I should say I'm not an Amiga user but I'm also connected to AmigaNet that
has a focus on all things Amiga. It's not a very active net, but then it
seems the same can be said of this Fido echoarea.

Just posting to see where the messages end up and who's about?

Best, Paul

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I should say I'm not an Amiga user but I'm also connected to AmigaNet that has a focus on all things Amiga. It's not a very active net, but then it seems the same can be said of this Fido echoarea.

Just posting to see where the messages end up and who's about?

Made it here.. and I'm still sorry I sold my amiga so many many years ago :(

Take care,
Janis

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31 Oct 15 15:57, you wrote to all:

I should say I'm not an Amiga user but I'm also connected to AmigaNet

Hey, Paul.. I'm not in any Amiga networks, but the last one I can remember was gated by Netsurge (who also ran Scinet) That network went MIA several years ago. Not a word, or any heads-up about closing up shop. The binkp server just stopped working. I still have a couple Amiga-500's in my closet. One of them I got off Ebay, mainly for parts. The orignal one I got at the store, it has a ton of extra games, books, manuals, addons +parts in box. No doubt, most if not all the floppies are trashed/not worth anything by now. I never did own a monitor for it, just used a RGB TV-set.

Just posting to see where the messages end up and who's about?

There appears to be 18 posts here since Aug, 2014. Other PC's in my closet, are a C-64, Atari 800/with dotmatrix printer, IBM 8080 and a 286 box. There should be some modems 1-300 baud, 1-1200, 1-9600, 1-14400, 1-ISDN, and 4-USR's ext, vEverything that where paid for in some type of sysop deal. Also a Cyclades 8-port serial card with Octopus serial cable. CYCLOM-8YO S/N:cycco13766. Old hardware is probably a hard thing to sale these days. My kids (know adults) will more then likely send it all to the dumpster someday.

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On 10/31/15, Paul Hayton said the following...

I should say I'm not an Amiga user but I'm also connected to AmigaNet
that has a focus on all things Amiga. It's not a very active net, but
then it seems the same can be said of this Fido echoarea.

Just posting to see where the messages end up and who's about?

I'm here lurking as usuall :) I've never had an amiga myself but heard good things about them so it's on my radar for some reason.

Ttyl :-),
Al

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Hi,

On 2015-10-31 00:11:31, Leslie Given wrote to Paul Hayton:
about: "This echoarea":

Other PC's in my closet, are a C-64, Atari 800/with dotmatrix printer,
IBM 8080 and a 286 box. There should be some modems 1-300 baud,
1-1200, 1-9600, 1-14400, 1-ISDN, and 4-USR's ext, vEverything that
where paid for in some type of sysop deal. Also a Cyclades 8-port
serial card with Octopus serial cable. CYCLOM-8YO S/N:cycco13766.

That's not a closet, that's a museum! ;)


Bye, Wilfred.


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31 Oct 15 15:57, you wrote to All:

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I should say I'm not an Amiga user but I'm also connected to AmigaNet that has a focus on all things Amiga. It's not a very active net, but then it seems the same can be said of this Fido echoarea.

Just posting to see where the messages end up and who's about?

Best, Paul

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10-31-15 15:57 Paul Hayton wrote to All about This echoarea
Howdy! Paul,

@MSGID: <56349A81.134.amiga@capcity2.synchro.net>
I should say I'm not an Amiga user but I'm also connected to AmigaNet
that has a focus on all things Amiga. It's not a very active net, but
then it seems the same can be said of this Fido echoarea.

Just posting to see where the messages end up and who's about?

I'm another Lurker.

The C=64 here still works and 99+% of the floppy disks I have work too.

Never owned an Amiga, but know of one person who does and He has a computer repair shop over in Louisville, Kentucky.



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Hi,

On 2015-10-31 07:18:00, Ed Vance wrote to Paul Hayton:
about: "Re: This echoarea":

The C=64 here still works and 99+% of the floppy disks I have work
too.

How is that possible?

I have some too. But haven't tried them in 2 decades or there about. So I have no idea about their state, or even if the C=64 will start if I turn it on... ;)

Bye, Wilfred.


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Hi Wilfred!

31 Oct 15 23:25, you wrote to Ed Vance:

The C=64 here still works and 99+% of the floppy disks I have
work too.

How is that possible?
I have some too. But haven't tried them in 2 decades or there about.
So I have no idea about their state, or even if the C=64 will start if
I turn it on... ;)

How is THAT possible?
I still have my C128 from my childhood, and it got a good friend, the 1541 ultimate II from me.
That is an FPGA based extension, that can emulate two floppy drives, a REU, Cartridges, EZFlash, ......
Great device!

I never had an Amiga, but bought one a few years back.
An Amiga 1200 with a memory expansion and a 8GB compact flash card.
Nice computer.

Bye, Wilfred.

CU, Ricsi

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Hi,

On 2015-11-01 19:51:14, Richard Menedetter wrote to Wilfred van Velzen:
about: "This echoarea":

The C=64 here still works and 99+% of the floppy disks I have
work too.

