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by mross666＠hotmail.com

First, a confession... I test databases for a living! Having said that, I'm remarkably ignorant when it comes to the process of actually manually shoving great wedges of data into them... I'm trying to design a database to catalogue the Corestore collection. It's my intention ultimately to construct a database-driven website to make much more of the collection publically-accessible - the present website is woefully out of date and generally inadequate. I can design the backend database no problem - I'll probably use DB2, create tables with the fields you would expect - catalogue number, manufacturer, serial number, date, free-text description, etc etc. Also binary fields to hold images, if it's an artifact worth photgraphing, and data, if it's a data artifact - e.g. if it's a disk pack or paper tape, an image file of the contents. What I'm looking for is some suggestion as to a 'ready to use' front-end data entry package that would be suitable. Critical to this is the ability to drag and drop, for instance, .jpg images into the appropriate data fields - there are going to be so many of these that the idea of typing path or file names into something doesn't bear thinking about. I've no idea where to start with this - my career testing databases has lef tme clueless on how to go about data entry! Suggest anyone willing to assist replies via email, unless they feel that discussion of this topic on the list would be helpful to others. TIA Mike http://www.corestore.org _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail

23 years

goin to CA soon, to be a CC tychoon

by cb＠mythtech.net

>P.S. The few accidents I have been in (none of which involved another >vehicle if I was at fault - I always steer for the ditch in times of >trouble) I *never* wore the belt, and I *always* walked away from them. And you are LUCKY! I can say this, not from some "study" that was done, but from hands on experience. In the last 13 years, I have operated roughly 6 major motor vehicle accidents a year, so figure roughly 78 major car accidents. Extricated an average of 3 people per accident, so I've cut roughly 230 people out of cars. So out of 230 people... exactly TWO have sustained fewer injuries as a direct result of not wearing a seat belt. I know both incidents well as for both of them, we looked and said, "WOW, lucky they didn't wear their seatbelt today or this could have been much worse". I can't tell you how many I have looked at and said "if only they had their seatbelt on, they would probably be walking away right now". And I haven't seen an accident yet that the person sustained greater injuries due to the seatbelt (this is a tough thing to judge, so I am basing it off the types of injuries they sustained and where the car was damaged and where they may have been thrown had they not worn their seatbelt). Much of the "myth" that seatbelts cause greater injuries are based on facts BEFORE shoulder straps were in use. Lap belts only can cause greater injuries, but that is why they moved to shoulder straps as well (and airbags are a wonderful creation for the occupants... horrible for EMS workers if they don't deploy on impact... they have a frightening tendency to fail) So if you want to continue to gamble on that 0.8% chance that you will walk away because of not wearing a belt, go right ahead. Me... I buckle up every time I am in a car, regardless of what seat I am in (and I won't move a car I am driving until the front passenger is buckled in... I do leave rear seats up to the riders). Oh, but I do have to agree with you... if you fail to wear a belt, it is you that gets hurt, no one else. I have not seen ONE accident where someone that failed to wear a belt caused a greater injury on anyone but themselves. (However, I can give you stories of load shift that have caused greater injuries... in my opinion, it is more dangerous to have unsecured objects in the car than unsecured passengers). -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

23 years

Magnetic Memory making a comeback?

by GOOI＠oce.nl

Yep, had read about that a few months ago. See my text on the website: www.pdp-11.nl/pdp11-35/memory/core-intro.html MRAM is described (brief) at the end. Also has a link to a Motorola article! greetz, - Henk. > -----Original Message----- > From: Bryan Pope [mailto:bpope@wordstock.com] > Sent: dinsdag 10 juni 2003 16:23 > To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org > Subject: Magnetic Memory making a comeback? > > > There is a _new_ type of memory being developed called MRAM, > which uses magnetic fields to store data. > > An interesting quote from the article (to bring it on-topic): > > "Magnetic fields have been used to store data since time immemorial," > he joked. "We were using it in the early 1960s and 1950s." > > The article can be found at: > http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103_2-1014865.html > > Cheers, > > Bryan

