test-drb June 2004

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by cfnelson_87111＠yahoo.com

Yes, I am trying to find an MS-DOS version of what Teo Zenios described in his June 28 reply (excerpted below) to my original posting: ***** by Teo Zenios Under Mac OS and Disk Copy 6.3.3 you can image any number of disks that can then be double clicked and show up on the desktop just like a real disk would when inserted into the drive. This allows programs with multiple disks to be imaged and then installed directly from the images instead of having to be converted back to a real disk and inserted one at a time into the computer when it needed the next disk. If there a program in dos (assuming you had enough memory to work with) that did the same type of thing you could install multi disk games and apps without messing with real disks or hacking the files to the HD or a CD. The process would allow you to put your originals in a vault and never use them or a real floppy disk again. ***** I use an almost-vintage IBM ThinkPad 701 notebook (486 processor, 640x480 VGA display) for playing around with my "old" MS-DOS stuff (late 80s and early 90s vintage). Even using a 3.5" floppy requires an external drive for the ThinkPad; reading a 5.25" floppy requires that I drag out another system with the proper drive and then transfer the disk contents to a 3.5" floppy. I also worry about the future reliability of these old floppy disks and drives. Using disk images allows me to store away the original floppies. If I could also mount the disk images so they appear to MS-DOS as if there was actually a floppy in an floppy drive, then I could entirely avoid having to mess around with floppy drives and disks. I hope this clears up what I am trying to do. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

20 years, 4 months

looking for DG docs

by jwest＠classiccmp.org

If anyone has spare copies of Data General S/130 and S/200 documentation, I'd appreciate a chance at 'em! Jay West --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus]

20 years, 4 months

http://www.classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctech/2003-August/017875.h tml

by bill_maclean＠west-point.org

So. Chatham, Mass. Bob-- "Applicon made CAD/CAM systems, very good ones too." Thank you! My older son sent me this link http://www.classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctech/2003-August/017875.html today, apparently from a Google search. I worked several missions at Applicon, Burlington, 1969-1985; recall the type system you describe very well. "I used to work on these things!" Didn't we all. :^) Forgive me if your name doesn't come to mind after 25 years. Please remind me of your location, department. Best regards. --Bill

20 years, 4 months

Core volatility

by dwight.elvey＠amd.com

>From: "Wai-Sun Chia" <waisun.chia(a)hp.com> > >I have MM11-DP (16kW parity core) in my /04 which seems to have a little >problem. > >Several locations which I've checked seems to be losing content (core is > supposed to be non-volatile). I've been debugging custom bootloaders >for the past week and it has since gone past annoying. It's like 3 >locations out of 50 that are always reverting back to 000000 after a reboot. > >Perhaps it's the driver logic to these 3 particular cores that are not >functioning properly? Or is it the cores itself? > > >-- >/wai-sun > Hi It is more likely that a spurious write pulse is happening when you power off. On my computer, you need to stop the processor first before turning it off. If I don't do this, a few bits get corrupted. Dwight

20 years, 4 months

word document

by rschaefe＠gcfn.org

I have attached your document.

20 years, 4 months

TI74 AC adapter specs

by rcini＠optonline.net

Hi: Does anyone have the TI AC-9201 adapter handy that they could grab tell me the specs and plug polarity? Thanks. Rich Rich Cini Collector of classic computers Build Master for the Altair32 Emulation Project Web site: http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/~rcini/classiccmp/ /************************************************************/

20 years, 4 months

Help Needed in Houston to Move Collection

by jrkeys＠concentric.net

I need help to complete moving the collection out of two 1800 sq/ft warehouses into three 45' trailers (no I can save everything). Anyone that can come by on Tuesday or Wednesday to help after 9AM it would be of great help at 7417 Hillcroft. Look for the three large trailers on the lot.. Thanks

20 years, 4 months

IRIX 5.3 and resetting root password

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Jun 28, 23:07, Jochen Kunz wrote: > On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 20:03:39 +0000 > Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > > > Problem there is that the system disk for which I do have full access > > is only IRIX 4.0.5 - the 'new' system disk for which I don't have any > > passwords is IRIX 5.3. > Suboptimal. > > > 1) System is trying to use some authentication other than /etc/passwd > > and /etc/shadow. What other authentication methods existed for IRIX > > 5.3? > NIS / YP? What is configured in /etc/nsswitch.conf? > Are there any other network services configured? NFS / automount? Entries at the top of /etc/password override NIS, and NIS doesn't bother with /etc/shadow but does check /etc/passwd. /etc/nsswitch.conf doesn't exist in IRIX 5.3, so that's not it either. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

20 years, 4 months

MS BASIC for a Panasonic HHC RL-H1400

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Jun 28, 19:39, Pete Turnbull wrote: > Hi, Roger. > > Prmopted by Bob's message to the list about PDP-11/23+ bootstraps, and > some private email I had with him earlier [ ... ] Sorry, that was meant to go privately. I'll get the hang of this network mail stuff one day, I promise... -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

20 years, 4 months

manuals in pdf (resolution, compression)

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Jun 28, 20:18, Paul Williams wrote: > Pete Turnbull wrote: > > > The last thing I > > scanned was a 166-page DEC manual, which came out as 6.4MB of PDF or > > 6.3MB of G4 TIFFs in a single TIFF file. That's a lot better than your > > 20MB JPEG, and higher resolution, too. > > But not quite as good as the 400 KiB of plain text it started off as ... > and became again :-) True :-) -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

20 years, 4 months

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