- test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org - classiccmp.org

by mhstein＠usa.net

Just happened to have a 3.11 box beside me; for those not as fortunate, the answer displayed is 0.00 ------------ > For the difference between 3.10 and 3.11, use the built-in calculator > accessory to subtract 3.10 from 3.11. What do you get?

24 years, 4 months

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What's your specialty?

by foo＠siconic.com

Ok, now's your chance to discuss your specialty and get the attention of other folks who have stuff that you may want. I disqualify myself from this discussion because technically a "Specialty of Everything" is not really specialization. I want everything and anything ;) Actually, I do like to specialize where few fear to venture. I have massive amounts of computer books, magazines, documentation and manuals. I do not discriminate. If it's a book and it has just about anything at all to do with computing, it goes into my library. Again, there is a purpose to this seemingly unquenchable psychosis. My collection of Y2K preparedness books is probably unrivaled (at this point probably 30+ volumes and counting). Somebody's got to do it. 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 *

24 years, 4 months

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Protec PRO-83 Computer - More Info

by rdcoll＠hotmail.com

>But, if it's the same Protec in Quebec who did indeed >make Z80 SBCs in the old days before they specialized in KVMs, they're >still very much alive; why not try a phone call or e-mail. I actually sent a few emails to them already (6, I believe). They only ever answered 1 of them (the 2nd) to tell me that they didn't make personal computers. I replied and told them the machine was made by a Protec Microsystems Inc. in the 80's and I sent them a picture of it. They have yet to respond. Hmmm... Maybe when they talk about providing unlimited post sale support, they don't mean items that are 20 years old! :) The only remaining option I can see is to keep posting until someone recognizes the name. Thanks for the advice anyway. Rob _________________________________________________________________ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com

24 years, 4 months

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Programmeren van de 6502

by vcf＠vintage.org

I have here a book titled _Programmeren can de 6502_ by Rodnay Zaks. It's just what it sounds like: a book on programming the 6502 in Dutch. What it was doing in a local charity shop is a mystery. >From the back: Dit boek is zo' geschreven dat men het programmeren in assemblertaal van hef begin aan leren kan. De eerste engelstalige editie was reeds een bestseller op het gebied van programmeren en deze herziene en uitgebreide editie bevat nog meer recente informatie en illustraties. De versheidenheid der programmeringen en technieken richt zich naar de interessen van elke programmator of hij nu een beginneling of een expert is. (I understand enough of this to know that it should give you a description of the book ;) (I think :) I'll send it to any native Dutch speaker that wants it. In the case of more than one interested party, I'll give it to the person who could most use it, so please include a short description of why you want the book and what you would use it for. Please reply to me directly off-list. -- 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 *

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Varian 402 Data Station

by vcf＠vintage.org

I found a Varian 402 Data Station. It's basically a Z80 machine with a built-in CRT, 2 disk drives, and a thermal printer. It's huge. When I fire it up, I get no activity on the CRT, but the thermal printer goes into a self-test, pauses for a moment, then repeats. It does this endlessly, so something must be wrong. No activity on the disk drives either. A Google search turned up nothing useful. Anyone have any experience with these things? -- 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 *

24 years, 4 months

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%20OT:%20Nasty%20Hangnail;%20Cuban%20Cigarettes;%20Caberet%20Voltaire%20and%2

by Latinluvin911＠cs.com

This response is a little late, and its only about the cuban cigarettes. Cuban cigarettes are not better than american cigarettes. If you don't believe me, you can order some on cigarpuff.com the two main brands are "cohiba" and "romeo y julieta" and they both suck. Cuban cigars are far superior than american cigars, but the same is not true of cigarettes. For the worlds best cigarettes, go with turkish imports ( not camel, the genuine stuff ).

24 years, 4 months

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New Acquisitions

by jss＠subatomix.com

Yesterday, another list member and I had a trading session. Here's what I ended up with: * Teletype ASR-33. It's a fixer-upper, but even if I can't get it to work, it will make good spare parts for another tty. I love this thing. * AT&T 3B2/EXP. This looks like a 3B2/1000. Working condition. Docs included. I can't seem to find anything about the /EXP model in particular. Does anyone know what's special about the /EXP? * A few Honeywell terminals. Some may work, some probably don't. After watching the recent thread on specialization, I think I need to start working on converting breadth to depth. I think I'd rather have a few near-perfectly complete systems than piles of unrelated parts. I'll be putting some stuff up for trade soon, looking for some specific items. -- Jeffrey S. Sharp jss(a)subatomix.com

