test-drb January 2002

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by mhstein＠usa.net

Me three! For a 310A, definitely a classic spaceheater. BTW, I have a service manual for the 4006-1 Computer Display Terminal, if anybody needs any info on this fine piece. mike ------------------Original Message-------------------- From: "Charles E. Fox" <foxvideo(a)wincom.net> Subject: Re: Tek scope service manuals At 03:44 PM 09/01/2002 -0600, you wrote: >Does anyone know of a source for Tek scope service manuals? > >Of specific interest are: 2246A and 2430A > >--tnx >--tom Me too, if anyone turns up info on the 604.

22 years, 11 months

I love that ole "blue box" stuff

by dmabry＠mich.com

Someone has an Intel UPP on e-bay. I'm not sure how it could "appear to be functional", but maybe. http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1320319997 -- Dave Mabry dmabry(a)mich.com Dossin Museum Underwater Research Team NACD #2093

22 years, 11 months

Apple disk -> MSDOS

by SUPRDAVE＠aol.com

In a message dated 1/9/2002 9:14:41 PM Eastern Standard Time, lgwalker(a)mts.net writes: << As an aside there was a surplus dealer on the net that seemed to have a ream of Diamond Trackstar cards going for $30 up to at least a year ago when last I checked him and debated buying one. Lawrence >> i've a trackstar in a PS/2 model 30 as well as a mac LC with the //e option (and the cable too!) so I guess I have it easy doing transfers back and forth but just havent gotten a round tuit. (tm) -- Antique Computer Virtual Museum www.nothingtodo.org

22 years, 11 months

Apple disk -> MSDOS

by mhstein＠usa.net

From: "Fred Cisin (XenoSoft)" <cisin(a)xenosoft.com> >No PROBLEM, just impossible. Ah well, problem solved then. >> I think with a little software I could transfer it to one of my PETs via the cassette port, and from there it would be trivial to get to a PC, but I'm hoping there's an easier way. >Really? The PC can't do PET disks, either. But you MIGHT be able to interface one of the aftermarket IEEE488 drives to the Pet with some trivial hardware, and then interface it to the PC, and just write a file system for it. Well, no, I wasn't thinking disk-to-disk: >But, if you have a serial port on the Pet, then it'll be easy. I do; as well as Centronics parallel & a P-S converter. As a matter of fact, I archive PC BIOS settings this way when setting up a new system: Plug a P-S converter into the printer port, connect the serial to a laptop, press PrintScreen on each BIOS page and suck it up on the laptop; format, print & save. And speaking of kludges, how's this: I have a client who periodically needs to get data off the network to a standalone separate computer; trouble is, the data is only available on an inquiry screen and corporate guidelines do not permit any foreign S/W on the NT client nor any attachments to the network. So what I did was connect serial-out of the standalone to a serial to PC keyboard converter, serial-in to the client serial-out, and direct client printer O/P to the serial port. The standalone goes through its list of accounts, sends out each account number and the code to bring up the inquiry screen on the serial port (which the client sees as keyboard input), waits a second for the screen to come up, sends a code to print the screen and sucks it back in on the serial port for de-formatting and storing. Slow and ugly, but kind of elegant in its kludginess... >Or maybe you could program the cassette port of a 5150? That did occur to me 'cause I just happen to have one, but I think Altzheimer's would have taken over by the time THAT project was finished... >> I have a CompatiCard I and Uniform, and I still have... >Those will be nice for doing MFM diskettes. No help at all for GCR (Apple and Commodore). That's kind of what I gathered from the previous thread; just thought I'd double check. >> the T300 that no one wanted which can do 96TPI 640K >If you DO figure out a use for it, let me know. Somewhere around here are a few of them. I patched PC-Write to run on it, but never came up with anything else to do with it. Eventually I gave one to Toshiba's MRI division, because they couldn't get one throught their main corporation. Well, it runs dBase II and 123 quite nicely, and I used something called SED for text editing, but even with those excellent expensive 640K 96TPI diskettes one does get used to hard disks. Mind you with all the CD-ROM swapping these days it sometimes seems that we've gone back to the dual-floppy days; thank goodness there is software to put those CD-ROMs on HD. Hate to toss it, seems like the 96TPI drives might be useful some day, it certainly is well built and I happen to have lots of docs, but alas... You haven't run across the CP/M86 for it by any chance? - -- Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com

