test-drb June 2000

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by paulrsm＠ameritech.net

---------- > From: Cameron Kaiser <ckaiser(a)oa.ptloma.edu> > To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org > Subject: Re: AppleTalk on the hoof > Date: Saturday, June 10, 2000 12:01 PM > > Think the SE/30 itself could handle it? If I downloaded the software to > another Mac and took the disks over to the SE/30, would it be able to do > the ProDOS transfer? It is old enough :-) I don't have DD disks here, but > I can get some. The SE/30 can handle 800K disks with no problems (unless someone changed the drive...). You will need Disk Copy 4.2 to create the disks. > Can ProDOS speak AppleTalk? That's the main reason for my interest in > GS/OS. If ProDOS can access an AppleTalk server, then I don't really care > about GS/OS. How much memory does v6 require? I have an Apple II Workstation Card that will let my Apple IIe, using ProDOS 8, talk to ASFS. It is possible, but I have not done it yet myself. Someday I will set up an AppleShare server for my Apple IIs but I simply have not done it yet. > This is ASFS v2. Where can I get v3? (Yup, it does take over the whole > machine :-) See the following site for information on ASFS v3: http://lowendmac.com/tech/appleshare3.shtml. I do not know where to get it. I just missed it once on Usenet; by the time I contacted the owner it was already gone. It had version 2 and 3 with all the disks and manuals, too. For more help, try Usenet at comp.sys.apple2. That's where I learned most of what I know about networking Apple IIs. Paul R. Santa-Maria Ann Arbor, Michigan USA paulrsm(a)ameritech.net

24 years, 1 month

If classic computers were cars...

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Jun 13, 13:31, Lawrence LeMay wrote: > The Indy series had CPU upgrades available several times during its lifespan. > We replaced CPU's in our Indys at least twice, becuase SGI gave us a great > bargain on the upgrade price. I know the first time we upgraded was > shortly after we purchased the units, so I wouldnt be surprised if the > original CPU was extremely slow. Yes, I think the first upgrade was very soon after the launch. Ours all came with 4400's or 4600's. Anyway, if you still have any R5000's going spare, I can find homes for a couple.... :-) -- Pete Peter Turnbull Dept. of Computer Science University of York

24 years, 1 month

If classic computers were cars...

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Jun 13, 15:07, r. 'bear' stricklin wrote: > On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Pete Turnbull wrote: > > > It's a nice story, but unfortunately, only a story. I should know: I have > > three Indigos and two Indys of my own, and manage about a hundred more at > > work. An (blue) Indy is faster than an (purple) Indigo. > > Perhaps slightly more than a story. To bring the cost down on the Indy, > they were available with or without secondary cache. All R4000 Indigos > have secondary cache (1 MB of it, IIRC), and this resulted in the older > R4000 Indigo being noticeably quicker than most of the least expensive > Indys. Only the very first Indys; SGI very quickly (a few months) moved from R4000 to 4400 and then 4600, which are the same speed as, or slightly faster than, the R4K Indigo. But yes, I'd forgotten about the original R4000PC Indy, and that would account for the story. > Certainly the Indy was available in configurations which are a good deal > quicker than the fastest Indigo (150 MHz R4400), though there are > operations for which the Indigo's Elan graphics are quicker than the > Indy's top-of-the-line XZ graphics... That's certainly true, so I'm glad that one of mine is an XS24 and another is an Elan, although the R5K might make a difference even then, or so I hear on comp.sys.sgi. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Dept. of Computer Science University of York

24 years, 1 month

Looking inside before you buy etc.

by rhudson＠ix.netcom.com

>Of all the drives I could find in the store, only 3 worked. but now >Mr.StoreGuy has a pile of "Tested-BAD" drives! (Well good for steppermotors >anyway) Ah, but the store owner now had one more thing in the deal, an education, don't let anybody test your stuff at a fixed price. Its the kind of mistake easy for a basically honest person to make. OTOH Apple II drives are pretty hard to break, --- I still have a broken one, can I fix it myself? the only thing I know is when I put a diskette in and try to read it it goes rattttatt and gets an error... :^( ---- how did you test them? ----- I connected them to my apple II and put in a known good diskette, swapping the diskette to the other drive to verify it was still known good... :^) ----- Could it have just been incompatibility? Thats the second risk, customer tests your stuff pronounces it bad, but later on it turns out they (generic they, not you) didn't know beans and the stuff is just fine (which of course you find out after customer B buys it for parts and retests later).

24 years, 1 month

If classic computers were cars...

