test-drb

test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

101090 discussions

by cb＠mythtech.net

>Can anyone tell me anything about them or point me to any good Apple websites >that will? Not sure if they make the ten year mark or not (pretty certain at >least the performa won't!) so sorry for the bandwidth... This is Apple's spec page for older Macs. <http://www.info.apple.com/support/applespec.legacy/index.html> -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

23 years, 2 months

ibm sys/36 5360 basic needed

by ceby2＠csc.com

Bill -- FYI, some 8" floppy based software just turned up on ePay. Item 2304666096. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2304666096&ssPageName=AD… They've got pretty much everything except what you were after. I've been bidding on it myself. In fact I've gone as far as a hundred bucks. If I'm bidding against anyone on the list maybe we can come to some co-purchase agreement before my media lust gets the better of my fiduciary responsibility. I already have quite a lot of it. System Support Programs Utilities RPG II Cobol Mcode Display Write 36 Display Write Language Dictionary Business Graphics Utility Personal Services 36 Query 36 PC Support 36 Additional SSP Base Communications 3270 Device Emulation MSRJE Display Station Pass-Through Tape Support PTF's - Colin Eby ceby2(a)csc.com Senior Consultant, National Performance Engineeering Practice CSC Consulting.

23 years, 2 months

Tamper proof tools

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Jan 28, 0:30, Tothwolf wrote: > On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Sue & Francois wrote: > > > Thank you for the answer, > > I have that set and unfortunately there is no bit that fits those weird > > screws. It looks like a hex nut driver would work on those star shaped > > screws but I can't find my set at the moment. I'm still looking for the > > proper tool though > > I believe what you are looking for is called an 'External linehead' bit. > Linehead fasteners, are extremely popular in Japan, but US made and > imported tools are available. Another good place to see drawings of screw head types is http://www.lara.com/reviews/screwtypes.htm -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

23 years, 2 months

'386 chip upgrade?

by rschaefe＠gcfn.org

I've got an old P70 (IBM MCA luggable w/ plasma display) with a '386DX20 that I'm playing around with. Does anyone know if there's a drop-in replacement for the '386DX? I'm pretty constrained space-wise, no room for an interposer and barely room for a heatsink should one prove necessary. I'm not aiming for a fire-breathing monster, just more geek points when I boot AIX-PS/2 and Solaris-mca 2.6 on it. Thanks! Bob

23 years, 2 months

first photo's

by julesrichardsonuk＠yahoo.co.uk

> Well.. I loaded up yer URLs - and 5 minutes later, when about 1/3 of the > first eleventy-bazillon byte .jpg had drizzled into my browser, I > abandoned it. ha ha - yeah, they were a bit big. Glad this browser's got a zoom feature. seems to be a common mistake people make when they first get a digital camera - I've seen a similar thing with scanners, where people insist on scanning a whole A4 page and sending that around for the sake of the tiny photo up in one corner. You learn by experience though I guess, and as someone else said it's nice to have the big images but some sort of warning and smaller thumbnail versions would have been nice. cheers Jules __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? 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

Back in the game

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Jan 27, 22:23, Ethan Dicks wrote: > After a *very* brief unemployment, I started at a new job today - as an > OpenVMS Administrator Congratulations! > Now back to the side of the table with money, but no time... :-) -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

23 years, 2 months

5110 trade update (last one)

by fauradon＠frontiernet.net

Hi all, By now I have sent all interested parties a final email requesting confirmation of their earlier offer, if you were interested and have not received an email from me, please sen me one quick because I'll be closing the shop soon (figuratively) Thank you for your attention Francois Minnesota

23 years, 2 months

Need ECU for Everex Step Megacube

by red＠bears.org

Hi, guys. I picked up an Everex Step Megacube yesterday, and fulfilled a 10-year-old, forgotten lust. I wanted one of these REALLY BADLY when they were new. Anyway, I need the ECU (EISA configuration utility) for this guy, or at the very least the .CFG for the motherboard. If somebody has it and could email me a copy (pkzip or somesuch is fine) I would be eternally grateful. Thanks! ok r.

