So there was some discussion a while back about using lifts to put heavy gear
in racks. I'm going to be doing some of that soon, and I was wondering how I'd
go about acquiring something like that at a non-exorbitant price? (eBait was
not useful, and Googling "user server lift" didn't produce anything either.)
Any ideas?
Noel
> Googling "user server lift" didn't produce anything
Oops, typo: "user" -> "used". (The prices I was seeing for these things was
high, so I was wondering if used ones might be a bargain.)
I also should have mentioned that I'm looking to put heavy assemblies (disk
drives) up high in a 6' rack - say at the 5' level, counting the raised floor
section the racks are one -q so the engine hoists aren't an option. (By an odd
coincidence, I happen to have one of those Harbour Freight units in my garage,
and it's a great engine hoist; not high enough for this, though.) And I was
hoping for something in the $200 or so range, and even the cheaper manual
units are more than that, new.
Noel
harbor freight has some excellent platform lift things...
worth checking....
we like things like this as large TV studio cameras weigh 100 to 200
<<and one here is 300 (tk42)>>
when we get a caucus in and want to clean it up and make it presentable
for display we like to work on it at bench height...
(once in a while it is good to raise a tape drive up in the air
too...)
<< I can't believe I used to grab a 7970E out of a rack... walk it across
the computer room and put in another rack by my self......no more.... I
just look at it in the rack and get tired now!!>>>
ED#
In a message dated 7/4/2016 4:12:07 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
elson at pico-systems.com writes:
On 07/04/2016 05:57 PM, Noel Chiappa wrote:
> So there was some discussion a while back about using lifts to put heavy
gear
> in racks. I'm going to be doing some of that soon, and I was wondering
how I'd
> go about acquiring something like that at a non-exorbitant price? (eBait
was
> not useful, and Googling "user server lift" didn't produce anything
either.)
>
I've used an "engine hoist" around the shop to move heavy
stuff. It has an extendable beam and a bottle jack to raise
it. It folds up into a pretty small package when not in
use. These can often be had pretty cheaply.
Jon
there ya go!
In a message dated 7/4/2016 4:00:56 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
rich.cini at verizon.net writes:
I just googled "scissor lift table" and came up with something that I
might search for if I had a similar need. Look at the images and see if those
would work for you.
Rich
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> On Jul 4, 2016, at 6:57 PM, Noel Chiappa <jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:
>
> So there was some discussion a while back about using lifts to put heavy
gear
> in racks. I'm going to be doing some of that soon, and I was wondering
how I'd
> go about acquiring something like that at a non-exorbitant price? (eBait
was
> not useful, and Googling "user server lift" didn't produce anything
either.)
> Any ideas?
>
> Noel
I'm trying to preserve my Acorn ADFS 3.5" discs. To this end, I've purchased a KryoFlux "Pro" board and a new-old-stock ALPS floppy drive.
I've hooked it all up to a Windows 8.1 VM and everything *seems* to be working. However, the .adl images I create are all 0KB in size.
I've created a profile to match the discs I'm reading (256byte sector size, tracks 0-79, MFM encoding, interleaved sides).
Recording the flux transitions captures data, but when I run the resultant data back through DTC I get the same.
Any ideas?
-Austin.
Sent from my iPad
Hi folks - if any of the folks I used to know are still on this list (Tony
Duell? Pete Turnbull? Jim Doran? Jules Richardson?), I just wanted to let
you know I'll be visiting TNMoC for the first time on 11th Aug. I
mentioned this on the Edinburgh Computer History Project list and a few of
the old Edinburgh hands will be coming along to make a day trip of it. If
anyone is going to be in the neighbourhood and wants to say hello while
we're there, let me know (or subscribe to our Yahoo group for updates)
We had an Edinburgh connection with BP through Donald Michie, and I believe
a bunch of our old computer center hardware (2976?) ended up in a shed at
TNMoC.
Best regards,
Graham
(PS I was never gone, I just don't post much.)
Bill, I hope that you can snap a few pictures with your phone to show us.
This is quite the mystery device.
On Sat, Jul 2, 2016 at 8:56 PM, Bill Sudbrink <wh.sudbrink at verizon.net>
wrote:
> No, I don't think so. I'm pretty sure that the paper
> tape on this thing is for output, probably printed or
> marked in some way because the paper seemed too flimsy
> to hold a readable punch pattern. But now I'm pretty
> determined to go back tomorrow and see if I can get
> some more info. I didn't look at the bottom of it, maybe
> there's a label.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Chuck
> > Guzis
> > Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2016 11:30 PM
> > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
> > Subject: Re: Maybe interesting toy in junk shop...
> >
> > On 07/02/2016 07:32 PM, Bill Sudbrink wrote:
> > > I was poking around a junk shop that I visit from time to time and I
> > > saw a toy. It didn't really strike me as that interesting when I saw
> > > it but I've been wondering about it since I left the place this
> > > morning. The thing was mostly red plastic with a cardboard bottom.
> > > It had a two-prong AC cord and a four prong "old fashioned" telephone
> > > jack. It had two big buttons and a spool of paper tape mounted on
> > > the front. The tape was about 1/4 inch wide. I call it a toy
> > > because it had that sort of feel about it. It was not clearly
> > > labeled as such. It was also styled in a way that suggested late
> > > 1960s to me. The whole thing was the size of a small shoe box. I
> > > can't find anything like it in google searches. I wonder if it might
> > > have some early modem like device in it. Does this description "ring
> > > a bell" with anyone?
> >
> >
> > Sounds like a late-model Kilburg Dialaphone. 1960-ish. Early models
> > directly operated the dial of the desk telephone--later ones just
> > pulsed
> > the line appropriately--something that AT&T objected to and that
> > Kilburg
> > unsuccessfully fought. This was years before the Carterfone episode.
> > Memory was a paper tape with printed names on it.
> >
> > That particular unit sounds like a very rare piece of kit.
> >
> > Am I getting close?
> >
> > --Chuck
> >
> > -----
> > No virus found in this message.
> > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com
> > Version: 2016.0.7640 / Virus Database: 4604/12477 - Release Date:
> > 06/23/16
> > Internal Virus Database is out of date.
>
>
--
Thanks,
-AJ
http://MicrotechM1.blogspot.com
So, after finding that a DL11-E wasn't working in the backplane SPC
slots (26-28) on my 11/45, I took a closer look. The problem isn't
exactly what I had expected -- -15V seems to be distributed there, but
+15 is not.
Looking closely at the print sets, the listed configurations only
mention DL11-A, the 20ma current loop model, which wouldn't require +15
to work. I wonder if some +15 distribution wires were added in an ECO,
or maybe EIA console from the backplane SPC slots was never supported
for these early 11/45s (mine is serial 152).
There's one other oddity -- the power distribution table in
EK-11045-MM-007, page 510, implies that +15 should be distributed to the
SPC slots on CA1. I'm wondering if this is a typo, since I'd expect
that pin to be NPG? The DL11-E looks to be expecting +15 on UA1 in any
case.
