test-drb December 2001

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by philpem＠bigfoot.com

Hi, I'm trying to get a copy of Don Lancaster's "Cheap Video Cookbook" and "Son of Cheap Video" books, which are now out of print. Anyone got a copy of both books they'd care to scan in and upload somewhere or sell to me? What about the "TV Typewriter" article? I'm also after a Synertek SYM-1 (or SY-VIM-1), a MOS KIM-1 and an AIM-65. Anyone want to sell me one of these machines (or donate one to my computer collection :-)? Thanks. -- Phil. philpem(a)bigfoot.com http://www.philpem.btinternet.co.uk/

24 years, 1 month

Any AMIGA users?

by csmith＠amdocs.com

> -----Original Message----- > From: SUPRDAVE(a)aol.com [mailto:SUPRDAVE@aol.com] > Decided to pull out my amiga 500 and a PHOENIX hard drive > that fits it. > plugged it all in and the hard drive spins up, but the amiga > still prompts > for a system floppy. can a PC download and create an amiga > system disk? i Short answer: No. ;) Long answer: The amiga floppy format is 880k. The standard peesee drive/controller setup won't do it. You may be in luck if you have a catweasel controller or a compati-card. Otherwise, you can probably write them with a macintosh. You can also possibly do it with some unix machines, or if you have a VAX with 3.5" floppy, or alpha... I was going to try with my sparc IPC, myself. On another note, I have a set of disks that will boot my amiga 1000. Kickstart and OS 1.2 (I think?). I don't know whether OS 1.2 will work on your 500, nor have I any idea whether the OS you get absolutely must be matched to the kickstart version (in ROM on the 500...) I'd be willing to give it a try anyway, though, if you can't find something that's more of a "sure bet." > want to see what this computer is capable of. The only fully working '500 I've seen was very impressive in context. Regards, Chris Christopher Smith, Perl Developer Amdocs - Champaign, IL /usr/bin/perl -e ' print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n"); '

24 years, 1 month

WD1003A-SCS board

by jdonogh1＠prodigy.net

Does anybody have a manual with jumper settings for this? It's a Western Digital SCSI-to-MFM board. Can't seem to get it to work. - but the LED stays on dimly(?)

24 years, 1 month

Anyone have a Rodime RO3065 Drive?

by rmeenaks＠olf.com

Hi, I am looking for a Rodime RO3065 3-1/2" 53Mbyte MFM Harddrive. Anyone have a spare they are willing to part with? Thanks, Ram -- ,,,, /'^'\ ( o o ) -oOOO--(_)--OOOo------------------------------------- | Ram Meenakshisundaram | | Senior Software Engineer | | OpenLink Financial Inc | | .oooO Phone: (516) 227-6600 x267 | | ( ) Oooo. Email: rmeenaks(a)olf.com | ---\ (----( )-------------------------------------- \_) ) / (_/

24 years, 1 month

Help, I will now buy another VAX 6000-420 in Virginia Beach, I can't possibly take that thing ....

by gunther＠aurora.regenstrief.org

Oh my oh my, I just won another VAX 6000-420 for 24 bucks and 99 cents on eBay. Another 6400 in my fleet. I just love these machines. They are handsome decently powerful not oversized, modest in power consumption and noise emission (compared to the 11/780). Very friendly to operate (compared to 11/750, 780 and pretty much everything before. It's so invaluable to have a self test LED at every board so you know exactly whats wrong if things don't work.) Of course these are real machines not PC-lookalikes. But that's what it's all about! :-) But I can never justify to transport that machine from Virginia Beach to Indianapolis and frankly I have no room for it. I hope that Mr. Seller will let me take a virtual peek inside and if theres anything I don't have or that I need, I will take some off. I can still use CPUs (to build my second 6000-460, KFSMA, anything peripheral except CIBCA and DEBNT (have enough of those). BTW, at some point not too far ahead, I will give that second 6000-460 away (if and when I get my 6000-660). Another thing is I will trade a whole setup with 6460, 6520, HSC90, SA600 cabinet, TU81+ and Dataproducts printer and may be add one PDP-8/A as a prize for the one who brings me a nice 11/785 with UNIBUS extension cabinet. In that regard I also trade a TU78 in the style of the 80s against a TU78 with the blue head-panel that fits the 11/780. So, now you know. I've always stuff cooking until I retire >from my hardware ackquisition frenzie. after I have my 11/785 setup. If you live close to Virginia Beach, or you plan on passing by there, let me know. regards, -Gunther PS: also remember, there are a couple of 8650s waiting for a home. I would love to take one but I can't build my whole garage into a computerroom, and I can't run the machine as a furnace (I have gas heat and want to keep it that way :-). But remember, the 8650 are very elegant machines, if you can handle that caliber. Gunther Schadow wrote: > Hi, > > there are 23 minutes to go on an ebay auction > > http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1313054232 > > for a VAX 6420. I already have 3 such cabinets in my house > and I can impossibly take one let alone the shipping. I will > only have it checked out for parts. It's dirt cheap. I am > always looking for some interesting stuff and this one might > just have some. Most of the heavy and hard to get stuff I > will leave. You should have a running machine. Outbid me now > if you can take the whole machine. > > regards > -Gunther > -- Gunther Schadow, M.D., Ph.D. gschadow(a)regenstrief.org Medical Information Scientist Regenstrief Institute for Health Care Adjunct Assistant Professor Indiana University School of Medicine tel:1(317)630-7960 http://aurora.regenstrief.org

