The collected works of pentium - Page 14

You're lucky. Really lucky. I spent over a decade trying to get one of those machines and only recently settled on a $650 AltairClone as the original machines are now fetching over $2000. It will need a number of modifications before it will be ready to accept an S100 backplane.

Also, Cromeco Dazzler's aren't that complex. I'm sure if you can come across someone willing to make some really high quality scans or photographs you can probably make new boards and order in the necessary chips. It's all 7400 logic. I'd be in for a set of empty boards if that idea ever floats.

Edited: It looks like all the information you require is in the "Cromeco Dazzler Schematic and Foil Diagrams", which I have yet to find in PDF format, but there's also a decent amount of information in the manual which will go a long way towards manufacturing new boards.

http://newyork.craigslist.org/brk/sys/4944374471.html

He wants too much ($16K) but it's all there, even the manuals.

Just walk up to him and throw $1000 cash at him. He'll take it. He'll be sitting on it forever to try and get even $5K.

I have the upgrade CD for PC-DOS 7 and IBM had a batch file called cdtodisk.bat which pulled files off the CD and generated a set of seven floppies you could install with should your machine lack a CD drive. I need PC-DOS 7 in particular for the additional PCMCIA and pen support my 730TE tablet has. My copy of version 6 seems to lack it.
My issue is that it's one picky as hell batch file. It doesn't work in a prompt under 9x, Warp 4 spits out a bit of garbage but doesn't run it and 2K/XP tries to work with it and seemingly copies the files over but fails at a number of tasks I assume are not supported by the NT command line and I'm left with disks I can't boot with. The most verbose thing I can get out of it is...

!!! THIS BATCH FILE SHOULD BE RUN FROM A DOS SESSION !!!
!!! IF YOU ARE RUNNING OS/2, BOOT DOS THEN RUN THE BATCH FILE !!!

...which confuses me as I already tried running in a full screen DOS session and again, nothing happened.
Paging hamei......anyone?

calvin wrote: Have you tried exactly what it says on the tin: run it from DOS? (actual DOS, not a DOS session in OS/2 or within DOS running in Windows)

Under OS/2 I'm not entirely sure yet how to start just a DOS session and even if I do, a problem I find to be globally applying is that the CD-driver is not loaded at boot, hence you can't read the disc.

BuMP.
Still available. If to sweeten the offer, I'll be willing to substitute cash for an Apricot Xen.

I finally decided to get around to imaging my disk in the event that something happened to it.
Too late. When I fed it through RAWread I can get up to track 77 (ffff-, close too!), then it throws a CRC error and fails.

I do actually have the RAID controller card so the floppy is useful to me. I'm hoping someone else has already imaged this floppy. Anyone? Anyone?? Kjaer?

Failing that, think there is a practical way to fully image the disk, regardless of errors? According to my hex editor the incomplete file rawread leaves me indicates that the last couple or so tracks on the disk are empty anyways, so the data is intact, it's just not a properly formed image file rawread can write back out.

Yep. ANS = Apple Network Server.

If your image file is correct for all the tracks that contain data, isn't fixing it up to the proper length just a small matter of programming?

If my knowledge on the subject is correct, yes.

Unfortunately I no longer rock a nice linux box, so ddrescue isn't going to help me here.

hamei wrote:

pentium wrote: Yep. ANS = Apple Network Server ... I no longer rock a nice linux box, so ddrescue isn't going to help me here.

Pretty sure there's a ddrescue in nekoware, and I see your sig ....

I lack a SCSI based floppy/floptical drive.
(Okay, I used to have one in my Indigo that VP gave me....but I kinda blew up the bridge controller....sorry VP..........)

Anyways, I think I got an image on hand now. I'll try to poke at it while I'm out of the house for the weekend and see if's useable in some way.

Too late.... >_>

ClassicHasClass wrote: So I got my MacIvory 3 today, in a IIci.

It was DOA.

...

For $4500 for this, I'm pretty pissed.

You paid $4500 for an ivory? OUCH.

What kind of X10 automation software was there? There has to be some kit of commands or a daemon that I could use to interact with modules ala-CLI or from scripts.

Edited: HEYU seems like the ticket.

Xtend also seems like an interesting addon.

Because I had the NeXT mono slab out last night I thought why the hell not and tried to DD the bad disk form there. It mounted as an HFS volume.
Curiously I threw it into a spare powerbook and tried tackling the disk with Disk Image. It worked. Now I have two good copies of the disk.

So today I've learned that the configuration disk was in fact an HFS volume which I know from past experience is not really compatible with rawread.

I mentioned it on the IRC but there are so many things about that enclosure that to me scream "HI! I'M A 1979 COMPUTER HOBBYIST!"
I love it.

I'm not sure. Something just didn't add up for it and an HFS filesystem I guess. The mac had no problem with those last few problematic tracks that Rawread choked on.

I have under Irix 4.0.5 a copy of GeoCAD. I know pretty much nothing about it, let alone how to view my dad's old work files but it seems otherwise decent when you persuade it to open a new file. The company who released it is based out of Southern Ontario (might of been Waterloo) and last I tried about six years ago they had disposed of the documentation so nothing but this install that I am aware of still exists.

The movie inspired me.



The movie is otherwise....okay, but I'd rather not spoil it for Nekochanners who of all people should be watching a Jurassic Park movie by default.

Jesus this movie ran away. It's generated $1 billion globally already.

TeamBlackFox wrote: I don't understand why one needs a GUI editor? Vi(m) never hurt nobody!

They needed to include one of those keyboard overlays ala-Word Perfect so I can remember all the commands.

Considering how many movies like that exist, I just called it "another B movie."

I forget who it was who gave me a spare one but I know I have one in my storage room.
Remind me to grab it and my old R4400 board a few days before I come down to visit again.

