At 04:22 PM 12/14/98 -0800, Marvin wrote:
>Richard A. Cini, Jr. wrote:
>>
>> Hello, all:
>>
>> While looking through 1984 Bytes. I came across an ad for the computer
>> used in the bedroom scene in "Wierd Science". It's the Memotech MTX512. It's
>> a sleek black unit and appears to be based on the Z80A.
>>
>> Does anyone know anything about these?
>
>Not too much. I have one in mint condition that IIRC includes the manuals,
>etc. I was given about a year ago but haven't done anything with it.
>Anything in particular you would like to know?
Yeah, can it create babes from dolls? ; )
Les
Hi guys.
My dad just got a DG One through his shop; he threw it out before I could
catch him. <scowl>
At any rate, he has a few of the accessories left over from it. I know he
has at least the carrying case and he mentioned having a spare battery. I
should think he probably has a few more bits leftover, too. If anybody's
looking for accessories for their One, let me know and I'll get you in
touch with him.
Let's make sure that next time he doesn't throw that kind of stuff away.
(:
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It's a portable data terminal, with the thermal printer replacing a display
screen. They had built-in modems (at least my model 707 does) and could use
rechargeable battery packs or AC power. Truly the "laptop computers" of
their day. They were commonly used by salesmen, engineers, etc; anyone who
might have to dial in to a mainframe while on the road. Some selected specs:
Printing rate: 45 cps, bidirectional
Modem transmission speed: 300 bps
Weight: 2.04 kg (includes one roll of thermal paper)
Power consumption: 35 W maximum at 90 Vac
Operating environment: Temperature: 10 deg C to 40 deg C
Maximum altitude (!) 3000 m
Feel free to email me if you want more info.
Mark Gregory
At 06:48 PM 12/14/98 +0000, you wrote:
>This, Ti terminal Silent 700 looks like a headless thick notebook
>with real keyboard on it, full width thermal printer built in, bunch
>of ports on backside, with 2 phone-like jacks, berg connectors.
>
>What this for and its capabliites?
>
>Jason D.
>email: jpero(a)cgocable.net
>Pero, Jason D.
>
>
< _NOW_ c'mon boy, 20 years ago a 12" tube with 256 by
< 256 pixles b&w was considered as high resolution.
Not hardly. That would eb 1978 and 512x256 mono would have been a real
low end board. Cpmpucolor and several others were doing that but in
color.
Allison
Both 320k (8 sectors/track) and 360k (9 sectors/track) were used in a number of MS-DOS systems in the early 80's, and it's quite possible that any given MS-DOS implementation will support both of them and will properly recognize which way a disk is formatted through parameters in either the FAT or the boot sector.
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From: Don Maslin [SMTP:donm@cts.com]
Sent: Monday, December 14, 1998 6:34 AM
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
Subject: Re: Comterm Hyperion - Boot disk?
On Mon, 14 Dec 1998 Innfogra(a)aol.com wrote:
> Looking at the June 83 ad for the Hyperion I noticed that it has 320K drives
> instead of 360K. If I remember right the 320K format is 7 sector not 8 sector
> drives.
No, it is 8 sector instead of 9 sector disk format. The drives are no
different!
- don
> I propose an experiment even though I too, believe it takes a special version
> of DOS. Get an old PC and format a DOS disk at the 320K format using ver 2.11.
> Transfer the system and see what happens.
>
> Paxton
>
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The silent 700's were mostly used for time-sharing remote computing in the 70's. Some models (there were quite a few of them) had built-in modems (acoustic 300 baud for the most part). They were also used as local consoles (keyboard/printer). I believe that the printers were 30 chars/sec, but they may have been somewhat faster, perhaps as much as 120 cps. For their day, they were considered high-end and very desirable.
The look was as described, kind of like a laptop with no screen, or like a very compact electric typewriter.
Barry Watzman
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From: jpero(a)pop.cgocable.net [SMTP:jpero@pop.cgocable.net]
Sent: Monday, December 14, 1998 1:48 PM
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
Subject: Saw one...what is that? TI printing terminal Silent 700.
This, Ti terminal Silent 700 looks like a headless thick notebook
with real keyboard on it, full width thermal printer built in, bunch
of ports on backside, with 2 phone-like jacks, berg connectors.
What this for and its capabliites?
Jason D.
email: jpero(a)cgocable.net
Pero, Jason D.
I believe that the 1602A is either a UART or a keyboard encoder.
Early terminals were built in one of two ways, either hard wired pure discreet TTL logic (such as the ADM-3) or as microprocessor based terminals, often with an 8008. Using a uP was much more expensive and was usually done only in very high end ASCII terminals or (almost always) in 3270 type terminals (connected to IBM mainframes via a coax cable interface).
Barry Watzman
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From: Sam Ismail [SMTP:dastar@ncal.verio.com]
Sent: Monday, December 14, 1998 10:12 AM
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
Subject: Re: Keywords are not false advertising
On Mon, 14 Dec 1998, Tony Duell wrote:
> > I'm looking at the manual for this thing. It was a pretty righteous
> > terminal in its day. Maximum transmission rate is 9600 baud. It had a
> > video out so you could hook up an external monitor. According to the
> > schematic, the biggest chip on the I/O board is a TR1402A or 1602A (it has
> > both numbers written on it). I have no idea what this is. But there's no
> > 8008 in there. I think I checked it out when I first got it, and you
> > would've tried to get more than $10 out of me if it did I'm sure. ;)
>
> There are several terminals made by Beehive. Mine must be a later one -
> it has an 8008 in it (I am not sure what the UART is), a separate
> keyboard, but no joystick. Its main claim to fame is that it has a Hebrew
> character set in it as well as the normal one.
The one I have is circa 1974.
Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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