test-drb July 2001

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by mcguire＠neurotica.com

On July 8, Zane H. Healy wrote: > The problem is your 200Mhz R4400 is only slightly faster than one SM71 > which is a SuperSparc II running at 75Mhz. My Sparc 20 with Dual SM71's > feels slow at times, mainly when doing web browsing or software compiles. Hmm...you running Solaris on that SS20? That might explain it. ;) > I'd love to have an SGI box, but they're even more expensive than Sun's or > DEC Alpha's. An even bigger problem for me is you can have a x86 box > running Solaris 8 that will totally blow away any moderatly fast SGI or > Sparc system and will likely cost a lot less. My Dual 400Mhz Celeron > running Linux pretty blows away any of my other systems with the possible > exception of my Mac, and my DEC PWS 433au. Yeah, sure...until you try to do more than one thing at a time. -Dave McGuire

23 years, 5 months

Ended auction for qbus SCSI

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

On July 9, Chad Fernandez wrote: > Did anybody see this? > > http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1252001410 > > It went for $305.00! Does this surprise you? -Dave McGuire

23 years, 5 months

4th of July Hypocricy (was: OT Celebration)

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

On July 4, Richard Erlacher wrote: > It all supports the Californian conclusion that "you can't legislate good > sense." > > It's worth noting, however, that the U.S. is about the only industrialized > country in the world that bends over as far as it does to protect those who are > STUPID while doing absolutely nothing to protect the rest of us from them. Yes, fighting Darwin all the way. I HATE that. Protect and coddle the stupid so they can annoy the hell out of the rest of us, and dilute the GOOD genes in the process. ARGH! -Dave McGuire

23 years, 5 months

TU-58 rollers and emulation (was Re: VAX 11/725)

by ajp166＠bellatlantic.net

From: Ethan Dicks <ethan_dicks(a)yahoo.com> >> > There is out there a TU-58 emulator for PeeCee... There is one that runs under UNIX. Also the rollers for the TU58 I clean off the goo to get down to the basic hub then use .500 od/.375 id Tygon tubing. which is a stretch fit over the hub, add a drop of super glue and trim to width as diameter is not critical and that material seems to hit it very close. I've done this to maybe 8 them I still use. Allison

23 years, 5 months

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

by xds_sigma7＠hotmail.com

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23 years, 5 months

COPY 190

by optimus＠canit.se

A month or so ago, we were given a large load of Commodore things - a C64, 2?1541-II, CP/M cartridge, mouse, GEOS, complete collection of "?tta bitar" magazines, and games, lots of games. Today I thought I'd try to transfer some games to disks, since I don't have any good experiences with cassettes, though this was my first encounter with turbo tapes, which do not require as much patience. Anyway, I first had some luck with smaller games (turbo games occupying about 20 blocks), which could just be loaded and then saved to disk. Others were simply too large for the BASIC and any results at SAVEing resulted in out of memory errors. 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? I first select "tape to disk", then the program prompts for a filename. Entering ARCHON works fine. It asks whether the tape uses a turbo, which it does, and then it waits for the tape to start. Then it finds ARCHON, which has no spaces in it, loads it into memory and writes it to the floppy. However, if I instead enter the name ARMY MOVES or "ARMY MOVES", it will find ARMY MOVES and load, then it will find the following file and load that one, and so on, without ever saving to floppy. Very frustrating. -- En ligne avec Thor 2.6a. Die Zeit kommt aus der Zukunft, die nicht existiert, in die Gegenwart, die keine Dauer hat, und geht in die Vergangenheit, die aufgeh?rt hat, zu bestehen. --- Augustinus (R?m. Kirchenlehrer, 354-430 n. Chr.)

23 years, 5 months

TU-58 questions

by ethan_dicks＠yahoo.com

Now that I have found a missing box of TU-58s, I plan to back them up for archival and emulation purposes. The easiest TU-58 drive I have access to is from an 11/730 (I have a VT-103 in storage, but the other drive is already out). Being as old as it is, the pinch rollers have turned to goo, naturally. Can someone give me a tip on what size Tygon tubing people have been using for replacement rollers? Is this something I can find at a Home Despot or do I have to go to an aquarium shop? Do you clean off all the residue from the aluminum hub, or do you just pull the goo off and put the Tygon right on? Is there an online listing of the jumpers on the TU-58 logic board? I want to make sure it's strapped to something useful. Looking at the internal power cable, Red could be +5 and Orange could be +12V, but does anyone know for sure? I plan to make an adapter cable and power the drive off of a PC floppy power plug. What's good software to make a physical block-for-block backup of a TU-58 tape? I don't care if it's UNIX or Winblows, I can do either. Are there any magical things that have to be done with the data cable, or can I just make sure gnd, pin 2 and pin 3 go through? Thanks for any and all help. Last question: does the VMS Hobbyist program cover VMS 3.x? -ethan ===== Visit "The Seventh Continent" http://penguincentral.com/penguincentral.html __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/

23 years, 5 months

Vintage/Classic Computer anything in Dallas, Texas

by chomko＠greenbelt.com

Anyone know of anything of interest in the Dallas, Texas are related to vintage/classic computer stuff? I'll be there over the week of July 4th. But I'm STILL trying to find away to get to Boston area at the end of the month (VCF East), vacation hours permitting. Anyway, any help with info about Big D and classic computers appreciated. Thank, Eric

23 years, 5 months

SGI Indy2

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

On July 8, geoffr wrote: > Wht is one worth? (roughly) Indy2? No such thing. You probably mean either Indy or Indigo2. Very different machines. Anywhere from $100 to $1000 depending on specific model, processor, memory, and video system. -Dave McGuire

23 years, 5 months

VCF East - item sales

by vcf＠siconic.com

On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, Bob Stek wrote: > I will be bringing some stuff to sell with me at the VCF. But with > manning my booth, listening to speakers, and nosing around, I figured > that I wouldn't have time to also sell stuff. So to support your > efforts I thought I would just let VCF sell my stuff and take its > percentage. The consignment area at the VCF is a great way to sell stuff. My crack staff of vintage computer sprites will handle all the details for you :) http://www.vintage.org/2001/east/vendor.php3#consignment > But, to make things interesting (and to make up for bad karma earned > by buying and selling on ebay), would you consider letting sellers do > reverse auctions? E.g., between 9 and 12, item's price is $40, > between 12 and 3 it's $30, and after 3 PM it's $20. Each seller could > have a sheet of prices and times taped to items so it shouldn't impose > any additional burden on your folks doing the selling. This can be handled already within the existing consignment system. The way it works now, you specify a price you'd like to sell the item for and the minimum you will take. Any offers on the item between the sticker price and the minimum price will be accepted on your behalf (this is all explained on the consignment form). I can add columns to the sheet to specify pricing changes at certain hours. Those wanting to use this system can be free to do so. Good suggestion! > It would add a little incentive for folks to come back often in hopes > of getting a better deal. And it would allow those of us with limited > space to get at least a minimum amount so we don't have to truck it > back home! You got it! :) Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org

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test-drb July 2001