22 years, 11 months

Anyone got a spare DSSI terminator?

by classiccmp＠knm.yi.org

Hi, I post about this occasionally, get a response or two, then hear nothing again :&) So here goes again.. I've got a MV3300 here in my kitchen/dining room, and it's missing a DSSI terminator... so if there's anyone out there with a spare.... :&) (Sad state of afairs - the guy I bought this MV3300 from scrapped the second drive enclosure and obviously never took the terminator :&/ So not only do I have a VMS install that expects 3 drives when there are only two there, but I'm also short of a terminator) -- Matt --- Web Page: http://knm.org.uk/ http://pkl.net/~matt/

22 years, 11 months

Apple disk -> MSDOS

by mhstein＠usa.net

Well, yes, that is kinda obvious, but I'm not really inclined to upgrade before disposal. -------------------Original Message------------------- From: Lawrence LeMay <lemay(a)cs.umn.edu> <snip> > I'm about to get rid of my last Apple II clone <snip> Buy a super serial card on ebay and use it to transfer the files. - -Lawrence LeMay

22 years, 11 months

OT: DELL SUCKS! Re: PC Gamer, best 50 classic games issue?

by mythtech＠Mac.com

>no, I mean when calling in for support. I did phone support for IBM and >whenever a user called in after the first time, we had user info and call >history along with the type of computer all up on the screen. Ahh... ok... humm, now that I think of it, when I called Apple for support a few times, they used Caller ID to pull up my record and knew who I was, and all occasions I interacted with phone support, all before answering the phone. Yeah... for phone support, it is inexcusable for them not to be able to at least look up your info after asking something simple like name and zip code -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

22 years, 11 months

OT: DELL SUCKS! Re: PC Gamer, best 50 classic games issue?

by SUPRDAVE＠aol.com

In a message dated 1/9/2002 7:06:55 PM Eastern Standard Time, mythtech(a)Mac.com writes: << > I hate always having to >give my name, company and email address every time. they should have that >info already. No... they shouldn't even ASK for it... why does it matter who you are if you are browsing their support pages. -chris <http://www.mythtech.net> >> no, I mean when calling in for support. I did phone support for IBM and whenever a user called in after the first time, we had user info and call history along with the type of computer all up on the screen. -- Antique Computer Virtual Museum www.nothingtodo.org

22 years, 11 months

Bought an IBM 5362 -- so now what do I do with this thing?

by out2sea00＠yahoo.com

Folks -- Please pardon the newbie.... I'm trying to track down resources for IBM System/36 and the model 5362. I just Ebay'd one (momentary insanity) and I need to start putting together all the apocrypha to go with it. All I'm getting is the system unit. I need to try and track down software, manuals and a display station first. Any pointers or assistance would be just lovely, and greatly appreciated. Thanks, Colin Eby Senior Consultant CSC Consulting end __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/

22 years, 11 months

Some pointers needed on a 11/70

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Jan 9, 22:42, The Wanderer wrote: > Odd enough, when I changed the SSR, the memory starts now at 1400000 and > runs > through 1477777, very odd. That suggests some unwanted interaction between the SSR and the memory bus. Very odd. > Tomorrow I'll step through all the entries listed in your last mail, it > may very > well be the case that the address and/or data buffer of the memory box > are faulty, > in which case I have to get a new one. Well, I wish you good luck with it. Keep us posted on progress... -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

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test-drb January 2002