Well, FWIW, I do have the schematics + owner's manual + maintenance manual
for a Hazeltine 2000... as for actual terminals, I've got a Prime terminal,
an IBM 8775, and my long-time favorite, my trio of Perkin-Elmer 550B's. I
had an ADM-11, but the stupid hunk of junk was dead when I got it, so it was
pretty useless... I could use 3 more P-E 550B's, and a trio of Carousel
300's, but I doubt anyone has any... Wouldn't mind a CR-11 (I KNOW that its
not a terminal, but since I'm on the topic of Interdata/P-E stuff I
want...), so I could change the ROMs and use it on a 7/32... have the
controller, but not the card reader...
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Is there a way to configure either RSX-11M or RSX-11M+ to boot up off of a
disk that it can't write to? I just created a backup CD-R of my RSX-11M
system, but since it could't write to the disk as it was coming up it
didn't come up in a usable state. However, it did boot. Alternatively
would it be possible to boot standalone backup off this CD or build a CD
with standalone backup?
RT-11 is a little more forgiving :^) Though I messed up and didn't have
the partitions assigned correctly before making the disk image so I can
only access part of my data when booting from CD, still it's enough to be
able to recover the system with should I loose the HD!
Zane
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-----Original Message-----
From: David Vohs <netsurfer_x1(a)hotmail.com>
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Date: Friday, May 19, 2000 1:51 PM
Subject: OT Rant: Smaller/thinner laptops.
>
>But in my opinion, I think laptops are made as thin as they are so you can
>be lost or stolen easier. If you lose a new laptop, you are probably out
>$1500 or more!
I think the driver of smaller size is the desire for lighter weight,
without sacrificing features, since so many people use only their laptops
now, rather than having a desktop as well. Anyone who's had to carry a 20+
lb laptop bag in addition to a briefcase, suitcase, etc. can appreciate why
smaller size and lighter weight is a Good Thing (tm).
Try lugging a Mac Portable with a spare battery around for a day and you'll
see what I mean.
Regards,
Mark.
I'd like to share a revelation I have had about modern laptops.
I have noticed that nearly every new laptop generation on the market is
roughly about a third smaller than the previous generation. But does anybody
know why they make them this way? One might say that this is so because of
new manufacturing processes, new technologies, etc.
But in my opinion, I think laptops are made as thin as they are so you can
be lost or stolen easier. If you lose a new laptop, you are probably out
$1500 or more! That's why I like older laptops like a Tandy Model 100,
Macintosh Portable, etc. because of these reasons:
1. Large size
2. *Proper* keyboards (laptop makers, please thake note!)
3. Phenominal battery lives (see above comment)
4. If they are lost (nobody would really want to steal an obsolete laptop)
you are out maybe $50-150 or so.
So the newest technology is better, I beg to differ!
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Home page: http://www.geocities.com/netsurfer_x1/
Computer Collection:
"Triumph": Commodore 64C, 1802, 1541, FSD-1, GeoRAM 512, Okimate 20.
"Leela": Macintosh 128 (Plus upgrade), Nova SCSI HDD, Imagewriter II.
"Delorean": TI-99/4A.
"Monolith": Apple Macintosh Portable.
"Spectrum": Tandy Color Computer 3.
"Boombox": Sharp PC-7000.
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Hello List,
A friend of mine has recently acquired an HP9000/735, and he's looking
to get an ethernet adapter for it. (it either didn't have one, or the one
he had was less than functional).
It is HP PN A2095-66584, the AUI ethernet board for an HP 735. He would
also be interested in the thin lan card instead, if someone has one of
those available for sale.
thanks a lot in advance.
- Dan Linder / dlinder(a)uiuc.edu / upside(a)mcs.net -
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History's Lost and Found on the History Channel has a segment on the first
apple tonight. I haven't seen it yet. It is on now, 8-9PM PDT and repeated at
Midnight to 1:00am. As of 8:21 the segment has not aired.
Paxton
In a message dated 5/19/00 9:51:52 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
mikeford(a)socal.rr.com writes:
> >> Try lugging a Mac Portable with a spare battery around for a day and you'
> ll
> >> see what I mean.
> >
> >Or an Amstrad ppc 640, all 14 pounds of it, including 8 C cell batteries.
:)
>
>
> How about an IBM 5140 (have one) with a kaypro as a backup (don't have
one)?
or better yet, a PS/2 P70 or P75. maybe even a portable PC <!>
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hurry, hurry, step right up! see the computers you used as a kid!
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In a message dated 5/19/2000 8:29:03 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
Innfogra(a)aol.com writes:
> History's Lost and Found on the History Channel has a segment on the first
> apple tonight. I haven't seen it yet. It is on now, 8-9PM PDT and repeated
> at
> Midnight to 1:00am. As of 8:21 the segment has not aired.
It aired about 8:25 and ended at 8:35. A loose history about the LOOP Apple 1
with interviews with Woz and the LOOP center. Woz donated an Apple 1 to the
center. A mishmash of pictures with quite a few of mainframes.
It will be repeated tonight on the History Channel about 12:25 am, PDT for
those of you that have cable TV. I enjoyed it but it was light. Nice pictures
of an Apple 1 though. Note that the keyboard cable is partially unplugged, I
don't think they fired it up.
Paxton
The Fry's in Sunnyvale CA has restocked its supply of "crimp" tools and has
a bunch of the Ideal Industries #30-497 tools, this does RJ-45 *and* DEC
MMJ connectors. They get $40 + tax for it which is a lot less than Black
Box wants for theirs! They do not have crimp on MMJ connectors :-(
--Chuck
Chuck McManis <cmcmanis(a)mcmanis.com> wrote:
> Oh if we're going to get funky lets talk about the (in)famous "MicroBee",
> the original Beehive terminal. This two ton, white painted, monstrosity
Yeah, but did it clear screen memory on power-up? The Hazeltine 2000
didn't. First you powered it up, then you waited for it to warm up,
then you might push the clear-screen key to make it wipe all that junk
off the screen before you got started.
> weighed in at about 40 lbs even though the terminal wasn't much larger than
> VT340. The display was a blurry blueish white on blackish green. The thing
> only had 20 lines and only 72 characters on those lines. Cursor control was
72 characters...OK, I understand that, Teletypes did 72 characters per
line. 80 characters/line was just like an IBM card (modulo the System/3
cards, anyway). But 74? The only thing I can think is that it's like 72,
but BIGGER!
> It was considered extreme kung-fu to get FINE (a TOPS-10 emacs clone) to
> work at all on the thing. (oh and it sent ^S, ^Q (couldn't prevent it) if
> you talked to it over 2400 baud)
In that day and age it seemed to be considered formerly-extreme
kung-fu (i.e. "it's been done" and was by then down to where it could
usually be made to work, even with modems and TPC in the way) to have
an ASCII terminal talking to the Univac 1108. (Actually this was done
with some sort of front-end that had been in part developed at the
University of Maryland, hence had the name SMUCS but doggone if I can
remember what that stood for.) So it didn't try to be more than a
glass Teletype, and nobody thought to use it as anything more than one
-- mostly this arrangment got used to edit files using @ED (an
interactive editor, but still Teletype-oriented) and submit batch
jobs.
-Frank McConnell
