Re: [U2] 386 Conversion

2009-07-25 Thread Allen E. Elwood 
(1)
Can't you just do a clean install of the same OS on a newer machine, slave
the hard drive and point some pointers over to it?  Mongo only know of
Unidata architecture ;)

(2)
What part of the old machine died?  You can find some fairly old stuff on
eBay.

For example a working 386 25mhz cpu:
http://cgi.ebay.com/AMD-A80386DXL-25-Am386-DX-DXL-25-Vintage-386-25-Mhz-Pro_
W0QQitemZ200256087532QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item2ea03165
ec_trksid=p3286.c0.m14_trkparms=65%3A12|66%3A4|39%3A1|72%3A2128|293%3A1|29
4%3A200

I just bought some 40 year old NOS Astron bluepoint .1mf capacitors a couple
of days ago to make some 5e3 amps with.  I've seen these caps go for $50
each *IF* you can find them and I got 10 for $160. eBay Rocks!!!

**Note:  I am in no way, shape or form associated with eBay.  This is not
intended as a sales device, or an endorsement and this is not an [AD] 


hth, Allen

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[mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org]on Behalf Of Dave Taylor
Sent: Friday, July 24, 2009 12:24 PM
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Subject: Re: [U2] 386 Conversion


Chuck,

You didn't mention backup: eg 3.5 floppy?

That removes any issues with re-installing the hard drive in a different
hardware environment.

And, I didn't see any mention of Pick flavor - eg: R83, AP or AP/Pro.

If its R83, it will probably restore onto mvBase very nicely, and then on to
UV or QM very easily.

Then you can handle the conversion to the Pick flavor of UV or QM as you
wish.

I have an mvBase machine and may be able to put may hands on an AP machine.

Until the path to success is clearer, though, it's tough to estimate a cost.

And, if the client is cash-strapped, I think they need to come up with a
maximum budget so we don't spin our wheels for nothing.

hth,

Dave

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From: Results resu...@keyally.com
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Sent: Friday, July 24, 2009 9:46 AM
Subject: [U2] 386 Conversion


 All,
   This is likely to go nowhere, as the client is cash constrained, but I
 have to ask...

   I have a client still running a 386 Pick implementation. The system
 died. The closest thing I have is a 486, but I don't believe I can simply
 put the harddrive in a 486 and get Pick to boot. (If I'm wrong, tell me).
   So, does anyone out there have the ability to take a 386 flavor
 Pick-formated PC harddrive and pull the data into something more modern
 (U2, QM, D3...)? If so, what would it cost?

- Chuck 386 Reasons to Upgrade Barouch
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[U2] UniData and umlauts

2009-07-25 Thread Brian Leach 
I'm cross posting this from the website in the hope of finding someone who can 
respond:

Has anyone used NLS English_G2 in order to handle special characters such as 
the u with umlaut (ΓΌ) in UniData?

I have a client based in the US, that would like to be able to incorporate 
umlauts in their name and address fields.  They are running UniData 7.1, and my 
understanding from the 'UniData International'  manual is that if we were to 
switch the language group to English_G2 it would handle this.

Has anyone switched language groups in midstream?

Or any other ideas as to how to approach this?


Thanks all

Brian
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