There were very few *ISA* 10/100 NICs ever made. The 3C515 is one of
them. One of the local junk shops has a couple behind the counter.
They are marked $20. I have no idea if that's a reasonable price or
if they are gouging (they also have some used RTC8139-based boards
next to them for $7, for comparison).
Holger Kruse was considering adding support under Miami for a 3C515
on a GG2 Bus+, but at the time, 3c515 boards were unobtanium, and
they wouldn't be fast, anyway. The only reason to really use an
ISA 10/100 card is if you have a non-PCI machine, and your network
infrastructure is 100 *only* (I have a 4-port 100BaseT hub from NetGear,
for instance - it was cheap at the time).
Just curious, but not curious enough to drop $20 up front.
-ethan
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>Correct me if I'm wrong, but can't you simply cover the hole
>(with tape) on a 1.44mb floppy to make a 720 mb diskette?
>Obvisously the hole is the one that isn't the write protect
>one (i.e. doesn't have the slide tab).
I can tell you, ignoring all the "technical" issues, based purely on
experience... this is a BAD idea. It will work... for a while, but you
are almost guarenteed that the disk will fail eventually. I don't have
ANY that have worked long term... and I still do this trick from time to
time when I need a 720k disk briefly... it is always easier for me to
just convert a 1.44 then it is for me to dig out a 720k.
They usually work long enough for me to copy a file to and from the
disk... but within a few reads and writes, it will die. Reformatting will
refresh it for a few more reads and writes... but again, it will die
shortly.
So if your data is important, DON'T do this.
There are companies that still sell DD disks brand new, I would just hunt
one down, and buy a bunch.
-c
Hello, all:
Happy holidays to all!
I made a quick stop in Northern New Jersey this morning for a load of AIM65
stuff from a guy who used to manufacture a custom insurance rating computer
that used the AIM as the base board. In short, this is what I got:
* 8 AIM65 main boards in various states of cannibalism. 5 have displays.
Different manufacturing dates, one a late-model with two high-density RAM
chips in place of the 2114s.
* Bag of printer parts and about 5 printers in various stages of
rebuilding.
* Case+ of paper
* 2 Memory Plus boards
* 1 EPROM programmer
* 5 spare keyboards, all missing keys
* 3 metal bases
* 5 blow-molded case tops
* Assembly hardware and related items
* 4 full tubes of 2114 RAM chips
* 7 full tubes of 2532 EPROMS
I will be "auctioning" off to the group the bases and tops as well as some
of the main boards. I will keep a small amount of the spares for my own AIM
and all of the chips.
I also have three books up for grabs:
* A Programmer's Viwe of the Intel 432 System (Organick)
* Inside Commodore DOS (Immers)
* MicroC/OS-II RTOS book with disk (Labrosse)
If anyone is interested in any of the three case sets, some of the spare
keyboards or main boards or any of the books, please contact me off-list.
Rich
Rich Cini
Collector of classic computers
Build Master for the Altair32 Emulation Project
Web site: http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/~rcini/classiccmp/
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris [mailto:mythtech@Mac.com]
> I don't know about the terminals, but I have a Wyse 386 that was
> originally designed to use a modular RJ-11 keyboard plug. Someplace I
> have an adaptor that converts it to a DIN-5 for use with an
> AT keyboard
> (moves the 4 RJ pins, and has another wire that clips to the computer
> frame to provide ground).
> If it is of any help, I am sure I can find the adaptor and
> tell you the
> pinout for it.
It might help. Assuming the modular keyboards are the same. :)
Regards,
Chris
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>I have a WYSE terminal with a modular keyboard receptacle, and a keyboard
>with a DIN-ish plug. Any chance I can crimp a modular end on it and use it?
I don't know about the terminals, but I have a Wyse 386 that was
originally designed to use a modular RJ-11 keyboard plug. Someplace I
have an adaptor that converts it to a DIN-5 for use with an AT keyboard
(moves the 4 RJ pins, and has another wire that clips to the computer
frame to provide ground).
If it is of any help, I am sure I can find the adaptor and tell you the
pinout for it.
-c
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Foust [mailto:jfoust@threedee.com]
> What Mark is saying is that there's at least two different kinds of
> rendering, and people sometimes chose SGIs for one reason but
> not the necessarily the other. One, you might like to have
> fast processors and hardware acceleration of textured polygons
> for the real-time view of your 3D data. Example users would
> include military simulation, virtual reality, flight simulators, etc.