How is that possible?
I have some too. But haven't tried them in 2 decades or there about.
So I have no idea about their state, or even if the C=64 will start if
I turn it on... ;)

How is THAT possible?

Simple, don't turn it on! ;)

I still have my C128 from my childhood, and it got a good friend, the
1541 ultimate II from me. That is an FPGA based extension, that can emulate two floppy drives, a REU, Cartridges, EZFlash, ...... Great device!

I never had an Amiga, but bought one a few years back.
An Amiga 1200 with a memory expansion and a 8GB compact flash card.
Nice computer.

I had an A1000, which I used concurrently with the C=64. And later exchanged it for an A4000, which I still have, but also haven't used it for about 15 years...

Bye, Wilfred.


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ALAN IANSON wrote to PAUL HAYTON <=-

On 10/31/15, Paul Hayton said the following...

I should say I'm not an Amiga user but I'm also connected to AmigaNet
that has a focus on all things Amiga. It's not a very active net, but
then it seems the same can be said of this Fido echoarea.

Just posting to see where the messages end up and who's about?

I'm here lurking as usuall :) I've never had an amiga myself but heard good things about them so it's on my radar for some reason.

Odd, I may be one of the few Amiga user/owners in captivity. I currently have an A-500, an A-2500/030, an A-3000T and an A-4000. If there are any other Amiga owners in here - I'm looking for a set of CIA chips for the A-4000.

Made a dumb-ass rookie mistake and tried hot-swapping printer cables. I know better, but I forgot.

Enjoy!!!!

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10-31-15 23:25 Wilfred van Velzen wrote to Ed Vance about Re: This echoarea Howdy! Wilfred,

@MSGID: <5635FA10.141.amiga@capcity2.synchro.net>
Hi,

On 2015-10-31 07:18:00, Ed Vance wrote to Paul Hayton:
about: "Re: This echoarea":

The C=64 here still works and 99+% of the floppy disks I have work
too.

How is that possible?

I have some too. But haven't tried them in 2 decades or there about. So
I have no idea about their state, or even if the C=64 will start if I turn it on... ;)

Off and On I've been looking for a SEQ/Text file I saved to a C=64 5-1/4" disk.

I Load and List the Directory of my floppies, and look to see how many Blocks it uses, because it is a very large file that I wrote over a period of time.

Of course I look at the File Name too, but I think looking for the size the file takes up on the disk will help me find it sooner.

I've got disks for the C-64 stuck in several boxes and actually I can't remember any disk that I tried, that I couldn't see the Directory on it.

But that might be because of Old Age setting in.

I will look at a few boxes of disks each time I feel like hunting for that file, then I'll come back over to the XP box since I use it as my main pc.

It would be easier if the file would just hollar and tell me where it is hiding.

Try Your C=64, I'd think it would work since it boot up from ROM Chips instead of from a Hard Disk or Floppy.


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Hi Ed,

On 2015-11-01 19:55:00, you wrote to me:

Try Your C=64, I'd think it would work since it boot up from ROM Chips instead of from a Hard Disk or Floppy.

I'm afraid of old capacitors that wouldn't survive the first turn on of power after so many years. And that could also damage other more vital parts. The same thing goes for the Amiga...

Bye, Wilfred.

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On 11/01/15, DAVE DRUM said the following...

Odd, I may be one of the few Amiga user/owners in captivity. I currently have an A-500, an A-2500/030, an A-3000T and an A-4000. If there are any other Amiga owners in here - I'm looking for a set of CIA chips for the A-4000.

I have never even seen an amiga. Once in a while I check the local computer shops to see what they have. Last time I was in there they didn't even have a used PC. I'll look those up online and maybe finally see what they look like
at least.

Made a dumb-ass rookie mistake and tried hot-swapping printer cables. I know better, but I forgot.

I hate when that happens.. :)

Ttyl :-),
Al

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02 Nov 15 08:47, you wrote to DAVE DRUM:

Odd, I may be one of the few Amiga user/owners in captivity. I
currently have an A-500, an A-2500/030, an A-3000T and an A-4000. If
there are any other Amiga owners in here - I'm looking for a set of
CIA chips for the A-4000.

I have never even seen an amiga. Once in a while I check the local computer shops to see what they have. Last time I was in there they
didn't even have a used PC. I'll look those up online and maybe
finally see what they look like at least.

better to look in the thrift shops these days... you'd be surprised what folks take in to them for others to pick up and enjoy... i once found a complete C-64 with original packing, manuals, software with additional hardware and software in a local thrift store for $20US... if i had had the cash available, i'd have grabbed it then...

Made a dumb-ass rookie mistake and tried hot-swapping printer cables.
I know better, but I forgot.

I hate when that happens.. :)

yeah, some ports do not like being connected and disconnected while powered up... old SCSI is especially bad about it... it definitely doesn't like having the wrong device plugged into it, either... eg: centronix ports used for different items like printers and external SCSI HDs or scanners...