23 years, 2 months

Spectrum Holobyte Tetris

by Edward.Tillman＠valero.com

I thought I'd never hear that company's name again. I've been looking feverishly, for about 3 years, for a copy of Spectrum Holobyte's "Blockout!" The base game is a series of walls the player needs to take down by grouping 3 or more like blocks or symbols. It also contains bombs, missiles, and other cute destructive devices. It was a simple game, made to run in DOS, and I'd (or my wife would!) just about die for a copy of it. Ours died when my DOS-based BBS fried back in '97... Cheers... Ed Tillman Store Automation Tech Support Specialist Valero Energy Corporation San Antonio, TX; USA Phone (210) 592-3110, Fax (210) 592-2048 edward.tillman(a)valero.com <mailto:edward.tillman@valero.com> > -----Original Message----- > From: cctalk-admin@classiccmp.org@PEUSA On Behalf Of David > Holland <dholland(a)woh.rr.com> > Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2003 9:33 AM > To: Classic Computer Talk > Subject: Re: Spectrum Holobyte Tetris > > Now, I don't have a copy of Spectrum Holobyte's Tetris lying around > here, but I don't recall hearing any mention of it having noteworthy > contents. > >

23 years, 2 months

System/36 whining and begging...

by n8uhn＠yahoo.com

Another and perhaps the simplest way to archive sys34 or 36 pgms to diskette or cd is to use the 5250 pc emulator card or a clone card and the pc support pgms on the pc and sys/36. the emulator turns a pc xt or at into a 5251 terminal and does the ebcdic/ascii conversion for pc to 36 printer files. there are many different versions of the emulator cards still out there some will even run in windows. i even saw a pcmcia version for a laptop. you can save disk or diskette - library's,files and members on the pc from the 36 then transfer the diskette to a windows machine if needed and put it on cd. useing the same process one could even send a copy of sys/36 pgms via email. the labels and owner id must match the pgm distrubition diskettes label if copying a 8 diskette. then a person could do the reverse to get the files back on the 36. i have the emulator card but have not played with the copy to pc feature yet i got all this info from the pc support 36 manual. i am not sure how much the ibm standards differ from the shugart or other standards. ibm had the 1d and 2d diskettes and both had a low and hi density format (format 1 or 2). do keep us posted about which process you end up useing as i want to archive all of my fresh 8 in copies also. i hope the non ascii data of sys3x data (ebcdic) dosn't go down to the binary level. Bill Message: 17 Subject: System/36 whining and begging... To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org From: "Colin Eby" <ceby2(a)csc.com> Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 13:44:09 -0500 Reply-To: cctech(a)classiccmp.org Folks -- Thought I'd continue my unreasonable begging from the previous note back to Bill. I'd like to take on a little project of creating archival images of S/36 media. I've made a duplicate of most of what I own on fresher 8" stock. But I don't think that's a long term strategy for avoiding the inevitable ravages of media corruption. What I had in mind was something like a 'dd' dump of each disk that could be reloaded to fresh 8" media when required. I haven't given this too much thought so bear with me.... I'm working on a list of questions and puzzles to accomplish this goal.The first obvious problem is media to hardware integration. If memory serves, I read somewhere that IBM used an oddball disk format (Sellam, you might know this). 8" Shuggart drives come on the market from time to time but, would they, using low level drivers, be able to make a physical block by block copy of IBM S/36 disk data? The second problem is hardware to hardware integration. Has anyone had luck integrating a 8" drive with a more recent machine? And what are the alternatives? I presume this could be done on DEC hardware and then sent to any open platform over a network connection. Has anyone gotten an 8" floppy operating under an Intel based Linux host. That would seem the obvious media transfer station because of the wide range of hardware compatibility. Once these first two steps are done, any basic disk utility ought to make short work of creating binary dumps. An alternative approach might be to copy the disks directly on the System/36 host using platform native tools then sending the file across some form of network connection. The problem is I haven't a clue how that would need to be done. I've never read any low level API for S/36 as a platform. IBM seems to have kept anything harware layer proprietary. Any and all thoughts welcome. Thanks, -Colin ceby2(a)csc.com Senior Consultant, National Performance Engineeering Practice CSC Consulting.

23 years, 2 months

ibm sys/36 5360 basic needed

by n8uhn＠yahoo.com

Ive always wondered about the 5363 the pc size'd 36. the pc support manual does mention it. the models are 5360 - large sys/36, 5362 - small sys/36, 5551 small model available only in japan and the 5363 pc sized sys/36. the pc support calls the 5363 a "system console". as far a spp is concerned, the 5363 uses 5 1/4 diskettes and the ssp on it is for the 5363 only. i'm not sure about the 8 in versions of 36 ssp. sorry i have no 5 1/4 in ssp diskettes. i don't think the 8 in, 5360 languages or office products pgms will even work with the 5363, they will run on the 5362. i have the same 5360 unit that you have - do you have the service manuals for it? you may want to hang on to the 5360 - you can do more with it and the 8 in diskettes are more commom to find. btw - do a search for 5363 or sys/36 and you should find a page that features a 5363 on it you may want to email him about the diskettes. are the tape drives on your 5360 the r2r or cart drives? Bill Message: 14 Subject: Re: ibm sys/36 5360 basic needed To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org From: "Colin Eby" <ceby2(a)csc.com> Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 13:25:51 -0500 Reply-To: cctech(a)classiccmp.org Bill -- I have most of the System/36 stuff... except the languages, sigh. You wouldn't happen to have any of the SSP on 5.25" would you. I have a 5363 I've never successfully IPL'd . And while I'm turning your request for assistance on its head... you wouldn't happen to want a 5360 would you? I have one in need of a good home. I don't even have a garage so I'm paying storage for the beast (2 tape drives, 2 printers, expanded main cabinet with additional disk platters and the magazine version of the 8" floppy). Maybe I can be more helpful if you have other S/36 needs in future. I have a lot of the books and even a few already scanned to PDF. While I'm begging, I don't suppose anyone out there has the Office suite for S/36, or any interesting applications? Or maybe someone wants to be free of a 5364 (a little easier on the electric bills than the 63, 62 or 60). My systems only have SSP, and I have a perverse desire to get some use out of them. -Colin

