Found while house cleaning. Appears to be for one of those small BASIC
handheld computers. In very good condition but I have no way to test it.
Contact me directly if you're interested in it.
Joe
More house cleaning. I dug out a model EM-180B Z-80 Diagnostic/Emulator
made by Applied MicroSystems. It appears to be developement system for
Z-80s. It says has 64K of RAM. It has a RS-232 port and a socket for a
target EPROM. It also has a hex keybaord and keys for setting breakpoints,
memory addresses, I/O address, (data) Store, examine, decrement and
increment, single step, run, etc. The LED display shows the adress and
data and the various CPU status bits and the machine cycle states. It
powers up but the 1 and 3 keys no longer spring back like they should. It's
about 12" square and 4" high and runs on 110 VAC. I know nothing else about
this thing. If anyone wants it contact me directly.
Joe
Apart from an index of Byte or other old magazines, wouldn't it be
more interesting to scan the actual pages? If I could buy a DVD
with the first ten years, I could at least decimate my piles in
the basement. The article compendiums that are offered for Byte,
DDJ, etc. are interesting, but so are the ads, and they aren't included.
- John
At 10:27 PM 12/7/98 -0000, you wrote:
>> I have had several older HP vectras here that have had HP-HPIL interfaces,
>> including an HP Vectra CS (8086) and a Vectra RS-20 (386). The HP-HPIL
>> interface was generally supplied as an 8-bit card that plugged directly
>> into the ISA bus.
>
>If you're talking about HP-IL, that is *entirely* different from HP-HIL.
>
>There's nothing called HP-HPIL.
You are correct. I meant HP-HIL. HP-HPIL was a typograpical error.
I also have HP-IL here, but that's used to interface a gas chromatograph
/mass spectrometer to a HP 9000 series workstation. I know of others here
that have used HP-IL for other HP systems, but I've never seen it on HP PC's.
>
>As far as I know, there was never an ISA plug-in card to do HP-HIL. The
>cards for HP-IL are not too rare.
>
>
Kenneth L. Marshall
Research Engineer, Optical Materials
Laboratory for Laser Energetics
University of Rochester
250 East River Road
Rochester, NY 14623
Phone:(716)-275-8247
Fax: (716)-275-5960
Zane writes:
> >Ebay item #47353951 is two 8" floppies. If you look closely at
> >one of them in the picture, it appears to be a diagnostic floppy.
>
> Good GRIEF! He has the starting bid is set at $8.50, and wants
> the winner to pay $3 for shipping. You can buy them new for that!
True...but the interesting point to this thread
is that one of the disks has a memory diagnostic ...
*that* might be of use to some VAX collectors!
SS
Here's a few more (some are not x86 but I thought you guys might
still be ineterested) that I stole off a web page. Particullarly interesting
is the last site with a *lot* of oddball stuff. Enjoy!
The following is a list of free operating systems that are
specifically
made for, or will run on, "obsolete" computers. The OS name's are
followed by the intended processor/system and the "mainstream"
operating system it attempts to emulate.
ELKS (Embeddable Linux Kernel Subset)
http://www.linux.org.uk/Linux8086.html
ELKS is still in development and is an attempt to port Linux to run on an
8088/8086 processor. Future plans include 68000 and possibly Z80 ports.
Caldera OpenDOS
http://www.caldera.com
OpenDOS is a replacement for MS-DOS or PC-DOS on 80x86 processor
based systems and includes the source code for the kernel.
LUnix
http://wwwcip.rus.uni-stuttgart.de/~etk10217/c64.html
LUnix is a UNIX type clone for the C64/128. Future plans include support for
TCP/IP amomg other things.
Proolix
http://www.infocom.kharkov.ua:80/~prool/proolix.htm
Another UNIX clone for 8088/8086 processor based systems that is somewhat
similar to MINIX.
Minix
http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/minix.html
Here it is, the original 8088/8086 UNIX clone. This is the Operating System
that gave rise to the popular Linux OS and is currently available for PC,
Amiga, Macintosh, and Atari ST systems.
UZI
http://oak.oakland.edu/oak/cpm/uzi-pre.html
Currently, there are no UZI "Home Pages" (atleast none that I know of).
Here is a link for the FTP location of the UZI binaries for Z80 machines.
OS/A65
http://www2.tu-chamnitz.de/~fachat/csa
Originally made for a home built computer, OS/A65 was ported to the C64
and is theoretically portable to many other 6502 systems. Includes support
for multitasking and TCP/IP.
FreeDOS (DOS-C)
http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/freedos.htmlhttp://www.freedos.org
FreeDOS is meant as a replacement for MS-DOS or PC-DOS for all 80x86 based
systems.
Other Operating Systems on the Net.
http://www.cs.arizona.edu/people/bridges/oses.html
This site has an exhaustive list of other free operating systems as well as
a few
links to other free operating systems pages.
Hmph. ALTAIR Collecting: Another rich man's hobby.
I'm just really glad there isn't this kind of interest in
'collecting' the stuff *I'm* interested in. I can still
get most of what I want pretty cheaply (although that's
starting to change).
Damn.
Jeff
On Mon, 7 Dec 1998 21:59:43 EST DaveyGF(a)aol.com writes:
>Just finished the beta on my new website dedicated to Altair
>computers.. Check
>it out. I will be making several additions soon- including a complete
>archive
>of '97 and '98 classiccmp list server messages pertaining to altair
>subjects
>and a virtual museum.
>
>http://altaircomputers.org
>
>David
>daveygf(a)aol.com
>
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Thanks for all of your replies. I have tried a number of these already.
Zane H. Healy wrote:
>QNX - There is a free demo version, about all you can do is surf the web
>with it
> though. The demo boots from floppy.
It's very good for what it does. The QNX Neutrino kernel is to form the
basis of AmigaOS 5. Check out http://www.amiga.com if you don't believe me.
Unfortunately the demo needs 8Mb of continuous memory, on top of the 640k.
The machine I'm buying only has a total of 8Mb.
>GEOS - Runs on top of DOS, the company currently supporting it, had been
> providing some sort of demo version for it. It looks really great
> actually, and come to think of it I believe my above mentioned 486
has
> a copy on it somewhere (probably still on a Linux partition) that I
> downloaded to try a year or so ago. I'd forgotten about it.
I've got this running on my Pentium 2. If I can get some cheap 386 I'd
install this use them as simple word processors. Perhaps also sticking a
Pentium logo and "designed for Windows" on the monitor just to fool everyone
;)
> Unfortunatly they no longer support the really low end systems, I
can't
> remember if they still support the 286 or not.
Runs on 286 according to the system specs.
--
Gareth Knight
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