This one isn't so pleasant... I worked at CompUSA fixing computers in
the 90's, and one time an employee brought in his personal machine for
repair. Fortunately I wasn't the one that opened it up, as when the
tech popped the case, cockroaches scurried everywhere! The machine was
beyond hope with
When I was a toddler apparently I used to stuff penny's inside the floppy
drives of my dads rainbow 100 the drives survived this I slot and are still
I. Working order as far as I know since last time I saw that beast
On Sunday, August 2, 2015, Tom Moss tomjm...@googlemail.com wrote:
I once
On Aug 3, 2015, at 14:51 , ben bfranc...@jetnet.ab.ca wrote:
Written on the drive, is a lot different than paper floating around inside
The bad blocks were written on the drive in the sense that they were written
or printed on a paper label stuck to the top of the drive, not stored
On 08/03/2015 03:40 PM, Al Kossow wrote:
On 6/10/15 8:17 AM, Jon Elson wrote:
I got a Pertec key to tape system surplus, and created a
mostly software interface with very minimal hardware to
read and write tapes on my S-100 Z-80 system.
XL-40?
The system I had was, I'm pretty sure, made
Where is the inscription? Inside the case?
On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 12:50 PM, Toby Thain t...@telegraphics.com.au
wrote:
On 2015-08-03 12:49 PM, Steve Algernon wrote:
As an employee with some involvement, there was a batch of original
iPads that were engraved with Steve Jobs signature. ...
On Aug 3, 2015, at 14:51 , ben bfranc...@jetnet.ab.ca wrote:
Written on the drive, is a lot different than paper floating around inside
On Mon, 3 Aug 2015, Mark J. Blair wrote:
The bad blocks were written on the drive in the sense that they were
written or printed on a paper label stuck to the
On 8/3/15 6:41 PM, Jon Elson wrote:
On 08/03/2015 03:40 PM, Al Kossow wrote:
On 6/10/15 8:17 AM, Jon Elson wrote:
I got a Pertec key to tape system surplus, and created a mostly software
interface with very minimal hardware to read and write tapes on my S-100 Z-80
system.
XL-40?
The
On 8/3/2015 3:25 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 08/03/2015 11:33 AM, ben wrote:
If is that bad, time for a new drive.
Perhaps you don't remember but old ST506-style drives had no automatic
bad sector remapping, so even new ones had bad sector maps affixed by
the manufacturer. Most often these
On 08/03/2015 09:06 PM, Al Kossow wrote:
do you have anything on the instruction set?
Instruction set? This was not a computer. It was an all
hard-wired-logic key to tape system. It could be set to
enter data to tape, verify data by retyping it, and it would
beep if a record did not
On Aug 3, 2015, at 6:52 PM, drlegendre . drlegen...@gmail.com wrote:
Where is the inscription? Inside the case?
On the back. I don't have a handy picture, but someone else posted theirs:
http://deirdre.net/steve-jobss-death-and-influence/back-camera-3/
When I was in middle school, I once saw another kid stuff a bunch of potato
chips in a Disk ][ ... does that count? LOL
Best,
Sean
On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 6:17 PM, Adrian Stoness tdk.kni...@gmail.com wrote:
When I was a toddler apparently I used to stuff penny's inside the floppy
drives of
On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 9:47 AM, Al Kossow a...@bitsavers.org wrote:
I need to figure out why this program also doesn't deal with tape errors
well.
If you get an error, it will go into an endless loop creating -1 byte
records.
I haven't looked at that in many years, so I'm not sure. Maybe
On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 9:40 AM, Dennis Boone d...@msu.edu wrote:
The main limitation seems to be that it's hard to get the (broken) data
from a block that had a read error when using SCSI hardware. There's
probably a way around this if one digs into lower layers of SCSI magic;
I haven't gone
On 08/03/2015 11:33 AM, ben wrote:
If is that bad, time for a new drive.
Perhaps you don't remember but old ST506-style drives had no automatic
bad sector remapping, so even new ones had bad sector maps affixed by
the manufacturer. Most often these were in the form of byte offset
from
On Sun, Aug 02, 2015 at 11:55:10AM -0700, Chuck Guzis wrote:
Turning this discussion on its head, I wonder if I'm the only one to
stash manuals and setup CDs in the cases of my systems. Has anyone
ever picked up an old system and found system documentation inside?
Not really inside but I
On Sat, 1 Aug 2015, Robert Jarratt wrote:
Thanks for the suggestion, but Hakko appears not to be available in the
UK.
