--- "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh(a)aracnet.com> wrote:
> >SCO has got Unix 5th, 6th and 7th Editions, Mini Unix, System III and 32V
> >available on their site for download...
> Also, does anyone know if BSD 2.11 is going to be available? I suspect
> it's the one that I'd be most interested in.
I'm interested in 2.11BSD as well as 2.9BSD - I have ancient 2.9BSD tapes
that I converted to container files and ran on my SPARC1 many years ago.
What I don't have is the source tape - mine developed a read error, and even
in the mid-90s, I wasn't able to extract from it. It's so old now that
I'm sure it's hopeless.
-ethan
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In a message dated 5/15/00 5:49:14 PM Eastern Daylight Time, foo(a)siconic.com
writes:
> On Mon, 15 May 2000, Tom Owad wrote:
>
> > >Let Them Come to You
> > >
> > >One way to find vintage computers is to let them find you.
> > >Try placing an ad in the classifieds section of your local
> > >paper. Be sure to specify exactly what you are looking for
> > >to avoid getting a flood of false leads. In the very least,
> > >include a cut-off year indicating you are not interested in
> > >any computers manufactured after that year.
> >
> > Anybody try this? What kind of response did you get?
>
> Not a newspaper ad, but posting a Usenet ad was quite possibly the best
> thing I could've ever done. I posted several ads in the local for sale
> newsgroups periodically over the course of several months and turned up
> all sorts of good stuff.
>
what is an example of the usenet ad you post?
i'm wondering how good an ad will work around here, however. someone posted
on a local usenet group here asking for a C64. I eventually traded him one
for a scsi drive for my PS/2 server. he said he had gotten some offers from
people offering to sell their C64s, but they wanted $40 and insanely high
prices. must have been ebay users. 8-<
DB Young ICQ: 29427634
hurry, hurry, step right up! see the computers you used as a kid!
http://members.aol.com/suprdave/classiccmp/museum.htm
It looks to be about 5ft tall. The top half is the traditional Sperry
Red/Orange color, and the bottom half is grey. It's mounted in a rack with
several storage devices. I can't make out the model number on the front. The
caption in the book says it's a minicomputer. It's much too small to be a
mainframe. I've never seen a UNIVAC in "person" before. I've always thought
it would be neat to own one.
Thanks,
Owen
Well, for those who remember, a couple of months back I got an XE GS for $2
but with no power supply, so I couldn't test it. Someone sent me some
very helpful information about it, but I lost all my mail in a HD incident
a month ago. I would love it if they could resend it :-)
Anyway, it powers up, now that I found a 130XE power supply to plug into
it, and it goes through all the self-tests 100%. I also found out how to
launch it into BASIC, but the problem was that it would not STOP going into
BASIC when I powered it off and on again, even if I didn't hold down any
buttons on the console! Also, I cannot seem to figure how to launch the
second? game that is supposed to be in it -- it comes up with either Missile
Command, the Self Test or BASIC. (I got it out of permanent BASIC mode by
disconnecting the power, but there's got to be an easier way. And where
can I find a GS keyboard?)
Anyway, suggestions appreciated. I have precious little experience with
Ataris, and even less with Ataris that work. >:-)
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-- Dalai Lama to hotdog vendor: "Make me one with everything." ----------------
Today beening the first sunday of the month, I finally
went to see and to take some pictures of a historically
important, but virtually unknown type of analog computer.
Just north across the Golden Gate bridge is a beautiful
protected area of rolling hills with biking and hiking
trails, but honeycombed with tunnels and overgrown gun
emplacements dating back to the 1870's. This area called
the Marin Headlands is also the location of SF-88, the
only one of 300 Nike missle sites to be restored for
public viewing.
They have a great web site and you can read about the
rest of the site, but today I was interested in the
control vans. One contains the electronic and controls
for the radars that tracked the missle and the target.
The other van contains the launch control panel and
the "intercept computer", a Western Elecric electronic
analog computer that occupies 4 equipment racks.
This analog computer guided the missile after launch
using radar inputs to intercept the target and maded the
idea of a anti missile deterrent a reality. The missile
site operated from 1955 to 1974 when it was turned over
to the National Park Service. But before 1955 many scientists
believed that a missile could never intercept another
missile (they said, would be like "hitting a bullet with
another bullet."). In 1955 Bell Telephone Laboratories
completed 50,000 simulated intercepts of ballistic
missile targets using an analog computer indicated
that it was possible to hit a missile with another
missile.
Today, I took a bunch of pictures. They had the
launch control panel powered up. Lots of multi-colored
buttons, and above the panel is the plotter, you
may have seen in the movies, with the two pens that
slowly move closer and closer until they touch as
the missile hits it's target.
http://www.jps.net/ethelen/t_acqconsole.html
A couple of pictures of the computer:
http://www.jps.net/ethelen/t_acqconsole.html
Take your own tour on-line:
http://www.jps.net/ethelen/t_tour.html
Nike sites in your state or country:
http://www.jps.net/ethelen/appndx_b.html
--Doug
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Sr. Software Eng. mranalog(a)home.com (home)
Press Start Inc. http://www.pressstart.com
Sunnyvale,CA
Curator
Analog Computer Museum and History Center
http://www.best.com/~dcoward/analog
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Cameron:
>>here's been an awful lot of Commodore-related vapourware these days.
This is why I bring it up. I saw this reference in c.s.c so I took a
look at it. If it *is* real, it's an interesting packaging job, sort of a
modern one-piece machine.
However, he's selling Commodore-badged PeeCees right next to it, so
it places the veracity of the ad in question. If I had to guess, this guy
may be a local PeeCee clone maker hoping to cash in on the C= name.
That notwithstanding, a one-piece B128 with Web browsing, Ethernet,
and 6502-compatibility is *very* interesting. I wonder if it has the old
serial IEEE port...
<TRANCE>
Hmmm...new...64...BASIC...must...have...new...64...
...no...can't be...dream...aaaaaaaarrrrrrrgggggghhhhh...
</TRANCE>
OK, I feel better now.
Rich
-----Original Message-----
From: Cameron Kaiser [mailto:ckaiser@oa.ptloma.edu]
Sent: Monday, May 15, 2000 10:39 AM
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: Is this for real -- a new C64/128
::Check this site out http://www.commodore2000.com
::
:: The Commodore Evolution (in the development process) looks like a
::fat PC keyboard. I e-mailed the guy to try to get some more detailed
specs.
::I wonder if this is for real or not. It looks like a recent domain
::registration.
Well, the company claims to have the rights. We're all dubious over in
comp.sys.cbm, especially after that Web.it crapola debacle (the 486 in
sheep's clothing with an emulator in ROM). There's been an awful lot of
Commodore-related vapourware these days.
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Wilde
Hello everyone, just a reminder that this excellent video is
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>> Its very close ('92-93) to ten years old, but I'll be brief - anybody
>> know of a use for some Proxim RangeLAN/ISA cards and a still-new-in-box
>> RangeLAN/PCMCIA kit? Please reply to me offline.
> You could build a peer-to-peer wireless network, but without one of
> the 'base stations' (that functions as a gateway between the wireless\
> network to the wired network) it'd be tough to do much else.
>
> Rick Bensene
Hmm... why not put the ISA card in a Win9x or Linux box and run some kind of
IP-NAT scheme. Essentially, you'd have the equivalent of an Apple AirPort
"Software Base Station".
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John Ruschmeyer
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