test-drb December 2002

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The Ne[w|utered] HP (was: RE: The effects of employment)

by Fred.van.Kempen＠microwalt.nl

Dan wrote: > Well...definitly better then the Itanium boxes. But it's pretty much a big PC, > with the build quality that would imply. kind of disappointing, compared to > their older workstations... Yes. > I'm really just disappointed overall with their decision to kill Alpha and > PA-RISC. Itanium really isn't that good, at least not yet, and they're going > to lose a LOT of customers by doing it. **THAT** was my point, yes. Enterprise customers kinda laugh at the idea of their stuff being of the "Intel Inside" kind, and will be almost impossible to be changed into that. They'll go Sun, or IBM, but will do pretty much anything to NOT be sucked into this "New Big PC crap", as one of them called it. In the old days, we had Sun, DEC, Compaq, HP and IBM for the larger systems. DEC got sucked into Compaq, which also had Tandem. That seemed like not such a bad plan, and it could have worked (my personal opinion.) Now, we loose both DEC/Compaq (so, Tru64/Alpha and VMS/Alpha) and HP (HPUX/HPPA), only to get... _MORE_ Intel crap into this world. Don't get me wrong- I like my PC's. And yes, some of them run Win2000, some do UNIX, whatever. But that's *PC* stuff, for PC tasks. My customers will probably invite me in to come and tell them which vendor of "real" Big Things (tm) they can switch to now, without the chance of having to do that again in two years from now. So... Sun (sigh) or IBM (eek) ? HP loses.. bigtime. And as a shareholder.. indeed, i voted 'no' :) #define NHP /*brainless*/ #define HP NHP --fred

21 years, 7 months

Tubes in computers - numbers, please

by aw288＠osfn.org

There is a large quantity of tubes for sale near me, and while it is silly to think I can buy and store them all, I might be interested in buying quantities of *computer-rated* tubes - things like 5749s, 5814As, 6414s, and so forth. Some day, maybe a 709 will come my way with 1000 empty sockets... Anyway, if any of you folks have information or samples of old tube based computing junk (modules, for example, or old unit-record stuff) - could I bother you to tell me what types of tubes were originally installed? I am looking for specific numbers, not just "dual triodes". It would be nice to know which machines used which tubes - for example: Machine Tube(s) Used ----------------------------------- IBM 604 1684, 2032 Thanks a bunch! William Donzelli aw288(a)osfn.org

21 years, 7 months

Unibus SCSI question

by Antonio.Carlini＠riverstonenet.com

Zane H. Healy wrote: >Unfortunatly the manuals on my FTP site look to be for the UC07/08, not the UC17. A UC17 manual is available here: http://www.spies.com/~aek/pdf/emulex/ Antonio

21 years, 7 months

BBC Acorn

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Dec 12, 19:39, pete@mindy wrote: > The chips are 4116s No, they're not, Pete, that's a typo. They're 4816s. > The way the keyboard works is quite neat. Maybe I should have been more explicit abut this: the 17-way cable carries +5V, 0V, /RESET, system 1MHz clock, three LED drive signals, and the VIA signals relating to the keyboard. It's "the keyboard interface", if you like. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

21 years, 7 months

Tonight: "Hackers" TV show...

by dwoyciesjes＠comcast.net

Some material for your VCR... Tonight, Dec. 11th, at 10 PM Eastern time, the TLC cable channel is doing a show titled "Hackers". Supposedly a look at black- and white-hat hackers, and cyber crime. Hopefgully it'll be interesting... -- ---Dave Woyciesjes ---ICQ# 905818

21 years, 7 months

free Wang 6540-1 and Fortune 32:16 systems in the Chicago area

by uban＠ubanproductions.com

A friend of mine is cleaning house and has the following two systems available for free pickup in the Chicago area: CPU: Wang model 6540-1 with Wang hard drive model number 6580, Magenetic Peripherials Inc, Control Data corp., Model number 9448 Cartridge Drive, Part No. 77717013 http://64.32.210.122/picts/Computer/Wang/index.html (condition unknown) Fortune 32:16 http://64.32.210.122/picts/Computer/Fortune/index.html Condition: the hard drive does not spin up. Last time I tried to power it up, it displayed: 1 2 3 and then hangs (probably because of the hard drive.) I think it used to count to 10 as it boots. If you are interested in one or both of these, please send email to: Bill (jackbot AT yahoo DOT com) be sure to replace the AT and DOT accordingly. --tom

21 years, 7 months

Tonight: "Hackers" TV show...

by GOOI＠oce.nl

Sellam Ismail wrote: > > On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, David Woyciesjes wrote: > > > Some material for your VCR... > > Tonight, Dec. 11th, at 10 PM Eastern time, the TLC cable > > channel is doing a show titled "Hackers". Supposedly a > > look at black- and white-hat hackers, and cyber crime. > > Hopefgully it'll be interesting... > > Isn't the full title, "Hackers: Computer Outlaws"? If so, > all the old computers in there were provided by me, and the > guy playing Woz with the Blue Box is Alex of the ACCRC. > If you look closely, and you know what I look like, you'll > see a shot or two of me "hacking" in the dark ;) Even more reasons for any kind US resident person to make an mpeg of it and make it availbale for all of us poor souls who do not live in the US. We already miss on all the PDP-11 goodies that are for pick up on the other side of the ocean. - Henk.

21 years, 7 months

The effects of employment

by mbg＠TheWorld.com

Which is interesting because from what I've heard recently, december/january is when to by trying since managers are more likely to get a chance to read resumes... Good luck on your search... Megan

21 years, 7 months

Catweasel Floppy Read/Write Tools, version 3.0

by tim＠tim-mann.org

Version 3.0 of my Catweasel Floppy Read/Write Tools is now available at http://www.tim-mann.org/trs80resources.html. This release adds support for the new Catweasel MK3 PCI card. The older Catweasel MK1 ISA is still supported as well. Standard blurb on the tools: The Catweasel Floppy Read/Write Tools are software for the Catweasel universal floppy disk controller. The tools run on both Linux and Windows 95 or MS-DOS. Source code is included under the GPL. cw2dmk will read several kinds of floppy disk, some of which ordinary PC controllers have trouble with, and save them in the DMK disk image format. (DMK is a format used by the Unix TRS-80 emulator xtrs and by David Keil's TRS-80 emulator for MS-DOS.) cw2dmk does not just read TRS-80 disks; it can handle (at least) any disk written using a Western Digital 177x/179x floppy disk controller, a PC-style NEC765-compatible controller, or a Digital Equipment Corporation RX02 controller. dmk2cw will write any DMK image back to a real floppy disk, and handles the same kinds of disks as cw2dmk. The package also includes the programs dmk2jv3 and jv2dmk, which convert between the DMK image format and the JV1 and JV3 image formats. These programs work without a Catweasel and can be useful for moving images between different TRS-80 emulators. -- Tim Mann tim(a)tim-mann.org http://www.tim-mann.org/

21 years, 7 months

Need information on TRSDOS 1.3 internals

by foo＠siconic.com

Does anyone have any documentation on the data structures of TRSDOS 1.3? Specifically, I'd like to know the catalog structure, as well as the scheme for storing files across multiple sectors. I'm trying to pull some old word processor and perhaps spreadsheet files off some TRSDOS disks using a PC. I already found a utility called READDISK that reads TRS-80 disks on a PC and it worked great. Now I need to extract the files from the image. Is this data published in any of the TRS-80 DOS manuals? Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org * Old computing resources for business and academia at www.VintageTech.com *

21 years, 7 months

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test-drb December 2002