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Hitachi 2.8" (was Re: Preserving old floppies, fixed disks...)

by adavie＠mad.scientist.com

I have some disks from an unreleased drive for the Radofin Aquarius II computer - but, unfortunately, I have no drive. "Hitachi 2.8 inch drive" is mentioned in the leaflet I have - can anyone shed any light on this drive, and the possibility of obtaining something which might read the disks? You can see the disks and drive @ http://www.comcen.com.au/~adavie/weird/aquarius/aqdisk.jpg http://www.comcen.com.au/~adavie/weird/aquarius/floppy.jpg A

28 years, 5 months

HD jumper settings

by rcini＠email.msn.com

Hello, all: Does anyone have the jumper settings for a Maxtor XT4380S hard drive? This thing is part of a Sun-clone "shoebox." The Maxtor Web site only has information on the drive's geometry and not the jumpers. I can't seem to get the SCSI address to show anything other than 4. TIA! Rich Cini/WUGNET <nospam_rcini(a)msn.com> (remove nospam_ to use) ClubWin! Charter Member (6) MCP Windows 95/Windows Networking ============================================

28 years, 5 months

Arrrgh! Micro$h*t again....

by adavie＠mad.scientist.com

I'd like to see less Microsoft bashing in my inbox; I'm on this list for the discussion of classic computers, NOT the benefits of Linux vs Windows, NOR the arguments about HTML. If the FAQ/guidelines for the mailing list say NO HTML, thats all there need be said... "read the FAQ". Please, lets cut down the traffic on these subjects and get back to the things we all enjoy discussing!!! A

28 years, 5 months

Arrrgh! Micro$h*t again....

by kyrrin＠jps.net

First, Tim Shoppa noted... >contains a plaintext version of the message AND the HTML-ified version, >which is what your plaintext email reader is seeing while Eudora and >Netscape can pick out the plaintext version. Then Kip Crosby added... >That's it. MIME-enabled clients read the MIME part; MSIE4 reads the HTML >part; MS-Outlook and Outlook Express I _think_ offer the choice between the >two. Microsoft no longer considers flat-ASCII mail to be an important >fraction of the traffic. <grrrrrr!> The more I hear about Billy-boy, and the more I see of his company's "products" and arrogant attitudes, the less I like either one! Is there no amount of bandwidth waste or code-bloat that Micro$quat won't stoop to?! I knew there was a reason I'd started to get into Unix boxes. Thanks, guys! -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 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..."

28 years, 5 months

What's with the raw HTML?

by allisonp＠world.std.com

<> What HTML utility works on my pro350 under venix. <> < <Lynx? Venix does not have IP suite only uucp. A version is not installed nor have I found one. It would however have to fit on the 10mb disk. <> Same question for my PDP-11s running RT-11? <> Or my ISP shell account (choice of ELM, PINE or MAIL)? < <Lynx? (which of course can be set up as a viewer for text/html mime types <pine) Keep in mind that the access in that mode is terminal(not a PC) so graphics is out. <> Then there is the matter of my laptop (EPSON PX-8 running CP/M-80)? < <You do a lot of mail reading from this machine then? I can list a bunch <machines that don't have any tools or utilities that handle HTML too, but <don't use them for reading mail. I do if I need portability (on the road). I have a scripted modem tool that interacts with ISPs shell and mail to download mail and send mail. storage is critical (120k ramdisk!) so bloat is problematic. <> How about my VS2000 tunning ultrix-4.2 off a 71meg disk? <> Then there is the matter of my vaxen running VMS-5.5? < <Pine/lynx again.I think one of your problems is that you obviously read y <mail on far too many different machines. :) How do you keep track of whe <things are? Your avoiding the question. If I were limited any of those I'd need tools specific to them. As there are many people that do not or cannot afford the latest and greatest it's not a moot point. In reality my 486dx2/50 with 8meg of ram is the primary mailreader. However I'm not about to drag up eudora or nyetscrape to read mail as it's too slow for simple plain text. Of course if you sincerely believe that using a 486 is stupid I'll gladly accept a P100 donation. Allison

28 years, 5 months

Arrrgh! Micro$h*t again....

by maxeskin＠hotmail.com

Sorry for any whitespace, folks... When was this interview taken? >advocated "Top 40" bloatware from day one. No one should be surprised--I >mean, Microshaft has always intended it's products to be "toasterware," as >easy as plugging toast into a toaster--that is, if you want to write a >letter to Aunt Minny or play Solitaire from 9am to 5pm every day. I don't quite see what you mean.. I have concluded a while ago that he isn't quite sane. I mean, in "Triumph of the Nerds", they said he gets up every day afraid of being taken over... >rethink his crapware strategy. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that there >is a dark corner in a sub-basement somewhere in Redmond where a small team >of hackers are already working on a potential Microsoft Linux distribution, >just in case. I'm taking bets on Netscape doing the same thing--a complete I'll bet Win95 is compiled on Linux! But AFAIK, Gates's BASIC interpreter for the altair required a RAM add-on pack! Truly bloatware >from day one. Why Gates decided to flip the switches on the front panel several thousand extra times mystifies me. Maybe that's why you're all getting Altairs with worn out switches;) >-- >David Wollmann | >dwollmann(a)ibmhelp.com | Support for legacy IBM products. >DST ibmhelp.com Technical Support | Data, document and file conversion for >IBM http://www.ibmhelp.com/ | legacy file and media formats. > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

28 years, 5 months

Robots

by aaron＠wfi-inc.com

Just in case someone has missed their advertising blitz, the Discovery Channel is showing a special called Robots Rising tonight at 9pm ET. From the little preview on the Discovery web site (what I can see of it with lynx) it looks like there should be a lot of shots of classic machines in action.... Aaron

28 years, 5 months

Where's the FAQ?

by dastar＠wco.com

Sorry, I don't keep e-mail addresses handy. > Sorry , I missed the previous parts to this thread , but I do have a > copy of the 3-part FAQ. Where should I forward it ? Could the one who was asking please e-mail Larry Walker at: lwalkerN0spaM(a)interlog.com ...removing the anti-spam features of his e-mail address of course. Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Computer Historian, Programmer, Musician, Philosopher, Athlete, Writer, Jackass Coming Soon...Vintage Computer Festival 2.0 See http://www.siconic.com/vcf for details!

28 years, 5 months

What's with the raw HTML?

by allisonp＠world.std.com

<But seriously, is it so hard to patch Linux mail for HTML? <>There is the little matter of some several million (or more) <>unix(linux, and related cuzins) systems out there where HTML is <>far from a standard. First off Standard in this case refers to established and present on every system. My reference to cusins referes to the non-public source unixes like Venix and also the non-unix, non-DOS, non-NT OSs that exist. Since I'll never run nyetscrape on the z80, 8088 or PDP-11. Sure it's possible (trivial) to write your own handler to strip the excess baggage, but I personally feel its rude to impose it on the reader. ALlison

28 years, 5 months

Getting bent (ON topic if not thread)

by allisonp＠world.std.com

<That said, it is certainly very possible to damage individual chips and/o <subassemblies with static electricity, and precautions such as anti-stati <bags, tubes, and workplaces make perfect economic sense to the <manufacturers, distributors, and professional installers of this <equipment. In other words, not the entire industry is a scam - they're <quite satisfied that ordinary affordable measures and work practices <are important. The basic wrist strap safety ground is usually adaquate. More often some basic care is all that is needed to insure nothing bad happens. However, The last day or so in eastern MA, I've been able to draw sparks over 0.25" with ease and there is no question that can be damaging. Allison

28 years, 5 months

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