23 years

IBM Unit Record equipment on eBay

by brian＠quarterbyte.com

Hey folks, There is some interesting (and heavy) IBM unit record equipment up for auction on ebay. View http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=1247&item=27353 14909 and click on "View Seller's Other Auctions" for the whole list: IBM 077 collator IBM 083 sorters (two) IBM 088 collator plugboards and manual only IBM 548 alphabetic interpreter IBM 129 keypunch Documation RM600LCC card reader The minimum bids are reasonable for all but the Documation reader. It's interesting and relatively rare stuff -- shouldn't be let to go to scrap. Also, I got my Documation reader working tonight -- it was misreading because of worn feed rollers. I learned a lot about the these machines trying to diagnose and fix that. The USB interface is finished and working now (if anyone wants the schematic and code, write to me), and I was able to read in the system load deck for APL\1130. So -- sometime in the next few weeks the IBM 1130 emulator will have APL and a bunch of other old code I have here on cards. Brian =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _| _| _| Brian Knittel _| _| _| Quarterbyte Systems, Inc. _| _| _| Tel: 1-510-559-7930 _| _| _| Fax: 1-510-525-6889 _| _| _| Email: brian(a)quarterbyte.com _| _| _| http://www.quarterbyte.com

23 years

Univac III sold?

by vcf＠siconic.com

Looks like the Univac III lot actually may have resulted in a sale. Check it out: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2733726990&category=1247… The one who bought it seems like a good guy (you can read his "Me" profile). -- Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org * Old computing resources for business and academia at www.VintageTech.com *

23 years

HP 1631D logic analyzer, some basic questions:

by madyn＠ix.netcom.com

I've just gotten one, without the instruction manual, of course. Seems that it needs to save to HP-IB instruments and so forth, also can us HP-IL.... I'll have to see if I can find data on HP-IL, might be worth rolling an interface for it, or just stick to the IEEE-488.... Question: Is this model supposed to be able to remember setups between sessions, or does it lose its memory when the power goes off? Kinda silly for HP to design it like that, so I wonder if there's not a backup battery that's down. Harvey madyn(a)ix.netcom.com

23 years

Osborne 1 Voltage

by dwightk.elvey＠amd.com

Hi Tore I would suspect that there should be a label stating the input voltage range. If not, use a transformer. You might also look inside. Many switcher supplies had jumpers to select input voltage. Dwight >From: "Tore Sinding Bekkedal" <toresbe(a)ifi.uio.no> > >I may (or may not) get an Osborne 1 soon, but it's rated for 120v. The >Executive autoswitched voltage levels; does the 1 do this too? (It was >found in a dumpster, two of them :O) Norway is 235v. I thought it was odd >that the machine would be 120v here. > >Much love, >______________________ >|Tore Sinding Bekkedal| >|toresbe(a)ifi.uio.no | >|+47 91 85 95 08 \_________________________ >------------------------------------------------/

23 years

Osborne 1 Voltage

by Robert_Feldman＠jdedwards.com

The O1 can be switched between voltages. The procedure depends on how old it is. Check out the information on pp 31-32 of the "Osborne 1 Technical Manual" at http://www.spies.com/~aek/pdf/osborne/osborne1TechnicalManual.pdf. Bob -----Original Message----- From: Tore Sinding Bekkedal [mailto:toresbe@ifi.uio.no] Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 4:12 PM To: cctech(a)classiccmp.org Subject: Osborne 1 Voltage I may (or may not) get an Osborne 1 soon, but it's rated for 120v. The Executive autoswitched voltage levels; does the 1 do this too? (It was found in a dumpster, two of them :O) Norway is 235v. I thought it was odd that the machine would be 120v here. Much love, ______________________ |Tore Sinding Bekkedal| |toresbe(a)ifi.uio.no | |+47 91 85 95 08 \_________________________ ------------------------------------------------/

23 years

Osborne 1 Voltage

by toresbe＠ifi.uio.no

I may (or may not) get an Osborne 1 soon, but it's rated for 120v. The Executive autoswitched voltage levels; does the 1 do this too? (It was found in a dumpster, two of them :O) Norway is 235v. I thought it was odd that the machine would be 120v here. Much love, ______________________ |Tore Sinding Bekkedal| |toresbe(a)ifi.uio.no | |+47 91 85 95 08 \_________________________ ------------------------------------------------/

23 years

Compaq Deskpro 286

by Bella.Oxmyx＠charter.net

Does anybody have a listing of translations for the drive types for a Compaq Deskpro 286? (i.e. type , cylinders, heads, sectors) I have couple of hard drives I'd like to add, but can't tell what drive type to select. The setup disk doesn't have a user definable type. Jack

