Re: Maxtor full-height 5.25" drives of death

On 2/7/18 2:36 PM, Ian Finder via cctalk wrote: XT2190s, XT1140s, some of the early ESDI disks... I have 6 XT2190s at home, and maybe one of the damn things works. Does anyone out here know, beyond speculation, what some of the common failure modes of these drives are? I'm not opposed to

Maxtor full-height 5.25" drives of death

XT2190s, XT1140s, some of the early ESDI disks... I have 6 XT2190s at home, and maybe one of the damn things works. Does anyone out here know, beyond speculation, what some of the common failure modes of these drives are? I'm not opposed to open-HDA surgery. And I probably won't do anything. But

Re: Maxtor full-height 5.25" drives of death

> Drives of the day were power hungry and ran hot. Heat is a killer. Yes, certainly heat is why these drives go onto a shelf working and come off of it broken with servo and head amplifier problems at an astonishing rate far higher than their contemporary brethren. It also helps answer my

OpenVMS software repositories?

What sites still exist that have VMS software? I know the about the OpenVMS Freeware CD’s from HP VMS Engineering. http://h41379.www4.hpe.com/openvms/freeware/collections.html As an example, I’ve found part of the old DECwindows archive, but it looks like that site is basically gone. Zane

Re: OpenVMS software repositories?

Zane Healy via cctalk wrote: What sites still exist that have VMS software? I know the about the OpenVMS Freeware CD’s from HP VMS Engineering. http://h41379.www4.hpe.com/openvms/freeware/collections.html As an example, I’ve found part of the old DECwindows archive, but it looks like that

Re: How to enable USB drives in both Windows 98SE AND MS-DOS 7.1.

On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 9:28 AM, Curious Marc wrote: > Thanks Terry, I need to get my DOS7.1/Win98 Dolch to speak USB, that will > be helpful, particularly the DOS portion. I got my Win98 networked to Win7, > it's not that hard *once you know* and works really well. You

Re: How to enable USB drives in both Windows 98SE AND MS-DOS 7.1.

>I thought there were alternate config.sys and autoexec.bat files that were used if you chose to reboot to MS-DOS mode, and possibly if you hit F8 and chose command line during boot. Yes, the files you speak of are config.dos and autoexec.dos. These confused me at first because I thought just

Re: How to enable USB drives in both Windows 98SE AND MS-DOS 7.1.

Here you go: Networking between Win98 and Win7 On Windows 7, using regedit, set “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa\LMCompatibilityLevel” to “1” You might need to create the new entry under \lsa as a REG_DWORD, set to 1 On the Win98 machine:

Re: OpenVMS software repositories?

On 02/07/2018 06:35 PM, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote: What sites still exist that have VMS software? I know the about the OpenVMS Freeware CD’s from HP VMS Engineering. I'd suggest that you redirect your question to the comp.os.vms newsgroup. I frequently see discussions there about software

Re: How to enable USB drives in both Windows 98SE AND MS-DOS 7.1.

I recall using these drivers several years ago. As I recall, the problem is that they're not amenable to hot-swapping. That is, is you're using a USB flash drive with them, there was no code that allowed you to remove the drive and substitute another without rebooting. Has this situation

Re: How to enable USB drives in both Windows 98SE AND MS-DOS 7.1.

Having trouble with that link; any tips? m - Original Message - From: "Grant Taylor via cctalk" To: Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2018 11:58 PM Subject: Re: How to enable USB drives in both Windows 98SE AND MS-DOS 7.1. > On 02/07/2018

Re: How to enable USB drives in both Windows 98SE AND MS-DOS 7.1.

Back in the W98SE days I bought USB sticks that came with drivers, so W98 has never been a problem. Another approach for DOS if the system has 'boot from USB' capability is to just make a bootable DOS7 USB stick. Stick in: DOS, stick out: WIN98/XP/VISTA etc.; transfer files to heart's

Re: anybody need a 25 foot Unibus cable?

> On Feb 7, 2018, at 9:46 PM, Jon Elson via cctalk > wrote: > > While cleaning up at work, I found a 25 foot Unibus cable in decent > condition. Anybody need one? > > Jon I wish I needed one, that would be an interesting problem to have. :-) Actually you jogged a

Re: OpenVMS software repositories?

> On Feb 7, 2018, at 7:05 PM, Carlos E Murillo-Sanchez > wrote: > > Zane Healy via cctalk wrote: >> What sites still exist that have VMS software? I know the about the OpenVMS >> Freeware CD’s from HP VMS Engineering. >> >>

Re: How to enable USB drives in both Windows 98SE AND MS-DOS 7.1.

On 02/07/2018 09:53 PM, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote: According to the following link from IBM, the process we are both thinking of is valid, just using different files. http://ps-2.kev009.com/pcpartnerinfo/ctstips/c546.htm That link mentions ExittoDOS.pif, and searches for it turn up

Re: OpenVMS software repositories?

> On Feb 7, 2018, at 7:22 PM, Grant Taylor via cctalk > wrote: > > On 02/07/2018 06:35 PM, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote: >> What sites still exist that have VMS software? I know the about the OpenVMS >> Freeware CD’s from HP VMS Engineering. > > I'd suggest that you

Re: How to enable USB drives in both Windows 98SE AND MS-DOS 7.1.

On 02/07/2018 09:14 PM, Terry Stewart wrote: Yes, the files you speak of are config.dos and autoexec.dos.  These confused me at first because I thought just as you did. I put the driver files in there. However, those files seem to be associated with the PREVIOUS MS-DOS version (if one exists)

anybody need a 25 foot Unibus cable?

While cleaning up at work, I found a 25 foot Unibus cable in decent condition. Anybody need one? Jon

Re: Google, Wikipedia directly on ASCII terminal?

On Tue, 6 Feb 2018, Grant Taylor wrote: Watching Curious Marc's HP 264x Terminals - Part 3: Living the ASCII Life video made me think of this thread. Check out Marc's did video about 17 minutes into the video. The video shows Ken using the HP 264x terminal to run Lynx on a Linux box to

Searching for EBBS][

As the title suggests, I'm looking for a copy of the EBBS][ software for a friend who used to run an Apple based BBS many moons ago and is looking out for a bit of nostalgia. So far he's been unable to locate the disks the system used to be on (he suspects damaged in a storage space flood in

Re: 8" floppy drives from AMD development system?

AMD made a whole Multibus product line covered in http://bitsavers.org/pdf/amd/multibus in particular AMD_Multibus_OEM_Products_May84.pdf On 2/6/18 10:55 PM, Steven M Jones via cctalk wrote: > Anybody notice this eBay auction? https://cgi.ebay.com/itm/222816138475 > > I'd guess it was part of a