>Powder Blue Computers
>Akkord Technologies each used Mac 128k ROMs
>Colby:
>WalkMac SE -- $3999
>WalkMac SE 30 -- $6699
>
>Dynamic: (around for a few years)
>Dynamac Plus $4995
>Dynamac SE 30 - $7954
>
>Outbound
Anybody have any of these? Any experience with them. I would love some
further information.
>The bit on Outbound shocked me, it seems they were actually working with
>Apple.
To quote the 2nd edition: "While Outbound continues to floursh-thanks to
a wisely-forged legal agreement and clever positioning of their Macintosh
portable versus the Apple PowerBooks-I question their long-term staying
power."
Tom Owad
>Having creative thoughts is not something (IMHO) that can be taught.
Some
>people just suddenly think 'Wouldn't it be neat if...' or 'We can do it
>like this...'. Of course having a good understanding of the subject,
and
>know what's been done before help a lot here. And that's were classic
>computers come in (to bring this back on topic!)
I thought this was on topic anyway...
>> <faultfinding/repair can be done by almost anybody. Well, having done
>> <both, I personally find them equally difficult. Perhaps that means
I'm
>> <no good at it, but...
>>
>> Troubleshooting is a very complex process that I've never been able
to
>> teach to anyone but those that naturally could. For me
troubleshooting
>
>The point is, in the UK at least, designers tend to get much better
pay,
>and are more highly regarded than repairmen. This I think is wrong, but
this
>list is not the place for that rant.
In general, I've found that things like TVs are almost never repaired,
at least in the US. Back in the USSR, we repaired everything,
including alarm clocks destroyed by trashy batteries that leaked.
>I'm not good at troubleshooting, and I could never (for example) repair
>TV sets for money. But I've never yet let a fault beat me. It may take
me
>weeks to solve it, but I'll spend those weeks to sort out a machine.
Do you mean you've never left a problem unsolved or never left a
machine broken?
>> But working with field circus underscored that thinking is not
something
>> you can mandate.
Isn't there some kind of qualification these guys have to pass? Still,
I can imagine a 20-year old pizza-eating moron who takes a job like
this just to tell his girlfriend, "Hey! I'm a COMPUTER SERVICE
TECHNICIAN!"...
>
>-tony
>
>
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Again, the original was 1.5a, which was not enough to power the
machine w/a dead battery. 2.0a came w/ the first powerbook, and works
fine.
(didn't I find this out on this list over a year ago?)
>
>At 04:25 PM 6/11/98 -0700, Uncle Roger wrote:
>>At 12:42 PM 6/11/98 PDT, you wrote:
>>>I was wondering if anyone had a Mac Portable power supply, and wanted
to
>>>sell it cheap.
>>
>>Just get a (iirc) 7.5v PS with appropriate connector/polarity.
>
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Gotta be 2.0a though, at least that's what it says on the bottom of the unit.
At 04:25 PM 6/11/98 -0700, Uncle Roger wrote:
>At 12:42 PM 6/11/98 PDT, you wrote:
>>I was wondering if anyone had a Mac Portable power supply, and wanted to
>>sell it cheap.
>
>Just get a (iirc) 7.5v PS with appropriate connector/polarity.
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>Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 19:10:55 -0500
>To: clasic
>From: "John R. Keys Jr." <jrkeys(a)concentric.net>
>Subject: New Finds this week
>
>Well it's been slow since I got back from vacation but I found a couple
good items:
>1) Freeze Frame cartridge for the C64, has four dip switches 1&2 work the
freeze frame and 3&4 are printer configuration for 4 different printers.
Neat never seen or heard of this unit before. cost 10 cent at thrift.
>2) Manual set for the LA50 printer all of them for 50 cent.
>3) ICmemories manual from 1980 covering HITACHI #HLN100 25 cent
>4) Freedom ONE terminal manual 25 cent
>5) ACER710 user's guide 1987 25 cent
>6) DisplayStation 88kp6 for $35
>7) Socrates program manual 11 cent
>8) Commodore model 1541-II/1571-II/1581 power supply free
>9) TRS80 Deluxe RS-232 program pak cat. 26-2226 with cable free
>10) HP 2382A kb 1.00
>11) Tecmar tape unit for early Mac's only has two 9pin serial ports in
back 1.00 not tested yet still had a cartridge in it.
