James,
Sorry to hear about your mother, but what about her passing made you need to
boot an old computer?
Mike
-----Original Message-----
From: James L. Rice [mailto:jrice@texoma.net]
Sent: Sunday, November 07, 1999 12:51 PM
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
Subject: Tandy 2000
I was given a Tandy 2000 recently. Due to the death of my mother this
week I just tried to boot it. It puts the 256k memeory message on the
screen and the floppy drive light comes on but it never seems to boot.
I recieved a boot disk copy with the machine and have ordered a
MSDOS/Basic boot disk from RSU but no resultds. Any common prblem I
should look for? I've already reversed the floppy drives with the same
results.
James
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Anyone have any experience with the Dilog DQ696 ESDI disk controllers? I
just installed one in a MicroVAX III and I've been getting really _dismal_
performance out of it. I had it misterminated for a bit (the middle drive
(of two) was terminated rather than the end drive). But I fixed that
without any increase in performance. The format/block analysis took about
10 hours for a 600MB disk.
The interleave was set to 1 but that seems pretty standard these days,
should I up it to 2 or 3? or perhaps reduce it to 0?
The drives are Micropolis 1568's so they're nice fast drives. How about
Q-bus priority? I moved the Dilog to the slot just after the DELQA so it
its CPU->DELQA->DILOG->TQK70 but that hasn't helped either. Any other
suggestions or are these things just slow?
--Chuck
Dear
Sir,
08.11.1999
I have a notebook of a model named 486 DX. I have a great difficulty
with it. In its
bios, there is a code number. I can't decode it. The bios number of the
notebook is
Amibios (c) 1992 American Megatrends PM BIOS 050042. (7500 E P10 092894)
I Will be appreciated if you can send me the method that you decode
your notebooks.
Looking forward to hearing from you.
Ihsan ?arikci
E-Mail Adress: icarikci(a)atauni.edu.tr
Hello.
I need some help.
I have a WANG (WLTC) Laptop with printer, and my operation system was crashed. I have no any boot disk.
I need a boot disk and the latest operation system.
If it's possible please send me some links, or let me know where I can download
this programs.
My laptop's properties are : WANG Laboratories Inc.
FCC I.D.: B4Y8P7 WLTC
MADE DATE Febr 24 1987
Serial number : 95235V
Sorry about my English, and thank you very very much .
Avramucz Mihaly from Hungary
I gave the DECStation 3100 to a fellow caretaker and he had some questions
I thought I would bring up here to see if there were any easy answers:
1) Is the display adapter on the main board of the DS3100 always monochrome?
2) I found Bruce Lane's description of making a color cable for the 15 pin
connector
but not the equivalent idea for a monochrome connector.
3) Does anyone have a spare cable?
4) What monitor works with this system?
--Chuck
Ok, buried under a pile of stuff was a little tiny VAX. A VAXStation
4000/VLC, what the heck is that? Can I netboot it? Cluster it? can it run
headless?
--Chuck
While I'm thinking about it....
Would anyone (again in the UK) know where I can get a set of (presumably)
Microsoft XENIX installation discs for my Jarrogate "Sprite"?
Mine came with both CDOS and XENIX installed, but I only got the discs and
manuals for CDOS.
Also, I've been playing with "Concurrent DOS XM" on a '286 for a few years on
and off, but I don't really have the right hardware to run it effectively.
So, can anyone please help me out with a compatible EEMS board (AST RAMpage!
or RAMpage! 286 AFAIK) or even a copy of Concurrent DOS 386?
TTFN - Pete.
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Hi, sorry not to have been posting here lately but things have been very
hectic with both of my parents being hospitalised. :-(
To be brief I'm looking for a copy of IBM Xenix v2.00 to have a play with on
my XT-286. Anyone here in the UK able to help, preferably I need a copy WITH
the manuals....
*PLEASE* respond directly rather than via the list, although I'm still
receiving it I don't have time to read the messages at the moment (it's been
nearly two weeks since I have).
TTFN - Pete.
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--- John B <dylanb(a)sympatico.ca> wrote:
> Here is what I picked up: (lot of questions);
>
> PDP-8I (came from a former Dec employee):
Cool haul.
> I hope to have the 8I running early next week (looks like it is plug and
> play).
Very much so.
> Questions:
>
> 1. How much memory is inside the 8I and what was the stack size, how much
> expansion is the MM8Ia s?
I can tell you only that there are spaces in the CPU backplane for two 4K
stacks. The MM8I's _might_ be 8K each. The standard stack for the -8/i
and -8/L is 4K. I am not aware of any larger ones. The external box on
my -8/L has two stacks - total of 12K.
> 3. I found a board made by digital that says "CMOS-8" (memory),, what model
> PDP-8 does this work on?
Does it look like an OMNIBUS card? If so, then -8/a and -8/e/f/m. Pretty
much there are three types of -8s - transistorized, TTL FLIP-CHIP and ONMIBUS
(not including DECmates).
-ethan
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