that the DS20 mother boards had hardware on them such as USB
controllers and maybe SCSI controllers that were not supported by either
OS.
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seriously don't care what happens to their data or their disks.
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On Mon, 17 Dec 2018, Kevin McQuiggin wrote:
I have a couple of compatible drives that I use on my Microvaxes, if you
could spare say 6 then that?d be great. I live in Vancouver and of course
would pay shipping!
Good! Six down, 114 to go! I will get six for you.
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.
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On Mon, 17 Dec 2018, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote:
On 12/17/2018 04:02 PM, Richard Loken via cctalk wrote:
I have immediate access to four Alphaservers, an RA8000 raid server, and
the associated fibre switches in need of a new home.
Where are the servers located? Are they in Athabasca
ave a lifetime
of spare cartridges already.
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depending on the whim of the present owner.
Lots of paper docs and Tru64 OS installation kits but no licenses.
They can be had for free but shipping will most assuridly not be free.
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Athabasca, Alberta C
Welcome – and watch out where you stick those probes:
EEVBlog -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaELqAo4kkQ
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what FreeBSD runs out of the box because I immediately delete it
and install Motif.
FreeBSD may not have the installed base of Linux but it has a its fans.
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Athabasca, Alberta Canada : our heads are naked!&
My comment was going to be "you just did :>)"
Richard Sheppard
her, lottery,
joke-of-the-day etc. They could also enter contests and record their phone
number via DTMF.
Richard Sheppard
> I am looking for a manual for the original NEC Multisync monitor.
Mine is JC-1402 and the "User's Manual" I have is titled "MultiSync 3D". It
mentions model JC-1404 but it all looks the same as mine. Is there anything in
particular you need to know - or wou
Yes, that’s the last article I remember as well. 1982 I think. Have it
somewhere here.
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On Sun, Jul 29, 2018 at 2:12 PM -0400, "Fred Cisin via cctalk"
wrote:
On Sun, 29 Jul 2018, Richar
This is awesome!
I agree, Evan, I don’t think he’s ever given a speech or lecture like this, and
if he has, it either was very long ago or not advertised well :-). I’m looking
forward to seeing the video especially given the work I did in making a Gazelle
of my o
Wonderful news! Here’s to a quick recovery!
RichC
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On Sat, Jul 14, 2018 at 3:14 PM -0400, "Daniel Seagraves via cctalk"
wrote:
Got the call yesterday. Transplant operation was a success. Still at the
ho
The two connectors at the top remind me of the MITS 2SIO board. Chip on
the left with the label seems odd — looks like an EPROM. Not sure why they’d
use a UART (40-pin chip) and an ACIA, but it’s an interesting two-port combo
board.
Get Outlo
Steve, Adrian,
I am pretty certain that alcohol will break down the binders and
remove the oxide. Since the bad disc was run through the drive the
head/heads should be cleaned before any more read or write attempts are
made otherwise more discs will be damaged.
Thanks,
rich!
On 7/10/2018
All –
I did a rescue of some vintage HP equipment for VCFE and the
donor had the following vintage test and other equipment left over in his
storage unit (from his father, who had recently passed, an engineer for North
American Bosch). It goes to the dumpster at the end of Ma
> There are hand-drawn schematics floating around but they don't appear
> to match the production hardware
There is a service manual - "Amiga Computer Model 1000 Preliminary Component
Level Repair PN 314038-02" which does show those PALs on page 1-25 "Amiga
piggyback
ere is
an empty area in the EPROM you could stick a byte.
Richard Sheppard
with source
code. I think it was meant for xview though so you'd need to pick out the
useful bits (if any).
Richard Sheppard
, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
On Wed, 28 Mar 2018, Richard Pope via cctalk wrote:
I have been kind of following this thread. I have a question about
MTBF. I have four HGST UltraStar Enterprise 2TB drives setup in a
Hardware RAID 10 configuration. If the the MTBF is 100,000 Hrs for
each drive does
Bill,
I have a 30 year old IBM SCSI drive that still works great. Yes,
every company has had good drives and bad drives. I have had Quantum
drives that have lasted for decades and I have had ones that died in a year.
:)
GOD Bless and Thanks,
rich!
On 3/28/2018 5:03 AM, Bill Gunshannon via
Hello all,
I have been kind of following this thread. I have a question about
MTBF. I have four HGST UltraStar Enterprise 2TB drives setup in a
Hardware RAID 10 configuration. If the the MTBF is 100,000 Hrs for each
drive does this mean that the total MTBF is 25,000 Hrs?
