I have found a Morrow laptop without any obvious model identification.
While it is something of a wreck, I would at least like to know what it is.
I've never seen a Morrow in Australia before.
It is black, rather cheaply made with lots of wiring mods to the board.
The CPU is an 80C86
The board has a 1984 copyright and a sticker "PCT 6065"
It is unusual in that it opens with the keyboard flipping forward and the
bulk of the machine with the small LCD type screen standing up. It is
however quite stable like this.
The word "Morrow" is embossed on the case and there is a nameplate with
little on it but "Morrow Designs" and an indecipherable serial number.
It has 2 X 5.25" floppys only and a battery compartment.
This example obviously stopped working a long time ago and someone has
disassembled it leaving all the cables disconnected and all the screws
missing.
Anyone recognise this?
Hans Olminkhof
As if the H89 wasn't enough, I've also got the following available on
origanal DEC diskettes.
DM/WPS System Diskette, V2.0
DM/WPS Utility Diskette, V2.0
Spelling, (c) Houghton Mifflin, V2.0
CBI - Intro to WPS - Drive 0
CBI - Intro to WPS - Drive 1
And, finally, I have a DECMate III APU board in pretty darn good shape.
I'd like to move both the diskettes and the card as a set, though I will
consider selling the disk set in one lot and the card in another.
As with the H89 -- Make me an offer! Shipping would be cheap for these.
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Bruce Lane, Owner and head honcho, Blue Feather Technologies
(Hamateur: WD6EOS) (E-mail: kyrrin(a)jps.net) (Web:
http://table.jps.net/~kyrrin)
SysOp: The Dragon's Cave (Fido 1:343/272, 253-639-9905)
"Our science can only describe an object, event, or living thing in our own
human terms. It cannot, in any way, define any of them..."
Well, dang it... I'm running out of room, and I really don't have the time
that this gorgeous old beastie deserves, so....
Here's what I've got. A complete H89 system as follows.
System unit with internal FD -- no screen burn that I can see, very clean.
External dual FD. (all FD's are 5.25" hard-sectored 40 TPI).
Cassette I/O board.
OkiData Microline 82 series printer.
IBM "Plug-and-Play" EPROM kit for the OkiData, something about 'Block
Graphics.'
Extra printer ribbon, still in the shrink wrap.
Spare chips: 4116-25, 74S132, and 74LS186.
PROMs (Heath/Zenith part numbers on the labels): 2 ea. 444-43
EPROMs (a pair of 2716's, also with H-Z part numbers on the labels): 444-40
That's the hardware. About the only thing that's missing (God only knows
why) are the hardware manuals.
I do have the following software for it, with manuals.
CP/M-80, Ver. 2.2, Heath-Zenith tagged.
'Ed-a-Sketch' graphics editor.
'Reach' modem and file transfer program.
PIE 1.5 full-screen editor.
HUG Utilities and BASIC-E disks.
NewWord Word Processor, ver. 2.17
JRT Pascal, V. 3.0.
Space Odyssey 1
Microsoft BASIC Compiler on original 8" diskette, ver. 7032.530
Spare diskettes (at least a box worth).
Please to make me an offer on the whole schmeer! I know I can trust you
lot to make it a fair one. It would probably be best if said offer came
>from someone local (Seattle, Portland, etc.). I can ship the stuff, but
that could get costly even with UPS Ground. Some of the units are pretty
heavy!
Thanks in advance.
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Bruce Lane, Owner and head honcho, Blue Feather Technologies
(Hamateur: WD6EOS) (E-mail: kyrrin(a)jps.net) (Web:
http://table.jps.net/~kyrrin)
SysOp: The Dragon's Cave (Fido 1:343/272, 253-639-9905)
"Our science can only describe an object, event, or living thing in our own
human terms. It cannot, in any way, define any of them..."
I have a friend who has 6 Sparc SLC's with either dud power supplies or
monitor sync problems, is the schematics for the power supplies available
easily? Not having looked at them myself, I would expect that they are a
standard SWPS, also would anyone know the voltages and pinouts for a sparc
supply, it is probably possible to mod another kind of supply to fit :)
Thanks as always :)
Karl
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Karl Maftoum
Computer Engineering student at the University of Canberra, Australia
Email: k.maftoum(a)student.canberra.edu.au
< I think only the CoCos could use OS9
Coco's were not even intel powered. The CPU was the 6809, they were
plastic cased and bore no resembelence to the Tandy 1000(series) or
2000(series).
