[HECnet] Personal DECstation 5000/25

[Cory Smelosky]

Well, that's definitely a problem!

----- Original Message -----
| From: "Gregg Levine" <gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com>
| To: hecnet at update.uu.se
| Sent: Friday, 1 March, 2013 8:10:35 PM
| Subject: Re: [HECnet] Personal DECstation 5000/25
| 
| On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 8:07 PM, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> wrote:
| >
| > On 1 Mar 2013, at 20:06, Gregg Levine <gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com>
| > wrote:
| >
| >> On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 8:04 PM, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> wrote:
| >>>
| >>> On 1 Mar 2013, at 19:57, Gregg Levine <gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com>
| >>> wrote:
| >>>
| >>>> On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 7:44 PM, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net>
| >>>> wrote:
| >>>>>
| >>>>> On 1 Mar 2013, at 19:42, Gregg Levine <gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com>
| >>>>> wrote:
| >>>>>
| >>>>>> On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 7:40 PM, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net>
| >>>>>> wrote:
| >>>>>>>
| >>>>>>> On 1 Mar 2013, at 19:38, Gregg Levine
| >>>>>>> <gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com> wrote:
| >>>>>>>
| >>>>>>>> On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 5:34 PM, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net>
| >>>>>>>> wrote:
| >>>>>>>>> My Netra that functions as my router has a dead battery and
| >>>>>>>>> she still runs fine. More stable than when my router was
| >>>>>>>>> in a VM, too...
| >>>>>>>>>
| >>>>>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
| >>>>>>>>> | From: "Ian McLaughlin" <ian at platinum.net>
| >>>>>>>>> | To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
| >>>>>>>>> | Sent: Friday, 1 March, 2013 4:58:53 PM
| >>>>>>>>> | Subject: Re: [HECnet] Personal DECstation 5000/25
| >>>>>>>>> |
| >>>>>>>>> |
| >>>>>>>>> | On 2013-03-01, at 1:57 PM, Mark Wickens
| >>>>>>>>> | <mark at wickensonline.co.uk>
| >>>>>>>>> | wrote:
| >>>>>>>>> |
| >>>>>>>>> | > On 01/03/2013 17:02, Ian McLaughlin wrote:
| >>>>>>>>> | >> Mark,
| >>>>>>>>> | >> I've grabbed the image from you - thanks!   I look
| >>>>>>>>> | >> forward to
| >>>>>>>>> | >> seeing the patches also, once you've got slave online.
| >>>>>>>>> | >>
| >>>>>>>>> | >> As with most hardware this age, the clock battery has
| >>>>>>>>> | >> died.
| >>>>>>>>> | >> Unfortunately, this module is soldered to the
| >>>>>>>>> | >> motherboard.   The
| >>>>>>>>> | >> original module is a DS1287.   I have a DS12887 spare,
| >>>>>>>>> | >> but I can't
| >>>>>>>>> | >> tell if it's compatible without soldering it in.   In
| >>>>>>>>> | >> most cases
| >>>>>>>>> | >> the DS12887 is a suitable replacement, but I can't
| >>>>>>>>> | >> find any
| >>>>>>>>> | >> discussion of anyone trying in a DECstation.   Any
| >>>>>>>>> | >> chance anyone
| >>>>>>>>> | >> here has tried?
| >>>>>>>>> | >>
| >>>>>>>>> | >> I would normally install a socket, but this module
| >>>>>>>>> | >> lives just
| >>>>>>>>> | >> underneath the CPU board, and there's not enough
| >>>>>>>>> | >> clearance to add
| >>>>>>>>> | >> a socket.   Whatever replacement goes in will have to
| >>>>>>>>> | >> be soldered.
| >>>>>>>>> | > They never make life easy do they?
| >>>>>>>>> | >
| >>>>>>>>> | > I'm guessing my 5000/240 probably needs a new battery
| >>>>>>>>> | > by now!
| >>>>>>>>> |
| >>>>>>>>> | At least this machine lets me still play.   I can change
| >>>>>>>>> | settings,
| >>>>>>>>> | boot the machine, etc.   It just forgets them when I power
| >>>>>>>>> | off.   Some
| >>>>>>>>> | machines will just totally lock up and refuse to operate
| >>>>>>>>> | when the
| >>>>>>>>> | battery is dead.
| >>>>>>>>> |
| >>>>>>>>> | Ian
| >>>>>>>>> |
| >>>>>>>>> |
| >>>>>>>>>
| >>>>>>>>> --
| >>>>>>>>> Cory Smelosky
| >>>>>>>>> http://gewt.net Personal stuff
| >>>>>>>>> http://gimme-sympathy.org Experiments
| >>>>>>>>> http://dev.gimme-sympathy.org Home experiments
| >>>>>>>>>
| >>>>>>>>
| >>>>>>>> Hello!
| >>>>>>>> This does not explain why your Netra just ordered six feet
| >>>>>>>> and plenty
| >>>>>>>> of things to work with, because it wants to leave...   ..
| >>>>>>>
| >>>>>>> Unfortunately not. ;)
| >>>>>>>
| >>>>>>> It also does not explain why despotify is giving me a Bus
| >>>>>>> error.
| >>>>>>>
| >>>>>>>>
| >>>>>>>> Dave stop staring at that car. The occupants want to finish
| >>>>>>>> their
| >>>>>>>> business and leave the area......
| >>>>>>>> -----
| >>>>>>>> Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
| >>>>>>>> "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
| >>>>>>>
| >>>>>>
| >>>>>> Hello!
| >>>>>> Hmmm. I arranged that. Yes it wants to leave. It wants to work
| >>>>>> in a
| >>>>>> normal climate.
| >>>>>
| >>>>> I understand.   Rivers catch fire here.
| >>>>>
| >>>>>>
| >>>>>> Dave stop staring at that car. The occupants want to finish
| >>>>>> their
| >>>>>> business and leave the area......
| >>>>>>
| >>>>>> -----
| >>>>>> Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
| >>>>>> "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
| >>>>>
| >>>>
| >>>> Hello!
| >>>> Oh that problem..... I arranged that too.
| >>>
| >>> I didn't know you were over one hundred years old. ;)
| >>>
| >>>>
| >>>> Dave now you did it, you have a very tall individual who's over
| >>>> dressed for the area and an average height young woman who's
| >>>> dressed
| >>>> improperly for the the time, staring back at you.
| >>>> -----
| >>>> Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
| >>>> "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
| >>>
| >>
| >> Hello!
| >> I see you've not been reading the witty notes that I've been
| >> including
| >> regarding Dave's many problems. Or the reference to the Yetis.
| >
| > Hey, they were aimed at Dave, not me. ;)
| >
| >>
| >> They were one of the problems of Doctor Who. And, ah, that's me.
| >>
| >> --
| >> -----
| >> Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
| >> "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
| >
| 
| Hello!
| Of course. But now you do have problems. There's a crowd of Cybermen
| going through your garbage and the mail you did not bring in today.
| 
| --
| -----
| Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
| "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
| 

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