I wrote:
>I found a somewhat stale lead (last November) on three or four
>Terak computers that were sold at the monthly University of Washington
>surplus sale. Is there anyone on the list familiar with this sale?
And then several people posted "tell me more". All I know is
I found a mention via a search engine of three Teraks that were
about to be tossed to their surplus center, and when I called
the surplus center (University Surplus Property Warehouse, 206-685-1573)
they said they auction 60-70 pallets of computers each month, so
they had no recollection of these Teraks. Someone in the UW area
must've got them! I hope they're not dumpstered. I also hold a
slim hope that they weren't sold, and are still for sale.
See my web site for an image of a Terak. Find them and send
them to me. :-)
- John
Jefferson Computer Museum <http://www.threedee.com/jcm>
Doug Yowza <yowza(a)yowza.com> writes:
> PING xkleten.paulallen.com (204.202.80.66): 56 data bytes
> 64 bytes from 204.202.80.66: icmp_seq=0 ttl=37 time=114.4 ms
Hmm, last night (before I wrote that) I was having difficulty resolving
the host name. This morning it seems to be OK.
> I don't have an account there (Mr. Allen ignored my request (I guess he is
> pretty smart after all)), but telnet seems to work fine.
I didn't bother to ask when I saw the announcement -- no time to dink
with it then and no good idea what I would do with it except log in and
look around. Well, I guess I've found a solution to that latter part,
now if I could just do something about the former.
-Frank McConnell
OK.. Manney has one, but hasn't gotten back to me on it yet. So anyway,
here's the deal: I'm moving this summer, and so I need to stay online.
(Yes, NEED, as I'm a panel member for http://www.webhostlist.com , so I NEED
to stay connected.)
So anyway, what I need is a laptop, or a hand held, that has TCP/IP
stacks and a graphical interface for it (so that could be a 386 or later, or
a newton, Mac, or anything else...)
Oh, and this is intended to be a REALLY low cost thingy...
Tim D. Hotze
Hi. After getting a new M Board for my XT and a load of cards, I found that
my Power Supply's now completely dead. So, where to I start? No fan, moves
a turn or two, I know that the power connections good.
Thanks,
Tim D. Hotze
"Daniel A. Seagraves" <DSEAGRAV(a)toad.xkl.com> wrote:
> I can't seem to get ahold of it anymore, was it decomissioned or something?
Hmm. Did you find out anything more about this?
I found a copy of _Introduction to DECSYSTEM-20 Assembly Language
Programming_ (by Ralph E. Gorin, 1981, published by Digital Press,
ISBN 0-932376-12-6) and was thinking that this was good timing because
I might actually be able to do the homework on, well, something like a
-10. In my dreams^H^H^H^H^H^Hcopious free time, of course.
Other books found:
_Man and the Computer_, John G. Kemeny, 1972, Scribners,
SBN 684-13043-2
_PCC's Reference Book of Personal and Home Computing_,
Dwight McCabe (ed.), 1977, PCC, ISBN 0-918790-02-6
_Varian Data 620/i System Reference Manual_, Rev C, March 1969
_The BYTE Book of Pascal_, Blaise W. Liffick (ed.), 1979,
BYTE Books, ISBN 0-07-037823-1
_An Introduction to Algorithmic Methods Using the MAD Language_,
Alan B. Marcovitz and Earl J. Schweppe, 1966, Macmillan, LCCN
66-27676
_The APL Handbook of Techniques_, compiled by DP Scientific Marketing,
1978, IBM S320-5996-0
IBM Proprinter Technical Reference, April 1985, p/n 6328947
_Computer Graphics Techniques and Applications_, R. D. Parslow,
R. W. Prowse, R. Elliot Green (eds.), 1969, Plenum, LCCN 68-58992
_Intel Microcomputer Systems Data Book_, 1977
-Frank McConnell
I seem to recall reading somewhere (BYTE ~1985 ?) that Soviet made CPUs
(6502 clones?) were so poorly maid that they individually came with a
list of which instuctions worked and which didn't. Also seem to recall
an article on the soviet Apple ][ clone of the time (CPU on a large
daughterboard, pirated ROM, cost approx US $20,000)
-Matt Pritchard
Graphics Engine and Optimization Specialist
MS Age of Empires & Age of Empires ][
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hotze [SMTP:photze@batelco.com.bh]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 1998 12:15 PM
> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
> Subject: The PC's Soviet?
