test-drb March 2001

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by azog＠azog.org

I inherited a PowerBook 5300. I know nothing about it, so I'm not sure if it fits the catagory "classic". All I have is the book itself - no power adapter. I haven't tried it yet, so I'm looking to glean info on it.

23 years, 4 months

TRS-80 pocket computer

by azog＠azog.org

I have a catatonic TRS-80 Pocket Computer. I don't know what's wrong with it. I thought it was working fine, until I replaced the batteries. Now the screen just blinks and goes off. Perhaps the wrong kind of batteries, or perhaps they're dead. Anyone interested in this?

23 years, 4 months

P.O.S.T. issue (was: Looking for Someone with IBM PC (fwd)

by jfoust＠threedee.com

At 11:19 AM 3/15/01 -0800, Fred wrote: >Sorry, slipped up on my question. should read: >Just one remaining issue: does anyone know why the P.O.S.T. takes longer >WITH 16K (14 seconds) than it does with 64K (9 seconds)?? > >Why would MORE memory take LESS time? A theory, unfounded in any technical fact: could the RAM probe be performing some kind of time-out or retry when it doesn't encounter RAM? In other words, when it finds RAM, it speeds along. When it doesn't, perhaps some other memory bus fault or characteristic of the POST code makes it take longer. Doesn't the tech ref guide's BIOS listing include the POST routine? - John

23 years, 4 months

Fwd: Sell Old PCs to the Egyptian and African markets

by jfoust＠threedee.com

From: "Hesham Yehya" <heshameg(a)starnet.com.eg> To: <jfoust(a)threedee.com> Subject: Re: "Old Crap" (was: NEC APC available) Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 20:58:42 +0200 : : : : Dear Sirs ; It gives us the greatest pleasure to write to you , we are an Egyptian company specialized in the import of obsolete and used computer hardware products , processors , rams , motherboards , cd drives , sound cards , vga cards , and other inexpensive accessories for the egyptian and african markets . We are seeking new suppliers for the following items : 1- used and obsolete hard disks up to 10 giga 2-used and obsolete motherboards with processors Pentium II 300 3-used and obsolete rams up to 64 mega 4-used and obsolete CD Drives 5-used Monitors 14 & 15 inches 6- Used Floppy disk drives we would be very grateful to you if you inform us if you have such stocks available , if so please provide us with the inventory and price lists , we order whole containers . waiting for your kind reply and hoping that this would be a beginning for a fruitful business relationship with you , please accept my best personal wishes . yours respectfully Hesham Yehya Attallah General Manager Dragons International Egypt 23 Mohammed Eid Street From Hassanien El Dosoukey Street Hadayek El Maadi Cairo Egypt Tel : 002-010-5857875 Fax : 002-02-5231750 E-Mail : heshameg(a)starnet.com.eg

23 years, 4 months

OT-VisualStudio problems

by RCini＠congressfinancial.com

Sam: The first place that I tried was Microsoft. That's why I asked here :-) A search there turned-up nothing useful. I will try the other link, though. Thanks. Rich ========================== Richard A. Cini, Jr. Congress Financial Corporation 1133 Avenue of the Americas 30th Floor New York, NY 10036 (212) 545-4402 (212) 840-6259 (facsimile) -----Original Message----- From: Sellam Ismail [mailto:foo@siconic.com] Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 11:21 AM To: 'ClassCompList' Subject: Re: OT-VisualStudio problems On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Cini, Richard wrote: > I just got a new laptop - a snazzy Compaq one, with Windowss ME. > I'm trying to reinstall MicroSloth Visual Studio 6 (no SPs). When I > run the IDE after the install, I get an application error that > prevents it from running. Two great resources for troubleshooting technical trouble: http://www.computing.net - I've found the solutions to some very obscure problems on the forums here. In this specific case: http://www.microsoft.com/support Believe it or not, MS usually does have very good trouble reports and fixes documented on their site, if you know where to look. You can use their Knowledge Base or do a search. I bet you'll find something useful in a fraction of the time it would take you to call an MS tech droid. Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org

23 years, 4 months

OT-VisualStudio problems

by RCini＠congressfinancial.com

Hello, all: This is completely off-topic, but I thought that maybe someone ran into this problem before. I just got a new laptop - a snazzy Compaq one, with Windowss ME. I'm trying to reinstall MicroSloth Visual Studio 6 (no SPs). When I run the IDE after the install, I get an application error that prevents it from running. Not much to go on, but has anyone else installed VS on Windows ME? Rich

23 years, 4 months

NCD 88k

by JRichardson＠softwright.co.uk

Hi, Does anyone happen to have the video connector pin-outs for an NCD 88k Xterminal (connector is the same size as the 15 pin joystick connector normally found on PCs, but has 3 rows of pins, not two - think it's something like 23-way) I managed to find information on the NCD website about 2 months ago, but it seems to have disappeared now and through my own stupidity I managed to misplace the data which I downloaded back then :-( (I guess I'll still need a boot image though too so hopefully the files I've misplaced will turn up...) cheers Jules

23 years, 4 months

PC/MS-DOS 1.0?

by RCini＠congressfinancial.com

Sam: I've heard the same thing. I can check the file dtaes tonight, but as I recall, the dates corresponded to the release date of the PC. Rich -----Original Message----- From: Vintage Computer Festival [mailto:vcf@siconic.com] Sent: Monday, March 12, 2001 11:07 AM To: Classic Computers Mailing List Subject: PC/MS-DOS 1.0? Is it true that there was never a release of PC/MS-DOS 1.0, and that the first production release was 1.10? Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org

23 years, 4 months

Rescue ASR-33 and manual in SC, USA

by jfoust＠threedee.com

From: "Lee" <leeb(a)islc.net> To: "Green Keys" <greenkeys(a)qth.net> Subject: [GreenKeys] Fw: (Green Keys) Cleaning out the garage. Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 18:08:20 -0500 : : : : : I have found in the deep dark corner of the garage, (1) AN/FGC-8 (Kleinschmidt TT-512/FG. I have with it the Army tech manual TM 11-5815-306-12 and -35. Lurking with it, is a model-33 ASR with Teletype Bulletin 273B Vol 1 Tech manual for model 32 and 33 KSR, RO and ASR. I looking for a good home for these machines. I am located in the bottom corner of South Carolina, but will travel a reasonable distance to transfer to your truck. I will be leaving this weekend for a week's trip, so there may be a delay in answering any queries. Lee -- W1WXS

23 years, 4 months

Moving data to an Apple II

by eweidenh1＠hotmail.com

I have two apple II computers, a IIgs (Rom 0- no operating system)and an Apple IIc. Both have floppies and both have the latest 8 bit apple DOS. Neither have modems or any communication software. I am trying to get software from my PC to the apples using a Mac Classic II as a bridge. I can get Shrinkit and BinCSII to work on the apples but I need .txt files to work with. Unfortunately, somewhere between the PC and the apples, the resource fork designating the file type gets garbled so BinSCII can't recognise the .txt files. Does anybody know where I can find a Macintosh image file of an Apple II disk with Fazz or another attribute changer on it? Does anyone know of another way to get files onto the Apples with the tools I have? Also, where can I find a copy of an early OS for a Rom 0 IIgs? Thanks all, Erich _____________________________________________________________________________________ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com

23 years, 4 months

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