test-drb October 1999

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Wait! There's more including MS-DOS 1.25!!!! was Sanyo MBC-550 (Yuck!) software available

by rigdonj＠intellistar.net

I'm still digging. I found more 550 stuff. I think this is everything that came with the 550. Here's a chance for you 550 owner's to get the whole set at one shot! Original DS-DOS box and invoice. Original Sanyo Easywriter ver 1.3 disk Original Sanyo disk box with 550 dos ver 2.11 and BASIC 1.25, two original Sanyo disk for InfoStar (set B disk 2 and 3 of 4; disks 1 and 4 are below), original Sanyo disk for DOS 1.25 and BASIC ver 1.1 Original Sanyo disk box with all three original disk of set A, WordStar and CalcStar and a backup copy of DS-DOS. Two card board dummy disks used to protect the floppy drives duing shipment. Joe > >A few weeks ago we were talking about the Sanyo 550 series and someone mentioned one of the alternates operating systems that supported 80 track drives in the 550. I said that was DS-DOS by Michtron. > > Today I found an old Sanyo disk package with four disks for the 550. One of them is DS DOS 2.11, one is InfoStar, one is MailMerge/SpellStar and the other is a disk of misc utilities. The first three are original disks. In additon, the InfoStar, MailMerge/SpellStar are Sanyo labeled disks that came with the 550. If anyone wants them, trade me something I can use and they're all your's. > > Joe

11 years, 11 months

recent additions

by KenzieM＠sympatico.ca

I recently filled the car with these: Apollo DOMAIN Series 3500 Domain series 3000 model 3010 HP/Apollo series 400 (2) Sun 3/60 + tape drive and tapes Sun 3/50 Apple lisa 2 (2) apple II Ci Mac SE/30 with radius monitor Mac color classic Quadra 610 Quadra 800 Quadra 860 power mac 7200/90 Also available was a volker Craig terminal, and a copy apple's unix I also have "quite a pile of HP 712/715/725s in various condition" for me to pick up when I get some space cleared. IKEA has said that the missing piece to complete the shelving will be delayed another 3 weeks, and my wife says no more machines until the shelves are up!

23 years, 4 months

Equipment needs home: Portland, OR. area

by wolf＠nwinfo.net

hey do you have any ideas about using relays or some thing connected to a parallel or aerial port to control the power to an outlet, you know like a dimmer switch controlling motors ETC if you have any thought or ideas I'd be glad to hear them.

23 years, 5 months

ldb4401 can be replaced by .....?

by General＠cyber.net.pk

dear sir please address the issue regards nasir

23 years, 7 months

TRS-80 Model II

by pdp-11＠swbell.net

>Also, if anyone wants one of these things, $10 plus shipping. The >condition >is unknown since I haven't fired them up ... and they don't include >keyboards :). Do you know how much shipping will be?

24 years, 3 months

PDP-11/34 & RK05 Questions

by pdp-11＠swbell.net

I am getting my PDP-11/34 and my RK05 disk drives and packs tommorrow, and I have a few questions.They have have been in storage for years, and, although they have been kept dry, they are probably dusty. Can anyone tell me how to clean the drives and the disk packs before I use them? Thanks, Owen

24 years, 4 months

Apple ][ + but no Floppies

by rhudson＠ix.netcom.com

Can anyone help me out I have a working apple ][ plus but no floppies with DOS or Prodos on them. Also no serial port on the machine. Whats to do? Ron rhudson(a)ix.netcom.com

25 years

Semi-OT: Running CAT5 Cables

by CLASSICCMP＠trailing-edge.com

>Probably should make one thing clear here, as long as it's just the one room >and the garage, I plan on simply running one cable and connecting a hub in >the house to a hub in the garage. It's fallen a bit out of fashion in the past few years, but 10Base2 (50-ohm RG58 Coax) is particularly useful for the "home runs" between twisted-pair hubs. Many twisted-pair hubs come with Coax connectors for just this purpose. -- Tim Shoppa Email: shoppa(a)trailing-edge.com Trailing Edge Technology WWW: http://www.trailing-edge.com/ 7328 Bradley Blvd Voice: 301-767-5917 Bethesda, MD, USA 20817 Fax: 301-767-5927

