test-drb April 2002

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by dwightk.elvey＠amd.com

>From: "Hans B Pufal" <hansp(a)aconit.org> > >On last thing for tonight, you can download the latest version of the >text file at www.aconit.org/hbp/AIM65/monitor.txt > >Good night folks, > > -- hbp > > That's no fair, your picking all the small ones but you missed page 13. Dwight

22 years, 8 months

NEC V20 and Rainbow (was: NEC V-20 was: Native CP/M)

by acme_ent＠bellsouth.net

> From: Lawrence Walker <lgwalker(a)mts.net> > I keep hoping I'll find a cheap stash of V-20s to use on about 3 or 4 of my > boxes, altho they come up fairly reasonable on EPay from time to time. Is US $2.95 reasonable? Jameco sells this ancient IC. Glen 0/0

22 years, 8 months

missing chips on "new" UNIBUS boards ...

by gunther＠aurora.regenstrief.org

Hi, gee, in my zealous bargain-hunts I keep being burned. Two bad CPUs before and now I thought I had a bargain with two UDA50 sets another KFQSA and a DEUNA set. However, as I unpacked yesterday, I noticed that the KFQSA was missing one socketed chip (approx 40 pin DIL, black right in the middle.) Also, one of the UDA50 boards the M7.65 I think is missing a whole set of 10 or so socketed chips all of equal size on the side. My hope is that those are ROMs that may not be needed unless booting from KFQSA or DEUNA is required, but that's a very remote hope. Can they be replaced? Probably makes no sense. grrr, -Gunther -- 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

NeXT (Almost-up-and-running-now) Laser Printer

by csmith＠amdocs.com

> -----Original Message----- > From: Dave McGuire [mailto:mcguire@neurotica.com] > little green plastic tool with a strangely-shaped felt tip stuck into After reading this again, I find myself if the "strangely-shaped felt tip" is anything like the "strange flavored chicken" I always see on the menus of oriental restaurants... Chris Christopher Smith, Perl Developer Amdocs - Champaign, IL /usr/bin/perl -e ' print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n"); '

22 years, 8 months

The Unit

by csmith＠amdocs.com

> -----Original Message----- > From: Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) [mailto:cisin@xenosoft.com] > I'm sorry, and it's not very considerate on my part, but I have little > sympathy for those who want their mass produced recent model > computer to > end up as a TERAZuse! My thinking was more along the lines of a Zuse1 being in the TeraZuse range... The problem is that it would need to have a really strong curve to make modern windows boxen end up in the fractional AttoZuse range where they belong. ;) Chris Christopher Smith, Perl Developer Amdocs - Champaign, IL /usr/bin/perl -e ' print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n"); '

22 years, 8 months

One-upsmanship (was: Secret Mac

by mmcfadden＠cmh.edu

Sellam says >If a formula for determining classic computer cool factor gets finalized, >I'd like to create a calculator script on the VCF website so that people >can enter their parameters and have their score automatically computed. > >We need a unit or label for this number. How about CCU = Classic Computer Units Mike

22 years, 8 months

AIM-65 displays

by dwightk.elvey＠amd.com

>Hi > I have dibbs on page 56 ( I'm a little lazy ). >Dwight > > > There, that wasn't so bad ;) Dwight I/O SUBROUTINES PA00-J001A......PAGE 0056 LINE # LOC CODE LINE 2764 F2BB 4C 8B F2 JMP ROUT1 ;RESTORES REGS 2765 F2BE EA NOP 2766 F2BF EA 2768 F2C0 ;SET SPEED FROM NORMAL TO 3 TIMES NORMAL 2769 F2C0 AD 08 A4 SETSPD LDA TSPEED ;SPEED FLG 2770 F2C3 6A ROR A ;NORMAL OR 3* NORM 2771 F2C4 A0 0C LDA #12 2772 F2C6 90 02 BCC SETSP1 2773 F2C8 A9 04 LDA #4 2774 F2CA 8D 0A A4 SETSP1 STA NPUL 2775 F2CD A9 12 LDA #18 2776 F2CF 90 02 BCC SETSP2 2777 F2D1 A9 06 LDA #6 2778 F2D3 8D 0C A4 SETSP2 STA TIMG+1 2779 F2D6 60 RTS 2780 F2D7 .FILE A3/2

22 years, 8 months

NeXT (Almost-up-and-running-now) Laser Printer

by csmith＠amdocs.com

> -----Original Message----- > From: Erik S. Klein [mailto:classiccmp@mail.vintage-computer.com] > If the printer you have is the NeXT 400 dpi unit (I don't > have the model number in front of me) then I picked up > several from the gentleman who was selling them cheap in the > Bay Area. If you need one for spares or as a replacement > I'll be happy to sell it for what I paid for it ($15) plus > shipping. The ones I have are in excellent (untested) shape > with some looking almost new. . . Well, thanks for the offer. We'll see what happens here. I'm still hopeful of getting it fixed, and if not, I may be able to get a replacement locally. I happen to know (from the guy who runs the place) that the local scrapyard is overrun with these ;) Chris Christopher Smith, Perl Developer Amdocs - Champaign, IL /usr/bin/perl -e ' print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n"); '

22 years, 8 months

NeXT (Almost-up-and-running-now) Laser Printer

by csmith＠amdocs.com

Ok, I reset the netinfo database -- now as soon as I can get it to give me a login prompt again instead of kicking me into the 'me' account at boot I'll be in business there, but my NeXT b&w laser printer is somewhat cranky. Having not been used for years, I can see how this might be... Here are it's problems: Paper feed roller doesn't like to work well all the time. I'm certain that this problem comes from the printer setting too long, and making an indentation in the rubber on the roller. Has anyone had success in repairing this kind of thing? The printouts have black in the wrong places sometimes; fused, but -- well, basically it looks like a bad photocopy :) Sometimes the misplaced ink will have an imprint from another part of the same page, or from the previous page. There are also "splotches" of white here and there in the good printouts where there should be some toner. I imagine something may be dirty, but not knowing a lot about laser printers (aside from keep away from the fuser when it's operating...), I don't' know where to start looking, nor would I necessarily know how to clean things up if I found the right spot. Any ideas? Chris Christopher Smith, Perl Developer Amdocs - Champaign, IL /usr/bin/perl -e ' print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n"); '

22 years, 8 months

NeXT (Almost-up-and-running-now) Laser Printer

by cdl＠proxima.ucsd.edu

> From: Christopher Smith <csmith(a)amdocs.com> > To: "Classiccmp (E-mail)" <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org> > Subject: NeXT (Almost-up-and-running-now) Laser Printer > Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 09:25:54 -0500 > > Ok, I reset the netinfo database -- now as soon as I can > get it to give me a login prompt again instead of kicking > me into the 'me' account at boot I'll be in business there, As the user "me" give yourself a password. You can do this in the standard Unix way from a terminal window command line, or with the "Preferences" GUI. Then log out. This will activate the GUI login window. Now log in as root, and give root a password. > but my NeXT b&w laser printer is somewhat cranky. > Having not been used for years, I can see how this might > be... > > Here are its problems: > > Paper feed roller doesn't like to work well all the time. > > I'm certain that this problem comes from the printer setting > too long, and making an indentation in the rubber on the > roller. Has anyone had success in repairing this kind of > thing? See < http://www.channelu.com/NeXT/Black/Laser/index.html >. For that matter, look at the whole site, it is full of NeXT information. Also look around at < http://www.peak.org/~luomat/ > which is another repository of NeXT information. carl -- carl lowenstein marine physical lab u.c. san diego clowenstein(a)ucsd.edu

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test-drb April 2002