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by COURYHOUSE＠aol.com

Back in the day we were running and selling 2000 gear in the 80's never had a bad power supply. one fan died in our 2000 F/ access system and rather than tear it down to replace the fan.... just bolted a mother of a fan to the back of the processor over the space the dead fan was. Like the story of the shoemakers kids that never got new shoes as the shoemaker was busy helping everyone else.... this poor processor to this very day still has that fan on the back of the processor...... Ed# _www.smecc.org_ (http://www.smecc.org) In a message dated 8/2/2016 9:42:19 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time, glen.slick at gmail.com writes: On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 10:25 PM, Lyle Bickley <lbickley at bickleywest.com> wrote: > On Mon, 1 Aug 2016 22:11:17 -0700 > Bob Rosenbloom <bobalan at sbcglobal.net> wrote: > > --snip-- > >> There's a bunch of small electrolytic capacitors on the Inhibit >> Driver Load Card, A106, that needed to be reformed before my memory >> would work reliably. > >> They reformed themselves in one of my units. I had memory errors for >> an hour or so then they went away. On other units, I reformed the >> caps (took the board > >> out and slowly brought it up on a bench supply), and had no memory >> errors at first power up of the system. >> >> Bob > > I had exactly the same problem with the capacitors on a spare Inhibit > Driver Load Card. Most would not reform so I just replaced them with > modern caps. The board (and memory) worked perfectly after that. > > Lyle That is good information to know. I have a 2100A that I haven't touched in a while. It had memory issues that I never got around to trying to debug. Next time I work on it I'll look at the IDL card.

10 years, 1 month

FTGH: RL01 pack

by jnc＠mercury.lcs.mit.edu

So I have an RL01 pack, and no RL01 drives. Free to someone who can make use of it. (Note: it's missing its protective bottom cover.) If you have something I can use, to send the other way, so much the better! ;-) Noel

10 years, 1 month

LASERS! && Freemont Street LED array (was Re: Cray J932SE (was Re: Straight 8 up on Ebay just now))

by ethan＠757.org

> No, Brad was not the founder of NewTek. He did do early designs of the Toaster. > - John Derp! Checked, he built the first Video Toaster but not the company. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Carvey Thanks for the correction! -- Ethan O'Toole

10 years, 1 month

Bill Gates: Windows 95 Was 'A High Point'

by COURYHOUSE＠aol.com

hey! the start it up song sold me! it sure was a production eh? I installed it... I liked it.. 98 SE got better me got worse XP was outstanding I did fine with vista... 7 was better yet. skipped 8 bought never installed and used to up to 8.1 then used to up to 10 on one system. I am happy with 10 just a few things to get used to. upgraded the edit bays and office systems... all is well no urge to go backwards.... In the archive area we keep at least one... dos 6 3.1 95 98se xp vista 7 In a message dated 8/1/2016 5:35:59 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, vintagecomputer at bettercomputing.net writes: Er.. that was.. 'down one side of the CN tower'.. :) Sent from my Samsung device -------- Original message -------- From: Brad H <vintagecomputer at bettercomputing.net> Date: 2016-08-01 5:29 PM (GMT-08:00) To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Subject: Re: Bill Gates: Windows 95 Was 'A High Point' I would call Win 95 a high point also. I lived near Toronto at the time and remember the unfurling of a huge Win 95 banner down one side. There were events everywhere. MS was really at their zenith. The excitement around that launch was like nothing since. I believe I got swept up and installed it immediately but shortly after removed it. Couldn't get used to the interface. Eventually for one reason or another I had to and did go back to it. Wasn't the greatest or most stable OS and was kind of a half breed at that, but man.. what I wouldn't give to feel the anticipation again, the difference between it and DOS. Nothing released on either PC or Mac has come close. Brad Sent from my Samsung device -------- Original message -------- From: Cameron Kaiser <spectre at floodgap.com> Date: 2016-08-01 4:25 PM (GMT-08:00) To: cctalk at classiccmp.org Subject: Re: Bill Gates: Windows 95 Was 'A High Point' > > <https://tech.slashdot.org/story/08/05/28/2214214/bill-gates-windows-95-was-…> > http://cdn.cultofmac.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/introducing.gif I have a "Windows '95 = Macintosh '89" pin on my iMac G4, as seen here: http://www.theapplecollection.com/Collection/pin/PinsBadges.html -- ------------------------------------ personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckaiser at floodgap.com -- Business is war. -- Jack Tramiel -------------------------------------------

