I need to replace the battery in an item I have. It's the quartersized/style
one. The way it is attached to the board, is via a clip arrangement that
you'd swear makes the battery removable. However, it is in fact soldered or
spot welded into the clip somehow. As a result, I'd rather not just cut the
clip arms to replace the battery as I'd have trouble getting the new one in.
The only possibility I see is unsoldering the clip from the battery, but it
strikes me as a rather bad idea to put a soldering iron to a battery.
Suggestions?
Jay West
> Megan wrote:
> > Years ago, someone (I don't remember who) gave the definition of a
> > computer as a "device which inputs some stuff, does some stuff to
> > it, and outputs some other stuff".
>
> Eric Smith wrote:
> Which is presumably not actually very useful as a definition of a
computer,
> since a cow would qualify.
I was always under the belief that a 'computer' was originally a man (yes,
almost always a man) who performed computations using slide-rule, log
tables, pencil and paper. When I look up my Chambers Dictionary this
evening, I get the definitions:
"Compute: to calculate, especially with a computer; to estimate.
Computer: a calculator; a person who computes; a machine or apparatus,
mechanical, electric or electronic, for carrying out (especially complex)
calculations, dealing with numerical data or with stored items of other
information, also used for ..."
Which seems to me to be only one step removed from the apocryphal definition
in the mythical dictionary of computer terms:
"Recursion: see recursion."
Whatever definition you prefer,
"always remember that the computer is out to get you; the proof of this can
be seen every time it does exactly what you told it to do!"
Regards,
Brian M. Russell.
I'm not sure what Greg means about missing features- I have both SGI and PC
PS/2 keyboards, and I can't see much of a difference (the older SGI keyboards
are quite nice keyboards, though). In fact, a number of Indy-era keyboards
(newer granite) were made under contract by NMB, and, since they are "NetWare
approved" I don't think they made many changes from their PC keyboards.
-Scott Quinn
Attribution Error: Lyle replied about the 4D parts, Patrick was the one who
answered the RS/6000 question.
I obtained an IBM FS tool today at a hamfest - I do not know what it was
for. It contains an IBM 730T Thinkpad and a little printer. The Thinkpad
is a pen based machine, but GUESS WHAT IS MISSING.
So, if anyone has an IBM pen, I would like to talk to you.
William Donzelli
aw288 at osfn.org
>Subject: Re: rx01 w/o controller board
> From: Patrick Finnegan <pat at computer-refuge.org>
>On Wednesday 06 April 2005 03:50, Gooijen H wrote:
>> Hi Brad,
>>
>> the connection from the controller board (UNIBUS or QBUS) is a
>> straight cable AFAIK. The RX01 and RX02 exist as a table top box and
>> uses a DB25 connector to the controller.
>
>Not all RX01's have a DB25 to connect to the controller, on the ones I
>recovered with an 11/23 system (rackmount drives), there's just a
>ribbon cable connecting the two berg connectors on the controller and
>drive together.
The ones with DB25 were used with Decmate-1 all others only had a
ribbon cable exiting the box at a bracket to support the cable.
the DECmate-1 version FYI still has the same baords and cable
hookup internally so it is usable with any system (after setting
internal dipswitch).
Allison
I put up some pictures of the switch handles I have cast so far. (It will
be clear why I think they're not ready for prime time.)
http://so-much-stuff.com/pdp8/sw-handles.html
Vince
I just picked up a couple of
Toshiba PA8312U 2 MB memory cards, and
was wondering if they're useful in
anything other than an early Toshiba laptop?
At first I hoped they were some kind of Fujitsu-like
pre-PCMCIA card ... but they've got only one row of about
44 sockets, unlike a PCMCIA card with 2 rows of fewer
sockets (holes) per row.
Also, if anyone wants one (or more), I may be able
to get more of them.
thanks,
Stan
For a while, I saw www.sun3arc.org had downloads of SunOS for Sun3 machines.
They don't seem to be up now, but still have a DNS so I'm not sure what's up
there.
At introduction, LaserWriters had the interesting distinction of being more
powerful than the Mac that drove them.
I dimly remember this explanation of Resolution Enhancement (don't know if
it's marketer-speak or not): The printer only prints 300 (600, whatever) DPI,
but along the edges of curves those dots can be made smaller even though there
aren't any more of them. The result is smoother looking curves
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=1247&it
em=5181545036&rd=1
Odd - even the board artwork reads Bus Grantosaurus Rex. It looks like
someone made some custom PC Bus Grant boards and needed a laugh. Making
such a board at home would be a simple project.