test-drb February 2002

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by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Feb 11, 23:39, Dave Brown wrote: > I recently acquired an old HP scanner- 9190AU. Can anyone give me more > information on this unit- HP don't support it anymore. (it is old!) > > It looks to be almost the original Scanjet, as that's what it has on the > front, HP Scanjet, with no letters or numerals following. The 9190AU > designator is on the nameplate underneath. It has a Centronics connector > on the back and came with a std IBM printer cable, so I guess is a parallel > port version. But there is another oddball ( 20? pin) connector on the back > too. What's it for? > > I don't have any software for it but I believe the original drivers were Win > 3.1x only, so suggestions as to getting software to run it would be useful > as well. It is indeed the original Scanjet; 9195 is the Scanjet+ Both used an HP ISA card with a proprietary parallel interface, but SCSI-like protocols. There is some support for it in SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy). If you look in one of my colleagues's ftp directoriues, you'll find a couple of relevant files: http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/ftpdir/pub/james/hp.diff http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/ftpdir/pub/james/hporig.patch -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

22 years, 5 months

Craftsman (was: Microdata "Microprogramming Handbook"

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

> Craftsman tools were available at any Sears store; Snap-On had a few > outlets, but sold mostly through trucks that went to garages. (One time, > on a cross-country drive, I started having some serious problems with a VW > bus, and pulled over a Snap-On truck on the freeway in Ohio in order to > buy a 30mm (1 3/16) socket) Never pulled them over, but when a Snap-On socket or wrench breaks (twice per decade), I carry them in the glove box until I see a Snap-On dealer truck parked somewhere, then go do business. > A few years back, Sears closed a lot of their stores, and even closed down > their mail-order and catalog operations! The Craftsman Tools catalog remains in publication... > I think that Craftsman is still owned by Sears, but not sure. Anybody > know for sure? Yes, but the firms that actually manufacter the tools no longer have exclusive contracts with Sears. For example, EASCO is one line of hand made by one of the Craftsman manufacturers. Regards, -dq

22 years, 5 months

IBM PC cassette drive

by SUPRDAVE＠aol.com

In a message dated 2/10/2002 7:23:43 PM Eastern Standard Time, rigdonj(a)cfl.rr.com writes: > Several times there have been discussions on this list about wheather or > not IBM ever made cassette drives for use with the original IBM PCs. The > general feeling is that they never made any cassette drives or tapes. BUT I > was talking to Mike Haas about this recently and he told me that he has an > original IBM Diagnstics cassette tape! Today he sent a picture and I've > posted it here <http://www.classiccmp.org/hp/ibm/ibm-cass.jpg> . As you > can see it has the same burgundy color as the standard IBM PC diagnostics > disks. > I have the same tape as well. Havent tried it out yet though.

22 years, 5 months

Sell Chinese Forklifts

by tony.eros＠machm.org

Ouch -- that's cold... At 11:50 AM 2/11/2002 -0600, you wrote: >I like to handle these by sending the postmaster at the offending domain >a nice congratulatory note on having joined the Falun Gong. (I wish I >could say I was the first to come up with the idea, but I saw it on >Usenet.)

22 years, 5 months

Classic Comp UUCP network.

by Huw.Davies＠kerberos.davies.net.au

At 03:48 PM 8/02/2002 -0500, Douglas Quebbeman wrote: > > Ron Hudson wrote: > > > Is it just me, or didn't someone here offer to take the > > lead on setting up a ClassicCmp UUCP map months ago? > > Or is that just symptomatic of excessive Red Bull > > intake on my part? > >All depends on what you're mixing it with.... ;) > >Yes, several of us had a full head of steam to do this... >I could dedicate a 486 running Linux to it and could >have it online from 8am to 5pm daily... as long as >someone puts together a step-by-step... We should think about tunnelling UUCP over IP. That way we could use our existing IP links. This would certainly make it easier (read cheaper) for overseas nodes to exist. Huw Davies | e-mail: Huw.Davies(a)kerberos.davies.net.au | "If God had wanted soccer played in the | air, the sky would be painted green"