True enough. Also true that these days, SGI-style graphics hardware is
usually more necessary for the "scientific visualization" crowd, than for
animation. Most animation I've seen done recently was (at least in bulk)
rendered non-real-time, probably on a render-farm of some kind.
> The second group, 3D computer animators making special effects
> and movies, they not only need the real-time stuff during
> the modeling stage, but they also appreciated the raw horsepower
> when it came to rendering, which is usually a purely software-based
> operation.
Of course, originally, SGI (and possibly Intergraph) was the only game in
town ;) These days other manufacturers have graphics that may be "good
enough," especially if you can't afford an (what is it now?) "Infinite
Reality 2," or the like.
> If you pick up an old SGI box, if you were extremely lucky
> you might get an old animation package that does the modeling
> and the rendering. They were usually keyed to the SGI box's
> unique CPU ID. You might get the CDs but no key, and you're
> out of luck.
Unless you have a debugger and some spare time ;)
> I must remind the younger folks out there that as recently
> as less than ten years ago, you'd see animators taking out
> six-figure loans to buy the SGI and software they needed to
> run their shop, for just one or two animators. :-)
Again, SGI was likely the only thing you could get as recently as "less than
ten years ago" that had the graphics power for even the "modeling" stage.
People have begun to take 3d acceleration for granted now that they have
their Matrox GWhiz 5, or their Nvidia TTL 3, or whatever. :) Nobody stops
to think where people got the power to do the kinds of operations for which
these things allow you to use a standard (read: piece of junk ;) intel
peesee (and more) several years past.
> On the other hand, SGI distributed lots and lots of source
> code and demos, and had a few unkeyed applications that may
> run on the box you got if you get the CDs. These include
> real-time interactive demos and apps. They'd give away
> these annual "Hot Mix" CDs at trade shows by the stack.
> I have a bunch I should eBay someday.
Got one or two, myself, and they're amusing if nothing else. I've also
downloaded the "FSN" filemanager from SGIs FTP site, which is entertaining.
(for the uninitiated, this is the 3d file-manager that they showed in
"Jurassic Park."
> Given that SGI Indy boxes are going for less than $100 these
> days, if you ever had an itch to see what they were all about,
> you no longer have any excuses.
Personally, I wouldn't get an Indy with 8-bit graphics if I could help it,
which means you'd pay slightly more than 100 in most cases, but that's still
not bad at all.
On the other hand, Indys don't have much graphics horsepower. I'd recommend
something with at least a Z-Buffer, myself. Indigo2 is a really good deal
these days.
... and let's face it, a graphics subsystem isn't a graphics subsystem
unless it takes at least three boards ;)
Regards,
Chris
Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
Amdocs - Champaign, IL
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! .... but after
! two days of searching, I guess I _will_ have to go do it myself.
!
! Somewhere in my junk boxes, I have some .5" tall by 1.5" wide signal
! meters that I think I pulled from a dead CB radio, c. 1978 (pre-40-
! channel). The plane of the needle swing is parallel to the floor,
! and the needle has a 90-degree bend at the end, so you see a .2"
! tall vertical line slide from left to right as the signal improves.
! If I can find it, it'll mount perfectly in a 3.5" blank faceplace.
!
! Now to excavate the old parts!
This is a neat project... keep us informed... :)
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Hello,
Can anyone tell me how different the WYSE keyboards with the DIN-style plug
are from the keyboards with the modular plug?
I have a WYSE terminal with a modular keyboard receptacle, and a keyboard
with a DIN-ish plug. Any chance I can crimp a modular end on it and use it?
Regards,
Chris
Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
Amdocs - Champaign, IL
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'
! >Many of the HP cards have paper stickers indicating
! >part number, revision, etc. Any thoughts on preserving
! >these through a dishwasher cycle? Or should I just
! >gently hand rinse? THanks!
! >
!
! I'd think ANY cleaning would put them at risk. If you don't
! want to loose
! the information, better document it somewhere.
What about re-creating the labels, using the Avery label sheets?
--- David A Woyciesjes
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> I would not pay more than EUR 50,- for a MV4k200 like that. Even EUR
> 50,- is high for only 16MB RAM, 200MB disk, TK70 and no other
> peripherals.
501 Euros, final price of the auction.
If somebody in the USA can send me a pallet of them for
$100 everyone (final price shipping included) to the Madrid airport
to put them in auction, I shall be very happy. With this range of prices
I even can earn money.
It's incredible.
Sergio
