test-drb July 2009

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245 discussions

TMI (was RE: Do not call them PCMCIA Cards (was "An interesting eBay find ....))

by IanK＠vulcan.com

Well, maybe not on a classic computing mailing list? I read pretty much the entire thread trying to figure out how this particular branch occurred, and I'm still mystified. Me, I suffer from ADOS: Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny! That explains the contents of my basement. Excuse me, I need to go figure out why my VAX 4000/300 is giving me an error code of 'E' on bootup. <sigh> It's been such a good machine for so long. In fact, one of my co-workers learned assembly language programming on it when it was the departmental machine for a state university here in Washington. -- Ian ________________________________________ From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Brian Lanning [brianlanning at gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 5:19 PM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: Do not call them PCMCIA Cards (was "An interesting eBay find ....) On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Josh Dersch<derschjo at mail.msu.edu> wrote: > Oh, yes, please -- let's have an argument about Asperger's here, based on > "insightful" quotes from frigging "Fight Club." > > Or better yet, no. The first rule of Asperger's Syndrome: Don't talk about Asperger's Syndrome. :-D brian

14 years, 10 months

FT: CDC Cy 960

by wdonzelli＠gmail.com

There is a good possibility that I will have a CDC Cyber 960 available for trade soon, along with an Amperif FSD disk array. This is a big machine - check out cray-cyber.org for details. I would be willing to trade for a similar machine, or something else interesting and old. Or maybe something completely different. Located in the NY area. Contact me off list. -- Will

14 years, 10 months

An interesting ebay find and what to do with scsi do-dads

by brianlanning＠gmail.com

I picked up an external scsi case with 5 devices in it. Two plextor cdroms, a zip 250 drive, and most interestingly a 3.5" floppy drive and some sort of memory card reader. This furthers my collection of internal and external almost-useless removable media devices. :-) It was sold as an IBM branded device, although I knew before hand that it wasn't. But there is an IBM sticker on the back of the case that says M/T 1609-F21 and a serial number. Not sure what's up with that. Maybe it's just an asset tag. So what could I attach this to? It has one centronics port on the back, so it must be terminated inside somewhere. I know the cdroms and zip drive would be recognized instantly by an amiga. I'm not sure what the floppy and memory card reader would look like. For example, supposing it's a 1.44mb floppy drive, what format would an amiga try to write to a drive like this? I would think that a disk format is OS dependent. I do have drivers to read fat partitions, so maybe it could read PC floppies. Or maybe since it's high density, it could read/write those 1.76mb amiga format high density floppies... or maybe not since it's scsi and the amiga specific floppy drives tend to be modified in an amiga-only way. I couldn't tell what kind of floppy drive is in there since I didn't completely take it apart, but from the back, it looks like a normal 3.5" floppy drive in a 5.25" scsi 50-pin adapter. Linux would probably autodetect and work with all of them. What would MacOS do? Also, the memory card reader has a slot for a type 1 or 2 pcmcia card. What could I put in this? A pcmcia flash memory drive seems obvious. What else? brian

14 years, 10 months

RSTS-11 media (2nd plea!)

by iamvirtual＠gmail.com

Hi, I am still desperately seeking RSTS-11 V4.x or earlier for my PDP-11/10 with RK05 drives. I will probably need an older version of DOS/Batch from the same era. If you can help, I would be very grateful. Thanks. --barrym

14 years, 10 months

Cleaning an LK201 Keyboard

by jhfinedp3k＠compsys.to

I just cleaned an LK201 keyboard. It was actually quite clean with only a few stains and a bit of dust. I used a baby wipe since it seemed to be the most useful in terms of being able to eliminate the dust as well as the very minor stains. Has anyone any other method or suggestions? One problem is that there is one sticky key - PF4 in this case. It is not a problem if I use a quick sharp hit of 4 to 5 times the normal force. When just a gentle to firm force is used, it often sticks and sometimes even goes into multiple repeats. Hitting it firmly again frees up the key and it releases. The problem might have been caused during the cleaning if some of the baby wipe is stuck within the key release mechanism - I tend to remember that the PF4 key was not sticking when I tested it before cleaning. Any suggestions? Jerome Fine

