test-drb July 2002

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by dwightk.elvey＠amd.com

Hi I started to look and see what hidden codes might be in this processor. My memory said that there was something useful but I couldn't find anything. Here is what I saw: 08 nop 10 nop 18 nop 20 nop 28 nop 30 nop 38 nop CB JMP D9 CALL DD CALL ED CALL FD CALL I did see something unusual. Looking at the PSW, bit# 5 would change, depending on if an add or subtract was done on an earlier instruction. If there was a subtract, it would be set to a '1'. It would set to '0' on anything that did an add, ADD, ADI, ACI, ADC, DAD, INR and INX. It would go to '1' on DCR, DCX, SUB, SUI and SBB. I looked for anything related to overflow conditions but didn't see anything. None of the NOP codes effected any of the registers or flags. The PSW bits 1 and 3 were always set to '1'. How dull! Dwight

23 years, 1 month

IBM field service was Re: ST-225 help needed

by DAW＠yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu

> From: "Joe" <rigdonj(a)cfl.rr.com> > > > At 07:02 PM 7/23/02 -0700, Fred wrote: > > > > > > >In their early days of the PC, IBM had worse field staff than Radio > Shack > > >did! > > > > Wow! That's hard to beleive! Especially since RS had no field service > AFIK and the service in the "Service Centers" was utterly worthlss! > > > > Joe > > > > > > ---------- > From: Curt Vendel > > That's cause the IBM field service guys spent too much time typing to > fellow > friends and co-workers on their wireless XT handhelds.... man those things > were cool!!!!!!!!!!!! > > Curt > > Are you talking about those things with the 2 (or is it 3?) line LCD displays? You know, the brick? That's about the size of them... -- --- David A Woyciesjes --- C & IS Support Specialist --- Yale University Press --- (203) 432-0953 --- ICQ # - 905818 Mac OS X 10.1 - Darwin Kernel Version 5 Running since 01/22/2002 without a crash

23 years, 1 month

cctalk digest, Vol 1 #97 - 34 msgs

by pechter＠ureach.com

> From: Tarsi <tarsi(a)binhost.com> > Organization: OrangeNET > To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org > Subject: Sun IPC OS? > Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 23:57:03 -0500 > Reply-To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org > > What do you all recommend I run on my Sun IPC machines for an OS? I've never > messed with them before, myself. Just got some new harddrives for them, > eager to try them out. > > Thanks! > > Tarsi > All my experience says SunOS 4.1.4 or 4.1.3_U1 with the y2k patches works ok. Replacing the resolver with resolv+ v2.1 is also recommended by me. Somewhere I've got a tape with the 4.1.4 patches cpio'd up to be overlayed on a 4.1.4 system for Sparc2... I did all the y2k patching for my group at Lucent and found the "drop the cpio on top" method of patching got me down to 15 minutes per machine and one reboot after I did the first Sparc10 and Sparc2 and made the tapes. Bill pechter(a)ureach.com

23 years, 1 month

Need Compaticard II jumper and driver docs

by NAVACCHIA＠desdcad.cea.fr

hello I have also a COMPATICARD II and the manual only treat about Compaticard IV. There are any documentation about DMA and IRQ. The jumpers J1 and J2 A and B position respectively. IRQ 6 and DMA 2 (two jumpers). I have lost the software to enable the overdrive 1200. Can you send me a copy by e-mail? Thanks ---------------------------------- Fr?d?ric NAVACCHIA CEA Cadarache DEN/DED/SCCD/LECC B?t. 238 13108 St Paul Lez Durance ----------------------------------- t?l: 04-42-25-64-38 fax: 04-42-25-35-53 navacchia(a)cea.fr

23 years, 1 month

HARRIS 7611's

by aek＠spies.com

here are parts compatible with 7611's 256*4 +------+ A6 |1 16| Vcc A5 |2 15| A7 A4 |3 14| CE2/ A3 |4 13| CE1/ A0 |5 12| O1 A1 |6 11| O2 A2 |7 10| O3 GND|8 9| O4 +------+ Signetics MMI TI Harris Raytheon AMD National Intel --------- --- -- ------ -------- --- -------- ----- TS 82S129 (50ns) 6301-1 24S10 7611-5 29661 27S21 74S287 3621 82S129A(27ns) 63S141 - 7611A - 27S21A - - Intersil Fujitsu -------- ------- 7052

23 years, 1 month

Some people need help!

