Re: Ordering parts onesie twosie (was: One of Bay Area's last Fry's Electronics stores closes)

On 12/31/19 3:03 PM, Ali via cctalk wrote: And what would I do with 50 when I need 2? Save them for the next project? My garage is full of stuff saved for the next project. At some point one runs out of space. Or recollection that one bought 48 extra capacitors years ago. I paid $8

Re: Ordering parts onesie twosie (was: One of Bay Area's last Fry's Electronics stores closes)

On 12/31/19 2:53 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: And paid in much in S (if not more) to buy the two from Mouser then it would have cost to get 50 from China... ;) On Tue, 31 Dec 2019, Alan Perry via cctalk wrote: And what would I do with 50 when I need 2? I paid $8 shipping. I’d pay close

Re: Ordering parts onesie twosie (was: One of Bay Area's last Fry's Electronics stores closes)

> On Dec 31, 2019, at 14:44, Ali wrote: > >  >> >> >> I ordered two from Mouser this week. >> >> alan > > And paid in much in S (if not more) to buy the two from Mouser then it > would have cost to get 50 from China... ;) And what would I do with 50 when I need 2? I paid $8 shipping.

Re: Ordering parts onesie twosie

> On Dec 31, 2019, at 14:25, Chuck Guzis via cctalk > wrote: > > On 12/31/19 2:15 PM, Alan Perry via cctalk wrote: >> >> >>>> On Dec 31, 2019, at 13:32, Ali via cctalk wrote: >>> >>> I hate having to order 50 capacitors from Chi

Ordering parts onesie twosie (was: One of Bay Area's last Fry's Electronics stores closes)

> On Dec 31, 2019, at 13:32, Ali via cctalk wrote: > > I hate having to order 50 capacitors from China every time I need one > I ordered two from Mouser this week. alan

Re: Nixdorf computer AG boards rechner 154

On 12/21/19 3:00 AM, Ed Groenenberg via cctech wrote: Alan Perry via cctalk wrote: On 12/20/19 6:36 PM, Jon Elson via cctech wrote: On 12/20/2019 02:53 PM, Adrian Stoness via cctech wrote: weird nixdorf is the last name of my boss whos in his 70's engineered lime plants around north

Re: Nixdorf computer AG boards rechner 154

On 12/20/19 6:36 PM, Jon Elson via cctech wrote: On 12/20/2019 02:53 PM, Adrian Stoness via cctech wrote: weird nixdorf is the last name of my boss whos in his 70's engineered lime plants around north america for what became greymont No, Nixdorf was a significant player in the computer

Re: Free: USENIX publications (Computing Systems and late 90s ; login:)

On 11/30/19 1:43 AM, Nigel Williams via cctalk wrote: On Sat, Nov 30, 2019 at 5:40 PM Alan Perry via cctalk wrote: https://www.usenix.org/publications/login/ This links to archive.org that has login; back to Volume 8 (1983), but I don't see prior volumes. It has all of the ones that I

Re: Free: USENIX publications (Computing Systems and late 90s ;login:)

On 11/29/19 2:59 PM, Alan Perry via cctalk wrote: I am continuing to clean out stuff from my office and today's items are printed copies of the USENIX publications Computing Systems (early 90s) and ;login: (late 90s). The content is available online, but some people like the printed

Free: USENIX publications (Computing Systems and late 90s ;login:)

I am continuing to clean out stuff from my office and today's items are printed copies of the USENIX publications Computing Systems (early 90s) and ;login: (late 90s). The content is available online, but some people like the printed versions. I prefer to send them all out in one lot

Re: Scanning docs for bitsavers

On 11/26/19 7:05 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: On 11/26/19 6:52 PM, Alan Perry via cctalk wrote: I am going through stuff in my office and found that I have some SCSI device docs that aren't on bitsavers. As far as multi-page documents, it seems as if my scanner (or its software) only

Scanning docs for bitsavers

I am going through stuff in my office and found that I have some SCSI device docs that aren't on bitsavers. As far as multi-page documents, it seems as if my scanner (or its software) only does uncompressed TIFF. At bitsaver's recommended 400 dpi, that means about 4M per page. What should

Re: The information age

On 11/26/19 11:40 AM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: On Tue, 26 Nov 2019, dwight via cctalk wrote: It is such a shame that in the "information age", we have lost so much of the information. It doesn't help when we have people like Jobs that like to write their own version. As I understand

Re: Nuke Redmond!

