test-drb December 2000

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Anyone else with an interest in Fortune Systems ?

by kapteynr＠cboe.com

David: I am not sure that you saw my earlier response, which I only sent to the mailing list. My Fortune is complete and basically works, except that it has a really flaky hard drive. (It makes lots of noise and runs about 15 minutes before warms up and quits working). I would be very interested your parts machine, if it had a compatible harddrive and especially if it had an ethernet card. -Rob -----Original Message----- From: Rob Kapteyn [SMTP:kapteynr@cboe.com] Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2000 7:24 PM To: 'classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org' Subject: RE: Anyone else with an interest in Fortune Systems ? Hi: I retired mine when the Miniscribe 10MB hard drive gave too many errors to be useful. But otherwise, I have everything complete with manuals and disks. The only "extras" I ever got were some extra Unix utilities and a Fortran compiler. The "special terminal" is actually just a low-resolution monochrome monitor connected with an RJ-45 type connector. (Character based, no graphics) The keyboard plugs into a similar connector on the front. Later models had a keyswitch, mine does not. Fortune made very nice stuff at an acceptable price for their day, but they crippled everything by making it non-standard to try to control their market. If you wanted a cheap computer to do Fortran programming, like I did, the only competition was the original IBM PC, which was brand new back then. The fact that the Fortune ran Unix made me choose the Fortune. I have no time for my collection either, but with an economic recession on the way, I might soon find myself with lots of spare time :-) In your "parts" machine, you wouldn't happen to have an ethernet card, would you ? I know that they sold them, but they were too expensive for me back then. -Rob -----Original Message----- From: David Williams [SMTP:dlw@trailingedge.com] Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2000 4:55 PM To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org Subject: Re: Anyone else with an interest in Fortune Systems ? Hi, I've always been interested in them. I was hired back in the early 80s to pick a multi-user system for a business and that was one of the boxs we looked at. I have 2 of them and a third in parts along with some doc but don't have the special terminal to work with it. Thus I have never been able to bring them up. They seem to need some special key when trying to access these and I have no idea what sequence it sends so I could mimic it on another terminal. One day I plan on scanning the doc but haven't had the time. But since I've dropped one side job recently maybe now I'll have more time for my collection. David ----- David Williams - Computer Packrat You can learn to like the life you live or live the life you like. dlw(a)trailingedge.com http://www.trailingedge.com

24 years, 1 month

GS disks an' that.

by agraham＠ccat.co.uk

> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-classiccmp-digest(a)classiccmp.org > [mailto:owner-classiccmp-digest@classiccmp.org] > Sent: 14 December 2000 02:08 > To: classiccmp-digest(a)classiccmp.org > Subject: classiccmp-digest V1 #455 > > > > classiccmp-digest Wednesday, December 13 2000 Volume > 01 : Number 455 > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 17:41:23 -0700 > Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 12:13:31 -0800 > From: "Henry Broekhuyse" <broekh(a)interchange.ubc.ca> > Subject: RE: G4IDE and ][GS disks (slightly off topic) > > If you don't have one already, get a 3.5" floppy drive for > your GS (even on > ebay these rarely cost more than $10). A Mac is able to read and write > ProDOS formatted 3.5" floppies, making this a convenient means of > transferring files. I'd kind of hoped the 800k external Mac drive could do that but it won't. > controller. If you must use a PC, the "easiest to implement" > method of file > transfer with an Apple II series computer is via a "null modem" serial > connection. Dammit :) I'd kind of hoped there was some Apple ][ flavour of a program like TransMac - read/write Mac disks on a PC. To get a null modem connection going though I need some sort of operating environment on the GS. Varying experiments with keypresses at powerup have got me into the control panel but that's about it. Is it possible to boot to BASIC? It must be since the ROM has Micro$oft written on it :) > Date: 14 Dec 00 00:26:28 +0100 > From: "Iggy Drougge" <optimus(a)canit.se> > Subject: RE: First personal computer nostalgia > > I'm sorry, but I feel it's nitpicking time... > I've never heard of an Atari 1050ST before, nor of a 1 MB > hard drive fitted to > an ST. OTOH, there is the Atari 1040ST, which had 1 MB of RAM. And you *could* get HDs for them too; can't remember their product designation OTTOMH but a swift look at the Atari Historical Society should tell you. Maybe it was a Falcon! > Date: 14 Dec 00 01:26:27 +0100 > From: "Iggy Drougge" <optimus(a)canit.se> > Subject: Re: amiga 500 > http://www.hardwarebook.net/ (everyone should have it > bookmarked) has got the > pinouts. Getting the D23 might be problematic, but I know > several sources > around here. > You'll get just about every 15KHz monitor to work, both > analogue and digital. > Possible models: Commodore 1081, 1084, 1085, 1940, 1942; Nec > Multisync II, 3D. I've got a spare Amiga -> CVBS cable if needs be...... adrian/witchy www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - the Online Computer Museum

