After having a run of almost half a dozen IDE hard drive failures recently in
a short period of time (on my older desktops which use them, I've decided that
I should see if there's an IDE emulator (using SD cards) available I could
switch to. (I'm not sure why I had so many failures in such a short period; I
can only conclude that they're too old now, and reaching the end of their
service lives.
So soes anyone have one (or more) they can recommend? (IDE simulators only; I
don't want to have to mess around changing anything more than I _absolutely_
have to)? I did find these guys:
http://store.mesanet.com/index.php?route=product/category&path=74_64
in an online search - the CFADPTHD seems like it's close to what I'd want,
except it's Compact Flash; I'd have preferred SD but I guess converting
their interface to IDE is more work.
Noel
?I archived the entire website in the summer of 2019, shortly before it went offline in the Fall of 2019. When it became clear that SWTPC.COM was not coming back on line, I chose to host the content at https://deramp.com/swtpc.com/ so hobbyists could still have access to the excellent material Michael pulled together. Mike Evenson also hosts a copy of the website at http://www.swtpcemu.com/mholley/.
Anything you can do to preserve and host the material at swtpc.* is much appreciated!
Mike
What happened to www.bitsavers.org?
It has been down for at least the past 24 hours.
I can still ping the website, but http requests time out.
The bitsaver domain name here in Australia resolves to 208.77.18.144.
Thanks
Tom Hunter
Sorry, I did not see your post that there was no concern of losing Michael?s SWTPC content. I simply did not want to see more great material disappear from the internet as our peers age and become unable to maintain their web presence. I?ve seen that happen over and over now.
I?ll remove my mirror of Michael?s SWTPC content. You can contact Michael Evenson and let him know his assistance in preserving the content for the benefit of the hobby community is also ?unauthorized.?
I presently pay for 150Gb of bandwidth on deramp.com to host material for vintage computing hobbyists. I?m surprised the swtpc.org bandwidth requirements are high enough to be an issue that requires your ?grace? to allow us to view its content.
Mike
Before I ebay buy a monitor, original IBM 5135, will it match the scan rates of the IBM of the IBM Professional Graphics Controller?
I wanted to keep this system looking all original IBM.
Will I need a different monitor, Princeton or something like that?
Your recommendations appreciated.
Thanks,
Randy
Contacts have been made to secure disposition of Bill Dawson and Mike
Holley's site/contents. As part of that effort, I pointed swtpc.org to what
used to be swtpc.com (and also swtpc.org). So if you go to swtpc.org you can
traverse both sites. But that is not why I'm posting..
So in doing this and fixing a few links, I noticed there was a lot of
pictures and info on "first computer store in..." information, apparently
written by Mike Holley and we were just talking about that topic here. Some
may want to go hunting for the computer store that was an adult movie place
heh
J
Hello all, apparently I've been in this group now for weeks but my
spam filter thinks it's all spam. Fixed that, I hope.
Does anyone have any leads on a MIPS Magnum R4000 or Jazz-compatible
machine? I've been working for a while on trying to round out my
collection of alt-arch WinNT machines, and the Magnum has proven to be
the most elusive.
Thanks
I need advice on a path forward then. From emails I got from Michael, Bill
Dawson gave him authority over both swtpc.com and swtpc.org.
Originally, Bill Dawson had swtpc.com but Michael was managing/uploading
much of the content there under the mholley subdirectory
(www.swtpc.com/mholley). Michael registered swtpc.org and I set that as a
redirect to the subdirectory on swtpc.com. Michael stated that at some point
the sites would be merged and he would be the sole site maintainer.
So now I am hosting swtpc.com and swtpc.org, and ownership of the site is up
in the air. Whoever owns swtpc.com doesn't have an A record, which
effectively kills off swtpc.org (redirect fails) as well. All that good
content (and there's a fair amount) is no longer accessible. I see herb
johnson ripped the site and has a copy over at deramp, but no clue if that
is a complete copy that descended from Bill or Mikes wishes.
My initial plan - since I have no registrar access to swtpc.com and it
doesn't point to my name servers, nothing I can do. But swtpc.org at least
still, is pointing to my nameservers. I will change the apache config from a
redirect to the real contents (but not sure if it should bring up the
content that was swtpc.com or swtpc.org). At least a real site will be up.
That being said, I am moving the sites I host free from one server to
another. That project is ongoing the past few days. I would like to move
swtpc.* as well, but see above.
If someone has a reasonably cogent claim to the content I would hand the
site (both) to them. If it's long been gone and other copies are complete
and commonly used, then I could just delete it but hesitant to do so. I
would like to decommission the old server but this should be resolved first.
Feel free to send me advice/thoughts/claims/rants off-list.
J
