test-drb September 1999

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Ending Auctions (was Re: HP 2114 on ebay)

by morrison＠t-iii.com

Well then he'd have to pay the commision on $7000, no? Neil Morrison email:morrison@t-iii.com > -----Original Message----- > From: George Currie [SMTP:g@kurico.com] > Sent: Thursday, September 16, 1999 1:44 PM > To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers > Subject: Re: Ending Auctions (was Re: HP 2114 on ebay) > > > Second, the basic rules continue to hold. Which are: > > - You offer something for sale, you have the option of setting > > a reserve price and a minimum bid. > > - When your auction ends, if the highest bid was above > > your reserve then you _MUST_ sell the item to the highest > > bidder. REGARDLESS OF HOW THE AUCTION ENDED. > > Speaking of this point, did anyone catch the auction for the Xerox > Star? Talk about weird endings, it was around $2100 (reserve not > met) until the very end, when suddenly a $7000 bid comes in > (reserve met). But get this, the alias of the high bidder is almost > exactly the same as the seller (seller was foobar, buyer was > foo.bar). Sounds like maybe the second place bidder actually hit > the reserve ($2300?) and the seller decided that he didn't want to > sell it so put in a massive bid under a diff. alias? > > George

25 years, 3 months

IBM XT looking for a good home in L.A. area

by dastar＠ncal.verio.com

Rob Gregory contacted me saying he has an almost mint-condition IBM PC-XT he wants to go to a good home or else he chucks it. He's also got some printers he wants to throw into the deal, but that's for you to decide. His phone number is 310/829.5903. Please contact him directly of course. Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Don't rub the lamp if you don't want the genie to come out. Coming this October 2-3: Vintage Computer Festival 3.0! See http://www.vintage.org/vcf for details! [Last web site update: 08/17/99]

25 years, 3 months

Central Point Option floppy controller

by amichael＠nortelnetworks.com

> -----Original Message----- > > Don Maslin <donm(a)cts.com> wrote about the Central Point cards: > > First off, it is not a controller, per se, but rather a bridge adapter > > that goes between the ISA FDC and the floppy drive and enhances the > FDC's > > native capabilities. > Along similar lines, can anyone explain how to use a Manzana Mux Card? I picked one up recently, recalling it was supposed to let you expand the number of pc internal floppies from two to four. If I'm not mistaken, it installs as a bridge card (like the Central Point Option card) between the standard controller and the drives. Does anyone know how to configure it? It's got 3 jumper block areas. It looks like one sets up the port address, but the others are a mystery. Also I'm wondering if it needs a special software driver or something. Now, the bonus question: can the Manzana card be used in combination with the Central Point card to build a multi-format universal copy machine with a wild mix of drive types? What would the bridge cabling sequence be in this case? -- Arlen Michaels amichael(a)nortelnetworks.com Nortel Networks, Ottawa, Canada

25 years, 3 months

Apple Mockingboard

by CLASSICCMP＠trailing-edge.com

>I just bought an Apple IIe system with a Mockingboard in it. Is this a board >that was at all significant in the Apple world? It came with no >documentation although there are three original disks that look like they >came from Mockingboard. The Mockingboard had substantial support from many Apple video games of the mid-80's onward. Couple the Mockingboard with Steve Ciarcia's voice synthensizer (both circa early 80's) and you've got abilities beyond what was available for PC-clones until just a few years ago. -- 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, 3 months

Seek and ye shall find - the story of the latest PDP-9 discov ery.

by morrison＠t-iii.com

A few years ago I came across a working IBM card punch, which reminded me of my days at varsity! But where could I store it in a tiny apartment? Ah well, Neil Morrison email:morrison@t-iii.com > -----Original Message----- > From: kstumpf(a)unusual.on.ca [SMTP:kstumpf@unusual.on.ca] > Sent: Thursday, September 16, 1999 10:50 AM > To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers > Subject: Seek and ye shall find - the story of the latest PDP-9 > discovery. > ........... > The proof I offer is the PDP-9 that Merle Pierce, of the > Rhode Island Computer Museum, Inc., recently > told us about. > > There weren't many of them to start with and it is > 30 years old so what are the chances there would > still be one working everyday in a building in > Philadelphia. Pretty low, but still, against the odds > it is now safe for another 130+ years in the museum's > collection. > ...........

