On May 17, 0:32, Paul Booth wrote:
> Anyone got one of these beasties? I picked it up last year or the
year
> before, in one of those daft runaway auctions, obviously ending up
paying
> way more than it was worth.
>
> Unfortunately there was no OS with it, so it's currently a small,
oblong
> shaped doorstop. Can anyone help me?
I have a Sage-II, and I have UCSD p-System disks for it (one configured
for an ANSI terminal, one for a VT52). They're DS DD 80-track disks
(1280 blocks). I don't think I have any other software for it, though.
Mail me off-list and I can arrange to make a copy and post it.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
> TeoZ asks:
> > When does a hobby turn into an obsesion or compulsion?
>
> Taken from Christine Reilly, Institute for Research on Pathological
> Gambling, Harvard Medical School http://www.hms.harvard.edu/doa
> (As per NPR, abbreviated)
>
> Symptoms of addiction
> o Crave it. Obsessive thinking about the activity.
> o Continued involvement despite adverse consequences
> o Increasing levels to get the same satisfaction
>
> Relating an experience I had for 24 hours once with
> painkillers for a broken leg I would add:
>
> o Gradual replacing of satisfaction with irritability.
>
> Good source material for the subject:
> the book "Terminal Man". No joke.
>
> John A.
The question is, how many people have taken the time to consider how
unhealthy the Classic Computer hobby actually is. Personally I have serious
admiration for people like Jeffrey Sharp who just get out of it.
While I've managed to limit the "Classic Computer habit" to basically DEC
gear, I still have a massive pile of 8-bit Micro's and other non-DEC Junk.
All told, I've got about 1 1/2 10x10 storage units full of computer junk.
Overall, I really need to start figuring out how to unload most of it. At
times I wonder if the smartest thing to do wouldn't be to simply call in a
Scrapper I know. The problem is, I'd really like to recover some of the
money that I've sunk into the Hobby.
BTW, if anyone in the vicinity of Portland, Oregon is looking for stuff, let
me know. I'm to the point where I'd like to get rid of most all of the
non-DEC stuff that I've got.
Zane
Ditto,
I'll be moving into my new house on 30 acres in three weeks. Not only do I
get the whole basement, I'm putting up a large building later this fall. I
have been married for 23 years and my wife has put up with this stuff for
probably half of it. She thinks I'm a little looney collecting this stuff but
she finds humor in all of it. She really has no interest in technology but she
does find the historical significance interesting at times. She is a total
American history buff. Too much of anything will burn you out. That's when you
put it away for a while and do something else. I do know one thing for sure.
Jeffrey will regret getting rid of this stuff some day. Absence makes the
heart grow fonder.
>This is really weird, since I'm also moving in two weeks. We are
>leasing a 160 year old farm house on 5 acres. The place has a gigantic
>attic and a barn so I wont have to make my computer room double as a
>storage area.
Brian Roth
Network Administrator
A+ N+ CNA CCNA
Network Services
First Niagara Bank
(716) 625-7500 X2186
Brian.Roth(a)FirstNiagaraBank.com
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>What is a BBS?
Yikes. My first reaction was this must be a joke. Someone on this list
doesn't know what a BBS is.
But then I realized, this is a list for classic computers, with the
definition of classic being older than 10 years. By 1993 the internet was
on a solid growth, and BBSs were already hard to find.
Kind of scary that some of the people that might just be getting into
this "lifestyle" (now that we have determined it is a lifestyle) honestly
may not know what a BBS is. Nor might they know anything about much that
predates the existance of Windows and the Mac OS.
Hopefully, we can welcome the new people, and educate them to what they
have missed out on... while keeping the list from degrading into a
glorified Windows 95 tech support forum.
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
The other day I picked up the following items:
IBM Powerstation 560 type 7013
IBM Powerserver 590 type 7013
IBM Powerstation 560F type 7013
None of them have been tested yet.
Hello, I know this may be a long shot but I figured I'd try it anyway.
I figure there is a good chance that someone on the list may know an
old friend of mine, Christopher Willis. I met Chris and his wife Pat
(Patricia) on a BBS in southern Ohio. Chris's impressive collection of
computers included an Altair 8800B with a Winchester hard disk, two 8
inch drives, and a Televideo 912c terminal. When Chris joined the navy
(I believe this was 1996, though it may have been earlier.. hmm.. maybe
94?) He left the Altair system with me which went into storage at my
parents house when I left for college, where It still lives (I'm
getting ready to recover it and set it up in my new house soon)
Other computers in his collection ranged from 8080/z80 boards to
various oddball multiuser mini's. At one point (years before I knew
him), I know that he had a collection housed in a warehouse (Many of
which he ended up losing eventually). Among others, this collection
included a UNIVAC. [see why I think someone on the list might know him?]
Over the years, I lost contact with Chris and would love to get ahold
of him and Pat again. If out there could help me track him down it
would be greatly appreciated.
Peter Turnbull wrote:
.
> 1 x HSD10-AA DSSI-SCSI controller (what does this do, exactly?)
Jochen Kunz responded:
.
> Sounds like a very nifty device that can turn a (bunch of) SCSI
> disk(s) into a (bunch of) DSSI disk(s).
I received the following bundle last week:
BA356-KC StorageWorks box/shelf
BA35X-MG 8-bit SCSI interface (dual uDB50's)
HSD05-AA DSSI/SCSI adapter
Indeed, this is expected to allow me to use some nice SCSI SBBs
>from the DSSI bus in the VAX 3400 in the basement. First though,
I've got to scare up a DSSI cable and terminator...
So far as I can tell the HSD05 will not do the RAID tricks that
an HSD10 is capable of. No idea then what an HSD30 can do - maybe
just faster version of HSD10?
--S.
What Companies in Australia sell 2114 RAMs? Can anyone out there help?
Joshua Beraro
Principal Technical Officer
Applied Physics Department
PNG University of Technology
Papua New Guinea
