test-drb January 2002

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by healyzh＠aracnet.com

> Interesting comment. I just registered another ID (I forgot I had > already registered) on Yahoo and didn't see anything out of the ordinary > or anything that threw out red flags. I just made a bid to see what > would happen, and everything worked fine. Maybe they've calmed down on the amount of data they're collecting. When I looked into it a few months ago they wanted among other things a Credit Card number. Thanks, but no thanks Yahoo. Zane

22 years, 5 months

Yahoo Vintage Computer Auctions

by marvin＠rain.org

I was just looking at the Yahoo Vintage listings, and there is some stuff there that I had only previously seen on Ebay. This is good :)! The URL is: http://list.auctions.shopping.yahoo.com/23341-category-leaf.html

22 years, 5 months

Osborne Executive and TI MicroLaser Plus free to good home, Hackensack, NJ

by mythtech＠Mac.com

>I have Paul's email address and telephone number. If you can meet the >requirements of >Paul's reply (i.e. 1. STOP BY HOUSE, 2. PICK UP (HACKENSACK, NJ AREA)) >please contact me >off-list and I will forward his contact details to you. First, its Hackettstown, not Hackensack (at least that is where he told ME he was... if it was Hackensack, I would have picked it up the night he emailed me, being that Hackensack is 15 minutes from me... Hackettstown is 60 minutes) Second: I already told Paul I would be happy to pick it up. Then he offered to drop it off at my place when he went to CT on Friday. I told him that would be fine, but not to make a special trip (I can't figure a way to get to me that is a route to CT without taking a good 30 minute detour). I guess I will re-email him, and clairfy that I am happy to drive to him to pick it up. -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

22 years, 5 months

fresh meat to the wolves

by aek＠spies.com

wll599(a)aol.com wrote: > > Greetings, I will go to the storage room to get the exact model numbers. Off > hand I know I have the 316, Varian 620i (rackmount), 2 pdp 11-05, 2 Data > General Nova 1200 (I think), 1 Computer Automation, and a HP 2114 (I think). > These were all used to test and checkout old "Linc" tape, 10 channel magnetic > tape units, from a company I worked for in the late 70 early 80's.

22 years, 5 months

Apple II boards

by csmith＠amdocs.com

Hi everybody, I have three more Apple questions Given that I'm going to be repairing that Apple II Plus soon, I find myself wondering what is the maximum amount of ram that the machine can address? I also wonder whether it would be remotely possible to "upgrade" it with the old IIGS memory board that I swapped out of my GS a while back ;) (Probably no such luck there...) Last, but not least, what are some recommended boards/peripherals for the Apple II Plus? What about the IIe? (Yep, got one of those too -- I'm sure this one really _is_ a IIe, and I'd be especially interested in knowing about the IIGS upgrade) What about the IIGS? 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, 5 months

Bell & Howell Apple II update

by mythtech＠Mac.com

>Heh. That was my first guess too -- but I've never seen this particular >thing used on a composite video signal before. (Well, maybe the L+sync >used on b&w monitors...) I have a couple of JVC monitors with BNC composite video connectors. These are the monitors salvaged from a video editing suite... I actually saw BNC used for composite video on a fairly regular basis in the TV studios (I think I saw that more often then seeing RCA connectors) >My assumption will be (until I can check it out) that these are simply >split off of the original apple RCA plug on the mainboard, and carry the >same signal. (I hope this is the case, since it would be a simple matter >of fabricating an adaptor (for which I may have the parts...). You can buy a BNC to RCA adaptor from places like Radio Shack (or even a BNC to RCA cable... although I am not sure Rat Shack stocks those anymore... might be special order). Or, like you say, it is fairly trivial to build a custom BNC to RCA cable. -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

22 years, 5 months

Bell & Howell Apple II update

by mythtech＠Mac.com

>(When somebody trips over the cord, it should be strong >enough to pull the entire machine off of the table.) I always loved this logic. Lets build the cable really strong, so that when someone trips on it... we save the $15 cable, but yank the $5000 computer onto the floor breaking it instead. Although, I also understand the flip side... it isn't that the cable is designed to withstand abuse, so much as designed to not fall out easily during standard use (thus rational why all the electric cords for my fire trucks use twist lock... even if it means it will knock over a $3000 light tower rather than unplug itself... the last thing you need at an emergency scene is cords randomly unplugging themselves... and the last thing a school tech person wants to deal with is 100 calls a week because the RCA plug fell out again, and the untrained teachers don't know enough to plug it back in... and things like BNC are used on pro level AV equipment for the same reason, so cables aren't always falling out when something is shifted around) -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

22 years, 5 months

Bell & Howell Apple II update

by Lee.Davison＠merlincommunications.com

..... there was a connector for the overhead video monitors. It was an unusual connector, with a hollow cylindrical plug a few inches long, with a pin in the center. That sounds like a MUSA connector, common in broadcasting but not in domestic equipment. Lee. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- This email is intended only for the above named addressee(s). The information contained in this email may contain information which is confidential. The views expressed in this email are personal to the sender and do not in any way reflect the views of the company. If you have received this email and you are not a named addressee please delete it from your system and contact Merlin Communications International IT Department on +44 20 7344 5888. ________________________________________________________________________ This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star Internet. The service is powered by MessageLabs. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit: http://www.star.net.uk ________________________________________________________________________

22 years, 5 months

Here I Am

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

On January 23, Eric Dittman wrote: > Well, I can see that NetBSD won't be running on my main system > any time soon, since I have two CPUs. I'm surprised to hear > that NetBSD is just now supporting SMP as I thought that would > have been supported already. It took forever because most of the SMP code is machine-independent. Since most of the groundwork is now done, the folks working on different architectures only have the machine-specific stuff to do. VAX followed Alpha by a matter of a couple of weeks at most, for example. -Dave -- Dave McGuire St. Petersburg, FL "Less talk. More synthohol." --Lt. Worf

22 years, 5 months

Apple II boards

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Jan 23, 10:50, Christopher Smith wrote: > Given that I'm going to be repairing that Apple II Plus soon, I find myself wondering what is the maximum amount of ram that the machine can address? 48K on the motherboard, plus 16K on a standard RAM card (eg Language Card) though I recall some that had 64K (not directly addressable, of course). > I also wonder whether it would be remotely possible to "upgrade" it with the old IIGS memory board that I swapped out of my GS a while back ;) (Probably no such luck there...) No. > Last, but not least, what are some recommended boards/peripherals for the Apple II Plus? What about the IIe? (Yep, got one of those too -- I'm sure this one really _is_ a IIe, and I'd be especially interested in knowing about the IIGS upgrade) What about the IIGS? I'd suggest language card, parallel printer card -- preferably one of the better ones such as a Grappler card, serial card, 80-column card, second Disk ][ card and two more drives if you want to run UCSD, hard drive controller, ... The //e takes the same cards, except that it already has 64K RAM and has no need of a language card; it also has provision for a special 80-column card in Slot 3, set back from the rest of the slots. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

22 years, 5 months

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test-drb January 2002