Can you identify any sources for floppy drive alignment tools similar to Floppy Tune that was put
out by Data Depot of Clearwater, FL? That company tells me its product has not been available for
more than a year and it is not certain when, if at all, it will again become available? With what I
recall I paid for the same, it would be worthwhile to buy either another copy or a competitor's
produce since the drive I need to realign is in a laptop computer and thus would, unless I could
find a "junked" computer with the same floppy drive that still works, cost as much to replace as
what I originally paid for the laptop itself as I bought it used.
Thanks
Michael E. Pollock
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On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 "Antonio Carlini" <arcarlini(a)iee.org> wrote:
> http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3051901405&category
> =1479
>
> It does say "too large for pallet" so I guess you have been warned. This
> is
> really a souped-up ECL VAX-11/780, and I know that several of you are
> quite
> smitten by that vintage of machine. (sadly for me it's on the wrong side
> of the pond and has appeared just[1] before I become rich).
Oh drool. It's more than a souped up 11/780, but I guess in this company
it's a fair description. :-) If noone goes for it, I'd love to get my
hands on the cards (especially memory). Update have one 8650 up and
running 24/7 with NetBSD. I'm about to embark on an ambitious project of
getting the device driver from Ultrix working in NetBSD, if someone else
feels like joining in...
Does anyone have any good ideas what the problem can be if an 8650 have
problems booting the FE, by the way? It fails about 50% of the time. I've
checked all cables, tried two different FEs, tried different RL02 drives
and packs. Different controllers.
When I get an error, it's a problem with the RL02. That much I can tell
>from the error, but unfortunately, that specific error is actually not
mentioned in the DEC documentation for the 8650.
The only thing I just realized I haven't swapped is the Q-bus backplane...
Johnny
Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus
|| on a psychedelic trip
email: bqt(a)update.uu.se || Reading murder books
pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol
Here is someone in The Netherlands who has a nice HP2100 to give away.
Please contact the original sender.
Reply-to: <michiel(a)ettema.net>
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 15:24:48 +0200
From: Michiel Ettema <michiel(a)ettema.net>
To: donate(a)vintage.org
Subject: HP2100 mini for donation
Hi,
I have an old (1971) HP2100 mini system and reel tape unit taken up space here and wonder if you are interested in it. For more information on the system see http://www.gifford.co.uk/~coredump/hp2100s.htm
The system was previously used at ESTEC (http://www.estec.esa.nl/) after which it was donated to my school which threw it away. Being a scavenger at the time I decided to take it with me and it has been in my possesion since.
Regards,
Michiel Ettema
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Alex White wrote:
>
> I've been planning a monster like this, 4 small backplanes mounted
> in a hacked-around wide cabinet, 4 processors running as a VAXcluster
> over Ethernet... Been done before?
If you're running them as a LAVC (Local Area VAXCluster, used to be any
cluster using Ethernet instead of CI) then this was done all the time
and I'm sure still is. They probably haven't called them LAVC's for
years and years, though.
If you're saying you're going to interconnect the backplanes per the
discussion here and in MicroNote #26, then if people did it it was a
not a very common thing. And as others have pointed out, the normal
OS candidates won't have support for it. That's not a reason to stop
the project, just be aware of the necessary effort.
--S.
On Oct 9, 22:24, John Lawson wrote:
>
> I am moderately curious why it is taking one to five (or more)
hours for
> posts to show up... manual moderation perhaps? If so, I don't envy
Jay
> for the task...
>
> But other than that... more than one person I know is experiencing
> these lengthy delays between 'send' and 'recieved'..
When did you post this one? The headers show when it passe through
each MTA along the way (in reverse order):
Received: from [209.145.140.36] (helo=huey.classiccmp.org)
by he104war.uk.vianw.net with esmtp (Exim 4.04)
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for pete(a)dunnington.u-net.com; Fri, 10 Oct 2003 03:35:29 +0100
Received: from huey.classiccmp.org (localhost [127.0.0.1])
by huey.classiccmp.org (8.12.8p1/8.12.8) with ESMTP id
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(envelope-from cctalk-bounces(a)classiccmp.org)
Received: from mail3.panix.com (mail3.panix.com [166.84.1.74])
by huey.classiccmp.org (8.12.8p1/8.12.8) with ESMTP id
h9A2WmH3056107
for <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>; Thu, 9 Oct 2003 21:32:48 -0500
(CDT)
(envelope-from jpl15(a)panix.com)
Received: from panix2.panix.com (panix2.panix.com [166.84.1.2])
by mail3.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5F7F9826F
for <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>; Thu, 9 Oct 2003 22:24:28 -0400
(EDT)
Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]])
by panix2.panix.com (8.11.6p2-a/8.8.8/PanixN1.1) with ESMTP id
h9A2OSm12933
for <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>; Thu, 9 Oct 2003 22:24:28 -0400
(EDT)
So it took about 10 minutes from your mailer to my ISP (give or take a
little, allowing for possible lack of clock sync) fo this one. Next
time you see a delay, look at the message headers and you'll see where
the delay is. In this case, most of the 10 minutes is at panix.com.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
A friend of mine is looking for a mouse for his
Macintosh Plus.
It would be a non-ADB Mouse, with the 9-pin Connector
on it (similar to a PC-Style Serial Connector).
Please contact me if you have one to help my friend
out...
Also, if anyone wants it... I have a Mac 128 (I
think..) for grabs. It is just the case, logic board
and Video Tube. It doesn't have a floppy drive or
analog board or other parts...
Perfect for a MacQuarium..
LOL!!
Pay for Shipping (or come pick it up in Philadelphia
PA) and it's yours...
Al
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I found this today in a pile of scrap. It appears to be an 8 bit ISA video
card for a PC. I'm guessing it's for the monochrome video monitor. Does
anyone know if it supports graphics or not, or anything else about it? I
found this <http://www.peteweb.com/mpoli/MISC/PERSYST/INSTL/BULLET27.TXT>
on the web.It has the jumper settings but little else. (This one does not
have the parts for the printer port).
Joe
This is posted on both cctalk (classic Computers) and
M100 (Radio Shack Model 100 computers) mailing lists.
Apologies to those on both lists.
I have been a sometime poster and a long time lurker on these two lists
and I consider a number of you friends, the rest of you are friends I
don't know yet.
As some of you may know, my family and I just moved to Kansas City MO
after my wife was laid off at her job.
My wife and I are currently looking for jobs in the area. If you know
of any job in the Kansas City MO area for us please pass an email on
to us, or pass our email our address to the hiring manager.
Thanks for your help.
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Tina Hudson thudson(a)cnonline.net Purchasing / Buyer
We are both checking all the job sites we can find (esp Dice, Monster
Career Builder ... )
Hi all,
I picked up a couple of Pro-Log M900, M920 and M980 programmers lately.
I want to burn some BiPolar PROMs and I need a Pro-Log PM 9048 "Intel
Generic" personality module. It will look something like this
<http://www.classiccmp.org/hp/pro-log/person-harris.jpg>. I'm also looking
for other Pro-Log parts and I have parts to trade so if you have anything
that you're willing to part with send me a list. Here's more pictures on
my Pro-Log stuff. No text or descriptions yet, just pictures.
<http://www.classiccmp.org/hp/pro-log/>
Joe
