Would Chuck's temperature and Al's oven be appropriate for old magtapes,
too?
On 7/11/18 9:10 AM, Al Kossow via cctech wrote:
On 7/11/18 8:57 AM, Rob Jarratt via cctalk wrote:
Be wary though, domestic ovens apparently fluctuate wildly.
Use a food dehydrator
this is the unit I use for QIC
On 07/12/2018 01:40 PM, Paul Berger via cctalk wrote:
IBM created the 8" diskette as an inexpensive and reliable
means of loading microcode and shipped the first read only
drives in 1971.
I am quite certain the original FDD on the 370/168 used a
pair of solenoid coils to ratchet the head in and
Hi Al
So, do you still need the CD?
Also, my friend may have some manuals. I don't know if it is just Solaris stuff
or HaL specific.
Dwight
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> I also got a Sparcstation 5 running Solaris 2.6 and have had no luck getting
> it to recognize the HAL boot drives.
Operator error on my part, didn't know about "drvconfig" and "disks" since I've
never used Solaris 2.x before.
I may be that the 300 required some special init sequence to the processor. It
seems like I recall that it needed to do a scan to initialize a couple of
values. This may make it not work on a Sparcstation 5. I don't recall if we
shipped units with this problem or if they made a rev of the silico
Hi All,
Diane was gracious enough to accept my request for the disks and
documentation. I will certainly make images of the disks if they are
readable and will check if the documentation is already archived. If not,
I will archive it and provide links. If anyone needs a boot disk or
software, I
On 07/12/2018 11:40 AM, Paul Berger via cctalk wrote:
> Because IBM never sold the drives themselves and the market impact of
> the first Memorex drive may not have been really big, there was no real
> standard so when Shugart Associates released the SA800 its proved to be
> very popular and its i
On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 12:24:18PM -0400, Diane Bruce via cctalk wrote:
> I've discovered a SuperBrain manual and two floppy disks in my basement.
> Anyone want them? Free to a good home.
It has been spoken for and now I feel bad now that I don't have more to give
away
to everyone who spoke up. :
IBM created the 8" diskette as an inexpensive and reliable means of
loading microcode and shipped the first read only drives in 1971.
Memorex did ship a hard sectored R/W drive some time in 1972 likely
because Alan Shugart had jumped ship from IBM to Memorex. Some sources
credit Shugart with i
I'd be interested if Doug isn't.
Thanks,
Jonathan
On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 12:50 PM, Bill Degnan via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> Doug Crawford has one of these, he may want this.
>
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 12:24 PM Diane Bruce via cctalk <
> cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
> > I've
I have a SuperBrain and have been looking for a manual and disks. I will take
it if it is still available.
> On Jul 12, 2018, at 11:24, Diane Bruce via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> I've discovered a SuperBrain manual and two floppy disks in my basement.
> Anyone want them? Free to a good home.
>
> D
Hi Chuck
I agree it is easy to convert but I am surprised that a start-up would have the
guts to change the "standard," whether it was Memorex, Potter or Century. I
think before the 33FD Memorex was the market leader but I could be wrong. I've
asked some SA founders the question. Does anyone
Doug Crawford has one of these, he may want this.
On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 12:24 PM Diane Bruce via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> I've discovered a SuperBrain manual and two floppy disks in my basement.
> Anyone want them? Free to a good home.
>
> Diane
> --
> - d...@freebsd.org d...@db
The two main issues with the CHWiki (non-logged in users not seeing the most
recent versions of pages, and image uploads not working) have been dealt with.
Noel
I've discovered a SuperBrain manual and two floppy disks in my basement.
Anyone want them? Free to a good home.
Diane
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- d...@freebsd.org d...@db.net http://www.db.net/~db
> So far as near as I can tell the earliest FDDs (IBM 23FD Minnow and Memorex
> 650/651) used Step In/Step Out. The IBM 33FD Igar used direct control of the
> motor.
Someone asked (you?) on one of my Youtube videos for more detail about
the 23FD's stepping method, so I made a video covering the fi
On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 3:20 PM, Eric Smith via cctalk
wrote:
> That reminds me of one of my favorite computer trivia questions:
>
> What is the shortest useful CP/M program?
My guess (and I am not a CP/M person) is that it's something
like the 0-length .com file. This will not affect memory when
On Jul 12, 2018, at 10:20 AM, Eric Smith via cctalk
wrote:
>
> That reminds me of one of my favorite computer trivia questions:
>
> What is the shortest useful CP/M program?
Oh yes, the "infinitely profitable program." There was a write up of this that
I came across some time ago. It's a pr
That reminds me of one of my favorite computer trivia questions:
What is the shortest useful CP/M program?
On Sun, Jun 17, 2018, at 5:52 PM, Seth Morabito wrote:
> I'm trying desperately to remember an anecdote I remember reading not
> too long ago about programming ITS using DDT.
> [...]
Replying to myself here, because I found it! Thanks to Rainer Joswig on Twitter
for posting it.
I will quote it
On Wed, 11 Jul 2018 at 20:05, Fred Cisin via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Don't use pumice to clean off the pumas. (they won't like it)
> Stick with well whale oil.
Also great for rosewood, I hear.
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On Wed, 11 Jul 2018, Al Kossow wrote:
On 7/11/18 2:21 AM, Christian Corti via cctalk wrote:
I use Screen 99 for cleaning floppies
MSDS
https://store.comet.bg/download-file.php?id=16956
first ingredient listed; isopropyl alcohol
Of course, somehow you need some "magic" in the stuff ;-)
But a
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