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by aek＠spies.com

here are parts compatible with 7611's 256*4 +------+ A6 |1 16| Vcc A5 |2 15| A7 A4 |3 14| CE2/ A3 |4 13| CE1/ A0 |5 12| O1 A1 |6 11| O2 A2 |7 10| O3 GND|8 9| O4 +------+ Signetics MMI TI Harris Raytheon AMD National Intel --------- --- -- ------ -------- --- -------- ----- TS 82S129 (50ns) 6301-1 24S10 7611-5 29661 27S21 74S287 3621 82S129A(27ns) 63S141 - 7611A - 27S21A - - Intersil Fujitsu -------- ------- 7052

23 years, 8 months

Some people need help!

by MTPro＠aol.com

Hello, I received both of these message yesterday and I cannot help the people. Anyone have an answer for them? Please respond driectly to them and not me, thanks: ----------------------------------------------- I am looking for a converter to convert some old Wordstar documents. I'm wondering if you might have one handy and could email it here (Sydney, Australia). Or else, do you have any idea where I could get one on the web. I have had a search but with little precise luck. It looks like Microsoft offers a massive 12+ Mb solution to everything which likely would contain it. I will come at that if needs be but thought I'd first try to just get a simple worstar-only translator if I can. Years ago I used to have such things myself but I no longer could locate it now. Kind Regards John Byrnes, Geologist byrnesj(a)minerals.nsw.gov.au ----------------------------------------------- Ref: xerox computer/ser.#m92-013062/1983/bios ver. 5.00 Would you have any info on this machine? I am not certain if it works so I need to obtain it's original operating system or at least a start-up disk. I would like to try and move it for a friend. He has a pawn shop, and this is a case where he got the shaft. A little joke. He is a fair person as far as I can see, and I just want to help him if I can. Any help you might send my way about this machine would be helpful. All it has as far as a model is xerox both on the monitor, and the cpu. I needed to type aa: to get it to recognize the floppy drive of which it has two 51/4" drives. The monitor is connected to the cpu with two wide insulated ribbon cables. the serial, parallel, and keyboard ports are at the back of the monitor at the bottom. It is a different configuration than I am used to, but it seems to work. I don't believe it has a hard drive, but I haven't taken the hood off to check. The drives search the disks I have put in, but to no avail. I think it might be that cm/p operating system, like the old kpro I have, but there again I am not certain. I hope that what info I have given is sufficient to identify this machine. Thanks , Jimmy Dean Fisher ,phydauex56(a)yahoo.com

23 years, 8 months

Mac Portable problems

by RCini＠congressfinancial.com

Hello, all: I decided to pull-out my Mac Portable to charge it after it being on the shelf for about 1 year. I put the battery in and plugged in the power adapter. As soon as I insert the battery, the unit immediately starts up but doesn't boot and I get lots of vertical lines on the screen (in no discernable pattern). I know that the screen has a few defective rows near the bottom but had no other issues the last time I used it. It wasn't stored in extreme temperatures (either cold or warm). I hope that some of the screen drivers didn't go flaky on me. Since I haven't used it in a while, I've forgotten a lot about it. Does this have a reset button on it? Any thoughts on what else to look for? Rich ========================== Richard A. Cini, Jr. Congress Financial Corporation 1133 Avenue of the Americas 30th Floor New York, NY 10036 (212) 545-4402 (212) 840-6259 (facsimile)

23 years, 8 months

How to Print CD Label

by jhfinepw4z＠compsys.to

I need some help with a ".tif" file. A scan was made of a CD label. The label can be printed on a laser printer and the result is great, but in the wrong position. I am a dummy using Windows 98 SE. When I use Windows Explorer and click on the file name, up comes the image of the label. It can be rotated, but there does not seem to be anything that will allow me to move the image sideways nor down so that the image is printed on top of the label. Can anyone suggest what I need to do? Sincerely yours, Jerome Fine -- If you attempted to send a reply and the original e-mail address has been discontinued due a high volume of junk e-mail, then the semi-permanent e-mail address can be obtained by replacing the four characters preceding the 'at' with the four digits of the current year.

