test-drb April 2000

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OT: Jagermeister [was: Re: VCF Europa & My Appearance at Oxford]

by netsurfer_x1＠hotmail.com

>Oh christ. > >One of my cars gets wrenched on by the guy who >maintains the Jaegermeister >934; one of the perks (or >perhaps a prerequisite) of the job appears to be >an >endless supply of Jagermeister and related banners, >glasses and the >like. There's a Jagermeister shrine of >sorts in one corner of the shop, >consisting of cases of >the stuff, a dedicated refrigerator filled with it, > >assorted dirty glasses and a 55-gallon drum which is >usually overflowing >with empty Jagermeister bottles >(which is a staggering sight). > >Every time I collect my car after one of its multi->month sojourns in this >shop there's an obligatory >ritual of being offered a shot of this stuff >for the >road because, and I quote, "...it's completely >harmless...", an >assertion I find (literally) difficult >to swallow given that the stuff >seems to be composed of >equal parts herbal cough syrup and Draino. > >-- >Chris Kennedy >chris(a)mainecoon.com >http://www.mainecoon.com >PGP fingerprint: 4E99 10B6 7253 B048 6685 6CBC 55E1 20A3 108D AB97 Harmless!?!?!? I don't see how that stuff is harmless! I don't know if you know this, but Jagermeister has a certain little opiate in it (I'm not kidding!) that makes you extremely violent. (If you've had too much, that is.) ____________________________________________________________ David Vohs, Digital Archaeologist & Computer Historian. Computer Collection: "Triumph": Commodore 64C, 1802, 1541, FSD-1, GeoRAM 512, Okimate 20. "Leela": Macintosh 128 (Plus upgrade), Nova SCSI HDD, Imagewriter II. "Delorean": TI-99/4A. "Monolith": Apple Macintosh Portable. "Spectrum": Tandy Color Computer 3. "Boombox": Sharp PC-7000. ____________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com

25 years, 1 month

New COSMAC stiff amd a VaxStation offer

by dogas＠leading.net

Wow. UPS just delivered and opening the boxes was better than sex. Newly aquired: a complete COSMAC Development System IV. Check out: http://users.leading.net/~dogas/classiccmp/cosmac/cosmac.htm Included with the pile were also about 65 original RCA documents covering Cosmac systems and options (that are listed in the above URL.) If anyone needs any related into looked up or copied... And... I've now driven approx. 500 miles and spent alot of time diging for parts to get my VaxStation 3100 running (unsuccessfully.) I have other toys screaming for my time (reference above) so I therefore propose this trade: All I want is a harddrive with VMS( and DECwindows ) and a C compiler that I can just install in my machine to plug and play. In exchange for this pre-loaded harddrive, I'll trade an internal DEC CD-ROM (and controller card for the 3100,) an internal DEC TZ30, an external RRD40 CD-ROM, and 2 VaxStation 3100's for parts. Hell, I'll through in a BA11-KE crate (minus the power supply) if you want one too.... Thanks - Mike: dogas(a)leading.net

25 years, 1 month

Netscape on Solaris 2.4

by technoid＠cheta.net

I have Solaris 2.4 (or Sunos 5.4 or whatever they are calling it this week) on my Sparcstation 330. The architecture is SUN4 as opposed to Sun4m or Sun4u etc.... The openboot prom is the old style so no 'OK' message, just a wedge (>). I have installed Netscape and get the following message when I execute it. # ./netscape xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server Error: Can't open display: :0.0 Other programs such as ADMINTOOL run fine. I can ping and have name services over my lan via a default router (192.168.0.3) and ftp'd Netscape onto the machine from ftp.netscape.com so I know things are working. The installation gave me a completion messages without snags. What more do I need to do? Thanks all Technoid

25 years, 1 month

Altair 680 software

by charp＠bitflash.com

Hi, Does someone have a copy of the old paper tapes containing the resident editor/assembler and/or the Basic interpreter for the Altair 680? Both were bundled with the 16K memory boards. Thanks in advance, Frederic

