test-drb February 2002

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1043 discussions

by acme_ent＠bellsouth.net

> From: Tony Duell <ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk> I wrote: > > Here's a cheaper solution (and a better selection): go to World of > > Spectrum at http://www.void.jump.org/ and download an emulator. They're > > available for a lot of platforms including Unix, Amiga, and Win CE. > > (Warajevo is my personal favorite for Win9x). You now have *free* access > > to over 10,000 programs, which you can also download from WOS. Tony replied: > Hang on a second. To do that you have to have a PC. People with PCs will > generally use them for e-mail (if they want e-mail), since it's cheaper > (and better) than buying a dedicated 'e-mail phone'. Surely the Amstrad > 'e-mail phone' is aimed at those people who _don't_ have a PC, and who > therefore couldn't run a spectrum emulator. Tony, I'll grant that your logic concerning the targeted market for the device is correct, but you *don't* have to have a PC to run a Spectrum emulator. Software emulators are available for platforms such as Gameboy, Dreamcast, and Playstation. Of course, you might have to use someone else's internet-capable system in order to download the emulator and games, but strictly speaking PC ownership is not a prerequisite for running a Spectrum emulator. Glen 0/0

22 years, 10 months

STAPLES STORES WILL TAKE OLD COMPUTERS

by csmith＠amdocs.com

> -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Ford [mailto:mikeford@socal.rr.com] > Day). Individuals and businesses can bring in their old > computer equipment, > including monitors and hard drives. There is no charge for > this service. I would read that: "Give us some stuff so that we don't have to buy so much of it." > country. Computers that are unable to be rebuilt "will be recycled > responsibly to generate reusable materials," according to the > press release. ... and translated, this probably means: "Anything that we don't know what to do with will be turned into bicycle spokes and sent to China." > number. To confirm store hours and whether they will accept a > certain type > of computer equipment (especially anything unusual), people > can call the "We may not actually accept anything that we don't know what to do with, since it's expensive to make things into bicycle spokes." > store directly. People who bring in old computer equipment to > Staples during > this event can receive a $100 savings on a new computer with an Intel > Pentium 4 processor, or $20 off a purchase of $100 or more > for other Staples > products purchased during those two days. "... but buy some normal off-the-shelf stuff, please!" Chris Christopher Smith, Perl Developer Amdocs - Champaign, IL /usr/bin/perl -e ' print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n"); '

22 years, 10 months

uVAX II + KFQSA + DSSI Drive and the last touch?

by gunther＠aurora.regenstrief.org

Hi, so I just came home from BSDcon 2002 (was nice to see all the old names as life people with noses in their faces.) Anyway I just came home and there my new KFQSA card I got on eBay was in the mail. So, now I can finally use some of my DSSI disks that I bought for the time I'd get a KFMSA, now I get to use the in my uVAX instead of having to bother with formatting that MFM disk :-). I don't know much about DSSI however and I'm not sure I have all the pieces I need. I have a KFQSA, a 50-60 pin cable, round and two connectors each side, then a bus cable, same number of pins to be connected to that round cable and 3 connectors, apparently for three drives. Good. But at the end of that cable is a male connector with about half as many pins. What is that for, please don't say it's a terminator, where the heck would I get such a terminator from? Could I just connect the round cable directly to one DSSI drive without that bus cable, such that I would not need that terminator? Then there are some DIP switches on the card, what are they for? And of course the drives have front panels and I have three drives and just one front panel. How essential is that front panel? Has anyone ever installed DSSI in a uVAX-II with the small cabinet? It's pretty tight in there. How about this: right now there is that cable for the RQDX3 that goes into the front part of the box and apparently is spliced there to connect to the MFM drive and the RX33/50 (?) floppy drive. What if I throw all this stuff out and use that flat cable to route the KFQSA into the front and hook up the DSSI drive where I have the MFM drive now and put in a TK50 where the RX50 is now. Anyone ever done that? I must also say I really appreciate the VAXBI and XMI busses with their zero-insertion force and their clean way of connecting peripherals all to the backplane instead of just anywhere in the front. The way these Q-BUS and UNIBUS cards are jammed into their slots with all the cables squeezed between those cards, and the cards all bent to make room for the cables and connectors is not beautiful, if not frightening. Isn't that terribly rough on the hardware? regards -Gunther -- Gunther Schadow, M.D., Ph.D. gschadow(a)regenstrief.org Medical Information Scientist Regenstrief Institute for Health Care Adjunct Assistant Professor Indiana University School of Medicine tel:1(317)630-7960 http://aurora.regenstrief.org

22 years, 10 months

9track drive woes

by pat＠purdueriots.com

I've finally got my StorageTek 2920 9-track drive talking to my Emulex QT13 QBUS->PERTEC adaptor under VMS... It *appears* to read the tapes OK (I have no VMS formatted tapes, so I'm just guessing here), but when I try and INITIALIZE MUA0:, the drive spins the tape for a second and then gives me a "CC7" on its display and "Mach Chk" flashes. VMS calls it a 'parity error'. Anyone know what is going on with this thing? Thanks. -- Pat

