My opinion, there could be better.
Number one thing: Get a USB IDE (I assume) HD reader and image the drive
to a file (or another workflow similar....)
Then you can:
* Acquire $100 ebay computer per DA, try to write the image to a different
hard drive and see if it boots
* Try to virtualize based on that image
* Keep it in case the current HD fails so you can just write the data to a
new HD and keep using the same computer
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On Thu, May 5, 2022 at 2:51 PM Kym Faull <email obscured>> wrote:
> What I don’t understand is this: What if anything should I do now? The
> instrument is running fine. Is there something that can/should be done in
> advance of the computer failing?
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> Kym,
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> Kym Francis Faull, Ph.D.
> Director, Pasarow Mass Spectrometry Laboratory
> Jane and Terry Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA
> Professor Emeritus on Recall, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral
> Sciences
> David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
> Telephone: (310) 206 7881 (office)
> Telephone: (310) 206 7886 (laboratory)
> Facsimile: (310) 206 2161
> Electronic mail: <email obscured> <email obscured>>
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> > On May 4, 2022, at 6:24 PM, J K <email obscured>> wrote:
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> > I am totally going to do a self plug on a chapter I wrote to address this
> > issue of using virtualization of control computers to extend the life of
> > legacy instrumentation.
> >
> > https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28188538/
> >
> > We run a lot of our older equipment on newer computers that are running
> > virtual images of the original control computers.
> >
> > I have tested the methodology as far back as Windows 2000. I am not sure
> > if it will work for NT, but a search on the web suggests that other
> people
> > have had some success here. The one gotcha will be if the control
> computer
> > uses a special interface card to talk to the instrumentation.
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> > On Wed, May 4, 2022 at 5:36 PM Kym Faull <email obscured>> wrote:
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> >> We use an old HP series II 1090 for a lot of off-line work. The
> attached
> >> computer is equally old and runs on Windows NT! I have been advised
> that
> >> the old computer could go out any time, and it would be prudent to have
> a
> >> backup in place before the failure occurs. Does anyone have in their
> junk
> >> pile one of the computers that drive the HP 1090 HPLC’s? Alternatively,
> >> apart from EBAY, where might I find such a computer. As always, any and
> >> and all advice will be appreciated.
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> >> Kym
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> >> Kym Francis Faull, Ph.D.
> >> Director, Pasarow Mass Spectrometry Laboratory
> >> Jane and Terry Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at
> UCLA
> >> Professor Emeritus on Recall, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral
> >> Sciences
> >> David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
> >> Telephone: (310) 206 7881 (office)
> >> Telephone: (310) 206 7886 (laboratory)
> >> Facsimile: (310) 206 2161
> >> Electronic mail: <email obscured> <email obscured>>
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