[cctalk] Re: VCF East 2025 Survey Results

Reading the survey results, the show seemed to get dinged quite a bit concerning lack of info on schedule, room layout, signups, class pre-reqs, and badges. I was not able to attend, but I don't remember having all that much trouble getting info in year's past.  Did something change this year?

[cctalk] Re: Why I am not worried about AI taking over the world!

Nay-saying is always easy. I'd rather hear from smart people who can tell me whether or how a tool is useful now, as well as how it might enhance projects in the future. Why couldn't a present or future AI help you translate from one BASIC dialect to another, if that's what you want to do? If y

[cctalk] Re: Why I am not worried about AI taking over the world!

a friend asked me whether ChatGPT designed and planned DOGE ? The DOGE Cryptocurrency predates the LLM by quite a long time. The LLM stuff is wild, if you haven't tried the AI stuff it's a game changer for sure. I can see it leading to job losses. It know it already has. It's helped me d

[cctalk] Re: Ward Christensen (BBS, XMODEM) has died

Not only are all of the greats dying off, but soon there won't be anybody around who even knew about them. Some of us younger folks remember him. BBSes and Xmodem got me through high school in the 90's. I remmeber using X-Modem to download a term program that had Z-Modem, so I didn't have t

[cctalk] Re: NTE is dead

When I was a kid we had a dozen. 8 Retail and 4 wholesale (but sold singles and small quantities to the public). Today, we also have none. Radio shack was the last and we all know where they went. bill When I was a kid growing up in Southeastern Virginia I remember one of the electronics

[cctalk] Re: Seattle's Living Computers Museum logs off for good as Paul Allen estate will auction vintage items

It's too bad they could have sold or donated the entire museum to another individual/company/group. I'm assuming they must have tried that route. I think I remember that he had no will? And his sister doesn't care about the nerd stuff. - Ethan

[cctalk] Re: 5,34 Petaflop System Cheyenne

I wonder how well that machine would do at bitcoin mining Extremely poor? -- : Ethan O'Toole

[cctalk] WTB: x68000 keyboard and mouse

USA here, anyone have a Sharp x68000 keyboard and mouse to sell? The one that I've repaired and am trying to complete is the desktop version, black, mini-din connector. -- : Ethan O'Toole

[cctalk] Re: VCF SoCal

I had someone very seriously questioning me, over on Fesse Bouc, if I was serious when I said that the ZX Spectrum could remotely be considered a more significant machine than (one model of) TRS-80, and he was incredulous when I absolutely maintained the point. We had the Timex version of the Sp

[cctalk] Re: Anyone have a D1 deck?

I have 3/4" unatic, svhs, super beta, DAT, minidv, digital 8, adat. never got into betacam, d1 or any of those monster formats as tape was expensive as a geek. The sony tape machines for the big digital pro formats are s beautiful though!!! At this point Im going to have to get the supe

[cctalk] Re: Tadpole/RDI UltraBooks - UNIX notebooks - species needs rescue...

Awesome! Didn't realize MAME ws limited to 32-Bit SPARC. But the emulators can definitely be handy, or at least get you partly there! - Ethan Hi Ethan, thanks for suggesting MAME - did some research and somehow I do not think it emulates UltraSparc but only 32bit Sarc. But

[cctalk] Re: Tadpole/RDI UltraBooks - UNIX notebooks - species needs rescue...

Interesting - did you youse some modern technology for doing that? I already thought to attach a logic analyzer to the NVRAM to see which bytes are read first (e.g. for dtermining the hardware configuration). Late to the convo, but it's interesting. You might be able to dump the ROMs and find s

[cctalk] Re: Any leads on Fairlight sampler that needs repair?

That's why I said broken! A boy can dream! - Ethan They are a fairly high demand item when they come up for sale, and are very expensive. Sellam

[cctalk] Any leads on Fairlight sampler that needs repair?

Anyone have any leads in USA on a Fairlight CMI or similar that needs repair? S-100 based sampler from the 80s. Would be fun to restore one. - Ethan

[cctalk] Anyone in Sheffield uk?