On ebay I can find US sellers and Chinese sellers. I suspect the Chinese
ones are
imitations, so I would prefer to avoid those.
Sorry - missed the UK part :)
On 8/3/2015 12:11 PM, Jules Richardson wrote:
On 08/02/2015 01:55 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
Turning this discussion on its head, I wonder if I'm the only one to
stash
manuals and setup CDs in the cases of my systems. Has anyone ever picked
up an old system and found system documentation inside?
As an employee with some involvement, there was a batch of original iPads that
were engraved with Steve Jobs signature. Scott Forstall joked I don't want to
see these show up on eBay!
Anyway, being none too careful, I let my then 3 year old play with it, and she
was walking around with rapt
On 08/02/2015 01:55 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
Turning this discussion on its head, I wonder if I'm the only one to stash
manuals and setup CDs in the cases of my systems. Has anyone ever picked
up an old system and found system documentation inside?
I suppose that bad sector maps for ST506/412
On Mon, Aug 03, 2015 at 12:23:56PM +0100, Rod Smallwood wrote:
Hi Guys
The drawings for pdp8/e (A), pdp8/e (B), pdp8/f and
pdp8/m have now gone to the silkscreeners for checking and costing.
I'll let you all know when they are available. Those who chose to
prepay but to wait
Hi Pontus
Thanks that clears up one or two things.
I worked on a straight 8 with its clear cover on top along with a couple
of 8/e's at Harwell.
Whilst at DEC 1975 onwards I saw loads of 8/a's and the odd 8/e lurking
on the top of a filing cabinet.
As far as I can remember I never
From: a...@p850ug1.demon.co.uk
Was the failed IC marked '723' or some house number?
-tony Hi Tony As I recall, it was marked LAS723-2.5Luckily, before I simply
replaced it, I checked the feedbackresistor values. They didn't make sense
for 7V.My guess is that it made using the 723 for
Most Cray systems shipped from Chippewa Falls with several cases of
Leinenkugel's beer inside. This was intended for the SEs after they
got the system installed and up and running and not for the customer :-)
Chris
--
Chris Elmquist
I suppose that bad sector maps for ST506/412 hard drives don't count? :-)
On Mon, 3 Aug 2015, ben wrote:
If is that bad, time for a new drive.
In the early days, particularly when actual ST506 and ST412 were common
drives, there were VERY VERY few that had no bad tracks.
In the days of
On Mon, 3 Aug 2015, Sean Caron wrote:
When it comes to soldering, I usually recommend Hakko or Pace irons; I have
a Hakko 936 and it's a great all-rounder. The FX-888D seems to be their
recommended replacement for the 936 so I guess I will endorse that, if they
are making the new models as well
To the OP.
From the OK OBP prompt, can you please share the output of:
probe-scsi
AND
probe-scsi-all
assuming your OBP supports those commands.
Jerry
On 08/ 2/15 04:35 PM, Sean Caron wrote:
Oh! And if you're using the boot cdrom mnemonic, make sure that your
CD-ROM is actually set to
On Mon, Aug 03, 2015 at 12:33:33PM -0700, Fred Cisin wrote:
I suppose that bad sector maps for ST506/412 hard drives don't count? :-)
Once upon a time, it was the job of the OS to take this badblock count
and remap blocks itself since the drives themselves weren't smart enough.
On Mon, 3
Sorry for the public post, can't get through privately. But oddly, the list
seems to make it through. Very strange.
Mouse, tried sending you a few replies, but your mail server sends
rejections back from your MX host. Any chance you could whitelist the
classiccmp.org server IP?
Best,
J
When it comes to soldering, I usually recommend Hakko or Pace irons; I have
a Hakko 936 and it's a great all-rounder. The FX-888D seems to be their
recommended replacement for the 936 so I guess I will endorse that, if they
are making the new models as well as they built the old ones (although IMO
Good morning all!
I have the following printer manuals that I must get out of my space. If
you want any of them enough to make it worth my while to ship them, let
me know soon. They will be out of here by next Monday, one way or another.
Shipping from Madison, WI 53714.
Comrex ComRiterIIE
On 6/10/15 8:17 AM, Jon Elson wrote:
I got a Pertec key to tape system surplus, and created a mostly software
interface with very minimal hardware to read and write tapes on my S-100 Z-80
system.
XL-40?
Someone out here put some XL-40 parts and docs up on eBay this weekend, so I
went
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