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by sinasohn＠ricochet.net

At 02:23 PM 7/29/98 +0000, you wrote: > In Tim Robbins novel "Even Cowgirls" , the "Chink" quotes the Indians as >saying they knew the white man was crazy but not so completely bonkers >as to live in such a place when they had had demonstrations of the quakes >powers. Well, Quakes can be interesting, but really what they mean is your house/office/whatever is going to be better built than elsewhere, and you grow up with an instinctive eye for not putting breakables in precarious places. Besides, I'd rather live somewhere that had occassional earthquakes rather than a regular tornado, hurricane, or blizzard season... 8^) A lot of people suggested stronger shelves, which would be a good idea except that we're talking 7 sets of shelves (plus a whole lot of computers that I keep promising my girlfriend will get put in there) so $50/set is a lot of dough. Does anyone have any experience with overloading the plastic shelves? We have some running around here, but I don't know how strong they are. As for starting what will end up on the floor on the floor, that would be cool too, but I only have so much floor space (The house across the street just went on the market -- 2700 sq ft, 4 bedrooms, yard: $695K, and no, I don't live in a rich neighborhood.) and everybody pisses and moans as it is about the computers strewn throughout the house already. 8^) A lot of people suggested chicken wire or bungees to hold things on the shelves, which prompted me to think of a low-cost solution my GF's sister-in-law came up with: twine. Lace twine around/through the vertical supports. Surplus phone wire or such would work too, I think. --------------------------------------------------------------------- O- Uncle Roger "There is pleasure pure in being mad roger(a)sinasohn.com that none but madmen know." Roger Louis Sinasohn & Associates San Francisco, California http://www.sinasohn.com/

28 years, 1 month

Signup?

by sinasohn＠ricochet.net

At 11:40 PM 7/29/98 -0400, you wrote: >Hate to say this, but your best bet is to find another email provider >than Juno, since many of us have it severely killfilled. I don't, I Not everyone can afford a different provider... >You _are_ signed up for the list -- your message arrived. This does Actually, one need not be signed up to send messages to the list. So he probably isn't, and probably doesn't have web access to be able to find a FAQ. --------------------------------------------------------------------- O- Uncle Roger "There is pleasure pure in being mad roger(a)sinasohn.com that none but madmen know." Roger Louis Sinasohn & Associates San Francisco, California http://www.sinasohn.com/

28 years, 1 month

Wierd Stuff web site?

by rcini＠email.msn.com

Does Wierd Stuff Warehouse in Sunnyvale have a web site? How about a phone# (the one that I have "...has been disconnecte.")? Rich Cini/WUGNET <nospam_rcini(a)msn.com> - ClubWin/CW6 - MCP Windows 95/Windows Networking - Preserver of "classic" computers <<<< ========== reply separator ========== >>>>>

28 years, 1 month

notebook parts sources

by poesie＠geocities.com

PC Service Source, in my reseller experience, seems to always charge high prices & take forever for parts they say are "in stock". not bad for some things, and they will try to get things you can't find anywhere else; but they are rather irritating because several times we were told the parts were in stock and ended up waiting months for them to become available. my two cents. -Eric P.S. - If anyone is interested, I'm willing to provide an edited copy of my windows cardfile of vendors. have about 1000 pages, w/ contacts for alot of diff manufacturers. email privately if interested. :) Wayne Cox wrote: > PC Service Source www.pcservice.com (sorry to mention the "P" word > here) Parts for all kinds of systems, printers, and peripherals. > Including old first-gen laser printers. > > -Wayne Cox

28 years, 1 month

Dead keys on C64

by maynard＠jmg.com

Well I landed an amazing C64 software score, with boxed sets of Ultima I, all the Zork series, Neuromancer, an editor assembler package, a koala pad, a bunch of joysticks, and a bunch of other stuff I can't remember. The boxes and manuals are in almost _pristine_ condition! Didn't pay a dime... one of the guys I work with was amazed that I liked this stuff and pulled it out of his basement to give to me for a beer. Well, OK; I paid a beer. ;-) Problem: I just noticed the C64 seems to have these dead keys '5, 7, 9, and 0'. Looks to me like a dead bit on the keyboard controller, but I must confess to ignorance on the internal details of how the C64 accepts key presses. Can anyone give an overview, and would anyone know of a fix? Thanks, --jmg

28 years, 1 month

Rare Tandy 1400???

by roblwill＠usaor.net

Hello everyone... I have two Tandy 1400HD laptops. One has an NEC V20 processor in it. The other has an actual Intel 8088 processor. I checked with Tandy's support site, and the 1400 series was shipped from the factory with the V20 chip. The one that I have with an 8088 is also from the factory - it's the original processor. The person who gave it to me was the original owner, and she had never had it serviced. When I took it apart to try to fix the power supply, that's when I noticed that the processor was different. When buying a 1400 new, was it possible to order it with the Intel 8088 chip instead of the NEC V20? Or was some mistake made at the factory (they ran out of V20 chips?) and an Intel chip was put in this one? Does anyone else have a 1400 with an Intel 8088? It this computer possibly worth more than the one with the V20 (I doubt it)? Any information is appreciated. ThAnX, -- -Jason (roblwill(a)usaor.net) ICQ#:1730318