22 years, 10 months

Rayovac 844b cmos batteries

by mythtech＠Mac.com

>OTOH I still have several cases of new old stock I am selling off. So if >you need an 840 or 844b 4.5v alkaline cmos battery, email me while I still >have them. 1/$5, 3/$10, 10/$20, and case of 60 for $50, all plus shipping. I wound up ordering some from MCM... so I am ok for now... thanks anyway. -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

22 years, 10 months

9track drive woes

by rmurphy＠itm-inst.com

At 11:55 AM 2/17/02 -0500, Pat Finnegan wrote: >After cleaning, same problem. Now, when I try to copy data off the tape >using "COPY MUA0 NEWS.TAR", VMS gives me these errors: > >%COPY-E-READERR, error reading _MUA0:[].; >-RMS-F-RER, file read error >-SYSTEM-W-DATAOVER, data overrun >%COPY-W-NOTCMPLT, _MUA0:[].; not completely copied > >when I use dump, like "DUMP MUA0 /OUT=NEWS.DMP", it works just perfectly >fine, which leads me to believe it might be a VMS problem. Prior to now, >I was able to copy straight from the foreign mounted volume OK, but now >it's not working at all, even after I power-cycled the drive and the vax. When you DUMP the tape, DUMP uses a large buffer. When you use COPY, you get the default RMS buffer size, which is too small for the tape blocks. Use DUMP MUA0:/BLOCK=COUNT=1 to get the block size, then MOUNT/FOREIGN/BLOCK=xxx MUA0: to mount the tape with the right blocksize. COPY should then work. -Rick

22 years, 10 months

Fiche scanning redux

by tony.eros＠machm.org

I started playing with fiche scanning using an Intel QX3 microscope. This microscope comes has three built-in objectives -- 10x, 60x and 200x. The results are mixed, but tempting. I've put some sample images here: http://www.machm.org/fiche/fiche1.jpg 60x http://www.machm.org/fiche/fiche2.jpg 60x http://www.machm.org/fiche/fiche3.jpg 60x http://www.machm.org/fiche/fiche4.jpg 60x http://www.machm.org/fiche/fiche5.jpg 60x http://www.machm.org/fiche/fiche6.jpg 60x http://www.machm.org/fiche/fiche7.jpg 10x http://www.machm.org/fiche/fiche8.jpg 200x At the 60x magnification, it takes about 9 images to capture a single frame >from a fiche. I've put together a web page at http://www.machm.org/fiche/fiche.htm that roughly arranges the sample to show a sample frame from a VMS source listing fiche. I like the resolution, but need to find a way to expand the field of view. I'm sure I can rig up a scanning frame, but don't want to have to stitch multiple captures per frame. If I can get this to work, it would be a very affordable way to do high-quality fiche scans. Does anyone have any suggestions on how this might be improved? -- Tony

22 years, 10 months

ex DEC-field service people: what KC780 memory upgrade makes a KC785?

by gunther＠aurora.regenstrief.org

Hi, DEC field service veterans will know this: what exactly is the memory upgrade needed in the PDP11/03 console computer for the VAX 11/780 that makes it suitable for the VAX 11/785? I want to be able to search for such boards, so would need to know which it would be. Appreciate if you have an Mxxxx-AB number (e.g., M8044-DF ?) Thank you so much! -Gunther -- Gunther Schadow, M.D., Ph.D. gschadow(a)regenstrief.org Medical Information Scientist Regenstrief Institute for Health Care Adjunct Assistant Professor Indiana University School of Medicine tel:1(317)630-7960 http://aurora.regenstrief.org

22 years, 10 months

Identify Magneto Optical Drive / Switch Settings?

by jhfine＠postoffice.idirect.com

I suspect this is quite on topic. I have acquired a 5 1/4" magneto optical disk drive that is equivalent to a Sony SMO S501. The label says it was put together by DYNATEK Automation Systems. I suspect that the two internals are a C501/D501 from Sony in any case with just the external box and power supply being from Dynatek. SW1 is an unusual rotary switch which is used to select the SCSI ID - I have tested that and confirmed that it works. The drive works quite well as the last drive in the daisy chain, so I presume that a terminator and terminator power are part of the selectable equipment. Of course, the drive works very well as the only drive on the host adapter. My question concerns SW2 which is an 8 position dip switch. On the Sony drive, there is ONLY an 8 position dip switch with 3 positions being used for SCSI ID. Might anyone have some documentation on which parts of the dip switch on the Dynatek drive are used and for what?

22 years, 10 months

HP1000 manuals on Ebay

by ojw＠dircon.co.uk

nothing to do with me, but recollecting the HP1000 discussions a while back I thought this may be of interest to someone: http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem <http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1704075698> &item=1704075698 all the best oliver

22 years, 10 months

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test-drb February 2002