Coco's ran a resident basic and if you had a disk interface/drive OS9
was available.
Allison
Has anyone tried wiring an 8" RX52 floppy straight to a modern PC
controller? I did the best I know how, and I *appear* to have a
semi-functioning device attached. Trying to read/format the disk
>from Linux causes the drive to access; however, trying to format (even
with PUTR under MsDOS) gives me a verification error and an error about
Track 0. Does this sound more like a media error? The disks (Dysan
101/1) appear to be in fine condition, having been stored in rigid
notebooks in plastic sleeves for the last 10 years or so in a
"media-friendly" environment. There are also lifecycle logs in the sleves,
which indicate that they were initialized and only written to once.
I've been digging around, trying to get enough information to attempt to
set up Forth on my OS-less 11/23, but I don't have another functioning
system to work with (the chicken and the egg). Am I dreaming that I'm
going to be able to get anything accomplished with an emulator and a pair
of 8" floppys Frankensteined to my PC?
On a similar note, does anyone happen to have a Compaticard for
trade/sale?
Aaron
If anyone's looking for some TRS-80's please contact this guy directly.
His ISP comes back as being in SC- figure freight accordingly.
----- Forwarded message from Oliver Murray -----
I have three TRS-80 computers with some software free to a good home,
someone who will put them to a good use.
1. model 1 working
1. model 111 working
1 model 4p not working?
+assorted software
If you can use or know of someone who would like these for collector's
items, they are free, make arrangements to have shipped or pick up.
omurray(a)infoave.net
--
Richard Schauer
rws(a)ais.net
I forget who wanted to hook up a 101 keyboard to a 1000, but here's your
chance to do it:
--
-Jason
(roblwill(a)usaor.net)
ICQ#-1730318
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> From: Phil Clayton <handyman(a)sprintmail.com>
> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
> Subject: Re: Tandy Keyboard
> Date: Friday, October 16, 1998 1:09 PM
>
> I you are really interested in using a standard 10 keyboard with your
tandy ,, I
> could check my adaptor box out closer and possibly tell you how to make
one. I
> don't think there are any real electrical changes , just rewiring the
pinouts..
> Let me know, I will open the adaptor box up and tell you whats inside it
if you
> are serious..
> Phil....
>
>
I've got Ultrix RISC 4.4 and two out of the three product library disks on
CDROM. They're what I used to install my DS5000's. I'm not sure if 4.4
will run on a 3100 or not, but I'd be glad to copy these for you if you
like.
Paul Kearns
paulk(a)microsoft.com
> ----------
> From: sethm@loomcom.com[SMTP:sethm@loomcom.com]
> Reply To: classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu
> Sent: Friday, October 16, 1998 4:45 PM
> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
> Subject: Ultrix installation media
>
>
> I just picked up a pair of DECstation 3100's. Both of them are in
> perfect working order, apart from their drives being quite severely
> dead (they won't spin up, though they give it the old college try).
>
> Supposedly (and quite believably), the most recent version of
> NetBSD/pmax is quite a bit nicer and better performing than Ultrix
> ever was, but for historical and nostalgic reasons, I was really
> hoping to be able to run Ultrix 4.2a on these guys.
>
> Does anyone have Ultrix 4.2a distribution media? Alas, I do not have
> a TK50 drive; I know that was the usual distribution method, but I'm
> hoping it was also available on CDROM. For some horribly sick reason
> I miss Ultrix, and it would be nice to play with again.
>
> -Seth
> --
> "The crux of the biscuit Seth J. Morabito
> is the apostrophe." - Frank Zappa sethm(a)loomcom.com
>
>
> Sorry Jason, I misread your email. Thought you were questioning my
> discovery..
> Wonder why IBM has called this machine a 5126 anyway ?
>
> Also why hasn't someone jumped at the opportunity to purchase this fine
> piece of equipment to tune up their automobile with ... <Grin>!!!
>
> Its only 100 bucks and its the size of a large capacity washer, and
weighs
> 500lbs..
> It would be heaven to dissemble this monster and see what goodies lie
within
> it..
> Phil...
>
They probably called it a 5126 because it has all the diagnostic stuff.
It would be neat to throw a Pentium board, 32x CD-ROM in it, an then see
what it would do. Imagine having it sitting in your living room as your
"PC" :-)
BTW: do you know what resolution the display is?
--
-Jason
(roblwill(a)usaor.net)
ICQ#-1730318
