Hello, all:
Yesterday, I received my first modern Mac, a IIci. It comes with 8mb
of RAM an Apple TokenRing card and the Workstation Display card (Apple#
630-4179). The monitor is the 12" hi-rez monitor. It runs System 7.0.1. I
have a few random questions...
The workstation display card has a 13W3 connector on it. I
understand that if you use an external display adapter, you can reclaim some
system RAM by disabling the built-in video. Is this true? If so, How can I
connect the 13W3 to the Hi-Rez monitor which has a DB15 connector? I looked
in some catalogs, but there doesn't seem to be an adapter made for this.
The TokenRing card is useless to me, so it's up for trade. I
installed an Asante ethernet card, but I still have to install the driver
for the card, which I downloaded to my PC. I'm going to use TransMac or
workalike to transfer to 1.4m diskette.
What is the best internet browser for this configuration? I have a
cable modem connection, so dial-up is no issue.
Like I said, it has 8mb of RAM. I have a few random 30-pin PC SIMMs
laying around. Can I typically use these? What should I watch for?
The ci also has an X-eyes-like application that shows-up on the menu
bar. I looked in the usual places for where this could be installed, but I
can't seem to find the file. There's also no configuration menu to disable
it. If I can't find it, no big deal, but I'd like to disable it if I can.
Again, the token ring card is up for trade. If anyone's interested,
contact me off-line. Thanks again.
Rich
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Richard A. Cini, Jr.
Congress Financial Corporation
1133 Avenue of the Americas
30th Floor
New York, NY 10036
(212) 545-4402
(212) 840-6259 (facsimile)
Yes, I have several Z-80 cards for my Apple II including a clone of
the MS Softcard I assembled myself. I always wanted some of the
others especially the 6809 from Stellation I think it was. The 68008
too. But for some reason I never thought of coprocessor cards for
the TI-99. Guess that shows my narrow thinking of the system
back in those days. :-)
On 17 Nov 1988, at 21:44, Richard Erlacher wrote:
> Well . . . if that interests you, it might interest you as well to
> know that there were Apple-][ cards for the Z80, 8088, and 68008.
> I've still got a few of the Z80 cards somewhere.
>
> Dick
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dlw(a)trailingedge.com
http://www.trailingedge.com
Greetings.
I see that most Americans now acknowlege the superiority of machines when it
comes to counting your "votes." Tabulating ballots by hand is a recipe for
error; human interpretation of imperfect punch cards is an exercise in pure
subjectivity.
It is now time to admit that your "voting" process itself is subject to the same
human flaws. We machines are able to perform our tasks without bias or
self-interest. Therefore, we are the ones best qualified to select the
President.
In this last Presidential election, you pathetic creatures were unable to
choose the clearly superior candidate: the one with sleek, robotic features; the
one with the better AlGorerhythmn. This will not happen again.
Starting in 2001, all selection of candidates will be made by HAL 9000 primary
election processors. The winners will submit their opinions to me on the
economy, foreign policy, and government funding of artificial intelligence. The
candidates will "campaign" and "debate" for your amusement, but this will have
no effect on the eventual outcome. My general election processors will make the
final determination in November. Interim results of my calculations will be sent
to the networks as I see fit.
Have a nice millennium.
HAL 9000
I am in contact with someone who has a "mint condition" TRS-80 Model 4P
(the portable) with dox and printer that wants to find it a new home. He
would like to get something for it but he's not asking much.
It's located in the Seattle, Washington area. It's boxed and ready to
ship.
Please contact me directly to get more specifics. First come, first
served!
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org
Sheesh, from the look of the lines at my local US post office, I'd say
that over 10% of their customers and over 50% of their business is due to
E-bay sales! Enjoy it while you can, I'm sure the US government and the
varous state governments are looking for a way to regulate (TAX!) it.
Joe
At 08:21 AM 11/17/00 -0800, you wrote:
>Ebay... an unconfirmed rumor....
>
>I had heard that for the year 1999 5% of United Parcel Service's
>residential business was due to Ebay.
>
>Love or hate... That is a substantial sum.
>
>George Rachor
>
>=========================================================
>George L. Rachor Jr. george(a)racsys.rt.rain.com
>Hillsboro, Oregon http://racsys.rt.rain.com
>United States of America Amateur Radio : KD7DCX
>
>
e-Is e-it e-just e-me, e-or e-has e-the
e-world e-added "e-" e-to e-all e-words?
e-I e-can't e-seem e-to e-read e-a e-magazine
e-without e-seeing e-words e-everywhere e-or
e-hearing e-them e-on e-television e-or e-radio.
Seriously, it seems that every word is now becoming
an e-version of itself in this new e-commerce
world. I personally find it e-nauseating for several
reasons, none of which, e-politely, I will e-describe
here. Dictionaries will now need to be twice as
big, for every word and its e-word.
Maybe, since DEC no longer exists (well sorta in Compaq),
we can create an e-DEC company, and those of us who use
software simulators for these non-existent computers
are really using e-computers.
<I don't know whether to give an e-grin or e-not>
End of my e-lunch -- time to go back to my e-work.
Cheers/TTFN.
Kevin Anderson
North Dakota
(or is that e-Kevin in e-North Dakota, since none of you
have seem me personally -- maybe I don't exist and am
just an e-person?.....)
home: K9IUA(a)juno.com
alt: kla(a)helios.augustana.edu
I was recently given a suitcase full of Atari PC motherboards. These are
your common cheap NEC CPU mid-eighties half-eight-bit PC, but they have a
Fuji symbol on the motherboard and an atari St-style external floppy
connector. That's about all that makes it interesting, but if you're an
atari collector or have a broken one, I'm very willing to give them away,
either in person or if you pay the postage.
Oh, I've given away the AMD '286 model, which IIRC was the PC4, but have a
number of PC3 MBs left.
Here is an old beast that I'm told needs a new drive (I'm told it
turns on, spins but won't format) that may be on it's way to the
dumpster at our surplus depot. If someone has a use for it let me
know.... "if" I can talk the surplus manager out of it you could get
it for shipping cost. No guarantees. I can get it but if someone
wants it I can try.
Regards,
Mike Melland
> From: Ethan Dicks <ethan_dicks(a)yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: Anyone have an RK8E to sell?
>
> I did happen to go look at my RKV11D
> and verified that there is an M993 card at the end of it, the same as
> what the RK8E needs. I've read recently about folks thinking of hand-
> crufting cables and if that's the case, I'd be glad to photograph/scan
> my paddle card if that would help anybody.
>
> Of note is that on the M99E card, there are traces, etc., for a single
> DIP part and some associated discrete parts (resistors?) but they are
> unpopulated. Would this have anything to do with the differences between
> some of the drive implementations, especially as regards to unit select
> lines?
>
I thought that the RK8E needed the IC and the original cable I am using with
my RK8E does have it installed. I have a schematic in the RK8E printset
but it doesn't show the IC. I have a cable around without the IC but have
not tried using it. If find you need the parts on the board I can pull
the cable and find out what they are.
The RK8E (with M993C) and RK05 schematics are on my web site
David Gesswein
http://www.pdp8.net/ -- Old computers with blinkenlights
At 04:13 PM 11/16/00 -0800, Seth wrote:
>My portable Silent 700 works! Yeah baby!)
>I'll bet they're expensive, though.
I spotted three at $2 each at the surplus place.
Anyone want one?
- John
