Re: Commodore C2N datasette belts (was Re: Classics long overdue a Boot.)

On Sun, May 29, 2016 at 3:53 AM, drlegendre . wrote: > @ All > > I'm working on a deal for a batch of these.. so hold on to your hats / > wallets for a little while, and we should have something to work with. I'm in no hurry. I just had a couple offers from folks outside

Re: Commodore C2N datasette belts (was Re: Classics long overdue a Boot.)

@ All I'm working on a deal for a batch of these.. so hold on to your hats / wallets for a little while, and we should have something to work with. On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 8:18 PM, Jason T wrote: > On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 8:04 PM, Ethan Dicks >

Re: Commodore C2N datasette belts (was Re: Classics long overdue a Boot.)

On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 8:04 PM, Ethan Dicks wrote: > Thanks for your offer of assistance. That seems to be a very good way > to do it. Write me back off-line and I'm willing to throw money at > you for a dozen belts or so and take what I don't need to VCFmw this > Fall

Re: Commodore C2N datasette belts (was Re: Classics long overdue a Boot.)

On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 8:45 PM, Alexandre Souza wrote: >> Square belt. 1.2mm cross-section. 80mm dia / 251mm length. >Ethan, these belts are very common in Brazil. They cost about R$ 2-4 (Us$ > 0,50-1,00) each. If you and the group need some, I can buy and

Re: Commodore C2N datasette belts (was Re: Classics long overdue a Boot.)

On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 6:31 PM, Mike Stein wrote: >> On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 1:32 PM, drlegendre . wrote: >> >> Square belt. 1.2mm cross-section. 80mm dia / 251mm length. Thanks for the tip, Mike but neither one pans out. > Maybe you can find

Re: Commodore C2N datasette belts (was Re: Classics long overdue a Boot.)

Square belt. 1.2mm cross-section. 80mm dia / 251mm length. Wholesale might work. I need 3-4 just to get my own drives working (one in a chicklet-keyboard PET, at least 2-3 external C2N drives - two black PET-era, one (at least) white VIC-20/C-64 era). Wherever they come from US or UK, $10-$12

Re: Commodore C2N datasette belts (was Re: Classics long overdue a Boot.)

- Original Message - From: "Ethan Dicks" <ethan.di...@gmail.com> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk@classiccmp.org> Sent: Monday, May 23, 2016 1:51 PM Subject: Re: Commodore C2N datasette belts (was Re: Classics long overdue a

Re: Commodore C2N datasette belts (was Re: Classics long overdue a Boot.)

On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 1:32 PM, drlegendre . wrote: > @Ethan > > Huh, well that's no good. If you give the exact dimensions of the original > belt, I'll call Tim up and see what he can get. Square belt. 1.2mm cross-section. 80mm dia / 251mm length. > I've known him for

Re: Commodore C2N datasette belts (was Re: Classics long overdue a Boot.)

@Ethan Huh, well that's no good. If you give the exact dimensions of the original belt, I'll call Tim up and see what he can get. I've known him for almost 30 years and would be happy to order a batch of them at wholesale. They could go to club members and the rest to eBay..? On Mon, May 23,

Re: Commodore C2N datasette belts (was Re: Classics long overdue a Boot.)

On Mon, 23 May 2016, Ethan Dicks wrote: > Thanks for the pointer, but the closest match (not exact), was still $10 > for one belt. I've seen folks make belts from heat-shrink tubing. Also, o-ring splicers can be used to create small belts, but it's an expensive solution just to get one belt.

Re: Classics long overdue a Boot.

On Fri, 20 May 2016, David Brownlee wrote: > Could be, though NeXTSTEP 3.x (for x>0) was definitely available on > Intel hardware - I remember helping support a bunch of Pentium 133 > "workstations" at Dreamworks running custom software under NeXTSTEP 3.3. I know they do, too because I've run

Re: Classics long overdue a Boot.

