I wanted to share with you guys what I learned last night at a meeting of
the Web Guild (affiliated with the Association of Internet Professionals).
Basically a SIG for web development.
The speakers introduced the audience to the Web Standards Project, which
is an effort to force web browser vendors to confirm to ONE (and
only one) standard so that the web isn't such a kludge.
Check out the whole deal at http://www.webstandards.org. Its very
promising.
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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Ever onward.
September 26 & 27...Vintage Computer Festival 2.0
See http://www.vintage.org/vcf for details!
[Last web site update: 09/12/98]
Sounds like some type of terminal.
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-Jason
(roblwill(a)usaor.net)
ICQ#-1730318
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> From: John R. Keys, Jr. <jrkeys(a)concentric.net>
> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
> Subject: Rare Find
> Date: Thursday, September 17, 1998 7:22 PM
>
> I have not been posting my latest finds because most are not that rare
but
> yesterday I got Japanese monitor for $5 that is made of wood. The casing
is
> wood shaped like the new iMac believe it or not but smaller. It has gold
> plated trim around the screen. uses 220v only and has a 9pin mono
connector.
> The name on it in English is Intech Systems model CP2054B SN 1002. It has
a
> RS232 serial port, a Centronics 8 Bit Parallel port and is in good shape.
I
> can not read the Japanese writing on the front or back of it. If anyone
has
> anymore info on it I'd like to hear it. John
>
Hello to All..
Thank you so much for the various respomses to my P 300 inquiry.
In doing some research, I discovered several sites with info, but
nothing specific about this model, other than someone here in SoCal
who has several of them for sale ($500..... not!). I have a call in
to see if they might have docs and, now that I know such a thing
exists.... an RS232 or Centronics I/O card.
I would like to re-iterate my previous request, though... I am
interested in buying, trading, copying, or otherwise acquiring a
nice set of manuals for this printer.. engineering, user, etc. I
like to have the docs for stuff... it cuts down on the guess-work
when they break. ;)
Thanks again for all the other info... and especial regards to the
individual who took the time to FAX me some critical material on VMS
magtape issues... taken from an important book I don't have. Yet.
I am further interested in getting a VMS 5.x Grey Wall.
Purchase/ship/trade/whatever.
Cheers
John
I have not been posting my latest finds because most are not that rare but
yesterday I got Japanese monitor for $5 that is made of wood. The casing is
wood shaped like the new iMac believe it or not but smaller. It has gold
plated trim around the screen. uses 220v only and has a 9pin mono connector.
The name on it in English is Intech Systems model CP2054B SN 1002. It has a
RS232 serial port, a Centronics 8 Bit Parallel port and is in good shape. I
can not read the Japanese writing on the front or back of it. If anyone has
anymore info on it I'd like to hear it. John
Hi,
I was showing those CP/M disks I found to a friend of mine (also a
computer collector), and some of them are marked as being for a Northstar,
if anyone is interested in these let me know, I'd like to see them go to a
good home.
Cheers
Karl
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Karl Maftoum
Computer Engineering student at the University of Canberra, Australia
Email: k.maftoum(a)student.canberra.edu.au
I'm looking thru this June 1977 issue of Byte. Inside I find an ad from
Apple on page 14&15. The copy starts "Introducing Apple II", which makes
sense as the Apple II was introduced at the West Coast Computer Faire in
April 1977, so this ad was probably one of the first for the Apple II.
Now, one of the great things about the Apple II was its ability to display
color graphics, apparently a big deal at the time, as supposedly no other
machine in the home computer class had this capability (save for the S-100
machines with a Cromemco TV Dazzler, but that was an add-on, as opposed to
the Apple II's built-in capability).
Yet there is another ad on page 61 for the Compucolor 8001. The
Compucolor boasts pretty much the same features as the Apple II (64K RAM,
cassette storage, built-in BASIC) although it runs on an 8080. However,
the Compucolor came with an "integrated display", and featured 160x192,
8-color (vector) graphics (the Apple was capable of 280x192 bit-mapped
graphics). The Compucolor also had "mini-disk drives" (I assume 8")
available for it separately. The retail price advertised for the
Compucolor was $2,750, very comparable with a similarly equipped Apple
II.
Yet the Apple II is celebrated as having been the first home computer with
built-in color graphics, and almost no mention of the Compucolor is ever
made in any general computer history texts. The obvious difference
between the two is that the Apple II went on to enjoy tremendous success
for the next 15+ years while the Compucolor was relegated to an also-ran.
The victors do indeed write the history, or at least get the lion's share
of the mention.
I think its odd that a system such as the Compucolor, extremely comparable
to the capabilities of the Apple II (if not more so in some respects)
hardly gets mentioned in the computer history books I read.
Maybe someone who is cognizant of that era can shed some additional light
on this.
The lesson of this story is, you can have the best, most amazing product
in the world, but "build it and they will come" does not apply. You've
got to advertise. Apple was obviously more masterful at this.
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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Ever onward.
September 26 & 27...Vintage Computer Festival 2.0
See http://www.siconic.com/vcf for details!
[Last web site update: 08/25/98]
As someone who was there, I can tell you all it was a blast. :) :) :)
The turnout was pretty high and everyone was pleasntly surpised at that.
The food was even good!
Woz was great form; gratious, humble, and sense of humor fully intact;
people brought _all_ manner of Apple hardware for him to sign ;-)
So many good people, and the memories just flowed...
-Matt Pritchard
Graphics Engine and Optimization Specialist
MS Age of Empires & Age of Empires ][
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> Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 1998 4:30 PM
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> www.gamespot.com/features/apple2/index.html
>a nuisance. I always have at least two DOS windows open under 95 for when
And therein lies one of the main reasons I use a GUI (and would have a hard
time going back to DOS-only.) Yes, it's possible to run multiple
programs/sessions/etc. under a CLI (use to do it with a terminal and a
CompuPro 8/16 under MPM16 -- that was a great system!) but a GUI, with the
ability to arrange windows, cut and paste, etc. is a definite advantage.
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roger(a)sinasohn.com that none but madmen know."
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< Might anyone within the sound of my bytes have docs on a
< Printronix P 300 line printer? Tech Docs? User's Guide? or at least
< the I/O pinouts?
Same as data products B300, B600 and LP25/26/27 series. Use DEC LAV-11,
LP-11 interfaces.
< Also: do any of the big mail-order computer supply houses carry
< ribbons for the Decwriters? Not that I couldn't kludge one from
< something the same width....
Yes.
Allison
> Also: do any of the big mail-order computer supply houses carry
>ribbons for the Decwriters? Not that I couldn't kludge one from
>something the same width....
Have you tried 1-800-DIGITAL? You *will* have to know the model number
of the printer you need the ribbon for.
Tim.