22 years, 5 months

RISC/OS, IRIX

by csmith＠amdocs.com

> -----Original Message----- > From: Dan Wright [mailto:dtwright@uiuc.edu] > Just out of curiosity, does this indicate that the tapes I > gave you actually > work? ;-) Indeed. :) Some better than others. I was going to start out by installing a relatively early version but couldn't get that particular version to boot. I've taken that to mean that either the version is too old for the M/120, or that I'm booting it improperly. At any rate, I've tried a good three sets of system tapes, all of which seem to work. (Now to get those other computers running...) That said, I plan to back the things up onto images sometime soon, and eventually to try booting one of the M/120s off of a DAT with the image copied onto it, and possibly a CD-ROM with a dump of the newly installed system disk. (That would be amusing if it will work...) I hear from a friend that I may be able to get an external SCSI qic1000(?) soon which would read those tapes without making it necessary to use the MIPS machine for it. I may take that option, since the CD writer is internal, in a different machine. Chris Christopher Smith, Perl Developer Amdocs - Champaign, IL /usr/bin/perl -e ' print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n"); '

22 years, 5 months

Classic Comp UUCP network.

by csmith＠amdocs.com

> -----Original Message----- > From: Jay West [mailto:west@tseinc.com] > Ok, I have been watching the UUCP network thread. I have one > question - WHY? Lots of reasons: JavaScript, Banner Ads, THIS REALLY WORKED FOR ME!!!!, Registration Required, AOL, Microsoft, "You are not using a frames-enabled browser," "Your browser does not support cookies," "These documents are only available in MS Word format," "This page is best viewed in 800x600 resolution with internet explorer 4.0 or greater..." Need I say more? Internet is starting to really suck. Maybe we can all do better out of our own basements. UUCP certainly lowers the bar for entry and maintenance of a useable node to the point where anyone can grab a peesee out of the dumpster and plug in. (Provided that they know at least one person who is already connected...) Everybody has an even chance to participate and contribute. Even those of us who like to use computers that wouldn't generally use TCP. :) A 20 or 30 node UUCP network could probably hold all of the useful information I've seen on the internet in the last three years. As long as the network remains a manageable size, you could probably count on government to not get involved much, and the type of business that caused so much trouble on the internet wouldn't be interested. There's also the fact that the small level of knowledge required to set up a node, or even connect to one would be sufficient to weed out utter idiots. This is no longer true for internet. Chris Christopher Smith, Perl Developer Amdocs - Champaign, IL /usr/bin/perl -e ' print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n"); '

22 years, 5 months

Kinda OT but that what's true HW hacker do in a pinch.

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

> I'm still searching for a hand operated coil winding machine. I've only > seen a few, and they were all still in use by other people. If anyone > finds one they don't want, even in non-working or incomplete condition, > let me know. These things are likely considered antiques now. I could be wrong, but I believe these are still listed in the Allied Electronics catalog... -dq

22 years, 5 months

Classic Comp UUCP network.

by csmith＠amdocs.com

> -----Original Message----- > From: Chris Kennedy [mailto:chris@mainecoon.com] > Uh, just _which_ libertarian ethos was that? ARPAnet had no such > thing, and NFSnet had acceptable use policies up the ass. The only > thing out there that had any such "libertarian ethos" was the > bang-path hell of UUCP connected systems. That's about what I think of it, and personally, I'm all for bringing that bang-path hell back. ;) Chris Christopher Smith, Perl Developer Amdocs - Champaign, IL /usr/bin/perl -e ' print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n"); '

22 years, 5 months

Sell Chinese Forklifts

by PasserM＠umkc.edu

I like to handle these by sending the postmaster at the offending domain a nice congratulatory note on having joined the Falun Gong. (I wish I could say I was the first to come up with the idea, but I saw it on Usenet.)

22 years, 5 months

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test-drb February 2002