Doug Spence wrote:
>For another piece of Commodore software... would Mind Walker count? It
>was (c)1986 Commodore-Amiga/Synapse IIRC (which I may not). I don't know
>if the packaging, etc, was Commodore's or if it was Synapse. Commodore
>had the trademark on the name, though, because Amiga Technologies used
>Mind Walker as the name for a web browser during the ESCOM era.
Mind Walker wasn't just the name of a browser (which, incidentally reverted
to the original title of "Voyager"). It was the name given to a new Amiga
that Amiga Technologies, the Escom subsidiary were releasing. The system was
to include a 68030 processor, CD-ROM, and 500Mb+ hard drive as standard.
Check out
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Sector/7478/walker.html for more
info.
--
Gareth Knight
Amiga Interactive Guide | ICQ No. 24185856
http://welcome.to/aig | "Shine on your star"
At 18:20 12/21/98 -0600, you wrote:
>
>Here is another small addition to the list of interesting machines that
>may be scrapyard-bound as January 1, 2000 approaches.
>
>Evans & Sutherland have recently sent a letter to the owners of ESV
-- snip --
>SGI also does not certify any of their systems with 68K, R2000, or R3000
>processors to be Y2K compliant, presumably because they cannot run IRIX
>6.5. Watch your local scrap dealer for IRIS 2000/3000, 4D series, and
>Indigo R3000 systems.
Don't forget Hamfests/Radio Rallys or computerfest flea markets. These have
always turned up goodies for us in the past. Finding stuff like the above
should be even more frequent because of the Y2K thing at least for the next
several years. Good times comin' for us big iron or business computer
collectors :)
Regards, Chris
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Christian Fandt, Electronic/Electrical Historian
Jamestown, NY USA cfandt(a)netsync.net
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All,
>> Jason asked:
>> This, Ti terminal Silent 700 looks like a headless thick notebook
>
>Tony replied:
>AFAIK it's a dumb printing terminal. ...
>There was (I believe) also an ASR version of one
>of the desktop models that had a box on top with 2 digital cassette
>drives in it. You could copy from one tape to the other, insert
>characters from the keyboard, copy the tape to the line or to the
>printer, etc. Basically use the cassettes like the paper tape on most ASR
>machines.
>Then Sergei asked:
>Do you have manuals for this version? Can it write data to tape as they
>arrive? (If so, I could use this terminal as a log device.)
At University of Texas Center for Space Research in the late 70's, there
was one continually logging data to tape off a nasa communications line as
the data arrived. One of my jobs there was to switch the logging to the
other tape drive and dump the full tape to the PDP for data-processing. The
tape drives were pretty reliable and pretty easy to use. Sorry for the late
reply, I'm getting a bit snowed and behind on the *really* important things
in life, like reading my classic-comp digests. Also, they did not let me
keep the manual, and I do not remember how to operate the machine. :-)
- Mark
At 06:06 PM 12/17/98 -0600, Doug Yowza wrote:
>
>Speaking of programming paradigms, one of the reasons I've always been so
>found of the E&S PS-300 was that it used a dataflow language. I found
>that a very compelling and completely different way to program. What a
>guy that Sutherland was, eh?
What does an E&S PS-300 look like?
I saw one last Friday. Or part of one. It was a large monitor
with the tag "Evans and Sutherland PS-300" and a digitizing tablet
of some kind. There was a large cable coming from it with a round
connector and a dozen or so conductors. I expected it to be connected
to a large box containing the computer power, but didn't see that,
nor any keyboard. It was for sale for about $20 at the UW-Madison
surplus store. It was so large and appeared to be missing the
main components, so I didn't buy it.
There was a Sequent S27 parallel computer there, too. I don't
know how many nodes it had.
- John
I don't think it is. It's not a browser. It's a search engine
(http://www.webcrawler.com). The OS/2 browser may have been named that,
though. I'm not sure. The only version I've ever worked with is 2.1.
--
-Jason Willgruber
(roblwill(a)usaor.net)
ICQ#: 1730318
<http://members.tripod.com/general_1>
-----Original Message-----
From: Olminkhof <jolminkh(a)nsw.bigpond.net.au>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Date: Monday, December 21, 1998 4:57 AM
Subject: Re: Linux or what?
>.
>.
>WebCrawler !!! Is that the original browser that came with OS/2 Warp?
>You still use it?
>
>
Hi. Just a quick question which is kind of off topic - with switched power
supplies like those in modern PCs, when it says the input current is 7 amps at
115 volts, is that the constant no matter how much the computer itself draws,
or the maximum, no matter what? If it's the latter my computer room is
going to need more circuits in a big hurry...
--
Jim Strickland
jim(a)DIESPAMMERSCUMcalico.litterbox.com
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On Mon, 21 Dec 1998 cmcmanis(a)freegate.com wrote:
> Further, there have been several studies that indicate excessive warning
> stickers cause problems because they become "noise" and no one pays
> attention to the ones that they need to.
Great! Who do I sue for it?
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Moving my pile into its new home, I came across the RAIR BlackBox
computer. Looks like a PC but its not. It has a unique bus with various
cards (hd interface, serial, parallel, etc). I have two that I got last
year sometime. Anyone ever hear of these and have any information about
them? Circa 1981.
Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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Hi,
Thought I'd let ya'll know that there is an IBM Display Writer,
with monitor & Keyboard, available for $10 in Raleigh, NC.
I also saw some other stuff, like a big IBM 5360 CPU (the
size of a washer & dryer) for $1, an IBM 3174 server for
$5, an IBM 3274/1C printer for $1, an IBM 5262 printer for
$5, and an IBM 6360 dual 8" floppy drive unit for $5, all
at the same place.
Operating condition on all this stuff is unknown.
Write me off-line at "aknight(a)mindspring.com" if you're interested
in this stuff. It's all too big for me to mess with. Well,
maybe I could snag the DisplayWriter to trade for a really
interesting calculator ...
Regards,
Alex
Calculator History & Technology Archive Web Page
http://aknight.home.mindspring.com/calc.htm
