test-drb March 2002

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by acme_ent＠bellsouth.net

> From: Curt Vendel <curt(a)atarimuseum.com> > Back before Christmas I worked out a deal with Jeff Worley: > > Jeffrey S. Worley > Asheville, NC USA > 828-6984887 > UberTechnoid(a)Home.com I'm sorry to learn you were ripped off. Thanks for the heads-up. Glen 0/0

22 years, 8 months

DEC field veterans: what's KA64A's self test #21?

by gunther＠aurora.regenstrief.org

Hi, do you know what the KA64A's self test #21 is? I have two of these boards that just won't come up, they both stop at #123456789 0123456789 01 which means that test #21 fails. Even when I put these boards in a collective with 4 other KA64As that at least complete the system self test and get me to a console prompt, I get the error that these two boards didn't get to console mode. What could be wrong here? Thanks for your help! -Gunther PS: Frederik, those are the boards that were ment to go to you. This is bad news. I hope it is just some nasty configuration problem. What exact ROM and EEPROM revisions do you need? -- 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, 8 months

Turbo BASIC (was Re: QL (was: ZX-81 Question))

by acme_ent＠bellsouth.net

> From: Richard Erlacher <edick(a)idcomm.com> > I'm quite comfortable that I have the file sets, but as far as the original > diskettes ... I don't know. I recall that I've got v1.0. That was on only > one diskette, IIRC. > > That will easily fit in a zip file and fly via the 'net, I'd imagine. > > That will leave me some time to hunt for the originals. Thanks again! Glen 0/0

22 years, 8 months

ZX81 and 6116

by acme_ent＠bellsouth.net

> From: Hans Franke <Hans.Franke(a)mch20.sbs.de> > I think Pete is right here. there was a wire you had to add if > you used a 4118 (or 6116) instead of the 2114s. I have to grab > the kit documentation to veryfy this. After checking the schematic I find that there is a link. "Use L1 for 1K RAM, use L2 for 2K RAM." This tells me that when a 4118 or two 2114s are used (or a 6116???) there is no need to change the jumper -- it's only required when using a 2KB 2016 or equivalent. > Digging thru my ZX Stuff I found an _original_ "ZX81 2-K RAM" Kit *G* > Well, it is at least original over here, since it has been sold by ISS, > the official distributor of ZX81 stuff in Germany. Wow -- did you ever use the kit? > The kit konsists of a 24 pin socket and a NEC D446C-2 RAM I'd guess this is the same as the 2016, and that you need to change the link to L2 for it to work. Glen 0/0

22 years, 8 months

Burroughs Tape drive on ebay

by Innfogra＠aol.com

Heads up Minnesota or those in the area. Found this filed under photo stock. Not only was it miss categorized but the owner has no idea what it is. Four days to go. It looks like a Portable R to R tape drive for an early Burroughs Computerized Accounting Machines. (Looking at the styling) http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1341100641 A great collectable but it is heavy. If anyone contacts the owner I would be interested in what interface it has in it? I am not at all interested in the drive but I know it is fairly rare now. Paxton Astoria, OR

22 years, 8 months

Unix disk images and archiving

by cdl＠proxima.ucsd.edu

> Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 18:03:26 -0500 > To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org > From: Jeff Hellige <jhellige(a)earthlink.net> > Subject: Re: Unix disk images and archiving > Sender: owner-classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org > Reply-To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org > > >When I got my 68040 Cube upgrade kit it came with a motherboard and an > >OD of NeXTstep 2.0, and a NeXT SIMM-puller tool. And some instructions > >about the sequence in which to change things. All this information is > >coming out of my occasionally fallible memory. But I'm sure that I was > >using NS 2.0 and 2.1 long before I had a CD reader. > > Thanks for correcting me on that. Unfortunately, I've still > not gotten NS 3.3 to reformat the DOS-formatted MO disks in my > Pinnacle Sierra, even with the disktab entries that James provided. > It appears to read them fine, as well as writing small text files to > them, but it won't initialize them either from the Worksapce or a > shell. Yes. NeXTstep does not have the software drivers to build new raw DOS file systems. Except on floppy disks, where the file structure is much simpler. What there is lives in /usr/filesystems. I suppose that nowadays you could attach your SCSI MO drive to a Linux system and build a DOS file system there. There is a software package "dosfstools". Reading through again, if you want to reformat a MO disk from DOS to NeXT, what I remember as the magic recipe is first to format it as a Macintosh file system. Then you can make a NeXT-format disk out of it. carl

22 years, 8 months

Fw: Apple Part # for IIgs SCSI card

by mythtech＠mac.com

>I know for a fact that the HIGH Speed card works wonderfully in a IIGS as I >have one in mine. Thanks, now to see if the guy has one left, and if I can afford it. -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

22 years, 8 months

It saddens me to do this....

