When I was in middle school, I once saw another kid stuff a bunch of potato
chips in a Disk ][ ... does that count? LOL
Best,
Sean
On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 6:17 PM, Adrian Stoness wrote:
> When I was a toddler apparently I used to stuff penny's inside the floppy
> drives of my dads rainbow 100
Man that is foul ... I too started in the business doing repair, at a local
shop, and we definitely saw some dirty ones, but never like that! The
grossest stuff was always out in the field particularly some of the
industrial customers.
Best,
Sean
On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 6:38 PM, Ben Sinclair wr
> On Aug 3, 2015, at 6:52 PM, drlegendre . wrote:
>
> Where is the inscription? Inside the case?
>
On the back. I don't have a handy picture, but someone else posted theirs:
http://deirdre.net/steve-jobss-death-and-influence/back-camera-3/
On 08/03/2015 09:04 PM, Toby Thain wrote:
Some of my drives have paper printouts of bad blocks that are folded and
fit into a plastic sleeve that's attached to the drive.
Don't have access to brands/models right now, sorry. These would be the
larger, full height, 80s vintage drives; possibly ear
On 2015-08-03 6:09 PM, Mark J. Blair wrote:
On Aug 3, 2015, at 14:51 , ben wrote:
Written on the drive, is a lot different than paper floating around inside
The bad blocks were "written on the drive" in the sense that they
were
written or printed on a paper label stuck to the top of the d
Where is the inscription? Inside the case?
On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 12:50 PM, Toby Thain
wrote:
> On 2015-08-03 12:49 PM, Steve Algernon wrote:
>
>> As an employee with some involvement, there was a batch of original
>> iPads that were engraved with Steve Jobs signature. ...
>> But when it does ev
This one isn't so pleasant... I worked at CompUSA fixing computers in
the 90's, and one time an employee brought in his personal machine for
repair. Fortunately I wasn't the one that opened it up, as when the
tech popped the case, cockroaches scurried everywhere! The machine was
beyond hope with th
When I was a toddler apparently I used to stuff penny's inside the floppy
drives of my dads rainbow 100 the drives survived this I slot and are still
I. Working order as far as I know since last time I saw that beast
On Sunday, August 2, 2015, Tom Moss wrote:
> I once found a whole box worth of
On Aug 3, 2015, at 14:51 , ben wrote:
Written on the drive, is a lot different than paper floating around inside
On Mon, 3 Aug 2015, Mark J. Blair wrote:
The bad blocks were "written on the drive" in the sense that they were
written or printed on a paper label stuck to the top of the drive, no
> On Aug 3, 2015, at 14:51 , ben wrote:
>
>
> Written on the drive, is a lot different than paper floating around inside
The bad blocks were "written on the drive" in the sense that they were written
or printed on a paper label stuck to the top of the drive, not stored digitally
on the drive
On 8/3/2015 3:25 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 08/03/2015 11:33 AM, ben wrote:
If is that bad, time for a new drive.
Perhaps you don't remember but old ST506-style drives had no automatic
bad sector remapping, so even new ones had "bad sector" maps affixed by
the manufacturer. Most often these
On 08/03/2015 11:33 AM, ben wrote:
If is that bad, time for a new drive.
Perhaps you don't remember but old ST506-style drives had no automatic
bad sector remapping, so even new ones had "bad sector" maps affixed by
the manufacturer. Most often these were in the form of "byte offset
from
On Mon, Aug 03, 2015 at 12:33:33PM -0700, Fred Cisin wrote:
> >> I suppose that bad sector maps for ST506/412 hard drives don't count? :-)
Once upon a time, it was the job of the OS to take this badblock count
and remap blocks itself since the drives themselves weren't smart enough.
>
> On Mon,
I suppose that bad sector maps for ST506/412 hard drives don't count? :-)
On Mon, 3 Aug 2015, ben wrote:
If is that bad, time for a new drive.
In the early days, particularly when actual ST506 and ST412 were common
drives, there were VERY VERY few that had no bad tracks.
In the days of ST506
On 8/3/2015 12:11 PM, Jules Richardson wrote:
On 08/02/2015 01:55 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
Turning this discussion on its head, I wonder if I'm the only one to
stash
manuals and setup CDs in the cases of my systems. Has anyone ever picked
up an old system and found system documentation inside?