23 years, 2 months

How many PDP-12's are there now?

by root＠parse.com

So... all this discussion about PDP-12's has got me curious. How many of them are there in existence? It would certainly be interesting to get a list of machines and at least city locations -- I'll start the list: Ottawa/ON/Canada (mine) Roswell/GA/USA If anyone wants to send me info, I'll volunteer to collect and put it up on my website (I won't put email addresses or other incriminating evidence unless you want me to :-)). The other interesting thing that this discussion begs is the topic of (borrowed term) "biomagnification". It's from the environmental field, and basically relates to how bigger animals get more than their "fair" share of poisons because they eat smaller animals which have already concentrated the poisons in their systems. I've borrowed the term because lately what I've been thinking about is the accumulated collections of people who are no longer interested in collecting -- in this case, instead of just getting one or two machines at a time, you tend to get "clusters" of machines -- hence "biomagnification" :-) So... any collectors out there getting rid of PDP stuff? :-) Cheers, -RK -- Looking for Digital Equipment Corp. PDP-1 through PDP-15 minicomputers! Robert Krten, PARSE Software Devices +1 613 599 8316. Realtime Systems Architecture, Consulting and Training at www.parse.com

23 years, 2 months

Free PDP-11

by root＠parse.com

Saw this on the newsgroups; in case anyone missed it: > Steve Cayford <steve_cayford(a)unioncab.com> at TDS.NET Internet Services www.tds.net > > Newsgroups: uwisc.forsale,wi.madison.forsale > > Hi. We've got a PDP-11/23 Plus to get rid of. It's free to whoever would > like to come pick it up at Union Cab in Madison. > > Contact me by e-mail if you're interested. Cheers, -RK -- Looking for Digital Equipment Corp. PDP-1 through PDP-15 minicomputers! Robert Krten, PARSE Software Devices +1 613 599 8316. Realtime Systems Architecture, Consulting and Training at www.parse.com

23 years, 2 months

Taper proof tools.

by fauradon＠frontiernet.net

Hi all, I am looking for one of those tamper proof tool for the sega nomad. It is basically the same shape as the screws for the game cartridges on the genesis but it is so far recessed (3/4 in) that the pliers trick will not work. Anyone know of a source for such tool? Thank you Francois

23 years, 2 months

Casio CFX-200

by rojas_gonzalo＠hotmail.com

Hi: I have a perfectly functional (and I am using all days) Casio CFX-200 Scientific Calculator Watch... But, I am having a problem with it: due to the use of the clock, the lateral buttons was deteriorated and they have sharp borders... And that sharp buttons damage the cuff of my shirts... The local Casio Technical Support (Santiago, Chile) tolds me that it isn't exist replacement for the buttons... Do you know where can I get replacement buttons for my CFX-200 ?... or a replacement case ?... or how I can fix them ?... Best regards, and thanks in advance... Gonzalo Rojas _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail

23 years, 2 months

Odd posting order on cctech

by Fred.van.Kempen＠microwalt.nl

> From: ombra.nl(a)planet.nl [mailto:ombra.nl@planet.nl] > > Same problem here & I'm in the Hague using adsl with planet. The > funny order I can understand with different time zones but why 85 all > at once? Sometimes the original post comes long after all the > replies. Mostly they all arrive in my evening but not always. Same here, mostly between 10pm - 07am Amsterdam time... --f

23 years, 2 months

PDP-8: anyone tried NVRAM simulation of hard drives?

by c.morris＠townsqr.com

Has anyone had interfaced nonvolatile RAM to a PDP-8 to simulate an original hard drive? The DF32 fully expanded with four disks was only 256k x 12... Dallas Semi makes battery-backed NVRAM in a variety of sizes. Two DS1258 (each 128k x 16) would make for a very simple interface that would fit on a single card (or at most a double card). Packing the 12-bit words would complicate the interface a little but lower the cost of the NVRAMs. Using an old 3.5 or 5.25 inch hard drive would be very cheap per meg but would also require development of a controller (like the 8051 mentioned recently as an interface to an HP computer). I don't think there were any original drives greater than 1 Mword available, so larger ones would require nonstandard code to support them anyway. Any thoughts? -Charles