GOD Bless and Than
x27;t need no stinkin' intel around here.
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Hello all,
. . . . For those of you who having not been following my trials and
tribulations with a 16700A in another topic here is a partial update. I
received this LA from a benefactor who has stepped forward. A real big thanks
to him. I have run into that incompatibility problem with Extern
I have a Quantum Q540 (36mb; labeled RD-52) that works
perfectly. I love the sound of the spin-up on those drives.
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On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 8
- I have done that too.
DEC and Compaq also sold DLTs in a StorageWorks module those can also be
taken apart and the drive replaced but they are harder to get apart and
you must pay attention if you hope to get it reassembled properly.
Doug
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On Sun, 4 Feb 2018, Pete Lancashire via cctalk wrote:
One of the Suns is a Sun1 pre-production
Perhaps a pre-production Sparc? I had a long personal relationship with
a Sun-1 and nothing there looks remotely like a Sun-1.
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, "Jason T via cctalk"
wrote:
On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 7:55 PM, Richard Cini wrote:
> I use this card as a floppy/disk controller in a PC/AT that's used solely for
> imaging. The controller is connected to two Seagate ST-2502N (442MB) hard
> drives running MS-DOS
I use this card as a floppy/disk controller in a PC/AT that's used solely for
imaging. The controller is connected to two Seagate ST-2502N (442MB) hard
drives running MS-DOS 6.22. Works like a champ. Cables are readily available on
eBay but since they're regular 50-pin IDC connectors, you can DI
k the deck and shuffled his deck
well before returning his ID card to the top and resubmitting it. I never
heard a thing about that episode but I sometimes wonder what his next
output looked like.
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Athabasca, Albe
I don’t know much about the system itself but if it used one of
the typical IBM 8” diskette formats, you may be able to use IMD or Teledisk and
an appropriate multi-density floppy controller. I’ve had pretty good success
with
All –
I’m looking for some x86 source code for what I’ll call a
standalone version of an X/Y/ZModem (or any combination thereof) for use with a
non-IBM/PC x86 machine. Many versions exist on Simtel and other archives but
they are executable programs rather than source.
That is really awesome. Not being deep into the Lisa platform,
I wonder if the sources to the Toolbox ROM (or equivalent) was also recovered
and how different the sources are to those already out there for the original
Mac.
All –
I can’t remember who contacted me originally about potential
enhancements to the APE (Altair Peripheral Emulator) that I have mirrored at
ape.classiccmp.net.
I heard from Frank Barberis and he mentioned that he’d be willing to make
enhancements to the software if ther
All –
For those interested in APE (the Altair Peripheral Emulator by
Frank Barberis), I have recovered the site (with his permission) and Jay has
agreed to host it on Classiccmp (thank you Jay!). It can be accessed at
http://ape.classiccmp.org.
No developm
I think it should be called the Icarus Project rather than the Pheonix
Project since Icarus flew too close to the sun and fell to his death in
compoarison to the Pheonix who dies in flames and rises from his own
ashes. I don't see much hope of this Pheonix rising any time soon.
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I have the archive from Frank but I haven’t put it up yet. I
was waiting for a sub-site on classiccmp.
If you need it quicker, the Wayback Machine may have it.
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environment, and I'm using a font that supports UTF-8...
And how does one know that a font supports UTF-8?
And yes UTF-8 has been around for decades but as an English speaker I didn't
have to think about unicode and locale and stuff like that.
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I was able to locate a working copy between posting this and today.
All images I had are on Bitsavers. Manuals will posted this evening.
Rich
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On Tuesday, October 10, 2017, Richard Cini via cctalk
wrote:
All –
I’ve imaged all of the
All –
I’ve imaged all of the disks from VCF’s Gazelle and one disk is
not recoverable. It’s a Seattle Computer Utilities disk, version 2.04. If
anyone has an IMD image, or even just the files, can you contact me off-list?
Later today I will be posting all o
I'm looking for a working Tarbell DD floppy controller for a restoration
project. I have a spare but -- long story -- all of the chips are fine
(swapped with working card) but the spare card won't work. Done all sorts of
troubleshooting and repair work but I'm at a loss.
