>From: "Patrick Rigney" <patrick(a)evocative.com>
>
>> Hi All
>> Well, I dug out my H89. I turned it on, POP, turned it
>> off. Smoke comes from the one side.
>> Well, it looked like one of the 2.2 uf tantalums decided
>
>Oh yeah... that's fully the behavior of the "popcorn" machine I referred to
>earlier.
>
>> Years ago, I'd place a second drive in the machine by
>> installing two half height drives. The boot drive it
>> behind the other drive so I can't see what the difficulty
>> is with the other disk.
>
>I just bought a handful of half-height drives and was about to launch into
>this myself. Did you feel a need to upgrade anything in the power supply
>before doing this, or is it up to running both motors simultaneously if/when
>that occurs?
>
>Patrick
>
Hi Patrick
I used it this way for a number of years without any problems.
I do have the drives setup so that the select turns the motors
off when not being accessed. I believe this is the same as the
original. This is a jumper select on most drives.
I did have to file a little material from the bezel where the
drives fit into the front. Other than that it was reasonable.
You can't see this with the drive installed.
You do need to make sure that all of the shielding is put back
in. It is close to the yoke of the tube and needs to be protected
>from the stray fields( writes will fail ). I don't recall if I
had to drill any more mount holes but I'll know more as I debug
my disk spinning problem. Of course, you need a new cable
( easily made ) and an extra power connector.
Make sure that only one drive has the terminator( this is often
missed by many ). The controller was originally setup to run
3 drives, one inside and two outside. Dual drives are handy.
Dwight
Damn!
I too would be interested in it :(
If anyone else in the UK has a spare Sirius 1 kicking about (working or
dead, although the former is preferred, obviously), please get in touch.
I'm willing to pay for transport costs, plus beer tokens as appropriate.
Cheers,
Ade.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hills, Paul [mailto:Paul.Hills@siemens.co.uk]
> Sent: 03 April 2003 10:26 am
> To: 'cctalk(a)classiccmp.org'
> Subject: RE: Victor Keyboard Identification
>
>
> John,
>
> Whereabouts are you in the UK? I would be interested in that
> Sirius 1, and
> could collect it if you're anywhere near Manchester. Would
> you be interested
> in a spare Epson HX20 as a swap?
>
> paul
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Honniball [mailto:coredump@gifford.co.uk]
> Sent: 02 April 2003 20:02
> To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
> Subject: Re: Victor Keyboard Identification
>
>
> Thomas Martin wrote:
> > You can also see them labeled as Sirius machines from
> > time to time.
>
> Yes, I'd have called it a Sirius keyboard! Mine are darker in colour,
> though; dark grey instead of beige. I have a spare Sirius I,
> if anyone
> in the UK would like one -- as designed by Chuck Peddle.
>
> --
> John Honniball
> coredump(a)gifford.co.uk
> FWIW, Thomson-built ICCn chassis are _notorious_ for dry joints!
thanks all, that does seem to have cured it - I resoldered all the components
around that IC, and it's run for the whole afternoon now without a failure so
I'm pretty confident it's back up and running.
cheers
Jules
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Hello all,
Has anyone heard of the Enermax power supplys? The model number from the
(now non-working) is EG150S-V.
The special thing about this supply is its size: 4" W X 5" D X 2.5" H
Thanks for any help!,
Bryan
Hi All
Well, I dug out my H89. I turned it on, POP, turned it
off. Smoke comes from the one side.
Well, it looked like one of the 2.2 uf tantalums decided
to give up. I snipped it with my diagonals and brought
it up again. No smoke this time and all the voltages
looked good. As the screen came back to life, the H:
prompt showed.
I next put one of my bootable disk in and typed B(CR).
Success! It is alive. I tried a number of disk and
some had problems. I tracked it down to the disk not
rotating. I'm not sure at what point they fail to rotate.
I don't know if the motor isn't turning, the belt is
slipping or the clamp on the disk is slipping. It seems
that many of the disk envelopes are tight. This should
be a warning. Don't stack disk on their sides.
Years ago, I'd place a second drive in the machine by
installing two half height drives. The boot drive it
behind the other drive so I can't see what the difficulty
is with the other disk.
It got late so I'll fiddle some more, later. I was looking at
the HDOS stuff I have and I also found a LISP for the H89
as well. I'll work some more on making a image to serial
to transfer this stuff to a PC.
Dwight
Good Day
I have the following available for sale:
Commodore 64 Keyboard (with power supply)
Commodore 64 (1541-II) Floppy Disk Drive (with power supply and connection to
keyboard)
NO hookup to TV (can be purchased for less than 10 bucks at Radio Shack)
***GAMES INCLUDED IN PACKAGE***
1988 Edition President Elect (with manual)
2-Commodore 1541 Test/Demo Diskettes
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons "Heroes Of The Lance" (with box and manual) 1988
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons "War Of The Lance" (with box and manual) 1989
Blue Powder Grey Smoke Garde' (with manual) 1986
Broadsides (1983)
California Games # 1, # 2, # 3
Commodore 64 C Geos (1986)
Commodore 64 C Geos Applications (1986)
Confilict In Vietnam (with manual) 1986
Faceoff (1989)
Frankenstein (Side 1)---Jack The Ripper (Side 2)---Dracula (Side 3)---Wolfman
(Side 4)1987
Geoploitique 1990 (1983)
GFL Championship Football (1986)
Halls Of Montezuma 1987
Hat Trick (1987)
Master Type (1984)
MECC Expeditions (1986)
Nam (with manual) 1985
Napoleon In Russia (with box and manual) 1987
Patton vs. Rommel (1986)
Power Play Hockey (USA vs. USSR) 1988
Road War 2000 (with box and manual) 1986
Russia (1987)
Sim City "The Original Simulator" 1989
Sons Of Liberty (1988)
Sportime "Omni-Play" Basketball (with manual) 1989
Street Sports Basketball (1987)
Strike Fleet (1987)
The President Is Missing (2 Disks) 1988
Triple Pack (Beach Head I, II and Raid Over Moscow) 1986
War In The South Pacific (with manual) 1987
Wasteland (2 Disks) 1986
14 Miscellaneous Disks (unlabeled) can erase and use as spare blanks
***Added Bonus***
Computes First Book Of Commodore 64 (basic programs for 19 games)
Please let me know if you have ANY questions.
Thanks for your time and consideration.
I Too worked on the HM4118 in Gruenstadt ,Germany in 1973.I was stationed at
Sembach, AB. Were you trained by Malbury and Mr. Short at Keesler?Have no Idea
where you might find one.
Eddie Davidson
I was all excited to pick up the 3 bay DEC rack I got off ebay. It looked
like just the right rack to mate with my 11/44X rack. After unpalleting it
and rolling it next to the 11/44X rack, much to my chagrin, I find it is the
right hight, but the wrong depth. My kingdom for the right rack *sigh*
This rack had an RA81 in it if that's any clue... I am going from foggy
memory but I believe the 11/44X rack is 30 inches deep, and this rack is
about 36 inches deep.
Anyone want to trade a 30 inch deep corporate cab for a 36'er? Yes, I know,
I'm being anal.
Jay West
Hello,
I've got two DEC DEFTA-FA FDDIcontroller/TURBOchannel (Rev A02)
cards that were pulled from scrapped DEC 3000 machines. I have no
idea whether they work or not, since I never saw them running.
Photos upon request. Best offer plus postage.
Cheers,
Dan
www.decodesystems.com/wanted.html
