test-drb February 2006

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by marvin＠rain.org

Interesting FYI ... Like anyone who has been around the early days of micro HDs, I have heard HDs make an attention getting squeal. After a while, we knew/found out that it was caused by the grounding spring on the bottom of the drive, and bend it out of the way. In glancing through some old Compaq Service Bulletins, I saw IN PRINT that the fix was to remove the grounding strap with the comment that the drive is adequately grounded though other contact points.

18 years, 10 months

need docs and warez for IBM System/23 Datamaster (5322)

by chrism3667＠yahoo.com

good luck I know. Maybe someone could at least tell me how to get into the BASIC interpreter (if it really has one). Does this thing really have an 8085? Maybe I have to look again. Neither I nor the bloke who gave it to me could find it. Certainly has alot of strange looking IBM house #ed chips. I hate proprietary ****. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

18 years, 10 months

"my books" web site?

by legalize＠xmission.com

Does anyone know of a web site with a full ISBN catalog of books where you can build a "my books" collection? I'm thinking of something similar to the "My Movies" section of <http://www.imdb.com> or the "DVDs I Own" section of <http://www.tvshowsondvd.com>. Amazon gives you a checkbox that says "I own it", but no way to list all the books you've marked as such. I think they only use this for product suggestions and don't let you build a collection list on their site. There seem to be software products devoted to book collectors, but I'm looking for something really simple. Any suggestions? -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline"-- code samples, sample chapter, FAQ: <http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/> Pilgrimage: Utah's annual demoparty <http://pilgrimage.scene.org>

18 years, 10 months

WTD: Card separators/risers

by marvin＠rain.org

One thing that I've seen used for separating cards are wire-wrap pins. For what you are doing, it sounds like they would work quite well ... assuming you can solder them in place. If not, what about plastic or aluminum standoffs available at most any electronics supply place? > Does anyone in this group have four 9/16" risers that they'd like to sell > or trade me? I actually found two in my supplies, but I need four of the > same height. If anyone would like a picture to get a better idea of what I > need, let me know via private email. > > Bill Degnan >

18 years, 10 months

Japan bans old electronics

by r_a_feldman＠hotmail.com

This was reported on the HPLX mailing list: >from http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/22/japan-bans-old-electronics-as-of-april-1/ <quote> It seems that Japan's government revised its "Electrical Appliance and Material Safety Law" back in April 2001, and added a stipulation that items authorized under the country's old law (the "Electrical Appliance and Material Control Law") couldn't be sold anymore, but granted those products a five-year grace period. Well, if you check your convenient wall calendar, you'll see that the five-year period is about to end, which means that as of April 1, pretty much any electronic gear sold before April 1, 2001 can't be legally resold in Japan. </quote> There are some loopholes mentioned. Bob

18 years, 10 months

VAXstations in London

by compoobah＠valleyimplants.com

>I would be most interested in one, but it's over a decade since I last >even /saw/ a VAXstation. I've no idea how to choose the most powerful >out of that lot! It depends what you want to run on them, too. The /76 won't run Ultrix, and mine is a bit flakey with NetBSD (haven't managed to get it completely installed with either 2.0 or 3.0 without crashes and weirdness). VMS runs great, though. (I have v7.2 on mine, the only problem with the hobbyist distro is that the 5.0 UCX on the Hobbyist V2 CD doesn't properly do Telnet. Don't know how well 7.3 works on VS3100 with 16 MB). The /76 also is the smaller case (like the /30). The plus with a Unix is that you can use > 1 GB disks with a < 1GB root partition O.K. I have a 2 GB drive running VMS with crossed fingers, supposedly there is a way to turn off crash dumps but I haven't found it yet. The VS3100 has a DA15M connector for video that looks a bit like a ERGO but is not, you'll need an adaptor at least. Base 3100/76 video is B&W unless you have the SPX option. You also need a LKA-type keyboard and VX-type mouse. SW3 can be flipped to put the console on the printer port, though. Remember it has the bizarre SCSI connector on the back (SUN SL-CD/XM-4101 drives work for install, though, and are easy to move around). Nice little boxes, though.

18 years, 10 months

bogus auction for Altair system on eBay

by compoobah＠valleyimplants.com

>Is this why there are some sellers on ebay that are absolutely hostile >to anything paypal? I even had one seller that would only accept >paypal coupled to a bank account, not a credit card (although how they >could tell I don't know). In the second instance, it was probably because (AFAIK) PayPal nicks you a chunk of change per transaction if you accept credit card based payments. First instance is probably because they are reticent about giving a corporation permission to muck about in their bank accounts.

18 years, 10 months

C Compilers for (MS)DOS

by RMeenaks＠olf.com

Watcom C is available which is pretty good. You can also get GCC for DOS as well... Ram > -----Original Message----- > From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org > [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Jules Richardson > Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 6:16 PM > To: cctalk at classiccmp.org > Subject: C Compilers for (MS)DOS > > > > What's the state of play regarding DOS C compilers? I might > have a need to do > some DOS-based C development work - are there any > good-but-free DOS compilers > about? > > I did have Turbo C on tape, but I haven't tried to read those > tapes in years > and wouldn't hold out much hope of them still being intact... > > ta > > Jules > >

18 years, 10 months

Ebay "Funnies"

by marvin＠rain.org

Ok, I'll admit it ... I have a perverted sense of humor :). Some number of years ago, I acquired some Hexadaisy circular calculators and sold them on ebay (IIRC about $20.00 each.) I just did a search for "Hexadaisy" on Google and found someone had taken my original description and picture and put it up on their website. I don't have a problem with this, but I do find it funny!

18 years, 10 months

Older Monitors

by chrism3667＠yahoo.com

many 16 inch and larger monitors from that era were oem-ed by Sony. I used to find them at TCF for as little as $10 in the mid 90s. The one favorite of mine was the GDM-1932 IIRC, which was Sonys house number, but had an IBM monniker. I never had an issue with them. Not as radiation compliant and certainly more power hungry then a newer model, but the thing had a date code of 1988! Havent pulled them out in a while but I still have 2. --- cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org <teoz at neo.rr.com> wrote: > A thread was started on a forum I frequent about people matching up monitors > with the equipment they collect. I have a few Commodore monitors with my > Amigas, the correct Apple monitor for my IIgs and Atari monitor for my > 1040STF but I could never find a decent working larger monitor for my > vintage 68K Macs. The question I have is do the 19"+ Supermac/Radius type > monitors have such a bad design that they lasted only a few years? How do > early 1990's monitors of that size compare to the monitors that came before > and after them? Also larger older monitors seem to use up quite a bit more > electricity and generate quite a bit of heat (maybe thats why they didn't > last), do you guys have issue with older monitors? > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

18 years, 10 months

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test-drb February 2006