[cctalk] Re: Turbo Prolog

2024-02-24 Thread Zane Healy via cctalk
I bought it when my first ship was in Bahrain, but never did anything with it. I think I still have the manuals, but am not sure about the floppies. Maybe something for when I retire. Zane Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 24, 2024, at 12:36 PM, Just Kant via cctalk > wrote: > > Has

[cctalk] Turbo Prolog

2024-02-24 Thread Just Kant via cctalk
Has anyone used it or something contemporaneous? Is it at all applicable to any degree to today's approach to AI/machine learning tasks? I would like to perhaps eventually create a game, probably not chess, lilely something simpler. The old expert system modeling paradigm seems to have largely

[cctalk] Re: RD54 Maxtor XT-2190 w/one long meep

2024-02-24 Thread Rick Bensene via cctalk
Unsticking stiction is different than dislodging a stuck actuator. Stiction is where the heads resting on the disk surface resist the torque of the spindle drive, causing the drive not to spin up. Generally it is caused by weak driver transistors in the spindle drive such that the spindle

[cctalk] Re: RD54 Maxtor XT-2190 w/one long meep

2024-02-24 Thread Sellam Abraham via cctalk
"...blearrt-meelrp..." Best audio-to-text descriptive ever. Sellam On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 3:47 PM Jacob Ritorto via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > Hi! Remember the blearrt-meelrp sounding seek oscillation noise > that the RD54 makes when you turn it on -- after it

[cctalk] Re: RD54 Maxtor XT-2190 w/one long meep

2024-02-24 Thread Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
Back in the day when these disks were common I used to elicit a good laugh from my boss when I got out my little mallet and smacked the side of the drive. Stiction was the problem but a good hammer fixes anything. And, no, I never had it damage a disk. I guess it was all in the technique.

[cctalk] Re: VCF SoCal

2024-02-24 Thread Liam Proven via cctalk
On Wed, 21 Feb 2024 at 09:33, Stefan Skoglund wrote: > > Liam, TriPOS ? > > If i'm not wrong it was a OS developed in Cambridge (Cambridgeshire). > > Did someone port it to other arch than ARM ? I am mystified. This appeared in a thread about the VCF SoCal and apropos of nothing with no quote.

[cctalk] Re: RD54 Maxtor XT-2190 w/one long meep

2024-02-24 Thread Tom Hunter via cctalk
Thanks Rick for clarifying my somewhat ambiguous description of how to dislodge a stuck voice coil mechanism. On Sat, 24 Feb 2024, 12:13 pm Rick Bensene via cctalk, < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > Just make sure when you torque the drive as mentioned that you rotate it > in as close to the