<Ok, so a uVax II can't do a 'test 50' to print out its MAC address, and it
<isn't marked on the card itself. I can't seem to get tcpdump to see
<anything, do I need a sniffer to get this puppy?
<--Chuck
The uVaxII is dumb but not braindead. The console has the ability to
examin, find, deposit to any location and devices are in that list!
So short of pulling the card and read the printing on the PROM you can
do a Examine/Physical/Word/n:5 of the six locations starting at:
>>>E/P/W/n:5 2003FF920, I forget. havent had to do that for years.
If it's wrong, someone correct me it's something I haven't done in 6 years.
The DEQNA and DELQA are identical in the console command and addresses
needed to dump the MAC. If it doesnt' respond it may have a different
address other than the default in the device switches on the card.
Allison
<Nice enough laser printers for their day, but they tend to overheat, if
<memory serves. If you get one, make SURE the fan works. Check. I seem
<to recall we had problems with those on a Vax site I worked on once.
Only if the fans are missing or dead. I was part of that design team and
overheating was never a problem. The most common problem was a printer
designed for an peak use of 5,000 pages a month being used as a line
printer. They get a bit tired and cranky if they werent kept clean and
get over a million pages on them. Inshort they were commonly abused.
Oh, one note... there are about 5 versions of the printer depeinding on the
logic (ansi, enhanced ansi, postscript, postscript/ansi hybrid, video engine
<part of QPSS package>).
Oh the launch date is 1984 and production continued through 90-91 (memory
test).
Allison
On Mar 9, 14:05, Stephen Dauphin wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Pete Turnbull wrote:
>
> > That's not what I'd call "high". That means that on average, you have
to
> > correct or interpret every tenth character. I'd call less than 99%
"low",
> > not high.
> That's not what I meant. I did not study the results closely and so I
> wrote "high 90%" as a disclaimer to mean something like 98, 98.5, 99,
> 99.5, or 99.9. Perhaps I should have used the word "range". It seemed to
> me that I was getting less than 1 to no more than two words per hundred
> that needed correcting and I don't remember any punctuation or numerical
> errors.
Ah, that's a bit different, then :-) What software?
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
Ok, this is bugging me so I'm going to finally ask....
I know what most of the standard abbreviations are (AFAIK, IMHO, BTW,
etc...)
What is IIRC?????? :)
Jay West
>> Leaving them as a scanned image is the easy way out, but isn't always
>> practical. Some pages I have have very small print, and the resolution
>> of the image required to make this text readable makes for huge files.
>
>For pages that consist solely of text and line art, scan them as 300 DPI
>TIFF Class F Group 4. That takes only 40-120K per page. I put the
>resulting images into a PDF file, since most people don't have any other
>G4-capable reader, and G4 is supported as a native PDF image format.
This is what I have been doing.... I gave up on JPG and GIF even though
they are directly supported by the major browsers because the image
quality wasn't there and file sizes were getting out of hand when attempts
were made to preserve image quality.
TIFF on the other hand, works well, and is quite compressable. Pretty
much consigns you to putting them in a PDF though, which isn't all that
evil I suppose.
The one attractive thing we loose by creating 60meg PDF files is the
ability to browse pages without downloading the entire thing....
Or am I missing something in Acrobat that will pull pages on demand
>from a table of contents?
>Some people always flame me about disliking PDF because they can't run
>Acrobat Reader on their Commdore 64, but realisticly I've found that more
>people have access to Acrobat Reader than any other viewer. My attitude
>is that if I spend the time to scan the docs and make them available
>free on my web site, people that don't like it can take a hike.
I have no real problem with PDF. I am just trying to reduce my labor
investment, and produce quality end results.
>I've written a program using PDFlib to automate creating the PDF from a
>directory full of G4 files.
This sounds rather useful... :-)
>For greyscale and color images, I'm working on a process to separate out
>the images, use G4 coding on the monochrome portion of the page, and
>overlay the images in JPEG format. This will also work nicely with
>Acrobat reader, since it can support overlaid images, whereas most other
>viewer software can't.
This will help a lot too....
>Some results of my scanning can be seen at www.36bit.org. Note that
>most of those scans were done *before* I got a sheet feeder. In my
>experience, although there is some skew with the feeder, there is less
>skew than when I do the pages manually, and the skew is more consistent
>from page to page. If I get really motivated I'll write some deskewing
>software.
What scanner are you using? Your scans look pretty good. Did you do
that 500+ page manual by hand or with the sheet feeder? :-)
Right now I have a stock HP Scanjet 4C, but am considering investing
in a ledger-size scanner with a decent sheet feeder so I can archive
not only my manuals, but my printsets as well.
>Eric
Jim
The question of "what classic equipment was rebadged" is circular.
To be honest, I can't think of any computer equipment I've ever seen in my
life that wasn't at some time or other rebadged, oemed, merged, etc. under a
different name.
Why don't we just change the question to "what classic equipment was never
rebadged". If we do that, the conversation is basically over :)
Jay West
I found two CDs full of promotional kiosk demos which run on MS-DOS. The
demos are of office apps such as DBase IV, etc. The most interesting demos
are for the early Windows programs. If anyone would like me to upload any
of these (many famous products from -88,-89) just name it. The Windows one
is simply hilarious: "In the beginning, there was DOS..." I also found a
CD that is full of in-store demos of Macintosh System 7 (hypercard 'n
stuff). No word yet on availability of macintosh manuals mentioned
earlier.
--Max Eskin (max82(a)surfree.com)
I finally got a 7900A drive!
Does anyone have any extra of the media for it they might part with or know
where one can get that media at a reasonable price?
The 7900A uses a 12869A cartridge, which I don't believe is the same media
used in 7905 or 7906 drives (I think those used 12940 cartridges, don't
recall at the moment).
Thanks in advance for any tips and/or pointers!
Jay West
>>>And _History of Personal Workstations_ seems to classify the HP 9100 (1968)
>>>as a workstation.
>>
>>Oh, did you mean graphical workstation? Then maybe it was the DEC GT40,
>>introduced in 1972.
>
>What about the Tectronics terminals with vector graphics? I remember
>playing basketball on one in 74.
Both the GT40 and HP9100 were vector displays, too :-). (Although
to get "vector graphics" on the 9100 you need the optional X-Y pen
plotter.)
The HP9100 is a very nice "personal compute machine", and the example
I inherited was once used to compute the original space probe "slingshot"
trajectories by Van Allen at the University of Iowa.
--
Tim Shoppa Email: shoppa(a)trailing-edge.com
Trailing Edge Technology WWW: http://www.trailing-edge.com/
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Bethesda, MD, USA 20817 Fax: 301-767-5927
Hello All,
At 06:37 PM 3/4/99 -0500, Lance Lyon <black(a)gco.apana.org.au> wrote:
>Added the following to my growing collection today :
[Snip]
>An IBM (no model number) two internal side-by-side black 3.5" floppies,
>non-standard monitor connector, PS/2 style mouse & k/brd connectors,
>small grey box, about the width of a normal keyboard, 5" high, about 12"
>deep. On the rear "Manufactured by IBM Japan 1987" nothing else.
Sounds to me like an IBM JX. It was pretty much IBM's last attempt to get
into the low-cost home micro market. It was similar to the PC Jr in many
respects.
For a bit more info, check out
http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~alexios/MACHINE-ROOM/IBM_JX.html
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