24 years, 4 months

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Some nice IBM finds

by mythtech＠Mac.com

>I go to a place called "Electronics Barn" (in Bloomfield IIRC), I'll have to go check that out... my brother lived in the Bloomfield area for a while, so maybe he knows right where it is (if not, I will drag him along anyway as he and I are always swapping parts, so I am sure he would like a nice cheap source as well) Thanks -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

24 years, 4 months

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Xerox 820 boot media

by aek＠spies.com

> Sun workstations, Kaypro IV, Xerox 820 (does anyone have 8" boot media for > this thing?) I should have it as well. If someone has the diagnostic disc, please keep me in mind. All of the manuals I had on it are up now at www.spies.com/aek/pdf/xerox/820 too.

24 years, 4 months

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DEC Rainbows ...

by cdl＠proxima.ucsd.edu

> From: "Lawrence Walker" <lgwalker(a)mts.net> > To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org > Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 03:06:06 -0600 > Subject: Re: DEC Rainbows ... > In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.44.0202161252510.91051-100000(a)crash.cts.com> > > How would you do that ? I waited about 2 years before I finally found a > BCC02 to connect my mono 'bow to my VR201. To build one with ribbon > cable using the 15-pin plugs would be a lot of fiddly soldering. There's 8 > leads on each end to solder. For color to make a BCC03 that would be 12 on > each end. Crimp-on IDC. (Insulation Displacement Connector). Just slide the flat cable into the connector and squeeze it all together. Repeat for the other end, being sure that you have the orientation correct, pin 1 to pin 1 etc. carl -- carl lowenstein marine physical lab u.c. san diego clowenstein(a)ucsd.edu

24 years, 4 months

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RS/6000 FAQ?

by Mzthompson＠aol.com

On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, Kris Kirby wrote: > With all this talk of RS/6000s, I've become a little interested in what > these machines can do / are capable of. A company I used to work for used them as the foundation of their Network Management applications. Their software would among other things, manage the events (alarms & other messages) coming from the network devices and manage the configuration of the network. Later versions of their software would graphically display the configuration and status of the network in the form of a network map. One such instance was a state wide (& state owned) fiber network carrying voice, data, & video. Unfortunately, the company went under in the mid 90's. As the bankruptcy dust settled, I found out that the bank had repo'd several machines. I contacted the bank and the loan officer said something like "Duh, I doubt what I can resell these Unix boxes in this podunk town". With that I made an offer on one of the RS/6000 boxes which he accepted. So for less than 1% of its original cost, I hauled home a model 320H. It was complete with 80mb of memory, two SCSI hard drives, an external tape drive, network card, and 16" color monitor. It has AIX (IBM's Unix) 3.2.5 on it as well as IBM's version of X-Windows. Nobody bothered to 'clean' the disks, so it was still loaded with the company's software as well as a then current version of Oracle DBMS. Also at the time, I manage to scrounge a few manuals for the RS/6000 series. One has specs and setup info (drive SCSI select, etc). If anyone needs some info, I might be able to help. Mike

24 years, 4 months

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Some nice IBM finds

by mythtech＠Mac.com

>I wish I could find stuff like this in NJ. I wish I could just find >the SCSI tapes in NJ. I wish I could just find a decent place in NJ to get salvaged stuff... I am jealous of the others that have all these nice goodwill stores that seem to have a plethora of older fun machines. -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

24 years, 4 months

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IBM Server 500

by SUPRDAVE＠aol.com

In a message dated 2/17/2002 11:36:13 PM Central Standard Time, pcautomation(a)mindspring.com writes: > I purchased an IBM Server 500 series computer yesterday at a yard sale for > only $10 That's a quite nice MCA machine! Impressive looking, would like to have one myself. If you decide to part it out, I'd love to have the CPU complex. I think, therefore I am dangerous --

24 years, 4 months

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More drives for the project

by vcf＠vintage.org

Here's what I recently picked up: Apple PC 5.25 Drive (DC-37) - was this for connecting to a PC or a special card in the Mac? Maynard Electronics MaxStream 60 digital cassette drive (SCSI) Everex digital cassette drive (same as I already have but with the DC-37 cable; I still need interface card) Sysgen Reliant-215 digital cassette drive (DC-37) Mass Optical Storage Technology (SCSI) - it has a 3.5" slot...is this floptical? The model is RMD-5200-S SyQuest 270 (SCSI) IBM 2.88MB Floppy (gotta have one of those) Exabyte EXB-4200T DAT/DDS (SCSI) IBM Type 3363 (SCSI) - is this WORM or MO? Also says P/N 63X4130 I definitely have digital cassette covered now. I found in my piles of software and docs I was going through last night a complete set of software and manuals for the Everex tape drive...sweet. I still need the interface card. I also found a set of tools from Flagstaff Engineering subtitled Data Conversion Systems. The disks are labeled 1/2" Tape Utility Programs, 1/2" Tape Data Extraction and 1/2" Tape Language Interface. Haven't tried to boot them up yet, but is any familiar with these tools? -- 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 *

