MessageA the University of Michigan property depot they are disposing of a half dozen or so "half-height" 19" DEC racks, the kind MicroVAX II's came in (about enough height for three RA-8x disks) as well as two full height racks. They are mostly empty, some have power controllers inside (not taking up space) and a couple have a bunch of network hardware inside (looks like a serial controller with a few racks of modems) $25 for each rack. Get 'em before it rains as they're outside. I picked up: -A NRI(?) SCSI tower with an IBM/Exabyte tape drive, IBM CD-ROM drive, and 1GB HD (Probably for an RS/6000) -A NEC 3x external SCSI CD-ROM drive, from back when they knew how to make a decent drive (Dust latch, front panel LCD + volume + play controls, lots of SCSI settings) -A Cisco Sun FDDI-SBUS card for someone on this list (Please e-mail me again and I'll send it to you) Also picked up an Atari ST-520 with 3.5" external floppy for $2.50 from the Detroit Salvation Army main branch dungeon. Really, it's a dungeon, underneath their main store downtown. Lots of big, wierd printers for those who collect electromechanical stuff. And from John King books (best used bookstore I've seen anywhere) I got the 1984 Personal Computer Sourcebook, which I'll be posting summaries from shortly.. (lists the PCjr as the "IBM Peanut" :)

I think you need a Cisco specific driver for them. I couldn't find it on Cisco's web site, but I didn't look too hard. They did have the manual, which is nice. Cisco seems to be one of those companies that wants $$$ for support contracts/downloading software. The unit I have is actually a pre-cisco Fibre adapter, from some company Cisco bought, but it looks exactly the same as the Cisco FDDI adapter, so I'm assuming they just relabled them. Sun still has drivers on their web site for their FDDI adapter, you could try them. ----- Original Message ----- have 8,

Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote: 45 or 110 baud? :)

On Wed, 7 Aug 2002, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote: The last time I tried was about 2 years ago, but my DOS-based AOL disk would still log on at 2400bps. IIRC, there wasn't much available _but_ the logon. There are still some low-speed BBS and Fidonet nodes around. Doc

On Wed, 7 Aug 2002, John Lawson wrote: How about a spacle wrestling contest between 19 year old models? 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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Would an old Centronics Tractor Feed do the job?