On December 14, Iggy Drougge wrote:
> >> Isn't it true that several years ago Wang came up with a new customer
> >> programme called "Wang Care" and the guy that came up with the name was
> >> fired?
>
> > I dunno about that, but I first heard it from the same guy that told
> >me that Wang was merging with Siemens.
>
> They too? Fujitsu-ICL (Didn't they once devour Bull or Nokia data?) have
> recently merged with Siemens' computer division, too. And they've managed to
> make a mess out of their websites, too, unluckily for those of us looking for
> a manual or other relevant info on our non-mainframes.
Indeed.
But I think you missed the reference. ;)
-Dave McGuire
I’m getting ready to make a x1541 cable to connect my Commodore 64 drive to
the parallel port of my PC. Unfortunately, the existing instructions are a
little to cryptic for a complete novice like me. For example, how do I
distinguish between the 25 wires in the parallel cable? Is there a sequence
I should follow? What’s the best way to connect the wires? Any advice would
really be appreciated.
Thanks all.
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EMC and other disk storage manufacturers are trying to convince everybody to
move all of the data online and just buy more disk arrays when you need
them. We are trying to setup a system to archive medical images and are
required to keep the image for at least 25 years. The 25 years is 7 years
past the point the child turns 18. Of course that could change. The
medical archive manufacturers all swear that online storage is the way to
go. Of course their true interest is the next quarters profit margin.
I am from the old school and like off line backups. Now the question is
what kind of off line backup. I have old thermafax medical reports that are
35 years old and are basically unreadable. Film at least will survive if it
is stored properly. I know we have 8" floppy data of CT images from the
late 70's and probably 1600 bpi 9-track tapes. I don't even try to read
them.
Everybody is converting their 16mm cardiac angiography movies from film to
CD's.
I think I need to develop a film based technology. There probably is some
sort of microfilm already around.
If you want real long term storage I have heard that there are people
working on 10,000 year storage methods, etched iridium plates. For some
reason I seem to remember that the genealogy people in Salt Lake City, Utah
are working with this.
Mike McFadden
mmcfadden(a)cmh.edu
>I finally got my hands on a VAX 4000/90 (yipee!) and it now takes its place
>as my fastest VAX. It has 32MB of memory (8 x 4MB modules) and I was
>wondering if, because it looks a lot like a VAX 4000/60 if I could use
>memory modules from a 4000/60 in the 4000/90. Also since I've only got 4
>16MB modules, can I mix 4MB and 16MB modules?
>
>--Chuck
The memory (MS44) from a 4000/60 will work in a 4000/90 in every case I've
tried. All the simms in a bank must be the same capacity. I think there
should be a diagram of the banks on the inside of the cover, or you can
determine the banks by the etched/silkscreened numbers next to the simm
sockets.
I'm sending this email from a 4000/90a which was quite a step up from my
VS3100/30.
Good luck.
Mitch
Keyways
On December 13, Adrian Graham wrote:
> Isn't it true that several years ago Wang came up with a new customer
> programme called "Wang Care" and the guy that came up with the name was
> fired?
I dunno about that, but I first heard it from the same guy that told
me that Wang was merging with Siemens.
Fa-tump-tump!
-Dave McGuire
Steve Wozniak is profiled on A&E's Biography tonight.
And my hands make their television debut, playing Steve Wozniak's hands in
a couple re-enactments.
Now that my hands have achieved celebrity status, they are available for
other bookings, such as dinner speeches, Bar Mitzvahs and bachelorette
parties.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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1985,86? Atari 520ST, still have it, and thanks to John's question, anxious
to put it back together and see how it's doing. My wife was still writing
grad-school papers on it in '90 or so. 1st Word, no spell-check, no page
numbering, not much formatting at all. The printer was a Silver Reed
daisy-wheel typewriter with an optional interface box. (Still have that,
too.) Clackety-clackety-clack. It paused between pages so you could switch
paper. I recall with mixed fondness/not-so-fondness pulling all-night term
paper sessions, the last hour or so of which consisted in sitting there,
changing paper in the printer...zzzzzzzzz. At time of purchase, I was
insanely jealous of my friend's Atari 1050ST with the humongous 1mb hard
disk: "The silence of those infinite spaces terrified me." --Pascal.
(Blaise, not Turbo.)
1996 Intercepted an IBM XT that a co-worker was tossing. Knew nothing from
nothing, so never could get it to do much. Got it to find it its 10mb hard
disk for exactly one format of PC-DOS, then I never saw C: again. You could
still run PC-DOS and WordPerfect from the floppies when I gave it away.
(Kinda wish I still had that one...)
2000 Bought a house with a BASEMENT, bwahahahaahaaaa! Have cluttered it all
up with various PC clones in various states of completion/disrepair.
Acquired a Mac SE, an old Zenith luggable which I haven't had time to check
out yet (but I know it can't find its hard disk either), the Atari, a 90mb
Bernoulli drive in its own carrying case, the Toshiba laptop mentioned
elsewhere on this list.
You guys have got years and years on me and have forgotten more than I'll
ever know, but I really enjoy this list and learning about rescuing
junkware. Thanks!
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