test-drb February 2003

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by ssj152＠charter.net

Hi, I am new here; I've been lurking (reading the archives) for a while, decided to join. Since I retired I've taken up "retrocomputing" and see a lot of discussion here about systems I'm interested in and hopefully I'll be able to contribute at times. I am certainly having fun reading the posts - the recent posts about "middle posting" really cracked me up! I am interested in 6502 based systems, especially the KIM-1 and SYM-1. I currently have a VIM-1 and a SYM-1, having years ago been thickheaded enough to sell my KIM-1. Wish I had one now, can't afford one on eBay. I have nothing against the AIM-65, I just have never fooled with one and haven't been able to pick one up yet. My interest in small 6502's has been extended to small "trainers" with different CPU's, like the Heathkit ET-3400 and the HP 5036A. One of these days I may get around to fooling around with PIC's, but I'm still having too much fun with the old stuff. I'm looking for a copy of the HP book "Practical Microprocessors, HP part number 05036-90003" if anyone has an affordable source for one. I have inquiries out to several "manual" sites and am awaiting replies. I also have history with PDP-11's, using RT-11 and RSX-11M. I have a PDT-11/150 at the present and run RT-11 on it. What I'd really like to have is a H-11 (yeah, I can really afford that...no way) or better yet, a DCT-11 trainer. I saw 3 of the DCT-11's go by this fall on eBay and wasn't in a position to bid. In recent years I worked with VAXes and have several VAXStations and MicroVAXes, in the 3100 and 4000 series. I'm not sure these qualify as classic (3100-10e, 4000-VLC, 4000-60, 4000-90). I also have a few Alpha's. - Multia, AlphaStation 200 4/100, and AlphaServer 1000A. I spent the last 10 years of my career as a systems programmer working with OpenVMS in a process control (SCADA) environment. I am not so much a collector as a user and builder of computers and peripherals. By that I mean I'm not trying to corner the market, open a museum, or that I consider these computers as "investments". I am not likely to sell anything, but might be interested in buying a few things, especially documentation for some of the machines I have. What documentation I have I may at some time convert to PDF and publish for anyone else interested to play with. Stuart Johnson ssj152 AT charter DOT net

21 years, 10 months

OT: RE: Collecting, Hacking and the Spooks (was: Gulf War, dummie s,

by Robert_Feldman＠jdedwards.com

New York Times June 11, 2001 Court Restricts Heat-Sensor Searches By David Stout WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court today reiterated the right of privacy in the age of technology, ruling in an Oregon drug case that the police cannot use a heat-seeking device to probe the interior of a home without a search warrant. -----Original Message----- From: vance(a)neurotica.com [mailto:vance@neurotica.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 8:10 PM To: Zane H. Healy Cc: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org Subject: Re: Collecting, Hacking and the Spooks (was: Gulf War, dummies, On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Zane H. Healy wrote: <snip> > > What I've been wondering about is, how long before we start setting off > alarms in some Government agency due to our abnormally high use of > electricity? Or due to the abnormally high level of heat in area's of > our home? Back when I used an ES/9000 in my parents house, I managed to attract the attention of the law. There were two DEA agents from the local office with one of the local sheriff's deputys with him. They showed up and asked me if I was growing marijuana. I said something to the effect of, "What gave you that idea?" They showed me a report from the power company. I laughed and told them to come look for themselves. They were quite unprepared for the size of my computer, I can tell you that. 8-) Peace... Sridhar

21 years, 10 months

OT: Compact Flash (CF) cards

by gil＠vauxelectronics.com

Hi folks: This is off-topic, (and if you are in the sbc6120 group you have already seen it): I got a couple of Compact Flash (CF) cards to play with, and I also got a CF-PCMCIA adapter to try the cards in my laptop. Unfortunately, I cannot get Win-frickin-98 to see the card. I have a similar Smartmedia-PCMCIA adapter for camera cards, and it seems to work fine in the same machine (ibm thinkpad 600e). In both cases, I inserted the card/adapter, WinBlows sees it and starts the device wizard to install a "Standard IDE/ESDI Hard Disk Controller." For the Smartmedia card/adapter, the card automatically appears as a drive in Explorer, and all is well. For the CF card/adapter, it asked me to reboot, and even then does not see the card. The Device Manager Status for the controller says "device not present, not working properly, or does not have all drivers installed (code 10)." There are no resource conflicts to correct. However, the controller driver is seen by the PCMCIA utility that allows me to stop the card for removal. I've searched at ibm and microsoft, and various google finds, but cannot make sense of this, and have already spent way too much time on it. Has anyone had problems or success reading CF cards in Win98 with a PCMCIA adapter? Is a usb adapter a better choice? Upgrading the o/s is not an option, since I never intend to give microsoft another penny. thanks in advance, gil ;----------------------------------------------------------- ; vaux electronics, inc. 480-354-5556 ; http://www.vauxelectronics.com (fax: 480-354-5558) ;-----------------------------------------------------------

