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, 10 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, 10 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, 10 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, 10 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, 10 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, 10 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, 10 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, 10 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, 10 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, 10 months

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