test-drb January 2005

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by vcf＠siconic.com

Can anyone help Luciano? See below. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 14:25:29 -0200 From: Luciano Camara <lcamara(a)gmail.com> To: info(a)vintagetech.com Subject: ibm 5140 convertible Hello. I have an ibm 5140 convertible, but i coudn?t find the starter disk... the ibm link is not working. Could you help me to find this software? Your web page is very nice! Thank you in advance Luciano-Brazil -- 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, 11 months

DG haul, photos

by dwight.elvey＠amd.com

Hi Tom You'll bring it to the next vcf here in California I hope. I wish I had space for such a machine. It is in beautiful shape. Dwight >From: "Tom Jennings" <tomj(a)wps.com> > >http://wps.com/NOVA4/ > >Not very good. Will take more when I get back to town. Not annotated yet. > >

19 years, 11 months

Cyber 808

by kernsy＠netzero.net

Does anyone have any info on the Cyber 808 Disk drive Any specs or general info ? I think it was really made by Bryant It was about 3 feet wide , 7 feet high, and 8 feet long. It was hydraulic driven, and you used alcohol on a wand to clean the platters . It was a Control Data Cyber 808 disk drive. I worked on them in 1975 when they were still used at large computer centers. In fact I made a table/lamp out of one of platters which I am trying to sell. One of a kind art. Thanks kernsy(a)netzero.net

19 years, 11 months

Windows crashing, was Re: Bill Gates: Teen Heart-throb!

by cb＠mythtech.net

>As a show of good faith :-) I'd like to make some recommendations if you're >going to get a Mac Mini for video work: Yeah Yeah Yeah, I ain't no panty waist amature here... this is what I went to school for (how I ended up working in computers is still a mystery to me!) :-) Believe me, I'd love better equipment, I just can't afford it. (actually, I'd really love a nice set of SVHS editing decks, and a Video Toaster to go with it) >- Upgrade the memory to at least 512 and preferably 1GB if possible. MPEG-2 >encoding, multi-layer compositing, rendered previews, caching, etc. all >chew up >RAM. I don't recall if you can upgrade the CPU in a MacMini (or add a >second >one) but it is much more important to max out RAM first and foremost. Are you kidding... OS X... video or not, you better upgrade to at least 512 MB of ram... I'm still amazed Apple sells machines with anything less. OS X makes Windows look like a memory conservationist! >- Stick with DV only. DV has a nice low data rate of around 3MB/s which is >enough for any hard drive to handle. In fact you can composite 3-4 >streams on >any cheap modern hard drive and play them realtime. DV is the only thing I can afford to work with. Cheap computer, cheap camcorder... I didn't say I was making epics here, I just grab a camera and shoot things because its what I wanted to do for a living, I spent all that time in college on the topics, and now don't work in the field... so its just kind of a hobby. I accept things looking like crap (hey, it looks better then the work I did on a PowerMac 6500 using Apple's TV In-Out card and Avid Video... that was some grainy chopping junk... which was even better then when I used to do analog editing... without editing equipment, just had to be fast on the fingers and hope for the best... ahh those were the days!) >- Assuming sticking with DV only, make sure your workspace (desk, etc.) has >room for a small cheap TV and your DV camcorder. Previewing on a monitor, >however nice, still doesn't compare to an actual video monitor (or properly >calibrated cheap tv if you don't have the cash) for checking saturation, >field >order, overscan/safe title area, etc. Even if it's a cheap $130 15" color >TV, >it's still better to preview via firewire->DVcam->TV. (Assuming your DVcam >does this kind of passthrough, of course!) Yeah, I got that covered. I have meself a nice JVC TV monitor (not a TV, that implies a tuner is in it... this is recovered from an old editing suite that someone else beat me to taking out of the trash, I just got one of the monitors before they got back for it) -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

19 years, 11 months

Qty. 20 to 30 ... 486 DX2-66 VLB Motherboards needed in the Netherlands

by mail.list＠analog-and-digital-solutions.com

Hello, Does anyone in Europe, preferably Netherlands, want to get together 20 to 30 motherboards 486DX2-66, Intel ( or possibly AMD ) with at least 2 VLB slots for Amplicon Benelux in the Netherlands. They preferred they all be the same mfg and model and new or NOS to boot. I think they will have to settle for used and mixed variety. I see plenty in Germany, but it seems almost no one in Germany uses PayPal, and it seems like it just couldn't be cost effective to have them shipped to the US and then back to Europe again. I think they should be ones that use a replaceable lithium coin cell in a holder because any NiCads from that era probably wouldn't hold a charge very well any more, and Dallas type devices would be at the end of their service life, and if soldered on, too much trouble and significantly expensive to change out. I'm pretty sure they would want them tested and with some kind of guarantee, though that may have to be accomplished by buying some extras beyond the quantity they are asking for. I don't know what their budget is for this, but I did think that they needed to make it enough to motivate anyone to get involved with it, else it looked like a "do it yourself" type project. If anyone in the Netherlands or Germany, that can accept Paypal, can do this, let me know. Respond to ... <tempmail.ab(a)verizon.net> as I won't be able to locate any response on the classiccmp.org mail list. Bennett

