test-drb April 2002

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BIE 4410

by pat＠cart-server.purdueriots.com

It's been spoken for a few times over. Now I wish I had a couple of them. -- Pat

24 years, 1 month

HP 9114B floppy & Pmac dos card & Annex 2

by pat＠cart-server.purdueriots.com

I need to get rid of some more stuff: - HP 9114 HP-IL floppy drive, two rechargable battery packs (untested) - Powermac 6100 DOS (486) card with 6100 riser, but no dongle - Encore Annex 2 Terminal Server, pair of Amphelon 50pin (SCSI-I style) ports on its back Best offers by 1400 Zulu (7PM CDT) on 4/19/02 gets it. Best bid of at least $10 gets an item. Anything not sold goes to ePay. (more work for me :( ) Help support a 'poor college student' (me) :) -- Pat

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Secret Mac

by mythtech＠mac.com

>It had a VERY expensive 1553 Bus analyzer card in it and ALL the >(Classified) software was still on the drive. I offloaded 1553 files and >wiped and reformatted the drive. but never even peeked at those classified files... right? (wink wink nudge nudge) -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

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Download CD images for RSX-11 and RT-11 Freeware CDs from Tim Shoppa

by cdl＠proxima.ucsd.edu

> Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 09:55:58 -0400 > From: "Jerome H. Fine" <jhfinepw4z(a)compsys.to> > Organization: Just Sufficient > X-Accept-Language: en > To: "William R. Buckley" <hhacker(a)ev1.net>, > "classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org" <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org> > Subject: Download CD images for RSX-11 and RT-11 Freeware CDs from Tim Shoppa > > Jerome Fine replies: > > It took a week of trying, but I have finally downloaded all three CD > images for RSX-11 and RT-11 from: > ftp://ftp.trailing-edge.com/pub/cd-images/ > Note also that the file MD5SUMS seems to contain checksum > values, but I don't know how to use these values or produce them > myself to check if my files are correct. Can anyone help? There is a program "md5sum" that comes with GNU textutils. It will run on most Unix or Unix-like systems. I suspect that with a fair amount of effort it could be made to run on RT11, compiled with DECUS C, but I haven't really looked at that.. When you run mda5sum on a file it produces a 32-hex-digit "message digest". This should match the one that you downloaded from the original source. carl -- carl lowenstein marine physical lab u.c. san diego clowenstein(a)ucsd.edu

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NeXT (Almost-up-and-running-now) Laser Printer

by cdl＠proxima.ucsd.edu

> From: Christopher Smith <csmith(a)amdocs.com> > To: "'classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org'" <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org> > Subject: RE: NeXT (Almost-up-and-running-now) Laser Printer > Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 13:54:27 -0500 > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Erik S. Klein [mailto:classiccmp@mail.vintage-computer.com] > > > If the printer you have is the NeXT 400 dpi unit (I don't > > have the model number in front of me) then I picked up > > several from the gentleman who was selling them cheap in the > > Bay Area. If you need one for spares or as a replacement > > I'll be happy to sell it for what I paid for it ($15) plus > > shipping. The ones I have are in excellent (untested) shape > > with some looking almost new. . . > > Well, thanks for the offer. We'll see what happens here. I'm > still hopeful of getting it fixed, and if not, I may be able to > get a replacement locally. I happen to know (from the guy who > runs the place) that the local scrapyard is overrun with these ;) Just remember that all of the NeXT printers are getting on in age, and most of them have one or more of the fatal symptoms: Input roller has dried out so paper doesn't go in. Output gear has stripped so paper doesn't come out. There are other interesting problems that some printers have, such as the "door open" sensing switch insisting that the door is not closed. I don't know how many printers you would have to merge to get one that worked. Randy Rencsok's web site has lots of good documentation on disassembling NeXT printers. < http://www.channelu.com/NeXT/Black > carl -- carl lowenstein marine physical lab u.c. san diego clowenstein(a)ucsd.edu

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PRO/Venix

by mbg＠TheWorld.com

In case anyone is interested, I was organizing some of my collection today and came across a set of Pro/Venix documentation in original DEC/Professional boxes and the V2.0 release of Pro/Venix (with the developers toolkit). I'm hoping the disks (RX50s) are still readable... If they are, I'll try to make image copies and get them to the PUPS archive... any place else I should consider? Megan Gentry Former RT-11 Developer +--------------------------------+-------------------------------------+ | Megan Gentry, EMT/B, PP-ASEL | Internet (work): gentry!zk3.dec.com | | Unix Support Engineering Group | (home): mbg!world.std.com | | Compaq Computer Corporation | addresses need '@' in place of '!' | | 110 Spitbrook Rd. ZK03-2/T43 | URL: http://world.std.com/~mbg/ | | Nashua, NH 03062 | "pdp-11 programmer - some assembler | | (603) 884 1055 | required." - mbg KB1FCA | +--------------------------------+-------------------------------------+

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The Unit (was: One-upsmanship (was: Secret Mac))

by Antonio.Carlini＠riverstonenet.com

>Since when has 'Celsius' been an SI unit? And since when has the >abreviation for it been 'C'? C _is_ used for an SI unit -- the Coulomh. Twas a coulomb when I were at skool ...

