>I need some help with a ".tif" file. A scan was made of a CD label.
>The label can be printed on a laser printer and the result is great,
>but in the wrong position.
If you are printing to an Avery or compatible label, you can download
free templates from Avery's web site. The templates work with in MS Word
IIRC.
Avery also sells some very nice label printing software that works with
99% of their labels (they are a little slow to update the software, so
the newest label formats may not be supported, but as of right now,
everything I have ever seen sold is supported).
Their label software allows you to print full sheets of labels, or any
number of labels to a sheet, and lets you pick the starting point on the
sheet (so you can use a partially used sheet). They also support graphic
importing, as well as mail merge, so you can print custom worded labels
for each label.
The software is available for Mac or Windows (the Mac version has a
slight bug if you use a large high resolution screen, when you open a new
empty template, it draws the label off the side of the editable window...
you then have to quit the app and restart it to use that template,
annoying as all hell, but at least it doesn't do it with saved templates,
so my often used ones I just saved a blank version of it and open it that
way)
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
I have recently come across a nice Amstrad PPC640 portable (but heavy!) computer, with the case and the whole lot..even a power supply, which is often missing from this kind of stuff and it can take years of going round boot sales to get replacements with the more unusual ones...Upon plugging it in to the mains and switching on, everything seems to be fine..it starts buzzing and the screen comes up with "Please Wait...."
It then scans drives a and b and lets out three short bleeps..I thought these may be due to it needing a boot disk, as these things have no hard disk so obviously need something..both drives a and b are 31/2" 720k, so I made some MS-DOS 6.22 boot disks on my 386 using 720k disks..obviously they did nothing in drive b, but when I put them in driveA I sti;ll got my bleeps, but it started to read from the disk..the screen went blank so I waited assuming it would ask for the date and time, or come up with command..but nothing - a blank screen...but when I typed in B: or A: followed by [enter] it procceed to try and scan that particular drive.
I have no idea why this is and need help from someone more farmiliar with the machine..but just for a guess I'd say if this machine was made in 1988, Dos 6 ismore recent than the portable, so I'd need probably dos 3.3 or something. Can anyone help me with the laptop or getting dos 3.3? I'm totally stuck!
Has anyone ever heard of a PaceMark Technologies IIEasy Print card for the
Apple ][? You'd think it was some sort of printer interface with the
name. However, the edge connector simply has power leads, no data or
address. So this card cannot communicate with the Apple ][. I imagine it
must have been a daughterboard for some other card?
It has a copyright date of 1989 silk-screened on the board. It also has a
DB-25 connector tail on the rear.
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Folks with plenty of PS2 parts, etc. to spare,
SwRI sent around the following notice this afternoon:
>2. Old Computers/ Parts Needed
>
>Division 08 has a specific application where an old personal computer system
>must be kept operational for a few more years. Can anyone make available
>parts (hard drives, floppy drives, etc) or complete computers of the IBM
>PS2, Model 30, 286 type? Please contact Brian Koehler at ext. 3588 or e-mail
>(mail to: BKoehler(a)swri.org ). Payment can be arranged as needed.
This isn't exactly a hobby use, but it does concern on-topic
machines; apologies in advance if this kind of post is not welcome here.
Full phone number is (210)-522-3588 for Brian, or (210)-522-6025 for me if
you want to check with me first, or email me at mtapley(a)swri.edu.
SwRI is in San Antonio, Texas, and I assume that that's where the
machine is needed - will update if that's not true.
- Mark
>which holds the actual sticky labels. While the offset is only about 1/4",
>that distance is quite noticeable. But when I attempt to use the Avery
>program, there does not seem to be anything I can do to shift the labels.
>Can anyone suggest anything from their experience? This is using
>Windows 98 SE where I am a dummy!!
If you are using the MS Word templates, I think you can just adjust the
lines or margins to shift the image offset.
If you are using the actual Avery LabelPro software, there is a printer
nudge feature (at least on the Mac, I don't really use the PC version
often so I'm not 100% sure on that, but I would think it is there too).
With the printer nudge, you can tell it to offset the image in incriments
(1/100th of an inch IIRC). That offset will let you move it up/down or
left right.
I have found that the Avery LablePro software doesn't seem to print the
very bottom of the image on my DeskJet 855. It drops about the last 1/4"
of the image (not offset, but rather just missing). It seems to be just
that printer that it happens with, and I'm not 100% positive that it
isn't the printer doing it (read: I haven't really tried it with other
software to see if everything is just missing at that point, but nothing
else has popped out at me). With my laser printers, the images always
print correctly (so my color CD backgrounds I just used a striped image
so you can't tell the bottom is cut off, rather it just looks like part
of the image design)
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
>From: "Eric Smith" <eric(a)brouhaha.com>
>
>Dwight Elvey wrote:
>> I started to look and see what hidden
>> codes might be in this processor.
>
>Is that different than what an Intel 8080A does?
Hi
First, there was an error in my previous list.
The 0D9h does a RET and not a CALL.
I looked at a Intel 8080A last night. All of
the codes seemed to do the same. The values
in the PSW were different. On the Intel part,
bits 5 and 3 always returned '0' while bit
1 always returned '1'. Compared to the NEC
that always returned '1' on both 1 and 3
but had the -/+ on bit 5.
