Looking for an Atari ST mouse, have an extra Amiga mouse to trade?
Also looking to buy a 520ST power supply to complete a system if anyone
knows of extras.
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it kernel
panics on startup. I have some software, the SWS Sparcstation 5. Uses 3 x
220v outlets @ 30 amps each.
Here is some stuff from last time I played with it:
https://users.757.org/~ethan/pics/geek/cray/
These are RARE. I think I know of two or three J932SE systems in the wild,
one in Ge
SGI fanboy.
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hey're friendly large machines. And they've got cool
displays of the CPU load on the front. Would recommend if you're going to
go for large machines!
A few pictures from my an early job of mine as a system admin:
https://users.757.org/~ethan/pics/office/13/Image01.jpg
https://us
We dont need patches with pictures but it should say what type of system we
major in
For example Rod's Retro Restorations - IBM360
Rod Smallwood
As time goes on more computers become vintage.
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Anyone know of any of the padded cases for Sun Voyagers that would be for
sale?
(Sun Microsystems portable sparcstation)
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ithout IBM" in a video of the whole
thing. Hmp.
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d get a few
blu-ray rips on each tape.
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an ST keyboard,
and has real SCSI versus ACSI!
Strange computers. Doesn't look quite as cool as the Mega 2/4 IMHO but
still interesting!
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I have a TT030 and actually was just looking at it last night. It has
a VME slot (as they call it) that has a dual serial port board
installed. I think it has a modem port.
That is an AppleTalk port.
Nope. My TT030 has 2 modem ports (RS232), then 2 more serial ports via VME
card. The appletalk
d
catch fire" and I think they are basing it around Quantum Link as part of
the story. It's not historical but a period drama or something.
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it's up on a
projection screen -- I looked up the Quantum Link main page online and it
seemed to match.
http://toastytech.com/guis/c64gquantumlink.gif
That thing
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f the electrolytic capacitors in the monitor. The ESR
changes when they warm up. Be careful, could be high voltage if it wasn't
designed to bleed down the charge in the tube.
I'm curious if CRT tube rejuvination would work on bad megapixel displays.
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So, unless the current corporate winds suddenly change direction, expect that
95 year to be "amended". After all, we must protect Mickey Mouse until he's
long passed out of human memory.
The irony being that Mickey Mouse was stolen :-)
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Hello,
By any chance could someone configure the mailing list to add [cctalk]
or [cc] or [cct] into the beginning of the subject line? Not looking to
filter, just not looking to delete messages.
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That doesn't work for me; perhaps it's because all mail from this list
is already (automatically) archived by a rule I have. I have tons of
rules like that; they apply an appropriate tag and archive the messages,
so I have to navigate into a specific folder to read a group's messages.
Am I the o
t was so huge
that I realized had I ever found one it wouldn't fit in any normal garage
or room.
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Wow, that is impressive. However, I suppose much of the PeeCee crowd
really does not integrate well with cctalk, and that is fine.
Scanning the front page of retrobattlestations, SOL-20, DEC 1957
documentary, C64, POSIX Maze War, Vic 20...
Yep full of PC stuff!
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put it back on eBay it gets a lot of views but no one serious has stepped
up.
I had a full rack O2K, my favorite large computer!
I can't wait for the housing bubble in the USA to explode then it will be
possible to get a place big enough to do something like that!
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o floppys to have on hand at
events where we put out all of our vintage stuff for public to play with.
I have another 1541 but it gets crazy hot (case started melting) and I
haven't had a chance to crack it open to look at it. Might pass it off to
someone else as I refine my collection.
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So just to be sure This is the correct way to post?? from the bottom. in
my online gmail i dont get all the rest just the reply I will have to
look at the settings i guess.
Bad news is Gmail never deletes your emails, ever. They remove them from
your view but keep it on their servers for profil
backup systems having
copies (which makes sense from CYA perspective.)
Probably better to build profile data off of each email and store that
anyways, less computation.
Self hosted mail systems for the win.
- Ethan
e a
X68000 (for the Castlevania fans :-) and MSX and other fun things.
Anyways, where was I. Oh yea. Much love for the Micros, but different
people came up at different times. My only CPM box is a beautiful IMSAI
8080 -- which I keep covered. Still building the S100 CF card.
Check out the C64 SD adapters or the XA1541 if you haven't.
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27;t
have storage space so he uses a ROV thing to move product around the
crawlspace:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k3mVnRlQLU
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out the classic computing stuff, and I think a good amount of that
drives the interest! (Hint!)
- Ethan
of hundreds of drives (cloud), SSD, Smart Phones, etc. This includes those
that have been purposely or accidentally erased and/or physically
damaged.
