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
> 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)...
> >
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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
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
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
-----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
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
-----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
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
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.
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