test-drb February 2008

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by blstuart＠bellsouth.net

> Location is close enough for this purpose. > My question is, who is blstuart (Brian Stuart) and why is his pin blue ? > > I want a Big Blue pin to mark the home of IBMcollectables.com :-) That's me. It went blue when I went into the profile editing and marked my gender as male. It's not an indication that I'm a collector of classic IBM gear. Of course, I would be if I had the space and some good pieces came my way... BLS

16 years, 5 months

The "who lives where" map...

by blstuart＠bellsouth.net

From: "John Floren" <slawmaster at gmail.com> > > On Feb 12, 2008 9:01 AM, Jules Richardson <jules.richardson99 at gmail.com> wrote: > > John Floren wrote: > > > > Seems to be broken in Firefox - the 'move this pin' doesn't work, and putting > > my zip code in gives me an "Are you in...?" question but with no yes/no > > buttons to click on :-) > > Don't know what version you're using, but my Firefox (2.0.0.10) is > working just fine. I even tested "Move this pin" and had no problems. Don't know if this is anyone else's problem, but the first time I tried, I tried to drag the pin, and that didn't work. But if I clicked where I wanted it, then it jumped there. BLS

16 years, 5 months

Plans for Simon Relay Computer (was: Re: Does Anyone Have A)

by Johan.Iversen＠uk.fujitsu.com

Hi Bill, I don know if you can help me, I have been scanning the web for info about simon the relay computer and you came up in a forum, link shown below http://www.classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctalk/2002-April/064845.html <http://www.classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctalk/2002-April/064845.html> and I was wondering did you find the CD and if so would it be possible to have a copy ? regards johan

16 years, 5 months

Antique HP N3390 memory size?

by onymouse＠garlic.com

Have a HP N3390 laptop, 8 years old. An antique... I was told by HP that the maximum physical RAM it could use is 128Mb. I have 256Mb now. Need more. Anyone happen to know the real max physical RAM capacity? Want 1Gb+++ if possible. Thanks. == jd

16 years, 5 months

Syquest/Iomega removable cartridge drive interfaces of early 80's

by tshoppa＠wmata.com

C Sullivan writes: > Tim Shoppa wrote: >> I seem to recall a S-100 product I once owned called "XOR/IOMega". >> Don't >> know if it's the same thing. > Interesting Google hit along those lines: http://www.nelsonit.net/~jon/info-cpm/1986/04/10/171835.html > Quote: >>I hope someone can help me. Does anyone have an S-100 bus CP/M computer >>manufactured by XOR with IOMega 10 meg cartridge drives. In my head I cannot always keep clear the distinction between the early 80's IOMega and the early 80's Syquest removable cartridge drives. Am I correct in remembering that the Syquests of that time used the 34/20 pin MFM-hard-drive "ST506" interface? Were all the early 80's IOmega's SCSI or did they use something before that? Syquests were always 5.25" or smaller form factors, is that right? Any 8" things I'm remembering are probably Bernoulli Box carts? Tim.

16 years, 5 months

80C32 emulation?

by gordonjcp＠gjcp.net

Offtopic-ish, but does anyone know of a good 80C32 emulator for Linux? There seem to be a lot of closed-source ones for Windows, but since there's no apparent way to add specific emulated devices to them I can't see how useful they'd be for what I'm doing. Gordon

16 years, 5 months

MFM drive rescue

by silvercreekvalley＠yahoo.com

I have a Newbury NDR 1105 drive I'm keen to rescue. On its last use the drive spun up normally but after a few minutes there was an impresive flash and smoke. On inspection the only thing that seems to have burned out is a surface mount capacitor - although quite a large one (10u). The contents of the disk are quite valuable in that they hold a late copy of the 'colour card' edition of 42nix, a Whitechapel Workstation OS. I'd like to archive that if possible. Any tips for rescue? I've managed to remove the burnt out capacitor and can replace it. There appears to be no other damage on the board apart from some scorching to the PCB. Thanks Ian. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping

16 years, 5 months

my old machines in France (Intertechnique Multi 4

by cclist＠sydex.com

> Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 21:38:09 -0800 > From: jim s > Both the Multi 8 and the Multi 6 Alain found were licensed designs of > Microdata systems. The Multi 4 that he has excellent photos of is a 1600, > which is documented on bitsavers.org under Microdata and 1600. > > I believe, but do not have proof yet of that the Multi 8 was an 800. I am > researching that thru some of the original Microdata people who were there > when the deals were done. Going back to Alain's web page, I see that now--thanks for pointing it out. Do you know if the Multi 4 is a "strict" implementation of the 1600? That is, does is contain any unique "enhancements" over the 1600? I recall an associate who had worked with the Microdata Reality systems in the insurance industry who was very fond of them. Cheers, Chuck

16 years, 5 months

S100 SCSI board?

by tshoppa＠wmata.com

David writes: > I found an S100 board in a file folder labeled "IOMEGA SCSI HOST". The > board itself says "I OMEGA HOST ADAPTER" and a part number "AMSEC > 670-1185". Does anyone here know if this really might be an S100 SCSI > board and if the IOMEGA we all know had anything to do with it? The Iomega Bernoulli Box was very early 80's. And Iomega had been around doing some S-100 and other mini-compatible stuff for a couple of years before the Bernoulli Box. Some of their early products were like SyQuest's early 80's cartridge drive offerings... but as far as I know not exactly compatible. I seem to recall a S-100 product I once owned called "XOR/IOMega". Don't know if it's the same thing. Remember when a Mega of anything was a lot? Talking about other companies that are still around... every time I drive by EMC's local office complex I think about the PDP-11 and Nova EMC memory boards I have. It's amazing, 30 years later and the logo is just the same, although the company itself seems to have completely forgotten anything before the mid-90's. Tim.

16 years, 5 months

DEC 1994 MDS (was Re: Dec Documents)

by tshoppa＠wmata.com

Jason T wrote: >> http://www.carnagevisors.net/dec94mds/ so hopefully if anyone needs these >> you can browse. >Well, that's huge. Thanks! Who did the original translations to .txt format? The DEC 1994 MDS CD-ROM contained postscript and text documents. It was perhaps the most complete classiccmp-wise of all the DEC MDS issues. I converted the postscript to PDF many years ago (pretty much just ghostscript's ps2pdf) and made the index you see today. The text documents are pretty much as they were straight on the CD-ROM. Tim.

16 years, 5 months

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test-drb February 2008