23 years

Teletype

by dwightk.elvey＠amd.com

>From: ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk > >> >Maybe. Does the Model 33 work correctly when switched to 'local'? If not, >> >then you certainly have problems in the Teletype. If it does work in >> >'local' mode, then you might still have problems in the Teletype, but >> >problems with the interface are also possible. >> >> Hi >> It is also possible that he has the wrong speed gears/motor. >> A 60Hz motor will run in local with 50Hz connected but the >> Baud rate to the outside will be wrong. > >That was one of the 'problems in the Teletype' that I was thinking of. I >suspsect the easiest kludge for this these days is to fiddle with the >clock at the computer interface end, and run the whole thing at 91.667 baud > >-tony > Hi One could buy a new pulley and add some additional capacitance to the motors capacitor and it might work well at 50Hz. I don't think I'd run it too long without the capacitor increase. They run the motor hot at 60Hz. It'd be even hotter at 50. Dwight

23 years

JetDirect EX print server

by Robert_Feldman＠jdedwards.com

I believe I have one at home. I'll check tonight and let you know tomorrow. Bob -----Original Message----- From: chris [mailto:cb@mythtech.net] Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 3:16 PM To: Classic Computer Subject: JetDirect EX print server I'm not sure if this is older than 10 years yet, but people on this list have a library of manuals, so I'm asking anyway. Does anyone have a manual to an HP JetDirect EX print server device? Specifically model number J2382. I'm trying to find out how to default it to factory settings, and how to get in and change configurations. Holding the TEST button on power up doesn't seem to do default it (or if it is, it isn't clearing the error condition, but that might also be because it isn't taking the BootP info for its IP address). I have two doing the same thing, and I tend to doubt both are broken, so I'm guessing that the manual HP has on their site for the EX Plus doesn't have the right directions for it (not too surprised). So, anyone have that manual? -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

23 years

cctalk digest, Vol 1 #642 - 31 msgs

by alhartman＠yahoo.com

Sorry you both had problems with Stewart. I've known him for over 20 years now, and never had problems like this. I'll ask him about it. I'm pretty sure the items ship from State College, PA and he lives in Brooklyn, NY. So there's some quite large physical distance between he and where the shipping is done (about 5 hours or more by car). I know he can be a little funny about selling large quantities of things. I've tried to set him up with people to buy large amounts of software, or to license his software that he isn't selling anymore only to have a perfectly sound deal fall through. I guess he feels if he holds out, he'll make more money selling it piecemeal overtime than selling it discounted in a lump. I'd also guess he really WANTS a slow income stream, rather than a large lump sum for tax purposes, and to have that steady income coming in. I don't know. I live in Philadelphia, PA now and only talk to him once or twice a year. He hasn't come to the Trenton Computer Festival in two years now. Since getting married, he's been busy with other things. If I get any answers, I'll let you know. I CAN tell you he isn't a crook... If anything, he's been abused by thieves quite a bit over the years I've known him... But, he is definitely an honest guy. He's NEVER ripped me off in the 20 years I've known him. He's always been fair, honest and generous. Not knowing the details of your deal from his end, I can't comment on what happened. In these kind of things, there are always three sides... Your side, his side, and the unvarnished truth.. LOL! I hope you don't feel harmed in any way. You can tell I like him a lot. He introduced me to some Personal Improvement work over 10 years ago that literally "Saved my life". And so, I have a rather large soft spot for him. But, given that... He is still an honest guy. I'm sure he wouldn't purposely rip anyone off. He might dissappoint someone by screwing up, as humans are wont to do... But I can guarantee it wasn't a purposeful rip-off. But, I have no problem with any one reading about these two dealings with him deciding they don't want to buy anything from him. There are plenty of Timex items on eBay. You can go anywhere to get this stuff... I have a few odds and ends I might get rid off (like a Thermal Printer), but I'll keep my ZX-81... If only because I built it with my own butter-fingered hands. Regards, Al > From: acme(a)ao.net > Subject: Re: ZX81 Kits (was:cctalk digest, Vol 1 > #633) > > From: Hans Franke <Hans.Franke(a)mch20.sbs.de> > Subject: Re: ZX81 Kits (was:cctalk digest, Vol 1 > #633) > Date: 06/10/2003 1:29 PM > > > Jup, and understandable. I still have a hard time > > to get a complete picture here. I tried several > times > > to order a bunch of ZX81s from him, back when he > > asked 29.95, and when the price rose to 49.95. I > > never got any reply. I tried eMail and since this > > didn't work Fax and finaly a real letter. > > > > And I wanted to buy more than just one little Kit. > > > > Now, I have a hard time to see any business minded > > structure (and the whish to earn money) in > ignoring > > potential customers at all. > > > Well, I've done a certain amount of business with > Mr. Newfeld, and every > transaction has been a little flaky around the > edges: order (and prepay for) > two kits, only receive one, wrong product received, > etc. The last time *he* > called *me* and told me about some obscure expansion > devices he had "found" > in his warehouse, and did I want them? We agreed on > a price, he charged my > Visa, and two months later I still had not received > the merchandise. He then > stopped answering my phone calls and emails, and, > sadly, I had to threaten > one of his subordinates over the phone in order to > get Mr. Newfeld's > attention. Ultimately, he did not ship the promised > goods, but sent something > else instead. > > Also, I and others have made *very* generous offers > to him concerning large > quantities of other merchandise he claims to have > "mountains" of, and his > response has been to ignore us. No counter-offer, > nothing but dead silence. > > This is the behavior of someone who's "trying to > make a living?" Seems > counter-productive to me . . . almost like some sort > of weird power trip . . . > > Glen Goodwin > Orlando, FL USA > 0/0

