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Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 22:31:03 +0000
From: John Huddleston <jlhudd(a)sos.net>
Subject: The New MORBBS
Hi,
You may have heard of the old Morrow Owners Review Bulletin Board that
was run by Sypko Andrae for so many years until he transfered ownership
to Jay and John Huddleston of Anacortes, Washington. We had the MORBBS
for a couple years until cost became a problem and we were forced to
shutdown the MORBBS. But now there is a newer, more accessible, and
definetly cheaper MORBBS on the internet. The new board is hosted by
sos.net and there are two sections to the Morrow page. The first
section is located at http://www.sos.net/~jlhudd/morrow.html and it is
designed to let you ask for help or for CPM related files from Jay's
huge archive. The second section of the page is the messageboard
itself. You can find the messageboard at
http://www.sos.net/~jlhudd/bbs/index.html. The messageboard works
through a CGI script written in the PERL programming language. You can
post messages on the board just like on the old bulletin board only
quicker. This way you can ask for help in a message and everyone who
reads it will be able to offer their services. The message board is
also useful for announcing any hardware, software, etc that is related
to Morrow computers and/or CPM software. You aren't just limited to
Morrow though. Anything you wish to discuss about old computers is
acceptable. There are going to be many helpful post on the message
board in the near future with links to helpful or interesting Morrow/CPM
websites. I hope that you are still interested in Morrows and old
computers and that will join us at our new messageboard soon! Thanks
for your time,
John Huddleston
the Morrow Online Homepage:
http://www.sos.net/~jlhudd/morrow.html
the Morrow Owners Review Online Messageboard:
http://www.sos.net/~jlhudd/bbs/index.html
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> From: Kees Stravers <pb0aia(a)iaehv.nl>
> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
> Subject: Re: Philips XT with 768K
> Date: Monday, August 17, 1998 7:22 PM
>
> Those hard disks were very slow, and noisy too. They also suffer from
> sudden head stiction. You are lucky it is a Western Digital.
> Older machines had Miniscribe hard disks which were worse.
>
I've found that out. A 10MB MiniScribe that I in a Tandy 1000 (no suffix)
sounded like a weed whacker and started to smoke when it finally went bad.
> You can switch off the XT-IDE hard disk port with switch 8 of the
> DIP switches in the Philips XT and install a regular MFM disk controller
> and hard disk in the machine. Works like in any other XT.
>
> Kees
>
> --
>
> Kees Stravers - Geldrop, The Netherlands - pb0aia at amsat dot org
> Sysadmin and DEC PDP/VAX preservationist - http://vaxarchive.ml.org
>
> Net-Tamer V 1.08.1 - Registered
>
Probably the same ex-MITS person who contacted me last weekend.
Kai
-----Original Message-----
From: Doug Yowza [mailto:yowza@yowza.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 1998 3:12 PM
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
Subject: Re: Another Altair up for Auction
On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Dellett, Anthony wrote:
> Same guy. Dunno, might be same machine. $10,000 reserve!
Looks like the same machine. So, that means the record price for an
Altair is a mere $4213 (!). Probably some slick Altair dealer contacted
Ms. Lemay and offered her a shiny low-mileage Altair for only half of her
$12,100 bid.
-- Doug
Yeah, right.
This whole thing's a put-on, I'm convinced.
Jeff
At 05:08 PM 8/18/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Same guy. Dunno, might be same machine. $10,000 reserve!
>
>Holycow!
>
>Tony
>
I was offered a NightHawk 5800 computer today. What the &*&% is it? I've
never heard of one. It was made by Harris Computer Systems and it's
supposed to have 16Mb, Memory tape unit, a 5802 processor, 64 Meg Local
Memory, 64 Meg Global Memeory, 2 slot front plane (front plane???), SCSSI
Interface (no that's not a typo), Eagle Eatha Net Card, 4 mm DAT drive and
two 1 G hard drives. The operating system and a LARGE pile of manuals are
included. Any one know anything about this? ANY idea what it's worth?
Is it usefull for anything?
Joe
| -----Original Message-----
| From: Larry Anderson [mailto:foxnhare@goldrush.com]
| Sent: Monday, August 17, 1998 6:54 PM
| To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
| Subject: Re: C64 for $800
|
| just try
| to find docs for a PET MTU graphics board (like I am), I have a collection
of
| a lifetime.
Hmm, I'm pretty sure I have docs for that. What was the MTU again? I have
like ridiculously extensive PET docs including the service manuals and
service update notices, service test tapes & disks, etc.
Heck, come to think of it, I have a PET high res graphics board of some kind
in a box someplace. Is that what this thing is?
Kai
On Aug 18, 7:57, Zane H. Healy wrote:
> Subject: RSX-11M v4.1
> OK, last night I tried copying the damaged RL02's that contain what is
> supposed to be a RSX-11M v4.1 distribution. Unfortunatly two of the
disks
> seem to be damaged. I was able to recover 3/4 of one, and boot it in the
> Supnik emulator, the other wouldn't even mount.
>
> Now, I've got a question about these packs, and thier labels.
>
> RSX-11M V4.1 |
> RSXM35 V1 | I was able to copy 8,638,976 bytes of
> RLUTIL V2 | 10,485,760. It will boot.
> Copied 06/19/84 | Fault light now comes on when try
to load
>
> RSX-11M V4.1
> EXCPRV V1
> HLPDCL V2
> Copied 06/19/84
>
> RSX-11M V4.1
> MCRSRC V1
> Copied 06/19/84
>
> RSX-11M V4.1 |
> ACSQ22 V1 | Fault light comes on when I try to load
it.
> UPDATE V2 |
> ACS MODS V3 |
> Copied 06/19/84 rev 06/14/84 |
>
> Unfortuntaly I suspect that the first pack is the most important, and
based
> on the SYSGEN documentation, I need the first three packs to do a SYSGEN.
> What on earth is the third pack?
MCR is the standard command line interpreter, prior to DCL, and that disk
is the source for building it.
> Also, is this the standard way for a RSX-11M distribution to be packaged?
No, it looks like you have an RL01 distribution (which IIRC came on 6
packs) but copied to RL02s, two RL01s to a pack. It's been a long time,
but I think RL02 distributions were 4 packs, called something like RSXM35
(that's a bootable baseline minimal system, with the SYSGEN stuff on it,
like yours), MAPSRC (sources to build a mapped system) UNMSRC (to build an
unmapped system) and the last pack had all the extra software (EDT, DCL,
and friends). The fourth pack you have is possibly an update and may not
be necessary. But my memory may be playing its usual tricks.
> Once I've got archival copies made of all this I'll be more willing to
play
> with the packs. On a positive note, I can play with the images in the
> emulator while copying them. I think I've still got over a dozen packs
to
> go through. I'll probably finish the RL02's tonite.
Best of luck! I suspect you have enough to rebuild the system, if you can
read the packs, and perhaps there are more amongst the ones you have yet to
check.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
>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
Why can't you 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
How about a Power Mac motherboard or two? :-)
More realistically, I'd be interested in any PowerPC processors & ROMs.
Some of this stuff is probably more trouble to remove than its worth,
though. How much did you want for the componets?
Sincerely,
Tom Owad
--
Sysop of Caesarville Online
Client software at: <http://home.earthlink.net/~tomowad/>
I'm passing this along from the Dead Media Collectorz list in case anyone
is interested in vintage calculators.
R.
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