Damn, Ethan, you have had more SGI's than I have. That's freakin' saying something, and you don't seem to mind the big ones, either. Then again, all you British folks live in large country estates, right? :-) Bought my first Indigo from Reputable Systems. I then started to go to the auctions

Re: Classics long overdue a Boot.

On Thu, 19 May 2016, Jerry Kemp wrote: +1 Been looking for a Crimson for about 8 years now. A couple have come up, but none anywhere close to me. Due to size and weight shipping has been prohibitive. :( Jerry On 05/19/16 06:25 PM, Ian Finder wrote: You parted a Crimson into wall

Re: Commodore C2N datasette belts (was Re: Classics long overdue a Boot.)

On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 1:11 PM, Adrian Graham wrote: > On 20/05/2016 17:18, "Ethan Dicks" wrote: >> Do you have the dimensions on that belt handy? All of my Commodore >> tape drives are erratic due to aged belts. > > These are the ones I

Re: Classics long overdue a Boot.

> On 20 May 2016, at 19:04, David Brownlee wrote: > > They also mainly had Micropolis disks ("For all your data loss > needs"). Drink duly spat over exterior of SPARCclassic laughing at this! I remember wondering who the $¥€%#<^* had brought a cement mixer into the workshop c.

NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP history - was Re: Classics long overdue a Boot.

On 2016-05-20 2:04 PM, David Brownlee wrote: On 20 May 2016 at 15:50, Toby Thain wrote: On 2016-05-20 3:39 AM, Adrian Graham wrote: On 19/05/2016 23:10, "Sean Caron" wrote: ... My NeXT slab also hadn't been powered up for 10 years so I checked

Re: Classics long overdue a Boot.

On 20 May 2016 at 15:50, Toby Thain wrote: > On 2016-05-20 3:39 AM, Adrian Graham wrote: >> >> On 19/05/2016 23:10, "Sean Caron" wrote: >> ... >> My NeXT slab also hadn't been powered up for 10 years so I checked that >> one >> and all was ok, only

Re: Commodore C2N datasette belts (was Re: Classics long overdue a Boot.)

Sent from my iPhone > On 20 May 2016, at 18:11, Adrian Graham wrote: > >> On 20/05/2016 17:18, "Ethan Dicks" wrote: >> >> On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 7:11 PM, Adrian Graham >> wrote: >>> Last ones?! EVAR?!1one.

Re: Commodore C2N datasette belts (was Re: Classics long overdue a Boot.)

On 20/05/2016 17:18, "Ethan Dicks" wrote: > On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 7:11 PM, Adrian Graham > wrote: >> Last ones?! EVAR?!1one. Horrors. Don't tell Modern-Radio-Bolton otherwise >> the belts I bought recently for my Commodore C2N/1530s etc

Commodore C2N datasette belts (was Re: Classics long overdue a Boot.)

On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 7:11 PM, Adrian Graham wrote: > Last ones?! EVAR?!1one. Horrors. Don't tell Modern-Radio-Bolton otherwise > the belts I bought recently for my Commodore C2N/1530s etc might evaporate > in a puff of logic Do you have the dimensions on that

Re: Classics long overdue a Boot.

On Fri, 20 May 2016, John Willis wrote: > I had an opportunity to get four Origin 3000s and two Cray J-90s in the > 2008-9 timeframe. Could never arrange for transportation though, so they > got away. That wasn't by chance at NOAA or NREL, was it? One of those DoE sub-org folks had a similar

Re: Classics long overdue a Boot.

On Fri, 20 May 2016, et...@757.org wrote: > FWIW, everyone loves the Crimson. I like the Challenge L and Onyx > deskside better. They love them because they are Awesome. :-) > I know that one of my old Onyx's is in New Mexico, not sure where the > others are these days. People love them. I

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> > I've owned 3 Crimsons and 3 or 4 Onyx desksides. I wonder where they are > now? I know one Crimson buyer drove to Virginia Beach from Atlanta GA. > > FWIW, everyone loves the Crimson. I like the Challenge L and Onyx deskside > better. > > I know that one of my old Onyx's is in New Mexico, not

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+1 Been looking for a Crimson for about 8 years now. A couple have come up, but none anywhere close to me. Due to size and weight shipping has been prohibitive. :( Jerry I've owned 3 Crimsons and 3 or 4 Onyx desksides. I wonder where they are now? I know one Crimson buyer drove to Virginia

Re: Classics long overdue a Boot.

