>I made a quick mirror of it a couple of years ago when it looked like it
>might vanish. Since Gaby is doing such a good job, I necer saw fit to
>keep the mirror at retroarchive.org updated.
Tim was kind enough at that time to send me his master for that site
on Cdrom... faster than DSL. ;)
Gaby is doing a great job.
Allison
Hello Listers,
Awhile back I scrapped/recycled/trashed an R400X DSSI expansion chassis.
Between the steel back cover a back of the backplane, I found a
plastic sheet, part number 7438980-01 rev. c01g?r0?
The question marks follow guesses on smeared digits....
My question is this:
Could this succesfully be used as an anti-static work surface? It
doesn't seem to attract lint like I would expect, which makes me wonder.
Maybe it was simply to protect the backplane from shorting? Would I
be better off using a sheet of cardboard? It would be nice to have
something to lay cards on while sorting/re-assembling/etc.
Chad Fernandez
Michigan, USA
>(greedy self interest note: anybody know how I can keep a
> copy of the MR trailer on my PC for repeated viewing?)
Rumor has it (haven't gotten around to trying, as most trailers suck
anyway), if it is streamed with QuickTime, and you have the QuickTime 4.0
or earlier player, you can bypass their anti-save ability.
Also, I know a number of the non savable streams become saveable in
QuickTime 5.0 IF it is registered as a Pro version.
Humm... better send Apple's QT team to jail, sounds like they are
releasing software that can bypass copy protection. :-)
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
>
> > PCB boards, cheap dykes of various sizes. I used to have
> ^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> This one was just *too* good to let go past :-)
As you might expect, this requires a lot of social engineering...
;)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Douglas H. Quebbeman" <dquebbeman(a)acm.org>
Date: Thursday, April 4, 2002 10:25 am
Subject: Re: Shoddy Hardware (Was: Re: WW fixtures (was Re: "New" PDP-
8))
> PCB boards, cheap dykes of various sizes. I used to have
^^^^^^^^^^^
This one was just *too* good to let go past :-)
cheers!
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The MPE news group is quite active. A lot of helpful people participate in
that group. The OS documentation is available at docs.hp.com . Hardware
related info is harder to come by.
Good luck,
SteveRob
>From: Frank McConnell <fmc(a)reanimators.org>
>Reply-To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
>To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
>Subject: Re: Anyone know where I can find a FAQ...
>Date: 03 Apr 2002 16:08:35 -0800
>
>Sridhar the POWERful <vance(a)ikickass.org> wrote:
> > ...for MPE/iX?
>
>http://www.3k.com/faq/hpfaqi.html
>
>The HP3000-L mailing list (gatewayed to newsgroup comp.sys.hp.mpe) is
>a good place to ask HP3000-related questions.
>
>-Frank McConnell
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> > Tony,
> > As hard as it may be to envision, I bet _most_ of the subscribers to
> > this list do not own tap & die sets. Many probably own only one hammer,
>
> People here don't have soldering irons, they don't have tap and die sets.
> What the heck do they use to repair computers (;-) in case you're
wondering).
Once upon a time, when I worked as a programmer for an
hourly wage, with time-and-half for overtime, and lived
rent-free, I was able to acquire a reasonable set of
tools, but most of them were for the other hobby, working
on my Audi's.
But I do have a logic probe, a RatShack-labeled Ungar iron,
heating elements up to 43 watts (glows red!), and lots of
TTL parts, etc. No scope, no analyzer, nothing esoteric.
But a breadboard, a manual wirewrap tool, a few spools
of wirewrap, protoboards, some material for making cheap
PCB boards, cheap dykes of various sizes. I used to have
heat sinks, IC pullers, two rechargeable Wahl irons (well,
I still have one).
But now I mostly have a salary that grows 1% behind the
rate of inflation and a mortgage that consumes most of
the cash, with food coming in second.
So, debugging hardware ofen involves totems, incense, etc.
Or lots and lots of "remove and replace"...
;)
Sridhar the POWERful <vance(a)ikickass.org> wrote:
> ...for MPE/iX?
http://www.3k.com/faq/hpfaqi.html
The HP3000-L mailing list (gatewayed to newsgroup comp.sys.hp.mpe) is
a good place to ask HP3000-related questions.
-Frank McConnell
From: Douglas H. Quebbeman <dquebbeman(a)acm.org>
>The Hazeltine 2000 is a 1972-era computer terminal. It used core
>memory, but did not have a microprocesor, and therefore, no
>software.
>
>So at least the Hazeltine did it in hardware.
As did the VT52 and a slew of others.
>When you'd turn it back on, it usually lost some bits, but you
>would always bring up the last screen that had been displayed,
>if someone didn't explicitly clear it. Not the kind of terminal
>to use in secure installtions...
Later ones had a power on circuit to effectively punch the clear button.
Allison
