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by paul＠wccnet.org

Tom Pittmann is putting up a web site that contains his Tiny BASIC. http://homepage.mac.com/IttyBittyComputers/ Paul R. Santa-Maria Monroe, Michigan USA

23 years, 11 months

Floppy Disks

by mythtech＠mac.com

>Uhm, that URL redirects me to http://www.microcenter.com/, which doesn't >have anything but 3.5" floppy disks. > >Any other suggestions? They used to carry them... but MEI recently officially changed their name to just MicroCenter, and changed their format from a bulk dealer of media and supplies to more that of the million other catalog/online dealers. Alas, their prices have started to go up as well, and some of their more hard to find items like DSDD 5.25s have vanished. <sigh> -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

23 years, 11 months

adjusting a Digital VRT19-DA... a.k.a. Sony GDM-1960

by DAW＠yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu

Well, my 12 year old 19" monitor works pretty nice, except for having the Bright and Contrast cranked al the way up... Anyway, can anyone tell me how to adjust the Horizontal center and size? And how about the Vert. size too? When I am at the SRM chevron (>>>), the first two columns are gone, so I see only one of the '>'. Those adjustments must be inside the case somewhere. Hopefully I won't fry myself opening this thing up... Another quickie... I assume the Video-Out BNCs on the back of the monitor is Sync on Green also, just like the inputs... And should the switch be set to High Scan or Low Scan, when hooked to a DEC 3000/400? -- --- David A Woyciesjes --- C & IS Support Specialist --- Yale University Press --- mailto:david.woyciesjes@yale.edu --- (203) 432-0953 --- ICQ # - 905818 Mac OS X 10.1 - Darwin Kernel Version 5 Running since 01/22/2002 without a crash

23 years, 11 months

Floppy Disks

by gehrich＠tampabay.rr.com

I have some on consignment. Not sure how many though till I look. How many do you need? I think that I can sell them for $2 (box of ten) plus shipping. Let me know off list if interested. Gene

23 years, 11 months

IRIX on Personal Iris

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On May 9, 9:50, Robert F Schaefer wrote: > On May 9, 15:02, Jochen Kunz wrote: > > So, if I "upgarde" the 4MB SIMMs to 8MB SIMMs, I can put in more than > > one bank of "upgraded" SIMMs? Or is this bug speciffic to the 4MB SIMM > > ASIC and the 2MB and 8MB SIMM ASICs are different? > The 2 meg SIMMS are full o' chips, the 4 meg SIMMS are only half-populated, > fill it out to make an 8 meg SIMM. It would appear that the ASIC is the > same on the 4 meg and 8 meg SIMM. I would like to know if the ASIC is the > same on the 2 meg SIMM. I have a number of them, and I would rather > unsolder the old RAM chips and replace them than screw with the only set of > working 4 meg SIMMs I have. Good idea. Yes, the ASICs are the same on all the SIMMs: LSILOGIC L1A6569, DDM1, Rev.C, SGI 9700832. The date codes and manufacturer code/batch number may vary from SIMM to SIMM, of course. If you upgrade a 2MB SIMM (514256 chips) with 514100 chips, remove the 75-ohm resistor at R6 (may be marked 75R or 750) and fit a new 2K2 resistor at R5. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

23 years, 11 months

Installing Win9x (was: Re: APPLEVISION Monitor)

by acme_ent＠bellsouth.net

Jeez, this list has gotten so OT . . . > From: Richard Erlacher <edick(a)idcomm.com> > I don't see how it could be any easier to install than Win98. I just put the > CD in the drive and reset the machine. Then I go away, to lunch, perhaps, and > when I'm back the drive is freshly formatted as a single partition under FAT32 > and the OS is completely installed, the drivers in place, the modem ready to > align with the internet parameters it wants (server names, addresses, etc) and > then I can install applications. Richard, I don't know what version of Win98 you are using, and I'm not familiar with your hardware, but I do two or three installations of Win9x every day, and in 95% of the cases I have to provide device drivers for something in the system. It is rare that Win9x will provide all of the drivers for the sound, modem, video, and IDE controller. Perhaps you are using a "restore" disk which came with your eMachine, Compaq, HP or Gateway computer? Glen 0/0

23 years, 11 months

TI3100 laptops?

by jwest＠classiccmp.org

I have seen some discussion on the list recently regarding the Toshiba 3100 laptops... I was just curious - is there some reason that these are sought after? I believe I know where a pretty decent sized stack of them is (about 15 or so). Wonder if one would take an ISA HP-IB card to interface with some of my other bench gear...would they take a pcmcia card for my wireless network at home? Thanks for any input Jay West

23 years, 11 months

Write Ring Fights (was Fwd: Re: Tae Rings?)

