bisync traffic and even an SNA logon sequence. Most sophisticated. > The remote panel has a really slick ODT mode. If I can find my 11/70 > pocket RDC guide I'll photocopy it. That'd be great. No hurry. -ethan ===== Infinet has been sold. The domain is going away in February. Please send all replies to erd(a)iname.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.yahoo.com

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Hewlett Packard A2094 Monitor (Standard RGB ?)

by musicman38＠mindspring.com

Back to that warehouse today with all the HP stuff in it. Found this monster 21inch monitor that looks to be an RGB Type.. The Monitor has 5 BNC connectors on the back Labeled .. 1. HD (Sync) 2. VD (Sync) 3. R 4. G 5. B Hope to hook this up to my Commodore 128D Computer.. Before I get to excited can someone tell me if this model is standard RGB ? Or is this some non standard type ? Phil..

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Old usenet news?

by allisonp＠world.std.com

<According to <http://www.deja.com/help/faq.shtml>, Deja has <300 million messages, accounting for more than 500 gigabytes <of disk space. They say Usenet posts are increasing geometrically. It would be arithmetically but spam raised to 20,000++ newsgroups may have an impact. <At least with old news, you can know there's only a finite amount. <I seem to remember that in 1983 or so, all of Usenet news was only <pumping a meg or two a day. Can anyone confirm this, or supply <any other data points along this curve? How many megs of Usenet <posts might there be in this gap between, say, 1983 and 1995? I know from 86ish to 91 I had no problem following several groups. then all of a sudden even one group was too much. <What are the chances that someone, somewhere, has an archive of <everything from these years? I guess we only need to find one. :-) You'd have to check each group. some archived, some didn't. COMP.OS.CPM used to but I think it's long gone. Allison

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