Just to inject a little levity...
>$30
>Epson HX-20 - Brand new, never used. Works great.
Excuse me, but if it's never been used, how do you know it works
great? :-)
(reminds me of an actual classified ad -
"Parachute, used once, never opened, small stain. - $100")
Megan Gentry
Former RT-11 Developer
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> I knew someone who built a KIM-1 from schematics. His departure is that
> he did it all on the S100 bus. He ran it for a number of years while we
> were in school together. I need to find out what happened to that
> machine.
KIM-1 from schematics ? And where did he get the
6530-2 and -3 without taking them from a real KIM ?
I guess it was more like a KIM alike with 6532's
(with a bit of additional decoding, changing two
lines and just not using half of the RAM they could
work as 6530 without ROM) and a 2716 (also with
additional address decoding).
I think about a KIM clone since almost two years
(the KIM was my second computer, the first I did
build myself), but I can'T come up with a solution
for the 6530 problem other than building new chips,
or changing the design. Also the keyboad might be
a problem, together with various discrete parts,
that are just look different nowadays. Even if the
main parts are placed like in the original (maybe
hiding the ROM below the CPU using SMD parts :) it
will be a vissible diference, greater than just in
the conection layer.
Gruss
Hans
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Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut
HRK
> Arachne runs great on the 486/33 I installed it on under caldera DR-DOS.
> I have an issue with my ppp provider (as opposed to my ISDN provider) that
> prevents me from getting a good connect with it, but I'll keep y'all posted
> if you want.
Jep, and if speaking of lean systems for 'low' CPU power
PCs just remember QNX - they just have a new promotion
running for a 'complete' internet system on a single
1.44 floppy. Runs well on a 486 20MHz and should also
be acceptable on a 386sx, but I didn't try it there.
A download of the DEMO could be found at
http://www.qnx.com/iat/
Gruss
Hans
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Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut
HRK
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< If you have one of these machines, I have a question! Please email me o
< reply to the newsgroup!
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< Thanks in advance,
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< Kevin
< mcquiggi(a)sfu.ca
I still have an 11/03 and various parts what the problem?
Allison
On Nov 3, 17:29, Kevin McQuiggin wrote:
> Subject: Do You Have a PDP-11/03L?
>
> If you have one of these machines, I have a question! Please email me or
> reply to the newsgroup!
I've still got at least one...
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
>>> URGENT!! Please distribute this to everyone you know.
>>> When John Glenn returns from space, everybody dress up in ape suits.
>>> We have six days in which to bury the Statue of Liberty up to her
>>> head.
>>> Your cooperation is appreciated.
> Maybe this means something to the Americans in the list, but I don't get the
> connection.
> Someone care to enlighten me?
Remember the movie Planet of the Apes ?
A set of astronauts stranded on a foreign planet where
ape like men are ruling an humen likes are just primitive.
At the end they discovered, what thruout the film is just
a vague idea - it's the earth of the future. And to enhance
this idea the last szene just shows the hero rinding along
a beach (into the evening and ... no, not a cowboy movie :),
where the Statue of Liberty is burried (just head and torch
are visible). A final picture ready made for US viewers.
Or maybe you have seen Space Balls ?
*g*
Hans
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Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut
HRK
> The Apple 1 discussion reminds me of some (evil) thougts I had a while back.
> What do the people on this list think of building an Apple I as a "homebrew"
> project? Without much work, I was able to dig up a schematic and boot rom
> listing for an A1, and the parts are all (mostly) readily available.
Not evil - just fun. And I belive it would be easy to
distinguish from the original A1 - at least if you know
to see the difference between a 1978 and a 1998 PCB.
Also I think it might not be possible to dig up realy all
parts (haven't they used a very custom design for the video
logic ?). So there replacements have to be.
And after all: ICs tend to have production dates ...
So, not evil at all, if you don't go for an exact
copy of the board and the technologies used and
you not remarking the chips (Gee, I have heard of
remarking PII-266 to PII-333, but a 6502 4MHz to
a 6502 1MHz ?). Althrugh I would suggest to add
something that might add an additional distingtion,
like Additional text one the board an mayve cuting
of an edge.
> I know it wouldn't be a real Apple 1, and it wouldn't be worth $40,000 8-).
> But it'd be interesting, to me anyway, to live though hand-building a
> working computer from just a bundle of wires, as well as having a "manly"
> computer -- none of this sissy disk drive stuff. If nothing else, it seems
> like good soldering practice!
A wired clone ? I don't think that would cause _any_ problem.
Servus
hans
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Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut
HRK
Kai:
> Anybody know the original distribution? 50 to the Byte Shop in Palo Alto,
> a bunch to Computer Mart in NY, did Apple sell direct?
Two are over here in Munich - one guy bought them
directly from Apple back then.
Gruss
Hans
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Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut
HRK