by erd_6502＠yahoo.com

--- Frank McConnell <fmc(a)reanimators.org> wrote: > <http://www.mythtech.net/rings.jpg> > ... unless, of course, your operators are fun-loving sorts who > like to throw write rings at each other and relish the opportunity to > throw something that looks similar when it's moving fast but is a bit > less flexible. We never threw the packing rings, but since we did ship software to customers on magtape, we had *cartons* of write rings. Fridays, starting at about 16:45, from one corner of the cube space or another... zing... then it was like a cloud of cicadias - the air filled with yellow rings. I used to use a 3' cardboard tube as a launcher - I could get a ring 4 or 5 cubes away. The end to our write-ring wars came when, after a particularly fierce battle, I grabbed a 3 cu ft box *full* and climbed onto my desk, then slowly along the tops of the cube walls (not modular furniture, hard walls made of 2"x4"s and sheet rock, 6' tall) and dumped the entire box on an unsuspecting combatant. -ethan __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Mother's Day is May 12th! http://shopping.yahoo.com

23 years, 11 months

FREE: SGI IndigoR3K 2M SIMMs

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On May 9, 9:10, Jochen Kunz wrote: > We had five R3k and one R4k Indigo at the Unix-AG. The PSUs died, only > one working is left. That is now in the R4k machine and I am afraid > about the day it will die and that this day will come soon. :-( You shouldn't put a PSU from an R3K Indigo inot an R4K -- they're not the same. The R4K version is a significantly higher rating, and an R3K PSU in R4K machine *will* die. The new PSU was one of the expensive parts of an R3K -> R4K upgrade. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

23 years, 11 months

2.11BSD kernel probs

by doc＠mdrconsult.com

Hi, all. I've been trying to build a kernel with TCP/IP & DEQNA support for the PDP-11/93. After reassigning some of the overlay inclusions, the kernel builds OK, and will boot, up to looking for the root filesystem. The boot fails with an error that there's no root fs at major, minor (5,0). I've verified that my root filesystem is indeed at that device. I can't figure out where I'm hosing the build. Any suggestions? I'll probably be going to RT-11 as soon as Mentec clears the hobbyist licensing, but I'd like to leave triumphant.... Plus, I promised a friend a login on A Real PDP-11. Doc

23 years, 11 months

IRIX on Personal Iris

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On May 9, 7:24, Robert Schaefer wrote: > D' you think a hairdryer would work? :) Probably not hot enough ;-) > Ok, seriously, any problems with > existing parts coming unstuck and getting blown around? Or is the nozzle > tight enough that other chips usually don't get hot enough? It depends on the nozzle, the temperature, and the technique. If you do one chip at a time, get the temperature right, and don't take too long, I'd guess you'd only melt the solder on the adjacent side of the adjacent chip, and it shouldn't move. I'd use a good quality low-temperature rework solder to minimise the risk. However, I'm not an expert, and maybe I've just been lucky. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

23 years, 11 months

The answer is: Mekel 460XL Microfiche scanner

by Antonio.Carlini＠riverstonenet.com

>Got a pile of the VMS fishies around here somewhere, but it would be >illegal to violate DECs copyright and trade secrets in such a fashion. >Even worse would be to admit to planning such a violation on an >archived mailing list. Good to see you're likely to be around long enough to get to operate that machine :-) Anyway, the OpenVMS listings are available on CD (at least from the V5.5-ish era onwards). (And the fiche is source listings, *not* sources). Someone from OpenVMS engineering commented (some time ago) in comp.os.vms that he was trying to get copies of the V1/V2/V3/V4 listings onto CD. No word on whether these would be made available (a la freeware) but it seems pointless scanning something that is known to exist electronically when there is so much other stuff on fiche that is not available online. My vote is 400dpi in PDF (or TIFF, but viewers don't seem to be so flexible for that ). Should be a nice stack of CDs if you manage to scan 4 linear feet of fiche! I suspect that indexing it (i.e. collecting manual#1, manual#2, manual#3 etc. into individual files) may well take you some time! Can you estimate how many pages of fiche four linear feet actually is? How many manual pages (assuming "full" fiche sheets) does that translate to? At 300dpi, an A4/Letter page turns out to be maybe 50-70KB; at 600 dpi I usually find that the PDFs turn out at 200-250KB per page. That should allow you to roughly estimate the amount of data you are likely to produce. Antonio

