I've finally had my fill of the general grumpiness and bluntly worded
interactions on this list.
Over the years I have learned a lot and would like to particularly express
my thanks to Tony Duell, Fred Cisin and Chuck Guzis for being unfailingly
polite and very forthcoming with technical
On Fri, 5 Feb 2016, Liam Proven wrote:
On 5 February 2016 at 18:07, Steven Hirsch <snhir...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, 5 Feb 2016, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 2:57 PM, Mazzini Alessandro <mazzi...@tin.it>
wrote:
Last night I had no issues to navigate it. Didn
On Thu, 4 Feb 2016, Kevin Bowling wrote:
This comes up often and usually with a lot of people that have no idea what
they are talking about chiming in that you are stupid for asking. They are
wrong, HW emulation is not that difficult:
https://sites.google.com/site/rhdisk0/unix/aix/aixps2
On Wed, 3 Feb 2016, Jim Simpson wrote:
Is there a utility that will read .IMD diskette archive files and recover
the data? I've found a wealth of BigBoard & BigBoard II data (and lots of
other stuff too) on many different sites, all saved in .IMD format. Is it
possible to read these files and
On Sat, 16 Jan 2016, Don North wrote:
On 1/16/2016 2:04 PM, Steven Hirsch wrote:
Title says it. Perhaps I'm being stupid about search terms, but I'm not
finding much of anything on eBay. One seller has TSOP tubes, but I need
plain, old 300mm DIP tubes. End plugs and pins for them as well
Title says it. Perhaps I'm being stupid about search terms, but I'm not
finding much of anything on eBay. One seller has TSOP tubes, but I need
plain, old 300mm DIP tubes. End plugs and pins for them as well.
Plenty of companies offering them on the web, but all are oriented for
production
On Wed, 13 Jan 2016, Ian Finder wrote:
Solution- netboot.
The CDs [there are a zillion point release layer things] are in EFS
format and can't be mounted on OS X or Windows. At some point I mounted
them all on Linux and wrote a script that copied the /dist folders to a
folder structure on
Is anyone using this combination? I'm having problems getting it to work
reliably on a soft-sector controller in my Heath H89 and their forum is
essentially dead.
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On Tue, 8 Dec 2015, Oliver Lehmann wrote:
I checked it now with an old 486-DX50 EISA+VLB board (rare combination ;))
with a Goldstar Prime 2 and an Acer M5105 ISA Controller. Both detect and
work fine with this harddisk. No idea what mode they work but I guess it
is PIO 0-whatever only - no DMA
On Sat, 21 Nov 2015, Steven Hirsch wrote:
I purchased one of these units on eBay and it seems to be working - modulo a
few early-80s tantalum caps that went up in smoke.
The tester relies on an attached printer to record test results, which are
displayed only fleetingly on the front-panel
I purchased one of these units on eBay and it seems to be working - modulo
a few early-80s tantalum caps that went up in smoke.
The tester relies on an attached printer to record test results, which are
displayed only fleetingly on the front-panel display. Unfortunately it
did not come with
On Tue, 10 Nov 2015, Brad Parker wrote:
So, since it appears to be NMOS with a single metal layer, it seems like one
could feed the jpeg into a program and find all the polygons.
Given a vector image file with shapes properly assigned to layers, an LVS
tool can extract a netlist.
In a
I need to pickup a few more 360k drives. Does anyone know of a source
besides eBay - or, have a few they can part with?
At this point, form-factor is not critical. I could actually use both
full-height and half-height units.
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On Sat, 24 Oct 2015, Fred Cisin wrote:
Are we really running short of "720K" floppies? I thought that AOHell
had sent out enough snail spam with disks to supply us forever!
Indeed, but the quality of those diskettes was dreadful.
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On Mon, 19 Oct 2015, Chris Elmquist wrote:
The photos are of the 10-hole punch. We also did a 16-hole as Dwight
has mentioned and he as a few of those still available.
Dwight, I double checked the metal and we're both mis-remembering.
