At 05:00 PM 6/7/2002 -0400, Corda Albert J DLVA wrote:
>What annoys me is when they give horribly incorrect advice. I stopped
>by a local radio shack earlier this week to price out some RG6/U for
>a new DirecTV dish that I was cobbling together. I needed about ~350
>feet of cable. The sales droid insisted that I'd needed to buy three
>in-line amps, and install them all at the dish ... (I guess he knew
>enough rudimentary english to read the amp packaging, and extrapolate)
>What bothered me the most, though, was the authoritative manner in which
>he described what I had to do. It took quite an effort to keep from
>laughing in his face...
Yeah, but if he'd described putting them in-line the right
way, would that even work? Is there enough power there to
handle three amplifiers, and wouldn't the noise obliterate the
signal eventually?
- John
Well the copy of the OS that I have is an OEM copy of Netware 1.1, so that
would be why I said 1.1, I try to avoid sticking the proverbial foot in the
mouth when possible ;p
Will J
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What annoys me is when they give horribly incorrect advice. I stopped
by a local radio shack earlier this week to price out some RG6/U for
a new DirecTV dish that I was cobbling together. I needed about ~350
feet of cable. The sales droid insisted that I'd needed to buy three
in-line amps, and install them all at the dish ... (I guess he knew
enough rudimentary english to read the amp packaging, and extrapolate)
What bothered me the most, though, was the authoritative manner in which
he described what I had to do. It took quite an effort to keep from
laughing in his face...
BTW, I bought the coax somewhere else, just on principles...
-al-
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gene Buckle [mailto:geneb@deltasoft.com]
> Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 4:12 PM
> To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
> Subject: RE: I hate Radio Shack
>
>
> Damnit John, you beat me to it. :)
>
> g.
>
>
> On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, J.C. Wren wrote:
>
> > Radio Shack: "You have questions, we have blank stares."
> >
> > --John
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cctalk-admin(a)classiccmp.org
> [mailto:cctalk-admin@classiccmp.org]On
> > Behalf Of Bob Lafleur
> > Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 15:38
> > To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
> > Subject: RE: I hate Radio Shack
> >
> >
> > I've decided that Radio Shack has one reason for existance; to sell
> > pre-paid cell-phones to low-lifes. Every time I go in there, all the
> > sales people are occupied with selling a pre-paid
> cell-phone to someone
> > who has such bad credit that they can't get a regular
> cell-phone. Then
> > when they finally get to me, I ask them for an adapter, or cable, or
> > something and they look at me like I'm crazy. "I've never
> heard of such
> > a thing" they say. If it's not a pre-paid cell-phone, they
> have no clue.
> >
> >
> >
>
>Since the output connector is one of those cross-shaped plugs (with a
>2.5mm jack plug, 3.5mm jack plug, 2.1mm coax power connector and 2.5mm
>coax power connector) along with a separate 1.3mm coax power connector
>(used for personal stereos I am told) and a 9V-like battery clip, it's
>very easy to get accidental short circuits just by having the separate
>connectors touch each other. Therefore IMHO the PSU has to be safe under
>short-circuit conditions. They are not.
>
>And the plastic cases are very brittle and canf break, exposing live
>parts. Unplugging one that's been accidentally kicked, for example, is
>not easy.
Not saying the ones in the US are safe or good, but they are not like the
one you describe. They are a white plastic, rather "soft and durable"
material. You can smack then and kick them and step on them, and they
stay in one peice. Also, they don't sell that cross tipped one like you
describe any more (at least I haven't seen one in a long long time).
Rather, all of them end in a jack, and they include one tip of your
choice (for most, some include multiple tips). So you pick the connector
style you need, and then that plugs into the jack on the cord. It is
marked on the cord with "TIP" and the connector has a "+" on it, so you
can align it for either positive or negative tip.
Fairly decent setup, and so far, all their newer style white ones (they
have been selling them for a few years now), have held up well, at least
for me.
