test-drb October 2005

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by kyrrin＠bluefeathertech.com

Fellow classic'ers, I've been all over Intel's site and Google, and have come up empty. I have here a 4MB PCMCIA 'FLASH' card with Intel's name and colors on it. I know it has a standard MS-DOS filesystem on it, and I'm trying to find a driver to read the thing under Windows 2000 Pro. I'll resort to FreeBSD if I have to, but I would prefer otherwise. I've tried the current version of SystemSoft's CardWizard Pro with no luck. Ideas? Declarations? Speeches about how looney the whole idea is? Thanks much. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Bruce Lane, Owner & Head Hardware Heavy, Blue Feather Technologies -- http://www.bluefeathertech.com kyrrin (at) bluefeathertech do/t c=o=m "If Salvador Dali had owned a computer, would it have been equipped with surreal ports?"

18 years, 9 months

Looking for a IBM 5110 EMI filter.

by h.j.stegeman＠hccnet.nl

Hi William, >> Who can help me with an EMI filter from an IBM 5110 ? >> Mine has an internal non-repairable short circuit. > Is it the same as the one on the 5100? Yes, see: http://home.hccnet.nl/h.j.stegeman/EMIfilter.jpg > Sadly, I finally junked my stock of EMI filters, simply because in six > years, I did not sell a SINGLE ONE! Normally these robust discrete filters give never a problem, except mine :-( Regards Henk

18 years, 9 months

Public Service Announcement: AVOID "bobsbid1"

by ajp166＠bellatlantic.net

> >Subject: Re: Public Service Announcement: AVOID "bobsbid1" > From: "Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com> > Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 10:08:59 -0700 > To: cctalk at classiccmp.org > > >4 feet of 10 AWG oxygen free copper wire connecting to 14 AWG house wiring >back to the distrubution panel. Why not some 1/2" gold-plated copper >tubing in a fused quartz box filled with argon for the absolutely best AC >sound? Wonder if folks know how noisy the average AC mains supply is? Anyone care to hazard what Oxygen Free Copper Wire is? "It's copper free of the cupric oxide dipole pairs that can cause unwanted rectification and attended mixing of signals resulting in added intermodulation distortion." B#))$^!t (a form of bovine excrement). We did this as a result of the above quote from "The Audio Expert". I did not doubt that said expert was just repeating what he's heard with zero understanding. I actually managed to get a piece of the stuff from the resident audiophile. My boss heard that and as a result of his engineering expertize in materials and my major eye roll and grimace we sent it off with some similar copper wire of the same guage from a local source to a materials lab for analysis. Since the company was in the business or using wire of all types as part of the product there was significant expertize available to analyse the result. Findings were the generic #6 and the OFCW got mixed up that the assay of both looked the same. Not similar, the same as nothing to distinguaish any difference. One came from local hardware store. Owing to the price difference we laughed very hard at the so called audiophilic inane beliefs. Quality copper wire is nominally oxygen free or it would show a distinct resistance variation from standard. Another easy test is to take a known length, measure the resistance at a easily calibrated standard temperature (ice water). Then raise the temperature (boiling water) to a new known point and remeasure with accurate milliohmmeter. Calculate the alpha (rate of change in resistance over temperature) pure copper has a known alpha and they will be the same to meaurement limits. If they differ it's due to impurity in the copper, plating if any (silver is commonly used for TFE coated wires, Nickel is common too) or it's not plain copper (copper clad steel). It's not rocket science. Allison

18 years, 9 months

Orbis

by Billy.Pettit＠wdc.com

ROBO5.8 wrote: Hi Thom, I don't know where you can find Orbis drives. But if they are the original style single sided drives then you can also look for Remex 8" drives. Remex manufactured paper tape readers and punches and then branched out into Floppy drives. They purchased units from Orbis and relabled them at the time. ROBO Remex also made a series of drives using a plastic base casting. It was a legendary cost reduction and ensured that nobody else would make that same mistake again. The casting would shift enough in normal use to give constant read and write errors. It was a loser then and I doubt it has improved. In my opinion, using Remex with valuble data is where you want to stop being "original or authentic" in your restoration. Install another vendor or don't use Remex for real data. You can use it to make the disk go around, but even just spinning the disk made wierd schreeching noises. In all my testing, I never found one that could read its own written disks more than a few days. It was one of the worst drives ever made and deservedly died an early death. Billy

