o man thats cold
--- cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org <cisin at xenosoft.com>
wrote:
> > >> nit-picker. And how exactly does one pick a
nit?
> > > Nits are lice eggs. A very fine tooth comb will
do
> On Mon, 29 May 2006, Jules Richardson wrote:
> > a fine tool for combing your teeth? :-)
>
> actually, most flea and nit combs look exactly like
the comb like tool
> that Intel provides for removing Pentium. But the
Intel pins are larger
> than a normal flea or nit. I showed one to a dog
groomer; she said that
> it was "exactly the same, but this 'Intel' outfit
must be dealing with
> a lot of BIG bugs."
>
>
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Zane H. Healy wrote:
I also see that SATA-Firewire enclosures are available, I'll probably pick
one of those up one of these days, as going forward, SATA looks to be the
better choice.
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Better or not, most OEMs are driving hard to eliminate IDE. SATA gives a
reduction in cable costs, connector costs, test fixtures, etc. This can be
a big saving on a large array. Plus less physical cable space needed, and a
small but significant power savings in drivers. Finally, it gets rid of
some of the skew problems for parallel transfers as the speed ramped up. ATA
was getting so bad that cable length was only 8 inches at the highest
transfer speed.
Here at WD, many of our new generation products will be offered in SATA
only.
Whether USB is better/worse than Firewire - I tend to avoid religious
arguments. And interfaces are not static anyway. The portable device
market has lead to new generations of interfaces being created. CF+ and
CF-II are widely used. And in the background being prepped for the future,
CE-ATA, a simplied ATA (only 8 commands). And it has variations using MMC
as a physical layer, and new layers including 1, 4 and 8 bit serial
interfaces. Ain't life grand?
Billy
Thanks to someone on this list (sorry I can't remember who it was) who
enlightened me that Beehive OEM'ed their terminal to Cromemco, I was
finally able to get a Beehive terminal into my collection.
Its a Cromemco 3101 terminal in excellent cosmetic condition and
amazingly enough for a Beehive design, it still works. Because of the
cosmetic condition and the Cromemco labelling, I had to pay a premium
for it on ebay, but considering that I've yet to find anyone with a
working Beehive terminal in their collection I still consider myself
lucky in being able to find one.
If it weren't for this list, I would've remained ignorant of the
Beehive connection on this terminal and probably would have passed it
by.
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Hello,
I might be a little late with the answer but that tape cartridge is used to program the IBM Magnetic Tape Selectric Composer "MTSC" announced in 1967. This was a cold type printing machine which was quite advanced for it's time. I worked for IBM and serviced these machines.
Its nice to talk about the old days so let me know if there are any more questions, as long as I can remember the right answers.
Richard Silacci
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nah not more then I needed to know whatsoever. But
excuse me while I mop the rest of my lunch off the
floor...but yet the implications of the expression
seem negative. Now...I wouldnt know firsthand, but if
you were looking to get rid of lice, you would think
it would be expedient to get rid of every last one.
Hence a little nit-picking wouldnt necessarily be a
bad thing. One would think. But Im sure we can all
agree the undertaking would be a pretty lousy job LOL
LOL LOL LOL! O man. O my God...
--- cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org <cisin at xenosoft.com>
wrote:
> On Sat, 27 May 2006, Chris M wrote:
> > Sorry to be a
> > nit-picker. And how exactly does one pick a nit?
>
> Nits are lice eggs. A very fine tooth comb will do
(looks like, but is
> much finer tooth than the tool that intel gives away
to remove
> processors). When dogs start rapidly, even
frantically, diting at a spot
> of their fur, they may be nit-picking fleas.
>
> If that isn't more than you wanted to know about it,
. . .
>
>
>
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A good chunk of my collection of documentation will be going to a
"Historical Resource Center" (aka Library) that is being built in the area.
There is also a good chance that at least some of the hardware will
eventually go there as well. I'm currently planning on starting to clear
out some of the documentation starting tomorrow, as I desperatly need the
storage space. As they don't have a building yet, it will be moving from my
storage, to thier storage.
Does anyone have any advice as to what kind of stuff should and shouldn't be
in a "Computer History" section?
Zane
neither of you did. I had thought the correct
terminology was HDV. Could swear I had seen references
to that effect. My goof.
--- cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org
<healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
> You've got me confused, where do either I or the
original poster say HDV?
>
> HVD is High Voltage Differential SCSI, an "archaic"
form of SCSI that
> allows for greater cable lengths than standard SCSI.
I just retired
> a system where the HVD Jukebox sat about 50 feet
away from the Sun
> Ultra 2's it was connected to.
>
> Zane
>
> >isnt it HDV - High Differential Voltage. Sorry to
be a
> >nit-picker. And how exactly does one pick a nit?
> >--- cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org
> ><healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
> >> At 4:36 PM -0700 5/27/06, Don Y wrote:
> >> >I'm looking for two or three HVD wide SCSI SBUS
> >cards
> >> >to connect some storage arrays to an SS20.
Does
> >anyone
> >> >have any that they would care to part with?
> >>
> >> Depending on what OS you intend to use, you'll
want
> >to watch out for
> >> which cards you get. I know most of the ones we
> >used at work
> >> wouldn't work on newer than Solaris 2.6.
> >>
> >> Zane
> >>
> >>
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The "25 worst" list made me remember the Pereos tape drive--backed up about
1 GB (compressed) onto tiny postage-stamp sized tapes.
Here's one cheap on e-Pay:
http://tinyurl.com/pczbk
I first saw one of these things in 1994, when I was contacted by the
company to include support for the thing in one of our forensics products.
After 2 weeks of struggling to get it working so that I could actually read
tapes that were written by it at least some of the time, I sent the sample
unit back with a polite refusal.
For those collecting oddball vintage media, this definitely fits the bill.
One couldn't go to, say, Fry's and buy tapes for it either--you had to call
an 800 number and wait for Fedex to deliver them.
I think Datasonix sold these units up until about 1998.
Cheers,
Chuck
