test-drb August 2000

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by jwest＠mppw.com

Anyone familiar with an HP 1631D logic analyzer/scope? I just got one used (with pods and grabbers)... no manual yet, so I'm shooting in the dark on this. There's a selftest dip switch on the back. If I set it and power up, the screen says... ------------ Ram OK Rom OK Acquisition OK Analog Error: 21 00 00 Reset back panel switch to........ ------------- I talked to the company I bought it from - they're not familiar with the unit but said they'd gladly send me a different one if mine was bad so I'm not worried about that. However, I'm wondering if anyone can tell me if this really indicates a problem or does the selftest expect a probe to be connected or something (nothing is connected to it now). Any ideas? On a different note... HP quotes the manual for this unit at $72.00USD. Would anyone have one I can borrow and copy for less? Please reply to the list or to west(a)tseinc.com, not this address. Thanks! Jay West

24 years, 4 months

Music Performances from dot matrix printers! This group is l ooking for some old printers

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

> Check out this site which I found through slashdot.org. An > interesting use of those old beasts as musical instruments. > > http://www.sat.qc.ca/the_user/dotmatrix/en/intro.html > > And I thought using printers for music went out with the old > line printers of the (50's? and ) 60's! :-) Surely you jest! We were playing "Row-Row-Row Your Boat" on our Dataproducts LPM300 well into the 1980s... In fact, I have the "music" on the [dead] Prime at home, just no line printer to play it on! -dq

24 years, 4 months

Going offline for a while

by ethan_dicks＠yahoo.com

I'm frantically finishing the last of the projects at work so I can execute the "Getting The Hell Out Of Here" manuever. To those members of the list with whom I have active dialogs (PET parts, Amiga docs, Cisco ROMs...), I will be away from e-mail for two weeks. I'll pick up where I left off when I return. Later, -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!? Kick off your party with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com/

24 years, 4 months

Stupid DOS tricks-redirecting console

by RCini＠congressfinancial.com

Hello, all: It's been a long time since I've banged around pure DOS, so I can't remember all of its tricks. Here's what I want to do. I want to occasionally hook a terminal to a small 486 SBC/data collector which is running "headless." I seem to remember that the console I/O can be redirected to a COM port with a command like "MODE COM1:=CON" or something like that. I'm not at home now, so I can't try it, but am I on the right track? Will that redirect both screen and keyboard I/O? Rich ========================== Richard A. Cini, Jr. Congress Financial Corporation 1133 Avenue of the Americas 30th Floor New York, NY 10036 (212) 545-4402 (212) 840-6259 (facsimile)

24 years, 4 months

Stupid DOS tricks-redirecting console

by PasserM＠umkc.edu

I think you're thinking of the CTTY command. IIRC, just CTTY COM1: after you've set the port parameters with MODE. --Mike -----Original Message----- From: owner-classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org [mailto:owner-classiccmp@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Cini, Richard Sent: Friday, August 04, 2000 8:39 AM To: 'ClassCompList' Subject: Stupid DOS tricks-redirecting console Hello, all: It's been a long time since I've banged around pure DOS, so I can't remember all of its tricks. Here's what I want to do. I want to occasionally hook a terminal to a small 486 SBC/data collector which is running "headless." I seem to remember that the console I/O can be redirected to a COM port with a command like "MODE COM1:=CON" or something like that. I'm not at home now, so I can't try it, but am I on the right track? Will that redirect both screen and keyboard I/O? Rich ========================== Richard A. Cini, Jr. Congress Financial Corporation 1133 Avenue of the Americas 30th Floor New York, NY 10036 (212) 545-4402 (212) 840-6259 (facsimile)

24 years, 4 months

Stupid DOS tricks-redirecting console

by fmc＠reanimators.org

"Cini, Richard" <RCini(a)congressfinancial.com> wrote: > "headless." I seem to remember that the console I/O can be redirected to a > COM port with a command like "MODE COM1:=CON" or something like that. I'm > not at home now, so I can't try it, but am I on the right track? Will that You are thinking of the "ctty" command. "ctty com1" should do what you want. -Frank McConnell

24 years, 4 months

Lt. Kernal

by spectre＠stockholm.ptloma.edu

Thanks to a generous seller, I'm now the proud owner of a * Lt. Kernal 20MB hard drive (Commodore) * host adaptor that connects the drive to the 64's expansion port * port muxer allowing multiple Commodores to be networked to one drive * billions of copies of the manual (whew!) * sysgen disk The problem is the installation. You have to find these cables that connect to a 2-pin jumper on one side and certain pins on the Commodore motherboard on the other with a clip. Does anyone have, or know where I can get, these types of cables? The clip I've seen, but I don't know where I'd find the little two-hole female jacks that connect up to the pins on the HA. Anyone know what I'm talking about? (hopeful :-) -- ----------------------------- personal page: http://www.armory.com/~spectre/ -- Cameron Kaiser, Point Loma Nazarene University * ckaiser(a)stockholm.ptloma.edu -- NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION! ------------------------------------

24 years, 4 months

Subject: Re: Scanning microfiche? (Long)

by CLASSICCMP＠trailing-edge.com

> Most scanners have a non-reflective black pad on the back side. If > you put something reflective behind (a mirror?) the transparency, > the light will go through and be reflected back. A potential > problem is the reflection from the front side of the transparency. A much bigger problem than that exists. If you put a mirror on a Xerox machine, time as we know it will stop! Tim.

