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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I've got a printer for the IBM 5100 that I would like to sell. I can
bring it to VCFMW, but only if it is sold ahead of time (too heavy to
comfortably bring on spec.) Best reasonable offer.
Marvin
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
Im working on an update to Wikipedia on floppy disk drive controllers
there is a nice section on WD but nothing on Intel/NEC
Anyone know the history of how the NEC µPD765 and the Intel 8272 became
compatible devices?
AFAICT it was IBM's August 1981 adoption of the NEC µPD765 in the PC that
drove the industry to standardize on the device.
The earliest dates I can find for the two devices are:
Jan 1981
8272 listed in Intel catalog (not in 1979 catalog)
1979
µPD765 listed in NEC catalog
<http://www.bitsavers.org/components/nec/_dataBooks/1979_NEC_Microcomputer_C
atalog.pdf>
Dec 1978
µPD765 Data Sheet
<http://www.bitsavers.org/components/nec/_dataSheets/uPD765_Data_Sheet_Dec78
.pdf>
As described in the 1978 data sheet the NEC device was 8-inch FD compatible
and of course the PC used 5¼-inch drives but I suspect the differences could
be worked around
It may well be that they were compatible in previous versions (µPD372 and
8271)
Any recollections and links would be appreciated
Tom
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Festival Midwest is coming up in just two weeks! The hotel is sold out
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