test-drb October 1998

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by dwollmann＠ibmhelp.com

Anyone have any pulled MA3172s they can help this gent with or know of a source for them? All I have are dead 8514s and I'm not good with a soldering iron--I don't think this fella would want to buy/ship the whole monitor just for the chip and I would destroy it if I tried to pull it. >Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 11:46:46 +0200 >From: Ognjen Seslija <seki(a)EUnet.yu> >Organization: TEKON computers >X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 [en] (Win95; I) >To: dwollmann(a)ibmhelp.com >Subject: Reparir of my 8514/A monitor > >Dear Sirs, >About ten years ago, i've bought an IBM PS/2 model 80 with IBM 8514/A >monitor. >My monitor is not operational any longer due to the malfunction of one >hybrid >chip MA3172. >Can one bye this chip somewhere in NY city? >If so, please email me about an adress of your shop in NY, so I can tell >my friend who lives there where to buy it. > >Thank You very much. > >Ognjen Seslija >TEKON computers, Belgrade, Yugoslavia > -- David Wollmann | dwollmann(a)ibmhelp.com | Support for legacy IBM products. DST ibmhelp.com Technical Support | Data, document and file conversion for IBM http://www.ibmhelp.com/ | legacy file and media formats. -- Your Personal Computers may be not be Year 2000 compliant! -- For information on how Year 2000 may affect your PCs and prototype IBM Year 2000 diagnostics and fixes: http://www.ibm.com/pc/year2000/

25 years, 9 months

DOS disks?

by SUPRDAVE＠aol.com

i'd use mess-dos 5 myself. help files, and a workable editor makes it worth it but still small enough to run from floppy. In a message dated 98-10-27 13:58:09 EST, you write: << Weeeeeeeell, I landed a Data General One laptop. Normally I eschew MS-DOS based machines, simply because I'm a racist pig etc., but this one has an interesting notebook mode and a built-in terminal program at 1200bps. Except that the screen is harder to read than James Joyce, it seems like a winner and it works great. Question. Anyone know what version of DOS this uses? Does someone have any boot disks out there, or at least have the system files available for download? The drives are 3.5" DD, right? Thanks much, >>

25 years, 9 months

eBay (aka: ePay, eVay, oyVay, etc...)

by franke＠sbs.de

>> Jim about his Intellec/Altair thing. For shure, the Intellec is a >> nice thing, but everybody just looks at the Altair. > Except me :-). As I've mentioned before, years ago I was offered the > choice between an Altair and an Intellec MCS8i (8080 CPU) and I picked > the Intellec. It looked to be the much more interesting machine. :) lucky one. I would love to get the Intellec, but I still have to work 9 to 5 for my money ... or better for tax paying :) So anything beside lets say 350 USD per month isn't possible for me. Gruss H. So, I hope I recive a lot of cheques from all of you, who are just cry about my bad situation and like to help a poor guy :)))))) Hey, at least I can try ! -- Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut HRK

25 years, 9 months

DOS disks?

by Marty＠itgonline.com

Any PC (IBM) or MS-DOS as far as I know, although I'd try MS-DOS 3.2 or 3.3.... ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: DOS disks? Author: classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu at internet Date: 10/27/98 1:51 PM Weeeeeeeell, I landed a Data General One laptop. Normally I eschew MS-DOS based machines, simply because I'm a racist pig etc., but this one has an interesting notebook mode and a built-in terminal program at 1200bps. Except that the screen is harder to read than James Joyce, it seems like a winner and it works great. Question. Anyone know what version of DOS this uses? Does someone have any boot disks out there, or at least have the system files available for download? The drives are 3.5" DD, right? Thanks much, -- -------------------------- personal page: http://calvin.ptloma.edu/~spectre/ -- Cameron Kaiser Information Technology Services Database Programmer Point Loma Nazarene University Fax: +1 619 849 2581 ckaiser(a)ptloma.edu Phone: +1 619 849 2539 -- TRUE HEADLINE: Police To Begin Campaign To Run Down Jaywalkers ------------- ------ Message Header Follows ------ Received: from lists2.u.washington.edu by smtp.itgonline.com (PostalUnion/SMTP(tm) v2.1.9i(b5) for Windows NT(tm)) id AA-1998Oct27.135124.1767.73039; Tue, 27 Oct 1998 13:51:25 -0500 Received: from host (lists.u.washington.edu [140.142.56.13]) by lists2.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with SMTP id KAA18163; Tue, 27 Oct 1998 10:49:02 -0800 Received: from mxu2.u.washington.edu (mxu2.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.9]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id KAA15072 for <classiccmp(a)lists.u.washington.edu>; Tue, 27 Oct 1998 10:48:57 -0800 Received: from oa.ptloma.edu (oa.ptloma.edu [192.147.249.102]) by mxu2.u.washington.edu (8.9.1+UW98.09/8.9.1+UW98.09) with ESMTP id KAA06 884 for <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>; Tue, 27 Oct 1998 10:47:47 -0800 Received: (from ckaiser@localhost) by oa.ptloma.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) id LAA13158 for classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu; Tue, 27 Oct 1998 11:52:23 -0700 Message-Id: <199810271852.LAA13158(a)oa.ptloma.edu> Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 10:52:23 -0800 (PST) Reply-To: classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu Sender: CLASSICCMP-owner(a)u.washington.edu Precedence: bulk From: Cameron Kaiser <ckaiser(a)oa.ptloma.edu> To: "Discussion re-collecting of classic computers" <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu> Subject: DOS disks? Content-Type: text X-Sender: ckaiser(a)ptloma.edu X-Sender: ckaiser(a)ptloma.edu X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.1 beta -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN

