>There doesn't seem to be any battery in the back at all. Where do I go
>about getting one of those? I haven't cracked the unit open yet but I will
>and check the power supply.
Right above the power switch on the back, there should be a removable
panel. Its about 2 inches tall and about 1/2 inch wide. I thought there
was a little picture of a battery on the panel, but since I don't have a
512 I can't verify if there is indeed one on that model.
Pop the panel off and have a look underneath. If there is a battery, see
if it is any good
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
As message header states: I'm looking for one or two Pertec formatter
cards for Kennedy 91xx series tape drives - with cables, if possible.
Have $$$ for same - will be at VCF looking to trade $ for Stuff.
Also, I'm looking for 2 or 3 DEC RL02 drives, one at least in good
working shape - with an interconnect cable and terminator. Can pick up in
Bay Area....
Cheerz
John
On Oct 6, 8:12, Lyle Bickley wrote:
> I'd contact the seller and ask them if the tapes are oiled (you can
smell the
> oil) - if so, they are not mylar. (I've used a lot of that
black/oiled tape
> - btw, mylar tape is typically not black, IMHO and experience)
You can often *feel* the oil. By a curious coincidence, I was talking
to a guy, this morning, who still sells paper tape and used to be
involved in its manufacture. He told me how it was oiled in bulk, and
how they used to do it in small batches for special jobs. I now know
how to oil my own :-)
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Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
Trying to find an Overland Data, Inc. OD3201
9-track reel-to-reel unit. It is a reasonably thin,
grey unit that stands vertically and has a plexiglas
window built in the door.
Please reply directly to ken(a)fraserhouse.com
including condition and price.
Thanks,
Ken Campbell
>Good point, but the biggest problem with the original iMac was that
>there was no way to get your work off the computer if you didn't have
>an internet connection or any extra hardware, since they only had CD
>readers, not burners. I have never owned an iMac, but I have friends
>who have them, and they all waited until the iMac had a CD burner...
I didn't say Apple's cost cutting idea was well thought out... just that
they did it for cost cutting reasons.
:-)
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
I used to know this, but have forgotten, and now I'm getting ready to dig
the software back out...
I believe it was a program called PUTR that I used on a PC to read/write
5.25 floppy disks to exchange data with my PDP-11/23 that had an RX50 drive
in it. Should the PC drive be a 360k floppy or a 1.2m floppy?
Wonder if there is some story as to the history of "disc" vs. "disk" :) HP
always used "disc".
Jay West
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>IIRC, you could no longer use 400k disks as of System 7.6, but you can
>still use 800k disks up through System 9, provided of course that you
>have a Mac with an internal floppy drive.
I can't reliably read or write 800K disks in my PM 6500 with OS 9.0.4.
Haven't been able to for a few OS versions. Also can't in my PM 9600. It
attempts it, and is sometimes works for reading an 800K disk. It can also
on occasion write to 800K disks, but it can never format them. It will
attempt a format, it will even complete it without complaint... but the
disk will be undreadable in machines running older OS versions. If I
format in an older machine, I can then get a few writes to the disk
before the data is unreadable in an older machine (and if the disk is
freshly formatted, then I can usually get one or two reads as well).
So based on personal experience, I just chalk it up that Apple stopped
letting you do both 400 and 800 (with 400 being right out)
>Why Apple stopped
>offering floppy drives, I don't know.
Cost cutting. They were trying to get the iMac down to as cheap a build
as possible, and they knew that most consumers would have little need for
a floppy drive in the long run. So it was a place to shave a few bucks
off the manufacturing costs. Alas when they choose to do it, it was still
a tad premature, as yes, in the LONG run, most consumers wouldn't need a
floppy drive... but until they migrated their entire collection of old
disks to something else, then they still needed it (but its a typical
catch-22... if Apple left the drive in, no consumer would migrate their
stuff in anticipation for the removal of the drive, so the consumer
wasn't going to stop needing the drive, until right after the drive was
no longer there)
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
Are you saying that the battery housing is there, and
it's empty?
If so... No need to crack the case to check the power
supply. The lack of a battery is why your system isn't
booting...
Here's a webpage about the various batteries...
http://www.sover.net/~jams/Classic_Mac_Workshop/battery.html
Regards,
Al
> From: "Andrew Strouse" <kittstr(a)access-4-free.com>
>
> There doesn't seem to be any battery in the back at
> all. Where do I go about getting one of those? I
> haven't cracked the unit open yet but I will and
> check the power supply.
>
> Andrew Strouse
> ( kittstr(a)access-4-free.com )
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Somebody needs to tell this clown that this isn't his private procurement
list!
Joe
At 05:09 PM 10/3/03 -0500, you wrote:
>I would like to know if you have any of these chips available. They are
>the direct flash replacement for the 27C512 that I'm looking for.
>
>Thanks
>Mehdi Mir
>
I was wanting to get some mylar paper tape. There is an auction on Ebay for
6 rolls of "black paper tape"... can one generally assume that black paper
tape is mylar and not just paper?
The URL is http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2562042672
Can anyone advise if this is likely to be mylar or not?
Regards,
Jay West
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