Recent content by czunit

Eh, either Ebay will be left holding the bag or (more likely) Ebay will come up with procedures so onerous that a refund will be impossible to get. Ebay profits, the scammers profit, the users lose but hey, what else are the users going to do? The finest line of poetry ever uttered in the...

Wow, haven't seen fraud at this scale in awhile. Thanks for the warning in general!

Indeed. I could not understand that: I wound up writing and compiling enough POSIX bits to allow NeXTStep to continue to compile sendmail and BIND (it was my mail server) but the lack of official support was just plain annoying.

Cloth and gentle cleaner. Please don't try to mix and match cables till you have figured out what is what (I'm not sure how one can plug the color NeXT into a B/W monitor). Buy a few batteries and get the good systems working first, then start branching out.

The Next printer is basically a Canon engine fed from the NeXT which does all the rendering. Pretty simple. The 030,040 B/W cubes and the B/W Nextstations used a cable that connected from the system to the NeXT monitor which had two ports for the mouse and keyboard. These were non-ADB. for the...

Right off the bat I would say simplify your testing as much as possible. You have two systems "that you can get into", let's focus on this first. 1) What are they 2) What have you cabled up 3) What do they do? Pics could help as well. First goal is to get the system running, then see what you...

Wow, I really screwed up my math somehow. My error. Ah I'll bet I calced it at 50 chars per minute, not second. Or maybe I was thinking an RM80....

I'd have to look in my old Lotus Notes/CC:Mail stuff but I think we got NT 4.0 prerelease running on a 386/33. At some point everyone said "Nope, gotta have Intel's 486 cache commands" and it all went down.

RK drive is actually useful, aside from making amazing sounds it will boot an OS and run it well. High speed paper tape makes a nice woosh woosh sound as it runs the tape from one side and folds it up on the other. But really it does get old quickly and are you really going to copy your RK05...

Nicely done. Good move to just replace all the chips, if one goes bad the rest are probably on the way. So have you got DECNET up and running again?

It's a bargain given that a VHS tape for "Beauty and the Beast" goes for $25,000.... Seriously, I had one. No way it's worth that much. When you have loaded OS8 onto an RK08.RK03 from a box of paper tapes you realize just how pointless it can be.

My blocked filters were black with crud. Easy to spot. I would bet that they would sound different, as instead of airflow in the tub you would have the blades stalling on a partial vacuum.

Tape drive! More to the point you could snap on a module like that which contained an ISA bus slot for an extra device. My guess is there is an ISA tape controller in there and of course the drive. Display is probably a loose/broken wire in the ribbon cable.

Also keep in mind that in NT 4 the hardware concept was abstracted with HALs (Hardware Abstraction Layers). There was a standard PC HAL (the default) and then special ones for things like the 3550 (multi bus multi processor), and the HAL for the SystemPro (with master/slave CPU concepts, like a...

I recall they had full PPE on the floor and such, but still over time there it went. Point being the filters are not handling outside air, only air in the disk tub. Note: Oddly enough RD53s and most other disks also have absolute filters in them which is why I don't worry too much when opening...