test-drb August 2003

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by nashafi＠mail.com

I currently have a hardcard in an old system which is not showing any display. so i took out the hard card and plugged in a 486 system but now the system wants to use it as a start up disk any idea how can i prevent system to do that so i be able to retrieve data from hard card. because if i let hard card be start up disk then i get a bios address error. Any help will be appreciated. -- __________________________________________________________ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup CareerBuilder.com has over 400,000 jobs. Be smarter about your job search http://corp.mail.com/careers

22 years, 1 month

HP Integral questions

by ard＠p850ug1.demon.co.uk

A couple of weeks ago I mentioned I'd obtained an HP Integral. I've now had time to test the PSU, etc, and it seems to be fine. However, I have a few questions about it. 1) What's the space on top, under the printer cover, for? I've found the HP-HIL mouse (and cable) is an almost perfect fit there, and as a mouse is a useful accessory for this machine, that's where I store it. But is there a more official use? 2) One of the cards I have in the machine is the interface for the 82904 expansion unit. Alas I don't have the expansion unit itself :-(. The card has a 64 pin Blue Ribbon connector on the bracket, which seems to mostly carry a buffered version of the Integral's expansion bus. My first problem, though, is that 64 pin Blue Ribbon plugs are not listed in any catalogue I've looked in so far -- 50 is the largest we seem to get in the UK. Anyone know a source? 3) Also, has anyone any information on designing I/O cards for this machine? 4) A really long shot, but that expansion unit card is taking up a slot that could be better used for something else. So does anyone know where I might find a serial card (either RS232 or current loop, preferably the former) or a GPIO card? I also think I need a hard disk. I have whichever version of the 9133 is around 20Mbytes here, which I believe should work. However, I have questions about that too 1) Inside there's a set of 4 links called the 'Ident Sea'. It appears these tell the controller the geometry of the ST506 hard disk that's connected. Anyone know what all 16 possible settings are for? 2) Is it possible to low-level format a 'new' hard disk on this unit? If I found a replacement drive that matched one of the expected geometries, how could I use it? -tony

22 years, 1 month

media question (MO and tape)

by liste＠artware.qc.ca

My father was emptying his office and broght home a box full of back ups. I have readers for most, except the following 2 : Sony 5 1/4 Magneto Optical Disk EDM-1DA1s Rewritable Maxell HS-8/112 Helical-Scan 8mm Data Cartridge I've googled around a bit and disovered very little about these medias beyond the fact the MO disks can contain 600mb. Question : what drives would be able to read these media? Would they be easily procurable for cheap? -Philip

22 years, 1 month

Interesting Burroughs Photo Site

by jpl15＠panix.com

can be found here: http://www.cbi.umn.edu/IMAGES/index I haven't had time to see all 500, but the first few pages are worth the look... Cheers John

22 years, 1 month

OT: RE: Grammar, was RE: Work In KC Area?

by Robert_Feldman＠jdedwards.com

The last post prompted a trip to the dictionary (Websters New Universal Unabridged [1983]), where "myriad of ..." (any indefinitely large number) is indeed listed. Looking at adjacent entries, I did pick up a new, related word, the metric prefix "myria" (10,000) as in myriagram (10,000 grams), myrialiter (10,000 liters) and myriameter (10,000 meters). -----Original Message----- From: steve [mailto:gkicomputers@yahoo.com] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 9:22 AM To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org Subject: Re: OT: RE: Grammar, was RE: Work In KC Area? --- Nick Steel <nick(a)tcns.co.uk> wrote: > As long as we're bitching, the hairs on the back of > my neck stand up > (all too frequently, as it's currently in vogue) > when people try to be > erudite (but prove the reverse) by referring to: "A > myriad of...". > "A myriad of ..." is correct usage(although maybe not preferred), myriad can be used as a noun, like " A herd of cattle".

22 years, 1 month

24pin Printer looking for a home

by liste＠artware.qc.ca

I was just given a Panasonic KX-P1123 24 pin Multi-Mode Printer. I have zero use for it. Generally I refuse dot-matrix printers, but it was 24 pin, which I haven't seem many of. Anyone want it? Free to a good home! Pick-up or you pay shipping from southern Qu?bec (J0B 2C0). -Philip

22 years, 1 month

Genuine IBM ISA cards/EPROMS available

by SUPRDAVE＠aol.com

Ive got a bunch of IBM 8bit ISA cards available. I've got floppy controllers ASYNC card full length prototype cards host and extender cards for the expansion chassis parallel card a '32kb mem cd.' <?> keyboard interface card for a 3270pc something called a keyboard mux interface MAXIMIZER multifunction card from sigma designs rev 3.0 dozens of 64-256k memory exp cards Toshiba 2756d-20 EPROMS labeled with BIOS-related notes AMD EPROMS 6231572 a33289 8720fp labeled with IBM MACH PN11F5062 AMD EPROMS AM27c256 TI 2764jl-25 tmm23256p-5879 copyright IBM intel d27256-25 AMD 6212424 some labeled with IBM PN 25F9523 1990 Some more labeled IBM MACH PN 11F6368 Intel 6833145 8425 L4289089S AMD 27256DC I was told some of these chips are BIOSes for the XT, or AT or the XT/286 model although I have no way of telling. Any interest in this stuff? I only want enough to cover shipping and maybe the cost of a soda on the way to the post office. -- Antique Computer Virtual Museum www.nothingtodo.org

22 years, 1 month

Please help - misbehavin' HP-71b

by vespasale＠dsl.pipex.com

I hope someone can quickly let me know the answer. Is it normal for an HP-71b that has been without batteries or use for a while to refuse to start up once you put batteries in _until_ the PSU is plugged-in? Once it's been started with the PSU plugged-in, it works fine with only batteries. Is this normal and, if not, any idea how to fix it? Thanks in advance. nk =================================== Nick Koleszar vespasale(a)dsl.pipex.com

22 years, 1 month

ECMA 46 tape standard

by aek＠spies.com

I am pretty sure, though that this drive is not QIC11 (I did wonder about coverting it to that format once many years ago as I needed a QIC11 drive for the PERQ). -- Archive developed the movable head serpentine recording techinique that begat QIC11 (and the 9 and 15 track formats) MANY years after 3M developed the 1/4" DC300 series tape cartridge. Quantex and other vendors were using this mechanism in the mid 70's (Tek 405x's, IBM 51xx's) with multi-track fixed position head stacks, and many different recording formats. This appears to be yet another area where there is a lack of documentation for someone trying to recover old data from decaying magnetic media.

22 years, 1 month

OT: remembering old thread from about a year ago: Tek scope

by ghldbrd＠ccp.com

I picked up a Tek 321 scope, and I remembered a thread about a year or so ago about someone with a Tek 3" scope looking for help getting it going. Point me in the right direction, and I'll hold my peace. Gary Hildebrand St. Joseph, MO

22 years, 1 month

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test-drb August 2003