test-drb September 1999

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160 participants
610 discussions

by jeff.kaneko＠juno.com

On Tue, 14 Sep 1999 22:03:37 -0400 (EDT) "Merle K. Peirce" <at258(a)osfn.org> writes: > >If I can find the MagCard manual, I'll see if I can find the capacity. > I don't know if it mirrored the punch card or not, although I think it >held more data. They were supposed to be terrors to run. Not to mention repair! One of my first jobs in the electronics industry was field service of the Redactron Redactor (tm) word processing system. This was, for all intensive purposes, an IBM MAG Card System *clone* made by the Redactron Corporation, of Yaphank, NY. It used an *IBM* selectric typewriter mechanism, a box the size of a bar fridge filled with electronics, and used either MAG Cards or special cassette tapes. ALot of our customers started with MAG cards, then upgraded to tapes (which held alot more). Some customers had machines with *both*. LAter, the Selectric (tm) mechanism was replaced with a printer/ keyboard unit called a Q-Pak. Redactron was subsequently purchased by Burroughs. Jeff ___________________________________________________________________ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj.

25 years, 3 months

Why is the Coleco Adam so damn popular?

by Glenatacme＠aol.com

Jim wrote: In a message dated 09/14/1999 6:21:54 AM Eastern Daylight Time, DD950(a)prodigy.net writes: > I have to admit i bought one of the Coleco Adam computers in the summer of > 1984 (The Adam bomb). I soon found that it really didn't work and like most > I returned it to Toy-R-Us for a refund. I'm not familiar with the Adam. When you say it "really didn't work," do you mean: 1) it was poorly designed 2) it was poorly manufactured 3) it was a PITA to use or program ?? "Really didn't work" sounds as if _nothing_ useful could be done with the machine, no matter the skills and/or perseverance of the user. More plainly stated: are these things _totally_ _crap_ ??? I like collecting the smaller machines, but don't wish to waste my time if the Adam "really doesn't work." TIA, Glen Goodwin 0/0

25 years, 3 months

Homeworkers Needed!

by mhco＠mindspring.com

Dear Future Associate, You Can Work At Home & Set Your Own Hours. Start earning Big Money in a short time NO Newspaper Advertising! Your job will be to stuff and mail envelopes for our company. You will receive $.25 for each and every envelope you stuff and mail out. Just follow our simple instructions and you will be making money as easy as 1… 2… 3 For example stuff and mail 200 envelopes and you will receive $50.00. Stuff and mail 1000 and you will receive $250.00. Stuff and mail 2000 and you will receive $500.00 and more Never before has there been an easier way to make money from home! Our Company's Home Mailing Program is designed for people with little or no experience and provides simple, step by step instructions. There is no prior experience or special skills necessary on your part, Just stuffing envelopes. We need the help of honest and reliable home workers like you. Because we are overloaded with work and have more than our staff can handle. We have now expanded our mailing program and are expecting to reach millions more with our offers throughout the US and Canada. Our system of stuffing and mailing envelopes is very simple and easy to do! You will not be required to buy envelopes or postage stamps. We will gladly furnish all circulars at no cost to you. We assure you that as a participant in our program you will never have to mail anything objective or offensive. There are no quotas to meet, and there no contracts to sign. You can work as much, or as little as you want. Payment for each envelope you send out is Guaranteed! Here is what you will receive when you get your first Package. Inside you will find 100 envelopes, 100 labels and 100 sales letters ready to stuff and mail As soon as you are done with stuffing and mailing these first letters, your payment will arrive shortly, thereafter. All you have to do is to order more free supplies and stuff and mail more envelopes to make more money. Our sales literature which you will be stuffing and mailing will contain information outlining our highly informative manuals that we are advertising nationwide. As a free gift you will receive a special manual valued at $24.95, absolutely free, just for joining our Home Mailers Program. Plus you will get your own special code number, so that we will know how much you are to get paid. And to make re-ordering of more envelopes, that our company supplies very simple for you. We are giving you this free bonus because we want you to be confident in our company and to ensure that we will be doing business with you for a long time. Benefits Of This Job: 1. You do not have to quit your present job, to earn more money at home 2. You can make between $2,500 to $4,500 a month depending on the amount of time you are willing to spend stuffing and mailing envelopes 3. This is a great opportunity for the students, mothers, disabled persons or those who are home bodies. To secure your position and to show us that you are serious about earning extra income at home we require a one-time registration fee of $35.00. This fee covers the cost of your initial start up package, which includes 100 envelopes, 100 labels and 100 sales letters and a manual, your registration fee will be refunded back to you shortly thereafter. Money Back Guarantee! We guarantee that as soon as you stuff and mail your first 300 envelopes You will be paid $75.00 and your registration fee will be refunded. Many of you wonder why it is necessary to pay a deposit to get a job. It is because we are looking for people that seriously want to work from home. * If 3.000 people told us they wanted to start working from home and we sent out 3.000 packages free to every one. And then half of the people decided not to work, this would be a potential loss of more than $60,000 in supply's and shipping that we have sent out to people that don't want to work We have instituted this policy to make sure that you really want to work and at least finish your first package. To Get Started Today Please Enclose Your Registration Fee of $35 Check,Cash Or Money Order and fill out the application below and mail to: MOHW Co 11054 Ventura Blvd PMB #126 Studio City, CA 91604 Name_____________________________________________________ Address___________________________________________________ City____________________________________ State______________ Zip Code________________ Telephone Number(s)_________________________________________ E-mail Address______________________________________________ For all orders, please allow seven (7) days for delivery and up to 10 days. Cash and Money Orders will result in faster shipping of your package.

