test-drb February 2002

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1043 discussions

by alan.pearson＠cramer.com

My speciality is Xerox workstations... which is an effective way of controlling the collection too because they're impossible to find in the UK :-) Al.

22 years, 10 months

What's your specialty?

by mhstein＠canada.com

I'm not what you'd call a collector, just someone who until recently never threw out anything from my 40 years on and off in the computer biz; now that I am finally cleaning out & disposing of the accumulated treasures, I'm probably spending more time on it than if I _were_ a 'collector'. 'Specialties' are: Cromemco S100 systems, boards, manuals, tech notes, newsletters, brochures, price lists & software; -decommissioned or spare inventory from years of selling & supporting them in the 80s & 90s. Terminals (Falco, L-S, &c) to go with the above. AIM65 Boards & docs, also from years of using & supporting them in an industrial application. Several CBM PETs & boxes of VIC-20 & C64 units, accessories, docs & parts. Boxes & piles of PCs & clones of various description; lots of obscure & obsolete cards for same, and of course printers & monitors as well. And quite a few boxes/shelves of equally obscure & obsolete MS-DOS & WIN software. Some of this stuff is spoken for as soon as I get it all sorted & checked out (especially the AIM65s), and to those of you still waiting, thanks for your patience (of course it just gets more valuable every day :-). Lotsa stuff still waiting for a new home though... mike

22 years, 10 months

What's your specialty (was: Taking control...)

by Arno_1983＠gmx.de

Yesss, very interesting topic right away...of course, most of you are away >from home already and so don't have to argue with their disapproving parents, like me... I'm not yet specialized to anything (read: still grabbing all sorts of junk), but the inrush is somewhat limited by me only taking what I can get *really for free*. I'm still at school and don't get enough pocket money to throw it out for such stuff, too... This applies not only to classic (and not-yet-classic) computers, but also to typewriters, mech calculators, audio equipment and all the various other electronic stuff (mainly as a parts source). Everything that is small enough to fit into a banana box is stuffed into 'em and stacked in a small storage area behind my room, boxes numbered and inventory stored on my PC... I'd really love to have room for some bigger rackmounted equipment, so maybe I'm going to call the proprietor of a detoriating house I've located nearby if he'll let me in for some cleaning-up and garden work. So long, and wish me luck... Arno Kletzander Arno_1983(a)gmx.de -- GMX - Die Kommunikationsplattform im Internet. http://www.gmx.net

22 years, 10 months

Ever create more work than it was worth?

by fernande＠internet1.net

I was bending a cd-r because for some reason I wanted too. I had the tips almost touching each other when it broke. I now have created something I have to vacuum :-( It was kind of cool seeing all the coating flake off :-) I didn't know it would do that :-) The coating isn't dangerous like that is it? Chad Fernandez Michigan, USA

22 years, 10 months

What's your specialty?

by mythtech＠Mac.com

>I've had no stability issues with 7.1 -- all of my classic Macs, except the >SE/30 and the Plus which run 6.0.8, run it. Ahh... my "Classic" Macs don't run 7 of any varient, I keep them all at 6 for the most part (I do have a 7.1 bootable external HD so I can run it when I need it on them). >7.5.2 really soured me on 7.5.x. :-/ Oh... that explains it. 7.5.2, and 7.5.3 were some of the buggiest crap around. But they got it mostly right with 7.5.5 (which really was nothing more than a big bug fix for 7.5.3... there isn't even a 7.5.5 installer... just .3 and a .5 updater) >Why not just go "all the way" to 7.6.1 if you're using 7.5.x? Cause I hate 7.6 and 7.6.1... I have found it too unstable for my tastes. That and on older Macs (020, 030... since I don't do no 7.x with 000s, and 040s I run 8.1) run at a snails pace with 7.6.1, but 7.5.5 runs fine, and takes up less ram, and less HD space (most of the machines I use it on are lucky if they have an 80mb drive... 7.5.5 kills only 12-20mb depending on options... 7.6.1 starts at 25mb usually and can go as high as 30-40 with options) Oh yeah... another reason I use 7.5.5 over 7.1... open transport (I knew there was another reason) OT 1.1.1 is usually bare minimum for decent mac internet use... and that wants 7.5.3 (but we already know 5.3 sucks, so I use 5.5) -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

22 years, 10 months

Xircom parallel port Ethernet?

by jfoust＠threedee.com

Does anyone have a need for these? I have a small pile of PE3-10BT with power supply wall wart and phantom keyboard power adapter. Contact me via private e-mail. - John

22 years, 10 months

Working with useful computers (was: What's your specialty?)

by LFessen106＠aol.com

In a message dated Wed, 6 Feb 2002 9:16:18 PM Eastern Standard Time, Dave McGuire <mcguire(a)neurotica.com> writes: > On February 6, R. D. Davis wrote: > > of curiosity, how many others here absolutely refuse to work for an > > employer requiring one to work with those confounded annoyances called > > Micro$oft products? > > Me. > > -Dave I would like to say that but in all reality I make a lot of money off of Microsoft products - fixing them. I mean think about it - if the world ran unix, there would be a lot less money to be made reinstalling operating systems. -Linc.

22 years, 10 months

RJ45 to serial DE-9

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Feb 6, 18:39, Curt Vendel wrote: > I was referring to the colors inside of the DB hood, not the rj45 cable > itself which can vary from anything from orange, orange/white, green > green/white, blue blue/white, brown, brown/white for most cat5 cabling The Cat.5 (and Cat3,4,5e,6) cables are required to be standard colours. > to the various red,green,yellow,read,blue,white,brown,grey for others like the > flat or silk cables from Cisco, and other manufactures. There is a USOC (I think) standard for those flat cables. If Cisco don't follow it, they're buying cable from an odd place :-) The two points I was making are (1) there is no standard for the colours of the cable inside the hood, so noting which colours go to which pins isn't a good way to specify it, and (2) there's no standard mapping of RJ45 pins to DE9 pins either. There's a good chance what you wrote would work, as it *appears* to be one of the common arrangements, at least as far as the Tx and Rx lines are concerned, but there's also a good chance it won't. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

22 years, 10 months

PDP8 Terminal info?

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Feb 6, 23:04, Tony Duell wrote: > 7) There's no real standard for current loop wiring or connectors, > although DEC were consistent with their use of the 8 pin mate-n-lock. > > > (PS: Terminals are Wyse-85 and DEC VT220) > I can't comment on the Wyse. If the connector is the flat 8 pin > Mate-n-Lock, then it should work. Normally if that connector is used then > it'll follow DEC's pinout I imagine it does. I have a Wyse 65, and it has the flat Mate-N-Lok with DEC's pinout. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

22 years, 10 months

Working with useful computers (was: What's your specialty?)

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

On February 6, R. D. Davis wrote: > of curiosity, how many others here absolutely refuse to work for an > employer requiring one to work with those confounded annoyances called > Micro$oft products? Me. -Dave -- Dave McGuire St. Petersburg, FL "Less talk. More synthohol." --Lt. Worf

22 years, 10 months

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test-drb February 2002