I may need some short term help with a museum pickup in Houston. It is
a small item (well, sort of - 50 pounds? Certainly trunk of the car
small), but would need pickup in 15 days or so. It is a piece of
avionics gear.
Expenses would be paid, of course, to fetch this and probably ship it
(unless I swing by Houston soon).
Any interest?
--
Will
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On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 5:58 PM PST allison wrote:
>Yep it is. any of the LK201, 301 and a few others should work equally well.
>
>Allison
The pressing question on everyone's mind I'm sure is does Allison keep a Rainbow...
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On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 5:17 PM PST Zane H. Healy wrote:
>At 3:21 PM -0800 2/22/13, Chris Tofu wrote:
>> I sold my R* like a fool. K/b was broken up, and now I feel bad and would like to get the guy a working replacement or parts.
>
>It's just an LK201, right? I'd think that would be easy enough to track down.
>
>Zane
If you say so. I've asked in the past. And would much rather have a broken one so the two can be put to use. A working spare should go to a ready system. I hate waste and I was a moron for dropping it.
It WILL melt the plastic on old dial-up
>telephones.
>Cindy
Hmmm. Not sure when they stopped using it, but I think phones os some vintage were bakelite or phenolic.
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On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 2:24 PM PST Chuck Guzis wrote:
>On 02/22/2013 01:02 PM, Chris Tofu wrote:
>>
>> All those bits of rubber are now blobs of goo--and tough as the devil
>> to get cleaned up, much less replaced.
>>
>> Try GooGone and a host of other things. Can't say for certain but I
>> have to believe there's some way of removing it w/o too much fuss.
>> Tape residue and I realize it's entirely different comes right off
>> with what used to be called Afta, but they were bought by someone
>> years ago.
>
>From the sounds of it, probably naphtha.
>
>The big problem with a lot of this stuff is that it's been attached to or leaked onto plastic parts. You want to be very careful of what you use on old plastic. Some solvents can cause it to disintegrate.
>
>I've had moderate success with mineral spirits. It's terrible yucky stuff, no matter what you use. Benzene (not benzine) would probably also work, but I haven't tried it because it's very difficult to obtain, being classed as a carcinogen and all...
>
>--Chuck
I don't know if contains naptha or not. it was probably named. afta because you use it after you spray down certain surfaces with glue. regardless of what was in it it was very safe for plastic and even painted surfaces as long as you didn't go crazy. I was going nuts trying to clean tape residue off of plastic monitors with thinner, then my father started using the afta that I had an old soda bottle, and it came off quite painlessly. It was a thin colorless liquid, and. IIRC it subsequently was called goof off or.goo gone. I bought a small bottle of something also called goo gone at target for 1$. Haven't used it, but it's yellow in a clear plastic container.
anyone ever use a USB/Serial cable to connect to an Altair? I am trying
to connect my 680b to my windows 7 computer via hyper-terminal to no
avail. Any special settings I should be aware for terminal settings
(currently using 9600, 8 data bits, 1 stop bits, NONE for parity and
flow control).
Also, anyone know where I can get the ROM files for a 680b?
Re: PANASONIC HHC RL-H1800 TV DISPLAY ADAPTOR
From: Eric Smith
Bill Allen Jr wrote:
> I have an rl-h1800 HHC that is part of a GE two way radio programmer.
>
> the display is not displaying full characters from the middle of the display to almost the last third of the display and i noticed that a tv display adaptor was available for the hhc.
> Note that the TV adapter does not (necessarily) replicate what is on the
> display. You might or might not be able to redirect the display output
> to the TV adapter, depending on the specific software you're running.
Thankx for the info.
i did read that in the manual and since the ge software only uses text on the single line display, i am hoping it will echo it on the adaptor.
unless the adaptor need's to be specifically called in the software
to do the echo via the i/o channel,in which case i'll still have to fix the display or change it.
Bill
Hi Chuck,
Thank you for the hints.
I have a NEC FD1165 which looks different to the BAS6105. Haven't opened the
Basf 6105 yet.
I'll try to make some pictures to show the differences.
The NEC FD1165 is a nice drive. I took it from my Apollo DN300 drive
shoebox. No belt mechanism running with 220V/110V.
It worked quite some time perfectly. No read errors like my Shugart 851 in
reading disks from 1985.
But the suddenly the NEC stopped working caused by a rubber part which
turned into glue.
That glue locked the head mechanism. I remove that glue. Heads are going
down again but now I get read errors.
Here's a guy from Japan with the same problem (pls. look a image 7) :
http://www.geocities.jp/tangoorisyoku/ku__page/ku_cgs/98_mente/8inch_FD1165A
/1165A_mente.html
I hope to find some time to look at the NEC1165 service manual to perhaps
check the head alignement with a scope.
The manual shows a procedure how to do that. I don't have an alignement
floppy. I hope good floppy from my stock
might work.
Best Regards,
Marc
Message: 16
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 16:54:52 -0800
From: Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com>
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Subject: Re: Manual for BASF6105 8inch Flp drive
Message-ID: <5125705C.10107 at sydex.com>
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On 02/20/2013 12:33 PM, Marc Holz wrote:
> I have a BASF 6105 8inch floppy drive and would like to find information
on
> the jumper settings.
According my list, the 6105 is really a rebadged NEC 1165. You can find
a basic manual here:
http://www.vintagecomputer.net/fjkraan/comp/divcomp/doc/NEC_FD1165_8_inch_fl
oppy.pdf
Marcus has a maintenance manual on his site:
http://maben.homeip.net/static/S100/NEC/diskette/NEC%20FD1165%20Maintenance.
pdf
Let me know if this isn't right so I can correct my notes.
--Chuck
Hi list,
I'm almost done with the scanning of the 25-30 Sperry-Univac/Unisys binders regarding OS/3, System-80 and DCP-hardware, I got from a company years ago. Parts of it are already online on bitsavers, the rest will be made available to Al at the end of year. I just wanted to make sure the content is scanned and thus saved and as I don't have the hardware and therefore no use for it, I'd like to give the documentation away to somebody who is interested in that. I'll give the documents to whoever seems most approriate from my point of view. Hints to institutions or persons not being on the list and favourable from you point of you are welcome, too.
Documents are located in Germany. Shipping would cost and need to be organised if you don't want to pick up, but I'd help with organisation, if possible.
Kind regards,
Pierre
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