25 years, 9 months

CLASSICCMP digest 576

by mtapley＠swri.edu

Tim wrote: >Hint for those who haven't done much dumpster diving: back your car >or truck up to the dumpster, climb into the dumpster via your rear >bumper, and start tossing :-). In addition to giving you an easier climb, that also blocks the dumpster so that the trash truck can't get to it. Y'all be *careful* out there. I do *not* want to read about a compacted classic computer collector with his compacted hands clenched around a compacted Altair. Or even a Rainbow. - Mark

25 years, 9 months

I hit the jackpot - if I can store the stuff

by mbg＠world.std.com

I found a person getting rid of a a couple of H960 tall cabs worth of DEC hardware -- and I'm the first one to have contacted him. I can take it all away... If I can find a place to store it (without having to completely reorganize the insides of my condo... I've got a call into RCS/RI for some space)... anyway, what I can get is an 11/34 (unknown condition) with a VT11, VR14 (and light pen) and an LPS11, as well as four (4) pdp-8s of various types with various media... !!! A pdp-8/a A pdp-8/e A pdp-8/f (the lab-8) another -8, I think it was an 8/m A couple of RL02s, Diablo style rk05s, rx01, dectapes... all in two tall cabs and a short cab. I don't want to let this one get away from me, so if I don't hear from RCS/RI, I may just have to compress (gzip) my condo... :-) Megan Gentry Former RT-11 Developer +--------------------------------+-------------------------------------+ | Megan Gentry, EMT/B, PP-ASEL | Internet (work): gentry!zk3.dec.com | | Unix Support Engineering Group | (home): mbg!world.std.com | | Compaq Computer Corporation | addresses need '@' in place of '!' | | 110 Spitbrook Rd. ZK03-2/T43 | URL: http://world.std.com/~mbg/ | | Nashua, NH 03062 | "pdp-11 programmer - some assembler | | (603) 884 1055 | required." - mbg | +--------------------------------+-------------------------------------+

25 years, 9 months

eBay (aka: ePay, eVay, oyVay, etc...)

by franke＠sbs.de

> > > We disagree here, as I still think it is a lot of fun. As far as the chance > > > of ending up with it, it is exactly what you are willing to pay for it. > > Like that guy who just bought the 1200XL on eBay for $600... > Evolution works. Depending on his age, either his parents or his > wife will kill him, a drop of chlorine in the gene pool. BTW, has anybody still the URL ? Gruss H. -- Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut HRK

25 years, 9 months

Microvaxen bits etc.

by netcafe＠pirie.mtx.net.au

-----Original Message----- From: Daniel T. Burrows <dburrows(a)netpath.net> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu> Date: Tuesday, 27 October 1998 1:35 Subject: Re: Microvaxen bits etc. >For your ref. the delqa is a M7516 and add -YM for the "turbo" version. I >just checked the DDA for any listed in Australia and none are listed. If >you want I will go through the subscriber list and find some for you. DDA? Ok, thanks. Appreciated. >>While I'm at it, AUI-10Base2(or t) transceivers are also getting rare, >>(around here anyway) since I have a Vax 6220 in need as well, any good >>sources? >>S/H preferred. I'd like 2 or 3 if possible. > > >I know it doesn't help much for shipping concerns but Datacom Warehouse >carries them for about $25 either 10base2 or 10baset. www.warehouse.com Not much. That equates to about A$50 plus shipping across the Pacific. But if all else fails. I am led to believe I can get a new one for about A$75 or so, but I need to confirm this. That's more than I wanted to pay, but I may not have a choice. >>BTW, Huw, did you ever come across a source for a Vax 8530-Console cable? >>(With that subject line, I just know you'll read this!) > >Which console cable are you looking for? I may have one. The multiplex cable with 2 d connectors at each end that go from the DEC Pro380 Vaxconsole to the backplane of the VAX 85xx series of computers. (Nautilus I think is the processor family) Thanks Geoff Roberts Computer Room Internet Cafe Port Pirie South Australia. netcafe(a)pirie.mtx.net.au (my other life)

25 years, 9 months

eBay (aka: ePay, eVay, oyVay, etc...)

by franke＠sbs.de

>>> We disagree here, as I still think it is a lot of fun. As far as the chance >>> of ending up with it, it is exactly what you are willing to pay for it. >> Like that guy who just bought the 1200XL on eBay for $600... > Evolution works. Depending on his age, either his parents or his > wife will kill him, a drop of chlorine in the gene pool. Maybe we could get a life transmission ? After all, its a real internet thing in the internet age, by internet stupidity. :) H. -- Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut HRK

25 years, 9 months

Washington DC area vintage sources (was RE:ebay)

by CLASSICCMP＠trailing-edge.com

>process. (except what you are willing to dumpster dive for) Not that I >would ever do such a thing.:) ( I have made several thousand from such dives >over the years) So have I - several of the RSX-11 DECUS tapes that are now available from ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/academic/computer-science/history/pdp-11 were rescued from TRIUMF when they dumped all the 9-tracks they had in the Chem Annex. Hint for those who haven't done much dumpster diving: back your car or truck up to the dumpster, climb into the dumpster via your rear bumper, and start tossing :-). Tim.

25 years, 9 months

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test-drb October 1998