All,
My wife was cleaning out the bookshelf last night and said, "Do we
still want this?" holding up a book by Robert Mottola, "Assembly Language
Programming for the Apple II", Copyright 1982. My jaw dropped open. I'd
never seen it before, never having owned an Apple II. She eventually sort
of dimly recalled getting it herself at some point, bless her heart. Anyway
the answer to her question is "no".
Does anyone here want it, for the cost of shipping?
- Mark
>That's fine if all your systems are PCs. On this list, that's rarely the
>case, and it's a lot of work to use an IBM keyboard on a PET or TRS-80 or
>C64 or PERQ or...
Several years back, I picked up a little adapter (a PC board with
one or two chips) that allows PC-clone (specifically, XT compatible)
keyboards to be used with an Apple ][ keyboard interface (that 0.3"
DIP socket). I'd never seen one before, and I've never seen one
since. Were these ever widely available? Who made them? (Mine
is quite devoid of any markings - the chips are even unlabeled!)
--
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Following things still not sold:
Opened e-World package (NS)
TML Pascal II (complete devel. system for Macintosh)
About 50 untested apple ][ disks, some of everything
IBM 5250 Information Display System MAP's, Parts catalog, Maintenance
information manual (a data terminal used w/System 34)
Secret Guide to Computers, 10th ed. V2 (Hassles With Basic)(NS)
Commodore:
C-64 Geos/QuantumLink users' guide 1.2 (cover damaged) (NS)
Commodore Spring 1987 catalog (NS)
Space Rogue for C64 (copy + photocopied manual) (NS)
Fire King for C64 (copy + photocopied manual) (NS)
Word Writer 6 for C64 (entire package, decent word processor)
F-14 tomcat for C64 (copy + photocopied manual) (NS)
The Rubicon Alliance for C64 (NS)
Solo Flight for C64 (NS)
WordStar made easy, 2nd edition (a tutorial, 150 pg.)
C-64C Introductory and System guides
Commodore 300 bps modem (model 1660)
Misc. C-64 games and utils (about 25 disks, some useless, most work,
generally classic games)
OK, it's not *completely* on-topic, but it is a relatively low-tech
item and quite relevant for those dealing with 10-year-old hardware:
I'm looking for some of the adapter kits (with bezels) for putting
3.5" hard drives into 5.25" bays. The local shops have adapters for
3.5" floppies (with, of course, a big rectangle cut in the bezel) but
these don't have a nice plain front bezel, and often the holes in them
are in completely wrong places for hard drives. Some shops have
kits supplied by Western Digital for their hard drives, but often the
mounting holes are in completely wrong positions for Seagate or
Micropolis or other brands of drives.
If anyone has a large number of the adapters/bezels just kicking around
(say 10 or 20) I'd be glad to buy them at a fair price. I'd also be
happy to be pointed towards a source of these new.
--
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
<Just made a trip to the local surplus shop, and they have a whole cart ful
<of DEC VT1000's and VT1200's. Appears to be just a base unit (no monitor,
<etc.)... They wanted $15.00 each.
<
Vt1200 is a Xterm and works with any DEC monitor (switch selected on back)
and likely many others. Uses DEC round mouse and LKx01 keyboard. There
is both a terminal line (mmj) and eithernet. If you buy make sure there is
ram installed as they are often stripped. It must have at least 2mb. Also
there is a rom card that must be there.
I have one with VR315 mono and I use it as LAT/IPxwin/telnet decwindows
terminal or as DCE. If you play with vaxen this makes a good terminal
either networked or via MMJ serial.
Allison
<Just bought an IBM PS/2 Model 25 and Im looking for some info on it. I.e =
<docs..
cant help on that.
<And I have a few questions. Can I get a bigger HD for it? Currently it =
<has a 20mb HD which I figure is standard. =20
Not in the M25, it was likely added later. Larger is possible but may be
difficult. The common way to add a larger hard disk is a ISA 8-bit adaptor
to get IDE functionality then you can use drives commonly available.
<Is it possible to compress it?
Yes, under dos6.22 but it will be real slow.
<About how far can I upgrade it?
Not far. Your limited to 640k ram, modem, mouse, hard disk.
Keep in mind this is an enhanced XT (8086), windows is barely doable and
limited to versions 3.0 or below. Win9X is out of the question. Cpu
upgrade is nearly impossible.
<And finaly: The screen "Display" is rather small.. But I cant find any =
<knobs or anything to ajust it.. Any Ideas? Or am I just stuck with it..
Stuck, different monitor may be possible of if you are able internal
adjustments are possible.
Allison
> Greetings!
>
> Just acquired a Sun 3/50; it is diskless and boots on tftp. We're
> hoping
> to find SunOS .LE. 4.1.1 or Solaris .LE. 2.3 to demonstrate it (and
> other
> Sun 3 hardware).
>
> All replies much appreciated (msg(a)waste.org)
>
> Thanks.
>
> Michael Grigoni
> Cybertheque Museum
>
The last thing for Sun3's was Solaris 1.1.1 (SunOS 4.1.1).
There never was a Solaris 2.x for any Sun3 released.
Bill
>tape until we started using the 8" floppies. Each PDP 11/05 or 11/04 had
>a VT52 with an internal wet paper printer.
Unless there was an upgrade option for the VT52 I don't know about, the
'VT52' w/printer is actually designated the VT55.
Megan Gentry
Former RT-11 Developer
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Well, it's not the 'screen'. Perhaps some of the video ram is bad, or the
character generator.
Neil Morrison
email:morrison@t-iii.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gareth Randall [SMTP:gwr@easynet.co.uk]
> Sent: Friday, September 24, 1999 4:01 PM
> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
> Subject: Fixing a PET?
>
> Hi guys,
>
> I'm new here, so be gentle! =;-)
>
> I'm hopefully about to acquire a PET 8032 - the first PET I've ever owned
> (I was six years old when they first came out). I'm told that it boots
> into
> Basic 4.0, but the boot details are shown in lower case with the odd
> incorrect character. Also, when typing, some characters come up on the
> screen differently to the ones actually typed.
>
> The vendor suggests it may just need a clean and the I/O chip re-seating -
> but if it's something more complicated, is it still possible to buy
> replacement chips? And, thinking longer-term, are replacement screens
> possible to find these days (e.g. are they a standard size that you can
> still buy off-the-shelf)?
>
> Any suggestions gratefully received!
>
> Gareth