24 years, 4 months

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9track drive woes

by Huw.Davies＠kerberos.davies.net.au

At 11:55 AM 17/02/2002 -0500, Pat Finnegan wrote: >After cleaning, same problem. Now, when I try to copy data off the tape >using "COPY MUA0 NEWS.TAR", VMS gives me these errors: > >%COPY-E-READERR, error reading _MUA0:[].; >-RMS-F-RER, file read error >-SYSTEM-W-DATAOVER, data overrun >%COPY-W-NOTCMPLT, _MUA0:[].; not completely copied > >when I use dump, like "DUMP MUA0 /OUT=NEWS.DMP", it works just perfectly >fine, which leads me to believe it might be a VMS problem. Prior to now, >I was able to copy straight from the foreign mounted volume OK, but now >it's not working at all, even after I power-cycled the drive and the vax. > >Help? I'm assuming from the file name that the tape contains a Unix tar file. If this is so, there are at least two "native" VMS programs designed to read tar files. One is tar2vms (with it's partner vms2tar) which I've used many times to read Unix tar tapes. A quick web search should find a copy nearby. Huw Davies | e-mail: Huw.Davies(a)kerberos.davies.net.au | "If God had wanted soccer played in the | air, the sky would be painted green"

24 years, 4 months

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OT: cleaning pots on my vintage audio amp

by acme_ent＠bellsouth.net

> From: Chad Fernandez <fernande(a)internet1.net> > All my stuff is solid state, no tubes. I don't have anything that is > truly worth a lot, I don't think. I'd just like to have consistant > sound. Where's Tony, on this? In England, I expect ;>) Chad -- I smoke, and although it has never bothered my computers the smoke bugs the shit out of my audio gear. Every couple of months I take my main amp and mixer apart and spray a lot of plain old tuner cleaner into the switches and pots. Then I pull *all* the plugs and spray tuner cleaner all over them and into *all* the jacks. Then I wiggle everything around a lot and the problems go away -- for a couple of months. BTW I probably don't need to tell you this but make sure the fluid has evaporated before powering anything up. Glen 0/0

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Some nice IBM finds

by jrkeys＠concentric.net

Yesterday at Goodwill I found a PowerServer 350 and 370; a PowerStation 340 for $12.99 each. Have not tested them yet but all were full of memory and not stripped of parts that I could tell. They also had a TI 99 color monitor but it needed some work for $6.99. There were also about 10 external SCSI tape units with no names on them, so I just purchased one at $9.99.

24 years, 4 months

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Looking for sparcbook2 batterys, info

by rschaefe＠gcfn.org

Hi all! I'm in need of batteries for a sparcbook2, even if they don't hold a charge. Also, does anyone know the extent of the Y2k problems? Are they just generic OS problems (SunOS 4.1.2B1) or are there firmware problems too? Thanks! Bob

24 years, 4 months

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Xerox 820 boot media

by acme_ent＠bellsouth.net

> From: Chris Craft <ccraft(a)springsips.com> > Sun workstations, Kaypro IV, Xerox 820 (does anyone have 8" boot media for > this thing?) I believe I have 8" boot disks for this critter (thanks, Joe) but currently have no way to copy them or to verify their condition. If you'll pay round-trip postage and SWEAR to return them, I'll be happy to lend them to you. They're at my shop, & I'm at home, so I'll check it out tomorrow and let you know exactly what's there. Glen 0/0

24 years, 4 months

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Destructive charities (was: STAPLES STORES...)

by mythtech＠Mac.com

>If these computers were still useful and interesting, they wouldn't be >candidates for the crusher. Likewise, if there were any real value in those >cars to which you refer, someone would figure out a way to profit from them. >If they look good, it's probably the typcial "appearance over substance." That is SO not true. (was this flame bait? did I just fall for it?!?) For instance, there is a perfectly good, running 1992 Toyota Celica sitting in my fire department lot waiting for us to tear it apart. It runs, fine... the only thing wrong with it is the catalytic converter is bad so it fails emissions testing during inspection. The owner used that as an excuse to buy a new car, and donated this one to us. Book value, $4,000. We will be tearing it to shreds Wednesday and then our scrapper will haul it off to his yard on a flat bed. So no... just because it has real value, doesn't mean it will be used for that value. Frankly, I am a little amazed you can participate on a list like this and NOT have an intimate understanding of how many perfectly usable computers are sent to the junk yard all the time. (I have a garage full of working LC5xx macs that are being cleaned up and given to people that can't afford a computer... they were all pulled from a school dumpster... if they hadn't been pulled out by a wise computer enthusiast, they would be in a land fill by now) -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

