test-drb February 1998

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Panasonic Exec. Partner information wanted

by Marty＠itgonline.com

I was just given a Panasonic Exec. Partner. It looks like a laptop on stearoids. It should have been called a lugtop. It has a red plasma display, full keyboard, twin 5 1/4" floppy drives and a built-in printer. It comes with a convenient folding handle that swings out of the way (so as to not destroy its sleek lines presumeably) and boots fine. Unfortunately no paper came with it so I'd appreciate any information on when this was marketed. It's PC DOS compatible so that dates it post 1981 at least. Marty Mintzell

27 years, 1 month

KNOXM5 RSTS Rides Again!

by allisonp＠world.std.com

<From: "Daniel A. Seagraves" <DSEAGRAV(a)toad.xkl.com> <KL0: 176510 300 <<< What is that? real time clock or line time clock <DM0: 170500 440 DH0 DM is the DH mux and is 8lines <KB9:KB24 disabled - no DH0: controller You have to have 3 controllers for that many lines I believe and it only found one. <And wasn't DM0: a disk controller? Am I supposed to reset the CSRs to th Its that DH muxed serial line thing you looking for. you may have set CSRs though Tim S may know the specifics for U-bus. Allison

27 years, 1 month

Modern Minimalism (Was: Future Computing Trends)

by jfoust＠threedee.com

Roger Ivie <IVIE(a)cc.usu.edu> wrote: >On the other hand, CP/M-68K is available from http://cdl.uta.edu/cpm/. >A lot of it is written in C; with some work, it can be modernized and >updated. What could be more retro than building the ability to port >CP/M to anything with a C compiler? Darn, I had this idea, too. I was going to port it to the Palm Pilot. I looked at the code, and discovered a few things that the owner of that page (Tim Olmstead) hadn't found. I think CP/M-68K was cross-compiled under Alcyon C on a VAX 11/780. (Alcyon also produced an OS called Regulus that was available for Smoke Signal Broadcasting's 68000 systems.) The source contains the name "Tom Saulpaugh", and a web search turned up a book "The JavaOS? Design and Architecture" he wrote. He's at Sun as the architect of JavaOS for Network Computers. Tom Mason also works at Sun, and he worked at DRI on CPM-86, Concurrent CPM-86, and CP/M-86+. Novell appears willing to release source, but Tim suspects that there's no one around willing to discover or document what's available - if anything. For example, the source to CBASIC should be around, but they haven't released it. - John Jefferson Computer Museum <http://www.threedee.com/jcm>

27 years, 1 month

Found a decent use for a PC...

by allisonp＠world.std.com

<No, it's just something about REALLY LARGE frontpanel boxes that rules. <The KA-10 is plain awesome. It's not only a real good hack, but it's <the foundation of timesharing and the ARPAnet. I'll probably never see o <in action, so I'm amassing as much information as I can - maybe it can b I have and it's more than awesome. <re-built? Who knows, they used discrete components... Half the problem is finding one that is complete enough with minimim peripherals. The peripherals also eat power. just the cpu with a hack to use modern disks for power and space savings wouldn't be out of line. As to being discrete, the answer is mostly not completely. It's a hackable machine. <Of course, this is WAY out of my league, but if I keep docs around... You never know. Allison

27 years, 1 month

BBC Model B - video help

by Philip.Belben＠powertech.co.uk

On the subject of BBC video problems, it occurs to me that the BBC micro does scrolling by moving the pointer to the start of the screen (under some conditions?). If you can get it to do this, and see how the display behaves, you may be able to determine easily if it's an addressing problem. Just a thought. Philip.

27 years, 1 month

Prices & Rants(was: Future Computing Trends. Still is, I g

by maxeskin＠hotmail.com

>Oh, and as per a previous mail by someone that you had replied to with a >hotmail.com account (so this isn't at you directly, but I cannot find the >intermediate mail): Last I checked, Russians don't use dollars, they use >Rubles. I have a 1990 5 Ruble proof coin I purchased in East Berlin while I >was there in my collection. (25 years ago, most coins were cheaper than >computers -- now it's the other way around!) So I was making a statement >about the pitiful (IMHO) status of the American dollar, just to clear >things up. Not to go too much off topic, but I made the russia comment, because I was born in the USSR, and it is very apparent to me. They DO use rubles, but before they artificially deflated it (with a clone case :), the xchng rate was something like 5000 Rubles to a US Dollar. I was watching a Russian comedy program a few days ago, and they mentioned that Russia has more dollars than the US, discussing the aid US gives them :) Actually, dollars are pretty much common there now, with slightly greater value. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

27 years, 1 month

Altair price check

by adavie＠mad.scientist.com

And I was losing bidder in one on the net recently, consisting of an 8800a and two 8" drives. It went for $1800 A -----Original Message----- From: John Foust <jfoust(a)threedee.com> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu> Date: Tuesday, February 24, 1998 2:34 AM Subject: Altair price check > >Regarding the three Altair machines that were recently posted >to the net auction at ebay.com - they went from $1525 to $2025. >Mind you, these weren't complete systems. The software, extra >drives, etc. were auctioned separately. > >- John >Jefferson Computer Museum <http://www.threedee.com/jcm> > >

27 years, 1 month

dhgf

by rus_wallden＠bc.sympatico.ca

27 years, 1 month

9370 is a dog! Was: Re: Re[2]: Firsts

by Philip.Belben＠powertech.co.uk

William Donzelli quoted me as having written: >> All 3090 models are indeed water machines. The 3090 was IBM's large >> mainframe of the late 1980s. > > Are you sure that there were not a few air cooled models towards the end? > I have an air-TCM from, I believe, a late 3090. I paid two bucks for it. > In hindsight, I should have purchased all of them in the chassis (25 or > 16, I do not remember offhand. OK. To be strictly accurate, all 3090 models of which I am aware are water cooled machines. I was a student when I worked at IBM - a year before going to university, and two summer vacations - after which I somewhat lost touch with them. My last job with IBM was in 1988, and not at the marketing location where I had worked before, but in a factory building cash dispensers. My last real knowledge of IBM was >from 1987, then. >> involved!) to replace the strange 400Hz thingies. And a little circuit >> to provide a 400Hz heartbeat if the machine uses this at all... > > This is probably the best solution. > > It probably does monitor the 400 Hz, and machine check if it goes away. > Remember, these machine monitor EVERYTHING (like the earthquake sensor in > some of them - give them a good kick and they will report a seismic > check). Ouch! But you may get away with providing a fake "ac good" signal, rather than ac for it to monitor. > The "Mill" was chopped up into smaller rooms - our room just happens not > to have mice power, but the one next door does. Strange - I shouldn't have thought it took much to power a mouse :-) Still, this means you shouldn't have much difficulty with the upgrade. Philip.

27 years, 1 month

Timeline of the Micro

by groberts＠mitre.org

fyi, interesting time line of the microcomputer: "Chronology of Events in the History of Microcomputers" http://www1.islandnet.com/~kpolsson/comphist.htm - glenn +=========================================================+ | Glenn F. Roberts, Falls Church, VA | Comments are my own and not the opinion of my employer | groberts(a)mitre.org

27 years, 1 month

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