test-drb September 2002

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Hey people.

by vance＠neurotica.com

I'm back. Peace... Sridhar

23 years, 2 months

OT: dumpster dive and water/mold cleanup

by mythtech＠mac.com

>One that I found may be worth money, it is a Disney Snow White record >set :-) If complete, maybe, but don't be surprised if it fetches less than you think (well, maybe with eBay you'll get a good price). I bought a small stack (5 or 6) of Disney 78's at a flea market a few years ago. Although none were complete, and none were in mint condition... I only paid $20 for the bundle, and got a large stack (30 or so) of 45's in the deal too. Then again, maybe I just got a steal (all the guy was selling was records, so I assume he had some clue as to what he was selling) -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

23 years, 2 months

QWERTY/Dvorak (was //c+ switch settings)

by mtapley＠swri.edu

Sellam asked: >Who the hell uses Dvorak? Yo. >A very interesting and unique feature to have >on a computer (anyone else know of a computer that had a switch that would >instantly change the keymapping between QWERTY and Dvorak?) Now this is *cool*!. Why didn't Apple include a Dvorak keymapping with the early Mac's, if they knew enough to do this in hardware with the //c+? Oh well, it's in there now, and ElectricDvorak exists for the earlier macs. I use it, love it, and strongly recommend it to anyone meeting the following criteria: can spend about 2 weeks of 30 minutes/day to practice -AND- ( is not a touch typist -OR- has any problem with RSI) It does, fairly reliably, generate a 50% speed-up in typing, with fewer errors. My wife, a qwerty touch-typist who then learned dvorak touch, reports that it does *not* interfere with qwerty touch-typing - she switches from one to the other with the only symptom being that she types about 30 seconds of gibberish before "locking in" on the new layout. I can't report from personal experience, because I'm a qwerty hunt-n-peck and dvorak touch. I'm at least 100% faster dvorak. I do recommend that you learn dvorak touch, because that'll accentuate the advantages of it, and because that way you don't need to rearrange the keycaps. A very useful demo is to have a Dvorak typist type while the "key caps" panel is open on a Mac. It's *amazing* how the little black dots seem to almost all flash on the home row... Available in modern Mac OS (as the dv or dq layouts, dq recommended because that way ctrl-x (cut), ctrl-c (copy), and ctrl-v (paste) are still one-handed operations). Available in modern Windows machines, look in the keyboard control panel. If you want to run it on an old Mac, let me know and I'll fix you up with ElectricDvorak (for sys 6.0.8 or later, I think) or the ElectricDvorak layout for more recent systems. - Mark

23 years, 2 months

CDC serial card for SGI...

by rschaefe＠gcfn.org

Hi! I've just aquired a CDC 6-port serial card for my Personal Iris 4D/30. The model number might be CD23/3608, the ROM is labeled `CD83/3608-FW01 240757 V1.007 COPYRIGHT 1990 CENTRAL DATA CORP'. Anyone have a lead on the switch & jumper settings, or IRIX drivers? It looks like the ports can be set to either RS232A, RS232B or RS422. (I should look up the differences between A & B. I just donated a TI expansion chassis to Merle with a RS232B card in it) It also appears that the RAM can be upgraded from 16K to 64K, and it will take an EPROM of 64K (installed), 128K, 256K, or 512K. It should be a lot of fun to play with, I hope I can get it running. Built pretty good too, only turned-pin sockets. Bob

23 years, 2 months

OT: dumpster dive and water/mold cleanup

by Antonio.Carlini＠riverstonenet.com

>It grinds a new surface all right, it grinds the surface right off! I've never seen this thing but just a thought: were you grinding the wrong surface (seriously)? I think things would have to be pretty bad for me to use a grinding product on a CD. I do have what is essentially a soft pad (just to remove dust and prints and suchlike >from the surface) and I have seen various "CD restorer" kits (these seem to be mostly fluids that claim to fill in the scratches and prevent them from interfering with the data readback ... I'm not sure I believe that!) Antonio