Anyone in Sheffield UK? There is an Acorn Archemedies computer I am interested in buying but the guy is collection only. I am in the USA, but interested in buying and repairing the system. - Ethan

[cctalk] Re: PDP-8/L $15,000

I hate what epay is doing to our hobby. I prefer to sell and trade between our selves as reasonable prices understanding that a lot of what we do is sweat equity. If you think the hobby is bad, you should see what happened to housing. "I know what I got!" I have a lot of different geeky hobbi

[cctalk] Re: PDP-8/L $15,000

However, epay does charge an insertion fee so they will have to pay even when it doesn't sell. Eh, you get a lot of free listings these days. They take a huge chunk though. - Ethan

[cctalk] Re: Death of Mitnick

Too bad, but on the other hand, John Draper turned 80 this year. Probably a better role model. --Chuck Hah! Funny! - Ethan

[cctalk] Re: VCF and System Source Computer Museum swap meet this weekend

I'll be there. Hello Ethan. Bring some good stuff for me to buy. jk. -andy Years ago there was an auction of an Internet Kiosk company in Newport News Virginia. I decided to go. It was well advertised and run by a big company (probably Rasmus but I don't remember.) I get there. The crowd see

[cctalk] Re: VCF and System Source Computer Museum swap meet this weekend

Hi, I am curious if anyone here might be planning on attending. https://museum.syssrc.com/artifact/events/3000/ I am heading up there with friends Friday night so we can get there early Saturday. Bringing some stuff to sell, nothing too crazy just odds and ends. PICMG Pentium rackmount machi

[cctalk] Re: The World Wide Web

FidoNet is still a thing too. So is USENET. Julf And bigger than ever (storage size wise.) - Ethan -- : Ethan O'Toole

[cctalk] Re: One of Paul Allen's Museums

One oddity about LCM was that they seemed to be into non-disclosure agreements. It's rather bizarre for a museum to recruit people for a technical advisory group to help them with understanding old hardware, and then require them to sign an NDA for the privilege of helping them. paul

[cctalk] Re: One of Paul Allen's Museums

Question, were Paul Allen’s museums non-profits? Zane I am sure, tax writeoff. -- : Ethan O'Toole

[cctalk] Re: VCF East 2023 photos

It shouldn't be "part of the experience". It's poor planning and poor management of the consignment area on the part of the organizers. This same thing happened at VCF "West" last year and it was a catastrophe. There was a line snaking down the hallway at least a fifty people deep and they were

[cctalk] Re: 3.5' 1.44 & 720K compatible Read/Write FDDs

Is there a list of floppy disk drives which could read and write both 3.5" 1.44mb and 720k diskettes? Replace any SMD electrolytic caps on the drive pcb if there are any. - Ethan -- : Ethan O'Toole

[cctalk] Re: Knockoffs, was: Low cost logic analyzer

I once heard a story from someone* who was told by a journalist that while said journalist was interviewing Richard Stallman he was [WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT COMMENCES HERE] picking the jam from between his toes and eating it. Oh, that's a thing of legend. Fear not, for there is video. https://

[cctalk] Re: Knockoffs, was: Low cost logic analyzer

If you posted your design as Open Source, someone else producing it isn't a knockoff, it's the system working as intended. -- Chris I remember a talk by LadyADA of Adafruit at HOPE about starting a company making open source hardware and success and all that. It's easy if you have the market

[cctalk] Re: Visiting the computer history museum (chm)

The Silicon Valley of old is basically dead. The magic is gone. The two suplus stores are gone (Halted and Weird Stuff Warehouse.) Only thing I can think of that I would recommend is the Musee Mechanique over in San Fran. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mus%C3%A9e_M%C3%A9canique For suplus p

[cctalk] Re: Why the Floppy Disk Just Won't Die

The mylar substrate would probably be the easiest. I don't know if anyone's still making audio tape, but the coating equipment might be the same. I don't know how to find the proper stuff for the goo, however. ATR Magnetics (www.atrtape.com) and others still produce audio tape. They have nor

[cctalk] Re: Tadpole RISC laptop RAM modules

I don't think it's the connector, but it's junk if it isn't anyway, so I might see. These things screw in place and the fit was tight getting it out so it would boot again, so I don't think it wiggled. Still, would be nice to know a source for spares because it seems like others on this list have

