test-drb June 1998

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by pcoad＠wco.com

As part of a deal I got a small pile of Mac nubus cards. My goal is to identify them and find them new homes before I need to get them shots, fixed, or they start reproducing in my closet like the 1200 bps modem cards seem to be doing. Farallon PhoneNET Card It has AUI and 10BaseT connectors. This one looks like an ethernet card. Is it? Apple Ethernet? card Has what looks like an AUI connector (female 15 pin) but without the locking slide device. Also has female BNC connector. On solder side it has "APPLE COMPUTER (C) 1987 820-0207-A and the word "hoke" near the upper back edge. Apple Macintosh IIci Cache Card (nubus) Duh. I can make a good guess at this one. Unknown nubus board Has markings DRO1 DEMO PC 10-184464- SER. NO. AA on component side. Has several unmarked chips and empty sockets. There is also a good deal of loose blue wire running hither and yon. On the end is a female 37 pin connector. Obviously this is a prototype. Is there any way to find out for what? Make me an offer. I have no way to test these cards. They are offered as is. As always I am looking for cool/old/strange/small Sun stuff. Cash is good too. Thanks, --pec -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Antique Computer Collection: http://www.wco.com/~pcoad/machines.html

26 years, 1 month

Couldn't be more OT if it tried! Re: (OT, in a way...)

by maxeskin＠hotmail.com

Well, they had an MCA bus- clearly superior! In fact, they were the closest anyone had ever come to PnP on a Wintel before USB and PCI. Except, it worked much more reliably. And then, there was the issue of quality of case and PCB... Let's put it this way... the PS/2s were actually DESIGNED, unlike many clones, which were cheap junk. And even the ISA machines were quite a bit nicer... >> >>hey, Hey,HEY! ps2 machines were announced in 1987 so they should be talked >>about rather than destroyed. no matter what anyone says, they were state of >>the art. certainly way ahead for their time. > > You MUST be kidding! > > Joe > > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

26 years, 1 month

OT: PS/2 cannon fodder

by peacock＠simconv.com

><< [When I get out my cannon!] > > Do you mean shooting the PS/2 out of the cannon at someone, or > shooting the PS/2 with the cannon? >> > > What a coincidence! I'm going to be shooting a cannon in 2 weeks at a party in the desert. It's a 75mm muzzleloader, 12 lb iron ore crusher balls for ammo. Now, anyone want to donate a PS/2 to discover what kind of damage a 3" cannonball can do? Jack Peacock

26 years, 1 month

Big Iron Was:RE: Backwater areas Was: Re: Cross listing Ebay items

by higginbo＠netpath.net

At 10:25 AM 6/17/98 -0400, you wrote: >> Speaking of big iron, what's the best place to look for DEC10s or 20s? > >Most of us would like that answer. Speaking of big iron, if anyone runs across any arcade machines in my general area, like within 300-400 miles, I WILL pickup. Looking for mostly 80's era games, like the old Atari vectors (Tempest, Asteroids, Battlezone, etc.) but will take just about anything. ________________________________________ john higginbotham limbo.netpath.net - webmaster, http://www.pntprinting.com - "Teamwork is essential; it gives the - enemy other people to shoot at." -

26 years, 1 month

HP 9825B

by rigdonj＠intellistar.net

At 06:18 PM 6/17/98 -0500, you wrote: >On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, Joe wrote: > >> I also bid on it but I decided to let you have it since I have several of >> them already. > >Nice of you. I would have done the same. Maybe :-) Actually I think I bid on in it BEFORE you did. > >> There's at least three vesions, the A, the B and a T. The latter ones > >Mine is a B according the badge above the keyboard, but there's a sticker >on the printer paper cubby door that says 9825T. It also says something >about a plotter I don't have. Probably the 9862 or 9872. The are different ROMs for each. The plotters are the same except the 9872 can also digitize. I have a 9862. > > >I take it those are language extension ROMs. I've got Matrix. Yes, they add more functions similar to the plug in ROMs in the HP 41 or HP 71. > > >You have lots of docs? Can I take that as a subtle offer to copy >useful docs? :-) Er ahh no, they're are entirely too many of them! But I am going to thin them out as soon as I have time. > >> There are also two very different keybaords used on them. The 9825 at >> the bottom of your picture has the full travel keyboard. They're more >> desireable. > >More desirable to whom? To everyone but you I guess! >I like the odd-ball full qwerty calc-style >keyboard on mine much better than a normal keyboard! > Then you should be happy! I just posted a list of the configurations of my 9825s. About half of mine have the full travel keys. Joe >-- Doug > >

