Re:
> about 10 of the typical plastic 6 foot shelf units, and I am currently
> eyeballing the mother of all shelves, the Gorilla Rack (a serious steel
...
> request for comments and suggestions.
I prefer Gorilla racks. I've bought/installed some of the plastic units
out there, and find two severe problems:
1) most have shelves that are NOT simple flat surfaces. Instead,
they're often some kind of exposed honeycomb (or other grid).
This has two drawbacks: (a) if you put small parts on the shelf,
they can drop through; (b) you can't slide units that have legs or
other protuberances.
2) the "heavy duty" plastic shelfs that I've used (Rubbermaid?)
start to bow under the weight of some computers
Stan
Well this week was pretty busy at auctions and checking thrift stores around
town. Many items were picked up with the following being of some interest.
a Epson Geneva PX-8 with built in micro cassette and rechargeable batteries
at Goodwill for $3
a Wang desktop with monitor, unit is gray in color and believe a 286.
a Kaypro repair Manual covering units up to the model 16 for 25 cents at
thrift.
Commodore items like a 1902 monitor, 128 unit with 1571 drive. $5 for all
some Mac 128 and 512 units, some were tossed as I have too many of these.
many Tandy units in the 1000 series.
That's it for now.
John
Does anyone have an (external) CD-ROM that wold work on a Macintosh
Performa? (Apologies if Performas aren't >10 yrs. I don't know macs)
Thanks
manney(a)hmcltd.net
P Manney
"Y1K caused the Dark Ages."
Thousands of discounted photo items at http://www.hmcltd.net/pgphoto
I started a web publishing project for my Heathkit computer collection.
Some cool pics I think of equipment and cards and docs. It will get better
I hope and I welcome suggestions....
http://millennial-concepts.com/dogas/heath.html
:)
- Mike: dogas(a)leading.net
>> The way to build a wall is to stack them not all the same way round. The
most
>> stable method is probably LRRLLRRLL..., but LRLRLR would probably work (L and
R
>> meaning Macs facing Left and Right respectively)
>
> LLRR wouldn't work. You'd have an unstable zigzag. LRLR is far more
> optimal.
LLRR definitely wouldn't work. But LRLR will still tend to stray from the
vertical because the sloping tops all slope the same way. That is why I
suggested LRRL. This zigzag reverses the sideways displacement that occurs in
each pair of layers, thus rising vertically and being therefore more stable than
LRLR.
Philip.
Hi,
Thanks for all the info. Apparently there are no reliable way to bring their
youth back, I would like to have a reliable laptop with a battery that last
more than 30 min. I found a Zenith z-star 433 VLp (500 Mb hd, 12 M RAM and
color display and the Zenith J-Mouse!!!) that I'd like to use while away
>from home. The batery I got seem to work for a while. Also it has four
contacts does this means that it provide mutiple voltages or is there some
kind of charge sense signal? I haven't brought the battery to the bench yet
(no room on or near the bench:).
Also the pack seems to be sealed pretty good, any elegant way to open it up
and reclose it without too much damage?
Thanks
Francois
PS: I actually got 3 of these laptops and built two from the set of parts
and two of the batteries are totally shot: they get very hot when I try to
charge them and of course no juice is coming out. I can practice on one of
the dead ones.
>> >This is the beast bet as cells fail with internal shorts and the cap
will
>> >dump enough energy to open them without cooking the cell.
>> >
>> Yes, but many times in my experience another short appears shortly. I
have
>
>Unfortunately, that's right :-( I would never depend on a cell that I'd
>repaired by this method.
Hi!
Does anyone have, or know where I could find, a mouse for an Apple //c?
ThAnX,
--
-Jason Willgruber
(roblwill(a)usaor.net)
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At 12:43 PM 20/05/99 -0400, you wrote:
>I always meant to hang an M9302 in the back window of my VW bus, that way I
>could be the bus driver and the board could be the bus terminator. I suppose
>I'd need an 8881 or 8641 T-shirt or something to make it official...
GROAN!
You'd have to have your wife beside you as bus master and source of
interrupts.
Kevin
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The general disdain with which PC collecting is met with on this list is
understandable, however, I have been thinking there must be something here.
I recall the folks who have collected PETs and C64s that are pretty common
and "worthless" these days (I saw a new Vic20 in box at the Hamvention that
they couldn't _give_ away.)
So I've had some thoughts on what might be useful to "collect" when it came
to the PC industry and this is what I've come up with:
1) All motherboard types - collecting one each of the "standard"
sizes (AT, XT, Baby-AT, etc)
2) Collecting one each of all processor types.
3) Collecting one each of all media types.
4) Collecting all of the video standards.
5) "Famous brands", IBM, Compaq, etc.
6) "Famous peripherals", Bus mouse, XT keyboard, AT keyboard, etc
This is something that anyone could start today since, like the computers
of yore, this stuff is currently being tossed out.
Comments?
--Chuck
