Sellam wrote:
>On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, David Vohs wrote:
>>One even flew on the space shuttle! I suppose this was before they changed
>>to GRiDs. Can anyone confirm?
>As far as I know, the GRiD Compass went up on the first Shuttle flight. Or
>at least, I'm certain it went up before an Attache did, since the Attache
>wasn't produced until well after the GRiD was around. One site puts the
>Attache at 1984, which sounds appropriate. -- Sellam Ismail
My copy of the FAUG Newsletter 5#2 of Summer 1985 said that astronaut Ronald
Parise was scheduled to take his Otrona Attache on a shuttle flight on March
6, 1986.
However, checking Parise's NASA bio, he did not get into space until 1990,
so I doubt that the Otrona went with him then.
I hadn't read the piece closely before, and thought the it was a report of a
past flight, not a future one. So, it remains unconfirmed, and unlikely,
that an Otrona Attache went up on a shuttle filght.
Bob
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For what it's worth, when this sort of thing happened with a Commodore, it
usually meant one of the ROMs had a problem. I never did own a Kaypro,
though...
Tobias
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10/31/2003 02:58 PM
Please respond to
"General
Discussion:
On-Topic Posts
Only"
Here are a few more details regarding the problem:
I didn't start my Kaypro 2X for several years. Some weeks ago I gave it
a short try and everything seemed to be okay except for the keyboard.
Due to corrosion many keys didn't react. So I gave it to a friend, who
first tested all the keys to see which were in need to be cleaned. The
display was still okay at that time. Then he opened the keyboard and
cleaned the contacts inside the keyswitches (he had to solder them out
in order to do that). When he had finished the cleaning he assembled and
reconnected the keyboard and started the computer. From that time the
display went silly:
- The powerup message shows up at random coordinates, however some of
the coordinates are okay (see
http://home.arcor.de/toa/tmp/kaypro-defekt.jpg). There are a lot of
additional characters, most of them are '?' (n with ~ above). A few of
the characters are blinking or show up with low intensity. Effect is the
same with or without keyboard connected. Everytime I hit the reset
button I see another random distribution.
- When you type something on the keyboard (at the CP/M prompt) the
characters show up at random coordinates but the blinking cursor moves
in the way one would expect (one step to the right for each character,
3rd position of new line when you hit return). W/o any keyboard input
the display is stable except for the blinking chars.
- When you type in CP/M commands (I still have all the disks) they get
executed but the output characters show up at random coordinates (see
http://home.arcor.de/toa/tmp/kaypro-dir.jpg for an output of "dir").
Has anyone schematics for the Kaypro 2X?
Any hints what to do next?
Tobias
On Oct 31, 1:29, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
> Well, I've tried hooking my RL02 up to a new controller, and it still
doesn't
> turn off the "FAULT" light.
Is there a working terminator on the second connector on the drive?
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
On Oct 31, 8:05, Pat wrote:
> On Friday 31 October 2003 03:25, Pete Turnbull wrote:
> > Is there a working terminator on the second connector on the drive?
>
> There *should* be... this is the second terminator I've tried and it
still
> doesn't work, but I am not sure if the terminator works. Of course,
I'm more
> likely to suspect the drive than the terminator I'm using...
Looks like it. If you've tried two terminators and two controllers,
all that's left is the cable or the drive. I assume you've got the
ribbon cable from the controller to the bulkhead connector round the
right way.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
HP 2116B Computer System RARE!! Vintage 1969
or so it says:
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oh well, so far it's only up to 99.00
Could someone try to give this fellow a hand, please? I've long since been out of the media-conversion market.
Thanks much.
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