I like using pieces of aluminum cookie sheets -- right thickness, cuts &
bends easily. Used some to make brackets to mount hard drives over the
motherboard (where a short card would go) in AT&T 6300's so we could put in
a 3.5" floppy and keep the 5.25" floppy.
Bob
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Hellige [mailto:jhellige@earthlink.net]
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 4:01 PM
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: What's your specialty?
> > Velcro... the drive sled of champions.
>
>I like that idea, I'd never thought of it. I'll have to keep it in mind.
>Beats just sitting it in there loose like I do.
I used it to stick a 1" Seagate drive to the side of the case
of my Power Computing Mac-clone when I ran out of actual drive bays.
It worked pretty good!
Jeff
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> ----------
> From: Chris
>
> >Bzzzt! Wrong answer, smart-ass! Everybody knows the answer is duct tape!
> >
> >Now, what about the face plate?
>
> More Duct Tape?
>
> -chris
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon [mailto:jon@slurpee.org]
> pieces for computer parts let me know also, I find a lot of old
> dec/rs6000/hp9000/apple/sgi/next/misc (I dont really like x86
> stuff) so
> let me know and I'll keep my eye out for you.
I'm in need of a monitor cable (b&w, with 19 pins (I think) on
both ends), and a non-adb mouse for a NeXTStation. :)
Please let me know if you run into one of those.
Chris
Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
Amdocs - Champaign, IL
/usr/bin/perl -e '
print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n");
'
> What is a CD sled with screws worth? considering shipping will be
>another $3-$4....
Well.. I just paid $1 each for 7200 sleds from Small Dog... and there is
another vendor I saw selling IIvx sleds for $0.25 each (well... no, I was
TOLD they were selling them at $0.25 each... but I couldn't find them on
the site, or I would have bought some)
So... I would have to say, they aren't worth much.
That being the case... I would like 3 of them :-)
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
> Any idea what the specs are, or the P/N of the backup battery is? I
>have a MP120 that throws an error about the backup battery every time it
>powers up. Works fine, though, and isn't losing data when powered down.
The backup battery only does its thing when the main batteries are dead
(or removed for changing).
It should be a user changable part in the battery compartment. On the 100
and 110 it is just a standard button cell battery (I think I bought my
last replacement one at Rat Shack)
The 110 in front of me uses a CR2032 battery (large button cell, 3v
lithium).
As long as the 120 isn't missing its battery, you should be able to just
remove it and read the numbers off the back of the battery. If it is
missing, it is probably the same battery as the 110, since the 120 was
built around the same design (110, 120 and 130 were all "sister" units...
the OMP and 100 were sisters, and the 2000, 2001 were sisters)
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doc [mailto:doc@mdrconsult.com]
> I see that your Spousal Equivalent has good taste, too. I want the
Well, _I_ think she does. :)
> AT&T and the Tadpole..... I know they're fairly common, but
> the price!
The Tadpoles are pretty common, and coming down into the
three-digit range fully working ;)
Unix PCs are less common. I have one, but she got the original
box with hers ;) (mine has a larger disk, though, and a couple
extra serial ports)
Mine was given to me -- saved from the trash. We paid $20 for
hers, which was still wrapped in plastic and everything. It was
offered to me by a local computer dealer who just happened to
have it setting around in the back of the shop.
Chris
Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
Amdocs - Champaign, IL
/usr/bin/perl -e '
print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n");
'
After reading my own message I realized I should have given some context. The
program was about VENONA, the codebreaking operation which uncovered the
secret of the Soviet Union's atomic success. It included quite a personal
insight into the soviet agents at Los Almos in the 1940s.
In Oregon it will be repeated Thursday evening. I will be earlier than it's
normal time Thursday 9:00 instead of 11:00 PM I believe.
Early in the program they showed how coded messages were keypunched and
sorted on 1940s IBM equipment. I saw no computers. I suspect this is what
they were at the Museum to photograph.
When I had my warehouse I rented equipment to movies. Usually had a set
designer come through and pick out equipment. Then negotiated a price for the
rental. They usually picked it up and returned it. It did not need to be
running equipment, it just had to look good. Generally they took good care of
it. A couple of times they wanted computer equipment to destroy. They did
break a copier once but paid for it quickly and fairly.
It didn't generate a lot of income but it was fun.
Paxton
Astoria, OR
On Feb 6, 6:13, Kris Kirby wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Dave McGuire wrote:
> > You don't need other hardware. I'd send you the pinouts but I don't
> > remember them offhand.
>
> Great. The occasion is that the gentleman with the PDP8 knows it counts
> out of the console port, but doesn't have hardward to do so. I'm going to
> give him a little gift. :)
>
> Anyone know where I can get (2) of those 20MA male connectors?
Not the shells (they're obsolete, unfortunately) but were part ofthe AMP
Mate-N-Lok Commercial range, the same as is used on 5.25" drive connectors.
You can still get the pin inserts and socket inserts, of course.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
Well, like others, I am trying to limit things, and going more for depth
than breadth (ie, not focus on every motherboard revision, but try to get
one system with all docs and peripherals)...
The collection seems to center around a few nexuses (nexii??):
- All-in-one CP/M machines (Kaypro 4, Televideo TS-803, Zenith Z-121,
Northstar Advantage, Osborne 1)
- "Single-board computers" (AIM-65, Big Board, Xerox 820)
- Apple II (IIgs w/ ZIP GSX, High speed SCSI, 4MB RAM, ComputerEyes. A
"killer" IIe w/ 1MB RAM, SCSI Rev. C, CP/M card, Super Serial. A couple of
IIc and IIc+ machines)
- S-100 (Two sweeeeeeeeet CompuPro setups, docs, disks, etc. Also several
misc. motherboards, cards, power supplies, docs.)
- Macintosh is rapidly becoming a nexus, though I am trying to avoid it
(simply for lack of space) ... a Performa 6360 w/ 80MB RAM, 256KB cache,
video in and TV cards, a PaperPort scanner, and a Sylewriter 1200 printer.
Also a Performa 630CD DOS Compatible, several LC IIs, and a Mac Plus w/ 20MB
external Hard Drive.
- Also several oddballs, like a TI-99/4A w/ PEB, a TRS-80 Model III, a
memodyne M-80, a Tandy 102, and a couple of old DOS/WIN 3.1 laptops...
I try to thin things out sometimes(as my occasional free stuff and informal
auction postings to the list will verify), and focus more when I stray.
It's hard, though....
What do I want? heh... an SDK-85 would be nice (I have the docs already), a
Transwarp for the IIe, a 3.5" disk interface card for the IIe, a MEK6800D2
(I have half of one -- keypad and display, and docs), an MECB (??) -- the
Motorola 68000 SBC, w/ "TUTOR" monitor (I have the docs), a G3 upgrade card
for the Performa 6360....
Rich B.
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