test-drb April 2002

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Seeking Interest in Group Purchase, Avery Magtape Labels

by cdl＠proxima.ucsd.edu

> From: "Douglas H. Quebbeman" <dquebbeman(a)acm.org> > To: "ClassicCmp List" <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org> > Subject: Seeking Interest in Group Purchase, Avery Magtape Labels > Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 14:28:34 -0400 > > Hey- > > Avery still lists labels for 9-track tapes, assuming that's > what these are: > > Tape Reel High Speed Computer Labels > 3-7/8" x 1-13/16", White, Dot Matrix, > Removable, 5000 labels per box > 04052 5000 Labels per Box $139.15 > > If there are just ten people on the list who'd have use > for 500 labels, it's close to fifteen bucks per person. > > OTOH, is anyone sitting on a stash of them? I found a > sheet with precisely three labels, and I've quite a > few more tapes than that... Check to see if the adhesive still sticks to anything. My long-term experience with tape-reel labels is that the "permanent' adhesive lets go after 10 years or so, leaving me with a rack of unlabeled tapes and a bunch of labels on the floor. carl -- carl lowenstein marine physical lab u.c. san diego clowenstein(a)ucsd.edu

22 years, 8 months

One-upsmanship (was: Secret Mac

by csmith＠amdocs.com

> -----Original Message----- > From: Roger Merchberger [mailto:zmerch@30below.com] > Rumor has it that Hans Franke may have mentioned these words: > >> > > My computer's heavier than yours. > >> > new sig: My computer's got more blinking lights than yours. > >> My computer's slower than yours. > >My computer produces more humming noise than yours. > My computer's *really* hardCORE! ;-) My computer has mercury-filled glass tubes. :) 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

AT&T 7300 Unix PC in Pittsburg, PA

by vcf＠siconic.com

Nathan would like to find a nice retirement home for his AT&T Unix PC. He's in Pittsburg, PA. Please contact him directly. Reply-to: Nathan.Thompson(a)respironics.com ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 14:01:44 -0400 From: "Thompson, Nathan" <Nathan.Thompson(a)respironics.com> Subject: inquiry I'm looking for a good home for my AT&T 7300 Unix PC. Kinda sorry to see it go, but the wife seems adamant. Let me know if this is an acceptable donation. -Nathan -- Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org * Old computing resources for business and academia at www.VintageTech.com *

22 years, 8 months

UPS was Re: Need Burroughs Tape Spec's

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

On April 16, David Woyciesjes wrote: > Meanwhile, I personally have never had a problem with UPS, and with > the volume of packages coming & going in this building, I've never seen > anything bad either. Maybe just a moron for a driver? I've had this happen in different states, so if it was a moron driver, it must've been multiple moron drivers. -Dave -- Dave McGuire "Mmmm. Big." St. Petersburg, FL -Den

22 years, 8 months

missing chips on "new" UNIBUS boards ...

by ajp166＠bellatlantic.net

From: Ethan Dicks <erd_6502(a)yahoo.com> >> I noticed that the KFQSA was missing one socketed >> chip (approx 40 pin DIL, black right in the middle.) > >A microcontroller? A T-11? It's too new for my stuff; never even >seen one. Unfortunately, the picture in the Visual Field Guide at >http://vaxarchive.org/hw/vfg/m7769b1.jpg is none too legible. Sheesh T-11 chip is early 80s. Another part number for the T-11 is D320 (it's a memory test and I'm not home). Allison

22 years, 8 months

One-upsmanship (was: Secret Mac

by ajp166＠bellatlantic.net

From: Dwight K. Elvey <dwightk.elvey(a)amd.com> > >Mine's a 4004. What do you use that is slower ( just because >it runs windows doesn't mean the processor is slower). >Dwight in the slowness derby... NEC upD7806, clocked at 32.768khz. It may be slow but it runs Basic and only uses 30uA. Second place is my PDT11/130... file access measured in 10s of seconds due to TU-58. The ugly award still goes to any PC running M$pooge winders. Allison

22 years, 8 months

Explain the NeXTStation "dim monitor" problem, etc...

