test-drb January 2000

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13 participants
12 discussions

Wait! There's more including MS-DOS 1.25!!!! was Sanyo MBC-550 (Yuck!) software available

by rigdonj＠intellistar.net

I'm still digging. I found more 550 stuff. I think this is everything that came with the 550. Here's a chance for you 550 owner's to get the whole set at one shot! Original DS-DOS box and invoice. Original Sanyo Easywriter ver 1.3 disk Original Sanyo disk box with 550 dos ver 2.11 and BASIC 1.25, two original Sanyo disk for InfoStar (set B disk 2 and 3 of 4; disks 1 and 4 are below), original Sanyo disk for DOS 1.25 and BASIC ver 1.1 Original Sanyo disk box with all three original disk of set A, WordStar and CalcStar and a backup copy of DS-DOS. Two card board dummy disks used to protect the floppy drives duing shipment. Joe > >A few weeks ago we were talking about the Sanyo 550 series and someone mentioned one of the alternates operating systems that supported 80 track drives in the 550. I said that was DS-DOS by Michtron. > > Today I found an old Sanyo disk package with four disks for the 550. One of them is DS DOS 2.11, one is InfoStar, one is MailMerge/SpellStar and the other is a disk of misc utilities. The first three are original disks. In additon, the InfoStar, MailMerge/SpellStar are Sanyo labeled disks that came with the 550. If anyone wants them, trade me something I can use and they're all your's. > > Joe

11 years, 3 months

recent additions

by KenzieM＠sympatico.ca

I recently filled the car with these: Apollo DOMAIN Series 3500 Domain series 3000 model 3010 HP/Apollo series 400 (2) Sun 3/60 + tape drive and tapes Sun 3/50 Apple lisa 2 (2) apple II Ci Mac SE/30 with radius monitor Mac color classic Quadra 610 Quadra 800 Quadra 860 power mac 7200/90 Also available was a volker Craig terminal, and a copy apple's unix I also have "quite a pile of HP 712/715/725s in various condition" for me to pick up when I get some space cleared. IKEA has said that the missing piece to complete the shelving will be delayed another 3 weeks, and my wife says no more machines until the shelves are up!

22 years, 8 months

Equipment needs home: Portland, OR. area

by wolf＠nwinfo.net

hey do you have any ideas about using relays or some thing connected to a parallel or aerial port to control the power to an outlet, you know like a dimmer switch controlling motors ETC if you have any thought or ideas I'd be glad to hear them.

22 years, 9 months

ldb4401 can be replaced by .....?

by General＠cyber.net.pk

dear sir please address the issue regards nasir

22 years, 11 months

TRS-80 Model II

by pdp-11＠swbell.net

>Also, if anyone wants one of these things, $10 plus shipping. The >condition >is unknown since I haven't fired them up ... and they don't include >keyboards :). Do you know how much shipping will be?

23 years, 7 months

PDP-11/34 & RK05 Questions

by pdp-11＠swbell.net

I am getting my PDP-11/34 and my RK05 disk drives and packs tommorrow, and I have a few questions.They have have been in storage for years, and, although they have been kept dry, they are probably dusty. Can anyone tell me how to clean the drives and the disk packs before I use them? Thanks, Owen

23 years, 8 months

AS400-C10

by thompson＠mail.athenet.net

The above item fell into my possession today. It appears to be circa 1990, contains three hard disks (or DASD, if you prefer), a 150mb QIC tape drive, and a twinax interface card. The IBM web site indicates this machine supports a whopping 20MB of RAM and 2GB of hard drive space. It still has an OS on the disks if I can remember which drive went in which bay in the machine (or if the id is in the drive rather than the backplane) The IBM site is not forthcoming on additional details on the machine.

24 years, 2 months

What Y2K glitch?

by kyrrin＠bluefeathertech.com

At 09:07 01-01-2000 -0800, you wrote: >D'ya mean that it's now safe to come out of the fallout shelter? Well, nothing fell out so I assume it's OK. ;-) >Watch. The news media will tell you that THEY SAVED you, by all of their >hysterical warnings. Oh, it already started. Someone on Prezzy Clinton's staff already started huffing and puffing about how we won't know the "full impact" of the problem until the end of January. I wager 4,000 Quatloos that, when that point comes, they'll claim they won't know the "full impact" for at least another month. And then another, and another, and... well, you get the idea. Oh, and the MicroVAXen and Sun boxes here, the oldest of which was designed and built in 1990, rolled right over to 2000 without a single protest. Lord above, what a non-event... too bad that people chose to focus their energies towards a bunch of hype instead of something worthwhile, like, say, a manned mission to Mars. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Bruce Lane, Owner and head honcho, Blue Feather Technologies http://www.bluefeathertech.com // E-mail: kyrrin(a)bluefeathertech.com Amateur Radio: WD6EOS since Dec. '77 "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..."

24 years, 3 months

What Y2K glitch?

by edick＠idcomm.com

Well, thatsurprises me! I've got NT3.51, NT4,Win98, and Win 95 in several boxes some dating back a few years, and not a one had the wrong date or any other apparent ill efects to show for the rollover. My Netware server was off by 11 months, but that was due to a typo last August. That was the last time I rebooted more than one of my boxes. Dick -----Original Message----- From: Bill Pechter <bpechter(a)monmouth.com> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu> Date: Saturday, January 01, 2000 2:29 PM Subject: Re: What Y2K glitch? On Sat, 01 Jan 2000, Bruce Lane wrote: > Oh, and the MicroVAXen and Sun boxes here, the oldest of which was > designed and built in 1990, rolled right over to 2000 without a single > protest. > > Lord above, what a non-event... too bad that people chose to focus their > energies towards a bunch of hype instead of something worthwhile, like, > say, a manned mission to Mars. Yup... I went nuts patching the blasted SunOS 4.1.x boxes (because management required "Certification" on all hardware and software. The problems were stuff like troff macro packages that didn't get date/time headers right. Real critical stuff, eh. Well, I wish I could've stayed with the old stuff. The Suns worked. The biggest problem I had was the time I spent patching Windows boxes. It took 5 times the overtime patching the Win95/98/NT stuff than any of the Sun stuff. The Suns were easy. Apply patch to one Sun of each architecture under SunOS 4.1.4, make tar patch. Untar over machine to install new kernel and all the patches. The PC's were much worse. Bill ----------------------------------------------------------------- bpechter@.monmouth.com|pechter@pechter.dyndns.org|pechter@pechter.bsdonline. org Three things never anger: First, the one who runs your DEC, Theone who does Field Service and the one who signs your check.

24 years, 3 months

What Y2K glitch?

by kyrrin＠bluefeathertech.com

We have at least five PeeCees active here at any one time. Of those five, only ONE got confused about the date rollover. It was a 1994-vintage 486 system running DOS 6.22. I use it as one of my testbed systems. EVERY other system, including my old 486-based server, which any industry "expert" would happily sneer at as "obsolete," handled the flip-over without so much as an electronic hiccup. Ah, me... all that hype, and the only glitches I've heard of this evening were only minor annoyances (like Auckland's airport web page reporting flight dates of 1900). Methinks we're going to hear about an awful lot of annoyed paranoid people and survivalists over the next couple weeks. Happy New Year, gang! Keep the peace(es). ;-) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Bruce Lane, Owner and head honcho, Blue Feather Technologies http://www.bluefeathertech.com // E-mail: kyrrin(a)bluefeathertech.com Amateur Radio: WD6EOS since Dec. '77 "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..."

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