19 years, 11 months

no more UPS!

by jwest＠classiccmp.org

I'm boycotting UPS. I walked out of there about foaming at the mouth. I went there to ship a vintage cpu, and the gentleman behind the counter took one look at my box and said "that box is in bad condition", followed by "At UPS, we don't want to deliver any packages that don't look good", and finally "we can't have the box falling apart and it's contents coming out". I asked him to please take a closer look at the box I was shipping. True, the outside had many shipping labels that had been pulled off. But I explained to him it was a custom made US military shipping carton. The walls are almost 1/2 thick cardboard with 6 inches of foam form fitting around the cpu. There were no creases in the cardboard anywhere, and no sunken surfaces. This box was far sturdier than any box in the place. He told me my only choice was to take the package to The UPS Store and have them rebox it. I think they are just trying to push business to their UPS Store fronts. This box was extremely sturdy. So... I'm boycotting UPS and just needed to vent :) Jay

19 years, 11 months

Windows crashing, was Re: Bill Gates: Teen Heart-throb!

by cb＠mythtech.net

>Sorry, the mac mini doesn't serve my needs (I work with video and audio >production, the stock mac mini isn't powerful or expandable enough). Odd that you would say it isn't powerful enough... it is more powerful then all but one model of the G4 that was released. It is equal to the single processor Mirror Drive Door G4 Tower, and the Dual processor version of that machine is the only G4 released that is more powerful. And you can get a bumped up version that is faster then the single processor MDD PowerMac G4 (but would still likely be beated by the dual proc if you use an app that can use both procs) Granted, if you are doing video work, I can see that even the fastest of the G4's may just not be fast enough. But if that is the case, I assume you are either after a dual processor G5 Tower, or you just aren't serious about your video work (considering there is no match to it in the Windows world.) :-) Now... expandability... no doubt there, the mac mini is a Steve Jobs wet dream in that respect. (I'm not being a troll, really, I don't care what machine you use or your reasons to or not to use it... I'm just poking fun at your claim that it isn't powerful enough) -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

19 years, 11 months

Two free 19" monitors (DIGITAL and SUN), Melbourne Australia

by lists＠popcorn.cx

Greetings, I have two 19" monitors that I don't need anymore and would like to free up some space. I believe that they work but I can't verify that as I have never even tried to used them on anything. They are: DIGITAL VRT19-H4 (GDM-1961) Manufactured by Sony Sync on green 3x BNC connectors (with what looks like passthrough connectors) http://popcorn.cx/photos/gdm1961_01.jpg http://popcorn.cx/photos/gdm1961_02.jpg SUN GDM-1962 Manufactured by Sony Composite sync 13W3 connector http://popcorn.cx/photos/gdm1962_01.jpg http://popcorn.cx/photos/gdm1962_02.jpg Pickup ONLY from Glen Waverley, Melbourne, Australia. Stephen -- _ _ _ Stephen Edmonds _/ \_ / \_/ \ Melbourne, Australia <_ " _> / \ / O \ / " \ stephen(a)popcorn.cx / ___ \ | O | http://popcorn.cx/ \_____/ \___/

19 years, 11 months

Anyone TTY-Smart In Maryland? (Or Seattle?)

by ohh＠drizzle.com

I may have a favor to ask. :) I may have found an ASR-33 Teletype in Maryland that I can actually afford. Problem is, I'm in Seattle and it's a "come pick it up" situation. (It's in or near Laurel, Maryland.) If I end up buy it, is there someone in that area who'd be willing - for, say, $100 plus the expenses of packing and shipping - to pick this up, make it safe for shipping, pack it up and ship it off to Seattle? (Conversely, is there someone in Seattle who wants to sell me a nice ASR-33 for about $275? It'd certainly be easier for me to pick up. <g>) -O.-

19 years, 11 months

Windows crashing, was Re: Bill Gates: Teen Heart-throb!

by cb＠mythtech.net

>I won't refute your argument, because it's like trying to argue against >artifacts such as the Shroud of Turin: No matter what the facts, it is a >religious artifact and is therefore impossible to disprove. <sigh> See my reply to Roger. Me thinks one too many people has posted on this list taking their stance too seriously... now everyone just assumes that any strange far fetched claims like I made are done for religious zealot reasons and not for pure silliness. (come on, you don't REALLY think that I believe that there is no machine that can run windows that can do better then a Dual Proc G5?!? That would be an absurd claim... even IF it was true right now, of which not only do I have no idea, but I seriously doubt that it is... by the time this thread dies, some company like AlienWare will have released something that makes it false) Sometimes, when something seems absurd, it is just that, absurd, and needs to be taken a little less seriously (I mean come on... I DID put a smiley face after it! Jeepers, do I really have to put <sarcasm></sarcasm> around my comments too?) :-) (once again, please note the smiley and just accept the fact that I'm really not trying to bait you, I'm just having some fun... lets all have a laugh, share some beers, and move on) -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

19 years, 11 months

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test-drb January 2005