[sebhc] printer driver

[Barry Watzman]

Yes, with a different controller.  But the system in question being sold on
E-Bay has the original hard sector controller.


-----Original Message-----
From: sebhc at sebhc.org [mailto:sebhc at sebhc.org] On Behalf Of steve shumaker
Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 10:47 AM
To: sebhc at sebhc.org
Subject: RE: [sebhc] printer driver

It's been a long time since my h8 was around but wasn't there a softsector 
setup?  or am I just dredging up memories of other systems that had it?

steve s


At 08:25 AM 2/25/2005 -0500, you wrote:
>Well, fwiw, the drives in the H-17 are generic 5.25" drives, so some $1
flea
>market drives will work, as will a pair of half height drives.  I know it's
>not historically accurate, but it's functional.  The real problem is
getting
>diskettes.
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: sebhc at sebhc.org [mailto:sebhc at sebhc.org] On Behalf Of H.E. Robert,
>[Just Bob!]
>Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 1:36 AM
>To: sebhc at sebhc.org
>Subject: Re: [sebhc] printer driver
>
>Well, I guess it comes down to the parts are worth more than the whole!
>I remember in the '70's, a Renault LeCar sold for around $5K, put to
>build one
>from parts was around $250K!!  It makes sense for the seller to sell the
>drives separate from the CPU, but honestly, I don't believe removal of the
>boards would detract from the final bid on the H-8, as much as they could
>add to the bids on the H-17 drives? ...
>....but then again anybody with an H-8 looking for drives, probably already
>has the controller right?  So to follow the logic (expressed below), if
>the seller
>removed the boards, they would break the chain, and some poor
>unfortunate soul
>(like myself), would end up with an H-8, and no controller, and any
>other chance
>at drives would also be controller-less, (assuming I lost this H-17
>auction),
>and I would never be able to complete a working system, unless someone
>  on the list, felt sorry for me!  Now I'm really depressed!!!
>
>Okay, on a brighter note, did anybody see what a 33ASR just went for?
>http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=5167154458
>US $1,420.00!   What's up with that???  I learned that lesson early on,
>.....
>never mix large quantities of Red Wine and ebay!  It is insanity
>wrapped in amnesia, an expensive lesson, to be sure!  Trust me!
>
>Just Bob!
>
>Lee Hart wrote:
>
> >Barry Watzman wrote:
> >
> >
> >>I tried to get him to put the H8 and H17 together, but other people
> >>urged him not to.  Take it up with him, it's not my auction.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Strange, isn't it? It's like selling left and right shoes separately.
> >
> >Then again... did any of you ever watch the british sitcom "The Fall and
> >Rise of Reginald Perrin"? He was a middle-management executive who was
> >going nowhere in his career by trying to succeed. So he decided to try
> >to fail -- and succeeded instead!
> >
> >In one episode he goes to work for "The Grot Shop" -- basically a thrift
> >store. They have hundreds of pairs of shoes that nobody wants. Reggie
> >decides to sell shoes "each" instead of as pairs, and is flooded with
> >eager business from one-legged people who are delighted that they
> >finally can buy just one shoe!
> >
> >Maybe the guy figures he can make more money selling two halves of a
> >computer than one whole one!
> >
> >
>
>
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