25 years, 1 month

IBM 9370 Mainframe Specs?

by gregorym＠cadvision.com

There is an IBM 9370 Mainframe coming available in my area, and I'm considering acquiring it (never had my own mainframe to play with). I haven't been able to find much on the Web about this family of systems. Can anyone point me to some info or confirm/deny the following facts: System produced: circa 1986 - 1988 Intended market: "departmental mainframe", 20-100 users Operating system: VM/SE Dimensions: Refridgeratorish Weight: 300 lb racks; 200-300 lb processor assembly; drives ??? Typical peripherals: DASD drives, high-volume, heavy printers (500 lbs +), tape drives, PS/2 consoles Networking: ASCII subsystem for terminals, Ethernet? Power and Cooling requirements: 3 phase power (240 V)?? I suspect that this system will be too large for my available space; is anyone else in or near Western Canada interested in the system in whole or in part? Thanks for any help. Mark Gregory

25 years, 1 month

DECUS Paper Tapes

by daniel＠internet.look.ca

Thank you for being so helpful. I will run the tapes and see what happens. I trust the SA is usually 200 (except for Tic Tac Toe which I know is 400). BTW: Does DECUS still sell this stuff? john -----Original Message----- From: Lawrence LeMay <lemay(a)cs.umn.edu> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu> Date: Thursday, October 21, 1999 6:55 PM Subject: Re: DECUS Paper Tapes >> I am just starting to go through the software I got with the 8/s and I don't >> know what some of these older tapes did: >> >> 5/8-9 [(PDP 5/8) - Tape #9] - Analysis of Variance >> 5/8-15 - A.T.E.P.O. Program > Auto Test in Elementary Programming and Operation of a PDP-5 computer > > The program will type questions or instructions to be performed by > the operator of a 4K PDP-5/8. The program will check to see if > the operator has answered the questions correctly. If this is the > case, it wil type the next questionor instruction. > >> 5/8-45 - Remote Time Shared III System > A time-shared programming system which allows remote stations > immediate access to the computer and a wide selection of programs. > >> 5/8-54 - Tic Tac Toe Learning Program (figured this one out) > Needs FORTRAN Object Time System > >> 8/8s -77 - Dual Process Sys. > The purpose of this system is to expedite the programming of > multiprocessing problems on the PDP-8 and PDP-8/S. It maximizes > both the input speed and the portionm of real time actualy used > for calculations by allowing the program to run during the > intervals between issuing I/O commands and the raising of the device > flag to signal completion of the command. The technique also allows > queueing of input data or commands so that the user need not wait > while his last line is being processed, and so that each line of input > may be processed as fast as possible regardless of its length. The > system uses the interrupt facilities and has less than 3% overhead > on the PDP-8/S (about 0.1% on the PDP-8). > > This method is especially useful for a slower machine where the > problem may easily be calculation limited but would, without > such a system, become I/o bound. > > The program may also be easily extended to handle input from an > A/D converter. Here, the input would be buffered by groups of > readings terminated either arbitrarily in groups of N or by > zero crossings. > > This program can increase the I/O to computation efficiency of > some programs by 100%. It can do this even for single Teletype. > Each user will probably want to tailor the program to his individual > needs. > > Storage Requirement: 600(base 8) registers for two TTY's plus > buffer space. (Several device configurations > are possible). > >> >> >> Some of these I can tell what they did by the name but does anyone have any >> information about any of them? (I haven't had time to go through all the >> documentation yet). >> >> Thanks >> >> john >> >> > >-Lawrence (just got a 1975 DECUS catalog 2 days ago) LeMay >

25 years, 1 month

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test-drb October 1999