Hi,
When I was using the GRiD Compass yesterday, I noticed that the system
clock was frozen at 17-Nov-1985, 9:01 p.m. I tried setting it for
14-May-1999, 9:46 a.m. I thought it would b frozen again at that time,
but when I powered the beast up again to make this call I was surprised to
see that the clock had advanced to 9:56 a.m.! :) And instead of the 15th,
it says it is the 25th! Is this an early Y2K problem? :)
Is there an evil battery inside, about to leak all over my precious bubble
memory modules?
Oh, and BTW, how much bubble memory am I supposed to have? Currently it
has "334 in use, 52 free". That's 386 units. It says "Usage (in 1000s
of characters)" beneath the system memory report (I can look at these
things from inside GRiDVT100, luckily) but I'm not sure if it applies to
bubble memory as well as normal system memory. After all, the bubble
memory is where the filesystem lives, which is a bit different.
My system mem is currently "System: 153 Application: 51 Data: 18 Free:
40". That's 262,000, which is about 256 when divided by 1024. Is GRiD-OS
eating most of my memory? What a hog! ;)
I found the little blurb in Popular Science, August 1982, p.42, and it
says that the machine comes with 256K each of bubble and normal memory.
And for $8000. Was there an expensive option to get more bubble memory?
Or is that what differentiates the 1100 from the 1101?
Oh yeah, where is the OS stored? And applications like GRiDWrite and
GRiDVT100? The VT100 emulator seems to load slowly enough, which implies
that it's in bubble. So, like, if I reformat my bubble memory, I'm toast,
right?
I would very much like to have some sort of backup of everything in bubble
memory. I don't seem to have XMODEM or any other transfer protocols on
this thing. Argh.
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Doug Spence
ds_spenc_at_alcor.concordia.ca
http://alcor.concordia.ca/~ds_spenc/
Received on Sat May 15 1999 - 14:58:42 BST