test-drb October 2000

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ldb4401 can be replaced by .....?

by General＠cyber.net.pk

dear sir please address the issue regards nasir

23 years, 7 months

Who collects (reads the mailing list...?) vintage computers in Quebec

by Mzthompson＠aol.com

Claude <claudew(a)sprint.ca> wrote: > Sometimes I think I may be the only vintage computer collector in > Quebec, Canada. Look on the bright side, at least the competition is slim. Some guy here locally had overheard me talking to someone else about a stash I knew of and had already contacted the organization. He went there pretending to be me and made arrangements to haul some stuff off. By coincidence I called the place later the same day as his initial visit. My contact was all confused until she realized that she was being duped by this person. I ended up telling her to let him have the first stash (old intel boxes) to which she replied she would and save the other (and better) stash for me. She let him load the junk and then gave him a piece of her mind and sent him packing. In a sense he did me a favor, saved me from having to haul the junk along with the good stuff. > When I mention I collect vintage computers, people look at me like I am > due for a trip in the "wacko wagon"... Hey, they thought the same thing of the dude who collected bottlecaps, now they wished they had picked them up off the ground themselves. > Those who feel sad for me can send me their Lisa's, TRS model IIIs and > Next boxes ;-> NeXT: You want Cube or Slab, Plain or Turbo? Mike

23 years, 8 months

Searching for PS/2-E (9533-DB7) reference diskette

by ethan_dicks＠yahoo.com

I know it's not _quite_ 10 years old, but it's getting there. The principle of attraction has worked and my IBM quad-PCMCIA card has attracted a couple of hosts - a PS/2-E that it originally came out of. I have been to the IBM support site - no concrete references to the PS-2/E. I have located reference diskettes for all sorts of IBM-brand products, but not the 9533. It's distinguishing features include a low-power design with one ISA slot for this quad-PCMCIA card to minimize peripheral draw. Additionally, it uses a 2.5" laptop disk (120Mb) and only has one serial port. As shipped from IBM, there was an LCD panel for a monitor, but I've never seen that part in person, only in old ads. Does anyone have a disk image they can ship me, or a pointer to an image somewhere? I'm thinking of turning this into a router box. I have the PCMCIA NICs to do it with. Thanks, -ethan ===== Even though my old e-mail address is no longer going to vanish, please note my new public address: erd(a)iname.com The original webpage address is still going away. The permanent home is: http://penguincentral.com/ See http://ohio.voyager.net/ for details. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/

23 years, 10 months

Dayton Hamvention?

by ethan_dicks＠yahoo.com

I had meant to put this up earlier this month, but better late than never. Is anyone here planning on being at the Dayton Hamvention? It is this weekend (I'll be there Friday at 08:00 if I can help it). If yes, please write me off-line and maybe we can make arrangements to have a classiccmp get-together. My memories of this question from last year was a collective and deafening "No". -ethan ===== Even though my old e-mail address is no longer going to vanish, please note my new public address: erd(a)iname.com The original webpage address is still going away. The permanent home is: http://penguincentral.com/ See http://ohio.voyager.net/ for details. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/

23 years, 10 months

Need help identifying the following IC/CHIP

by rmeenaks＠olf.com

Hi, As my transputer collection increases, I just received a broken BBK-S4 (Sparc-based SBUS transputer link adapter). As far as I can tell, the only broken piece is the firmware IC. The IC actually was broken in half exposing the actual IC. I think someone was trying to extract it incorrectly and it opened up. The delicate wires are snapped as well. I hope that the firmware is downloaded to the chip each time it is fired up, but I am not sure. The chip is labelled as: TOSHIBA TC57H256D-70 JAPAN 8906YAA VPP 12.5V Does anyone know what type of IC this is and where I can obtain one? I would love to install this on my IPX and connect my T805-30MHz Xplorer to it. Thanks Ram

24 years

Looking to buy ...

by johnsandel＠earthlink.net

I'm looking to buy a Lexbook MB-10, an 8088-based subnotebook made by Lexmark (the IBM spinoff) & discontinued in about 1994-95. If you have one for sale or any information on Lexbooks, please let me know @ johnsandel(a)earthlink.net. Thanks. JS

24 years, 1 month

Amiga-Commodore card images

by lgwalker＠look.ca

Anyone into Amigas or Commodore should check out http://www.amigazone.com/images/merlancia/ryan2/index1.html A raft of scanned images of rare Commodore boards and cards. ciao larry Reply to: lgwalker(a)look.ca

24 years, 1 month

Looking for....

by LFessen106＠aol.com

can anyone tell me where I might be able to find 1(one) ADM 5 or ADM 3 text terminal? Always wanted one, but they're hard to find and I would rather not pay the exorbident prices on ebay for one. Also, has anyone here had any luck hooking one of them up to a unix/linux box?

