test-drb February 2013

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NEC D765D

by rampaginggreenhulk＠yahoo.com

I'll give you a dollar for it. seriously

11 years, 5 months

3B2 floppies

by rampaginggreenhulk＠yahoo.com

------------------------------ On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 3:54 PM PST Fred Cisin wrote: >On Wed, 13 Feb 2013, Chris Tofu wrote: >> and Scott more often then not DD media will format fine as "quads". They >> may not last as long as 96tpi media, depending on the quality. >correct! >It is exactly the same issues as using SS media for DS. >It's there; it's the same; but it has not been tested for that use. > >> I'm going to guess a 720k or 1.44meg drive won't work but it's not >> impossible. > >720K BETTER work. >720K 3.5" was developed EXPLICITLY to serve as a replacement for 720K >5.25" It is INTENDED to work. Although there is an assumption that you >are competent to set the drive select and other jumpers for installation. This is assuming all 720k 5 1/4" drives are interchangeable. There are relatively few of those out there, but being there are any number of 360k drives that are not interchangeable, I have my doubts. It may be that controllers are finicky but that's the whole point really.

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reasons to keep a Turbo XT clone.

by saquinn624＠aol.com

About a year ago I got a Turbo XT clone (8-ish MHz V20, I think, full memory). It needs a bit of work (HDD, looks like a cap blew on the floppy, monitor needs a new CEE receptacle wired in), but it seems to power up fine. I've been shoveling it around for the past year-plus, and this is the first time I've even turned it on, which gets me wondering whether it's worth keeping or not, especially when virtualized PCs are so easy to do. I have a 386 and Pentium with ISA slots, so that's not a big deal. For those with old clones, what do you use them for, or is it just mostly nostalgia?

11 years, 5 months

OT: adorable and cute Android tricks

by rampaginggreenhulk＠yahoo.com

Shouldn't they all be sent to Gehenna? How do you expect to maximize battery life with all these wonderful sweet theatrics? I do love my new phone and tablet. But I'm thinking of taking a chop saw to both to extract all the gizmos. Any A* coders? I figure the Wrox book is my best bet. There's a much older one that deals specifically with A* architecture, and looks very good for generic knowledge (has a Pict or something on the cover), but is very old.

11 years, 5 months

Long Live the Quad was Re: NO QUAD (Was: 3B2 floppies

by rampaginggreenhulk＠yahoo.com

See, the faithful are already gathering to pay homage to the Quad. God save the Quad! Sergio, I'd help in any way I can, but basically I've already said everything I know. But if you need a few specifics about setting up an imaging box, I might be able to help a bit with that. Mainly you need a cable with a twist behind the end connector, use a hd 3.5" drive at the end as A:, a 5 1/4" drive as B:, setup your bios accordingly and you should be good to go. That's the setup that's proved successful for me. >I shall ask you about this matter, Chris. I need to grab some disks for one >Altos 586 and one ATT 3b1. > >Sergio.

11 years, 5 months

Computing - then & now

by rampaginggreenhulk＠yahoo.com

------------------------------ On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 2:45 PM PST Murray McCullough wrote: >Back in the early years of mass-computerism you had to be a >hobbyist/experimenter with good soldering skills to make computers do >what you wanted them to do. Today they do it without your input and/or >knowledge. Is that not scary? Were there prognosticators who predicted >what would be now, 35-40 yrs. on? Vintage/classic computing were the >safer years, maybe not as exciting! Maybe part of the answer is not to >be connected but we would lose out on participating in this forum and >so much more. > >Murray-- Stick with open source, basic builds.

11 years, 5 months

reasons to keep a Turbo XT clone.

by rampaginggreenhulk＠yahoo.com

------------------------------ On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 12:27 PM PST Pete Plank wrote: >It has a controller that supports the SD formats I needed, but I don't recall the specifics. The machine is currently in storage but I do plan on setting it up again soon. > >Pete Please keep us posted. Details like that are invaluable.

11 years, 5 months

NEC D765D

by rampaginggreenhulk＠yahoo.com

the masks were also leased to Rockwell who's house number was 6765

11 years, 5 months

NEC D765D

by rampaginggreenhulk＠yahoo.com

ironically I just shipped an NEC 8001a disk drive cabinet to Austria. it also had a ceramic 765 and the most unique door mechanisms I've seen with manual lock buttons. I didn't dismantle to the point that I could say for sure who the manufacturer of the drives were but the visible vertical shaft motors said Teac 18261 on it. Anyone know any more about them than I do or have tech manuals? Oh I got 15$ after shipping but before fees. It cost 100.15$ to ship. My net gain after everything is considered is likely zero or negative. How I love ebay.

11 years, 5 months

Computing - then & now

by c.murray.mccullough＠gmail.com

Back in the early years of mass-computerism you had to be a hobbyist/experimenter with good soldering skills to make computers do what you wanted them to do. Today they do it without your input and/or knowledge. Is that not scary? Were there prognosticators who predicted what would be now, 35-40 yrs. on? Vintage/classic computing were the safer years, maybe not as exciting! Maybe part of the answer is not to be connected but we would lose out on participating in this forum and so much more. Murray--

11 years, 5 months

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