24 years, 4 months

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OT Mothers (was Re: Dumpster in the alley, Part II)

by acme_ent＠bellsouth.net

> From: bill pointon <wpointon(a)earthlink.net> > wasnt dumpster in the alley part II on that mothers bootleg album from > 69 -- i think they played it at their boston tea party gig in spring of > 70 but i may not be remembering correctly -- thanks -- billp Could you be referring to "Wino Man" from the bootleg "Freaks & Motherfu#@%!" which was recorded (poorly) at the Fillmore East in '70, released on vinyl in '82, and re-released in '91 on Rhino's FOO-EEE label? Glen 0/0

24 years, 4 months

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Bondwell B310Plus

by dorchard＠tconl.com

I was preparing to throw these out but thought someone else out there might have some fun with them. I have two (2) Bondwell B310 Plus notebooks with power converters, three (3) batteries between the two of them and one charging unit. They are 286's with 1MB of ram and 40MB hard drives. Both have small issue with the contrast controls causing problems when you try to make adjustments and one is in need of either a new floppy drive or at the least some TLC. They are also in need of OS's. They are free to a good home but you have to pick up the shipping.

24 years, 4 months

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Win 3.10 (was: Old HP scanner

by acme_ent＠bellsouth.net

> From: Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) <cisin(a)xenosoft.com> > The primary design goal of Windoze 3.10 was to get rid of the > multitudinous UAEs ("Unexpected Application Error"s) > > To some extent, they succeeded. (Now they were EXPECTED.) > > > For the difference between 3.10 and 3.11, use the built-in calculator > accessory to subtract 3.10 from 3.11. What do you get? IIRC the reason we did the "upgrade" was that Win 3.0 didn't support TrueType fonts. > UAE was a poor choice for an error message, as few if any knew what it > meant. It was replaced by the even less understood "General Protection > Fault". The issue of the message was finally addressed with the change to > "program has performed an illegal operation", which had the major benefit > of pointing the blame away from the operating system. (even though it was > often Windoze that had done the dastardly deed.) >From time to time I will get a call from someone who bought a PC from us asking (in a frightened or angry voice) why we sold them an *illegal* computer . . . "it says so right here on the screen, and my program won't work." Glen 0/0

24 years, 4 months

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Victor 9000

by Robert.Allbery＠exch1.drum.army.mil

I agree with Philip Belben, The Victor 9000 runs both (Victor/MS) DOS and CP/M86 run on it and someone out there has it/them. There was an IBM above board built for it. That made it IBM compatible (don't know if that included a way to have drive support (e.g. - drive support software for multiple formats - like the original Wang PC and APC), or accepted other drives that might be installed. Any way, without that option you can't boot from any IBM or Industry Standard DOS. The Act Sirius-1 (a re-badged Victor 9000) should work. Try Google - or another search engine - and search for Victor 9000. There is a surprising amount of info out there. I have just begun digging through the 25,000 (not a typo) separate items that Google found. Take someone up on getting disk copies for Victor 9000 or the Sirius, whether in the States or wherever. Bob Allbery

24 years, 4 months

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Amstrad's email phone and Spectrums

by acme_ent＠bellsouth.net

> From: Tony Duell <ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk> I wrote: > > Here's a cheaper solution (and a better selection): go to World of > > Spectrum at http://www.void.jump.org/ and download an emulator. They're > > available for a lot of platforms including Unix, Amiga, and Win CE. > > (Warajevo is my personal favorite for Win9x). You now have *free* access > > to over 10,000 programs, which you can also download from WOS. Tony replied: > Hang on a second. To do that you have to have a PC. People with PCs will > generally use them for e-mail (if they want e-mail), since it's cheaper > (and better) than buying a dedicated 'e-mail phone'. Surely the Amstrad > 'e-mail phone' is aimed at those people who _don't_ have a PC, and who > therefore couldn't run a spectrum emulator. Tony, I'll grant that your logic concerning the targeted market for the device is correct, but you *don't* have to have a PC to run a Spectrum emulator. Software emulators are available for platforms such as Gameboy, Dreamcast, and Playstation. Of course, you might have to use someone else's internet-capable system in order to download the emulator and games, but strictly speaking PC ownership is not a prerequisite for running a Spectrum emulator. Glen 0/0

