I have an attic full of miscellaneous IBM 3270's, 5150's, HDA's (some
large Honeywell, IBM 3380 and other assorted HDA's), Apple ][ Plus,
isa pc's, Tandy, Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 4, Non-Linear Systems Kaypro
II (these are legion aren't they???), Panasonic Sr. Partner luggable,
etc., etc., I'll be bringing to the hamfest for adoption. Paper as
well, books, magazines, etc. Some software.
The hamfest is the Vienna Winterfest which is usually held at the
Vienna, VA community center. However, this year it is being held in
the parking lot of Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA) located
in Annandale on Route 236 (Little River Turnpike) just west of the
capitol beltway.
If any list members are planning to attend and have any specific
wants, please let me know.
Thanks,
marty(a)itgonline.com
Ok folks - several people here had spoken to me about their interest in
Prime systems...here's one...
The following system is available:
Lowboy cabinet ("Rabbit"): Prime 2755 cpu (known to work fine)
Full size cabinet: Kennedy 1/2 tape drive (may need minor repair), 770mb
disk drive (known to work fine)
These two boxes are literally already sitting on the loading dock, the owner
will likely accept any token offers. I used to do work for this customer and
can vouch that they are in perfect shape except as noted above. Systems will
include all manuals, OS tapes, etc.
Email me directly for details...
Jay West
jlwest(a)tseinc.com
I fired up a couple of my Amiga games, one of which I wish to "clone" using
modern hardware called StarGlider. This game was pretty revolutionary in
its time as it provided lots of smoothly animated 3D things on the screen
at once.
In looking at this and browsing my amiga archives I came across a regular
Amiga flame war which was held between the Game programmers and the Amiga
users. The Game programmers were adamant that you had to "take over the
machine" in order to get the necessary performance and there was no way you
would ever have something like StarGlider running in real time with some OS
back there stealing your cycles.
I contrasted that with running Descent FreeSpace on my Win95 machine. It
brings into focus the huge changes that have undergone this space in only
the last 10 years. Amazing, simply amazing.
--Chuck
Does anyone in the Boston, MA area want an Okidata 120 printer w/manual?
It uses the C-64 serial bus. It worked last time I checked. Thanks.
--Max Eskin (max82(a)surfree.com)
At 11:29 PM 2/15/99 -0800, you wrote:
>
>Here's an interesting article that makes some very compelling arguments of
>why Linux will unseat Windows as the dominant PC-based operating system:
Poor imitation, weak logic, even "nexisms" (the neologism I'm inventing
for the supposed intellectual validity of AltaVista and Nexis counts) ...
sheesh, everybody's trying to be Eric S. Raymond.
Check out <http://www.vmware.com/> for software that'll supposedly
let you run several OSes at once, including Windows and Linux.
As I've often ranted, it's more probable that apps from one OS will be
emulated as necessary to various degrees, ranging from CDs of Microsoft-
branded Linux, to even better Win32 APIs for Linux, and species in-between.
- John
Here's an interesting article that makes some very compelling arguments of
why Linux will unseat Windows as the dominant PC-based operating system:
http://x14.dejanews.com/[ST_rn=qs]/getdoc.xp?AN=432897831&CONTEXT=919146928…
(This is a DejaNews URL)
Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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Always hasslin' the man.
Coming in 1999: Vintage Computer Festival 3.0
See http://www.vintage.org/vcf for details!
[Last web site update: 02/15/99]
This may well have been the case. It happens that Microcmputer Systems
Corp. which later became XEBEC (remember them???) put out their first
microwinchester disk interface for a 5 mbps drive with up to 16 heads
interfaced via HPIB. It was purported to be compatible with HP machines.
It happens I've got one of these early controllers, which has never been
used, if anyone's interested.
Dick
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> From: Philip.Belben(a)pgen.com
> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
> Subject: Re: Floppy/Parallel Ports
> Date: Monday, February 15, 1999 10:17 PM
>
>
>
>
> > Does anyone know of any early (pre-1990) computers, other than the
early
> > Toshibas, that used the parallel port to access an external floppy
drive
> > (or other external storage device)? Thanks!
>
>
> (-: Roger, that's a very foolish thing to say on Classiccmp. For
startres:
>
> An "Early" computer does _not_ mean "pre-1990". More like "pre-1960".
>
> Lots of pre-1990 machines used a parallel port to talk to floppy disk
> drives. HP and Commodore machines used HPIB/GPIB for example. And yes,
> that was the printer port on those machines too.
>
> Need I go on?
>
> Philip. :-)
>
> (I think someone else has already given a sensible answer, so I have no
> qualms about posting the above)
>
>
>
>
Does anyone have any ADAM joysticks and/or software? ...or any commercial
source for them?
What to you suppose would happen if I called up Coleco?
manney
I found this list just a few days ago, I hope it is fairly active since I
have a handfull of classic systems I am working on.
Unisys 386sx microtower, this is a tiny computer (about 2/3 the size of a
small desktop) and too cute to leave in the scrap heap I found it in. It is
the former property of United California Bank, and has some motherboard
memory stripped and I think the hard drive.
Three IBM PS/2 model 30's, that wish to have parts comingled so that they
might live on as one complete functioning computer. 386 and 387 chips and
even memory are intact on one, but for reasons I don't know that unit has
the power supply disconnected from the motherboard. I plan to apply some AC
soon to see whats what.
HP Vectra 466 / 66M, missing drives, some cables, but boots to diagnostic
screen fine.
Various Apple and Mac items that I generally understand. (Apple IIc, IIc+,
IIgs, etc.)
This is posted to two lists, apologies to those (Tony) who get it twice.
The library here at Power Tech is throwing out some old books. I got a
few, including the odd duplicate of things I'm often asked about, but there
are many more, all to go in the skip by the end of the week unless rescued.
I intend to keep the Mech. eng. handbook, but the others I will send to
anyone who can demonstrate a need (such as "I have a box full of TRAM
boards but no programming info") for the cost of shipping (I am in
Coalville, England). Oh yes. Raeto West's book (I already have it) is
about the best book on the PET you could hope to get.
Here's the list:
Baumeister, Marks, "Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers", 7th edn,
McGraw Hill 1967
Dunn S, Morgan V, "The PET Personal Computer for Beginners", Prentice Hall,
1981
Osborne A, Donahue C S, "PET/CBM Personal Computer Guide" 2nd edn., McGraw
Hill, 1980
West R C, "Programming the PET/CBM", Level, 1982
Eggebrecht L C, "Interfacing to the IBM Personal Computer", H W Sams, 1983
Brodie L, "Starting FORTH", Prentice Hall, 1981
Brodie L, "Thinking FORTH", Prentice Hall, 1984
Jones G, Goldsmith M, "Programming in Occam 2", Prentice Hall, 1988
Berry P, "Sharp APL Reference Manual", I P Sharp, 1979
Gilman L, Rose A J, "APL - an Interactive Approach", 2nd edn, 1976
Philip.