[cctalk] Re: Tadpole RISC laptop RAM modules

Well, this is the second Tadpole laptop RAM module I've had go bad on me (one in my PA-RISC PrecisionBook and now one in my SPARC UltraBook IIi). These are the maroon-red 256MB or 512MB screw-in modules marked "Huxley Only" using a custom friction fit connector, not regular SO-DIMMs. I can't find

[cctalk] Re: WTB: Acorn A3010 or A4000

Looking for an Acorn A3010 or A4000 + KB/Mouse, happy to repair it. Also Sinclair +3 with some disks Also BBC Micro Also Amstrad CPC 6128 color. Could forgo monitor and build my own PSU. - Ethan Still looking (though I might have line on the +3) -- : Ethan O'Toole

[cctalk] Re: Store with "vintage" computers and parts

I would be interested in knowing some of those options. Thanks, Will Brave Search / Brave Browser is one. Yandex is a Russian search engine that can come in useful sometimes. Trying to find ISO CD images of discs for music hardware (Samplers) it feels like the internet through google is way s

[cctalk] Re: WTB: Acorn A3010 or A4000

Hi, Ethan, Whereabouts are you? I'm in York, UK, and I have more than one spare BBC Micro. I don't have an A3010 but I do have an A3020 (red function keys) if that's of interest. Private email sent! The A3020 and BBC Micro are of interest! Thanks! - Ethan -- : Ethan

[cctalk] Re: Store with "vintage" computers and parts

In this case, "bryanipad.com" appears to be available. But... my name is Ethan and my old tablet is Android :-( -- : Ethan O'Toole

[cctalk] WTB: Acorn A3010 or A4000

Looking for an Acorn A3010 or A4000 + KB/Mouse, happy to repair it. Also Sinclair +3 with some disks Also BBC Micro Also Amstrad CPC 6128 color. Could forgo monitor and build my own PSU. - Ethan

[cctalk] Re: Store with "vintage" computers and parts

The address is very suspicious, as it does not seem like a very good website name, and ends in .shop, which valid shops in our hobby rarely if ever use. Problem is all the .com addresses are squatted on now, so people are slowly starting to move to alternative things. - Ethan

[cctalk] Re: Computer Museum uses GreaseWeazle to help exonerate Maryland Man

What do you guys think of the "archive-ness" of current solid state devices? M.2, NVMe, SSD, or even USB thumb sticks? A friend proposed that when one of those starts to go bad, any kind of partial data recovery becomes difficult - but any more difficult than the old traditional magnetic media?

[cctalk] Re: Excellent CHM Article on Apple Lisa Software (Apple Archive)

Companies don't care about history.  It does not affect the next quarter's sales. I had serial number 1 of a Radio Shack shortwave receiver and offered it to them. A CEO I know of a company who's products I use has commented that he is always thinking forward, doesn't dwell in the past. Otherwi

[cctalk] Re: in need of 2.5" disks

I saw it at Comdex, and then never again. Nintendo Famicom disk system uses some kind of odd sized not swure disk. -- : Ethan O'Toole

[cctalk] Re: 2 sets of IRIX, 2 Indys and I1

Question is are these versions of Irix suitable. Or couldnI do better. And on account of SGIs licensing scheme, which attaches a specific os version to a maxhine (or vice versa), does that entitle me to obtain and install those specific versions. Put anotjer way if I obtained images from somewh

[cctalk] Re: SGI vs. Mac

I thought the end of SGI hinged on two things: banking on the Itanium and giving up on MIPS, and their Graphics experts went off to found a company called Nvidia... the rest was inevitable. Founder of SGI wrote a book and in it he said he wanted to get into the PC Graphics card market and thou

[cctalk] Re: SGI vs. Mac

Don"t know what an Elan is. I do seem to recall suddenly an Indy with no graphics output, intended to be used as a headless server. The SGI Challenge S is an Indy sized machine that is meant as a server. They get rid of the graphics and replace it with a board that adds a 2nd network interfac

[cctalk] A UK Vintage Computer exchange buddy?

