[cctalk] Re: Bomar 901b My wife found in my stuff. Is this as scarce at it seems?s,?

2024-04-16 Thread Stan via cctalk
I've never heard of the HP Digital Slide Rule. Do you have photos and/or more details? I am familiar with the first HP desktop calculator (9100A) that inspired their first handheld calculator (HP-35). The HP-35 was a ten-digit calculator that was released in 1972 for $395. -Original Messag

[cctalk] Unable to substitute a RaSCSI device for the hard drive in an HP Series 300 workstation

2022-12-10 Thread Stan via cctalk
I have an HP R/382 workstation with a defective SCSI hard drive. I'd prefer to replace it with a RaSCSI instead of another ancient and failure-prone rotating hard drive. Unfortunately, I my R/382 can't find the RaSCSI virtual drive to initialize it. Has anyone successfully used an RaSCSI in an H

Re: FW: List your old computer

2021-02-24 Thread stan via cctalk
By any chance, are you thinking of uptimes.net? Some years ago (early 2000's?) it was tracking systems uptimes. I had an Alpha system talking to it at one time. IIRC, the record at one time was a VAX cluster, with an uptime of 1200+ days. Windows NT systems fared a lot worse, average of about

Re: recovering data from old hard drive

2020-01-26 Thread stan via cctalk
On 2020-01-25 2:57 p.m., Jon Elson via cctalk wrote: I have dug out an old SCSI hard drive from 1997 that may have some interesting stuff, most especially the source code for the SGI Iris flight sim demo.  I have a Linux system with an Adaptec 2940 (aic7880) that has two connectors on it.  It

Re: Matching paint on DEC monitors, cases and cabinets

2019-03-22 Thread stan via cctalk
On 2019-03-22 12:18 p.m., Brian Roth via cctalk wrote: I did check with an auto body supply shop and they said they could get a close match with paint to spray from a gun. I was hoping somebody may have found an off the shelf spray can that was close. On Friday, March 22, 2019, 8:52:58

Re: DEC Hard drives

2018-11-06 Thread stan via cctalk
Well, then. Time to put these drives in an enclosure to check them out. On 2018-11-05 10:43 PM, stan wrote: I have a Digital RZ56 drive and a couple of Micropolis 1588 drives. Is there any demand for these brick sized drives of cd-rom capacity, or should I just recycle them? Stan

DEC Hard drives

2018-11-05 Thread stan via cctalk
I have a Digital RZ56 drive and a couple of Micropolis 1588 drives. Is there any demand for these brick sized drives of cd-rom capacity, or should I just recycle them? Stan