10 Nov
2001
10 Nov
'01
11:52 a.m.
On November 10, Sellam Ismail wrote:
Um, is this the CLASSIC COMPUTERS mailing list? Some
culinary mailing
list traffics seems to be getting mixed in here.
As we've discussed before, an occasional off topic posting is OK. A
long-assed thread is not. It's starting to drown out my pointless
argument with Dick (or is that perhaps the point?)
At least precede your subject line with OFF-TOPIC!
Better yet, MOVE THIS DISCUSSION ELSEWHERE!!!
Hey man, it gets worse. Over on the Rescue list, we're talking about
which news network babes we like best. (Personally, I've got the hots
for CNN's Rudi Bakhtiar with The Weather Channel's Christina Abernathy
running a close second. :))
To, ahem, inject some on-topic discussion here...has anybody found a
good replacement for the air-filter medium that' DEC used in the front
panels of, among other things, 10.5" pdp11/34 chassis? I've used
cut-out pieces of furnace filter material with decent results, but I
wonder if anyone has found anything better.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
St. Petersburg, FL
10 Nov
10 Nov
12:57 p.m.
New subject: air filters
Dave McGuire wrote:
On November 10, Sellam Ismail wrote:
Many window air conditioners use a 1/4" sheet of foam filter material
that I have used on PDP cabinets, and is available in rolls from
hardware stores and home centers. I also recall that some humidifier
units use a foam belt that is made from material similar to the original
DEC filter foam. Some the material DEC used is a bit thicker, but I
have been able to make the thinner foam work.
I also know that Sun Enterprise 10000 systems have a 1/4" thick sheet of
this type of foam on the inside of all the doors on the front and back
of the system. I am sure someone still makes it, but I don't know who.
--
Doug Carman
pdp11(a)bellsouth.net
Um, is this the CLASSIC COMPUTERS mailing list?
Some culinary mailing
list traffics seems to be getting mixed in here.
To, ahem, inject some on-topic discussion here...has anybody found a
good replacement for the air-filter medium that' DEC used in the front
panels of, among other things, 10.5" pdp11/34 chassis? I've used
cut-out pieces of furnace filter material with decent results, but I
wonder if anyone has found anything better. 
1:42 p.m.
New subject: another small step
Well, tonight I made another small step with my NeXT systems.
I have both my Cube and my slab at home now and was working on the
slab since I had gotten so much further with the Cube while it was in
my office. Tonight on the slab I got both DHCP and POP3 email
retrieval working while connected to my G3 using Surfdoubler. I
forgot at first that I needed to modify Popover in order to send
mail, though I know it works because I've already done it on the
Cube. Web sites don't look quite right when viewed using Omniweb,
but hey it works! I also have Caper running on both systems so they
can be connected to Appletalk networks. Now all I have to do is
finally get around to taking the NeXT laserprinter apart and
replacing it's main feed roller and extraction gear.
Jeff
--
Home of the TRS-80 Model 2000 FAQ File
http://www.cchaven.com
http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/lakes/6757
11 Nov
11 Nov
2:08 p.m.
New subject: another small step
Good to someone making progress, restoring some black hardware to a
useful configuration. I enjoy my NeXT slab and cube. Still some of my
favorite machines. A lot of sites do look funny on Omniweb. I guess it
might be the html to rtf translation. Some things just don't translate
very well. Frank's Caper package seems to work well and Samba is
readily available if your network is Wintel based. I'm eagerly
awaiting the arrival of my N4005 21" monitor to complete my Dimension
cube. I just got a set of ink carts for the color printer and have
almost unstopped all of the print heads. If you don't have your printer
parts yet, give Randy at Turbo a shout. He takes Paypal and his
wider-than-stock printer gear seems to be the best long term solution.
I need to get a two drive SCSI cable from him as I have a second 2.1 gb
drive to install in my cube and I need a printer repair kit for my spare
laser. I've started buying spares before they disappear totally, such
as floppy drives, spare mice and keyboards, monitors and power
supplies. I plan on keeping my black hardware up and running for a long
time!