On 08/02/2015 01:55 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
Turning this discussion on its head, I wonder if I'm the only one to stash
manuals and setup CDs in the cases of my systems. Has anyone ever picked
up an old system and found system documentation inside?
I suppose that bad sector maps for ST506/412 ha
On 2015-08-03 12:49 PM, Steve Algernon wrote:
As an employee with some involvement, there was a batch of original
iPads that were engraved with Steve Jobs signature. ...
But when it does eventually wind up with some collector down the
line, I hope they'll be surprised and a little confused. Its
As an employee with some involvement, there was a batch of original iPads that
were engraved with Steve Jobs signature. Scott Forstall joked "I don't want to
see these show up on eBay!"
Anyway, being none too careful, I let my then 3 year old play with it, and she
was walking around with rapt
Most Cray systems shipped from Chippewa Falls with several cases of
Leinenkugel's beer inside. This was intended for the SEs after they
got the system installed and up and running and not for the customer :-)
Chris
--
Chris Elmquist
On Sun, Aug 02, 2015 at 11:55:10AM -0700, Chuck Guzis wrote:
>
> Turning this discussion on its head, I wonder if I'm the only one to
> stash manuals and setup CDs in the cases of my systems. Has anyone
> ever picked up an old system and found system documentation inside?
>
Not really inside bu
>
> And some 1950s military radio manufacturers, who screen printed schematic
> diagrams onto
> cloth and stashed them inside the radios. The schematics were secured to the
> inside of the
> radio with a length of cloth ribbon, then folded up tightly and stuffed into
> a metal tube
> secured
> On Aug 2, 2015, at 19:10, William Donzelli wrote:
>
>> And some 1950s military radio manufacturers, who screen printed schematic
>> diagrams onto cloth and stashed them inside the radios.
>
> If you are thinking about that early GRC stuff, that was silk!
Oh wow, I thought it was something l
On 08/02/2015 07:08 PM, Mark J. Blair wrote:
And some 1950s military radio manufacturers, who screen printed
schematic diagrams onto cloth and stashed them inside the radios. The
schematics were secured to the inside of the radio with a length of
cloth ribbon, then folded up tightly and stuffed
> And some 1950s military radio manufacturers, who screen printed schematic
> diagrams onto cloth and stashed them inside the radios.
If you are thinking about that early GRC stuff, that was silk!
--
Will
> On Aug 2, 2015, at 12:15, William Donzelli wrote:
>
>> Turning this discussion on its head, I wonder if I'm the only one to stash
>> manuals and setup CDs in the cases of my systems. Has anyone ever picked up
>> an old system and found system documentation inside?
>>
>> Just wondering if I'm
One of my first jobs at DEC was on terminal sales.
The LA36 printing terminal had the logic and PSU cards mounted in the
plinth.
The logic card was on the back of the pull down door and the PSU inside.
So easy to service it wasn't true. This compartment was quite roomy
and inside
fresh one
> Turning this discussion on its head, I wonder if I'm the only one to stash
> manuals and setup CDs in the cases of my systems. Has anyone ever picked up
> an old system and found system documentation inside?
>
> Just wondering if I'm the exception...
Just you and IBM.
--
Will
>
> Turning this discussion on its head, I wonder if I'm the only one to
> stash manuals and setup CDs in the cases of my systems. Has anyone ever
> picked up an old system and found system documentation inside?
Some years back I rescued the logic box and keyboard of an IBM ASCII (!)
terminal.
On 08/02/2015 11:41 AM, Rick Bensene wrote:
A faded semi-nude 4x6 photo of a woman on a beach inside an IBM
PC-XT that I found in a thrift shop many years ago. How or why it
was in there is anyone's guess.
Well, XT's weren't too good for pornography back then, I guess--so it
was more of a mat
A faded semi-nude 4x6 photo of a woman on a beach inside an IBM PC-XT that I
found in a thrift shop many years ago. How or why it was in there is anyone's
guess.
-Rick
On Sat, Aug 01, 2015 at 07:05:35PM -0400, Vlad Stamate wrote:
>
> What other strange pieces did you find when you opened up classic computers?
>
A dead rodent inside an otherwise nice looking Norsk Data ND-500
A four inch crooked nail inside a LINC-8
It is really a good idea to peak inside a c
Posts
> >
> > Subject: Re: Unusual stuff inside computers
> >
> > I once found a whole box worth of crayola crayons in a 1541 disk drive.
> >
> > What amazes me is how nothing was blocked and they hadn't melted.
