test-drb September 2004

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by tomj＠wps.com

Scanning is mostly done, and it's indexed and on the web at http://wps.com/projects/LGP-21/Documentation/LGP-21-Maintenance-Training-Ma… I scanned only the first 50 or so A-sized pages, but all the B-sized (large) schematics etc are there. It's missing the memory alignment info, which are in the later pages. Now that I got the new perl script done (it's not that big a deal, it was simply a matter of time to complete it) I'll finish scanning probably this week. PS: to John Foust (I think it was) that politely reminded me some time ago of the obvious fact that JPEGs are lossy. I did everything in TIFF format, but my browser (konqueror) would not load TIFF images! Oddly, when I hovered the mouse over an image link, it would say on the status line "/path/etc/foo.tiff (X bytes, TIFF format)" but not display it. So I had to convert to JPEG, sigh. I have the TIFFs should I stumble upon a solution.

20 years, 3 months

98015-66501

by aek＠spies.com

google is your friend: http://www.com-com.co.uk/parts_4998.ihtml HP/Compaq 98015-66501 9885 ALIGNMENT CARD - 98015-66501 - 9801566501

20 years, 3 months

archiving as opposed to backing up

by msokolov＠ivan.Harhan.ORG

Fred Cisin <cisin(a)xenosoft.com> wrote: > With enough slaves, and the technology hidden at area 51. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I stand corrected on the last point, I meant that we cannot with officially acknowledged technology. As for slaves, don't forget that those secret government bases are not only repositories of clandestine technology, but are also ready to be used as concentration camps of the Fourth Reich. MS

20 years, 3 months

archiving as opposed to backing up

by msokolov＠ivan.Harhan.ORG

Teo Zenios <teoz(a)neo.rr.com> wrote: > People today have no reason to build > egyptian type pyramids, and we can build them if we wanted to with our > present technology. No, we cannot. MS

20 years, 3 months

archiving as opposed to backing up

by Innfogra＠aol.com

In a message dated 9/23/04 1:05:17 AM Pacific Daylight Time, teoz(a)neo.rr.com writes: Over 2000 years ago, the ancient Romans & Greeks *knew* the Earth was round > and orbited the sun. However, it seems all references to that knowledge was > unavailable by the 1st millennium, when people once again thought the world Actually it was ethe Egyptians who calculated the diameter of the world and knew it was round. And the Library in Alexandra had over 400,000 books covering the knowledge and technology of the time. 600 to 300 BC was a real high point in civilization with a real understanding of the world and technology. The Greeks adopted much of the Egyption technology. The Mediterainian area even had geared differential chronometers for navigation. It was the Romans who burned the library and did not care about loseing the technology. Their technology was war and the were very successful at it. The world before the Romans was much more stable and understood. It was Western Civilization (based on the Romans) that really brought Civilization down from its high point. And is still doing it. Paxton Astoria, Oregon PS: I think it is the failure of the electrical systems due to virus attacks that will bring our civilization down from it's high point. With so much information in electronic format it will be similar to the burning of the library in Alexandra with much loss of technology.

20 years, 3 months

interesting finds: Matrox VME Video card, AST Advantage

by konsheyn＠yahoo.com

Hi Joe! Do you have Matrox VG-640 card? Do you want to sell it? Ken : Stopped and looked through a bunch of scrap today. Found a Matrox VG-640 video card for the VME bus. Does anyone have any specs on this? Google didn't find ANY hits for it. Also picked up an AST Advantage card with the Advantage Pak daughterboard. Anyone need it? OT stuff: Also picked up a Beckman UV 5270 SpectroPhotometer. Man this thing is loaded! Will try to re-assemble it and get it working in a few days. Joe __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

20 years, 3 months

Byte collection going to the block.

by dvcorbin＠optonline.net

I am going to be selling off a collection of Byte magazines [they are going to e-bay thiss weekend]. The collection is complete [to the best of my knowledge] for 1983 thru 1986. There are also 20+ issues from the early-mid 1990's. If any is interested and wants to make a reasonable offer (all offers will NOT include shipping), this is your chance..... David Sayville, NY

20 years, 3 months

Bitsavers archive mirror -> modems

by mtapley＠swri.edu

At 12:00 -0500 9/11/04, cctalk-request(a)classiccmp.org wrote: >p.s. Just curious how many of you still uses good-ole classic analog >modem technology daily? Yo. (And that has nothing to do with how late this response is :-) .) Ethernet at the office, but analog modem at home. Not audio, the phone cable plugs straight into the modem board on the PowerBook 3400, which admittedly isn't on topic... -- - Mark 210-522-6025, page 888-733-0967

20 years, 3 months

PeeCee Text

by cb＠mythtech.net

>I think I've got one. Or at least, I've got a weirdish Wyse PC. The >processor is on an ISA card that also has the keyboard connector, which is >a modular phone plug type. Weird. I had one of those. I think it was a 386 (might have been a 286), I know it was a Wyse. It was a full height desktop case, but only about half as wide as an AT/XT. The processor was on an ISA card, and the keyboard socket was an RJ-12 connector. I never had a matching keyboard, all I had was an adaptor to go from the RJ-12 to a regular din-5 AT style keyboard. I know you needed a special disk to configure the BIOS. I kept a copy of the floppy taped inside the case so I didn't have to hunt around for it if I made any changes. I still have the keyboard adaptor. I may have other parts from the machine, but I'm not sure. I might have kept the processor ISA card because it was interesting, but I know the machine on a whole was junked. I likely still have a copy of that setup disk somewhere as well. -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

20 years, 3 months

archiving as opposed to backing up

by mmcfadden＠cmh.edu

Maybe we should realize that the "unimportant" stuff may really tell people in the future a lot about us. It's amazing what can be discovered from unintentionally discarded stuff. How are we to know what was so commonplace that nobody saved it. For example the following is a reference to archeology and digging up old privys. http://www.sha.org/ha34ca.htm#springcon I remember all of the computer cards I punched and then used to record phone messages. I don't have one left today. How many Fortran coding sheets do you still have? Mine are gone. I still have a couple of greenbar printouts. If I try to describe them to my kids they don't understand. Their grandchildren will wonder what they were needed for. Thanks Mike

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