test-drb July 2001

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by mcguire＠neurotica.com

Ordinarily I would be willing to do this, but my life is all but falling apart at the seams right now and I'm afraid I just don't have the cycles. I'm sorry, man.. -Dave McGuire On July 9, Gunther Schadow wrote: > Just in case people haven't run in your door yet, would you consider > shipping me one or two of your RA90s? The shipping with UPS or USPS > should only be about $12 and I'm happy to pay for the required packaging. > > Thanks, > -Gunther > > Dave McGuire wrote: > > > > Anyone interested in some RA90s? I have eight available for pickup > > in Laurel, MD. I also have a pair of RA81s in a short rack. Email me > > off-list to arrange pickup. First come (well, first email), first > > served. > > > > -Dave McGuire > > -- > 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

RA90/RA81 drives available

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

Anyone interested in some RA90s? I have eight available for pickup in Laurel, MD. I also have a pair of RA81s in a short rack. Email me off-list to arrange pickup. First come (well, first email), first served. -Dave McGuire

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ClassicCmp Survivor Series!

by vaxman＠qwest.net

Don't be the first to get voted off the mailing list!!!! 1 Million '386 PCs for the last person to get voted off :)

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Sparcserver 490 (was: getting cards out of a Sparcserver 470)

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

On July 9, Kelly Fergason wrote: > I've never heard of 4.1.4_U1, so if anyone has that, > I would like to see it. > > Sun put out a 4.1.3_U1, and then 4.1.4. The > companies I have worked at all had software support, > so I believe I would have seen a _U1, but you never know. It does indeed exist. I don't have it here, but I have run it. A thorough knowledge of C and friends willing to give you stolen copies of the source code is far better than any support Sun has ever offered. ;) -Dave McGuire

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MicroFiche scanner

by vaxman＠qwest.net

A local auction has a 4000 DPI drum scanner. Good enough to scan uFiche? By my calculations that would give 100-150 DPI, probably good enough for text, but a little weak for graphics.... Comments? Clint PS I'm going to bid on the fiche set on Ebay ;)

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Recent finds @ Indianapolis Hamfest

by Mzthompson＠aol.com

I hadn't been to the Indy hamfest since the late 80's, so went Saturday to see what's new. In some ways, not much. There were still some of the same private vendors as years ago still selling the same stuff. As expected there was more computers and less radio stuff, but that's ok. I did notice that there were around 25-30 various Mac's for sale by individuals. Don't recall prices on these. I did notice that some things were not bargins. One vendor wanted more for current memory (128mb, 168 pin DIMM) than what I paid recently at Office Max. Another wanted $20 for a spindle of CD blanks, got the same thing recently for $5, again at Office Max. I guess it pays to stay current on local prices. There was one commercial vendor who had apparently bought out a mess of stuff from a store going out buisness or some such. Most of it was like the stuff you would find in a Kmart electronics department. All of this stuff was in blister packs, in boxes on several tables, every item for 50 cents. Among the goodies I found were a couple of IBM PC printer cables & an IBM PC keyboard extension cable. The rest was more general like stereo cables & adapters and cable TV stuff. Rummaged through a large bin of CD-ROMs and came away with Microsoft Office 97 Pro and the SR-2 Patch for it, both CD-ROMs for a $1 each. Found a book on FileMaker Pro 2.1 for 20 cents, then later bought the entire software package (still shrink-wrapped) for $1. All in all, a good days haul, and saw some old friends from the days I was more active in amatuer radio. May have to make an effort to visit more hamfests in the future. Mike Thompson

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OT Celebration (Not intended to be offensive, possible humor)

by jfoust＠threedee.com

At 10:58 AM 7/6/01 -0400, joe wrote: > I can see it now, Ganja beer! Cannabis and the hop plant are so closely related, you can graft the roots of one to the stem of the other. - John