23 years, 8 months

Classic Assumption

by doc＠mdrconsult.com

Hey. This is sort of long, but relates a major wake-up call for me. I have a J-Series RS/6000 7013-560 that I rescued from Goodwill awhile back. It's an awesome machine, and one of my favorites. My company works occasionally with/for a firm who produces traveling AIX classes. They move machines from city to city, doing one-week IBM curricula. About 15-18 months ago, their shippers lost 8 of 12 machines on the way to San Antonio. My boss & I rented them all our equipment - 6 RS6ks and a couple of terminals - for a week to keep the class from folding. The 560 went, against my better judgment. When the computers came home, the first thing I did was reinstall a clean OS on each one. It's amazing how many ways students can hose an install. The 560 stays on 4.3.2, for sentimental reasons. It wouldn't load properly. The BOS would install with no errors, and come up on reboot to a 554 error code. Unable to find bootable device. I swapped drives, I reset jumpers, I verified termination, I unplugged everything that spins. I even found a replacement IBM CD-ROM. I eventually narrowed it down to the SCSI cable. (A J-box internal SCSI cable is a nightmare to behold, and hell to replace. Let alone _find_ one) Last week I picked up a 520 and swapped the cable, then the SCSI adapter. Same problem. The 520 also came with full hardware docs and diagnostic floppy set, so I ran a full suite. Everything checked out, except for that 554 error. I finally decided to load v3.2.5, which also came with the 520, just because. When I pulled the 4.3.2 CD out of the caddy, where it's lived for 2 years, I found an ugly little dob of some pink gel on the data side. I cleaned the disk, put it back, installed AIX v4.3.2 on my 560, and it's running happily right now. I get so accustomed to old hardware having issues, and especially after it had been transported, and unsupervised lusers had their hands on it, that I completely bypassed some elementary checkpoints and lost the use of my machine for a year. Bah. I'd feel like an idiot if it wasn't so, ummm, "classic". Doc

23 years, 8 months

ST-225 help needed

by acme_ent＠bellsouth.net

---------- > From: geoffr(a)zipcon.net > To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org > Cc: geoffr(a)zipcon.net > Subject: Re: Re: ST-225 help needed > Date: Monday, July 22, 2002 10:48 PM > > http://www.aquascape.com/theref/controllers/layouts/cs_wd1002s-wx2.html > > this will give you the setup for your card :) > Okay, the drawing show settings for Rev G and Rev H BIOS -- anyone know how I can tell which version these cards have? Thanks -- Glen 0/0 If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? And if not now, when? -- Pirkei Avot

23 years, 8 months

Help with New Find

by jrkeys＠concentric.net

Picked up a Victor Comptometer Duolectric today at a auction for free and I can't locate any info on it. I tried to google but got nothing but info on the company not the machine. Anyone know of a source for information on this model? Also got a Nintendo Virtual Boy ($6), Mac Color Classic ($10), Mac Centris 650 (free), and a Toshiba Satellite Pro ($1).

23 years, 8 months

ST-225 help needed

by acme_ent＠bellsouth.net

Hope someone can help . . . I have two Seagate ST-225 drives and a WD1002SWX2A controller. Both drives have previously lived in XT-class DOS-based PCs. One of the drives is bootable, the other is not. What I need to do is set both drives up in the same PC, booting from the bootable drive (duh) so that I can extract the data from the non-bootable drive. The object of the game is to move the data to a modern (Duron-based) system. I can't boot from a floppy disk drive due to a fault in the motherboard, but I do have a SCSI controller and hard drive in the XT system. I can move the SCSI drive to the newer system once I can get to the data on the non-bootable ST-225. What is the proper configuration for the ST-225 drives and the WD controller? Any help is greatly appreciated. Glen 0/0 If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? And if not now, when? -- Pirkei Avot

23 years, 8 months

DEC Manuals Available

by Mzthompson＠aol.com

The following manuals are available. The cost listed with each manual is just to cover mailing costs. If you want one of these: 1) Send an email reserving your manual(s) *** US destinations only *** 2) I will email you to confirm your reservation (or to say sorry, too late) 3) After confirmation of your reservation, send the funds (cash, check, or stamps) to cover the cost of mailing. Title: VT320 Installation & User's Guide P/N: EK-VT320-UG-001 Quant: 2 Cost: $3 Title: TZK10 Cartridge Tape Drive; User Guide P/N: EK--TZK10-OG-001 Quant: 1 Cost: $2 TZK12 525mb SCSI Tape Drive; Installation Guide - 2 copies P/N: EK-XATAA-IG.001 Quant: 2 Cost: $2 Title: VR320 Color Monitor - Installation & User's Guide P/N: EK-VR320-IN-001 Quant: 2 Cost: $2 Title: DECserver 200 Hardware Installation/Owner's Guide P/N: EK-D200C-IN-001 Quant: 2 Cost: $3 Title: Ultrix Basic Installation Guide P/N: AA-PBL0A-TE Quant: 1 Cost: $3 Mike

