Hello, all:
I made another trip to Temple University yesterday to rummage through
their storehouse of old computers and documentation. I hate to post a list,
but I don't have a working web site yet, and I want everyone to know what I
have in case someone needs something.
Here it goes...
1. Mac Portable (no HD, bad batteries)
2. Many Unibus and Q-Bus boards
3. Odd DEC single-board computer. 10" x 7" labeled DEC 54-16489, Has two
84-pin PLCC chips
with the LSI LIA 0433 and 0434 marks. Has a DB25, DB15, and DB9.
Recognizable chips
include 8051, FD1796, CDP 6402 (RCA), and D7201C (NEC) Can anyone
identify this?
4. Three Motorola 68K educational computers. Has 32k RAM, 68K, 6850,
14411 chips and a
proto area. Also has two EPROMs. Any guess?
5. Three KIM-1s!! (There are one or two more left, too). Two are
MOS-labeled, one is *brand new* from
Conversational Voice Terminal Corp. of Chicago. Need data on this
one. The MOS-labeled ones
have 1976-dated ceramic chips.
6. A S-100 backplane from Forethought Products. Has 8 slots, some glue
and regulator chips.
7. Lots of documentation. A sampling...
-- Intel: MCS80/85 User Guide (1983), Memory Handbook (83), Embedded
Controller Book (88), Component Data Book (80; looks to be full-line), OEM
Boards (87), 8080/85 Assembly Language Programming Manual, Applications
Note --implementing a floppy system (1981).
-- DEC: Logic handbook (77), Microcomputer Microprocessors (78)
-- Motorola: MC68020 User Man., MEK6800 Guide, 6809 Assembly
Language, 6800 Pgmr. Ref. Manual.
-- Full documentation set for the Rockwell AIM-65 computer (user
guide, BASIC language, Programmers Manual, Hardware Manual, Monitor Program
Listing).
-- Textbooks on microprocessors by Tocci & Laskowski, and Camp, Smay
& Triska
8. Old magazines. The guy who ran the CS department before the guy I know
saved everything. Byte's going back to 1978 (too many to get this trip),
Datamation, others that I never heard of. But, the jewel is that I came
*this* close to getting the Altair issue of Popular Electronics.
Unfortulately, this guy only had as far back as 1/76. Articles include:
Cosmal Elf construction articles, SOL construction, build a Scientific
Calculator, music with the 8080, TV Typewriter, SpeechLab, Computer Club
listings, a personal microwave communications system, various
Classic-relevant product reviews and buyer's guides.
9. DEC paper tapes: PDP-11 power fail, LPS11 tests, General Test Program,
RK05 dynamic test, RK11 utilities, exerciser, static tests.
10. Complete print sets for the following: PDP 11/34A (two copies,
complete), FP11, H960 cabinet, KSI-11, DLV-11, DL-11, H9720, ET-LSI-11,
LSI-11 power supply, MS11, PC11, LPS11, MR11, M873, KD11F, RK05 (regular, F,
and J).
My plan is to scan the articles, and have an on-line database hanging
off of a web site. I also want to implement a bar code system for my
goodies. That'll take a while, though.
Anyway, thanks for the bandwidth.
Rich Cini/WUGNET <nospam_rcini(a)msn.com>
- ClubWin! Charter Member
- MCP Windows 95/Windows Networking
- Preserver of "classic" computers
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I hear Apple would give these away to dealers, salesman, and others. I
missed a newton on ebay that was clear also it went for close to $400 I think.
At 03:58 PM 7/11/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Speaking of Mac Portables, how much would you pay for a very rare
>(prototype?) Mac Portable in a clear plastic case? I couldn't overcome my
>lack of love for Macs to pay the $300 asking price today (but somebody
>else did about an hour later).
>
>What is it with Apple and clear plastic cases anyways? I think I remember
>clear plastic Apple ]['s at dealers. Did Apple do this for all of their
>models?
>
>(BTW, instead I came home with another GRiD 1900, another HP Portable
>Plus, another Epson PX-8, and another NEC 8201A at an average cost of $6
>each. I have met my spare machine quota.)
>
>-- Doug
>
>
>
Hello, all:
Well, I began to clean up the spoils of my recent recovery mission, and
I'm having problems with the Mac Portable that I got.
Besides the hard drive and batteries being shot and the screen having a
small defect in it, I keep getting a Sad Mac code. It's code 0000000F with a
sub code of 00007FFF. I can't find a reference to the $0F code in any Sad
Mac code listings that I have (they skip over it, going from $0E to $10). I
get the code after inserting a known-working diskette. I've tried 400k disks
and 800k disks with the same results. I haven't tried a 1.44m disk yet,
since I don't have a recent Mac to create one. I've tried a 1.44m disk
created by HVFExplorer, but I get the "bad disk" message.
Also, there's a 4-position DIP switch on the mobo. What's this for? Any
ideas on the Sad Mac code?
Rich Cini/WUGNET <nospam_rcini(a)msn.com>
- ClubWin! Charter Member
- MCP Windows 95/Windows Networking
- Preserver of "classic" computers
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Do you live in TX or MN?
Francois
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>I do leave some things on purpose and sometimes by mistake (thinking I will
>come back the next day or weekend to get it, GONE).
