test-drb January 1998

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by rcini＠email.msn.com

On Wed, 28 Jan 1998 02:03:21 -0600 (CST), Uncle Roger <sinasohn(a)ricochet.net> wrote: > It's a shame...but it seems to me that DEC should have seen it coming. >>Can't disagree there... Well, I should clarify. I'm sure that they did see it coming. A buyout of some form was headed for DEC like a Conrail freight train traveling at 100 mph. I'm not too well-versed with DEC's current product line, but I get the impression that, while good quality and adequate performers, there is nothing very distinguishing. >Death comes to the last of the old-line computer companies. >>Huh? What about HP? Still going strong with the HP3000 (ca. 1972?). I probably shouldn't have said "last" either. Wasn't DEC part of the original "seven dwarfs" of early computing? I think that IBM was "Snow White" and there were seven other mini/main companies right behind it. When I said "old line," I was thinking along the lines of Sperry and Burroughs and not HP or IBM. ------------------------------------------------- Rich Cini/WUGNET <nospam_rcini(a)msn.com> (remove nospam_ to use) - ClubWin Charter Member (6) - MCP Windows 95/Windows Networking

26 years, 5 months

DEC Sold to Compaq!

by sinasohn＠ricochet.net

At 06:33 PM 1/26/98 -0500, you wrote: > It's a shame...but it seems to me that DEC should have seen it coming. Can't disagree there... >Death comes to the last of the old-line computer companies. Huh? What about HP? Still going strong with the HP3000 (ca. 1972?). --------------------------------------------------------------------- O- Uncle Roger "There is pleasure pure in being mad roger(a)sinasohn.com that none but madmen know." Roger Louis Sinasohn & Associates San Francisco, California http://www.crl.com/~sinasohn/

26 years, 5 months

UCSD Pascal on Europlus (was: Are We Not Men? (& Women?) [OT^2] (Was Re: PDP-8/Es available [NOT!]))

by engine＠chac.org

At 15:33 1/28/98 +1100, Huw Davies wrote: >....I seem to remember >that to run UCSD Pascal you needed the "Euro+" Apple II. Can anyone confirm >this? Well, that's not a combo I've run, but if a Europlus will do it, any ][+ should do it, the implication being that you need 48K RAM. (32K mainboard and the Language Card?? Help me out here....) __________________________________________ Kip Crosby engine(a)chac.org http://www.chac.org/index.html Computer History Association of California

26 years, 5 months

Apple II GS

by thedm＠sunflower.com

I'll take it! -----Original Message----- From: Sam Ismail <dastar(a)wco.com> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu> Date: Tuesday, January 27, 1998 10:05 PM Subject: Re: Apple II GS >On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, PG Manney wrote: > >> I've been offered and Apple II GS. Anyone interested? I doubt it'll ever be >> rare... > >Doesn't matter. Its a fun computer to play with and hack on. Someone >should take PG up on this. > >Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- >Computer Historian, Programmer, Musician, Philosopher, Athlete, Writer, Jackass > > Coming Soon...Vintage Computer Festival 2.0 > See http://www.siconic.com/vcf for details! >

26 years, 5 months

Development, round II

by sinasohn＠ricochet.net

At 06:29 PM 1/26/98 PST, you wrote: >Another thing: CP/M was run on just about everything, usually with >about 64K ram. How is it that MS-DOS blew up to about 384K? What >did they put in there? The MicroSloth License Agreement. 8^) --------------------------------------------------------------------- O- Uncle Roger "There is pleasure pure in being mad roger(a)sinasohn.com that none but madmen know." Roger Louis Sinasohn & Associates San Francisco, California http://www.crl.com/~sinasohn/

26 years, 5 months

MFM drives & Interlink

by sinasohn＠ricochet.net

At 03:01 PM 1/26/98 -0600, you wrote: >FastLynx: A program from RUPP corporation, alot like LapLink, except >with a much simpler (and easier to use) user interface (IMHO). The >program died off though, as Lap Link became more popular (I still >don't understand why). If you used the serial link, it could upload >itself to the target machine. I still use it. I think it died out because of the gawdawful color of their cables. 8^) (Some horrid shade of Red, iirc?) Actually, I had both, and preferred LapLink. Haven't used FastLynx in about 10 years. --------------------------------------------------------------------- O- Uncle Roger "There is pleasure pure in being mad roger(a)sinasohn.com that none but madmen know." Roger Louis Sinasohn & Associates San Francisco, California http://www.crl.com/~sinasohn/

