I have been lucky enough to pick up some new bubble memory gear, and now I'm
trying to figure out what I have. Any hints appreciated.
Apparently, this is a FBM-U502GU-J Fujitsu bubble memory cartridge system.
The drive is roughly 3"w x 2.5"h x 7"d, and consists of a 3-board sandwitch.
It uses FBM-C128GA bubble memory cartridges. Interestingly, many of the
cartridges that I got have "Amdahl" stickers on them.
Anyone seen this sort of thing before?
Ken
>> Apple PC 5.25 Drive (DC-37) - was this for connecting to a PC or a special
>> card in the Mac?
>
>I think the latter, to allow a Mac to read/write PC disks. I have an
>Apple book on designing add-on cards for the Mac, and one of the design
>examples is the PC-compatible disk controller. It uses a 765 chip in the
>obvious way.
>
>I am not sure if that card was ever a commerical product, but something
>similar might have been,
>
>I think the drive is just a standard PC disk drive in an Apple case.
The drive came in two flavors. In both cases, the drive was the same, the
change was the controller card. One version came with an SE PDS
controller card, the other came with a NuBus controller card.
In either case, the card works ONLY with either the SE (800k or FDHD), or
the Mac II, no other NuBus Macs.
You need the card to control the floppy drive, but I believe you are
correct, it is just a standard PC drive in an Apple case.
I have one with the SE card.
There were also 3rd party PC drives that hooked up to the standard Disk
Drive port on all the early macs, but I don't think Apple ever made one
like that.
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
> Apple PC 5.25 Drive (DC-37) - was this for connecting to a PC or a special
> card in the Mac?
It connects to a Nubus card with a 765-style floppy disc controller
There is mention of it in the original Mac cards and drivers book.
>From memory, the card doesn't support super-slot address space decoding.
I used to and I'm sure Tony D does but I doubt that he'd use E-OverPay.
I went ahead and put a moderate bid on the stuff but most of the other
stuff is ballast as far as I'm concerned. Does anyone know what the "node
locator" is for?
Thanks for the notice.
Joe
At 01:27 AM 2/16/02 -0600, you wrote:
>
>#1705353697
>
>Who was it here who collects these?
>
>-Toth
>
>
> I'm looking for any information I can find on the Ciprico Rimfire 3200 VME
> SMD controller, and ideally drivers for it to run under SunOS 4.1
I should have this in storage. I'll try to pull it out in the next
week or so.
I have a HP 9825B, 9885 floppy disk drive, and ROM cart for that specific
disk. I can run the system and it tries to talk to the disks but gives an
error when accessing the drive. It seems like the computer doesn't have all
the disk routines that it needs to talk to the floppy.
Are all the disk routines included on the one ROM or do I need another ROM
with those routines?
Thanks, SteveRob
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>The car that can't pass emissions is like the computer that won't run. It's
>of no real use, except maybe for parts.
Um... WRONG... the $4,000 Toyota just needs a new cat ($100 in parts and
$80 in labor). The guy just felt like buying a new car. But since he
donated it to us with the understanding it would be cut up, we can't sell
it (like we would have liked, since we would have done the labor ourself,
and used the money we got by selling the car for 4 grand to buy a new
scott pack). Its about the same as throwing out a computer saying it is
good only for parts, because the OS install has become corrupted.
>(have you tried to salvage parts
>from
>a computer lately?)
I do it weekly, when I pick up PCs sitting in curbside garbage. I built
my home PC out of 90% salvaged parts. I have also upgraded most of the
computers at my office entirely out of garbaged PCs. Some are mix and
match, but many are picked up and need nothing more than a shot of 409 to
clean the case as they work perfectly. I get a working 14 inch SVGA
monitor
weekly at this point. Heck... I have a Mac LC5200 sitting on the floor
next to me that I just grabbed out of the garbage on my drive home
Sunday... works fine... its heading to one of my office sites to upgrade
an older 68k Mac.
>there are lots of perfectly useable
>PC's (you know, the ones with 640KB of RAM and no HDD) out there. They still
>do everything a PC ever did, and a lot more than the mainframes of 1960 did.
