test-drb November 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, 1 month

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, 2 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, 4 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, 4 months

UCSD P System (was: Why is it that ...

by ajp166＠bellatlantic.net

From: Jim Battle <frustum(a)pacbell.net> >For those not wanting to chase the link, it says: > > Filer: G, S, N, L, R, C, T, D, Q [1.1] > >Don't you remember? This was the security mechanism. Must have been the apple {likely ti99 too} version without the 80col card. On a S100 Z80 crage using an H19 it was far better. I had the chance to compare the two and UCSD was marginal with 40 char, somewhat better at 64 and seemed like a different animal with 80 (or more) col. Allison

23 years, 6 months

Old tandy 1000 keyboard 8 pin din pinout?

by claudew＠sprint.ca

Hi I am restoring a TRS80 model 2000 (1983), one of the rare machines to use an actual 80186 Intel CPU. I did not have the original keyboard. I have been told that an older 1000 keyboard (90 key type similar look to 4p keyboard) works fine as long as you make an adapter cable. I have the pin functions for the trs80 2000 5 pin din keyboard connector but not for the other end...the 8 pin male connector on the old 1000 keyboard... I looked and searched long and hard...all over...anybody got that? I am at the point of opening up the keyboard and looking at the circuit to figure out the pinout but I would like to avoid that... Thanks Claude

23 years, 6 months

Why is it that ...

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

I think I still have the disks somewhere.... I just don't have an Apple-II to use to verify their readability. It wasn't bad, I rather enjoyed using it (my last semester in college, Spring '83). -dq > -----Original Message----- > From: healyzh(a)aracnet.com [mailto:healyzh@aracnet.com] > Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2000 11:50 PM > To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org > Subject: Re: Why is it that ... > > > > Yes the lack of JAVA, frames, no cookies and Activex stuff > does limits > > sites available and more every day. I'd think JAVA would > not be that > > bad on a smaller CPU tough it may be slow. After all it's > not that much > > different than running UCSD PASCAL (P-system) P-code on z80 or > > 6502! > > > > Allison > > One of these days I'd really like to play with a UCSD PASCAL > system, largely > to get a feel of how well it worked. From what I've heard > getting any kind > of Java running on a 68k based system is a problem (have we > got anyone still > active with Amiga's around, they'd have a better idea). That > tells me that > a 486 or lower won't really be able to cut it when it comes to JAVA. > > It does make you wonder what Sun's minimum requirements for > Java is on thier > machines. > > Wait a minute.... I think I had Java running on my PowerBook > 520c back in > '95 or '96, and it's a 68LC040 based system, so I guess at > least a 68040 or > 486 based system probably can do Java. At least on a > supported OS (which is > the real problem). > > Zane >

23 years, 6 months

Why is it that ...

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Nov 29, 23:12, Tony Duell wrote: > > > There's also a thing called a Sage II. > I've only ever seen 2 of them. One of my mad friends (who I happened to > be with) and I got them for a very low price... > > This machine has one of the best user manuals I've seen. It's got > schematics, parts lists, etc in it. And, it's easy to repair because > _all_ ICs, even the TTL glue, are in sockets. Apart from the EPROMs > (which contain a machine code monitor and disk bootstrap), every chip is > stnadard. Yes, they're nice. I have one left -- I had four, but sold or gave the rest away. All the ones I've seen had one DSDD 80-track 5 1/4" floppy, but I beleive there was a hard disk option. I never had a manual, though, nor CP/M 68K. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager Dept. of Computer Science University of York

23 years, 6 months

Classic monochrome phosphors?

by ajp166＠bellatlantic.net

From: CLASSICCMP(a)trailing-edge.com <CLASSICCMP(a)trailing-edge.com> >Does anyone know the designation (as in "P3" or "P25") of these long-lived >green and yellow phosphors that were commonly used on IBM PC and PC-clone Between scopes and terminals I have: P31 blue, ? amber, P1 green and two differnt whites (vt100 and Vt320 paperwhite). P1 is the common medium green of older scopes and terminals P3 and P39 are either amber or white range, I forget P7 short blue/long yellow (used mostly for scopes and slowscan) P11 is blue (more toward the medium persistance) P31 The common scope tubes early 90s (blueish white medium) There are others but, the codes to them are long forgotten. Allison

23 years, 7 months

Why is it that ...

by ajp166＠bellatlantic.net

From: Zane H. Healy <healyzh(a)aracnet.com> >You bring up a sad point, without Java and Javascript capability, as well >as Frames, etc. you're blocked from a lot of the WWW these days :^( > > Zane Yes the lack of JAVA, frames, no cookies and Activex stuff does limits sites available and more every day. I'd think JAVA would not be that bad on a smaller CPU tough it may be slow. After all it's not that much different than running UCSD PASCAL (P-system) P-code on z80 or 6502! Allison

23 years, 7 months

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