25 years, 3 months

Reading TRS-80 discs (was RE: Archiving old discs...)

by allisonp＠world.std.com

<There was a TRS-80 model 1 Zork that meets this description -- I bought <it years ago. It was a single-density disk (The model 1 used a 1771 <controller that could only do single desnity), and it was formatted <strangely 'copy protect' it. It was also a self-booting disk with no <filesystem as such -- the Zork program just read the text (encrypted <IIRC) from raw sectors on the disk. I think the trs80 boot code loaded on a few sectors that acutally booted and loaded ZORK as there were other things in the way of odd skewing and sector numbering the standard code didn't like. <Superutility on a TRS-80 could probably read/back up that disk, but I <don't know what else can. Or suprzap (or several others) on one of many systems using the older 1771 controller (S100, Bigboards and others). Allison

25 years, 3 months

Reading TRS-80 discs (was RE: Archiving old discs...)

by allisonp＠world.std.com

<So, bottom line, if I find a floppy card that appears to conform to one of <the favorable ones on that list from comp.os.cpm, stick it in a PC and use <something like 22DISK, I should be able to make a physical backup of a TRS- <disk? Is there some other piece of software I should use? Unless Teledis <will produce an uncompressed image, it won't help me. I can process the d <images once I get them onto the hard drive, that's the easy part. ... Maybe. It's possible to create disks especially those created using some of the more oddball marks the 1771 can do. In that case only a system with a 1771 can read those disks. It's important to note that all of the PC controllers use some chip that is 765 at it's core and will only read S34 and S3740 compatable format sequences. The 1771 can generate many non conforming formats that even the 1793 in FM mode CANNOT read. So just doing fm is not the total answer as even the hard sectored Northstar* controller was FM. There is a long list of things you can do with the 1771 and to a lesser extent in the way of making formats that are "unique". Allison

25 years, 3 months

Homeworkers Needed!

by mowhco＠att.net

Dear Future Associate, You Can Work At Home & Set Your Own Hours. Start earning Big Money in a short time NO Newspaper Advertising! Your job will be to stuff and mail envelopes for our company. You will receive $.25 for each and every envelope you stuff and mail out. Just follow our simple instructions and you will be making money as easy as 1… 2… 3 For example stuff and mail 200 envelopes and you will receive $50.00. Stuff and mail 1000 and you will receive $250.00. Stuff and mail 2000 and you will receive $500.00 and more Never before has there been an easier way to make money from home! Our Company's Home Mailing Program is designed for people with little or no experience and provides simple, step by step instructions. There is no prior experience or special skills necessary on your part, Just stuffing envelopes. We need the help of honest and reliable home workers like you. Because we are overloaded with work and have more than our staff can handle. We have now expanded our mailing program and are expecting to reach millions more with our offers throughout the US and Canada. Our system of stuffing and mailing envelopes is very simple and easy to do! You will not be required to buy envelopes or postage stamps. We will gladly furnish all circulars at no cost to you. We assure you that as a participant in our program you will never have to mail anything objective or offensive. There are no quotas to meet, and there no contracts to sign. You can work as much, or as little as you want. Payment for each envelope you send out is Guaranteed! Here is what you will receive when you get your first Package. Inside you will find 100 envelopes, 100 labels and 100 sales letters ready to stuff and mail As soon as you are done with stuffing and mailing these first letters, your payment will arrive shortly, thereafter. All you have to do is to order more free supplies and stuff and mail more envelopes to make more money. Our sales literature which you will be stuffing and mailing will contain information outlining our highly informative manuals that we are advertising nationwide. As a free gift you will receive a special manual valued at $24.95, absolutely free, just for joining our Home Mailers Program. Plus you will get your own special code number, so that we will know how much you are to get paid. And to make re-ordering of more envelopes, that our company supplies very simple for you. We are giving you this free bonus because we want you to be confident in our company and to ensure that we will be doing business with you for a long time. Benefits Of This Job: 1. You do not have to quit your present job, to earn more money at home 2. You can make between $2,500 to $4,500 a month depending on the amount of time you are willing to spend stuffing and mailing envelopes 3. This is a great opportunity for the students, mothers, disabled persons or those who are home bodies. To secure your position and to show us that you are serious about earning extra income at home we require a one-time registration fee of $35.00. This fee covers the cost of your initial start up package, which includes 100 envelopes, 100 labels and 100 sales letters and a manual, your registration fee will be refunded back to you shortly thereafter. Money Back Guarantee! We guarantee that as soon as you stuff and mail your first 300 envelopes You will be paid $75.00 and your registration fee will be refunded. Many of you wonder why it is necessary to pay a deposit to get a job. It is because we are looking for people that seriously want to work from home. * If 3.000 people told us they wanted to start working from home and we sent out 3.000 packages free to every one. And then half of the people decided not to work, this would be a potential loss of more than $60,000 in supply's and shipping that we have sent out to people that don't want to work We have instituted this policy to make sure that you really want to work and at least finish your first package. To Get Started Today Please Enclose Your Registration Fee of $35 Check,Cash Or Money Order and fill out the application below and mail to: MOHW Co PMB 11054 Ventura Blvd #126 Studio City, CA 91604 Name_____________________________________________________ Address___________________________________________________ City____________________________________ State______________ Zip Code________________ Telephone Number(s)_________________________________________ E-mail Address______________________________________________ For all orders, please allow seven (7) days for delivery and up to 10 days. Cash and Money Orders will result in faster shipping of your package.