>What should we do with them? Once people don't want them any longer, whether
>they're still functional is entirely moot.
But there ARE people out there that still want them... they just aren't
being given the option to have them... they are being scrapped without
anyone checking.
>If someone's interested in 'em,
>well, that's why there's this list.
Sure, great, ok, contact the group taking all the computers from Staples,
and get them to agree to list all the computers they don't feel like
keeping (what was it 90% of them are being junked?) and have them offer
them up to others... either on this list, or a web site, or whatever. Bet
they will tell you to bugger off, they can't be bothered... they are
going to pick thru for the few they want, and the rest will become scrap
metal. That is unfortunately true for most organizations (the local
salvation army store told me they stopped taking computer donations
because of return problems... when I pressed them on the topic wondering
how they tell someone they can't donate an item... they told me that they
actually still take them, they just toss them in the dumpster to avoid
the heartaches of selling them... needless to say, I have been trying to
keep an eye on the dumpster)
So you are STILL wrong... a huge number of perfectly good... and WANTED
machines, get scrapped all the time. I could continue to give you
examples if you want... like the pharmaceutical company up the road that
is tossing working Pentium II PCs and 17 inch monitors, because they are
upgrading to P4's and flat screens. The PCs are being junked under
contract to have them destroyed because the hard drives may contain
sensitive info, and they didn't want to take the time to remove them, or
securely wipe them (a friend works at the site, I had him look into it).
Should I give you MORE examples of machines being scrapped that are
wanted, or useful, or interesting?
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
If someone on the east coast is interested, the company that I bought the
TDC microfilm scanner from contacted me that they have another one that
they'd be willing to sell for $500. It would be a non-trival effort to
get working, but it would be a good place to start if someone was thinking
about building an auto-indexing device from scratch.
Phyllis Miller
(703)550-1994
Diversified Equipment Co., Inc.
7213 Lockport Place
Lorton, VA 22079
> On Sat, 16 Feb 2002, William S. wrote:
>
> > Although I am in the Netherlands I am not a native
> > speaker. I will begin my Dutch language course in
> > April but doubt I will be reading Nederlands
> > very proficiently too soon. :)
>
> Where else do they speak Dutch besides some rural parts of Pennsylvania
> where they generally shun technology? :)
FYI- Dutch as in Pennsylvania Dutch is Deutsch ie German
not Hollandische...
-dq
Please allow me to second this emotion. I'm originally from York, PA --
about as Pennsylvania Dutch as anyplace. While I intensely disliked it
growing up -- 'technological backwater' would be wrong. Backwater would be
right. Don't think of it as picturesque farms with no electric. Think of it
as aging trailer parks with abuntdant rent-to-own electronics, and plaques
above the toilets reading 'If you sprinkle when you tinkle, be sweetie --
wipe the seatie'. It the sort of place where the peeling paint from
bent-over farm-girl lawn ornaments blend nicely with the recycled tire
flowerbeds and crab grass.
I don't know about taste, but the Pennsylvania Dutch are as technologically
adept as poor white trash anywhere in America.
Colin Eby
(escapee living on the Massachussets coast)
At 01:01 AM 2/16/02 +0000, you wrote:
>On Sat, 16 Feb 2002, William S. wrote:
>
>> Although I am in the Netherlands I am not a native
>> speaker. I will begin my Dutch language course in
>> April but doubt I will be reading Nederlands
>> very proficiently too soon. :)
>
>Where else do they speak Dutch besides some rural parts of Pennsylvania
>where they generally shun technology? :)
The "Pennsylvania dutch" are actually german, for all I know.
Seems that like a case of one person saying "deutsche" and
another hearing "dutch". At least that's the explanation
that I heard from a native. This native was born in a farm,
then went to Drexel university, and now he's a phd and a top
programmer of web applications for research purposes. So
not all "Pennsylvania dutch" are technology averse. His
dad, still a farmer, uses a Mac. So they even have taste
in technology.
carlos.
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