23 years, 2 months

Test post, please ignore

by jss＠subatomix.com

Testing a feature. Please ignore. -- Jeffrey Sharp [demime 1.01a removed an attachment of type application/msword which had a name of MarketDataDeveloper.doc]

23 years, 2 months

Seeking LaserJet IIISi I/O card

by dwightk.elvey＠amd.com

Hi I've seen these come up about once every month or so in eBay. I bought a duplexer for my 3si and an envelope feeder, on eBay. You just need to keep a search going, every few days. I'm sure you'll find one. I'd originally bought a parallel/serial card when I bought mine, surplus, because of the same problem. At the time, I bought it from a printer repair store. It cost almost $200. Later ( about 2 years ) the card failed. I located one on eBay for about $25, I was back on the air. Dwight >From: Ethan Dicks <erd_6502(a)yahoo.com> > > >I have asked in the past about a replacement card for my HP LJ-IIID >with little success (they are apparently somewhat rare). Several >people offered me ones that did not physically fit. Well now, I >have a *newer* old HP printer, an HP LJ-IIISi that takes the square >interface cards with the white/grey 3-row connector. Unfortunately, >the printer I got from OSU surplus (which seems to print just fine) >only has this truely ancient C2059A integral print server - no serial >or parallel, Novell only. :-( Worse, the firmware is particularly >obsolete and deprecated by HP. > >So... if anyone has a spare interface card, I'm interested. Two, in >fact; one for me and one for a friend who needs to hook another IIISi >to his OS X Mac. The printer is on-topic (mine was manufactured in 1991) >at least. > >Let me know cost/part numbers/etc off-list. > >Thanks, > >-ethan

23 years, 2 months

Odd posting order on cctech

by ombra.nl＠planet.nl

Same problem here & I'm in the Hague using adsl with planet. The funny order I can understand with different time zones but why 85 all at once? Sometimes the original post comes long after all the replies. Mostly they all arrive in my evening but not always. M.R. Hoare

23 years, 2 months

TIL306 displays

by p.dalliessi＠paradise.net.nz

Hello Toth. I saw your reference to TIL displays at another site, and you indicated you may have some. Actually I am lookig for 4 pces TIL306 and 5 pces TIL308 displays. Would you be able to help please? Thank you in anticipation. Peter J. Dalliessi. New Zealand.

23 years, 2 months

Ebay: Mark 1 Computer Cards

by marvin＠rain.org

The pictures didn't load for me right now, but if these truely are the Mark 1 cards, it sounds like a neat collection! http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2303799002&category=1247

23 years, 2 months

Bernoulli

by sml49＠attbi.com

Evan R. Pauley wrote: > >> Seth/all, >> >> Actually, he could be looking at a 20MB drive. Iomega produced a dual 20MB >> box called the Bernoulli Box II, which had two 5-1/4" 20 meg drives side by >> > This is the 5-1/4 unit (side by side) apparently with 20MB drives. > The 90meg 5-1/4 cartridges fit in it, but I doubt that they would > work correctly. Also 20meg is quite small any more. Well, I'll > hang onto it until I find some media to go with it, or someone who > needs it. Now that I think about it, the 90 I once used was a single-bay unit. Worked well and didn't seem to mind being knocked around. Worked fine on all Mac SCSI ports w/o difficulty so perhaps it'd do as well on older PC-centric SCSI cards. Seth

23 years, 2 months

Can a TU81+ be connected to a TU80 controller?

by xds_sigma7＠hotmail.com

Yea, the TU80 is Pertec, I know since I own 2 of them... So I can't imagine they're compatible at all.. Don't think they are even the same family of CDC drives... Will J _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail

23 years, 2 months

Ebay: Mark 1 Computer Cards

by fmc＠reanimators.org

John Lawson <jpl15(a)panix.com> wrote: > Even though his picture links were still broken when I checked it out - > from the description text, it is *highly* doubtful that Linksys would be > re-using Harvard Mark I relay cards (555 pounds of them) in it's mid-60s > Boeing 727 Simulator - trainer. Poking round the web last week gave me the idea that these could be >from a General Precision GP-4, a computer whose legacy on the web seems to be that it was used in Singer-Link cockpit simulators. -Frank McConnell

23 years, 2 months

Jump to page:

2026

2025

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

2009

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

2003

2002

2001

2000

1999

1998

1997

test-drb