< I've not been able to find time to dig into the machine, are the two
< powersupplies in a BA123 the same or different? My dead one is the one
< that powers the card cage.
<
Zane,
thy both power the card cage each one a different part of it. Running on
one is bad.
Do inspect them for fan failures and blown fuses. Also if one or the
other is not loaded enough it's may not start up!
Allison
I need to move some data from Wang 5.25" VS15 diskettes (OS ver. 6.43.20) to
ASCII. Is there anyone who'd like a project? I'm not sure at this point how
many diskettes there will be, but generally these projects run around 15-20
diskettes.
TIA,
David
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Having a bit of cabin fever Sunday I convinced my wife (well, not really...
she likes foraging as much as I) to go thrifing. First stop in Stockton was
the the college parking-lot flea market (never know what you're going to find
there.) I was almost empty-handed when I found a a bin of 16 Atari Carts
(actually 15 I later discovered as one was missing the guts) paid $5.00 for
the lot. Included were few standards such as BASIC, Star Raiders, Defender,
and Asteroids but also Atari Assembler, a Dealer Demo Cart, a couple word
processors, an "educational system master cart" (networking??? Pilot?) etc.
Pretty good find. Still need to test em.
Another item, an facinating BASIC book, "Elementary BASIC", a BASIC
instructional guide using the Sherlock Holmes character (from the texts of
Dr.Watson), in it Sherlock Holmes solves a few cases with programs ran on
Babbage's Analytical Engine ('translated' to BASIC by the authors). Pretty off-beat.
The last stop was to our favorite thrift store which did well by us again, I
picked up an Apple IIc (sans power supply) for $3.98, and a really nifty item,
a Sharp PC1501 Pocket calculator w/printer/cassette module (CE-150) in its
carrying case with some cables (no ps for these either) for $4.92! Tested the
handheld, it works, even though the batteries I removed were drippy; the
expansion unit I have yet to get working (not enough power from the adapter I
guess??) There is also a cassette tape in there, will be fun to check that
out. The Apple will have to wait till I find a PS unit, since it is my first
8-bit apple unit. I have little for it but the computer, a users guide and a
few loose disks picked up here and there. I figure I'll collect some of the
games I thought were cool for it and maybe a gizmo or two. Ahhh Another
beginning, will be fun to discover a tidbit here and there, as finding the
Commodore oddities are getting harder to locate.
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In a message dated 98-07-27 21:45:43 EDT, you write:
<< I was just given a Mac, which doesn't seem to have a hard drive or
software.
Does anyone have an O/S he (she) would wish to get rid of cheap(ly), plus an
app or two?
I'm presuming my DOS 3.3 won't work. <g>
>>
I have lots of old mac apps that will work on se and older models. message me
privately, as well as anyone else that might be interested. i've got about 500
low density 3.5 disks to get rid of anyway...
david
At 01:56 26-07-98 -0700, you wrote:
>Linux world domination continues! Oracle just announced it will be making
>versions of its products for Linux. Informix is already shipping Linux
>versions of their database products too!
Uhhh... Sam? Old news. I saw that a week ago on www.news.com. ;-)
That, of course, doesn't make it any less dee-lightful. Now, if I could
only convince the smaller EDA tool vendors to port to Linux... I'm going to
be dual-boot until then, unfortunately. My schematic capture/SPICE
simulator, and PCB layout programs will only run under NT.
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Bruce Lane, Sysop, The Dragon's Cave BBS (Fidonet 1:343/272)
(Hamateur: WD6EOS) (E-mail: kyrrin(a)jps.net)
"Our science can only describe an object, event, or living thing in our own
human terms. It cannot, in any way, define any of them..."
>I would also be interested in the 5140 power supply... maybe a couple
>of spares...
You can have up to five power supplies, $5 each, shipped. Let me know.
Sincerely,
Tom Owad
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Client software at: <http://home.earthlink.net/~tomowad/>
>I believe there were (are) several different models of Zenith Data Systems
>laptops, so the power supplies may vary. However my model 150-308 uses a DC
>16.5v 2A adapter.
Mine is "Model ZWL-184-97". Quite a mouthful. It also says it is 12v,
but nothing about amperage.
Thanks for the info.
Tom
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Tom,
I believe there were (are) several different models of Zenith Data Systems
laptops, so the power supplies may vary. However my model 150-308 uses a DC
16.5v 2A adapter.
Cliff Gregory
cgregory(a)lrbcg.com
-----Original Message-----
From: classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
To: Cgregory <Cgregory>
Date: Monday, July 27, 1998 5:58 PM
Subject: Zenith Data Systems laptop
> Just purchased three Zenith Data Systems laptops at a Hamfest - my
>first IBM-compatible computers, believe it or not (always focused on the
>Apples & under-the-TV 8-bit systems).
>
> Needless to say, I don't know a thing about them. There are no power
>adapters. I have a 12v 300 mA adapter. Will that work with them? I
>hooked it up to all three systems - 2 of them didn't do a thing. The
>third "spins" up and I can hear a very faint wining noise from inside.
>The monitor, however, shows nothing (could this be due to too little
>amperage?). The computer gives a three-tone beep every 15 seconds or so
>(estimate) and beeps whenever I press a key.
>
> Anybody have any suggestions? Like I said, I don't anything about
>these, so any advice would be appreciated.
>
>Thanks,
>Tom
>
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>
< I wonder if it's the cable? (As is, the Kaypro supports two drives (SA4
< equivalent). The original owner bought a little hardware thingie that d
Advent Turborom drivr personality board.
< So I bought a new cable. It has that stupid half-twist, so I'm wonderin
< to coax my system into working with the new cable. I think I understand
< situation from the point of view of the drives (both drives are jumpered
you cant. IT swaps a few lines around and will confuse the mess. I doubt
the original cable is bad. More likely if the drives are really SA400(l)
the positioner has slid from the notch it follows in the cam.
< #1, and some pins are exchanged: 10 <-> 16, 11 <-> 15, 12 <-> 14).
< But doesn't the computer have to cooperate in this farce? That is, woul
< have to reprogram my BIOS to mess things up in the same way as the IBM P
< hardware, so that the drive cable can do its part and thus it all ends u
< (sort of) working?
it's not a pc, no progrmming option. The half twist was so two identical
drives would work without changing jumpers. Everyone else made you change
jumpers.
Allison