26 years, 5 months

Interesting Find

by jolminkh＠c2.telstra-mm.net.au

I think I have 2 of these somewhere, but called PC7000's. One with a HDD and the other with 2 FDD's. No Docs unfortunately. I think they have some unusual distinction, the first backlit LCD screen maybe (from memory). -----Original Message----- From: Cliff Gregory <cgregory(a)lrbcg.com> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu> Date: Wednesday, 28 January 1998 10:24 Subject: Interesting Find >Found an interesting (at least to me) luggable/portable at the local thrift >the other day. It's a Sharp PC-7100. Very compact and sharp (no pun) >design. About half the size and weight of an old Compaq, with a detatchable >keyboard, tiltable LCD screen, 5.25 floppy, 20 meg hard drive. It booted >fine from the hard drive (MSDOS 3.2). > >I haven't taken the time to open it up and look inside, but I ran MSD from a >floppy, and it reported the computer to be a Sharp/ERSO, 8088 or 8086 >processor, 704k RAM. When I browsed the ROM memory, the result was: >aVADEM-SHARP Personal Computer System Firmware Version 3.0B copyright 1985 >Vadem Inc. > >I did a cursory search on the net for more information but came up empty, so >if anyone can help with more info or docs for this one, I would appreciate >it. BTW, the screen has a blue/purple sort of tint to it. Kind of >attractive in a psychodelic sort of way ( oh please, no more drug-related >threads <g>). > >Cliff Gregory >cgregory(a)lrbcg.com > > >

26 years, 5 months

: Re: Development, round II

by dcoward＠pressstart.com

Andrew Gammuto said: >I never saw anybody use the cassette port for practical purposes. In fact, I >never saw a cassette drive from IBM. Good trivia question. Has anybody >ever >seen one? I do remember reading something years ago about hobbyists >using >the cassette port for plugging in wierd hardware hacks. I don't think IBM would have made cassette recorders. IBM made a cassette adapter cable for the IBMPCjr, but I don't think one was ever made for the PC. Pero, Jason D. said: >The orignals were lower density like 320k each at first but quickly >gone after XT came out with standard 360k drive or two, or floppy and >10mb HD. It was DOS 2.0 that increased the formatted capacity from 320K to 360K. --------------------------------------------- Fun Fact: ( system requirement chart for DOS from the IBM Personal Computer Software Library booklet,1985) DOS version Computers 1.00 PC 1.10 PC 2.00 PC, XT 2.10 PC, XT, PCjr, Portable PC 3.00 PC, XT, PCjr, Portable PC, AT 3.10 PC, XT, PCjr, Portable PC, AT Notes: DOS 3.00 does not support the 30MB IBM Personal Computer AT. DOS 2.00 or higher is required for fixed disk storage. DOS 3.10 or higher is required for operation on the IBM PC Network. ========================================= Doug Coward dcoward(a)pressstart.com Senior Software Engineer Press Start Inc. Sunnyvale,CA Curator Museum of Personal Computing Machinery http://www.best.com/~dcoward/museum =========================================

26 years, 5 months

back ontopic: mac 400k drive.

by SUPRDAVE＠aol.com

In a message dated 98-01-28 00:28:34 EST, you write: << And, this is NOT only compaq, IBM is bit guilty on few of their late PS/1 486 with (soft power switch). Discovered Win95 would wedge in strange manner unless we got the proper cd from IBM for specific machines. Those machines were intended for LOW END users so they're usually bit oddball. >> later model ps1 machines had rapid resume, which was basically a suspended animation function essentially which i think bill gates wants to include in some PC9x specification to known as instant on or something like that. win95 should still be able to to work with that function. I know the ibm machine i'm using has the soft power switch and apm, and windont95 works fine with it. david

26 years, 5 months

Apple II GS

by manney＠nwohio.nwohio.com

I've been offered and Apple II GS. Anyone interested? I doubt it'll ever be rare... manney(a)nwohio.com

26 years, 5 months

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test-drb January 1998