On 10/6/19 10:40 PM, Mark Linimon via cctalk wrote: On Mon, Oct 07, 2019 at 05:24:23AM +, null via cctalk wrote: This list is really going down the tubes. ITYM "Integrated Circuits". Tubes is before the time of most of the folks on this list, I think. (ok folks, it's a joke ...)

Re: Info on testing vintage power supplies

On 9/2/19 9:56 AM, Tony Duell wrote: On Mon, Sep 2, 2019 at 5:35 PM Alan Perry via cctech wrote: Can anyone here provide a pointer to info on testing vintage power supplies? Search results on the web may eventually lead to the kind of info that I am looking for, but I have to get through

Re: Searching cctalk/cctech

On 9/2/19 11:01 AM, Guy N. via cctalk wrote: On Mon, 2019-09-02 at 09:27 -0700, Alan Perry via cctalk wrote: Is there a way to search all of cctalk and cctech? I found the archives, but that is split all of the postings in a given month. alan One way is with Google: just include

Info on testing vintage power supplies

Can anyone here provide a pointer to info on testing vintage power supplies? Search results on the web may eventually lead to the kind of info that I am looking for, but I have to get through too many pages of modern PC power supplies first. Specifically, I will be testing the power

Searching cctalk/cctech

Is there a way to search all of cctalk and cctech? I found the archives, but that is split all of the postings in a given month. alan

Re: SMD disks

On 8/29/19 9:17 PM, Glen Slick via cctalk wrote: On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 4:53 PM Alan Perry via cctalk wrote: My Sun 3/260 came with a pair of 8-inch SMD disks in a separate cabinet. 1. Anyone have a pointer to docs that describe cabling and configuring SMD disks? My Google-fu has failed

SMD disks

My Sun 3/260 came with a pair of 8-inch SMD disks in a separate cabinet. 1. Anyone have a pointer to docs that describe cabling and configuring SMD disks? My Google-fu has failed here. 2. The system came with no cables (external cables between cabinets). Are these standard cables or will

Re: Looking for ... Sun 3 VME slot covers

Also, are the machine screws that hold these covers on metrics? > On Aug 29, 2019, at 10:03, Alan Perry via cctalk > wrote: > > > > I am looking for 3 VME slot covers for a Sun 3/260. I presume ones from any > Sun 3 VME cabinet will work. > > For shipping purpose

Looking for ... Sun 3 VME slot covers

I am looking for 3 VME slot covers for a Sun 3/260. I presume ones from any Sun 3 VME cabinet will work. For shipping purposes, I am in the Seattle area. alan

Re: Control Data 9766 drive on epay

Would this have been connected to a CDC Cyber back in the day? I noticed that this is in Athens, GA, home of University of Georgia. The first programs that I ever wrote were on a CDC Cyber there (via a 300-baud acoustic coupler modem at Valdosta State College). alan On 8/12/19 11:09 AM,

Re: Removing PVA (Was: ADM-3A question)

On 8/11/19 2:21 PM, Warner Losh wrote: On Sun, Aug 11, 2019, 11:29 AM Alan Perry via cctech mailto:cct...@classiccmp.org>> wrote: On 8/11/19 6:58 AM, Charles via cctech wrote: > Anyway. I did a bit more Googling and discovered that plain water > dissolves

Removing PVA (Was: ADM-3A question)

On 8/11/19 6:58 AM, Charles via cctech wrote: Anyway. I did a bit more Googling and discovered that plain water dissolves the PVA goop just fine. No need to use a lot of expensive alcohol which seems to be a less effective solvent anyway! Last Christmas, I removed the old PVA from a DEC

Re: Photos from VCF West 2019

On 8/6/19 10:13 AM, Brian K. Perry via cctalk wrote: Thought I would share some photos I took of VCF West this past weekend in Mountain View, CA. https://photos.app.goo.gl/gF6Sd34SxQMzJEZPA Any (more) photos of Cameron's RISC laptops and portables exhibits? Or the IPX lunchbox exhibit (so I

