On Fri, 12 Jan 2001 11:12:29 -0800 (PST) Sellam Ismail <foo(a)siconic.com>
writes:
>
> Windows is like a retarded child.
I always though of it as more like an idiot savant:
You're amazed how something *that* brain-damaged can
actually (sometimes) deliver a passable performance.
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On January 12, W.B.(Wim) Hofman wrote:
> Can you expect to say to a housewife : This is a Linux cd. Install it on
> this computer and I expect you to have looked at these Internet sites by
> tomorrow morning? It would have to be some housewife!! Linux needs far to
> much work still to make it fit for the masses.
I dunno, man. I'm a NetBSD person myself, and not a Linux fanatic,
but I installed DeadRat 6.2 on a machine a few days ago...it was
quick and painless, bordering on trivial.
Problem is, though...It was easier for me because it was going into
an existing network, so all I had to do was assign it an IP address
and be done with it. The average housewife will have to set up PPP,
which adds quite a bit of work.
In my opinion, based on this latest installation...if someone can
figure out how to build a PPP setup system that's generic enough to be
built into the regular installer, then installing Linux (well, RedHat
Linux specifically, it's the only distribution I've used recently
[except Storm Linux, which I really liked]) really will be as easy and
pedestrian as WinDoze.
-Dave McGuire
I came across the following 8" floppy disk drive in a standalone enclosure.
labelled
Reformater
Conversion system F09
Microtech Exports
It has a single cable connector on the back.
Any information would be appreciated.
Mike
mmcfadden(a)cmh.edu
I just picked up an NEC Multisync Color Monitor model JC-1401P3A at a
thrift store today for $8.
It has one DA-9 connector on the back, plus a few switches for selecting
RGB or color depth (I guess?), plus a digital/analog switch. I didn't
have a chance to test it other than to turn it on and verify that it had a
raster. I figured for $8 I couldn't go too terribly wrong.
Is this a good all around display for use with different machines? It
doesn't have any composite input however.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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Found an Amstrad PC1640HD20 but unfortunately no K-B.
This is like an IBM 2011/2021 with the PSU in the monitor case.
Luckily I did get the monitor and it does power up. I understand the
K-B is proprietory however.
Anyone with a spare or a work-around for this beast ?
Thanks larry
Reply to:
lgwalker(a)look.ca
On January 12, Richard Erlacher wrote:
> problem is ... you STILL have to deal with the OS. Moreover, there are few
You do? Hmm. That's news to me. Unless "dealing with the OS" means
"not reinstalling the OS every time some application blows up".
> "nice-n-easy" applications for doing what's considered "useful work" in most
> environments. What's more, the general trend in the Non-commercial
> (GNU/LINUX/... ) environment seems to be toward "good enough" and not toward
> getting it right.
Applications are coming. A few are already here. It's taking a
while. How long has the Microsoft world had to develop its
suite of applications?
-Dave McGuire
Pat,
Thats where I'm at. Thanks for the confirmation.
I have the high density SCSI pigtail that connects to the IBM badged Tadpole
SCSI Floppy.
I also have an IBM 7210 010, CDROM drive which is SCSI, but has the big D50
SCSI connectors.
So the question is: With the right "adapter cable" from high density SCSI to
D50 cable connect, will the N40 identify and use the IBM 7210 010?
I really do appreciate your best efforts so far. I saw the release note
suggesting that this 3.2.5 was cut back to fit in the laptop environment. I
Have 32 M Ram an an 810MByte Hard drive. Screen support, scaling, and
graphics character sets seem to be some of the Unit Specific features of
this model.
Sincerely
Larry Truthan
-----Original Message-----
From: Pat Barron [mailto:pat@transarc.ibm.com]
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 11:38 AM
To: Truthan,Larry
Cc: 'classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org'
Subject: RE: RISC6000 7007 POWERportable N40
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Truthan,Larry wrote:
> The "66" entry is invalidated in the 10 element diagnostic menu and the
sub
> menues under each element. The initial sevice selection is "language
> select"). I havent tried "66" at the language select. On the first pass,
I
> am not making headway with your suggestion.
I poked around and found a document that might help you:
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RS/6000 N40 Laptop
* Setting the System to Service Mode:
1. Press the key sequence [Pause][R] to reset the N40 (or power it off).
2. Then interrupt with [Pause][K] key sequence as soon as the IBM logo
appears.