25 years, 3 months

Central Point Option floppy controller

by allisonp＠world.std.com

<> really do run in one clock cycle (rather than four). Also, they run at <> up to 100 MHz. They would be much more suitable for implementing a <> floppy disk controller. Why not just toss a cray XMP against the problem. Seriously, in 1979ish apple managed to do it with a little (very little) at something less than 2mhz... why would a PIC at a gazillion MHz be the hot ticket when the real need is enough ram to store all them bits! When you consider the data rate for DD 8" is 500kBits/sec the bandwidth is not that bad. Allison

25 years, 3 months

Find of the day

by ethan_dicks＠yahoo.com

--- allisonp(a)world.std.com wrote: > About all the st251 has in it's favor is it's half height. That and, in my experience, easier to find. Seagate shipped wads of them for use in early AT's. I don't love them either (slow and hot), but I do have several more of them than any other MFM drive besides the Micropolis 1325. -ethan === Infinet has been sold. The domain is going away in February. Please send all replies to erd(a)iname.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com

25 years, 3 months

Keeping pdp11s softwarily viable?

by CLASSICCMP＠trailing-edge.com

>> Can't do it all myself, but I'd like to see a port of a minimal >>version of lynx to 2.11BSD unix. Anyone care to comment on how >>(im)possible this is and what it would require? [[I'm tired of telnetting >>to my FreeBSD box everytime I want to mess with the web.]] While we're on >>it, what about emacs? That shouldn't be so bad since there's already a >>uEMACS for RSX. >> >>jake >On a related note, does anyone have a browser for RT-11? I've got Telnet >and FTP running, but would love to add web access :^) If anything was done for either 2.11 or RT-11, it'd have to be *very* scaled down from the full lynx. The CERN line-mode browser does fit on an -11. Of course, you can always just telnet to port 80. >Guess I really need to take a look at the source for lynx. It's huge, and it expects enormous contiguous amounts of memory to be available for temporary use. Not a realistic way to do things in the PDP-11's 16-bit memory space. -- 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, 3 months

firefox

by danburrows＠mindspring.com

If you would include minor details like what the M# of the graphics board I may be able to help. There were a few different ones used over the years. Complete configurations can even be more helpful. It may be a day or 2 before I can respond depending on what Floyd decides to do to me. I have been getting the heavy rains most of the day and now the wind has kicked up. Thank heavens for UPS's for the power flickers. Dan >I have a VaxStation 3520 in the garage that seems to boot. I gather it's >a dual-processor model and it has SCSI, RGB, AUI, and TK70, all intact and >able to boot. Problem is I have no KB, no mouse, and no head for it. (I >had hooked it up to a monitor that had the right cables but the wrong sync >stuff, so I had like four shaking images of the boot stuff.) Anyone know >of a good cheap place to gather the junque I need to get this thing >running right (and part numbers, etc)? It seems like a really nice box >except for the BI bus (it has Qbus too!), but I guess that's fine if I >stick with OpenVMS. ((Which version?)) > >TIA > >jake

25 years, 3 months

Find of the day

by ethan_dicks＠yahoo.com

--- Christian Fandt <cfandt(a)netsync.net> wrote: > Incidentally, for you other DEC mavens, I tried reviewing the VAXArchive at > http://vaxarchive.ml.org/ but it seems to be either relocated or not > available anymore. I felt it was a good VAX info resource. "Unable to find > the server vaxarchive.ml.org" is the message thrown back which suggests > it's MIA. Could anyone confirm? The entire ml.org domain is defunct. I used to be antarctica.ml.org. -ethan === Infinet has been sold. The domain is going away in February. Please send all replies to erd(a)iname.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com

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