If need one I can get you another PCjr case to use for parts and a the basic
manual that came with the jr for cost plus shipping. Cost for PCjr and book
about $3.
At 11:03 PM 11/27/97 +0000, you wrote:
>Greetings,
>I noticed you answered another person`s questions about their PC jr.
>so I wonder if you could help me.
>The pins where the monitor plugs in have been broken off.
>Do you know of where I could get a new piece? Can I just use the A/V
>jacks to plug into my TV? Also where can I get some software or an
>IBM basic programming book?
>I would greatly appriciate any information you could give.
>Thank-You,
>
>Art Brown
>vice president
>Old Technologies Inc.
><abrown(a)waveone.net>
>
>
>
It's a model LT-3200 40 by Paoku P&C LTD. I plug it in and get nothing, no
power brick is used, cord plugs into back of unit. There are no sounds,
lights, or anything when I try to power on the unit.
At 06:55 PM 11/27/97 +0000, you wrote:
>> Found a Bell&Howell Schools Oscilloscope model 10D-4540 for $15 at Goodwill
>> not tested yet. Found a Aquarius complete in 2 boxes for 29.95, got the
>> computer, data recorder, miniexpander, thermal printer, FileForm cartridge,
>> FinForm cartridge, Tron Deadly Disc and Utopia cartridges, and 16k memory
>> expander. Also got the game controllers. This had all the manuals and cables
>> too. Picked up 3 older laptops, 2 worked and had carrying cases with
>> manuals. Looking forward to the weekend for more finds.
>
>What's this one laptop that did not work: brand and what's problem?
>
>Troll
>
>
> If anybody on this list reads science fiction in the spare time left
> over from rebuilding computers, _The Difference Engine_ by William
> Gibson and Bruce Sterling is a fairly good read and _In the Country of
> the Blind_ by Michael J. Flynn is an excellent one. Both of these
> novels build from the premise "What if Babbage succeeded?" in very
> different ways.
I forget who (Murray Leinster?) wrote "A Logic Named Joe", which very
closely describes the information explosion of the Internet.
I have just had an IBM 5100 "Portable" computer (circa 1976) donated,
along with a 5103 printer and a 5106 tape drive. No documentation or
software, so could anyone tell me what I have, what operating system it
used, and what kind of tapes?
Thanks
Charlie Fox
> DOes anyone have a computer which uses the EBCDIC character set, rather than
> ASCII (did I get the acronym right? what does it stand for anyway)?
I've never heard of a microcomputer that used EBCDIC, but there are a lot of
things of which I've never heard. It is used in IBM mainframes and minis.
Here at HUD we have a Hitachi mainframe that emulates an IBM, and it uses
EBCDIC internally. We have file transfer utilities that take care of
translating into ASCII as necessary.
What does it stand for? Gee, it's been a long time. Let's see.
According to the "SAS Compantion for the MVS Environment," it stands
for Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code. That sounds redundant,
but that's IBM for you.
--Dav
david_a._vandenbroucke(a)hud.gov
<From: Tony Duell <ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
<Didn't DEC make a tabletop model of one of the PDP8's (PDP8/e?) which had
<handles? That would date from about the same time as the P850
A number of the 8 series aquired desktop status but never by intent
portable. They simply weren't rack bound.
The HP???? struck me as something portable(toteable) as it was a complete
machine that could be moved be moved from one place to another as a unit.
The earliest thing I'd seen that was portable was a home brew 8080 system
with build in keyboard and TV RF output back in '75 and it wasn't a PT SOL.
Though the core of it was S100 boards from an altair.
Allison
Found a Bell&Howell Schools Oscilloscope model 10D-4540 for $15 at Goodwill
not tested yet. Found a Aquarius complete in 2 boxes for 29.95, got the
computer, data recorder, miniexpander, thermal printer, FileForm cartridge,
FinForm cartridge, Tron Deadly Disc and Utopia cartridges, and 16k memory
expander. Also got the game controllers. This had all the manuals and cables
too. Picked up 3 older laptops, 2 worked and had carrying cases with
manuals. Looking forward to the weekend for more finds.
> > Another fun project would be that nowawadays with modern materials and
> > computer controlled machining, it is now possible to make parts to the
> > tolerances necessary to build a functional Analytical Engine. Anybody
> > know where I can get a good copy of Babbage's designs?
> It's been done. I read an article in the Scientific American a few
> years back, where some guys from the British Museum, I think, built
> the Analytical Engine according to Babbages design.
>
> They corrected a couple of minor design flaws (some speculate that
> Babbage put them there on purpose to discourage Industrial
> Espionage), and fabricated the whole thing from several tons of
> Iron, brass, and bronze parts.
>
> They didn't have funding to build the whole machine (the printer
> alone is an engineering marvel), but the machine worked! They
> succeeded where Babbage had failed.
What I saw demonstrated at the Science Museum (part of the British
Museum) 5 years ago was a working _difference_ engine. This had a
couple of design bugs fixed (one in the ripple carry mechanism IIRC) and
no printer.
I don't recall anything about an analytical engine being built at this
time. Has it been done since? Do tell!
Philip.
>I never knew Commodore made PC clones. There's one at the Goodwill. And
>a couple Aquarius keyboards. Never seen one of those either although
>I've heard about them plenty of times.
I have the PC-10 here, so I knew about this. :) There was also, from
memory, the Commodore Colt and PC-30. I also seem to think there was a
PC-5, but I can be corrected on this. I imagine there were later models as
well.
What was interesting for me was spotting a Commodore MS-DOS laptop
recently. I thought that the only commodore laptop was the prototype C-64
laptop - I wasn't aware that Commodore made any more, even if it was only a
pc clone. UNfortunatly they were asking too much for me, although I would
have considered it if I could afford the machine.
Adam.
Has anyone ever built a Braille writer out of a punched tape machine? It
seems to me that slight mods (i.e. embossing, not punching) would be needed.
I have a blind (she doesn't like to be called "visually challenged") friend
who asked me about OCR-to-Braille conversion, and I thought I'd ask you
all...
ps Speaking of political correctness, how do you take _your_ coffee? I like
mine Hispanic (rather than Caucasian or African-American) in color, and
bitterly challenged...
