Hi folks,
Has anyone had any success creating a DLT tape leader - I bought a very
cheap DLT V80 off eBay which came missing a leader and I don't really
want to spend any money on one. I have a TK50 leader which I can use as
a pattern part, I wondered if anyone had come across any material that
had similar properties? It feels like 35mm film wouldn't be a bad
substitute for a replacement for example?
Regards, Mark.
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Hi!? We are at 15 of the necessary 20 boards for an order of S-100 bus
extender PCBs. Please send me your pre-orders and once we get to 20 boards
I will make the manufacturing order for the group.
I would like to get this going for the builders so if you are considering an
S-100 bus extender or even want to stash one away for future use. These are
very useful boards and sometimes they just get stuck in a project and stay
there for extended periods of time. It is handy to have more than one at
least in my experience.
Here is a link to S100computers.com website with information on the updated
S-100 Bus Extender board:
http://www.s100computers.com/My%20System%20Pages/Extender%20Board/Extender%2
0Board.htm
The PCBs will be $20 each as per the usual arrangement.? Shipping in the US
is $3 for a single PCB and $2 for each additional PCB.? Shipping
internationally is $10 for a single PCB and $3 for each additional PCB.?
This is for the bare basics USPS first class postage with no tracking or
insurance.? The builder assumes all risk of delivery as per usual
arrangement.
Please send a PayPal to LYNCHAJ at YAHOO.COM with the subject ?S-100 Bus
Extender? and I will reserve your board(s).?
Thanks and have a nice day!
Andrew Lynch
PS,? We are still doing another order for S-100 Buffered Prototyping board
bus and have 6 boards in the queue.? If you would like one or more S-100
Buffered Prototyping boards please let me know.? The pre-order arrangements
are identical to the others but please send them in a separate email with
subject "S-100 buffered prototyping board" so I can keep things straight on
this end. This seems to have stalled out so I am considering issuing
refunds and waiting until there is more builder demand. At the moment we
have 7 pre-orders and need another 13 to get to 20 board pre-orders. Thanks
and have a nice day!
I have one Amiga 2000 and one Amiga 3000 computers,
they were working, and have been in storage.
I have no monitors to test them with, but they do seem to power up.
I'll take best offer, and I'm in toronto Canada.
BTW I still have a bunch of suns (mostly sparc 5s), vaxstation 4000s (no drives), and an Octane.
Though I have one sun sparc 10 ultra with the 486 board
This stuff has to go.
Over the next few months I'll probably be getting rid of more odds and ends,
need to clean out the garage, and I'm broke, usual story.
Dan.
Curt,
I can send you a small piece.
Contact me off-list.
-Rik
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Van: "rescue" <rescue at hawkmountain.net>
Verzonden: ?6-?11-?2013 16:21
Aan: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Onderwerp: RE: TU58 capstan solutions anyone ?
On 2013-11-06 07:15, Rik Bos wrote:
>> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
>> Van: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org
>> [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org]
>> Namens TeoZ
>> Verzonden: woensdag 6 november 2013 8:46
>> Aan: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
>> Onderwerp: Re: TU58 capstan solutions anyone ?
>>
>> Would the rollers from a tape deck work? You can buy new
>> replacements for
>> those in different sizes.
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: rescue
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2013 12:38 AM
>> To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
>> Subject: TU58 capstan solutions anyone ?
>>
>>
>> Checked my VT103... one capstan is a train wreck... the other
>> doesn't
>> look to bad, but I bet that if it was attempted to be used it would
>> die
>> quick.
>>
>> I've read about the use on different drives about tubing, etc to fix
>> capstans....
>>
>> Anyone done a T58 here ? Can you let me know what materials I need
>> and
>> process to replace "goo precursor" with tubing/etc ?
>>
>> I don't have a lathe, machine tools, etc available to me (beyond
>> files,
>> a dremel, etc).
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> -- Curt
>
> I've made several new ones, if you use a product called precision
> tube.
> You can cut it the right length, after gluing it to the capstan,
> place the capstand on a small motor which runs on a lab supply, you
> can grind it to the right size.
> At http://www.flickr.com/photos/hp-fix you can see the results of my
> actions.
>
> -Rik
Would you happen to have a link for this precision tube ?
googling found me lots of companies (tube bending, manufacturing,
etc)... but I haven't located a product called that.
What glue did you use ?
What kind of tool(s) did you use to grind it to the right OD ?
Also, anyone know the right OD for this TU58 part ?
