Can magnetic media setting in proximity to a microwave be affected by the
microwaves or anything else in the oven (the magnetron for instance)?
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All,
Whoa. You dont hear for ages, and then boom, there it is!
> Dear Fred,
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Do note, that this is based on my *US* info, not the European one;
that one is still, um, in progress?
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And the email says I'll be able to access the VMS Hobbyist licenses in a few
days....
Fred, I think they're picking on you, mate :)
Just got to sort out an oddity with PHP and the webserver will be up and
running.....seems quick too, though from inside the firewall it would,
wouldn't it.
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Adrian/Witchy
Owner & Webmaster, Binary Dinosaurs
www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - possibly the UK's biggest online computer museum
www.snakebiteandblack.co.uk - ex-monthly gothic shenanigans :o(
>I visited a customer in Sweden today. In the corner was a packed-up PDP
>11/34. I dont know beans about PDP, but that is what they told me. There
>seemed to be a CPU, a disk drive and a few disc packs
>Would that be interesting for anyone ? If so, I can ask the customer if we
>can have it
Oh my God - I choked on my evening coffee reading this...
I'd truly love it, and my geography aligns slightly. Being 15 and without a driver's lisence,
I have no opportunity to drive it myself. But I do have some friends with lisences... I don't
know for sure if I can get it (If it's availible I'd walk over corpses for one ;))
I would really really really love it.
Where in Sweden is this? What configuration is it? One rack? Many?
Mange mange tak for brevet!
-tsb
I ran accross a posting and your email address while doing a search for Quick Basic 4.5 I have been looking for some replacement disk. I am not a professional programmer, but I do have some personal programs that I wrote during the time that I took programming in collage. I purchased Quick Basic 4.5 so I could work on programs at home and not at the collage computer lab. The computer that I used at that time is long gone. And not I find the need to upgrade a program. I have the all the source code, but the disk that I have are 5.25 and neither of my computers have that size disk.
How much are you selling Quick Basic 4.5 for?
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Hi
I do know that some monitors can produce a strong enough
field to disturb the writing action on floppies. I've not
had them erase by these fields but it seems that the writing
of the floppy is more sensitive to stray fields. I found
that increasing the distance by as little a a telephone book
can make the difference.
Dwight
>From: "John Allain" <allain(a)panix.com>
>
>> Can magnetic media setting in proximity to a microwave be affected...
>
>In general I try to keep any magnetic media at least 1 foot from
>any electrical devices. For a major consumer of watts, it's more
>like 3+ feet.
>
>John A.
>so, how do I get the floppy into the drive then? <g>
>
>
Hi
Yes, the stray magnetic fields can cause problems. The
RF shouldn't be an issue. It might be a fun experiment
to place a floppy in one to see if it gets thermal
damage. Not only the magnitron that has a strong magnet
but also flux leakage from the power transformer that
is used to produce the high voltage.
Dwight
>From: "Vintage Computer Festival" <vcf(a)siconic.com>
>
>
>Can magnetic media setting in proximity to a microwave be affected by the
>microwaves or anything else in the oven (the magnetron for instance)?
>
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I need to get a Bernoulli Box hooked up. I've got two IOmega PC2/PC2B
interfaces but no drivers.
I've found drivers for Linux (which is a fallback option), but I'd like to
just do this in DOS to keep it simple.
Now, I need the drivers for these cards so I can hook up my Bernoulli Box
(CDS-PC/20) to my PC. However, the PC2 card is basically just a SCSI
interface. Will the Bernoulli Box work with any SCSI interface?
THANKS!
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Sellam,
I have a few Bernoulli 150 drives set up on machines currently.
They can read from 60 to 150Mb disks. I have both the SCSI and the IDE
versions. I could not tell exactly what Bernoulli box you were trying
to hook up. I have the OADDOS software that came with the Bernoulli
drives, or if you have disks that fit my drives, I can read them.
Joe Heck
Hello All,
I found an unusual handhel pocket terminal.
It's housing is the same as the older LED pocket calculators used by Texas Intruments,
but is is not the TM990/xxx terminal as used for Texas own PLC's or TMS9900 based
computers.
This one is apparently made by Gr Electronics, who were based in the UK and in the US.
This is based on the fact that is says 'GR 185-2' on the board.
I searched Google, but I couldn't find any info.
As the housing was loose, I opened it, and it uses an Intel 8048 microcontroller, has 8
character and has a curled cable which has a DB25 connector at the end.
The cable has 7 wires, and when the battery door is opened (this device get's it power
via the cable), a 6 position dip switch is revealed.
There is also a little plastic block which does do some power conversion
(i.e. +5V into + and - 12V)? and a little buzzer. The crystal on the board has a
value of 6.144 (Mhz?).
What I would like to find out is some kind of information/usage/whatever of this
device. It would be great if this device just acts like a plain RS-232 terminal.
Thanks,
Ed
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