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by sinasohn＠ricochet.net

I've got an Altima One computer (286, iirc -- it's at home) with a Conner CP-3044 (again, iirc) hard drive. I got the specs from the Hard Drive Bible for the drive, and went into the CMOS set up to set it up. No problem so far. After scanning through the predefined drives without success, I, of course, set it to type 47 -- user defined. Still no problem. Now comes the problem. I can't for the life of me figure out how to get to the Cyl/Sec/Heads/etc. fields to enter the appropriate numbers. If anyone has any suggestions.... Also, if anyone has any info on Altima (other than that it's a car sold by Nissan) I'd love to hear about it. Thanks! --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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, 2 months

Ressurecting FDDs (was Original IBM PC (was Re: Prices to pa

by maxeskin＠hotmail.com

What exactly does alignment entail? What part is getting misaligned? Does this happen to any other type of drive (CD-ROM, HDD,etc.) >> > It's better to get the right alignment disk, though >> > >> With the current price of fdds so low, it's hard to justify buying something >> that I would rarely use. > >Probably true for PCs, although I've found _new_ cheap fdds to be >misaligned. I check them befroe installation, you see. > >Definitely untrue for classic computers :-), where you either want to >keep as many parts original as possible, or need a floppy drive that's no >longer made e.g. 80 track 300 rpm 5.25". Yes, some 1.2Mbyte drives _can_ >be kludged to rotate slower, but it's not always obvious what to do. And >service manuals for cheap fdds are not available. > >> > Are you sure? Putting 12V where 5V should go is a bad idea, and I wasn't >> > aware that Atari drives had the connector backwards. >> > >> Yeah this is pretty well documented in the Atari threads. This isn't true for >> all brands however but I've never heard of any voltage conflicts. It's a 4 pin >> connecter and I wasn't aware of it also having 12v available on that connecter. >> Apparently most fdd brands will work 720 or 1440 but HD is not available >> without a modification, I just got unlucky with the one I bought. > >The standard pinout of the 4 pin power connector (both 5.25" and 3.5" >types) is ground on the middle 2 pins and +5V, +12V on the outside 2. >Some 3.5" drives (but by no means all!) are +5V only, and the +12V pin is >unused. My ST is hard to get to, and I don't have a service manual, so I >can't check to see what it does. > >> lwalker(a)interlog.com > >-tony > > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

28 years, 2 months

ibm part numbers

by Mini7101＠aol.com

IBM publishes a CD known as the "white pages" or consultants guide which covers a large varriety of equipment that can be searched by"machine type" or text string. I will follow up with a contact # if I can find it. The drawback with this list is that as things get older they are dropped off the list. By the way, the 3089 is a check sorter used in LARGE banks. I deal in IBM mainframe stuff and can help with i.d.'s if you need it. I am looking for a listing of FRU's (field replaceable units) or part numbers in a digital format. If you know of anything like that available, I would appreciate it if you could pass it along.

28 years, 2 months

tandy printer

by outreach＠sufia.net

I looked up some useful info (though I never used it) recently for an old Tandy pin printer at their website. It was exceptionally complete and very helpful, including drivers if I remember right. tandy.com? if not, search. Sorry if someone else answered this earlier. Tom Penington-- outreach(a)sufia.net

28 years, 2 months

Final Xerox Star demo

by maxeskin＠hotmail.com

Do you mean the Boston Computer Museum specifically, or someplace else? I find it hard to believe that a computer museum would do something like that! >machines, I'd make sure that _no_ rare/classic computers got anywhere >near that museum! > >Is it just me, or are most museums clueless when it comes to electronic >exhibits? I've come across a museum that refuses to complete its PDP8 as >the 2 cards I offered them that they were missing were made a few years >after the the machine itself. This is a machine that was in use and taken >out of service BTW, so it's unlikely that all the cards were original. >Another collection I know about has managed to misplace a PDP12, a >PDP11/70 and all the printsets for them. Losing a board I can understand, >but 6' racks??? > >> >> One question though, wasent the Xerox 820 basically the same as the Alto? > >Only in the sense that both were computers :-) > >They had different CPUs (z80, as against a custom 16 bit thing), mass >storage (the Alto almost certainly had a hard disk), video (the Alto was >bitmapped), keyboad, OS/user interface, etc. > >-tony > > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

28 years, 2 months

IBM stuff

by mark_k＠iname.com

On 31-May-98, Joe <rigdonj(a)intellistar.net> wrote: > Hey, that really looks great! I heard a while back that IBM was going to >post all of their patents on the net. Now if HP will just do the same! The IBM Patent Server (http://www.patents.ibm.com/) contains details and images (at up to 300dpi) of the most recent 23 years of US patents, not just IBM's own. You can easily search for all HP patents using the Boolean Text Search facility. -- Mark

28 years, 2 months

More Commodore stuff for sale

by icyblackhand＠hotmail.com

How much for the VIC 20? MIKE

28 years, 2 months

HELP!!!!!!!

by icyblackhand＠hotmail.com

I'd like to send a message to all the members of the group, but I don't know how. Could you please send this message: If anyone in the group has an Apple Lisa that they're willing to sell, please contact me at icyblackhand(a)home.com. Thanks Mike ... and then email me and tell me how to do it, that would be great. Thanks a lot. P.S. Please put the subject as LISA Thanks a lot again. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

28 years, 2 months

Apple ][ video

by red＠bears.org

Hi. I found an Apple RGB monitor---the one with the electric tilt mechanism---at a thrift store the other day. It was styled like it belonged to some sort of older Apple ][ but I don't know which of them came with RGB output besides the //gs. Certainly not my ][plus! So what's the story on this beast and what did its DB15 connect to? ok r.

28 years, 2 months

Apple ][ video

by SUPRDAVE＠aol.com

In a message dated 98-06-02 15:58:47 EDT, you write: << I found an Apple RGB monitor---the one with the electric tilt mechanism---at a thrift store the other day. It was styled like it belonged to some sort of older Apple ][ but I don't know which of them came with RGB output besides the //gs. Certainly not my ][plus! So what's the story on this beast and what did its DB15 connect to? >> i have one also but i dont know anyway of testing mine. i think its called an applecolor 100 rgb monitor or something like that. supposedly it was very expensive when new. the apple /// is able to run it from what ive heard, but my /// isnt working right either. it can be used on a //e with the appropriate adaptor card. anyone know if it's analogue or digital rgb? i never got an image on mine when i tried to connect it to my //c and laser128. david

28 years, 2 months

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