I have a bunch of spa
All –
I’m in the process or restoring a Seattle Gazelle for the
Vintage Computer Federation and one of the disks that it came with had “Norton
Utilities” written on it. I’ve imaged the disk but I’m not entirely sure what
system it was for, and the directory seems to be scramb
/ )
> We need to open 2 drawing but we don't have the software anymore.
>
> We've contacted the company and consultants but they don't have the
> software anymore.
It also may be possible to decode the file format and convert to something
else, DXF for example.
What is the extension on the drawings?
Richard Sheppard
The Technical Reference for the original IBM PC has schematics - "Logic
Diagrams" in the appendices, including the monochrome monitor. That pre-dates
the PS2s of course but they may be similar. Usual cautions about discharging
the anode on the CRT before you poke around in there.
Richard
Hmmm. Sounds like I should get the original drives from the VCF warehouse at
Infoage.
Thanks Chuck.
Rich
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On Saturday, August 12, 2017, Chuck Guzis via cctalk
wrote:
On 08/12/2017 05:30 PM, Richard Cini via cctalk wrote:
> OK, so this is interest
On 8/12/17, 4:31 PM, "cctalk on behalf of Fred Cisin via cctalk"
wrote:
On Sat, 12 Aug 2017, Richard Cini via cctalk wrote:
>> I have four “non critical” disks from this system – says
>> “Utilities”, “Norton Utilities”, “DOS SSSD” and “DOS
http://www.classiccmp.org/altair32
On 8/12/17, 11:48 AM, "Richard Cini" wrote:
I spent a bit of time on this yesterday. I have four QT242s (all were NOS
but two had broken plastic disk guides). It turns out that the only drive that
works is one of the ones with broken plastic. S
I spent a bit of time on this yesterday. I have four QT242s (all were NOS but
two had broken plastic disk guides). It turns out that the only drive that
works is one of the ones with broken plastic. So, I did a little swapping,
connected it to my PC/AT and I now have MS-DOS 6.22 on an 8” floppy.
So based on this entire thread I should probably hunt down some Shugart 850s to
be safe.
Rich
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On Friday, August 11, 2017, Christian Corti via cctalk
wrote:
On Thu, 10 Aug 2017, camiel.vanderhoeven--- via cctalk wrote:
> My workhorse 8" drives are some Ye-Da
ein via cctech
wrote:
- Original Message -
From: "Richard Cini via cctech"
To: "Discussion: On-Topic Posts Only"
Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2017 8:54 PM
Subject: Disk imaging with IMD - question
Guys –
I’m working on a restoration project for VCF that requires i
Will do. These 242 drives are NOS and I have several. I'll swap them too.
Lots to do this weekend!
Rich
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On Wednesday, August 9, 2017, Chuck Guzis via cctalk
wrote:
There's also the possibility that the drive alignment is so far out of
whack that you're not
I think I have a Cromemco 16FDC laying around. Might be able to put a quick
S100 Z80 system together.
Rich
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On Wednesday, August 9, 2017, Fred Cisin wrote:
On Wed, 9 Aug 2017, rich.c...@verizon.net wrote:
> Hmmm. I might have. CW in my storage area. Good idea
Hmmm. I might have. CW in my storage area. Good idea. I don't know the version
of if I have the software. Let me look later. Great idea.
Rich
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On Wednesday, August 9, 2017, Fred Cisin wrote:
On Wed, 9 Aug 2017, Mike Stein via cctalk wrote:
> Interesting readi
I don't have the screen print handy but if you look on Dave Dunfield's site
under Disk/Software he has a controller registry. I'm using the Adaptec
AHA-1522A which uses the National DP8437AV chip.
Rich
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On Wednesday, August 9, 2017, Chuck Guzis via cctalk
wr
> If you can use IMD to format both FM and MFM at 500Kbps on your 242--and
> "Analyze" reads the format okay, your SCP disks aren't probably standard
> IBM 3740 or System/3 type diskettes. They could be in a proprietary
> recording format, such as Intel MMFM or Futured
e:
Interesting reading here under disk formats:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/86-DOS
Sounds like there were two Tarbell controllers, single and double density but
both single-sided ?
Also sounds like the FAT12 disk formats were not quite MS-DOS compatible...
m
- Original Message -
From
Thanks Chuck. The Gazelle uses the Tarbell DD controller which uses a 1793
which I believe is 3742 and s/34 compatible.
Rich
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On Wednesday, August 9, 2017, Chuck Guzis via cctalk
wrote:
On 08/09/2017 10:57 AM, Richard Cini via cctalk wrote:
> "DON&
See below. Hopefully inline works. I'm not shouting, just using caps.
