test-drb December 1998

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by siconic＠jasmine.psyber.com

Please reply to the original sender if interested. Reply-to: siiqa(a)earthlink.net Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)verio.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Always being hassled by the man. Coming in 1999: Vintage Computer Festival 3.0! See http://www.vintage.org/vcf for details [Last web page update: 11/02/98] ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1998 09:55:10 -0600 From: Russ McDonald <siiqa(a)earthlink.net> To: "'vcf(a)vintage.org'" <vcf(a)vintage.org> Subject: Osborne for sale Dear sir: I have Osborne 1 with all documentation including Personal Pearl, Word Sar, Supercalc, Dbase 2 . Machine still runs and is in excellent shape, that I would like to sell. Russ McDonald rmac(a)mitec.net

25 years, 5 months

Wanted -- Apple IIGS keys

by manney＠lrbcg.com

Did you ever dig out the right arrow keycap? Thanks manney >Yeah, it would. I have my old GS keyboard that's suspiciously dead (I think it >was christened by the cat) if all you need is keycaps. >-- >Jim Strickland >jim(a)DIESPAMMERSCUMcalico.litterbox.com >----------------------------------------------------------------------- >Vote Meadocrat! Bill and Opus in 2000 - Who ELSE is there? >----------------------------------------------------------------------- >

25 years, 5 months

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

by allisonp＠world.std.com

< There really isn't a good "open source" GUI alternative to Windows yet, < the best approach for now is to emulate the Win32 API on top of Linux t And when there is MS will change the API. < But, you're right, I find it much easier to sneak Linux into the server < side of a corporation than into the client/desktop side. Maybe if Java < performance and look+feel improve another order of magnitude, that won' < be as much of an issue. there is potential there but only if none of the apps used run on the server. It'd be easy to put a linux box online as a data sink. I may do it unofficially and try it before trying to migrate anything from the general user community. Oh, what I run on "my" desk is up to me but for many reasons win95 and nt will have to be there but I can have a Linux system too. Allison

25 years, 5 months

3M silentwriter model 1483?

by fmc＠reanimators.org

<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. Silentwriter or Whisperwriter? I think I remember the 3M flavor having the latter name. I played with one of them back in 1983 or 1984. That one had a keyboard connected to a thermal printer by some sort of cord (they were separate boxes), and I think an RJ11 phone jack for a POTS line. As I recall it was an ASCII terminal plus modem with a memory buffer that could be used for offline composition, and it came to us recommended as a tool for composing and sending Telexes via Western Union's Easylink service. (We sent it back and made an HP150 do the job.) I don't remember if it could be made to do other codes than ASCII. More recently (early 1990s), I've seen one with a little CRT (again in a separate box) used as a Telex terminal, but didn't inquire to find out how it was connected or what was on the other end of the connection. -Frank McConnell

25 years, 5 months

VAX collectors attention

by H.Davies＠latrobe.edu.au

At 12:20 PM 01-12-98 +1030, Geoff Roberts wrote: >Hierarchical Storage Controller. >Waist high filing cabinet sized box, HEAVY too. >Basically, it's a PDP8 I think, running a little o/s called CRONIC >(Colorado Rudimentary Operating Nucleus for Intelligent Controllers) PDP-11 >Pretty much obsolete now. There was a slightly more sophisticated version >called a HSC70 >that used RX floppys instead of the tapes, and could handle more drives, >etc. The -70 had many advantages, speed of booting being the most interesting. Increased data access speeds when booted was also and advantage :-) There were HSC-90s as well, which had a SCSI option card to allow you to attach expensive SCSI disks to an expensive HSC to an expensive VAX (or alpha).... >I think there were a couple of models after that too. I've seen a HSC70 at >a scrap dealer recently. Excuse me, I've still got one in production and a couple of spares in my "spares" room.... >Allison or one of the other Master Decologists will doubtless correct any >mistakes in the above. :^) Well I'm not Allison :-) Huw Davies | e-mail: Huw.Davies(a)latrobe.edu.au Information Technology Services | Phone: +61 3 9479 1550 Fax: +61 3 9479 1999 La Trobe University | "If God had wanted soccer played in the Melbourne Australia 3083 | air, the sky would be painted green"

25 years, 5 months

FS: Viking "Moniterm" 21 inch monochrome monitor and micro-channel video card

by bill_r＠inetnebr.com

For sale at www.ebay.com: Viking "Moniterm" 21 inch monochrome monitor and Viking "Moniterm" high-res monochrome video card for the micro-channel (PS/2) bus. eBay item #46309964 http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=46309964 Also throwing in an Apparat memory expansion card for the original IBM PC/XT. -Bill Richman (bill_r(a)inetnebr.com) http://incolor.inetnebr.com/bill_r - Home of the COSMAC Elf Microcomputer Simulator, Fun with Molten Metal, Orphaned Robots, and Technological Oddities.)