Hello, I have looked at vintage UK computers on Facebook Marketplace and the like. The people usually will not post, especially to me in the USA. They are normally looking for local collection. Anyone in the UK want to be a vintage computer swap friend? Looking to get some systems from there

[cctalk] Re: Large private collections

I have seen system source both the museum part and the warehouse in the back. The rhode island.museum and warehouse is probably larger. Not that system source is not substantial. Bill Ohhh yea, you might of visited System Source before the expansion. Did you see the Cray 1? There is the Cray

[cctalk] Re: Great Vintage Computer Heist of 2012

Don't be pedantic. You know what I mean. Anyway, in the US, there are *significant* barriers to cross for people taking your land. And for the younger crowd it's very expensive now. Not like the old days (assuming you live near a job center.) - Ethan

[cctalk] Re: Large private collections

I suspect Jim Austin has one of the largest collections that's publicly documented... https://www.computermuseum.org.uk/ .. but many are very private about what they own Dave Indeed! Looking down their list it's quite impressive but I think System Source has them beat. I don't see a list of

[cctalk] Re: Great Vintage Computer Heist of 2012

Own your land. Museum or individual. You never own your land. They can always take it. - Ethan

[cctalk] Re: Large private collections

However you define it, who has the largest private collections? Is there anyone who claims to have the largest private collection? I hypothesize that there is a terminal size where it becomes unmanageable. Bill Largest one I know of would by System Source in Maryland? And an awesome one at th

[cctalk] Re: Seattle Computer Products!

Yes. I have a description of my recreation of the Gazelle on my web site, as well as notes on restoring the one for VCFe.  Rich Very interesting! Reading through it all now. I notice you use Tarbell disk controller... difficult to use the SCP DiskMaster? I don't find many references to system

[cctalk] Seattle Computer Products!

At this point I have achieved the SCP CPU card, a CPU support card and a Disk Master card. So hopefully all I need is some kind of 16 bit RAM board and a 4 slot S100 backplane and I can boot 86-DOS. I have started to read through the documentation on the hardware. Has anyone else been down

[cctalk] Re: 8" floppy diskette storage cases

I have contacted the seller, and kindly asked as a gentlemanly as I possibly could. I'll see what happens Don Resor If the seller will use PirateShip that can knock down the price of shipping quite a bit, UPS and USPS only. Good news is it, unlike so many others, can actually give you a PDF t

[cctalk] Re: z9 (s390x) mainframe up for grabs in Melbourne, FL

Will the damage from Hurricane Ian cause problems for anyone trying to retrieve it, and any idea if the Storage Unit suffered storm damage? Zane Melbourne Florida is near Cape Canaveral, it's on the East Coast and probably protected by the cape. Shouldn't be any water damage. Cool surplus pl

[cctalk] Re: BBS memorabilia

Has anyone ever seen promotional videos showing Prodigy, Compuserv, Delphi, GENie, AOL? I've collected disks, but the systems are long gone so archived video is all we have to remember them by. When I was young, I remember seeing disks and pamphlets for these services in the box when upgradin

Re: Vintage Computing Hosting [Was: List migration]

Who else provides free vintage computer-themed web site hosting as a group service? I know neurotica.com (LSSM) does too, and I realize a lot of people have home servers that host their web sites on the subject, still, right? My shell host of friends is at a tier 1 colocation facility. 1.5ms to

Re: Advice on Desoldering an IC

I am trying to remove an IC from my PDP 11/24 CPU, a DS8641. I am really struggling to desolder it. I am using the technique of applying fresh solder and then removing it. But after multiple cycles of this I think I am starting to damage the PCB. Are there any tips for removing ICs? Thanks Rob

Re: Retro networking / WAN communities

Does anyone know of any communities / mailing lists / newsgroups / et al. for retro networking / WAN technologies? - PSTN / PBX / PABX There is a Central Office Groups.io list (which migrated from Yahoo Groups) located at https://groups.io/g/centraloffice . It is low traffic. There is a Dis

Re: Possibly going up to VCF, stuff I would like to sell/get to proper people pdp8/12/HP stuff