It's not aluminum or stainless but just tool steel that
On Mon, 12 Oct 2015, Jason Scott wrote:
We do and the firmware revision is 1.0. I'm sorry for feeding this
information out in drabs - I thought it was asked in the original mail and
apparently not.
Please post any and all numbers on the 1410A board ROM. That's the only
way to understand
On Mon, 12 Oct 2015, Jason Scott wrote:
We are looking for a 1410. The 1402a was a miscommunication on the part of
the original person.
The machine is an original IBM PC, correct? Do you have the requisite
host adapter to interface with the 1410A bridge controller?
The 1410A was shipped
On Mon, 12 Oct 2015, Devin Monnens wrote:
Ok, correction to previous message. It's a Xebec 1410A with 1.0
Firmware. Should be MUCH easier to find now that we have the correct
model number!
This was in an IBM 5150 (original PC)? I'm still confused. The 1410A is
a bridge board that presents
On Sun, 11 Oct 2015, Devin Monnens wrote:
Was curious if anyone here has - or knows someone who does - a Xebec
1402A Seagate HDD controller. The drive is in an IBM 5150. Note that
this MUST be the 1402A, NOT the more common 1402. There is some
important historical data we are trying to
On Thu, 8 Oct 2015, Ian Finder wrote:
I was one of the people who built the early rev boards David had.
Ditto
Excellent project, he is the man...
And then some!
Here are a few images for your crazy kids to get started with. I'll be
adding more as they come in:
On Tue, 15 Sep 2015, Fred Cisin wrote:
Ever heard of CRYPTOWALL ? I think that I got it from looking at PDFs on the
web while doing some research. It's a trojan, not a virus. It runs in the
background encrypting files. Then it pops up a message demanding 500 euros
for the key!
Out of
On Fri, 4 Sep 2015, william degnan wrote:
I had fun taking 20 IBM pc's from Montreal to the usa. I ended up
setting up a broker account to ship items in a rented van. It was do
this or the items would be impounded. I had to be escorted by flashing
lights custims police bacj into canada.
On Sun, 16 Aug 2015, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 08/16/2015 03:26 PM, Ali wrote:
Wow, I know it's not a DEC PDP but I was hoping at least a few people
used the darn thing. Would it be better if I post in VCF? Thanks for
any input. -Ali
Probably. I have both the original and the one (can't
On Thu, 23 Jul 2015, Murray McCullough wrote:
A momentus event happened 40 years ago around this time, July 1975,
the world's first computer store opened in West Los Angeles, called
Arrow Head Computer Store, tag-lined, 'The Computer Store'. It was
opened by Dick Heiser. How time has flown by!
On Tue, 30 Jun 2015, Dave G4UGM wrote:
.. its really great fun Only OS/2 is a little truculent
Have you tried Parallels for hosting OS/2? It was developed originally
for the Russian banking system to get their OS/2 based legacy software on
to modern hardware.
OS/2 worked
On Tue, 30 Jun 2015, Mazzini Alessandro wrote:
Parallels for windows is no more since years, now there's only the mac
version :(
And I was referring to the 32-bit Linux version, so certainly dated
information :-).
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My Advantage decided to stop booting from floppy disks (the only media it
is capable of booting). At first it threw random disk errors, then
progressed to the point where I get an immediate Hardware Failure
diagnostic on screen at power up. If I reset and hit 'Enter' it starts
the disk drive
On Sat, 23 May 2015, Mark J. Blair wrote:
On May 23, 2015, at 10:28, Steven Hirsch snhir...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, 23 May 2015, Chris Osborn wrote:
I own one of just about every commercially available (and hobby)
converters and precisely none of them provides a universal solution
On Sat, 23 May 2015, Chris Osborn wrote:
The GBS-8200/8220 doesn’t support composite input, only RGB. I’ve used
the board on quite a few of my computers that output RGB and it works
fine. I’ve even got a couple of blog posts:
ZX Spectrum 128:
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