Re: Alphaservers for free in Athabasca, Alberta

On 8/5/19 12:50 PM, Mark Linimon via cctalk wrote: On Mon, Aug 05, 2019 at 10:39:01AM -0600, Richard Loken via cctalk wrote: Athabasca, Alberta is about 1.000km North of the US Montana border and 10,000km from nowhere And 2,248 miles from my house, according to Google Maps :-) I'll bet it

Re: "half-dollar"/"50 cent piece" Was: Recovering the ROM of an IBM 5100 using OCR

On 7/1/19 10:09 AM, William Donzelli via cctalk wrote: Maybe for you. I did a group purchase of tickets for a club I am a member of. Almost everyone paid me for their tickets paid with checks. I help organize motorsports events; my expenses are reimbursed with checks. Paypal seems to be

Re: OT: "half-dollar"/"50 cent piece" Was: Recovering the ROM of an IBM 5100 using OCR

On 7/1/19 10:01 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: On Mon, 1 Jul 2019 at 17:46, Alan Perry via cctalk wrote: I sold a $3500 car once for cash to a guy who sold his goods at a booth at fairs and shows. He received lots and lots of $20 bills in payment, so that is what he paid me with. I kept

Re: "half-dollar"/"50 cent piece" Was: Recovering the ROM of an IBM 5100 using OCR

On 7/1/19 5:01 AM, William Donzelli via cctalk wrote: In every other country I've visited or lived in -- about 30 or 40 of them -- banknotes are all different sizes, so that totally blind people can sort by size if they have a few of them. I daresay the very skilled can do it by absolute, not

Re: OT: "half-dollar"/"50 cent piece" Was: Recovering the ROM of an IBM 5100 using OCR

On 6/28/19 1:54 PM, Steven M Jones via cctalk wrote: On 06/28/2019 11:11, Alan Perry via cctalk wrote: Canada also replaced the $1- and $2-bill with coins (26.5mm and 28mm, resp.). Oh, I know. I was questioned by the RCMP for spending a $2 bill that was in my leftover Canadian cash from

Re: OT: "half-dollar"/"50 cent piece" Was: Recovering the ROM of an IBM 5100 using OCR

> On Jun 28, 2019, at 10:59, Nemo Nusquam wrote: > > On 06/28/19 13:18, Alan Perry via cctalk wrote (in part): >> One big problem with dollar coins is cash trays need to be redesigned for >> them. Maybe if the US got rid of the penny (like Canada has) there would be

Re: OT: "half-dollar"/"50 cent piece" Was: Recovering the ROM of an IBM 5100 using OCR

On Jun 28, 2019, at 09:57, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: > It is quite rare that you will encounter one. > > It was later replaced with the Sacajewa dollar. Same problem. > It is quite rare that you will encounter one. > > Then there was a commemorative series (gold colored) of presidents

Re: Value of Burroughs B9974 disk pack

> On Jun 14, 2019, at 10:14 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk > wrote: > > > >> On 6/14/19 9:57 AM, Alan Perry wrote: >> >> >> I have been talking to other folks at CHM about seeing the one there, but >> need to work on my rationale. > > Th

Re: Value of Burroughs B9974 disk pack

> On Jun 14, 2019, at 9:25 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk > wrote: > > > >> On 6/14/19 8:50 AM, Alan Perry via cctalk wrote: >> The large A Series work was done in Paoli, King of Prussia, Trediffryn and >> probably other cities around Valley Forge that I do

Re: Value of Burroughs B9974 disk pack

oyees living in > the area, if you're lucky. > Bill > >> On Thu, Jun 13, 2019, 11:50 PM Alan Perry via cctalk >> wrote: >> So, I ended up getting it. Anyone got a running system that can try to read >> the data off of it? >> >> > On J

Re: Value of Burroughs B9974 disk pack

So, I ended up getting it. Anyone got a running system that can try to read the data off of it? > On Jun 13, 2019, at 12:33 PM, Alan Perry via cctalk > wrote: > > > When I worked for Burroughs/Unisys, I was one of the last people working on > software for B1000. I think I

