test-drb April 2009

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Apple (Macs, etc) available in south Florida

by oldcomputers＠oldcomputers.net

-------------------------------------------------------- I do not own this equipment, please contact Alice below: -------------------------------------------------------- I live in South Florida, have some old Mac equipment - MacPlus, Quadra, etc. Syquest drive and tapes. I may be running out of room to keep them. Is there a collector in my area? Alice Silver <alicessss at aol.com> -------------------------------------------------------- I do not own this equipment, please contact Alice above: --------------------------------------------------------

15 years, 1 month

(was) I [don't] hate E-Bay (was ...) Annoying bidding from buyer's perspective

by dgahling＠hotmail.com

the problem is buyers jacking up their own auctions using friends or fake accts. typically early bids are not actual bids they are just to jack up the price. granted there are honest sellers and buyers but there are practicaly no controls in place for frauds, even in some cases fake items its not always the seller but its a lot harder for a bad buyer to rip people off damn near impossible if yer careful not so with bad sellers and fleabay doesnt care one damn ---------- Sent via Telus My Email 2.0 -----Original Message----- From: js at cimmeri.com Sent: 4/11/2009 6:04:14 PM To: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: (was) I [don't] hate E-Bay (was ...) Annoying bidding from buyer's perspective >> However from my perspective, every dime over $5.10 (which it was at at >> 1am saturday morning, a few hours before the end of the auction) was a >> waste of my money. >> > Waaaaaaaaaah. Someone bid against me, waaaaaah. > > Its an auction. Get used to it, or only purchase "buy-it-now" items. > I'll add, it astonishes me how some people expect everything for nothing. Are they fresh in from some third-world country where they earn $1000/year for hard labor? Penny pinchers to an extreme degree! jS

15 years, 1 month

Old Timers [was: CompuPro CPU-68000]

by dm561＠torfree.net

-------------Original Message: Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 15:31:32 -0700 From: "Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com> Subject: Re: Old Timers [was: CompuPro CPU-68000] On 21 Mar 2009 at 15:50, Jim Battle wrote: > Chuck, that was spoken like a true old-timer, but your derision is > laughable. "Hey, you damn verilog coders, get off my lawn!" > > I'm surprised, as you saw the transition from tubes to transistors to > ICs, so it shouldn't shock you that the next evolution of integration > requires just as much engineering and intelligence, although the > problems to be solved are somewhat different. Oh, I was trying to be humorous about it. I write Verilog too; it's fun in its own way. I could just have easily grumbled about ... laying out 14 AWG busbar on mahogany breadboards between surface-mount (meaning that they're attached with woodscrews) components. Times change, and all too frequently, we don't. All we can do is grumble. --Chuck --------------Reply: Aw, some folks just don't get irony and subtle humour... But you're right: I never thought about it but we've come full circle with surface-mount techniques; I wonder if royalties are being paid... m

15 years, 1 month

Wanted: IBM 3741/3742 keyboard.

by h.j.stegeman＠hccnet.nl

Hello all, Does anyone have a keyboard of an IBM 3741 or 3742 spare ? Mine has stopped working. IBM has used two custom LSI chip in this keyboard and makes it now non repairable :-( Please contact me off list if you can help. Thanks Henk http://www.ibmsystem3.nl

15 years, 1 month

I [don't] hate E-Bay (was Cromemco 68000 on ebay)

by Watzman＠neo.rr.com

I am a "Power Seller" with over 10 years on E-Bay, probably 5,000 transactions, but I am not a business and most of my activity is buying, not selling. First, re: "I hate [ebay] because it defrauded me in 2005", that is, in all probability, BS. E-Bay didn't defraud you, the other party (buyer or seller) did. E-Bay is not a principal to the transaction; it is merely a venue for bringing buyers and sellers together. Second, IF YOU KNOW HOW TO USE E-BAY, it is EXTREMELY safe. Most of the sellers (and buyers) are honest, more than 99% I'd say. If you pay through Pay-Pal with a credit card, you have about 3 levels of protection even if the seller is fraudulent: E-Bay, Pay-Pal and your credit card company. You do have to know how to use the various systems to protect yourself; you can look at a seller's history, and about the comments that people who have dealt with that seller previously have left about their transactions. If you educate yourself about how to use E-Bay, it is quite safe. Is it perfectly, totally safe? No, of course not (neither is any other marketplace), and getting issues resolved when they do occur can be a hassle and can take months and require that you be persistent and well organized. There are a surprising number of people with an aversion to E-Bay. That's their loss, because it's one of the greatest things that the Internet has brought us, both as buyers and as sellers. Barry Watzman

