Mike Ford wrote:
>Is anyone on the list an ACTIVE Next user or collector?
Yo! My cube normally sits on my desk at Southwest Research
Institute (and is my only desktop machine at work, my other work computer
being a Powerbook 3400). I use it for websurfing (OmniWeb), compiling
command lists weekly for the IMAGE spacecraft (Perl 5.0, Terminal), pass
and orbit visualization (Rendezvous), attitude determination software
design, testing, and debug for IMAGE (Mathematica 2.0), newsgroup reading
(NewsGrazer), preparing presentations (Concurrence, Diagram), analyzing
attitude and other data (cc, Quantrix), and other stuff. I also do
incremental backups of my powerbook to it (ftpd, compress).
It's got an optical and a 540M hard drive and a floppy internal
(using a special bracket to get the floppy to the second faceplate slot and
still hold the 3.5" hard drive in that same bay). It also has two 1.2G
externals in an old PC chassis (a far far nobler cause than that chassis
ever served before...gotta get that thing painted black... :-) ).
The machine is now upstairs at home, because while trying to
upgrade to Mathematica 3.0, I used for the first time, to hook my CD drive
into the SCSI chain, a Centronix-to-Centronix cable that was apparently not
a SCSI cable. (What do I know, it came out of a box that said "SCSI cables,
$3" at Wierd Stuff Warehouse). The boot hard drive got scrambled, then I
discovered I don't know as much as I thought I did about "dump" and
"restore". I'm about recovered from that by now, so I'll try again (with a
*different* cable setup) on the Mma 3.0 install.
BTW, as of a few weeks ago, Wolfram was about to quit doing
upgrades from Mma 2.2 and earlier, so if you've been putting that off,
don't.
The 25 MHz 68040 CPU is not as fast as modern workstation
processors. That said, NeXTStep 3.3 on NeXT is a very solid and very useful
OS/Development environment for a workstation, and the amount of
freeware/shareware/payware out for NeXT is amazing. Since nothing I do
requires a lot of serious crunch power (or if it does can be run
overnight), the NeXT is a really good machine for me.
>I don't know if I would bring one home just
>to sell and pack for a profit. Most likely yes, but I know I would grumble
>all the way to the bank.
I know of a couple of folks around here I'd like to get connected
with NeXTs. Also, I'd *love* to find a NeXTDimension board, cable, and
color monitor to add to my system at a price my wife will accept. Finally,
there are a couple of NeXT resellers still on the market who would likely
be interested in hearing about big piles of new hardware. If you see/hear
of another batch in peril, *particularly* if it includes a cube tied to a
color monitor, let me know and I'll hopefully arrange for you to grumble
back and forth to the bank several times.
- Mark
I seem to have accumulated a small pile of HP-flavored DC100 tape
cartridges, some interesting, most not. Samples from the
not-interesting DC100s suggest that many are afflicted by
sticky-tension-loop, meaning they've been left to sit long enough that
the tension loop that runs between capstan and the supply and takeup
reels has become stuck to the tape where they touch, and when the
capstan is spun they will peel some of the oxide off the tape.
Does anybody have any ideas how to un-stick a tape that's been left
sitting? Careful disassembly? Steam? WD40?
-Frank McConnell
I'm in need of 2 TRS-80 (Model 1) power supplies, working of course. Does
anyone have any to sell to me?
Please contact me directly off-list.
Thanks!
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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I recently got another PDP-11/34 (partly because it was local, but
mostly for the three RL01 drives it came with). It is working perfectly,
and I get the console emulator prompt on the terminal. What should I do
before I fire up the RL01 drives? I have a lot of RL01 packs including
RSX-11M. Needless to say, I haven't put them in the drive yet.
Thanks,
Owen
Well it has been five months of about 7 hours a week of work on
Solace, SOL Anachronistic Computer Emulator, and a new version
is ready.
You may also recall a short thread from about a month ago about
a Sol on ebay that had been modified for Tibetan fonts.
Well, I was already in contact with that owner and he downloaded
the fonts before he sold the machine. They are now supported
by Solace. If you want to see what a BASIC program looks like in
Dzonkha or Devanagri script, I know of no better way than Solace. :-)
I've fixed some bugs, improved a few things here and there, but the
main new feature is that I've built an integrated debugger. Oh, and
this release supplies all the source code and other resources required
to build it.
Solace web page:
http://www.thebattles.net/sol20/solace/solace.html
Solace release notes:
http://www.thebattles.net/sol20/solace/relnotes.txt
Debugger documentation:
http://www.thebattles.net/sol20/solace/solace_dbg.html
Main Sol web page:
http://www.thebattles.net/sol20/sol.html
In time I plan on doing more work, but I'm going to take a little
time off of that and spend some more time getting Sol docs
online so that the three other people who care can make use
of them. :-)
All suggestions, bug reports, and donations of items for the
Sol archive are welcomed.
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Jim Battle == frustum(a)pacbell.net
At 08:58 AM 12/1/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Not that I know a lot about the Amiga, but don't some come with ISA slots?
>If so, maybe a jumperable NE2000 clone might work on the cheap?
The big-box machines (A2000, A3000, A4000) all come with ISA slots, which
are inline with the Zorro-II/III slots. The thing is, without a
bridgeboard installed, the ISA slots aren't active. They require the
bridgeboards, whether from CBM or others, to generate the various signals
on the bus. Of course, with them being inline with the Zorro slots, any
bridgeboard/ISA combination you install blocks the usage of at least two
Zorro slots.
Jeff
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Home Of The TRS-80 Model 2000 FAQ
Is there *any* source for parity lo-pro 60ns DIMMs? Same physical configuration
as the DIMMs that go into the 7200-7600 and others, but 60ns and parity or
ECC. This is for an Apple Network Server 500, which is basically an overgrown
9500 with six PCI slots, seven drive bays, and no support from Apple. :-(
I spent a lot of cash early on making sure all of its 80MB RAM was parity
(it can use parity RAM), and I'd really like to make sure that I don't lose
that investment!
I just found out from Outpost.com that Kingston, the only source I found,
doesn't stock them either, so I'm calling them on Monday to check it out (since
their website says they do). Any help appreciated.
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Cameron Kaiser, Point Loma Nazarene University * ckaiser(a)stockholm.ptloma.edu
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With all this talk of Amigas, it feels like old home week for me.
I was wondering if anyone on the list has any information about the
Lucas/Frances boards for the A1000. As I recall, Lucas/Frances was a
combination 68020 accelerator, RAM expansion, and SCSI controller for the
Amiga 1000. It was a pseudo open-source collaboration between several Amiga
hackers, based, I believe, in Toronto. The product was sold in kit form,
because it radiated radio frequencies in a way the CRTC would not have
approved of. By building it yourself, you took on responsibility for
becoming a broadcaster, rather than the kit's producer.
The kit was very popular in the 1986-88 time frame in Ontario, but there
doesn't seem to be much information surviving on the Web or Aminet about
it.
Does anyone remember this project, have one, or know anyone who was
involved?
I'd like to research the history of it more thoroughly. Any help
appreciated.
Regards,
Mark.
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
