This is to all Bay Area, Ca locals...
I'd like to start a vintage computer hackers group that would cover all of
the Bay Area. This will be open to anyone interested in our hobby.
Please e-mail me so that I can add your address to the mailing list. Even
if I already know you (ie. Frank, Doug, Paul, Roger, etc.) please send me
an e-mail so that I have your most current address.
I'll start filling you in with the details once I've collected everyone's
address.
Thanks!
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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On Thu, 19 Feb 1998 17:58:47 +0100 (BST), Phil Beesley
<pb14(a)leicester.ac.uk> wrote:
>I think that you need to do a low level format on the IIGS to remove
>any hidden Macintosh partitioning data from the disk. You should be
>able to use this using the utilities on the GS/OS 6.0.1 installation
>disks. Formatting from the GS/OS Finder may not be sufficient.
>Phil
I finally got it working properly. I copied the GS disk utility to
another floppy and booted from it. I then totally wiped the disk and started
>from scratch. There must have been, as you said, some leftover info from the
old Mac that was attached to it.
Thanks everyone for your help.
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Rich Cini/WUGNET
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- ClubWin Charter Member (6)
- MCP Windows 95/Windows Networking
Captain Napalm <spc(a)armigeron.com> wrote:
> I attended an auction at Florida Atlantic University last year, hoping to
>pick up some nice computer equipment. There were a stack of HPs (68k based
>ones) for sale (that I had actually used years before at the university) in
>one pallet, the monitors were in another, and the keyboards in yet a third
>(my first complaint about the auction - the people running it didn't know
>the first thing about anything they were selling).
Sounds like the University of Wisconsin-Madison surplus sale, too.
In their zeal to sell, they separate all the systems: main units over
here, keyboards in that pile, monitors over there, software and docs
to the wind. So stupid. It if looks like a PC, it must be a PC.
And then the stuff they throw out because they don't understand it...
one day I picked up several $1500 video printers in the dumpster,
still working. A bunch of janitors promoted by the Peter Principle.
And this is just the dregs! So much property simply disappears before
it runs through the cloaca of UW-Surplus. My tax dollars at work.
State and UW employees get in early, too. Gads.
- John
Jefferson Computer Museum <http://www.threedee.com/jcm>
I've been offered the following
Datanumerics DL8A. It is 8080 based,
comes in a 19" rack mount case, has 4k 600ns ram, 1 current loop (I
think) port, and obviously a full front panel.
I'm curious if anyone can provide any more information about this machine.
Obviously its an early one, but I couldn't find any mention of it on the
'web. Any suggestions as to scarcity and fair price would be welcome, too.
Cheers
Andrew
Check out this URL if you're in San Francisco; it's a list of thrift
stores in the City.
http://www.sfbayguardian.com/GuardianGuides/Superlists/SFthriftstores.html
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Yes, I checked. It is a multispeed. One of these days, when I have some
time (rofl) I'll take it apart and see if I can figure out what's wrong
with the HDD, which reports a 1701. One hopes these used a standard HDD?
> Is that Nec a MultiSpeed? I have an older model without the backlight
> and no hard drive.
>
> Joe
To whom it may concern:
I have a Zenith Z-433+ and recently upgraded memory to 16MB. I am currently getting an error when I boot which says 'memory not configured correctly'.
How do I get to CMOS (setup)?
How do I correct error in CMOS?
Thank-you in advance>
Phil Logan
plogan(a)scsn.net
In a message dated 2/19/98 9:23:55 PM Eastern Standard Time,
healyzh(a)ix.netcom.com writes:
<< I'm sure there must be some places doing mail order, however, it seems most
places can't even get DD 3.5" disks, and a lot of the Amiga and Atari
dealers are selling used ones. Now might be a good time to stock up on a
supply of HD floppies, especially 5.25" ones! >>
i think the overrated demise of 5.25 disks is way too premature. wally world
(walmart) still sells 5.25 disks, in both high and low density and at work, i
was looking through a catalog someone brought to work, and saw low density
5.25 disks for 19cents in lots of 100. i wouldnt worry about it yet.
david
I'm about to pick up an ATARI with 5 1/4" 1050 floppt drive,
but it will lack an OS and software. Can I use a standard DD 5 1/4"
drive (say an old shugart with the BIOS set to 360K) and use dd to
write an ATARI boot image file to this drive? I don't see why not,
but I'm not certain if the ATARI drives used some pecular hardware,
like the old mac 400k/800k variable speed drive incompatabilities.
If so, does anyone have a boot/OS image for this thing? And
where do I find old DD floppies these days?
Thanks!
J. Maynard Gelinas
I just picked up a //gs on the cheap but never was much of an Apple
guy. The machine appears to have some sort of problem (what is what I
am trying to determine). When the machine is powered, it gives a tone
sort of like a "tong",
then it polls the floppy and repeats the tone when it is finished. No
video appears on the screen at any time.
Anybody have hints or foreknowledge? ;)
Cheers,
Dan
