Re: Remex Tape Reader - Pre-power up advice?

2017-04-18 Thread Christian Corti via cctalk
On Mon, 17 Apr 2017, Rod Smallwood wrote: There are what appear to be 1976 date codes on some caps. If its that old then replace all and any electrolytic capacitors plus any paper based caps. If they aint bad now they soon will be. *shaking head* Sorry, this is just a plain dumb answer. If

RE: Kennedy 9000 Tape Drives, Terminals and Packs

2017-04-18 Thread geneb via cctalk
On Mon, 17 Apr 2017, Rick Bensene via cctalk wrote: ATHANA was a magnetic media manufacturer. They made floppy disks and cartridge hard disk drives that were compatible with many vendors' hard disk system. IS. http://www.athana.com/ g. -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007 http://www.f15sim.com

Where/who to donate Sun Ultra 10 in UK?

2017-04-18 Thread Pete Dodd via cctalk
Dear All, I'm looking for ideas for passing on an old Sun Ultra 10, which I adopted when my old work was going to bin it. I installed Debian, but have the original OS media. Unfortunately, 3 moves and 2 kids later my time to tinker is non-existent, and my partner has made clear this needs to go be

Re: Extracting files off “unknown” 8 inch disks. Any thoughts…

2017-04-18 Thread Glen Slick via cctalk
On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 10:06 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk > > As I recall, NT/2K/XP will read PC98 floppies if they're in an Imation > LS120 Superdrive or in a conforming USB floppy drive. I don't know > about legacy floppy controllers. It might also work in a Caleb HD144 > drive; I haven't check

RE: Where/who to donate Sun Ultra 10 in UK?

2017-04-18 Thread Dave Wade G4UGM via cctalk
Pete I will be happy to take it. Both my Suns have issues. Dave Manchester. > -Original Message- > From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Pete Dodd > via cctalk > Sent: 18 April 2017 15:53 > To: cctalk@classiccmp.org > Subject: Where/who to donate Sun Ultra 10 in

Re: WTB: DEC Rainbow Expansion Memory

2017-04-18 Thread Warner Losh via cctalk
Found this file on an old Rainbow floppy. It has more detailed data. http://people.freebsd.org/~imp/RBMEMRY.TXT Sorry I didn't convert it to HTML... Warner On Sat, Apr 15, 2017 at 7:49 AM, Tapley, Mark via cctalk wrote: > On Apr 13, 2017, at 3:20 PM, Warner Losh via cctalk > wrote: > >> On T