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by loedman1＠juno.com

>Jeffrey Sharp <jss(a)subatomix.com> >By popular demand, Jay and I have set up demime on the ClassicCmp server, >and all posts are being filtered through it. From here on out, all posts you >get from CC will be in plain text, with no attachments or HTML. If you send Thank You, you have no idea how much I appreciate this !!!!!!! Rich Stephenson Lake Berryessa, California

23 years, 2 months

ADMIN: Demime is now active

by jss＠subatomix.com

By popular demand, Jay and I have set up demime on the ClassicCmp server, and all posts are being filtered through it. From here on out, all posts you get from CC will be in plain text, with no attachments or HTML. If you send file attachments, they will be removed from your post. If you post anything other than plain text messages, plain text will be extracted or rendered as appropriate. Even HTML-only or RTF-only mail is rendered into plain text. Demime tries very hard to convert your post into plain text, but if it simply cannot, it will bounce your post. You don't need to change anything. This change should be totally transparent to all subscribers. Just keep posting or lurking as you always have. A round of thanks goes out to all who suggested the use of a tool like demime. For more information about demime, you may wish to visit its web site: http://scifi.squawk.com/demime.html -- Jeffrey Sharp

23 years, 2 months

ADMIN: Demime is now active

by doug_jackson＠citadel.com.au

testing Doug Jackson Director, Managed Security Services Citadel Securix +61 (0)2 6290 9011 (Ph) +61 (0)2 6262 6152 (Fax) +61 (0)414 986 878 (Mobile) Web: <www.citadel.com.au> Offices in Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra, Hong Kong, Boston CAUTION - The information in this message may be of a privileged or confidential nature intended only for the use of the addressee or someone authorised to receive the addressee's e-mail. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error please notify postmaster(a)citadel.com.au. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of Citadel Securix. Feel free to visit the Citadel Securix website! Click below. http://www.citadel.com.au

23 years, 2 months

ARM Evaluation Kit discs

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

The saga of the ARM Evaluation Kit discs continues... I still don't have a complete uncorrupted Disc 1, which is the disc containing the editors and assembler for the ARM. Rob, who hoped to make a copy for me has found that his Disc 1 also has a corrupt track in exactly the same place as mine and Kevan's. Perhaps there was a batch of corrput discs from Acorn's disc duplicators. Can I ask anyone who thinks they have Disc 1 for the ARM Evaluation Kit to *please* make an effort to dig it out, and either copy it for me, or lend it? I now know of at least four or five people who would be very grateful. I'll pay for postage etc, of course, by recorded delivery if necessary. I've worked out at least one way to make disc images that should be accessible to a BBC Micro, so if I can get Disc 1 sorted out, I can not only make copies for those who I know want them, but make the images available on a website. Thanks to those who've already made helpful suggestions about disc images. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

23 years, 2 months

Tamper proof tools

by truthanl＠oclc.org

http://www.mcmelectronics.com/Home/level_5.jhtml?PRODID=9629&SKUID=8874 Above is a set of tamper proof bits At MCM electronics. Dayton OH USA web-store. SECURITY SD2519 BIT SET 30 PC W/ SCREWDRIVER 30 Piece Security Screwdriver Insert Bit Kit This is a complete set of security bits for all of those difficult service applications, such as IBM PS/2 monitors, cable boxes, telephone equipment and many others. Kit contains: 5/64", 3/32", 7/64", 1/8", 9/64", 5/32" security hex keys; T8, T10, T15, T20, T25, T27, T30, T35, T40 security torx bits; #6, #8, #10 torx set bits; #4, #6, #8, #10 spanners; #1, #2, #3, #4 tri-wings, bit holder, 1/4" socket adaptor, 7-1/2" magnetic handle and plastic carrying case. Larry Truthan Digest subscriber Dublin OH USA

23 years, 2 months

ibm sys/36 5360 basic needed

by xds_sigma7＠hotmail.com

(posting to list because I'm not sure my first try went through) Colin, I'd be very interested in the 5360.. Where is it? I have a full set of S/36 software on 5.25" disks... Will J

23 years, 2 months

Problem with 9836C floppy drive--resolved, but I'm not sure why!