25 years, 3 months

Homeworkers Needed! Try www.spamcop.net

by morrison＠t-iii.com

"However, the amount of spam I am receiving has dropped almost to zero since I have been using www.spamcop.net to send the complaints!" ---> And if you keep off usa.net it will stay low. Talk about the Land O' Spam!!! Neil Morrison email:morrison@t-iii.com

25 years, 3 months

HELP! Kaypro 2X Drive (Was: HELP! Osbourne drives)

by wsmith＠gj.com

>>> Don Maslin <donm(a)cts.com> 09/13 9:06 PM >>> On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Wayne Smith wrote: > This made me remember that I have a perhaps similar problem with one > of my Kaypro drives. It works at first, but eventually wears away > portions of the disk making the disk unusable. (After a few uses, if > you hold the disk up to the light there are arcs that are clear.) I > assume this is a head alignment issue. If so, is there an easy way to > realign the heads (perhaps dropping the unit a la Apple III), or should > I just look for another floppy drive? I would be more inclined to suspect magnetic media build up on the heads that needs to be cleaned off. - don ***Any suggestions on cleaning methods? Wayne ! ! !

25 years, 3 months

Reading TRS-80 discs (was RE: Archiving old discs...)

by ethan_dicks＠yahoo.com

--- allisonp(a)world.std.com wrote: > I can say the 37c65 (all vendors) and all versions of the 765(I8272) all > do single density quite well. Most PC bus cards do not do ningle > density (any/all) of those more often than not do not do SD FM due to > board level implmentation limitations. The most common is the data > seperator is hardwired for (especially true for any board with 765/8272 > on it) one maybe two data rates. So, bottom line, if I find a floppy card that appears to conform to one of the favorable ones on that list from comp.os.cpm, stick it in a PC and use something like 22DISK, I should be able to make a physical backup of a TRS-80 disk? Is there some other piece of software I should use? Unless Teledisk will produce an uncompressed image, it won't help me. I can process the disk images once I get them onto the hard drive, that's the easy part. -ethan === Infinet has been sold. The domain is going away in February. Please send all replies to erd(a)iname.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com

25 years, 3 months

Homeworkers Needed! Try www.spamcop.net

by DD950＠prodigy.net

-----Original Message----- From: morrison(a)t-iii.com <morrison(a)t-iii.com> >I forwarded this to abuse, postmaster etc at their ISP. Received back:- > > I forwarded that spam also. I am glad there are others that take the time to complain. Now the only problem is the spammer most probably was not really using, or planned to use again that email account. But you never know so it is worth reporting it anyway. I have been cutting and pasting all my spam into the free parser at www.spamcop.net . You can use the system for free and it will address and send a nice complaint letter for you to the proper people. If you join up I understand you can use the filter that will block all the spam that is being reported. I don't do that so I can't tell you how effective that is. However, the amount of spam I am receiving has dropped almost to zero since I have been using www.spamcop.net to send the complaints! Maybe, just maybe the spammers do keep a list of us whiner and complainers and try not to send us spam. I encourage everybody to visit www.spamcop.net and use the system to file complaints. If nothing else it makes you feel good doing something. Regards, Jim Rossbach, Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club Web Ring, www.TonkinYachts.cjb.net Who were the beta testers for Preparations A through G?

25 years, 3 months

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