test-drb January 2003

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by TDooley900＠aol.com

I'm looking for information on Honeywell dos (Hdos) I have an old Honeywell test station that has this operating system on it and I'm trying to figure out how to copy a disk in the system. I've tried the standard Hdos commands but they aren't anything like the ones used in Honeywell dos. Does anyone know how I can backup these 8" floppy disk? Thanks in advance... Tim

23 years, 1 month

HP9835A on ebay

by trestivo＠concentric.net

FYI, just posted an HP9835A on ebay if anyones interested... http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2087812573 thom

23 years, 1 month

Original IBM portable/lug'ble PC, suit case size - IBM's response to Compaq's original portable success

by collison＠cnri.reston.va.us

Original IBM portable/lug'ble PC, suit case size - IBM's response to Compaq's original portable success Does this have any value? Possible future collectible? Thanks for your input

23 years, 1 month

working oldie

by bridgers-wall＠worldnet.att.net

A friend has an old Monroe computer, # 0C8820 and a printer, # 8640. Does anyone know if it is worth anything to a collector? Thank you.

23 years, 1 month

Osborne OCC1

by Robert_Feldman＠jdedwards.com

Speaking of OCC1 parts, I need to clean out the basement some, and have the following available for anyone who will pay the postage (from Chicago): 1 OCC1 motherboard (from a tan case) with double density and 52/80/104 column video upgrades 1 OCC1 power supply 1 OCC1 keyboard (bare, not in case) email me at robert(underscore)feldman(at)jdedwards(dot)com. Bob -----Original Message----- From: Eric Chomko [mailto:vze2wsvr@verizon.net] Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 10:07 PM To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org Subject: Re: Osborne OCC1 I'm back on them and have had great progress. One system had a bad PS but both drives work fine. The other had bad drives (one of them I did fix, though -a B: drive) but al else is fine. I have since merged all the good parts. Tommorrow I plan to put a 80 column monitor on it and run the full diagnostics. Eric <snip>

23 years, 1 month

HP 7970 E spool disk drive (fwd) From: John Lawson <jpl15@panix.com>

by loedman1＠juno.com

Swami John, ;-) A friends family resides outside of Kashmir (hope I spelled that correctly). Would their intervention streamline this transistion ? They often ship to their son with few problems and are willing to assist, this assumes that the part is located close to their residence. Rich Stephenson >On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Sellam Ismail wrote: > > Rajat followed up and told me he bought this at auction and had no use for > it so he wanted to either sell it or donate it. > > Anyone up for shipping costs on a 100lbs piece of computer gear from > India? If you're up for paying duties on around 70% of *new acquisition cost*, backed up by *the original (NOT a copy) manufacturers invoice* -OR- the right amount of discrete 'speed money' to the right person (you hope), which 'speed money' will be a substantial fraction of the original duties, and *then* you pay the re-crating (because the customs guys tear this stuff apart and then throw everything back in what's left of your box and some guy from the villages comes and slops 3 feet of cheap tape on it... and then you pay the actual shipping... *then* you deal with customs here in the US... AND you pretty much need to be there to take care of the little 'derailments' as they continually arise. Doing this long distance with no representative there, would be impossible.

23 years, 1 month

Fwd: OT Problems loading Linux

by foxvideo＠wincom.net

>Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2003 06:57:39 -0500 >To: cctakl(a)classiccmp.org >From: "Charles E. Fox" <foxvideo(a)wincom.net> >Subject: OT Problems loading Linux > >Does anyone have any suggestions on how I should prepare an old (6 gig) >hard drive to receive Linux? The installation program keeps telling me >that the partitions are full. > >Thanks > > Charlie Fox > > Charles E. Fox Video Production > 793 Argyle Rd. > Windsor Ontario Canada N8Y 3J8 > 519-254-4991 foxvideo(a)wincom.net > Check out the "Camcorder Kindergarten" > at http://chasfoxvideo.com Charles E. Fox Video Production 793 Argyle Rd. Windsor Ontario Canada N8Y 3J8 519-254-4991 foxvideo(a)wincom.net Check out the "Camcorder Kindergarten" at http://chasfoxvideo.com

23 years, 1 month

Amstrad PPC640 part 2 (bootdisk)

by 3sdiarftt02＠sneakemail.com

> You tried to boot Windows 98 on an Amstrad PPC640? ? ? Err, no. I tried to create a basic DOS-esq boot disk using Win98. Remember, DOS was still buried under 98. CJ.

23 years, 1 month

Amstrad PPC640 part 2 (bootdisk)

by 3sdiarftt02＠sneakemail.com

Thanks, and wow. One last thing, was there ever an Amstrad demo for/of the machine itself? That would be great for "show and tell" purposes. TIA, Chris J. > Jim Strickland jim-at-calico.litterbox.com |CC| <k8zqh8a2gv0t(a)sneakemail.com> wrote: > > It's expecting you to buy 10 C cell batteries, yes. And in time it > will run them down flat even if you don't use the machine as the > batteries are keeping the system clock alive. >

23 years, 1 month

COS-300 and DMS-500

by peacock＠simconv.com

> Speaking of DIBOL, I need COS-300 for some of my 11/23s... In case you > didn't know, COS-300 is RT-11 with DIBOL layered on it or something.. > COS-500 is the same but its RSTS-based if I remember correctly.. > What makes COS-300 hard to find is that most distributions were on RK05s, DEC's low end 2.5MB front load cartridge hard drive. These were not the most durable of drives and often succumbed to head crashes. However, it was relatively easy to replace the heads, about an hour's work for field service. COS-300 (Commercial Operating System 300) was an OEM package VARs sold to small businesses in the 70's. A typical system was a smaller PDP, an 11/34 or 11/03, RT-11, and the DIBOL compiler, along with something added by the VAR. There were several basic financial packages for the systems, GL/AP/AR/PY or accountant client write-up being typical markets. Your humble author developed some vertical apps for casinos and gas station accounting on a 11/34 COS-300 system. 25 years later I'm still supporting some of that legacy DIBOL code, now migrated to VMS and Alphas. Old business apps never die, they just migrate to the next box... COS-500 was for larger customers, who typically ran RSTS on 10 or more terminals. BASIC was more common on these systems, which could range up to a PDP-11/70. I seem to recall there once was some sort of 5.25" floppy distribution in the early 80's. It had RT-11 v4 and was primarily for 11/23 and 11/73 systems. This was for the odd dual floppy came out with, where two drives shared one spindle and the top floppy was upside down. These were single sided (400KB?) and used FILES-11 for the file system. DMS-500 was DECs answer to the PICK operating system. PICK had made substantial inroads in the medical field, especially hospitals, so DEC came up with the same "put everything in the database" concept. Real CODASYL databases were too big for PDP-11s so DMS-500 was the low end answer if you couldn't afford a PDP-10 or PDP-20. As I understand PICK eventually migrated to the IBM RS/6000 but DMS never got much support from DEC sales. I think there was some version for VMS but it wasn't a major player on the VAX compared to DBMS-32 and later Rdb and Oracle. Jack Peacock

23 years, 1 month

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test-drb January 2003