24 years, 1 month

KWANZA ???

by csmith＠amdocs.com

> -----Original Message----- > From: gwynp(a)artware.qc.ca [mailto:gwynp@artware.qc.ca] > ObClassicmp : Santa gave me an abacus! While this particular one was > probably manufactured recently, anything this ancient must be > classic :) Me too. :) Mine has what appear to be ceramic beads, and a nice light red-ish (not quite cherry) wood frame. Regards, Chris Christopher Smith, Perl Developer Amdocs - Champaign, IL /usr/bin/perl -e ' print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n"); '

24 years, 1 month

Connectors (was: NEXT Color Printer find

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

That is correct. -Dave On December 31, Boatman on the River of Suck wrote: > I could have sworn that the regular single-pair telephone connector is > RJ11, and the two-pair/two-line one is RJ14. > > On Sun, 30 Dec 2001, Dave McGuire wrote: > > > Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 22:55:47 -0500 > > From: Dave McGuire <mcguire(a)neurotica.com> > > Reply-To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org > > To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org > > Subject: Re: Connectors (was: NEXT Color Printer find > > > > On December 30, Chris wrote: > > > >Would they call common network connectors "8 pin RJ-11"? > > > >Or would they call them "8 pin telephone connectors"? > > > > > > Neither, 8 pin RJ's are an RJ-45 (11 is a 4 pin, comes in either standard > > > or handset sizes... can also have just 2 pins for "cheap" cords... 12 is > > > a 6 pin, same physical size as a standard RJ-11) > > > > It's important to note that the RJ designations specify not only the > > connector type, but the pinout. > > > > -Dave > > > > -- > > Dave McGuire > > St. Petersburg, FL "Less talk. More synthohol." --Lt. Worf > > > > -- Dave McGuire St. Petersburg, FL "Less talk. More synthohol." --Lt. Worf

24 years, 1 month

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

by csmith＠amdocs.com

> -----Original Message----- > From: Ben Franchuk [mailto:bfranchuk@jetnet.ab.ca] > While you hear a lot about 'classic' common old CPU's -- apple, radio > shack, > commodore do people find any homebrewed computers did that > all stop when > the S-100 bus came out? Well, I think I may have mentioned this earlier, but my Heath H8 has a wire-wrapped (nearly obviously home-brewed) daughterboard added on to the CPU card. The main CPU used to be 8080, but the daughterboard holds a Z80 and a couple other things. It seems to work. That's the closest thing I've seen. Regards, Chris Christopher Smith, Perl Developer Amdocs - Champaign, IL /usr/bin/perl -e ' print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n"); '

24 years, 1 month

Any interest in 5.25 floppy drives or small scsi drives?

by SUPRDAVE＠aol.com

In a message dated 12/29/2001 11:36:35 PM Eastern Standard Time, gehrich(a)tampabay.rr.com writes: << At 10:17 PM 12/29/01 -0500, you wrote: >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? I might be interested in them. What do you have and how much to 34611 Are they blank, used, with/without software? Gene >> To answer this question, I decided to post it. The 100-200m SCSI drives are almost all IBM brand from PS/2 models running OS/2. There are some others laying around that work, but not sure of anything else about them. Everything's used of course. -- Kwanzaa is NOT a real holiday.

24 years, 1 month

test, ignore

by mnadeau＠editservices.com

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24 years, 1 month

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test-drb December 2001