<I have to admit I am more than a little paranoid about spiders, and since
<watching a brown recluse segment on PBS, I simply don't poke my fingers
<into places I can't see.
My other no computer collecting half was bitten by a Brown Recluse years
ago at work (construction site trailer) and it was a nasty thing.
I'm very wary as we do have black widows and brown recluse in New England
and no doubt other nasty ones too. Most spiders that bite bring two risks
their venom and infection with the later being sometime worse.
take care and use Raid. Also most bug sprays are petroleum based and not
good for computers or cases.
Allison
Rumor has it that Aaron Christopher Finney may have mentioned these words:
>Coincidentally, relating my story to one of our clients brought a
>brown-recluse horror story out: she was bitten by one at home in Texas,
>went into a coma, and was paralyzed for nearly two weeks after. After more
>than a month in the hospital, she eventually regained full motor
>function and could speak without slurring...yikes.
Yikes is a *severe* understatement! Lemme tell ya, the classic computer
pickins' sure are slim up here, but stories like that make me damn glad to
live on the Canadian border. I've heard a few people say that the brown
recluse's might be able to survive up here, but I've never even heard of
someone seeing one - let alone confronting one myself.
[[ We have a lot of non-poisonous spiders up here in the summer and I get
bitten once every month or so -- Most folks get a nickel-sized welt for 3-5
days and might itch for a while from a bite from one of the nastier species
up here. Me? I usually get a dime-sized welt for 4-6 hours. Having been a
beekeeper for a few years does have it's advantages! ;-) ]]
Bringing this ontrack, tho: I *may* have stumbled across a mini-treasure of
Commie equipment. From what I hear, it sounds like a decked-out 64, one of
the real early PET's, and possibly a CBM machine. We'll see if this
actually pans out.
(It was used as a data collection device for a computerized farm feeding
system. One of the first dozen installed in North America, from what I
understand. This could be interesting...)
Take care,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
--
Roger "Merch" Merchberger --- sysadmin, Iceberg Computers
Recycling is good, right??? Ok, so I'll recycle an old .sig.
If at first you don't succeed, nuclear warhead
disarmament should *not* be your first career choice.
I can't get in at all. If I had another system, I could
mount the volume and jigger the /etc/passwd file. But I
don't.
I can't even boot the kernal manually--
Jeff
On Sun, 19 Sep 1999 23:50:57 -0400 (EDT) "Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner"
<spc(a)armigeron.com> writes:
>It was thus said that the Great jeff.kaneko(a)juno.com once stated:
>>
>>
>> Guys:
>>
>> I just scored a HP 9000/340 (I think), and the hard drive
>> has HP/UX loaded on it. I don't know the root password,
>> of course. Anybody know of a way to break into this, or
>> should I wipe it and start over?
>
> Can you log into it at all, with any account? If not, and you can't
>get
>it on the network, then you might as well wipe the disk and start
>over. If,
>however, you can get logged in, check `/etc/passwd'. If each entry
>looks
>like:
>
> root:Anu2szvaCOvwg:0:0:root:/root:/bin/tcsh
>
>(where the `:' delimeted second field is all characters) then you have
>a
>chance by running the file through a UNIX password cracking program.
>If,
>however, it looks like:
>
> root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/tcsh
>
>or
>
> root:*:0:0:root:/root:/bin/tcsh
>
>you might as well wipe the disk and start over. That is, unless, the
>person
>you recieved it from knows the root password (or knows someone that
>has the
>root password).
>
> -spc (But only wipe the disk if you have a copy of the OS to
>reinstall.
> If not, there are still ways ... )
>
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<All I do is get the shop vac out andd suck out the case clean upon opening
<Also, with winter oming on it doesn't hurt to leave the eqauipment outside
<a day or two (sheltered) in subzero temps. Really good for killing off
<spiders, roaches, etc.
A good thing for many reasons. I've also been know to take really grungy
stuff apart outdoors in the sun and litterally soap it up and hose it down.
Never lost any equipment tht way but the stuff running out the bottom was
often scary.
Allison
>It's an Apple IIe on a card. You probably need the software to make it run.
Software is required, but it's probably on Apple's ftp site. If not, I
remember seeing it in AOL's file libraries.
>Incidentally, the card only works with the LC as far as I know.
I believe it will work in a Color Classic, also.
>The connector may be for adding a 5 1/4" disk drive.
It uses the later 5.25" floppy drives (Unidisk?), not the Disk II drive.
Tom Owad
---------------------------Applefritter---------------------------
Apple prototypes, Apple II & early Mac clones, and the Compubrick.
------------------<http://www.applefritter.com/>------------------
><That eZ80 supposed to be 4x faster than original z80. Cool, nice to
><see a old dog with new tricks pop up again.
><
><It's on the slashdot.org, I saw it moments ago.
>
>???? What in the world are they babbling about?
>
> Well the original z80 was 2.5mhz and that was eclipsed some 10+
>years ago with Z80Hs and Z180s at greater than 10mhz. Now you can get
>z180s in cmos to 33mhz and the 32bit wide Z380 (with native z80) to
>20+mhz (in my 1996 data book, they are faster now).
>
>Where is the news?
I suspect that it's only news to the slashdot crowd. "Two (or three)
decade-old architecture still doing real work" is news for 99% of the folks
out there, though it isn't to us :-).
--
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<That eZ80 supposed to be 4x faster than original z80. Cool, nice to
<see a old dog with new tricks pop up again.
<
<It's on the slashdot.org, I saw it moments ago.
???? What in the world are they babbling about?
Well the original z80 was 2.5mhz and that was eclipsed some 10+
years ago with Z80Hs and Z180s at greater than 10mhz. Now you can get
z180s in cmos to 33mhz and the 32bit wide Z380 (with native z80) to
20+mhz (in my 1996 data book, they are faster now).
Heck I'm building a system using 12.5mhz z280s as a step up from the cmos
84c010 (10mhz cmos z80s). Oh, all of these are close to 10 years old.
Where is the news?
Allison
<Now I could access all hardware, but even within almost a year,
<I couldn't discover the processor beneth - well, it was just
<a complete hidden and 'non standard' design. Eventualy Sharp
<published an assemb manual.
I think the cpu was NEC 7806, 6k rom 128bytes ram plus external bus
and IO. The chip is z80 registers but NOT z80 compatable instruction
set. It's bigger brother is the 78pg11 and friends.
Allison
Last night I found a strange metal plate in one of the pockets of
one of my IBM 5100 manuals. It is stainless steel. Link here for
a scan:
http://home.earthlink.net/~wmsmith/_uimages/plate.jpg
Can anyone identify this? It does not appear related to
DC300 tapes. Thanks, all.
Wayne Smith