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NeXT (Almost-up-and-running-now) Laser Printer

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

On April 18, Tony Duell wrote: > I am going to guess this is based on a Canon print engine. If so, then > the first thing to do is to indentify which one. The PrinterWorks > (http://www.printerworks.com/) used to have pictures of printers, > exploded diagrams of the mechanism, etc on their website. They probably > still do. > > Alternatively, does it take the same toner cartridge as any more common > (HP, for example) printer? The NeXT laser printer is a [slightly] modified Canon SX engine. -Dave -- Dave McGuire "Mmmm. Big." St. Petersburg, FL -Den

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AIM-65 displays

by RCini＠congressfinancial.com

Dick: No, I don't have a machine-readable version of the listing. I scanned the pages directly to PDF (using Acrobar Writer) but I never got around to taking those scans and OCRing them to a text file (it was on the RSN list). I did the PC BIOSes and the VIC Kernal ROM, The KIMs were done by others. Rich ========================== Richard A. Cini, Jr. Congress Financial Corporation 1133 Avenue of the Americas 30th Floor New York, NY 10036 (212) 545-4402 (212) 840-6259 (facsimile) -----Original Message----- From: Richard Erlacher [mailto:edick@idcomm.com] Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 1:04 PM To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org Subject: Re: AIM-65 displays You wouldn't happen to have a machine-readable (non-PDF) just text file of the monitor listing, whould you? Dick ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cini, Richard" <RCini(a)congressfinancial.com> To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org> Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 8:41 AM Subject: RE: AIM-65 displays > If you look on my Web site, I have scans of all of the AIM manuals as well > as the monitor listing, schematics and ROM dumps. > > http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/~rcini/classiccmp/my_docs.htm > > Rich > > ========================== > Richard A. Cini, Jr. > Congress Financial Corporation > 1133 Avenue of the Americas > 30th Floor > New York, NY 10036 > (212) 545-4402 > (212) 840-6259 (facsimile) > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Richard Erlacher [mailto:edick@idcomm.com] > Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 10:17 AM > To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org > Subject: Re: AIM-65 displays > > > I'd be happy to scan the content and make it available as a G4 TIF file. > Now, > I probably have that stuff somewhere as well, but ... > > Joe Rigdon once said he had an AIM complete with the BASIC and ASM roms. > I'd > assume that the assembler uses the syntax in which the ROMs are written, > which > would help. ISTR he wanted to make the ROMs available, but didn't have an > EPROM programmer at the time, and didn't know how to dump the ROMs without > one. > > Let me know off-list how we can handle the listings. > > Dick > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jim Kearney" <jim(a)jkearney.com> > To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org> > Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 8:01 AM > Subject: Re: AIM-65 displays > > > > I have the listings. It's a small book called "AIM 65 Monitor Program > > Listing", and includes all the I/O routines, the editor and > > assembler/disassembler. If you don't have it, I could lend it to you. > > > > Jim > > > > > >> I'll have a look to see whether I have any ROM listings. I > > > >> thought I did, > > > > > > > > > >

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NeXT (Almost-up-and-running-now) Laser Printer

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

On April 18, Christopher Smith wrote: > I'm certain that this problem comes from the printer setting > too long, and making an indentation in the rubber on the > roller. Has anyone had success in repairing this kind of > thing? The pickup roller is supposed to have a flat spot in it...if that's what you're noticing, it's normal. > The printouts have black in the wrong places sometimes; > fused, but -- well, basically it looks like a bad photocopy :) > Sometimes the misplaced ink will have an imprint from another > part of the same page, or from the previous page. > > There are also "splotches" of white here and there in the > good printouts where there should be some toner. > > I imagine something may be dirty, but not knowing a lot about > laser printers (aside from keep away from the fuser when it's > operating...), I don't' know where to start looking, nor would > I necessarily know how to clean things up if I found the right > spot. CX and SX engines sometimes have problems with crap collecting on the corona wires...especially the transfer corona underneath the paper path. Look for a trough about 0.5" wide with a hair-thin wire running through the middle of it, possibly shielded with a sparse wrapping of a plastic thread that looks like fishing line. Clean this VERY carefully by rubbing an alcohol-saturated cotton swap back and forth over it. That might help a bit. If not, it may be the drum precharge corona wire, which is inside the toner cartridge. There should be a little green plastic tool with a strangely-shaped felt tip stuck into a clip inside the printer. Stick this into the transfer corona wire access slot on the toner cartridge and run it back and forth. It's self-aligning due to the shape of the green plastic tool and grooves in the toner cartridge...there's only one place and direction in which it'll fit correctly. (sorry for the lack of detail here, this is difficult to describe textually) Give that a shot and see how things clean up. If that doesn't help, contact me and I'll see if I can dig up anything else from my dusty memories Canon CX and SX print engine repair training back in 1987. -Dave -- Dave McGuire "Mmmm. Big." St. Petersburg, FL -Den

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test-drb April 2002