Value of Burroughs B9974 disk pack

When I worked for Burroughs/Unisys, I was one of the last people working on software for B1000. I think I was the sole user of the B1965 at their Lake Forest (Orange County) California office in '88-89. I was surrounded in my cubicle by all of the disk packs for that system. My favorite

Re: One of the deeper dives into RISC vs CISC I've seen

Ok. Here is a second thank you. An interesting read. > On Jun 12, 2019, at 9:58 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk > wrote: > >> On Wed, 12 Jun 2019 at 18:55, David wrote: >> >> I found it most interesting, thanks for sending out the link. > > Oh good. I'm glad to hear that. One "thank you" makes

Care and feeding of true barn-find systems

Yesterday I rescued a Sun 3/260 that had been sitting in an open barn for years. It had been "running when parked" a dozen years ago.  It seems to have been covered by a tarp, but otherwise unprotected. All things considered, it doesn't look that bad but it is pretty rough. Any pointers on

Re: SCSI2SD: Is it worth a try?

On 3/18/19 7:22 PM, Josh Dersch via cctalk wrote: On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 7:16 PM Charles Dickman via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: What is the experience with the SCSI2SD with old computers? It looks to be SCSI-1 and SCSI-2 compatible and I see a lot of reports of usage on this

The continuing story of a Rainbow 100 (Was: Rainbow 100 PSU capacitor list)

was going to take a more systematic approach to diagnosing the issue tomorrow. Since the system "just" worked last time I powered it up, I wasn't expecting things not to work ... Any suggestions on what to look at? alan On 3/6/19 10:21 PM, Warner Losh wrote: On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 a

Re: Rainbow 100 PSU capacitor list

@ 25V I went ahead and ordered a (claimed) working PSU. Hope it actually works. alan On 2/27/19 10:22 AM, Alan Perry via cctech wrote: Hi, I think that I need to re-cap the power supply in a Rainbow 100. Does anyone here know if anyone has put together a list of capacitors used in the power

Re: Rainbow 100 PSU capacitor list

On 3/6/19 5:15 PM, Warner Losh wrote: On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 4:36 PM Alan Perry via cctech mailto:cct...@classiccmp.org>> wrote: There was a lot of related discussion to this, but my question was never answered. Now I seem to have found the answer myself. Acc

Re: Rainbow 100 PSU capacitor list

light up on application of power). I've had my rainbow for 30 years, and haven't had to deal with bad caps in the power supply, but I've also gone as long as a decade with the Rainbow in a box...  And now I have 4 of them (2As and 2Bs) Warner On Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at 3:13 PM Alan Perry

Re: Rainbow 100 PSU capacitor list

e to start by checking for shorts to ground, etc., without continuing to let it happen.  Starting with whatever the circuit breaker is trying to protect. On Tue, 5 Mar 2019, Alan Perry via cctech wrote: Yes, with the power supply disconnected from the mobo, it pops. alan On 3/5/19 3:43 PM, W

Re: Rainbow 100 PSU capacitor list

've never had this issue, I've read about it years ago). Warner On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 2:56 PM Alan Perry <mailto:ape...@snowmoose.com>> wrote: OK, got back to this ... Plugged in the Rainbow 100. Flipped the power switch. No LEDs lit. There is a white circuit breaker

Re: Rainbow 100 PSU capacitor list

I will look at that when I get back home after the weekend. > On Mar 1, 2019, at 2:01 PM, Warner Losh wrote: > > > >> On Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at 2:56 PM Alan Perry via cctech >> wrote: >> Initially it booted and ran for a while until I switched it off. >

Re: Rainbow 100 PSU capacitor list

> On Mar 1, 2019, at 1:44 PM, dwight wrote: > > Maybe I need a little clearification. > When you turn the switches off, it boots? > Dwight > > > From: cctech on behalf of Alan Perry via > cctech > Sent: Friday, March 1, 2019 1:35 PM > To: Ethan Dicks > Cc

Re: Rainbow 100 PSU capacitor list

> On Mar 1, 2019, at 7:52 AM, Ethan Dicks wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 1:21 PM Alan Perry via cctech > wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I think that I need to re-cap the power supply in a Rainbow 100. Does >> anyone here know if anyone has put together a lis

