test-drb September 2004

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by rigdonj＠cfl.rr.com

Second hurricane in three weeks!! Just got power back after hurricane Frances. This one was HUGE!!!! It reached from the FIorida Keys to Atlanta Ga! It started raining here Friday. HEAVY rain and winds all day Saturday and Sunday. More rain Monday (and a curfew in effect). Today (1:30 PM Tuesday) some rain bands are still passing through. Three tornadoes in this area yesterday and another today. The worst of the storm was south of us this time and everything around here that could be blown down was already down due to Charlie so now as much damage this time but HUGE amounts of rain. I set my canoe outside last week and it was FILLED completely full of rain by Friday night. Luckily Florida is flat so rain doesn't concentrate much. NOW it looks like we're in the path of Hurricane Ivan!!! It's scheduled to be in this area about Sunday or Monday. UnF***ING believable! joe

19 years, 10 months

Completely and totally off-topic and without any merit

by dwight.elvey＠amd.com

>From: ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk > >> Actually, that reminds me - I saw a chap in the UK trying to get rid of >> several kilos of the stuff a short while ago. I can't help thinking that >> *something* interesting could be made using it, although I'm not sure >> what. > >My first 3 thoughts, in no particular order : > >Barometer (or other manometer-type pressure gauge) > >Mercury delay line (hey, that's on-topic) > >Developing Dageurrotypes (?spell) (No, I don't intend to try this, I may >hack cameras as well as computers, but I don't intend to start boiling >mercury...) > >-tony > Hi Telescope makers use it to make small "pin holes" in photo graphic plates and film. You smash some and it makes hundreds of tiny specs that are almost perfectly spherical. These cast shadows on the the photo material. The film that is exposed turns dark, leaving the tiny clear spots. One simple mask off the ones that are not used. Dwight

19 years, 10 months

Weller Soldering Stations...

by bpope＠wordstock.com

Which to buy? I am looking at two different ones - The WTCPT which you have to buy different tips to control temperature or the WES51 which has adjustabel temperatur control and is a little cheaper. I know either one would probably be a good investment but what is the advantage of one over the other? Thanks!, Bryan Pope

19 years, 10 months

Completely and totally off-topic and without any meritwhatso

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Sep 7 2004, 23:08, William Donzelli wrote: > > Compounds in mercury? Such as? > > Mercury can combine with lots of things. Probably the most common is the > ore, cinnebar. I think it can even be part of some organic compounds. It readily reacts with even dilute nitric acid to form nitrates, or with aqua regia (a mixture of nitric and hydrochloric acids) to form mercuric chloride, also known as corrosive sublimate. It reacts slowly with sulphur, chlorine, or oxygen (cinnabar is mercury sulphide). Pure mercury sulphide used to be used as vermilion pigment (which may explain something about some artists). It reacts dangerously rapidly with bromine, and reacts with ammonia (don't try this at home!). The oxide reacts with quite a lot of things; it's used to make mercuric sulphate which is (was?) used as for some organic reactions. BTW, the reactions with oxygen and sulphur are very slow, which is why mercury vapour is, well, mercury vapour (rather than mercury oxide); and why the advice that used to be given to use flowers of sulphur (finely powdered sulphur) to mop up mercury spills is not very good (use zinc powder instead, to make a non-volatile amalgam). Some of the compounds are very toxic, and some can react with organic materials to produce organo-mercuric compounds (some list members are old enough to remember the Japanese fishermen who were poisoned by consuming them in fish over a long period). Lots of these are liquids with high toxic vapours. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

19 years, 10 months

Wrong reply

by Pres＠macro-inc.com

At 12:42 PM 9/9/2004, you wrote: > >>> > >>> We now return you to your regularly-scheduled discussions > >>> of Mercury, Guns, Carburettors, and Sellam's State of Mind. > >>> > >The first three I understand... The final item is totally imponderable Not so hard to ponder; It really reduces quite nicely: As an anarchist Sellam has no State, which is a perfect match for that other thing he lacks. :-) Ed Kelleher

