At 05:15 AM 1/29/98 +0300, you wrote:
>Two things: One, the person that said that appeared as the "from" on the
>e-mail. ClassicCmp appears as the "to."
>>"Why are manhole covers round?"
>So that you can put them in any direction, without worrying about turning to
>fit it in.
> Tim D. Hotze
>
>
Actually, it's the only shape that won't let them fall through the hole, no
matter which way you turn it....
Joe <rigdonj(a)intellistar.net> wrote:
> I've heard of those drives but I don't think this is for a drive. The
> only connector on it is a three pin plug that is accessable through a hole
> in the metal bracket. There is one 20 pin DIP socket that might be used
> for a connector but it looks like it's for an IC.
This is an Omninet interface. 1Mbit/s RS-422 twisted-pair bus
networking.
The interfaces for the Apple ][ (a card) and Corvus Concept (built-in)
have 6801s to actually do the work of moving packets between the
computer and the Omninet. I'm not sure if that's what is missing from
your 20 pin DIP socket or if it was intended to hold a BIOS extension
ROM to let the PC boot over Omninet.
-Frank McConnell
At 10:40 PM 1/28/98 EST, you wrote:
>I've got an 1129, but im keeping it. anyone know of a way of clearing the
>passwoid? when i choose various apps from the menus, it prompts for one and
>after i key in the wrong one, it brings me back tothe initial menu. i cannot
>get into anything.
Aw, c'mon! Wouldn't you rather have a password free GRiDCase 3? :) I'd say
disconnect the CMOS battery, but I don't think they have a CMOS setup. :)
The 1100 I had was running Dos 2.11, but the GRiDCASE 3 runs GRiD-OS or
MS-DOS 2.11, and no passwords on the GRiD-OS apps. This is one problem that
I see all the time, either passwords set on the GRiD-OS apps, password set
on setup, or just a password on startup. (You can tell these were gov't
contract machines.)
-John Higginbotham-
-limbo.netpath.net-
I have a Computone 4(?) port card. long 16 bit ISA bus with 4 RJ11
ports and 2 RJ45 ports. its a 1989 Computone with some proms marked
"AT6S"
Looks like it was manu'd in 7/92
Anyone have any ideas or specs?
THeres 2 Z0853006PSCs and an AM8530H, and a NEC D70216L-8 V50
Need info on real purpose and uses, jumpers and switches, thanks
Mike
I understand that these messages are a major bother, but I have a problem. What is the address to send the "unsubscribe" email to?
I tried using one of the search engines, and came up with this URL:
http://haliotis.bothell.washington.edu/classiccmp/join.html
However, this link appears to not be working... and for some time (I would not have simply gone to this site for one or two days, and reported it down... but it's been two weeks.)
Can anyone help me?
You're direct email response is VERY welcome... and appreciated.
- Ed (edhaack(a)ionet.net)
> >REXX on a PC? I think I have heard (very dimly) of this (there was
> >something called REXX-88 or some such name when I was at IBM) but I
> >haven't used REXX for years! What does it run on? Will it run on a
> >Compaq 386? An IBM AT?
> You can probably find REXX in a lot of places... There's even a shareware
> version on Macintosh. And if there's an old IBM programming language on a
> Mac, it's almost definitley on a lot of other platforms. Did REXX start on
> the IBM mini/mainframes or is it from somewhere else? Has anyone seen a
> copy of Cobol for Mac? MicroFocus used to make it, but it seems the Cobol
> crowd has abondoned Macintosh...
Thanks everyone for their help. I shall sometime consider PC-DOS with
REXX as an environment for my AT or possibly one of my Compaqs... Am I
right in thinking that OS/2 _won't_ run on an AT?
ORIGINS OF REXX
I met REXX in what I believe to be its native habitat - as the macro
language for VM/CMS running on an IBM 370 descendant mainframe. It
replaced a language called EXEC2, whose main distinguishing feature was
% signs everywhere (although I can't remember what they meant). This in
turn replaced a language called (you guessed it) EXEC. REXX is/was
quite a nice language to use, but some features rendered it unsuitable
for serious programming - numbers, for example, are stored as strings of
digits in the character code of the machine you are using...
Philip.
I've got an 1129, but im keeping it. anyone know of a way of clearing the
passwoid? when i choose various apps from the menus, it prompts for one and
after i key in the wrong one, it brings me back tothe initial menu. i cannot
get into anything.
david
In a message dated 98-01-28 22:16:08 EST, you write:
<< Anyone ever hear of a GRiD Server? Want info/specs/etc.
Also, if anyone out there has a GRiD Compass 11xx,
I will trade a GRiDCASE 3 for it. Oh, either that, or
will trade for an external floppy for the GRiD 1535exp.
>>
I'll take it too
-----Original Message-----
From: PG Manney <manney(a)nwohio.nwohio.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Date: Wednesday, January 28, 1998 6:52 PM
Subject: Re: Apple II GS
>
>> I'll take it!
>
>Who said dat?
>
>manney(a)nwohio.com
>"Why are manhole covers round?"
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Francois Auradon.
Visit the SANCTUARY at http://home.att.net/~francois.auradon
Who among you collects mainframes? I couldn't resist asking in light of the
"what's the heaviest portable" thread, because the CPU of IBM System/3 Model
15 I have weighs 1800 lbs.
This list community has already dealt with the question of why collect
mainframes, so let's try to avoid a repeat performance and stick to
answering the lead question.
Many mainframe collectors aren't on the Internet (and frankly, they tell me,
they don't miss it). These people are retired and grew up with big iron so
its natural for them to be drawn to mainframes.
I have the Sys/3 and an IBM 360/22 (complete systems including keypunches
and boxes of unused 80-column cards).
Yours in good faith
Kevin
Anyone ever hear of a GRiD Server? Want info/specs/etc.
Also, if anyone out there has a GRiD Compass 11xx,
I will trade a GRiDCASE 3 for it. Oh, either that, or
will trade for an external floppy for the GRiD 1535exp.
-John Higginbotham-
-limbo.netpath.net-
