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Altair 8800

by evan＠snarc.net

Anyone know how much an 8800 weighs?

17 years, 1 month

DEQNA/DELQA cab kit with DEUNA/DELUA?

by tiggerlasv＠aim.com

As far as I can tell, the pinouts for the 20-pin BERG connectors on the DEQNA, DELQA, and DEUNA are functionally equivalent. (The DELQA uses 2 extra lines, but those will most likely be ignored, particularly if you're using a media converter, to translate to RJ45. . .) You can also use the DELQA / DEQNA cab-kits interchangeably, for basic ethernet operations on the PDP-11. . . As info. . . .

17 years, 1 month

DEQNA/DELQA cab kit with DEUNA/DELUA?

by oldcpu2＠rogerwilco.org

For all the DEC fans here, since I haven't been able to locate a print set for the DEUNA, I was wondering if the cabinet kit that goes between the UNIBUS DEUNA board and the 15-pin AUI connector is functionally the same as the cab kit for a QBUS DEQNA / DELQA? In other words, can a DEQNA / DELQA cab kit be used with the DEUNA ethernet controller, or are they different (pinouts, etc.)? I'm trying to organize all of the parts I'll need to get a VAX 11/750 online, once I finish up the power supply troubleshooting and get the system operational again. Thanks. Jared

17 years, 1 month

IBM PS/1 2121 system info/monitor

by thibergep＠limestone.on.ca

Mike I have one - my apartment looks like an elephant dying ground for computer components. I was about to dump it on a local "sell" site for $10. It hasn't been used in 8+ years.... $10 + shipping *if* you are still looking Pamella

17 years, 1 month

Cipher 9-track drives @ RE-PC in Tukwila, WA

by derschjo＠mail.msu.edu

Subject says it all. No idea if they work... 2 drives, $22.50 each. Look like 995s's. Thought someone might be interested... Josh

17 years, 1 month

BYTE magazine article index

by rcini＠optonline.net

All: I found a 10-year-old thread from this list discussing the existence (or lack thereof) of an on-line or off-line article index for the entire BYTE magazine series. From the thread it seemed that one didn?t exist at the time. I have the complete series from issue #1 to about mid-1988 and I find it difficult to zero in on particular topics. If I had a searchable article database, I could then make better use of my archive. I?ve done some googling for an index but haven?t come up with anything concise yet. Is anyone aware of an on-line index for BYTE? Rich -- Rich Cini Collector of Classic Computers Build Master and lead engineer, Altair32 Emulator http://www.altair32.com http://www.classiccmp.org/cini

17 years, 1 month

Free Linux and OpenOffice - even if your email address doesn't

by tonym＠compusource.net

>-----Original Message----- >From: Ray Arachelian ray at arachelian.com >Sent 9/1/2008 12:43:26 AM >To: General Discussion GeneralDiscussion@ >Subject: Re:Free Linux and OpenOffice - even if your email address doesn't > I know I said I wouldn't reply, but my God, man, you are totally out of touch with reality. I see stories about people like you on CNN - "He was always very quiet, and kept to himself..." Ray, check yourself into the nearest mental health institute, for your sake, for your family's sake. You're not stable, man. Ya got serious issues interfacing with humans, serious issues understanding simple 5th grade sentences, and some strange need for cursing to feel like a man... I once heard a saying when I was young: "Profanity is the device that makes ignorance audible." And what WAS all that psychotic, incoherent babbling? I have NO idea what you were ranting about, but seek help. Um, this WILL be my last message to, or about you, because there is NO way that you are a stable individual, with all that incoherent rambling, and I do NOT want to be the one responsible for you "snapping," and going on a spree... So, I'm pretty sure, knowing your type, that you want the last word, so go ahead and have it, so we can end this, and maybe avoid you going on a rampage of some sort and hurting yourself, or or worse, someone else.