14 years, 10 months

Do not call them PCMCIA Cards (was "An interesting eBay find ....)

by cclist＠sydex.com

On 16 Jul 2009 at 16:53, Robert Jarratt wrote: > Doesn't that mean that everyone else should behave as *you* expect > them to? So I and everyone else in the world would have to behave as > you expect me to "just to accommodate you"? Please--I'm willing to accept that one or both of you may be professionally qualified and a published authority in this area, but there are more appropriate forums in which to discuss this. Thank you, Chuck

14 years, 10 months

Micropolis 1015-2 floppy drive

by dm561＠torfree.net

----------Original Message: Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 10:02:24 -0500 From: Chris Elmquist <chrise at pobox.com> Subject: Micropolis 1015-2 floppy drive Does anyone have specs or even better original documents for a Micropolis 1015-2 (aka mod II) 5.25" floppy drive? I have two connected to a Micropolis designed floppy controller in an old S-100 system. ... I wrote portions of the PROM and CP/M BIOS for this thing when I was in highschool. I, of course, saved many pieces of the things and am preparing to bring one of them back online soon. Chris ------------Reply: Hmm, I wonder if that's the same PROM as in my VG systems; I've tried to replace the 1015-IIs with 1.2MB HD drives and although CP/M is quite happy with those, the system won't boot from them, so it looks like there's something fussy in the boot code in the Micropolis PROM. I don't suppose you still have any source code? I don't think it'll be the same but it might give a clue or two... mike

14 years, 10 months

Classic mac fun (and some questions) (continued...again...)

by brianlanning＠gmail.com

I have but one obstacle left... being able to unpack an apple floppy image file from a PC. I have a bin file containing the files I need to get the quadra going. I got the floppy drive working on the quadra. I can read and write mac floppies from my windows machine. But I can't get the files out of the bin file. And I can't write the bin file directly to the disk and make the quadra read it. So i need either a mac emulator I can run on XP, or a windows utility to unpack the mac bin file and produce individual files which I can write to the floppy. Anyone have any ideas? I also picked up a rare and elusive kung-fu black terminator for the IIfx. So I should be able to attach the 600e to that machine and get it going. That hard drive would hopefully be recognized by the install CD. Then I would only need to find an AUI to RJ-45 doodad which is skinny enough to fit into the recessed ports on the IIfx. I have an AUI thingy now, but it's too fat to reach the db-15 connector on the network card. brian

14 years, 10 months

Do not call them PCMCIA Cards (was "An interesting eBay find ....)

by aliensrcooluk＠yahoo.co.uk

I have a couple of PCMCIA cards for my Amiga 600. One is a cool 2MB (notice capital M & B!), whilst the other is 4Mb (notice small b!). I have never used the latter. I could never call them PC cards, since I use mine on non-PC's :) Regards, Andrew B aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk --- On Wed, 15/7/09, Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at gmail.com> wrote: From: Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at gmail.com> Subject: Re: Do not call them PCMCIA Cards (was "An interesting eBay find ....) To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Date: Wednesday, 15 July, 2009, 8:42 PM On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Mr Ian Primus<ian_primus at yahoo.com> wrote: > --- On Wed, 7/15/09, Barry Watzman <Watzman at neo.rr.com> wrote: >> The correct name for what you are >> [incorrectly] calling a "PCMCIA Card" is a >> "PC Card". > > And here I always thought that PCMCIA stood for "People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms"... I was at an Amiga user group meeting when the A600 came out.? Some younger guy (my age) was talking about PCMCIA cards since the A600 has a slot, and one of the older members asked him to "speak English" and "what does all that mean, anyway?"? She pounced on him when he couldn't regurgitate "Personal Computer Memory Card Industry Association" on the spot ("how do you expect us to know what you are talking about when you use words you don't even know what they mean?!?") Lots of acronymitis back then.? Still a lot now, but users have had more time to absorb some of it. -ethan

14 years, 10 months

Manual

by ynadeau＠hotmail.com

Hi, Don't you have manual for 28-277 Science Fair Radio Shack? Thanks, Y Nadeau

14 years, 10 months

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test-drb July 2009