Clearing off the shelves a bit...
1) Cisco 72-0791-01 V.35 DTE cable - 6 feet or so, Cisco serial to V.35
$2.00
2) Box of Five 3M DC600A Cartridges, all new and still in plastic.
$2.00 (for the whole box)
3) Xilinx XACT 2000/3000 PGA Dev System Reference Guide, new, no disks.
$2.00
4) CommShare 700M Acoustic Coupler, ancient, looks current loop
(thats Teletype, folks), looks complete but untested.
$5.00
5) DEC G727A Bus Grant Continuity card.
$1.00
6) Digital Research MP/M-86 Command Summary booklet, from 1982
$2.00
First come first served, pretty much. Buyer pays S&H. If anyone wants a
box of DD 3.5 inch disks for free, I'll throw that in if you buy
something. I take Paypal (but DO NOT use this email address for the account).
See, I said not much money.
William Donzelli
aw288(a)osfn.org
On Dec 2, 1:12, Pete Turnbull wrote:
> I've set a Reply-To: in this message
> to see if that's what's doing it...
Looks like it is.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
On Dec 1, 15:28, Marvin Johnston wrote:
>
> Pete Turnbull wrote:
> >
> > > For quite a while, I had a small bottle of Acid Flux that was
> > basically
> > > Muriatic Acid, and it worked like a charm.
> >
> > Actually, it was probably mostly zinc chloride, made by dissoving
> > granular zinc (or old battery cases) in hydrochloric acid. Known
here
> > as Bakers Fluid. The raw acid would be too strong, and lose its
> > efficacy too quickly.
>
> No, it was Muriatic Acid according to the label. I went looking for
it
> after I ran out (it lasted about 10 years) and when I couldn't find
it,
> I bought the Muriatic Acid.
I'm surprised -- but I'm sure you're right.
> My understanding is that Muriatic Acid is
> 33% strength Hydrochloric Acid.
Sounds about right. Concentrated pure hydrochloric acid is about 36%
w/v; left exposed to air it fumes and gradually loses HCl; common
concentrated acid is 32%-33%. Muriatic acid is a technical (well,
industrial, really) grade and contains impurities as well as being
subject to loss. Be careful with it; apart from its corrosive nature,
you know you're not supposed to store it in proximity to certain other
things, such as ammonia, bleach, etc?
> I used quite a bit of it for cleaning
> tin-lead plating when I still owned the printed circuit shop. To head
> off comments I've heard before, tin-lead gets plated (NOT solder),
and
> the tin-lead later in the process gets fused to form the solder
alloy.
*I* won't argue with that description :-)
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
On Dec 1, 16:03, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, Pete Turnbull wrote:
>
> > For a little while, I've been mildly surprised to see that when I
reply
> > to posts, I end up generating a reply to both the list and the
original
> > poster.
> I've noticed some messages I've replied to are like this as well,
though
> not all. For instance, this one wasn't. Whenever I reply to one of
> Witchy's messages then it behaves as you describe. Witchy, what are
you
> doing to your headers, young man?
:-) Dwight's are like that too. I've set a Reply-To: in this message
to see if that's what's doing it...
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
I sympathize with people who get misquoted and who find incorrect things
attributed to them or associated with them. If someone approached you about
an interview, as a condition for the interview, always insist on:
1. Reviewing direct quotes such as, Fred Smith says, "Computers made before
1981..."
2. Reviewing indirect quotes such as, According to Fred Smith, computers
made before 1981...
3. Any reference to you or your company, organization, etc.
If a writer or reporter won't give you the opportunity to review what he or
she intends to put into print, decline the interview request. If you go
ahead with an interview, insist on taping it for your protection.
If your company has a person in a marketing-communication or
public-relations role, insist they sit in on the interview to help protect
you from misquotes or misunderstood information.
Maybe a reporter from the NY Times or the Wall Street Journal won't let you
see a story before it goes into print. OK, don't talk with them. Recently,
the WSJ did a terrible job of relating information provided in an interview
by Warren Buffett, the investor. Buffett wrote to say the article missed
the point of his concerns, but the WSJ defended it's incorrect
interpretation of the information he provided. Several readers also wrote
about the awful job the WSJ reporter did. I trust journalists less and
less, and I trust TV journalists not at all.