Rich
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On Wednesday, August 9, 2017, Chuck Guzis via cctalk
wrote:
On 08/09/2017 09:52 AM, Richard Cini via cctalk wrote:
> It's funny -- I didn't see the original reply
density SS disk. I never tried that and if you say it
does not work then I can't dispute that without trying it myself.
BIll
On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 12:52 PM, Richard Cini via cctalk
wrote:
It's funny -- I didn't see the original reply from Bill to this message.
I am aware o
It's funny -- I didn't see the original reply from Bill to this message.
I am aware of the track differences and I thought Dos would format it but just
slam the head for the last three tracks. No such luck. It actually complains
about the disk from the beginning.
The Qume 242 is a DSDD drive
Guys –
I’m working on a restoration project for VCF that requires
imaging 8” disks (both SSSD and DSDD, mostly for the Tarbell controller) but
I’m having trouble with it reading disks. So, I wanted to run through what I’ve
done and see if I’m missing anything.
It took me
ld be Netscape 3?. But remember!!
It is spelled Netscape but it is pronounced Mozilla! :)
I still have that 3100. I wonder if the disk will spin up? I took out
the battery on general principle, it is sitting up here beside me with
nary a leak, it has been lying there for years...
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.
I was able to run Mozilla on it but performance was horrible so I tried a
browser remotely on a Alpha running Digital Unix but that was long ago
and ISTR that the browser crashed because it did not like the monochrome
display on the VAX - that seems wierd.
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Hello,
My clear-out has just revealed a complete install pack on CD for Solaris
8 for Intel platform, and a boxed set of Oracle 8i installation CDs for
Solaris on Intel.
Are these of interest to anyone here or should I trash them?
All the best,
Richard
Bristol, England
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It seems to me that somebody recently was looking for an LK201 style
keyboard with the RJ style connector. If somebody is indeed looking for
such a keyboard then send me an email, I came across a couple today that
I may be able to aquire.
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he disk to eliminate fragmentation, that
would not be possible with a raw block by block copy.
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e room. I will have to dig it out some time...
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electrical outlet,
and reseated the memory modules but all that is behind me now.
It is using lots of electricity and making lots of noise while displaying
a Motif session in a 19" liquid crystal monitor without a stand...
What could be better than this?
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Richard Loken V
When I had my 11/34 (11/34, expansion chassis, RX01 and two RK05 drives) think
I ran a 30a, 240v circuit for the power distribution box in the rack but it
used way less when running. Maybe 10a max.
Rich
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On Thursday, May 18, 2017, Adrian Stoness via cctalk
w
s etc. This is work worth
doing IMHO.
I also have a long neglected plan to port the heirloom troff/nroff code
over to VMS just because I am too lazy to switch to Digital Standard Runoff.
No matter what the platform, of all the image viewers/editors out there,
XV is the viewer I love the best!
On Tue, 16 May 2017, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
Retirement as an attempt to gain more free time just doesn't work.
I have already learned that in only four months.
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Athabasca, Alberta Canada : our heads
there are a bunch of patches to get some more
recent formats running on it but I could not resolve all the dependancies
when I last tried to compile them in. I am now retired so maybe I will find
the time to get all that software glued together.
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I worked for Radio Shack from about 1982 to 1989 and I remember him from the
internal RS publication "Intercom".
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> On Apr 4, 2017, at 4:55 PM, Ed via cctalk wrote:
>
> Bernie Appel, ‘Mr. RadioShack,’ Dies
> http://www.twice.com/news/people/bernie-appel-mr-radioshack-di
on the PCB.
Richard Sheppard
.
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** rllo...@telus.net ** :- Arthur Black
tty and within
travelling distance of Edmonton, Alberta reads this, those items are
reported to be there for taking. Oh, and bring a truck and a very strong
friend.
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Richard Loken VE6BSV: "...underneath those tuques we wear,
Athabasca, Alberta Canada : our heads are
I bought 4x2 (4', 2 bulb) replacement LED fixtures on Amazon to swap out some
of the fluorescent fixtures in my shop. You can get 3 color temperatures (I got
2700k I think). Hard-wired, but an easy install and the light is very bright.
$53/per.
