test-drb August 2001

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by dittman＠dittman.net

> And I've managed to get WWENG1.SYS booted into this thing but it won't give > me a prompt on port 0 (I get all the status messages up to "no TCP/IP > address and SNMP isn't starting" and then nada, zip. It sounds like the unit is configured for either a different baud rate or port 0 is not configured for access. Try a different baud rate or port. Also, if you have a system connected to the network with LAT support, see if the unit is announcing itself. If it is, login via LAT. > Does the 1MB image have a command interpreter in it? If not do I have to > use something else to configure it? Sorry for all the questions but the > DNPG site is not useful in this regard. Yes. The biggest difference between WWENG1 and WWENG2 is TCP/IP (WWENG2 supports TCP/IP, WWENG1 doesn't). -- Eric Dittman dittman(a)dittman.net

24 years, 1 month

DECServer again

by cmcmanis＠mcmanis.com

Ok, what vintage are these things? I got another one on Ebay (I know, I know) but I can really use the ports. Anyway, this one is the 16 port with only 1MB of RAM. I looked through the manuals on www.dnpg.com and there is no reference to how one might open up one of these and increase the ram to 2MB. Clues anyone? --Chuck

24 years, 1 month

HSZ40B Flash Card

by dittman＠dittman.net

Does anyone have an HSZ40B controller? If so are you able to read and write the PCMCIA flash cards the controller uses? My HSZ40B flash card appears to be defective and I need to rewrite with a new one. If you can't read and write the flash cards, but have a spare, I can read and write them. -- Eric Dittman dittman(a)dittman.net

24 years, 1 month

cleaning qbus enclosures

by mmcfadden＠cmh.edu

I believe that >From: "Fred Cisin (XenoSoft)" <cisin(a)xenosoft.com> said >Always power down while the machine is in the dishwasher. I thought it was difficult to get the dishwasher door to seal with a power cord blocking the locking mechanism. :) Mike

24 years, 1 month

DOS for S-100?

by rigdonj＠intellistar.net

At 10:27 AM 8/7/01 -0700, you wrote: >2.11 is the most recent version that would be practical, unless the >machine was explicitly intended to be an IBM clone. FWIW You could get MS-DOS versions 1.25, 2.1(something) and 3.1 for the Zenith Z-100. There's also a guy out there that wrote a program to patch PC-DOS 4.0 to run on the Z-100. Joe >-- >Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com

24 years, 1 month

VCF East makes The Economist

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

On August 2, Vintage Computer Festival wrote: > Here's the web edition of an article on VCF East in The Economist: > > http://www.economist.com/finance/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=719262 > > I don't know if the article is any longer in the print edition. I had to laugh at the first paragraph: "IT IS hard to love something made of grey plastic. Especially hard when it has a habit of crashing, deleting your work and spreading viruses." It sounds like Microsoft has the whole world convinced that all computers behave like PeeCees running Windows. I find this infuriating. -Dave -- Dave McGuire Laurel, MD

24 years, 1 month

DEC VAX/PDP peripherals

by msell＠ontimesupport.com

Hello, Is there a list of DEC peripherals (such as drives, printers, terminals) and their specs available? I keep running into people mentioning disk drives, tape drives, printers and such and have no reference to what these devices are, the interface, and what kind of capacity/speed these devices run at. Thanks! - Matt "One World, One Web, One Program" - Microsoft Promotional Ad "Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuhrer" - Adolf Hitler Many thanks for this tagline to a fellow RGVAC'er...

24 years, 1 month

My other computer is a Cray!

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

On August 3, Cameron Kaiser wrote: > And Apple offered software to allow a Mac to remotely administer Apple > Network Servers, which run AIX, through a Control Panel-like interface. You mean A/UX? -Dave -- Dave McGuire Laurel, MD

24 years, 1 month

What's your coolest ISA card?( was Re: IBM 5150 PC)

by technos＠nerdland.org

On Tuesday, August 07, 2001 10:54 AM, Eric Chomko [SMTP:chomko@greenbelt.com] wrote: > > I have a 16 bit ISA card that is a Motorola 68020 with 68881 (or is it > the > 68882?). Anyway the card > is a complete single board computer that plugs into your AT system. It > is made > by a company called > DSI and came with C and FORTRAN, I believe. > > I actually collect ISA cards that have interesting processors on them > (i.e. > 80186, 68000, 68020, 386 > 486, etc.) > > Eric ISA? Hmm.. That would be my Vermont Microsystems CAD card. It's got a couple megs of memory, a Z80, and a 80186. Plus it was mostly hand built, with wire wrapping and hand soldering .

24 years, 1 month

Collections vs. accumulations, was Re: How many collectors?

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

> Douglas Quebbeman wrote: > > [stuff delete] > > > So, prior to the fuel crisis and emission controls, what was > > the motivating factor for the use of EFI? > > Cost, weight and reparability. Mechanical injection pumps have to > be mechanically timed to the engine (either gear or belt driven off > the cam), require their own oil supply and return lines, and have > about 973 parts ranging in size from large to itty-bitty. When the > 3D cam starts to wear (and it does) it effectively changes the map of > the engine, and anytime you modify the engine in terms of > displacement or compression (or even futz with the exhaust too much) > you have to re-profile that weird 3D cam -- something that requires > taking the pump to bits and having a Really Good Time in a fairly > specialized machine shop. But K-Jetronic (CIS) isn't timed at all- every cylinder port is getting fuel at all times. The fuel distributor controls how much by the area of the slots exposed int he control plunger as it moves up and down in response the the motions of the airflow sensor. But then again, as you and others have observed, CIS debuted later than I thought... so I don't know as much as I think I do! -dq

24 years, 1 month

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