24 years, 1 month

PDP-11/34 questions

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Dec 15, 19:31, Chuck McManis wrote: > I opened up the RL02 drive and it has a pack marked "RSX-11M 3.2SYS" in it. > I vacuumed out all the dust I could, checked around and it seems fine. So I > buttoned it back up and tried to load the pack. It powers on (the fan > blows) but popping the LOAD switch has no effect. No lights (not even > fault) light up and the drive doesn't seem to spin at all. (yes it is > terminated) > > So my first question is, what to check on the RL02 to see why it may not be > spinning up? You did remember to put the pack cover back in the drive, yes? -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager Dept. of Computer Science University of York

24 years, 1 month

Z80 Datasheets

by r_beaudry＠hotmail.com

Hello all, With the recent discussion on Z80 datasheets, I thought I'd chime in... There's a site, www.freetradezone.com, that has a 12,000,000 component database, and has datasheets for many of them. The site is a free registration, but it does take forever for them to mail you a password. Please note that I have no stake in this site... I snagged the complete Z80 datasheet set. If anyone has a spot that can handle the bandwidth on downloads, I'll gladly send them along. They are all in .PDF format... Also, If anyone is looking for a datasheet on some odd part that hasn't been made in 20 yrs., send me an email... I can't guarantee instant (or even slow :-) ) response, but I will look it up, and fire off the datasheet if it's not too big... Rich B. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

24 years, 1 month

A couple of quick SGI Personal Iris/Power Series questions...

by xds_sigma7＠hotmail.com

OK, having today found a Power Series 4D/210VGX in a twin tower enclosure that I plan on buying, (not sure how much to offer though, but hey), I got motivated to mess with my dear old doorstop, err I mean Personal Iris 4D/35... Except I discovered that it's a 4D/25, and that therefore it was dumb of me to just assume the 2 PI's that were at the place I got it were the same... I chose the one I have because it had a nicer case, and I stole the little top door from the other one because the one I got was missing it.. and guess what, the door says "Personal Iris 4D/35".. so here's the second question.. does anyone have a 4D/25 door they'd part with? (Or for that matter skins for an Origin 200? but thats OT).. Now on to the next question.. I also accquired a 950-0801 keyboard and before risking the poor little PI I want to be sure this is the correct keyboard... Finally, does anyone have a copy of IRIX 5.3 they'd part with/copy, preferrably on QIC tapes? Oh yeah, if anyone has any PI manuals or manuals for that Power Series, I could use those too.. Will J _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

24 years, 1 month

storage media

by jfoust＠threedee.com

At 06:28 PM 12/15/00 +0000, Miller Scott Contr 30CS/FTI wrote: >Speaking of VICE, in a fit of boredom I set up an AlphaStation with VNC to >launch remote C-64 emulation sessions, sort of a C-64 ASP. You just fire up >your VNC client, point it at the server, and you get an emulated C-64 with a >bunch of old game disks. I haven't had it running since I moved over the >summer, but if anyone's interested I can fire it up and publish the address. An Alphastation running which OS? And VNC doesn't handle sound, does it? Hmm, maybe it should. And you know about the built-in VNC web server, right? You don't even need a client, just a browser. Emulation ASP not only sounds like fun, but it's probably a more meaty business model than your average dot-com. - John

24 years, 1 month

No subject

by null＠domain2.bigpond.com

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24 years, 1 month

Antigen found W32/Hybris-B virus

by ANTIGEN_EXCHANGE-SMTP＠cmh.edu

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24 years, 1 month

Virus/worm?

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

'Smatter of fact, so do I, for my _personal_ e-mail... Actually, I don't always end up "previewing" my mail with Pine, but lately, I have been. Ultimately, if I don't delete the messages from Pine, I download the remaining messages with Pegasus Mail, which similarly seems immune to all these Lookout virii. BTW, I'm using Pine (4.31?) under Solaris (my ISP says they'll always provide shell access, and I'm one of the few people who turned off the Lynx-based menu system for the shell (Korn). I like Bash, perhaps I should switch shells... dang, I'm drifting OT again. C Ya! -dq > ---------- > From: Sellam Ismail > Reply To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org > Sent: Friday, December 15, 2000 2:48 PM > To: 'classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org' > Subject: RE: Virus/worm? > > On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Douglas Quebbeman wrote: > > > Strange... my trace of the addresses didn't point to a site in Crete... > > > > Seriously, I never even received it- Groupshield Exchange always detects > > this stuff and puts it in quarantine; the original attachment was > replaced > > by a message alerting me to what happened. > > > > Of course, as the sysadmin, I'd already received a "ticket" informing me > > that an infected message had come in and was taken care of. > > > > Buggy, and difficult to administer, but the NAI Total Virus Defense > > package hasn't slipped and let anything through yet... > > I read my mail using PINE on my linux server over a telnet session. It has > automatic anti-virus features built-in :) > > Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer > Festival > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- > International Man of Intrigue and Danger > http://www.vintage.org >

24 years, 1 month

Anyone know this guy

by jrkeys＠concentric.net

In Wednesday's USA Today there was a article on Silicon Valley and it talked about a guy named Gordon Bell and the fact that he is helping create a computer history museum in the valley. The paper says he works for Microsoft Research and is doing this on the side. It then goes on tell about some of the collection that he has in his warehouse. Short but nice article. John Keys

24 years, 1 month

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