Rainbow 100 PSU capacitor list

Hi, I think that I need to re-cap the power supply in a Rainbow 100. Does anyone here know if anyone has put together a list of capacitors used in the power supply that I can use to order parts? alan

Re: RS/6000 7043-140 boot floppies

On 2/19/19 1:31 PM, Jules Richardson via cctech wrote: On 2/18/19 11:49 AM, Alan Perry via cctech wrote: The system does boot the AIX install on one of its hard disks, but this is a recycled system and I don't have usernames/passwords for that install. Does anyone here have a suggestion

Re: RS/6000 7043-140 boot floppies

and former) about PPC compilers and “possibly gcc 2.95 otherwise cross compiling” was suggested. alan > On Feb 19, 2019, at 3:09 AM, Rico Pajarola wrote: > >> On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 6:49 PM Alan Perry via cctech >> wrote: > >> >> Is there some trick to mak

Re: RS/6000 7043-140 boot floppies

On 2/18/19 1:55 PM, Tapley, Mark wrote: On Feb 18, 2019, at 11:49 AM, Alan Perry via cctech wrote: Is there some trick to making boot floppies for the RS/6000 7043-140 (a mid-90s PReP architecture machine)? I initially tried to install Solaris 2.5.1 on it and created the boot floppy

Re: RS/6000 7043-140 boot floppies

On 2/18/19 12:20 PM, r.stricklin wrote: On Feb 18, 2019, at 9:49 AM, Alan Perry via cctech wrote: The 7043-140 does not appear on the list of supported systems in the Solaris 2.5.1 release notes, so, even though 2.5.1 supports PReP and the 7043-140 is a PReP machine, maybe they aren't

Re: RS/6000 7043-140 boot floppies

On 2/18/19 10:42 AM, Patrick Finnegan wrote: On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 12:49 PM Alan Perry via cctech mailto:cct...@classiccmp.org>> wrote: Is there some trick to making boot floppies for the RS/6000 7043-140 (a mid-90s PReP architecture machine)? The NetBSD boot

RS/6000 7043-140 boot floppies

Is there some trick to making boot floppies for the RS/6000 7043-140 (a mid-90s PReP architecture machine)? I initially tried to install Solaris 2.5.1 on it and created the boot floppy by dd'ing the image using a SPARCstation (running NetBSD). I dd'ed the image over, dd'ed it back and

Re: OT Parts houses & scrappers

On 1/29/19 12:45 PM, Marvin Johnston via cctalk wrote: Many times I find free to be far to expensive for most people including myself (think postage/shipping/prep time.) Aside from stuff like museum donations, I have found giving things away for free is usually a pain. In my experience,

Re: More TeleVideo, system repair

I rescued one of these from a recycler in PDX a few years ago. The recycler thought it was a 1603. It was interesting, but not something that I collect, so I donated it to the Living History Museum. alan On 1/25/19 8:46 AM, Patrick Finnegan via cctalk wrote: I have the next one up, after

Re: Retarded ebay prices

Well, if someone in the Puget Sound area has a HP250 desk that they would sell for the equivalent of 200-250 Euro, let me know and I will be over tomorrow to pick it up. All of this stuff is worth what someone will pay for it. All it takes is one person for that system to be worth 6000 Euro.

Re: Retarded ebay prices

Is that a crazy price for something like that? The other ones that I have seen are in museums. Given what I got for my 11/750 in the condition that it was in a few years ago, the price on this doesn't seem bad to me. alan On 12/19/18 9:26 AM, Electronics Plus via cctalk wrote:

Re: [rescue] Sun2/120 SunOS 3.2 suntools movie (was: advise on Sun2 disk install)

> On Dec 6, 2018, at 3:00 AM, Liam Proven via cctech > wrote: > >> On Wed, 5 Dec 2018 at 23:12, Chris Hanson wrote: >> >> It’s a Sun-2 so it’s not really arguable whether it’s the first ever Sun >> workstation: It’s not. > > Not my claim; the author of the video's. Take it up with him,

Re: sun model 47. code 4/40 does it have the nvram with battery?