On 20 May 2016 at 15:50, Toby Thain wrote: > On 2016-05-20 3:39 AM, Adrian Graham wrote: > >> On 19/05/2016 23:10, "Sean Caron" wrote: >> ... >> My NeXT slab also hadn't been powered up for 10 years so I checked that >> one >> and all was ok, only

Re: Classics long overdue a Boot.

On 2016-05-20 3:39 AM, Adrian Graham wrote: On 19/05/2016 23:10, "Sean Caron" wrote: ... My NeXT slab also hadn't been powered up for 10 years so I checked that one and all was ok, only it wasn't my slab! I picked up a load of NeXT gear from an ex-employee many years ago

Re: Classics long overdue a Boot.

On 19/05/2016 23:10, "Sean Caron" wrote: > On Thu, 19 May 2016, Chris Hanson wrote: > >> I haven't booted my Lisa 2/10 in a very long time, not since before a >> cross-country move. >> >> I'm a little worried about it. Last time I looked (a couple years ago) it >> didn't

Re: Classics long overdue a Boot.

On 19/05/2016 23:21, "Austin Pass" wrote: > I'm surprised I have relatively little of it now (just the A3000 and a very > clean Model B). I'd like a RISC PC but supply is thin on the ground here > nowadays, it appears the boat has sailed. They're still around - I got 2

Re: Classics long overdue a Boot.

I haven't booted up either of my Durango F85s for a few years. My old Integrand S100 box hasn't seen a boot in almost 30 years. Eh, I'll get to them one of these days. --Chuck

Re: Classics long overdue a Boot.

On May 19, 2016, at 3:10 PM, Sean Caron wrote: > > On Thu, 19 May 2016, Chris Hanson wrote: > >> I haven't booted my Lisa 2/10 in a very long time, not since before a >> cross-country move. >> >> I'm a little worried about it. Last time I looked (a couple years ago) it

Re: Classics long overdue a Boot.

If I manage to make it to VCF, I should try to get rid of: Epson RC20 - Z80 RAM, pseudo ROM, serial port. Unfortunately, not having charged it up in way too long, in addition to battery charge, somebody will have to locate the "ROM-Roader", or make one. NEC 8201A - same group of machines as

Re: Classics long overdue a Boot.

+1 Been looking for a Crimson for about 8 years now. A couple have come up, but none anywhere close to me. Due to size and weight shipping has been prohibitive. :( Jerry On 05/19/16 06:25 PM, Ian Finder wrote: You parted a Crimson into wall hangings just because the PSU blew? They're

Re: Classics long overdue a Boot.

On 19/05/2016 23:25, "Austin Pass" wrote: > > Loving that PPC640 - a system that entirely passed me by! I have an Amstrad > CPC6128 which is a cool little micro, although the 3" drive in mine needs > servicing. I bought the *very last* (eBay emphasis, not author's own)

Re: Classics long overdue a Boot.

> On 19 May 2016, at 23:30, Sean Caron wrote: > > Sorry. IP17. IP19 is for Challenge/Onyx. I wish ... ;) > > Best, > > Sean Ha! And I just repeated the error! -Austin.

Re: Classics long overdue a Boot.

> On 19 May 2016, at 23:24, Sean Caron wrote: > > I almost had a Crimson but the power supply blew up. It was a pretty basic > model (just fitted with LG1 graphics, intended as a file server) but I was > sure to keep all the boards. The IP19 is a looker. I use it to

Re: Classics long overdue a Boot.