24 years, 4 months

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STAPLES STORES WILL TAKE OLD COMPUTERS

by csmith＠amdocs.com

> -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Ford [mailto:mikeford@socal.rr.com] > Day). Individuals and businesses can bring in their old > computer equipment, > including monitors and hard drives. There is no charge for > this service. I would read that: "Give us some stuff so that we don't have to buy so much of it." > country. Computers that are unable to be rebuilt "will be recycled > responsibly to generate reusable materials," according to the > press release. ... and translated, this probably means: "Anything that we don't know what to do with will be turned into bicycle spokes and sent to China." > number. To confirm store hours and whether they will accept a > certain type > of computer equipment (especially anything unusual), people > can call the "We may not actually accept anything that we don't know what to do with, since it's expensive to make things into bicycle spokes." > store directly. People who bring in old computer equipment to > Staples during > this event can receive a $100 savings on a new computer with an Intel > Pentium 4 processor, or $20 off a purchase of $100 or more > for other Staples > products purchased during those two days. "... but buy some normal off-the-shelf stuff, please!" Chris Christopher Smith, Perl Developer Amdocs - Champaign, IL /usr/bin/perl -e ' print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n"); '

24 years, 4 months

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uVAX II + KFQSA + DSSI Drive and the last touch?

by gunther＠aurora.regenstrief.org

Hi, so I just came home from BSDcon 2002 (was nice to see all the old names as life people with noses in their faces.) Anyway I just came home and there my new KFQSA card I got on eBay was in the mail. So, now I can finally use some of my DSSI disks that I bought for the time I'd get a KFMSA, now I get to use the in my uVAX instead of having to bother with formatting that MFM disk :-). I don't know much about DSSI however and I'm not sure I have all the pieces I need. I have a KFQSA, a 50-60 pin cable, round and two connectors each side, then a bus cable, same number of pins to be connected to that round cable and 3 connectors, apparently for three drives. Good. But at the end of that cable is a male connector with about half as many pins. What is that for, please don't say it's a terminator, where the heck would I get such a terminator from? Could I just connect the round cable directly to one DSSI drive without that bus cable, such that I would not need that terminator? Then there are some DIP switches on the card, what are they for? And of course the drives have front panels and I have three drives and just one front panel. How essential is that front panel? Has anyone ever installed DSSI in a uVAX-II with the small cabinet? It's pretty tight in there. How about this: right now there is that cable for the RQDX3 that goes into the front part of the box and apparently is spliced there to connect to the MFM drive and the RX33/50 (?) floppy drive. What if I throw all this stuff out and use that flat cable to route the KFQSA into the front and hook up the DSSI drive where I have the MFM drive now and put in a TK50 where the RX50 is now. Anyone ever done that? I must also say I really appreciate the VAXBI and XMI busses with their zero-insertion force and their clean way of connecting peripherals all to the backplane instead of just anywhere in the front. The way these Q-BUS and UNIBUS cards are jammed into their slots with all the cables squeezed between those cards, and the cards all bent to make room for the cables and connectors is not beautiful, if not frightening. Isn't that terribly rough on the hardware? regards -Gunther -- Gunther Schadow, M.D., Ph.D. gschadow(a)regenstrief.org Medical Information Scientist Regenstrief Institute for Health Care Adjunct Assistant Professor Indiana University School of Medicine tel:1(317)630-7960 http://aurora.regenstrief.org

24 years, 4 months

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9track drive woes

by pat＠purdueriots.com

I've finally got my StorageTek 2920 9-track drive talking to my Emulex QT13 QBUS->PERTEC adaptor under VMS... It *appears* to read the tapes OK (I have no VMS formatted tapes, so I'm just guessing here), but when I try and INITIALIZE MUA0:, the drive spins the tape for a second and then gives me a "CC7" on its display and "Mach Chk" flashes. VMS calls it a 'parity error'. Anyone know what is going on with this thing? Thanks. -- Pat

24 years, 4 months

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Rayovac 844b cmos batteries

by mythtech＠Mac.com

>OTOH I still have several cases of new old stock I am selling off. So if >you need an 840 or 844b 4.5v alkaline cmos battery, email me while I still >have them. 1/$5, 3/$10, 10/$20, and case of 60 for $50, all plus shipping. I wound up ordering some from MCM... so I am ok for now... thanks anyway. -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