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Jun 13, 9:35, John Allain wrote: > This was very amusing thanks. > > I once overheard some internal guys > (another company, BTW) talking about SGI desktops. > Maybe you heard this one? After the success of > the SGI blue tower "Indigo" they came out with a > desktop "Indy". It was noticeably slower, though > making it: "The Indy, an Indigo without the go" It's a nice story, but unfortunately, only a story. I should know: I have three Indigos and two Indys of my own, and manage about a hundred more at work. An (blue) Indy is faster than an (purple) Indigo. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Dept. of Computer Science University of York

24 years, 1 month

Mac 800K floppy support (was Re: AppleTalk on the hoof)

by mark_k＠iname.com

On Mon, 12 Jun 2000 r. 'bear' stricklin wrote: > > "r. 'bear' stricklin" <red(a)bears.org> wrote: > > > I'm pretty sure it's just a ROM limitation, as the SE/30 uses the exact > > > same floppy drive as the later IIci and others which can't read or write > > > the older GCR-type disks. > > > > Huh? My IIci reads and writes 400K and 800K GCR disks with no problems > > whatsoever. As does my SE/30. > > Huh, indeed. I must have misremembered the list. PowerMacs certainly won't > do it, and I was pretty sure that most, if not all, of the '90s Macs > wouldn't either. I don't know where you got this misinformation from, but Power Macs do support 800K floppies (apart from recent models which don't have a floppy drive and perhaps the G3 models). Every Mac previous to the Power Macs also supports 800K floppies (apart from the very earliest ones which only had 400K drives). See the "Power Macintosh 7600 Series: Technical Specifications" at http://til.info.apple.com/techinfo.nsf/artnum/n19545 Other Technical Specifications documents on the TIL site for other Power Mac series computers also contain this text: * Internal Apple SuperDrive floppy disk drive -- Accepts high-density 1.4MB disks and 800K disks -- Reads, writes, and formats Macintosh, Windows, MS-DOS, OS/2, and ProDOS disks Also see http://til.info.apple.com/techinfo.nsf/artnum/n19545 This has a brief explanation on why access to 800K floppies is slower under newer Mac models. -- Mark

24 years, 1 month

DG MicroNova Available

by kyrrin＠bluefeathertech.com

Ran across a fellow a while back who had a DG MicroNova available. Don't know if he's still got it, but you can try: arnies(a)ix.netcom.com Thanks much. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 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, 1 month

New find: HP 1000 E series

by cem14＠cornell.edu

"Jay West" wrote: > > > In the back cage there are three jumper cards > > Jumper cards continue the interrupt priority chain in the backplane. If your > OS is interrupt driven, you need the jumpers for open slots. If your OS > isn't interrupt driven, you don't need these. hmmm.... then it is possible that some cards are missing because there are intermediate empty slots; here's the back cage configuration: Slot # card description ----------------------- 25 -empty- 24 BACI 12966A 23 Jumper 22 Jumper 21 BACI 12966A 20 BACI 12966A 17 BACI 12966A (note: no slots are labeled 19 or 18) 16 Jumper 15 Jumper 14 -empty- 13 -empty- 12 DISK INTFC 12821A (HPIB; why a second one?) 11 DISK INTFC 12821A (HPIB) 10 TIMEBASE GEN I was able to open the front panel (thanks, Eric) and found the following there: Slot # card description ----------------------- DCPC D.C.P.C. | Ribbon connector from front fingerpad to bckpln 111 MEMORY PROTECT 22-7931 112 MEM 22-2127 113 -empty- 114 -empty- . . . . 120 -empty- 121 256KW HSM 12749M | these three cards have their left front fingerpads 122 256KW HSM 12749M | joined by ribbon cable. Right front fingerpads 123 MEM CNTLR 2102E | not connected. And yes, the big board underneath everything is the mainboard with not a piggyback but a "piggytummy" smaller board attached to it. > Most typically in this system, the OS was genned for each card in a certain > slot. If the card positions have been changed the OS generally won't boot. > If you moved the cards, you have to regen the OS. Most likely the system > console was the baci board that was lowest in the backplane, as this one > would have the highest priority. If it was running RTE, ISTR there is way to > boot the system that tells it that the configuration has changed and where > the console and disk are. If this matches your situation, drop me an email > and I'll look it up for you. I did not move the cards around, but again, maybe some cards are missing. I don't know what OS the system was running. I guess that the first thing that I have to do now that I tested the power supply and verified that the machine (seems to) turn on, is to build a serial console cable for this. I have several cables that will fit the BACI boards, but the connectors at the other end have been cut off. Does anybody have the pin out for the finger pads in the front of the BACI boards? -- Carlos Murillo-Sanchez email: cem14(a)cornell.edu 428 Phillips Hall, Electrical Engineering Department Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853

24 years, 1 month

TI Professional Computer

by rigdonj＠intellistar.net

I picked up one of these today but some of the files on the hard drive are messed up. Can someone send me the Command.Com file for MS-DOS 2.11A? Also how do you get one of these to boot from the floppy drive and not the hard drive? Joe

24 years, 1 month

OT Ranting (blather blather blather) Re: In defense of NASA: was Re: Wirin' up blinkenlights

by ethan_dicks＠yahoo.com

--- Douglas Quebbeman <dhquebbeman(a)theestopinalgroup.com> wrote: > > > I look foward to your answers, and if I'm wrong or am overlooking > > > something, I'd very much like to know about it. > > > > Dude, one word: TANG! > > I dittoed a Davis rant the other day, today I gotta nix one. > > Sellam, let me second your motion with- Teflon! I wasn't going to chime in, but now that we are benignly listing 1960s technology brought to the fore by the space race, WD-40. The contractor who was producing it for NASA discovered its potential when employees were taking the product for use at home. -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!? Yahoo! Photos -- now, 100 FREE prints! http://photos.yahoo.com

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