George Goble passed away
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/wlfi/name/george-goble-obituary?id=611…
From Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_H._Goble
George Harry Goble (December 11, 1952 – March 18, 2026) was an
American scientist and academic, who was a staff member at the Purdue
University Engineering Computer Network and a 1996 Ig Nobel Prize
winner.
Goble was commonly known as ghg, since he used that as a login id and
signature in digital communications from the 1970s. He received his BS
in Electrical Engineering at Purdue University.
In 1981, he wired together the backplanes of two DEC VAX-11/780
systems and made the first multi-CPU Unix computer, preceding DEC's
dual processor VAX-11/782.[1] The operating system was based on the
4.1 BSD kernel,[1]: 293 and the modifications thus eventually made it
into the 4.3 BSD Unix release.[citation needed] At the beginning of
the 4.3 BSD user manuals, Bill Joy wrote a special note of thanks to
GHG for being courageous enough to put the multi-CPU kernel into a
production environment before anyone else did.[2] (However, the
frequent crashes for a while inspired the writing of many humorous
text files by the Purdue University Electrical Engineering student
body, such as "The VAX had a Blowout", to be sung to the tune of
"London Bridge is Falling Down".) The development of the Dual-CPU Unix
system was the subject of Goble's Master's thesis.
Around this time, Goble, along with Bill Croft, also developed a
networking protocol for Unix, referred to as pnet, which was used at
Purdue at the time before being displaced by TCP/IP. Pnet allowed
remote logins, and remote execution of commands, among other
capabilities.[3]
In the late 1980s, Goble started experimenting with refrigerants, due
to increased danger and lower thermodynamic efficiency of the recently
introduced R-134a compared to the older R-12 which was being phased
out due to concerns about damage to the ozone layer, and the
incompatibility of R-134a with the lubricating oil and other materials
used in systems built for R-12. In 1987, he converted the beverage
refrigerators in the Eta Kappa Nu lounge in the basement of the Purdue
Electrical Engineering building to using a refrigerant of his own
devising. This refrigerant is now recognized as R-406A by ASHRAE and
is available commercially under the trade name AutoFrost. He later
developed another refrigerant which is compatible with R134A
lubricants, but which is superior in thermodynamic efficiency and
lower system internal pressures called GHG-X8.
In 1996, Goble was awarded the Ig Nobel Prize in Chemistry, for
preparing a barbecue for cooking in less than 5 seconds by the use of
a smoldering cigarette, charcoal and LOX (liquid oxygen).[4] This act
attracted the attention of the West Lafayette, Indiana fire
department, which warned him to never let them catch him in the
possession of LOX near a barbecue fire ever again.
Goble was also noted for driving a vehicle with the Indiana license
plate UNIX, and also GHG-1
https://engineering.purdue.edu/ECE/Alums/OECE/2022/George-Goble
According to legend, so it has been proven to be a fact, Apple was created
50 years ago today. The classic computing world is one reason we as members
can look back and witness the contribution Apple has played. Whether this
is a mixture of delight or sadness doesn't take away the contribution Jobs
and Wozniak played in my and others interest in keeping classic computing
alive.
Happy computing all.
Murray
Hi all,
I am looking for advice on some problems that I am observing trying to
read QIC tapes using an Archive Viper.
If you are unfamiliar with QIC tapes, tape transport is done through a
single roller that moves a plastic band in tension with the outside of
a portion of the tape on the reels. Over time, the band will break.
A long time ago, I bought a bunch of the green plastibands to use as
replacement bands. Later I bought a bunch of the clear ones. I was able
to image some tapes with the plastiband replacement but not all (but
rewind and retension works almost every time). Until today, I don't
think I ever tried the clear ones after I bought a bag.
I am preparing for a VCF and need the contents off of some of the tapes
that I have, so I got out the driver and tapes. However, I have been
unable to read anything from the them. The tape will jam up. It seems
like what is happening is that plastiband is not providing enough
tension to move the tape when reading. The tape loses tension and I see
it gather instead of moving along. Sometimes the tape feels stuck to the
posts that turn the tape to be parallel with the heads.
I also tried a clear band for the first time and the tension with that
seems too tight.
What am I doing wrong?
alan
Hi all,
are there any experiences or hints in reviving and repairing Maxtor XT1140 and 2190 drives.
I do have a pile of TI-Expore Bricks. The disc drives do have issues like:
- not spinning up
- spinning up but not recalibrating
- ..
Andreas
I was able to get some newer QIC-150 tapes by 3M and harvested the belts out of them. Dropping the belt into boiling water for 20 seconds revived their tension strength. Ultimately what brought me success though was replacing the posts in the tape cartridge with roller bearings that I purchased at a hobby store. The bearings were meant for wheels on an R/C car. Even with the sticky stuff on the tape, they did not bind up, it required a lot of cleaning of the R/W head though during data restore.
We're trying to netboot a Sun-1. Initially, the machine issues the
following packets (over and over...):
17:23:16.834126 In 00:00:00:00:00:00 (oui Ethernet) ethertype IPv4
(0x0800), length 90: localhost.52483 > localhost.domain: 9273+ PTR?
255.255.255.255.in-addr.arpa. (46)
17:23:16.834158 In 00:00:00:00:00:00 (oui Ethernet) ethertype IPv4
(0x0800), length 118: localhost > localhost: ICMP localhost udp port
domain unreachable, length 82
After a short while (10 seconds?), it gives up (because the ndd server
doesn't recognize it), it times out and then generates the following
packet:
17:23:26.333093 B 02:60:8c:03:40:50 (oui Unknown) ethertype IPv4
(0x0800), length 64: 0.3.64.80 > 0.0.0.0: nd 28
Where, of course, the ...:40:50 is the MAC address in the source address.
Does this ring a bell with anyone? n.b. This seems to pre-date RARP,
so any insight would be valuable.
T
I recall I trusted the Stanton geometry specs and had success with my 2372. Was working great until power supply blew. I used a QD33 and an SC41 just fine so I think you’re on course to success.
Jake
> On Oct 13, 2015, at 02:54, Josh Dersch <derschjo(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Subject line covers it; the M2372K manual isn't on Bitsavers (the 2382K is, but it's significantly different) and all I've found is this covering the basics, and I'm not 100% sure it's correct:
>
> http://stason.org/TULARC/pc/hard-drives-hdd/fujitsu/M2372K-824MB-8-0-FH-HSM…
>
> Anyone have this manual? Can you confirm that the settings listed on stason.org are valid? I'm trying to get this drive to format using an Emulex UD33 (UNIBUS SMD) controller, and I'm not having much luck. (I'm also not certain that the 2372K isn't too new for the controller; another place a manual would be of immense help.)
>
> Thanks,
> Josh
>
