On 5/23/2017 11:37 PM, Dave Wade G4UGM via cctalk wrote:
Since
those are not easy to dig up now, what options are there? Also,
because there's often plenty of pigment, what oil/solvents are good to
wrest some of that pigment back out of a dried ribbon?
That is a question I'd like to determine
Hi Jim,
Anybody that is paranoid about telling their location and the computer
dinosaurs running in their basement needs a head alignment.
Another case of some guy over-estimating the worth of the junk we hold on to.
It is zero, of value to only us that play with it.
And our numbers are di
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> From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Jim Brain
> via cctalk
> Sent: 24 May 2017 06:14
> To: Ethan Dicks ; General Discussion: On-Topic and
> Off-Topic Posts
> Subject: Re: Teletype 43
>
> On 5/23/2017 10:45 PM, Ethan Dicks wrote:
> > Ba
On 05/23/2017 05:31 PM, Andrew Harvey via cctalk wrote:
> I don't think Indivudual Computers make the catweasle any more. They never
> released a 64bit Windows driver for it.
In point of advancing technology, one can purchase a STM32F4 development
board with USB, UART, microSD, battery-backed RTC
On 05/23/2017 05:31 PM, Andrew Harvey via cctalk wrote:
> I don't think Indivudual Computers make the catweasle any more. They never
> released a 64bit Windows driver for it.
In point of advancing technology, one can purchase a STM32F4 development
board with USB, UART, microSD, battery-backed RTC
Hi Jim,
add me to your list.
I am in Thousand Oaks, CA (Los Angeles area).
I have a Tektronix 4051 vector graphics computer running, just BASIC games at
the moment. I have a Compaq Model 1 with the PC-IDE flash setup, running
Autocad, Versacad, Dr. Halo, Turbo-C, MS-Fortran.
I am in conv
On 5/23/2017 10:45 PM, Ethan Dicks wrote:
Back in the day, there was a re-inking product, the Mac Inker.
I have a Re-inker, though not exactly like the Mac Inker, but the Model
43 has a built in "Mac Inker"-like inking system. It's a small loop of
ribbon with a large felt round ink pad in the
On 5/23/2017 5:56 PM, William Sudbrink via cctalk wrote:
Mercury
"bouncing around" in her body for almost a year before she finally passed.
It also "went through" the back of her hand without making some awful
lesion. 1.3 grams?! I've always gone with the mental crutch that a paper
clip wei
> The Wikipedia article on Dr. Wetterhahn seems to indicate
> this went a lot slower than we were told in the seminar.
> Not sure who to trust, there.
The NEJM article seems to say it was also not a precipitous decline.
--
personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.
I don't think Indivudual Computers make the catweasle any more. They never
released a 64bit Windows driver for it.
On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 10:19 AM, jim stephens via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> Anyone know of where these can be had now days?
>
> thanks
> jim
>
On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 9:20 PM, Jim Brain via cctalk
wrote:
> On 5/23/2017 1:07 AM, dave.g4...@gmail.com wrote:
>>
>> You probably need a null modem cable.
>
> I had one (and used it), but not all null modem cables are evidently the
> same :-) I soldered up a loopback as you suggested, and the u
On 05/23/2017 05:40 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
> On Tue, 23 May 2017, Warner Losh via cctalk wrote:
> In addition to cleaning the heads, look at the parts that slide when the
> head moves. The old grease is probably in bad shape by now. With a
> little solvent (WD-40 is NOT a solvent), cle
On 05/23/2017 01:57 PM, William Sudbrink via cctalk wrote:
I have a hard time getting my head around Dr. Wetterhahn's poisoning. How
many molecules of the toxin could have possibly entered her body?
How many molecules does it take to kill or fatally disable a cell? After it
does its damage, doe
On 5/23/2017 8:49 AM, Ethan Dicks wrote:
Not a positive sign.
Dodged a bullet. Model 43 needs RTS, DTR, AND DCD to be active to drop
into DATA MODE. Initial null modem cable does not connect DCD to DTR.
Small fail. I'll have to mark that cable.
Now, to decide how best to present this uni
On 5/23/2017 1:07 AM, dave.g4...@gmail.com wrote:
You probably need a null modem cable.
I had one (and used it), but not all null modem cables are evidently the
same :-) I soldered up a loopback as you suggested, and the unit
dropped into DATA MODE on startup. I then played with the signals.
Thanks for the reply. I would never dream of "messing with it." Even
reading the NEJM article, it still amazes me to think of the Mercury
"bouncing around" in her body for almost a year before she finally passed.
