test-drb January 2002

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by acme_ent＠bellsouth.net

> From: Richard Erlacher <edick(a)idcomm.com> > Sadly, if we allow the language to degenerate in the direction in which it's > been "progressing" over the past three decades, we'll reach a point where > all our words are of a single syllable and only the inflections will signify > meaning. That's back to pre-Neanderthal communication, isn't it? > > 't ^^ > seems as though everyone wants to conceal the weaknesses in their own > knowledge (and > vocabluarly) by allowing others to fill in the blanks. ^^^^^^^^^^^^ > Unfortunately, the point at which we've now arrived is one where there are > more blanks than words. This isn't > irreprarable, is it? ^^^^^^^^^^^^ Dude. Get a spell-checker. Or learn to spell. Especially when composing messages concerning the deterioration of American English. Glen 0/0 .

22 years, 11 months

S-100 score!

by erd_6502＠yahoo.com

My sister-in-law works at the Post Office and knows lots of the local customers. She happened to learn that one gentleman had some "old computers" in the attic. When I called him, it turned out to be an XOR S-100 box w/dual 8" drives, a Liberty 100 terminal, and some loose S-100 cards (including a Cromemco serial/parallel card still in the shrink wrap, a few 8K cards (2102 and 2114-based) and a couple of SMS video cards, one as yet unstuffed with the chips under plastic). No OS, few docs (some of the cards _do_ have manuals). He kept the S-100 prototype card he once wrapped for his first CPU (sockets intact, chips missing, wires removed). The sad news is that he mentioned that he used to have an old computer that he threw out... his son brought it home ($20 at a yard sale) back when Dad had a 386 in the living room - it was a Digital Group machine. :-( So... Anyone have any info on XOR boxen? I have a CP/M disk for the C-128 and stuff for the Kaypro, but nothing on 8". Can I mail anyone blank disks to be copied onto? What sort of information would I have to provide to be able to put together a compatible disk? Brand of disk controller? Type and manufacturer of CPU card? Serial card vendor? Also, how did S-100 video cards work? Did you still have a console terminal but use the video card as a secondary peripheral? -ethan __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.yahoo.com

22 years, 11 months

Any AMIGA users?

by csmith＠amdocs.com

> -----Original Message----- > From: Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) [mailto:cisin@xenosoft.com] > Has anybody ever actually SEEN and USED any software for the catweasel > that will make an Amiga disk (NOT duplicate one that is present)? Not me, though, I've seen documents (probably in UAE) that say you can write disks to images and images to disks if you use it. The linux/netbsd/freebsd drivers, from all I've seen and heard, should access disks fine for making images and the like. > I think that "MatchPoint" might be their board that you're > thinkking of. I was thinking of compati-card, actually. I was un-aware that it had this same limitation. I may have to see if I can find one of these "MatchPoint" boards now, though. What are my chances? > What software is available for Mac to do Amiga disks? Again, I seem to remember from docs that UAE will use it directly. So you'd be stuck with a chicken-egg scenario where you need an image of the O/S (or boot disk) to get it working. :) Otherwise it would work fine. I have seen mappings for the linux fdparam (I think that's the program..) which will make your system use the format at a low level, and have heard that catweasel works with linux. In that case you can image/unimage the disks pretty simply. As for a program that reads/writes the filesystem (I assume that's what you're asking...), I don't know of one, but I believe that given the number of people interested in amiga emulation, somebody must have written one. If they havent, get an amiga emulator set-up, and chances are that will do it for you. (Again, I seem to remember mention of this in the UAE docs) I would, of course, be interested to hear from anyone who's really tried it. :) Regards, Chris Christopher Smith, Perl Developer Amdocs - Champaign, IL /usr/bin/perl -e ' print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n"); '

22 years, 11 months

Warp 4 Redux

by SUPRDAVE＠aol.com

In a message dated 1/1/2002 7:55:15 PM Eastern Standard Time, vze2mnvr(a)verizon.net writes: << > on a public mailing list And one that get's archived permanently into one of the worlds most heavily used search engines. Might as well stand out in front of IBM and shout it out. >> calm down, no one has admitted to anything including myself. talk is just talk. nothing has even been done. --