23 years

Substitute for DEC SS/QD Floppies

by skidmore＠worldvenue.org

I am looking for blank disks to use in a DEC RX50 drive. I have seen posted several places that DD disks can be used, but so far my attempts to initialize Verbatim DS/DD disks under RT-11 have failed: "?DUP-F-Size function failed" Thanks, Barry -- Barry Skidmore <skidmore(a)worldvenue.org>

23 years

Request For Assistance with National Instruments Unibus GPIB Controller

by mail.list＠analog-and-digital-solutions.com

re: Request For Assistance with National Instruments Unibus GPIB Controller If anyone wants to take on this project, this apparently is an oil exploration company in Texas that is CAT scanning rocks probably in support of oil exploration? GPIB 11-2 ... Assy 179002-01 Rev G Assy 179003-01 Rev G HexWid do you know how to hook one of these up? John Welch Westport Technology Center, Intl 6700 Portwest Houston TX 77024 713-479-8420 You negotiate your own terms as you see fit.

23 years

Looking for schematics for DEC M702 and M720 modules

by erd_6502＠yahoo.com

Both of these are likely to be labelled "memory detection". I have seen both appear in module listings (and, from reports, in the real world) in slot B10 of a PDP-8/i. I keep entertaining delusions that I will be able to upgrade my -8/i to 8K someday. This module is the only one that I cannot borrow from another machine or my pile of spare parts. ISTR the M702 contains a delay line and some buffering TTL. I'm told that the M720 contains some TTL chips and a few transistors. My goal is to understand them well enough to fabricate a substitute, either from scratch, or by co-opting some blank spaces near slot B10 and using DEC M-series modules. Thanks, -ethan

23 years

Univac III sold?

by cb＠mythtech.net

>Looks like the Univac III lot actually may have resulted in a sale. Check >it out: > >http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2733726990&category=124 >7&rd=1 Did the guy on the first try have a final bid of $11,000 but it didn't meet his reserve? To then sell it for $7,500... that's gotta hurt. But hey, serves him right for being greedy. -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

23 years

IBM 1401 on eBay Germany

by cheri-post＠web.de

Hi all ! Check out this auction: http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2735735348&category=21926 On the picture, you can see the hole mainframe as it is sold. The olny thing is, that the seller doesn't say if the machine still works. Wow, I thought that auctions like these only exist in the states... Pierre ______________________________________________________________________________ UNICEF bittet um Spenden fur die Kinder im Irak! Hier online an UNICEF spenden: https://spenden.web.de/unicef/special/?mc=021101