That's because I went there in the mean time :)
>Now since I've got the
>1800 sq ft warehouse space down in Texas, I hope pull all the items from
>public storage and other places together to start selling and trading the
>dup's that I have. Right now my wife and I figure it will take me three
>months to sort it all out and that after moving 4 units of stuff from here
>in MN to Texas to go with the four units I emptied there back May.
>Bottom line is you will get chance to get some items after all. John
>At 07:45 AM 7/11/98 -0500, you wrote:
The m I think if I remember it rite takes the user in to wang's ver of
msdos, The way to get back in, hmm might have been EXIT.
the one I had had a ten meg winchester hard drive, that was some drive, I
think it was made of cast iron well, the case at any rate. It also had a
glass like cover ocovering up the iners of the harddrive.
The two 5.52 flopys wore 180 K and conected to the mother board.
It does slide out of the sleeve quite nicely, the two cards that are
conected togather are lan and mem ory combination, I think, when I removed
them I had less memory.
I found out why it wouldn't boot, it was a pin on the c p u didn't make it
in the hole, when some one tryed to plug it in, straitening the pin cracked
it off, ****! I thought about it for some time and used a peese of coper
wire to fix it, first I incerted the wire into the hole whear the broken pin
would have been once the chip was pluged in, I don't remember how I was able
to locate the hole, I don't have to tell you how tiny they are, the chip
still had a bit id the broken pin sticking out of the side of it, not enough
to solder , but enough to make a tite contact whith the coper wire, after
the chip was plugged back in I trimed itso it didn't stick up a half inchbut
just a little over the top of the chip.
It worked!
I can't remember if it booted in a wordprosesser or a menu, I think it was
a word prosessor.
I seem to remember some thing funy about the program was you couldn't quit
it , it would not let you I think it just rebooted, unless you had a flopy
in drive A:.
The not so funy thing about the monotor is the power and data cords
coming out of it both had the same plug on the end of them, and pluging the
data plug in to the power socket on the vidio card was a hasard.
Since they wore bothe the same kind of plug I tied a twist tie around the
power plug just to let me know whitch was whitch, just incase I got the ich
to use the monoter when I was writting stuff in the word prosesser.
Oh well, It was still is a great machine albeit huge!
Pete
Net-Tamer V 1.11 - Registered
Just got back I bought whatever was left in the room, it was an estate sale
and I got my van filled from floor to ceiling, I almost had to leave my wife
and kids there to get everything home:)
I got a very long list to inventory but so far:
HP 150
HP 87
HP 75C
HP 75D
Cassette unit for the above
Acousic modem for above
HP 85
Plotter 7470? with HPIB
misc printers
misc monitors
PC compatibles
Four cases (dish barrel style) of software for the above plus misc MAC
manuals (the MACs were gone :(
And more...
By the way the total put of pocket for the whole thing including yesterdays
finds $78.
I love to brag about great finds :)
Francois
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< of doing home drive repair
< >without the luxury of a clean room. Is it possible to use some sort of
< >cheaply available or easily made vacuum chamber with positive airflow
< and
< >filtering, or is it absolutely required? Can a drive be opened in room
< >air and be worked on without introducing dangerou
<
< Well, I've opened drives in room air and had them run after, but it does
< make it less reliable. It's a thing like ESD: if you want to risk it.
Not entirely true. ESD does permanent damage to the device even if it
doesn't die. ALL (that I know of) drives have an internal air filter to
pick up any dust that may appear so if the media is not damaged the air will
be cleaned and reliability should be nominal (excludes the reason for first
opening it). I have several drives I've had to open all running and all
apparently living longer than average!
Allison
I have the feeling this is the early version, because mine is the later
backlit one, which has no dip switches. The sad mac code could very
easily be due to a power problem. It will sadmac if there isn't enough
power. Note that running off the portable AC adapter is _not_ enough.
You need an additional .5 amps, whereever you get it.
>Hello, all:
>
> Well, I began to clean up the spoils of my recent recovery mission,
and
>I'm having problems with the Mac Portable that I got.
>
> Besides the hard drive and batteries being shot and the screen
having a
>small defect in it, I keep getting a Sad Mac code. It's code 0000000F
with a
>sub code of 00007FFF. I can't find a reference to the $0F code in any
Sad
>Mac code listings that I have (they skip over it, going from $0E to
$10). I
>get the code after inserting a known-working diskette. I've tried 400k
disks
>and 800k disks with the same results. I haven't tried a 1.44m disk yet,
>since I don't have a recent Mac to create one. I've tried a 1.44m disk
>created by HVFExplorer, but I get the "bad disk" message.
>
> Also, there's a 4-position DIP switch on the mobo. What's this for?
Any
>ideas on the Sad Mac code?
>
>Rich Cini/WUGNET <nospam_rcini(a)msn.com>
> - ClubWin! Charter Member
> - MCP Windows 95/Windows Networking
> - Preserver of "classic" computers
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>> Well things are getting harder to find and I have been spending too much
>
>Well, no kidding, John! You've bought everything up! :)
Yep everytime I come back empty handed from a flea market or big sale I
blame it on you:)
Francois
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of doing home drive repair
>without the luxury of a clean room. Is it possible to use some sort of
>cheaply available or easily made vacuum chamber with positive airflow
and
>filtering, or is it absolutely required? Can a drive be opened in room
>air and be worked on without introducing dangerou
Well, I've opened drives in room air and had them run after, but it does
make it less reliable. It's a thing like ESD: if you want to risk it.
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