test-drb October 2012

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Epson QX-10 question

by rampaginggreenhulk＠yahoo.com

you put in a disk, you get a cursor, but that`s it. Puter won`t give disk back. Do I have to take it apart?

12 years, 2 months

Seeking Xylogics/Bay/Nortel fanout cables

by drb＠msu.edu

Folks, Thought I had this covered, but I can't find 'em. Looking for either of the following cables, which are the serial port fanouts for Annex terminal servers. 50-pin centronics at one end, 6 DB25 at the other. Anybody have one or two they'd part with? AX3-CBL-DCE-100 or CM0018008 (DCE variety) AX3-CBL-DTE-100 or CM0018009 (DTE variety, quelle surprise) Thanks, De

12 years, 2 months

A petition to Apple's Leadership Team - Create a public venue / visitor’s center

by david＠classiccomputing.com

Hi everyone, Please have a look and consider signing. http://www.change.org/petitions/apple-inc-create-a-public-venue-visitor-s-c… Best, David Greelish - Computer Historian, Author, Speaker, Blogger & Podcaster - Founder of the Atlanta Historical Computing Society Producer of the Vintage Computer Festival Southeast 1.0 - 2/9/13 http://about.me/davidgreelish

12 years, 2 months

Apple petition

by david＠classiccomputing.com

Thanks, and Disney's CEO Bob Iger now sits on the Apple board, after Steve Jobs died. Best, David Greelish - Computer Historian, Author, Speaker, Blogger & Podcaster - Founder of the Atlanta Historical Computing Society Producer of the Vintage Computer Festival Southeast 1.0 - 2/9/13 http://about.me/davidgreelish On Oct 16, 2012, at 4:17 AM, cctalk-request at classiccmp.org wrote: > Good idea. Signed. > > Interesting bit about partnering with Disney. Disney occasionally offers > help in designing museums and theme parks. Whatever your opinion on the > company, they know how to run an attraction. They helped with a really nice > renovation of Greenfield Village in Dearborn, MI a few years ago - Henry > Ford's outdoor museum of trains, boats and buildings. In fact, Disneyland > was somewhat inspired by Greenfield Village.

12 years, 2 months

Paging Andreas Holz

by p.gebhardt＠ymail.com

Andreas, I don't have your mail address. Plesase contact me offline. Somebody gave me a binder of documentation for the "Modularer Experimentier-Computer" MEC-8, I'd like to forward to you,as it shall belong to the system, you collected from CMA-remainings in Dortmund. Kind regards, Pierre ? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pierre's collection of classic computers : http://classic-computing.dyndns.org/

12 years, 2 months

cctalk Digest, Vol 110, Issue 38

by saquinn624＠aol.com

>> When you throw something out, when does ownership of it pass from you? >> When you drop it in the trashcan? When you empty the trash into a >> dustbin? When the collectors pick up the dustbin's contents? When >> it's dumped into landfill (or whatever)? Never? > > It probably varies according to location. In the UK, ownership of trash > passes to the local council when you put the trash in a designated bin, > box or bag on the street for collection. My understanding is that, in most jurisdictions in the USA, trash is "abandoned property" when you bring it to the curb, even in a designated trash container owned by your trash hauler. This is the result of court decisions allowing police authorities to search the trash without bothering to obtain a warrant. That seems to be the general take in the US. There have been instances of dumpster divers prosecuted, but it's for trespass.

12 years, 2 months

HP Apollo 715t

by spectre＠floodgap.com

I'd forgotten I had this and where I got it from, but I was cleaning out one of my storage units today and found an HP Apollo 715t/33 (425t) (picture: http://www.floodgap.com/iv/1695 ). AIUI, this unit can boot both Domain/OS and HP-UX. I have a crate of HP-HIL keyboards from my 9000/350, but the manual indicates they won't work with Domain/OS (and a Domain/OS keyboard won't work with HP-UX). Ostensibly there is a switch on this unit which says what it's configured for, but I can't find it in the manual or obviously on the exterior of the unit. Any suggestions? I haven't fired it up yet. -- ------------------------------------ personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckaiser at floodgap.com -- TV is chewing gum for the eyes. -- Frank Lloyd Wright ----------------------

12 years, 2 months

Oh, also, 5.25" PC floppy drives

by fraveydank＠gmail.com

I have a number of 5.25" PC floppy drives that have sat in boxes in my parents' basement for years (reasonably well climate controlled, drives never got flooded, etc.) Media preservation isn't really my thing, since I don't have or come across a lot of media to preserve, but I figure four or five 5.25" drives could find a good home through this list. They worked last time they were tested, and I might be persuaded to test them again if necessary. I even have a 5.25"/3.5" dual drive, though its cosmetic components are beginning to wear a bit. Same deal, free for price of shipping. - Dave

12 years, 2 months

Manchester Baby

by robert＠irrelevant.com

I've been meaning to try and scan this for ages ... Mention of this in the article linked to from the love letter post made me remember it. Here's a news article about the Manchester Baby, from 1978. ("30 years ago today..") http://www.irrelevant.com/manchesterbaby/ Apologies for the poor formatting; original was almost unreadable in places. (Not helped by lots of brown sellotape holding it into my old scrapbook!) At some point I'll find the time to tidy it up. Rob

12 years, 2 months

cctalk Digest, Vol 110, Issue 35

by saquinn624＠aol.com

>> I am not trying to be confusing. That's legitimately the unit I have. On >> the front it says, HP Apollo with a sticker "Model 715t/33." On the back >> side it says A1630 425t. It has an Domain keyboard port and an HP-HIL port. >> >> So what do I have here? > >I think that only opening it up will tell you that for sure. You don't have to do that. Only Series 400 HP "Apollos" had both HIL and Domain keyboard connectors, and all Series 400s will run Domain/OS. Even though they're post-buy, it seems as though HP did put some work into them - my 425s is well-built and has pretty much everything you'd need to get a good system running without looking for parts (SCSI and Ethernet onboard). The downside is no ATR if you need to have it talk with older boxes.

12 years, 2 months

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