It also "went through" the back of her hand without making some awful
lesion. 1.3 g
On Tue, 23 May 2017, Warner Losh via cctalk wrote:
Greetings,
I have three flakey floppies. I wonder if they are worth fixing. Two are
TEAC FD-55FRs. One appears to not report the INDEX mark, the other works
well until around track 35 or so then fails... The third floppy is a 1.2 MB
YD-380. It wo
Old grease where? I'm not familiar with this issue...
Warner
On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 6:16 PM, william degnan
wrote:
> Warner...get rid of old grease and replace if you have it, like an early
> MAC Apple drive benefits from. Might help
>
> Bill Degnan
> twitter: billdeg
> vintagecomputer.net
>
I just bought Kryoflux last month to read some Venix disks.
https://webstore.kryoflux.com/catalog/ is a good place to start.
Once I got a working floppy, and understood the output of dtc, I've been
loving mine. I'd recommend buying a known good floppy drive of the
appropriate flavor if you don't a
Anyone know of where these can be had now days?
thanks
jim
Warner...get rid of old grease and replace if you have it, like an early
MAC Apple drive benefits from. Might help
Bill Degnan
twitter: billdeg
vintagecomputer.net
On May 23, 2017 8:13 PM, "Warner Losh via cctalk"
wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I have three flakey floppies. I wonder if they are worth
Greetings,
I have three flakey floppies. I wonder if they are worth fixing. Two are
TEAC FD-55FRs. One appears to not report the INDEX mark, the other works
well until around track 35 or so then fails... The third floppy is a 1.2 MB
YD-380. It won't reliably move the head...
I've tried cleaning t
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Wetterhahn
> > http://i.imgur.com/0dXdc.jpg
> >
> > Karen Wetterhahn spilled a drop of a Mercury compound on her latex
> > glove, and died of it 10 months later.
>
> I have a hard time getting my head around Dr. Wetterhahn's poisoning. How
> many molecu
I will post anything you want me to, just tell me.
email is not necessary, a link or website will do fine as well.The map is
intended to be a method to see who's where for assistance, trading, meet-ups,
etc.There's hundreds of people here, but few know where each other live, I
suppose.
I have a hard time getting my head around Dr. Wetterhahn's poisoning. How
many molecules of the toxin could have possibly entered her body?
How many molecules does it take to kill or fatally disable a cell? After it
does its damage, does the molecule become available again to do
more damage? How
On May 22, 2017, at 9:38 AM, Paul Koning via cctalk
wrote:
> ...I'm not sure if "mercury" batteries contain metallic mercury or mercury
> salts. Metallic mercury is actually pretty much harmless, even though
> bringing a thermometer into a US school can cause a major panic. Mercury
> salts
> From: Jim Stephens
> The fellow responded and as I had suspected had never seen anything
> this old before and had thought that the parts were separable.
> ...
> Also he is going to hopefully share photos of the entire pile and I'll
> try to help him market the parts in t
On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 12:57 AM, Jim Brain wrote:
> On 5/22/2017 8:41 PM, Ethan Dicks via cctalk wrote:
>> Do you have a "traffic light"? I find them invaluable for diagnosing
>> handshaking and TxD/RxD swaps.
>
> Yep. constant low on TX.
Not a positive sign.
> It's entirely possible, but I p
On Tue, 23 May 2017, Maciej W. Rozycki via cctalk wrote:
Date: Tue, 23 May 2017 14:35:52 +0100 (BST)
From: Maciej W. Rozycki via cctalk
Reply-To: Maciej W. Rozycki ,
"General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
To: "classic...@crash.com" ,
"General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-To
On Sun, 21 May 2017, classiccmp--- via cctalk wrote:
> Mesa has to vacate these offices by the end of the month. They're super
> nice people, just trying to avoid anything involving a scrapper. Please
> dig up that thread and have another look (sorry, traveling).
>
> Link to some photos I took:
>
I've not hunted for anything much new on text usenet groups in ages.
However I ran across a reference to a mailman mail list from 2006 call
sun at home.
Then stumbled across something call os.solaris.at-home. I presume that
may be comp.os.solaris.at-home ?
Anyone have a pointer to stable a
On 5/22/2017 11:06 PM, Lyle Bickley via cctalk wrote:
On Mon, 22 May 2017 16:29:22 -0400
william degnan via cctalk wrote:
can you send a link to the people who are on the list so they can see
their listing? I personally don't mind as long as any record that
includes me personally does not i
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