test-drb March 2006

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by toresbe＠ifi.uio.no

Saw an interesting discussion about CD-ROMs with MSCP SCSI (YES, a CD-ROM ISO with XXDP would be truly awesome!) and this got me thinking about my own UC07 controller - if I've understood correctly, this controller does not support SCSI tape. I don't really know anything about MSCP or the SCSI command set that CD writers use - but could a CD-R(W) drive be used as a backup device? I know it's bad style to do backups on CD-R, but bear with me :) Also, now that I think about it, the perverse bugger that I am, could an MSCP controller send an Audio CD Play/Next Track/etc. command to the CD-ROM? Would be awesome to have a hifi controlled by the PDP-11. :) TIA, -toresbe

18 years, 2 months

Is www.teac.com gone?

by dwight.elvey＠amd.com

Hi I can't get www.teac.com. Is this gone?? Dwight

18 years, 2 months

good online sniper

by melamy＠earthlink.net

check out www.bidrobot.com they charge a flat subscription fee. You can spend as little or as much and it won't cost you anything but what ever you buy. best regards, Steve Thatcher At 04:57 PM 3/2/2006, you wrote: >eSnipe charges 1%. Most of my purchases are less that $100 so a few >cents for a service that allows me to do something else instead of >watching an auctio is worth it to me. To each their own.

18 years, 2 months

Gatorbox CS

by mloewen＠cpumagic.scol.pa.us

Does anyone have a Gatorbox CS for sale? Mike Loewen mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us Old Technology http://ripsaw.cac.psu.edu/~mloewen/Oldtech/

18 years, 2 months

[UCSDPascal] ? - what is the smallest machine running the P-system

by jfoust＠threedee.com

At 03:08 AM 3/3/2006, Willi Kusche wrote: > I did all my development on a Commodore 32K PET equipped with an S-100 buss >adaptor. The S-100 buss had a 32K RAM card and a Versafloppy disk controller >card connected to two 8 inch single sided single density drives. All the >source is on 8 inch disks. I still have the disks but the question now is, did >the disks keep? The system is still set up in the den but it's been years since >I've turned it on. Now, I'm afraid of what will happen if I try to power it up. Yes, the old capacitors in the power supply may have trouble. But the disks are probably OK. They used big, long-lasting bits back then. I am sure some of the folks on the Classic Computer Collector mailing list http://classiccmp.org/ can give advice about how to read those floppies. If the PET was just handing it sectors, it's just a matter of reading the raw sectors and then reassembling it into a disk image that could be handled by some other utility. - John

18 years, 2 months

HP 7906 disk drives available

by rigdonj＠cfl.rr.com

A friend of mine has three HP 7906 drives that he wants to get rid of. Two of the drives look complete and in very good condition, the third looks complete but is missing the front face plate. He's asking $50 each. They're in Sanford Florida and will need to be picked up in person. SHIPPING, STORAGE, DELAYS, ETC ETC ETC IS NOT AN OPTION! DON'T EVEN ASK. We've tried that before it didn't work! We'd like them gone ASAP!! If seriously interested call Art directly at (407) 402-6361. We do have a forklift, pallets, etc available so you can pack and load them but we're not going to spend our time doing it. We have too many other projects that we're already way behind on. Joe

18 years, 2 months

bogus auction for Altair system on eBay

by jack.rubin＠ameritech.net

I exchanged several emails today with an eBay seller offering an Altair system with disk drive for a starting bid of $2 in a one-day auction. This is a bogus offer - I became uneasy when the seller solicited an offline offer in response to a query about shipping but insisted on payment through Western Union rather than PayPal, even though the orginal auction listed PayPal as a preferred option. It is interesting to note that the auction I saw this morning (offered by seller DOCHANDS) was cancelled by eBay almost immediately but the _identical_ auction (same pictures and extensive text) is currently (2/21/06 @ 11:31 pm) being offered by two different sellers - as auction 6038449898 by GUNDAN760 and as auction 6038549050 by SHARISINA. It looks like the "seller" is hijacking legitimate eBay accounts to use as bogus fronts for his dealings. Caveat emptor. Jack -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.15.12/265 - Release Date: 2/20/2006

18 years, 2 months

Sirius 1 (aka Victor 9000) on Ebay (UK)

by chrism3667＠yahoo.com

what you get someone whos got everything else. Or at least every other IBM incompatible on the planet (ok Im not quite there). Also a must for the truly masochistic (gcr floppies). What every guru/sicko needs. Alas the shipping is prohibitive if youre on this side of the pond. --- Free_Software_for_DOS at yahoogroups.com <d_andrianov at mail15.com> wrote: > > I don't know if there is a mirror... But I have tried > downloading the files again and it works! Try > downloading later. By the way, the program is just a > much more functional version of GS which is already on > the Free Software For DOS website. > > Denis > > > > Short Stop's Pages <short_stop_for_software at yahoo.com>: > > > On 9 Feb 2006 Denis Andrianov wrote (snipped): > > > > > Tja, hier habe ich geplant, andere Programme zu > stellen, die > > > eventuell von Nutzen sind. Die kriegen allerdings > keine technische > > > Unterstützung* von mir. Aber ich freue mich > auf Bescheid, wie > > > das Programm bei dir funktioniert hat... and bugs, too! > > > > :) I recognized that broken German text, because... > > > > > Hi everyone. It has been very quiet lately on this > > > mailing list. Anyway, here is something interesting. A > > > new (2005) port of Ghostscript is now available for > > > DOS. ............ Please > > > add this link to the Free Software for DOS site: > > > http://www.caddit.net/programming.php. > > > > ... I've visited that site repeatedly since December, > and tried to > > download the Ghostscript binary and source packages, > but no luck - the > > server stops serving. I know for sure that's the > problem, because I get > > > > its timeout message, appended to the part of the ZIP > file that actually > > > > comes down the pipe. > > > > So until that problem gets fixed, and I can look the > program over, I > > can't recommend it in the Free Software pages. > > > > Denis - do you know if there is another download site? > > > > Peace, > > Steve @ Short.Stop > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam > protection around > > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Free_Software_for_DOS/ > > <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > Free_Software_for_DOS-unsubscribe at yahoogroups.com > > <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: > http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

18 years, 2 months

floptical drives

by danny＠bowers.abelgratis.com

Hi, Sorry to trouble you but I have found a 50 pin SCSI Insite I 325VM floptical drive amongst my Amiga bits. Can this read/write to Amiga 880K floppy disks please? What else can it do? Regards, Danny.

18 years, 2 months

Old Eprom Burner

by wallyc＠memex.ca

Hi Teo, Did you get any info on the Q-920. I also have one, without manual, and would like to get a manual too. Thanks Have a fantastic day. Kind regards, Memex Electronics Inc. Wally Cassell 777 Walkers Line Burlington ON Canada L7N 2G1 ph (905) 635-3040 fax (905) 631-9640 www.memex.ca sales at memex.ca --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.443 / Virus Database: 248 - Release Date: 1/10/2003

18 years, 2 months

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test-drb March 2006