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11-02-15 13:22 Wilfred van Velzen wrote to Ed Vance about Re: This echoarea Howdy! Wilfred,

@MSGID: <5637ED4D.147.amiga@capcity2.synchro.net>
Hi Ed,

On 2015-11-01 19:55:00, you wrote to me:

Try Your C=64, I'd think it would work since it boot up from ROM Chips instead of from a Hard Disk or Floppy.

I'm afraid of old capacitors that wouldn't survive the first turn on of power after so many years. And that could also damage other more vital parts. The same thing goes for the Amiga...

Soldering new capacitors on a Commodore 64 printed circuit shouldn't be too hard to do.
Finding the capacitors might be the hard part if You don't have any place near by to buy them.

I use to buy parts from Radio Shack because they were located closer to my
home than the Wholesale Radio-TV Parts stores were.

Also I think the C=64 PC Board is an ordinary double sided board instead of
a multi-layer PC Board, or Surface Mounted PC Board.

If a electrolytic capacitor POPS it is easy to see which one on the PC Board gave up the ghost.
And then there is the smell.......


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Hi,

On 2015-11-06 21:56:00, Ed Vance wrote to Wilfred van Velzen:
about: "Re: This echoarea":

Try Your C=64, I'd think it would work since it boot up from ROM
Chips instead of from a Hard Disk or Floppy.

I'm afraid of old capacitors that wouldn't survive the first turn on
of power after so many years. And that could also damage other more
vital parts. The same thing goes for the Amiga...

Soldering new capacitors on a Commodore 64 printed circuit shouldn't
be too hard to do. Finding the capacitors might be the hard part if
You don't have any place near by to buy them.

There's always the internet... But much too much work for a machine I won't be using! ;)

If a electrolytic capacitor POPS it is easy to see which one on the PC Board gave up the ghost. And then there is the smell.......

I've seen it and I have smelled it... :-/ ;)

Bye, Wilfred.


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That's not a closet, that's a museum! ;)

Not really, but it is starting to look like a museum!

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Re: This echoarea
By: Richard Menedetter to Wilfred van Velzen on Sun Nov 01 2015 19:51:14

I never had an Amiga, but bought one a few years back.
An Amiga 1200 with a memory expansion and a 8GB compact flash card.
Nice computer.

That should be all the space you would ever need and more for a system like that. How does the system deal with it though. PC's had their hard drive size limits, so I would imagine that any system of the day would have it's one limits.

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Hi Chad!

21 Nov 15 19:57, you wrote to me:

I never had an Amiga, but bought one a few years back.
An Amiga 1200 with a memory expansion and a 8GB compact flash card.
Nice computer.

That should be all the space you would ever need and more for a system like that. How does the system deal with it though. PC's had their
hard drive size limits, so I would imagine that any system of the day would have it's one limits.

I am using SFS as a filesystem.
With FFS the limit is 4GB.

Here it is explained:
http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=61666

CU, Ricsi

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Howdy! Wilfred,

I found that C=64 SEQ file I have been looking for these past few weeks.

All 556 lines of it were just fine.

I just added some more than 254 space characters b4 I used the MSDOS64 PRG
to copy it to a 720KB PC formatted disk.

The SEQ file I was looking for was listed on the floppy disk's directory
in between some letters that I wrote between July 1985 and July 1986.

The Floppy Disk was manufactured by the Classic Memory Corporation in
Paoli, Indiana USA, 36 Miles/58 Kilometers(?) North-West of where I live.

I don't think the Company is in business anymore.
After I Searched for the Company and didn't see anything in the Results,
I went to the Local Newspaper and Searched there but didn't get any
information at their website either.

Now I have the .TXT file on my XP box where I can Edit it when I want to.

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Hi,

On 2015-11-28 00:12:00, Ed Vance wrote to Wilfred van Velzen:
about: "Re: This echoarea":

I found that C=64 SEQ file I have been looking for these past few
weeks.

All 556 lines of it were just fine.

I just added some more than 254 space characters b4 I used the MSDOS64 PRG to copy it to a 720KB PC formatted disk.

The SEQ file I was looking for was listed on the floppy disk's directory in between some letters that I wrote between July 1985 and July 1986.

The Floppy Disk was manufactured by the Classic Memory Corporation in Paoli, Indiana USA, 36 Miles/58 Kilometers(?) North-West of where I live.

I don't think the Company is in business anymore.
After I Searched for the Company and didn't see anything in the Results,
I went to the Local Newspaper and Searched there but didn't get any information at their website either.

Now I have the .TXT file on my XP box where I can Edit it when I want to.

I think it's a miracle you were able to read that of such an old floppy disk! ;)

Bye, Wilfred.


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Hi Wilfred!

28 Nov 15 17:39, you wrote to Ed Vance:

I think it's a miracle you were able to read that of such an old
floppy disk! ;)

I have many 25+ year old disks.
Most that I tried worked perfectly!

CU, Ricsi

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