test-drb March 2002

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List Management; Was Big African Grifters

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

> Today is March 15, 2002. The latest post available from the online > archives is dated November 30, 2001. That's a hell of a lag. I can't really quite imagine what all must be involved in being part owner of a company, then having to pull out, and either hustle to find a job, or start another company... I'd think you'd want a little safety cushion... At any rate, I'd have thought that by now, he'd have been somewhat settled in... but with the downturn, he might well be having trouble. Bear in mind he's providing the hosting as well as being list owner. Anyone wanting a change of status quo needs to consider we could easliy lay this one someone else who might drop it a month later... -dq

22 years, 9 months

Any information on Genrad 2620?

by dan＠ekoan.com

Is anyone familiar with a Genrad 2620? There's one at a local surplus warehouse but I can't seem to find anything informative via Google. It's a "Field Service Processor" or something like that, with a fold-down keyboard and a built-in CRT. I can get pictures if it helps, but I'm hoping that someone familiar with the unit would let me know if it's worth picking up. Cheers, Dan

22 years, 9 months

urgent business/investment deal

by jpl15＠panix.com

What's kinda amusing about this is that various gullible/clueless folks have actually sent substantial money to these clowns like these - of course this is a fairly old and well-known scam that comes from several African (and other) sources in the region. Financial Darwinism in action! Cheers John Death to SPAM, but don't restrict the List. My $.02

22 years, 9 months

Semi-OT: PMac 6100 DOS

by mythtech＠mac.com

>I've never heard these called "video dongles", and while they don't >come in the package with the 6100 DOS board, the manual says it's >needed, shows its picture, and says it comes with the computer in >which you're trying to install the board. Well.. there are two different video "adaptors" that were being refered to in that thread. One is the HDI-45 to RGB adaptor, that came with all the "AV" powermacs that had the AV video port. I think that was limited to the 6100, 7100, 8100 series (but may have included others). This was needed to connect a standard RGB monitor to the HDI-45 AV video connector. Or, Apple prefered you bought an AV monitor that plugged directly into the port and provided video, audio, ADB, and for some reason I think color calibration (but I might be wrong on the last one). The other "adaptor" or dongle that was being refered to, is the Video Loopback connector for the DOS cards. The two DOS card styles I have (the "Houdini" from the Q610, and the later PC Compatability cards for the PCI Powermacs), required a video cable that plugged from the DB-26 port on the DOS card, looped into the RGB port on the Mac, and had an output for RGB. It enabled you to use one monitor for both DOS and Mac, or if you don't connect the loop to the Mac's RGB, you could use two monitors, one for each world. Also, the Q610 version provided a Joystick/Game/Midi port. That port was not on the cable for the PCI version, as the Game/Midi port was right on the DOS card. The question that seems to have come up is, does the 6100 DOS card have that loopback connector at all? The PCI DOS cards can either use the the external loop connector... OR an internal connector for Macs that support it (you need the GIMO slot, which many of the PCI Powermacs had). There is a possibility the 6100 card does something similar. But, if the 6100 DOS card needs the cable, is most definitly should have come with it. The Q610 came with it, and the PCI cards came with both the internal AND external cables as far as I am aware (I have never bought a PCI one new... two of mine came installed in a 4400 from Apple, and included the external, but not internal cable, and my 3rd came installed in a used 7200 with an internal, but not external... but the eBay ads I have seen for boxed ones, always say they have both internal and external cables, and since you need one or the other cable, and Apple had no way of knowing which PCI Powermac you planned to use it with, it would have made sense to include both styles) -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

22 years, 9 months

DEC distribution tapes - VAX vs RISC

by PeksaDO＠Cardiff.ac.uk

Sorry about the HTML - I have now discovered a difference between Pegasus mail V3 and Pegasus mail v4 - V3 worked properly, V4 puts ****ing HTML everywhere ****ing where. Apologies Doug.

22 years, 9 months

Orange donation

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

> Yesterday we visited Computer Solutions in Orange, NJ and were given a > lovely HP3000 Series 70. It's a large, but very lovely beastie and so > far, at least, remarkably tractable. Also in the load were boxes of > paper tape, tape reader , full 3000 docs and an HP2108. They also gave > us an Apollo 400 system, server and 6 workstations. Very nice people, > and aa lovely donation. Without a doubt... say, was this from inventory (stuff they sell), or something they once-uon-a-time used? -dq

22 years, 9 months

Semi-OT: PMac 6100 DOS

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

> Well.. there are two different video "adaptors" that were > being refered to in that thread. [..snip..] > The question that seems to have come up is, does the 6100 DOS card have > that loopback connector at all? The PCI DOS cards can either use the the > external loop connector... OR an internal connector for Macs that support > it (you need the GIMO slot, which many of the PCI Powermacs had). There > is a possibility the 6100 card does something similar. There is a cable with three or four connectors attached to it; I assume this is what you're referring to. The package is complete, the packing list is still there, I can bring it in tomorrow and scan it. Regards, -dq

22 years, 9 months

[GreenKeys] News item for WC2XPF (fwd)

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

> Gonna go Google this, but I was pretty sure Ralph Bemer invented ^^^^^ Bob, Bob, Bob, Bob (second time this year I've done this!) -dq

22 years, 9 months

[GreenKeys] News item for WC2XPF (fwd)

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

> John F. Auwaerter, 76, of Park Ridge, was a pioneer in the > telecommunications industry who was instrumental in the development of > the American Standard Code for Information Interchange, or the ASCII > computer language. Shades of Al Gore, this "I was first" disease knows no boundaries... Gonna go Google this, but I was pretty sure Ralph Bemer invented ASCII .... -dq

22 years, 9 months

Need Best Z-80 Disassembler

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Mar 15, 11:09, Douglas Quebbeman wrote: > I have a few disassembler stored on some archive > somewhere. But on the chance that a lister might > know of a more modern Z-80 disassembler than what > I'm likely to have, I thought I'd post a query. I use dz80, which you can find at http://www.inkland.org/dz80/index.htm I see the current version is 2.0 (March 2002), but I use 1.31 (June 1999). Actually, I made a few small changes to make the unix version work more like other unix software (mostly to do with option letters and arguments, which were strange and DOS-like in the original, and to allow use of hex and octal in addresses and output, plus a couple of bugfixes for long jumps). -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

22 years, 9 months

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