OK, I have several hundred various SIMM sticks. One half would be 1 meg 30 pin stuff. The rest is 72pin stock of varying sizes up to 32 meg. Any suggestions...
1999
Jim Scheef
jscheef
Jan 2, 2006 3:55 pm
Kelly, Early Pentiums that use 72-pin SIMMs make excellent routers - just add two or three NICs stir in M0n0wall, bake for 15 minutes and you have a very...
2000
Richard A. Cini
altairmanrich
Jan 2, 2006 4:12 pm
You know, this brings up an interesting idea. I don't know if this was discussed previously but why can't we have a "vintage parts stockroom" at InfoAge? A few...
2001
Jim Scheef
jscheef
Jan 2, 2006 6:07 pm
Richard, It's an interesting idea and would/will be a terrific resource - something that could induce people to become active members of the...
2002
Kelly Leavitt
w2lv
Jan 2, 2006 6:30 pm
... That spare parts concept kinda describes my basement at the moment. If anyone needs any part for an older PC or Tandy computer, try emailing me to see if I...
2003
B. Degnan
billdeg
Jan 2, 2006 6:47 pm
I am happy to contribute parts to anyone who needs them (usually for free), but because I don't know what I will need and when for my own work, I prefer to...
2004
ysgdhio
Jan 2, 2006 7:34 pm
... m0n0wall is great; I recommend it highly. You probably don't need all of those 15 minutes, unless you count putting the hardware together. ... I'm running...
2005
Joe Giliberti
jtkirk1337
Jan 2, 2006 11:11 pm
The other night, I bid on a lot of 8 mixed computers on eBay. I won at a price of $1.76. I just picked them up. Post of them are old Pentium 1 machines, but...
2006
Ray Sills
raysills
Jan 3, 2006 1:18 am
Hi Joe: It probably cost you more in gasoline to pick them up!!! But, certainly you got your money's worth. 73 de Ray...
The model 80 is a 386. There are many iterations of the ps/2 80. Even if "they" don't consider it vintage now, it will be considered vintage by "them"...
2009
Joe Giliberti
jtkirk1337
Jan 3, 2006 2:13 am
... The IBM is running, barely. Its running XENIX. Since I know very few Unix commands, I am going to try and format the hard drive and install MS-DOS.From the...
2010
ysgdhio
Jan 3, 2006 2:24 am
... Eek! Why not try to see how far you can get with Xenix?!...
2011
B. Degnan
billdeg
Jan 3, 2006 2:26 am
You'll learn more if you try to figure out how it was used as-is, keeping the XENIX OS intact first before formatting with DOS. You might be able to find a...
2012
Joe Giliberti
jtkirk1337
Jan 3, 2006 2:38 am
... I'll give it a chance. My father, who used to work a Bell Labs was telling me that XENIX is essentially UNIX, under the Microsoft name. Now, there is...
2013
B. Degnan
billdeg
Jan 3, 2006 2:41 am
and the fun begins...
2014
Joe Giliberti
jtkirk1337
Jan 3, 2006 3:03 am
... I'm not sure if I want to know, but what do you mean?...
2015
Degnan
billdeg
Jan 3, 2006 7:32 pm
fun figuring it out. bd...
2016
Joe Giliberti
jtkirk1337
Jan 4, 2006 12:06 am
I've just run into a problem. It seemed that there was something wrong with the Computone terminal MCA card and breakout box. The machine refused to boot when...
2017
madodel
Jan 4, 2006 3:12 am
... A great place to ask about PS/2 problems is the Usenet group comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware A list of PS/2 error codes can be found at ...
2018
Sridhar Ayengar
narayanayengar
Jan 4, 2006 5:38 am
... Not MFM. EDSI. Much, much, much faster than MFM. It should be a 386. I have loads of parts for this machine, if you want them. Most of which I can let...
2019
Sridhar Ayengar
narayanayengar
Jan 4, 2006 6:15 am
... You need to boot off of the reference diskette. It's the only diskette the machine will boot until it's been configured. MCA machines use reference...
2020
Sridhar Ayengar
narayanayengar
Jan 4, 2006 6:17 am
... By the way, set the clock on your computer properly. It's more than a month off. It screws with people's email systems. Peace... Sridhar...
2021
Evan
evan947
Jan 4, 2006 7:43 am
Sorry folks, I'm still catching up on things that were due on 2005, so it'll be a week or two before there is a major club update to share. - Evan ... and in...
2022
Bob Grieb
bobgrieb
Jan 4, 2006 10:23 pm
Hi Evan, Just thought I would mention that I got the Hero robot working a while ago. New batteries, a bunch of re-soldering, etc. I think all of the fcns are...
2023
William Pechter
bpechter
Jan 5, 2006 1:16 am
There's a possible way out... You can boot a linux system on the box and mount the Xenix filesystem and vi out the root password to get access... Does the...
2024
Joe Giliberti
jtkirk1337
Jan 5, 2006 1:17 am
... I've got something similar. Its an Omnibot 2000, and old Tomy from '85. One of the arms is missing, but the motorized arm is still intact. This is one of...
2025
William Pechter
bpechter
Jan 5, 2006 1:42 am
In addition to MOnOwall, Smoothwall and IPCOP also have worked out well for me as has GnatBox Light from GTA. ... m0n0wall is great; I recommend it highly. You...
2026
Joe Giliberti
jtkirk1337
Jan 5, 2006 3:46 am
... It has no way of connecting a CD ROM drive. There is an old token ring card in there, but all it has is a DB-9 out. Plus, I am now getting a 10490 error on...
2027
Evan
evan947
Jan 5, 2006 4:54 am
Great, let's install a battle ring in our museum for the vintage robots to fight. :) _____ From: midatlanticretro@yahoogroups.com ...
