>There are a few IBM cards that I've never seen and would love to get. Top
>of my list is a PGC (professional graphics controller) - a 2 board set
>that contained an 8088-based graphics accellerator. It emulated a CGA card
>(I think) but had extra modes as well. Another thing I would like is a
>Data Aquisition and Control adapter.
I have boxes of unclssified PC cards. If you would describe what you wani, I
could dig through and see if I come up with wahat you covet.
You never know what you'll turn up. I even snagged an ST-412, which I'll put
in my "original" PC, when I get around to it. (except I don't have any Xybec
HDD controllers. Anyone have one cheap?)
Manney
| an overhead display unit of some sort of EXTREMELY high
quality.
... made by Stewart Filmscreen Corporation, who also outfitted the NASA
Johnson Space Center, Pentagon War Room, and the _real_ NORAD control
center.
Not to mention ABC, NBC, CBS, Lucasfilm, MGM, Paramount, Disney, Fox,
and Universal.
Kai
| Ok, we have a conflict of nerd movie trivia here. Was it
CompuPro S-100
| boxes or HP Vector Graphics generators?
CompuPro/Godbout is in the credits... they obviously didn't supply the
IMSAI :)
My friend Norm here in the next office swears it was CompuPro boxes.
Since he owned a CompuPro at the time the movie was released, I'm
inclined to believe him -- apparently it was common knowledge in the
CompuPro community. He's very specific about the MicroAngelo S-100
graphics boards that were used.
Kai
<> What's neat is that this movie came out in 1983, probably filmed in 1982
<> or so. This is still nearly 3 years after the heyday of the IMSAI.
Filming likely started in '81 and extended into '82.
At that time you had altair (way off the their time), IMSAI, TRS80,
Apple][, early PC, atari, commodore, various S100 crates, and some
minis to pick from.
What the imsai had was a colorful pannel with blinking lights, the only
other one that matched that were Ithaca Intersystems s100 crates, and
minis most of wich were no longer FP machines. The kid was not supposed
to own a mini as a budding hacker.
<Did it strike anybody as odd that while David was seen to turn the IMSAI
<CPU on at various times, he never once turned on the disk drives? B^}
He did a lot of majik that was technically suspect! Most secure systems
back then would at best give you three tries at the password and drop you
and if you tried the account within 15 minutes you were again dropped and
the timer reset. The was to prevent cracking via successive tries. That
was an example of commercial systems, secure military would not even have
outside access that wasn't encrypted and highly secure.
Allison
Another source to consider for classic stuff is the eubiquitous ((sp?)
here in the
Eastern Ma. area, anyway) "yard (or tag) sale". Saturday, I found a
"roll table"
built for DEC's old WT78 (revised VT52) word processor.. Paid U.S. $20
for
it.. Best PC stand I've ever seen!
Will
--
Sorry to have to resort to this, but, due to the myriad of automatic
e-mail advertising ("SPAMming") programs out there, I've been forced
to modify my "reply to" address. To reply to this message, you must
remove the .spamfree from the reply-to address. To those friends, and
folks
who are trying to contact me with info that I will likely be happy to
receive, I apologze for this inconvienence. To those out there, sending
all these annoying "junk mail" messages, I say "Oh well...."
Will
Allison, Can you send me a list of what you got?
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From: will emerson
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
Subject: Intellivision stuff claimed!
Date: Saturday, September 13, 1997 8:40PM
Hello Everyone,
Allison Parent has taken over custody of the Intellivision stuff..
Will
--
Sorry to have to resort to this, but, due to the myriad of automatic
e-mail advertising ("SPAMming") programs out there, I've been forced
to modify my "reply to" address. To reply to this message, you must
remove the .spamfree from the reply-to address. To those friends, and
folks
who are trying to contact me with info that I will likely be happy to
receive, I apologze for this inconvienence. To those out there, sending
all these annoying "junk mail" messages, I say "Oh well...."
Will
Hi,
I'm thoroughly enjoying being here and I just wanted to remind everybody
that our history page, http://www.chac.org/chhistpg.html , is perennially
in need of new links. As an example, we haven't found a single site yet
that's devoted to classic laptops.
I'd also appreciate any suggestion of a good win32 link-checking bot
because this page has gotten far, far too voluminous to check by hand.
Finally, thanks for all the Apple ][ material -- I'm still sifting through it.
__________________________________________
Kip Crosby engine(a)chac.org
http://www.chac.org/index.html
Computer History Association of California
Believe it or not, all of the war room displays were generated by 4
CompuPro S-100 boxes with MicroAngelo graphics cards; thus the
Godbout/CompuPro inclusion in the credits.
Kai
> ----------
> From: Sam Ismail[SMTP:dastar@crl.com]
> Reply To: classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu
> Sent: Monday, September 22, 1997 11:30 PM
> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
> Subject: War Games
>
>
> Ok, I went out and rented _War Games_ because I'm a total nerd and
> wanted
> to see David's IMSAI. I noticed a couple interesting things in the
> movie. First, in one scene early on where david is sitting in front
> of
> his computer, they show it head on, and you can see sitting on top of
> his
> monitor his modem, which had on it "IMSAI 212A MODEM". Did IMSA, in
> fact, manufacture a 1200 baud modem? He also had an IMSAI labeled
> keyboard!
>
> A neat thing: at the end of the movie during the credits they get to
> thanking those who provided technical assistance. The first company
> listed is none other than "CompuPro Division, Godbout Electronics".
> Very
> cool! Others listed were Televideo, Fischer-Freitas (why does that
> sound
> familiar and did I get the Fischer part right?), Memorex, Qume, and
> about
> 10 others.
>
> Anyway, pretty cool flick. It combines elements of hacking, phreaking
>
> (where he grounds the microphone on the old ground-start payphone, a
> real
> ball-sy scene since that was a real-life trick you could pull in those
>
> days) and of course classic computers!
>
>
> Sam Alternate e-mail:
> dastar(a)siconic.com
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