>I hope there are one or more folks who read this who've worked on or at
>least been around old time race cars which used Sun Tachometers and have an
>answer to the following:
>
>I'm trying to restore a Sun Tachometer Transmitter for a friend who's
>furiously trying to finish his 1953-vintage Kurtis Kraft race car
>restoration project before the upcoming AACA show season. It is a
>magneto-type ignition system and he's found a used Transmitter. Model
>number is EB37, MAGneto type and it is hung off a Ford Flathead V8.
>
>There are two batteries mounted inside the unit, obviously because often
>race cars with magneto ignition have no need of a battery whether it be 6V
>or 12V. They _look_ like NiCd cells, maybe 600-800 mAh capacity, but I'm
>not 100% sure. This unit is from back in the late 1950's and has a "1058"
>rubber-stamped in orange ink on the back of the case - I suspect Oct, 1958.
They are likely mercury cells, I used to have to find them for the tach(SUN)
in the crown Vicki my brother had. common was the 5.8V/250mah.
>Would anybody be able to confirm if these are indeed NiCd cells? Reason I'm
>not sure is I haven't found when NiCd batteries actually came into use and
>I believe they are a 60's invention, not 50's which this Sun unit evidently
Nicads are quite old. Though the common form on the 50s-60s was the wet
cells that looked like lead acid. They were also available as hermetic
(well sorta) then and not cheap.
Allison
>>just an OBTW: I use QB45, if someone didn't take the minor effort to
>>complie to an .EXE
>>and instead used BRUN.... well they did their own disservice.
>>
>>Allison
>
>I don't think the MS qbasic for the mac ever offered a option to compile.
>Basically nothing that was done with the package will run past about OS 7.1
>if that, so if it was just being stupid, everybody was. Good reason to keep
>a few old macs around to play the old games etc.
My fault, I assumed it was PC and dos world. I have no clue on MACs and
can almost recognize one 2:3 tries.
Allison
>On Sat, Apr 08, 2000 at 12:18:23AM -0700, Mike Ford wrote:
>> I was speaking in reference only to MicroSoft QuickBasic, and quite a few
>> people were more than miffed when MS pulled the plug on it since the
>> applications they wrote depended on a runtime module from MS. And yes I
just an OBTW: I use QB45, if someone didn't take the minor effort to
complie to an .EXE
and instead used BRUN.... well they did their own disservice.
Allison
In a message dated 4/8/00 12:48:11 Central Daylight Time, pryor(a)wi.net writes:
> Mike,
> I'll repeat my offer of $100 if you still have this stuff.
> Jim
Jim - also, I travel almost every week so let me know when you plan to pick
up. Make sure you have room for all the books and other junk. The only item
I can't find is the 8" drive. Probably went with the H-89 stuff I sold last
month.
Know anyone that is looking for an H-89? I found another one while I was
cleaning off shelves.
Mike Stover, KB9VU
CCA# 404
MARS AFA3BO
Florissant, MO
In a message dated 4/8/00 12:48:11 Central Daylight Time, pryor(a)wi.net writes:
> Mike,
> I'll repeat my offer of $100 if you still have this stuff.
> Jim
>
>
OK Jim - come get it.
Mike
Mike Stover, KB9VU
CCA# 404
MARS AFA3BO
Florissant, MO
I have an operational H/Z-110 low profile computer with the Zenith Color monitor. Unit has dual hard drives and a floppy installed internally. MB is the last revision produced and has 768K loaded. The optional Gemini card to run PCDOS (IBM) native programs is also installed. Outboard Zenith 8" floppy drive in the factory enclosure.
Original User Manuals, Technical Manuals and Service Manual set with all service bulletins included.
ZDOS, MSDOS version 2, CP/M-80, CP/M-86 operating systems.
Several applications software items including Wordstar, Multiplan, Condor, and others (15 original 3 ring binder documentation sets) and other user software totalling over 200 5.25" disks.
$150 for the whole lot. Pick up in the St. Louis area. I need to get this system out of the way and into a new home for someone to use. Help!
Thanks
Mike Stover, Florissant, MO
>Running Telemate as a terminal program i cannot set Hardware
>flowcontrol on cause it tells me that CTS=off (baud = 4800)
Hardware flow control? Gack. You want absolutely no hardware flow
control, you want software flow control (XON/XOFF) only. My favorite
terminal emulator for a PC-clone box is MS-Kermit, available for free
>from ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/ , and this will do the job quite nicely.
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From: "Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner" <spc(a)armigeron.com> and
the Great Richard Erlacher once stated:
> > Tim Patterson, who wrote the initial version of MS-DOS while at Seattle
> > Products, may have had access to CP/M sources since Seattle Products sol
d
> > CP/M systems and they were working on an 8086 based computer in the late
> > 70s. Tim probably modeled his QDOS (Quick-n-Dirty Operating System) clo
sely
> > after CP/M (some say he may have mechanically translated CP/M since
> > copyright statements to Digital Research have allegedly been found in MS
-DOS
> > 1.x but I haven't seen any). Why not? It would have been a quick and e
asy
> > way to get an OS for the 8086 system up and running.
>
> I've heard that, too. Does that mean that anyone who writes a program to
do
> what he's seen another program do is making a copy?
>>> Ask the lawyers or philosophers.
I have a copy of DOS 1.1 that I've done a Sourcer disassembly of. I have
not found anything referring to DR or CP/M anywhere in the resulting source.
Now, one thought that I had is that there may be a sequence of code
bytes unique to CP/M that was duplicated in DOS (nee, QDOS) by
virtue of directly copying the CP/M source. This would produce a
unique and identifyable signature.
Since I only have v1.1 to examine and it doesn't have a DR notice,
maybe that's why there's a v1.1 :-).
If anyone has a copy of 1.0 that they can send me to work on, I'll
do a book report for y'all...
Rich
[ Rich Cini
[ ClubWin!/CW1
[ MCP Windows 95/Windows Networking
[ Collector of "classic" computers
[ http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/~rcini/classiccmp/
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Digging up some literature on the web about the uVAX II console cable
I've ran into some conflicting info:
Story I
| The MicroVAXII serial console port is:
|
| 9 pin D with pinout
| 1 - grnd
| 2,3 - snd, rcv (crossed to terminal for partial null modem)
| 8 to 9 - shorted together
| (I think, I don't have a manual handy. If I'm wrong would someone please
| correct me.)
Story II
|The pinout is a bit strange:
|DE-9 (DEC) DB-25 (PC)
|1 1
|2 3
|3 2
|4 5
|5 6
|6 20
|7 7
|8 -\
|9 -/ (short 8 & 9) together
I have made the latter cable but adapted it to a 9 pin PC-serial
connector and I am pretty certain it is wired ok.
Running Telemate as a terminal program i cannot set Hardware
flowcontrol on cause it tells me that CTS=off (baud = 4800)
I get no characters on the terminal when I startup uVAX (BA123).
It sounds like the HD's restore OK and the little display at
the bulkhead says C after first showing a few other characters.
Pressing the restart/run button seems to have some effect because
I can see a few leds on the TQK50 blink for an instance (The box
is open but the cabinet-open switch is taped into the on position)
What's is wrong ?
Does anyone have a clue
>DOS and Windoze (aka kluge of the month club). CP/M I seem to remember
only
>got to 2.2. MS-DOS got to 6.22, and gosh knows how many kluges there will
the CPM line I remember is:
Dates are appoximate.
1.3 1976
1.4 1977
2.0 (2.2 released) 1980
MPM 1981
3.0 (aka cpm+) 1982
CPnet 1983
Allison
