[Coco] Does anyone know if/where the Rainbow Guide to Statisticssoftware has been archived?

Sat Dec 19 01:26:24 EST 2015

I'm sure the motors are the same in the Seagate drives, but it would help if you could give me the model # that is is on the internal sata drive itself. I have a couple Seagates lying around here and can maybe be of use now. 

If, just for argument sake, you would go to the fest, would you go for the 2 day's or just one particular, like Saturday or Sunday?

cb

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On 12/19/2015 12:12:53 AM, Bill Pierce via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
Camillus, I have thought of that as well, but wasn't sure if I'm "hardware tech" enough to do it. I probably could. I've opened old dead drives just to see what's in them so I'm familiar with the internals of a drive.

Sadly, I doubt very seriously I could be at the fest... unless I win the lottery between now and then. I'm in North Carolina and that's a long drive (even if my car worked LOL) or an expensive plane/bus/train ticket.

The one time I thought I was going to one of the fests was when they were still having the "PennFests" (mid 90s) in Pennsylvania and I was packed and ready to go, but we had a hurricane come in that weekend (I live on the coast) and we had to evacuate our home so I missed it.

If you know where to find motors for these drives, I can send you the info. I'm willing to get one and try, I just don't know where to start looking.
It was a external USB Seagate FreeAgent 1.5TB. One of the big ones that actually contains a full size SATA drive.

Thanks again :-)

Bill Pierce
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-----Original Message-----
From: Camillus
To: Bill Pierce via Coco
Sent: Sat, Dec 19, 2015 12:52 am
Subject: Re: [Coco] Does anyone know if/where the Rainbow Guide to Statisticssoftware has been archived?

