test-drb December 2001

test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

243 participants
1096 discussions

Start a nNew thread

siemens nixdorf laser printer/pageprinter md12

by ROCKYROADENNIS＠aol.com

driver information if available please regards, rockyroadennis(a)aol.com.

22 years, 9 months

Speaking of PS/2s...

by SUPRDAVE＠aol.com

In a message dated 12/21/01 6:29:46 PM Eastern Standard Time, jpero(a)sympatico.ca writes: << There are two models of 700 and 720 series which are MCA thinkpads using very rare MCA IDE 2.5" drives. If the HD dies, you're very SOL literally. Requires $500 adapter, mods to thinkpad hardware to accept notebook ATA drives. MCA IDE would describe this correctly. >> actually those thinkpad drives are EDSI. not upgradeable of course, but since OS/2 works so well on those 700 series, why would one use anything else?

22 years, 9 months

CD32 and CD-TV (was Re: Hardest to Find Classic Computers)

by Adrian.Graham＠corporatemicrosystems.com

> -----Original Message----- > From: Ethan Dicks [mailto:erd_6502@yahoo.com] > Sent: 19 December 2001 17:54 > To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org > Subject: CD32 and CD-TV (was Re: Hardest to Find Classic Computers) > > be fun to play on it. I have an SX-1 adapter that turns a CD32 into > sort of an A1200, but I haven't had the time to check it out and put > it together. Does anyone have any docs for that? The jumpers are > labelled, so there's not much guesswork, but any docs are more than > I have now. I haven't got any docs with my SX-1 either so I'm looking too. I picked it up for ukp2 at a boot sale so I wasn't complaining :) For some reason I guessed it was yet another way of turning the A500 core of the CD32 into a CDTV, same as the A570 CD-ROM did for the bog-standard A500. Speaking of the A570, has anyone got a spare PSU for one? > The other thing I wouldn't mind getting is a replacement CD-TV. I > had one that I bought new for $800 that was stolen when my house was > burglarized 9 years ago - they got my A500 (with WEDGE XT Short of epay I've only ever seen one CDTV and I snapped it up, then went on a crusade to find the remote and mouse that were missing, found an unused remote on epay for ukp12 and he threw in a used mouse and an unused boxed mouse too :) -- Adrian Graham, Corporate Microsystems Ltd e: adrian.graham(a)corporatemicrosystems.com w: www.corporatemicrosystems.com w2: www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk (Online Computer Museum)

22 years, 9 months

What did you ask "Santa" for this year.... : )

by msell＠ontimesupport.com

My wife and I just picked up a VAX 4000-500 for my Christmas gift. The reply from the guy loading the car when he found out it was for Christmas: "Whatever makes you happy, man" : ) So what is everyone else on the list asking for? Computer related... of course..... - Matt Matthew Sell Programmer On Time Support, Inc. www.ontimesupport.com (281) 296-6066 Join the Metrology Software discussion group METLIST! http://www.ontimesupport.com/cgi-bin/mojo/mojo.cgi "One World, One Web, One Program" - Microsoft Promotional Ad "Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuhrer" - Adolf Hitler Many thanks for this tagline to a fellow RGVAC'er...

22 years, 9 months

Selling ESDI drives (was Re: Speaking of PS/2s...)

by acme_ent＠bellsouth.net

Russ, if "tons" >= 100 try the purchasing dept. at hitechcafe.com. They sell a lot of older drives including ESDI, and would probably be interested in the lot. Glen 0/0 > From: Russ Blakeman <rhblakeman(a)kih.net> > The 70 came out ONLY with ESDI, the Reply upgrade and other aftermarket > controllers would give IDE, but not the factory. I have tons of various ESDI > drives I need to sell off too, all 3.5" from 20mb to (maybe) 120mb.

22 years, 9 months

Found today ISD EPROM?

by jrkeys＠concentric.net

Today I stopped at a thrift and found a Blue/White metal device made by ISD and can't really figure it out. It has a place burn a chip and the one in it is ISD 1016 AP; a four inch speaker at the top and on the front side panel it has hook ups for a headset, in and audio, power supply. and RJ11 jack. On the circuit board I found this writing "ES001D Evaluction Unit 1995". There is no writing on the metal case or decals what so ever. Any one seen this unit before.

22 years, 9 months

Tinning on old PCBs

by ajp166＠bellatlantic.net

Are you sure it was the solder plating and not the resist(solder) mask(a plastic like over coating material)? If it was the tinning, that's there to improve solderability and appearance as well. The tinning adds very little to the current carrying capability as tin and lead have significantly more resistance than copper. Allison -----Original Message----- From: Louis Schulman <louiss(a)gate.net> To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org> Date: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 10:34 PM Subject: Tinning on old PCBs >I was cleaning a 20+ year old printed circuit board today, in the manner recently discussed here at length >(but by hand, I don't have a dishwasher). I was somewhat alarmed when some of the tinning flaked off the >copper tracks in places. The tracks themselves are fine, but evidently they had not been properly prepared >before tinning, so the tinning lost its grip. > >My questions is this: Is the copper itself sufficient to carry the currents, or is the tinning required to reduce >resistance? Or, putting it another way, is the tinning required, or is it just to assist in attaching components? >Or, putting it one last way, do I need to re-tin the bare spots? > >For what it's worth, this took place on the motherboard of my newly acquired Exidy Sorcerer #2, a Mark I >32K unit. This one came with a fair number of manuals and software (on tape, of course). > >Thanks, > >Louis > >

22 years, 9 months

Rainbow 100+ available.

by mtapley＠swri.edu

ajwotherspoon(a)NOSPAM.shaw.ca is disposing of it in Victoria, BC, Canada. He mostly wants shipping and a few dollars for it. The announcement should still be fresh on comp.sys.dec.micro. >Where is located the item ? > >Greetings > >Sergio - Mark

22 years, 9 months

What did you ask "Santa" for this year.... : )

by csmith＠amdocs.com

> -----Original Message----- > From: Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) [mailto:cisin@xenosoft.com] > On Fri, 21 Dec 2001, Christopher Smith wrote: > > > You obviously have excellent taste in women. ;^) > > She's also the proud owner of a MicroVAX, hates windows > nearly as much as > > I... and who do you think brought that new SGI Power Series home? ;) > Does she have a sister? Yes, but he sister is a nearly classic technophobe. They're polar opposites. Sorry. :) Regards, Chris Christopher Smith, Perl Developer Amdocs - Champaign, IL /usr/bin/perl -e ' print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n"); '

22 years, 9 months

What did you ask "Santa" for this year.... : )

by csmith＠amdocs.com

> -----Original Message----- > From: Doc [mailto:doc@mdrconsult.com] > Chris, > You obviously have excellent taste in women. ;^) She's also the proud owner of a MicroVAX, hates windows nearly as much as I... and who do you think brought that new SGI Power Series home? ;) Regards, Chris Christopher Smith, Perl Developer Amdocs - Champaign, IL /usr/bin/perl -e ' print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n"); '

22 years, 9 months

Jump to page:

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

2009

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

2003

2002

2001

2000

1999

1998

1997

test-drb December 2001