> On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Michael Nadeau wrote:
>
> > BTW, never write on a CD with a felt-tip pen or magic marker. The ink
> > can easily seep through and affect the laser's ability to read the
> > data. Labels are a bad idea, too, as they will cause the disc to spin
> > out of balance.
>
> So how are we supposed to label them, buy a 30-micron layer lacquer
> machine?
Yeah, Sam, I'm with you...
I use a Sharpie when I'm in a hurry and I don't need it to look pretty,
otherwise I use a type 'S' Staedtler Lumocolor 318, black.
-dq
Anyone in the Yonkers/NY area want an RS/6000 box? The info I have is
spotty at best right now, but here's the stuff:
If you're interested, please contact me directly, and I'll pass on the
information.
To: Tim Harrison <fsck(a)timharrison.com>
Subject: Re: You want more boxes?
>On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Dr Warren Kumari wrote:
>
>> I know of a place that is getting rid of an RS6000 (bout the size of
>> a side-by-side refrigerator). Are you interested? It is now in great
>> shape, and is missing some stuff, but is still kinda cool. It would
>> require a fair number of people getting it o\into something like a
>> u-haul... Oh, it would also make a killer 19" enclosure!
>What kind of cost is involved (read: do they want money for it)?
Free, free, free....
Lug it away and it's yours.....
It's REALLY big and heavy.... And Says IBM... And Experimental
Tokenring Router... The bottom has a BIG UPS... Runs on 208V... Had a
+- 1Gb SCSI drive.... Lots of Token ring ports.... Missing a
processor or two... and s front panel... Has the BIG steel ears to
bolt it down.... Perdy....
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Warren Kumari
Lead Network Engineer
Register.com
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Build a man a fire, and he's warm for the
rest of the evening. Set a man on fire and
he's warm for the rest of his life.
--
Tim.
Geek.
harrison(a)timharrison.com
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If you are interested, please reply directly to the original sender.
Reply-to: hogman(a)newulmtel.net
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Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 08:33:42 -0600
From: Darwin Stresemann <hogman(a)newulmtel.net>
Subject: Obsolete computer
Hi:
Ran across your site, and might have something you can use. I have an
Epson QX-16 computer (CPU, Monitor, and Keyboard, plus virtually all of
the original documentation), and am trying to find a home for it. Please
let me know if you can use it. If not, maybe you know of someone who can.
Thanks,
Darwin Stresemann
New Ulm, MN 56073
hogman(a)newulmtel.net
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org
We're moving our offices.... in packing just came across a manual that
someone may want. If no one speaks up for it it's going in the trash in a
few days.
The manual is spiral bound, about 432 pages, and titled "Hands-On BASIC for
the IBM PCjr". Also on the cover is "Personal Computer BASIC Self-Tutor" and
the IBM logo. The part number appears to be 1502176, ISBN 0-07-049169-0
The manual is free if anyone wants it. Please reply to jlwest(a)tseinc.com
Jay West
To: "Nova Nostalgics"
I need to get definitive programming information for a Bytronix B435 disk controller, specifically the "block mode" I/O functions. Anybody have information?
Bruce
bkr(a)WildHareComputers.com
"Novas are forever..."
www.SimuLogics.com
Does anyone have an extra 68040 cpu running at 33mhz that
they don't need? I'vd had a LC-575 mainboard here to put in my Color
Classic but it's original CPU came out on it's way to me and a good
portion of the pins are pretty mangled.
Thanks
Jeff
--
Collector of Classic Microcomputers and Video Game Systems:
Home of the TRS-80 Model 2000 FAQ File
http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/lakes/6757
> On Wed, 6 Dec 2000 18:03:20 -0500 Douglas Quebbeman
> <dhquebbeman(a)theestopinalgroup.com> wrote:
> > Grrr... Thanks, John, I forgot how I had that page set up, and
> > the link I got from the properties was for the thumbnail,
> > not for the image for which it was a link. The full-sized
> > picture is indeed at:
> >
> > http://members.iglou.com/dougq/p2455/ICS&Cipher.jpg
> >
> > This is an FSD 500 (?), and predates Seagate's purchase of
> > CDC's drive division.
>
> Oh, weird, I have exactly the same Cifer front-loading tape
> drive in my living room, next to a CDC FSD 500 disk drive.
> My FSD 500 has a blue front panel, though. It's an SMD
> interface drive, but I have no source for jumper
> information and I need to change the sector size to suit a
> Sun host.
Yes, the Cipher F880 Microstreamer is a Pertec-interface
device. Some of them support 6250bpi, like the Pr1me version
shown in my photo, while I have a DEC TS05 version that has
only the 1600/3200 densitys.
Be advised that my Prime cables must be put on backwards
(i.e. the triangle on the connector does NOT go to pin 1/2).
YMMV, etc.
-dq
OK, somewhat off-topic (maybe) and slightly less than the ten year mark
(these things are dated '92) but anyway...
I've just been given a couple of IBM cash register displays, IBM part 4863.
They're dual height, 20-character dot-matrix displays. I was going to pull
them apart and just use the display units themselves, but as these things
have all sorts of built-in decoding logic in them I thought I'd ask here
first...
So, has anyone come across these before? I've found the pin connections for
the 4-pin connector which they use for comms from the host system (12V, GND,
2 serial I/O lines - I assume one per line on the display)
What I don't have is any information on the protocol that the host system
uses to talk to these things. IBM defined a 12-bit device protocol which
could be used for other devices, but I have no idea if that's what these
things use (actually, they may have a character generator on-board, in which
case they perhaps can't generate arbritary dot-patterns and so I'm better
off just keeping the display units anyway)
Long shot, I know, but I thought I'd ask here first... :)
cheers
Jules
On Dec 7, 4:58, Iggy Drougge wrote:
> I downloaded the comp.sys.acorn FAQ, but it seems to have dumped info on
> machines no longer in production. Where may, pray tell, a guide to all
> Archimedes machines be located nowadays?
I've not read the Acorn FAQ for a while, but I have a copy dated 1996 which
says it was (is?) maintained by Philip Banks, and he had a machine list on
his server. Some of the questions do relate to the older machines (the
bits about video, for example, include appropriate information). The
machines I listed -- A310, A4xx, A540, R260 -- are mostly 8MHz and
12MHz-25MHz Arm2/Arm3 machines, originally with RISC OS 2 but usually found
with RISC OS 3.1 nowadays.
A quick look through it suggests that my old copy, at least, contains a
fair amount of relevant information; I can mail it to you if you like.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
>BTW isn't it nice that a lot of new games are for the PS2. ;)
Yeah but I wish they would have them on floppys instead of CD because I
don't have a CD-ROM drive on my PS2 model P70.
>
>Cheers, Mike Ford
>
>
