At 10:44 AM 19-08-98 -0400, Wayne Cox wrote:
>With all the DEC enthusiasts here, maybe someone can help:
>
>Was DEC's EDT text editor ever `ported to any non-DEC platforms, such as
>PCs or unixes? It is still my favorite text and program editor, and I'd
>love to have on on some of my "everyday" machines.
Well from (rusty) memory Boston Business Computing (Computers?) had a
version of EDT that ran on PCs. In addition, Digital had a version of eve
that ran under Ultrix and it had EDT emulation. I used the latter approach
for a while but then just got assimilated by the vi cube :-)
Huw Davies | e-mail: Huw.Davies(a)latrobe.edu.au
Information Technology Services | Phone: +61 3 9479 1550 Fax: +61 3 9479
1999
La Trobe University | "If God had wanted soccer played in the
Melbourne Australia 3083 | air, the sky would be painted green"
< >CPU + memory + I/O cards in there. You need a serial port on the Q-bus,
< >which you then link to the VT100 logic board that's also in there.
<
< I also believe a uVAX-II will also work in a VT103....
Save for your limited to the 1meg of ram (no CD) and the power is
limited. the vt103 was designed as a small system and if you smoke
the PS you may have a time finding another.
Allison
Hello out there in classic computer land,
I'm new to the list and wanted to introduce myself and
my Web pages to the rest of ya'll. My name is Alex
Knight and my Web page, the Calculator History and
Technology Archive, is located at:
http://aknight.home.mindspring.com/calc.htm
My interest is primarily in early-model electronic
calculators, but there are some crossover machines that
seem to fit the bill as classic computers, and
in my searching for old calculators I sometimes turn
up some interesting old computer stuff.
One of the more interesting machines that I have written
an article about for my Web site is called a Mathatron, which
was advertised as a desktop calculator/computer and sold as
early as 1964. The Mathatron is a very large and heavy
(24" x 24", 80 lbs) machine, but it will fit on top of
a sturdy desk. I believe it to be the first programmable
calculator, and some other people I've talked to consider
it to be the first desktop computer (because of it's
programmability, available peripherals, etc.). So ya'll
take a look and let me know if you have any additional
info. on this unit that I may be able to add to my article.
Another "crossover" machine that I have a little info
(mainly pictures) of is the HP 9830, called a calculator
but in fact a computer with BASIC.
Also on my Web site is a list of things that I'm looking
for and things I have for trading, as I find classic
computer items that I put on the trading block I'll
send a message to the list to let ya'll know.
Have fun,
Alex Knight
Hillsborough, NC
At 09:51 PM 18-08-98 +0100, Pete Joules wrote:
>Don't know if this is classic but I just got an entire VMS 5.2 'grey
>wall'free. Allison - can I reliably use this as a reference for my 5.5
>system?
I would have thought so. I don't think there were any features "retired" in
going form 5.2 to 5.5. Of course, there were lots of new things added
although sitting here I can't think of what - it's been a while since 5.5
was released!
Huw Davies | e-mail: Huw.Davies(a)latrobe.edu.au
Information Technology Services | Phone: +61 3 9479 1550 Fax: +61 3 9479
1999
La Trobe University | "If God had wanted soccer played in the
Melbourne Australia 3083 | air, the sky would be painted green"
Yow!!! That means maybe it will run FLEX! [insert Homer Simpson
impersonation]
Woo Hoo!. Dang! I can just imagine running FLEX at 25Mc! Its performance
over a 1Mc 6800 must have been blistering!
Yikes!! I think I may have seen some boards from a system like that one
in a junk heap last week! It used four 2901's eh? Hm, I'm gonna haveto
revisit that particular junque pile . . .
Jeff
At 06:05 PM 8/19/98 -0500, you wrote:
>>> I just picked up a Tektronix 4041 computer. I think it's a general
>>> purpose HP-IB instrument controller similar to a HP 9915. How close is
it
>>> to your 4052? I HAD a Tektronix 4046 disk drive unit for the 4041 a few
>>> months ago but I traded it off (A_ S___!) Does anyone know anything
>
>Not at all similar, I'm afraid.
>
>The 4051 was a 6800 machine, and the 4052 used four 2901 chips and a
>homebrew sequencer to give you a 25MHz 6800 with some extra
^^^^^^^^^^
>instructions. More about this - and the disgusting piece of
>pessimisation they included - at my talk at VCF...
>
>Philip.
>
>To charge a 12V battery with a 22V power supply suggests some internal
>regulation, in which case 14V probably wouldn't work. On the other
>hand, it probably would do no harm.
What if I hooked the charger directly to the batter? Would the extra 2v
be a problem?
>You don't say whether the 22V is dc or ac - if it's ac, dc might work,
>but if it's supposed to be dc, ac could damage your machine.
Both the intended adapter and the one I have are DC.
>> P.S. Anybody have a 22v, 0.82A adapter for sale?
>
>I could build you one, but shipping it to the US might be expensive :-)
I'll probably end up with an explanation that's way over my head, but -
How do you build one?
Thanks.
Tom Owad
--
Sysop of Caesarville Online
Client software at: <http://home.earthlink.net/~tomowad/>
> i started a new job last week; one of my duties is going thru a
> warehouse load (no joke) of older mac systems. everything from se30's to
> older powerPC machines. question is this: since they all are being
> scrapped and i cannot save them, anyone want me to pull some roms for
> them? or any other useful components? let me know WHAT they are, and
> WHERE they are, as I am not a mac tech. more than happy to see what i
> can do for you people out there who want these.
Would you be able to save any complete systems?
> Maybe. It's kinda big though. About a 30" cube. Ugly too, it looks
> kind of like a car that's been crushed.
>
> Joe
Well, then it's probably from the government. There's not too much pretty
stuff from the government (going in and coming out). It would be
interesting to see what's on those HD's. If it doesn't' have a monitor, it
could have been some type of mainframe.
--
-Jason
(roblwill(a)usaor.net)
ICQ#-1730318
I'm heading down to this guy's place sunday to take a look around. He
offered to let me make multiple trips so I'll prolly go down, make a
list, nab what I want, and let y'all know what's there for the taking
and maybe I can go get some of it for you and ship it out (within reason
of course).
Tony
> -----Original Message-----
> From: allisonp(a)world.std.com [mailto:allisonp@world.std.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 1998 8:56 AM
> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
> Subject: Re: Parts is parts (not scanjet stuff)
>
>
> < http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=25437342
> <
> < When I last looked (an hour ago?) no-one had bid, the minimum bid is
> < $1.00 (though there's work involved getting the stuff),
> there's a bit
> < under two days to go, and here's the description:
> <
> < >Hundreds of tubes of brand-new 7400 & 74LS TTL DIPs and resistor
> < >networks. 8 MHz 68000's and 16K DRAMs. Boxes and boxes of
> brand-new 3M
>
> snip...
>
> Sounds interesting but I'm cubed out here.
>
> Allison
>