>
> OK... I was talking to a Ukranian programmer, who told me that in 1968
> the
> PC was invented, not far from where he worked in Ukrane. Now, that's
> 4
> years before the microprocessor, but is it possible?
> And this guy might be dilusional, he's VERY communist, but then
> again,
> at base, so am I, but with a democratic twist. Anyway, what's the
> story
> behind this?
> Thanks,
>
> Tim D. Hotze
At 04:41 AM 4/22/98 -0400, you wrote:
>
>On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Joe wrote:
>
>> >Also seem to recall
>> >an article on the soviet Apple ][ clone of the time (CPU on a large
>> >daughterboard, pirated ROM, cost approx US $20,000)
>>
>> I remember that article. The entire motherboard was pirated! Not just
>> the ROM. The tops of the ICs had been ground off to hide the fact that they
>> were US made parts.
>
>How do we know that the $20,000 wasn't the cost of shipping the pirate
>motherboards to the Soviet Union from Canada, via Cuba? ;)
>
>Was it not the same in the States, with regards to Apple clones, as it was
>in Canada in the early 80s?
Sure it was. The Franklins were probably the best known Apple rip-offs
^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H er ah, clones. At least until Apple sued them and
Franklin had to actually design their own machines.
>So the Soviets pirated the Apple ][, who didn't?
But you missed the point. No other >COUNTRY< tried to pass off a pirated
machine as their own. In fact, most cloners (pirates?) bragged about their
similarity to the original machine, the Soviets claimed that their machine
was an original design. To top it all off, they didn't even have the good
sense to change the copywrite notice!
>Maybe I should start collecting Apple clones, seeing as I see them more
>frequently than actual Apples (clones were more affordable).
That would probably be a pretty big collection just by itself!
Joe
<From: Doug Yowza <yowza(a)yowza.com>
<and is populated rather sparsely by chips with date codes from '80 and
<'81. The chips seem to be from Fairchild primarily (the 32 F10470's loo
<like they might be RAM). From Mr. Cole's "limited edition" markings, I
<gather that there were 400 of these boards in his Cray-1.
The Cray-1 was ECL-10k fast for it's time but low density and rams for
that technology were 1 or 4k ECL bipolar. ECL had several
characteristics, FAST, high power consumption and low density. The
copper plate worked with a cooling system to conduct the heat away as
that machine was impossible to air cool and remain that small. Why
small? Conductors propagate singnals at 1nS a foot and a cable of several
feet actually represented a significant delay to the overall sheme of
things inside.
A note: The other commonly known and slightly more recent ECL machine
was the DEC VAX9000, built using ECL-100k built on custom air cooled
hybrids. It also consumed power in great quantities and had special
cooling considerations.
<Any idea how much RAM is on the board? Can I interface the board to my
<Sinclair ZX-81 to create the world's most perverse hybrid?
Your could but the interface would be more than the two combined and it
would eat an amazing amount of power.
Allison
The DHV 11 manual and the programming card have both been claimed. Given
that the hardware is on hold, that completes this run of freebies.
Thanks to all for your interest.
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I've acquired a Amiga 1000 with monitor, mouse, scsi sidecar that try's
to boot up, but after booting kickstart, it asks for the Workbench 1.2
disk. My disk seems to be defective because the drive cycles and the
picture of the workbench disk comes back up. Does anyone out there have
a copy?
James