23 years, 8 months

Adaptec ACB-4070 was Re: ST-225 help needed

by erd_6502＠yahoo.com

--- Joe <rigdonj(a)cfl.rr.com> wrote: > At 09:12 PM 7/22/02 -0700, you wrote: > > > >--- Joe <rigdonj(a)cfl.rr.com> wrote: > >> At 06:26 PM 7/22/02 -0700, Ethan wrote: > >> >--- Don Maslin <donm(a)cts.com> wrote: > >> >> ...I see no reason why a regular SCSI > >> >> drive could not be installed in lieu of the ACB-4070 and ST-411/506 > >> >> interface drive. > >> so the host has to "know" the geometry, > >> > >> Hmmm. But how do you tell it the geometry? > > > >That entirely depends on the software/firmware on the host. > > This is on a CPM machine so the program isn't that fancy. But I was > reading through the manual again last night and it says that the source > code for the HD install program was included so that you could modify it > for the particular drive. I don't have that file with my stuff so I'll > have to search for it. That would be essential I would think. Almost certainly, the expected drive geometry is embedded in the partitioning software which may or may not be tightly coupled with the low-level formatting software you reference above. With source code, you could turn off any features you don't want, and change the tables as needed (although you *could* just ignore the rest of the drive and only use the first few megs; unlike an ST506/ST412/ESDI/SMD drive, modern SCSI and IDE drives present a virtual model of tracks and sectors because they have a variable number of sectors per track and you can't easily *know* what physical cylinder you are on). In a similar vein, between myself and some folks in Michigan, Finland and Germany, we've managed to tweak the partition tables for a Commodore D9090 disk drive which happens to have an OMTI SASI<->ST506 bridge controller so that it can use other drives like the ST225. One project that I have on my long-term plate is to tweak the ROMs to handle embedded SCSI drives (the formatting and partitioning software is *in* the drive and run by one of its two microprocessors; the PET is completely out of the loop - it just sends a "N0:diskname,nn" command to the drive and the drive does all the hard work). It's not exactly the same situation, but there are similarities - you have to understand the formatter to know what changes are needed. > >> >Additionally, whatever (low level) formatting software comes with the > >> >host might or not might not work with an embedded drive... > Since whatever replacement drive that I get will most likely come from > a MS-DOS machine I'll almost certainly have to LL format it. Even more so > since CPM only handles ~8 Mb partitions. According to the manual I > SHOULD have both the LL formatting program and something equivelent to > NEWFS. Again I don't know if I actually have the files. I got a large > box of SW with the system but loaned it to someone and now he can't find > it. Generally speaking, you only have to LL format an embedded SCSI disk if you are trying to whack and refresh the bad block table because the disk is aging or you need a different sector size. LL formatting has to be done *before* partitioning; it's not the _same_ as partitioning. Think of it this way - in the PC/XT DOS world, you LL format an ST225 drive with debug the command "G=C800:5" that jumps into the controller's BIOS You partition with fdisk, and you high-level format with "FORMAT". Three seperate steps. If your embedded drive works on some other system, you can probably jump right to "partition" under CP/M, unless for some strange reason, you can't use 512 byte sectors (almost certainly what your SCSI drive has on it now, but I _have_ seen other sizes in non-Intel systems) > What do you think of trying to use some kind of removeable media > drive such as an IOMEGA ZIP drive or an old Syquest drive? Should be no different to your host than any other embedded drive. I don't know about LUN issues, but I wouldn't expect them. I have both a SCSI ZIP and a 44MB SQ555 (just got a stack of cartridges from the Micro Center for $3 each, new off the bargain table!) and have had no compatibility problems on Suns or Amigas or Macs or PeeCees (would love to try them out on a PDP-8 but I'm still searching for an OMNIBUS SCSI controller). > Thanks for your advice. I'll look for a SCSI drive to try our in it. I > may contact you again if I run into other problems. No problem. Good luck. -ethan P.S. - found an interesting historical document on Segate controllers and drives at http://www.mm.mtu.edu/drives/seagate/misc/pc_hints.txt If you didn't used to have to mess with PeeCee drives 10-15 years ago, there's some good information in there. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better http://health.yahoo.com

23 years, 8 months

HP-HIL update

by roosmcd＠dds.nl

You've just got to love Google: "You can! The 715/80 has both HIL and PS/2 signals in this 10 pin connector. Here's the pinout of the adapter box (no guarantee, of course): | Pin Signal | Workstation HIL PS2 Mouse PS2 Kbd ----------------+---------------------------------------- HIL +12V | 1 1 HIL SI | 2 2 HIL SO | 3 3 GND | 4 4 3 3 PS2 Mouse Clock | 5 5 PS2 Mouse Data | 6 1 GND | 7 3 3 PS2 Kbd Data | 8 1 PS2 Kbd Clock | 9 5 PS2 +5V | 10 4 4 " So that's what inside the UKP 19.50 cable.. Can anyone please confirm if this really works? Or if it just blows up your workstation (pictures!). It looks like my C110 doesn't have all the pins in the HP-HIL socket. greetings, Michiel

