At 12:39 PM 4/21/2000 -0700, you wrote:
>On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Sellam Ismail wrote:
>> VCF 1.0e is about a week away and plans are rolling right along. It
>
>Better take along a LOT of visual aids (slides, overhead foils, etc.) If
>that's the extent of your German, then 45 minutes is going to call for a
>LOT of beer drinking, toilet visiting, and vomiting!
>Maybe you should have Hans translate, or rely on their knowing some
>English.
>
>> I'm also giving a talk at Oxford (that would be in England :) at the
>
>So you're going to have to learn British, also. Remember that we are two
>peoples divided by a common language.
>
>--
>Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com
>
You know what Professor Higgens said, "In America they haven't spoken it
in years!"
Maybe Sam could get Tony to translate.
Cheers
Charlie Fox
Charles E. Fox
Chas E. Fox Video Productions
793 Argyle Rd. Windsor N8Y 3J8 Ont. Canada
email foxvideo(a)wincom.net Homepage http://www.wincom.net/foxvideo
Check out "The Old Walkerville Virtual Museum" at
http://www.skyboom.com/foxvideo --works best with I.E.5
I just picked up three of the Intel EV80960SX evaluation boards. They're
evaluation boards for the Intel 80960 processors. There's a picture of one
at "www.intellistar.net/~rigdonj/misc/int80960.jpg". Does anyone have the
specs or any docs for them?
Joe
--- ks <ks(a)coastalnet.com> wrote:
> Cameron Kaiser wrote:
> >
> > Well, for those of you following HyperLink 2.5, the web browser I'm working
> > on for the C64, as of this morning I was able to surf Yahoo at 26.4 kbps
> > with a PC 28.8 modem and an ACIA cartridge.
>
>
> Cameron what is an ACIA cartridge?
I know what one is but not where to get one. The ACIA is a particular
variety of UART. IIRC, it stands for Advanced Communications Interface
Adapter or something similar. Should be a variant of 6550 chip in there.
Since I have a small drawer of 6550s (stripped from some 1970s 6502-based
dumb terminals), I'm wondering if there are plans on the net (ftp.funet.fi?)
to build one.
I happen to already have an IDE interface for the C-64 (and a 1.3" KittyHawk
drive to go with it); I'd love to stick a browser on there and go. If
possible, I'd probably try to retrofit an ACIA to a recycled C-64 game cart
with some creative wiring. Presumably at low speeds, DMA is not required.
As they say, it's not how well the bear dances, but that the bear can dance
at all.
Great Job, Cameron! Let me know if it's possible to homebrew a serial
interface that's compatible with what you are working on.
-ethan
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Well, for those of you following HyperLink 2.5, the web browser I'm working
on for the C64, as of this morning I was able to surf Yahoo at 26.4 kbps
with a PC 28.8 modem and an ACIA cartridge. And a few other sites too, which
reminds me that Sam Ismail needs to put some ALT tags on those images on the
VCF site. ;-)
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I know this has been discussed before, but I can't find the info. I just
aquired a Maxtor 2190 disk drive that I want to convert into a DEC RD54. I
know about formatting it under XXDP, but I remember that a jumper had to be
changed on the drive. Can anyone help me out here?
Thanks,
Bill King
In a press release dated April 18, 2000, SCO has announced that they
have dropped the $100 processing fee for an "Ancient" Unix License:
http://www.sco.com/press/releases/2000/6927.html
They say that it will be possible to download code directly from their
site. As far as I can tell, they haven't yet made it available.
Once one has an Ancient Unix License, one can also get other Unix code
derived from Unix editions through 7th Edition, and 32V, from
PUPS, the PDP Unix Preservation Society:
http://minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au/PUPS/
And Marshall Kirk McKusick's CSRG Archive CD-ROM set (four discs, $99.00),
which contains all of the BSD releases:
http://www.mckusick.com/csrg/index.html
Hi All,
A couple of years ago I picked up a second Altair. It was missing all the
cards except for a Godbout active terminator card and is missing the top
case. While working on it a couple of weeks ago I found a previous owner's
name in it. It recognized the name, it was a guy that I worked with for
many years at Martin Marietta. After some searching, I finally tracked him
down and asked him about the Altair. Here's his reply:
>
>My EXwife 'disposed' of a fair amount of my equipment a few years back.
