On 9/1/2020 1:36 PM, Jeffrey S. Worley via cctalk wrote:
An advertisement for the type 7 keyboard gave me a clue that this is a
known problem with some early SunBlade machines and that I would need a
Firmware upgrade. I've looked on Oraclle's site for Sunblade 100
firmware upgrades and not
What brand tape?
I’ve seen this done by a tech on a DLT7000 drive, maybe on a DLT4000, I think
they’re basically the same. I seem to remember the tech used a 9-Volt batter
to rewind a stuck tape. The leaders as I recall are very similar for TK50,
TK70, and DLTIII.
Zane
> On Sep 1,
I have a Sunblade 100, got it on ebay for $103.00, landed on my
doorstep. I hacked the nvram chip with a pair of AA batteries, which
should keep the thing going for a hundred years.
I really wanted a STOP key, and found an ad on Ebay for new Type 7 usb
keyboard/mouse, bought the set.
I used a
It is apparently true. He had heart troubles, but this was unexpected
and certainly a shock to his family.
I met Curt here, on Classiccmp, about twenty years ago. We are both
hardcore Atari 8-bit computer geeks, but we met in this forum.
He is missed by many as he touched many. Please pray
I've been trying to read data from some ~2000 era DLT III cartridges
that were written on a TZ87.
The first one read OK. But the second one failed and it seems that the
leader was torn off. I tried a new drive and a second cartridge has
failed the same way (the leader was there, now it's
I actually thought the spam most was better than some of the usual postings
on here!
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Sent: 01 September 2020 09:01
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: Spam
Paul Koning wrote:
> > On Aug
On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 2:24 AM Mattis Lind via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> To achieve this I created a small piece of hardware I called SyncDongle,
> essentially it's just a few level converters, connectors and a STM32F103
> blue pill.
>
Neat!
> There are good chances that the
Hi Liam,
You are probably quite correct.
In another forum someone came up with the same explanation for my "rat
problem".
Here is what he wrote:
"Were there any electrolytic capacitors in the region of the corrosion?
When an electrolytic capacitor leaks (even slightly) the electrolyte often
On Sun, 30 Aug 2020 at 08:24, Mattis Lind via cctalk
wrote:
>
> I have been working on a project for some time to connect a IBM3270
> compatible Alfaskop terminal with its IBM 3274 compatible cluster
> controller to the Hercules mainframe emulator.
>
> Yesterday I eventually succeeded. I was able
On Sun, 30 Aug 2020 at 15:33, Tom Hunter via cctalk
wrote:
> About 70% of the PCB had solder joints that were nice and shiny like brand
> new. The remaining section near the front of the drive was quite badly
> corroded and it also looked like there was some liquid spilled over that
> section of
Paul Koning wrote:
> > On Aug 31, 2020, at 6:55 PM, Peter Coghlan via cctalk
> > wrote:
> >
> > Anybody else on cctech/cctalk receive a blatant spam today from an outfit
> > called "SparkPost" with "OptIn Live" in the subject?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Peter Coghlan.
>
> Nope.
>
> Keep in mind that
Peter,
I seem to have been receiving various adds for "optimised SMTP" delivery but
not sure if any relate to SparkPost.
The version of you address with "at" rather than "@" is visible in a couple
of places
Dave
> -Original Message-
> From: cctalk On Behalf Of Peter Coghlan
> via
Folks,
I first heard this last night (UK time) but from an unconfirmed source so I
waited until this morning and woke to find a tweet from AtariAge confirming it.
Seems that Curt Vendel of the Atari History Museum amongst others passed away
unexpectedly yesterday.
Sending condolences to his
Hello,
Early Zork source and binary files have been found on ITS backup tapes.
MIT previously released some December 1977 files here:
https://github.com/MITDDC/zork
Recently discovered files from January 1978 will appear soon.
Paul Koning wrote:
> > On Aug 31, 2020, at 6:55 PM, Peter Coghlan via cctalk
> > wrote:
> >
> > Anybody else on cctech/cctalk receive a blatant spam today from an outfit
> > called "SparkPost" with "OptIn Live" in the subject?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Peter Coghlan.
>
> Nope.
>
> Keep in mind that
On 8/31/2020 7:25 PM, Tom Hunter via cctalk wrote:
Not funny if your prized treasures fall victim to it.
:-(
A friend had Western Dynex 10mb drives years ago which were hard to come
by. Equivalent to the RL02's.
He had a test system which could run Microdata Reality as a test station
-- Forwarded message -
From: Tom Hunter
Date: Tue, Sep 1, 2020 at 2:17 PM
Subject: Re: Factory Rodent Urine, was Re: Sun SPARCstation LX boot from
CDROM?
To: Chuck Guzis
Thanks Chuck,
Unfortunately it is well past cleaning.
The lead/tin alloy has corroded into a hard oxide
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