Rich
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On Mar 6, 2017, at 2:1
Apparently the part number is 330-1651
http://docs.smoe.org/sun/feh/docs/wcd00015/wcd015cd.htm
Richard Sheppard
, "cctech on behalf of william degnan"
wrote:
On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 10:54 PM, Richard Cini wrote:
> All –
>
>
>
> I’m trying to test a Cromemco 16FDC controller…long story
> but it’s part of a QDOS project. I’m looking fo
All –
I’m trying to test a Cromemco 16FDC controller…long story but
it’s part of a QDOS project. I’m looking for recommendations on a 5.25” disk
image I could use for testing. The system is simple – 16FDC, CompuPro RAM17
(with $C0 block disabled), and a Z80 card. The 16FDC RD
I was hoping someone would make a M48Txx version for the old Suns etc.
Richard Sheppard
That's pretty cool. Love it.
Rich Cini
Sent from my iPhone
> On Dec 27, 2016, at 8:41 PM, Brent Hilpert wrote:
>
> https://imgur.com/a/JNp7m
>
riting PowerShell scripts, and waiting a Micro$oft minute for things
to happen that used to be immediate.
And you are right, Micro$ofts loves SPFs but they do nothing at all to
expedite our mail through their servers.
And in honour of Micro$oft, SPFs, and my 21st century managers, I am
retiring i
By the way, I am my employer's email administrator and I know that I was
not doing anything special to make the email go through - no spf records,
no nothing.
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Athabasca University
On Sun, 20 Nov 2016, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
There's a Rogue for the Alpha Micro. I don't have source for it either,
but it runs very well.
What is an Alpha Micro?
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Athab
On Sun, 20 Nov 2016, Antonio Carlini wrote:
There is a rogue that runs on VAX/VMS as I definitely played it a little back
in the day.
I don't think I had the sources, just a .EXE, so that may not work so well
for Alpha.
Now THAT is interesting! I wonder where it went to?
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Ri
, took the 'g' off "gcc" in the
makefile, used sed to change ncurses to curses where ever it could be
found and compiled it. AND IT WORKS SWELL!
Rogue is as addictive today as it was in 1982 on the VAX-11/780 running
4.2bsd. I think I will port it to OpenVMS and run it on my A
some place? Sure isn't one here.
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Athabasca University : tuques we wear, our
Athabasca, Alberta Canada: heads are naked!&quo
5.5-1 stuff, there seems to be an entire distro
there plus a lot of layered products. These are reduntant, my employer's
last VAX is now sleeping in my basement.
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Athabasca University
The "B" model used a flatted bat handle toggle switch which IIRC weren't made
by C&K. I think I may have the number somewhere but I think there was a thread
with this info a few years ago. A Google search might produce it. The Altair
group archive on Yahoo might have it too.
The IMSAI uses a
meone who
would use it. Shipping to Canada would be CAN$64
I would be far happier to swap it for 80-BUS parts than for cash.
Richard
On 04/11/2016 13:12, Norman Jaffe wrote:
$50 to U.S. would likely be the same for Canada, so I'm still interested... but
let's try not to make th
ebay, I'd much rather it went to a serious
user on here but I do want to expand my collection of 80-BUS
(NASCOM/GEMINI) parts so anything I get for the PrecisionBook would help.
Let me know if you are still interested.
Richard
On 03/11/2016 14:37, Richard wrote:
Hi to everyone,
I have
ebay, I'd much rather it went to a serious
user on here but I do want to expand my collection of 80-BUS
(NASCOM/GEMINI) parts so anything I get for the PrecisionBook would help.
Let me know if you are still interested.
Richard
On 03/11/2016 14:37, Richard wrote:
Hi to everyone,
I have
on at all.
Is it of any use to anyone or should I dump it?
Richard
Bristol, UK
that
proved impossible for me to find.
It changes from model to model and generation to generation.
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Athabasca University : tuques we wear, our
Athabasca, Alberta C
ored inside a binary file."
Therefore the best way to archive CD-ROM images is to use straight
ISO since partial corruption of the file wouldn't corrupt the whole
image.
Am I following your reasoning correctly?
Thanks,
-- Richard
--
"The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" fr
proms
which I do not have.) I have until January 1 to find homes for a lot of
this stuff before it stops being available to me and starts to be
destroyed.
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Athabasca University : tuqu
uch on the LA36. There Sun-1 and DPC manuals that I have
do not seem to be there either.
I looked for contact information on the sitev but I cannot find any,
I am willing to send these for scanning but I do not know how to make
contact, I have not the time, skill, or tools to scan them myself.
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