Re: Cleaning and Restoring a Badly Corroded PSU

2017-10-23 Thread dwight via cctalk
I would remove the transformers before putting it in the wash. The big one doesn't look to be hermetically sealed. Dwight From: cctalk on behalf of Phil Blundell via cctalk Sent: Monday, October 23, 2017

Re: Fujitsu M2235S

2017-10-23 Thread Jules Richardson via cctalk
On 10/21/2017 01:31 PM, Phil Blundell via cctalk wrote: Anybody familiar with the internals of these disks? I have one here which seems to have the positioner stuck at track zero. I'm not sure whether it's likely to be just a bit sticky and in need of some assistance or whether there is some

Re: HP 7907 read preamp question

2017-10-23 Thread Jon Elson via cctalk
On 10/21/2017 12:43 AM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: No, it turns out the answer is to set the preamp gain at spec. It appears to do nothing but create more problems if turned up higher than that. It was worth a try. --Chuck Well, then, now you have your answer! From working with tapes and

Re: Cleaning and Restoring a Badly Corroded PSU

2017-10-23 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 10/23/2017 01:45 PM, Rob Jarratt via cctalk wrote: > I am now looking at the H7826 PSU that came with a TURBOchannel Extender. It > looks like there may have been capacitor leakage and some heatsinks will > need to be replaced. I have posted pictures here: > > > >

Re: Cleaning and Restoring a Badly Corroded PSU

2017-10-23 Thread Phil Blundell via cctalk
On Mon, 2017-10-23 at 21:45 +0100, Rob Jarratt via cctalk wrote: > I am now looking at the H7826 PSU that came with a TURBOchannel > Extender. It > looks like there may have been capacitor leakage and some heatsinks > will > need to be replaced. I have posted pictures here: > >   > >

Re: Cleaning and Restoring a Badly Corroded PSU

2017-10-23 Thread dwight via cctalk
I don't see why you have assumed that one of the capacitors has leaked. The corrosion could have come from water or condensation onto the board. I don't see any corrosion on the components. Dwight From: cctalk on behalf of Rob

Re: CDP1801

2017-10-23 Thread Brad H via cctalk
I'm going to put it on my list of projects to create a CPU card for my Microtutor that uses the 1802 instead I think.  I can get some blue PCB stock.  As far as I understand the 1802 is fully backward compatible. Maybe the 1801s will show up on day.  I've found all kinds of chips I was

Re: Cloning A Hard Disk Over The Network Using Ultrix

2017-10-23 Thread Huw Davies via cctalk
> On 21 Oct 2017, at 21:40, Rob Jarratt via cctalk > wrote: > > I have a couple of hard disks I want to make dd copies of. I have Ultrix > running on my DECstation 5000/240 with the disk I want to clone attached to > it. The trouble is that I don't have enough disk

RE: Cloning A Hard Disk Over The Network Using Ultrix

2017-10-23 Thread Rob Jarratt via cctalk
The rsh solution worked for me actually. I used this: dd if=/dev/rrz1c conv=noerror,sync | rsh ult1 dd of=/usr/rz1.dd Where “ult1” was the remote node Thanks Rob From: Huw Davies [mailto:huw.dav...@kerberos.davies.net.au] Sent: 23 October 2017 09:32 To: r...@jarratt.me.uk; Rob

Re: Cloning A Hard Disk Over The Network Using Ultrix

2017-10-23 Thread Christian Corti via cctalk
On Sat, 21 Oct 2017, Rob Jarratt wrote: I have a couple of hard disks I want to make dd copies of. I have Ultrix running on my DECstation 5000/240 with the disk I want to clone attached to it. The trouble is that I don't have enough disk space on the machine to clone the disk and then grab the

Re: Pine (was: Re: cctalk Digest, Vol 17, Issue 20)

2017-10-23 Thread geneb via cctalk
On Sun, 22 Oct 2017, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: I'm considering doing something that actually downloads my Gmail content locally and keeps it in sync periodically, but I haven't really looked at what's necessary for that. On Sun, 22 Oct 2017, Angel M Alganza via cctalk wrote: Have a look

Re: Cloning A Hard Disk Over The Network Using Ultrix

2017-10-23 Thread Jay Jaeger via cctalk
On 10/21/2017 5:40 AM, Rob Jarratt via cctech wrote: > I have a couple of hard disks I want to make dd copies of. I have Ultrix > running on my DECstation 5000/240 with the disk I want to clone attached to > it. The trouble is that I don't have enough disk space on the machine to > clone the disk

Which Dec Emulation is the MOST useful and Versatile?

2017-10-23 Thread Kip Koon via cctalk
Hi DEC Enthusiast's, If I were to have to decide on just one model DEC PDP system to run in a DEC Emulator, which one would be the most useful, versatile and has the most software available for it? I have only ever used a real PDP-8/e system way back in high school so I'm not up to par on any

Re: Pine (was: Re: cctalk Digest, Vol 17, Issue 20)

2017-10-23 Thread Christian Corti via cctalk
On Mon, 23 Oct 2017, Richard Loken wrote: By gum! Alpine does indeed translate the 'A' into a '?' and I never noticed. I'm using Alpine, too, and have no problems with the à or any other foreign character. I'm not even using UTF-8 but plain ISO-8859-1 in my terminal. But it's important to

Re: Pine (was: Re: cctalk Digest, Vol 17, Issue 20)

2017-10-23 Thread Richard Loken via cctalk
On Sun, 22 Oct 2017, Sean Conner via cctalk wrote: By gum! Alpine does indeed translate the 'A' into a '?' and I never noticed. It seems that my tiny mind simply translated the character and moved on. I have: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=C as part of my environment, and I'm

Re: Fujitsu M2235S

2017-10-23 Thread Phil Blundell via cctalk
No, that was what I was thinking of with the "some sort of latch" comment. Where is the head lock? Thanks Phil On Mon, 2017-10-23 at 10:19 -0500, Tom Uban wrote: > I assume you've released the head lock? > > On 10/21/17 1:31 PM, Phil Blundell via cctalk wrote: > > Anybody familiar with the

Re: Pine (was: Re: cctalk Digest, Vol 17, Issue 20)

2017-10-23 Thread Eric Christopherson via cctalk
On Sun, Oct 22, 2017 at 3:13 AM, Angel M Alganza via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > Hello: > > On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 01:39:32PM -0600, > (Yes, almost two years ago. I'm a bit behind with > my mail, LOL.) Eric Christopherson wrote: > > > I'm considering doing something that actually >

Re: Pine (was: Re: cctalk Digest, Vol 17, Issue 20)

2017-10-23 Thread Eric Christopherson via cctalk
On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 10:32 AM, Richard Loken via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > On Sun, 22 Oct 2017, Sean Conner via cctalk wrote: > > By gum! Alpine does indeed translate the 'A' into a '?' and I never > noticed. It seems that my tiny mind simply translated the character > and

Re: Fujitsu M2235S

2017-10-23 Thread Tom Uban via cctalk
It varies from drive to drive, but there is usually a sticker pointing it out, perhaps on the bottom of the drive, sometimes a screw has to be loosened in order to slide a bracket, etc. On 10/23/17 10:24 AM, Phil Blundell via cctalk wrote: > No, that was what I was thinking of with the "some sort

Re: Fujitsu M2235S

2017-10-23 Thread Tom Uban via cctalk
I assume you've released the head lock? On 10/21/17 1:31 PM, Phil Blundell via cctalk wrote: > Anybody familiar with the internals of these disks? I have one here > which seems to have the positioner stuck at track zero. I'm not sure > whether it's likely to be just a bit sticky and in need of