On 12/3/18 5:00 PM, Michael Thompson via cctech wrote: Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2018 16:49:37 -0800 From: Alan Perry Subject: Re: sun model 47. code 4/40 does it have the nvram with battery? The RDI Britelite (laptop) is a SPARCstation IPX system board in a laptop chassis. I have IPC

Re: sun model 47. code 4/40 does it have the nvram with battery?

A company called RDI made the Britelite and Powerlite laptops. They eventually merged with Tadpole, which made its own SPARC laptops (SPARCbooks). As someone else mentioned, there were different Britelite models based on the various Sun lunchbox system boards. When I had my Britelite IPX on

Re: sun model 47. code 4/40 does it have the nvram with battery?

I will have to get back with you on the audio. It is on offline backup media and I need to find it. Here is a link to some photos of the exhibit - https://photos.app.goo.gl/7qC8UbEYCeCf9CBo7 The RDI Britelite (laptop) is a SPARCstation IPX system board in a laptop chassis. It was in the Day

Re: sun model 47. code 4/40 does it have the nvram with battery?

There is only room for drives in the top half of the chassis.  The PSU and an assembly that holds the drives fills the top half. A 3.5" half-height drive fits in one side of the assembly and a 3.5" floppy drive fits in the other. The PSU cables go from the rear to the front of that side of

Re: sun model 47. code 4/40 does it have the nvram with battery?

Yes. It is next to floppy in the upper half of the chassis. There is a 50-pin (IDC connectors) ribbon cable that goes down to system board at the bottom of the lower half of the chassis. The chassis splits in the vertical middle in a, if looking at the chassis, fairly obvious place. Because of

Re: sun model 47. code 4/40 does it have the nvram with battery?

Well, as I said, in my experience, the NVRAMs that you can buy new from Mouser work good enough. And the mod to the original battery isn't that hard to make. In my experience with IPCs, the bigger problem is the power supplies. If the PS on the IPC that you have now doesn't need to be

Re: sun model 47. code 4/40 does it have the nvram with battery?

A 4/40 is a SPARCstation IPC. It used a M48T02 NVRAM for the IDPROM. Yes, one with the dreaded battery. alan On 12/1/18 5:04 PM, Ed via cctalk wrote: we were given this and a hard dribe a floor standimg decwriter. does this use NV ram with dreaded battery? thanks,ed Sent from AOL

Re: NVRAM resuscitation (Was Re: SPARCstation 20 with SCSI2SD)

One reason that I buy the new NVRAMs is that I keep failing at modifying them. Got the polarity wrong and fried one. I destroyed one cutting down to the terminals. I got one working, but have had problems convincing the battery to stay in place and not rip the leads off. There is a reason I am

Re: SPARCstation 20 with SCSI2SD

On 11/26/18 2:08 PM, systems_glitch wrote: I don't have any spare modules to rebuild, so I don't have premade replacements up at the moment. I've been rebuilding them for people when they send in their dead modules, but I'd guess most people here can do the rebuild themselves, time

Re: SPARCstation 20 with SCSI2SD

On 11/25/18 7:49 PM, Ethan via cctalk wrote: The NVRAM is totally dead; I've been reloading the IDPROM contents each time. I've already ordered replacement NVRAMs from China; we'll see how they do. Otherwise, I'll be going with the filing/coin cell trick. Interesting. Are they no longer

Re: Removing PVA from a CRT

k. -C On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 3:02 PM Alan Perry via cctech mailto:cct...@classiccmp.org>> wrote: On 11/19/18 12:18 PM, Warner Losh wrote: > > > On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 11:41 AM Alan Perry via cctech > mailto:cct...@classiccmp.org> <mailto:cct.

Re: Removing PVA from a CRT

On 11/19/18 1:48 PM, Paul Koning wrote: On Nov 19, 2018, at 4:01 PM, Alan Perry via cctech wrote: Finally, a VR201 specific question. I booted the Rainbow over the weekend and, looking through broken-down PVA, I could see the Rainbow has booted and I could enter DOS

Re: Removing PVA from a CRT

On 11/19/18 12:18 PM, Warner Losh wrote: On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 11:41 AM Alan Perry via cctech mailto:cct...@classiccmp.org>> wrote: I recently picked up a Rainbow 100. The PVA between the safety glass and the CRT on VR201 that came with it has broken down and failed

Removing PVA from a CRT

I recently picked up a Rainbow 100. The PVA between the safety glass and the CRT on VR201 that came with it has broken down and failed badly. I have seen videos and read about removing the safety glass, cleaning out the PVA, and reattaching and resealing the safety glass. All that I have

Re: Got a Rainbow 100 and ...

