OK I'm not talking about the burger.
But anybody have any creative ideas on what to do
with two or three Mac Classics that I keep finding.
I can't throw them out, on conscience.
John A.
>From: Scott Stevens <sastevens(a)earthlink.net>
>Reply-To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic
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>To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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>Subject: Re: WARNING: RANTING COMPUTER NUT...
>Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2004 20:02:50 -0500
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<SNIP>
>I've never committed the crime of having anything to do with the SGI
>boxes that sport an Intel processor and run NT, though.
>
>(Aieeee!, huh? )
>
<SNIP>
I think those are going to be collectable machines. I've been looking for a
cheap one for a while. It's a really interesting architecture. Custom memory
bus (== EXPENSIVE memory modules) Custom system bus and integrated video
controller. These things were way ahead of anything else at the time,
unfortunatly for SGI the PC hardware market catches up quickly and commodity
PC hardware had the kind of bus speeds their workstations had within a year
(RAMBUS, BOO! HISS!) As vertically marketed as they were they don't run
anything other than Windows NT. I think there's a version of Linux floating
around for them, and odds are NetBSD will at least boot on them (Horray for
serial console! :)
>(** I'm probably one of the .0001% of people who has seen a Windows NT
>desktop on a PowerPC system)
I've got Visual Studio 5 for PowerPC if you're interested...
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That's disappointing as I've got one too. Given that its MCA I thought it would be at a premium and therefore quite valuable.
The one I've got is in an IBM PS2 Model 60 but when I boot it I get some gobbledy-gook on screen which is not very promising - if anyone has any clues I'd be grateful. I thought of disabling the HD and trying to boot from a floppy to see if it was just the HD that's cactus.
Ahhhh such is life!
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-----Original Message-----
From: cctech-bounces(a)classiccmp.org
[mailto:cctech-bounces@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of chris
Sent: Tuesday, 22 June 2004 5:45 AM
To: Classic Computer
Subject: 3com etherlink III MCA
I've got a 3com EtherLink III MCA card available if anyone wants it. It
failed to sell on ebay, so just cover postage costs (plus paypal fees if
you pay me that way) and its yours.
Anyone want it? If you want to view it, see below:
<http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5704862265&ssPageName=A
D
ME:B:EOAS:US:3>
the ad lists as $3.85 for shipping via Priority Mail. That is my prefered
method to ship things like this, because I get free boxes. If you want
some other method or are out of the USA and can't use that method, I'm
open to changing it.
If I don't get a taker, its heading to the trash... so hopefully someone
will want it. (I no longer have any MCA bus hardware, so it is useless to
me)
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
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Going thought my old floppies and I came a disk labelled
SETUP and TEST Diskette for System/88
Boot from this diskette
Copyright Amdek Corporation. 1997 ver 1.31
There is also some MS-DOS 3.2 diskettes with them.
Does anyone know anything about a system/88.
Google indicates that there has been a few machines named system/88, but
nothing for Amdek.
- --
Collector of vintage computers
http://www.ncf.ca/~ba600
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Over dinner with a friend the other night the conversation landed on
the subject of reading old magnetic tapes. I learned something which
sounds different from what I've heard in the past, so I figured I
would pass this along.
This was for audio tapes, but it makes sense that it would apply to
digital data tapes too.
The comment was that old tapes absorb moisture into the oxide, which
makes things sticky and causes the oxide to stick to the wrong spots
and flake off the tape. The solution is to set the tape in a fruit
dryer at modest heat (150 F or so) for a while.
Presumably a desiccator, vacuum or otherwise, could serve too.
Apparently this worked well for 20 year old audio tapes.
paul
It's not in any of my PC ref guides, even ones old enough to include family
one types.
It's two full length 16bit ISA cards bolted together. There's a connection
betwen them. Two EPROMs and several big square chips. No standard FRU number
that I can see anywhere. One of the cards is labeled DISPLAY CONTROLLER.
One of the cards has a 25 pin female connector. The other board has a
connector I've never seen before. It's a D shaped shell which has 3 holes side by
side no more than .25 inch in diameter. In each hole, there's a small pin. What
in the world is this?
I can provide a pic if that will help.
I was cleaning up today and ran across an old 64K battery-backed SRAM card
for a Sharp OS-781. The box mentions the OZ-7000, but I was wondering if
this is one of the cards that will work with a Commodore CD-TV (there's a
PCMCIA-ish slot in the front, and ISTR 64K was one of the sizes mentioned
in some of the documentation for what would work in there).
Specifically, my recollection is that the CD-TV takes a "Type I" card, and
this OZ-781 _is_ 1/2 as thick as a Type II (with one row of pins, not two).
Do I have a match? (I'll still have to find a CD-TV to replace the one
that was stolen in a burglary years ago - so long ago, in fact, that the
insurance company paid out 100% for the loss with no questions asked,
based on the pricetag on the corner of the box - $795). It was a fun
little box that fit well with the other components by the TV. I did replace
it with a CD-32 later, but the two just don't compare, stylistically, even
though the CD-TV is, essentially, a repackaged A500, and the CD-32 is a
crippled A1200 (but I do have an SX-1 expansion for it).
Speaking of expansions, has anyone ever seen the MPEG cartridge for the
CD-32? I don't "need" one, since I can watch VCDs on my Apex DVD player,
but I've always wanted to find one at a reasonable price to see how well
it plays VCDs.
-ethan
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I've got some VMS manuals
Vol 1 Introduction to Programming
Vol 2A Utilites and Debugger
Vol 2B Utilites (CDU, Librarian, Linker, Message)
Vol 3 System Library Routines
Vol 4A System Services
Vol 4B System Services
and just for fun
Obsolete Features.
I think this is pretty much all of the "P" section of the infamous
VMS gray wall. All are brand new, still shrink wrapped, never opened
and were current as of VMS version 5.2 (i.e. a long, long time ago!).
All you have to do is pick them up in Milpitas CA - sorry, but they're
just not worth the trouble of shipping.
Bob Armstrong
