>From: "Ron Hudson" <ron.hudson at sbcglobal.net>
>>
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>>
>An If you have electric windows like my Saturn ION, you will need to
>break them.
>The motors may or may not work after being submerged.
>
>
Hi
It has been shown that the windows will work for several
minutes, even in salt water. You do have to remember to
not turn the ignition off while trying to get out of the car.
Dwight
> > > Not much different from a relay computer really, I suppose.
> > > Just slower.
> > > And more sandy.
> >
> > And relay computers don't like salt water, but administrators might.
> > Hmmm, seaside computing. I think we hit on something.
>
> I'm waiting for someone to invent a display that can be used
> in direct sunlight, so I don't have to work in what is
> affectionately called the 'coffin' aka 'caravan by the sea
> with windows blacked out'.
>
> When will that be...?
>
> Talk to me goose.
Done! See, that was easy.
Braille terminals. The have a bed of pins and set the state of each pin
(up or down) as needed. Or use a text-speech converter.
I helped a blind guy fix his computer once, he used a soundblaster and a
text-speech program. It "spoke" so fast I had no idea what it said but
he could follow it just fine.
John Foust <jfoust at threedee.com> wrote:
> [...] yet these same folk claim to be unable and
> unwilling to locate and revive a cast-off PC with sufficient power
> to run a contemporary web browser [...]
To me it is a matter of religion. I see the purpose of my life in not
using shitty "modern" technology, and I am ready to die for my cause and
to shed the last drop of my blood on the battlefield for it. But all you
miscreants who are busy making the world unfit for me to live in, I will
NOT give up without a fight! I have guns, and I *WILL* shoot at least
a bunch of you before I go down. Heck, my philosophy is that if I kill
at least ONE miscreant before I die, I will not have lived my life in
vain.
> phrase "Techno-Amish".
I've used it to describe myself a long time ago.
MS
Ok, since everyone seems to be in ancient PDP-11
troubleshooting mode, I decided to get out my 11/35
and see what I can do with it.
I've double checked all the processor options and
the CPU boards all seem to have the jumpers set
correctly. The only questionable jumpers are the
two jumpers that indicate parity memory is present,
but since the system seems to have some problems,
I've disconnected the M981 from the MF11-LP core
backplane and replaced it temporarily with an
M9302. There is also an M7800 console card in
the SPC slot.
I've checked all the voltages and they look ok.
When I power the system on, it comes up with the
following lights lit:
Address: 000026 (octal)
Data : 000002 (octal)
The PROC, BUS, and CONSOLE lights are also lit.
If I press HALT and then press START, all the
DATA lights come on. The RUN light also comes
on, along with the PROC, BUS, and CONSOLE lights.
The load address, deposit, and examine switches
don't seem to do anything, although I know they
are functional.
Ideas? Does anyone know what the ADDR 000026 and
DATA 000002 lights indicate when the system is
powered on?
Thanks,
Ashley
No you can't use a RLL with an MFM controller. Similar but not the same.
Run length limited verses modulated frequency.
I have an RLL controller laying around somewhere in an antistatic bag if he
is interested.
In case no one caught my previous post on this, a few days ago I moved the queue retention time back up to a reasonable value.
I suspect Michael Sokolov is testing this out for me, his name servers (and thus email) have been down a few hours.
And can we move on to classic computers now? I think we've beat all horses to death a few times ;)
Jay
I just got done watching the 1969 "The Italian Job". In it, the Turin,
Italy traffic system is controlled by a mainframe. All that was really
shown up close was a few tape drives. I paused, and advanced frame by
frame, but still had a hard time identifying the make. It looked like
the reals had a "H" printed on them. Would they have been HP drives? I
couldn't make out the plates on the very top of the racks.
FWIW, I liked the modern Italian Job better, although some of the cars
and scenery were pretty cool, in the old one.
Chad Fernandez
Michigan, USA
Well: I finally took a leap of faith, and bought an ASR-33 from someone
who wasn't anywhere near Seattle. After a previous (extremely bad)
Teletype shipping experience (read: TTY dumped in box and packing peanuts
poured on top; unit largely destroyed in transit; seller refused to
refund and claimed damage was somehow _my_ fault; story actually got
worse from there if you can believe that, but maybe that's enough for
now), it took a leap of faith to try buying another one I couldn't
personally pick up. But the seller took a _lot_ of extra care packing it,
including bolting the typing unit to the chassis, and wonder of wonders
it actually arrived completely intact. :)
But in spite of that it needs some help, so I thought I'd ask a couple of
questions here.
-The one big problem it has is its lack of a reader power supply. The last
owner got it from a government surplus program, but they neglected to
supply anything but the unit itself... and so no reader supply. Does
somebody have the schematic of one of these so I can build a new one?
(Better yet: does somebody have a spare one I can talk them out of for a
reasonable price?)
-I'm looking at some DEC diagrams saying how the ASR-33 gets modified for
use with a PDP-8 series interface (thanks once more to Mr. Kossow!). It
says two "6RS205P484 Thyractors DEC #1100106" should be added to the unit.
Okay, I admit it: I don't even know what the hell a "thyractor" _is_,
much less what ratings I should be looking for re: these two. Can
someone shed a little light on this?
-Right now the unit is doing a lot of chattering on both Line and Local
when powered on. Initially I thought something might be mechanically wrong
due to being shaken around in shipping, say one of the clutches on the
main shaft locking into an active position, but so far I haven't found a
culprit. I'm also wondering if I'm even looking in the right direction
for the problem, sooo here's the question: could the lack of a power
supply for the reader be causing this behavior? (The reader itself is
obviously inert right now, but I'm wondering if there's a missed
connection or somesuch which could explain it.)
...At some point I'll probably ask someone with a copyholder to take some
tracings and measurements for me so I can fabricate a new one, but maybe
I'll just see if I can get it working first. :)
-O.-
Anyone interested in an AT&T PC6300? No idea of the whereabouts. Contact
original sender. See below:
Reply-to: lkrupp at pssw.com
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 14:41:43 -0700
From: Louis Krupp <lkrupp at pssw.com>
To: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf at siconic.com>
Subject: AT&T PC 6300, AT&T CRT 318H
Any use for an AT&T PC 6300 and an AT&T CRT 318H?
Louis
