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
If you decide to buy an old IBM PS/2 and need tech support you can get
info from IBM's web site. I picked up a PS/2 Model 60 286 based pc
last year (which I used as barter for a complete IBM 16-64K PC and
Victor 9000 from a furniture dealer who wanted a word processor). The
system wouldn't boot due to a spent cmos battery so after replacing
the battery I found the reference (setup) diskette at IBM's web site,
downloaded it to a 3 1/2" floppy and was done with it. Go to
ibm.com/support and search under ps/2.
Marty
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Subject: Re: OOPs AT&Ts
Author: classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu at internet
Date: 2/19/98 3:15 PM
> At 08:54 PM 2/18/98 +0000, you wrote:
> >> At 11:11 PM 2/15/98 +0000, you wrote:
> >
> >> >Jason D.
> >>
> >> Still haven't been back to the place that had the pile of them. There
> >> were bunches at the hamfest though. Most were $75 to $100 (asking price).
> >
> >Joe,
> >
> >Ouch!
> >
> >What was the usual PS/2 models with this inflated asking prices
> >unless it has special reason for this?
> >
> >Let us know after thru these piles anyway.
> >
> >Thanks!
> >
> >Jason D.
> >
>
> The owner is a typical surplus store owner. He buys the stuff for $30
> a pallet load (20 to 30 machines), but wants an arm and a leg for each one.
> He'll scrap the stuff before selling it cheap. I went back down there
> yesterday to look at some HP's and found out he had pulled ALL the boards
> out of them and was still wanting $100 each for the empty boxes and power
> supplys. The owner was acting like a jerk so I didn't even ask about the
> PS-2s. I don't think they're anything special about the PS-2s but I'm not
> very familar with them so I don't know for sure.
Hee hee, I agree with you, that guy is jerk! :) Well, so good luck
with alterative place anyway and see how things goes. What do you
mean by what do you not familiar with PS-2s? I could help you to
ID?
Jason D.
>
> Joe
>
email: jpero(a)cgo.wave.ca
Pero, Jason D.
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Hi everybody-
I've gotten another oddball computing object that I have no information
on. (like the Diablo 1340 hardcopy terminal I posted about last week.)
I've found a CPT 8525 system (out in the rain, but it doesn't look too
bad). It has an internal monitor, portrait orientation, and two
half-height 8" floppy drives. The keyboard is huge, with a whole section
of what appear to be word-processing-related keys. Opening the case (two
quarter-turn screws) reveals a somewhat modular layout. There are 4 cards
in a 5-slot cardcage: (1) 1771-based floppy controller, (2) 8080A-based
CPU, (3) unknown, probably I/O, and (4) 128k x 9 RAM (in 4116's). The
floppy drives are held in by thumbscrews. Two more bolts and the top
comes off. From here the CRT is visible. The power supply is underneath
the whole thing, and the keyboard connects through heavily shielded ribbon
cable.
Right now I'm waiting for it to dry out before I fire it up. If anybody
knows anything about this thing (or has even heard of it), I'd appreciate
the help. I also picked up a (wet) TI-99/4A expansion chassis and
Panasonic KX-D4910 portable data terminal with acoustic coupler or
direct-connect modem and thermal printer.
Richard Schauer
rws(a)ais.net
I have here a Maxtor XT-2190. That is an RD54, right? I have a uVAX 2000
I'd like to drop it in, but I can't get it to work, it doesn't want to
acknowledge the controller. It thinks it's drive 1, and if I try to lowlevel
format the drive at ID 1, it fails on the Mbb check. Ideas?
The computer did have an RD53 in it, that failed (bad sectors).
Failing that, can I put an ST251 or ST220 in there, hang a SCSI harddisk
>from the SCSI port, and boot the ST and mount /usr on the SCSI device?
I plan on running NetBSD on here.
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<From: "Daniel A. Seagraves" <DSEAGRAV(a)toad.xkl.com>
<
<How do I enable the console halt-on-break? Is there a switch on the CPU
<for that? It's the M8189 11/23+ CPU.
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Remove the wire or jumper from J14. J14 is in the row of pins roughly
on the centerline of the board and is the fourth up from the card edge
fingers (the pin closest is J10).
Allison
From: Sam Ismail <dastar(a)wco.com> wrote:
>They did, ever hear the term "the lumbering hippo", that was a nickname
>many gave the 1541 disk drive...
