Uncle Roger <sinasohn(a)ricochet.net> wrote:
> >> >> Final Demo of the Xerox Star Workstation
> >> >> 5:30 to 7:00pm
>
> I'm really hoping to be there, but I still have to figure out how to get
> from Walnut Creek at 5pm to Palto Alo at 5:30...
I see a need for speed. Hmm, usually they start a few minutes late,
but
> Ooh, I *love* waving my appendages, especially my phelanges!
That's the spirit! Tongues, too!
> Only, Wednesdays, esp. the second wed are not good... Make it the second
> Thursday and you've got a deal. 8^)
Well, second Wednesday was Paul's suggestion (and "suggestion" may be
too strong a word), and he and I are both flexible. I figure whoever
shows up at PARC will probably yak about this some Wednesday night and
hopefully we will arrive at something close enough to consensus to
post a real time and place.
-Frank McConnell
<In Circuit Cellar this month there is an add from timeline inc. It has a
<VGA LCD 640 X 480 Sanyo LMDK55-22 listed for $25. That is the only info
<given on the add. their phone number is (800) 872-8878 no web site :(
<Francois
I'll call tehm but I suspect it will be like the DELL(sharp) LCD I have
and while VGA sized it is not a vga interface.
Allison
<>I'm also interested in same and know someone that might like info.
<>There is a truck load of applications for a cheap/compact/lowpower
<>VGA display.
<>
<>Allison
<
<Geez, Allison, If I was a EE god like yourself, I'd grab me a coupla
<busted|older laptops and build an interface for the LCD screens. 8^)
Humm, I have a dell laptop display and it will take a potload of ttl and
ram to make it into a system... the results will be more power hungry than
I want. FYI this is NOT for a PC so PC hacks are not the most useful.
Allison
G'day.
In the last large haul I made (which included an Eclipse S/130 and
a Nova 4) for my collection, I acquired a little RCA terminal which
bills itself as an "Office Appliance". It's quite clearly a small
video terminal and seems to be based around the 1801 microprocessor.
I'm wondering if anybody has the manuals for the little beast and
can tell me what the power supply puts out, and on what pins (it's
got a DIN connector on the back labelled "power"). I'd sort of like to
fire it up and see how it works.
Thanks!
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At 12:42 PM 6/12/98 -0700, you wrote:
>> Found a stack of AT&T computers. Some are labelled "PC 6300" (The unix PC,
>> iirc?) but others are marked "6300 WGS", a designation I've not heard of
>
>The 6300 WGS (Work Group Server) was a tower cased system that was not
These were (I'm pretty sure) desktops, almost identical to the PC 6300's,
only wiht a cream colored front.
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At 03:14 PM 6/12/98 -0400, you wrote:
><Does anyone know of a *cheap* source of a VGA-compatible display? What I
><looking for, especially, is low power usage, followed by compactness and
><portability. Thanks!
>
>I'm also interested in same and know someone that might like info.
>There is a truck load of applications for a cheap/compact/lowpower
>VGA display.
>
>Allison
Geez, Allison, If I was a EE god like yourself, I'd grab me a coupla
busted|older laptops and build an interface for the LCD screens. 8^)
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Sounds vaguely familiar, I remember two versions of the 2100s one had a black front panel w/red lights, the other one had a beige front panel. They were the CPU of HP2000 timesharing systems. They were pretty neat for their time (mid-70s) and I did my first "on-line" programming on them.
The earlier ones boot off of paper tape, then the new technology... mylar oooh! I don't remember if they ever got weaned off tape booting though. Once you logged in you were at the command line and in a basic interpreter. They introduced me to instant gratification programming vs. waiting a day or so for the cards and the printout to come back or having to wire boards.
Oh, yea... if it's one of the older ones, when the big oil filled capacitor goes in one of the disk drives the vented panel provides for spectacular visuals!
If you don't want it, please let me know the details on it.
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From: museum(a)techniche.com [SMTP:museum@techniche.com]
Sent: Saturday, June 13, 1998 3:36 PM
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
Subject: Re: New toy, HP Apollo 4500, and it's broken...
This is somewhat tangential, but I suspect whoever is
reading about HP Apollo's may be able to contribute.
I came across a rack mount system in the local surplus
store. The faceplate reads "HP 2100c Programmable
Microcomputer System".
Any ideas what this is? Worth picking up?
Jon
>>
>> <I got a apollo 4500.
>> <It has a 68030 inside, and a 700-someodd meg MFM (?) harddisk.
>>
>> More likely SCSI (single 50pin cable) or EDSI (two cables like MFM).
>> MFM drives topped out at 160mb or so, EDSI went to at least 400mb maybe
>> higher.
>
>Definitely ESDI or SCSI. Although they could have had SMD or ESMD
>as well.
>
>>
>> <I have no idea what it runs. This one has a SummaSketch pad with it.
>> <It was used for CAD stuff.
>>
>> Some kind of unix.
>
>Possibly, though the Apollo's ran Domain/OS which was Multics inspired
>but later it went to BSD compatibility and looked like both Unix and
>Multics.
>
>>
>> Allison
>>
>>
>
>Actually, there are a lot of Apollo collectors out there and the video
>card may be getable. The Apollos used 3C505's for ethernet and some other
>Token ring interface.
>
>Bill
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>More likely SCSI (single 50pin cable) or EDSI (two cables like MFM).
>MFM drives topped out at 160mb or so, EDSI went to at least 400mb maybe
>higher.
ESDI, and I know they can handle higher capacity disks (though I can't
speak to the actual limit) as I have several ESDI disks which are
770mb unformatted (about 668mb formatted). A couple of them are the
Hitachi DK515-78. I also have some Maxtor drives, but I don't remember
their designation.
Megan Gentry
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In Circuit Cellar this month there is an add from timeline inc. It has a 6"
VGA LCD 640 X 480 Sanyo LMDK55-22 listed for $25. That is the only info
given on the add. their phone number is (800) 872-8878 no web site :(
Francois
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-----Original Message-----
From: Rax <rax(a)warbaby.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Date: Saturday, June 13, 1998 6:20 PM
Subject: Re: Mini-Monitors?
>>> <Does anyone know of a *cheap* source of a VGA-compatible display? What
I
>>> <looking for, especially, is low power usage, followed by compactness
and
>>> <portability. Thanks!
>>>
>>> I'm also interested in same and know someone that might like info.
>>> There is a truck load of applications for a cheap/compact/lowpower
>>> VGA display.
>>
>>At least small CGA and mono monitors have been cheap for a long time.
>>Places that advertise in Electronics Now tend to have them for ~$30ish.
>>They are usually open-frame.
>>
>
>Also try Nuts & Volts magazine. Lots of ads from purveyors of all sorts of
>goodies for the mad inventor that lurks inside each of us.
>
>R.
>
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Hi, gang.
I'm just curious what old electronic magazines are worth. I haven't been able to
find them in a price guide -- I have all the PE Altair issues (including the 680)
and would like to know if they are worth anything I need to worry about insuring.
Don't get excited -- I'm not going to part with them. It's just that I've heard that
they're worth some money and I'd like to know.
Thanks
Paul Braun
NerdWare -- The History of the PC and the Nerds who brought it to you.
nerdware(a)laidbak.com
www.laidbak.com/nerdware
