test-drb September 2004

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by msokolov＠ivan.Harhan.ORG

JimD <jimmydevice(a)verizon.net> wrote: > There is no reason to own almost anything. A house, live in an apartment > or under an > overpass or in a cave. I live in an apartment. Being in the bottommost socioeconomic spectrum (a Marxist lumpen-proletarian with nothing to lose but my chains), I will never own a house. > A car, Ride public transportation, bike or walk, I vehemently hate cars and will never own one. I use and very strongly support public transportation, and I walk. > Tv? Books > and newspapers. I've been living without a TV since 2000 and I'm very happy without that brainwashing machine. And yes, I like to read. MS

20 years, 3 months

Snopes on Ken Olsen

by msokolov＠ivan.Harhan.ORG

John Foust <jfoust(a)threedee.com> wrote: > "In 1977, Ken Olsen, the founder and CEO of Digital Equipment > Corporation, said, "There is no reason for any individual to > have a computer in his home." 2004 now and I still agree with that 100%. MS

20 years, 3 months

HP Printers

by dwight.elvey＠amd.com

>From: ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk > >[HP Printer fuser] > >> These parts are available, but expect to pay $30 to $50 each for a new lamp >> and tube. The job is not that difficult if you know what you are doing, but >> substantially more difficult if you don't (big surprise, right?). > >I don;t know what I'm doing, but I've stripped and rebuilt the fusers for >the CX and SX engines. The most important thing to remember is that the >'heater' is a quartz-halogen lamp, and you must not touch the 'glass' >with your fingners. The CX one is difficult to handle (it's possible to >hld it -- just -- by the ceramic end cap), the SX one can be handled by >the wires. > ---snip--- Hi I thought I'd mention that should you actually touch the quartz part, it is not throw away yet. You just need to clean the surface well. Rubbing alcohol works well at removing finger grease but I always like to follow with a good dry cleaning fluid like automotive "Brake Clean". What happens is that your finger grease will carbonize on the hot surface and cause a hot spot. This will stress the quartz tube and break it. Dwight

20 years, 3 months

computer flooring (fwd)

by aek＠spies.com

> this stuff is HARD to come by yup. I'm interested as well. Where is it located? Would suspect the other Big Iron people (Donzelli, Ross) may be interested as well.

20 years, 3 months

BBC printer port (ever used for anything else?)

by gtoal＠gtoal.com

The only thing I remember the printer port being used for was some cheap-assed eprom burner, and a weird 9000Hz sound sampler. Usually manufacturers had the sense to use the 1 Mhz bus. I really wouldn't go to much effort to bring it off-board in your ACW. I doubt you'll ever get a chance to use it. By the way I'm borrowing Joe Rigdon's US Beeb so I can recover the code on my BBC 5.25" floppies, which is where the sideways RAM loading code you were looking for is stored. Unfortunately I did't have any copies of it on the Archie disks (which had been easier to restore). My experiments with fitting a 5.25 drive to a PC and reading the files that way were a complete disaster. The first attempt scored gashes in some floppies until I noticed, then after buying an identical (but working) drive on eBay to replace the bad one, I found that the code I had to read the disks just plain did not work reliably. I tried several PCs, including old ones, knowing the problems with incompatible disk chips. I was also unable to get the disks working under any Beeb emulators. (Unlike with the Archie emulators which worked a treat with 3.5 disks!) Once I get the US Beeb and can read the disks native, does anyone have any good suggestions on how to read and transfer disk images to Unix over a serial line? Remembering that I'll have to bootstrap any process by typing the code in to the Beeb. I guess I should start wiring up a Beeb<->PC serial line right now! G

20 years, 3 months

Salvaging HP LaserJet Series II

by sml49＠comcast.net

On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 Jim Isbell <millenniumfalcon(a)cableone.net> wrote: > Subject: Salvaging HP Laser Jet series II > I saved anything that had a wire connected to it and put all the > plastic, sheet metal and gear trains into the trash on the theory that > the gear trains looked tough enough to not be a failure point. Those machines have Canon engines that are really long-lived; I have an Apple LaserWriter Iig (originally a Iint) which has the same mechanism and it's been running (admittedly in light use lately) since October 1989. I wonder if anyone on the list has any kind of teardown instructions or lubrication instructions for these machines - mine sounds as if it can use a greasing when it's feeding paper - not a screeching sound but is sounds as if something's running dry in there. It's never been taken apart and Apple's hardbound book on the LW II doesn't give this kind of information. I'd hate to slop the wrong lube in the wrong place and damage this old workhorse as it enters its 16th year of service. Seth Lewin

