test-drb December 2009

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RK05 alignment - without alignment pack?

by hachti＠hachti.de

Hi folks, I took a "new" RK05 disk drive from my heap. After defoaming I powered it up. I soon realized that the position sensor's glass had fallen off. Can be glued back in place easily. But after that I'll most probably have a misaligned RK05. The RK05 manual tells me how easy it is to realign the heads: Just load the alignment pack and... -- But I don't have an alignment pack :-( Does anybody (best would be in Europe) have an RK05 alignment pack I could use? Is there a known trick to do it without alignment pack? I have working drives and formatted disks handy. Best wishes, Philipp -- http://www.hachti.de

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Re: ‘Welcome to Macintosh’ on CNBC January 4 at 9:30PM ET

by nigel.d.williams＠gmail.com

Evan Koblentz wrote: > tell us more about the people who made it. I searched on their site and > cannot find any biographical information. http://www.applematters.com/article/the-apple-matters-interview-josh-rizzo/ "What is Welcome to Macintosh? Welcome to Macintosh is a documentary that mixes history, criticism and an unapologetic revelry of all things Apple." There is more in that interview at AppleMatters about their motivations and approach to the films content. Well worth watching just to listen to Jim Reekes' cutting comments about how difficult it can be to engineer great products. cheers, nigel www.retroComputingTasmania.com

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Coleco Adam name?

by evan＠snarc.net

Anyone know the background / meaning of Coleco's "Adam" name?

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plus hardcard patents

by aek＠bitsavers.org

US4639863 and US4819153 The interesting thing about them is they include the full schematics

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deth specula

by dgriffi＠cs.csubak.edu

Does anyone know where one may find material from the band Deth Specula? Yes, this is relevant to cctalk. -- David Griffith dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?

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by quapla＠xs4all.nl

Although several hours to go, I would like to wish everybody a HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Ed -- Certified : VCP 3.x, SCSI 3.x SCSA S10, SCNA S10

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HeathKit microcomputer learning posted on Montreal CL

by joachim.thiemann＠gmail.com

I have no connection to the seller, etc. I'd be interested in it myself but it's a bit too high a price for me - I think the seller is a bit over-optimistic, but if someone is interested, that's not my problem :-) http://montreal.en.craigslist.ca/ele/1531374606.html -- Joachim Thiemann :: http://www.tsp.ece.mcgill.ca/~jthiem

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MICROCORNUCOPIA ISSUES

by elazzerini＠interfree.it

Hi, i want to remember my webpage http://elazzerini.interfree.it <http://elazzerini.interfree.it/> on which i collected all i can about the SBC Ferguson BIGBOARD 1 i have. I wish to buy almost the issues 1-20 of the magazine on object. Is there anybody who wish to sell or donate it? This request is ALWAYS valid without expiration date. Thanks Enrico - Pisa (ITALY)

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Terminal servers (was Re: DEC Server 200/MC)

by ethan.dicks＠gmail.com

On 12/13/09, Pete Turnbull <pete at dunnington.plus.com> wrote: > On 13/12/2009 18:45, Al Kossow wrote: >> Livingston Portmaster or Encore Annex/Microannex were commonly used >> TCP/IP milking machines. > > I still use an Annex for consoles on a few of my machines (like some of > the PDP-11s). They were made by Xylogics, later bought by Bay Networks > => Nortel and are sometimes to be found rebadged by Sun. They're very > versatile, and you can use the ports in all sorts of ways. I am familiar with Annex terminal servers, but only from a user standpoint. I've never owned one nor set one up (in the day these were popular, we had large amounts of real ports on our boxes (16-56 each) and no TCP/IP). Is there an annex model with 8-16 ports I should look for? I really don't need to keep something with 48 ports powered up. Thanks, -ethan

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An introduction to microcomputers books serie

by dm561＠torfree.net

Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 14:06:50 -0800 From: Brent Hilpert <hilpert at cs.ubc.ca> Subject: Re: An introduction to microcomputers books serie St?phane Tsacas wrote: > > Does anyone has the ISBN of the latest edition of these 4 books by any > chance ? I think I found the first two, but I'm not sure they refer to the > latest edition: > > Author: Adam Osborne > > An introduction to microcomputers : > Vol.0: The Beginner's Book - 093198808X > Vol.1: Basic concepts - 0931988349 > Vol.2: Some real microprocessors - ? I don't know when the latest edition was, but the 1976 edition has: Volume II - Some Real Products Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number 76-374891 I don't see any other catalog numbers anywhere, other than Osborne's own series number of 3001. There is little in the way of publishing information. > Vol.3: Some real support devices - ? > > If you want to sell me your copy, drop me a mail. ---------REPLY:---------------------------------------------------------------------------- I've got Volume 0, The Beginner's Book (c) 1977 (#6001) and it doesn't have an ISBN or Library of Congress numbers either. Lots of pictures of an IMSAI 8080 though, with "the luxury of a Teletype"... FWIW, I also have a copy of #4001, 8080 Programming for Logic Design, (c) 1976, which does have a Library of Congress number, 77-670032. mike

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test-drb December 2009