I'm thinking about going up to VCF in Wall next weekend. I haven't been to it since it was the Trenton Computer Fest (think late 1990's) so I'm not sure what the protocol is on tailgating, trading stuff or whatnot. Appears that they have a "sale room" you drop things off in with prices. Ok

Re: Data recovery (was: Re: SETI@home (ca. 2000) servers heading to salvage)

For those in the know, how much success - assuming a "money is no object" approach - do data recovery companies have in retrieving data from drives that have a) been overwritten with zeros using dd or similar, and b) been overwritten with random data via a more comprehensive tool? cheers, Jules

Re: LSSM is chasing this, was Re: General Data? Computer Equipment Auction - GSA

In LSSM's case, it's a wholly-occupied 14,000 square foot commercial storefront building that nobody lives in, in a downtown shopping district, as distinguished from the typical private collection in a garage, basement, etc. -Dave Right, I know you have a real building and are ope

Re: LSSM is chasing this, was Re: General Data? Computer Equipment Auction - GSA

I interpreted "disappear into the black hole of a private collection" as meaning "regrettably unavailable for viewing and/or use by anyone but the collector".  This has nothing to do with how well the systems are preserved. And while the particular choice of words may be somewhat inflammatory (a

Re: Typing in lost code

Can the listings be OCR'ed? - Ethan Has anyone ever used Amazon Mechanical Turk to employ typists to type in old listings of lost code? Asking for a friend. -- : Ethan O'Toole

Manual, Amiga, Broadcast Titler 2

Anyone have the manual for the Amiga software Broadcast Titler 2? If so, can I scan it and return it to you? Thanks - Ethan -- : Ethan O'Toole

Re: Apple I auction

Terrible in this day and age. >> That buyer's premium seems crazy steep. > It is not. -- Will -- : Ethan O'Toole

Re: Apple I auction

That buyer's premium seems crazy steep. Another Apple I on the auction block: https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/114629733_the-chaffey-college-apple-1-personal-computer Steve -- : Ethan O'Toole

Re: 3d modelling software

I think I may need to get a small part 3d printed (some plastic board mounting guide rails from a PDP 11/24 H7140 PSU). What software is best for a novice? Preferably free! Thanks Rob I use the web version of Sketchup 3D. It's now owned by Trimble. It gets me by for making project boxes and par

Re: WTB: Amiga 3000 front/floppy

Those funky 150RPM Amiga HD drives are made from unicorns. I have one. I may have even seen another at some point in the last 30 years, but couldn't say for sure. If you don't need HD support, I suggest just taking the front off that PC drive and 3D-printing a plausible-looking fascia for it. I

WTB: Amiga 3000 front/floppy

Scored an A3000. Prior owner cut a hole where the floppy goes and mounted a PC floppy in there. Looking for an original front plate and the matching floppy drive to restore machine to original look. - Ethan

Re: DEC HP sgi ibm and misc for sale

Sup man! First Tezro I've ever seen on CCTalk. Fistbump! - Ethan On Tue, 29 Jun 2021, devin davison via cctalk wrote: I am making room to work on my pdp 11 and mainframe computers. The following things are for sale : 3 Dec decmate computers with kb and monitor. Partway loa

Re: Intel/Altera Dev, Seeking Quartus II old versions

I found what seems to be 12.1 Service Pack 1 on my archive drive. There are two of them. I think the second one with "free" in the name is for windows. The other is for Linux. I believe, but I'm not certain, that these were extracted from the download bundle when I got them. I didn't try in

Re: Intel/Altera Dev, Seeking Quartus II old versions

I think I have at least ver 12 for Linux. Of course it's pretty big. I can upload it to my web page for download if you like. Let me know. It will be at least tonight or tomorrow morning before I get a chance. Will Awesome! That would be great! Thanks! - Ethan

Re: Intel/Altera Dev, Seeking Quartus II old versions

Jumping on thread about older version of Intel dev stuff. My friend has been looking for copies of the Altera/Intel Quartus II software for a while now. Intel pulled every copy from their website and there doesn't seem to be versions online or archived. I assume it is similar issues that oth

