The collected works of The Keeper - Page 3

I'm making further adjustments to my storage arrays, and will likely be making available approximately eight 320GB Maxtor MaxLine II (which are a higher grade of IDE drives) ATA-133 IDE drives. Should be some time next week.

My asking price is going to be $30 each, plus figure on another $5 for shipping within the US, or on the order of $15-20 each for international (but ask me for a shipping quote).

Update: Tell you what, let me sweeten the deal, just so I can get rid of these drives sooner rather than later. For an extra $10, I can load up these 320GB IDE drives with my entire ISO collection. I won't go into what's included in a public forum, but let's just say my collection of CD-ROMs go all the way back to the late 80's.

Thanks,
Chris

bumped for an update...

Three drives left...

And only ancient PDP-11's would even be able to drive it. I seriously doubt there was ever a Q-Bus controller for the RK05, and the RK05 was long since replaced with the RL01/RL02 and RK07's by the time the 22-bit PDP's were available, from what I recall.

Nice museum piece you've got there, but I doubt you're going to find the pre-11/34 hardware to drive it.

And don't run it for too long without replacing the electolytics first.

Chris

I was just at Mitsuwa in New Joisey yesterday... It's the first time I've felt like I was back in Japan since boarding the flight out of Narita... The selection at Mitsuwa makes every other asian grocer I've been to look like a half-stocked conbini... Dozens of varieties of miso, dozens of varieties of umeboshi, otoro, chutoro, fresh wasabi root (at $70/lb! so I only got a really small one), even kurogoma kurimu!

And the great thing about NJ is that liquor can be sold right next to non-alcoholic items (in contrast to NY, where you need your own store for liquor, or Canada, where do you not only need your own store for everything alcoholic, you can barely find even fuushu sake), and the selection was amazing. I picked up a bottle of goma shochu, a 1.5l sho chiku bai sake cask, and a 1.8l milk carton-type sake...

So, if anyone is ever in Manhattan and has a couple hours to spare, Mitsuwa is only like 20 minutes away, and very worthwhile...

No CHU-HI, though, unfortunately. Not sure why. It'd probably be a popular item. And no Deeppresso, either, but it's starting to push 3 years since I was in Japan, so that item was probably discontinued from Georgia's line-up and replaced with something else.

Chris

だいじょうぼう　です　ね！

No worries, this thread is over a year old, so I wouldn't have expected you to remember. If you happen to remember the next time you go, though, that'd be cool. But I'm guessing the CHU-HI is too low-brow, and Deeppresso is no longer made, so I'm sure I'll survive.

Chris

Yeah, as a matter of fact, when my wife an I visited Meiji we bought a couple bottles of sake from the shrine's gift shop, which worked out to be a very useful coincidence. We used one of the bottles of sake from the shrine when we performed our half of a jichinsai (ground-breaking ceremony) for the washitsu addition on our house.

Chris

Wow, that guy has a lot of time on his hands... And sounds like he picked the wrong country to hang out in, being a vegetarian that's allergic to alcohol, and vehemently hates anime and smoking...

Very nice pictures... Whoever that is spent a lot of time making sure he/she had, well, just about everything just right... (And I'm sure a bit of CS4/Lightroom to clean them up, but software will fix only just so many ills...)

But hey, in Vancouver, you have japadogs ! They've even been written up in the Japanese media, so you have something the Japanese don't!

A lot of those places are too xenophobic to even allow 外国人 inside, so unless you can speak Japanese pretty well, you're probably SOL anyway. しょうがない、ね？

Fortunately, within Tokyo, it's kinda hard to get lost on the various mass transit systems, since most everything is bi-lingual. Make sure you have a guide with you (or someone that can read kanji) if you leave Tokyo, though. (Back in a day, Zone81 used to have all sorts of train/subway/bus information, but it looks like that site is gone...)

Chris

Heh, again, しょうがない、ね？

Maybe the message arrived at its final destination?

I just bought a Steff 2038 3-phase 230V "power feeder", and was wondering who else here plays the 3-phase game... I know there are a couple, since that's one of the power options for the Origin 3k series...

Chris

I'm all sorts of set, actually. There's a local outfit that manufactures phase converters, so I drove out there on Saturday and picked up a 1/4HP-1HP static converter (grey box on the floor behind and to the right of the feeder) for about 50 bucks. (I don't mind the loss of 1/3HP because I don't really need the full 1HP of power; I just wanted a good quality, heavy-duty power feeder, and found that Steff on Craigslist for $400.)

As much as anything else, I was wondering who all uses 3-phase, and as an aside curiosity, if converters are in use, are they static or rotary.

Chris

What kind of 3-phase do they use? 230? 208? 440? And you have a native 3-phase feed from your electrical utility, right?

Chris

Is there only one flavor of 3-phase in Europe? There are at least three different voltages of 3-phase power in the US...

Apparently I'm not up on my history lessons... How is compressed air a power source? Mechanical energy is easily transferred, but I'm not sure about long distances, and how does mechanical energy help a consumer?

Chris

A friend of mine that lived in Japan for about 20 years, whose name is Kurt, goes by the name of カート, and yours is a very close variant on that, so your first name could be spelled as マーコ.

Translating Beaumont is a little tricky, maybe something like ビューモン?

Either way, since you don't live in Japan, and you don't have any legal documents to sign, you could call yourself the flying purple eater for all anyone would care... It might look a little funny to have a mix of katakana and kanji next to each other, but, again, it probably doesn't really make any difference in a gaijin environment.

カリシャック　クリス

(Edited to correct an IME fail)

Interesting. You pronounce the first syllable with \ˈbō\ rather than \ˈbyü-\? And I guess throwing the ト on the end does make it a bit more masculine, even if the "t" is practically silent... Obviously, how you prefer it to be pronounced is important...