>> Still the best cat toy is laser light pointer, they all love to go
>> after that spot of light.
>
>I've have had an incredible amount of fun with a laser pointer and a cat.
I thought my wife killed one of my cats with one once. The cat was so in
need of catching the little red dot that it didn't realize it was
exhausted, until it just fell over panting and stayed on its side for the
next 20 minutes trying to catch its breath.
Ever since then, we limit the laser pointer time to 5 minutes at a shot.
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
I use to have before the fire, a box full of about 50 different 3 1/2's
My eon's ago i was responsible for evaluating 3 1/2's for Tektronix.
Three different types, and you should have seen all the rev's Sony
went through.
The part I remember the most is the convincing the now loosing camps
use to try to put down the Sony design.
I'll see if I still have some of the doc's and such, if i do, I'll put
them on a web site.
-pete
-----Original Message-----
From: Curt vendel [mailto:curt@atarimuseum.com]
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 7:32 AM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: vintage 3.5" disk drives
Did Seagate and/or Shugart get into making 3.5" floppy disk drives
around
83/84??? Anyone have pics of very early 3.5" disk drives?
Curt
In a message dated 11/4/03 8:47:53 PM Pacific Standard Time, vcf(a)siconic.com
writes:
> Watch out with Goof-Off. You can easily melt the plastic of the case if
> you apply too much or rub too much. Always apply it to a cloth first and
> then to the case, and then don't cause too much friction.
>
>
I find goof off works for removal of some yellowing. It does dissolve the
surface of most plastics. After about 5 - 10 seconds of application I use ethyl
alcohol to stop the reaction (Wipe with another saturated cloth). Seems to
neutralize the Goof Off. You have to be quick. Doesn't work on clear plastic.
Paxton
Astoria, OR
> How many of you have seen this one?
> http://www.innergeek.us/geek.html
> I only got a 7.88955% result...
52.66272% - Super Geek
The thing that troubles me the most is that I think I'm
more annoyed by the fact that there weren't more deeply
technical questions so that I could score higher than by
the fact that I scored high enough to be labeled a "Super
Geek."
Boy, it must be getting late. That sounded too much like
Super Freak. Now I'll have that song stuck in my head for
the rest of the night...
Brian L. Stuart
>From: "Vintage Computer Festival" <vcf(a)siconic.com>
>
>On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Kevin Handy wrote:
>
>> B.Degnan wrote:
>>
>> > Does anyone have a secret recipe that is *safe* for cleaning
>> > yellowed/stained plastic computer parts that were originally white? I
>> > have had some success with various cleaning agents, but nothing
>> > spectacular. -bill wilmington, delaware
>> >
>> You aren't going to get it back all the way to the original whiteness,
>> and it depends on if it is more yellowed from "smoking" or age, but
>> spraying on 409 and letting it soak for a while before wiping it off can
>> greatly improve the color. It takes several repeats: keep doing it until
>> the yellow stops running.
>
>A run through the dishwasher sometimes helps (note: sometimes).
>--
Hi
I've had some success rubbing with goof-off. You know,
the lable cleaner stuff.
Dwight
Actually, I remember reading somewhere that cats have limited
color perception. To a cat, red appears to be black. Don't know
what green maps to, however...
-al-
-acorda(a)1bigred.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Smith [mailto:eric@brouhaha.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 2:51 PM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: Cats
ben franchuk wrote:
> Still the best cat toy is laser light pointer, they all love to go
> after that spot of light.
Sellam Ismail wrote:
> I've have had an incredible amount of fun with a laser pointer and a cat.
Note that doing this for the purpose of exercising the cat may violate
US patent 5443036. The patent makes no claims about doing it to entertain
the human and/or the cat, however.
The patent may be invalid anyhow, as it describes using a "beam of
invisible light", which surely won't hold the cat's interest. A beam
of red light works much better. I haven't tried a beam of green light,
but green laser pointer prices have come down enough that it is
tempting to try it the next time I'm in Colorado. (None of my close
friends here in California have cats.)
Eric
>> I've got a plastic push gear I'm trying to glue back together, and so far
>
>Ah... What's it out of? Any chance in getting, or making, a replacement gear?
Its actually for a VCR, and an off topic one I might add (its only a few
years old). Yes I can probably get a new gear from the manufacturer, but
they are a royal PITA when it comes to getting parts unless you have a
specific part number. Of course, they don't stamp their parts with the
numbers, nor do they offer exploded diagrams that list the part
numbers... which leaves one in the nice situation of not being able to
order the part because you don't know what they refer to it as!
