test-drb February 2002

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by lemay＠cs.umn.edu

Well, I've been searching for RK05 alignment packs, and though I've been very successful, I was hoping to find some at a cheaper price (hey, it never hurts to try...) Anyways, so far i've found 3 RK05 alignment packs available at various DEC resellers, but they are $150 each. And both 12 and 16 sector packs for $50 each for that matter. If someone is desperate enough to be interested at these prices, just let me know. -Lawrence LeMay lemay(a)cs.umn.edu

22 years, 9 months

DEC BC09J cable

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Feb 28, 12:26, William S. wrote: > By shielded do you mean CAT5 cable? I was planning on > using that. Speaking of which, is there a proper > color to use? ie) grey, red, blue? This will only > be a home setup but was wondering if there is an > official color code. Cat5 and Cat5e are UTP (unshielded). There is an equivalent shielded (STP) cable but it's a slightly different impedance so it's not Cat5 standard. No, there isn't an official colour code, though many sites have a local convention. Ours is to use black for serial, purple for crossovers, yellow for student network, pink or brown for telecomms, and other colours ad-hoc to distinguish various subnets in areas where more than one is in use. Where I worked before, the code was grey normal network purple crossed cable orange uplink cable, not crossed but connected to one that is yellow student network in a staff area (or vice versa) pink management network green telephone connection blue ISDN connection red temporary connection -- do not touch black serial connection -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

22 years, 9 months

Multiple floppies in one system?

by jeff.kaneko＠juno.com

Wow, that's amazing!! I haven't seen anything like it from JDR since the 80's! A JDR product offering with something resembling a reasonable selling price! Are you sure that's not a typo on their webpage!?!? I think I'm going to faint . . . ;^) Jeff On Thu, 28 Feb 2002 00:06:32 GMT pete(a)dunnington.u-net.com (Pete Turnbull) writes: > On Feb 27, 17:23, Russ Blakeman wrote: > > Well SOB - they still sell the MCT 8 bit 4 floppy controller - > about > 1/5th > > of what it used to cost in 85...here's a link to it: > > > > http://www.jdr.com/interact/item.asp?itemno=MCT-FDC-HD4 > > Interesting. Anyone know if it supports single density, and/or > works with > 8" drives (in conjunction with suitable cable adaptor)? > > -- > Pete Peter Turnbull > Network Manager > University of York ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/.

22 years, 9 months

RISC manuals

by jfoust＠threedee.com

Because of the NatSemi 32000 manuals described on my web site at http://www.threedee.com/jcm/library/, I received this inquiry: "I am collecting manuals for RISC-type processors of the early 1990s. I haven't been able to find Power/Power 2 (the processor/s inside the IBM RS/6000 computers)... Why is that? " I know nothing of those machines. Can someone help me with an answer I can forward? - John

22 years, 9 months

Multiple floppies in one system?

by rigdonj＠cfl.rr.com

At 08:49 AM 2/28/02 -0600, you wrote: >On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Joe wrote: > >> The Assign command works wonders in cases like these. Unfortunately >> MicroSoulth dropped it from their later versions of DOS. Still you can >> probaly use a copy from an older DOS and use other DOS cammand (that I >> can't think of the name of) to fake it into thinking that it's running >> under it's native DOS version. > >Could you be thinking of 'setver' Yes, that's it. I couldn't remember the name. Joe

22 years, 9 months

Fwd: Re: OT: cleaning pots on my vintage audio amp

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Feb 28, 1:06, Ethan Dicks wrote: > > the "systematic" name (used almost everywhere *by chemists*) > > is "propan-2-ol"... > > Since it's been years since I've been in a chem lab... when did this > naming convention hit the States? In 1985, I'm fairly certain we > called it isopropanol. Perhaps my education was behind the times. Dunno. Perhaps it never did, but that's the systmatic nomenclature form. To be fair, though, the systematic names are more useful for more complex molecules, where there would otherwise be amiguity. > > > Even "aluminum" is different, but I don't remember how different... > > > > You mean "aluminium" :-) Like sodium, potassium, uranium, ... > > Platinium... err, wait... nevermind. ;-) Why do you think I didn't use that example? :-) Or molybdenium, tantalium, lanthanium. There are 65 elements whose names end in "ium", only four that end in "um" not "ium", and just one that varies according to geography :-) -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

22 years, 9 months

Idiocy on eBay, I can't stop laughing!

by SUPRDAVE＠aol.com

In a message dated 2/28/2002 11:23:42 AM Central Standard Time, geneb(a)deltasoft.com writes: > On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Tothwolf wrote: > > > On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Bill Dawson wrote: > > > > > This page says it all: > > > > > > http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2004856941 > > > > > > And check out the TOS! ROLF. > > > > Gosh, what an idiot... I might even have a similar set of disks around > > somewhere. > > > Ahh, but were they hand carried to "Prevent Pirate Copy's"? *snicker* > > g. > here is his reply to me. I asked about collector qualifications, prepaid accomodations to out-of-area people to meet him and the provenance of the disks. >I asked for a collector, due to keeping the ppl away that tend to pest......the >exchange part just prevent eg: you buy the software and I send you, you copy then >send back to me and say it dosent work, nothing fancy, just like selling a Porche >and not letting every Tom, Dick and Hairy drive it. www.nothingtodo.org

22 years, 9 months

Cleaning up the list (was Re: Stanco della solita routine quotidiana??)

by acme_ent＠bellsouth.net

I second the motion -- this is getting ridiculous. I also volunteer to assist in moderation duties. Since I've run out of space, time, and money I have no desire to acquire any more machines, so I won't be tempted try to beat the list out of a fair shot at getting equipment offered by non-subscribers. And while I'm on a roll, here: Doc, how about coughing up the name of the list-member who tried to pull a fast one on you so that the rest of us can know how to deal with this person in future transactions? Kinda like Ebay feedback?? Glen 0/0 ---------- > From: John Allain <allain(a)panix.com> > To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org > Subject: Re: Stanco della solita routine quotidiana?? > Date: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 11:06 AM > > Untitled DocumentChrissakes, no nonsubscribers! > > John A. >

22 years, 9 months

Multiple floppies in one system?

by djenner＠earthlink.net

I'm putting together an old 486 system, one of whose main purposes will be to read/write floppies of several formats. Like 5.25" 360K, 720K, 1.2M, RX50, etc., and 3.5" 720K and 1.44M. I also want to be able to copy RX50s disk to disk on the appropriate drive type. So I figure it'll take 4 drives (or maybe 3 drives where one is a 3.5"/5.25" combo). All of these would be in one enclosure. The question is, how to do this without having to unplug/plug drives every time you want to make a configuration change? It would be nice to just be able to throw a switch or two to re-configure. Not having to get into the enclosure would be nice, too. I've thought of two ways to do it, but I'm not sure they'll work, or if there might not be a better way. 1) Plug all the drives into one control cable and switch on/off the power to the drives to select them. 2) Plug all the drives into one control cable and select the drives by switching a control line on the control cable. Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks, Dave -- David C. Jenner djenner(a)earthlink.net

22 years, 9 months

Windows 3.1 DDK

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

> > Does anyone have the Windows _3.0_ SDK/DDK? > Interesting request... planning on writing any real-mode Windows drivers? -dq

22 years, 9 months

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test-drb February 2002