Anyone know the format of ".tap" files found on
www.bitsavers.org/bits/... ?
I'm assuming these files somehow encode block lengths
and file marks. I'll try to noodle it out, but would
appreciate any tips as well.
Best,
John Sambrook
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I have a Sony Vio laptop and it has one partition on it, one 4 gig and
1 gig of unassigned space. (was assigned as drive "D" but I
unassigned it thinking I could add it to "C"...of course, I couldnt)
Windows XP is installed on the 4 gig partition and the remaining 1 gig
is un assigned.
BUT...no mater what I do when it boots it has Sony Vio logos and if I
look at the directorys I find a bunch of crap that was left over from
the days when it was running a Sony derivitave of Win ME. Lots of ISP
advertisements desquised as optional ways to connect to the internet.
(I use a Sprint cell phone and Sprint software to connect to the
internet and dont need ANY ISP or phone line methods of connection and
would love to get some more space by deleting them. I cannot delete
the directorys because they are protected. If I could just erase the
unused directorys I would be happy but also just cleaning the whole
thing off and installing XP would be fine to since there is nothing on
that drive that I need. I cannot delete IE and that takes up a bunch
of room. I use Netscape and IE is an abomination I need to be rid of.
I want to clean that damned thing completely off and reinstall XP.
The version of XP that I have is the Home edition UPGRADE.
I dont know what I need to put on there first to get the upgrade to
work but I have ME Upgrade and WIn 98 and WIn 3.1. Usually just
starting from 3.1 and upgrading step by step works but I cant get this
damned Sony crap off the HD and it takes up over 2 gb of HD space.
Any help would be appreciated, even if it is to tell me that Sony
fixed it so their crap must stay, at least then I would quit trying to
recover the lost space.
--
Jim Isbell
"If you are not living on the edge, well then,
you are just taking up too much space."
W5JAI
UltraVan #257
CAL - 27 #221
>From: "Vintage Computer Festival" <vcf at siconic.com>
>
>All but the big Motorola chip are soldered in.
>
Hi Sellam
I know you are not going to put a lot of effort into
it but the obvious thing would be to swap the part
with the known good unit. This will tell you if it
is the chip or something else.
Also, have you removed the chip and put some contact
enhancer on it?? ( You know, some silicon grease )
Dwight
>If I format a floppy in my ST and save files to it, I can read it in my PC
>without too many problems - however, files copied to the floppy from the PC
>would quite often not read right in the ST. I don't know if it was
>timing/interleave issues, or if there were bytes in the FAT which the ST
>considered optional that the PC required (or vice versa)...
The general advice is to format in the peecee. That's what I've always done,
and never had any troubles.
Here's a list of some DEC cards that I picked up today. If anyone is
interested make an offer via direct E-mail. As noted all of them have the
proper cable, connector and mounting plate.
A8000 ADV11-C Q 16-channel 12-bit Analogue-to-Digital
Converter with cable, connector and mounting panel.
A6006 AAV11-C Q 4-channel, 12-bit Digital-to-Analogue
Converter with cable, connector and mounting panel.
M9404 and M9405YB with connecting cables.
M3104 DHV11-A Q 8-line Asynchronous Multiplexor, with DMA
with 2 cables, 8 connectors and 2 mounting panels.
M8634 IEQ11-A Q DMA version of IEEE(GPIB) interface with 2
cables, 2 GPIB connectors and mounting panel.
M4002 KWV11-C Q Programmable Real-Time Clock.
M7555 RQDX3 Q MFM Winchester and floppy disk controller
(RX50/RX33/RD50-54/RD31/RD32/RD33).
M9047 Q Grant continuity (also M9047-SA, -SF)
M7606-EF KA630-AA Q As far as I can find out this is a MicroVAX
II CPU w/1-Mbyte, floating point, time of year clock, boot/diagnostic ROM,
Q22 with cables and control panel.
M7609-AP MS630-CA Q As far as I can find out these are 8-Mbyte
parity 36-bit RAM for KA630 (MicroVAX II) (2 cards and interconnecting
cable).
Joe
Has anyone got PC User magazine from June or July of 1995? Looking to
buy. Please contact me directly if you've got them.
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The saga continues...
Got the system running finally, but now I can't get the TK50 tape drive
to work. Have checked the cabling, reseated everything, and even tried
a different TQK50 controller. Have tried the following from VMS 5.1:
$ RUN SYS$SYSTEM:SYSGEN
SYSGEN> SET NOAUTOCONFIG 0
SYSGEN> AUTOCONFIGURE ALL/SELECT=(PT)
(at this point the system hangs... same if I omit the /SELECT, and the
only way I can get out of it is to halt the system from the console.)
Here's what the system is showing:
Welcome to VAX/VMS version V5.1
Last interactive login on Thursday, 10-MAR-2005 10:27
$ SHOW DEV
Device Device Error Volume Free Trans
Mnt
Name Status Count Label Blocks Count
Cnt
DUA0: Mounted 0 VMSRL5 184419 94
1
Device Device Error
Name Status Count
OPA0: Online 0
TXA0: Online 8
TXA1: Online 0
TXA2: Online 0
TXA3: Online 0
TXA4: Online 0
TXA5: Online 0
TXA6: Online 0
TXA7: Online 0
Device Device Error
Name Status Count
PUA0: Online 1
Thanks in advance!
John P. Willis
To all, I have taken a position with a new company and will be closing
down my warehouse. Any one interested in my entire inventory or at least
the board inventory (4000 + DEC and VAX) please let me know. I am in
Melbourne, FL and all are welcome to come visit, or call me at
321-768-0006. THANK YOU ALL for your past support.
Regards,
Thom
Hey all!
I am beginning to write a simulator for a "microcomputer", it will
feature a
curses (terminal) front panel. it will be a 12 bit machine. You will be
able to
issue commands to the simulator without stopping the program (for
mounting
virtual paper tapes, printing to files etc)
Shown on the front panel will be a switch register, an Accumulator and
the
program counter (all 12 bit) a "running" light and a Overflow light.
Insert = sw -> pc home = sim command Pgup = examine
([pc] -> sw
delete = (deposit) sw ->[pc] end = halt pgdn = run
Obviously a 12 bit computer suggests a PDP-8, but the function keys are
going
to be the "bit flip" front panel keys and they are grouped in three
sets of
four. I am not against a PDP-8 but it's instruction set is better
expressed
in octal right?
Were there any other 12 bit computers? preferably with Hex friendly
instruction sets?
Operational choices - should examine increment PC?, should deposit?
I am open to other meanings of the operation keys... they are arranged
as above on
my thinkpad.
The program will be written in C.