23 years, 8 months

COMM180 docs

by r.stek＠snet.net

Joe - I found a copy of the COMM180 Technical Manual Release 1.0 dated 1985. It's about 60 pages long. Is this what you have? What specifically were you looking for? Bob Stek Saver of Lost Sols

23 years, 8 months

Todays Find - answer to Mac Question

by mythtech＠mac.com

>The Mac in that lot was a Performa 578 and was on my list to look for. In >one of the other lots I got two Performa 5200CD's, one in bad shape but will >be used for parts. Also one of the bidders there seen me getting all the Mac >stuff and went to his truck and came back with a Performa 635CD and gave it >to me for free. Doesn't that put you like 3 Macs away from having one of each? Lucky dog -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

23 years, 8 months

ST-225 help needed

by acme_ent＠bellsouth.net

---------- > From: Gene Buckle <geneb(a)deltasoft.com> > To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org > Subject: Re: ST-225 help needed > Date: Monday, July 22, 2002 5:27 PM > > Is the motherboard old enough to have the switch block that tell it how > many floppy drives are connected? > > g. Yes! But, I don't know how to set the switches. If I do a "DIR A:" the drive spins and DOS ultimately reports "Error reading Drive A" Thanks again -- Glen 0/0 If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? And if not now, when? -- Pirkei Avot

23 years, 8 months

ST-225 help needed

by acme_ent＠bellsouth.net

---------- > From: Gene Buckle <geneb(a)deltasoft.com> > To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org > Subject: Re: ST-225 help needed > Date: Monday, July 22, 2002 5:24 PM > > You might also try doing "g=c800:5" from debug to enter the controller rom > and see if there is a setup you have to perform. > > g. > Thanks Gene -- that didn't occur to me. I'll try it tomorrow. Later -- Glen 0/0 If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? And if not now, when? -- Pirkei Avot

23 years, 8 months

ST-225 help needed

by acme_ent＠bellsouth.net

---------- > From: Marvin Johnston <marvin(a)rain.org> > To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org > Subject: Re: ST-225 help needed > Date: Monday, July 22, 2002 5:08 PM > > > One way to actually see if the HD is being recognized by the system is > to use fdisk, option 4 (display ...). If fdisk doesn't see it, then > there is a hardware problem someplace ... bad cable, wrong jumper > settings on the HD and/or controller, bad HD controller, bad HD, etc. FDISK sees only one drive. > If there is a motherboard problem, why not just use an AT motherboard > with the CMOS set to no drives? Besides being able to read the HDs, you > will be able to use high density floppys. The other MBs I have here are all '486 and higher and do not recognize the controller card (I have two identical cards). > I don't recall the parameters for your HD controller ... the older ones > needed to have a jumper set on the controller for each drive, while some > of the newer ones did that with software and some information put on the > HD itself. This controller has jumpers. > How do you know the motherboard is a fault for not being able to read > the 360K drive? Because I replaced the FDD controller and floppy disk drive with known good units, and still cannot read any floppy diskette. Thanks -- Glen 0/0 If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? And if not now, when? -- Pirkei Avot

23 years, 8 months

ST-225 help needed

by acme_ent＠bellsouth.net

---------- > From: Gene Buckle <geneb(a)deltasoft.com> > To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org > Subject: Re: ST-225 help needed > Date: Monday, July 22, 2002 5:03 PM > > Have you verified the usual things, like making sure there is a > terminating resistor pack on the last drive in the chain? Yup. > You've got the > drive select jumpers correctly set? Yup. > What about the two data cables? 0 > going to drive 0 and 1 going to drive 1? Yup. > Does the control cable have the > correct twist to it? (afaik, the control & floppy cables had the same > number of lines, but the twist was different between them) Yup. The problem *must* be that the controller is not configured to recognize that there are two drives. Thanks -- Glen 0/0 If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? And if not now, when? -- Pirkei Avot

