test-drb May 2002

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by doc＠mdrconsult.com

Not a _great_ score, as I'll have to pay real cash for it, but I picked up an Altos ACS 8000-2 today, to be delivered the 15th. Yay! Now I guess I _really_ need to find the CP/M man pages..... Also grabbed: Quadra 700 $1 A spare CPU and 2 more drive drawers for the NEC Risc Server I'll be working on this weekend. Anybody with any info on this one - a dual-CPU RT-4620-27A5S - is more than welcome to chime in. (Update: the NEC seems to have cabling/termination issues on the RAID backplane. Project on hold pending documentation) An IBM Model 9577-ATG PS/2 - 486DX4/100 w/ Future Domain SCSI adapter, 32M ram, token ring, and 541M SCSI hdd. Which I'll be working on instead of the NEC box.... $4 Spare Future Domain MCA SCSI, internal cable & 1G drive Free A box (6) of Model 77 CPU stands Free A CPU stand for my 7043-140 (I think) Free 2 SCSI cold-swap drive drawers (narrow SCSI) w/Connor drives installed. No model on the drives yet $5 each 2 Piper 16 MCA sound cards Free 1 Tandon full-height 48tpi 5.25" floppy (TM100?) $.50 1 Mitsumi 5.25" floppy w/full-height black bezel and "EMI cage." Haven't looked at the model # yet. $.50 1 No-labelled full-height 5.25" floppy. Black bezel, center trap latch, not a rotating lever. $.10 Doc

23 years, 2 months

So-Called Real Programmers and FORTRAN

by dquebbeman＠acm.org

> Sellam Ismail wrote: > > // What about the "uses" directive? I didn't program in Pascal a whole > > // lot but I remember when I did need something like a graphics library > > // I "use"d it. > > Not in the original standard (from N. Wirth, may you pronounce him by > value or by reference or by whatever... ;-), so this must have been an > extension from your compiler's manufacturer. I believe Ken Bowles' team at UCSD first added that extension to their Pascal, which in turn begat Lisa Clascal and MPW Object Pascal. Which brings me to a good question: does anyone have any documentation for Lisa Clascal? I thought it might be in the two-volume loose-leaf Inside Macintosh, but it appears not. -dq

23 years, 2 months

free DEC M7555 card

by jfoust＠threedee.com

This is a RQDX3 ESDI hard disk controller. - John >Date: Sun, 05 May 2002 12:21:04 -0700 >To: MSA listserver <Microscopy(a)sparc5.microscopy.com> >From: Gary Gaugler <gary(a)gaugler.com> >Subject: DEC M7555 card > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ >The Microscopy ListServer -- Sponsor: The Microscopy Society of America >To Subscribe/Unsubscribe -- Send Email to ListServer(a)MSA.Microscopy.Com >On-Line Help http://www.msa.microscopy.com/MicroscopyListserver/FAQ.html >-----------------------------------------------------------------------. > > >Disclaimer: This is not a for sale posting. > >I ran across an LSI-11 bus M7555 card which >seems to be in good condition. No idea what it >is or if it works. It has a ribbon connector (1) >on the pull handles end. It is a DEC card. > >Free to a good home. > >gary g.

23 years, 2 months

Repair vs. replace (was Re: APPLEVISION Monitor)

by acme_ent＠bellsouth.net

> From: Richard Erlacher <edick(a)idcomm.com> > The guys who can't afford more than $100 are not a big part of the market. > However, it's not fair to ignore 'em. The reason most shops here croak after a couple of years is because they *do* ignore them. In fact, many send this sort of customer to me. > I just don't see how one can make a > living selling used parts when a replacement for the whole she-bang costs >$10 > like the one I snagged last week. Are people really willing to pay $100 to > repair something they could easily replace for $10 if they were to look? Yes. Many of these folks are using hand-me-down computers and wouldn't have a clue of what to buy if they were looking for a replacement. A number of my customers are SOHO, auto repair, day care, etc., and need to retain their data and applications, so for them to just buy a replacement would be disruptive to their business. As far as making a living doing this, I charge about $100 (*new* parts and labor) to replace a power supply, modem, or CD-ROM drive, or to wipe the hdd and reload Windows and the device drivers (which the customer almost never has). After 10 years in business we have a reputation for doing the job right, and for honoring the warranties we put on our work. Can you see how it would be possible to make a living doing 10 or 15 of these easy jobs every day? Glen 0/0

