If, according to your domain name, you're in NJ, there isn't anyone
terribly close to you over here. The closest would be Long Island.
Actually, we don't consider 486 to be classic, but if they have to be
rescued I'm sure someone can do it. What are the actual specs? Have
you considered donating them to a school or church?
>We have some old 486 computers that we don't use anymore. Can you use =
>them?
>Marvin J. Wakoff
>Wakoff, Andriulli & Co.
>mwakoff(a)njcpa.com
>
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> From: PG Manney <manney(a)lrbcg.com>
> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
> Subject: Re: WTB: OLD Cd-Rom
> Date: Monday, August 31, 1998 12:43 PM
>
> I have several single-speed Hitachi units.
> manney(a)lrbcg.com
>
> >>>Hello. I'm looking for one of the OLD CD-Rom's that are sometimes
> pictured
> >>>with old IBM's in TAB books. They are the old, big (well, wide)
external
> >>>drives that were in a case about 12-18" wide, and about 3-4" high.
> >>
> >
>
[Part 1 OK 5 lines Latin 1 text]
[Part 2 SHOWN 17 lines Latin 1 text]
Use V command to ...
[The following text is in the "iso-8859-1" character set]
[Your display is set for the "US-ASCII" character set]
[Some characters may be displayed incorrectly]
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
*** snip ***
In my case, selecting the 5 lines after using V provided straight ASCII
text. I agree, however, that plain ASCII is much to be preferred!
- don
Having failed to find a 22VDC adapter for my Outbound, I'm trying to look
into alternatives.
The computer uses an ordinairy camcorder battery - 12 Volts, 2.0Ah. What
I'd like to do is hook a power adapter directly to the battery terminals
inside the unit. How realistic is this idea? I'm assuming I'd need a
12VDC power adapter, but what about amperage?
Thanks.
Tom
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Yes, I'm (finally) back! I've got my system on Linux now for its
primary, with NT supporting the stuff that hasn't been ported just yet
(mainly EDA tools and the Micro House Tech Library).
I must say, I am impressed. I've done things with Linux that would have
crashed NT, hard, in a heartbeat, and it took them all in stride and
kept on going.
Anyway... I know Zane, at least, is wondering about the rescue I did
>from Fluke. It went well, and I've got a goodly pile of stuff now. I'll
likely be getting rid of most of it, and I'll post a list here as soon
as I can write one up. The first run of freebies will likely consist of
a pair of PDP-11/04's and DSD-880's to match.
Caveat emperor!
I seem to recall that someone was looking for a source for cheap LCD panels
a while back (Allison?). Just got the current Alltronics catalog and
they've got 640 X 480 backlit panels (Sharp LM64P80) for $39.95, and
non-backlit for $9.95.
If anyone's interested in Atari stuff, they've also got NOS Atari 1020
color printers for $14.95, and 2600 trackballs for $9.95.
Alltronics address is 2300 Zanker Rd., San Jose, CA 95131, 408.943.9773
R.
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>
>At 12:04 PM 8/31/98 -0700, you wrote:
>>
>>Old computer magazines are another passion of mine. I a large
>>bookshelf full of BYTE magazine, from around 1976 to 1993, and
>
>As had been reported here in May when it happened, Byte is no more,
>but the post-game commentary has begun. See Tom Halfhill's
>analysis at <http://www.wenet.net/~halfhill/bytefaq.html>,
>he was an editor there. Love 'im or hate 'im, Pournelle can't
>stop talking about it or anything else at
><http://www.jerrypournelle.com/fiasco.html>.
>
>I agree with Halfhill's assessment in general, that Byte was
>perhaps the only general computer magazine as compared to so many
>other platform-chauvinistic rags. On the other hand, in the last
>few years, many of my copies of Byte went unread.
>
>- John
>
>
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Well, all of the college guys down here are moving and that means
lots of trash. I picked up an old magazine, Popular Computnig, from
1983. This issue deals with programming languages, all sorts of
comparisons and advice about them. I've never before seen a computer
magazine of this age, and I found it quite fascinating. There was an
article about 'Why you should learn to program', the depth of which
was immense compared to modern magazines. But the letters to the
magazine show that people were'nt any smarter back then, just more
curious and thoughtful. I laughed when I saw this letter:
"I opened up my computer, and found the 6502 processor. Could I get
speed gains by replacing it with an 8088 or 8086?" At least they
know the numbers. Good thing they went to the trouble of checking.
Too bad intel decided to drop numbers and use meaningless names.
When did the downward trend in magazines occur, or was it a steady
process? Another question: I found a VGA monitor in the trash. It hasn't
been dropped and works fine, but the glass is scratched from being
dragged on the sidewalk. Is prone to implosion?
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