>I'm certainly up for a 33 and a 35. And I can pick up, if they're local to
>NYC...
William's warehouse is in Paterson NJ, so about 20-30 minutes from NYC.
However, I think he is only there during the day, during the week.
If you can't work with that schedule, if William lets me go back, I can
grab you a 35 and stick it in my storage garage, but you will have to
pick it up before the end of August (my rental price doubles starting in
Sept, so I plan to have everything out before then). My garage is in
Ho-Ho-Kus NJ, which is also about 20-30 minutes from NYC. But I have 24x7
access to the garage, and since I live about 10 blocks from it (and work
about 10 blocks the other direction from it), I can meet you there pretty
much any day or time for pickup.
Of course, I have to figure out how to get a 35 back out of my van and
into my garage all by myself... that will be a serious challenge.
Chris,
Appreciate it. A 35 would be most cool. Hopefully I can get out there myself
to help you pick it up - or just pick it up myself. (let's take the
logistics off-list). I would also go for a 33 - I don't have a working one
this side of the pond. If the price were halfways reasonable I'd take one of
the 'new' 33s that were mentioned a few posts back!
Cheers
Mike
http://www.corestore.org
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My Gods.
A responsible vendor. I am agog.
I snarked an RRD46 (12x CD) drive off eBay a couple of weeks ago. It
came in today, except it says RRD45. :(
Like I wanted another 4x CD drive.
I fired of a reasonably polite, low-intensity complaint to the seller,
and less than an hour later, got an apology, an offer of a full refund
including shipping or replacement if they still have an RRD46, and an
offer, if I pay for the return shipping, to give me "extra" credit on
any future purchase. Which I'm likely to do.
I've been fighting off a client who thinks his 5 grand for a solid
week's work entails lifetime support & handholding, not to mention
training of his dweebs.
All week I've been trying to get NextCard to quit hitting my bank with
a completely unauthorized $125 direct withdrawal. They admit it's
entirely their fault, but insist that they can't stop the withdrawal!
They say _I_ have to put a stop on the charges at the bank. Meanwhile,
they are adding charges to my credit card for late payment and
over-limit, because they have the payment I did authorize, and which
did clear the bank, on hold. Because there's a "dispute". I'm up three
levels of their complaint desk, and have yet to speak to anyone who
admits to any peculiarity in their actions. "But we already promised to
pay the INS fees and the stop payment at your bank!" But not the late
fees, nor my time off work, nor the expense of faxing them all the
documentation. I can't even get a solid promise to drop all _their_
extra charges, incurred because THEY screwed up!
I'd much rather "twmaster", the eBay dealer, had sent me the right
thing to start with. But it's damn nice for somebody to own up to their
shit, and make good on it.
Doc
>From: "Kent Borg" <kentborg(a)borg.org>
>
>Teletypes in New Jersey, and I am in Boston. Damn.
>
>-kb
>
Hi
Maybe we could get someone that is in the area to
deal with shipping various items ( for a small overhead ).
I could use a few items myself, for a 33. Of course
an entire machine would make a good spare but shipping
cost a lot and they really are too heavy to put in
a cardboard box ( that is why I need some parts ).
Is there anyone in the area that could work as a middle
man?
Dwight
wish list:
1. Outside plastic case for a asr33.
2. Tape reader latch or spare reader.
3. Power module for a tape reader.
Hi
I'm always looking for DTL chips. Finding these
would be great. Anyone with some of these hiding
away or some old surplus board with them on it,
I'd be interested. I forget the numbers I need
but one is a open collector nand ( something like
935? but that sounds like a RTL). I'll have to make
list.
Dwight
>From: ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk
>
>> > If this is the head lock solenoid, do you get any voltage across it
when
>> > the drive is attempting to spin up?
>>
>> I think I did get voltage on that connector when it seemed to pull in.
>> I'll have to double check though.
>
>Yes, please do. We'll both feel right idiots if we spend time looking in
>the servo circuitry and that real reaso the heads can't move is becuase
>they're locked.
>
>> > Unless you have a clean box, I would do a few more checks outside the
>> > HDA first
>>
>> Well, ok :P
>
>It's up to you, it's your drive. And don't you think the HDA has been
>opened before? If that's the case, then it might not do any more daamge
>to pull the cover again.
>
>-tony
>
>
Hi
I haven't been following this thread but I thought I'd add:
When working inside of disk drives, wear a mask ( the ones
you get from the drug store work fine ). Also, don't
work in a room that has had someone smoking or while
someone is frying stuff in the kitchen.
Most dust particles are large enough that the head just
kicks it of into the filter. Smoke particles are the
right size to cause head crashes, as is a little
bit of spittle from a sneeze or speech.
Also, don't rotate the disk backwards, the heads will
cut into the surface and damage them.
Dwight
>I'm certainly up for a 33 and a 35. And I can pick up, if they're local to
>NYC...
William's warehouse is in Paterson NJ, so about 20-30 minutes from NYC.
However, I think he is only there during the day, during the week.
If you can't work with that schedule, if William lets me go back, I can
grab you a 35 and stick it in my storage garage, but you will have to
pick it up before the end of August (my rental price doubles starting in
Sept, so I plan to have everything out before then). My garage is in
Ho-Ho-Kus NJ, which is also about 20-30 minutes from NYC. But I have 24x7
access to the garage, and since I live about 10 blocks from it (and work
about 10 blocks the other direction from it), I can meet you there pretty
much any day or time for pickup.
Of course, I have to figure out how to get a 35 back out of my van and
into my garage all by myself... that will be a serious challenge.
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
In a message dated 7/31/2002 2:01:18 PM Central Daylight Time,
foo(a)siconic.com writes:
<< Does anyone here still use their old (say pre-1990) Macintosh as a regular
practice?
Sellam Ismail
Well, it's not old enough, but I finally had success in getting a Quadra 800
with PPC card up and running on my network and through the router for net
access. Pretty neat machine. I presume earlier macs with ethernics and system
7.x would be similar.
NOTE: if you use ASANTE NICs, I found out that they don't always like to
establish a connection with a 100mb hub/router. To get this mac working, I
had to plug it into a 10mb hub, and then into the router.
Not really. According to http://www.railway.org/railroadgauge.htm, one of
several railroad gauges used in England by George Stephenson, and the one
that became popular in the US (over the objection, in a way, of President
Lincoln, who proposed a 5' gauge), was based on a 5 foot spacing of cart
wheels. Subtracting 2 inches for each rail gave 4'8". Stevenson later
widened the spacing by 1/2" because (for unspecified reasons), that worked
better.
See also A.W. Worth's reported comments in
http://www.spikesys.com/Trains/st_gauge.html; and
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/000218.html
-----Original Message-----
From: Sellam Ismail [mailto:foo@siconic.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 5:14 AM
To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: OT: Horse's ass
<snip>
So it is not myth.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer
Festival
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Well today was pretty good to me but I also missed some nice items at the auction.
1. A working Vectrex, console and one controller only no games with it. $5
2. A NES Stack-up cartridge for ROB the robot and it had the special Famicon board and Famicon-to-NES converter inside. $6
3. A Advanced Electronic Applications, Inc. Computer Patch Interface. It's a gray metal box with the following on the faceplate Filter - Tune - Var Shift - STBY/PTT - NORM - OFF/ON - PWR light. Under the Filter title are three buttons named VAR - 170 - CW.
It's a model CP-1 and on the back are lots of phono ports. Anyone have info on this unit?
4. Got several books, generic pc's such as 386 and P166's, some 14" monitors, and some ink jets all for $10.
