test-drb April 2002

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by vance＠ikickass.org

Hello. I am questing again, for the following parts: IBM RS/6000 7250 attachment adapter for MCA. This is the card that you hook a POWER GXT1000 graphics system into. IBM 6091-023 23" monitor. I actually want more than one, but one will do splendidly for the moment. Peace... Sridhar

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Secret Mac

by csmith＠amdocs.com

> -----Original Message----- > From: Sridhar the POWERful [mailto:vance@ikickass.org] > Shred the disks. Take the even numbered and odd numbered > shreds and burn > them in separate incinerators, and bury the ash in two different > landfills. No, I've got it. Slag the disks, and then make the slag into 20 pieces of cursed jewelry. Three Platters for the Elven-kings under the sky Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die, One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne In the land of Mordor where the Shadows lie. One Platter to rule them all, One Platter to find them, One Platter to bring them all and in the darkness bind them, In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie. Chris Christopher Smith, Perl Developer Amdocs - Champaign, IL /usr/bin/perl -e ' print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n"); '

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AIM-65 displays

by dwightk.elvey＠amd.com

>From: blacklord <blacklord(a)telstra.com> > >Hi Dick, > >> I'll have a look to see whether I have any ROM listings. I >> thought I did, >> but, well ... they say the mind's the second thing to go ... can't >> rememberthe first ... >> > >The AIM is pretty similar to the KIM-1 no ? (I may be mistaken) The >KIM's ROM dissasembly is pretty freely available, I have a version that >was suppied with a text file on how to build your own using current >chips. > -----Snip------ Not even close! They both use 6502's. That is about where the similarities end. The KIM was a hex readout. The AIM is an alpha/numb readout. The AIM runs a printer in parallel with the display. The KIM has a small key pad, the AIM had a full keyboard. I could pull my chip and disassemble it but someone else could deal with putting comments on the code. I'll look at my AIM stuff tonight and see if they had any listing for the monitor. It seems like they only had entry points but that would be helpful in figuring it out. Dwight

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OT: Writing floppies on PC; Was Re: Guys take a look

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

On April 19, Doc Shipley wrote: > > > WHAT is M$ doing that operating a floppy disk drive takes ALL of a > > > 1.4GHz CPU and 512M of memory? I wanna know! > > > > That was one of the things IBM bragged about in the OS/2 2.0 ads. That > > you could continue with your word processor while you formatted a floppy. > > Windows could not even come close at the time. > > I already knew that every other OS that runs on PC does it right. I'd > like to know how M$ got it so horribly wrong.... They're not exactly known for knowing what they're doing. To steal a phrase from my grandmother, those guys "couldn't pour piss out of a boot with the instructions written on the side". -Dave -- Dave McGuire "Mmmm. Big." St. Petersburg, FL -Den

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Who needed the Compaq Deskpro 286 "softPaQ" link? Here it is...

by rhb57＠vol.com

Found this in my bookmarks from the last one I had to reload: http://www.compaq.com/support/files/obsolete_diagnostics.html

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20mA serial cable connector

by uban＠ubanproductions.com

I'm looking for a supply of the uncommon DEC 20mA current loop male connector shells used to plug into DEC VT100s, Wyse 85s, and the like. It is also used to plug into the H744 (and other) power supplies. The DEC part number is 12-09340-00 which might also be a Mate-N-Lock 1-480460-0 I would like to find 12-24 of them. I am assuming that if I can find the shells, I can find a pin from either AMP or Molex which will work. --tom

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ASR33 print head

by chd＠nktelco.net

Is there a source for new(er) ASR33 print heads? Mine has many of the characters worn/damaged. -chuck

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No such thing as scrap (Was: Re: The Unit (was: One-upsmanship (was: Secret Mac))")

by dquebbeman＠acm.org

> "Douglas H. Quebbeman" wrote: > > > > > Hans Franke wrote: > > > > > > > Well, for stand alone machines i'd say yes. Alas you may > > > > include necersary perhipherals. Like operators desk and > > > > so on. But only necersary - a Zuse doesn't work without > > > > the operator desk, while a average unix box quite well > > > > boots without console terminal. > > > > > > > BTW: who cares about PC boxes ? > > > > > > My PC jumps up and bites you in the LEG. Down BOY Down DOWN! > > > > Clearly, your PC hasn't been smacked with an Etherkiller lately... > > > > Curb that dog, son! > > Generally the 28k baud serial cable keeps him under control. > There is still a lot of things that only run under windows, games for > example ( or Free FPGA software) that linux just does not have yet. > Anyway lets not forget that in 10 years err 1 year your new pc will be > outdated any how and heading to the dumpster soon. The last computer equipment I sent to the junkyard were pieces and parts of an IBM 711 Card Reader and 716 Line Printer that I could kick myself over. Before that, I stripped the switches and LEDS from a control panel from a System/36. Now one's on sale on E-Pay starting at about $40.... *NOTHING* gets trashed anymore. Not even those XT mobos I can't *currently* think of any use for... -dq

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AS/400s in the Champaign area

by csmith＠amdocs.com

Ok guys, it seems I messed up in the last message. I've just found something that says that the "9406" on this machine -- "machine type" as they call it -- really doesn't tell you a thing about the CPU being RISC or CISC. So I give up, how _do_ you tell? :) Chris Christopher Smith, Perl Developer Amdocs - Champaign, IL /usr/bin/perl -e ' print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n"); '

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Tinnerman nuts

by DAW＠yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu

> From: Ethan Dicks > > --- David Woyciesjes <DAW(a)yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu> wrote: > > Carl --- > > That's close, but what I'm looking for clips around the rails, not > > into the hole, which is round. This looks almost exactly like it, at the > > bottom of the page... > > "Palnut Multi-Thread U-Nut" > > http://www.tt-ec.com/showcase/retaining/palunut.html > > ..that's it, I think... > > That doesn't exactly resemble the ones I'm used to seeing - as mentioned, > the difference appears to be "bolt" vs "screw" fastening. > > > > From: Carl Lowenstein > > > > > > You would be happier with the type of fastener that uses real machine > > > screws rather than the sheet-metal type screws that some racks have. > > > There is a nice picture of them on the Tinnerman Web site at > > > > > > < http://www.tt-ec.com/showcase/nutbolt/nutretcat.html > > > I've used plenty of these with modern racks, but since DEC racks have > round mounting holes, not square, the rack-mount nuts I have more > closely resemble these - > > http://www.tt-ec.com/showcase/nutbolt/utype.html > > ... but with a u-shaped cutout to snap into place in a round hole. > > -ethan > Not surprised that DEC used different fasteners. Here is a larger pic of what my fasteners looks like... http://www.tt-ec.com/graphics/showcase/retaining/palunutmt.gif ... and it uses Philips-head screws for the mounting. I'll try some of the auto/body shops around here, see if I can get a decent price, otherwise Graybar (down the street from my house) should have something... --- David A Woyciesjes --- C & IS Support Specialist --- Yale University Press --- mailto:david.woyciesjes@yale.edu --- (203) 432-0953 --- ICQ # - 905818 Mac OS X 10.1.2 - Darwin Kernel Version 5.2: Fri Dec 7 21:39:35 PST 2001 Running since 01/22/2002 without a crash

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test-drb April 2002