20 Oct
2002
20 Oct
'02
11:18 a.m.
I went to a small local hamfest yesterday and picked up a DTR-1. It's complete and
includes all the accessories including the original boxs, papers, SW disks, manuals, PSU,
slide off cover, pouch, external floppy. The only thing wrong with it is the battery is
dead (no problem, 6 A size NiMH cells) and the hard drive has zillions of errors. I'm
attempting to reformat the hard drive but the previous owner says that the drive is bad
and needs to be replaced. Does anyone have a HP 40 Mb 1.3 inch KittyHawk drive that
you're willing to part with? Or does anyone know if anyone ever came up with a way to
install a different drive such as one of the PCMCIA drives or the IBM Microdrive in it?
Joe
20 Oct
20 Oct
1 p.m.
New subject: FS - Sparcstation 2 w/ CDROM and External HD
One of the things I am getting rid of is a Sun SparcStation 2 with
keyboard/mouse and a Sony 19" Color GDM-1955 Monitor. I don't recall the
sizes, but it has two SCSI HDs. IIRC, the first is the one that came
with the unit (250 MB???) and the second is larger. The unit has 64MB of
Ram installed. The only problems are 1) the NVRAM needs to be replaced
or fixed as the battery is not too healthy :), and 2) in playing around
a year or two ago, I copied the shell files to a tmp directory and
deleted the files. Unfortunately, without them operational, the machine
doesn't boot up correctly ... another educational moment :). Also
included are the Sun CDs for Solaris version ??? for both the PC and Sun
I obtained from Sun around 1999. There is also an external Sun SCSI
CD-ROM drive (no cable) and an Andataco external SCSI FH HD w/ cable. I
haven't been able to test either the CD-ROM or the Andataco HD since
there is no cable to connect the CDROM drive to the unit to reinstall
the system.
If anyone is interested, let me know by email. I don't want to ship this
thing as the monitor is rather heavy. So, it is available by pickup or I
can bring it to VCF next weekend. $50.00.
1:42 p.m.
I went to a small local hamfest yesterday and picked
up a DTR-1. It's
>complete and includes all the accessories including the original boxs,
>papers, SW disks, manuals, PSU, slide off cover, pouch, external floppy.
Are there some DTR-1 specific disks that came with it? I didn't get any
disks with the 4(?) that I've got.
I honestly don't remember. You might try contacting the mailing list for
these little beasties. dauphin_dtr-1(a)yahoogroups.com
Did you by any chance get a network interface with yours?
Zane
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2:16 p.m.
Zane,
At 11:44 AM 10/20/02 -0700, you wrote:
I'm not sure. The disks that I got look like standard MicroSlouth disks but they
may have the utility files on them. (I hope!) I just went looking and it looks like I
didn't get the windows disks that are supposed to come with it. I'll have to check
with the seller and see if he has them. Here's what I have; MS DOS 6 Plus Enhanced
Tools (3 disks), MS DOS 6.22 Setup (2 disks), MS DOS 6.22 Plus Enhanced Tools (3 disks),
Winfax lite (1 disk).
I went to a
small local hamfest yesterday and picked up a DTR-1. It's
>complete and includes all the accessories including the original boxs,
>papers, SW disks, manuals, PSU, slide off cover, pouch, external floppy.
Are there some DTR-1 specific disks that came with it? I didn't get any
disks with the 4(?) that I've got.
I honestly don't remember. You might try contacting the mailing list for
these little beasties. dauphin_dtr-1(a)yahoogroups.com
I searched through all their messages and several people talked about enhancements but
they didn't say anything specific.
Did you by any chance get a network interface with yours?
I don't think so. The seller couldn't remember if it was installed but it's
supposed to come with a manual and I didn't get the manual so I don't think
it's installed. The jack is there but according to the manual the jack is installed
on all of them "for cosmetic reasons". I haven't opened it up to check.
I'm still trying to reformat the hard drive (LOTs of errors). I tried to run spinRite
on it but it won't even recognize the drive (probably because it wasn't formatted
at the time). So I'm trying to get it to format despite lots of errors, then I'll
try SpinRite again. I've alreay tried to FDISK it but they didn't help. In fact,
it only put about 20% of the drive in the main partition. It definitely needs a LL format
IMO.
Joe
Zane
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| | Classic Computer Collector |
+----------------------------------+----------------------------+
| Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, |
| PDP-10 Emulation and Zane's Computer Museum. |
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21 Oct
21 Oct
4:02 p.m.
Hi Joe. Damn I've been looking for one of those at a reasonable price for over
a year now. ! There was/is a DTR- 1 mailing list. Try
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/fce/hardware/dtr1-mail/maillist.html
Lawrence
I went to a small local hamfest yesterday and picked
up a DTR-1. It's complete
and includes all the accessories including the original boxs, papers, SW
disks, manuals, PSU, slide off cover, pouch, external floppy. The only thing
wrong with it is the battery is dead (no problem, 6 A size NiMH cells) and the
hard drive has zillions of errors. I'm attempting to reformat the hard drive
but the previous owner says that the drive is bad and needs to be replaced.
Does anyone have a HP 40 Mb 1.3 inch KittyHawk drive that you're willing to
part with? Or does anyone know if anyone ever came up with a way to install a
different drive such as one of the PCMCIA drives or the IBM Microdrive in it?
Joe
lgwalker(a)mts.net
bigwalk_ca(a)yahoo.com
26 Oct
26 Oct
8:28 p.m.
Re:
Hi Joe. Damn I've been looking for one of those
at a reasonable price for over
a year now. ! There was/is a DTR- 1 mailing list. Try
> I went to a small local hamfest yesterday and
picked up a DTR-1. It's complete
As of April of this year, DTR-1's (with network card and floppy drive) were
available from mjjacobson(a)mindspring.com for about $100.
I ordered one from him, and it arrived, and I'm a happy camper.
I'd earlier found a DTR-1 without a pen at a swapmeet for $5. I looked around
for a replacement pen, and found several starting at $150 or more ...
and figured a whole computer + pen for less money was a good bargain :)
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