I got a note from E-bay (links confirmed) warning about this message,
decrying it, and suggesting that I look into their privacy management page
for their full particulars. Specifically, their page says they'll never ask
for any of this information, and that any such requests *should* be reported
to them.
Cheers...
Ed Tillman
Store Automation Tech Support Specialist
Valero Energy Corporation
San Antonio, Texas, USA
Office: (210)592-3110, Fax (210)592-2048
Email: edward.tillman(a)valero.com <mailto:edward.tillman@valero.com>
-----Original Message-----
From: Jay West [mailto:jwest@classiccmp.org]
Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 12:21 PM
To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
Cc: cctech(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: EBAY fraud alert
I recently got an email from the "Ebay security audit team" or something to
that affect. Says they periodically verify contact information, and couldn't
verify mine, asking me to follow a link to update my account or it would be
disabled in 5 days.
I followed the link, noticed it wasn't in secure mode, and wondered why EBAY
would need my bank account number, routing/ABA numbers, not to mention SSN
and
home address and credit card numbers, etc. The form asked for everything
imaginable. Yikes!
Upon getting suspicious I checked the headers and html links in the message
-
needless to say - NOT ebay. Watch out for this one! I did report it to the
spoof team at Ebay.
Jay West
Any modem, internal or external, 300-4800bps should work fine with this
model (they had pretty good software, and worked with Zenith 2xx series).
AT&T had a good external. USR had one of their earlier Courrier models out
then too...
Cheers!
Ed Tillman
Store Automation Tech Support Specialist
Valero Energy Corporation
San Antonio, Texas, USA
Office: (210)592-3110, Fax (210)592-2048
Email: edward.tillman(a)valero.com <mailto:edward.tillman@valero.com>
-----Original Message-----
From: banztech(a)softhome.net [mailto:banztech@softhome.net]
Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2003 8:40 PM
To: cctech(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: slt/286
Hello,I need user info for a compaq slt/286 I:E what modem
type/brand/cable does slt286 use and how to get into bios.Any help would
be greatly appreciated.Thanks
Hello all,
I finally set up my SWP ATR8000 last night. This device allows an Atari
computer to use standard floppy drives along with Atari proprietary drives.
Included with the ATR8000 was an external floppy case with power supply that
can hold 2 half height 5 1/4 floppies. It had 1 Shugart SA455 5 1/4 DSDD drive
and I added (after hours of drilling and filing) a Chinon FZ-354 3 1/2 DSDD.
I put the Chinon on the end of the cable set at drive 3. I removed the
resistor pack from the Shugart and added a switch using old motherboard cables
so I can change the drive id from 1 to 2. This is so I can boot CP/M from the
Shugart as drive 1 or switch it to drive 2 and boot from an Atari drive. I
had no trouble using the Shugart drive but the Chinon gave me a lot of
problems. After a little research on the net, I changed the jumper from DC to
RDY (this sounded like the answer) but I still got errors. The errors
occurred after I rebooted and wrote to the same disk. Every file from the
second write was messed up. The only jumpers left were MM and MD so I changed
the jumper from MM to MD and it works great now. My big question is what are
the MM and MD settings for, and how did this solve my problem? From what I've
read, 3 1/2 drives don't have removable resistor packs and they somehow
achieve termination automatically so that's why I put the Chinon at the end of
the cable. Thanks for listening to my raving. By the way, does anyone have
the CP/M disks for this setup for sale or for trade?
Ralph
Does anyone know where I can find out more about this old mechanical
calculator?
http://www.jarai.org/temp/monroe/0830_001-sm.jpghttp://www.jarai.org/temp/monroe/0830_002-sm.jpghttp://www.jarai.org/temp/monroe/0830_003-sm.jpg
The unit is fully operational. With some inspiration from the Curta
instruction manual, I've been able to figure out addition, subtraction,
multiplication, and division on this device. I picked it up at a local
yard sale today for a reasonable $30.
So far, I've not been able to find much about this particular model.
Most everything I can find talks about Monroe's later electromechanical
calculators. The closest match I found is this one from the Computer
Museum in San Diego, but the image is very blurry and there isn't much
information about the calculator.
http://www.computer-museum.org/collections/monroe_addc.html
The next example is this one but it is a bit more streamlined than mine,
so I'd guess it's a slightly later model.
http://www.officemuseum.com/Monroe_Calculating_Machine_Co._NY_OM.jpghttp://www.officemuseum.com/calculating_machines_pinwheel_other.htm
The identifying marks on the calculator itself are the "Monroe
Calculating Machine Company, New York, U.S.A." on the front and a number
stamped in the metal underneath the carriage--41516--which I'm guessing
is the serial number. The keyboard keys seem to be made from Bakelite.
