I need my memory refreshed. Recently I *FINALLY* obtained a pair of BA356 shelves, one of which has the Wide personality module (I've also got a pair of narrow modules sitting on a shelf, that are still in the box, that I've had for years).
So, my question is this, is it safe to have the Wide personality module in the shelf, and mix narrow and wide drives? My memory says that it is, but.... I'll only be doing this long enough to transfer data off of three Narrow drives onto Wide drives.
Now to see if the stars are truly right and I'll be able to do this upgrade this weekend...
Zane
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I have just recently come into several Aries Research Marix MS
workstations completely with keyboard, mouse, optical mousepad and
monitor. This is some sort of Sun Sparc clone.
I haven't tested them but if there is significant interest then I will do
so and come up with a reasonable price for each.
The shipping on the monitor may be a tad high as they are all about 19".
Please let me know...
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I have an Adaptec 1460D on order, will pick it up Monday - under $100,
too.
Hmmmm... I wonder what a SCSI-to-ESDI converter would entail.... that
might be fun.
Cheers, and thanks to everyone for the nearly unanimous helpful advice!
John
I was wondering if anyone had some experience and/or preferences with
SCSI cards for laptops - specifically I want to hook my M4 Data 9914 9trk
drive up to one of my laptop PCs (IBM or Dell) to archive/transport/backup
tape images to-from the 11/44.
Speaking of the 11/44 - I'm in the market for one or a couple of Pertec
foramtter cards to fit the Kenedy 9100.. I have a Pertec Unibus card,
just need the interface cards for the machines themselves. Also cables for
same...
ALSO: still looking for an (H960?) tall DEC rack to buy. Must have
casters, would like to have the anti-tip legs, all other acoutrements
unimportant. (power controller, logos, sides, etc).
I will be at VCF 6 in October, and can pick up these items in that
general area then.
Cheerz
John
PS: yes, yes, I know - Marketplace!! Okay, already....
I have now finished my annual stocktaking, and the following obsolete/surplus items have popped up. It would be appreciated if they could be used in restoration projects, as long as my P&P is covered.
Postage from Denmark depends on weight and/or size, so please ask first.
A very short description is included, but you can mail me directly at nico(a)farumdata.dk for more info
(1) Qualstar 1052 R/W formatter.
1 new, 1 slightly used
(2) SMS SCSI controllers. 5x SMS-512, 8x SMS-7250.
The 512 is an 8-bit ISA controller, talking to the 7250 which can address 4x floppy disc and 7 50-pin SCSI devices.
(3) Digital 8-bit net adapter, FCC-id AO9-DE100
(4) 2x IBM adapters as described in an earlier message.
9-pin output, probably network adapters. Marked 16/4 on a green sticker with white border.
(5) 1x MFM disccontroller, 2x HD
Nico
Hello all!
I have been searching the web looking for the original IBM PC/XT
schematics. I read on some post that they were published in the "IBM
Technical Reference Manual" and in the "Microcornucopia" magazine, but I
couldn't find it anywhere. Please, could you tell me where can I find
those schemes? Please, if anyone has it, can you make a scan and post
it?
Thank you.
Luis G. "Prk"
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I just found out that two of my magazine boxes were attacked by some damn
little wormy things. They were white and about a quarter inch in length.
They'd come up through a crack in the foundation of my warehouse and
started eating away at the file boxes. Fortunately, they seemed to like
the cardboard way more than the magazines, though they did take out
significant chunks of a couple issues of Kilobaud Computing from 1979
(bastards!) They also left a lot of wormy poop behind, and unless I'm
smelling the acid from the paper breaking down, they left a stink too.
Damn punk-ass bitch wormy things.
Has anyone else had issues like this? How did these fuckers find my boxes
out of all the damn cracks they could have crawled out of? What are they?
Termites?
Now I have to waste time filling in the cracks so this doesn't happen
again. I can't have gawd damn wormy things eating my damn computer stuff!
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