test-drb March 2004

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by mross666＠hotmail.com

>Ok, finally got confirmation so I can make this preliminary announcement. > >VCF East 2.0 will be held either June 25-26 or July 16-17 at Sun >Microsystems's Burlington, Massachusetts, campus. Note: these dates are >FRIDAY and SATURDAY. A break from the traditional VCF weekend but one >that was necessitated by matters outside my control. At any rate, you >take a day off work and have all day Sunday to relax. Excellent! Shame it isn't nearer NY, but still... >The event is being completely sponsored by Sun and will feature several >talks from Sun employees on various aspects of Sun's history. This event >is likely to be BIG. Possibly rivalling the main VCF in Sillycon Valley. Reinforce the floors, Sellam - the Corestore is coming! :-) Mike http://www.corestore.org _________________________________________________________________ Find things fast with the new MSN Toolbar – includes FREE pop-up blocking! http://clk.atdmt.com/AVE/go/onm00200414ave/direct/01/

20 years, 4 months

[Fwd: More interesting reading on the Apollo 11 LM] (fwd)

by tomj＠wps.com

re: choice of languages: since they were hand machine coding, the choice of high-level language was immaterial, and was a meta-language only since no compiler was used. Probably the authors were fluent MAC programmers. Maybe they had MAC OS/360 emulators/interpreters. In hindsight some things appear odd (read-only core must be physically assembled with 1's and 0's!, instead of disabling/modifying drive currents) but embedded control -- with human beings at .25M miles! -- never mind the mass-media effect of failure -- was utterly without precedent. Hell embedded digital control was novel. So -- Extreme conservatism of an kind UNKNOWABLE to COMMERCIAL programmers was always foremost is space applications. http://www.unt.edu/UNT/departments/CC/Benchmarks/benchmarks_html/sepoct95/l…

20 years, 4 months

Wrong formula? Re: [OT] Dodgy electrolytic in 3COM hub

by rigdonj＠cfl.rr.com

At 07:07 AM 3/16/04 -0800, Gene wrote: >> I've got a Gigabyte motherboard from the same period with the issue ... >> three caps on the board are bulging or split on top. I bought three of >> the same model boards at the same time and only one of them have had >> that happen. >> >The cap failure is due to a formulation error. The formua was stolen >from a competeing cap mfr, and they got it just a little bit wrong. There >was a big write up about this when it was first discovered. I haven't heard about that. Do you have a link to the write up? I did hear about a lot of faulty caps due to a supplier that sold bad batch of electrolyte to a lot of the cap manufacturers. What formula do you need for caps? AFIK it's just a matter of buying them for the applicable voltage. Yes there are formulas for capacitanace to achive the necesssary filtering but the wrong results there won't cause them to burst. Joe

20 years, 4 months

Attn: Curt in particular - Atari Video Machine power brick

by KVanMersbergen＠RandMcNally.com

Adrian- Try this one: http://www.atarimuseum.com/videogames/dedicated/videomusic/videomusic.html -Ken V. -----Original Message----- From: Witchy [mailto:witchy@binarydinosaurs.co.uk] Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 8:37 AM To: 'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts' Subject: RE: Attn: Curt in particular - Atari Video Machine power brick > -----Original Message----- > From: cctalk-bounces(a)classiccmp.org > [mailto:cctalk-bounces@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Curt Vendel > Sent: 16 March 2004 14:21 > To: General(a)neptune.easily.co.uk; > Discussion@neptune.easily.co.uk:On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > Subject: Re: Attn: Curt in particular - Atari Video Machine > power brick > > Hi Adrian, > > Here is a direct link the Video Music Section of the Atari Museum: > > http://www.atarimuseum.com/videogames/dedicated/videomusic/vid > eomusic.html > > You'll find instructions and at the bottom of the page Side A > & B for the schematics for the Video Music. Hi Curt, That's the page I was talking about - all the links including the pictures are dead.... Cheers -- 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( *************************************************************** This E-mail is confidential. It should not be read, copied, disclosed or used by any person other than the intended recipient. Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying by whatever medium is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this E-mail in error, please contact the sender immediately and delete the E-mail from your system. ***************************************************************

20 years, 4 months

72VDC power?

by rigdonj＠cfl.rr.com

I picked up a couple of rack mount computers last week. Most of them were made by Harris and Texas Micro and are MOL standard passive backplace type stuff. However one of them was made by Kontron and it has a very strange power connector. It's a black cylinder about 1 1/4" in diameter and about 1 1/2" long that sticks out of the chassis. The back half of the cylinder is threaded so it appears that the mating connector screws onto it. The front portion of the cylinder is divided lenghtwise into five segments. Four of the sements have holes in them with a male connector pin resessed into the holes. I opened the chassis and found that it was marked as being built to operate off of 72 VDC power and that all four connecotr pins are wired tot he PSU. Is anyone familar with the type of connector or why or where they use 72 VDC power? The computer doesn't look like anything exceptional. It has a 10 MHz 286 CPU and uses a 9" CRT in it for the monitor. The only thing of real interest in it was a GPIB card. This one was made by INES (IIRC) in Germany. I've never heard of this brand before. The chassis does have one odd feature. The motherboard sits crossways in it and there are cables that plug into the back panel connectors of the various cards (they're now on the RH side of the computer since the MB is sideways) and run around to the back of the computer and connect to connectors there. Joe

