test-drb December 2001

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by DAW＠yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu

Well, I do have a BNC male-male adapter, and some BNC cable. That should suffice as an extension. Safer than a soldering iron... ;-) Thanks for the link... --- David A Woyciesjes --- C & IS Support Specialist --- Yale University Press --- mailto:david.woyciesjes@yale.edu --- (203) 432-0953 --- ICQ # - 905818 ! -----Original Message----- ! From: Michael Kukat [mailto:michael@unixiron.org] ! Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 2:52 PM ! To: David Woyciesjes ! Cc: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org (E-mail); NetBSD/Vax Mail List (E-mail) ! Subject: Re: DEC Cable? ! ! ! Hello, ! ! On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, David Woyciesjes wrote: ! > I've got two cables here, DEC p/n BCC17-06 and one with ! out a p/n, ! > but looks like a DEC cable. Any ideas who/what they're for? ! And can one of ! > them replace the mono video cable on my VAX Station 3100 (BC23K-03)? ! ! I don't know these cables, but as both are RGB cables, none ! of them can replace ! a mono cable. Also look at http://www.bsdfans.org/pinouts.php ! for the full ! pinout of those connectors. ! ! And additionally, DEC changed the pinout somewhen for the ! DECstations and DEC ! (Alpha) machines, maybe even VAXstation 4000 has a different ! pinout (do they ! have the 15pin connector? Don't know now). ! ! Best way would be to take a soldering iron and make the cable ! yourself. The ! other way would be a small bridge between the mono and the ! green pin to get ! the cable doing mono on the green wire. But this is a ! modification to your ! holy VAXstation, and you don't really want to do this :) ! ! And then, there is still the problem with the pinout ! difference between ! DECstations and VAXstaions. So, as your VAXstation has own ! keyboard/mouse ! connectors, a simple mono video cable would be the best. ! ! ...Michael ! ! -- ! visit http://www.bsdfans.org/ Home network powered by: ! NetBSD OpenBSD FreeBSD ! Solaris HP-UX IRIX AIX MUNIX Tru64 Ultrix VMS SINIX ! Dolphin_Unix OpenStep MacOS !

22 years, 9 months

Troll got me (was Re: Is there no end)

by csmith＠amdocs.com

> -----Original Message----- > From: Glen Goodwin [mailto:acme_ent@bellsouth.net] > FYI, I think it's a "made up" holiday and just wanted to know > what your > thoughts were. Well, to drive this further off topic.... ;) All holidays are "made up." They are celebrations of this thing or that, lots of times an event. Nobody'd have thought of having a holiday before the thing happened, right? The difference with kwanzaa is that it's silly/stupid because it's (AFAIK) a celebration of racial identity which stems (IMO) from an insecurity of some type, where lots of other holidays are silly/stupid because they're celebrations of national identity (for instance) which stem (IMO) from an insecurity of some type :P Regards, Chris (who never understood the tendency of people to want to assign themselves to groups) 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

[PDP8-Lovers] Re: how to clean a PDP8/A, dishwasher?

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Dec 17, 6:08, Richard Erlacher wrote: > I'm not absolutely sure about such things, but, having had to sit through the > annual ESD classes year after year in order to maintain my cert's when I was in > aerospace, ISTR that the "old" TTL was ESD sensitive to a point, and I seem to > remember something about TTL having a threshold of 2KV for ESD sensitivity. > That suggests that while it's not as likely to go poof at the slightest ESD, you > can't "ZAP" it without harming it. Since the "ZAP" that you feel when reaching > for the doorknob is >50KV, typically, the 2KV would hardly be noticed. That sounds about right to me. The instructor on my ESD classes in the 80's probably read the same books and data sheets that yours did. You certainly wouldn't notice a few kV picked up by walking across a carpeted room if it had a few seconds to dissipate before you touched something that would discharge it instantly. I remember one school who had a lot of BBC Microcomupters in the mid-80's. All was well with them, until they had a building refurbishment, and the micros wer moved to a new room with carpet tiles. They had endless trouble after that, with machines resetting at odd times, misbehaving in unexpected ways, and so on. When one finally stopped working altogether and I was asked to look, I asked about the carpet. I suggested they mist it periodically with well-diluted carpet cleaner to reduce static, and the problems went away (I repaired the faulty machine -- it had a blown LS TTL chip, which may or may not have been coincidence). -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

22 years, 9 months

[PDP8-Lovers] Re: how to clean a PDP8/A, dishwasher?

by msell＠ontimesupport.com

You probably shouldn't use WD-40.... Better to use a good type of grease. They forgot to install grease fittings.... : ) On a side note, we had a guy from IS about ready to lubricate the bearings on a hard drive once. The situation started with a work order to repair a "squeaking" hard-drive. The real problem was that some joker turned on the "audible network activity" setting on an X-terminal, and it was "chirping" every time it attempted to access the network. Some guy came in on a different shift, and thinking he was a computer expert, quickly came to the conclusion that the hard drive needed replacement because the bearings were shot. Being the budget-minded people we were, we suggested to him that rather than replacing the expensive hard drive, we would ask the Information Services group to send a technician to repair, rather than replace, the hard drive. When the technician arrived we showed him the work order, and demonstrated the "chirping" noise. He agreed with the conclusion of the guy who write the work order that the hard drive really was at fault, and we convinced him that he should take it to the facility maintenance people to have them install a grease fitting on the hard drive and to "lube it up". As he started to take the case off of the terminal we pointed out the network activity setting. We got a good laugh out of it.... - Matt At 10:43 AM 12/17/2001 -0700, you wrote: >For laughs, take a look at >http://www.help-net.com/computer%20buddies/pc911/clean_your_hard_drive.htm 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

[PDP8-Lovers] Re: how to clean a PDP8/A, dishwasher?