On 11/10/18 10:47 PM, Alan Perry via cctalk wrote: Today I picked up a Rainbow 100. The seller bought it new for a specific need and he says that it had been sitting in his barn since '84. It looks like it was a dry barn because things look pretty clean for the most part aside from

Re: Got a Rainbow 100 and ...

On 11/10/18 11:00 PM, Tony Duell wrote: On Sun, Nov 11, 2018 at 6:56 AM Alan Perry wrote: On 11/10/18 10:51 PM, Tony Duell wrote: On Sun, Nov 11, 2018 at 6:47 AM Alan Perry via cctalk wrote: What I got was the system unit, a VR201 monitor, a keyboard, a vertical deskside stand

Re: Got a Rainbow 100 and ...

On 11/10/18 10:51 PM, Tony Duell wrote: On Sun, Nov 11, 2018 at 6:47 AM Alan Perry via cctalk wrote: What I got was the system unit, a VR201 monitor, a keyboard, a vertical deskside stand for the system unit, and a LQP02 daisy wheel printer. I also got the MS-DOS and CP/M doc and software

Got a Rainbow 100 and ...

Today I picked up a Rainbow 100. The seller bought it new for a specific need and he says that it had been sitting in his barn since '84. It looks like it was a dry barn because things look pretty clean for the most part aside from a thick layer of dust on everything. What I got was the

Re: Microsoft-Paul Allen

> On Oct 24, 2018, at 2:47 AM, Liam Proven wrote: > > On Tue, 23 Oct 2018 at 20:01, Alan Perry via cctalk > wrote: > >> Excuse me, but I work for Oracle on Solaris (primarily on USB code) and >> it is not EOL. Oracle just released Solaris 11.4 and the next

Re: Microsoft-Paul Allen

On 10/23/18 11:41 AM, Paul Berger via cctalk wrote: On 2018-10-23 2:45 PM, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: On Tue, 23 Oct 2018 at 19:05, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote: On 10/23/2018 10:47 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: This may be an unfortunate mismatch of English idioms. Fair.

Re: Microsoft-Paul Allen

On 10/23/18 11:00 AM, Alan Perry via cctalk wrote: On 10/23/18 10:45 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: On Tue, 23 Oct 2018 at 19:05, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote: On 10/23/2018 10:47 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: This may be an unfortunate mismatch of English idioms. Fair. &quo

Re: Microsoft-Paul Allen

On 10/23/18 10:45 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: On Tue, 23 Oct 2018 at 19:05, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote: On 10/23/2018 10:47 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: This may be an unfortunate mismatch of English idioms. Fair. "Out there", to me, means "current, available/on sale/in

Re: Microsoft-Paul Allen

On 10/23/18 10:37 AM, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote: On 10/23/2018 11:19 AM, Alan Perry via cctalk wrote: When I bring up Solaris 11.4 in VirtualBox, I get a Gnome desktop. Ya, I think that Solaris has started using Gnome as the default desktop.  But I'm fairly sure that C.D.E. is still

Re: Microsoft-Paul Allen

Even though Oracle only sells server hardware running Solaris, there are customers running Solaris on laptops and other systems with graphic consoles. When I bring up Solaris 11.4 in VirtualBox, I get a Gnome desktop. (I work on USB and boot, so I don't pay much attention to the desktop and

Computers that never crash (Was: Microsoft-Paul Allen)

> On Oct 23, 2018, at 8:48 AM, Jon Elson via cctalk > wrote: > > On 10/22/2018 08:33 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: You've discovered some computer that doesn't ever crash? >> On Mon, 22 Oct 2018, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote: >>> Hmmm, well, my home desktop has been up 478 days, my web