17 years, 1 month

installing more memory

by aliensrcooluk＠yahoo.co.uk

Hi, i have installed extra RAMinto my Amiga 600 before (in the trapdoor) which plugs in straight. However, plugging the extra RAM i just got for my laptop (Dell C610) requires it to be inserted into the slot at 45 degrees and then moued parallel (flat) on the pcb until you hear a click! (thats what it states in the C610 manual) Who's idea was that and are there any pitfalls i should be aware of? (other than damaging the connectors) - Andrew B (via mobile)

17 years, 1 month

OT: Linux and OpenOffice

by tonym＠compusource.net

>-----Original Message----- >From: Chuck Guzis cclist at sydex.com >Sent 9/6/2008 4:55:19 PM >To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts cctalk at classiccmp.org >Subject: Re: OT: Linux and OpenOffice > >Bottom line for me is that I need to run Windoze for my musical >notation editors (Finale and Sibelius). While it's true that a few >folks have gotten them running under Wine, performance is sub-Windows >(didn't think that was possible) with numerous gotchas that I don't >want to deal with. > >Both Coda and Sibelius officially state "There are no plans to >produce Linux compatible versions of our products". They're only locking themselves out, if there is a semi-comparable product. I know it MAY have sounded like I was anti-Linux a week or two ago, but it's quite the opposite. Right tool for the job... >I can't imagine that it's just the music people who are alone in this >respect. While Linux does have some music notation utilities >(Rosegarden, NoteEdit, Lilypond), none of them have the polished >utility of Finale or Sibelius. I suspect that when you get in the >area of $500+ single-user license specialty software, Linux isn't an >option. > >So I grit my teeth and deal with Microso~1. Or use my Mac. > >And yes, this is vintage--people have wondered about this for more >than 10 years. Another shame is that Sibelius discontinued the >version of its software that ran on the Acorn. It used to be the >reason to buy an Acorn for many. > Acorn RiscOS machines? I acquired a RiscPC 700 from a chap in Missouri - how he came to acquire it, I have no idea. I found some links to wire in a PC power supply, and I yanked one from one of those book pc's. This one even had an ethernet interface in it! Very unique machine - I got through fleaBay a Strongarm 200mHz CPU board, and the machine already had an HD and a CDROM. Also from the UK i got a 2nd "slice" to make it a double-decker, and a ROM+RiscOS upgrade. I quickly lost interest in that, though.. but it was an interesting machine. I ended up selling it on fleaBay for about $200 or so to someone here in the states. I'm sure many others on the list as as I am - I like to acquire things, learn them, and then pass them on to someone else, and I've done that with SGI's, Sun's, HP unix workstations, I had a DG with AOS on it (never learned THAT though) as well as playing with Hercules IBM mainframe emulator for MVS 3.8 and VM/370 R6 Tony

17 years, 1 month

OT: Linux and OpenOffice

by tonym＠compusource.net

>-----Original Message----- >From: John C. Ellingboe john at guntersville.net >Sent 9/6/2008 4:20:40 PM >To: General Discussion GeneralDiscussion@ >Subject: Re: OT: Linux and OpenOffice > >tonym wrote: > Oh - and leave it to ESPN to support only Windows and Mac at espn360.com with > their video player. > > Tony > >You do run into sites like that. That is where a Virtual Machine with >Windows or X 10 would come in handy at times but I just figure I can >probably do just fine without them. > Meh - forgot it doesn't matter... When there's a game on that is ONLY on ESPN360.com, you can forget about it... HORRIBLY slow, no matter WHAT your bandwidth is. I tried to watch the Miami Hurricanes game on 8/26, and it wasn't viewable. Of course, about 30min after the game ended, you could view the replay, and it was just fine. <Rant> Ya know, ESPN, if you're going to make a game EXCLUSIVE to espn360, get a little more bandwidth </Rant> Anyways - this Ubuntu is pretty neat, so far. About to try it on the dock. And I'm still seeing about 15% more battery life under Ubuntu vs XP SP2, and that's on 2 different batteries, so it's not a fluke.... Tony

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test-drb September 2008