Certainly didn't mean to disparage any S100 junkies out there.
I know my IMSAI's keep getting heavier and heavier. Or perhaps
I'm just getting older. Too bad they didn't make them with
wheels :-)
FYI, I'm also a Mac junkie. Still have my bootable 128K
original with external floppy drive and a rare MicronEye
camera that plugged into it. Have all sorts of old Mac
stuff including spare external drives. My current Mac
is a 500Mhz G4 with the big flat Cinema display. Heaven.
Craig Landrum
Still holding my breath near DC...
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 10:42:11 -0500
> From: M H Stein <mhstein(a)usa.net>
> Subject: Big Iron - was Genrad Futuredata info
>
> Having just dropped a rackmount Cromemco System 3 in the process of moving it, I can assure you that it's (relatively) big and there's lots of iron in that PS transformer... and IIRC, it can support around 32 terminals or so running UNIX with the right cards.
>
> - --------------Original Message--------------
> Craig Landrum skrev:
>
> >Also, having just joined this list, it would appear to be
> >dominated by primarily big iron types instead of us IMSAI
> >and S100 junkies. Assuming there are a few out there and
> >you wish to correspond, here's what I have:
>
> While I agree that there are a lot of rack-mount random TTL junkies here, to
> some of us, S-100 and things like that are "big iron" as well. =)
>
y
Brian Hechinger <wonko(a)arkham.ws> wrote:
> us UNIX weenie wave our uptime numbers around at each other, VMS people don't
> do that. why? you install VMS, boot the machine, and expect it to run until
> you take it offline. the pair of 6000 boxes at the one place i worked at ran
> from the day they were installed, up until they were removed from the facility
> late last year. never shut down. not once. god i love that stuff.
Guess you weren't running UCX then.
Back then, it was hard to find a packet that _didn't_ cause a fatal
bug check on a machine running UCX. Ok, maybe I'm exaggerating just
a little bit, but it sure was annoying and all we got from DEC was
"so don't do that".
Long shot I know but my girlfriend is getting rid of an old Stylewriter
ink jet printer for the Mac (not sure of model number etc but she used
it on a very old Mac mono laptop) - just thought I'd see if anyone here
wanted it before it goes to ebay. Its in the UK by the way.
Offers / enquiries privately off-list.
Cheers.
Shaun
> Anybody know what a DEC H9642 enclosure looks like or how big? The
> NetBSD hardware reference says its two BA23s... but I need to know if
> I can fit it into the back of a Kia Sportage. Pictures, anyone?
I don't have the manual to hand right
now but my recollection is that it is
roughly chest high, about as wide and
deep as a UK fridge and would be a
pain to load into anything other than
an estate car (station wagon to you IIRC).
In fact, even in an estate you may find that
the box is slightly too high to fit.
I picked up a BA123 in my car a few years
ago and, although it did fit, lifting it in
(with help) and out (without help) was
harder than I thought it would be.
Antonio
Now that you jog the old grey cells, of course you're right; in fact, the
manual states "You should make sure that you buy diskettes for SOFT
SECTORED FORMAT (in caps!)...
What confused my recollection was that I remembered making a few bucks
selling hard-sectored diskettes to PET dealers when the FDDs first came
out, but now that I think back it was probably
because they were cheap & we'd discovered that they'd work, not because
they were required.
I did think that the high-density drives used at least one index hole, but
no, just looked inside the
8050 and no sensors; wrong again (and how many times have I ranted to
myself that people who
don't know what they're talking about should keep their mouth shut).
In the words of the immortal Emily Latella (?) on SNL: never mind...
m
---------------Original message-----------------
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 18:37:45 -0800 (PST)
From: "Fred Cisin (XenoSoft)" <cisin(a)xenosoft.com>
Subject: Re: hard-sector 5 1/4 disk
> Commodore, for one, on their older low density drives.
Commodore, like Apple, was COMPLETELY soft-sector - it ignored the index
pulse COMPLETELY, and therefore would work with hard-sector, soft-sector,
upside down (with write enable notch), ...
I'm still looking for a DECNA for a Pro350/Pro380. I thought I'd
ask again to see if anyone has an extra.
--
Eric Dittman
dittman(a)dittman.net
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