>
>Subject: Re: Lost Projects
> From: Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk>
> Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2005 15:44:58 +0000
> To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
>
>On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 11:11 -0400, John Allain wrote:
>> This thought crossed my mind many moons ago offline,
>> here it is on-list.
>>
>> If the amount of lost time spent reading offtopic and other
>> time wasting threads is were counted up
>>
>> assume
>> 800 readers, 100 full-time, 700 part time
>> 80+ posts a day, 30,000 a year
>> 1 second to read a header, 10 seconds to skim a post
>> 1/3 of posts off-topic and other
>>
>> then time wasted is
>> 100 x 1/3 x 30,000 x 10 / 3,600 ~= 2,800
>> +700 x 1/3 x 30,000 x 1 / 3,600 ~= 1,900
>> = 4,700 = 2 1/3 man-Years wasted
>
>Don't we all just look at the subject line and ditch messages that
>aren't of interest to us (OT or just not something that suits our
>individual tastes)?
>
>Plus, didn't you miss out days in the above calculation? Even assuming
>the ten second part is correct, isn't it:
>
> 100 x 1/3 x 30,000 x 10 / 3,600 ~= 2,800 hours
> +700 x 1/3 x 30,000 x 1 / 3,600 ~= 1,900 hours
>
> = 4,700 hours = 196 man-days (approx 1/2 man-year)
>
>I think that's an order of magnitude less than time spent in the
>bathroom... :-)
>
>cheers
It's enough that I used a lightweight fast mailer that only gets headers
so I can mark them for deletion. There is a fair amount of junk traffic.
At some point I plan to move to CCtech as I understand on topic is a rule
and the traffic lower.
Allison
I am on the fence with this one -
I recently obtained a PDP-8/e with a DF/DS32 fixed disk pair and an
ASR-33, with two H960 racks, and I am thinking of selling it. I am not
sure about it - I sold most of my PDP-8s a few years back, and somewhat
regretted it, but times have changed, I need space and soforth.
Interested parties can contact me offlist and convince me that I do not
need this stuff.
I am pretty darn certain one of the racks (sorry, no sides) HAS to go, so
if someone local (10512) needs a rack REALLY cheap...
Will "shutting up about cameras" Donzelli
aw288 at osfn.org
I'm trying to set up a drive to work on my recently-acquired UC07 SCSI
controller. It's in a PDP 11/23 PLUS.
So far I have tried 3 drives:
Seagate ST32105N, 2.15GB
DEC RH31K-AW (Quantum, unknown model), 1.07GB
Quantum LP105S, 105MB
Here are the results:
Seagate disk: Recognized, fails firmware format
DEC disk: Recognized, seems to format successfully in firmware, fails RSTS/E
DSKINT
Quantum disk: Works fine, no problems.
So I know my controller is working. All I really want to do is have about
500MB available to manipulate. I tested with the 100MB disk so I could make
sure it worked.
I have a second related question - What are the MEDIA IDs for? i.e. 0-RA81,
1 - RA82, 3 - RA90, 4 - RA91, 5 - RA92, 6 - RD54. The only place I see this
doing anything is in HARDWR LIST, and it will show whatever media ID you
pick.
If I could get the space/functionality of an RA81 or 82 on this machine,
that would be great. Can someone help me out?
Thanks
Julian
.
Hi Everyone,
I'm in need of a QBUS tape controller for a Pertec drive that does at least
1600BPI. Looking to pay ~$15 for it, as that's about all I can afford.
Email me if you think you can help me out ;)
Julian
I'm trying to set up a drive to work on my recently-acquired UC07 SCSI
controller. It's in a PDP 11/23 PLUS.
So far I have tried 3 drives:
Seagate ST32105N, 2.15GB
DEC RH31K-AW (Quantum, unknown model), 1.07GB
Quantum LP105S, 105MB
Here are the results:
Seagate disk: Recognized, fails firmware format
DEC disk: Recognized, seems to format successfully in firmware, fails
RSTS/E DSKINT
Quantum disk: Works fine, no problems.
So I know my controller is working. All I really want to do is have
about 500MB available to manipulate. I tested with the 100MB disk so I
could make sure it worked.
I have a second related question - What are the MEDIA IDs for? i.e.