-- Curt
For fun, I'm trying to build an e11 standalone setup. I built a little
freedos 1.1 guest under esxi, ran the e11 install, and tried to run the
sys command on drive C: as documented. Sys complains "invalid target
drive".
Clues as to what constitutes a valid target would be appreciated.
De
Cctalk'ers,
VCF East "9.1" is April 4-6, 2014, at the InfoAge Science Center, in
Wall, New Jersey. But you already knew that. :) Now it's time to
announce some of the guest speakers.
Days/times are all TBD/subject to change:
- Paul Lasewicz (IBM's corporate archivist)
- Maris Graube (founder of IEEE 802 LAN/MAN committee -- April 6 @ noon)
- Dave Haynie (Commodore Amiga executive)
- Bill Cheswick (Bell Labs firewall pioneer)
There will be much more! We're working on a Scelbi activity, a couple of
film screenings, a fun AT&T presentation, a really awesome technical
workshop, and one more keynote speaker who is MIND-BLOWINGLY FAMOUS.
Stay tuned for frequent updates at http://www.vintage.org/2014/east/ and
http://www.facebook.com/vcfeast.
At 12:00 -0600 11/5/13, <Cory> wrote:
>After further investigation: The PSU does seem to be giving 12V and -12V
>where it should, and on the board there is continuity between 12V on the
>power commector and 12V on the molex...so nothing went completely open
>there.
Cory,
Caution, wild-ass debugging guesses based on insufficient
data follow. Fred's was the correct response, "what is it doing?"
That said, I had trouble with one of these machines, and
finally traced it to the power-on-reset mechanism. There are a
capacitor and resistor in parallel, holding the CPU in reset long
enough for power to get up and stable. The resistor was fine, the
surface-mount capacitor was intermittent (grr!) short. So the machine
would run for an indeterminate period before the capacitor would
short, pulling it back to reset state.
Replacing the cap fixed the problem, though I have not played
with the machine much since. I think at least some of this story is
in the archives, not sure.
YMMV of course, but this sounds like a possible analog to
your trouble; if your equivalent cap is dead short, the CPU would
never get out of reset and the machine would look "dead" even with
power. Let me know if you need more info, I can pull the box out of
storage and try to look it over and test again.
Good luck!
--
- Mark 210-379-4635
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Large Asteroids headed toward planets
inhabited by beings that don't have
technology adequate to stop them:
Think of it as Evolution in Fast-Forward.
Hi all,
I've created a .TAP file using E11 which contains a bootable RT-11 image. I
wrote this using st.exe to a DAT tape via my Adaptec 2940UW. E11 boots this
fine, no matter the type of the MU0 device within the simulator.
But if I try booting it using a CQD220A/M/T in /T mode, I get a
"?BOOT-U-I/O error" which seems RT-11 enough to make me think it is
actually trying to boot MSBOOT.BOT.
The .TAP file was creating using E11's TU81 emulation and MUB.COM within
RT-11 V05.06.
A console log follows:
KDF11B-BE ROM V0.9
1024KB MEMORY
9 STEP MEMORY TEST
STEP 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
TOTAL MEMORY ERRORS = 0
CLOCK ENABLED
1024KB MEMORY KDF11B-BE ROM V0.9 CLOCK
ENABLED
ERR 12 NON-EXISTENT CONTROLLER
Use CTRL/Z to return to MAIN MENU
173402
@17760406/005500 123456
@/001000 100
@5000g
SCSI UTILITY PROGRAM 2.0
DISK TAPE
1 = 772150 A = 774500
2 = 760334 B = 760404
3 = 760354 C = 760444
4 = 760374 D = 760504HELP
5 = 760340 E = 760544
6 = 760344 F = 760410 ARROW" or "DOWN ARROW" to select function
7 = 760350 G = 760450
8 = 760360 H = 760454u
SELECT CSR ADDRESS b
MAIN MENU: CSR = 760404
1 = BOOT DRIVE
7 = ADDITIONAL SCSI COMMANDS
SELECT OPTION : 1
BOOT DRIVE NUMBER <0 TO 7>: 0
BOOT MU0 . ARE YOU SURE? y
WAIT...
?BOOT-U-I/O error
?
With DEV0 being:
DEV0: MU0 SCSI ID 0 LUN 0 HP C1537A L708
Disc ON,Sync ON,3-Density ON,Buffer ON,
Anyone have an idea what I could do to further this along?
regards,
Sander Reiche
