test-drb December 2001

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by Innfogra＠aol.com

.mx is for Mexico Paxton

22 years, 12 months

Trailing-edge compute farm seeks gainful employment

by Golemancd＠aol.com

build a multiprocessor unit that runs bots

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Seagate ST32550N vs Quantum XP32150 - which is better?

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

On December 29, Ethan Dicks wrote: > A buddy of mine needs a couple of 2Gb 1" SCSI drives. I have both > Quantum XP32150s and ST32550Ns available. Are these drives essentially > equivalent, or is one better than the other? I can't tell you anything about the XP32150s, but I've set up probably three hundred ST32550Ns and have had very good luck with them. Their write caches ship set to "disabled" by default, though, so it's usually a good idea to stick it on something that'll allow you to edit the contents of Mode Page 6 to turn it on, if my memory is correct. -Dave -- Dave McGuire St. Petersburg, FL "Less talk. More synthohol." --Lt. Worf

22 years, 12 months

VAX 4000-200's on eBay.de

by wilby98＠yahoo.com

On my quest to get more "stuff" of a classic nature I came across these items on eBay in Germany. http://cgi.ebay.de/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1311492128 Now, I do not speak German and in fact know very little about VAX's in general. But for some reason the notion of having one is appealing. Also, these items are "relatively" close (me being in Holland). Time is running out on these but it looks like they have a minimum acceptable bid. Does that mean that if the bid is not met you can negotiate a price outside of the auction? (I don't know much about eBay either). How do they look to you VAX owners/operators? Bill Amsterdam, NL

22 years, 12 months

VESA Bus Multi-IO cards

by mythtech＠Mac.com

If anyone is interested, I saw in at the local thrift store 4, what appear to be brand new, Data Technology DTC2278V2 VESA Local Bus Multi IO Cards. They have two serial, 1 parallel, FDC and IDE. I think the price was $10.00 per card (I didn't write down the price in my infinite wisdom, and I saw them about 6 hours ago, so like most of the rest of my day, the info is slipping out of my head... but I think it was $9.99). I don't care about making money off them, so the cards will be actual price (price + 6% NJ tax), plus shipping. Figure they will be about 1 lb when packed, shipping from 07450. If anyone wants me to pick one up, let me know (I remember there was a VESA discussion going on here not too long ago, so I figured some of you might have an interest in one) -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

22 years, 12 months

Any interest in 5.25 floppy drives or small scsi drives?

by SUPRDAVE＠aol.com

I've got a number of IBM SCSI drives from 80-200 meg that work just fine as well as a whole bunch of 5.25 floppy drives from different manufacturers in both 360k and 1.2m capacities and I hate to just toss the stuff. Anybody have a need for them? --

22 years, 12 months

Wanted: One Specific Piece of Software

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

On December 29, Sellam Ismail wrote: > > Which aren't what you want. But let me heartily recomend Clipper. > > It compiles 99% of dBase programs and more. The 2 features I really > > liked of Clipper where that it worked like a real compiler (ie, > > compiled to .obj files, linked to .exe. Back in the day I used a 3rd > > party incremental linker which saved much time during compiles) but > > Yes, I used an incremental linker as well ("Blinker" is what it was called > if I'm not mistaken). It made a tremendous difference on a 286 :) I used "tlink" (came with Borland compilers if memory serves) for linking clipper programs. It was a very good linker. -Dave -- Dave McGuire St. Petersburg, FL "Less talk. More synthohol." --Lt. Worf

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Interactive UNIX set claimed

by erd_6502＠yahoo.com

I will contact the earliest respondent off-list. -ethan __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.yahoo.com

22 years, 12 months

Try it!!!! (Was - Re: One More PCB Dishwasher Question)

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Dec 29, 12:53, William Donzelli wrote: > I would think the thermal shock of the chips hitting the hot water would > be a failure mechanism. Hot air and hot water are different things, even > at the same temperature. The thermal resistance of a water to ceramic (or > plastic) junction is much, much lower, than one with air, so during the > first seconds of the wash cycle, the chips go from ambient > temperature to something rather high. Lots of stress results, especially > if only some of the chip's package gets wet. Preheating the boards would > help reduce the shock greatly, but home dishwashers do not do that (not a > good idea to cook the food onto the plates before trying to wash them!). Do most American dishwashers start with hot water? Most European ones start with cool water and heat it as they run. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

22 years, 12 months

I bought eBay!

by vcf＠vintage.org

http://www.siconic.com/crap/PC270014.JPG I couldn't resist ;) (For those without the benefit of a GWB, it's a photo of a game I just bought at the toy store called "eBay Electronic-Talking Auction Game" :) Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org * Old computing resources for business and academia at www.VintageTech.com *

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test-drb December 2001