24 years, 1 month

classiccmp-digest V1 #408

by foxnhare＠jps.net

> Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 20:46:09 -0700 > From: "David C. Jenner" <djenner(a)halcyon.com> > Subject: Re: Classic Macs > > I guess maybe you didn't follow the Web links. My god! I thoought I was a fanatic with my Commodore computers! I figure the next thing is to get I-Mac or Cube guts into one of those... (=)) Hmm. I wonder what one could do with an original PET... nah... but If I had a C65 motherboard... nah. > These guys have upgraded the Color Classic to Power > Mac G3 CPUs and lots of bells and whistles. Hey, Sam! Hot Rodded Classics? Best speed, or best flame paint job? ;> > If you have access to the New York Times, see the > Thursday, August 24, 2000 national edition page D8 > for an article entitled: "A Long-Discontinued > Macintosh Still Thrills Collectors to the Core." > > Not quite classic by this mailing list standards, > but, as I said, truly CLASSIC. > > Dave > > P.S. You probably want to volunteer to "retire" those > Color Classics from work into your collection. Bought with government funds, removing those from inventory takes a bit of work... :/ > Larry Anderson wrote: > > > > > Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 13:01:37 -0700 > > > From: "David C. Jenner" <djenner(a)halcyon.com> > > > Subject: Re: old MAC's > > > > > > Some of these aren't truly "classic" yet (<10 years), > > > but it's looking like the Color Classic is really a > > > CLASSIC. If you want to really get carried away with > > > older Macs, see about the Color Classic at > > > http://home.hkstar.com/~patrickn/colorclassic/ > > > > > > Dave > > > > We have a couple Color Classics at work a max of 10 megs RAM and 16mghz > > speed makes it mighty slow (even with the MicroMac Accelerators)... > > -- 01000011 01001111 01001101 01001101 01001111 01000100 01001111 01010010 01000101 Larry Anderson - Sysop of Silicon Realms BBS (209) 754-1363 300-14.4k bps Classic Commodore pages at: http://www.jps.net/foxnhare/commodore.html 01000011 01001111 01001101 01010000 01010101 01010100 01000101 01010010 01010011

24 years, 1 month

system/36 awefully quiet...

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

Sounds like 220v 2-phase. Two hots and one neutral/ground. If its marked 20A, I believe the connector is probably an L6-20 twist-lok. Not difficult to wire up in most US homes. My computer room is running from two APC Matrix 5000 5kva UPSs, which have 220v inputs and 110/220v outputs. I ran two 30A 220V (L6-30 twist-lok) circuits from the two outer poles on my breaker panel to power the UPSs, and everything (be it 110v like the regular Alphas/Suns/SGIs and such or 220v for the Crays) runs from the UPSs. Having the equipment run from dedicated 220v 2-pole breakers is very, very nice. Definitely worth the trouble. -Dave McGuire On October 31, Merle K. Peirce wrote: > I just checked ours - it's 3 prong. > > On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Dave McGuire wrote: > > > On October 31, THETechnoid(a)home.com wrote: > > > Last weekend I aquired a system/36 model 5360. Have not powered it as > > > yet. The plug does not fit either of my dryer sockets but is marked > > > 250vac, 20amp. Is this a three-phase machine? If so I think I am in > > > trouble..... ;-) > > > > Does the plug have three prongs or four? > > > > > > -Dave McGuire > > > > M. K. Peirce > Rhode Island Computer Museum, Inc. > 215 Shady Lea Road, > North Kingstown, RI 02852 > > "Casta est qui nemo rogavit." > > - Ovid

24 years, 1 month

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