24 years, 4 months

FW: Another FREE Working Vax 4000-200 and 3500

by kyrrin＠bluefeathertech.com

Anyone up for a VAX rescue in Las Vegas? If so, contact the author of the attached message. Nice equipment being offered! -=-=- <snip> -=-=- In article <1afi5.8660$GS1.163272(a)news-west.usenetserver.com>, you say... > Path: news.uswest.net!news-out.uswest.net!newsfeed.cwix.com!howland.erols.net!cyclone2.usenetserver.com!news-out.usenetserver.com!cyclone1.usenetserver.com!news-west.usenetserver.com.POSTED!not-for-mail > From: "Jack Peacock" <peacock(a)simconv.com> > Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec.micro,comp.sys.dec > References: <9ekhos0urqlvn47uhn6obaqvq8j9bui2bi(a)4ax.com> > Subject: Another FREE Working Vax 4000-200 and 3500 > Lines: 28 > Organization: Simco > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > X-Priority: 3 > X-MSMail-Priority: Normal > X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 > X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 > Message-ID: <1afi5.8660$GS1.163272(a)news-west.usenetserver.com> > X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers > X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly > X-Complaints-To: support(a)usenetserver.com > NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 10:17:33 EDT > Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 07:17:17 -0700 > Xref: news-out.uswest.net comp.sys.dec.micro:1211 comp.sys.dec:11530 > > I also have a working VAX 4000-200, 32MB RAM, CMD SCSI disk controller, > TU80 tape drive, CXY08 8 port serial and CXY16 16 port serial boards. > Rack mounted BA213 chassis, and TU80 is rack mounted too. Cables for > CXY boards. I will throw in a couple Micropolis 650MB SCSI drives too. > There is a TF86 tape drive that has a problem, may be broken tape > header. Extra DELQA ethernet board too. This machine was running when > shut down 6 months ago. > > The catch? You have to pick it up in Las Vegas NV, and no I won't give > away just the boards. I would rather it all goes to someone who wants > to preserve an old VAX (I got a 4000-90 now, no space for the 4200). > > Along with the 4000-200 there is another rack mount BA213 with a VAX > 3500 CPU (KA650), 32MB 3rd party memory (doesn't work in the 4000-200 > but just fine in the 3500), CMD SCSI controller, dual DELQAs, and a > TK50. Same deal, it's your's if you haul it off, and I believe I have > an RZ58 (980MB) drive for it too. It was running when shut down 6 > months ago. > > Now if someone has a spare 200Mhz CPU or memory card for an Alpha 2100 > 200/4 (what used to be called the A500MP) I would love to trade. > > Interested? Boss says give it away or throw it away. Send me an email > if you want to drive a truck to Vegas for a quick vacation and get some > clean goodies for the trip home. > Jack Peacock > peacock(a)simconv.com > -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Bruce Lane, Owner/Head Honcho, Blue Feather Technologies (http://www.bluefeathertech.com) kyrrin [a-t] bluefeathertech {d=o=t} com "I'll get a life when someone demonstrates that it would be superior to what I have now..." (Gym Z. Quirk, aka Taki Kogoma)

24 years, 4 months

Radio Shack Wire-Wrapping Tool

by dcoward＠pressstart.com

"Richard Erlacher" <richard(a)idcomm.com> said: >What??? They've got 'em again??? I'd best get down there and snag a couple! >Those are among a very few decent items they've had in the 25 years or so >since I first visited RS. It has a wire stripper in the handle, IIRC. >That's one of the handiest tools I've had. It is quite capable of producing >highly serviceable wraps, yet doesn't require you to mess up your circuit. What happened, did everyone throw away their electric wire wraping guns??? I still have mine. :-> With it's power cord it's too big to misplace, what I keep losing is the unwrapping tool. Does this tool (P/N: 276-1570A) have a unwrapping tool at one end?? "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh(a)aracnet.com> said: >(I was dumbfounded to find someone that more or less knew what I was >talking about). I was just in a Radio Shack to pick up two sets of mono phono plugs (earphone,microphone,remote) to build my own Sorcerer dual cassette cable. Now I remembered that on cassette recorders, the earphone and the microphone plug are the same size and the remote is smaller. But I couldn't remember the sizes, so since the saleman was in my face to help, I ask if he could show me a cassette recorder. I wanted to compare the size of the jacks to the plugs. He show me several, they only had earphone jacks. I said don't you have any cassette recorders? It took him a couple of minutes to find one, but it had no remote jack!!! All this time, he kept asking "what is it you want to record", and I would say "computer data". Ten second seconds later he would ask again. In between he would say "Oh, we would not have anything like that!" Again I scolded myself for going to Radio Shack without knowing exactly what I wanted. So if you have a cassette recorder with a remote jack, hang on to it, "it's a good thing". --Doug =================================================== Doug Coward dcoward(a)pressstart.com (work) Sr Software Engineer mranalog(a)home.com (home) Press Start Inc. http://www.pressstart.com Sunnyvale,CA Visit the new Analog Computer Museum and History Center at http://www.best.com/~dcoward/analog ===================================================

24 years, 4 months

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test-drb August 2000