Hi all,
I was given a Tektronix XD88/10 machine a few years ago that has sadly
been sitting around gathering dust in the hope that I'd be able to find
sufficient info/parts to fix it at some point - maybe someone on this
list can help...
When I got the machine I just had the main unit, and (amazingly, seeing
how only a few of these seem to ever have been built) got hold of a
keyboard for it. I haven't got the original monitor, but a Sun 16"
display seems to work well enough.
The disk was on its way out when I got hold of the machine, and from
what I remember wouldn't even boot to single user mode last time I tried
it. It's a 300MB Imprimis (Seagate) SCSI-1, so finding an exact or
similar replacement shouldn't be too much trouble. The problem is the OS
software - I don't have the tapes, and Tektronix stopped supporting the
XD88's a few years ago (I heard from one guy in Australia who got an
XD88 from a sale without OS, and Tektronix Aus. gave him the tapes for
free which was rather nice - they took the line that they should be part
of the machine anyway!)
Second problem is mouse - the keyboard has a 9-pin *female* port on it
for a mouse - anyone know pin-outs, what protocol was needed etc?
Other than those two minor details, it works fine :)
When I first got it it did boot to some sort of semi-working state; I
seem to remember that the ethernet was working on it (I never tried the
tape drive, I have a spare in case the one in it is broken though)
Thanks for any help though, about time I got this thing going again!!!
(Could still be a useful machine actually, it's got 16MB of main memory
on it and 2MB for graphics memory)
cheers,
Jules
Hi,
I just acquired a Franklin ACE 500, unfortunately it came without the power
supply. Does anyone have info on the power connector and requirements.
Thanks
Francois
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>Date: 25 Mar 98 20:46:29 -0800
>Subject: Re: Your www site
>From: "Steve Wozniak" <steve(a)woz.org>
>To: "David Wollmann" <dwollmann(a)ibmhelp.com>
>X-Mailer: Cyberdog/2.0
>
>Dear Woz,
>
>Several on the Classic Computers mailing list have been asking about
>you.
>Someone listed your web site (http://www.woz.org/) and it looks to be
>off
>line.
>
>Wanna say hello to the list and tell them what you're up to these
>days? The
>scuttlebutt has it that you're teaching, we'd love to hear about it.
>
>Thanks
>
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>
>That is the correct web site. Or http://woz.org or http://woz.com or
>http://www.woz.com. Even a few more will work. Just type "woz" into
>Netscape or Internet Explorer and they try adding "www" ond ".com".
>
>Steve
>_________________________________
>Here's to the crazy ones.
>The misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers.
>The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things
>differently.
>They're not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status
>quo.
>You can quote them. Disagree with them. Glorify or vilify them.
>About the only thing you can't do is ignore them, because they change
>things.
>They push the human race forward.
>And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius.
>Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the
>world?
>Are the ones who do.
>_________________________________
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Greets:
Here's a question for you all: how does early serial numbers on classic
machines effect their relative value to collectors. Here's an instance:
I recently acquired five (5) old TRS-80 Model III computers. They are
numbered in the following way:
0000365
0000474
0000475
0000477
0000510
Yeh, and two, almost three are numbered in succession... how often does
that happen. Plus, those particular machines came from two different
states, and the successive machines were also split up by 900 miles!!
How often does that happen?
Anyway, for a TRS-80 collector, or classic computer collectors in
general... how does these early numbers effect their value to potential
collectors of these machines. I've heard of someone (I think) that had a
very early numbered CoCo (less than 10?), but haven't heard much else.
Any more of you have stories like this that I mentioned above?
Thanks,
CORD COSLOR
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What size disks does the IBM S/36 use and is this the same machine you
refer to as a "System 36"?? I may have a whole batch of books and disks
coming to me in the very near future and am curious if they may be of
any value to anyone out in "pooter land".
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Tried it with IE4. Tried it with Netscape 4.04. Tried it with Mosaic
2.11... any ideas?
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From: Max Eskin <maxeskin(a)hotmail.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Date: Thursday, March 26, 1998 5:34 AM
Subject: Re: What ever happened to Woz?
>
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>
>
>
>
>
>Lynx worked fine too. Suggestive?
>>>I tried that before. I get the following error:
>>>The requested item could not be loaded by the proxy.
>>>
>>>Remote server closed connection.
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>>I can't get in with MSIE, but Netscape worked. Have you tried to
>Netscape?
>>
>> -- Kirk
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Ok... there's this technicial genius, he makes what very well may be the two
key foundations necessary for IBM to make a PC for Compaq to clone it, for
Unix to serve it, to make the Internet to share it... BUT WHAT THE ^*%@
HAPPENED TO HIM?
I've got a faint notation that he got involved in Be, what ever that is.
It seems like an OS, I remember hearing that it was getting ported to Intel
platforms... what happend to him? Why isn't he like... at Apple, where he
belongs doing innovation?
Thanks,
Tim D. Hotze
From: ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell)
To: classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu
Subject: Re: SID chips
Message-ID: <m0yHXT4-000Iy8C@p850ug1>
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> Hi!
>
> I have a question re. the Commodore 64c - what was the number of the SID
> chip? I assuem that the C64c had one, but the most likely chip was
> numbered 8580R5, whereas I was expecting a 6581 or 6582.
The 64c was a cost-reduced version of the 64 where many chips were integrated
into larger ones, they also re-vamped the SID chip which takes a different
voltage then the original SID and has 'fixes' whaich makes some earlier
programs sound worse (there was a 'click' you get when adjusting the volume
control, and it was used for digitized sounds, the new sid fixed this click,
now no digitized sounds in some progs. I dunno the 64c SID number but I think
that (8580) may be it... :/
I think the 6582 was in the 128 or 128D...
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From: John Rollins <rexstout(a)ptld.uswest.net>
Subject: Mac II problem
>Here's the message I just sent to ClassicMacs mailing list, I'm too lazy to
>type it all again ;-)
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>Just picked up a Mac II 5/80/two 800k FD's for $15(including a datatronics
>keyboard and an Apple mouse), with an ethernet card that everyone seemedd
>to think was a second video card...
Good price. Though I myself would never have THAT much desk space available...
[snip]!
> Finally the normal
>System Folder icon is back and it boots again. I launch the hacked HD SC
>Setup and it sees a disk at SCSI ID 6(I haven't changed that yet, I need to
>take the HD out and find the info on it), but it can't reformat. It says it
>can't prepare the disk for initialization, no particular reason is given...
>Current config right now is 5/80 with the two 800k drives, and the Radius
>Pivot interface. Any ideas? I'm stumped.
Most likely the hard drive is a non-Apple drive (i.e. a Quantum or whatever
without the special Apple ROM). Apple rigged it's drive setups to only
format identifiable Apple HDs. If this is the case there are two options:
1. Locate a 3rd party drive utility like FWB HD Toolkit which works with most
SCSI drives, there are a couple on the net but no gaurantees...
2. Check web for the sites that have the patches to the HD Setup progs.
to format a non-apple drive anyway. (they are out there, and some are harder
than others to do.) I went this route on my external drive, it works great.
Here is the site I had found:
http://www.euronet.nl/users/ernstoud/scsi.html
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>>0000474
>>0000475
>>0000477
>
>I can see some additional value of the two consecutive, if kept together,
>now all you need is 476 :^)
This reminds me of a recent ad of a gent looking for his old (70s) HP
calculator, which he had lost years back - he had the serial number and was
advertising for THAT PARTICULAR UNIT. Now *that* would be an amazing find!
Cheers
A
