June 2018 - vcf-midatlantic

Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Thicknet/10base5 Test Segment: The Cable is In!
by VAXman＠tmesis.org 25 Jun '18

25 Jun '18

systems_glitch via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vcfed.org> writes: > >All, > >A few months ago, I mentioned one of my suppliers had Belden 89880 >thicknet Ethernet cable. Well, last week I finally made it down to his >warehouse and picked it up! The final bits for a test segment came in >today, so I set up a little link between my SPARCstation 10 and DEChub >90: > >https://imgur.com/a/GDUR36j > >Anyone interested in cable can email me directly (please change the >subject line, it'll get binned into my cctalk folder otherwise). I can >provide any level of "kit" from just the cable to fully ready to go. I >do have a very few NOS Cabletron ST-500-01 transceiver/non-intrusive tap >kits as well. > >Thanks, Jonathan Where are the H4000s and H4005s?

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Museum report
by Tony Bogan 25 Jun '18

25 Jun '18

Sunday was the polar opposite of Evans day on Saturday. Only 4 visitors all day.....two pairs that came about 10 minutes apart after 4:00pm. The husband and wife duo were moderately interested, the father and son (adult son) were very interested. The father walked in and Immediately started to tell his son all about the Bendix in the museum and the one he used to work with....from there it was almost an hour of question and answer. I easily gained as much knowledge as I dispensed! Prior to those four visitors the day was cemetery quiet. However, I am now #5 on the high score list on PAC-Man on the NeXT cube :-) I got the VWOA room, bathroom and hallway swept, called John C from infoage who brought over some more TP for the restroom and shot the breeze for a few. I also got a little of the museum swept as well, but a leg injury from last week (carrying chairs and tables on the boats for Father's Day....another story) told me it was time to sit for awhile. Monday will be my only day off each week for the months of July and August (and most of September) so I will not be docent again for some time. Tony Sent from my iPhone

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Museum report
by Evan Koblentz 24 Jun '18

24 Jun '18

Cool/wet weather translated into a good amount of museum visitors today. I guess nobody wanted to be at the beach. We had about 20 people stop by throughout the day. It was all parents/kids. The best visitors were a pair of high school kids, boy and a girl, who stopped by on their own and stayed for an hour! I brought in our new 1u/24-port patch panel, returned the 2u/48-port panel (overkill for us) to Martin, did more workshop clean-up, and spent some more time preparing my HOPE demo. Our docent tomorrow will either be Jeff B. or Tony.

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Portable III keyboard foot
by Evan Koblentz 23 Jun '18

23 Jun '18

One of the feet (on the right side) on our Compaq Portable III is broken. It's the little pin that snapped off. Our parts machine in the warehouse lacks either foot. Does anyone have a spare?

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Docents for next weekend 6/23 & 6/24, 2018
by Jeffrey Brace 23 Jun '18

23 Jun '18

Expected docents for next weekend are Evan K. and myself (Jeff Brace). Not sure who will be which days yet. -- ========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President Vintage Computer Federation

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New-to-Me Zeos Pocket PC
by J. Alexander Jacocks 22 Jun '18

22 Jun '18

All, I just picked up a palmtop PC, from local Craigslist. It's a Zeos Pocket PC, which is a rebadged Tidalwave PS-1000. http://oldcomputers.net/zeos-ppc.html http://www.tankraider.com/DOSPALMTOP/zeosppc.html However, with this machine I didn't get the serial and parallel cables. Does anyone have a pinout for these? I'd like to make up some cables, so that I can transfer data to it. Any other information or resources that anyone might suggest would also be welcome. Thanks! - Alex

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A/B switch for ribbon cable?
by Evan Koblentz 22 Jun '18

22 Jun '18

Suppose I have two computers, I want to connect both of them through 20-pin ribbon cables to the same device, and I want to be able to easily swap which one is live via some kind of A/B switch. Does that exist? What's it called, so I can get one?

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] AC Cooling fan cable...
by Duane Craps 20 Jun '18

20 Jun '18

Is this it? https://www.amazon.com/AC-Infinity-Inch-Power-Plug/dp/B004YUUAJS/ref=sr_1_4… On 6/20/2018 9:38 PM, William Sudbrink via vcf-midatlantic wrote: > Martin A Flynn wrote: >> eBay: Search under "AC FAN POWER CORD" > Interesting. I searched "ac cooling fan power cable" on eBay and got nothing. Anyway, yes, thanks, your search hits. I'd still like to try to get one sooner than July 1st and maybe a little cheaper than seven bucks. > > Bill S. > > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > https://www.avast.com/antivirus > > -- DuaneCraps sdɐɹɔ ǝuɐnp

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AC Cooling fan cable...
by William Sudbrink 20 Jun '18

20 Jun '18

Does anyone know where to buy the little two bladed socket style cable that is commonly used on an AC cooling fan? I'm replacing a dead AC fan and it is hard wired. The replacement I got has the blades and I'd like to use them (without soldering) so that, if the fan dies again, its replacement will just be a screwdriver job. Unfortunately, the replacement came without the cable. Thanks, Bill S. --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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NeXT printer emulator/bridge
by Herb Johnson 19 Jun '18

19 Jun '18

> On 06/17/2018 01:33 PM, Bill Degnan via vcf-midatlantic wrote: >> I have two next laser printers..I thought they were just >> ho laser jet II's with an adapter > > Dave McGuire wrote; > No, they are very different. HP never got their hands on > these; NeXT bought SX engines from Canon. Well.. The Laserwriter II was also based on a Canon SX engine, which was the engine for the LaserJet II. My wife still uses a LJ II or III, and I've sold LW II printers and parts for well over a decade. Wikipedia describes the lineage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaserWriter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_LaserJet (probably an entry for neXt...) Point being, calling all these "a LJ II" is a plausible term of convenience, as LJ II's and III's were the most common of the printers discussed. Herb -- Herbert R. Johnson, New Jersey in the USA http://www.retrotechnology.com OR .net

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