So I presume it's a Seagate. What about putting a new motor in yourself. All you need is an head-holder ( plastic device to keep the heads from scratching the surface, while moving them out of the way. The platters can be removed easily, and the motor is a brush less type. The cost would minimum, but the drive being open will not run long, but more then long enough to rescue the data.I do not know if you gonna be at the coco-fest next year, but if you tell me the exact drive model ( all the numbers on it ... LOL ),then I look up the right tool, and if reasonable priced I buy it for you. Then at the fest we can do some surgery?.It up to you of course. My guess the trouble worth.cbSent from Mailbird [http://www.getmailbird.com/?utm_source=Mailbird&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=sent-from-mailbird]On 12/18/2015 11:18:16 PM, Bill Pierce via Coco wrote:Thanks for the offer Camillus, but I don't think that's needed. I have actually found local people that can do it cheap, but they relocated and I haven't seen their shop advertized in a couple of years. I just have to find them.I was just wondering if anyone knew of anything else cheap... I'm aware of the "Big Boys" who charge the big bucks, but I know it's not that big of a deal. Not with this drive anyway. All data is intact, the electronics are functional, but the motor is dead. Either a new motor or external motor to spin it up long enough for a one-time read to copy it all to a new drive is all that is needed.Seagate was actually offering to do this for free back when they found out the run of drives was bad, but mine ran for 4 years without a problem and they don't do it anymore. The drive was a gift and I didn't know about the bad run until I read about it after my drive died.Thanks again :-)Bill Pierce"Charlie stole the handle, and the train it won't stop going, no way to slow down!" - Ian Anderson - Jethro TullMy Music from the Tandy/Radio Shack Color Computer 2 & 3https://sites.google.com/site/dabarnstudio/Co-Contributor, Co-Editor for CocoPediahttp://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Main_PageGlobal Moderator for TRS-80/Tandy Color Computer Forumshttp://www.tandycoco.com/forum/E-Mail: ooogalapasooo at aol.com-----Original Message-----From: CamillusTo: Bill Pierce via CocoSent: Fri, Dec 18, 2015 11:51 pmSubject: Re: [Coco] Does anyone know if/where the Rainbow Guide to Statisticssoftware has been archived?Maybe we can do a fondsraising.I presume that hd restore is about 2000 to 5000$ ( have to check it ).I would be ok to put in a $30 to support this, with the option that I can have the coco 3 related data on a cd-rom if restored.Not needed to say that is for the data you can legally give away.So if other people put in what they can, then you can ship out the drive to professional restore facility. We all profit from this and let's face it, what would the coco (1,2,3, 4, .n ) be without the supporting software?If any others are in favor of this then let Bill know...cbSent from Mailbird [http://www.getmailbird.com/?utm_source=Mailbird&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=sent-from-mailbird]On 12/18/2015 7:04:12 PM, Bill Pierce via Coco wrote:I have no idea how big the MM archive is. I recently lost my local copy due to my external HD crashing so I'm having to re-download it myself (a little at a time).I had copies of internet coco archives that no longer exist and lost all of them. I know... no backup. I had no way of backing up almost 1.4 TB as I couldn't afford another drive. I lost a lot of stuff and at least close to 500gig was Coco related.Which reminds me... Anyone know someone who does Hard Drive data recovery at a 'reasonable' price?Bill Pierce"Charlie stole the handle, and the train it won't stop going, no way to slow down!" - Ian Anderson - Jethro TullMy Music from the Tandy/Radio Shack Color Computer 2 & 3https://sites.google.com/site/dabarnstudio/Co-Contributor, Co-Editor for CocoPediahttp://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Main_PageGlobal Moderator for TRS-80/Tandy Color Computer Forumshttp://www.tandycoco.com/forum/E-Mail: ooogalapasooo at aol.com-----Original Message-----From: CamillusTo: Bill Pierce via CocoSent: Fri, Dec 18, 2015 7:40 pmSubject: Re: [Coco] Does anyone know if/where the Rainbow Guide to Statisticssoftware has been archived?Hi, Bill,What is the amount of space we talking about here.I will look into some possibilities. CBSent from Mailbird [http://www.getmailbird.com/?utm_source=Mailbird&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=sent-from-mailbird]On 12/18/2015 6:02:59 PM, Bill Pierce via Coco wrote:The first thing that needs to be done to the malted media archive is for someone to mirror it on a server with no bandwidth limits!Just a couple of Rainbow magazine downloads on the MM site will run the bandwidth out on the whole server (which affects this mail list as well). I would imagine trying to sort that rat's nest out would burn the bandwidth a hundred times over.It needs a home on an unlimited server so it can be downloaded at will.Bill Pierce"Charlie stole the handle, and the train it won't stop going, no way to slow down!" - Ian Anderson - Jethro TullMy Music from the Tandy/Radio Shack Color Computer 2 & 3https://sites.google.com/site/dabarnstudio/Co-Contributor, Co-Editor for CocoPediahttp://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Main_PageGlobal Moderator for TRS-80/Tandy Color Computer Forumshttp://www.tandycoco.com/forum/E-Mail: ooogalapasooo at aol.com-----Original Message-----From: CamillusTo: Bill Pierce via CocoSent: Fri, Dec 18, 2015 5:44 pmSubject: Re: [Coco] Does anyone know if/where the Rainbow Guide to Statisticssoftware has been archived?What is there to need to be done?Sort out the archive or what?Let me know and I see if I can make some time...cb Sent from Mailbird [http://www.getmailbird.com/?utm_source=Mailbird&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=sent-from-mailbird]On 12/18/2015 2:06:41 PM, Stephen H. Fischer wrote:http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.tandy.coco/60194Suggests that someone has this disk, it is not in http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com/ eitherOf the ~ 1000+ persons we have can we not get the mm dump ordered, the last person who volunteered language was spanish and was able to do little.I see what needs to be done but I cannot take the task on.That was where the disk may be by the conversation.SHF----- Original Message -----From: "John Guin"To: "'CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts'"Sent: Friday, December 18, 2015 11:14 AMSubject: [Coco] Does anyone know if/where the Rainbow Guide to Statisticssoftware has been archived?> Say gang,>>>> I was looking for the software from this book and turned up nothing. I> checked the usual sites (coco3.com. coco lounge, etc..) and was hoping> someone here knew where or even if anyone had made an archived copy of this> software. 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