test-drb February 2004

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by tiziano.garuti＠tin.it

Hi folks, I am the webmaster of http://1000bit.net. I am here to announce that I have decided to open my database of technical infos to the world. You can know use all the data freely in your own sites. Here you can find infos and samples: http://www.1000bit.net/ws.asp I hope that this could interesting for someone. Thanks, Tiziano

21 years, 1 month

[OT] Jim Willing

by classiccmp＠vintage-computer.com

For those that have been looking for him, Jim Willing has a new email address that he seems to be checking from time to time: jimwilling(a)vintage-computer.com >From his last message he is planning on rejoining the group sometime soon. Erik Klein www.vintage-computer.com www.vintage-computer.com/vcforum The Vintage Computer Forum

21 years, 1 month

Help wanted with an Open VMS installation

by r.lasbury＠ntlworld.com

The show device command displays the ethernet connection followed by the CDROM as.. BOOTDEV=DKA500 ADDR=A/5/0 DEVTYPE=RODISK NUMBYTES=681.88MB RM/FX=RM WP=WP DEVNAM=CD-ROM REV=1.1C and it shows the hard disk as... BOOTDEV=DKA100 ADDR=A/1/0 DEVTYPE=DISK NUMBYTES=1.00GB RM/FX=Fx WP= DEVNAM=RZ57 REV=5000 I have actually tried 5 different hard disks: 3 seagate models and 2 original DEC RZ57 drives, but they all end with the same error message while installing!!! I have proved the 3 seagate disks on a scsi card on a PC and the 2 DEC drives work OK on a DEC 5000 machine booting up a copy of Ultrix, so I am pretty sure the problem is not actually with the disk drives. _____ << ella for Spam Control >> has removed 1854 Spam messages and set aside 242 Newsletters for me You can use it too - and it's FREE! www.ellaforspam.com

21 years, 1 month

Cashtrac.exe ???

by ygehrich＠yahoo.com

Is anybody here familiar with an older DOS checkbook program called CASHTRAC. I used to run it with Windows 95 in the DOS box and am trying to get it to run under WIN XP PRO I get the following error ERROR 71 in line 200 Drive Door Open Any answers or thoughts would be appreciated.

21 years, 1 month

M7891-DC 2a fuse on +12? fixed!

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Feb 5, 12:11, Brad Parker wrote: > > To follow up on my own post, replacing the fuse created a *hot* 12v > regulator. My DVM indicated that something was shorting Vdd. > > Figuring it was a cap, I started pulling the + lines of the big caps. > On the second one the short went away. > > Turns out one of the large Sangamo 47uf caps across Vdd was a dead > short. I removed it and now the +12 is happy and the board works. > (I'll replace it in my next digikey order) > > Do old electrolytic's short out? The MS11 parts list just say "AL EL" > which I assume is aluminum electrolytic. For some reason I was thinking > it would be a tantalum (based on it's silvery look) but now I'm thinking > not. I think I'll replace it with a nice axial lead tantalum. What you described is the classic symptom of an aged electrolytic that needs reformed. In an electrolytic capacitor, the aluminium foil forms one electrode (the anode), the electrolyte (gel) is the other (cathode), and the oxide layer on the foil is the dielectric (insulator). Unless the capacitor is charged, the oxide dissolves into the electrolyte over time, and no longer insulates. The cure is to pass a small current to reform the oxide layer, and gradually build this up until the capacitor can withstand its normal working voltage without much leakage current. Cylindrical caps in a metal can are more commonly aluminium rather than tantalum; tantalum caps are more commonly made as beads of sintered tantalum. The principle is the same, though: large surface area in a small space, with a metal anode, oxide layer as dielectric, and electrolyte as cathode. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

21 years, 1 month

Restoring old floppies to usable state

by cb＠mythtech.net

>Try http://www.knightsolutions.com.au/files/apps/spinrite%205/ > >This program runs on any IBM compatible. If you have such with the correct >drive type then this program will exhaustively test and repair the surface >of any drive you care to test. I have a newer version of spinrite, and am VERY VERY VERY disappointed in it. I used it to check some hard disks that I thought were bad, it told me I was right, and I had it map out the bad sectors. The disks still failed to format. Others that is has fixed (and enabled them to format) failed shortly after with bad sectors. And of course, SpinRite only seems to do something if the drive itself is already accessible to DOS. If the drive isn't coming up (from as little as a non DOS compliant partition such as a Linux partition), then SpinRite will claim it can't read the drive at all. So basically, I've found that it doesn't seem to do much beyond that of Scandisk. VERY disappointing indeed considering GRC's reputation. -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

21 years, 1 month

This just in - Commodore B128 low profile computer (NOT 128D)

by chrisc＠addpower.com

The computer itself is kinda nice. It had a MOS 6509 processor in it, which was the beginnings of Commodore's memory management experiments. Some models also had the same video and sound chips as the Commodore 64. I'd really like one of these myself. :) steven <tosteve(a)yahoo.com> To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org Sent by: cc: cctech-bounces@clas Subject: This just in - Commodore B128 low profile computer (NOT siccmp.org 128D) 02/05/2004 01:35 AM Please respond to "General Discussion: On-Topic Posts Only" Don't know much about it yet, but it sure is pretty! Seems to work fine. It came out the same time as the C-64, supposed to replace the PET and be their business computer, but didn't sell well, I guess. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html

21 years, 1 month

RX8E printset?

by aek＠spies.com

"Diagrams for an Implementation on a TC08 Backplance" I guess TC08s are common enough in Europe that you can strip 'em to build floppy controllers.

21 years, 1 month

Help wanted with an Open VMS installation

by r.lasbury＠ntlworld.com

Yes I am trying to use the hobbyist version of 7.3-1 however I obtained that version after I failed to get 6.2 to boot with exactly the same error. I thought maybe the later version would work !!! Silly me. _____ << ella for Spam Control >> has removed 1882 Spam messages and set aside 242 Newsletters for me You can use it too - and it's FREE! www.ellaforspam.com

21 years, 1 month

Forced eBay ID Change?

by healyzh＠aracnet.com

Anyone else have their eBay ID forcefully changed recently? I've had an account for over 6 years and I predate the rules against using an email address. Looks like the b******* have decided to forcefully change all of us using email addresses for our ID's so as to better control the flow of information to us. Zane -- -- | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator | | healyzh(a)aracnet.com (primary) | OpenVMS Enthusiast | | | Classic Computer Collector | +----------------------------------+----------------------------+ | Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, | | PDP-10 Emulation and Zane's Computer Museum. | | http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ |

21 years, 1 month

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test-drb February 2004