test-drb October 2000

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by SUPRDAVE＠aol.com

In a message dated 10/10/00 7:36:51 PM Eastern Daylight Time, KenzieM(a)sympatico.ca writes: > > Does the the IIgs doesn't use 30 pin, does the MAC SE? > before I open the case) > that model of the apple // does not use SIMMs although I did find a gs with a memory expansion card that could take 4meg of 30pin simms... DB Young ICQ: 29427634 hurry, hurry, step right up! see the computers you used as a kid! http://www.nothingtodo.org

24 years, 2 months

4004?

by ajp166＠bellatlantic.net

From: John Allain <John.Allain(a)donnelley.infousa.com> > >Dwight> I think Kilby's was for the IC, not CPU. It was the basic idea of an IC. >Anybody know the line of products from TI, the ID's, >of the stuff coming from JK's first chip? The most infamous is the 709 opamp. Allison

24 years, 2 months

Another PDP-11 available: Wisconsin

by mrbill＠mrbill.net

(another mail sent to me @ pdp11.org that I'm not personally able to save/salvage - perhaps someone else here can? --bill ) If interested in this system, please email Tom at the e-mail address given below. He'd like to see his PDP-11 system go to a good home. He's asking $100 plus shipping for the lot. - - - My first home computer was a LSI-11: A Netcom box (card cage) with Diablo emulations of RK05 drives. I ran RT-11 3, then version 4, and I may have actually genned a v5 system for it. Still have it in storage, need to get rid of it. I don't know if the processor is an LSI 11 or 11/02. It's QBUS. I think I have assorted serial and parallel cards installed. I made a 8" floppy subsystem based on a heathkit card, built into the most incredibly ugly plywood box. I have 3 working diablo drives and a 4th that has serious electrical problems, but the heads are good. The original bootstrap/terminator card used a charge pump/inverter chip to provide negative 12v for the boot prom, but it never came up fast enough and you always got dumped to the @ prompt at power-up. Type 173000g and off you go - but that wasn't good enough for me. I hid a little transformer, bridge, and capacitor behind the backplane, and maybe a 7912 regulator (can't remember) and thereafter, it takes off from power-up without help. It has a Digital Pathways TCU-50 clock card, but the batteries are probably long dead, and you have to hard-code the year into the fortran / macro program that reads the hardware clock and sets the RT-11 time/date, which meant a small edit and recompile every January. I have a compiler and assembler. I've got an armload of RK05 packs for it. This pup is a real dinosaur. Please help! Thomas M. Peters <Peters.Tom.M(a)MBCO.COM> (414) 931-3887 -- Bill Bradford * KD5LQR mrbill(a)mrbill.net Austin, TX

24 years, 2 months

ID this Data General

by rigdonj＠intellistar.net

I picked up a small Data General computer this weekend. Can anyone id it? It's about 8" high x 8" deep x 2 foot long. It has a tape drive, one floppy drive, one dummy floppy drive and a (removed) 5 1/4" hard drive. One the back it says "Desktop Series". There are also labels that say "CPU W/FIS" and "CPU 256K" on the back. Four of the sections are labled "E 8712-N", "E 6336", "E 6301" and "e 6270-2" on the back. One of the odd things about it is that it's wired for 220 volt AC power and doesn't appear to be configurable for 110 VAC. (It only requires 5 and 3.15 Amps.) It has two power inputs on the back. I posted pictures at "www.intellistar.net/~rigdonj/nova-dt/dg-back.jpg", "www.intellistar.net/~rigdonj/nova-dt/dg-frnt.jpg", "www.intellistar.net/~rigdonj/nova-dt/dg-c.jpg". Joe

24 years, 2 months

Jumpers Needed: TQK70

by kyrrin＠bluefeathertech.com

CC to Port-VAX and classiccmp... If someone's got the jumper setting chart for the TQK70 tape drive controller (M7559 if I'm not mistaken), would you be so kind as to post it in ASCII form, FAX it to me, or perhaps scan it and turn it into a .PDF? Thanks much! -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Bruce Lane, Owner and head honcho, Blue Feather Technologies http://www.bluefeathertech.com // E-mail: kyrrin(a)bluefeathertech.com Amateur Radio: WD6EOS since Dec. '77 (Extra class as of June-2K) "I'll get a life when someone demonstrates to me that it would be superior to what I have now..." (Gym Z. Quirk, aka Taki Kogoma).

24 years, 2 months

GRiD 1530 for grabs

by spectre＠stockholm.ptloma.edu

I have a somewhat flaky GRiD 1530 with battery in unknown shape, AC adaptor, charger and docking station. It seems to have some trouble on power up but once it gets going it's fine. 8MB memory and 40MB HD running MS-DOS (I think 4.01?) with a 386 processor. Someone care to make an offer? Contact me off-list. Warning: it's insanely heavy so prioirty will go to someone who can pick it up. I'm in San Bernardino, CA. -- ----------------------------- personal page: http://www.armory.com/~spectre/ -- Cameron Kaiser, Point Loma Nazarene University * ckaiser(a)stockholm.ptloma.edu -- Dihydrogen monoxide -- it may be in your drink right now! www.dhmo.org -----

24 years, 2 months

OT collecting old pinballs

by wrm＠ccii.co.za

10 years old? Foo, that's new :-) I have a 1975 Gottlieb Top Score I'm restoring. Looking to buy a new (1984) Gottlieb Haunted House. And I have half a share in a 1968 Bally Alligator. All of those are considered fairly new pinballs :-) Wouter www.retro.co.za <-- some pictures, not much...

24 years, 2 months

Screeching 5 1/4 FDD

by lgwalker＠look.ca

I have a hard to replace dsdd floppy disk that produced a screeching noise while attempting to read it on a win98 box under Dos using a Dos program. I quickly removed it and tried to read it on another Dos box also with a HDFDD. No screech but only the directory was readable, not the contents. I checked the original FDD again using a scrap dsdd floppy and had no trouble with it. Anyone have any thoughts as to what would have caused this ? And whether the disk is salvageable ? I'm reluctant to run the disk again on any box till I explore the options, lest I damage it further. It was an old DRI PC-install master disk for GEM. ciao larry Reply to: lgwalker(a)look.ca

24 years, 2 months

ID this Data General

by xds_sigma7＠hotmail.com

It's a Desktop Generation, I can find out which model fairly easily. Basically, it's from the early to mid 80's, and it contains both a microEclipse processor and an i8086, it can run both AOS and CP/M-86 simultaneously. I may be able to get manuals and software for it too. Will J _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.

24 years, 2 months

An article on the ZX-81 kits still being sold in the US

by agraham＠ccat.co.uk

Profiteering at its worst IMO. I got mine for $45 so to see the price double in less than a year is just plain greed. > -----Original Message----- > From: Vintage Computer Festival [mailto:vcf@siconic.com] > Sent: 07 October 2000 20:21 > To: Classic Computers Mailing List > Subject: An article on the ZX-81 kits still being sold in the US > > > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/2/13785.html > > These guys are a bunch of clowns. They used to be selling these for > $29.95 until the eBay phenomenon hit. Then they jacked up > the price to > $99.95. I guess they must be selling these at that price because they > haven't backed it down. > > Is an unassembled ZX-81 kit worth $99.95 to me? Hell no. > > Sellam International Man of > Intrigue and Danger > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------------- > Looking for a six in a pile of nines... > > VCF 4.0 is September 30-October 1 > San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, California > See http://www.vintage.org for details! >

24 years, 2 months

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test-drb October 2000