23 years, 2 months

VMS stuff...

by healyzh＠aracnet.com

> Quick question, does anyone know where to get the associated install kits to > go with the OpenVMS Hobbyist License PAKs? In order to run VMS on these > classic VAXen (3100/m76, etc...) I need a resource for the layered products. > ( macro32/64, pascal, etc...). > > Thanks, in advance, for the info! > > Mike N. The word on comp.os.vms is that the new Hobbyist CD's will be ready real soon now. Montagar software is sold out of the V7.2 VAX Hobbyist CD's, and the new ones should be V7.3. Your other options are to get something off of ePay, or to buy the CD's direct from Compaq/HP (tends to be very expensive). Personally, I use a combination of all three sources. Zane

23 years, 2 months

VMS stuff...

by mlnealey＠earthlink.net

Hi All, Quick question, does anyone know where to get the associated install kits to go with the OpenVMS Hobbyist License PAKs? In order to run VMS on these classic VAXen (3100/m76, etc...) I need a resource for the layered products. ( macro32/64, pascal, etc...). Thanks, in advance, for the info! Mike N.

23 years, 2 months

id this Digital card?

by rigdonj＠cfl.rr.com

Found this while scrounging this past weekend. It's marked "Digital" and "LG Controller" and "5016948 01 F1". Besides plenty of SSI ICs, it contains an 8255, 8 27256 EPROMs and an Intel 80186 and a 50 pin ribbon cable header. It measures 11 1/2" deep x 10" wide and looks similar to a Multibus card with one wide and one narrow card edge connector. (the wide connector is only used for ground). I searched the on-line DEC Field Guide and Google but didn't find anything that sounded like it. Joe

23 years, 2 months

Looking to program a N82S181

by dwightk.elvey＠amd.com

Hi Bruce Thanks for the reply. I've found two people that have a DATA IO that takes these. I sent off for the ones that Jameco has in their catalog and it looks like they are fast enough for the application I have ( Olivetti M20 w/ Z8000 ). The 1K ones I got are Nationals and the 2K ones are Phillips. I'm still trying to figure out the PROM from the machine. There are some parts that don't make sense. The PROM is used for address mapping. Once I get it figured out, I can do the remapping I need to do. Later Dwight >From: "Bruce Lane" <kyrrin(a)bluefeathertech.com> > >Hi, Dwight, > >*********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** > >On 26-Aug-02 at 17:45 Dwight K. Elvey wrote: > >>Hi >> Is there anyone that is in the silicon valley area >>that can program N82S181's? > > I'm about 800 or so miles north (southeast of Seattle), but I can program those if you don't mind doing mail order. > >>Also, does anyone have >>a source for or N82S181C parts? > > Yikes... No idea on that one. That particular part came from Signetics, and Signetics was bought out many moons ago by Phillips. > > You might try plugging the device number into the Google search engine and see what happens. > > My programming rates are on my web site at http://www.bluefeathertech.com/devices.html > > Let me know if you want to do the programming. > > Thanks much. > > >-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- >Bruce Lane, Owner & Head Hardware Heavy, >Blue Feather Technologies -- http://www.bluefeathertech.com >ARS KC7GR (Formerly WD6EOS) since 12-77 -- kyrrin(a)bluefeathertech.com >"I'll get a life when someone demonstrates that it would be superior >to what I have now..." (Taki Kogoma, aka Gym Z. Quirk) > >

23 years, 2 months

Changes

by rhb57＠vol.com

Had been un0subb'd for whatever reasons for a moth or two now and went to the Classiccmp.org site anmd see that all the off-topic, on-topic has been cured with a simple system (well maybe not simple for the admin anyway) and so far "I like". For now I'll likely lurk the list and see how things have changed rather than going back to regular conversation. I do like the changes so far, hopefully it will be just as nice between the 2 versions of the list.

23 years, 2 months

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