Dumpster diving at the then-recently closed offices of Amiga Corp.
in Los Gatos, I found several disassembled 1541s. Later I talked to
the engineer who'd thrown them out, and he described the 1541 as
the "best computer that CBM ever made." :-)
I distinctly remember a 1541-to-1541 disk copy taking about 40 minutes
when I first got my C-64, but later "fast loaders" reduced that.
The inane serial-to-parallel-to-serial business was no doubt due to
a desire to get things done quickly and with the least disruption of
existing ROM code and known-working applications migrating from the
PET to the VIC-20 and C-64.
- John
Jefferson Computer Museum <http://www.threedee.com/jcm>
On 18 Feb 98 at 18:24, Richard A. Cini wrote:
> First, I know that this may sound silly, but where is the RESET key on the
> GS? My system came with what looks to be a Mac ADB keyboard. Is the RESET
> key the power key along the top, above the number keys?
Lots but not all Apple ADB keyboards work with the IIGS; if a
keyboard works, the Reset key will be the one somehwere at the top
of the board with the left pointing arrow icon. Anyway, it's the same
one that you'd use to start up a Mac with soft-power on.
> Back to the drive. I initialized the drive from within the GS/OS Finder
> (using the Disk | Initialize menu item). I did not specifically partition
> the disk, though. If you use the Apple Disk utility (that's probably not the
> exact name) that comes on the GS/OS disks, it shows no partitions, although
> it identifies the drive as ProDos.
>
> How exactly should I take to get this to work properly? I'm obviously
> missing a step somewhere.
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
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>> They did, ever hear the term "the lumbering hippo", that was a
nickname
>> many gave the 1541 disk drive...
I didn't think it was that slow
>Well, I always knew the 1541 drive sucked egregiously, speed wise. I
>mean, it was as bad as a cassette player...what was the point? Until
fast
>loaders came along. They made the 1541 as fast as any Apple drive with
a
>fast DOS. Then it was passable.
>
>But what was very cool about the 1541, I later learned, was that it had
>its own processor, and that you could upload a program into two drives,
>hook them to each other and have them copy disks automatically...very
>cool. Then when my friend gave me the program that played Daisy on the
>1541 (by this time I had my own C64) I was dazzled. I wrote a similar
>program for the Apple Disk ][ but the farts and grunts it made were
hardly
>comparable to the violin-like sqeaks that emanated from the 1541. Very
>cool.
I can't stay up late with an Apple //c, because it makes that awful
noise when trying to read a nonexistent disk!
>>
>> >PS. So the Commodore did suck after all ;)
It did, but I like it sooo much more than the Apple II, which is just
plain boring
>> performance for a very low price. (albiet slower than necessary).
Also
>> the 64 had other merits such as its graphics ability and incredible
>> sound... Every one rips the Commodores, but you have to remwmber who
>> was posting profits and who was going bankrupt in the 80s... the
>> nineties are a different matter I'm afraid.. :(
Exactly
>After I got over the computer-cock-war syndrome I did come to realize
what
>a cool machine the C64 was. I actually started to program on it and
>started experimenting with the sound. It could make the wildest
sounds.
>I wanted to port the Apple ROM Monitor to the C64 so that I'd have a
>decent Monitor with which to assemble machine code, but alas my C64
died
>on the carpet in front of my TV (thus beginning the C64 curse I've
fallen
>victim to), I guess from static electricity. They just didn't make
C64's
>to last I'm afraid. Thus my C64 programming soire was cut short.
I killed my C64 by trying to add a reset switch and attaching the wire
to the wrong power terminal. BTW, what IS the command to get into
Apple's monitor from DOS? I always forget...
>
>Ok, now that is just plain lame. Who the hell designs a printer and
>forgets about the tractor feed bands?
Don't forget some certain operating systems that are self incompatible
;-P
>
>Sam Alternate e-mail:
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At 08:52 PM 2/17/98 -0600, you wrote:
>It's used by:
>
>Commodore Pets
>GRiD Compass
>HP 3000
>HP 1000 (I think)
On a side note, the GRiD 15xx series also had an add-in pod that supported
GPIB. Fits in the battery compartment, passthrough for external power.
Speaking of which, anyone got any GRiD 15xx PODs they want to get rid of?
Also am still looking for an external floppy for my GRiD 1535exp (ooh, I
shouldn't have said that: It was made in 1989! Forget I said anything, I'll
just bring it up next year!)
-John Higginbotham-
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