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ewxI appear to have acquired a Cobalt Qube. It's very pretty, but currently useless as it's not got a mains adapter. Assuming for the time being that the person I got it off does't pipe up and say they found it, I'm going to have to either buy one (from where?) or bodge some other power supply into service (something for which I have no relevant experience).
So far I've found someone repurposing an HP adapter, a description of the pins and a picture of the missing object.
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Date: 2006-09-05 12:27 pm (UTC)- use an AT/ATX power supply if you have one lying around
- get one from Maplin e.g. http://www.maplin.co.uk/Search.aspx?criteria=L10BR&DOY=5m9
- see what you can get from Computer Resale on Mill Road
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Date: 2006-09-05 06:54 pm (UTC)Aren't they likely to be a bit unhappy if there's no load on the 5V line? (Plus for ATX you have to fake whatever magic is required to turn the thing on...)
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Date: 2006-09-05 10:55 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-09-05 12:58 pm (UTC)Along with a reasonably sized hard disk.
I'm very tempted to replace the nasty DIN-stype power plug with a more sensible ring-and-tip laptop-stylee one. What were they thinking when they spec'ed that one?
How much RAM do you have? I have spare stick of the largest DIMM that it will take, if you want it...
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Date: 2006-09-05 01:06 pm (UTC)More RAM can hardly hurt though so 'yes please' assuming I don't discover it's fully loaded already - more details when I've had more time to look inside.
I was thinking NetBSD rather than Linux...
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Date: 2006-09-05 01:37 pm (UTC)And yes, BSD is an alternative. I've considered puting one of each on different disks (I seem to have a sufeit of discs at the monent). Anything but the RedHat mostrosirty Cobalt shipped, really.
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Date: 2006-09-05 09:27 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-09-05 09:55 pm (UTC)The two sticks I have are 128MB each.
256 being the max the QUBE can take.
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Date: 2006-09-05 10:04 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-09-28 11:28 am (UTC)Since I have these SIMMs, and don't need them, I'll send them to you (if they're still of use), no charge. I have way too much stuff and any action that reduces the size of the pile is a Net Good. And it also makes you beholden unto me...
0] Once you've done the net install from the i386 machine, you have to connect via the serial line and ./MAKEDEV all to get the bpf* devices (and others) working right.
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Date: 2006-09-28 11:34 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-10 11:13 am (UTC)They arrived, and thanks, but they don't fit - they are too wide - DIMM vs SIMM l-(. Mine says Qube 2 on the back, IIRC, perhaps yours is a later model?
(Coincidentally yesterday someone offered me some RAM that they claimed was 'identical' to that in my work PC that turned out to be notched so as not to fit. I must have bad DRAM karma.)
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Date: 2006-10-10 11:28 am (UTC)I have to admit that I'd never tried them in my Qube2 - I was simply handed them, and told that they were the right kind. And when the Qube2 I acquired turned up it was already fully stocked, so there was never any need to try. I don't think I'd even taken them out of the anti-stat.
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Date: 2006-10-10 01:46 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-10 01:52 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-09-06 09:41 pm (UTC)The Cobalt software is now open sourced: http://bluequartz.org/
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Date: 2006-09-28 11:21 am (UTC)