26 years, 1 month

CP/M

by allisonp＠world.std.com

<Most soft-sectored controllers (the LSI ones used in most other micros) <didn't use the index hole for very much, except during formatting. A <suprising number of machines will work quite happily with the index Try it you will find many cases where that is not totally true. <Hard sectored controllers (like the one in my Z-90) do need the sector <holes to find the start of a sector. Reason for that is by counting holes you don't have to look for marks on the disk. Allison

26 years, 1 month

CP/M

by allisonp＠world.std.com

<>OK, I know what a track and a sector is, but what is the difference <>between hardsector and softsector? < < Hard sectored disks have a sensor hole (or slot) for every sector. S <they will have one index hole and 16 sector holes for a 16 sector disk. 17! There is a intermediate hole to signal the start of track (rotation). Allison

26 years, 1 month

Couldn't be more OT if it tried! Re: (OT, in a way...)

by SUPRDAVE＠aol.com

In a message dated 98-06-17 13:08:49 EDT, Daniel Seagraves responded: << [When I get out my cannon!] Do you mean shooting the PS/2 out of the cannon at someone, or shooting the PS/2 with the cannon? >> hey, Hey,HEY! ps2 machines were announced in 1987 so they should be talked about rather than destroyed. no matter what anyone says, they were state of the art. certainly way ahead for their time. david

26 years, 1 month

HP 9825B

by rigdonj＠intellistar.net

Hi Doug, I also bid on it but I decided to let you have it since I have several of them already. At 01:33 PM 6/17/98 -0500, you wrote: >I recently acquired a 9825B, and I've got some questions: > >Can I get some docs from somebody?! I can't figure out how to program the >thing. It uses HPL. HP's version of APL and BASIC crossed. Assign variables like this "A <- 2" "B <- 2*A" etc. > >The keyboard on mine appears to be different than that of another 9825B on >the net. How many different 9825B variations were there? There's at least three vesions, the A, the B and a T. The latter ones had most of the optional ROMs built in. BTW I just bought another one, it has a big warning label on it not to use any plug in ROMs other than the Matrix and String (I think). It says that the others are already built in and if you add a plug-in one that you may damage the calculator. I have lots of docs for these and 6 other 9825s but this is the first time that I've seen that warning. There are also two very different keybaords used on them. The 9825 at the bottom of your picture has the full travel keyboard. They're more desireable. A pic of mine >juxtaposed with somebody else's is at: > http://www.yowza.com/classiccmp/hp/ > >My "exectute" key is stuck. I haven't taken the machine appart yet, but >the keyboard mechanism isn't likely to match anything I have laying around >the house. Does anybody have any experience repairing this machine's >keyboard? Yeap! If it's only stuck you can usually pull them up and fix them. > >BTW, it seems like a great machine! I like the LED display. Did anybody >ever make a similar model, but with, say, an 80x24 character LED display? Yes, HP did except they used a CRT. The HP 9826 replaced the 9825. The 9826 was shaped like an oversized Apple computer and had an integrated keyboard, 5" monitor and 5 1/4" disk drive. You can see one on my webpage at "http://www.intellistar.net/~rigdonj/hp9000.htm". The 9826 used a 68000 CPU and could run HPL, BASIC or Pascal. All of the languages were USUALLY stored on disks and loaded from there but you could get the languages on plug-in ROM cards. You could have any or all languages on the same drive and/or in ROM on the same computer and you could select the one that you wanted the computer to load. I have a drive with all three languages on it and BASIC in ROM on one computer. The 9826 was also called a 9000 226 model and was part of the HP 9000 series 200 computer family that included the 9836 (aka 9000/236), 9836C, 9816 (aka 9000/216), 9000/220 and 9000/217. Even though the 9826 was designated as the replacement for the 9825 all the computers in that family are generaly compatible. The primary differences were the number of expansion slots, integrated vs. modular construction, overall size, number of built in drives and wheather they had monochrome or color displays. I have pictures on several of them on my website. Joe > >-- Doug > >

26 years, 1 month

MindSet

by jeff.kaneko＠ifrsys.com

I took a gander at this page; is the mindset related to the MAD computer? If so, then I have a Floppydrive/powersupply "upper half", if you want it. Jeff > On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, George Currie wrote: > > > Finally acquired a MindSet pc this weekend, way cool. So now I'm looking for > > anyone who has _anything_ for this unit (docs, specific software, carts, > > anything). Any useful links would be handy too. > > I have the stereo module and will trade it for the computer itself :-) > > http://www.neosoft.com/~dlw/comp/mindset.html > > -- Doug > > > >

26 years, 1 month

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test-drb June 1998