If a disk has all zeros written to it, as far as I know from what I've
read there is no hope of recovering the data. There were rumors that the
ge is gonna be HUGE with all the versions of that thing
;-)
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a few caps
that are documented online (4 if I recall) that just need to be swapped.
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is this allowed? i thought it was under a restrictive licence and was not
allowed to be shared freely like this?
I am not complaining at all, im making about 500 copies of everything on
that page ,ive been stuck outta luck with a sgi crimson without the irix
6.2 install disk needed to make it work
my Octane
and it worked fine. Flashbacks to my days as a sysad @ NASA in IRIX land,
and as a huge SGI fanboy...
https://users.757.org/~ethan/pics/office/13/Image02.jpg
96proc, 64GB, 7TB, 2.something million dollars
https://users.757.org/~ethan/pics/office/13/Image15.jpg
o2k, my favorite...
htt
r with the 13w3 work? I had one on the SWS
Sparcstation 5 front end to Cray J932SE. I think I have one at home, can
get model #.
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therboard cards
might require extra power connectors. There are also PATA to SATA bridges,
so you might be able to run a SATA based SSD on an old computer.
Good luck!
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w to
set up Windows for direct access to the hardware there is a utility called
allowio.exe that can be run with your app and you can specify address
ranges to allow through Windows. I used it running Win98 based laser show
software that bit banged printer port under XP.
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d tiles in Doom supplied in true color/16 bit color or were
they 256 colors?
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Sigh. It's unfortunate to see people pushing the nonexistent and legally farcical notion of
"abandonware". The "definition" given on the site creates the pretense that
the term is actually meaningful, but this is flat out wrong and misleading.
paul
Situation A: Lost forever
Situatio
IIRC My first large home computer (220v) was a SGI 4d/480VGX.
It had the LED CPU usage meters on the front.
Eventually I ended up with two Challenge XLs and four L's to replace it,
and two Onyx's and a Origin 2000 full rack. SGI hardware was so cool.
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ew platform comes out. Windows versions, mobile phone
versions, etc. Or at least the corporations that own the titles do.
There are still issues with ownership though.
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Ruby, PHP, Lua, and a
few other scripting languages. I'm pleased to be on this list, and to make
your myriad acquaintances.
-Swift
PS: My spell checker needs and ex-lax after going insane over this email
full of Unix variants and ancient platforms.
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on). The
unified memory architecture of the O2 was also really neat. The first time I
saw someone use an O2 to super-smooth zoom down on a 16000x16000 satellite
image I was very impressed.
He was saying he can swap the PSU with a PC one, I asked him if it's a bad
cap issue. He has a 2nd motherboard for it as well. He perked up when I
mentioned Tezro. He also hasn't seen one IRL
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A raspberry pi 2 fits in an even smaller box, and is a lot cheaper...
FPGA can be configured to match the original hardware. Pis run Linux and
then app on it which makes performence unstable?
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I want to say it was a Challenge L, but could be misremembering. It was
big, not the S!
https://users.757.org/~ethan/pics/office/15/Image11.jpg
L's on the left, XL's on the right :-)
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b...@bensinclair.com
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Very cool. I've never been inside any NASA building. The closest I've come is
to drive by the Johnson Space Center in Houston when I was in high school.
This was my place of work:
https://users.757.org/~ethan/pics/office/13/Image02.jpg
https://users.757.org/~ethan/pics/office/13/I
geographically dispersed areas too close together
time-wise, then they'd figure it was a stolen card and freeze the account.
The Cray was the only thing that could handle all those data streams. It was
at MCI in Colorado Springs, years ago. It had a zillion network interfaces,
too.
Mine were used to engineer nuclear submarine power systems or something
for the Navy
-Swift
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irginia. I relocated to a
better area so pick up would have to be on weekends, I can drive down to
facilitate purchase.
Always stored in climate controlled storage.
A much better deal when compared by weight to the Altair, IMSAI
and Apple I systems. ;-)
Rare opportunity to pick up a rare s
it without any heatsink or heat exchanger.
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hat, as the mainboard has more than 2
layers.
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with tons of downloads.
I wish companies like Sony would allow access to their repair materials.
:-(
The more of it turned free, the better. Sorry it's not our fault the
internet has made manual selling irrelevant like public libraries.
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but not the service
one. Sometimes you find the A, but not the B and they are significantly
different. Etc, etc... And I am not talking obscure instruments at all.
Scan it all. Release it all. Set it free.
(Anyone have the schematics or service manual for Yamaha C1 music
computer? Yamaha doesn't.)
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That's called "stealing".
The person I had to buy the CD from off of ebay wasn't authorized to sell
it. They're "authorized service center employees" (often times in Russia)
that have access to special web portals of all the service documents. They
then sell them.
