If anyone can help this fellow, please E-mail him directly.
Thanks!
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>From: Paul Barton <PBarton(a)or.us.delta-corp.com>
>To: "'kyrrin(a)bluefeathertech.com'" <kyrrin(a)bluefeathertech.com>
>Subject: Scrounging
>Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 11:06:38 -0700
>X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0)
>
>I am interested in getting a list of floppy drive model numbers for all
>types of floppies, 5.25 and 3.5" Mostly interested in finding model numbers
>for 360K and 720K drives only, while weeding out the rest.
>
>Got any ideas?
>
>Paul T. Barton
>pbarton(a)or.us.delta-corp.com
>idezilla(a)excite.com
>
>
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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..."
Hello, I've been playing with my Atari 800 a bit, and the frustrating
thing is I can't get the disk drive to work. When the drive is on and with
a disk in it (is spins itself up alright) and turn on the computer, it
doesn't try to read the disk (my last Atari, and 800XL I think.. did). In
BASIC, any disk command (XIO, open, load, save, etc) give me an error that
I looked up and means something to the effect of 'drive not present'. I've
tried several utilities (myutil) on my PC to write the disks with mydos or
ataridos, but I don't know if they're working as I can't write or read any
disks.
Any ideas, please?
Thanks,
Kevin
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<The "prefab" steel-and-particle-board shelf units available out there
<are excellent deals. Easy to set up, easy to knock down, easy to move,
<and they don't cost any more than the raw materials would cost you if you
<decided to roll it entirely yourself.
They are good.
<And there are a lot of brands available other than Gorilla. Take a look
<in the Grainger or MSC catalogs to see a really wide range of choices.
Yes there are, Grainger is never cheap though.
As someone that has done considerable wood work, Pop was a carpenter, I
know how to buy materials and use basic tools to make nice looking stuff.
Anywho, for 80$ I'd build a long wall of wood racks. Why? The average
racks are way overbuilt. Using 3/8" or maybe 1/2" plywood or OSB is good
and 2x4s for uprights are adaquate but 1/2 or 1/3 pine straping is good
for the rest and very cheap. If carefully done using screws appearance and
disassembly should not be a problem.
Allison
On Fri, 21 May 1999, Max Eskin wrote:
> On Fri, 21 May 1999, Sellam Ismail wrote:
> >It will weigh a lot and will be a bitch to tear down if you ever wanted to
> >move it somewhere else.
> >
> >I know all this from experience. Its better to buy Gorilla racks.
>
> Well, you're talking about a warehouse situation. I'm thinking of a garage
> or a basement of moderate dimensions.
Then I would think that portability and movability would be even more
important considerations.
The "prefab" steel-and-particle-board shelf units available out there
are excellent deals. Easy to set up, easy to knock down, easy to move,
and they don't cost any more than the raw materials would cost you if you
decided to roll it entirely yourself.
And there are a lot of brands available other than Gorilla. Take a look
in the Grainger or MSC catalogs to see a really wide range of choices.
--
Tim Shoppa Email: shoppa(a)trailing-edge.com
Trailing Edge Technology WWW: http://www.trailing-edge.com/
7328 Bradley Blvd Voice: 301-767-5917
Bethesda, MD, USA 20817 Fax: 301-767-5927
Here's a thought.
If you've got classic computers you'd love to run but can't think of anything
to DO with them, (and they speak unix) go to http://setiathome.ssi.berkeley.edu
and make your computer's idle cycles part of the SETI search for
extraterrestrial life. They download you a chunk of data from the Arecebo
radio telescope and your computer spends its idle time running analysis on
that chunk, then sends the results back.
They keep track of what platforms people are using too. Wouldn't it be
cool if the machine that finally found a real ET signal turned out to be
a Vax 11/780 sitting in some collector's garage? They also have it as a
screensaver for mac and windows, too. For reference, a "work unit" - about
300k of data all told - will take about 20 hours to process on my PII/300
machine assuming I let it run continuously.
--
Jim Strickland
jim(a)DIESPAMMERSCUMcalico.litterbox.com
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A company I do some work with just showed me their old system that they want
someone to cart off. From what I saw (and I'm not familiar at all with
somewhat recent IBM's), it appears to be a system/36.
There is a floorstanding deskside size cpu enclosure, two or three smaller
enclosures (same dimensions as cpu except about 8 inches tall), and a system
console with a really huge base on it. IIRC, the system said IBM 5655 or
something close to that on the front. They swear the system is in full
working order. I have no interest in this period of IBM so....
It's in St. Louis, MO, USA if anyone is interested just let me know via
email.
Jay West
In a message dated 99-05-20 13:21:03 EDT, you write:
> > Something to check for on the Imagewriter II printers is the localtalk
> > option board. I just picked up 4 Imagewriter II's and 2 so far have the
> > boards, which triples the value of the printer.
> >
> >
> How can you tell ? I have the 8-pin mini-plug and under a plate on
top-rear
> is
> a F 10-pin socket of some kind.
Look for appletalk cards in them?
Bring small philips screwdriver.
Lift 2 top covers .... one a narrow back strip .... then the big one
with smoked glass (or plastic)
slide carriage all the way left and remove ribbon
note 2 screws left and right in lower corner of opening
back all way out and lift up front cover whis has wire attached
Look inside on right ... board should have (front to back) 1 1/2 inch
connector or card mounted on it
Thats it... card or no card .... pretty valuable
Well... Its a day later and version 2.0 is online. New pictures, new
links. Check out the eta-3400.
http://millennial-concepts.com/dogas/heath.html
Thanks Sellam. I'm going to let it free form for awhile.
:)
- Mike: dogas(a)leading.net
Hi Everyone,
I've got my TK70 up and running on my uVAX but haven't been able to find a
lot of cartridges for it. Several TK50 carts, but no TK70. Imation stopped
producing them!
So if you know anyone who is decommissioning a large VAX installation that
might have a few dozen of these let me know. I'm interested in keeping the
media alive for a while at least!
--Chuck
Check out this terrific web museum:
The University of Virginia Computer Museum
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/brochure/museum.html
Great site and an amazing collection!
Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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