test-drb January 2002

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eBay MicroVAX 2000

by DAW＠yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu

! From: Dave McGuire [mailto:mcguire@neurotica.com] ! ! ! On January 17, Eric Dittman wrote: ! > I've seen MV2000 around, and they pop up on eBay a lot. As to ! > owning a real VAX at your house, there are so many cheap VAX ! > systems that pop up on eBay all the time that that statement ! > is truly false. ! ! I agree. I think everyone that I associate with has at least one ! VAX at home, except for my mom. I think I might get her one just for ! the hell of it. :-) ! ! -Dave Yeah, if I see one for cheap enough, I'll let you know ;-) Then we can set her up with (some OS) running Xwindows... Make that when, not if. I got my first, and so far only, VAX for $25.00 from here at work. It doesn't seem hard to find a cheap one, for now at least... BTW, does anyone know of an empty VAX cabinet, something like the 11/780 VAXbar size, that's in need of dispo? In the CT (or VT, vacation house up there) area. Some other similar classic computer cabinet would suffice, but a VAX would be nice, for name recognition. I am honestly thinking on making my own VAXbar for my computer-room/lounge in my house... Maybe some other conversion. Add in a keg-erator? --- David A Woyciesjes --- C & IS Support Specialist --- Yale University Press --- mailto:david.woyciesjes@yale.edu --- (203) 432-0953 --- ICQ # - 905818

23 years, 3 months

How much?

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

On January 18, Eric Dittman wrote: > > > > > How much would you pay for a VAX 7000-650? > > > > > > > > As much as I could afford to blow on it at the time. I'd love to have a VAX 7000. :) > > > > > > Well, the question's kinda moot, since I've decided not to sell it. > > > > Excellent! Now maybe I can get an account on it! 8-) > > > > (Just pickin' on you, Sridhar!) > > Like you don't have your own VMS systems... :-) Too true...but none quite that beefy. :) -Dave -- Dave McGuire St. Petersburg, FL "Less talk. More synthohol." --Lt. Worf

23 years, 3 months

How much?

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

On January 18, Jochen Kunz wrote: > > How much would you pay for a VAX 7000-650? > My mother? ;-) Is she cute? ;) (sorry, it HAD to be said!!) -Dave -- Dave McGuire St. Petersburg, FL "Less talk. More synthohol." --Lt. Worf

23 years, 3 months

How much?

by vance＠ikickass.org

How much would you pay for a VAX 7000-650? Peace... Sridhar

23 years, 3 months

OT: USPS irradiation of mail can damage semiconductors

by Robert_Feldman＠jdedwards.com

This is OT, but could be important if you use the US mail to send components (especially compact flash cards), which can be permanently damaged by the system the USPS is starting to use to guard against anthrax, etc: <http://www.compactflash.org/pr/020107b.pdf>

23 years, 3 months

Mac SE

by mythtech＠Mac.com

>It's not all that hard to do... I guess I've done it 0.5% of the times >I've worked on a classic Mac. :-( I've opened and worked on countless classic Macs, and I've NEVER broken the CRT. But from the sounds of others, I have just been really lucky. Of course, now that I have said it, I bet I bust the next one I work on. -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

23 years, 3 months

Toshiba external drive question

by CLeyson＠aol.com

Does anyone know how the Toshiba T3200 and T5200 external drives work ? Anyone have a circuit diagram or interface spec ? They interface to the printer port, so I guess data transfers will be 8-bit. Chris

23 years, 3 months

More HP1000's

by steven_j_robertson＠hotmail.com

Hey gang, Went shopping this weekend to one of my secret hideaways and found 3 racks of HP1000/E stuff. Good thing I have a big truck or I'd have top make several trips. None of those system has a hard drive but, each one does have a 9885 floppy drive. Since I'm just getting started with the 1000s, I've got a couple of newbie questions. 1.) Does the 9885 require special disks or will generic 8" floppies work? What is the format for the disks? 2) Can RTE be run from a floppy system? 3.) And of course... Does anyone have a copy of RTE or any other OS on compatible floppy they'd be willing to share? TIA, SteveRob _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com

23 years, 3 months

cat

by csmith＠amdocs.com

> -----Original Message----- > From: Dave McGuire [mailto:mcguire@neurotica.com] > Somewhere recently, I'm pretty sure it was on one of these > two lists, > someone ribbed me for being "such a pushover" for my cat. > I took this pic earlier...tell me, who could help being a pushover > for this? Well, she has good taste in computers. Regards, Chris Christopher Smith, Perl Developer Amdocs - Champaign, IL /usr/bin/perl -e ' print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n"); '

23 years, 3 months

Long term storage of Apple II software

by csmith＠amdocs.com

> -----Original Message----- > From: Chris [mailto:mythtech@Mac.com] > Things I have that *might* make my life easier: Super Serial card for > II+/IIe, A IIgs with both 5.25 and 3.5 drives, A IIe Emulator > for the Mac > LC and a 5.25 drive for it. As well as a few II+, IIe, IIc, and IIgs > machines. I would go with the IIGS method, myself. Remember that the IIGS supports localtalk networking, and chances are you could get it to image a disk onto a "remote" macintosh disk somewhere, given the proper software. (Note that I don't know if such software exists...) I seem to remember there may be a "disk copy" like app for IIGS, but I couldn't tell you where I've seen it. Regards, Chris Christopher Smith, Perl Developer Amdocs - Champaign, IL /usr/bin/perl -e ' print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n"); '

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