23 years, 11 months

Subject: Re: The answer is: Mekel 460XL Microfiche scanner

by mmcfadden＠cmh.edu

Microfiche trivia, my memory may be rusty The sample microfiche I have retrieved are 4" high by 6" wide. There are varying numbers of images placed on them. The layout of the images indicates what magnification of the originals was used. The ones I have are 12 columns of images across by 6 rows of images down. Of the 8 microfiche readers I have recently examined most are the 24X units. Some are dual 24X and 48X. There are supposed to be a 72X but I haven't ever seen one. I have examined a sample microfiche under an old microscope, vintage 1950, and used several different magnifications. Car parts listings are a typical usage of microfiche. Some microfiche were designed to be COM (Computer Output Microfiche), the images are landscape. On my sample microfiche each minified image is about 1/2" by 3/4". If you figure that on the 8 wide paper it takes 150dpi to accurately sample the original page. There are therefore 1200 useful dots reduced into 1/2". and then you need to scan the microfiche image at about 2400dpi to get an accurate reproduction. I'm trying a Nikon scanner at 1200dpi as an experiment, the main problem is getting enough light through the microfiche. YMMV Thanks Mike

23 years, 11 months

Bye for now.

by jbdigriz＠dragonsweb.org

Folks, after my last reply to Jay, I see I'm going to need to be absent for a while. I'm busy with a lot of other stuff anyway. I will leave it to him to work out how the list is to be run, and I hope everyone else will, too. I just had to make my position clear, but I see it's going to make it difficult for the list if I stick around. No hard feelings towards him or anyone else. Ya'll be good. later, jbdigriz

23 years, 11 months

What is it?

by mmcfadden＠cmh.edu

Owen I seem to remember there is a receive only DECwriter that we used as a data logger at one time. This may be a pointer to more information http://telnet.hu/hamster/pdp-11/periferia.html Thanks Mike McFadden >Date: Wed, 08 May 2002 12:41:32 -0500 >From: Owen Robertson <univac2(a)earthlink.net> >Subject: What is it? >http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2022409053 >Anyone know what this is? Looks like a DECwriter with only numeric keys.

23 years, 11 months

Altos ports

by pat＠purdueriots.com

OK, since I have no available user manual, and google seems to be less than helpful on this subject, can anyone tell me what each port on the back of my Altos 580 and 8000 is? For the 580, I've got figured out that JA is for a parallel printer, JB&JD are RS-232 and JC is the RS-232 console. What is JE? For the 8000, I've noticed that JU-JZ seem to be RS-232 with JX the console. What is everthign else? Does anyone have pinouts for ports that aren't 'standard' like RS-232 ports? Thanks for the help -- Pat

23 years, 11 months

IRIX on Personal Iris

by rschaefe＠gcfn.org

Well, my latest toy is here, but it looks like I screwed up a little when I picked up an IRIX CD for it. I got 'IRIX 5.3 for Indy R4400 175MHz', but according to http://sgistuff.g-lenerz.de/ this version is Indy-specific-- I need the plain vanilla 5.3 CD, or 5.3 XFS. Anyone have one to trade? Or maybe even 4.x? Also, if anyone has a source for 8MB simms, keyboards, and mice I'd be interested. Thanks! Bob

23 years, 11 months

misc items found at a surplus store - anyone want them?

by jwest＠classiccmp.org

I went to a surplus store today and found the following items which may (or may not) be of interest to any listmembers. If anyone wants any of it, let me know off-list. Krown Research Porta-Printer II. This is a small keyboard, an accoustic coupler on the back, and a calculator-style 2.5" printing tape in the center. Think TI Silent700, that's kinda what it looks like except smaller and with the tape role. In a nice hardshell carrycase. Marked at $40.00. HP7045A X-Y Plotter - this isn't a "modern" plotter, looks pretty old technology-wise but fair condition. No price. Three 8" monitors, GBC brand with large (F-type??) 75ohm connectors, marked at $25.00 each. HP7550 plotter, looks to be in excellent shape, marked at $45.00 Two SyQuest "88MB C" 5.25 bare drives, no price. Noticed a scrap card that had a 8080AFC chip on it, $3.00. No clue what this is - DEC H343-A IEEE bus adapter with a few HP-IB cables, marked at $15.00. Alas - the TI3100 notebook computers with plasma displays are all gone :\ Regards, Jay West

23 years, 11 months

Tae Rings?

by cdl＠proxima.ucsd.edu

> From: Corda Albert J DLVA <CordaAJ(a)nswc.navy.mil> > To: "'classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org'" <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org> > Subject: RE: Tae Rings? > Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 16:28:02 -0400 > > They are 9-track tape write-enable rings. They fit into a groove > around the hub-hole of 9-track tapes. At one time, these used to > be all over the place. Since the demise of 9-track tapes as a > common media, they seem to have become scarce. Shurely someone > needs some? (I could use a few, but not a whole lot...:) > > -al- > -acorda(a)1bigred.com > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Chris [mailto:mythtech@mac.com] > > Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 4:15 PM > > To: Classic Computer > > Subject: Tae Rings? > > > > > > Does anyone know what these are for? > > <http://www.mythtech.net/rings.jpg> > > Excuse the 2d scan, my digital camera is at home, so I just tossed > > them on my flatbed scanner for the pic. > > > > I think they are rings for the tapes used on my old Zebra system > > (IIRC, it had some reel like tape canisters that fit in the top of > > it, but this is going WAY back). > > > > I have about 2 dozen of the yellow ones, and 5 or 6 of the orange ones > > (although not all orange, some are white/clear). The yellow are write rings, as pointed out. The orange or white ones are stacking rings, used to stabilize bunches of tape reels when they are shipped in a cardboard box. Putting a stacking ring between each pair of tape reels keeps them from sliding around parallel to one another. carl -- carl lowenstein marine physical lab u.c. san diego clowenstein(a)ucsd.edu