by swperk＠earthlink.net

Hi Tony and everyone, Thanks for the suggestions. All of the floppies that I substituted looked absolutely identical to the one that wasn't working. The last thing that I did was to try another floppy drive data cable (it's the standard PC-style dual floppy cable with the 34-pin IDC connector on the controller end and the card edge connector on the other end). When I simply replaced the original cable on the left-hand drive with the new one, the problem remained. When I swapped the cables to each drive (right going to left and left going to right), it worked perfectly! I assume that there must be some sort of drive select or other difference between the two floppy drives, but why the right one works in either location, and the left one works only as the primary (right-hand) drive is beyond me. After I convinced myself that everything was now okay, I physically interchanged the floppies (left to right and right to left) and took the opportunity to examine them very carefully to look for differences. I saw none. Even the date codes were identical! I'm not saying that there aren't any differences--in fact, there must be--but there wasn't anything obvious to me. The only difference with the 9836C that I notice now (besides the obvious lack of an error message at startup) is that the LED on the floppy controller board labeled "TR00" (those are zeroes) is no longer illuminated after the POST. I assume that is a Track 0 seek failure indicator, but I'm just speculating. Whatever the case, I'm delighted that it's fixed! Thanks to everyone for their help and suggestions! Regards, Stan From: ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell) Subject: Re: Problem with 9836C floppy drive To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 19:06:48 +0000 (GMT) Reply-To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org > series of high and low pitched beeps (low, low, high, low, high, high, low). I assume that's some kind of error code, which would be useful if the video side was malfunctioning. Anyone have a table of them? > After that, it is able to load an OS (HP BASIC) and run fine, with the > exception that the left-hand floppy drive is inaccessible. > > I've taken a known good floppy drive, floppy controller, and even the CPU I assume you checked that the replacement drive was configured the same way (link settings, termination resistor pack) as the old one? What about the cables to this drive? Have you checked it's getting power (IIRC there's a conventional 4 pin power connector in there). Have you tested/swapped the data cable? -tony

23 years, 2 months

ADMIN: Demime is now active

by julesrichardsonuk＠yahoo.co.uk

> By popular demand, Jay and I have set up demime on the ClassicCmp server, absolutely brilliant!! Can you set something up to automatically strip off my yahoo .sig too? ;-) cheers! Jules Everything you'll ever need on one web page >from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com

23 years, 2 months

Model 100 DVI drive

by RCini＠congressfinancial.com

Bill: I don't have a CoCo, but I do have a DVI. So I was going to raid the drive from an external CoCo drive that I somehow got and use it in the DVI. I was concerned more with electrical compatibility than software compatibility. I didn't realize that in those machines Tandy used standard floppy drives. I guess by that point in time, many manufacturers (except Apple and Commodore) standardized on an IBM-style drives rather than proprietary setups. I'm sure I'm over-generalizing and will start a sprightly discussion on disk formats :-) Thanks to all who responded. Rich -----Original Message----- From: Bill Allen Jr [mailto:n8uhn@yahoo.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 12:14 AM To: cctech(a)classiccmp.org Subject: Re: Model 100 DVI drive I cannot remember what the model 100 used for a drive. the coco and coco 2/3 both used standard (ibm compatable) mfm, 5 1/4 in, single sided, low density floppy drives. the card edge connector for the coco cable between the interface cart and floppy was a streight thru cable - (pin 1 went to pin 1 etc). i have used standard 360k floppys on the coco - it only uses one side of the diskette for 180k. if the model 100 has the same pinout and uses a standard mfm dirve it should work. btw the coco drive case did have a power supply in it for the drive - power did not come from the cart. Bill Message: 36 From: "Cini, Richard" <RCini(a)congressfinancial.com> To: "CCTech (E-mail)" <cctech(a)classiccmp.org> Subject: Model 100 DVI drive Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 10:55:53 -0500 Reply-To: cctech(a)classiccmp.org Hello, all: Does anyone know if the specs on the Model 100 Disk-Video Interface is the same as the CoCo disks? I have a single-drive DVI and a single low-profile CoCo disk drive. They physically look to be the same but I wanted to be sure before I lashed them together. Thanks. Rich ========================== Richard A. Cini, Jr. First Vice President Congress Financial Corporation 1133 Avenue of the Americas 30th Floor New York, NY 10036 (212) 545-4402 (212) 840-6259 (facsimile) End of cctech Digest

