From: Jim Strickland <jim(a)calico.litterbox.com>
Any springy material. I used P-bronze, pen springs straightend
and even common copper wire. Springy materials work better
as you could rely on them maintaining pressure.
Allison
Our local Wacky Willy surplus store has got a box of new SCSI II terminators
that are labeled "Differential-C". They have the 50 pin mini "D" male
connector.
Wacky is asking $2.50 each. If anyone is interested in some of these I would
be happy to help them out for $5 shipping. I bet I could get 6 or 8 in a mail
box. Please reply to me off list. Overseas shipping slightly higher.
I don't know if these are rare or not. They are new in sealed bags.
Paxton
Portland, Oregon
USA
Does anybody have some spare SMD disk cables they can part with? I could
make some, but I would have to buy the pieces and, frankly, I don't need a
hundred feet of 60-conductor ribbon cable.
Drop me a line off-list and I'm sure we can arrange a suitable deal.
Thanks!
ok
r.
ps. that's "Silly Retro-Computing Geek"
Well, I got my Solbourne (hi Mike!) this weekend. It's a S3000DX with 40MB RAM
and runs OS/MP 4.1a. Two drives, nice box, excellent condition.
The problem is that this box was production and I have no CDs to boot from, so
I can't get into it in service mode so I can wipe it out. For lack of nothing
better to do, I was able to "cp sd.si(,,)etc/password bw()" from the boot
monitor and get the encrypted root password so that the 4-processor HP PA-RISC
2.0 L-class in the server room can have something to do other than run the
school :-), but since there's > 6.6e+15 possibilities in that I was wondering
if there's a faster way. It can understand UFS from the boot monitor, which
is nice, and it does have a floppy drive, but I don't know what file system
it expects to be on it (otherwise I'd copy etc/password off, blast the root
crypt, and put a new one on -- or does this not work so good?).
Any suggestions? How about hacking a Sun box with no password -- since this
is a perverted SunOS machine in concept? :-)
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Available immediately:
Approximately 30 Mostek MK4801AN-1 (aka "4118A") 1K*8 SRAM chips with
1982 date stamps. You pay USPS priority mail shipping ($3.95) -
first to reply to me at "shoppa(a)trailing-edge.com" gets them.
Also available: about 100 Motorola MC4024 VCO chips. Same deal.
Tim. (shoppa(a)trailing-edge.com)
>I was not into games when these were popular so...anybody remember any good
>titles that could be played head-to-head on these?
You want to get a copy of mazewar. Endless amusement, runs over localtalk.
--Chuck
Okay, I whipped up a quick site for my HP 9845 stuff. It has scanned
screen shots from some of my games. If you're curious, check it out.
http://www.sixstring.com/terry/hp9845/
I'm still hoping to find a working HP that can play these!
Terry
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
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International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org
a few A1200 Amiga questions (do they hit the 10 year limit? I know I got my
A500 in the early 90's, and I think A3000's were around then, right??)...
Anyway, here goes:
Do all 1200's come with built in IDE hard drive controllers - or did
commodore do things on the cheap and only add controllers for machines
shipped with drives (I'm assuming the controller lives on the main board
itself)?
Will the 1200 accept any size (capacity) drive? Or wasn't the OS / ROM code
hard-drive aware and cheated by making the drive look like a big floppy (I'm
sure there were systems which did this, but I can't remember if the amiga
was one of them)?
Presumably 2.5 drives are the preferred method - but there's nothing to stop
3.5" IDE drives being used with a suitable adpator (OK that's actually an
IDe question - I think it's just the connectors that differ between them
though, right?)
On the hardware side of things, someone said the 1200's IDE controller is
basically unbuffered I/O straight to the CPU (which sounds possible
certainly with IDE) and so it's real easy to toast things - is that true?
What are the options of networking a '1200 (ideally TCP/IP stack on the
Amiga, using SLIP or something to a Unix box maybe? Are there things around
that allow this, with NFS mounting of drives for data copying?)
Can PC SVGA multisync monitors be used with the 1200, or won't the monitor
sync to a low enough frequency for the Amiga (seem to remember that was the
problem with the 500, not sure if the 1200 has any sort of 'fix' for this on
the Amiga side though)
Having seen how cheap 1200's are these days, and having a pile of spare IDE
drives lying around (both 3.5 and 2.5) I'm quite keen to get a 1200 to put
Deluxe Paint on - it's still far better than any art package I've seen on
modern systems despite being ancient by modern software standards! I can't
be bothered using my old A500 for this though - too slow and too painful
without a hard disk...
directions to an Amiga FAQ that may answer some or all of the above would be
most useful too! :-)
cheers!
Jules
On Mar 30, 8:39, Richard Erlacher wrote:
> Well, if the purpose of the crystal + (what we used was a safety-pin) is
to
> function as a diode, then is it still a crystal radio if a diode is used
> instead?
Sure. Early germanium diodes are point-contact devices made using a small
crystal of germanium.
I've not tried it, but I imagine a modern Schottky diode would be a good
replacement. Some of them have an even lower voltage drop than normal
germanium diodes, so the set would be a little more sensitive.
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Network Manager
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