Re: IndiZone collections

Have you checked archive.org? The one site on the internet that didn't whine about posting CD ISOs of a long dead operating system (kudos to them!) If they don't have the ones you have, don't forget to submit them if you would :-) - Ethan Curious if anyone on here knows if the c

Re: Compuserve

I was often free-flagged on CIS and many other services so surfing was free. For the kids out there, in today's dollars CompuServe was about $20 an hour. As a young lad, the high costs of things like CompuServe is why I stuck to BBS systems, until the internet came along. Perl parser to sepa

Re: WTB: CompuPro / Godbout RAM 17

Other than "Buy It Now" I have pretty much given up on ebay. Never had luck selling anything and very seldom had any luck winning a bid. Got better ways to waste my time. bill eBay/paypal take a huge cut, you do all the work hiking stuff and guessing shipping costs. But it's got a market th

RE: WTB: CompuPro / Godbout RAM 17

Yes, I was going to bid that one too, until I read he needed it. There was 18 watchers when it was first posted to the list. I figured competition was going to be tough! I was really surprised there was that much of an audience for it. Maybe it's a jerk thing, but in my mind with eBay auctio

Re: WTB: CompuPro / Godbout RAM 17

Were you the winner of the eBay auction? It went for a very reasonable price. It was very difficult for me to not bid on it - those are great boards for use with early S100 systems :) Mike Hello! I actually did not bid on it. Someone else from the community sold me one. The irony is for the e

Re: WTB: CompuPro / Godbout RAM 17

Oh wait, wrong chip. My bad. I think my Model 100 is 24K of storage is there something I'm missing? I did re-cap it. Everyone that has one should do this -- they leak. - Ethan -- : Ethan O'Toole

Re: WTB: CompuPro / Godbout RAM 17

Yup! Sigh. - Ethan I assume you saw the RAM 17 on eBay right now? Mike -- : Ethan O'Toole

Re: Apple 1 and memorabilia up for auction in Boston (NOT on Epay)

The "restoration" hopefully is 100% on the ICs as a $400k price needs the original IC set not work if that was the case.  At least I'd think having the original parts is more useful to the buyer. You can or get an emulator for the Apple 1, which is cute, but isn't that great a machine, and not d

RE: Apple 1 and memorabilia up for auction in Boston (NOT on Epay)

What am I missing? The picture shown on RR auctions shows the board with no chips? Search for Apple in the search box at the top. There are some Woz Schematics for the Apple II, the Apple 1 and a bunch of other stuff. Looks like some of it might be Woz's stuff but hard to tell. Apple 1 was

WTB: CompuPro / Godbout RAM 17

Looking for a RAM 17 for my IMSAI 8080 to replace 6 x 8K boards. -- : Ethan O'Toole

Re: The best hard drives??

    Do you think that we can get back to the original question?? Knowing this list, that won't happen. HGST! -- : Ethan O'Toole

Re: The best hard drives??

In the opinions of you experts out there considering reliability being number one on the list with speed be number two on the list what would you folks consider to be the best SATA drives on the market? GOD Bless and Thanks, rich! HGST. 4TB seem really good. You can also see what backblaze

Re: WTB: Amiga 8375 Agnus IC (NTSC or PAL) or Amiga 600 motherboard

If all else fails, there's this: https://github.com/LIV2/Diet-Agnus-A500-plus It's a little interposer that allows using an 8372A Agnus. You're limited to 1MB chipram with it, but it beats 0. Doc Woah! That is awesome, and I have a 8272A or two sitting around. The A600 I have has 1MB of RA

Re: WTB: Amiga 8375 Agnus IC (NTSC or PAL) or Amiga 600 motherboard

Ethan I probably have one. More likely to be NTSC than PAL - I'll look. What do they go for, these days? Cheers Robert Hello Robert, Did you find this? Eager to get back to repairing the A600. It has kicked my butt for a long time. A friend gave me the system working and I like it a lot, bu

WTB: Amiga 8375 Agnus IC (NTSC or PAL) or Amiga 600 motherboard

Looking for an Amiga 8375 Agnus IC (Amiga 600, Amiga 500 Plus.) NTSC is what I have now but the PAL version might work. Also interested in an Amiga 600 motherboard, can deal with it if bad caps and cap damage. Thanks -- : Ethan O'Toole

