Whilst doing an unrelated search, I came across this gem:
Twenty-One + Years of Dr. Dobb's Journal Indexed
http://www.cstone.net/~bachs/ddj/
It's maintained by a person who used to get paid by DDJ to index their
magazine, but after CMP bought it out he says he continues the service
gratis. He has a donation link to help keep the site up. I did my part
;)
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I've been contacted by someone in France that has an Intel MDS-225 that
he wants to sell. Is anyone in that area intersted? I'm getting the detail
now. I would be intersted but I'm much too far away to consider it.
Joe
Question for those who know Sols, Solos, Cutter, etc.
I have many old original PT cassette tapes - basic, Gamepak 1 & 2, ALS-8,
etc.
Will an MP3 of those tapes work? [for the sake of argument, assume a 128k
bitrate]?
Anyone tried this?
Thanks,
Barry Watzman
Watzman(a)neo.rr.com
>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.
MCA stuff is pretty common still if you know where to look. Plenty of cheap
stuff on ebay all the time. I've got loads of goodies meself. What's harder to
find is the interesting stuff like the MCA servers and upgrade parts/boards.
As for the mod60 problems, I'm sure it can be fixed. They seldom go bad. You
might be getting a password skeleton key prompt, or a numerical POST code.
If all else fails, remove the battery for a while, take out all adaptors
except for the hard drive one, build a reference disk and then try to boot from
it. After you build a ref disk, don't let Win9x read it as it messes it up and
the PS/2 wont boot from it.
Hi all,
I just heard of a Prime 5320 (1990 vintage) up for grabs in Ascot, UK.
It's possible the museum are going to take it (if only to save it from
the crusher), but it really depends on what the transport arrangements
are, as it's too far away from any of the staff to do a pick-up. If the
owners can deliver then it's not a problem!
Apparently there's an unknown PSU fault with it, and attempts by the
company who own it to get it professionally fixed have failed - hence
the reason it's going out the door.
Comes with hard disks, tapes and floppies I've been told (no idea about
documentation)
Unfortunately I don't have a timescale on how long it can stay where it
is before it gets dumped - I've lost track of how many times people
contact us about stuff and if they don't hear back within a couple of
hours they haul it off to be crushed... :-(
I'm still waiting to hear about the delivery issue. As these machines
aren't that common though on this side of the pond, it would seem nice
to line up someone who can save it assuming that the museum can't.
cheers
Jules
Does anyone on the list know what kind of wood the case
of the Northstar Horizon uses? General consensus is that
it is stained to look like walnut. It seems a little
nicer than plain old pine plywood... a friend of mine
guesses birch. Does anyone know for sure?
Doing some display material for VCF east.
Thanks,
Bill Sudbrink
Hello all,
I recently acquired a Magnesys 720KB card (eBay number 5100117037 for some
pictures). This is an 8-bit ISA card, copyright 1988 so it's on-topic :-).
It is labeled "Magnesys Assy. 506-402 (c) 1988 Made in U.S.A. Drive Card".
It has 2 EPROMS, labeled "890-332 Rev. D" and "890-364 Rev. B". It also has
an LED, four jumpers, and three sets of switches (a bank of 10, a bank of 6
and a a bank of 4).
The only information I could find w/ Google was that it is a bubble-memory
card used to emulate a 720KB Disk Drive, and was used for a military
application.
If anyone has manuals, drivers, jumper/switch settings, etc. Could you
please let me know what I could do to get a copy?
Thanks!
Rich B.
> It doesn't have a 80x86 simulator yet.
MESS would be suitable for the micros, and x86. It also has
a simulation for the TI 990/10, which SIMH doesn't have.
Hi.
I have managed to find the tape images for irix 3.3.2 (.tar.gz) but
unfortuntely I can't work out how to network boot the Personal IRIS.
As far as I can tell I have included the right information in the
/etc/ethers file and the /etc/bootptab files..
but when I try and start the net boot up and running, it tells me,
couldn't load bootp()192.168.0.2:/video/irix/sa(sash.IP6)
any ideas... I have managed to get network booting working on many
other platforms but for some reason this is stumping me...
Benjamin
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one you lock the target
two you bait the line
three you slowly spread the net
and four you catch the man
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