I've had to jump thru serious hoops to get parts from this company in the
past, and I figured that glue would be easier then trying to get the
replacement part. As it stands, from the sounds of it, glue isn't going
to be any easier, so most likely, the whole VCR is going to be disposed
of rather than spend any more time on it. (Its for a local animal shelter
I support, its a crappy TV/VCR unit that the cats use to watch videos of
birds... I'm not willing to spend any more time working on it when I have
a VCR and TV I can donate to them instead, and since they are two
different units, I can wire up the TV in the cat room, and the VCR in an
office down the hall, which will greatly reduce the amount of cat hair
and litter dust that gets in the VCR, which was the cause of the failure
in the first place. What I REALLY want is to hook them up with a computer
running MPEGs of their videos... that should drop the wear and tear
factor down to almost nothing as the computer doesn't care if the hard
drive spins 24x7 for the next 20 years)
However, I'm glad I asked about glues, as this VCR is just what drove me
to the point of trying to find a decent glue. I've run into the problem
on a number of things in the past, so now I'm a bit more educated in the
topic for the next time.
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
Ok, did a little web search on this, and found...
http://videoforcats.com/catvision.htm
Don't know how authoritative this is, but it sounds
like they did a bit of research...
It would be interesting to see how a cat would
respond to a green laser pointer... apparently green
is one of the colors they seem to be sensitive to.
BTW, this is getting off topic... perhaps it should
end soon.
(with apologies for drawing it out)...
-al-
-acorda(a)1bigred.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Smith [mailto:eric@brouhaha.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 4:37 PM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: RE: Cats
"Corda Albert J DLVA" <CordaAJ(a)NSWC.NAVY.MIL> wrote:
> Actually, I remember reading somewhere that cats have limited
> color perception.
True, AFAIK.
> To a cat, red appears to be black.
Not true. Otherwise they wouldn't be interested in red laser
pointers.
Joe;
I recently sold one of these on eBay, not for much. The Roadrunner is a multi
event controller for multiple slide projectors.
The monitor plugs into the video connector and is just a composite monitor
for the computer. I think the 5" monitor power plug fits into a matching socket
on the expansion box so that is the one I would use. the disk drive plugs into
the back of the expansion cab.
Plugged together something should come up on the screen.
IIRC the Record Out and Play In are for the control signal pulses generated
by the controller. Also Out 2 on the expansion unit.
The patch panel looks like it is for audio.
The most interesting for me would be the S100 Eagle. AVL did use S100
computer systems. The 9" monitor and the keyboard go to the Eagle box, as does one of
the disk drives I think.
The Roadrunner I sold was just the small controller keyboard. And it was
missing a keycap; I got about $28 IIRC. The Eagle is late 1970s or early 80s and
the Roadrunner is early 1980s.
Video projectors have taken over most of the market for this for multiple
slide projector shows. You seem to have complete sets of equipment so it is
probably worth getting the Eagle and saving both.
Paxton
Astoria, OR
On Sunday 02 November 2003 14:04, owen(a)bardstown.com wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I have recently bought a SGI Indy from Ebay. It uses 13w3. Can I get any
> ol' 13w3, or are there special needs for my indy? I also have an IBM
> POWERstation 220 that uses 13w3, so a generic adapter would be nice ;)
>
if your monitor supports the resolution 1024x768 76 hz.. and it supports sync
on green then yes an adapter will work... search on google for a list of
supported monitors. Basicly you need a nice 17" or better monitor bargain
basement won't cut it.
> Now, the next question -- my Indy is in transit, but I know that noone has
> root, including the seller. Also, no IRIX media is included -- no
> maintenance mode. I do _not_ have a SCSI interface on my computer here. So,
> I _can't_ pull the drive, mount it on Linux, and ta-da!
if your indy has XL video there is linux support. but if you have any other
framebuffers then your best chance is finding a copy of IRIX.
>
> So, can I do one of these:
>
> * Linux lets you boot directly into single-user mode with a kernel option.
> Is that possible with this system?
>
> * If the system has a CDROM, can I use some type of Linux bootable CD with
> SGI's FS support (EFS, if I recall.) to mount the disk and VI it?
the biggest problem is if the drive is 4gig or smaller it uses 1k clusters
when formated (unless IRIX was told to do otherwise) and linux XFS only
supports 4k clusters. so the linux support is not availible.
if it has IRIX 6.3 or earlier there is an explointable security whole that you
can use to gain root access.. google on telnet exploit IRIX and you should
find a link to a program that can exploit the hole.
>
> Or, if anyone else has ideas... I contemplated a SCSI add-in card for my
> real box, any other thoughts?
>
> Also, the last question -- since I have no IRIX media, how can I do a
> _complete_ backup -- should I buy a big SCSI HD and do that? Or are there
> better means? (Anyone want to sell me a cheap copy of IRIX ;-))
if you can gain access to the root account there are tools to make copies of
the disk. or else you can do a copy of the disk by installing a second disk.
ebay should have plenty of small 50 pin scsi disks that can be used for this
for a few dollars. the disk can be copied in the bios.. just look up disk
replication and there are documents on how to do this.
>
> TIA,
> Owen Marshall
> Linux Geekboy, SGI
> Fanboy