10 years, 1 month

Concurrent Computer Corporation

by pontus＠Update.UU.SE

Hi I'm trying to revive and old unix machine. A Concurrent Computer Corporation series 8000. This seems to be a later version of Masscomp MC5600/MC5700 which has a manual in bitsavers. The system runs RTU (which I assumes means Real Time Unix). My machine is in great condition and both SCSI disks (Seagate ST516) seems to work fine and I've made images. But the machine panics at boot: --- panic: Unauthorized use of RTU For further assistance, contact Concurrent's Customer Service Technical Support Group --- The NVRAM battery is long dead and upon entering the console I get a complaint regarding the TOD clock, but I see no way of setting it. I can boot into a "stand alone mode" but not single user. In the SAM I can poke arround the filesystem and use "date" to set a date, but the clock appears not to be running. Does anyone have experience with this type of machine, either CCC or masscomp and can offer assistance? It's a dual MIPS machine with 16MB of memory. /P

10 years, 1 month

by jwsmail＠jwsss.com

IANAL, and this is way off topic, but needs to be put out as there are a lot of ears here that depend on Bitsavers, and probably some of the other Museums. The Copyright office seems to be unhinged with an unrelated matter I won't post here (email me off list if you don't know about it), and is looking at things with a bad eye towards messing things up. This is the Section 108, which probably protects libraries and archives who have the need to allow copies of works made. Bitsavers has a slight off center of that charter in that they collect stuff in a different way than libraries do, but once collected it probably enjoys the protection of this part of the Copyright act. Almost everyone sounds like they are puzzled why it needs messing with, and probably does not. But we should be alert that collateral damage >from some idiotic revision doesn't include Bitsavers, Boatanchor, or countless others. Manx? Thanks Jim https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160729/23591535111/copyright-office-int…

10 years, 1 month

In search of: Fairlight CMI series I or II

by ian.finder＠gmail.com

I know, I know... But I figured I'd try here anyway. Any condition is okay with me. Willing to pay market rates. Cheers, - Ian -- Ian Finder (206) 395-MIPS ian.finder at gmail.com

10 years, 1 month

Bill Gates: Windows 95 Was 'A High Point'

by vintagecomputer＠bettercomputing.net

Never did try OS/2. ?I had friends who were fanatics about it. ?There was a big push back then to go to it. ?When that failed they rallied to Linux. ?Really should set up a box here with it and try it out. Sent from my Samsung device -------- Original message -------- From: Jerry Kemp <other at oryx.us> Date: 2016-08-01 8:26 PM (GMT-08:00) To: General at classiccmp.org, "Discussion at classiccmp.org:On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Subject: Re: Bill Gates: Windows 95 Was 'A High Point' Understood.?? That was OS/2 2.0 for me, after I had settled into OS/2 1.3 Unix took me longer to warm up to. Jerry On 08/ 1/16 07:29 PM, Brad H wrote: > > > I would call Win 95 a high point also. I lived near Toronto at the time and > remember the unfurling of a huge Win 95 banner down one side. There were events > everywhere. MS was really at their zenith. The excitement around that launch was > like nothing since. I believe I got swept up and installed it immediately but > shortly after removed it. Couldn't get used to the interface. Eventually for one > reason or another I had to and did go back to it. Wasn't the greatest or most > stable OS and was kind of a half breed at that, but man.. what I wouldn't give > to feel the anticipation again, the difference between it and DOS. Nothing > released on either PC or Mac has come close. > Brad >

10 years, 1 month

Midwest Scientific Instruments 6800

by vintagecomputer＠bettercomputing.net

Just thought I'd send out another shout out to anyone who might have one of these or is familiar with them. ?I've had this a while but have not really been able to use it, lacking a boot disk. ?It also doesn't have the standard MSIBUG ROM. ?I'm hoping maybe someone out there knows how I could procure the original ROMs and put this back to stock. I made a video showing the current 'WEEBUG' ROM in case any are curious or someone out there knows about it. Thanks! https://youtu.be/LY7yoAVxSrM Sent from my Samsung device

10 years, 1 month

MicroVax II (Doug)

by grahamcreid＠gmail.com

The company I worked for in 1989 had three hand-me-down MicroVax II from the US parent. They were originally a PDP11/73 box, which had been converted. They ran VMS 5.5-2, all had DEQNA, with no problems that I remember. They were just networked, it wasn't a cluster. The DEQNA may have been *unsupported* on 5.5, but it seeded to work OK. I still have one system, and bits of the others. Failing ESDI drives put them to the back of the garage. I do have a replacement ESDI drive, and a Q-bus SCSI controller, so when i get time (ha!), I'll resurrect it. Regards, Graham

10 years, 1 month

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