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

On March 27, Jeffrey Sharp wrote: > > let this be a warning to all to stay clear of him as he had more then > > ample time to have squared this deal with me or return my money to me. > > Sorry to hear that. I hope nothing bad has happened to him. Just for the > record, I had a successful transaction with Mr. Worley last summer. My item > was exactly as described, well packed, and shipped promptly. I've never done business with him, but I will say that I'd been exchanging email with him around the end of December...he was going to get me an OS/2 distribution that I'd been looking for. His emails stopped abruptly in mid-conversation, and I've seen nothing from him since, in any forum. I hope he's ok. I'm also very sorry to hear that Curt's deal went south. :-( -Dave -- Dave McGuire "...it's leaving me this unpleasant, St. Petersburg, FL damp feeling on my shorts..." -Sridhar

22 years, 8 months

Turbo BASIC (was Re: QL (was: ZX-81 Question))

by ajp166＠bellatlantic.net

I happen to use MS QB4.5/dos at work for test systems. This version supports all the high level structures and variable scopes that HLL like Pascal or C would. It's NOT a weak light weight BASIC. It does produce fast, low ram load executeables (.exe) for dos environments and has proven very robust and easy to use. My beef with BASIC is especially the older versions with GOTO laden code can easily be a bowl of long pasta to decode. However, I've seen people do same with Fortran, ALGOL, Pascal and even C. Allison {my native language is ASM.} -----Original Message----- From: Richard Erlacher <edick(a)idcomm.com> To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org> Date: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 9:13 AM Subject: Re: Turbo BASIC (was Re: QL (was: ZX-81 Question)) >Unfortunately, the generalized tendency to "beat up" BASIC as a language for >micros, back in the late '70's and '80's, by those promoting the newer >"block-structured" languages, makes people look askance at work done in BASIC. >I had a partner who was quite adept at BASIC programming and put together a >very functional mail order/inventory control/accounts-receivable/payable >package in about a week. Within a second week, consisting of probably five >visits in seven days, he got it working very well in-situ, and our customer >liked it so well, that he bought two computers (which we were pressed to >provide, not being in the retail businsess) just to support his then growing >business. > >I've found basic to be a handy tool, and, though it doesn't easily support >programming in the large, it does allow getting things done here and now. It >has lots of features, most of which I haven't ever been pressed to use, and >can do anything your computer can support, up to a point. If only I had a >dime for each time I used it to do a quick calculation ... > >Dick >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Jeff Hellige" <jhellige(a)earthlink.net> >To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org> >Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 7:28 AM >Subject: Re: Turbo BASIC (was Re: QL (was: ZX-81 Question)) > > >> >You can buy the latest incarnation of Turbo BASIC, called Power >> >Basic. It's pretty neat. >> >> I've been using PowerBasic since '90 or so and really like >> it. The later versions include things that the first version, which >> is what I have, did not. I've written fairly complex >> database/accounting packages with it and those packages were roughly >> 1/7 the size of a similar package written using the application >> generator in Foxbase or similar. >> >> Jeff >> -- >> Home of the TRS-80 Model 2000 FAQ File >> http://www.cchaven.com >> http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/lakes/6757 >> >> > >

22 years, 8 months

DEC 3000-600

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

On March 27, Christopher Smith wrote: > > I know I made out with a steal - he had no idea what it was :) > > > What kind of OS's are available besides NetBSD or Linux... Is there a > > version of VMS or Ultrix that'll work? Also, I didn't get a > > This is the TurboChannel Alpha, right? Last I heard, NetBSD > didn't support TurboChannel -- or was that Linux, but it's been > a while. NetBSD has supported turbochannel on alpha and pmax since the dawn of time. I've run it on many 3000-series machines...it will give you no trouble. -Dave -- Dave McGuire "...it's leaving me this unpleasant, St. Petersburg, FL damp feeling on my shorts..." -Sridhar

22 years, 8 months

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