At 11:26 PM 2/7/98 +0930, you wrote:
>Someone here has a couple of 64 GS's - I had only heard of them in
>passing before, and thus don't know their interest. I looked on the web
Now I've heard of Apple II GS, but no C-64GS.
-John Higginbotham-
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At 08:17 PM 2/7/98 -0800, you wrote:
>I think it's intended for 64's and 128's that are a lot more advanced than
>that. A machine with a drive like that is probably running GEOS, with a
>20Mhz CPU, and a lot of RAM. It's pretty amazing how souped up some of
>these old "Commies" are!
Nope. it'll run on a perfectly stock C-64.
-John Higginbotham-
-limbo.netpath.net-
On Sat, 7 Feb 1998 20:13:14 +0000 (GMT), Tony Duell
<ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>Why do you think you have a power line short?
With the drive connected to a PC power supply, the PS won't give a
PwrGood signal; removing the drive's power connector enables the machine to
boot.
I think that the problem is on the motor control board; it looks like a
repair may have been done on it before.
Thanks!
Rich Cini/WUGNET
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I picked up a couple of IBM circuit cards today for ~$1.50.
The first is about 3.5" x 4.5", has 2 24 pin connectors, 5 of the IBM
square metal IC cans and many other components. It has id numbers:
75114 4B01536A1590 VCC
The other is 7" x 4.5", has four 24 pin connectors, 6 larger metal IC
cans , 9 DIP chips and misc components, it is marked
4161595A2828 VCC13607010
Does anyone know what these do and what system they are from and their
approcimate age ?
They came in nifty plastic "conductive containers" marked IBM with small
windows allowing you to see what is inside.
If nothing else they are great examples of IBM technology.
Regards,
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On 06 Feb 1998 20:53:16 -0800, Frank McConnell <fmc(a)reanimators.org> wrote:
>>Given that this is a Sun 3, I would re-set them for disk ID = 0 and
tape ID = 4. At that point, you should be able to get to the monitor
prompt by pressing L1-A (hold L1, press A) while it's trying to boot
>from the network (or before) and typing "b sd(0,0,0)" to get it to
boot from disk, or "b st(0,0,0)" to get it to boot from tape. Oh yeah,
you need to press return after that ")", unless you want to pass some
arguments to the boot, in which case you should type them before you
press return (e.g. "b sd(0,0,0) -s" to boot single-user mode).<<
I don't have a Sun keyboard or mouse, so what are the
terminal-equivalent keys for L1?
I've tried the "b sd(0,0,0)" command from the montior in DIAG mode, but
it complains that the device is not present. I don't have a SCSI terminator
on the end of the chain, so that may be an issue (the shoebox did not come
with one; I ordered one :-)).
>>I don't recall exactly how to set the default boot device. Once you
have something bootable on the disk, you want to set the default
boot device to "sd(0,0,0)". This setting goes in the EEPROM, only
I don't remember exactly what locations to use. If you install
SunOS 4.1.1 there will be an "eeprom" command that will help you
to not remember too.<<
I figured this one out. I've set the EEPROM for polling. I don't even
know what system is on the hard drive, though.
Rich Cini/WUGNET
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Sorry, this is going out to a lot of people that it doesn't apply to, but
as was pointed out earlier today a lot of the people on this list seem to
be in the Portland area.
I know a guy that is currently trying to get rid of quite a few VT320's,
and probably a few others (sorry, no VT520's). He's not on the Internet,
but if you want I can put you in touch with him. As I said this is for the
Portland area.
Zane
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| healyzh(a)holonet.net (alternate) | Classic Computer Collector |
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This guy has a working IDE interface for the Commodore-64/128. It will
accept up to an 8gb hard drive, and ATAPI CD-ROM support is in the works.
Price is $89US plus shipping. Access time is about 60 times faster than the
1541 floppy, about 25k/sec. It would be worth getting just to see it work!
Here's the address:
http://sgi.felk.cvut.cz/~vorlicek/Ide/c64ide.html
-John Higginbotham-
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>> It's been a reasonable week for me, computerwise. Other than being
>> offered a mainframe, which was fu
>
>What kind? And what is "fu" (except what I think it is)?
Sorry. Fu was meant to be fun. I was offered a digital camera (or
something similar) this week, which included a bonus VAX to run it. Out
of my league, though. There is another mainframe I was offered a couple
of weeks ago where they didn't know the brand, but I am thinking of going
around to see it and work out if I can save it anyway, at least until a
more appropriate owner comes along. The third, which I was refering to,
was an AWA 5280 (I believe that was the number). I figure it may well be
just a mini or something, but I know nothing about this and he did say
Mainframe. :)
Adam.
>At 11:26 PM 2/7/98 +0930, you wrote:
>
>>Someone here has a couple of 64 GS's - I had only heard of them in
>>passing before, and thus don't know their interest. I looked on the web
>
>Now I've heard of Apple II GS, but no C-64GS.
It's a seriously cut down Commodore, apparantly. Intended as a
cartridge-based games machine. From the little I know it had no keyboard
and special joysticks with two fire buttons, the second of which replaced
the space bar from the keyboard. But I think it could use standard C64
carts.
Adam/