25 years, 1 month

Shugart 851 power problem

by CLASSICCMP＠trailing-edge.com

>#2 Power up the IMSAI box: >At the drives: > 5 volt line reads 1.2 > -5 volt line reads -0.9 > 24 volt line reads 2.6 >and (needless to say) the drives don't work. The Cromemco >ROM monitor gives all sorts of errors trying to access them. >... >[And other times when you power it on things are fine] >... >What gives? Does this make sense to anybody out there? It looks to me like one or more of the stepper motor phases are shorted (or their drivers are shorted) by garbage signals that come over the 50-pin Shugart interface from the IMSAI when it's powered on. Garbage signals are a fact of life, and the circuitry on the drives shouldn't respond in such an awful way to them. Two things to do: 1. Ohm out the stepper motors looking for shorted phases. 2. Check the driver transistors on the 851's. If any are hot when the problem occurs, it's almost certainly related. It's not impossible that the circuitry that drives the driver transistors is screwed up, too. It wouldn't surprise me if the foldback protection in your floppy power supply folds all the outputs back simultaneously. This certainly seems likely based on the voltages you see. If you can unhook the 24V output from the power supply (this is what runs the stepper motors) and try again, this might be useful. -- Tim Shoppa Email: shoppa(a)trailing-edge.com Trailing Edge Technology WWW: http://www.trailing-edge.com/ 7328 Bradley Blvd Voice: 301-767-5917 Bethesda, MD, USA 20817 Fax: 301-767-5927

25 years, 1 month

Where has everybody gone?

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

On April 24, Mike Ford wrote: > >Abrupt end of list... Solitude... Anguish.... > > > >Is anybody out there? > > > >Frederic Charpentier > > Didn't you get a notice, the list was purchased by MicroSoft. That's a *dirty* thing to say, man. -Dave McGuire

25 years, 1 month

Identify this LSI-11 floppy controller

by lemay＠cs.umn.edu

I have a couple floppy disk controllers from a device that contained an integrated LSI-11 cpu and a few other boards. The floppy controller is from Charles River Data Systems (C) 1978. On the connector, one of them has FC-202 / 1613 on it, the other has FC-202 / 1703. The floppy disks that were connected to it were single sided shugarts (801-2 if i recall correctly). I'm curious if these can handle DSDD, and anything else that anyone knows about it. Also, is their a web site with information on pdp-11 boards, similar to the PDP8 omnibus lists and such that are available? i'd like to be able to look up what should be common boards, such as LSI-11 cpus, 32K 18 bit MOS memory boards, various serial and parallel interface cards, etc. -Lawrence LeMay

25 years, 1 month

PDP-5 Focal

by ethan_dicks＠yahoo.com

--- Chuck McManis <cmcmanis(a)freegate.com> wrote: > Hi John, and anyone else. Does anyone know _where_ I might find a copy of > PDP-5 FOCAL? (if it even exists.) The only "software" that came with the > machine was in the form of early DEC diagnostic programs to insure that the > system was working properly. IIRC, FOCAL-69, at least, should support the PDP-5. -ethan ===== Even though my old e-mail address is no longer going to vanish, please note my new public address: erd(a)iname.com The original webpage address is still going away. The permanent home is: http://penguincentral.com/ See http://ohio.voyager.net/ for details. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send online invitations with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com

25 years, 1 month

PDP-5 Rescued!

by wilson＠dbit.dbit.com

>From: "johnb" <dylanb(a)sympatico.ca> >Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 03:18:31 -0500 ^^^^^^^^^^ No wonder John B scores all the cool hardware -- he has the ability to go back in time!!! :-) John Wilson D Bit

25 years, 1 month

PDP-5 Focal

by cmcmanis＠freegate.com

Hi John, and anyone else. Does anyone know _where_ I might find a copy of PDP-5 FOCAL? (if it even exists.) The only "software" that came with the machine was in the form of early DEC diagnostic programs to insure that the system was working properly. --Chuck

25 years, 1 month

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