0-RA81, 1 - RA82, 3 - RA90, 4 - RA91, 5 - RA92, 6 - RD54. The only place
I see this doing anything is in HARDWR LIST, and it will show whatever
media ID you pick.
If I could get the space/functionality of an RA81 or 82 on this machine,
that would be great. Can someone help me out?
Thanks
Julian
.
Whoohoo!
Finally, I will get to play with my HP A700 again! After it mouldering in my
"oop north" shed for a couple of years, the A700 is to be reunited with me
"dahn saahf". Question is, what - if anything - can I do with it? I don't
mind if it's just messing around with some assembler/interpreted basic/etc.,
but I haven't the first clue about what's installed on it or anything. All I
can tell you is it has 1024KB of memory...
I no longer have any HP terminals, and none of the 3 I did have worked in
any particularly meaningful way - the closest I got was a bootup screen,
which can be seen here:
http://www.classic-micros.co.uk/hp1000/r1024x768/A700BootScreen.JPG
Or even bigger, here:
http://www.classic-micros.co.uk/hp1000/r1600x1200/A700BootScreen.JPG
However, nothing worked on the keyboard, so I couldn't get any further
testing.
So, does anyone have any clues as to what I need to do to get the beast
talking?
Inside the top cabinet, we have this view:
http://www.classic-micros.co.uk/hp1000/r1024x768/A700TopOpen.JPG
Bigger version (1600x1200) here:
http://www.classic-micros.co.uk/hp1000/r1600x1200/A700TopOpen.JPG
At the very bottom, you can see the serial comms cable coming out of the
floor (the machine is in the lower portion of the cab), which comes round to
the front of the serial panel next to the "0" connector. Connected to the
"0" connector was the HP terminal pictured in the boot screen. I don't
recall getting any life at all out of the other connectors.
I will be able to post exact part numbers next week, but if anyone has any
idea how a DB25 connector should be wired to allow a dumb terminal (probably
AbsoluteTelnet on my PC) to talk to it? Should I optoisolate my PC from the
HP - I wouldn't want to fry either of them, but my PC in particular, as I
need it every day, sadly).
Other pix (all of which have been seen here before) can be viewed here:
http://www.classic-micros.co.uk/hp1000
This includes 2 HP1000F series machines, one of which I hope will join the
A700 in the fairly near future.
Cheers,
Ade.
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Roger Merchberger wrote:
>> there are a few contraptions out there by which you
>> can connect a CF or SD card to a Commodore 64,...
>
> Not to mention the Tandy Color Computer:
Okay, now I've got to ask: Anything like this for a 1981 8088 PeeCee?
--
Jim Leonard
For newer PCs, try this:
http://www.pcengines.ch/cflash.htm
Good board. We use a lot of them for testing our 1" drive.
Billy
Hi Everyone,
I'm in need of a QBUS tape controller for a Pertec drive that does at
least 1600BPI. Looking to pay ~$15 for it, as that's about all I can
afford.
Email me if you think you can help me out ;)
Julian
>From: "Jules Richardson" <julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk>
>
>On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 11:32 +0200, Jochen Kunz wrote:
>> The question is not analog vs. digital photography. The question is when
>> to use what of those two mediums. They are entirely different mediums,
>> each with its special strengths and weakneses.
>
>One thing I found when travelling is that it's much nicer to have a
>conventional analogue film camera vs. digital. It's easy to get hold of
>film (and batteries if needed) pretty much anywhere, but with digital
>you have to worry about being able to recharge the camera batteries,
>finding somewhere to download data off the camera every so often (or
>take enough CF cards with you to cover the amount of photos you're
>likely to take) etc.
>
>cheers
>
>Jules
>
Hi
I have a Canon D10. I like being able to snap
10 or 20 pictures of a child in action and not
worry about wasting film. I don't recall the
exact count but it does 2 or 3 a second.
Each is sharp enough for a 8x10.
The D20 is even better but wasn't out when I
bought the D10.
Unlike most digitals, it can be run on full
manual, semi-auto or full auto.
Dwight
just look at a platinotype or gold-toned printing-out paper print- the
richness of the print will just bowl you over. Wanted to try them for
years but don't have the equipment.