23 years, 2 months

To: TONY DUELL

by pchalloffame＠ameritech.net

What undocumented instructions in HP calculators... Got an example Yours Truly Dean Lampman

23 years, 2 months

Great Finds Today

by jrkeys＠concentric.net

A friend gave me a LM-2 Logic monitor from Global Specialties Corp. It has a button called the Family Threshold Select with 5 settings: RTL, DTL, TTL, HTL, and CMOS. Did a google search trying to find a manual but no luck so far. Got a brand new unopened 500+ piece puzzle called MICROCHIP and it's dated 1983the cover of the box is a huge picture of a microchip circuit design. Not sure if I should break the seal and put it together or just leave it untouched for now? Data General walkabout computers (3) not tested yet. Need power adapters.

23 years, 2 months

New finds... information wanted

by pat＠purdueriots.com

I've managed to pick up a pair of "Atomic Instrument Company" Model 1091's from Purdue yesterday. They were manufactured in 1962, and the reason that I claim that they're on-topic is because they 'count'. Googling for "Atomic Instrument Company" brings back a grand total of three results... nothing that looks useful. Does anyone know anything about the company or where a schematic could be found? These are the first things i've brought home that use a set of vacuum tubes (thermionic valves for those on the other side of the pond) to count. Really neat. I've put up a pair of blurry pictures of its front (I don't have access to good lighting at the moment...) on my web site: http://purdueriots.com/mr-atomic/ Warning: the pictures have a large resolution, but are only about 80kB in size. Pat -- Purdue Universtiy ITAP/RCS Information Technology at Purdue Research Computing and Storage http://www-rcd.cc.purdue.edu

23 years, 2 months

Free to a good home - will be skipped next week.

by tim.myers＠sunplan.com

IBM PS/2 model 35SX - HDD of some description, 1920Kb RAM. Also with Proprinter XL, and IBM Monitor (heavy burnin). This is going in the skip next week, if anyone wants to rescue it from Ellesmere Port (UK) then let me know and I'll rescue it. Tim.

23 years, 2 months

FA: DEC paper tapes, more

by rigdonj＠cfl.rr.com

As promised I just put more stuff on E-bay; GenRad 1657 RLC meter, extender cable for same, 23 rolls of paper tapes for DEC PDP-8 (I think!), Anzac RF power divider, etc. <http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewSellersOtherItems&userid=rigdonj> if interested. Joe

23 years, 2 months

Y2K/Y10K for V5.03 of RT-11

by mtapley＠swri.edu

>Anyone who likes a different expression other than >"NEWFIX" that is 6 letters or less - please suggest. Y2KFIX or Y10KFX (as appropriate)? That seems more specific. - Mark

23 years, 2 months

Model 100 DVI drive

by n8uhn＠yahoo.com

I cannot remember what the model 100 used for a drive. the coco and coco 2/3 both used standard (ibm compatable) mfm, 5 1/4 in, single sided, low density floppy drives. the card edge connector for the coco cable between the interface cart and floppy was a streight thru cable - (pin 1 went to pin 1 etc). i have used standard 360k floppys on the coco - it only uses one side of the diskette for 180k. if the model 100 has the same pinout and uses a standard mfm dirve it should work. btw the coco drive case did have a power supply in it for the drive - power did not come from the cart. Bill Message: 36 From: "Cini, Richard" <RCini(a)congressfinancial.com> To: "CCTech (E-mail)" <cctech(a)classiccmp.org> Subject: Model 100 DVI drive Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 10:55:53 -0500 Reply-To: cctech(a)classiccmp.org Hello, all: Does anyone know if the specs on the Model 100 Disk-Video Interface is the same as the CoCo disks? I have a single-drive DVI and a single low-profile CoCo disk drive. They physically look to be the same but I wanted to be sure before I lashed them together. Thanks. Rich ========================== Richard A. Cini, Jr. First Vice President Congress Financial Corporation 1133 Avenue of the Americas 30th Floor New York, NY 10036 (212) 545-4402 (212) 840-6259 (facsimile) End of cctech Digest