Dwight
>
>The undefined opcodes of the Intel 8085 are
>rather more interesting, I'm told.
>
>
>
>
On Mon, 22 Jul 2002; "Glen Goodwin" <acme_ent(a)bellsouth.net> wrote:
> I have two Seagate ST-225 drives and a WD1002SWX2A controller. Both drives
> have previously lived in XT-class DOS-based PCs. One of the drives is
> bootable, the other is not.
>
> What I need to do is set both drives up in the same PC, booting from the
> bootable drive (duh) so that I can extract the data from the non-bootable
> drive. The object of the game is to move the data to a modern
> (Duron-based) system. I can't boot from a floppy disk drive due to a fault
> in the motherboard, but I do have a SCSI controller and hard drive in the
> XT system. I can move the SCSI drive to the newer system once I can get to
> the data on the non-bootable ST-225.
>
> What is the proper configuration for the ST-225 drives and the WD
> controller?
I've got two WD1002S-WX2 controllers in front of me. one ie Rev E, the other
Rev F. I'll assume that is close enough for government work.
Towards the back of the card is J1. You will need a ribbon cable with
a 34 pin header connector to plug into J1. There should be two other
connectors on the cable and this will plug into both drives. The drive
connectors should already have a 'key tab' in them that lines up with
the notch on the drive's circuit boards.
Left of J1 is J2, a 20 pin header connector. You will need a ribbon cable
to plug into J2 and that will connect to the bootable drive.
Left of J2 is J3, also a 20 pin header connector. You will need another
ribbon cable to plug into J3 and that will connect to the non-bootable
drive.
Between the two boards there are some differences in the setup, i.e. the
jumpers in place on the board. First is W6 near the back of the board.
First board has a jumper on 1-2, the other on 2-3. Also right at the
back of the board is a 16 pin header connector. It is labeled SW1.
I suppose some versions may have a dip switch instead. Watch the numbering,
it is numbered 1 2 3 4 8 7 6 5. First board has jumpers on 3 and 5, the
other board has 3 & 5 open. I have no documentation on these particular
boards, so no idea what those jumpers are for.
Years ago, I was able to find documentation (pdf files) on similar controllers
on the web. It may still be available.
One thing that comes to mind here is the drive interleave. The controller
you have is 3:1 interleave. So I have to ask. If your drive(s) were
formatted on a controller with a different interleave, are you going to
be able to access the data on this controller?
Since I haven't messed with an MFM drive in a long time, that is a question
for someone else on the list that has worked with them more recently.
HTH
Mike
>IIRC, the HP DeskJet 800 series can't print on the last 1/4" or so of the
>page due to their design. I think this is a common problem with other
>DeskJets too.
Well, at least in my case, I know the cutoff is kind of high. High
enough, that I don't think it is page grab space. The CD label stops a
good inch up from the bottom, so it is failing to print 1/4" above that.
If it was something that mattered a whole lot to me, I would get around
to testing to see if it is the DeskJet, or the Avery software, or an
interaction between the two (the third is my guess, simply because I used
to use the DeskJet all the time, and never noticed a problem, and the
Avery software has no problems printing to my laser printers for full
pages. Also, I know the latest version of the Mac software had a problem
with Epson printers, where it froze the Mac... Avery recently released a
patch to fix that, so they may have a problem with HP DeskJet printers as
well).
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
In a message dated 7/24/2002 10:29:36 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
foo(a)siconic.com writes:
<< Has anyone ever heard of a PaceMark Technologies IIEasy Print card for the
Apple ][? You'd think it was some sort of printer interface with the
name. However, the edge connector simply has power leads, no data or
address. So this card cannot communicate with the Apple ][. I imagine it
must have been a daughterboard for some other card?
It has a copyright date of 1989 silk-screened on the board. It also has a
DB-25 connector tail on the rear. >>
hmmm, with a 1989 date, I wonder if it could be for the GS.
--
Antique Computer Virtual Museum
www.nothingtodo.org
>From: "Eric Smith" <eric(a)brouhaha.com>
>
>Dwight Elvey wrote:
>> I started to look and see what hidden
>> codes might be in this processor.
>
>Is that different than what an Intel 8080A does?
Hi Eric
I'll have to try it out. I'm not sure how
the intel ones respond.
>
>The undefined opcodes of the Intel 8085 are
>rather more interesting, I'm told.
There were suppose to be a couple of block
move instructions. They put these in to
compete with Z80 ones but never released
them as part of the instruction set.
This was why I thought there was something
extra in the NEC chip. I recall, way back when
I was working for Intel that we had a list
of the hidden operations that chips did.
I could swear that there was something in the
NEC 8080A that I'd confirmed by running
some code on my Poly-88. I guess my mind is
just playing tricks. The 8085 stuff is for
real, though. I don't have something easy
to test it on. The Poly-88 has a great monitor
that I can single step with and examine every
thing.
I think I have a 8085/8088 S100 board around someplace.
Maybe for future fiddling I'll see what it does.
If I think of it, I can check the intel 8080A tonight.
Later
Dwight
