"TeoZ" <teoz(a)neo.rr.com> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Anybody here using Amiga 500's?
>
Yes, I have two of them, both still operational.
--
Bob Mason
2x Amiga 500's, GVP A530 (40mhz 68030/68882, 8meg Fast, SCSI), 1.3/3.1, 2meg Chip, full ECS chipset, EZ135, 1084S, big harddrives, 2.2xCD
Gateway Performance 500 Piece 'o Crap, 'ME, 128meg, 20Gig & 40Gig, flatbed.
Heathkit H-89A, 64K RAM, hard and soft-sectored floppies, SigmaSoft and Systems 256K RAM Drive/Print Spooler/Graphics board HDOS 2 & CP/M 2.2.03/2.2.04
>Over two years, Simson Garfinkel and Abhi Shelat bought 158 used hard drives
>at secondhand computer stores and on eBay. Of the 129 drives that
>functioned, 69 still had recoverable files on them and 49 contained
>"significant personal information" - medical correspondence, love letters,
>pornography and 5,000 credit card numbers. One even had a year's worth of
>transactions with account numbers from a cash machine in Illinois. "
First old PC I ever bought was from I think PCmall, they had just moved to
a new building and gave all their people new computers, and sold the old
one from a couple pallets in the outlet store. The sign said no hard drives
and no memory, but the guy at the counter said that "some" might still have
them. The one I bought had a couple years of client and vendor billing
data. I have SE/30 from a county psych center complete with all the ready
to print forms and a bunch of patient histories.
Many small scrappers promise whatever and then sell to whoever has the top
dollar. Or worse they are honest and won't sell to me. ;( Wow do I hate
walking into ta place and seeing tasty hard drives etc. getting drilled etc.
I don't see it as getting to be a real serious problem for us though, since
its pretty costly to scrap old computers "by the book". Much easier to tell
Joe in the warehouse to get rid of the old stuff, and he calls some
scrapper who slips him a few bucks and huals everything away on the spot.
Dear cctalk people, I recently got my hands on a HP 9836CU with monitor
and HP-IB hard disk. Upon power-up, the machine behaves similarly to
Stan's post of Thu, 23 Jan 2003, where his 9836 gave him this:
.
> Flexible Disc
> Flexible Disc Failed
and he heard this:
.
> After the POST, but before the 9836C looks for an OS to load, it emits a
> series of high and low pitched beeps (low, low, high, low, high, high,
> low).
But my 9836CU does not boot. The lights on the front of the HP-IB disk
flash when the machine goes through POST an tries to boot, but the disk
does not seem to be spinning and I don't hear heads moving. I don't know
whether the hard disk works nor do I have any floppies, bootable or
otherwise.
Does anyone have any floppies that can be used to boot the a HP 9836CU?
Other system software? Documentation?
thanks, -kurt
Just got my UC Irvine student applicant 2003-04 financial aid paperwork. The
picture in the booklet of a student getting his education shows a little Asian-
looking guy in front of... a DEC workstation!!! The keyboard has an
unmistakable, so dear and familiar to me LK201 or successor layout, the screen
with some graphics (of unidentifiable nature) has the authentic look of a DEC
monitor (even the d|i|g|i|t|a|l logo can be made out), and DEC-looking boxes (I
guess external CD-ROM drives) can be seen in the back. The whole thing displays
perfect harmony in DEC colors. (Can't tell, though, whether the workstation is
a VAX, MIPS, or Alpha, except that I can see it sitting under the monitor.)
When I was registering my company in the San Diego County Clerk's office in
June of last year (that's the same place where couples tie the knot on this
side of the pond) I was similarly delighted to see all the clerks typing on DEC
terminals, with DECconnect cables running around the office.
And a few years ago when I was still watching TV (happily living without a TV
for 2.5 years now) there was a program asking people to donate blood. They
showed footage of the process and my eyes were immediately caught by a VT220.
But unfortunately most libraries, a former stronghold of VMS-based catalog
servers and public DEC VT terminals, have now been lost to pee-sea-fication.