25 years, 5 months

FT: DEC Dual RX01 Unit

by cmcmanis＠freegate.com

I am looking to trade a dual RX01 drive unit in fair condition for a 4K word PDP-8/e/m/f core stack (three board G104, G227, H220). If you are interested let me know. --Chuck

25 years, 5 months

Call for final Elf99 design input

by dcoward＠pressstart.com

First I just want to say that I'm still looking for 'copies' of two RCA publications: MPM-232 Operator Manual for the RCA COSMAC DOS Development System (CDS III) CDP18S007 MPM-233 Hardware Reference Manual for the RCA COSMAC DOS Development System (CDS III) CDP18S007 If you have one or both or know where to order these manuals, please let me know. O.K. I said: >I think there is a source code listing in Paul Moews book on >Elf interpreters. I dug my copy out and yes there is source listings. Paul took RCA's CHIP-8 interpreter and modified it for the ELF. In this book ("Programs for the COSMAC ELF: Interpreters"), he starts with a subset interpreter that has 10 CHIP-8 instructions and is intended to run on a 256 byte Basic ELF. Then he lists the full Elf CHIP-8 interpreter with all 30 instructions. This is intended for a 4K Super Elf with 1861 video, but it can run on a 1 1/4K Elf. "It is also possible to use CHIP-8 in the 1 1/4K ELF's described in the articles in Popular Electronics, but to do so is very tedious unless the switches are replaced with a latched decoded keyboard." He also demonstrates with listings, how to extend the CHIP-8 instruction set. I can send you a copy of this book, it's only 31 pages. I also have one of his other books called "Programs for the COSMAC ELF: Music and Games". ----------------------------------------------------------- Fun Fact of the Day Did you know that a windowing graphical user interface was available for S-100 bus in 1979? See the product review in Popular Electronics Aug 79 page 74. ----------------------------------------------------------- ========================================= Doug Coward Press Start Inc. Sunnyvale,CA =========================================

25 years, 5 months

FSOT: IBM 4869 external 5 1/4" floppy drive

by bill_r＠inetnebr.com

I've got a pile of these somewhere. If anyone can use them, I'll sell them for $10 each plus shipping. I also have some of the PS/2 internal 3.5"-to-external-5.25" drive adapters, too. >I used to assume that too-until I found a unit that someone had replaced the >floppy drive in the unit with a Teac drive. While not commonplace, it's still a >possibility. The 4869 cases work out nice for other machines as well if you want >to do a minor amount of rewiring for accomodate the non-IBM machine. > >SUPRDAVE(a)aol.com wrote: > >> if the drive bezel has a * on it, it's a 360k. if no * is on the >> faceplate it will be a 1.2 model. it's easy to change the drive anyway, i >> installed a 1.2 drive in the 4869 enclosure. >> >> In a message dated 98-12-01 18:40:40 EST, you write: >> >> << The title says it all. External floppy drive made by IBM. Excellent >> condition. It has the standard DB-37 connector. I think it's a 1.2Mb model >> but I'm not sure. Guaranteed against DOA. >> >> > > Bill Richman incolor.inetnebr.com/bill_r (Home of the COSMAC Elf microcomputer simulator!)

25 years, 5 months

Recent Finds & Thoughts

by mark_k＠iname.com

On Tue, 1 Dec 1998 Philip Belben wrote: >We didn't try recording with Dolby and playing back without. I'd be very >surprised if that worked (did you mean it that way round). I can't >remember if we recorded with and played back with - I imagine that would >work - but we definitely couldn't get it to work recording without and >playing back with, although this actually works quite well for music. All Dolby B seems to do, is increase the level of high frequencies when the recording is made. Then when played back, the Dolby NR reduced the level of high frequencies back to what it should be (hence also reducing the background hiss). So recording with Dolby off and playing back wilth Dolby on will serve to reduce the level of high frequencies; not what you want with computer tapes. Recording with Dolby on and playing back with Dolby off should probably work; high frequencies will be louder than normal. >For PET (and family) tapes a C2N would probably make a good cassette >machine for playing it initially, since it does some of the signal >restoration itself. Better might be to use a high-end tape deck (maybe a three-head unit) since the transport should give less wow & flutter. -- Mark

25 years, 5 months

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test-drb December 1998