test-drb June 2004

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by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Jun 1, 22:23, Ethan Dicks wrote: > Speaking of which... does anyone know where I could order a few lengths > of 2" wide x 1/2" or 3/8" thick aluminum bar? It would have to be someplace > that could send it either directly to me to me via the Post Office; or to my > boss in Madison, WI, via whatever means, so that he could bring it to me > when he arrives in October. Places that supply model engineers would be able to do that. I use ones in the UK so I can't suggest specifics, but a Google search should find a few. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

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Classic Computing in the Southwest (U.S.A)

by tponsford＠theriver.com

Phoenix: SMECC Tucson: Biosphere The Pima Air and Space Museum and the Davis-Monthan AFB "Bone Yard" (Thousands of Mothballed planes) Titan ICBM Missile Museum Kitt Peak Observatory Kartchner Caverns & Tombstone, Arizona ( about 45 miles away in Cochise County, my neck of the woods) UofA Surplus Auction (twice monthy) SouthWest Liquidators Albuquerque: Bently Auctions, (Sandia and Los Alamos Labs) (Lots of Classic stuff Decs SGI, Suns (new and old)as well as PeeCee stuff) -- --- Please do not read this sig. If you have read this far, please unread back to the beginning.

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OT: CRT EMI Shield

by cb＠mythtech.net

>Try a piece of sheet steel between the monitors.. You're probably >suffering from stray magnetic fields. Any particular kind of steel? Will the metal from Air conditioning ducts work? (I can get flat peices of that cheap at the local Home Depot). -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

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FA: MicroVAX cards & drives, prototype Motorola PCX 7410

by rigdonj＠cfl.rr.com

I just finished listing a bunch of DEC MicroVAX cards and disk drives on E-bay including some king of SCSI converter card. Also listed a prototype Motorola.Atmel PCX 7410 PowerPC CPU. See <http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewSellersOtherItems&userid=rigdonj>. Joe

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Mac startup and death chimes database

by mtapley＠swri.edu

At 15:51 -0500 5/28/04, Chris wrote: >Somewhere I have an Apple Spec database that includes the noise each Mac >makes when it reports a problem. I don't see it on my hard drive now, so >I must have archived it at some point. I'll have to dig around and figure >out where it went. http://www.mactracker.ca/ But not all the "death chimes" are in place, in the version I have. But the IIci is. There's also a lot of other useful info about Mac Models there. -- - Mark 210-522-6025, page 888-733-0967

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scp platforms

by mtapley＠swri.edu

At 10:00 -0500 5/28/04, Jochen wrote: > > scp? Never used it. How portable is it to different platforms? >I don't know how portable a protocol specification is. ;-) >But there are implementations at least for Unix (like) OSes and M$Win. >The problem with scp is that it makes heavy use of crypto algorithms >that you usually find in quite heavyweight crypto libs. >I don't want to implement this on a PDP-11. ;-( >-- I can add NeXTStep 3.3 and Mac OS 8.6 (and OS X) and Solaris to the list of SCP-capable platforms from personal experience. I assume there are more. Most implementations of SCP that I've seen come bundled with SSH, which does Telnet-like duties in an encrypted way as far as I can see. If anyone needs pointers to any of the above software, ping me and I'll dig them up. -- - Mark 210-522-6025, page 888-733-0967

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Classic Computing in the Southwest (U.S.A.)

by mtapley＠swri.edu

At 11:12 -0500 6/1/04, Jason McBrien wrote: >I'll be on a road trip at the end of June driving from Phoenix, AZ to >Houston, TX. Any interesting spots to check out on the way? I'm hoping to >hit the Johnson Space Center in Houston, but I'll need to see what my >schedule looks like (It's a business road-trip :( Electronics Plus, in Kerrville, Texas, which is on I-10 (which I assume is how you'll be driving. Contact info: Cindy Croxton, sales(a)elecplus.com, phone 830-792-3400. The dust is free. I recommend you email in advance to get summer hours and let Cindy know you are interested in classic stuff. -- - Mark 210-522-6025, page 888-733-0967

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GE Terminet terminal

by dwight.elvey＠amd.com

>From: "John Lawson" <jpl15(a)panix.com> > > > >On Tue, 1 Jun 2004, Tom Jennings wrote: > >> >> Would love to have one again, just for the noise it makes. > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > >whirrziziziziziz BRACKBRACKBRACK - BRACKBRACKBRACK - BRACKBRACKBRACK etc >etc etc... > > > Cheers > >John > > > Hi This sounds like an old belt type epson printer I have. It is missing one character print head :( I've been looking for more of these machines but it seems they are quire rare. It could really spit out paper fast. All those hammers and the band made it quite fast. I tried to contact epson about it but they had no idea what I was talking about. It seens that when they moved manufacturing to Japan, they lost most all of the old info about machines made in the US. Dwight

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OT: CRT EMI Shield

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Jun 1, 13:07, chris wrote: > I'm going to try swapping it for a newer monitor later today and see if > the problem goes away. I had a similar problem, and the best solution did indeed turn out to be using a different monitor. > I'm not sure where else around me to buy the stuff. I'll have to ask a > friend of mine that does metal sculptures where he buys his steel. There > has to be someplace better around here. I tried steel sheet -- ex-PC tower case, in fact, about 1/16" thick (yes, it was a heavy old one) and found that it didn't make enough difference, even when extended some way (too far for comfort) in front of the screens. And don't put a magnet close to the tube. The risk is not magnetising the shadow mask, but distorting it, and once that's happened there's no cure. Unless you hold the tube pointy end down and drop it, in the hope that the bulge will flatten out with the shock ;-) But then you might have another problem with that tube. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

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Anyone have a working paper tape reader?

by dwight.elvey＠amd.com

Hi I sent Tom a machine readable copy of the 6502 a couple of years back. He later got another copy from someone else and creditted them with supplying him the data. I guess he needs yet another copy. I wonder if he is getting a little forgetful and losing things. I have it someplace and can get it to you or him. It'll take me a day or to to find it. If after a couple days, I don't get back, remind me. I'm working on a couple of other projects that have higher priority. Dwight >From: "Bob Applegate" <bob(a)applegate.org> > >I'm trying to resurrect a copy of Tom Pittman's 6502 Tiny Basic. Tom has paper tapes of >the binaries, and was willing to send me one in exchange for reading the tape and sending >him back some sort of machine-readable version of the contents. Not having a paper tape >reader, this would be a long, dragged-out process of my manually converting the entire >tape to binary by hand. > >Is there anyone in the US that could do this for Tom? He might be happy just to have the >binary version (or the raw text) emailed to him. > >If you can help, please let me know. > >Bob >

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test-drb June 2004