19 years, 10 months

Having problems with SCSI MO drives

by vcf＠siconic.com

I'm trying to connect up various MO (magneto-optical) drives to a PC via SCSI interface and having consistent problems. The adapter in question is an Adaptec AHA-1542CP. The errors are: Host adapter status: 00h - No host adapter error Target status: 02h - Check condition Sense key: 02h - Not ready Sense code: 0Ah I'm not a total SCSI expert so I'm not figuring this out. Is there a termination issue? As far as I can tell both sides of the chain are terminated. The drive is hooked up externally and I'm using an active terminator. The host adapter should be terminating internally. What generally causes the above errors? I'm getting it on multiple drives across multiple adapters. Thanks! -- 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 ]

19 years, 10 months

Facit 4070,Query

by parsh_gndu＠rediffmail.com

? Dear Sir, I am a researcher from India and I read about you from the internet that you have got a wide knowledge and service manuals for Fait 4070. Sir, I have some qureies. Firstly,How to interface Facit 4070 with computer so that it can decode the hole punched directly. Secondly,I am having Facit N4000 ( REader/Puncher), but i am not having service manual for that . Could you please send me that via email or my postal address given in end of this email. Thanking you, With Regards, PARSHOTAM sharma Research Fellow, Department of Electronics Tech., Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar. India.

19 years, 10 months

tektronx 310a

by jpowell7＠msn.com

I have a goood to great condition 310a scope and seen your message on the web. It is for sale...are you intrested or do you have an idea on where I could sell it? Thanks, Jay _________________________________________________________________ Get ready for school! Find articles, homework help and more in the Back to School Guide! http://special.msn.com/network/04backtoschool.armx

19 years, 10 months

Printer help?

by msokolov＠ivan.Harhan.ORG

der Mouse <mouse(a)rodents.montreal.qc.ca> wrote: > I went to do this, but when I put it all back together and turned it > on, all armed with a voltmeter to check power, when I turned it on one > of the LEDs on the DC controller board came on, something I cannot > recall happening before. One of the LEDs indicates that the main motor has reached its operating speed, the other LED indicates that the scanner motor has reached its operating speed. > However, the selftest button does not work; as far as I can tell it > does nothing at all. I even tried holding it in for some 15-20 seconds > and it still did nothing, despite printing working normally from the > network and printing a selftest page when told to do so using the > front-panel buttons. Now this is weird, I have no explanation for it. It's supposed to continuously print pages of vertical lines for as long as the switch is down. Perhaps one of the damaged PCB traces went to this switch? > I think this was Peter Wallace, pcw(a)mesanet.com. Yes. > If nobody takes it before then, and Peter isn't willing/able to, might > _you_ be willing to extract those and send them to me? I would certainly be willing to do it, if nothing else for the sake of the experiment, since while logic is telling me that the IIISi and 4Si are the same printer except for those boards, I've never actually tried a swap. The problem is that I would only be able to do it after I get Peter's 4SiMX in my hands (that's assuming Peter wants to give it away for free and no one else takes it first), and I don't know when I'll be in the Bay Area. While having a source of spares for mine would certainly be nice, I won't make a trip to the Bay Area just for that. I normally go there twice a year for the Bay Area UFO Expo and for Conspiracy Con, but the Bay Area UFO Expo just passed two weeks ago and Conspiracy Con is in May. I don't think Peter would hold the printer for me for that long. > The former is marked as J005, the latter J014. These are some kind of test/debug connectors and aren't used in the field. MS

19 years, 10 months

What was I running and can it be emulated?

by aek＠spies.com

I think it had Algol and Fortran and Assembly Language as it's languages. -- It was probably either DOS-M or an early RTE A lot of work has been done recently getting these OSes running in SIMH, so it should be possible. I don't know if Bob has put bootable disc images up for them yet, though. I have all of the manuals scanned, but not on line yet for these two systems.

19 years, 10 months

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test-drb September 2004