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"Cledith SHJ Girard a.k.a. "*"" wrote in message ... are they "hot swapable"? the ones I bought are. There made/sold under the name "Genica" the box has a web site under that name, its a www."".com site. Well this is many years ago now, so lets see they were made I believe by Syncom which was no help since numerous companies come up under that name. But yes they were hot swappable. In fact my friend came over and set them up and they worked pretty well at first. It was the fact that at the time I think because of the other devices on the chain (Ribbon) that may have caused the problems. After they were set in the racks and bolted down and then you had to lock and unlock them with a key and then remove them for different OS and or different sets of data, it was just a royal pain. Today I use the USB Thumb Drives between the computers and they are much faster and stable then the latter. And have a 10 year life span. Not bad I would say. They are (Removable drive bays) in their original boxes and in the attic with the rest of the memories of my computers over the years. Ha ha Elector |
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"Elector" wrote in message ... "Cledith SHJ Girard a.k.a. "*"" wrote in message ... are they "hot swapable"? the ones I bought are. There made/sold under the name "Genica" the box has a web site under that name, its a www."".com site. Well this is many years ago now, so lets see they were made I believe by Syncom which was no help since numerous companies come up under that name. But yes they were hot swappable. In fact my friend came over and set them up and they worked pretty well at first. It was the fact that at the time I think because of the other devices on the chain (Ribbon) that may have caused the problems. After they were set in the racks and bolted down and then you had to lock and unlock them with a key and then remove them for different OS and or different sets of data, it was just a royal pain. Today I use the USB Thumb Drives between the computers and they are much faster and stable then the latter. And have a 10 year life span. Not bad I would say. They are (Removable drive bays) in their original boxes and in the attic with the rest of the memories of my computers over the years. Ha ha Elector no atic, still have a huge collection of PC's rangeing from my favorite Atari 130XE to a few other old 8-bit pc's and 2x 486's 25/50 mhz 1x XT 1x286 ?mhz and this pentium 166mhz witch I'll be upgradeing to a 233 by this weekend. only this system and my Atari are still setup, I still have BBS software setup on my atari. |
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"Cledith SHJ Girard a.k.a. "*"" wrote in message ... snip no atic, still have a huge collection of PC's rangeing from my favorite Atari 130XE to a few other old 8-bit pc's and 2x 486's 25/50 mhz 1x XT 1x286 ?mhz and this pentium 166mhz witch I'll be upgradeing to a 233 by this weekend. only this system and my Atari are still setup, I still have BBS software setup on my atari. Hi Skydevil: My lord that is a long time ago, an Atari. It reminds me of my TI coupler system that used thermal paper. I have heard some folks still keep their old Vic 64's. In the old days I was an operator for the state and we just moved over from an old Sperry Univac to the Honeywell. Back then it was not personal computers but "time sharing" and I remember when Microsoft had their first service for $4.95 a month (I had it) and AOL, Prodigy, and CompuServe were the dial up providers of choice outside of the old BBS. In fact I still have the old disks for the WOW Internet service that never got off the ground. I posted on CompuServe for many expensive years both in the Packard Bell Forum and many others. Of course this was way before AOL stuck their hands into the service and ruined it. So we do go back a ways ! Elector |
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"Cledith SHJ Girard a.k.a. \"*\"" wrote in message ...
"Elector" wrote in message ... "Cledith SHJ Girard a.k.a. "*"" wrote in message ... are they "hot swapable"? the ones I bought are. There made/sold under the name "Genica" the box has a web site under that name, its a www."".com site. Well this is many years ago now, so lets see they were made I believe by Syncom which was no help since numerous companies come up under that name. But yes they were hot swappable. In fact my friend came over and set them up and they worked pretty well at first. It was the fact that at the time I think because of the other devices on the chain (Ribbon) that may have caused the problems. After they were set in the racks and bolted down and then you had to lock and unlock them with a key and then remove them for different OS and or different sets of data, it was just a royal pain. Today I use the USB Thumb Drives between the computers and they are much faster and stable then the latter. And have a 10 year life span. Not bad I would say. They are (Removable drive bays) in their original boxes and in the attic with the rest of the memories of my computers over the years. Ha ha Elector no atic, still have a huge collection of PC's rangeing from my favorite Atari 130XE to a few other old 8-bit pc's and 2x 486's 25/50 mhz 1x XT 1x286 ?mhz and this pentium 166mhz witch I'll be upgradeing to a 233 by this weekend. only this system and my Atari are still setup, I still have BBS software setup on my atari. What do you use your Atari for? |
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well, not much right now, I've been considering playing some games on it
lately, because most of the games on these clone systems eather cost way too much and other then sharper graphics and faster cpu speeds, the games seem perty lame, I can hook up a null modem between this PB and my atari and access/play files useing an atari emulator/terminal program. "Drydem" wrote in message om... "Cledith SHJ Girard a.k.a. \"*\"" wrote in message ... "Elector" wrote in message ... "Cledith SHJ Girard a.k.a. "*"" wrote in message ... are they "hot swapable"? the ones I bought are. There made/sold under the name "Genica" the box has a web site under that name, its a www."".com site. Well this is many years ago now, so lets see they were made I believe by Syncom which was no help since numerous companies come up under that name. But yes they were hot swappable. In fact my friend came over and set them up and they worked pretty well at first. It was the fact that at the time I think because of the other devices on the chain (Ribbon) that may have caused the problems. After they were set in the racks and bolted down and then you had to lock and unlock them with a key and then remove them for different OS and or different sets of data, it was just a royal pain. Today I use the USB Thumb Drives between the computers and they are much faster and stable then the latter. And have a 10 year life span. Not bad I would say. They are (Removable drive bays) in their original boxes and in the attic with the rest of the memories of my computers over the years. Ha ha Elector no atic, still have a huge collection of PC's rangeing from my favorite Atari 130XE to a few other old 8-bit pc's and 2x 486's 25/50 mhz 1x XT 1x286 ?mhz and this pentium 166mhz witch I'll be upgradeing to a 233 by this weekend. only this system and my Atari are still setup, I still have BBS software setup on my atari. What do you use your Atari for? |
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