23 years, 2 months

looking for DEC parts

by alderney＠telusplanet.net

It would be easier if you specified what these parts were - a lot of us don't have manuals etc, so we end up looking at the numbers on the boards or other components. Don W > Message: 26 > Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 09:30:31 +0100 > From: ANTIK <antikgmbh(a)compuserve.com> > Organization: ANTIK > To: cctech(a)classiccmp.org > Subject: Looking for DEC parts > Reply-To: cctech(a)classiccmp.org > > Hello, > > I found your e-mail address after searching for the DEC part# > 21-15542-01 on the "googles" platform. > > We are a German independent distributor and looking for several DEC > parts for our customer. > May you can help ??? > > These are the parts we are looking for: > > 5 pcs. DEC 21-17311-01 or 21-17311-02 > 2 pcs. DEC 21-17312-00 or 21-17312-01 > 2 pcs. DEC 57-00001-01 > 2 pcs. DEC 57-00000-01 > 2 pcs. DEC 21-15542-01 > > Any luck for us ?? > > Thank you for a short notice. > Best regards > Erika > Antik Elektronik-Vertriebs-GmbH > Tel: +49 4191 89441 > Fax: +49 4191 89337 > > --__--__--

23 years, 2 months

Sharp PC 3100 w/ fdd on UK Epay

by lgwalker＠mts.net

For those in Europe there's a Sharp 3100 with the very rare floppy dd on UK EPay. Has display problems but likely not hard to fix. They are similiar to the HP 100s handhelds and take the same memory card. Also seems to have the proprietory laplink cable and the manual. 2Megs memory on board. Has DOS 3 in ram. I'd kill to find one this side of the pond but overall cost would likely be too pricey for me. It's presently at 16 lbs with 8 days to go. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&categor y=3728&item=3003997495 I have no connection with the seller. Lawrence lgwalker@ mts.net

23 years, 2 months

TAMPER PROOF TOOLS

by jrice54＠charter.net

During my electrican days, we used screw heads like that to secure light fixture covers in jail cells. They were the standard screw on jail rate fixtures. Those fixtures used a welded frame with 1" thick lexan lenses. James >>I've also seen some screw heads that have three tiny round holes, arranged >>>in a triangular pattern. > > > I've never seen those or the tools to R/R them (and I have a BOX full of bits). I'm guessing that they're proprietary to one company. > > > Joe > `

23 years, 2 months

Model 100 DVI drive

by mhstein＠canada.com

-------------------Original Message---------------- From: "Cini, Richard" <RCini(a)congressfinancial.com> Subject: Model 100 DVI drive Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 10:55:53 -0500 Hello, all: Does anyone know if the specs on the Model 100 Disk-Video Interface is the same as the CoCo disks? I have a single-drive DVI and a single low-profile CoCo disk drive. They physically look to be the same but I wanted to be sure before I lashed them together. Thanks. Rich ---------------------------------------------------------- Hi Rich: I can't answer your question, but I do have a DVI and the manual and s/w, if that can help you in any way. It runs CP/M IIRC. And if anybody's interested, make me an offer... mike in Toronto, Can.

23 years, 2 months

Pinout for HP 2629b terminal?

by fmc＠reanimators.org

Jim Willing wrote: > Well... eight 'arrow' keys (I think, I'm not in front of it at the > moment) with the 'usual' up, down, left, right... then diagonal (???) > keys, and some have the legend 'roll' on them as well... > I think it has its proper keyboard, but it has no numeric pad. Did note > an alternate numeric set in the alpha keys similar to some keypunch > machines... These make me think that it is a 2621-style keyboard. Sorry, like I wrote before, the 2621 wasn't capable of running VPLUS applications and so it was sort of shunned at the PPOE where we had one. But I remember it had a single group of keys with the cursor keys right above the numeric keys (and I think doing double duty as function keys, albeit non-programmable function keys). -Frank McConnell