21 years, 10 months

386

by bluegenie＠ntlworld.com

I am after some baby at 286/386/486 motherboards of size aprox 8 3/4 inches x 6 3/4 inches Can you help Graham Challis [demime 1.01a removed an attachment of type image/gif which had a name of IMSTP.gif] [demime 1.01a removed an attachment of type Image/jpeg which had a name of 2.jpg]

21 years, 10 months

PeeCee obtained 5000AT

by jwest＠classiccmp.org

Recently obtained a *BLUSH* old PC. Normally wouldn't post about it here but... someone may be interested in a copy of the software on it. This thing is kind of a slimline desktop case, has a 3.5 floppy and 5.25 floppy. It's a leading edge model 5000AT. I think it is a 286. But what might be interesting to some is, it comes with something called "windos" I believe, and is a leading edge specific "make the computer simple" GUI sort of. Basically just lets you point and click to call 123, easywriter, etc. I thought someone might be interested in the software & gui files. God I feel dirty now *G*

21 years, 10 months

Request for help with a PDP 11/73

by chu＠verizon.net

Thats what I was hoping. I think that it is trying to boot from the disk that I think is dead. I have a vt420 to hook up, but I do not have the cabling that I need. I just bought a gender changer and a null modem on eBay. When they get here I will hook it up to see what the console output says. Thanks, Dave Chu >I just bought a PDP 11/73, but >unfortunately UPS dropped it >on the way. So I am trying to >what ever documentation and >diagnostics that I can locate >to figure out how badly it was >damaged. >The mounts for the tape drive and >disk drive were broken as well as >all of the external plastic. >The machine powers up and goes through >some self diagnostics, stopping with the >LED's reading "01". The disk drive stays >quite and unlit, my conclusion was that it >appears dead. >I am looking for any help that I can get. > >TIA, >Dave Chu > > > What is reported on the console port? Plug in a terminal/etc and see what it tells you. If there is a problem, it should display a more useful error message. I believe that at 01, it is trying to boot the software >from wherever it is set up to boot from.

21 years, 10 months

[cc] RE: OT/Admin: tags

by Fred.van.Kempen＠microwalt.nl

Sellam raged: > Here's what I see when I get an index of the my mailbox: [ pine display removed] > Here's what it would look like with a pre-pended tag: [ more pine removed] > 3/5 of the message topic lines are now gone, making them practically > useless for getting a quick scan of the message subjects. Oh. You mean, your stupid mail client cant even widen its display? Get a real mail client then, dude. See how fucked-up that comment is? Right. Same goes for another comment stating that "every decent mail client can do processing". It's simply not true. Like my statement above. People use all sorts of clients, and they all have different capabilities. > I just read and delete through as I go through my inbox. Try that on my mailbox. > But, what I'm saying is, we did already go over this in the Great > Divergence. MUST we REPEAT this STUPID ARGUING over HOW the LIST is > PRESENTED TIME and TIME and F0!KING TIME aGAIN? Settle down, dude. > I mean SHIT! I have never met a more whiny-assed group of nerds in my > life! If the whining on this list over all the stupid little shit that > gets whined about could be converted into energy, we'd be able to power > Asia. I don't feel like powering Asia. Just my own home would be nice, given the VAXen here. I still vote for a small [cc] tag. In front of the subject. > Just accept it already and SHUT UP! No. --fred

21 years, 10 months

Columbia - THIS THREAD MUST DIE

by loedman1＠juno.com

>I think that you all didn't saw that i was forgotten to put an 's' inbetween >the b and the c of unsub(s)cribe. >That's why I posted it two times... so the one who clames that I posted >'unsubscribe' twice ... lies... >Read your messages closely!!!!!!! >Michel Bye now !!! Rich

21 years, 10 months

Unsubscribability

by loedman1＠juno.com

Have you ever considered that you are making yourself an excellent target, your attitude is amusing and you certainly do not play well with others. (Is this a top post ?) Rich Stephenson California >What's the difference between spam and these ridiculous mails... I don't >now... >Please stop this crap.... >Michel

21 years, 10 months

Is there such a thing as a ZIF socket for PLCC chips?

by erd_6502＠yahoo.com

I am needing to burn PLCC-packaged chips in my DIP programmer. I expect I need to locate a PLCC<->DIP adapter of the right size (for 29C010 and 28F101 Flash chips, at the moment). Thinking about it made me wonder if any of the sockets were ZIF or LIF. Any ideas? Any recommendation on a source for adapters? Thanks, -ethan

21 years, 10 months

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test-drb February 2003