(She didn't pay the payments on the storage locked so the stuff was
trashed. ed)
> The
>Altair was in perfect shape, worked, had all of the cards and was attached
>to a Hazeltine1500 CRT. It had a couple of 8 inch floppy drives and a CDC
>Hawk 5x5 hard disk drive that fit a 19E rack. If I remember correctly, the
>Altair was serial 28. It wasn't a kit but was a production (one of the
>first off the line) model.
>
>Interesting how things happen??? BTW, I still live in Orlando. The number
>you gave was my work phone number when I was still working for Lockheed up
>in Ocala. I commuted each day from Orlando...got old and just about wore my
>car out.
>
>Nice hearing from you after all this time.
>
>Richard
>
Somehow a scrapper ended up with it. He evidently pulled the cards for
their scrap value. Then he sold the chassis at a hamfest. Another ex-Martin
employee bought it and years later I bought it from him. Does anyone have a
top case that they'll part with? My first Altair is nearly complete but I
still need the MITs floppy drive controller cards. Does anyone have a set
that they'll sell or trade? I have an original MITs floppy drive and
original MITs disks so I only need the controller cards to make it
operational.
Joe
They are having a clearout at work :). Due to the disposals policy and
procedures all of this stuff isn't considered worth putting through the
disposals procedure and being sold/given away and so must go in the
skip. However they are prepared to lend it to me on indefinite loan on
the condition that I return it so that they can throw it in the skip if
I leave.
The best find, in my opinion, is a Samsung S5200 luggable with all docs
and the original system floppies. From the documentation it is a 286
with 2MB RAM and 32MB SCSI hard drive. The only problem is that it has
a PSU fault - when I turn it on there is no life at all. I didn't bring
it home tonight as I was on the bike and it was raining but I will
collect the complete haul on Tuesday so I will be asking for help
diagnosing this fault. I have opened it up and the PSU contains no ICs
so it is the sort of thing I might have a chance of working on.
Also in the haul is Windows 2, Windows/286, Windows 3, DOS versions 3.1,
3.2, 4, 5, and 6.22, DR-DOS 5, OS/2, DBase versions 2 and 4, Turbo C++
V3, Zortech C, Wordstar 3, and 6 along with WordStar for Windoze,
SuperCalc versions 4, 5 and 5.1, DataEase, TAS + and Professional, and
much more on 5.25 and 8" disks which I haven't had time to catalogue
yet. There is even a full box of 10 brand new 8" disks. I also have a
Dragon 32 and may get an RM NB300 laptop if I am lucky. There is also
an original IBM PC/AT and a Wyse SCSI DAT drive. A lot of the software
is complete with original docs and some is shrink wrapped.
Can't wait to play with it all ;-)
--
Regards
Pete
On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 04:25:28PM +0000, bpechter(a)mail.monmouth.com wrote:
> I thought RJ45's are 8 pin maximum -- but I may be wrong.
The 10-pin ones are rare, but they do exist, Altex sells the cables/connectors
and Digikey has the sockets. With the usual RS232 pinning, the "RI" signal
is on one of the outer two pins, so the more common 8-pin RJ45s will lose
it, I know some people who have been burned by that. So that's why I care...
John Wilson
D Bit
Hello, boys and girls.
I've come to the realization that I have too much stuff. I'm building a
small Mac-based production studio in my basement so I can start
do theatrical sound effects in my spare time, and I'd like to finally
get started on the model rr layout.
Unfortunately, due to the stupid laws of physics, I only have a fixed
amount of space to do all this in.
I looked over all the shelves, and realized that I have been given
many machines that I'm really not interested in keeping, so
therefore I'm thinning the herd down to the key pieces.
I'll put together a list over the upcoming weekend if anyone's
interested, but since most of what I'm getting rid of is big stuff (big
in the desktop/laptop sort of world, not big as in the "I've got a
roomful of PDP stuff" sense......) so I'd like to not have to ship it.
If you're in the NW Indiana/Chicago region and might be interested
in some older IBM stuff, some Kaypro II's, and other miscellany,
please email me off-list and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. I'll
be tied up most of this week, but I'll try to answer quickly.
I'd hate to just scrap this stuff, as I'm sure someone can make use
of it. I just plain ran out of room and would like to have part of my
basement back.....
Thanks.
Paul Braun
NerdWare -- The History of the PC and the Nerds who brought it to you.
nerdware(a)laidbak.com
www.laidbak.com/nerdware
