test-drb February 2002

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by mcguire＠neurotica.com

On February 23, Gene Buckle wrote: > > On February 23, Gene Buckle wrote: > > > > > And which brand/type of cyanoacrylic will e use to affix the > > > > > virtual pike to the virtual wall? > > > > > > > > > > Yes, Dave, I know. Virtual KrazyGlue. > > > > > > > > Nonono...Virtual epoxy. Mix the virtual base and the virtual > > > > hardener...hey wait, I dated her! > > > > > > > > -Dave "Virtual Epoxy Resin" McGuire > > > > > > Ahh, but was she cute? > > > > Well, she did have a, erm, "hardening" effect. ;) > > Gah. I should've known. I'm cured of asking such questions. Gotcha. ;) -Dave -- Dave McGuire St. Petersburg, FL "Less talk. More synthohol." --Lt. Worf

23 years, 1 month

I need an RM03...

by mbg＠theworld.com

23 years, 1 month

This is funny (ebay)

by fmc＠reanimators.org

"Richard Erlacher" <edick(a)idcomm.com> wrote: > It's better than paying the $12.95 + tax at the BestBuy. Tee hee. I think the closest Best Buy to Jeff is in Laurel, Maryland. I was there a few days after Christmas. If they ever sold SCSI cables, those have been flushed to make room for USB cables. That's actually a lot of the problem where Jeff is: there are no retailers who sell cables cheaply from their storefronts. (At least I don't know where they are.) Sure, they have Best Buy and CompUSA and maybe Micro Center, but all you can get at the first two is cables in hard plastic packaging with colorful cardboard inserts that you end up paying for. If you need cheap cables, you wait for the next computer show to come round, and then you go to the meeting hall where it's being held and buy what you need from someone who deals there. Or if you're more technically inclined maybe you go to the next hamfest, but those are a warm-weather activity in that part of the world. Meanwhile, here in Sillycon Valley, if I need to paw through a rat's nest of serial or SCSI cables all I have to do is look in the right box in my bedroom. (Boxed rat's nests are much more manageable.) If what I need isn't there, I can pick it up at Fry's or Central Computer if I want new, or if I can take used I can find it at the next swap meet, or at the next CRC Saturday sale, or maybe at Weird Stuff. -Frank McConnell

23 years, 1 month

DEC CIPCA cable

by jwbirdsa＠picarefy.com

Picked up a very odd DEC cable today. I've never seen anything like it before, which probably means somebody out there has been looking for one for years. :) You can see the two ends of it at www.picarefy.com/~jwbirdsa/transient/IMAGE034.JPG and www.picarefy.com/~jwbirdsa/transient/IMAGE035.JPG and it's labelled as a d|i|g|i|t|a|l 17-03427-01. It seems to be part of the CIPCA kit for high-end Alphas. Who need this? It's yours for postage. --James B.

23 years, 1 month

"Programmer's Panel" for disk drives

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

> Yes! SMD - MSCP adapters for QBus VAXen are reletive easy to get. > Many Sun 3 machines have SMD adapters, The Sequent S27 I playd > with had SMD, ... SMD is a quite common intrface for "lager" > machines in the age of 10 to 15 years. "Lager" machines? Some of my machines "ale", some are rather somewhat "stout", and all have enough I/O "porters" to be useful. Anyone have any "Mead" computers? Or would those be Honeywells? (I know, some of you can beerly stand these OT posts)... ;)

23 years, 1 month

Update on Save The Computer Garage effort

by vcf＠vintage.org

Thanks to everyone who contributed to the Save The Computer Garage fund, we have met (actually surpassed) the $1000 goal. The community support has been phenomenal. Jim and I are now working on getting the back rent paid. Once that's under control, we'll then start figuring out the best option for getting the collection back to his barn in Kansas. Once again, thanks to everyone who contributed. -- 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 *

23 years, 1 month

MIDI on an Atari ST

by csmith＠amdocs.com

Hi everybody, Here's an odd one. Hypothetically, if I have a keyboard, with no internal sampler (a hypothetical Ensoniq ZR-76, say... for which I could probably never hope to find the sampler upgrade board ;), and would like to use an Atari ST to do some sampling (and play back of samples, too -- triggered by the keyboard), is there a way to do it? I'm not familiar with Atari ST software, but I just happen to have an ST520 setting around not doing much, and wonder whether it could be used for this purpose. ISTR that STs had decent MIDI capabilities for the time. Otherwise, what sort of MIDI-ish stuff can be done with this machine? It might make a good secondary sequencer, patch editor, etc, anyway... Chris Christopher Smith, Perl Developer Amdocs - Champaign, IL /usr/bin/perl -e ' print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n"); '

23 years, 1 month

OT Quad audio amps (was: cleaning pots on my vintage audio am p)

by csmith＠amdocs.com

> -----Original Message----- > From: Chad Fernandez [mailto:fernande@internet1.net] > In order to really use it, you have to be playing a Quadraphonic > recorded record right? LP's were it back then, right? It must have a quadraphonic line-in if it's worth having around at all. :) (Hey, my <on topic>SGI has one...) Seriously, though, it's just an amplifier. It shouldn't matter what you're running through it. The signal will be analog only, of course, so no SPDIF without a converter. Chris Christopher Smith, Perl Developer Amdocs - Champaign, IL /usr/bin/perl -e ' print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n"); '

23 years, 1 month

PDP11 Redux, or Behind-The-Scenes Bull

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

On February 23, Doc wrote: > And which brand/type of cyanoacrylic will e use to affix the > virtual pike to the virtual wall? > > Yes, Dave, I know. Virtual KrazyGlue. Nonono...Virtual epoxy. Mix the virtual base and the virtual hardener...hey wait, I dated her! -Dave "Virtual Epoxy Resin" McGuire -- Dave McGuire St. Petersburg, FL "Less talk. More synthohol." --Lt. Worf

23 years, 1 month

eBay - Completely Off

by healyzh＠aracnet.com

> > How's this for clueless eBay? > > http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2004963299 > -- > Eric Dittman > dittman(a)dittman.net > Check out the DEC Enthusiasts Club at http://www.dittman.net/ > They might have picked that price by doing a search of dealer websites. Besides thats the BIN price. Nothing says you couldn't get it for something like $1. I'd be tempted to bid, but the cost of shipping scares me. Ah.... I think I see your point. A VAX-4000/300 that they're claiming is a 150Mhz Alpha? Zane

23 years, 1 month

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test-drb February 2002