... Hmm, apparently HP forgot that an int defaults to signed! ;) (at least most of the time) -Dave

Yup :-) -Dave

I was just thinking the same thing. :-(

That's a great one. :-) Another funny one is from the man page of tunefs(1M), near the bottom: You can tune a file system, but you can't tune a fish. -Dave

Yeah. College professors naively think all components are "perfect", and the eyes of random forum kids glaze over when people talk about tech in-depth...if they can blink an LED with an Arduino in les

#VintageHPComputers

Wow, that's an interface board for HP's "PC Instruments" series of low-end test equipment. That's a fairly unusual board. Replace it with an electrolytic capacitor. Sure, it may leak again, but in 30-

#VintageHPComputers

I got a big chuckle out of this, so I decided to ask someone about it. About 35 years ago I had the good fortune to have worked in a small (four-man) company headed up by Jerry Clancy, one of the auth

I've just contacted her on behalf of LSSM. We are badly short of HP terminals; I'm hoping she'll be ok with the idea of it leaving Colorado. Thanks for forwarding this. -Dave

I wonder if that jumper enabled terminator *power*, but not actual termination on the drive. On-drive termination controlled by a single jumper is not common on SCSI drives. -Dave

SD cards are effectively SSDs. Do you mean an SSD with a different type of interface? But I suspect the concerns were many: The significantly more difficult process of implementing a high-speed interf

That's a very smart approach. (no pun intended ;)) My only concern would be taking it to an extreme, as the more dense flash chips have lower write endurance. My assumption is that this is due to phys

I've not seen it specifically with SCSI2SDs, but I've seen plenty of SD cards die due to use. Remember these things are designed for consumers to write a small number of large files onto very occasion

Ahh. If you had mentioned it here, I didn't see it, otherwise I'd have spoken up. I'm sorry about that, and I will cross my fingers for you for good luck with the V6. HP-UX doesn't do anything particu

Those teething issues are what I'd heard about before. What worried me is that I've been hearing about V6 teething issues pretty much constantly since it was introduced, while the V5.1 board seems to

I'm interested to know how well the V6 works. I'm running V5.1 boards in a 382, and in a few non-HP machines. (Suns) FWIW, I cloned the geometry from the actual drive that I had been running, so I did

Yeah, and those Commodore disk drives are worth serious money in the collectors' market. -Dave

I see, very nice! So nice to see something like that, that's not the bloated pile of garbage that is LabVIEW. If I never see that steaming pile again, I'll be a happier man. I should get VEE installed

#HP9000S300

Pics or it didn't happen! ;) -Dave

#HP9000S300

I sure wish there were some folks like you over here. I've actually considered shutting down LSSM due to the lack of help. It's immensely popular for visits, but nobody wants to get involved...I guess

This is not that hard to do; it's an http/https proxy. I've done it with Apache httpd, but there are other packages that will do it. -Dave