test-drb December 1998

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by fauradon＠pclink.com

Have you looked there? http://www.compaq.com/support/portables/out_of_production/SLT286.html Francois ------------------------------------------------------------- Visit the desperately in need of update Sanctuary at: http://www.pclink.com/fauradon/ >I recently picked up a Compaq SLT/286 and would like to purchase any >documentation for it. Anybody have docs for a reasonable price? >Thanks, >Richard Hall

25 years, 5 months

Altair 8800b Front Panel

by neil＠goodnet.com

For sale at ebay.com: Altair - 8800b Front Panel - S100 - (PICS) Item #45501676 http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=45501676 Neil B. Sheldon Sr. Sr. Engineering Technician neil(a)goodnet.com

25 years, 5 months

DG Aviion video

by pnt＠minster.cs.york.ac.uk

Eric Smith <eric(a)brouhaha.com> wrote: > It's really aggravating that not only do most semiconductor vendors not > have data on their old products on line, but not even a listing with a > one line description. Actually, quite a lot of them do have info (if sometimes well hidden) but some -- Intel comes to mind -- aren't very good about keeping old stuff, and Toshiba are pretty hopeless. I needed some other info from the same data book that those EPROMs are in, a few years ago, and ended up phoning Toshiba to get it. Turns out they stopped making EPROMs about a year before, and no longer had the data sheets themselves! Luckily one particularly helpful customer support person found me what appeared to be the last copy of the Data Book. I was very glad I checked, because there are two common pinouts for EPROMs in that sort of size range. Most manufacturers distinguish them by either using the last four digits in the form "1024" or "1000", or they use "1001" versus "1000". Except Toshiba -- where others used "1000" they used "1001" and vice-versa. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Dept. of Computer Science University of York

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DG Aviion video

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Dec 3, 6:15, Eric Smith wrote: > Are you sure that's not a TC571000? I thought the TC54xxx parts were usually > DRAMs, which wouldn't have a VPP. No, 57xxxx is stadard EPROM, 54xxxx is one-time PROM. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Dept. of Computer Science University of York

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3M silentwriter model 1483?

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Dec 2, 21:45, Sam Ismail wrote: > Subject: Re: 3M silentwriter model 1483? > On Wed, 2 Dec 1998 cdrmool(a)interlog.com wrote: > > > Anyone know the story behind this? Its a small keyboard connected to a > > small thermal paper printer. It has an old 70's style phone jack > > (at least the kind we used in Ontario Canada) coming out the back of the > > printer. My father who found it says he thinks its one of the early > > devices used by the deaf. I think it was probably just a simple > > terminal. > > Does this have a light brown and white motif? Keys are brown? I have a > picture of this in a data processing book I just picked up that shows a > woman typing on it. She doesn't look blind. There's also an acoustically > coupled modem attached with a phone handset plug into it. They were quite popular in the late 70's/early 80's as dial-up terminals in places like libraries. Ours had one to access the Dialog database. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Dept. of Computer Science University of York

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DG Aviion video

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Dec 3, 0:15, R. Stricklin (kjaeros) wrote: > Here are the two likely candidates: > > (date code) > ST 99045 > MK48T02B-15 > TIMEKEEPER (tm) RAM > DO NOT DISPOSE IN FIRE That's the same NVRAM/clock chip with built-in lithium battery that was used in several Sun Sparcstations. The Sun hardware FAQ has lots of information on replacing them with the Dallas equivalent, and has information (and pointers to other docs) about opening it up to get at the battery if you want to try using an external battery. > TOSHIBA Japan > TC541000P-15 > VPP 12.5V (date code) That's the same EPROM used by Sparcstations as the boot ROM. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Dept. of Computer Science University of York

25 years, 5 months

Dec RC25 offered

by Innfogra＠aol.com

I have a Dec RC25-AA Rev C1 with one RC25K-DC disk pack that I am listing on the DDA Tradeloop mailer. It is a desktop disk subsystem with a 26 Mb fixed disk and a 26 Mb. removable cartridge disk. It is in good condition. with one disk pack and the Users Guide. It connects to a KLESI controller, either Unibus or Qbus, which I do not have. I am open to all offers. Shipping weight will be about 70 pounds. Please reply to whoagiii(a)aol.com Thanks, Paxton Hoag Portland, Oregon

25 years, 5 months

3M silentwriter model 1483?

by cdrmool＠interlog.com

Anyone know the story behind this? Its a small keyboard connected to a small thermal paper printer. It has an old 70's style phone jack (at least the kind we used in Ontario Canada) coming out the back of the printer. My father who found it says he thinks its one of the early devices used by the deaf. I think it was probably just a simple terminal. Whose right? who gets to carve the christmas turkey this year? colan

25 years, 5 months

VAX collectors attention

by CLASSICCMP＠trailing-edge.com

>IIRC, it's actaully a PDP-11 and the OS is a munged version of RT-11. The filesystem it uses on TU58's is the same as RT-11's filesystem. That doesn't mean it's running RT-11 :-). A VAX-11/780 has an LSI-11 as the console processor, it uses the RT-11 filesystem on the boot floppies, and that doesn't mean it's running RT-11 :-). On the other hand, VAX 8600 series CPU's use a PRO 380 console running an operating system that *is* derived from RT-11. (The VENUS conditionals still abound in the RT-11 sources, even though AFAIK a build hasn't been done in over a decade.) -- Tim Shoppa Email: shoppa(a)trailing-edge.com Trailing Edge Technology WWW: http://www.trailing-edge.com/ 7328 Bradley Blvd Voice: 301-767-5917 Bethesda, MD, USA 20817 Fax: 301-767-5927

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Now VERY *OT* (hit delete now): RE: networking newbie

by allisonp＠world.std.com

< > costs. The user base however could never work with linux(unix). < < How wrong you are, Allison. How wrong you are. < < My friend is running Linux on his home PC, but if you didn't know any < better (and if you didn't look close enough) you'd swear he was running < Windows 95. The fact is that his desktop might as well BE Win95, becaus < it is stolen from the look & feel of Win95. Its called the Star Office Will it run paradox for windows, does the email work like outlook? Does netscapr for linux look and feel like the windorers version? I understand this user base was slow to accept and use computers. It's important as *I* support the user base, maintain the systems and create (or install) new applications and train the users, not *we*. It's not a rant on linux, The comments I made were to the effect of being impartial. If I had my way they'd be on OpenVMS. < Suite. Find yourself a copy and install it on your Linux box. You'll How much? Reply off line on this. < never boot Win95 again. You'll never need to. I never boot it here but work is a different case. Allison

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test-drb December 1998