20 years, 4 months

Free stuff on the Vintage Computer Marketplace

by vcf＠siconic.com

Free items found on the VCM: Amstrad PLC PCW-8512 (UK) http://marketplace.vintage.org/view.cfm?ad=469 For pickup: Complete Mac IIsi System (US) http://marketplace.vintage.org/view.cfm?ad=436 Apricot PC (UK) http://marketplace.vintage.org/view.cfm?ad=111 IBM 5360 (US) http://marketplace.vintage.org/view.cfm?ad=118 For pickup: Compaq Portable II fixer-upper (US) http://marketplace.vintage.org/view.cfm?ad=437 Altos Computer Systems ACS-8000 (UK) http://marketplace.vintage.org/view.cfm?ad=467 TI Explorer Fiber Optic Monitor Cables (US) http://marketplace.vintage.org/view.cfm?ad=103 Digital Equipment Corporation BA42 (US) http://marketplace.vintage.org/view.cfm?ad=85 Hewlett-Packard 6942A (UK) http://marketplace.vintage.org/view.cfm?ad=470 International Business Machines 8514 (UK) http://marketplace.vintage.org/view.cfm?ad=457 Diablo Systems Incorporated 630 (UK) http://marketplace.vintage.org/view.cfm?ad=468 Digital Equipment Corporation LN03R (UK) http://marketplace.vintage.org/view.cfm?ad=458 Owner's Manual for the 7942 and 7946 Disc/Tape Drives (UK) http://marketplace.vintage.org/view.cfm?ad=461 Owner's manual for Series 80 I/O ROM (UK) http://marketplace.vintage.org/view.cfm?ad=462 IBM PC-DOS version 2.10 Manual Only/Box (US) http://marketplace.vintage.org/view.cfm?ad=299 Hewlett-Packard 9835A (UK) http://marketplace.vintage.org/view.cfm?ad=471 -- 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 ]

20 years, 4 months

ANNOUNCE: www.pdp11.nl is back up!

by waltje＠pdp11.nl

Hi, Its my please to announce that after some time of fiddling with HDA's, dead electronics boards and several incomplete backup sets, I think I have the site back up completely, with no or only a few files missing. Cheers, Fred -- Fred N. van Kempen, DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation) Collector/Archivist Visit the VAXlab Project at http://VAXlab.pdp11.nl/ Visit the Archives at http://www.pdp11.nl/ Email: waltje(a)pdp11.nl BUSSUM, THE NETHERLANDS / Mountain View, CA, USA

20 years, 4 months

purchasing new 9-track tapes?

by brad＠heeltoe.com

Does anyone have any experience purchasing new 9-track tapes? (seems crazy to do such a thing but I want to load some up and I thought a new tape would have more stable media/binder/whatever and not break down like an old tape might) I ordered some 1200' reels from a company in california as an experiment (the tapes cost more than the drive :-). I wonder if, in fact, they are "new". Does 3M still make 1/2" tape on reels? -brad

20 years, 4 months

purchasing new 9-track tapes?

by kelly＠catcorner.org

> -----Original Message----- > From: Brad Parker > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > Sent: 3/15/2004 12:15 PM > Subject: purchasing new 9-track tapes? > > > Does anyone have any experience purchasing new 9-track tapes? I haven't purchased any new in years, but if anyone needs tapes and would be willing to risk used, I have several hundred here. I have it in 3 different spool sizes, with and without write rings. Most are 6250 CPI certified. Make an offer. Shipping would be from 07848. USPS media mail is very inexpensive. Kelly

20 years, 4 months

VAXstation 3100 M30 boot problem

by KVanMersbergen＠RandMcNally.com

Hello- My VAXstation 3100 M30 will not boot up anymore. It worked fine up until yesterday. All I get on the screen when I turn it on is this: < That's all. Nothing else. It will not even POST and bring up the console. I thought it might have something to do with the external SCSI connection but I'm not sure. Anyone know what is causing this? -Ken V. *************************************************************** This E-mail is confidential. It should not be read, copied, disclosed or used by any person other than the intended recipient. Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying by whatever medium is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this E-mail in error, please contact the sender immediately and delete the E-mail from your system. ***************************************************************

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test-drb March 2004