I'm looking for 4 particular rack nuts for an older HP rack. These are the
nuts that are trapezoid shaped, and have a spring on the back. Not a
tension/flat spring, a coiled spiral spring. In addition, these racks use
two different size nuts. One size hole (larger) for the L angle brackets,
and a different size (smaller) for the rails that mount a 2100 cpu because
the (different) bolts have to clear the inside of the rails.
I am guessing these are not a common item that I could find at a hardware
store. Would anyone have 4 to spare? Is there possibly a source for these
still?
Jay West
Why are we so far OT...?
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: vance(a)neurotica.com [mailto:vance@neurotica.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 11:18 PM
To: Vintage Computer Festival
Cc: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: OT: need to drive a vector CRT...
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
> > > > As far as I'm concerned, they can go back up. I have a friend
> > > > that flies the F-15E that would be more than happy to make it rain
> > > > scrap metal all over the desert. :)
> > >
> > > Iran isn't a desert. 8-)
> >
> > Yes but we can change that!
>
> Not cool.
*So* not cool.
Peace... Sridhar
>http://marketplace.vintage.org
>
>If you haven't visited yet then you're missing out on a lot of good stuff
>that's currently listed for for great prices. Here's a link to all the
>currently listed free stuff:
I stopped by there right before posting my email. I do plan to test the
waters there to see what happens.
What made me decide to post the email was because I have someone
interested in one of my 128k Macs, but I have zero idea what the value
is. eBay shows none for sale, or sold recently, and nothing turned up on
the vintage market place either (although it is my first look there, so
I've not figured out all the search nuances yet).
I could have simply asked what is a 128k Mac worth, but since that is
just the item of *right now* and I have 4 offices full of similar items I
need to do something with, I figured it was easier to see where people
used to find the value of stuff.
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
Hello,
I found you on the web.
I have a Amiga 4000 toaster/flyer system. When booting the flyer, I get a
"cannot load toaster screen" error message.
I used my second system to switch out toaster, flyer daughter and cpu cards. I
also swapped system drives and power supplies. The problem remains on the
suspect Amiga, so it must be motherboard related. I understand that dead Lisa
or Buster chips can be the cause?
I guess I have three options:
Can you repair my Amiga 4000?
Do you have a working A4000 for sale?
Do you have a known good motherboard I can purchase (possibly with my old MB
in trade as a core)?
Please let me know,
Thanks,
Greg
I just checked my Tanner memory card against the photos on Michael
Holley's SWTPC site and realized that (1) mine uses jumpers instead of DIP
switches and (2) mine has no voltage regulators! The regulars were left off
of it and the regulator inputs are jumpered directly to the outputs. Good
thing I didn't plug them into a system and try to use them!
Joe
>
> Hi,
>
> I found some more cards that I THINK are SS-50 cards. Two of them were
made by Poynting Products. Does anyone know anything about them? No idea
what the cards are for, there are no identifying marks other than model
numbers and no unique connectors and all the ICs are 74xx SSI ICs. One is
marked "model VB8 Rev B" and the other is marked "Model 505 Rev B". Both of
these cards are marked "(C) 1983 Poynting Products Inc." and appear to be
for the SS-50 computer bus as used in the SWTPC computers.
>
> In the same lot I also found a Tanner SS 50 64K memory card. That's what
makes me pretty certain the others actually are SS 50 cards. The tanner
card is filled with Hitachi HM 6116s (Static Rams).
>
> Does any one know anything about Poynting Products or what these might be?
>
> Joe
Hi,
I found some more cards that I THINK are SS-50 cards. Two of them were
made by Poynting Products. Does anyone know anything about them? No idea
what the cards are for, there are no identifying marks other than model
numbers and no unique connectors and all the ICs are 74xx SSI ICs. One is
marked "model VB8 Rev B" and the other is marked "Model 505 Rev B". Both of
these cards are marked "(C) 1983 Poynting Products Inc." and appear to be
for the SS-50 computer bus as used in the SWTPC computers.
In the same lot I also found a Tanner SS 50 64K memory card. That's what
makes me pretty certain the others actually are SS 50 cards. The tanner
card is filled with Hitachi HM 6116s (Static Rams).
Does any one know anything about Poynting Products or what these might be?
Joe
They held the Melbourne Fla hamfest this part weekend. This is the first
hamfest of the season and it's always one of the best. One of our fellow CC
Listers was visiting from out of state and I invited him to go along. (Now
I wish I hadn't!) I arrived at the crack of dawn Saturday morning. Almost
immediately I found a big cardboard box full of plastic parts bins filled
with ICs and other parts from the late '60s for $5. Later found the
accessory kit for the Tektronix Engine Analyzer. I'd heard of these but
never seen one before. It has a rotary motion sensor, several pressure
sensors (5,000 and 45,000 PSI!) and sensors for both horizontal and
vertical acceleration. They connect to a specail time base and four channel
amplifier for the 561 O'scope. You can use them to monitor cylinder head
pressure, combustion chamber pressure, knock, engine pinging, vibrations,
bearing wear and all kinds of other engine parameters. I also got a
Pro-Log Z-80 front panel similar to the 8080 one that was offered on this
list a couple of weeks ago. Meet up with Steve Robertson and got a huge
stack of 8" floppy disks and six drives. He was cleaning out and wanted
them gone. Found lots of nice stuff in the stack including many original
disks for CPM, WordStar, Dbase II and others.
But the real find of the day was made by the visiting CC Lister. He
didn't even show up till after 12 and by then many of the vendors had
packed up and gone home. BUT, this lucky SOB walked down the FIRST row and
before he got to the end, he'd found a mint Hero Jr with all the manuals
and a mint Heathkit ET-3400 with the manuals and in the original box! For
obvious reasons he prefers to remain nameless!
Joe
Hi, I have found a PPC640 abandoned and homeless, just the PPC nothing else.
Plugged in a power supply and turned on. Lights, camera, action. Sort off.
The yellow LED beside the CRT label is on and steady and the red power LED is
on and steady also. The built-in speaker however is continuously beeping. The
volume control has no effect, surprise, during the attempted boot up.
That's it nothing else. No LEDs turn on for drives A or B. No display changes
on the built in monitor.
I have set the DIP switches as you have recommended, in your answer to an
inquiry dated Fri July 21:04:02, but no change from either option.
A lost course perhaps? I only have knowledge of the Amstrad range via my old
286 but was intrigued when I saw this 'laptop' all alone in a parking bay.
Any directions would be greatly appreciated
Keith
