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> Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2022 19:32:47 -0500
> From: Chris Zach <cz(a)alembic.crystel.com>
> Subject: Re: MicroVAX CTI (DEC Professional) card
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> Well, auction is over, I didn't bid on it, and I hope someone here got it.
>
> That said, the more I look at it, and the more I look at a true MVII
> card the more I wonder just what was missing on this card. A true MVII
> has a pair of rather large custom ASICs in the center of the board and I
> can't believe the 80186 (or whatever that chip is on the top center of
> the board) could emulate it all.
>
> So it would be interesting to see what this thing was and what it did.
>
>
I bought it. I know it's long odds that I can get it to do anything,
especially without that daughter card, but, waddahell, it's an
interesting DEC PRO collectible. I reckon I'll plug it into a PRO and
see if it responds to attempted accesses. If the ROM contains PDP11 or
VAX code, I'll disassemble it and see if there are any clues there.
--
Lee K. Gleason N5ZMR
Control-G Consultants
lee.gleason(a)comcast.net
Myself and some more people would be very interested in finding a set of installation disks (or disk images) for HP-UX 2.0 and 2.1 and later up to 5.0.
Obviously these have never been or made available, but maybe someone still has a set.
These early HP-UX versions were used on HP 9000/200 systems with floppy disks like HP 9826 and HP 9836 as well as on 9000/217 boxes.
Later versions work fine on HP 9000/300 systems, but not on the 9000/200 systems with Motorola 68010 CPUs.
Martin
This seems like a good place to ask this question - I'd like an Apple Lisa 1 "twiggy" system for my collection, and can trade a working IBM 5100 Portable PC. We'd probably have to meet in person to make the transaction. I'm in So CA.
Thanks-
Steven Stengel
http://oldcomputers.net
This is a query which came into TNMOC, but I'm wondering if there are
people here who can assist.
From: <mikkel(a)mikjaer.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Sept 2022 at 22:05
Subject: Comal 80 in Great Britain
Hey there, my name is Mikkel, I am working on a book about a series of
danish micro computers where the history of the programming language
"Comal" will be a part of, and i just discovered that there was a UK
Comal User groups and also a periodical called "Comal Bulletin", ive
searched the internet i cannot find anything. But i hope that you might
know some historians or hobbyist? or even online databases? you can
refer me to?
I would like to know all there is to know about Comal in UK? And as a
sidenote, if somebody knows something about danish computers in uk from
the 70s and 80s i would of course like to hear about that to.
Hope you can help me, more info about my book is here :
https://www.thedanishcomet.com
--
-Jon
+44 7792 149029
Hi,
I found a bunch of original HP 150 software on 3.5" floppies ...
any HP 150 collectors here? Free, pickup, Cupertino.
Includes the following. About 1/2 are original disks.
The most unusual are probably the compilers from Prospero, and the
IMAGE-like database (Mirage?) from Datasoft International (the developer
was likely Michel Kohon, from France, and a member of the HP 3000
community).
Datacom:
DSN/Link
HP PCLink
Kermit
PC2622
Reflection 1 Plus
Misc / Unknown:
Ally/150
Application Master Extended I/O Application
Cardfile (full app)
Cardfile demo
Computer tutor 150
Edit/150 from KSD systems Limited
Infocom sampler
Interex CSL/100 volume 56
Interex CSL150 (contributed library)
Mentor version 1.E.1 from KSD systems Limited
System demo
Thinkjet demo
Visicalc
Games:
Tick Tock, Radar, Othello, others
Type attack, Temple of Apshai, Ricochet
Winning Deal
Zork
Programming...
C (unknown...just says "C" on label)
Lattice C
MASM
Modula 2
MVP Forth (on misc games floppy)
Pro Fortran from Prospero
Pro For 1 (possibly same as above)
Pro Pascal from Prospero
Borland Turbo Pascal 2.0
ISV Development (from HP)
ISV revision A.1.2 (Independent Software Vendor toolkit from HP?)
Programmers Toolkit (HP)
Programmers tools: debug, sort, find, edlin, ece2bin, ...more... (HP)
Database: ???
Mirager Version ii 2.A.1 Datasoft International
Mirage Library
Mirage I
//
> >> Are you sure about that? The 5100 doesn't support floppy drives. And
> I've
> >> never heard of third-party drives (that would need IMFs, too) for the
> 5100.
> >
> > $3100 is about what IBM charged for a fully loaded 5150. (PC)
> > THAT is not a 5100! $3100 for a 5100 would have been a bargain.
>
> We are neither talking about the 5150, nor about $3100 but $31,000 for a
> 5100 (see above). Or did I miss something?
>
There was a third-party floppy drive for the IBM 5100 :-)
Or at least there as something that was sold in this way. Here is its
brochure:
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/sykes/brochures/Sykes_Comm-Stor_5100_Brochure.…
Note that it "plugs directly into the Serial I/O Adapter of the IBM 5100
with no hardware or software changes". So it's a serial-port connected
floppy drive that talks to the 5100 in a format that it likes.
(What is an IMF?)
--Tom
On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 10:18 AM Al Kossow via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
> On 9/21/21 9:58 AM, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote:
> > How the hell did I miss *that*? Cool beans device, I've never heard of a VS100. Was it in a Rainbow sized box or a Pro/350 box?
>
> Smaller. I have access to one to take pictures and dump the firmware
Reviving a year old thread, did anyone get around to dumping the
VAXstation 100 firmware?
I don't see it where I looked here:
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/vax/vaxstation100/http://www.bitsavers.org/bits/DEC/
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Continuing my exploration of my old stuff pile I'm starting to work on
my Sun 386i systems. Old, no doubt but still there.
First step would be finding a monitor for them. The video cards I have
are the monochrome one, the CGI3 and a CGI5 board. For the color
monitors the cable I have goes to the RGBSync and of course to the
keyboard/mouse combination.
Question: Is there an adapter that can turn the Sun's output to HDMI or
VGA for a more modern monitor?
C