18 years, 9 months

DEC RX180 dual floppy?

by ajp166＠bellatlantic.net

> >Subject: Re: DEC RX180 dual floppy? > From: Wai-Sun Chia <waisun.chia at gmail.com> > Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 23:58:16 +0800 > To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org> > >On 10/17/05, Allison <ajp166 at bellatlantic.net> wrote: >> RX180 is for the DEC Robin AKA Vt180 CP/M system (looks like a VT100). >> >> The drives however are generic SA400L or TM100 40 track single sided. >> There is no internal controller, has a nice power supply however. > >Could I connect it to other systems than the Robin? >If so which controller? There is nothing special about the RX180. It's only a DEC styled box with a power supply and two drives. Yes, any system. Any controller. The drives are generic 40tr 5.25" single sided and work ad single, double density as well as hard sector. I've used them with Robin, NorthStar*, TRS80, AmproLB, homebrew (765based) and PCs. Allison

18 years, 9 months

DEC RX180 dual floppy?

by ajp166＠bellatlantic.net

> >Subject: DEC RX180 dual floppy? > From: Wai-Sun Chia <waisun.chia at gmail.com> > Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 22:00:07 +0800 > To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org> > >Hello, >Was wondering which systems can you hook up a RX180 dual floppy unit with? >Which controllers can you match it up with? RX180 is for the DEC Robin AKA Vt180 CP/M system (looks like a VT100). The drives however are generic SA400L or TM100 40 track single sided. There is no internal controller, has a nice power supply however. Allison

18 years, 9 months

DEC RX180 dual floppy?

by waisun.chia＠gmail.com

Hello, Was wondering which systems can you hook up a RX180 dual floppy unit with? Which controllers can you match it up with?

18 years, 9 months

Need Silent 700 schematic

by CPUMECH＠aol.com

What specific model do you have? TI has many models of silent 700 series. The silent series is because it uses a thermal printhead.

18 years, 9 months

Utterly OT: mobile FTP to Yahoo web hosting

by news＠computercollector.com

Since this is so off-topic, please send replies to me only, NOT to the whole list. The problem: I've got a program called VFS-FTP on my Treo 650 (PalmOS 5.x) smartphone. I know it works because I connected to various FTP servers and successfully download and uploaded files. When I try connecting to my web hoster (Yahoo Small Business), I get an error message saying "server did not respond in time" -- this is before the login stage, I think. As you can guess, Yahoo's tech support was a waste of my time. All they said is "our server works" and that they have no higher-tier support for FTP. Bastards. I made sure the FTP client is in "passive" mode and I set the time-out for a very high amount, 120 seconds, although I don't think that is part of the problem. Any suggestions please? Or can anyone suggest a more powerful FTP client for PalmOS? (There aren't any additional config options to pick in this one.) I really need to get mobile FTP working; this isn't just an experiment. Thanks in advance, Evan ----------------------------------------- Evan Koblentz's personal homepage: http://www.snarc.net Computer Collector Newsletter: http://news.computercollector.com Mid-Atlantic Retro Computing Hobbyists & Museum: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/midatlanticretro/

18 years, 9 months

FW: LARGEST COMPUTER COLLECTION IN THE WORLD (?) FOR SALE

by Rinaldo.Eversdijk＠stork.com

Hoi Nico, Ik zit nu al een poosje via het forum aangesloten op alle gerelateerde mail, maar weet niet meer hoe en waar ik mezelf kan uitloggen om van deze mail replies af te komen! Weet jij misschien hoe dit moet, ik krijg nu elke dag meer dan 100 mails waar ik niks meer mee doe! M.vr.gr. Rinaldo -----Original Message----- From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Nico de Jong Sent: zaterdag 15 oktober 2005 10:18 To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: FW: LARGEST COMPUTER COLLECTION IN THE WORLD (?) FOR SALE Fra: "Nico de Jong" <nico at farumdata.dk> > > Hallo Jos > > Wat is de volle naam van die newsgroup? Ik kan 'm bij mijn provider niet > onmiddellijk vinden > > Nico > Begging your pardon. This should have been off-list -------------------------------------------------------------------------- DISCLAIMER: This e-mail and any attachment(s) sent with it are intended exclusively for the addressee(s), and may not be used by, opened by, passed on to, or made available for use to, any person other than the addressee(s). Stork rules out any and all liabilities resulting from any electronic transmission.

18 years, 9 months

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test-drb October 2005