> > From: Tony Duell <ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
>
> > I wouldn't want anybody smoking near my computers!
>
> I've been chain-smoking around computers of various sorts for 20 years, and
> I've never seen any evidence of smoke-related problems. I prefer that
> computers don't smoke around me, however ;>)
>
> OTOH, audio gear seems to be very susceptible to my smoke, and I have to
> clean all the switches and pots every three months or so.
The early CDC disk drives (like many others I'm sure) has so
much room between platters you could stick your hand in there,
and enough room between the flying heads and the platter that
neither smoke nor dust was a problem. One CDC engineer remarked
to me about how they usually be smoking a cigarette while they
were *polishing* the platters (yes, I know about the stiction
cure joke, Lemon Pledge and all that). Which reminds me of an
MPEG that Elsa included with the Winner3000 drivers... you
watch this video, you'll think it's cigarettes that they're
selling...
-dq
Please see this item and read the description:
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1309308140
I have a similar machine which I would call identical except for the
green-screen. All the "prototype" markings that the auction makes
mention of I have seen seen on my Lisa, as well as the only other one
I've seen. I believe these markings to be common, and that the screen
was a replacement job by a 3rd party. Is this guy misinformed or am I?
Thanks,
Jeffrey H. Ingber (jhingber _at_ ix.netcom.com)
The subject says it all, does anyone have a handy list of HP-PB
adapters supported in the Nova series ? (I realize this might be
*just* short of the ten year rule). Looking to add some IO to
my H50.
btw. I love google. I love google. Google rocks. I'm busy
downloading every single message with a mention of 9000/500-series.
Did I mention that google rocks ?
Thanks,
--
jht
On December 13, Chad Fernandez wrote:
> I had a cat lick pictures once. They'll eat/chew on the darndest things
> if you let them. I think it is the taste..... something about the
> chemicals must be salty tasting or something. It's not like cats are
> chewy like dogs or rodents.
Did anyone beside me read this wrong and laugh hysterically?
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
St. Petersburg, FL
Hi everybody,
I remember somebody mentioning the CPT 9000 on this list recently.
Since I just happen to be working on one, I thought I'd post this question
here.
Does anyone know where I can get some of the original software that might
take advantage of the full screen-height? I have a copy of ventura
publisher that was pre-installed, but I assume that its CPT9000 driver is
corrupt. It works with the Herc ega driver, but with the CPT9000 driver, I
just get some strange text-mode blocks.
I also wonder whether anyone's tried Minix on it, and whether that might
address the whole monitor?
Regards,
Chris
Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
Amdocs - Champaign, IL
/usr/bin/perl -e '
print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n");
'
On December 12, Jeffrey S. Sharp wrote:
> What little I've read about UNIBUS told me that UNIBUS has no set clock
> rate, and that the speed of communication between two devices would be the
> the highest rate that both devices could handle. If you've got nothing
> but Sridhar-made fast devices on the bus, what stops you from having a
> UNIBUS operating at say, 33MHz to 100MHz on average?
I don't recall the specifics of Unibus...but its bandwidth is commonly
stated as being about 7MB/sec. If that's the case, then it's unlikely
that it's asynchronous. But perhaps it is asynchronous, and 7MB/sec
was just the maximum.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
St. Petersburg, FL
For coax or twisted pair the delay per unit length is given by:-
Delay (Secs/unit length) = Root( (C/unit length)*(L/unit length) )
Example: For RG58-U coax, C=100pF/m and L=250nH/m
Delay = root(250E-9*100E-12) = 5E-9 sec/m or 5ns/m
A pulse will travel 66% slower in RG-58 cable than free space.
If anyone needs to lay out high speed PCB's
the following book is highly recommended:
"High Speed Digital Design - A Handbook of Black Magic"
Howard W Johnson and Martin Graham
ISBN 0-13-395724-1
Chris Leyson
> -----Original Message-----
> From: charles hobbs [mailto:chobbs@socal.rr.com]
> Speaking of which, ever open a machine formerly owned by a
> dog/cat owner?
I have. Being a cat owner, I find that I need to clean my systems of
cat-hair on a regular basis.
Regards,
Chris
Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
Amdocs - Champaign, IL
/usr/bin/perl -e '
print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n");
'
On December 11, Boatman on the River of Suck wrote:
> > > I am pretty sure that I will be bringing one of my IBM S/390 G1's to VCF
> > > East next year with VM, MVS, and Linux running. If anyone else brings
> > > machines capable of SNA, FDDI, Ethernet or ATM, you'll be welcome to hook
> > > up to me.
> >
> > Eh? The G1 isn't 10 years old, is it?
>
> It is indeed. Both of mine have manufacture dates in 1991.
Ahh, I thought the G1 came out in 1994 or so. I stand corrected. :-)
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
St. Petersburg, FL
> This is a page about a B205. I'll eventually get a page up about my
> G20M/200.
Oh shit he's got the Jupter II helm!
Talk about your unobtainium...
-dq
On December 13, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
> > But yes, I agree...Linux can be made to work well on machines with
> > small quantities of memory. It's actually pretty good at it.
