>> Survey time: How many people have Plus/4s which are not in the box?
[raises hand in the air]
actually my plus/4s completely dead - has anyone got schematics anywhere
or know what commonly went wrong with these machines? (Unfortunately it
was donated to me in a dead state - I've no guarantee that ROMs haven't
been swapped round etc. - can anyone tell me which chips should go in
which sockets just to be sure? :)
(If I power on the machine all I get is a black screen, no meaningful
display of any sort)
>> I've got two in the box (no not in the same box). Were these
>> machines so bad that they were shelved even before the box made it
>> to the trash?
well I must say that the manuals make them sound pretty good, but that
has to be a lie - I mean, how common are these things? (they're
certainly not in the UK anyway!!)
cheers
Jules
>
Ok, so I'd like to make use of the recent discussion we had concerning
hard drive repair and attack the "widget" drive in my Lisa 2/10 to see if
I can bring it back to life. Does anybody know where I can find technical
info on this drive? A web resource that I don't know about perhaps?
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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I picked up a Commodore Pet for old times sake (it was the first desktop
computer I ever got my hands on). Unfortunately a couple of keys are not
responding consistantly. I suspect that some goop got spilled on it at
some point (it was a board of education computer originally). I tried
some head cleaner which has worked for me before but not this time.
Anyone with experience with this with advice?
TIA
colan
I'm interested too but I'm even more geographically challenged (in
Massachusetts).
Tony
> -----Original Message-----
> From: D. Peschel [mailto:dpeschel@u.washington.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 1998 2:19 PM
> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
> Subject: Re: Free 11/04 System
>
>
> > S'funny. I thought there might be more interest in a working PDP
> > system, because everyone complains there are (relatively) fewer of
> > them left in the Southern California area.
>
> I'm interested (but haven't gotten around to replying yet).
>
> Unfortunately, I'm in Seattle :( and shipping the thing would
> be a real pain.
>
> Maybe the timing of your offer is unfortunate for all the
> California people.
>
> -- Derek
>
Just purchased an "Outbound Laptop System". I can't find a power
switch on the unit. Does it use the keyboard to power on?
I don't have the power adapter. What are the specs for it? Can the
Outbound run directly off the adapter or does it need to run off the
battery?
Thanks!
Tom Owad
P.S. A while back there was some discussion concerning Mac Portables.
Paul Kelbaugh of Newport Computer Trading Company has all sorts of Mac
Portable parts & accessories for sale. Phone: 703-861-MACS. Email:
kelbaugh(a)aol.com
--
Sysop of Caesarville Online
Client software at: <http://home.earthlink.net/~tomowad/>
I have a Quantum 270 MB IDE that requires really small jumpers. Standard ones (e.g., Maxtor) are too big.
Anyone have any?
Thanks
"Corduroy pillows make headlines."
< Quick question: what's a DEC DS200? (I'm assuming it means DECstation
< 200, but I'm also guessing it's x86-based and has no relation to the
< larger MIPS-based systems).
the only thin I know by that part number is a DECserver200, a 8port
eithernet/LAT terminal server 68000 based.
< Another question: what would be a reasonable offer for a stripped
< DECsystem 5500? The guy seems to want a (IMHO) ridiculous price for it
Unknown on price but those are fast systems in the MIPS lineup. It's
also not that old (to be under the 10 year rule).
< near what he wanted! From what I can tell the DS5500 would be not much
< more than a rare novelty (it IS a Qbus-based MIPS, after all), let alone
< competitor to modern servers. (I don't think it was even that much fast
< than it's TC relatives.)
TC??? It was a fast machine when it was introduced. fast compared to
modern with PII/233s and the like is a unfair comparison.
< Also, is there a FAQ or something somewhere explaining common hardware?
DECs linup was huge so that would be a large list (the option module list
was several very thick volumes and listed everything DEC had a part number
for)
< I'd like explanation on the DECmate as well, but that seems like it woul
< be a FAQ by now.
crank up your web thingie and follow the PDP-8 trail. The DECmate series
is a PDP-8 in CMOS clothing. There are some BIG faq out there for that
one.
Look here:
Frequently Asked Questions about DEC PDP-8 models and options.
By Douglas Jones, jones(a)cs.uiowa.edu
(with help from many folks)
Sites known to carry reasonably current FTPable copies of this file:
ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/alt.sys.pdp8ftp://ftp.uu.net/usenet/news.answers/dec-faq
ftp://src.doc.ic.ac.uk:/pub/usenet/news.answers/alt.sys.pdp8
Allison
It is not a BIOS trick. The extra 128K appears in the upper memory area,
>from D000 to EFFF. There was a special device driver available, USE!UMBS.SYS,
that turned this memory into UMB's if you were running DOS 5. Great for
parking mouse and network drivers in. The driver was written by a hobbyist
as a memory study project, it was available with the machine code source
so you could modify it for other computers. IIRC it should be on Simtel.
I also have a copy around here somewhere. I used to admin a network that
had lots of Philips XTs, NMS9100 and P3105 were the ones that had this
extra memory.
Kees
--
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Sysadmin and DEC PDP/VAX preservationist - http://vaxarchive.ml.org
Net-Tamer V 1.08.1 - Registered
Im sorry, I mean SOS. have you been able to get to the HD yet? Let me know
whats up and maybe I can help.
-----Original Message-----
From: Doug Spence <ds_spenc(a)alcor.concordia.ca>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Date: Wednesday, August 12, 1998 2:39 AM
Subject: Re: Apple III & Profile
>
>
>On Fri, 7 Aug 1998, Bill Girnius wrote:
>
>> My profile's on my III's can't be accessed through Prodos, but need a
disk
>> called catalyst to get to the drive. If you need a copy email me
>> personally.
>
>I don't have ProDOS on the III, only SOS. Or are they the same thing? If
>so, how the heck do I get to a command line, this menu system is killing
>me. ;)
>
>
>Doug Spence
>ds_spenc(a)alcor.concordia.ca
>http://alcor.concordia.ca/~ds_spenc/
> Some 70 text lines for a 4 word response, that was already commented on
> in this thread.
> Now don't you think that's a little much !
>
> Larry (in indignant mode)
> lwalker(a)interlog.com
Well, I guess it's better than whoever used 0 text lines for a 0 line
response. At least with the 70 lines, you know what they're talking about.
With 0 text lines, and no response, your guess is as good as mine for what
they meant :-)
--
-Jason
(roblwill(a)usaor.net)
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