24 years, 4 months

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9track drive woes

by rmurphy＠itm-inst.com

At 11:55 AM 2/17/02 -0500, Pat Finnegan wrote: >After cleaning, same problem. Now, when I try to copy data off the tape >using "COPY MUA0 NEWS.TAR", VMS gives me these errors: > >%COPY-E-READERR, error reading _MUA0:[].; >-RMS-F-RER, file read error >-SYSTEM-W-DATAOVER, data overrun >%COPY-W-NOTCMPLT, _MUA0:[].; not completely copied > >when I use dump, like "DUMP MUA0 /OUT=NEWS.DMP", it works just perfectly >fine, which leads me to believe it might be a VMS problem. Prior to now, >I was able to copy straight from the foreign mounted volume OK, but now >it's not working at all, even after I power-cycled the drive and the vax. When you DUMP the tape, DUMP uses a large buffer. When you use COPY, you get the default RMS buffer size, which is too small for the tape blocks. Use DUMP MUA0:/BLOCK=COUNT=1 to get the block size, then MOUNT/FOREIGN/BLOCK=xxx MUA0: to mount the tape with the right blocksize. COPY should then work. -Rick

24 years, 4 months

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Fiche scanning redux

by tony.eros＠machm.org

I started playing with fiche scanning using an Intel QX3 microscope. This microscope comes has three built-in objectives -- 10x, 60x and 200x. The results are mixed, but tempting. I've put some sample images here: http://www.machm.org/fiche/fiche1.jpg 60x http://www.machm.org/fiche/fiche2.jpg 60x http://www.machm.org/fiche/fiche3.jpg 60x http://www.machm.org/fiche/fiche4.jpg 60x http://www.machm.org/fiche/fiche5.jpg 60x http://www.machm.org/fiche/fiche6.jpg 60x http://www.machm.org/fiche/fiche7.jpg 10x http://www.machm.org/fiche/fiche8.jpg 200x At the 60x magnification, it takes about 9 images to capture a single frame >from a fiche. I've put together a web page at http://www.machm.org/fiche/fiche.htm that roughly arranges the sample to show a sample frame from a VMS source listing fiche. I like the resolution, but need to find a way to expand the field of view. I'm sure I can rig up a scanning frame, but don't want to have to stitch multiple captures per frame. If I can get this to work, it would be a very affordable way to do high-quality fiche scans. Does anyone have any suggestions on how this might be improved? -- Tony

24 years, 4 months

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ex DEC-field service people: what KC780 memory upgrade makes a KC785?

by gunther＠aurora.regenstrief.org

Hi, DEC field service veterans will know this: what exactly is the memory upgrade needed in the PDP11/03 console computer for the VAX 11/780 that makes it suitable for the VAX 11/785? I want to be able to search for such boards, so would need to know which it would be. Appreciate if you have an Mxxxx-AB number (e.g., M8044-DF ?) Thank you so much! -Gunther -- Gunther Schadow, M.D., Ph.D. gschadow(a)regenstrief.org Medical Information Scientist Regenstrief Institute for Health Care Adjunct Assistant Professor Indiana University School of Medicine tel:1(317)630-7960 http://aurora.regenstrief.org

24 years, 4 months

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Identify Magneto Optical Drive / Switch Settings?

by jhfine＠postoffice.idirect.com

I suspect this is quite on topic. I have acquired a 5 1/4" magneto optical disk drive that is equivalent to a Sony SMO S501. The label says it was put together by DYNATEK Automation Systems. I suspect that the two internals are a C501/D501 from Sony in any case with just the external box and power supply being from Dynatek. SW1 is an unusual rotary switch which is used to select the SCSI ID - I have tested that and confirmed that it works. The drive works quite well as the last drive in the daisy chain, so I presume that a terminator and terminator power are part of the selectable equipment. Of course, the drive works very well as the only drive on the host adapter. My question concerns SW2 which is an 8 position dip switch. On the Sony drive, there is ONLY an 8 position dip switch with 3 positions being used for SCSI ID. Might anyone have some documentation on which parts of the dip switch on the Dynatek drive are used and for what?