23 years, 2 months

Fresh Email Lists at Unbelievable Prices

by acme_ent＠bellsouth.net

> > Well, at least now I know who harvested my email address from the list... > no, not really > > > (I started getting massive amounts of spam a couple weeks after my first > > post here...) > I would wager my next paycheck that that is pure co-incidence > > Jay West Most likely a coincidence. This is a private list, after all. Did anybody submit this post to SpamCop? Glen 0/0

23 years, 2 months

Big Items today at Auction

by jrkeys＠concentric.net

Well I went and purchased a BIG International school bus today at a auction and plan on taking out the seats to haul all the items I still have up North in storage back here to Texas. It's a 1986 so it meets the 10 year rule. :-) Also picked up several needed Mac's for the collection a Workgroup 60, a DOS 6100, and about 10 others. Almost everyone there gave me their Mac stuff off their pallets (free). I had to leave a lot of stuff there as I filled half the bus and my poor van. After I get everything unloaded on Sunday I will put up a better listing. The best item I got was a Unisys rack system and two big high impact printers for it. On the front cover it says A Series Processor ? With a 3.5 FD (1.44), 150MB tape drive, CD-Rom drive (caddy type), I/O Channels unit, APC power unit, 520MB scsi hard drive, and several other items I have not figured out yet. Looking at some of the doc's that were inside the unit it has U6000/35 system board with 32 MB of memory on it. I also got the Unisys terminal with it (it powers up fine) model DS-1740 (mfg Nov 1990). Two Unisys keyboards (one cable) came with it also models T27-K5. More later, if anyone knows more about this box email please.

23 years, 2 months

Fresh Email Lists at Unbelievable Prices

by acme_ent＠bellsouth.net

> From: Tothwolf <tothwolf(a)concentric.net> > I've had the same address for at least 4 years, with maybe 3 spams the > entire time up till now (those spammers paid dearly for it too...) How do you deal with spammers? Got any suggestions for dealing with probes? I am probed about every 12 minutes I'm online. Glen 0/0

23 years, 2 months

IBM Board and IBM PC/AT disks for shipping & handling

by vaxman＠earthlink.net

I have a number of original 5.25" disks I want gone. $5 plus shipping for some or all. Unknown condition, but I was able to dump the ones I tried in unix (to see if they were bulk erased, didn't save the dumps). IBM - Diagnostics for the IBM Personal Computer AT (v1.00) Lotus - 123 System Disk (relase 2) IBM - DOS V3.00 IBM - DOS V3.00 Supplemental Programs MS - Microsoft Word program disks (1-4) (V3?) MS - Learning Microsoft Word (192K memory, Dos 2.0 or higher, one double sided disk drive, microsoft mouse :) (V3?) MS - Learning Microsoft Word Keyboard version (V3?) MS - Microsoft Word program disks (1-3) (V2?) MS - Learning Microsoft Word (V2?) MS - Microsoft Word Program Disk Backup Copy (real MS disk) (V2?) MS - Microsoft Macro Assembler (V4?) IBM - Pascal Compiler V2.00 (PAS-1, PAS-2, LIBRARY) 3Com - EtherSeries User Software for IBM PC Version 2.4 Lots of copies of Gold Hill Computers 'Golden Common Lisp' (V1 & V2) maybe 4 V2, 12 V1, and 5 unopened disk packages (unknown version) plus one shrink wrap about 3/16" thick of documentation Also, one 8bit full length ISA ethernet board. Unknown mfg, PN NI-5010-02. Clint

23 years, 2 months

Yah!

by foo＠siconic.com

Well, I'm finally caught up with CC again. One thing I've been able to confirm after deleting through hundreds of messages is that you guys talk about a lot of irrelevant stuff. And Dick can be a pain in the ass. 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 *

23 years, 2 months

APPLEVISION Monitor

by mythtech＠mac.com

> Are people really willing to pay $100 to >repair something they could easily replace for $10 if they were to look? Yes... because most people aren't willing to look, nor do they have any idea what they are looking for. Most people will take what is put in front of them, and if you tell them it is what they need, and it is the best option, they will believe you. This is why Windows has such a large marketshare. People don't know there are other options, nor for the most part, do they care. -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

23 years, 2 months

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