I have an extra copy of the COSMAC 1802 Instruction Manual (120 pages)
that I ran accidentally. I run copies of manuals for folks at $0.25 per
page which covers my time and expenses.
Since the folks who I ran the other copies for paid for them, it would be
unfair to just offer it up for shipping, so if anyone wants it at $30
(postage included) please let me know.
I'm embarrassed that it has to cost so much but again it does cover
expenses and my time. It took me about 4 hours to run 8 copies of various
manuals the other night...way more time than it should have but the copier
I was using is finnicky and doesn't do automatic 11x17 double-sided
copies, so it was a slightly manual process. Kinko's would charge $0.07
per page, and a double-sided 11x17 page counts as 4 pages, equals $0.21
per page just in copying costs :(
Anyway, if you are interested, please contact me directly at
<sellam(a)vintage.org>.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org
Hello all,
In the continuing saga of my Icom Attache, I have it up and running, no
magic smoke, and I have received the manual from Steve Shepard (THANKS!).
However, with only 512 bytes of EPROM on the Turnkey board (TURMON and MBL
1702s), it's a bit limited :-) The monitor can display memory, alter
memory, or jump to a memory location. The MBL can load from a cassette
tape. That's about it...
The manual did note that there are a few versions of BASIC that this machine
can run. 8K BASIC is the smallest, and also the most limited. More
interesting to me is what they referred to as "Extended BASIC" either on
cassette tape, or on a PROM board. Further up the line is DEBI (Disk
Extended Basic by Icom), but I have no spare floppy controller for this
machine.
If anyone has Intel HEX files for the Extended BASIC EPROMs, or Extended
BASIC on cassette tape, please let me know...
Thanks!!
Rich B.
(I subscribe only to the digest, so I may not reply immediately...)
Hi,
Usually I don't announce in this list my new additions to my collection.
Recently I even have become somewhat ashamed about them, because my house
is getting increasingly harder to live in. Sometimes it is more like a
childerns maze made out of old computers than a home, and only visitors
with a technical background can understand why it looks the way it does.
But now something arrived that I have to tell you about, and ask a
question too.
A good friend works at a big research lab of the PTT here in The
Netherlands. They were vacating a building and he could have the
computers that were left behind. It was the same adventure as Megan's,
including the very large truck filled with classic goodies. My friend
gave most of them to me. They were a PDP-11/84 with a lot of drives
and a PDP-8/e.
He also put a PDP-8 in my garage. It seems incredible, but I think this
PDP-8 is an original one from the first series from the 1960's. I put up
a few pictures at
http://home.iae.nl/users/pb0aia/cm/garage2.html
Could you experts look at them and verify that this really is a very
old PDP8? I ask because I just can't believe it is one. It is hard to
believe for me that the Dutch PTT has kept this machine in its offices
all these years. The sticker with the service contract number is still
on it. I don't ask because I want to sell it. It is still my friend's
property and he will collect it from my place as soon as he has made
room for it, and he will be getting it working again too I think,
because he was programming it himself a long time ago.
Kees.
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Kees Stravers - Geldrop, The Netherlands - kees.stravers(a)iae.nl
http://www.iae.nl/users/pb0aia/ My home page (old computers,music,photography)
http://www.vaxarchive.org/ Info on old DEC VAX computers
Net-Tamer V 1.08.1 - Registered
Sorry to have worked up a lot of commotion for nothing, but earlier today
I received the news that we are too late to save the Sords. They were
thrown in a container and dumped God-knows-where a little more than a week
ago. Let us hope that they were at least disassembled and recycled. The
guy I spoke with says that there may be a few tape drives left (not Sord
CR-5, but other models for Sord's business range). If anyone is
interested, contact Claes Borlid directly at +46 (0)31 887613.
It grieves my heart that this treasure could not be saved. It is small
comfort that even if we had acted faster we would not have been in time.
/Fredrik
PS. The company did save a few working machines of various models so that
they can set up their own museum in the future. Thus, not quite everything
was lost forever.
Hello Ernest!
