test-drb February 1999

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Amiga Crisis, (was MEI/Microcenter is out of 5-1/4" diskettes)

by gareth.knight2＠which.net

Zane H. Healy wrote: >As I understand it the Amiga software industry is in a bit of a crisis at >the moment because 3.5" DD floppies are no longer being made. Well, >they're also in a bit of a crisis thanks to the idiots running Amiga, Inc. >killing the market last spring when it will be quite a while before the new >Amiga is ready to ship. You're right about the disk crisis. Amiga magazines are falling over themselves to get a decent supply of DD disks. As for Amiga Inc killing the market, quite probably but from what I have heard the new OS is closer to release than everyone thinks (whatever that means) and as soon as I have enough money I'll buy a Viper PPC with a G3 processor. The Amiga dead? hardly? -- Gareth Knight Amiga Interactive Guide | ICQ No. 24185856 http://welcome.to/aig | "Shine on your star"

25 years, 6 months

Intergraph Clipper hardware

by kevan＠heydon.org

Hi, I would like to get a Clipper CPU based workstation but know very little about what models were made. Does anybody have any information on what machines Intergraph made. I do know that some models were huge dual display + tablet systems. I don't have the room for these but if they did smaller deskside or even desktop systems then these would be of interest. Many Thanks -- Kevan Collector of old computers: http://www.heydon.org/kevan/collection/

25 years, 6 months

Piece of classic FORTRAN code

by svs＠ropnet.ru

G'day, IF (COMPLF(-1).LE.2) IF (RSHIFT(COMPLF(0),32)-15) 360,1108,6600 C IF (NOT(-1).LE.2) IF (ISHFT(NOT(0),-32)-15) 360,1108,6600 7094 PRINT *,'IBM 7094' STOP 360 PRINT *,'IBM 360 (32 BITS)' STOP 1108 PRINT *,'UNIVAC 1108 (48 BITS)' STOP 6600 PRINT *,'CDC 6600 (60 BITS)' STOP -- Sergey Svishchev -- svs{at}ropnet{dot}ru

25 years, 6 months

no rom basic

by jolminkh＠nsw.bigpond.net.au

A similar subject came up in a local newsgroup here a few weeks ago. I have attached one message below that might be of interest. >> You done exactly right on everything except LLF which is big NO >> No on modern drives, potientially losing it! > >I wish just for once that someone would actually cite a specific drive >model for which this is true. I've LLF'd many of them with no ill >effects. > Forwarded message: -----Original Message----- From: Rod Speed <rodspeed(a)ozemail.com.au> Newsgroups: aus.computers.ibm-pc Date: Saturday, 23 January 1999 19:58 Subject: Re: FDISK-Write protect error > >Joseph Henle <jhen(a)mailzone.com> wrote in message >news:78bhko$s73$1@east42.supernews.com... > >> I am trying to fdisk a hard drive which indicated there is a non dos >> partition. When I try to fdisk i get " write protect error writting fixed >> disk" I have also tried fdisk/mbr and i get same message. Any suggestions? > >Probably best to completely clean out the first physical sector on the >hard drive and the first few tracks and start again from scratch with fdisk. >Fdisk can get rather confused in some situations and thats the easy fix. > >The simplest way to do this is to use clearhdd from >http://www.sec.samsung.co.kr/support/faqs/faq_view.cgi?no=99&kno=3 > >Note that this claims its a low level format utility. >It isnt, all it does is write zeros in the first few >tracks. It just describes what it does rather poorly. > >

25 years, 6 months

Another manual available

by kyrrin＠bluefeathertech.com

Hi, folks, OK, got another one up for grabs. This one's a big Motorola 68000 'ExorMACS' manual. This thing is three inches thick, and weighs in at nearly 9 pounds unpacked. I've not gone through it in detail, but I can tell you that it is vintage 1980 or so. Same deal as before; best offer takes it. If anyone would like me to look through it for something specific prior to their buying it, that's fine. Thanks in advance. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Bruce Lane, Owner and head honcho, Blue Feather Technologies http://www.bluefeathertech.com Amateur Radio:(WD6EOS) E-mail: kyrrin(a)bluefeathertech.com SysOp: The Dragon's Cave (Fido 1:343/272, 253-639-9905) "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..."

25 years, 6 months

no rom basic

by fpp＠concentric.net

Just going from my experience. I recently installed Linux on a 1.2gb IDE drive. Then I fdisk-ed and removed all partitions. Then formatted and got same NO ROM BASIC. This is the drive I used the low level format on and it has been working great with no problems since. -----Original Message----- From: PG Manney [SMTP:manney@hmcltd.net] Sent: Monday, February 08, 1999 6:33 PM To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers Subject: Re: no rom basic >Some hard drives will cause the above message if the 0 track has been altered (written over) linux is >well know for this and the only way I know to resolve this is to low level format the drive. A lot of 386 and >early 486 Award BIOS machines have an option of hard drive utility. If you do you're all set. I chose a 3 >for the interleave value. Not on an IDE, though! That's a LLF.

25 years, 6 months

Toshiba 4400 setup

by rigdonj＠intellistar.net

Can anyone tell me how to get into the CMOS setup in a Toshiba 4400? Joe

25 years, 6 months

some finds...

by allisonp＠world.std.com

Recent finds and far more on topic! Ti99/4a with a slew of carts and docs... I already have three! Commadore 128, 1571 disk, some docs and software. This puppy is one I've wanted to play with and plan to keep. Allison

25 years, 6 months

HP-85 Belts

by msg＠computerpro.com

Greetings, Attached is an archive posting regarding belts for the HP-85 calc. Has anyone found a source for these belts with less than $50.00 minimum orders? Thanks all. Michael Grigoni Cybertheque Museum

25 years, 6 months

OT: Y2K (reprise)

by manney＠hmcltd.net

There was some discussion a few weeks ago about the Y2K problem as it affected airlines. Someone said that no airlines would be flying due to lack of insurance. I just heard from TWA (took 'em a week. Suppose they've been getting lessons >from HP?) They said they were not aware of it. manney

25 years, 6 months

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