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    Weak Disk Imaging

    As a (somewhat expensive) side project from the Sun MCA-3000 thread about two months ago I purchased a stack of floppy disks for the vehicle diagnostic system as an attempt to deal with the problem where Sun was stupid and decided using somewhat fragile and dirt sensitive floppy disk media in an...
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    AppleVision 1710AV Service questions

    I have three of these monitors. Two are crumbled messes of yellow plastic but I have another one which I bought about 14 years ago that's still completely unyellowed and was trouble-free until yesterday. For those who don't know the 1710AV was a 17" Trinitron monitor sold by Apple with built-in...
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    System Lockup on Keyboard Wake

    I have a Quadra 950 running 7.6 with After Dark 4.0 and the system is set to turn the monitor off completely after 60 minutes. A thing I have noticed is that when I press any keys using the Apple Extended Keyboard the monitor wakes but it seems like the screensaver crashes the system immediately...
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    New hard drive bonks my windows Install

    I have a T30 Thinkpad which had its drive die a number of years back and I was forced to throw in any drive I had on hand to get it up and running again. Well I lost the Performance Lottery and must of picked the noisiest and slowest 40gb I've ever had to deal with so I activated XP, applied all...
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    DC600A tapes

    I got a stack of 3M cartridges in their degrading shrink wrap packaging that have likely never been used. I did the visual inspection on one and found the band was intact and didn't lift oxide off the tape when I advanced it by hand. Not really a valid indication of if it would survive the first...
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    ZX81 Speak & Spell "Talk can be Cheap" Software (ZX-Speak)

    I'm done the hardware interface to connect a Speak & Spell to a ZX81 as per the Computers and Electronics "Talk can be cheap" article and now I'm working on the software. The article lists the code both in machine language and BASIC. It was also available on cassette. (Well, it was almost 31...
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    Third Party TCP for Xenix 286

    It was talked about in the #vc IRC channel that while I was being stupid and installing Xenix 286 I should also add a network card. ;) Xenix 286 does not ship with a TCP stack. That would be available for the 386 releases and later the SCO builds. From what I was told if you wanted TCP on...
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    Mac Pro 1,1 worth it?

    Six years ago I built up a fairly decent Mac Pro 1,1 and then gave it faster drives, a newer video card, 16gb ram and did the SLAED Xeon CPU upgrade to make it a dual quad. Also ran El Capitan on it because at that time it was the last version of OS X to support the 1,1 (with patches). It was...
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    Disassembly of a Compaq LTE Lite Series Laptop

    While it is my belief that next to the Toshiba Satellite series, the Compaq LTE Lite series of laptops were perhaps some of the best of the premium white-label laptops of the early 90's that were NOT built by IBM. Unfortunately it is still a laptop that like many others, requires preventative...
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    Protek DMM Software

    At the office I use a Protek 506 Digital Multi-Meter and one of the reasons I pulled it from the pile was it has a big honkin' serial port on top so you can view and save data to a computer. Of course I don't have the software. I can find plenty of reviews on the meter, some forum posts on it...
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    Priam Drives

    I was given a Priam 7050-10 8" drive yesterday and I've spent some time looking over the manual over in bitsavers. - http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/priam/Priam8_Maint_Jul82.pdf From what I can tell it's a rather early embedded servo voice coil drive that has a local "intelligent" interface and...
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    IBM Personal Page Printer II 4216

    I picked this up last weekend at MECO and have been letting it dehumidify the last few days. Plugged it in and I get power, I get lights, I get motors and it comes up to a blinking READY with no errors on the display. Came with a stack of test prints as well so when it was originally for sale it...
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    British Columbia Need a Sirius/Victor boot floppy written

    I came into ownership of a Victor 9000 system and I'm still in the process of cleaning it up. It had what looks to be a copy of Kermit and another random floppy in the drive and I have not yet actually done testing yet to verify if these disks are any good. Victor 9000/Sirius 1 systems are...
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    Google's up to no good again.....

    So as we all started hearing over the last few months, Google was getting annoyed that ad blockers on Youtube were restricting their ad revenue and (possibly?) user tracking telemetry, so in September or so they started going down on people using ad blockers because as any of us who have logged...
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    NeXT Cubes - Explosive Formed or Die-Cast

    Some Polish museum decided last night to say that Cube cases were formed using explosives because it was "to provide the accuracy and structure that satisfied Steve Jobs." This reeks of RDF. Also It's been spoken for years that the cases are die-cast. Just because it's a magnesium alloy does not...
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    "Your signature may only have 2 link(s)."

    Went to modify my signature and noticed that I'm in a deadlock and cannot edit it. The last time I touched it was before the forum upgrade so things were a bit different on vBulletin. It only has two external links, so it meets the maximum on the criteria, however I think it sees the little...
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    File Dupe Checker

    My goal this winter is to migrate my old server and it's multiple overflow drives to a new NAS but after five years of downtime I got multiple volumes with hundreds of duplicate or outdated files totaling a few terabytes. I can drop them all into the NAS and overwrite older files as part of my...
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    Hard Disk Confusion

    I'm assembling a late revision 5150 from parts and for the last 12 years or so I've had an IBM hard disk and controller hiding in storage for this day. The controller is a 61-031099-00 floppy + hard disk controller. This that I can tell is the 16-bit board for a 570 and not a 5150, so that's not...
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    Pacific Northwest Connectors and Shells

    I need at least two of these plastic hoods for 44 pin card edge connectors. I've seen them once before online at surplussales.com but got refunded as "unavailable" when I tried to buy them and have not seen more since. They list three others but none of them fit. I don't have a manufacturer or...
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    Ignoring the Obvious

    I'm looking through the 1984 IPO prospectus for Symbolics systems and it has a lot of buzzwords and numbers but I can't stop looking at how ugly this photo makes things look. The consoles are taking up more than half the space in the photograph, of that less than 1/4 of that is actual angles...
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