I found a Pinnacle Apex optical drive but don't have any disks for it.
Does anyone have one they'll loan or sell me so that I can try this thing out?
Joe
I went by a surplus store today and found two interesting disk drives
made by IEM of Ft. Collins, Co. The first drive is a Series 5300 (model
5365) and appears to be an MO drive. It has a HP-IB interface.
The second drive is a series 6000 (model 6050). It has four drive
indicator lights on the front so it may have four fixed drives in it.
There's also an LCD display on the front and three buttons labeled "Prev",
"Select", "Next". It appears to have both a HP-IB interface and a SCSI
interface!
Does anyone know anything about these drives or what media the first one
uses or what the dip switchs on them do? I searched the net for IEM and
found plenty of references to them but the link to their site is dead. The
links referred to them as a thrid party supplier of HP drives but didn't
give any details.
Joe
Hey all,
The guy who just replaced my water heater noticed the stacks of
equipment in my basement and mentioned he has some C64 stuff (machines,
drives, monitor, carts, ...) he is looking to part with. I think he
would like to get some amount of compensation for them, but I have no
idea what. I said I would pass his information to the list. Please
contact him directly. Physical location is Portage, Wisconsin.
Jon
Contact:
Roger Lueder
rcool(a)charter.net
Hi:
Do you still have the data cartridges?
I would be interested in purchasing them from you.
Let me know.
Thnx,
Tannya Garnica
tgarnica(a)bellsouth.net
It's sort of on-topic because it relates to HPEMU :)
I've run into a few snags when trying to GNU-ize HPEMU. Specifically my lack
of knowledge revolves around dynamic (dlopen-able) libraries. I've googled
and read info pages and I'm still missing something. I know how to do what I
want by directly calling ld and it works fine, but I don't see exactly how
to make that fit into the GNU way of doing things. If anyone is up on
autoconf & friends and can offer some advice, please contact me off-list!
Thanks in advance,
Jay West
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All,
Round Tuits are in short supply around here. However my wife
(after *two years* of patiently waiting) finally started shopping for
printers, motivating me (it's not the money, it's the pride) to
finish the repair I'd started on the Apple Stylewriter I was whining
about on the list in January 2002.
Success! I dug out the packet of 2SB1243 transistors (thanks
Pete Turnbull for specs and identification) that arrived in the mail
a few days after motivation disappeared in 2002, tested them to make
sure the Base was the same place on the new package style (not the
same beveled edge square package as the originals) as it was on the
old package style (thanks Tony D. for telling how to test with analog
VOM), and soldered them in. Put everything back together (thanks
JPero, Toth, and Matt for help there and suggestions on other things
to check) and plugged in the new (replaces the one I fried while
testing - thanks Saint Don Maslin) power supply. No response. Changed
to the other Stylewriter (won't print, but powers up) that I got from
Electronics Plus (thanks Cindy Croxton). Powered up, didn't print.
Changed back. The original one powered up and printed! The power
supply connector is grungy, need to clean it, but otherwise the unit
appears functional! That implies that the power transistor was indeed
the problem all along.
Main point of this message is to offer sincere gratitude to
all the folks that helped me along the way!
Secondarily, if anyone has the same fault (missing line of
dots in the printed output from a Stylewriter), I'll be happy to pass
along my experience, FWIW.
Tertiarily, I'm angling for the honor of the longest
(chronologically) continued thread on the list ;-).
--
- Mark
210-522-6025, page 888-733-0967
>Do you think people misconstrued the model number as the serial number? The
>seller didn't mention that some of these early ones were signed by Jobs and
>Woz. Or is that myth?
I don't know about Jobs and Woz signing early ones. In fact, I tend to
doubt it is true, as to the best of my knowledge, Woz had nothing to do
with the 128k. (There are IIgs machines with Woz's signature)
ALL early macs have the development team's signatures inside the case.
Jobs is among those, but I do not believe Woz's is there (I'm not 100%
sure).
I regularly see people trying to play up the signatures inside the case
as some rare thing that is worth money. In fact, what might be worth
money, is a case that truely had NO signatures inside it, because those
don't appear to exist (not counting those that the mold did a poor job of
reproducing the sigs, I have one like that, the sigs are very hard to
see, but they are still there).
And going back to the ebay auction, it strikes me as REALLY REALLY high
to pay $411 pounds for a 128k with no documentation or softare, cracks in
the floppy case, a broken/sticky keyboard, and not fully tested.
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
>and the %1
>key what pops out the floppy. Quite an accomplishment, eh? :-)
So you are responsible for what had been one of my most often used key
combos.
Way cool!
This is just turning out to be a great Apple trivia day for me :-)
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
I'm looking for two items to get a couple of machines back in operation.
First, I have a Heathkit H-17 drive with a broken fuse holder (the black
plastic tube with the red button on the end) that I'd like to replace.
I can obviously bypass, solder the fuse in-line or use any old holder,
but I'd like a "correct" replacement. Does anyone have a source for
these? A part number would also help.
The other item I have is a DEC Rainbow with a busted power switch. The
switch a fairly typical wide rocker style in gray plastic with a 1 and a
0 printed on it. Again, I can replace it but I'd like a "correct" part
if anyone has a source, part number or spare.
Thanks in advance!
Erik Klein
www.vintage-computer.com <http://www.vintage-computer.com/>
www.vintage-computer.com/vcforum
The Vintage Computer Forum
Hello all,
I have a Data I/O 280 programmer, and I had an old copy of Promlink 2.7 that
I used to control it (someone emailed me a copy). I lost the files, and a
search of my old email archives came up short. Can anyone .ZIP and email me
that specific version? Data I/O no longer supports the 280, and the later
versions of Promlink dropped support for the 280....
Thanks!
Rich B.