>12) and best for last a 'Starlet' Nec Portable computer model PC-8401A-LS
that works off of 4 c batteries. No power came with it, cost $10. It has
CP/M 2.2 in ROM from DRI 1982; Bios date is ver 1.0 1984; has a built in
modem 300/1200; software in rom is WS, CALC, TELCOM, and FILER. This baby
powers up very fast and seems work very well. I even put in some PIP commands.
>Well that's it for now hope to have busy weekend lots of auction going on.
Keep Computing John
<> It should be different as Knuth's was written in C and tex is asm or pl
< ^^^^^^^^^^^^
<Since when? The source code for TeX that I have here, and the version
<that's printed in Volume B of 'Computers and Typesetting' is written in
<Web
Working versions (or pascal). I've never seen a web compiler.
<> code. No credit given and. It's a simpler version circa 1978 and the
<> putput formats are oriented toward character printers.
<
<Can it handle the standard TeX tests (even old versions of them)? If not,
<it's not TeX, by definition.
Likely not, never tried it's stripped some. It was also used to push the
idea of device independent page descritpions that were capable of text and
graphics. One product that came from that was RETOS (ReGIS to Sixel)
translator. I later modified fancyfont as part of runoff to give font
capable runoff with bitmap output. It could really give a disk a workout.
Allison
At 01:04 PM 6/11/98 -0700, you 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...
>Francisco Bay Area or some subset thereof) get together on the second
>Wednesday of each month for dinner, yakking, bragging about our latest
>k00l f1nd5, waving our appendages at each other and so forth. Sounds
Ooh, I *love* waving my appendages, especially my phelanges!
Only, Wednesdays, esp. the second wed are not good... Make it the second
Thursday and you've got a deal. 8^)
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At 12:42 PM 6/11/98 PDT, you wrote:
>I was wondering if anyone had a Mac Portable power supply, and wanted to
>sell it cheap.
Just get a (iirc) 7.5v PS with appropriate connector/polarity.
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At 08:13 PM 6/10/98 -0500, you wrote:
>It's not even classic yet:
>
>GRID INTROS FIRST MS-DOS LAPTOP WITH BUILT-IN POINTER
>BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, U.S.A., 1990
>AUG 16 (NB)
> -- Grid Systems Corporation has introduced the GridCase 1550sx, the first
>PC-compatible lapto...
Well, that just means it won't be priced outragiouslt on ebay. 8^)
Definitely significant, though.
>a mouse. I hate mice, and hate track-balls and other stationary pointers
>only slightly less, but I *love* IBM's eraser head. Some people see this
I agree in theory, but disagree with your conclusion. (Can't stand the
eraser.)
>A mouse requires you to remove your hands from the keyboard and switch
[...]
>if I have to move a stupid pointer across the screen, the eraser head
>let's me keep most of my fingers on keys where they belong.
Yes, but so does a trackball or trackpad centered below the keyboard (which
is one of the main reasons I bought my current laptop.) Best of all, IMO
is the tootsie-roll from the Outbound.
Mostly, however, I stick to keyboard commands (my one complaint about the
MacOS -- you can't pull down menus and such from the keyboard). I strongly
feel that anything you want to do should be doable from the keyboard -- if
you're willing to remember how. (Example: in MS Word, there is a keyboard
command to set bold/underline/etc. If I used Word a lot, and used
bold/underline/etc a lot, I would remember it. Instead, for the few times
I do that, I don't mind using the mouse. On the other hand, I can do just
about anything in Eudora without using a mouse-thingie.)
I do use a trackball -- a Logitech Trackman Marble. It's comfortable,
accurate, and simply works great. The advantage of a trackball/other over
a mouse is that on a mouse, when you click, you are also moving (however
slight) the moving part. With a trackball, you can take your thumb
completely off the ball before clicking.
And I'll shut up now lest I get flames for mumbling off-topic too much.
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At 12:57 AM 6/11/98 +0000, you wrote:
>> nice servers for their time, with great cases.
>
>As for the rest.. smile when you say it, some of us still run IIx's and
>IIfx's. :-)
Sorry, what I meant was, at the time they came out, they were
top-of-the-line. Today, with the advances since, they are simply great
servers. (And, when I get the time to set it up, I fully intend to put one
to use as a server for the Macs in Rachel's classroom.)
>Seriously, though, there is an article on one of the MacTimes sites
>which argues for using an older system as a server. Basically, it
Also, if all you're doing is internet stuff, an older IIci or basic '486 is
just fine. But that sort of thing that got a lot of us on this list in the
first place.
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