test-drb November 2001

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886 discussions

by acme_ent＠bellsouth.net

> >Luckily, some manner of salvation is on its way in the form of a price > >guide. No, I'm not writing it, but the person who is will make it known > >very soon. > > Maybe it will make some money for the author, but prices are just too > variable and too fast changing for a printed guide to be of much practical > use. What I would rather see is a hunters handbook, say 125 pages with the > top 500 things to look for, each item getting an average of a 1/4 page for > a photo, or maybe a shared photo, with a description and price range. Sell > one to every scrapper in the world, and those 500 things become a LOT more > available. > > working title, "How much money did you throw away today?" In any hobby, a price guide is both a blessing and a curse. When I owned a sports card shop I became aware of the potential effects of price fixing and other forms of market manipulation. Specifically, if the publisher of a price guide had a bunch of Don Drysdale and Sandy Koufax cards to dump, those players would book high until he dumped his cards. Additionally, advertiser pressure influenced prices listed in these books. For vintage computers, a price guide published 2-4 times yearly, listing maybe 500 computers, might work. It could be advantageous to only include photos for 50 of these computers in each issue, rotating through all 500. This would encourage people to buy the next issue, with photos of 50 *different* machines. We have Ebay now, and other auction sites, from which to draw data. The publication might also consider any documentable, verifiable report from private buyers and sellers when compiling the price guide. And since when can your average scrapper read, anyway? Just my two cents . . . Glen 0/0

22 years, 8 months

Need a source and info on a memory chip

by rhblakeman＠kih.net

This is off topic but I know that someone in this list will have the answer. What I need is a surface mount memory chip for a PDA 16mb upgrade of internal memory. The chip in it is an 8 and I've seen a unit with a piggybacked chip on it with a jumper run from the Motorola Dragonball cpu (I basically drew out the mod on a Wendy's napkin it's that simple). Here's what's on the face of the present 8mb chip (the piggy back will be the same or suitable sub): ---------------------------- HYUNDAI GM71VS65163CLT5 0040 AG2 KOREA ---------------------------- It's a surface mount chip that is a 50 pin DIP package (2 rows of 25 pins). I'll need one initially and end up needing around 25 so I might as well get all 25 at one time. Does anyone know where I can get a specs and/or pinout of this and a good source for purchase of small or large quantity? I want the pinouts/specs for curiousity and the source obviously for purchase rreasons. Any help is greatly appreciated.

22 years, 8 months

EISA - was VLB SCSI?

by technos＠nerdland.org

Nope. VLB/ISA. Jim On Friday, November 02, 2001 11:25 AM, Chad Fernandez [SMTP:fernande@internet1.net] wrote: > > Jim, > > The NCR's were Microchannel weren't they? > > Jim wrote: > > NCR 3230's.. Ugh. At least at EOL we could re-chip them, crank the > > clocks and toss regulators in for employees that wanted one. Nothing > > like seeing the message "486DX4 running at OVER 100mhz" and > > chuckling. > > Ok, I guess if you've actually expereinced that, I can't very well tell > you that your wrong :-) > > > But you are right, it could be that too. Reset to defaults and reconfig > > can't hurt. Just I've seen far more (FAR MORE!) with a weak battery. > > > > Jim > > Chad Fernandez > Michigan, USA

22 years, 8 months

Last Chance - Stan Veit's History of the Personal Computer Book - Blow Out!

by MTPro＠aol.com

I still have a number of brand new copies I'd like to move out. This is a super deal just for classiccmp subscribers. Please e-mail me! For more info on the book, see this copy I sold at auction: http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1289515294 $4 Shipped! Best, David David Greelish Classic Computing www.classiccomputing.com "classiccomputing" on eBay

22 years, 8 months

UTC Transformer type H-89

by acme_ent＠bellsouth.net

Ran across this on Ebay tonight: http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1649083427 This transformer has a 115V primary, and several taps on the secondary ranging from 5 to 850 volts. What kind of device might require such a wide range of voltages? BTW (for those without 'net access) the device sold for USD103.50 and there were no details as to what this thing was used in. This leads me to believe that it's a high failure-rate component in a relatively expensive (and not uncommon) piece of gear. Any clues? Glen 0/0

22 years, 8 months

VT330/VT340 Manual

by Antonio.Carlini＠riverstonenet.com

>things of that nature. I would also appreciate it if someone could give >me pointers on my DECserver 700. Thanks a lot. You can find the DS700 manuals online at www.dnpg.com. Antonio

22 years, 8 months

OT: Determining TCP port ownership

by rcini＠optonline.net

Hello, all: I'm having a bit of a time with SNMP on my Windows NT box. I'm running the Compaq management agents which use ports 161 and 162. But, when the SNMP service starts, it complains that another program is grabbing the port. Using "netstat -an" tells me that something is grabbing the ports using both TCP and UDP. The TCP address shown is 0.0.0.0. I have no other obvious programs running that would be an SNMP server. Is there a utility that can tell me which executable is grabbing a given port? Rich Rich Cini Collector of classic computers Build Master for the Altair32 Emulation Project Web site: http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/~rcini/classiccmp/ /************************************************************/

22 years, 8 months

EISA - was VLB SCSI?

by mhstein＠usa.net

Since I don't have any EISA experience other than this, maybe I'm missing something really fundamental... I assumed everything was handled by the configuration & diagnostic utility; is there something else I should be doing? How else can I get at the config info? mike ---------Original Message------------ Date: 3 Nov 2001 5:59:47 +0100 From: "Iggy Drougge" <optimus(a)canit.se> Subject: Re: EISA - was VLB SCSI? Since I've been reinitialising and updating my Proliant this night, I have some fresh knowledge. Could it be that you've left some pieces of the config >from when you still had the modem on the config partition? Any change in an EISA system has to be handled in the config partition. It's a real pain if you're experimenting together a system.

22 years, 8 months

Am2901 bit-slice

by CLeyson＠aol.com

Hi everyone Looking for a source of AMD Am2901 bit slice chips ? Try Dial Electronics at http//www.dialelec.com. They specialise in obsolete parts, have no minimum order charge, you don't need an account and they will also ship worldwide. I've got a busted CPU board to fix so I've got a few 2901s on order. If I can't fix the damn thing I will probably end up building a bit-slice processor just for the fun of it. Any suggestions ? Best Regards Chris Leyson

22 years, 8 months

One-off vs. One-of (was Re: CPU design at the gate level)

by Antonio.Carlini＠riverstonenet.com

> pete(a)dunnington.u-net.com wrote: > >I've never heard "one-of" before, only "one off" (and "2 off", "3 off", >etc) to describe a quantity. It's commonly used here, not just in >engineering. Agreed. I first saw it in Practical Electronics (which I started reading in 1977/78 or so). It was often used in the parts lists. It confused me slightly the first time I read it, but it was clear what it meant. I don't know the derivation off-hand but I am surprised that anyone uses "one-of" - it's just harder to say! Antonio

22 years, 8 months

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test-drb November 2001