test-drb July 2001

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301 participants
824 discussions

by mtapley＠swri.edu

OOooopsie. Guess we would have had to issue a formal posthumous apology. But it was an honest mistake, Dick, it sure *sounded* like an unprompted admission of guilt. The important thing, though, is it would serve as a strong disincentive to future illegal dumpster-divers. :-) >From: "Richard Erlacher" <edick(a)idcomm.com> > >...What's lying in the alley NEXT TO the dumpster because you or someone else >failed to put it in the dumpster is another matter. It is, after all, in the >public right-of-way.... > >Dick > >- ----- Original Message ----- >From: "Sellam Ismail" <foo(a)siconic.com> > >> On Sat, 28 Jul 2001, Richard Erlacher wrote: >> >> > No, though I've put a few in there. I have gotten some pretty good bridge >> > controllers, etc, from the dumpster's overflow. >> >> GUILTY!!! >> >> Send him to the molten iron vat! OB cars: 68 Plymouth Sport Suburban (think Fury III wagon). 5.2L (318 cu. in.). 100 mph on 280, in Sunnyvale. Not smart, but got away with it. 120 mph on 290 west of Dripping Springs, Texas. Got away with that too, of course. (Wups! Molten iron vat, here I come.) 220,000 mi, same engine but one rebuild. I'll take on *any* of you guys in a passenger-miles per hour contest - I have seat belts for 8 and have put 11 in the car at one time. Wife's car is a 2000 Dodge Sport Caravan. 3.3L, will burn E85 ethanol but they don't *&$& sell it in Texas! Sigh. Yes it has the spoiler on the back end, and no it's not useless - it provides some shade for the back window. Sigh. 1.5 years old, only been in the shop for recommended oil changes. One of the stereo speakers is out, but that's the only problem so far. I'll be good - next post will be about computers. I promise. - Mark

23 years, 4 months

DEC VT180 (Robin)

by dbetz＠xlisper.mv.com

I just picked up a DEC VT180 that seems to work except that it came with no software. Does anyone know where I can get a CP/M boot disk for it and/or the diagnostic disk? Thanks, David Betz dbetz(a)xlisper.mv.com

23 years, 4 months

PDP 11/34

by KenzieM＠sympatico.ca

Well I just picked up a car load of stuff. Manuals, disks and paper tapes, a VT100 terminal and 2 8" floppy drives. I left 4 RL05 drives, 2 racks and card cages behind for another trip. The 2 racks are not quite the same size but I didn't think that they'd tie to the roof of the Toyota. So I'll get a mover to haul the rest. In one of the boxes was what looks like a pair of electric pencils? Anyone in the Ottawa area interested in helping assemble these? How much of this do I need to get the system working, ie. can I put the a card cage and a drive in a smaller rack that will fit in the basement?

23 years, 4 months

OT: Cheap cars (was: 1%...)

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

On July 30, Ethan Dicks wrote: > --- "R. D. Davis" <rdd(a)smart.net> wrote: > > ..."BMW" (can you say "overpriced VW Beetle?") > > Hardly... a BMW has that large finny thing in the front that serves no > purpose in a Beetle. A Porche is an overpriced Beetle. Drop me a note next time you're in DC. I will change that opinion. ;) -Dave -- Dave McGuire Laurel, MD

23 years, 4 months

Whats you oldest computer

by rachael_＠gmx.net

I think the oldest I have is a Philips odyssey 2001 build in 1977, not a quiet a computer. I`m not sure about the age of my Regnecentralen RC702 piccolo, sadly its not working, I have checked the PSU, and on a reset the 360kb 5 1/4" starts spining. Does anyone have some infomation about those machines from Regnecentralen. Here in Denmark people seems to have forgotten all about the machines. Regards Jacob Dahl Pind -- CBM, Amiga,Vintage hardware collector Email: Rachael_(a)gmx.net url: http://rachael.dyndns.org