20 years, 3 months

ultrix 4.5 vax

by rachael＠rachael.dyndns.org

Hello My vaxserver 3100 has been installed with ultrix 4.5, I get alot better along with a unix than with vms, I was wondering if someone has keeped a copy of the different security updates from DEC ? I know the freeware archive at ftp.eagle.y.se , and I have installed the different interessing things from there. I graped the gnu things there and got unmbasic compiled, its not vaxbasic but is basic, actual not that slow either. Did a small inventory the other day, my commodore machines are staring to take up abit of space, had 13 64 machines of different types, and a 1541 or 1541II for every one of the. just needs to figure out a way to cluster them through IEC :) Maybe Cameron Kaiser can help here. regards Jacob Dahl Pind -- CBM, Amiga,Vintage hardware collector Email: rachael(a)rachael.dyndns.org url: http://rachael.dyndns.org fido: 2:237/38.8

20 years, 3 months

international order........... (fwd)

by vcf＠siconic.com

By the way, for proper context, here's the original message thread from my "customer". I have no idea where he saw that I have Commodore or Okidata printers. But you do realize this does make it on topic, since those are very vintage! :) P.S. I MapQuested that address and it exists apparently. Can someone from that area sanity check it? I wonder what's there... -- Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org [ Old computing resources for business || Buy/Sell/Trade Vintage Computers ] [ and academia at www.VintageTech.com || at http://marketplace.vintage.org ] ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 11:46:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf(a)siconic.com> To: mark green <greensupplier(a)yahoo.com> Cc: utl(a)rivne.com Subject: Re: international order........... On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, mark green wrote: > good day sir/ms > hi my name is green i am a business man, i live in usa i have a store in canada and uk, i purchase and sell goods from one store to another store. but for security purpose this is my address 27 East 158th Place > South Holland, illinois, > USA , 60473 > so there is a new store i wanted to set up in nigeria and i will like to place an order form your store to that store in nigeria. > but i want you to some straigth i don't live in nigeria because some people don't want to ship to that country fir some reason and i don't know why but for me i like the country > because i make a lot of profit there and idon't realy stay there i due go and come back for business i am a wihte man that love black people, > so i will like to know if you accept credit card for your payment and if you can ship to the country. > my couirer service that use is via, > dhl > fedex > so iwill place my order immidately you recieve you reply > regards > green Yes. Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 13:32:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf(a)siconic.com> To: mark green <greensupplier(a)yahoo.com> Subject: Re: ITEMS LIST............ On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, mark green wrote: > hello > thank you for the reply,so i can now make my order pls see the goods below: > 1, > Commodore Business Machines 1526 Printer > QTY:5 > 2, > Okidata Okimate 20 > QTY:5 > so you can cacu;ate the total cost of the goods so that can make the payment I only have Okidata 21 models. They are 1 better than the model 20. Is this OK? My price is $37.62 each. For the 1526 printer, I have 7 in stock. $39.95 each. If you buy all 7 I'll give you a better price. Do you need extra dwibbles? -- Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org [ Old computing resources for business || Buy/Sell/Trade Vintage Computers ] [ and academia at www.VintageTech.com || at http://marketplace.vintage.org ]

20 years, 3 months

Don Maslin

by fmc＠reanimators.org

Yet another e-mail virus forged my address on an e-mail to his address, and it bounced to me with something like "mailbox full". Which made me think, I haven't seen anything from him since 10 August or so, and while I've never met him I think he's an old-timer.... A Google search on 'Maslin "San Diego"' found <http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20040910/news_1m10obitkp.html> which says: DONALD A. MASLIN Nov. 2, 1927-Aug. 28, 2004 Donald A. Maslin, 76, of La Jolla died Aug. 28. He was born in New Haven, Conn., and was a combat systems department head for the Navy. He served in the Coast Guard and was a member of the San Diego Computer Society. Survivors include his wife, Bristol; and sister, Margaret Stadtler of Versailles, Ky. No services were planned. A scattering of ashes was planned. Arrangements: Telophase Cremation Society. (end quote) -Frank McConnell

20 years, 3 months

Yahoo! News Story - Floppy Disk Becoming Relic of the Past (fwd)

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Sep 21 2004, 13:44, John Foust wrote: > At 01:02 PM 9/21/2004, Pete Turnbull wrote: > >Readers I've seen use the standard drivers -- W2K and WinXP recognise > >them. The little cheap 6-in-one/7-in-one/8-in-one card readers just > >appear as multiple USB storage devices, like DOS disks (as do USB > >"pens"). I got mine here for about five quid. > > I must be thinking about Win98 machines that needed the drivers. Probably. I remember it was fun trying to get those things to work with W95 (for certain values of "fun"). -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

20 years, 3 months

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