My first thought is to try:-
Don Lancaster's The Guru's Lair
http://www.tinaja.com
because I seem to remember him being involved with South West Technical
Products
Neil Morrison
email:morrison@t-iii.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike [SMTP:dogas@leading.net]
> Sent: Monday, September 20, 1999 3:18 PM
> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
> Subject: Super Tech DAD-1 SS-50 board with a SWTPc 6809?
>
> Got one, no docs, dont know what it does... Does anyone?
>
> Thanks
> - Mike: dogas(a)leading.net
>
It's creeping up! A little over two weeks left...
In case anyone has been curious, or not... B^}
A couple of shots from within the depths of The Computer Garage of one
of the Altairs hard at work backing up disks for the VCF Faire exhibit have
made their way onto the 'Events and Appearances' page of the Computer
Garage web site.
Disorganized? Who me???
-jim
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>That eZ80 supposed to be 4x faster than original z80. Cool, nice to
>see a old dog with new tricks pop up again.
Just 4X faster? What about the Z180, Z280, and Z380, which are
even faster than that and have been available for years?
And, from what I can see (at http://www.zilog.com/ and
http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG19990920S0022 ) it's not an actual
chip, but a design that you have to license to build into your
own FPGA/VLSI design.
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>> Is it possible to put a Unibus board in a qbus system, I know it
>> won't work, but will it physically fit into the backplane?
>Yes. Unibus and Qbus boards (and Omnibus boards for that matter) all use
>the same connectors -- 36 pin (18 pins to a side) 0.125" pitch edge
>connectors. A Quad-height board (4 connectors) for any of those buses is
>the same physical size.
>
>Putting a board in the 'wrong' system normally causes other things not to
>work, and may even cause damage, though.
I'm afraid that I was "wrong" about the board in the system. Digging
through my old Digital Pathways paperwork, I see that:
TCU-50 = Q-bus TOY clock
TCU-150 = Unibus TOY clock
My fault for relying on the "U" as meaning "Unibus" !
Tim.
GONE!!
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Innfogra(a)aol.com [SMTP:Innfogra@aol.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 17, 1999 11:44 PM
> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
> Subject: Real Apple 1 Sale!
>
> I think this is a real Apple 1 sale, and in my own backyard.
> http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=162334931
>
> Less than 2 days to go.
>
> Paxton
Not sure if this is relevant, but the Xerox S/W that comes with many
scanners likes to read uncompressed TIFFs.
Neil Morrison
email:morrison@t-iii.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Erlacher [SMTP:edick@idcomm.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 17, 1999 10:41 PM
> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
> Subject: Re: Intel OS DOC and SOURCE
>
> Well, I like my scanner because it has a sheetfeeder and because it's
> legal
> size, but, alas, it's only capable of a limited range of formats. After
> all, I've had the thing for nearly ten years. Now, if you have a way to
> massage the old style TIFF (targa) files into something better, perhaps
> that
> would be the thing to do.
>
> A lot depends on what requirements the TBD web host will have, and I'll
> perhaps hold off until a site is found.
>
> OTOH, I did sort of allow that since Hans Franke is going to be at the
> VCF,
> though I'm not, I can arrange to get this stuff hauled out there for him
> by
> someone from here who's going. I will have to see whether he's willing to
> get this stuff scanned and appropriately compressed, then made available
> via
> the web.
>
> Wait and see . . .
>
> Dick
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Smith <eric(a)brouhaha.com>
> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
> <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
> Date: Friday, September 17, 1999 6:57 PM
> Subject: Re: Intel OS DOC and SOURCE
>
>
> >"Richard Erlacher" <edick(a)idcomm.com> wrote:
> >> If there were a web site which would accomodate the many thousands of
> pages
> >> involved here I'd consider scanning the stuff and forwarding the
> bitmaps
> to
> >> whoever wants them. Now, keep in mind that a typical TIFF of a printed
> page
> >> in single-bit format is about 1 MB in size, and we're looking at a
> 1-2'-high
> >> stack of paper with both sides printed in most cases. LEt's see. . . a
> ream
> >> is about 1-3/4" = 500 sheets . . . let's say 10 reams . . . so we're
> looking
> >> at 10 GB, right (GAWD! . . . I hope I've miscalculated!)
> >
> >No, for text and line art, just use TIFF Class F Group 4 compression.
> >It's lossless, and for typical pages at 300 DPI it's only about 50K.
> >Intricate pages somtimes wind up around 100K-120K.
> >
> >And although not all software can deal with that format, the Group 4
> >fax compression is one of the native formats for PDF, so I now supply
> >all of my scanned documents as PDF files. For a few examples, see:
> > http://www.36bit.org/dec/
> >
> >Yes, I know that some people hate PDF format, and that you can't read
> >them on a Commodore 64 or PDP-11/05. To which I say, too bad. I got
> >many more complaints about other formats. Some people even wanted text
> >pages in JPEG format, which is just about the worst conceivable format
> >for them, since JPEG is a lossy format designed for continuous tone
> >images.
> >
> >I've hacked a version of the imagepdf program from Thomas Metz's PDFLIB
> >to directly import TIFF Class F Group 4 files into PDF files without
> >decompressing them, so that it's not necessary to buy the $300 Acrobat
> >program from Adobe.
> >
> >Eric
Guys:
I just scored a HP 9000/340 (I think), and the hard drive
has HP/UX loaded on it. I don't know the root password,
of course. Anybody know of a way to break into this, or
should I wipe it and start over?
Jeff
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>I have a QBus board that I would like to identify. Its made
>by Digital Pathways and the model number is TCU-50 Rev A. It
>is a quad size board and there are three small batteries in
>the top right corner of the board. There are no peripheral
>connectors on the card, so I figure its some type of clock
>or possibly a small amount of battery backed up storage (the
>machine it was take from was used for collecting process
>data). Any ideas of what it might be?
It's not a Q-bus board - what you have there is a Unibus clock board.
(There is a Q-bus version, not surprisingly called the TCQ-150.)
I posted Y2K patches to the Digital Pathways supplied RT-11 clock-reading
routines on vmsnet.pdp-11 a few years back, if you want to put this
board to use. Accessing the clock board is very simple; it's four
words from 160770 through 160776. The first word contains the date
(not in RT-11 bit order) as year (7 bits), month (5 bits), and day (5 bits),
the second word has the hour and minute, the third word has the number
of seconds, and the fourth word has the number of clock ticks.
With 100% certainty, you'll need to replace the batteries on the board.
--
Tim Shoppa Email: shoppa(a)trailing-edge.com
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On Sun, 19 Sep 1999 09:58:54 -0700, wsmith(a)gj.com said:
>Has anyone ever heard of a "Kaypro PC-10"? The Kaypro PC models I am
>familiar with are the 16 and 2000. Someone is selling a manual for a PC-10
>on eBay:
>http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=164605910
>My guess is that it is an abortive non-portable PC effort.
It might be the same Kaypro XT clone that was sold by Ahrend in The
Netherlands. This was a very interesting machine. It had a passive
backplane, and the computer itself was on two cards. 8 Mhz V20, 20MB
hard disk, Hercules monochrome. Built like a tank, very reliable.
An autodetecting keyboard came with it, you could plug it in an XT or
an AT and it would always work. Ahrend did not sell too many of them,
after a few years they went out of the computer business (they are an
office furniture company originally).
Kees.
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