>Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 00:41:45 -0500
>Reply-To: classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu
>From: Ward Donald Griffiths III <gram(a)cnct.com>
>To: "Discussion re-collecting of classic computers"
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
>Subject: Re: Future Computing Trends
>
>Max Eskin wrote:
>>
>> I agree wholeheartedly with all you say with one exception. I have a
>> Pentium 75 overclocked to 100, 16MB ram. It runs Word 95 just fine,
>> and ran it fine when it had 8MB. Visual Basic and IE4 (I don't use
>> it regulary, Opera at www.operasoftware.com is much better: 1MB
>> download!)
>> work fine too. I can only imagine how Linux would run. But to put
>> this in a classical context, I agree that old computers are still
>> useful, but I so wish that they had better displays :)
>
>I defy _anybody_ to say that a "better" display would improve any
>Big Five Software arcade games as they ran on the 128x48 monochrome
>graphics of the TRS-80 1/3. And I defy anybody to find a better
>batch of arcade games, unless you really want to see the blood from
>kicked-in faces, a fetish I outgrew 25 or so years ago.
>--
Who says I want it for arcades? I don't play games much anyway.
Whatever happened to desktop publishing, CAD, photoediting?
What mostly annoys me is how little I can fit on an 80X25 text mode
screen compared to 1280X1024 resolution and small font.
>
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On Tue, 3 Jun 1997, Sam Ismail wrote:
> On a scarcely related note, has anyone ever seen (or does anyone have) a
> TI-99/4 (no "a")?
Andrew Gurudata has a page devoted entirely to the TI-99/4 at:
http://www.vex.net/~guru/ti/ti994nota.htm
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I went to a trift store and found an interesting looking 5 1/4" disk. It's
copy righted to Vector Graphics and Digital Research and is labeled Vector
4 CP/M Version 1.0 Release 2. Does anyone know what it's for?
Joe
the 9533 i had was preloaded with os2 but now i'm running pcdos7 and win3.11
just fine. i trying to get a pcmcia nic to work but having problems. the nic
worked in my thinkpad but i dont remember how i had my autoexec.bat and
config.sys set up.
i do not remember the memory inclusions and exclusions that need to be set up.
david
<< What kind of networking problems are you having? Do you have the PCMCIA
model? Some of them had a token ring card instead of PCMCIA.
Obligatory 10-year-old-plus story: HSC also has a DG/One (I think they
want $45 for it) and an odd-looking Morrow portable that wasn't in very
good shape. I passed on both, so if anybody is looking for these things,
check with these guys:
http://www.halted.com/
-- Doug >>
I asked about this one a little while back.
Nobody knows what it is, apparently.
Datanumerics DL8A. It is 8080 based,
comes in a 19" rack mount case, has 4k 600ns ram, 1 current loop (I
think) port, and obviously a full front panel.
I ended up paying about US$150 for the DL8A, a Compucolor 2, and a PET 2032
A log? Maybe, but I'm curious about the DL8A. If there's any interest,
I'll place images on my website when it arrives.
A.
ah, the 9533! i bought two nonworking ones for $30 and fixed them both! i gave
one to my brother that is still in warranty for two more months. these
machines have 3 year warranty and some are still under warranty. Im having
problems getting a nic to work, but a cute little machine nonetheless. i love
the keyboard too. i have never seen the matching lcd though.
david
In a message dated 98-02-20 01:06:49 EST, you write:
<< > All PS/2 starts with 85aa-yyy,
Not all of them. One of my favorite odd-ball computers is the IBM PS/2e
(9533). It's a very small low-power desktop model with 4 PCMCIA slots.
One of mine even has an external flat panel VGA display. Because of the
low power consumption, I use one as my home LAN internet gateway.
BTW, does anybody have an extra floppy and cable for one of these things?
It uses a notebook floppy drive and a notebook-like cable (mylar?). >>
We are looking to convert a PCjr computer into a serial terminal
emulator, and our limiting factor is finding how to adapting its serial
connector to a DB-9. Has anyone done this? We do not want to spend money
on this, this is a student project. I apoligize for butting into this
list as I can't find how to subscribe, so please reply by personal email.
Also, if anyone knows of a good dos program to use for this project,
please let me know
Jeff DeMaagd
jdemaa17 !at! calvin.eduhttp://www.calvin.edu/~jdemaa17
64-bit Alpha Linux OS user.
So many Z-80 CP/M machines... were they compatible, to a reasonable
extent? (I heard that MS had some standard in Japan for the purpose
called MSX. More info on that?)
>To: "Discussion re-collecting of classic computers"
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
>Subject: Re: NorthStar Advantage Question
>
>Joe wrote:
>>
>> At 07:05 PM 2/20/98 -0500, you wrote:
>> >I just bought a Northstar Advantage.
>>
>> Ok what's a NorthStar Advantade?
>
>
>They started as Kentucky Fried Computers and were later forced to
>change their name to North Star Computers....according to Stan
>Veit. The Advantage was a 64k Z80A running at 4MHz. It had two
>built-in floppy drives...ran CP/M. Late 70's I believe.
>
>Win
>
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At 02:46 PM 2/20/98 PST, you wrote:
>and ran it fine when it had 8MB. Visual Basic and IE4 (I don't use
>it regulary, Opera at www.operasoftware.com is much better: 1MB
>download!)
If you think that's cool, you need to check out what they are doing with QNX:
http://www.qnx.com/iat/createdemo.html
QNX is a very small micro-kernel OS that has the look of Windows 95, has
builtin TCP/IP networking, a notepad, a few other little doodads, and to
top it off, a fully functional HTML 3.2 compliant web browser. Also
supports graphics modes up to 1024x768 in millions of colors.
Okay, not amazing enough for you already? How about if I told you it all
ran off a 1.44mb floppy disk? Hmmmm? :)
Everyone owes to themselves to go grab this FREE (yes, FREE) OS and try it
for themselves.
-John Higginbotham-
-limbo.netpath.net-
<This is a CP/M master for a Vector Graphics Vector 4 CP/M machine. Was
<the Vector 4 S-100 based btw anyone?
<
<Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar@sicon
Yes it was. One of my s100 boxen is a Vector MX (s100 crate only none of
the original boards). The MX was z80 powered byt the Vector 4 may
have been 8088(cpm-86 V1).
Allison