23 years, 4 months

"Early" 3.5" diskettes (was: Wired covers VCF east

by mbg＠world.std.com

>Modern drives don't seem to mind missing shutters, and all of the early >drives that I've tried are happy with modern diskettes with the shutter >removed. So try taking the shutter off of a diskette and see whether >that makes the drive happy. Thanks, Fred... I'll have to try it again... The next part of the problem is trying to find such a drive to put on an -11, interfaced in such a way so that I can read/write the diskette. Then I could try loading up an RT-11 monitor and see if we can get the thing to boot. Megan Gentry Former RT-11 Developer +--------------------------------+-------------------------------------+ | Megan Gentry, EMT/B, PP-ASEL | Internet (work): gentry!zk3.dec.com | | Unix Support Engineering Group | (home): mbg!world.std.com | | Compaq Computer Corporation | addresses need '@' in place of '!' | | 110 Spitbrook Rd. ZK03-2/T43 | URL: http://world.std.com/~mbg/ | | Nashua, NH 03062 | "pdp-11 programmer - some assembler | | (603) 884 1055 | required." - mbg KB1FCA | +--------------------------------+-------------------------------------+

23 years, 4 months

Chevy Vega Re: Cheap cars (was: 1%...)

by rigdonj＠intellistar.net

At 09:48 PM 7/30/01 -0700, Fred wrote: >GM saved a lot of money by making an aluminum block with a friction >reducing coating (Teflon??). It worked well for a limited time. Actually they didn't add a coating to the cylinder wall. What they did was to make the engine out of high silicon aluminium, then they chemically etched away some the aluminium in the cylinders to leave high-silicon content for the pistons to ride on. This was GM attempt to get away from having to add steel cylinder sleeves to an otherwise aluminium engine block. (You CAN NOT run aluminium against aluminium.) Needless to say this design was highly dependent on high quality oil, frequent oil changes and a GOOD oiling system. Unfortunately the oil pump and oil system were a joke and Americans aren't known for frequent car maintainance. Joe

23 years, 4 months

I am in the big newpaper today about my vintage computer collecting hobby...no link to me or my site but one to VCF...

by claudew＠videotron.ca

Hi Well I am in the big Montreal newspaper today but no link to me (email) or to my site... I guess the circulation of that paper is maybe around a million...(?) Headlines translates to english : "Computer Archeologists" (...) Photo of me with a TRS80 mod I in my hands and a Pet in the background and shelves in the back with some of my collection. I was counting on this to get me offers for new machines - dont think its gonna happen... They post a link to www.vintage.org (and others) but not to me (email or my site) ! What did I do? I was part of an article with a local console collector who runs a console/game collector club that I am part of. Most active members are big ebay sellers and the club site was mentionned in the article so I guess the webmaster/president of that club will get the offers for the maybe 1 or 2 interesting machines this article might "uncover"...and to ebay they will go...perhaps some of the guys should question themselves if the hobby is collecting and restoring or the "commerce" of buying and selling of that kinda stuff...one of these guys in the article even said he managed to live one year (in is car and eating once a week?) on selling carts and consoles on ebay...now everyone will think their 286 is worth $100 and an Atari 2600 is worth $120... Anyways, the article is in french. I dont know the legal/copyright implications of scanning and posting this on my site but Ill try to scan and maybe translate and post... Claude http://www.members.tripod.com/computer_collector

23 years, 4 months

Wired covers VCF east

by bills＠adrenaline.com

Brief article with a few pics: http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,45699,00.html

23 years, 4 months

Digital font

by rcini＠optonline.net

Hello, all: I found the font that I used on my Web site for the "pdp11" logo. It's "Century Gothic". Rich Rich Cini Collector of classic computers Build Master for the Altair32 Emulation Project Web site: http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/~rcini/classiccmp/ /************************************************************/

23 years, 4 months

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test-drb July 2001