by MTPro＠aol.com

Hello, I received both of these message yesterday and I cannot help the people. Anyone have an answer for them? Please respond driectly to them and not me, thanks: ----------------------------------------------- I am looking for a converter to convert some old Wordstar documents. I'm wondering if you might have one handy and could email it here (Sydney, Australia). Or else, do you have any idea where I could get one on the web. I have had a search but with little precise luck. It looks like Microsoft offers a massive 12+ Mb solution to everything which likely would contain it. I will come at that if needs be but thought I'd first try to just get a simple worstar-only translator if I can. Years ago I used to have such things myself but I no longer could locate it now. Kind Regards John Byrnes, Geologist byrnesj(a)minerals.nsw.gov.au ----------------------------------------------- Ref: xerox computer/ser.#m92-013062/1983/bios ver. 5.00 Would you have any info on this machine? I am not certain if it works so I need to obtain it's original operating system or at least a start-up disk. I would like to try and move it for a friend. He has a pawn shop, and this is a case where he got the shaft. A little joke. He is a fair person as far as I can see, and I just want to help him if I can. Any help you might send my way about this machine would be helpful. All it has as far as a model is xerox both on the monitor, and the cpu. I needed to type aa: to get it to recognize the floppy drive of which it has two 51/4" drives. The monitor is connected to the cpu with two wide insulated ribbon cables. the serial, parallel, and keyboard ports are at the back of the monitor at the bottom. It is a different configuration than I am used to, but it seems to work. I don't believe it has a hard drive, but I haven't taken the hood off to check. The drives search the disks I have put in, but to no avail. I think it might be that cm/p operating system, like the old kpro I have, but there again I am not certain. I hope that what info I have given is sufficient to identify this machine. Thanks , Jimmy Dean Fisher ,phydauex56(a)yahoo.com

23 years, 1 month

Mac Portable problems

by RCini＠congressfinancial.com

Hello, all: I decided to pull-out my Mac Portable to charge it after it being on the shelf for about 1 year. I put the battery in and plugged in the power adapter. As soon as I insert the battery, the unit immediately starts up but doesn't boot and I get lots of vertical lines on the screen (in no discernable pattern). I know that the screen has a few defective rows near the bottom but had no other issues the last time I used it. It wasn't stored in extreme temperatures (either cold or warm). I hope that some of the screen drivers didn't go flaky on me. Since I haven't used it in a while, I've forgotten a lot about it. Does this have a reset button on it? Any thoughts on what else to look for? Rich ========================== Richard A. Cini, Jr. Congress Financial Corporation 1133 Avenue of the Americas 30th Floor New York, NY 10036 (212) 545-4402 (212) 840-6259 (facsimile)

23 years, 1 month

How to Print CD Label

by jhfinepw4z＠compsys.to

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. I am a dummy using Windows 98 SE. When I use Windows Explorer and click on the file name, up comes the image of the label. It can be rotated, but there does not seem to be anything that will allow me to move the image sideways nor down so that the image is printed on top of the label. Can anyone suggest what I need to do? Sincerely yours, Jerome Fine -- If you attempted to send a reply and the original e-mail address has been discontinued due a high volume of junk e-mail, then the semi-permanent e-mail address can be obtained by replacing the four characters preceding the 'at' with the four digits of the current year.

23 years, 1 month

Classic Assumption

by doc＠mdrconsult.com

Hey. This is sort of long, but relates a major wake-up call for me. I have a J-Series RS/6000 7013-560 that I rescued from Goodwill awhile back. It's an awesome machine, and one of my favorites. My company works occasionally with/for a firm who produces traveling AIX classes. They move machines from city to city, doing one-week IBM curricula. About 15-18 months ago, their shippers lost 8 of 12 machines on the way to San Antonio. My boss & I rented them all our equipment - 6 RS6ks and a couple of terminals - for a week to keep the class from folding. The 560 went, against my better judgment. When the computers came home, the first thing I did was reinstall a clean OS on each one. It's amazing how many ways students can hose an install. The 560 stays on 4.3.2, for sentimental reasons. It wouldn't load properly. The BOS would install with no errors, and come up on reboot to a 554 error code. Unable to find bootable device. I swapped drives, I reset jumpers, I verified termination, I unplugged everything that spins. I even found a replacement IBM CD-ROM. I eventually narrowed it down to the SCSI cable. (A J-box internal SCSI cable is a nightmare to behold, and hell to replace. Let alone _find_ one) Last week I picked up a 520 and swapped the cable, then the SCSI adapter. Same problem. The 520 also came with full hardware docs and diagnostic floppy set, so I ran a full suite. Everything checked out, except for that 554 error. I finally decided to load v3.2.5, which also came with the 520, just because. When I pulled the 4.3.2 CD out of the caddy, where it's lived for 2 years, I found an ugly little dob of some pink gel on the data side. I cleaned the disk, put it back, installed AIX v4.3.2 on my 560, and it's running happily right now. I get so accustomed to old hardware having issues, and especially after it had been transported, and unsupervised lusers had their hands on it, that I completely bypassed some elementary checkpoints and lost the use of my machine for a year. Bah. I'd feel like an idiot if it wasn't so, ummm, "classic". Doc

23 years, 1 month

ST-225 help needed

by acme_ent＠bellsouth.net

---------- > From: geoffr(a)zipcon.net > To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org > Cc: geoffr(a)zipcon.net > Subject: Re: Re: ST-225 help needed > Date: Monday, July 22, 2002 10:48 PM > > http://www.aquascape.com/theref/controllers/layouts/cs_wd1002s-wx2.html > > this will give you the setup for your card :) > Okay, the drawing show settings for Rev G and Rev H BIOS -- anyone know how I can tell which version these cards have? Thanks -- Glen 0/0 If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? And if not now, when? -- Pirkei Avot

23 years, 1 month

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test-drb July 2002