>
> Hey! Don't forget about ... *waves NetBSD flag frantically*
Oh yes, most definitely...I run NetBSD in production at a number of
sites, and it's wonderful. I only mentioned Linux specifically
because we were specifically discussing Linux. While I like Linux a
LOT, I don't consider it production-ready enough to bet my dinner on
it.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
St. Petersburg, FL
> But I ask the question is bigger always better? I am the guy who still
> uses 640x480 cause this way he can read the screen and the menus at
> the same time. I suspect the wheel of computer design will turn again
> towards 'smaller' CISC (pdp8-style?) machines as the interconnect
> in chips between modules is becoming larger compared to the the gate
> speeds.
I never understand this- why not kick it up to 1027x768 and use the
Windows Appearance controls to make the menus and screen fonts larger?
That way graphics look nice and text is still readable and things
you have to click on (buttons can be made bigger too) are bigger
targets...
It's the best of both worlds, instead of being limited to one...
Regards,
-dq
Hi everybody,
For those of you who've read my notes on the MIPS RISComputers I'm trying to
get going, I ask this because I may want to replace the QIC-120 drive that's
missing from one of them with a different model.
I'd like some opinions on tape drives. The drive would need to plug into a
SCSI interface, and I'd like it to fit in a 5.25" half-height bay. That's
pretty much all I'd require from it. It would be nice if the drive held at
least as much as a QIC-120 (about 120MB, it so happens ;), and was
inexpensive and easy to get used.
Any suggestions? What's the going price on DDS-1 these days?
Regards,
Chris
Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
Amdocs - Champaign, IL
/usr/bin/perl -e '
print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n");
'
On December 12, Eric J. Korpela wrote:
> Not to disparage the Admiral, but I'm fairly sure the term "bug" referring
> to problems with a mechanism was in general use well before electronic
> computers existed.
Most literature that I've seen gives Hopper that distinction...however
John Lawson mentioned a book that seems to prove otherwise. Scans of
that would be very cool to have.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
St. Petersburg, FL
I have a tektronix phaser 340 (which I think is rather less then 10 years
old, but I'm not certain...) that has started saying "Fault 05,000.42:8178".
I was wondering if anyone here is familiar with these printers and/or knows
where I can get a fault code reference for them, because I really don't want
to pay xerox to fix my printer. I have a feeling this is something pretty
simple -- the printer was off for a while (like about 3 months) and then just
started doing this last night. any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Dan
- Dan Wright
(dtwright(a)uiuc.edu)
(http://www.uiuc.edu/~dtwright)
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``Weave a circle round him thrice, / And close your eyes with holy dread,
For he on honeydew hath fed, / and drunk the milk of Paradise.''
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan
Does anyone have a manual, or know how to operate, an Everex digital
cassette drive?
The one I have is all black, and has a DC-37 connector on the back that I
assume connects to an old-style IBM PC drive interface. If this is the
case, I assume I still need drivers to run this thing? And maybe some
operating software?
Does anyone know what the hell I'm talking about?
Please help if you can. Many brownie points await ye.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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Ok, after a quick web search, it looks like I may be able to use a
program called Xpress Librarian to access this drive. Anybody got it?
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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I just picked up an Encore Corp. Annex Terminal server from my
university's salvage. It seems to power up ok and I can get it to have a
link to my network. I can even set an ip address to it. However I can't
ping it. It seems to want to net boot (as far as i can tell).
Anyone have the boot software for these or have a resource to point me
towards? The manufacturer's site seems to be of no help, and neither is
google.
Here's the specifics:
Encore Computer Corp. Annex
Model # ANN-01 (Cant really read first char, can be different)
>From starting it with the switch in 'diag mode' i can get it to spit out
the following:
Board ID 11 - Serial Number 87
REV ROM: Maj Rev 3 Min Rev 1
ROM Software Rev # 0305
Thanks to anyone that has any ideas.
-- Pat
2 Tektronix 4051 manual
1 Tektronix 4051 ROM expansion unit (W binary loader ROM and GPIO)
1 4051 ROM expansion unit manual
1 Morrow MicroDecision computer W/manuals and disks
1 DEC Alpha 2100
4 misc HP700 HPPA series (720,735)
Peter Wallace
Mesa Electronics
>Ok, I give up -- how do you train a cat? :)
Water spray bottle works wonders. 3 spritz later and one of my cats has
stopped popping the hampster cage open and carrying the hampster around
the house.
Some people say tape works well to keep them off things (sticky side up),
but both my cats seem to rather like it, and I find they stand on it
padding at the tape purring happily.
-c
> Thanks but Arlen Michaels send me the files. They were for a 40 Mb hard
>card but the driver (Plusdrv.sys) seems to work fine.
Any chance you can forward those drivers my way? I have a 40mb HardCard
that I would like to see if I can get working.
Thanks
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
Google claims to have recovered the USENET archives from 1981 to
present.
Makes for some really fun reading. Birth of the web, linux, all the old
machines we love.
Jim Davis.
