I never thought about those. I been using a diameter of about 3/16" and the
cue is around 1/2". I did have some trouble with the pads being too heavy. I
looked at a couple suppliers and they do have a variety of hardness, but
didn't see any diameter choices. It may be worth a try.
Mike Zahorik
Zane Healy wrote:
>> On Nov 12, 2020, at 10:39 AM, Peter Coghlan via cctalk
>> wrote:
>>
>> There's something icky about VMS running on x86. I can't see the prospect
>> being attractive to either the VMS people or the x86 people.
>
> Do you have any valid data to base that statement on?
>
On Nov 12, 2020, at 10:39 AM, Peter Coghlan via cctalk
wrote:
>
> There's something icky about VMS running on x86. I can't see the prospect
> being attractive to either the VMS people or the x86 people.
Do you have any valid data to base that statement on? Quite a few people on
the x86 side
On 11/12/20 10:50 AM, mike via cctalk wrote:
> On my Shugart and Siemens 8 inch drives I've used a heavy felt pad that I
> made using a steel punch. Then super glued it to the pin that snaps into the
> pickup arm. I've had the snap pin break and have successfully used a small
> nylon bolt and nut,
On my Shugart and Siemens 8 inch drives I've used a heavy felt pad that I
made using a steel punch. Then super glued it to the pin that snaps into the
pickup arm. I've had the snap pin break and have successfully used a small
nylon bolt and nut, which has the pad glue to it. I have tried small
Bill Gunshannon wrote:
On 11/12/20 12:45 PM, Zane Healy wrote:
On Nov 12, 2020, at 7:42 AM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
mailto:cctalk@classiccmp.org>> wrote:
Hopefully with the move to x86, we’ll see more people interested in OpenVMS.
Personally, I doubt that.
There's something icky about
Crimp pins 100%!
-Original Message-
From: cctalk On Behalf Of Chuck Guzis via cctalk
Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2020 8:11 PM
To: dwight via cctalk
Subject: Re: Soldering DB connectors
On 11/11/20 2:19 PM, dwight via cctalk wrote:
> I've not had issues just soldering the wires on.
On 11/12/20 12:45 PM, Zane Healy wrote:
On Nov 12, 2020, at 7:42 AM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
mailto:cctalk@classiccmp.org>> wrote:
FREEWARE60/VMSFAQ Item 5.5.1
As an interesting aside, I was very surprised at how hard it was
to find this on the Web. The notion that everything on the
Does anyone have some good hints on what and how to replace them?
I have a CDC 8 inch floppy drive with a missing pressure pad. Tried to put
some half a millimeter felt cloth with some double adhesive tape to replace
it.
But it didn't work very well. If I gently pushed the upper pressure pad arm
On 2020-11-12 12:45, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote:
> Hopefully with the move to x86, we’ll see more people interested in OpenVMS.
Then, the people will ask for an ARM port, before they touch it ;-)
Ethan
I probably have one. More likely to be NTSC than PAL - I'll look. What
do they go for, these days?
Cheers
Robert
On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 10:43 AM Ethan O'Toole via cctalk
wrote:
>
>
> Looking for an Amiga 8375 Agnus IC (Amiga 600, Amiga 500 Plus.) NTSC is
> what I have now but the PAL
On Nov 12, 2020, at 7:42 AM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
wrote:
>
> FREEWARE60/VMSFAQ Item 5.5.1
>
> As an interesting aside, I was very surprised at how hard it was
> to find this on the Web. The notion that everything on the Internet
> is preserved for posterity is really becoming silly.
On 2020-11-12 10:42, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote:
> As another aside, it is rather interesting how many hits for VAX and
> VMS I got that have nothing to do with what we think of as VAX and VMS.
And most of them suck ;-)
On 12/11/2020 15:42, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote:
FREEWARE60/VMSFAQ Item 5.5.1
As an interesting aside, I was very surprised at how hard it was
to find this on the Web. The notion that everything on the Internet
is preserved for posterity is really becoming silly.
Here's Steve Lionel
Looking for an Amiga 8375 Agnus IC (Amiga 600, Amiga 500 Plus.) NTSC is
what I have now but the PAL version might work.
Also interested in an Amiga 600 motherboard, can deal with it if bad caps
and cap damage.
Thanks
--
: Ethan O'Toole
On 11/12/20 10:02 AM, Antonio Carlini via cctalk wrote:
On 12/11/2020 13:56, Bob Smith via cctalk wrote:
I have a copy of the process in my stash it is findable on the web.
I used to wear this funny hat, and used the methoo a few times - even
on my cluster at home.
It does work.
bb
On Thu,
On 12/11/2020 13:56, Bob Smith via cctalk wrote:
I have a copy of the process in my stash it is findable on the web.
I used to wear this funny hat, and used the methoo a few times - even
on my cluster at home.
It does work.
bb
On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 8:13 AM Richard Curtis via cctalk
On 11/12/20 8:12 AM, Richard Curtis via cctalk wrote:
> I picked up a microvax 3100 this past weekend from a office that was
shutting down.
I was able to start the system up, it boots up to a login prompt for VMS
VAX 7.3.
I do not have any login info for this machine, is there a procedure
On Nov 12, 2020, at 5:12 AM, Richard Curtis via cctalk
wrote:
>> What Devin needs is instructions to break into the system.
> I happen to know how to do that (used to work in OpenVMS Engineering).Is that
> something that should be discussed here?
> Thanks,Dick
This has been in the FAQ for a
I have a copy of the process in my stash it is findable on the web.
I used to wear this funny hat, and used the methoo a few times - even
on my cluster at home.
It does work.
bb
On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 8:13 AM Richard Curtis via cctalk
wrote:
>
> > I picked up a microvax 3100 this past
> I picked up a microvax 3100 this past weekend from a office that was
> shutting down.
>> I was able to start the system up, it boots up to a login prompt for VMS
> VAX 7.3.
>> I do not have any login info for this machine, is there a procedure i can
> follow to reset a password to an account?
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