As to short circuits and how safe they are... I can't really say. I've
never opened one, and I can't think of a time that I have done anything
other than accidentally set a multi-voltage one to the wrong voltage and
watched my device get toasted (leaving the power wart just fine of
course).
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
I'm having a bit of trouble geting my new 'shiny' Televideo TS-816 up and
running. It hangs trying to IPL from the hard drive, and I can boot off a
tape, which gets me diagnostics.
The diagnostics look like this:
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Self-testing in process. (TS-816/40 PROM V1.1)
Hit "ESCAPE" Key to boot from Tape ?
System IPL from Tape Drive in progress *
TeleVideo Systems TS-816/40
Restore disk image from tape, V1.3
14 Megabyte on 1/4" tape cartridge
Do you want to run disk diagnostic? ("Return" if NO, "Y" if YES) Y
** SELECT DIAGNOSTIC WINCHESTER HARD DISK ?? **
-----------------------------------------------
Type "I" to select Internal winchester hard disk
Type "E" to select External winchester hard disk
Type "A" to Abort the diagnostic mode
I <--- Select the function above
** DIAGNOSTIC FUNCTIONS **
--------------------------
Type "R" to select Read-test
Type "W" to select Write-test
Type "F" to select Format disk
Type "A" to reselect winchester hard disk
<--- Select the function above
-----------------------------------------------------------------
It would appear that it's having a problem using the internal hard drive.
I don't have a spare sitting around to replace it with, and the cables
look all securely fastened. Also, the drive seems to be spinning just
fine, and I've cleared the two 'locks' on the bottom for it before trying
to use it.
Does anyone have suggestions for troubleshooing this problem? I'm
knowledgable in electronics and can drag out my o'scope if I need to.
Also, can I hook up a 5-1/4" MFM or RLL hard drive up to this thing? It's
a TS-816/40 (I'm guessing 40MB drive), what should I look for (C/H/S) in a
replacement drive?
-- Pat
>From: "Ben Franchuk" <bfranchuk(a)jetnet.ab.ca>
>
>Loboyko Steve wrote:
>>
>> I'm building a 6800 machine right now and I was
>> wondering about this "Halt and Catch on Fire"
>> instruction. Is this for real. This is a serious
>> question. Is there actually an instruction that will
>> overheat the chip?
>
>Not on the 6800 but I believe some FORTH chips have that problem.
>This instruction for the 6800 if remember right just continually
>increments the address bus, ignoring any data read. Only a hard
>RESET will reset the machine from this state. I think the opcode
>is $00.
>
Hi
Instructions that would continuously increment the address
are vary useful for debugging address decoding problems.
On an 8080, about the only useful sequence is to have
a pop and jmp, using 4 locations.
It may have been that the 6800 one was a debug instruction
that was designed in.
Dwight
At 06:51 AM 6/7/2002 -0600, Feldman, Robert wrote:
>Now that the FBI is going to modernize its "antiquated" and "out of date"
>computer system, does anyone know what kind of equipment we might see reach
>the surplus market? (I don't expect many working hard disk drives.)
On Wisconsin public radio yesterday, they were blaming some amount
of 9-11 on Louis Freeh's "I hate computers" policy, and some talking head
claimed that agents were so disgusted by the slowness of their
"386s and 486s that wouldn't even be accepted by churches as donations".
- John
Now that the FBI is going to modernize its "antiquated" and "out of date"
computer system, does anyone know what kind of equipment we might see reach
the surplus market? (I don't expect many working hard disk drives.)
Bob
Greetings,
This afternoon I registered my DECUS^H^H^H^H^HEncompass membership
number with Montagar software for OpenVMS. By the way, not knowing
the CPU ID of my VAX, I entered a '?', and that satisfied their
registration script. The last time that I attempted to register with
Montagar, my Encompas membership ID number was rejected, so I didn't
get a CD-ROM back then. A short while ago, an e-mail arrived with the
license to use OpenVMS; alas, the license expires in one year. Will
this expiration date have any effect on the useability of the software
after the expiration date?
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