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

On December 17, Johnny Billquist wrote: > > > > I am appalled that anyone would seriously consider putting any > > electronic > > > > equipment, much less antiques, in a dishwasher. > > > > > > I'll have to agree. > > > > As has been said before, what do you think manufacturers do at the end of a > > production line? > > They wash them yes. They *don't* put them in a dishwasher. There is a > hughe difference. I dunno, man...I've only come into contact with two commercial board washers in the past, and they were very much like dishwashers...right down to the fold-down front door and the spinning sprayer, except the spinning sprayers were at the top in these units. -Dave -- Dave McGuire St. Petersburg, FL "Less talk. More synthohol." --Lt. Worf

22 years, 9 months

[PDP8-Lovers] Re: how to clean a PDP8/A, dishwasher?

by ajp166＠bellatlantic.net

From: Matthew Sell <msell(a)ontimesupport.com> >I'm offering the suggestion that people try using their dishwasher to give >the computer the bath it really needs. I put (with the exceptions mentioned >in previous posts) all of my boards and control panels through the wash. >Every one of them works after drying. After 10 years of using this method >commercially and in my hobbies, I haven't had a single failure. Same here and I've used dishwashers for over 20 years. Dirty boards get washed. Even if there are Dip switches or relays I wash them as often they dry ok or are easily replaced. Often the board that didn't work beforehand does after or it's far easier to see the problem. >P.S. - TTL logic *IS* static sensitive, just not nearly to the extent that >MOS is. Correct! Allison

22 years, 9 months

[PDP8-Lovers] Re: how to clean a PDP8/A, dishwasher?

by DAW＠yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu

! > Like I said before, don't take my word for it. Take an old, ! > dirty board ! > that you know works, and run it through the dishwasher. Dot ! > use the plate ! > warmer or drying functions. At the end of the cycle, remove ! > it, shake it ! > off, and allow it to dry for several days (hang it up). Plug ! > it back in - ! > it'll work. ! ! I this has already been mentioned, but also don't put boards ! in that have ! any sort of battery fitted or removeable labels you want to keep stuck ! on.... ! ! -- ! adrian ! Course, you could always remove the labels first, put them on wax paper, then stick them back on after drying. If the adhesive won't hold anymore, clear packing tape, trimmed to just a little bigger than the label, should work. And protect it too, since the label is most likely only paper. --- David A Woyciesjes --- C & IS Support Specialist --- Yale University Press --- mailto:david.woyciesjes@yale.edu --- (203) 432-0953 --- ICQ # - 905818

22 years, 9 months

Flashing Light Indicators un Simple Front Panels

by csmith＠amdocs.com

> -----Original Message----- > From: pete(a)dunnington.u-net.com [mailto:pete@dunnington.u-net.com] > The only thing I can think of that's *designed* to do > something like that > is an SGI Indy; if you power one up and it can't even run the > the code in > the PROM, it flashes the power light (which is a two-colour LED). The > usual cause id that there's no (recognisable) RAM at all in > it. Probably > not relevant to a PR1ME. I've recently seen an indy do that because the RTC was improperly seated. 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

Should engineers be licensed (Was "Geeks")

by csmith＠amdocs.com

-----Original Message----- From: CLeyson(a)aol.com [mailto:CLeyson@aol.com] > I sometimes wonder just how many customers we've lost because of this. > Also, dont get me wrong, the same should be applied to hardware design. > We recently interviewed an electronics engineering graduate who didn't know > the difference between NPN and PNP transistors !! What do they teach kids > these days ?? My guess is nothing. (Really... that's part of the reason I'm not in a hurry to get my degree) It's not that the couldn't teach anything, or that the "kids" couldn't learn if they tried, though, I think. It's more that they're too stupid to know that there's more to learning than showing up every day and reciting meaningless (to you) data. The really sad part is that schools are accommodating this attitude by adjusting their programs such that you really needn't (in fact, it becomes difficult to...) learn anything. 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

Troll got me (was Re: Is there no end)

by SUPRDAVE＠aol.com

In a message dated 12/16/2001 5:57:45 PM Eastern Standard Time, acme_ent(a)bellsouth.net writes: > >> From: SUPRDAVE(a)aol.com > > >>Gee, a message from an AOL user with no HTML . . . imagine that . . . harrumph, will wonders ever fuckin cease? > > >> Kwanzaa is NOT a real holiday. > > >Okay, I'll bite: why isn't it? > > figure it out yourself, google is around for a reason

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test-drb December 2001