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
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 8/3/2015 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 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 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 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
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, 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
On Aug 2, 2015, at 19:10, William Donzelli wdonze...@gmail.com wrote:
And some 1950s military radio manufacturers, who screen printed schematic
diagrams onto cloth and stashed them inside the radios.
If you are thinking about that early GRC stuff, that was silk!
Oh wow, I thought it was
On 08/02/2015 07:08 PM, Mark J. Blair wrote:
And some 1950s military radio manufacturers, who screen printed
schematic diagrams onto cloth and stashed them inside the radios. The
schematics were secured to the inside of the radio with a length of
cloth ribbon, then folded up tightly and stuffed
And some 1950s military radio manufacturers, who screen printed schematic
diagrams onto
cloth and stashed them inside the radios. The schematics were secured to the
inside of the
radio with a length of cloth ribbon, then folded up tightly and stuffed into
a metal tube
secured to the
I once found a whole box worth of crayola crayons in a 1541 disk drive.
What amazes me is how nothing was blocked and they hadn't melted.
On 2 August 2015 at 05:53, Mark J. Blair n...@nf6x.net wrote:
By the way: I still keep the dollar with the computer. Just in case it's a
critical
On Sat, Aug 01, 2015 at 07:05:35PM -0400, Vlad Stamate wrote:
What other strange pieces did you find when you opened up classic computers?
A dead rodent inside an otherwise nice looking Norsk Data ND-500
A four inch crooked nail inside a LINC-8
It is really a good idea to peak inside a
A faded semi-nude 4x6 photo of a woman on a beach inside an IBM PC-XT that I
found in a thrift shop many years ago. How or why it was in there is anyone's
guess.
-Rick
One of my first jobs at DEC was on terminal sales.
The LA36 printing terminal had the logic and PSU cards mounted in the
plinth.
The logic card was on the back of the pull down door and the PSU inside.
So easy to service it wasn't true. This compartment was quite roomy
and inside
fresh
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?
Just wondering if I'm the exception...
Just you and IBM.
--
Will
On Aug 2, 2015, at 12:15, William Donzelli wdonze...@gmail.com 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?
Just
And some 1950s military radio manufacturers, who screen printed schematic
diagrams onto cloth and stashed them inside the radios.
If you are thinking about that early GRC stuff, that was silk!
--
Will
On Aug 1, 2015, at 21:22 , drlegendre . drlegen...@gmail.com wrote:
That's an old joke. Some (newb) asks How do you switch it on, i want to
play Spacewar (or whatever), cagey user says You put a dollar in one of
these slots... ;-)
I guarantee it.
That's my number one theory, followed by
I found a dollar bill inside an Apple Monitor II. It appeared to have been
folded into quarters and then pushed through one of the cooling slots on top of
the monitor. The monitor and matching IIe computer look like they came from a
school based on the property numbers engraved onto them. I've
On Saturday (08/01/2015 at 07:05PM -0400), Vlad Stamate wrote:
I was pleasantly impressed that the
drive head has not been damaged bumping in the leather piece all the
time. I am not sure how that got there, I assume a child pushed it in
by mistake?
Peter!
On Sat, 1 Aug 2015, drlegendre . wrote:
On Sat, Aug 1, 2015 at 6:05 PM, Vlad Stamate vlad.stam...@gmail.com wrote:
I recently got a very nice HP 9816 with a 9121 drive unit from Earl
Baugh (thanks Earl!). The computer worked fine but the primary drive of
the 9121 refused to read the disk and
What is that item?
Looks like a piece of laced (p)leather-craft from a children's summer camp
project..
On Sat, Aug 1, 2015 at 6:05 PM, Vlad Stamate vlad.stam...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I recently got a very nice HP 9816 with a 9121 drive unit from Earl
Baugh (thanks Earl!). The computer
Hi,
I recently got a very nice HP 9816 with a 9121 drive unit from Earl
Baugh (thanks Earl!). The computer worked fine but the primary drive
of the 9121 refused to read the disk and made a continuous beating
noise. After I cleaned it on the outside I opened it to see what is
wrong with it. And I
On Sat, 1 Aug 2015, drlegendre . wrote:
What is that item?
Looks like a piece of laced (p)leather-craft from a children's summer camp
project..
an improvised floppy drive shipping head protector?
What other strange pieces did you find when you opened up classic computers?
A TRS80 model 1 where some keys had stopped working due to an accumulation
of marijuana seeds
On Sat, 1 Aug 2015, Vlad Stamate wrote:
Hi,
I recently got a very nice HP 9816 with a 9121 drive unit from Earl
Baugh (thanks Earl!). The computer worked fine but the primary drive of
the 9121 refused to read the disk and made a continuous beating noise.
After I cleaned it on the outside I
On Sat, Aug 01, 2015, Vlad Stamate wrote:
Hi,
I recently got a very nice HP 9816 with a 9121 drive unit from Earl
Baugh (thanks Earl!). The computer worked fine but the primary drive
of the 9121 refused to read the disk and made a continuous beating
noise. After I cleaned it on the outside
On Sat, Aug 1, 2015 at 5:37 PM, Fred Cisin ci...@xenosoft.com wrote:
What other strange pieces did you find when you opened up classic
computers?
A TRS80 model 1 where some keys had stopped working due to an accumulation
of marijuana seeds
Someone was using it wrong. No seeds or stems!
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