MS
Dear cctalk people, I recently got my hands on a HP 9836CU with monitor
and HP-IB hard disk. Upon power-up, the machine behaves similarly to
Stan's post of Thu, 23 Jan 2003, where his 9836 gave him this:
.
> Flexible Disc
> Flexible Disc Failed
and he heard this:
.
> After the POST, but before the 9836C looks for an OS to load, it emits a
> series of high and low pitched beeps (low, low, high, low, high, high,
> low).
But my 9836CU does not boot. The lights on the front of the HP-IB disk
flash when the machine goes through POST an tries to boot, but the disk
does not seem to be spinning and I don't hear heads moving. I don't know
whether the hard disk works nor do I have any floppies, bootable or
otherwise.
Does anyone have any floppies that can be used to boot the a HP 9836CU?
Other system software? Documentation?
thanks, -kurt
I apologize for this being way within the 10 years, but
there's such a wealth of knowledge & experience on this
list I just had to ask:
I've got an IBM Ambra 6300 08E here that came without a
floppy drive (just an HD & CD-ROM), which makes it very
awkward to run diagnostics, install drivers, etc.
Does anybody know how to add a 3.5 floppy? I've tried
a Panasonic & a Sony, the normal way, drive 1 with the
twist, and also drive 0 without, but no luck. Any ideas?
Thanks for any help, and sorry for the OT.
mike
------Original Message--------------
From: "Ernest" <ernestls(a)attbi.com>
Subject: RE: Another apology
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 20:05:10 -0800
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cctalk-admin(a)classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-admin@classiccmp.org]On
> Behalf Of M H Stein
> Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 5:01 AM
> To: 'ClassicComputers'
> Subject: Another apology
>
>
> To everyone who's waiting to hear from me
> about stuff I've offered, another apology!
> Been awfully busy with work & health matters
> and haven't had time to look at things in
> detail, but you'll all hear from me Real
> Soon Now...
>
> mike in Toronto
No problem.
How do we get a hold of you via email? Your old account isn't working
anymore.
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Hi Ernest:
Address is mhstein at canada dot com; don't know why it's not in your
original message, it is in my copy of the digest.
The Apple clone's still on the shelf with your name on it in indelible black
marker :); sorry I dropped the ball.
Decided not to keep the bio-feedback H/W & S/W, so I'll throw it in; it
also has an 80 col card AFAIK. Write me off-list & we'll work out a
reasonable price.
Thanks for your patience & understanding, although the longer it sits,
the more valuable an antique it becomes, right? :)
mike
Hey all,
I just saw an old Commodore adding machine, model 202, or something
similar, at one of the local Goodwill outlets. It was cheap, but I have
no interest in it myself. Do I need to go back tomorrow and pick it up
>from someone???? This is something I haven't seem before, and I don't
want to pass it up if someone else really wants it.
I'll do this for about $5.00 over my cost. I think the thing was
labeled at $1.99, or something similar. Shipping will probably be the
biggest cost, if I pack it well.
Chad Fernandez
Michigan, USA
--------------------Original Messages--------------------------
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 10:03:19 -0800 (PST)
From: "Fred Cisin (XenoSoft)" <cisin(a)xenosoft.com>
Subject: Re: Model 100 DVI drive
On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, M H Stein wrote:
> Hi Rich:
> I can't answer your question, but I do have a DVI and the manual and s/w,
> if that can help you in any way. It runs CP/M IIRC.
> And if anybody's interested, make me an offer...
> mike in Toronto, Can.
Could you check the manual, and confirm that it runs CP/M?
All of the ones that we've ever seen ran a unique OS, with a
directory structure based on the Microsoft stand-alone-BASIC.
A CP/M for it would significantly increase the desirability of it.
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Well, as I've mentioned here previously, I have some serious problems
with my memory, so my recollection is probably faulty, and I'm certainly
not about to argue with you, Fred. Alas, another aspect of this memory
problem is that I can't remember where a lot of stuff is any more (although
that's always been a problem :), so I haven't been able to find the
manual yet. I have found the DVI & boot diskette though, and after a half
hour search, the 100 and its user and tech manuals but, alas, not the
100>DVI cable. If & when I find either the DVI manual or the cable, I'll
check it out & let you know, but you're probably right.
mike