Re: Advice requested on proper disposal of Seagate ST3000DM001 disk drives

I find it enjoyable to disassemble the drives that I want to dispose of. I take all of the metal bits and throw them in my scrap metal recycling bin. I throw the boards in my electronics/e-waste recycling bin. I used to keep the magnets, but I have a pretty good magnet collection now and, with

Re: SDL and SunOS

What vintage SPARCstations and what version of SunOS? Are you talking about BSD SunOS or Solaris? On 7/20/18 4:30 PM, David Griffith via cctalk wrote: How feasable is it to compile and run SDL for SunOS?  My main reason for doing this is to play Z-machine games on Sparcstations using Frotz

Re: WTB: Solbourne computer

On 5/23/18 8:54 AM, Warner Losh via cctalk wrote: On Wed, May 23, 2018, 9:46 AM Al Kossow via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: On 5/23/18 7:51 AM, Alan Perry via cctalk wrote: they need a special mouse and keyboard You can run them headless, so they aren't completely usele

Re: WTB: Solbourne computer

4, 5 and 5e I/O boards. I know a guy that I used to work with there that will know for sure. I'll ask him. He still has a series 5e in service... Warner On Wed, May 23, 2018, 8:51 AM Alan Perry via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org <mailto:cctalk@classiccmp.org>> wrote: There are s

Re: WTB: Solbourne computer

There are some that a recycler has been trying to sell on eBay. However, they need a special mouse and keyboard and that seller has none. alan > On May 23, 2018, at 2:18 AM, Kevin Bowling via cctalk > wrote: > > Looks neat, anyone have one of these things they'd sell

HP 9000 model 300 (was: HP Series 9000 early 1980’s computer hardware)

Is there interest here in the HP 9000 Series 300? I know nothing about them, but there is one in the AS-IS section at the local computer recycler (RePC in Seattle) for $40. alan > On May 17, 2018, at 3:15 PM, Frank McConnell via cctalk > wrote: > > The 9000 Series

Re: R: Sparc Laptops

On May 10, 2018, at 1:44 PM, Cameron Kaiser via cctalk wrote: >>> I'd be interested as well if any are left. >>> I sold a Sparcbook a while back that was missing the hard drive caddy. I >>> just couldn't find a caddy and had a random buyer that wanted it for a >>>

Re: Sparc Laptops

I am looking for the older SPARCbook laptops from Tadpole. I have been going back and forth this morning on whether to try and get one of those UltraSPARC laptops. alan On 5/8/18 1:21 PM, Electronics Plus via cctalk wrote: I have to laugh. The Sun dealers think these are absolute junk, and

Save or throw out - ST1480N HDD edition

Actually, for me, this could probably be expanded to "early 90s SCSI HDD edition". As a collector of early 90s Sun systems, I have many Seagate ST1480N (aka Sun 424 drives). Starting two year ago, they all started dying. Out of a dozen, I am now down to one working one. Is anyone

Re: Is This A Shill?

On 5/2/18 9:55 AM, Guy Sotomayor Jr wrote: On May 2, 2018, at 9:50 AM, Alan Perry via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: On May 2, 2018, at 8:58 AM, Cory Heisterkamp via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: [snip] Chuck makes a good point about the Make-O

Re: (OT) Re: Is This A Shill?

> On May 2, 2018, at 9:34 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk > wrote: > > > >> On 5/2/18 9:20 AM, Mark J. Blair via cctalk wrote: >> change the format from fixed ending time to automatically extending the >> auction period N minutes past the last bid. > Ain't gonna happen. >

Re: (OT) Re: Is This A Shill?

> On May 2, 2018, at 9:20 AM, Mark J. Blair via cctalk > wrote: > >> On May 2, 2018, at 09:08, Chuck Guzis via cctalk >> wrote: >> >> Although eBay in the past has tried to kill off sniping because it >> reduces the number of visits an

Re: Is This A Shill?

> On May 2, 2018, at 8:58 AM, Cory Heisterkamp via cctalk > wrote: > > On Wed, May 2, 2018 at 10:22 AM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk < > cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > >>> On 05/02/2018 08:06 AM, Eric Christopherson via cctalk wrote: >>> >>> When you say you snipe with a

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