3. After several seconds, a language selection menu will appear; select
appropriate language.
4. Then press 99 to go to the main menu
5. Select #7 (Change Soft-Keyswitch Setting).
6. Select #3 (Service).
7. Then press 99 to go to the main menu.
8. Select #10 to start the boot off the CD.
* Limitations:
> The 7007-N40 is supported by a special N40 version of AIX 3.2.5.
The 7007-N40 is NOT supported at AIX V4.
> The support for the 7007-N40 and N40 AIX 3.2.5 has been withdrawn,
thus questions are answered on a best effort basis.
* Information
> Software maintenance on this system can be done by booting off the
AIX 3.2.5 for N40 cdrom. To do this, attach the cdrom drive to the
SCSI bus.
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You already knew most of this, but I'm sending it along in case it
might help.
--Pat.
I have one that is surplus to requirements. It's located in Cambridge, and
free to a good home if anybody is interested in it.
--
Kevan
Collector of old computers: http://www.heydon.org/kevan/collection/
Well Pat,
The "66" entry is invalidated in the 10 element diagnostic menu and the sub
menues under each element. The initial sevice selection is "language
select"). I havent tried "66" at the language select. On the first pass, I
am not making headway with your suggestion.
I appreciate your experience, and your willingness to seek the collaboration
of others, who may recall the process.
The spiral bound AIX 3.2.5 release notes speak of restoring the factory
build by connecting the N40 ethernet AUI port to a Host, and mounting the
N40 3.2 AIX CD on a host based cdrom volume.
I assume the host must be another AIX machine(?) (Or can it be on an FTP
server?) The release notes speak of command line "mounting" the cdrom
volume over the link -not running an FTP client session on the N40.
SO far I've not connected the ethernet AUI port to another machine.
I was thinking of using the service diagnostic ethernet test menu to
configure the IP addresses of the source and destination machines. Just for
the sake of connecting the N40 back to a Win98 PC and "Pinging" the remote
PC.
Then perhaps I can find an i386 based version of AIX to convert the PC to an
AIX host, to harbor the N40's 3.2.5 AIX CDROM. Then, proceed with that
learning environment. ANY free or cheap sources for early i386 AIX?
I gather that IBM has dropped support for the N40, 3.2 AIX, and even some
later versions of AIX. I am simply trying to make myself a small learning
environment. From what I've seen this is a 6.9 pound network workstation.
Sincerely
Larry Truthan
-----Original Message-----
From: Pat Barron [mailto:pat@transarc.ibm.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 6:10 PM
To: Truthan,Larry
Subject: Re: RISC6000 7007 POWERportable N40
Booting in Service Mode will bring up a menu of diagnostics and service
aids. There is an undocumented, "invisible" choice on that menu, which I
*think* is "66" (each choice is numbered, and number 66 should be the
"hidden" option), which will dump you directly to a shell prompt.
Now, however, you *may* have some challenges ahead before you can reset
the root password. Depending on how the system actually gets you into
Service Mode, you may find that the root volume group is not varied on,
and that none of the filesystems are mounted. At the shell prompt, try
typing the following commands:
# mountall
# ls
If "ls" is found and produces output, then you are set - use the "ed"
editor to edit /etc/security/passwd, and remove the "password =" line
>from root's entry in the file. This will clear root's password. You can
then reboot the machine in Normal Mode, log in as root with no password,
and then set the password in the usual way.
If "ls" is not found, or if the output doesn't look like there are enough
files there, then the root filesystem isn't there. Do "echo /*", "echo
/bin/*", "echo /sbin/*", etc, to give you an idea of what's available. In
that case, you'll need to go through a sequence similar to the following
to get into the filesystem (note that it's been a *long* time since I've
done this, and this isn't guaranteed to be even remotely correct,
and which may screw up your Object Data Manager if it goes wrong, so
beware....):
# importvg hdisk0
# varyonvg rootvg
# mount /dev/hd4 /mnt
# cd /mnt/etc/security
And then work on the "passwd" file with whatever tools you can use....
If this doesn't help, let me know, and I can probably find some other
folks around here who might remember.....
--Pat.
Hi
can someone email me or point me to somewhere I can get this information: Pinouts for VT220
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