22 years, 11 months

SCO Open Desktop (Re: Tape drive needed)

by ken＠seefried.com

My first "real" job was heavily involved with SCO. We (SecureWare) wrote the C2 subsystem for SCO. To actually load this software, there should be a blue or pink card with a serial number on it. On December 29, Chad Fernandez wrote: > The other day I found a SCO Open Desktop 2.0.0 media kit, on Qic24 > tape. I don't have the correct drive...... I don't have any tape drive > experience, actually. > > Does anybody have an unneeded Qic24 SCSI tape drive? I checked Ebay and > I didn't see anything that I thought was what I needed. Pretty much any drive that reads 60MB DC600A tapes should be able to read these tapes, but you will need to find a supported controller. I remember using Wangtek drives & controllers. > This is going back into a very fuzzy memory...but does anyone know > if an Archive 2150S drive (QIC-150) will read QIC-24 tapes? Yup...a 2150S should read these tapes. I'm pretty sure the Adaptec 154x controllers are supported by the install software. Ken

22 years, 11 months

SCO Install (was Tape Drive)

by ken＠seefried.com

My first "real" job was heavily involved with SCO. We (SecureWare) wrote the C2 subsystem for SCO (among other interesting things). BTW...To actually load this software, there should be a blue or pink card with a serial number on it. I don't know if the current free SCO license covers stuff this old. On December 29, Chad Fernandez wrote: > The other day I found a SCO Open Desktop 2.0.0 media kit, on Qic24 > tape. I don't have the correct drive...... I don't have any tape drive > experience, actually. > > Does anybody have an unneeded Qic24 SCSI tape drive? I checked Ebay and > I didn't see anything that I thought was what I needed. Pretty much any drive that reads 60MB DC600A tapes should be able to read these tapes, assuming it has a controller supported by the install program. I remember using Wangtek and Archive non-SCSI drives & controllers. > This is going back into a very fuzzy memory...but does anyone know > if an Archive 2150S drive (QIC-150) will read QIC-24 tapes? Yup...a 2150S (or 2060S, I suppose) should read these tapes, as will other SCSI drives that read DC600As. As I recall, the Adaptec 154x controllers are supported by the install software, among others. Ken

22 years, 11 months

WTB SGI Indy

by IVIE＠cc.usu.edu

R. P. Bell said: > Anybody got any good suggestions on where to go to get a nice SGI Indy, just > for playing around -- preferably cheap? Want to tell us where you are or define "cheap"? I thought I saw one at the local university surplus outlet a coupla weeks ago; don't recall the price, but I didn't take it home. Roger Ivie ivie(a)cc.usu.edu

22 years, 11 months

VMS 6.1 S/W Kit

by jeff.kaneko＠juno.com

I just bought a VMS 6.1 media kit (I think): VMS 6.1 'Binaries and DOc disc' 'COnsolidated software distribution' (Jul 1994) 'Online documentation' (april 1994) SO, did I score, or did I blow $10? Jeff ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/.

22 years, 11 months

Trailing-edge compute farm seeks gainful employment

by jwbirdsa＠picarefy.com

Supposing one has a farm of older, relatively slower machines (Sun-2's, Sun-3's, early SPARCs, 386es, very small VAXen, 68k-based Macs, etc.) running various Unixes (mostly NetBSD), networked together and connected to the Net. What does one do with it? I've been trying to think of some interesting, moderately useful distributed-computing project that they could sit and crank away at and haven't come up with much of anything. All the distributed projects that I know of are distributed because even fast machines aren't enough by themselves -- a trailing-edge farm can't make a useful contribution. If network Tierra (an artificial-life research project) had ever come to pass, that would have been a superb application for these beasts. But it didn't. Ideas, anyone? Please? --James B.

22 years, 11 months

Seagate MFM drives available

by LFessen106＠aol.com

In a message dated 12/31/01 12:11:27 AM Eastern Standard Time, SUPRDAVE(a)aol.com writes: > I got a bunch of functioning seagate MFM drives available. ST-225,238 and 251 > > models as well as some big FH models. All survived a LLF too. Controller > cables also if you need them. Email if interested. > Where are they located?

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