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How to enable USB drives in both Windows 98SE AND MS-DOS 7.1.

by jnc＠mercury.lcs.mit.edu

> From: Terry Stewart > http://www.classic-computers.org.nz/blog/2018-02-05-USB-in-MS-DOS-and-Win98… > Hopefully the article will be useful to others who might want to do > this. Hi, can I appeal to you (and everyone else who writes up these kinds of notes) to put this stuff on the Computer History wiki? When things like this get placed in the CCTalk archives (for which there is no search system other than Google), or on people's personal sites (ditto) - and I have in the past BTDT for both of these, myself - it's probably going to be hard to find them amidst all the other dross that a Google search typically produces, a couple of years down the road. With the CHWiki, we stand a chance of filtering out the useful information and making available, and _organizing_ all this stuff so that it's possible to find relevant information when it's needed... And no, I don't have time to upload all this stuff myself - I have too much other stuff I'm trying to work on! :-) So, please - let's get organized! Noel

8 years, 6 months

power cord end

by tdk.knight＠gmail.com

anyone know of a power cord designation simlar to nema 13 but smaller its used on a roland R8 has round pins has a power brick between it and te ain power plug https://electricdenimstudios.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Roland-R8-MKII-… http://www.vintagesynth.com/sites/default/files/2017-05/roland_r8mkii_rear_…

8 years, 6 months

OpenVMS software repositories?

by healyzh＠avanthar.com

What sites still exist that have VMS software? I know the about the OpenVMS Freeware CD?s from HP VMS Engineering. http://h41379.www4.hpe.com/openvms/freeware/collections.html As an example, I?ve found part of the old DECwindows archive, but it looks like that site is basically gone. Zane

8 years, 6 months

Final reminder! VCF Pacific Northwest is this weekend

by cctalk＠snarc.net

Helloooooooooooooo cctalkers. We've been planning this for almost a year and now it is time for the inaugural Vintage Computer Festival Pacific Northwest, this weekend (10am-5pm both days) at Living Computers: Museum+Labs in Seattle. There will be all the usual goodness that you expect from a Vintage Computer Federation event: computer museum tours, incredible exhibits, amazing venue, interesting presentations, consignment booth, food, tours of the nearby Connections Museum, and you can pick up a snazzy VCFed mousepad or coffee mug. :) If you live within a day's drive then you owe it to yourself to check out this show! All the details are at www.vcfed.org and don't forget to use #vcfpnw in social media posts. And of course, if you see me there then please come say hello. I love meeting Internet people in person. Special thanks to our supporters: LC:ML, Hackaday, ACM, and the IEEE History Center. -Evan ________________________________ Evan Koblentz, director Vintage Computer Federation a 501(c)3 educational non-profit evan at vcfed.org (646) 546-9999 www.vcfed.org facebook.com/vcfederation twitter.com/vcfederation

8 years, 6 months

8" floppy drives from AMD development system?

by classiccmp＠crash.com

Anybody notice this eBay auction? https://cgi.ebay.com/itm/222816138475 I'd guess it was part of a packaged AMD development system, maybe somebody recalls some specifics...? Or maybe that it was something else? Google is returning a lot about Age-related Macular Degeneration, and other misses where they helpfully turn "AMD" into "and" ... Thanks, --S.

8 years, 6 months

How to enable USB drives in both Windows 98SE AND MS-DOS 7.1.

by seefriek＠gmail.com

From: Curious Marc <curiousmarc3 at gmail.com> > > On Windows 7, using regedit, set > ?HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa\LMCompatibilityLevel? to ?1? > You might need to create the new entry under \lsa as a REG_DWORD, set to 1 > As your friendly neighbourhood infosec type, please be aware that this setting opens a rather nasty set of possible security issues. Fine on your lab network, but you probably don't want a machine configured like that on a possibly hostile network. KJ

8 years, 6 months

Microvax II 'primer'?

by jules.richardson99＠gmail.com

So, I picked up (and I did just carry it into the house, and now I hurt) a Microvax II from another list member yesterday. Cosmetically it's a disaster (BA123 has a cracked top panel, broken wheels, missing front door, missing right-rear panel) but internally it appears to be complete; board wise we have: M7606 - CPU M7608 - 4MB ram M9047 - grant continuity M7504 - DEQNA ethernet M3104 - DHV11 8-port serial M7555 - RQDX3 disk controller M7546 - TX50 controller ... it's got a TK50 and hard drive (no idea of capacity). Operational status is a complete unknown, and I have absolutely zero knowledge about these systems - so my question at this stage is what background reading I need to be doing in terms of pre-powerup* checks, actually hooking a console, if there's a suggested minimal config I can use to diag the CPU, and then (assuming it gets to that point) how to actually use the thing (I'm assuming it was running VMS rather than Ultrix, but I don't know for sure). I'm wondering there aren't any handy tutorials out there, alongside whatever DEC docs are recommended. * e.g. for most machines I'd be thinking in terms of pulling all boards/drives, hooking up a dummy load to whatever PSU rails required it, and then at least running the PSU up in isolation first, but I don't know to what extent this machine requires some logic in place for the PSU to even run. cheers Jules

8 years, 6 months

Searching for EBBS][

by jplist2008＠kiwigeek.com

As the title suggests, I'm looking for a copy of the EBBS][ software for a friend who used to run an Apple based BBS many moons ago and is looking out for a bit of nostalgia. So far he's been unable to locate the disks the system used to be on (he suspects damaged in a storage space flood in the late 90s) and my google fu is weak. Would anyone be able to help us out here? Replies should probably be kept off-list. My thanks to all; - JP

8 years, 6 months

Google, Wikipedia directly on ASCII terminal?

by martin＠meiner.ch

Hello guys. I am a passionate collector of old computerhardware (PDP8?s) and terminals from the very early 70ies. It has always been my aim to be able toconnect a modem or an acoustic coupler directly to one of my ASCII terminals,dial a number and be connected?with Google! Something like Google-interface but convertedto match ASCII terminals (only text, very simple graphics). I am aware that all searches that returnpicture sand graphics will not be displayed. But at least search-page should bein plain text, and many websites may as well. Wikipedia would be great? Does anybody know if there exists such anaccess-number where this conversion is already made, or is there a small deviceon the market that allows on one side connect to a dial-up modem and on theother side to the terminal and doing the ASCII conversion stand-alone? ?It would be really cool to be able todemonstrate to folks that these terminals can actually look up pages on Googleand (with limitations) also access some pages. Something similar has actually been done in an artisticway a few years ago under: http://www.masswerk.at/googleBBS/or http://www.masswerk.at/google60/ But I need the real thing working where I canconnect my terminals to?? Any help is appreciated

8 years, 6 months

CLASSICCMP vs. RackSpace or Gmail

by healyzh＠aracnet.com

Is anyone able to get email from this list via either CLASSICCMP or RackSpace? When I first changed over to using the healyzh at avanthar.com address, I was able to receive email from the list for a short time. I've even tried to subscribe with a gmail account, and no luck. My aracnet address is no longer reliable, and will not willingly be renewed. Zane

8 years, 6 months

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