Sold a pair of old Jensen speakers to a guy in Korea the other day and
am shipping them via DHL Worldwide. They have refused to accept the
items until I come up with a "gauss reading" for the magnetic field????
Anyone ever heard of such a thing? I did a fair bit of research and
found their maximum allowable reading is ".00525" but no one at DHL has
a clue what that means. I'm assuming it is a measurement in gauss at
some prescribed distance from the package. On average the strength of
most high powered speaker magnets is in the range of 10,000 to 15,000
gauss,
but that is measured at the voice coil [in the center of the field]. The
field would decrease [as the square or maybe even the cube] of the
distance.
Stumped,
Craig
A while back I posted a message and mentioned a problem with the drives
unmounting. Well here is the message:
%SYSTEM-I-MOUNTVER, R7VEFG$DIA0: is offline. Mount verification in progress.
After that I get a red line on the drive indicator and anything I on the
console never returns.
Any ideas?
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I am relatively new to the VAX world, but I have already established that
the very same
thing was done to my MicroVAX by the previous owner...
I have heaps of questions for the guy, but regretfully I inherited it from a
deceased estate :-(
What else was done as part of the MicroVAX II -> 3 upgrade?
James
> I have a MicroVAX II which has been upgraded to a
> MicroVAX 3. I say MicroVAX 3 because that is what
> is on the upgrade decal and the DEC instruction
> booklet refers to the upgrade as a Microvax 3. Are
> there MicroVAX III decals out there, is the
> MicroVAX 3 decal unusual, or are both common?
>
> Doug.
>
On a recent surplus hunt, I picked up an Anderson Jacobson
ADC 300 baud acoustic coupler modem for $1. What a beauty - it's
in a wooden box with a flip-top lid and a brushed aluminum
interior panel. It has two DB-25 connectors, but one is used
to feed *in* the AC power (!). I haven't disassembled it yet.
I did a quick web search and one turns up in Megan Gentry's
collection. How old is this? It's serial number 759.
- John
From: Bob Brown <bbrown(a)harper.cc.il.us>
>I see that the RZ25 is not supported to install the openvms 7.2 system
to
Dont tell my system that. It is supported.
>(from the hobbyist cd)..would that explain the numerous parity errors
that
>I get when I try to install to an RZ25? (or is my RZ25 probably
toast)...
You either have the jumpers wrong or a bad drive (missing terminator?).
Allison
From: DOUG PEKSA - COMPG <PeksaDO(a)Cardiff.ac.uk>
>is on the upgrade decal and the DEC instruction
>booklet refers to the upgrade as a Microvax 3. Are
>there MicroVAX III decals out there, is the
>MicroVAX 3 decal unusual, or are both common?
No, not unusual.Standard FS kits usually have all sorts of
docs and rebadging material.
What often happend was that someone would upgrade
by attrition of another system or by ordering just what was
required. With that you could have an assortment of markings.
Allison
Hi
With all this talk about RS6000 servers, I would like to say I have a
320H 7012 type that has almost gone to the dumpster in the last two
major basement cleanings I have done.
It was removed from service and brought here. I booted it several times
with the old AIX on there and everything was working. Plan was to put
Linux on there...but then i learned it's not available...I pulled the 2
SCSI drives from it and never re-installed them.
It was working last time I re-started it (3 months ago) with a Wyse 60
connected to the great modu10 serial connector (had to build an adapter
plug - thanks IBM) using the diag/boot floppy disks for it that I
have...
No keyboard...no monitor...MCA arch...80Megs Ram, floppy, Token Ring
network card, something I was told was a Sabine accel. video card (?),
scsi card.
I have no use or space for this.
I would like to give it away or maybe at least get something in
exchange...I collect micros from the 197x-198x...current wish list
includes : trs80 mod III, NExT, Atari 800 or CP/M systems or anything
else interesting...I am NOT looking for $$$ for this...I don't have the
time to bother seeling it on epay, I am not even signed up to sell or
buy on epay...
One hitch : I am in Montreal, Canada.
So if you dont want the whole thing (29 pounds on my people scale) or I
can always just ship some boards, or whatever...I you need more info or
pics, just email...I am not too familliar with the R6000 machines...
Thanks
Claude
claudew(a)sprint.ca
Contact the person below, not me.
- John
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Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 00:14:51 -0700 (PDT)
From: pppmjs <pppmjs(a)yahoo.com>
Subject: An Old Computer
To: jfoust(a)threedee.com
:
:
Hi there-
I found your link thru a site on Computer museums.
I have a functional NEC Advanced Personal Computer
(APC) (1983) It runs with 2 - 8" floppies. Believe to
have been built to run/assist by BridgePort CNC
machines. Operating system is Dos 2.1 Have operating
manuals & guides. (Got it to boot, but didn't get no
further, as I'm not sure what some of the disks are.)
I need to possibly get something out of this
system...say $125-$150,or more if it's possibly a rare
find(?), if in fact it's worth anything, I really
don't know, but believe it would be.
If your interested or know of someone that may be,
please reply back.
Thanks for your time
Michael Salomaki
pppmjs(a)yahoo.com
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Well, I've got to give a toast to the folks in DEC Engineering, it may be
that they had to deal with Field Circus screwing things up, but I for one
really appreciate that DEC used keyed connectors, and appropriate cables,
and sturdy hardware. I'm also glad that whomever designed the TQK70 did so
such that plugging it in backwards in the Q-bus does it no apparent harm. I
reassembled a VAXServer3400 after cleaning it and got the dreaded "E" in
the display, after careful diagnosis (with the power on!) I noticed the
TQK70's chips were on the wrong side of the board! (Is there any good way
other than lying on the floor on your side to insert things into a BA213?)
Powered off, pulled board, crossed myself and re-inserted it correctly.
Voila, system boots and tape works fine. Cheers!
--Chuck
> Does anyone know if I can substitute
> a keyboard and mouse from an early Mac?
> (the ones with the non-adb keyboards
> and db9-connector mice). I don't mind
> hacking the connectors, if someone can
> give me the pinout info. As far as I
> can tell, the lisa uses some sort of
> mini-db9 for the mouse, and a 1/4"
> headphone-jack for the keyboard (weird!)
Mouse: yes
Keyboard: no
However...
Somewhere out there, there's fairly complete
info on the Lisa hardware. It should include
details, if not on the keyboard itself, on the
interface to the keyboard. From that, you might
be able to modify a spare Mac keyboard to work
until you can find a Lisa replacement.
Worse case, you'll have to use a microcontroller
to convert between the two interfaces, requiring
some custom work on your part.
-dq