*Shrug* I bought the manua
12 years ago :-) But the file
might still be on my broken home page... hmmm
Hah, yep:
https://users.757.org/~ethan/me_bookshelf/
Looks like my notes on it were HP said it's discontinued and wouldn't talk
about the machine at all. Zero. Zilch. 650C was the model.
I also posted on
There is also - to me! - a difference between something like ripping
off a manual and redistributing it with the "justification" of "they
did it first" or "they did worse", on the one hand, or keeping a
private archive of such things, to make sure the information is not
actually lost for the futur
d they're pretty much stuck. Own a couple of computers but
can't do much because it's difficult to buy software for Commodore
64 (especially development tools) and stuff. I think it's madness but
gotta feed the landlord/bankers.
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So when is the scanning party?
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Have the prices for 2600 E.T. carts climbed over the years, or is these
buyers paying a premium to own a "Genuine landfill ATARI E.T. game,
complete with certificate of authenticity" etc.?
General ET carts are cheap AFAIK. The landfill ones are special.
Thing is, the article mentions only a fe
whatever. I was really young so really
didn't know what I was doing.
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CB though. Just closer.
That day I got the NES. I think I hit reset 100 times over and over
just to hear the intro music from the Gyromite cart. It had clear
drumbeats! And multiple part music. It was so good. The reset button felt
nice and quality even.
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ed in selling. He is located
in Chesapeake VA but shipping is not a big deal.
I was just poking around inside a few arcade games yesterday including
Battlezone, Tron, Tempest and a few others.
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cartridges that can hold up to 30 Tbyte of compressed data and it can be
written on the tape with astonishing speed.
30Tbyte compressed*
(100Gbyte uncompressed)
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Well in this case they claim 15Tbyte uncompressed but 100Gbyte uncompressed
is still a lot more than a DLT-IV will hold.
15GByte uncompressed and 100Gbyte compressed?
Tape companies always misrepresent their products.
Compressed doesn't count.
Ever heard of CRYPTOWALL ? I think that I got it from looking at PDFs on the
web while doing some research. It's a trojan, not a virus. It runs in the
background encrypting files. Then it pops up a message demanding 500 euros
for the key!
Sounds like Cryptolocker. Even the police paid the
I would cut multiple tapes of anything you care about!
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rogramming language but it's cool
stuff. So flexble.
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Hello all,
I have a BeBox 66mhz that is missing the front plastic parts and the IO
riser that has all the ports on it.
By any chance does anyone have these parts available for sale?
- Ethan
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EPROM I see constant activity
on all address lines, and all datalines. This includes the OE pin as well.
Would a normal runnng computer hit the BIOS that much?
Any thoughts appreciated!
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y next hope.
There is a 3rd Eprom in the machine, it's not a bios and it won't be
readable by the bios dump util I found so another potential issue.
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uter (fairly rare in
working condition.) I'm going to scan all the documentation I have
eventually and add it. Looking at the docs the expansion connector might
be good enough to be ISA. Hmmm PC IDE for it!?!
https://users.757.org/~ethan/pics/geek/Software/Yamaha_C1_Laptop/
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How about beep codes? (A lot of machines give them out when things are too
effed up to even display anything.)
Noel
It's got a piezo speaker in it. It's never made a peep :-(
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I assume you already know of Markus Kunn:
<https://markuskunn.wordpress.com/2013/08/25/yamaha-c1-the-kraftwerk-computer/>
Yes! Pretty wild, I had the bottom post on there. Just posted another post
on there hoping to find someone with a working laptop.
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If a new set of BIOS EPROMs doesn't fix it, it might be time to look into an
in circuit emulator for the 80286. PODs for LCC sockets do exist, although
they might be harder to find than a POD for the PLCC or PGA versions.
Hmmm that would be cool :-)
Hopefully it doesn't get to that though.
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would rather sell it around eBay.
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Is there ever any Vintage Computer Festivals in Oklahoma? If not How
would I go about setting one up in Tulsa? I can have use of any of the
buildings at the fairgrounds...?
Make like a shoe... and do it!
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If he comes up with his own name, then there is nothing stopping him from
putting it together completely independently.
If he wants to use the VCF name, then he should talk tothose currently doing
it.
Is it a trademark like Maker Faire where everyone has to pay per-attendee
royalties to use th
er Festival," if you see your event's value as
contingent on that banner.
That sounds ok?
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I brought some friends with me to VCF East this year. It was their first
VCF East, and first VCF. Two of them help run "share their collection with
the public at large for fun" type events down in Chesapeake Virignia with
the public library and also the computer museum at MAGFest. Another friend
Very cool,
Glad it was able to be saved, sounds like a neat system, do you have any
specs on it, that you can share?