23 years, 11 months

The answer is: Mekel 460XL Microfiche scanner

by vaxman＠earthlink.net

The question is: What do I now own? <grin>

23 years, 11 months

IRIX on Personal Iris

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On May 8, 17:34, Robert Schaefer wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Corda Albert J DLVA" <CordaAJ(a)nswc.navy.mil> > > on one side of the simm. Did someone already mention that > > you can only have 1 bank of 4Mb simms in a system, due to > > a prom bug? There is no restriction on the number of other size > > simms. > > Isn't that just the Indy, or something? I remember reading it, but it > didn't (that I recall) mention the 4D/35. That does jive with the only > machine that has 4MB simms in it though-- only one bank (four SIMMS). No, Indys can use any mix of 4MB, 8MB, 16MB, 32MB SIMMS, and they (and Indigo2 and R4000 Indigo) take standard 72-pin fastpage-mode parity SIMMs. There's a bug in the ASIC (according to SGI) on the 64-pin proprietary SIMMs which means you can use any number of 2MB or 8MB SIMMs but only one set of 4MB SIMMs on a 4D/35 or R3000 Indigo. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

23 years, 11 months

OT: Windows V3.2?!?

by DAW＠yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu

> From: Cameron Kaiser > > > I was just using Calmira, makes windows 3.1 look like windows 95. > > Calmira is indeed very neat. I use it on my lone Windows machine (the only > other Windows machine in the apartment is the Macintosh! under VPC, > natch). > It makes the W3.1 interface more contemporary, at least. :-) > > -- > This is something I'll have to try! I have a Cardinal PC-10 all-in-1 '386 computer (looks like a Mac SE/30) that I was wondering what I could do with it... -- --- David A Woyciesjes --- C & IS Support Specialist --- Yale University Press --- mailto:david.woyciesjes@yale.edu --- (203) 432-0953 --- ICQ # - 905818 Mac OS X 10.1 - Darwin Kernel Version 5 Running since 01/22/2002 without a crash

23 years, 11 months

FW: Free to a good home: MicroVAX 3400 (in .AU)

by csmith＠amdocs.com

Hey guys. I found this on comp.os.vms. Chris Christopher Smith, Perl Developer Amdocs - Champaign, IL /usr/bin/perl -e ' print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n"); ' -----Original Message----- From: P.Young(a)unsw.EDU.AU [mailto:P.Young@unsw.EDU.AU] Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 10:02 AM To: Info-VAX(a)Mvb.Saic.Com Subject: Free to a good home: MicroVAX 3400 (in .AU) Due to the donation of a couple of Academics and an Alpha 8400 >from another University - the HSZ50, TSZ07 and disks having already arrived in my office - I'm running of space to do any work! I was keeping the MV 3400 to read 9 track tapes, however with a TSZ07 I no longer need it. It has 24Mb memory and a TU81 Plus tape drive. Either the TU81 or KLESI is broken - I suspect the KLESI. A 400Mb and 150Mb DSSI disk is included. I want this out of my office, so please do not ask "can I have part xyzzy" - it is a job lot. Equipment located at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

23 years, 11 months

Windows V3.2?!?

by SUPRDAVE＠aol.com

In a message dated 5/9/2002 3:18:32 AM Eastern Daylight Time, nemesis-lists(a)icequake.net writes: > > I remember a patch or add-on that was referred to as Win 3.2 - added > > supposedly 32 bit features to the old WIn3.x and I think was just really > a > > tinkering project in the development of 95. > > You're thinking of Win32S, which was the first attempt at a 32-bit > extension > to the Windows API. Not Windows 3.2. :) I think OS/2 can run Win32S > programs > natively through Win-OS2. > Only a certain version of Win32 though. I do not remember however. I tried once to get hotmetal pro working under OS/2, but I think the Win32 version was higher than what OS/2 could use.

23 years, 11 months

attn: list admins

by Adrian.Graham＠corporatemicrosystems.com

I've been trying all sorts of ways I can think of majordomo-wise to get off this list, and each time it tells me my email address isn't valid; if that's the case why am I still getting list mail both here and digest mail at home? It ceased to be interesting here months ago with all the bitching and in-fighting, so it would be nice to stop receiving the mails. Thanks. witchy

23 years, 11 months

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