15 years, 1 month

Dot Matrix head rebuild...Anadex and others.

by jrr＠flippers.com

Anyone have any info on rebuilding the head for a regular 9-pin dot matrix printer? I have an open pin-5 coil on mine, and I would like to take it apart to see if I can repair/replace the coil, BUT I am a bit concerned about taking these things apart. Springs flying off, etc. Looking on-line does not turn up anything (so far) on dismantling these suckers. If necessary I will document it myself, but was hoping the info was already out there! The head I have is an Anadex DPH-100, and the only place on-line that shows them no longer repairs 'em! Nor did the tech I spoke to recall any details... John :-#)#

15 years, 1 month

CompuPro CPU-68000

by dm561＠torfree.net

-------------Original Message: Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:36:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Michael Hart <imsaicollector at yahoo.com> Subject: Re: CompuPro CPU-68000 You know the hiring managers I normally talk to have no knowledge of hardware design. So even if I am showing off my electrical engineering prowest by implementing a IEEE-696 memory board. I have the Protel product (www.protel.com), a $4500 piece of software back in 1999/2000 which became Altium (http://www.altium.com/) used to design the most sophisticated hardware. The manufacturing of the boards I understand have become quite cheap. Anyway thank for URL. But remember I am primarily as very senior software developer with lots of hardware know how. So how would that hardware know how be exploited in getting me contracts? At least that has not been the interest when people look at me. But still it is a skill I would one day like to exploite in getting a contract Michael ------------Snarky Comment: Cleaning up your spelling and grammar couldn't hurt in getting those contracts; some people do still care... another michael

15 years, 1 month

looking for Orchid PCTurbo 186 drivers/software

by mskipatrol＠nc.rr.com

Does anyone have a copy of the Orchid PC-Turbo 186 accelerator card diskette/drivers ? I have one of these cards but no drivers for the card. Thanks..... mwhite8 at nc.rr.com

15 years, 1 month

Which way to go, from now on?

by csquared3＠tx.rr.com

> Message: 16 > Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 10:48:30 -0500 > From: "Michael B. Brutman" <mbbrutman-cctalk at brutman.com> > Subject: Re: Which way to go, from now on? > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > <cctalk at classiccmp.org> > Message-ID: <49C65DCE.20701 at brutman.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Coding ... > > Getting a development environment setup for a machine can be fairly > intensive. Especially if the machine had a few vendors that provided > environments. Once you are setup, nothing teaches you more about the > machine than trying to wring something useful out of it. ;-0 > > My favorite example .. the TCP/IP stack that I wrote for DOS. It is > part of a long process to put a BBS on my PCjr. I missed the > opportunity 20 years ago to have a dialup BBS, so I'm making up for it > with a multi-user Telnet BBS. > > Getting the development environment setup, writing code that works and > is stable, and wringing the performance out of it has put me a lot > closer to the machine that just powering it on once in a while. Given > your collection, you could spend a few lifetimes doing software. > > > Mike <ears perking up> As an oldtimer trying to teach myself more about TCP/IP, it has occurred to me to wonder whether a similar project might just be the best way to truly understand the protocols. I think it is probably best that I continue working my way through Stevens' and Snader's books first though. Later, Charlie C.

15 years, 1 month

rehabbing stiff cables

by dgriffi＠cs.csubak.edu

Does anyone have any ideas on how to rehab cables that have gone stiff? Case in point, most of my old Apple cables are semi-permenantly set into odd curly shapes. -- David Griffith dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?

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