28 years, 1 month

Help! Grid 1535 EXP

by rigdonj＠intellistar.net

I tried removing the hard drive and connecting it to a PC in order to reload everything as Doug sugested. The drive is a Conner CP-3044 (2 heads 1047 cylinders, 42 Mb IDE). MS-DOS chokes on anything over 1024 cylinders so I tried to run it on the PC with the cylinders set at 1024 and 1047 but the system said "Drive 0: initialization failure" every time. Does anyone know what drive geometry the Grid uses? I don't *think* the drive is actually bad since I got past this point with the drive installed in the Grid. Will the Grids boot from the external floppy drive? If so, does anyone have one that I can borrow long enough to reload DOS and FastLynx? Joe

28 years, 1 month

Near disaster and questions on finds

by allisonp＠world.std.com

< The best computer shelves I've found were sold in the SF bay area at Orc < supply hardware. The brand name was "Gorilla Rack". They're heavy, and < need a hammer to put them together but the shelf supports are about 14 < guage steel angle 2 1/2 inches by an inch quarter inch pressboard on top < The whole assembly weighs 50 or 60 pounds unloaded, but I've got a pc, < it's monitor, a scanner, a laser printer, a box of cassette tapes, and a < on the one I have. It still has room and shows no signs of strain. < < I've seen these at Home Depot under another name. Yes, same here. A simple addition is plywood 1fx2f or 1fx4f (rough size) scred inside the angle steel that form the uprights to form a 3 sided box around the shelf, then one of those cargo nets used for pickup trucks in the front. Properly secured this will hold ANYTHING. RE: earthquake zones. Assuming no fire, racks like that or standard equipment racks can support amazing amounts of weight such that if the "roof" should cave there is support to protect the equipment between and in the racks. Also if racks cannot be tied to the wall, then back to back works or in groups of four with a two back to back and one at each end bolted together as one large unit. The idea is to increase the effective size of the footprint. FYI most equipment racks should have anti tip foot (extensions to the front) to keep their center of gravity from toppling them. Most also have skid feet that were designed to support the rack off the casters, minimally then should be adjusted down so they touch as that will allow sliding but provide better support. Again multiple racks bolted together will provide a very strong unit capable of holding up immense weights. Another disaster trick is if the top of the rack is covered water draining down can't easily get in. Small things can protect the hardware from significant damage. Allison

28 years, 1 month

questions about KIM-1, microVAX-1, and Tektronix 4319

by jonathan＠iastate.edu

Hi, I recently acquired a KIM-1 which is mounted inside a wooden case. The board is stamped with a manufacturing date of 3/78 so it was manufactured after Commodore bought MOS technologies. I know that Commodore used metal cases back then. Does anyone know of any third party manufactures that made cases for the KIM-1? This wooden case I have looks too nice to be home made. Second question, I also acquired a microVAX-1. However, the VT240 terminal I attached to it does not appear to be communicating with the VAX. What should the number of data bits, parity, etc. be set to on the VT240? I've tried just about everything I can think of. Could I be using the wrong cable to connect the VAX console port to the terminal? Any help would be appreciated. Third question, I have a Tektronix 4319 workstation with a dead harddrive. Does any one know what maximum size SCSI drive I can connect to it? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. Jonathan Kavanaugh jonathan(a)iastate.edu

28 years, 1 month

Teasers

by mbg＠world.std.com

>My first PDP11 came as just the bare CPU + RK11-C controller. No drives >or I/O cards. I spent a lot of money (relatively) on my first RX02, RK05 >and some cards. 1 month later, people were giving me the things ! Gee, my first -11 was an 11/10 bought (refurbished from Digital) back in 1979 or so... it was the CPU box only. No interfaces save for the console terminal (at 20ma). I didn't even have an H960 to put it in. I had to buy that from Digital salvage later on... I finally found some RX02s and a controller, TU60 deccassette and controller and I was off... I ran RT-11 and the virtual terminal software (which later became VTCOM) and worked from home over an AJ 300 baud modem... Later on I got a DF02 and was able to do 600baud, and a DF03 and 1200baud... Oh yeah, I took a loan (home improvement :-) to get the -11... Megan Gentry Former RT-11 Developer +--------------------------------+-------------------------------------+ | Megan Gentry, EMT/B, PP-ASEL | Internet (work): gentry zk3.dec.com | | Unix Support Engineering Group | (home): mbg world.std.com | | Compaq Computer Corporation | addresses need '@' in place of ' ' | | 110 Spitbrook Rd. ZK03-2/T43 | URL: http://world.std.com/~mbg/ | | Nashua, NH 03062 | "pdp-11 programmer - some assembler | | (603) 884 1055 | required." - mbg | +--------------------------------+-------------------------------------+

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