Well... I'm just a bit excited here, because I've been looking for one of
these for LONG time -- and just the fact that a fellow enthusiast has one
is good news to me! ;-)
Anyhow -- I'm so gaga over this little machine because it was my first.
Yep. Starting around 1979, almost every weekend, I used one of these
marvels - when my father would bring it home from work (I'd look forward to
Friday's so much -- waiting for the terminal to show up (oh yes, and my
father of course ;-) and if there was no terminal for me when dad rolled
in at 5pm, well, it was a long 7 days until the following Friday -- sigh.)
I used to go through rolls and rolls of thermal paper - I would guess an
average of 6-10 rolls from Friday evening when I started pounding on
the keys until Sunday night when I had to give it up (actually, I usually
sneaked in some more time Monday morning, real early before school.)
I would dial up to a local TIP and then connect to machines back at
MIT (in the days of I.T.S. and their "tourist" accounts.) I had logins
at MIT-AI, DM, MC, and ML. Dialogs would ensue, real time chatting
(connect with ^_c I think? I know I had the hardest time figuring out
how to produce a control-underscore for some reason), mailing list
reading (what were they call again? HUMAN-NETS and SF-LOVERS I
believe (?)) This was all real novel for me at the time: I don't want
to date myself here (why not Eric? ...) but to a grade school kid - I
was doing some unique stuff compared to my peers.
I developed quite a group of fellow "tourist" friends, and some MIT student
friends -- although the notion of having tourists was not all that popular
with some administrators at the LCS. I even visited the lab at MIT a
couple times (relatives live in Boston area) and recd the full tour of
"545 Tech Square, the 9th floor" (I know - big wow - but for me, at
the time, having _never_ used a CRT terminal, it was a chance to
experience things such as emacs without having to work your way around
it using a thermal paper printout (ugh).
I ramble - back to the Teleterm: I don't know what the connectors on the
back are - IIRC - I never had to use them. I just jammed the phone headset
as hard as I could into the acoustic coupler and kept the ambient
noise down. Those inverted-toilet-bowl-plunger designs (er, I mean
acoustic-coupler) frustrated me on many occasions.
And I have to ask: Any more of these machines available? I've had no
luck in finding these at all! :(
Finally - I had thought the unit was actually called "Miniterm" as
opposed to "Teleterm" -- but since you actually have the unit ...
I do have a picture of the Miniterm I had used -- see it at
http://home.san.rr.com/instep/miniterm.jpg
(BTW - This is my first post to this list - I have been a silent reader
for quite some time - and have the usual first-time-poster-jitters. I
also want to thank Marvin(a)rain.org for pointing this list out to me!)
Eric
> Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 22:49:53 -0800
> From: "Ernest" <ernestls(a)home.com>
> Subject: Computer Device Teleterm 1030 info?
> I found one of these interesting little devices earlier in the week, and I
> can't find any information about it on the net, so I thought that I would
> check with you folks to see if anyone knows anything about it?
> It by a company called "Computer Device." Do you think they sprained their
> brains coming up with that name? I picture some venture capitalist saying,
> "Damnit! That's a good one."
> It's got an acoustic coupler on the back, a roll of paper behind the
> keyboard on the front. It sort of reminds me of a blue Apple II, with the
> roll of paper visible behind the keyboard.
> It also has a couple of female ports on the back (DB25/DB15) but they are
> unmarked.
> Any information that anyone could give me on this Teleterm 1030 would be
> appreciated.
> Thanks
> Ernest
Have a very good condition PS/2 model 25, type 8525-004, that runs an
upgradeable 512k RAM, 8086 processor and built in color monitor. It's got
two 720k 3.5" floppies and complete and in very good cosmetic condition.
Does not include a keyboard but it takes about any PS/2 connector'd keyboard
you can find.
I have $7.00 into it. Anyone want one of these for the $7.00 plus UPS or
USPS shipping? Remember now that it's ont he heavy side, about 35-45 lbs
possibly. Drop me a direct note if interested.
