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  1. Al Kossow

    1.1 million dollar grant to build a tape drive

    Chuck will probably be the only person who cares. I can't find any reports from their phase 1 110,000$ grant https://www.sbir.gov/sbirsearch/detail/2281955
  2. Al Kossow

    Does anyone dump hard disk firmware?

    I've been working through some backlog of 80s and 90s hard disk information and was wondering if anyone has been dumping drive firmware. Right now, I'm particularly interested in WD Caviar series drives from the early 90s. I try to archive this stuff because technical information is so difficult...
  3. Al Kossow

    ISO Atron Probe debugger software.

    I've had a Probe/3 68020/030 for a while now, and just bought this AT version. Has anyone archived the debugging software? Atron has been gone for decades. I'm slowly archiving what I can find on them in http://bitsavers.org/test_equipment/atron
  4. Al Kossow

    IBM ThinkPad ESDI drive mortality

    Has anyone ever looked at the original ThinkPad 700 series drives (80,120,160mb)? A friend is looking at doing a SSD replacement and we had a hell of a time finding working ones. Guessing they were built by Toshiba, the Travelstar IDE were done in the UK
  5. Al Kossow

    California ISO IBM Thinkpad Dock I

    Does anyone have one they don't need? I've gone down a Thinkpad 360C restoration rathole. It is the style with a 240 pin docking socket. I know someone looking for one with a 240 pin docking plug, put those are impossible to find.
  6. Al Kossow

    Don Lancaster

    https://gilaherald.com/obituary-for-don-lancaster/
  7. Al Kossow

    Does anyone have a Tektronix 8002A emulator system?

    After about twenty years of searching, I've been able to dump some 8002A hard-sectored floppy media. I've never been able to find anyone with a system, especially with the media. Disk images are up under http://bitsavers.org/bits/Tektronix/8002 and...
  8. Al Kossow

    MARCH Burroughs B80 system

    Looking back in the archives it sounds like they were given a system. Anyone know about this, or its current condition? I've been working on documenting the whole Small Systems series lately on bitsavers really ancient history.. Does anyone here know what happened to Will Jennings' system? I...
  9. Al Kossow

    Burroughs B91

    As I've been going through my Burroughs stuff, I discovered I have a B91 board set. Does anyone on the list have one? I have had a couple of boxes of the 3mb DISK3 media for a while, but I've never been able to find a drive, which probably only around for that generation of machines. I did just...
  10. Al Kossow

    Burroughs B1000

    Stumbled across this (it is a Burroughs B1905) Hope it's still around, so far no replies (the orig post is 4yrs old) In 2002 I helped CHM get a B 1955, and it's past time I get what I have for the series up on bitsavers. Does anyone have any of the series (17xx,18xx,19xx)? I know Donzelli has a...
  11. Al Kossow

    Are there any known good Research Machines Ltd. CP/M disk dumps.

    somone is messing with a 380Z and I pulled some disk copies from the CHM archives and imaged them yesterday http://bitsavers.org/bits/ResearchMachinesLtd they are an absolute mess are there any known good ones?
  12. Al Kossow

    My first helium drives started failing this week

    Six 6tb Hitachi drives with 37,000 hours on them that have been written to a lot this past year have started reporting relocated sectors I haven't looked at the SMART stats yet to see what the stats related to helium levels look like.
  13. Al Kossow

    ISO clip-on 486 heat sinks

    you'd think someone would have a pile of them salvaged somewhere
  14. Al Kossow

    Orion Instruments UniLab 8620

    I was just clearing my manual backlog for Orion which got me wondering if I'm the only person in the world that has one of these. They are universal microprocessor emulator/trace boxes that attached to a PC. The box itself is fairly dumb and everything ran on the PC side. All of the processor...
  15. Al Kossow

    ISO Nicolet Paratronics NPC-800 CP/M

    I have one of these coming. I've had the manuals for a while and I thought I had disk images but now I can't find them. Does anyone have them?
  16. Al Kossow

    ISO Laserwriter separation roller assembly

    Posting here to see if anyone has parts for a Canon CX engines. The separator rollers have turned to goo, and I've not found a source for the whole assembly or the rollers Apple PN 970-1019, Canon RG1-0194
  17. Al Kossow

    debugger in bios slot rom?

    did anyone ever implement a debugger that came up at bios slot init time?
  18. Al Kossow

    RLL drive sampling project

    The interest in Seagate ST-27x drives revived my intererest in a project I've wanted to do for a while, to collect flux samples of RLL hard disks. A friend of mine got a Maxtor XT2190 that appears to have been written with an RLL contoller. The problem is there is very little information on what...
  19. Al Kossow

    soviet 'qbus' connectors

    https://www.ebay.com/itm/NOS-NEW-DEC-Qbus-Unibus-WireWrap-Socket-pdp-11-lsi-11-pdc/224397006739 be careful, soviet "qbus" boards don't have the same pin spacing
  20. Al Kossow

    Flip-Chip sell off

    I don't have any equipment that uses them any more, so I'll be ebaying off my A-W series flip chips over the next few days. The W's and PT08 boards are up now https://www.ebay.com/itm/184647476832 https://www.ebay.com/itm/184647420812
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