All:
While cleaning up the shop I found a few Tandy Model 100 cassette tapes.
What is the best way to archive them? I?d like to do two things ? first,
make a reproducable copy. Second, have a data extraction so I can add
support for them to the VirtualT emulator.
Any ideas?
Thanks.
Rich
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Rich Cini
Collector of Classic Computers
Build Master and lead engineer, Altair32 Emulator
http://www.altair32.comhttp://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/~rcini/classiccmp
I realize that these are the things least likely to
get held onto, due to their mass and bulk, but if
anyone should happen to have a large screen color or b
& w monitor they're looking to get rid of, let me
know. The b & w units were somewhat common on top of
Macs, and any such thing would be uncommon on a
peecee, particularly an early unit (< 48khz horizontal
frequency) which is what I would want in the way of a
color model. Reasonably good condition, and
*reasonably* close to Pennsylhoma/New Jersey. I can't
give specific models, but I'd happy to do the research
if you can provide a model.
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Pinpoint customers who are looking for what you sell.
http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/
I'm looking for the following to finish up the work on some VME Suns.
1) 6 Screws for Sun VME chassis -- Hex ones for holding VME boards in the
chassis
2) 2 of the thick plastic logos -- Sun 3/110 and Sun 4/110. The kind that
were mounted to the 3 slot VME chassis.
3) The front plastic panel for a Sun 2/120
I've got some $$ for purchasing these, if I can find a source...
Earl
Hi, this message is a kludge to get through to der Mouse, but you-all
may find it interesting. I have two of those Century CHB25INT
adapters (but I'm not willing to sell one right now). See:
http://www.tiac.net/~sw/2006/03/scsi_to_ata/index.html
I paid about $100 for a single unit direct from Century.co.jp .
Mouse, you sent me email about my SCSI/IDE adapter experience.
My reply below is proceeded by the kind of bounce I got trying to
send it:
>From: Mail Delivery System <Mailer-Daemon at elasmtp-masked.atl.sa.earthlink.net>
> mouse at Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA
> SMTP error from remote mailer after initial connection:
> host Sparkle-4.rodents.montreal.qc.ca [216.46.5.7]:
> 550-I won't talk to 209.86.89.68 until 2007-08-25 17:05:48 UTC, because
> 550 it keeps connecting and then not sending anything.
>http://www.tiac.net/~sw/2006/03/scsi_to_ata/index.html gives your
>address. I was looking for just such a thing, but for a SPARCstation
>Voyager rather than an Apple laptop; this page looks very helpful.
>Thank you.
I haven't had perfect results with the adapter I talked about in that page.
I was able to boot, copy 250MB files, etc., but invariably the
computer would hang after a while (in a way it doesn't do without that
disk installed).
It could be
The ATA disk
The adapter design
The particular adapter
The driver I have installed, or its timing parameters
Apple's SCSI implementation (has been buggy on me before)
External SCSI Zip and/or CD drives I had plugged in at the same time.
Mac OS 8.1 problem with big HFS+ partition?
Some unrelated problem with this OS on this laptop?? The hang-up
does seem to happen when using the disk, but then, that's all
I was doing!
Probably with more time or expertise I could narrow it down since I
have two disks, two adapters, and multiple sources of drivers.
Thanks for the SCSI details. No, I'm not sure about 66-pin SCSI.
--Steve
How many people need replacement switch handles for DEC switches?
How many and what size and colors?
I wonder if we can get the quantity needed and have a custom order
made in china?
Ben alias Woodelf
For people interested in Datapoint, there is a mailing list, but
it is not very heavily used. Unfortunately, it is moderated, and
it may be several days before messages get approved.
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/DatapointComputers/
I scanned a set of microcode and boot rom listings for the Datapoint 1800
over the weekend, along with some technical information on the later
Datapoint machines under http://bitsavers.org/pdf/datapoint
Hopefully, some more technical info on the later machines will surface. I
think Jack Rubin mentioned that he had some.
> There are several binders that cover tape, graphics, terminal, I/O and
> so on. I can try to scan it if you like.
That would be good to have scanned. I have machine-readable versions of the
base firmware for the terminal.
> I also have the complete
> maintenance manuals for the terminal and interface boards, including
> schematics, but they are difficult to scan due to the paper size.
I have most of the manuals scanned (there were MANY options available for
the 264x). The only practical way to scan the 11 x long sheets of schematics
HP uses is with a wide sheet feed scanner (like the Ricoh IS520 or Kodak 2500d)
and do it in overlapping sections.