23 years, 8 months

ST-225 help needed

by acme_ent＠bellsouth.net

> From: Don Maslin <donm(a)cts.com> > To: classiccmp <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> > Subject: Re: ST-225 help needed > Date: Monday, July 22, 2002 3:53 PM > > > Is the WD controller the same one that the drives running on in the XT? > If not, it is possible that you will not be able to boot/read the > drives. It is the same controller that originally wrote the data to the drives. > Assuming that this is not a problem, and assuming that you are using a > cable with a twist, both drives should be set as the second DS and the > bootable one should be connected beyond the twist. Be sure that you > connect the proper 20 pin connectors to the appropriate drives. No problem there. Both drives are set to second channel, and the cable has a twist, but the controller does not see the second drive. Now I need to know how to configure this controller for a dual-drive setup. > Set > the BIOS to no hard drives and let the BIOS on the controller handle > the drives. Boot 'er up. Hmm, no BIOS setup program on XT-class machines ;>) > Hopefully, you will be able to write to a floppy, or it might be > difficult to save your data from the data disk. Actually, the system can't write to a floppy, but the system does recognize a SCSI drive connected to an 8-bit controller, so I can move the data to the SCSI drive and then put the SCSI drive into a system with a usable floppy drive. Thanks -- Glen 0/0

23 years, 8 months

ST-225 help needed

by acme_ent＠bellsouth.net

---------- > From: Marvin Johnston <marvin(a)rain.org> > To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org > Subject: Re: ST-225 help needed > Date: Monday, July 22, 2002 5:09 PM > > > OH, and speaking of the cable, are you using a twisted HD cable and NOT > a floppy disk cable? The difference it the twist is closer to the edge > on the HD cable than the floppy cable. It's a twisted HDD cable. Thanks -- Glen 0/0 If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? And if not now, when? -- Pirkei Avot

23 years, 8 months

whole collection of TRS computers FA on E-bay

by rigdonj＠cfl.rr.com

A whole LOT of stuff there! <http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2039902454> Joe

23 years, 8 months

Fwd: Old Computer seeking new home (IBM Pr Jr., NW Chicago)

by jfoust＠threedee.com

>From: Nkjvcjs(a)aol.com >Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 17:19:52 EDT >Subject: Old Computer seeking new home >To: jfoust(a)threedee.com > >I am looking for a new home for my IBM PC jr. I don't have room for it anymore, but It was my first computer that my daddy got for me when I was 4 years old, so I can't bear to throw it away. >It is currently hooked up and working. >It is the PC jr system with the 64kb internal memory expansion, the power attachment, two memory expansion sidecars and the printer parallel port attachment. It is the system with the internal modem. It also has the corded keyboard and color monitor, and dot matrix printer. >I also have the basic cartridge and manual; DOS 5&1/2 floppies and manual; IBM writing assistant & IBM filing assistant with manuals; and Exploring the IBM PC jr floppies & manuals. >I don't want any money or anything for it, just to know that it is going to a good home. >I am in Illinois, Chicago western suburbs. Any help you can offer in finding it a new home would be appreciated. >Nicole

23 years, 8 months

FA: E & L Instruments Mini-Micro Designer Model MMD-1

by rigdonj＠cfl.rr.com

Located in Oz but currently only $11 US. <http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1749958797> The seller has two of them! <http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1750561229>

23 years, 8 months

OT: the pinouts for a Mini-Din connector labled a/v out

by ghldbrd＠ccp.com

JUst came up with a Diamond Speedstar A70 video card and in addition to the usual 15 pin monitor jack, it has a seven pin mini-DI jack marked as A/V OUT. I presume this is an NTSC output, and I'm assuming that it may have a hardware MPEG decoder for DVD playback? I'm wondering if any of you guy know where I can get the break out cable for this plug, or at least the pinout so I can build one of my own. Gary Hildebrand St. Joseph, MO

23 years, 8 months

VRE01/VT1200 pictures

by mrbill＠mrbill.net

For those of you who've never seen a VT1200 with a VRE01 plasma display: http://gallery.mrbill.net/view_album.php?set_albumName=vre01 The "darker orange" colors are closer to what it actually looks like. I was able to get these pictures after switching to "full spectrum" compact flourescent bulbs in the computer room. The pictures where the display appears "yellow" are from when I had one of the GE Reveal bulbs up overhead. Interesting how it makes a difference. Bill -- Bill Bradford mrbill(a)mrbill.net Austin, TX

23 years, 8 months

Query as to Frieden calculator value

by jwest＠classiccmp.org

Just received an old Frieden electro-mechanical calculator from the estate of a family member. There's some sentimental attachment to it so I'm not looking to sell it. However, I am somewhat curious as to what it may be worth. It is in perfect working (and cosmetic) condition. Model is SBT10. Any of the calculator oriented list members have any idea? Jay West

23 years, 8 months

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