-brian.
I'm doing some research for a client and am seeking out information on
computers or processors prior to 1983 that implemented cache memory in the
processor.
Can anyone think of any other than the following:
Amdahl 470 V/6
Amdahl 470 V/6-II
Amdahl 470 V/8
Amdahl 580
Data General Eclipse MV/4000
Data General Eclipse MV/8000C
Data General Eclipse MV/8000II
Data General Eclipse MV/10000
HP 3000 Series 64
IBM 3033
IBM 3038
IBM 3081K
IBM 3084
NEC S/1000
SGI Power
Zilog Z8000
Zilog Z80000
?
Thanks!
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> > Over the years I've worked on a number of systems that were sold as "word
> > processors". They were all "computers" in the sense that they had the
> > standard complement of CPU, memory, mass storage and the programming was
> > loaded at boot time, as opposed to being in ROM.
>
> My Diamond's the same - the ROM only contains enough to load whatever's on the
> system disk. I have various floppies that were labelled as having contents
> other than the standard wordprocessing application software, so although the
> machine was sold by the manufacturer solely as a wordprocessor there were
> obviously 3rd parties who produced other software for it.
>
> If your definition of computer means that the OS has to be seperate from the
> running application, then no, it doesn't qualify (but that knocks out most 80's
> home micros that would drop straight into BASIC)
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that. There were a lot of word processing systems that, even though they had separate system boxes, the O/S was in ROM and couldn't be overridden. I would call that a dedicated-purpose "computer". I thought we were distinguishing between those and GP microcomputers sold as word processors.
> I'd say that a wordprocessor that *looked* like a typewriter probably doesn't
> qualify as a computer though; it's just a microprocessor-controlled typewriter.
>
The systems I worked on all used Diablo or Qume daisy-wheel printers for their output. So, with separate system boxes and monitors, they didn't look like typewriters. In fact, that's how I came to work for DEC (later compaqted, then h-PACKardED); I knew how to make those darned printers work.
Dale (the DECdude)
> Can you give me a model number?
Apple Tape 40SC - Apple part number M2640
Did some digging on google's usenet archive, and people were
trying to find replacements for the roller already in 1998.
The mechanism is a 3M MCD-40
There was one message I've found that says that 3M sold off
their tape drive division (or spun it off) as "GII" but I've
not found anything more on them.
Between bad tape formulations, and drives going bad, it is
becoming really difficult to inexpensively recover data from
10 to 20 years ago that was written to tape.
Can you give me a model number?
I have a few piles of old Apple stuff but I know almost nothing about it
(I am not an Apple Lover) - I just kept them because I can't dump nice
electronics
Concerning this pitch roller behavior of turning into some kind of tar...
Does anyone know what's the reason? I scrapped this afternoon a dozen of
multi-track recorders (no panic, they were without any value, except for
some nice Papst outer-rotor motors) and all their pitchrollers looked like
melted
gr.
Luc
-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: cctalk-admin(a)classiccmp.org
[mailto:cctalk-admin@classiccmp.org]Namens Al Kossow
Verzonden: zaterdag 30 augustus 2003 18:12
Aan: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
Onderwerp: anyone have a working Apple 40 meg tape drive?
It appears that the Apple 40 meg tape drives have the same
problem that HP's have.. the pinch rollers (same color as
HP's) instantly turn to goo if you try to use them, even
though they look fine.
Does anyone have a known working drive that I can borrow
to read a couple of tapes?
It appears that the Apple 40 meg tape drives have the same
problem that HP's have.. the pinch rollers (same color as
HP's) instantly turn to goo if you try to use them, even
though they look fine.
Does anyone have a known working drive that I can borrow
to read a couple of tapes?
Hi, gang,
Two of the items I just put up on E-pay may be of interest. First, there's a big lot (11 boards worth) of MicroVAX II CPU's and memory, which includes a "Controller of Mystery" (A System Industries CS-1) that I never did figure out the purpose of.
Second is a pair of unused coaxial cables for VAX clustering.
Easy enough to find. Just do a 'Search by Seller' for 'bftbell' (sans quotes).
Thanks again for putting up with my occasional ads.
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Blue Feather Technologies -- http://www.bluefeathertech.com
ARS KC7GR (Formerly WD6EOS) since 12-77 -- kyrrin(a)bluefeathertech.com
"Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati" (Red Green, aka Steve Smith)
