test-drb January 2004

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by vax3900＠yahoo.com

Take a look of the auction http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3454239271&category=1244 I am curious what bus the edge connector is of the big 486 board? It apparently is not 16 bit ISA, VISA, or ESIA. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/

22 years

Old MFM controller on a PCI bus machine

by vcf＠siconic.com

I haven't played with MFM hard drives and controllers in a LONG time (about 10 years now) so I have some questions. I'll start off easy. Should there be any reason an old 16-bit ISA MFM controller won't work properly in a Pentium-class PC with ISA and PCI slots? I imagine I would just have to configure the BIOS to reserve the proper interrupt (I believe it's 14, correct?) for the MFM controller. I did all this but the MFM controller wreaked havoc on the system. It killed the on-board floppy disk and IDE controllers (not physically killed but basically disabled them and the system couldn't boot). I'm trying to determine if there is a natural conflict before I venture forth with this configuration. This may be a problem related to the PC I'm trying to plug the card into because there are other oddities with the IDE controller that is preventing the system from booting with 4 hard drives installed (2 per IDE interface). It halts after it auto-recognizes the drives on the primary controller. Weird. Anyway, any insight would be appreciated. I'm going to do more experimentation in the meantime. I'll get another PC with ISA and PCI slots to work with, and will also find an old 386 to test the MFM controller on to make sure it is working fine. -- Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org [ Old computing resources for business || Buy/Sell/Trade Vintage Computers ] [ and academia at www.VintageTech.com || at http://marketplace.vintage.org ]

22 years

Looking for Amiga Gods

by vcf＠siconic.com

I'm seeking out for a friend the game Gods for the Amiga. I'd like to get the full original package with all the trimmings preferably. Has anyone got a copy of this that they'd like to sell? -- Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org [ Old computing resources for business || Buy/Sell/Trade Vintage Computers ] [ and academia at www.VintageTech.com || at http://marketplace.vintage.org ]

22 years

Batteries, wallwarts, voltages and currents Re: New Classic Finds and etc. (Long)

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Jan 26, 17:28, Joe R. wrote: > I was referring to open circuit > voltage which is how batteries are usually measured since "under load > voltage" is obviously dependent on the load. Actually, to nitpick, dry cells at least are properly measured under a light load, because as they age, they develop higher internal resistance. Measuring them with a high impedance voltmeter will suggest they're good when they're not. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

22 years

This just makes me really SICK

by jwest＠classiccmp.org

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2781026641&category=1247 Not to mention the ebay id of "gold snipper" And the fine print says "pulled from a retired HP 2117F Don't these people know it's worth more together??? *sigh*

22 years

HP Basic/Workstation 300 'SYSTM' file needed

by msg＠waste.org

Greetings: In attempting to salvage some files from an HPIB drive which is ailing, I installed RMB Kermit to do serial xfers (long files > LIF floppy capacity) however it needs Basic 6.x and we've got 4.0. Would a kind soul please send us the 6.0 system file (it can be converted to an MSDOS file using the 'lifutil' utility (use Binary/DFS mode) so we can fire up kermit and rescue the data before the drive dies? ('lifutil.exe' is available at ftp://ftp.cybertheque.org/pub/lifutils) All help much appreciated. Michael Grigoni Cybertheque Museum

22 years

Need Computer room flooring

by mark＠vzn.com

Jorge. I'm looking for about 120 sq ft of Computer room flooring at a low cost.. shipping address is Sioux City, Iowa 51106 Please respond ASAP... Thank you, Mark

22 years

deciphering memory chips

by teoz＠neo.rr.com

What's a good online resource to figure out what type of memory chips you have? I have an old matrox Ultima + VLB card that has 2mb vram (consisting of 8 x KM428C25J-6 chips) and has 8 more sockets for 2mb more memory (the type where the chip pins are curled around and point to the bottom of the chip) Are these common chips? Most video cards I have seen either use dram or edo ram.

22 years

"(Ping) Paging Chris Johnson, paging Chris Johnson."

by netsurfer_x1＠fastmailbox.net

Anyone know whatever happened to Chris Johnson? I sent off for an HP-85 >from him (back in late September last year), & still haven't recieved it! -- David Vohs netsurfer_x1(a)fastmailbox.net -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Access your email from home and the web

22 years

Emulators of Classic Computers

by Lee.Davison＠merlincommunications.com

> You also can't beat tubes for high output RF amplifiers. We have some here, 2 * BY1144 triode, class B, 250KW carrier, and TH538 tetrode, single ended, 300KW carrier. The filaments alone on the BY1144s take 5KW. Lee. ________________________________________________________________________ This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star Internet. The service is powered by MessageLabs. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit: http://www.star.net.uk ________________________________________________________________________

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