test-drb November 2000

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Sun Sparc2 offered to me. What should I check for?

by claudew＠sprint.ca

Hi I am being offered a Sun Sparc2 locally. These are not really common where I live...I could always get one from ebay...still Seems my collection of "home pc's" will now be extended to Sun systems...I am not familliar with these really... Rather then search the net for hours, I taught I might find an "expert" here to give me straight answers... Unit comes with keyboard, mouse, 64M ram 2G HD. What a decent price for this? They seem to go for anything from $10 to $40 on epay... What kinda monitor will this need? What should I check for? What kinda performance does this thing offer if I wanna try it out? (compared to...) It will run Linux right? Claude

25 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

25 years, 1 month

OT: looking for Interphase 4220 VME SCSI board

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

Hi folks...sorry for the off-topic post, but this list is about the best non-mainstream-hardware resource I can find. I'm rather desperately in need of an Interphase 4220 VME SCSI board. One will solve my problem, but I'd really like to get my hands on a couple more. Does anyone here have one that they wouldn't mind selling, or can someone point me in the right direction? Thanks, -Dave McGuire

25 years, 1 month

picture of IBM system/45 sought

by jwest＠mppw.com

I have someone trying to give me an IBM system/45, supposedly in pristine working condition with boot tapes, etc. I don't know anything about theses, not being a big IBM fan. To help determine if I want this, can someone answer the following? A) What OS did it run B) Programmers front panel? Ok, I'll admit it, I like blinkenlitzen C) Rough size? D) Power requirements? E) Most helpfull, would be a picture? Thanks in advance! Please reply to jlwest(a)tseinc.com AND west(a)tseinc.com Cheers! Jay West

25 years, 1 month

RX02 drive emulation (was RE: Lisa Profile Drive emulation on a PC)

by ajp166＠bellatlantic.net

From: Clint Wolff (VAX collector) <vaxman(a)uswest.net> >out in software. I work with enough brainy people I should be >able to get a PLL and data separator working under matlab... Thats the easy part. RX02 was a dual density system with the data being recorded in double density (MFM) and the rest of the marks in FM (single density). A PLL that can make that switch is better than good. Hint it was done as DSP in hardware TTL and 2901. Rx01/02 based system (DEC or clone) only read a fixed set of formats and that's it. True RX01 and 02 systems the drive box was semi smart and the cabled to the system where the card there was only a bus interface. I have both real RX02 (also reads RX01) and also CPM crates with "normal" 8" floppies. >a 10-pin ribbon cable coming out of it. I also have a dual RX02 that >came with an 11/23. Can the interface card be used in a uVAX? Yes but software support may not be there depending on version of OS used. >Before I sell the CP/M 68K system, I want to make sure I keep all the >DEC formatted floppies that belong to the '780. Those were as memory serves RX01. Allison

25 years, 1 month

Old tandy 1000 keyboard 8 pin din pinout?

by ajp166＠bellatlantic.net

-----Original Message----- From: Eric Smith <eric(a)brouhaha.com> >You're both right. Originally there was only one major version of each >of the 80186 and 80188, with only minor variants for packaging (and >maybe speed grades?). The first release was in two speeds. later plastic packages and different lead options. Also the 80C18x flavors. >But in more recent years, Intel has added a plethora of variants >identified by a two letter suffix, where there are non-trivial funtional >differences. I think this trend in Intel part numbering started >some years ago with the 8051FA. They stopped assigning a different With standard cell libraries for the last 10 or so years that doesn't surprize me. I stopped collecting intel data books after '89. Allison

25 years, 1 month

Old tandy 1000 keyboard 8 pin din pinout?

by ajp166＠bellatlantic.net

From: Dwight Elvey <elvey(a)hal.com> >Hi > Which 80186? These came in a lot of flavors. Every letter >following meant a change in pinouts or some feature inside. >All of the 80186's had some amount of select line decoding. >This along made them completely incompatible, pin wise, with >any of the more standard '86 family parts. >Dwight Ah no, the 80186 and the 80188 were the only versions though the PACKAGE was different with plastic and ceramic plus PLCC and other varients. The only other version was the CMOS varients same part in cmos. That it up held by my Intel 1987 embedded controller Handbook. The incompatability with other family of '86 parts was not from package but from differences like the DMA controller and interrupt controller are not the same as the more common 8237 and 8259A that are used with 8088/6 and the 286 family. That created the incompatability based on programming model and addresses used. FYI: the 186 approach was a better implementation than PC style. Allison

25 years, 1 month

Welcome and VME

by ajp166＠bellatlantic.net

-----Original Message----- From: Iggy Drougge <optimus(a)canit.se> >I really can't say that I have encountered any such machines. Would a PC-500 >(standard chipset) Pong console be of such a design, or perhaps even simpler? You serious? Get real. Chipset, bah! I'm talking about pre chipset stuff of CDC Cyber and Univax1180, PB250. >I don't think I could form any relationship to a 4-bitter, either. I wouldn't Your being far to narrow as 4bit could be the ALU path and the rest of the machine any size. >mind a 64-bitter for NetBSD purposes, though. 26-bitters are also on my wish Boring. Forget 26 bitters unix was not their thing. Allison

25 years, 1 month

Old tandy 1000 keyboard 8 pin din pinout?

by ajp166＠bellatlantic.net

From: Don Maslin <donm(a)cts.com> >> On Sat, 11 Nov 2000, ajp166 wrote: > >I realize now that it would not in that it is the 80188 vice 80186 >version. > - don V40 and V50 are the 8/16 bit bus versions with the 188/6 style core and different added peripherals that the 80188/6 didn't have. Just to be clear. Allison

25 years, 1 month

80186 Nimbus

by optimus＠canit.se

On the subject of whether the Research Machines 80186 based computer was called PC1 or Nimbus, I managed to dig out an old issue of Practical Computing (March 1985) where the machine is reviewed. It is actually called RM Nimbus, but is available in two models - PC1 and PC2. Thus, both parties were right. It features 3.5" floppy drives, an 8910 three-voice sound chip (Is this the same as the YM2149?) as well as an Oki digitised voice chip, and has dedicated graphics chips which are quite speedy. -- En ligne avec Thor 2.6. Menyn ?r inte lika sexig som telnet, det ?r h?rt men sant. Petri Oksanen #38 p? SUGA BBS

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