David Griffith wrote:
> Gun shops sell plastic bags designed to deal with this kind of problem
> with firearm storage. Dessicant packets are also available.
Be aware that some gun-storage bags are designed to deposit a
corrosion-resistant film on the contents by means of a chemical-
impregnated liner, card, bag, or other insert. This would probably
mean death to a hard disk. These bags are usually marked as such, but
be careful.
There are many kinds of dessicant. Silica gel is the best for this
purpose, as far as I know. It's also possible to get packets of an
oxygen-absorbing material, usually used for food storage.
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Do temperatures need to be a concern when storing hard drives? I'm
looking at a temperature range for storage of about 50-110 (obviously
over the course of a year). I've been keeping my collection of
drives at home, but think it's about time to start thinking about
putting them into storage.
Zane
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- http://www.switchtech.us/PCmuseum.html
This is "SWITCHTECH'S VIRTUAL PC MUSEUM," which is interesting unless
it's been posted here hundreds of times before.. ;)
is anyone familiar with this devices? There seems to
have been a few on the market back in the day. Here
one on geekBay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=
005&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&viewitem=&item=
150125339517&rd=1&rd=1
Seems relatively simple: memory/buffer (as Tony Duell
described sometime ago), and other essential
(hopefully discrete) logic. Does anyone know of
schematics for any of these things? I suppose I could
figure out how to build one *eventually*, just seems
easier to mimic a known design, or at least to study one.
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On 5/28/07, Zane H. Healy <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
> While these will work, you need a way to format them. A VAXstation
> 2000, is a nice choice, if you can find one.
Just got one, actually...and it's got a working RD54 in it, too. Bonus!
My old uVax II (in BA23 case) has been sitting around idle for too
long and it's time to revive it or let it move on. Right now it's got
a TK50 or TK70 which works (can boot the diagnostic tape) and a flake
RD5x drive. After laughing at the prices the gougers on ebay want for
those drives, maybe it's time to shift gears and just go SCSI.
I think the qbus scsi card is the KZQSA, or are there others that will work?
Will the uVax just recognize the card and any scsi drive attached to
it, or will there be more configuration involved (particular slots,
firmware changes, etc?)
Anyone got one for sale?
Alternately, if I stay with the MFM controller I have now, will any
old MFM drive work, or must it be DEC branded (custom ROM on the
drive, maybe?)
Thanks in advance
-j
Hi,
> _If_ that PSU was easily available, I could agree with this. But
>it isn't. It's likely to take considerable time and effort to track
>one down, I think....
I don't know what the situation is in the US, but here in the UK I've come
across exactly *ONE* Apple /// in some 22 years of collecting....
I'd put his chances of sourcing a working replacement PSU these days at
ZERO.
TTFN - Pete.
Hi all,
spring cleaning again,
so, anybody in desparate need of some :
rainbows (for parts)
decstations,
vaxstations (3100/xxx)
terminals vt220, vt320 ...
PROs (325, 350 for parts ...)
BA23 boxes
9-track tape drives (ts05, ciphers)
Pickup only, please contact me off-list.
Stuff is in CO 80439
On 5/27/07, Zane H. Healy <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
>
> Not to mention that Apple ///'s are rare enough these days that I'd
> hate to see one sacrificed that another might live.
I'm not asking anyone to pull a PS from a working system. I'm hoping
someone has a service spare around or a /// with a bad motherboard or
something similar.
There's nothing wrong with taking two broken boxes and making one good
one out of them if that's possible.
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