Hi, all,
This is a repeat of a 7-year-old topic, but I find myself in front of
a CD full of Quicktake photos and no software. One of the strange
things about the Apple Quicktake 150 was that it compressed its images
with a special codec that was only available if you loaded the
software that came with the camera. Once you loaded that software,
any Mac app could view and manipulate the image, but you had to have
the right little tidbit from the disk to do _anything_ with the
pictures.
The "problem" is that there was other, non-Apple, software on the
disks for image manipulation, and according to the Apple ancient
download page, the Quicktake disks are unavailable for download from
them due to "licensing restrictions" (and there's a specific note from
Apple in their info archives that there is no OS X software to handle
Quicktake photos, so I'll be using some emulator, but that's an easy
problem to solve).
I can use ImageConvert or any other tool to process what I have once I
have the camera software, but I don't happen to have those disks on
hand (the camera was borrowed, 12 years ago). Does anyone happen to
have image files of those floppies?
Please respond off-list if you can help.
Thanks,
-ethan
I've used Forward Air for about 10 years, mostly shipping Video Arcades and they've been quite good about Hub to Hub shipping, the only downside is you have to go and get Money orders from a local shop near the hubs to pay unless you have an account which is next to impossible to obtain from them.
I've used North American Van Lines for most big computer gear and they have been fairly good, some stuff has gotten roughly handled, but they have been okay. I prefer FA, but you just have to deal with the hassle of dropping off and picking up at the hubs. FA pricing is obviously a little better too.
Curt
-----Original message-----
From: "Ethan Dicks" ethan.dicks at gmail.com
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 23:49:11 -0400
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" cctalk at classiccmp.org
Subject: Any good/bad experiences with Forward Air?
> Hi, All,
>
> I'm looking at moving a medium quantity of DEC gear from a friend's
> house in Denver to Columbus, and he suggested Forward Air. I checked
> their web site and just learned that their National Hub is 8 miles
> from my Farm (that a couple of you have seen). As such, it sounds
> like a good plan, and I remember that I've heard chatter about Forward
> Air, but I'm a bit fuzzy about the nature of the chatter and if it was
> mostly good, mixed, mostly bad, or what. I'm planning on shipping
> things like an LA180, most or all of an -8/a enclosure and boards, and
> perhaps a DECmate I or VT100 (I'll get to see the stuff this
> Sunday)... so we are looking at probably a single pallet between 100
> and 200 lbs.
>
> I'd rather this not turn into a flame-fest or a "why don't you try
> *this* method" discussion. I specifically want to hear about any
> experiences or recommendations for or against Forward Air. I know my
> other options; this one is new to me.
>
> If you feel your comments are not quite on-topic, please, by all
> means, feel free to send to me off-list. Other mini-collectors might
> be interested in pertinent comments, though.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -ethan
Hello again Kaypro fans,
I've got a Kaypro 4 with a PC81-240A motherboard and 81-232 rom.
The machine boots and shows the disk directory on startup. The
problem is that the keyboard makes the audible clicks but no
characters are shown on the screen. I've tested with other known
good keyboards so that's not the problem. I've swapped all the
socketed chips. A Google search found another person who had the
same problem but he never got an answer. I sent him an email but
I haven't gotten a response yet. I've also resoldered the keyboard
jack to the mobo. Jiggling the keyboard connector doesn't help.
It looks like the wires in the jack are OK. Anyone got any ideas?
TIA
Ralph
Hi, All,
I'm looking at moving a medium quantity of DEC gear from a friend's
house in Denver to Columbus, and he suggested Forward Air. I checked
their web site and just learned that their National Hub is 8 miles
>from my Farm (that a couple of you have seen). As such, it sounds
like a good plan, and I remember that I've heard chatter about Forward
Air, but I'm a bit fuzzy about the nature of the chatter and if it was
mostly good, mixed, mostly bad, or what. I'm planning on shipping
things like an LA180, most or all of an -8/a enclosure and boards, and
perhaps a DECmate I or VT100 (I'll get to see the stuff this
Sunday)... so we are looking at probably a single pallet between 100
and 200 lbs.
I'd rather this not turn into a flame-fest or a "why don't you try
*this* method" discussion. I specifically want to hear about any
experiences or recommendations for or against Forward Air. I know my
other options; this one is new to me.
If you feel your comments are not quite on-topic, please, by all
means, feel free to send to me off-list. Other mini-collectors might
be interested in pertinent comments, though.
Thanks,
-ethan
Hi,
Anyone near :
4439 South 38th Place
Phoenix, Arizona, USA 85040
and interested by a some pdp 11/34 (heavy) parts (chassis, psu) ?
thanks
regards,
--
Stephane
Paris, France.
I picked up an old Qualstar model 1054 9 track scsi tape drive for reading old data tapes. It is missing the Users Guide, document #500100, that I need to correctly set the dip switches so that I can use it on my old RS6000. I've found a reference to the guide (http://www.qualstar.com/pan003.pdf) telling me what to do but not how. As it is, when I try to read a tape it rewinds and unloads.
Dave
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>
>Subject: Unknown S100 system
> From: Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk>
> Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 16:22:08 +0100
> To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
>
>
>Kind of posting on a whim that this might be something obvious...
>
>All of the S100 systems I've seen to date have comprised a backplane and then
>cards for various system components - including CPU and memory. However, I
>unearthed one today which held much of the system logic on the backplane
>itself (i.e. more like a modern-day PC motherboard - I'd heard such things
>existed, but this is the first one I've actually seen).
I have at last one that qualifies. Netronics Explorer 8085. The base
board mas a8085 cpu, space for 8K Eprom and 4k ram plus the 256bytes ram
for the monitor and the 2K (8755) Eprom monitor. What makes it different
is you could add the bus interface and two sockets for 2 S100 sockets and
there was an exptension backplane that stacked on it for another 5 S100
slots.
>Unfortunately I forgot to bring the thing home with me, so I'm a bit light on
>remembered details (but can get more tomorrow if needs be). However, it
>appeared to have both an 8088 and 8085 CPU on board, memory, what is probably
>ROM, a handful of S100-bus [1] connectors, parallel port, a light-pen port
>(unusual!), plus a few other ports (at least one was serial I expect). There
>were a few other IDC-style pin headers too - perhaps for some sort of storage,
>but none of them were obviously labeled as to function.
>
>Sound familiar to anyone?
No, very few systems I've seen carry both 8085 and 8088 and those were
mostly Compupro S100.
>
Allison
Do you still have XMT1300-1.2 fo transmitter? I need some. They go in
Tektroniix/agilent test equipment.
Ken Owen
Technical Manager
Tescom
keno at tescomusa.com
I was happy to find earlier today that while I gave away most of my
tubes of chips and other parts about 3 years ago as I wasn't doing
anything with chips, I still have a 4 partial tubes of 27256's and
27C256's. IIRC, thankfully I'd thought they might be useful to hang
onto.
So the question of the minute is this, is it possible to substitute a
27C256 for a smaller 27C128?
If so I should have all the pieces I need for the first project with
the exception of the EPROM programmer and EPROM eraser.
Zane
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