> >
>
> One of my friends complained
> -Original Message-
> From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Tom Moss
> Sent: 02 August 2015 12:49
> To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
>
> Subject: Re: Unusual stuff inside computers
>
> I once found a whole box worth
I once found a whole box worth of crayola crayons in a 1541 disk drive.
What amazes me is how nothing was blocked and they hadn't melted.
On 2 August 2015 at 05:53, Mark J. Blair wrote:
> By the way: I still keep the dollar with the computer. Just in case it's a
> critical component, you know.
By the way: I still keep the dollar with the computer. Just in case it's a
critical component, you know. :)
--
Mark J. Blair, NF6X
http://www.nf6x.net/
> On Aug 1, 2015, at 21:22 , drlegendre . wrote:
>
> That's an old joke. Some (newb) asks "How do you switch it on, i want to
> play Spacewar (or whatever)", cagey user says "You put a dollar in one of
> these slots"... ;-)
>
> I guarantee it.
That's my number one theory, followed by some kid
That's an old joke. Some (newb) asks "How do you switch it on, i want to
play Spacewar (or whatever)", cagey user says "You put a dollar in one of
these slots"... ;-)
I guarantee it.
On Sat, Aug 1, 2015 at 11:07 PM, Mark J. Blair wrote:
> I found a dollar bill inside an Apple Monitor II. It app
I found a dollar bill inside an Apple Monitor II. It appeared to have been
folded into quarters and then pushed through one of the cooling slots on top of
the monitor. The monitor and matching IIe computer look like they came from a
school based on the property numbers engraved onto them. I've m
On Sat, 1 Aug 2015, drlegendre . wrote:
On Sat, Aug 1, 2015 at 6:05 PM, Vlad Stamate wrote:
I recently got a very nice HP 9816 with a 9121 drive unit from Earl
Baugh (thanks Earl!). The computer worked fine but the primary drive of
the 9121 refused to read the disk and made a continuous beati
What other strange pieces did you find when you opened up classic
computers?
A TRS80 model 1 where some keys had stopped working due to an accumulation
of marijuana seeds
On Sat, 1 Aug 2015, Eric Smith wrote:
Someone was using it wrong. No seeds or stems!
After I fixed it, they did offer me
On Sat, 1 Aug 2015, drlegendre . wrote:
What is that item?
Looks like a piece of laced (p)leather-craft from a children's summer camp
project..
an improvised floppy drive shipping head protector?
On Sat, Aug 1, 2015 at 5:37 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
>> What other strange pieces did you find when you opened up classic
>> computers?
>
> A TRS80 model 1 where some keys had stopped working due to an accumulation
> of marijuana seeds
Someone was using it wrong. No seeds or stems!
What is that item?
Looks like a piece of laced (p)leather-craft from a children's summer camp
project..
On Sat, Aug 1, 2015 at 6:05 PM, Vlad Stamate wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I recently got a very nice HP 9816 with a 9121 drive unit from Earl
> Baugh (thanks Earl!). The computer worked fine but the prim
On Saturday (08/01/2015 at 07:05PM -0400), Vlad Stamate wrote:
>
> I was pleasantly impressed that the
> drive head has not been damaged bumping in the leather piece all the
> time. I am not sure how that got there, I assume a child pushed it in
> by mistake?
Peter!
https://www.youtube.com/watch
On Sat, 1 Aug 2015, Vlad Stamate wrote:
Hi,
I recently got a very nice HP 9816 with a 9121 drive unit from Earl
Baugh (thanks Earl!). The computer worked fine but the primary drive of
the 9121 refused to read the disk and made a continuous beating noise.
After I cleaned it on the outside I o
What other strange pieces did you find when you opened up classic computers?
A TRS80 model 1 where some keys had stopped working due to an accumulation
of marijuana seeds
On Sat, Aug 01, 2015, Vlad Stamate wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I recently got a very nice HP 9816 with a 9121 drive unit from Earl
> Baugh (thanks Earl!). The computer worked fine but the primary drive
> of the 9121 refused to read the disk and made a continuous beating
> noise. After I cleaned it on the out
Hi,
I recently got a very nice HP 9816 with a 9121 drive unit from Earl
Baugh (thanks Earl!). The computer worked fine but the primary drive
of the 9121 refused to read the disk and made a continuous beating
noise. After I cleaned it on the outside I opened it to see what is
wrong with it. And I f
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