Boeing Surplus has 2 7' Wightline Mag tape cabinets
with roll up door. Both look good for there age. If
anyone has a Need.
Priced @ 35.00 each
05-30-2007 1:00 PM
Jerry Wright
JLC inc
g-wright at att.net
Rumor has it that Ethan Dicks may have mentioned these words:
>I used a ~10-year-old Olympus recently for my EarthDial...
What's an EarthDial?
Awrighty, googling....
Some kinda flavour of Sundial device, hooked to a webcam &
Interwebitated... ;-)
http://www.planetary.org/programs/projects/earthdial/network.html
Is the Antarctic one yours?
> I don't know if
>it's easy to tell a "modern" camera to take a photo via USB, but all
>the ones I know of just treat the camera as an external storage
>device, not a scanner-like peripheral to be controlled.
Sorry for the offtopicness, but I believe it's a "fairly standard" function
of today's DSLRs - At least for my Nikon D70, it's called "tethered
shooting" or "tethered capture." IIRC (tho I've never done it) you can
either automate taking a picture to CF or directly down the USB to the
software that requested the shot. Bibble can do this with most cameras that
support it.
Gratuitous yet sucky attempt to bring this back:
View my digital photos of VCF-MW 2006!
http://zmerch.30below.com/vcf_mw_06/
[[ Sorry. I said it was sucky! ;-) ]]
Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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Rumor has it that Ethan Dicks may have mentioned these words:
>I used a ~10-year-old Olympus recently for my EarthDial...
What's an EarthDial?
Awrighty, googling....
Some kinda flavour of Sundial device, hooked to a webcam &
Interwebitated... ;-)
http://www.planetary.org/programs/projects/earthdial/network.html
Is the Antarctic one yours?
> I don't know if
>it's easy to tell a "modern" camera to take a photo via USB, but all
>the ones I know of just treat the camera as an external storage
>device, not a scanner-like peripheral to be controlled.
Sorry for the offtopicness, but I believe it's a "fairly standard" function
of today's DSLRs - At least for my Nikon D70, it's called "tethered
shooting" or "tethered capture." IIRC (tho I've never done it) you can
either automate taking a picture to CF or directly down the USB to the
software that requested the shot. Bibble can do this with most cameras that
support it.
Gratuitous yet sucky attempt to bring this back:
View my digital photos of VCF-MW 2006!
http://zmerch.30below.com/vcf_mw_06/
[[ Sorry. I said it was sucky! ;-) ]]
Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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zmerch at 30below.com. |
SysAdmin, Iceberg Computers
Patrick Finnegan asked:
They appear to have a Westinghouse (underlined W in a circle) logo on
them, next to a diode symbol marking polarity. Next to that is the
number "18840100" (part number?) and "8206" (date code?).
That part number could also be a house number. It sure looks like a Control
Data number. All of their components' part numbers for the small computers
started with 16 to 18 and were eight digit part numbers.
Billy
> What outfit first sold digital cameras where the sensor consisted of
> a cermet-package DRAM with the chip cover replaced by a piece of
> glued-on glass?
Micron
The product was called the "Micron Eye"
So, I 've got this IBM AT, which is strangely enough, fairly rare in its
currently equipped form (EGA, 30M HDD). I'd like to keep it original if
possible. There is a weird problem with the hard disk. When I turn the
machine on, the hard disk makes this 'CLOK' sound, like the head is trying
to retract or something but can't. When the machine tries to boot the hard
disk, it just sits there with the light on and then says it had a seek error
or could not detect the disk.
Any ideas what's wrong? Is it supposed to make that noise when you turn it
on? It's awfully loud.
Otherwise the platters spin freely and quietly, no bearing noise there.
There isn't a head lock on this drive is there?
Thanks
Julian
Now that the Vax is in the basement, I've been
cleaning and checking it out, trying to address what
problems I can. First and foremost, there is no key.
But, I found that I could pop out the control panel
>from behind, and that contains the actual turn switch
- the key is just the knob that turns the rotary
switch. My bright idea was to simply remove the key
mechanism for the moment, so that I could turn the
machine between modes with a modified television knob
or something. Simple - just remove a large hex nut
collar from the back, and slide it out. Unfortunately,
as it slid out, it ever so slightly caught the edge of
the plastic overlay for the control panel, and left a
little light colored mark around the bottom of the
hole where the overlay isn't sticking to the back
plastic, and has air under it. Nothing that affects
the functionality of the machine of course, but it
ticks me off, since I caused it. I can't think of a
way to fix it without causing more damage, however, so
I'll just have to live with it.
Now that I can switch the machine on (once I get
confirmation on the orientation of the power
controller connector, see previous post), I should
soon be able to test run it. One thing that needs to
be addressed first, is that this machine must have
originally been fitted with an external unibus
expansion box - there is a large flat white cable
inside, connected to a paddle board on the last Unibus
slot. This cable was cut with scissors or something
where it exits the cabinet. I have removed this, but I
will need to install a Unibus terminator, correct? I
should be able to steal the terminator out of my 11/84
for now - are they the same, or was the Vax Unibus a
little different?
-Ian
Hello All,
Anybody familiar or does know something about the M3112 from DEC?
It says 'NICSA CONSOLE' and is a hex card and has a metal bracket
with a rotary switch commonly seen on the later PDP's, 2 buttons,
a couple of LED's and 4 7-segment displays. There is also a DB25
connector on the bracket, probably for a serial line?
Thanks,
Ed
It has no peripherals, is dusty from being stored in a garage
(although it appears to have been kept dry), and is missing the following
keycaps: V, M and bottom-right key on the numeric keypad. The case
says "48K RAM". Other than the missing keys it appears to be in good
condition. I have not powered it up, but it was reported working the
last time it was used. Shipping would be from US ZIP 84106 (Salt Lake
City, UT)
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Response to "John Meshna Post
I was unable to respond to an Internet post I viewed, but I wanted you
to know that after all these years (since about 1968) the address of
John Meshna Jr. will forever live in my memory. As a teenager
experimenting with electronic equipment, your father, whom I never meet,
was a huge and positive influence to my life and endeavors.
Kindest regards,
Mark Aceto
Vienna, VA