A quick question about the Mac G3, if you'll forgive it being not yet
on-topic. Feel free to reply off-list to avoid rampant topic drift...
Does anyone here know about the internals of the G3 line? I have a
motherboard in front of me that I'm attempting to see if it will work.
It came from a machine that had already been stripped, so there's no
guarantee the hardware is functional. With the Apple Reset/NMI board
installed, and RAM, and the Apple-enhanced ATI Rage 128 video card,
I've attempted to see if it works by plugging in a PC ATX power supply
and pressing the "power on" button on the motherboard and on the
Reset/NMI board. I get a brief green flash from several LEDs, but the
PSU doesn't kick on the fan, and the machine does not appear to be
starting.
Do I need an Apple ATX supply to test this? Could this be a battery
problem? (the battery was completely dead and I have no handy
replacement, so the battery compartment is empty)
Do I need to have a keyboard and mouse plugged in to get a response?
Thanks for any tips.
-ethan
Someone alerted me to this site tonight where they copied about 1,000 words
straight from my web page.
http://www.industryplayer.com/licenceinfo.php?licid=014060
In the "license research report" section, everything up to the Newton
paragraph is plagiarized from my site.
There is a link at the bottom of the page but there's no explanation to
visitors about which facts came from which sites. It's one thing to quote a
sentence or to set off a block paragraph, but blatantly copying 1,000 words
pisses me off so much. They took some pictures as well which aren't mine,
but which I had explicit permission from their owners to use.
Also at the bottom, it says "researched by..." -- they call a simple Google
search and cut-and-paste session "research" these days? That's pathetic.
I will try contacting the site owners with my complaint. Hopefully it wil
get rectified like last time.
I find it difficult to distinguish some cctalk messages from spam. The
From: could be anyone, and the Subject: is not always technical enough
to recognize. Could your mailer add '[cctalk]' to every subject, if it
is not already there? This would also enable a filter to send the
message to a cctalk folder. It's a technique that I have seen with
other e-mail lists, and I like it.
--
Dick Hadsell 914-259-6320 Fax: 914-259-6499
Reply-to: hadsell at blueskystudios.com
Blue Sky Studios http://www.blueskystudios.com
44 South Broadway, White Plains, NY 10601
Hi all
We frequently talked about a conversion service, where those having the
proper drives, could help amateurs / museums in preserving / conserving
their data.
Before I incorporate this page in my normal web site, I'd like to hear
comments, and where possible the names/websites of others who are
interesting in helping our community.
The way I see it, this page should only refer to relevant parties, who then
(on their own website) can have a description of what they can be of
assistance with.
Please take a look at http://www.farumdata.dk/uk/enmuseum.asp I would
appreciated your comments
Nico
After watching an 800MHz P3 system build Gnome (and its dependent packages)
on a NetBSD system, I got to wondering how usable NetBSD is on older slower
hardware, such as MicroVAX II.
If you want to build Perl or X or the kernel, what do you do? Start the
make and come back in a week?
Cheers,
Chuck
Hello, ive found yours posts on some discussion board in internet.
http://archive.netbsd.se/?ml=cctech&a=2002-12&t=153839#
I need software (inverse assemblers, os etc.) for hp16500A could you send all you have to me ? Please.
regards
LB
> Solaris 9 is the last version to run on all 64-bit Ultras; Solaris 10 is
>very impressive from a networking and virtualization standpoint (plus
>ZFS kicks some serious ass) and is what you should be running if at all
>possible.
So where's your line between 9 and 10? I just moved from a U1 200E to a U10 333, and I stuck with
5.9 because I was concerned about usability on the U10.
>All other versions can hit the road for all I care (unless
>you need BSD SunOS 4.x for 1980s hardware).
4.1.1_U1 is definitely the one to use for Sun3, but I like 4.1.4 on
my IPX (Sun4c) as well. Never tried 2.5.1, but 2.6 was very slow.
All:
I'm replacing the fans in a dual 8" drive case. The case has two
distinct sections - the drive side and the power supply side - each with a
fan. On the power supply side, air is being pulled through the case and out
the back through a filter. On the drive side, the fan is the blowing in,
with no filter. The cover does not have any ventilation holes. It appears
that the fan on the power supply side is original but the other one was
installed later (based on the wiring and the model of fan).
Should the orientation of the fan on the drive side be changed?
I would think that cool air (although unfiltered) should be pulled through
the front of the drives and out the back.
Thoughts?
Rich
Rich Cini
Collector of classic computers
Lead engineer, Altair32 Emulator
Web site: <http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/~rcini/classiccmp/>
http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/~rcini/classiccmp/
Web site: http://www.altair32.com/
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Hi all
Sometimes I receive messagages like the one below.
I havnt sent anything recently, so I cant see why.
Could someone have sent some HTML, which is being bounced, but copied to
cctalk ?
What worries me, is the line X-RCPT-TO., Where could that come from ?
Nico
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I've got some equipment here that has RS422 serial on it - i.e. it uses
differential signal pairs rather than RS232's reference against ground.
Question is, can I wire up a cable so that I can use an RS232 terminal with
this RS422 equipment? (running over a short distance)
Looking at the schematics, I think it's possible, with signals mapping to:
RS422 RS232
RXD- GND
RXD+ RX
TXD- no connection?
TXD+ TX
CTS- GND
CTS+ CTS
BSY- no connection
BSY+ RTS
... but I don't know if I should ground TXD-, or indeed one web site I saw
suggested that TXD- should be used as the signal and TXD+ is actually the
reference. I suspect that one or other should be left floating and the other
pin of the pair forms the 'real' TXD in RS232-speak.
Obviously I need to swap signals for communications to work (RX -> TX, TX ->
RX etc.) :-)
CTS- and BUSY- aren't actually brought out to the comms port on the equipment
at all; CTS- is currently jumpered to ground internally, and BUSY- is left
floating and brought to a test point on the PCB.
RXD- is also currently jumpered to ground, which suggests that I can indeed
connect TX on the RS232 terminal to RXD+ on the equipment and expect that side
of things to work - I'm just not sure what I need to do with the TXD+/TXD-
signal pair (which one actually connects to RX on the terminal end)
(the actual comms chip is a 6551A, then the receiver for RXD and CTS is a
26LS32 and the driver for TXD and BSY is 26LS30)
cheers
Jules