Russ Blakeman
Clarkson, KY 42726
(This is just griping so feel free to press 'D')
Every once in a while I fire up google and try to find out something
about HP 9000/500 series. Anyway, today I made two discoveries:
1.) HP doesn't know about HP-UX 5 (or 4)
http://www.software.hp.com/HPUX-RDMP/history/slide1.htm
but there's HP-UX FOCUS newsletter(s)
http://www.software.hp.com/HPUX-RDMP/related/focus/hpfocus.htm
sadly not about the FOCUS cpu.
2.) HP journal has completely disappeared.
www.hp.com/hpj now returns a 404. Gargh, even Digital, the notorious
site "re-organizer" *and* even after being bought by Compaq still
has Digital Technical Journal in html, pdf, ps and text. The links
maybe broken but at least you can still *get* them.
Sorry, I'm just whining as it's too difficult to get any detailed
cpu or instruction set manuals for the FOCUS chip and I'm just
jealous at all the PDP/VAX-people:)
--
jht
From: John Tinker <jtinker(a)coin.org>
>Guidance computer from Minute Man missle (1961)
Whatever you do preserve that one. They were not that common
and rare now. It was possible to even make one work useably.
I havent hacked one since the early 70s, back then I only had
the remotest clue, but it was cool.
Allison
I'd posted something about this a couple months ago I believe. The time
has come for me to dump a bunch of my collection, actually that time is
long past. I've decided to concentrate on the portion of the Hobby that
I'm most interested in. Namely PDP-11 and VMS systems. I managed to get
rid of a bunch of stuff yesterday, but still am needing to get rid of more.
I've got a bunch of junk that just needs rescued, I've got other stuff I'm
looking for some money for or some Sun or DEC stuff that I can use (fairly
modern in other words). These items are marked with a '$'.
Now for the bad news, some of this stuff it needs to go by Saturday the 2nd
or it goes to the scrapper (and I work evenings). The one positive thing I
can say is that I've managed to get most of the good stuff into one of my
other two units. Basically I'm trying to avoid paying another month on the
third unit (I might actually need to get it out prior to Saturday, I've got
to doublecheck on that).
Zane
RULE1: These systems are for *local pickup* only. I quite simply do not
have time to ship stuff.
RULE2: Systems sold as is.
Various
NorthStar Advantage (needs an Operating System)
Laser 128
Generic S-100 Bus Chassis
$ Kaypro II
Bell & Howell Apple ][ 2 broken keys (Have a pile of spare parts
including a good keyboard)
$ HP Integral PC (1 totally working, 2 partially working, 1 carrying case,
2 expansion chassis, big box of manuals)
Mattel Aquarius (Unknown)
Ampro Little Board (Unknown)
$ Epson PX-8 (think that's the right name)
Apple
Apple ][ plus
Apple ][e (x2)
Apple ][e enhanced 3 broken keys
Apple ][c (x2)
Apple ][gs (x2 1 is a Woz)
$ Apple III+
$ Lisa 2/5
Apple Macintosh's
Macintosh 512k, third party upgrade to Plus
Macintosh SE
Macintosh SE/HDFD
Macintosh II
Macintosh LC
Atari
$ Atari TT030
Commodore Bussiness Machines
Commodore PET (model 4064) Unknown Condition
Commodore 64c
$ Amiga 2000 (x3 only 1 keyboard, 2 Magni Genlocks, 1084 monitor, misc.
other stuff)
$ Amiga 3000 (1 fully updated, 1 spare. The updated one includes a
Catweasel, Picasso IV, a total of 18MB RAM, and latest rev
chips. I will keep this system before I part it out so
don't bother asking.)
digital
$ PDP-11/03
$ PDT-11/150 (Unknown Condition)
$ DEC Professional 380 (has VAX console board)
DECmate III (3 or 4 of them, Need Software, but that's easily available
on the net)
DEC Rainbow (Unknown)
DECstation 5000/133 (no drives, 32MB RAM, works)
IBM
PS/2 Model 55SX
IBM PC clones
Kapro PC
IMSAI
$ IMSAI 8080 (Rack Mount style, have top/sides for desktop style)
Tandy
Radio Shack TRS-80 Color Computer
Radio Shack TRS-80 Color Computer 2
Texas Instruments
Silent 700 Data Terminal (two different models)
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