23 years, 2 months

Digital AXPpci33 "noname" questions

by erd_6502＠yahoo.com

I'm dusting off this old AXPpci33 motherboard of mine and ran into a few issues... I'm attempting to upgrade the firmware and I have the file >from the Digital/Compaq/HP web site (Dec 2002 version), but the instructions don't match my situation. I don't have the ability to cobble up a boot floppy with OpenVMS (my DEC 4000 has no RX33 or equivalent), I don't seem to have a compatible network card to BOOTP it in, and the FAT floppy technique doesn't work with the firmware I have in there now. So... does anyone know where I can find a reference to which network cards are supported for network boot? I have all the common cards like NE2000s, 3C509s, 8013s, etc., and a few PCI cards. I even have a card in there now with a DEC 21143-PA chip, but the ROMs don't seem to like it. Alternatively, in a similar vein to what someone else recently requested for their Multia, can someone on the list make a raw disk image I can "dd" onto a blank floppy? The Unix technique on the HP webpage requires a Digital Unix binary program to convert the firmare utility file to some other format and I can't do it from Linux or Solaris. Thanks, -ethan P.S. - I also can't find any reference to the supported memory configurations of the AXPpci33 board - I have some parity 16MB SIMMs, giving me 64MB, but I'd like to use some of these parity 64MB SIMMs I have here from AIR motherboards (formerly CompuServe "CompuHosts"). Got a set of 4 ready to go, but it seems that few boards ever supported 64MB 72-pin memory. :-( __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com

23 years, 2 months

slightly newer Apple stuff...

by julesrichardsonuk＠yahoo.co.uk

thanks to everyone for the website pointers! I've just tried the three systems and they all seem to work; unfortunately the LC and the Performa have been cleared of application software, but the Mac II stil has Word on it. Word feels faster to use on that than the modern version on my 1GHz PC - progress, huh!? :-) > The Mac II has a port for a second (external) floppy. yes, this one has both an 800K and 1.4MB drive installed. Not sure what speed the CPU is yet, I haven't dug around inside too much. > These machines can run up to MacOS 7.6.1 but > are quicker and more at home with 7.5.3 or even 6.0.8, which is quite speedy > on even machines as slow as these. Do you plan to display them, actually > use 'em or what? I have a slew of parts and old drives and whatnot for these > machines - the drive's usually what goes on them. well I'm not short of spare SCSI drives if you mean the hard disc, but floppies are another matter. I put SCSI in any PCs that I build so I have a stack of older drives spare as a result of upgrades. What I don't have is any OS or application software for these critters, so when the disks fail I'm currently stuffed. I haven't tried any of the floppy drives yet to see if they work... I'll probably pass a couple of the machines on to a good home in a few weeks as I don't really have space for everything; I was just curious about them as I haven't used macs for about ten years now. Strangely enough, I used to live around here and I've just found at that the mac II is the very same machine that I used to use at college! Funny seeing it again - I bet it's changed hands a few times in the meantime... Not sure which system I'll hang on to yet... the II has the advantage of having ethernet and the twin drives, plus the application software - but the LC III is perhaps the more usable machine if I can get software for it and get it on the ethernet LAN somehow. With a copy of Word on it I'd probably use it now and then; I'd forgotten how nice those keyboards were and it certainly feels like a quick machine for its age. > By the way: check the motherboard battery to make sure it's live (3.6v > lithium). I noticed those on the boards. They seem to be OK, at least no complaints on startup... cheers Jules Everything you'll ever need on one web page >from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com

23 years, 2 months

DEC card handles

by charlesmorris＠direcway.com

On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 23:14:12 -0600, you wrote: >It would be nice to find a source of the DEC plastic module handles, >and the metal stiffener/ejector handles used on DEC hex-height modules. >But I'm not holding my breath for those, either. Have you tried Douglas Electronics? They have handles (not original DEC colors but a strange whitish color) and prototyping cards of all sizes. http://www.douglas.com/hardware/pcbs/breadboards/digital.html -Charles

23 years, 2 months

Removing duct tape residue.

by rigdonj＠cfl.rr.com

At 05:06 AM 1/29/03 -0600, Toth wrote: > >> For cleaning computer plastics, the absolute best product I've found (in >> the US) is Hoppe's No. 9 Powder Solvent. Found at your local sporting >> goods store. Even removes PERMANENT Sharpie. > >Has anyone tried removing Sharpie from a chassis with textured paint? I >have a couple of items that were marked up with a Sharpie, and short of >paint thinner (which seems to dilute and bury the ink in the paint while >damaging the texture), I've found nothing that seems to work. I've used alcohol on that stuff and it seems to remove some but not all of it. I've never found anything that would remove it completely. Joe

23 years, 2 months

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