Jon
Jon Titus
36 Sunset Drive
Milford, MA 01757-1362 USA
+1-508-478-8040
jontitus(a)comcast.net
Member: National Association of Science Writers
Hi all,
I could use some help on setting up a KDA50-Controller in a VAX 4000/200 as I'm interested in connecting a RA-92 to it (the VAX has no drives installed so far!) so that NetBSD or VMS can run on it.
The backplane contains the KA-660 Board with extra Memory (MS650), a KLESI- and a KFQSA-Controller (DSSI), respectively.
Typing "config" in the Console-Mode gives out the adress fopr the SDI-Controller, if I type in KLESI, KFQSA and KDA50.
I installed the controller directly behind the KFQSA-Board with the address given by config.
When I type "show qbus" after powering on the Vax, the KDA50 isn't diplayed. Doing the same routine described above without the KLESI- and KFQSA-Controller brings no result.
Can the KDA50 be noticed by the "show qbus" command ?
The cycling pattern described in the user guide appears every 4 seconds, that's why I think that the boards work properly.
How do I know that the VAX found the KDA50 ?
Any hints or ideas?
Thanks alot for your help in advance
Pierre
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For a little while, I've been mildly surprised to see that when I reply
to posts, I end up generating a reply to both the list and the original
poster. This evening I realised (yes, I'm slow :-) It's the cold
weather :-)) that the Reply-To: header inserted by the list software
has been changed to include both. Is this deliberate? Did I miss a
discussion somewhere? Am I opening an old can of worms by even
mentioning it? ;-)
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
On Dec 1, 14:17, Marvin Johnston wrote:
>
> I use Muriatic Acid for cleaning (alkaline) battery residue ... a
drop
> at a time :). It works wonders on cleaning most of the residue. Try a
> drop and see if you get a good foam reaction. If so, then it will
most
> likely do the job. In any case, it shouldn't hurt the plastic.
I've never tried that, but it would seem logical. I wondered what the
brown stuff really is, hence my suggestion to try a mild alkali (good
for organic junk, like cardboard-in-battery-goo).
Muriatic acid, by the way, is hydrochloric acid. Used for cleaning
paving slabs, concrete, etc, amongst other things.
> For quite a while, I had a small bottle of Acid Flux that was
basically
> Muriatic Acid, and it worked like a charm.
Actually, it was probably mostly zinc chloride, made by dissoving
granular zinc (or old battery cases) in hydrochloric acid. Known here
as Bakers Fluid. The raw acid would be too strong, and lose its
efficacy too quickly.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
>
Doesn't ST506 have analogue elements to the interface, and a tight
relationship to the host controller with which the drive was formatted?
--
With the exception of SMD and ESDI, most small disc interfaces used an
analog PLL data separator for read data for the drives. There was a LOT
of variation in sector encoding formats (differing ECC schemes, RLL data
encoding, etc.)
Another problem to consider is how to map sector lengths that aren't
512 bytes onto modern discs.
On Dec 1, 17:24, der Mouse wrote:
> > For a little while, I've been mildly surprised to see that when I
> > reply to posts, I end up generating a reply to both the list and
the
> > original poster. This evening I realised (yes, I'm slow :-) It's
the
> > cold weather :-)) that the Reply-To: header inserted by the list
> > software has been changed to include both.
>
> That's news to me. Here's the Reply-To: I see on your message:
Yes, that's the odd thing -- it's not *all* messages. My reply to
Witchy earlier showed the symptom, because Witchy's message had both
addresses in the Reply-To:. Yours, however, doesn't, and mine didn't.
A few others I've replied to also had two addresses, but most seem
just to have the list address.
I wonder if some people are mailing the list with a Reply-To: already
set, and the new version of mailman is adding to it instead of
replacing it?
Witchy? Did your message have a Reply-To: when you sent it?
> Something else must be responsible. Maybe something is mangling the
> Reply-To: on its way to you, or maybe your user agent is sending to
the
> From: address as well as the Reply-To: address....
No, it's the Reply-To: header, and not mangled by anything here.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