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COPY 190

by rachael_＠gmx.net

on 09-Jul-01 03:48:59 Iggy Drougge wrote >Then we found a program called COPY 190 on one of the tapes. It looked very >promising, presenting the user with a menu allowing for transfers between >tapes and disks in any direction. Only it seemed to have one serious bug: it >didn't handle file names with spaces, and just about every file on the tapes >had spaces in them. Has anyone got any experience with this program or any >tips? You can use a wildcard "Army*" then it will find anything starting with army and it will ask if you want to load it. Or if your know the where the program starts on the tape, you can just forward to that place and instead of writing the name simply type * , then will load the first program it finds and afterwards it will prompt for what name to save it under. Remember if you runs copy190 with ABC turbo drive 8 will become unit 9 instead. regards Jacob Dahl Pind -------------------------------------------------- = IF this computer is with us now... = =...It must have been meant to come live with us.= = (Belldandy - Goddess First class) = --------------------------------------------------

24 years, 1 month

SCSI Ethernet adapters (was: How much is a partial Lisa worth?)

by jruschme＠mac.com

> > >Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 11:40:53 -0700 >From: Mike Ford <mikeford(a)socal.rr.com> >Subject: Re: How much is a partial Lisa worth? > >>>No kidding. The seller is a Mac shop that's closing its doors. Most >>>of his stuff is overpriced, so I assumed that this was too - he's >>>asking $300. I did pick up a couple of Asante boxy SCSI<->Ethernet >>>adapters, complete with docs, cables and software for $8, bare box >>>only, $5. >>> >>Whoa! and where?! I think I missed the original message. Been looking for >>a SCSI ENet dongle for my SE/30 for some time! >> > >They aren't rare, I am sure you had one in your hand last time you were >here. Asante EN SC, but I wouldn't use one for a SE/30 unless there was a >good reason why I couldn't use an internal card. > Mike, you've seen more than I have, but based on my experience, I'd say the the most common ones are the Dayna and the Asante ones. The rarest would seem to be the Cabletron (the only one only one with a publised API) and the Kinetics. Personally, I'd love to find a Kinetics one just to test a theory that it is command compatible with the Cabletron. As for why not use an internal SE/30 card? Probably the best reason is if you've already got the Xceed video card. :-) <<<john>>>

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Indy2

by ndiablo＠diablonet.net

Well, depending on the configuration, the Indigo2 (which I'm assuming you're talking about) can be worth a little or a lot, as someone indicated earlier, which means around $100 to $1000 on eBay, and around $250 to $1500 from a reseller. The system was available with a myriad of processor options (R4x00, R8000, R10000) and video cards (XL,XZ,Elan,Extreme,SI,HI,MI), which are the two factors that primarily affect the price of the computer. Things that increase price: * High-clocked R4400 (200, 250 MHz) or R10000 processor. * IMPACT-ready (purple chassis with SolidImpact, HighImpact, or MaxImpact) * TRAM upgrade installed if system is IMPACT-ready * Internal CD-ROM installed on sled * Large drives and lots of RAM Things that tend to be cheaper: * Lower-clocked R4000, R4600 (100, 133, 150 MHz) * R8000 chip (I think it's a diamond in the rough, 75 MHz) * Non-IMPACT systems (teal chassis with XL, XZ, Elan, or Extreme) * Stripped of RAM and hard disk, no sleds. * Damaged plastics (expensive to replace!) I've got two Indigo2 machines, personally, an R8000/75 and an R4400/250, both with Extreme graphics, and they run wonderfully with IRIX 6.2 and are more than capable of doing anything that I need them to do. They do tend to have a little bit higher resale value than, say, a Sun or a DEC, but, IMHO, a SGI of a given vintage tends to be a little bit more usable as a WORKSTATION than a Sun or a DEC of similar vintage (no flames, please!) :) That said, I'd take a DEC or a Sun as a SERVER over a SGI in most cases. Best of luck with it! --Sean Caron (root(a)diablonet.net) | http://www.diablonet.net

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test-drb July 2001