Re: Not-OFFLIST Re: domains available (FTGH)

I have to agree, that’s an interesting configuration. The 1U Vaxstation 4000/VLC makes a lot of sense, this, an A1200 I’m having a bit more trouble understanding. What is the purpose of this system? Zane I would assume it can run Linux/Unix stuff? Though not sure you could get an accelerato

Re: Buying and running an IBM PC-XT in 2020

I delivered in a truck to the set up in Quebec the 20 IBM XTs that you see in the movie Xmen the Apocalypse. I retrieved them after the filming. I could set up an office or classroom of XTs. A funny if not impractical practical joke B That is awesome! -- : Ethan O'Toole

Re: 2 2010 macbook pro's --- vast performance differences....

NO excessive fan noise. I had the back off while changing disks and were pretty clean. Yes.. I could add temp monitoring to see if they are being throttled. Thermal paste can get hard and stop conducting heat. Also, the heatpipes can fail and quit moving the heat from the processor or GPU ov

Re: Sun E250, NVRAM edit? (Serial Speeds, no console, etc)

In theory console can be set to anything but its usually 9600/8/n/1 as I’m sure you’ve tried. Progress last night. Pulled the NVRAM (STM M48Y59 or something) and threw it in the Needham EMP-100. Read contents, nothing that looked like any sort of config really. I noticed on the mainboard th

Re: Sun E250, NVRAM edit? (Serial Speeds, no console, etc)

In theory console can be set to anything but its usually 9600/8/n/1 as I’m sure you’ve tried. Oh yea, I see the diags at that speed but everything else is noise. Memory is kind of hazy since it was 2008 era, but back then I had a Livingston Portmaster PM-25 hooked to all the colo hosts and I s

Sun E250, NVRAM edit? (Serial Speeds, no console, etc)

Hello, I have an E250 Sun that belonged to a friend that passed away around 2008. It was colocated at a colocation office I had running in Virginia Beach. I pulled it out of storage, and would like to check if his public website is archived on it. Archive.org only has bits of it. Odds ar

Re: cray unicos cds sold on ebay in 2016

But I bet there are some people that would be interested in it. jpkiwigeek on YouTube comes to mind. Now that I think about him, I've not seen any new videos in a while. I hope that he's okay. I have Unicos 10.0.0.1 and 10.0.0.2 but when I boot it I get a kernel panic. Seems to be around dri

Re: SCSI2SD & Amiga's

What version of the SCSD2SD V5 do you have? The V5.1 was reworked to boot faster (so claims the site here ) and the V6 boots even faster I believe. No idea, I will look someday when I pull it back out :-) W

Re: SCSI2SD & Amiga's (was: About to dump a bunch of Compaq SCSC...)

Am I correct that a v5.1 SCSI2SD should work just fine? Anything I need to be aware of? I run a SCSI2SD on my A2500 with whatever SCSI card it has by default. The only issue that I have is the SCSI2SD boots slower than the Amiga, so when I power on the Amiga I have to wait a few seconds then

Re: Amiga Vendors?

I guess so, too. Connecting Amiga to plasma was probably the least hassle of all alternatives. PC would need something special (either card or converter?), and a hard drive, and a big box, and separate keyboard and reboot every four(ty) days - Amiga 500 could be just "stuffed under the rug". And a

RE: Future of cctalk/cctech

These 2 have my vote as well I do not know, anyone using a text only mail reader anymore! /me raises hand! Alpine It's super fast to delete things. I run it under screen on a host I have co-lo'ed at a tier 1 datacenter. 25 years now? - Ethan -- : Ethan O'Toole

Re: Aquarius (was Re: Apple 1)

That was one of the use cases of Sun's Display Postscript where another program on another host was able to get equal access to a window on an work-station. Sun or NeXT? - Ethan

Re: Apple 1

Who is Robert Cray? Any relation to Seymour? He's a musician. Jon That plugs up the eBay searches for Cray Computer posters. Ethan

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