Of all things I found a physical copy of DOS 7 so in the end I gave up trying to write images from the CD.

Multiple racks? You lucky bum, considering my best luck was an inoperative 11/23, 11/84, and a misbehaving RA82 on the dock of a recycling center.

Just for an empty DEC rack people were asking $1000 and anything better.......well it's burned into my mind what another forum said to me.

"b", in regards to asking about for a PDP-12 wrote: You're not good enough for that machine.

Best of luck with whatever you got.

I'm passing on information from someone further west than I am so pardon the second hand information.

Buddy has a Crimson he received running 6.2 with a blanked password. Among other options installed was the FORE ATM board. While the history of the machine is generally unknown (to me) when the system comes up everything is fine until Irix tries to initialize the FORE board, then the machine hangs either waiting for a response from the board or while trying to resolve an address or something from the missing network. From there all he can do is reset the machine. It will however come up in single user mode so there's that option but neither of us could figure out how to use that to disable the board.

Any pointers I can feed him over skype?

I've never understood the crazy demand for people collecting devkits.

Sure there's enough software and hardware floating around now that you can mess about and possibly crank out an unofficial game or two but the money these people (not you) who already have like four PS2 TOOLs or multiple N64 devkits is nuts given how all they seem to do is lug them around and braaaaaag.
In related news, Assember reminds me of Amibay and BetaArchive. Sure it's a lot of knowledgeable people but man is the community an ego trip. As much as they might be a reliable source of info I warn you that there might be a touch of price biasing.

He mentioned he did remove a VideoCreator that was somewhere on the bus because it blew out a tant and he needed to repair it, leaving an empty slot in between boards but I do not think he's touched the remaining installed boards in the meantime but if disabling the board for Irix is as simple as pulling it out I'll ask him to try that and we'll see what happens.

There was an external VideoCreator on ebay about three years ago I still regret not buying because it was heavy and the lid was missing. Curious if there's still any hanging about now that I'm in a financially more secure situation and I have a VTR suitable with the frame-by-frame recording mode.

The other is if there's still an Iris File hanging about. I seem to recall asking about this once before about ten years ago and there was two available from a member down in the Tacoma area but I passed them up and I've forgotten who was selling them, if he still has them.

Lastly my second 4D/20 doesn't have it's drive door (the top one with SILICON GRAPHICS and PERSONAL IRIS on it). Everything else is there except that.

I'm quite baffled how the heck you managed to blow so many components.

The fact that the first episode had a sex season in the first ten minutes kinda turned me away and not in a nerdy " EWWWWWWWWWWW!!! GIRLS!!!!!!! " way. It was just.....not what I wanted in the first episode to try and pull viewers in. If it got better on the next episode I didn't care by then. Went back to watching Gargoyles reruns.

I'll dig around. I think I got a rack SCSI box somewhere....or it might of been a SCSI tower I stored on its side.

ps: I don't normally complain about image size but if if the image is that large, please be courteous to us small screened forum users and attach it to the post so it auto-resizes.

Edited: Drat! It was just a tower of Plextor CD drives. Sorry.

You will need two SCSI channels for one, and naturally the Octane only has one available on the back. You will either need an XIO SCSI card or a PCI SCSI card in a shoebox/shorhorn.

Here's a first. I couldn't join #nekochan last night because the channel was full.

Mind you at any given time more than half the connected users have been idling for over five years. When is the last time a janitor went through?

Another stretch, but lets see what's out there.

I have an ACE machine myself but it has the Expert keyboard which is black. I'm willing to trade keyboards if possible.

I'm also missing my mouse. I'm willing to pay for that.

I'm also completely missing my power supply. I can substitute in components to make it look like there is one fitted still when I add an ATX power supply but even if it's a dead one, I'd be willing to get it just for the shell.

Lets just all throw in $100 and buy some shares. See what happens out of that.

hamei wrote:

pentium wrote: Lets just all throw in $100 and buy some shares. See what happens out of that.

A Nekochan hostile takeover

SGI Inc.
A Nekochan Holdings company.

I'm interested if you find something. Beggars can't be choosers.

Go UltraBay, or go home.

Also, none of your rootkit-level BS like you just got caught doing.

I believe the short racks were bolted together but it's very uncommon for me to see a 42U rack that was bolted together. They were often welded.

I've gotten one of those racks up a flight of stairs once on my own. It aint' fun and you best have padding or you'll ruin any finishing you have on your stairs/doorframes.

I really can't think of a more fitting forum to be asking around in.

So in my travels in Japan earlier this month I picked up a rather incomplete X68000 ACE HD for a justified amount (6800 yen). The "incomplete part" when I saw it was the power supply was completely missing. Now that I'm back and I've had a chance to strip it down for cleaning I found out what else it might have issues with.

-The battery had leaked but that has since been removed, cleaned and repaired
-The SASI cabling, drive and bracket are missing
-There's two sockets on the system board marked for an ODD and EVEN rom and they are both empty

I've gained enough experience now that I can totally build a new bracket for a hard disk, plus make new SASI cabling but there's so much about this damn machine that's a complete mystery. There's enough information online to adapt a relatively small and low power ATX power supply to work with the machine but the real questions are those two empty sockets. Every photo I have seen so far of my board shows them empty but there's no other ROM on the board or in the machine at all. I can't find even a hint of their existance. NFGames might have something but their site is such a mess that some pages you can't even access unless you go through google.

Pontus wrote: Nice! vintage porn!

Has anyone taken it upon them self to archive the early days of porn on the web?

I got like, 20 ZIP disks I was given at a sci-fi convention of archived BBS porn from the very late 90's and before.
I keep that box for special occasions.