> > Here's my best story along these lines. I've had a NeXT Cube for quite a > while and it sat for some time in my parent's basement while I went off to > school and got my adult life together. > > A few years ago, I made a pass through the town where I grew up with a box > truck (on the

Re: Classics long overdue a Boot.

On Thu, 19 May 2016, Sean Caron wrote: The IP19 is a looker. I use it to decorate ... Sorry. IP17. IP19 is for Challenge/Onyx. I wish ... ;) Best, Sean

Re: Classics long overdue a Boot.

> On 19 May 2016, at 23:02, Dale H. Cook wrote: > > At 04:57 PM 5/19/2016, Austin Pass wrote: > >> Systems we've neglected or failed to boot recently. > > My Amstrad PPC-640 gets booted a couple-few times a year when I need a native > MS-DOS machine with a real serial

Re: Classics long overdue a Boot.

On Thu, 19 May 2016, Austin Pass wrote: On 19 May 2016, at 22:09, Todd Killingsworth wrote: Ah! I've always wanted to play with a Crimson... ever since I saw them being used for visualization at the Army Corp of Engineers back in the early 90's. I was

Re: Classics long overdue a Boot.

On 19 May 2016, at 22:31, Swift Griggs wrote: > >> On Thu, 19 May 2016, Austin Pass wrote: >> systems I've neglected - lots of them not booted in 10 years or more. > > Ouch. I'm thinking my oldest boot is going to be 6 years on my: > > * Sega Genesis + 32X > * SNES (but

Re: Classics long overdue a Boot.

> On 19 May 2016, at 22:09, Todd Killingsworth > wrote: > > Ah! I've always wanted to play with a Crimson... ever since I saw them > being used for visualization at the Army Corp of Engineers back in the > early 90's. I was working in a different group and never

Re: Classics long overdue a Boot.

On Thu, 19 May 2016, Dale H. Cook wrote: At 04:57 PM 5/19/2016, Austin Pass wrote: Systems we've neglected or failed to boot recently. My Amstrad PPC-640 gets booted a couple-few times a year when I need a native MS-DOS machine with a real serial port for work on some vintage broadcast

Re: Classics long overdue a Boot.

On Thu, 19 May 2016, Austin Pass wrote: Swift's thread on the "ones that got away" got me thinking about another source of guilt/regret common to the classic computer collector: Systems we've neglected or failed to boot recently. I've had a re-jig of my storage, and whilst it was great to

Re: Classics long overdue a Boot.

At 04:57 PM 5/19/2016, Austin Pass wrote: >Systems we've neglected or failed to boot recently. My Amstrad PPC-640 gets booted a couple-few times a year when I need a native MS-DOS machine with a real serial port for work on some vintage broadcast hardware. I need to dig out the three CP/M

Re: Classics long overdue a Boot.

I haven't booted my Lisa 2/10 in a very long time, not since before a cross-country move. I'm a little worried about it. Last time I looked (a couple years ago) it didn't look like any caps had gone though. And at least it doesn't have an internal battery to worry about. It definitely needs a

Re: Classics long overdue a Boot.

On Thu, 19 May 2016, Austin Pass wrote: > systems I've neglected - lots of them not booted in 10 years or more. Ouch. I'm thinking my oldest boot is going to be 6 years on my: * Sega Genesis + 32X * SNES (but I do play on the SupraBoy) * Sun Ultra 60 * SGI Indy R4600/200 Actually, I'm just

Re: Classics long overdue a Boot.

Ah! I've always wanted to play with a Crimson... ever since I saw them being used for visualization at the Army Corp of Engineers back in the early 90's. I was working in a different group and never got to use them. Not even sure where to look for one nowadays. Todd Killingsworth. On Thu, May

Classics long overdue a Boot.

Swift's thread on the "ones that got away" got me thinking about another source of guilt/regret common to the classic computer collector: Systems we've neglected or failed to boot recently. I've had a re-jig of my storage, and whilst it was great to uncover gems that I'd forgotten I even had, it