23 years

Abort, Retry, Ignore, Fail? (Was: stepping machanism

by rigdonj＠cfl.rr.com

At 02:58 PM 6/10/03 -0400, you wrote: >Hello, > > Do you know how to get ignore as one of the error prompts along with abort, >fail, retry? > > I could not find the answer in DOS help. There's an undocumented command option to enter the F(ail) but I don't know of one to enter I(gnore). Use /F with the Shell command in the Config.sys file. Here's the config.sys file from my old drive. DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS /testmem:off DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE 1024 BUFFERS=17 FILES=40 DOS=UMB LASTDRIVE=Z FCBS=4,0 REM BUFFERS=17,0 DOS=HIGH SHELL=C:\DOS\COMMAND.COM C:\DOS\ /p /f DEVICE=C:\DOS\ANSI.SYS DEVICE=C:\DOS\SETVER.EXE switches=/f STACKS=9,256 rem DEVICEHIGH /L:1,13904 =C:\SB16\DRV\SBCD.SYS /P:220 /S:A0 /D:MSCD001 >NUL rem device=c:\utils\nav_.sys Joe > > Thank you. > > Ken.

23 years

OT: Suicide chicken in NZ...

by dwoyciesjes＠comcast.net

Apologies for this post, but I do recall there are some guys here from Christchurch, NZ... >from The Register... Suicide chicken terrorizes NZ - Kamikaze poultry the new face of international terror? 11 June 2003 12:25pm http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/31140.html -- --- Dave Woyciesjes --- ICQ# 905818

23 years

Magnetic Memory making a comeback?

by Robert_Feldman＠jdedwards.com

My favorite is that the re-entry heat shields on early missions were not ceramic, like ours, but were made of green oak. -----Original Message----- From: TeoZ [mailto:teoz@neo.rr.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 3:17 PM To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org Subject: Re: Magnetic Memory making a comeback? <snip> Some of the things the russians did were low tech but usefull. <snip>

23 years

Digital circuit notation conventions

by vaxzilla＠jarai.org

I figure this is at least somewhat on topic. I've been reading through _The Art of Digital Design_ by Prosser and Winkel [1] to with the intention of building the PDP-8/I clone project outlined in the book. I skipped ahead to the meaty chapters outlining the design of the system; I found myself pleasantly surprised. I can say that I've a reasonable understanding of how it all works. I can certainly understand the fascination people have with the "8"; it's not that hard at all to wrap one's brain around it. Having satisified myself that I'm up to the task, I've now moved to reading the initial chapters so I'll understand the basics. There are a few rough spots where I feel the authors impatiently gloss over some of the topics. And then there's one section in the second chapter where they basically deride "postive logic" and "negative logic" notation conventions as evil while promoting what they claim to be their own "mixed logic" convention. Methought they protested /a bit/ too much, and not being familiar with what it proper or put into practive, I pulled out Horowitz and Hill [2] to see what they had to say. From what I can tell, they seem to be advocates of "assertion-level logic" notation--which looks to be the same as Prosser and Winkel's mixed logic. What I'm wondering is whether mixed logic and assertion-level logic notations are in fact the same, and then which notation convention(s) are most commonly found in practice. It was only a decade ago that I had my intro to digital logic design lectures and labs, but I don't remember there being any discussion of different notation conventions. Then again, it's possible that ten years worth of software knowledge has squeezed out what hardware bits we covered. -brian. [1] The Art of Digital Electronics: An Introduction to Top-Down Design, 2nd Ed, Franklin P. Prosser and David E. Winkel, Prentice Hall, 1987. [2] The Art of Electronics, 2nd Ed., Paul Horowitz and Winfield Hill, Cambridge University Press, 1989.

23 years

Abort, Retry, Ignore, Fail? (Was: stepping machanism

by kenneth.hurd＠navy.mil

Hello, Do you know how to get ignore as one of the error prompts along with abort, fail, retry? I could not find the answer in DOS help. Thank you. Ken.

23 years

for sale decstation 5000/125 complete system

by halefamily3＠cox.net

i have a DECstation 5000/125 system (case,monitor,keyboard,mouse,cables,MAGMA SBUS I/O card). i don't know what it is worth so please be honest if anyone wants to make an offer. i live in San Diego California so think about shipping costs. ...real offers only please... my email- philliphale(a)cox.net

23 years

Help Installing LA75 Printer on 11/23 under RT-11

by skidmore＠worldvenue.org

I just acquired an 11/23 with RT-11 5.03. It has a DZV11-A board that I would like to use to interface a LA75 serial printer. Running 'show' indicates an LS slot. I have a set of RT-11 documentation and the 11/23 manual, but so far have not found instructions on how to do this. Thanks for any help, Barry Skidmore -- Barry Skidmore <skidmore(a)worldvenue.org>

23 years

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