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HP1000 manuals on Ebay

by ojw＠dircon.co.uk

nothing to do with me, but recollecting the HP1000 discussions a while back I thought this may be of interest to someone: http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem <http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1704075698> &item=1704075698 all the best oliver

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Radio Shack (Was: STAPLES STORES WILL TAKE OLD COMPUTERS)

by mythtech＠Mac.com

> At least that's what it was last week when I went into my local RS to >check on a 3v lithium battery for my NeXT cube. You mean they didn't stock it? I had a good laugh the other day when I went in to find a standard PC CMOS battery (the little blocks used in practically every PC thru 486's)... and it was a special order part... but two out of the 3 Mac battery styles (large AAish and small 1/2 AA) were standard stock and had pleanty on the racks. I suppose at least it is nice that ONE store doesn't think the Mac is an inferior product, not worthy of carrying parts for it (they also have a nice supply of ADB cables... only they call them S-Video :-) ) -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

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STAPLES STORES WILL TAKE OLD COMPUTERS

by csmith＠amdocs.com

> -----Original Message----- > From: John Chris Wren [mailto:jcwren@jcwren.com] > A) Isn't the problem that *everything* is considered classic > by this group? That's a problem? Seriously, though, you'd likely get agreement from most of the group that there are a lot of Macs and peesees that certainly aren't classic, despite their on-topicness. :) The trouble is that we could never agree on _which_ ones... well, maybe we could agree that anything made by (the new) packard bell probably isn't. I don't know if there are any packard bell fans here, but most people I've spoken to about it specifically think the new company's never made anything good. Regrads, Chris Christopher Smith, Perl Developer Amdocs - Champaign, IL /usr/bin/perl -e ' print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n"); '

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RS/6000 3xx

by torquil＠nyip.net

Hi, First, to introduce myself, I am new to the list. My name is Torquil MacCorkle III, I live in Lexington, Virginia. I have just now gotten into classic computers(namely, the RS/6000) thanks to my friend. I was wondering if anyone had a functional 3xx series RS/6000 which they would be willing to let go of for the cost of shipping? Thanks

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Effect of temperature cycles on electronics ?

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

On February 16, Tom Uban wrote: > What experience have people had with computer equipment being stored > in a unheated environment for 10-20 years, where the temperature runs > from -10 to 100 degrees at the extremes of the seasons? Does this > tend to kill ICs, caps, etc? I've had some problems with uneven thermal expansion and contraction cracking old PCB traces and solder joints. Not too badly, though. -Dave -- Dave McGuire St. Petersburg, FL "Less talk. More synthohol." --Lt. Worf

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HP 9825B

by steven_j_robertson＠hotmail.com

>There are 2 versions of the disk ROM according to the docs I have. The >older one had a tape cartidge that went along with it which included >routines to format the disk, put the system programs on the disk and so >on. The later ROM doesn't need the tape. They have different HP model >numbers, but I don't have the manual to hand to look them up OH... I see... :-( I've probably got the older ROMS as well. Thanks for the info. Steverob _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp.

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TRS 80

by rajackson＠oncomdis.on.ca

Hi, I have a TRS 80, colour monitor, kbd, 2 disc drives & tons of programs, and documentation. Needs a good home. everything worked the last time I checked, (15 yrs ago?) Worth any $ to anyone. R. A. Jackson rajackson(a)oncomdis.on.ca

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OT Microsoft Mail & News (was Re: OT: But too funny...)

by ken＠seefried.com

From: Sellam Ismail <foo(a)siconic.com> > If people are still using MS Outlook inspire of all the viruses and crap > that have plagued that pathetic piece of shit in the past few years then > they not only deserve whatever damage gets done to their system via such > vehicles but they shouldn't be allowed to use e-mail at all since they > only end up contributing to the greater problem by running it! Thankfully, most people accept the hypocracy of not saying something so juvinile about sendmail. Ken

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Fujitsu/Amdahl Bubble Memory System?

by ken＠seefried.com

From: Joe <rigdonj(a)cfl.rr.com>> >Didn't some of the NEC or some other japanese brand laptop use bubble >memory? I wonder if it's for one of those? There have certainly been laptops that use bubble memory (Grid being the canonical example), but this device is much too big to be for a laptop. Interestingly, it seems the caridges have been used in an Anritsu oscilliscope (the 620J?). Ken

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Docs/Supplies for DEC LN03R printer?

by r_beaudry＠hotmail.com

Hello all, Today I was given a Digital LN03R ScriptWriter. This is a serial, postscript printer. It started life as an LN03, and received the "R" upgrade on 12/8/87. It is serial number 007 (NOT a typo), and I have been told it may have been originally a prototype for the LN03 series. Surprisingly, Windows 98 (and 2K) have a driver for it, and when I hooked it up, the test page printed beautifully! The power-on page reports it is version 47.2, as well as listing the fonts installed, and the setup. What I need to know is: 1) Does anyone have docs for this printer that I could borrow long enough to make copies of? At a minimum, I'd like the settings for the DIP switches on the rear of the unit. It's set up now for 9600 baud, and that's a bit slow. I'm hoping it can go faster... 2) Does anyone know where I can get toner, drums, and other consumables for this printer?? 3) Obviously DEC software would support this printer, but does anyone know of any MS-DOS, or maybe even CP/M programs that would support this printer? Thanks! Rich B. _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx

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Pennsylvania tech

by foo＠siconic.com

Hi guys - thanks for that story - in fact I am reading from Artifacts and discussing technology at the library in Intercourse, Lancaster County, on April 15th - I am fascinated by Amish technology... all best, Christine >From: Sellam Ismail >To: >CC: >Subject: Re: Programmeren van de 6502 >Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 07:15:01 +0000 (UTC) > >On Sat, 16 Feb 2002, Carlos Murillo wrote: > > > >Where else do they speak Dutch besides some rural parts of Pennsylvania > > >where they generally shun technology? :) > > > > The "Pennsylvania dutch" are actually german, for all I know. > > Seems that like a case of one person saying "deutsche" and > > another hearing "dutch". At least that's the explanation > >Wow, I'm doubly ignorant. You are, of course, correct :) > > > that I heard from a native. This native was born in a farm, > > then went to Drexel university, and now he's a phd and a top > > programmer of web applications for research purposes. So > > not all "Pennsylvania dutch" are technology averse. His > > dad, still a farmer, uses a Mac. So they even have taste > > in technology. > >That would probably make a terrific story for Christine Finn. Would you >mind passing along his contact information in private e-mail? > >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 * > ________________________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: Click Here

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Fujitsu/Amdahl Bubble Memory System?

by ken＠seefried.com

I have been lucky enough to pick up some new bubble memory gear, and now I'm trying to figure out what I have. Any hints appreciated. Apparently, this is a FBM-U502GU-J Fujitsu bubble memory cartridge system. The drive is roughly 3"w x 2.5"h x 7"d, and consists of a 3-board sandwitch. It uses FBM-C128GA bubble memory cartridges. Interestingly, many of the cartridges that I got have "Amdahl" stickers on them. Anyone seen this sort of thing before? Ken

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More drives for the project

by mythtech＠Mac.com

>> Apple PC 5.25 Drive (DC-37) - was this for connecting to a PC or a special >> card in the Mac? > >I think the latter, to allow a Mac to read/write PC disks. I have an >Apple book on designing add-on cards for the Mac, and one of the design >examples is the PC-compatible disk controller. It uses a 765 chip in the >obvious way. > >I am not sure if that card was ever a commerical product, but something >similar might have been, > >I think the drive is just a standard PC disk drive in an Apple case. The drive came in two flavors. In both cases, the drive was the same, the change was the controller card. One version came with an SE PDS controller card, the other came with a NuBus controller card. In either case, the card works ONLY with either the SE (800k or FDHD), or the Mac II, no other NuBus Macs. You need the card to control the floppy drive, but I believe you are correct, it is just a standard PC drive in an Apple case. I have one with the SE card. There were also 3rd party PC drives that hooked up to the standard Disk Drive port on all the early macs, but I don't think Apple ever made one like that. -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

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More drives for the project

by aek＠spies.com

> Apple PC 5.25 Drive (DC-37) - was this for connecting to a PC or a special > card in the Mac? It connects to a Nubus card with a 765-style floppy disc controller There is mention of it in the original Mac cards and drivers book. >From memory, the card doesn't support super-slot address space decoding.

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HP Calculator on ebay

by rigdonj＠cfl.rr.com

I used to and I'm sure Tony D does but I doubt that he'd use E-OverPay. I went ahead and put a moderate bid on the stuff but most of the other stuff is ballast as far as I'm concerned. Does anyone know what the "node locator" is for? Thanks for the notice. Joe At 01:27 AM 2/16/02 -0600, you wrote: > >#1705353697 > >Who was it here who collects these? > >-Toth > >

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seek info for Ciprico Rimfire 3200

by aek＠spies.com

> I'm looking for any information I can find on the Ciprico Rimfire 3200 VME > SMD controller, and ideally drivers for it to run under SunOS 4.1 I should have this in storage. I'll try to pull it out in the next week or so.

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HP 9825B

by steven_j_robertson＠hotmail.com

I have a HP 9825B, 9885 floppy disk drive, and ROM cart for that specific disk. I can run the system and it tries to talk to the disks but gives an error when accessing the drive. It seems like the computer doesn't have all the disk routines that it needs to talk to the floppy. Are all the disk routines included on the one ROM or do I need another ROM with those routines? Thanks, SteveRob _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp.

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