Jeff Hellige wrote:
Well, tonight I made another small step with my
NeXT systems. I
have both my Cube and my slab at home now and was working on the slab
since I had gotten so much further with the Cube while it was in my
office. Tonight on the slab I got both DHCP and POP3 email retrieval
working while connected to my G3 using Surfdoubler. I forgot at first
that I needed to modify Popover in order to send mail, though I know
it works because I've already done it on the Cube. Web sites don't
look quite right when viewed using Omniweb, but hey it works! I also
have Caper running on both systems so they can be connected to
Appletalk networks. Now all I have to do is finally get around to
taking the NeXT laserprinter apart and replacing it's main feed roller
and extraction gear.
Jeff
2:43 p.m.
New subject: another small step
Good to someone making progress, restoring some black
hardware to a
useful configuration. I enjoy my NeXT slab and cube. Still some of
my favorite machines. A lot of sites do look funny on Omniweb. I
guess it might be the html to rtf translation. Some things just
don't translate very well. Frank's Caper package seems to work well
and Samba is readily available if your network is Wintel based.
I'm eagerly awaiting the arrival of my N4005 21" monitor to complete
my Dimension cube. I just got a set of ink carts for the color
printer and have almost unstopped all of the print heads. If you
don't have your printer parts yet, give Randy at Turbo a shout. He
takes Paypal and his wider-than-stock printer gear seems to be the
best long term solution. I need to get a two drive SCSI cable from
him as I have a second 2.1 gb drive to install in my cube and I need
a printer repair kit for my spare laser. I've started buying spares
before they disappear totally, such as floppy drives, spare mice and
keyboards, monitors and power supplies. I plan on keeping my black
hardware up and running for a long time!
I've got a few spares, mainly an extra keyboard, mouse, Cube
'040 cpu board, and somewhat dim N4000A monitor. I've already gotten
the feed roller and extraction gear for my laser as well, just
haven't ventured into taking it apart to install them yet.
Omniweb looks much better since I got the 2.7b version from
Peak. I had initially tried the 1.0 version that was on the NeXTware
CD. It looks like it's going through at least two levels of
translation between HTML and RTF, with another in between. I use
Caper quite a bit for moving stuff back and forth between my Mac's
and the NeXT systems. The thing giving me fits at the moment is
Sendmail....I had it working with our Exchange server using the Cube
but now that I've gotten the slab on the 'net, using DHCP and my Mac
as a gateway, it won't send mail to Earthlink's email server even
though Popover retrieves it just fine.
Jeff
--
Home of the TRS-80 Model 2000 FAQ File
http://www.cchaven.com
http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/lakes/6757
10 Nov
10 Nov
9:15 p.m.
has anybody found a good replacement for the
air-filter medium
Try using air-filter medium.
Dave McGuire wrote:
On November 10, Sellam Ismail wrote:
Um, is this the CLASSIC COMPUTERS mailing list?
Some culinary mailing
list traffics seems to be getting mixed in here.
As we've discussed before, an occasional off topic posting is OK. A
long-assed thread is not. It's starting to drown out my pointless
argument with Dick (or is that perhaps the point?)
At least precede your subject line with OFF-TOPIC!
Better yet, MOVE THIS DISCUSSION ELSEWHERE!!!
Hey man, it gets worse. Over on the Rescue list, we're talking about
which news network babes we like best. (Personally, I've got the hots
for CNN's Rudi Bakhtiar with The Weather Channel's Christina Abernathy
running a close second. :))
To, ahem, inject some on-topic discussion here...has anybody found a
good replacement for the air-filter medium that' DEC used in the front
panels of, among other things, 10.5" pdp11/34 chassis? I've used
cut-out pieces of furnace filter material with decent results, but I
wonder if anyone has found anything better.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
St. Petersburg, FL
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