I'm sure you guys will enjoy the humor in this...
I went to the shipping counter at the UPS hub here, with a box that has
an Atari 800, disk drive, and software. The guy at the counter asked
what I was shipping...
"Oh, just some software, and an old computer and disk drive."
"Copmuter? It that the original packing?"
"Huh? Uh, no. It's an _old_ Atari copmuter."
(Confused glance from him at the mention of the word 'Atari')
"Well, uh, lets take a look...What's this?"
"Umm, A disk drive..."
"Well, uh, we can't ship it like this. It has to be in the original box"
"Really. Since this computer is about 20 years old, I highly doubt that
the original boxes still even exists in this world. So now what am I
supposed to do?"
(Blank look from him)"Well, let me tape this box back up for you"
As I take the box to the FedEx hub next door, I wonder where this guy
has been in the 80's. He has to be at least 30 years old...
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--- Dave Woyciesjes
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I could use some help with a hardware problem?? PLEASE!!
Two weeks ago, my system crashed because both hard disk drives
failed. I replaced them (and sent the bad ones in for replacement
under warranty), but did not do anything else since at the time
it seemed that the more likely problem was something random.
Some additional information - I looked at the disk drives before
they were returned for replacement and they would not spin up
when the logic board was still connected, but when the logic
board was disconnected, spin-up did take place. It seems
likely that the logic boards were fried.
Just last week, the system crashed again and would not even power
up. This seemed to point to the power supply and it was replaced.
Now the system is working perfectly again. The latter time, the
replacement disk drives were not harmed.
Can anyone help with a reasonable estimate as to whether or not
it seems more or less likely that the cause of both problems was
the power supply or not? The system had probably been running
a total of about the equivalent of 3 years of continuous use.
Sincerely yours,
Jerome Fine
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> And in a recent experience I found that having
>FedEx ground deliver to your job instead of your
>home is always cheaper and in my case for a heavy,
>long crate was about 20% cheaper.
> Try leaving the 'Shipping to Residence' button
>unchecked when checking prices.
On the other hand, they also offer a nice "scheduled delivery" feature
for residential deliveries. You can tell them what time of day you want
it delivered. But you do pay thru the nose for this (I think the one time
I looked at it, it was an $8.00 surcharge on a $10 package).
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
>I have to take the box(es) to the FedEx folk, since
>one of the reasons Ground is cheap is that they don't provide pick-up
>service - but since FedEx locations are easy to find,
They do provide pickup to some areas. But they charge an $11 a week fee
for any week in which pickups occur.
I do have them pickup from my office when I can charge the cost off to a
client, or when the packages are just too damn big for me to bother
taking to the depot (like Friday they picked up 5 50lb boxes full of
laptops... too much for me to bother hauling to the depot, and I could
charge the $11 directly to my client so I didn't care).
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
> As others have mentioned, Fedex Ground is usually cheaper.
And in a recent experience I found that having
FedEx ground deliver to your job instead of your
home is always cheaper and in my case for a heavy,
long crate was about 20% cheaper.
Try leaving the 'Shipping to Residence' button
unchecked when checking prices.
--Doug
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Doug Coward
@ home in Poulsbo, WA
Analog Computer Online Museum and History Center
http://dcoward.best.vwh.net/analog
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Does anyone have a internal SCSI cable for a SS5 in the Aurora 2
chassic. I picked up a SS5 with thew 170mhz chip but the SCSI cable
between the motherboard and the SCA backplane is missing. The Sun p/n is
a 530-2278. I can pay via Paypal.
James
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I've added an IBM PS/2 Model 55 and Model 56 to my pile of machines
heading to be junked.
If anyone wants them or parts from them... let me know. Like the
286-486's the end of next week, the pile goes to the dumpster to speak up
before then.
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
On Jun 13, 12:11, Ethan Dicks wrote:
> I have bought a Sun DWIS/S card to drop in an old SPARCstation and
> hopefully talk to some differential SCSI drives. What I can't
> confirm is which kind of differential SCSI the card supports. I'm
> guessing that the absense of any information means that it's HVD
> (which is not what I need right now).
>
> The SunSolve page on the controller is at:
>
> http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Devices/SCSI/SCSI_DWIS_S.html
>
> ...to remove any ambiguity about what card I have coming.
>
> Thanks for any illumination,
It's the original "ordinary" differential, not LVD and certainly not
LVD/SE. In other words, what some people call HVD.
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Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
I recently found a computer to which I have never seen likes: The Siemens
6-611. Although I'm just getting started within serious collecting, this
is an interesting machine.
It features more than one 80851 (I counted 4), A Z84, and a bunch of
AY-something chips. It has a v. large mainboard.
It has a console I think is serial, with a wierd textile
covering the CRT. The console is also labelled 6-611. The keyboard
features indicators like ACK and a sexiful key. The monitor powers up,
beeps, and the OK light on the KB lights up.
Mass storage is an 8" drive, and a large HDD, 8" style. It has two
separate power connectors, one for the hard drive logic, one for the motor
and mechanics.
Upon powerup, smoke erupted from the powersupply, which I think were
filter caps. (ARGH, the SMELL!) The system worked fine after that. The
monitor has a power switch and AC out for the system, which doesn't. The
monitor also regulates the power to 230v (In comparison to 235v in
Norway.)
I lacked the cable from the console to the machine at that time, a
standard serial cable, DB-9.
Much Peace,
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Tony,
Do you have any idea who still supplies this item?
Esther King
Technical Support Engineer
Renewal Parts & Services
GE Industrial Systems
1501 Roanoke Blvd.
Salem, VA 24153
Ph: 540-387-8616 DC-278-8616
Fx: 540-387-7016 DC-278-7016
e-mail: esther.king(a)indsys.ge.com
http://www.GEindustrial.com