by cdl＠proxima.ucsd.edu

> From: Christopher Smith <csmith(a)amdocs.com> > To: "Classiccmp (E-mail)" <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org> > Subject: Explain the NeXTStation "dim monitor" problem, etc... > Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 10:59:52 -0500 > Sender: owner-classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org > Reply-To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org > > Ok, I've got my NeXTStation working, but I'm in need of some > advice. > > First off -- can somebody explain the common problem with the > monitors going dim? Can I fix it? (How?) Is there an internal > "intensity" pot that I can adjust to get more life out of the > monitor? It is just bright enough not to strain your eyes at > the highest brightness setting right now... (It's B&W) NeXT bought the monitors from Sony. Sony bought CRTs that had a limited cathode life. The cathodes have mostly expired by now. > Next, can anyone tell me why, after booting into single user mode, > and changing the root password with 'nu -m' I might still be > refused a login next time I boot? > > I was able to get in once yesterday, after which I tried this morning > and was refused. I booted to single user mode again -- looked at the > current password hash, changed the password again (the hash turned out > different, but I'm not sure that means much really, and could just be > different "salt"), booted again normally, and still couldn't get in. The password file "/etc/passwd" is not used any time that NetInfo is running, which is nearly all the time. A few minutes ago I posted a method to modify the NetInfo view of the root password, using nidump and niload. > > A) It's getting another password from somewhere and overwriting the > one I put in? (I hope not.. :) Yes. The password file that is actually used is stored inside the NetInfo database. > > B) Something's not starting right during boot right now, and it needs > this to log people into the system? (More likely, I think...) > > It does still want to connect to the network, and complains about not > being able to talk to several machines when it boots. I'm not sure > whether this would make a difference, or how I would convince it not to > do this. :) Any suggestions? More NetInfo stuff. You need to reset the database so that the computer does not know about its previous life. Look on the net for the NeXT FAQ. It will help a lot. First place I found using a Google search is < http://www.non.com/news.answers/NeXT-FAQ.html > carl -- carl lowenstein marine physical lab u.c. san diego clowenstein(a)ucsd.edu

22 years, 8 months

Seeking Interest in Group Purchase, Avery Magtape Labels

by dquebbeman＠acm.org

Hey- Avery still lists labels for 9-track tapes, assuming that's what these are: Tape Reel High Speed Computer Labels 3-7/8" x 1-13/16", White, Dot Matrix, Removable, 5000 labels per box 04052 5000 Labels per Box $139.15 If there are just ten people on the list who'd have use for 500 labels, it's close to fifteen bucks per person. OTOH, is anyone sitting on a stash of them? I found a sheet with precisely three labels, and I've quite a few more tapes than that... -dq

22 years, 8 months

The Collector's Best Friend

by dquebbeman＠acm.org

> And thusly Douglas H. Quebbeman spake: > > > > > Nathan would like to find a nice retirement home for his AT&T Unix PC. > > > He's in Pittsburg, PA. Please contact him directly. > > > > > > : I'm looking for a good home for my AT&T 7300 Unix PC. Kinda sorry to see it > > > : go, but the wife seems adamant. Let me know if this is an acceptable donation. > > > > Behold the SWMBO: the ClassicCmp subscriber's Best Friend. > > > > ;) > > What's a SWMBO? Oh, 30 to 40 years of indentured servitude, if you're lucky... (SWMBO == She Who Must Be Obeyed... Wife for most of you, mother for a few) <tee hee>

22 years, 8 months

Explain the NeXTStation "dim monitor" problem, etc...

by cdl＠proxima.ucsd.edu

> From: Dave McGuire <mcguire(a)neurotica.com> > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 12:20:03 -0400 > To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org > Subject: Re: Explain the NeXTStation "dim monitor" problem, etc... > Sender: owner-classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org > > On April 16, Christopher Smith wrote: > > Next, can anyone tell me why, after booting into single user mode, > > and changing the root password with 'nu -m' I might still be > > refused a login next time I boot? > ... > > A) It's getting another password from somewhere and overwriting the > > one I put in? (I hope not.. :) > > It's been many years since I ran NeXTSTEP, so this might be > useless...but does "nu" modify the netinfo database? If not, well, > that might be the problem. The root password must be modified in such a way that Netinfo knows about it. One recipe for this is in the NeXT SysAdmin manual under the subject "Lost Root Password". The documentation is also online in /NextLibrary/Documentation/NextAdmin/15_Trouble.rtfd. The easiest way I know of to change the root password on NeXTstep is to boot as single-user. then: # cd /tmp # nidump passwd . > tempfile # vi tempfile # here delete the password field from the # between the pair of : first line (root) entry # niload passwd . < tempfile # halt Boot again, not as single-user. Root now has a null password. If you are an awk expert, you could combine the steps and not have the intermediate file. But it took me a few tries to get it right just now. So it's easier to use an editor. carl -- If you are an awk specialist, you could

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test-drb April 2002