Warms my SGI fanboy side to see these systems being saved!
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PCs, the IBM PC Jr, and others all
had cartridge ports, too.
Yep, and the same damn games on all of them :-) AtariSoft! Parker Bros!
Etc. Frogger and the Qbert and the Centipede and the Defender.
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it :-/
They were getting flyback arcing to frame. At the time I didn't know what
it was but now after reparing arcade monitors I could remediate it.
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ed...
Yes, crammed full. The video cards are stuffed!
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e on the CPU rack because it's hard to access -
can't quite remember.
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;d never find anywhere else through
ebay, be it computers, computer parts, arcade parts, scuba diving stuff
whatever It's been a valuable resource over the years. They just need
to lower their damn prices and stop taking fees on shipping.
PS - Anyone have an Oberheim Matrix 6, 6R or 1000 for sale?
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Yes, it's geographically oriented. You can do wide area searches on another
site called searchtempest.com. I've never really found Craigslist very
appealing, personally.
There are services that let people set alerts and it will ping them on
their phone or something. Just post a desireable pin
I used to have this thing called a MasPar MP-2. It hung from a Decstation
5000 IIRC. Had the whole system, but the PSU in the MasPar box went bad.
Sold it to someone in Florida IIRC.
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layout apps and such) and
you can get boards made in China cheap. So that's on your side.
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The same is true of the CosmosEx device I've been thinking of getting for
my Atari STs; it has a Raspberry Pi inside.
That thing is rad. I didn't know about it. I never owned an ST, but lately
I've considered getting one. I like the all-in-one designs, but I'd probably
go for the full size rig i
Dallas or STM module then the
easy solution is to get a dump of a working system, perhaps hex edit the
contents to correct the MAC address, then plug it in (hopefully socketed.)
If the NVRam is held by a CR3202 battery and a SMD SRAM chip or something,
there would have to be a way around it being blank I'd imagine.
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In my case there is just a CR2032, and no Dallas module. I will try
replacing the CR2032 again.
Regards
Rob
The NVRAM failure warning probably isn't the physical ram, it's the lack
of contents.
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Two things on the hunt list:
1. Sun Sparcstation Voyager bag (the bag to put it in)
2. Oberheim Matrix 6, 6R or 1000 synthesizers.
cause occasionally I end
up with too much stuff and look to pass things on (free if I got them for
free).
Regards
Rob
How hard is it to get things like Sinclair Spectrum, BBC Micro and
Amdstrad CPC type computers?
- Ethan (USA)
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celluloid cutting.
The early Avid systems just commanded the VTR's over RS-422 to go to time
points then punch in, correct? It was non-linear but the video wasn't
digitized or stored on disk?
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efore you could successfully show bits from both at the same
time (ie.. in an A/B roll) or was it for a completely different purpose ?
You got it!
Modern stuff sure fixes a lot!
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capture systems. I've owned some PC video editing stuff like Matrox
RT-2000 (sucked), and the Matrox Digisuite cards (found for sale online,
soemone thought it was networking hardware but I recognized the ports.)
Currently have Blackmagic ATEM Television Studio, which is very neat
hardware and software.
Haven't had a video toaster system... yet!
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wanted it back. Do you want me to find his contact info? It's a larger
box, Challenge XL sized. Brown with 8 LED bar graphs for CPU load of the
eight R3000 processors.
My second SGI. *swoon*
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Man, I'd LOVE to have one of those. Sadly, I think I don't have the space.
I'll have to stick to desk-side-ish machines. There is already an XL SGI
(Terminator ONYX) in the garage. :(
Onyx and Challenge XL are better.
16 or 32 little cpu bars on the LCD. So cool.
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e arcade world needs 4:3 27/29" and 25" LCDs pretty badly.
That's a bit on the pricy side, don't need that kind of resolution for
games that run at 640x480 :-)
You could buy one then return it?
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ter would need to support 1920x1920 and
sync-on-green. That's something that I doubt any of them would do, but who
knows what the future holds. The fact that this monitor is new and was
made at all gives me some hope.
I don't think a SGI would support that resolution? Or are you driving it
with a PC? That resolution is definitely non-standard.
- Ethan
+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 B
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
drives?
I think the audio cassette deck enthusiasts do something like this and the
arcade CRT people are building lists of consumer TVs with usable CRTs.
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hich is a much newer Pentium era box, I always have
to boot into Windows 98 to pick up the USB thumbdrive. I copy stuff off
then reboot into DOS usually.
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but over on the early SGI
and Sun and NeXT stuff you had to change the block size on the CD-ROM to
get them to work. The early Toshiba drives had solder pads that could be
split open or re-closed to change block sizes and such to get them to work
on all of the different hardware types.
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