test-drb May 2000

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by wrking＠tsoft.com

Thanks to the people who have responded. There is no suffix to the board number. M8189, that's it. I've looked really closely at the soldering of the UART socket. It has the same flow as the rest of the components, so I still think it was manufactured this way. I powered it up tonight and determined that the daughter card is the console port. I connected a terminal and it works as you would expect. The firmware seems to be standard 11/23+ 1.0 firmware. I think I'll just by a 6402 UART and replace the daughter card. Thanks again, Bill

24 years, 7 months

COSMAC 1802 Simulator

by dogas＠leading.net

Pretty funny.... Or I guess synchronistic, I guess. I just got my 1802 simulator past the first milepost tonight (It's two days old). It'll process all the Cosmac's instruction's, show registers, and deposit to and examine ram. I could use a few beta testers if you happen to know cosmac machine code. it's at: http://users.leading.net/~dogas/classiccmp/cosmac/cosmac.htm Tomorrow night, I'll add arbitrary ram block saves and loads from disk and a mini assember if things go fast. Eventally, I'll add a nice GUI to it and clean up the code that I'm muddling around with. Cheers - Mike: dogas(a)leading.net -----Original Message----- From: allisonp <allisonp(a)world.std.com> To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org> Date: Monday, May 01, 2000 11:02 PM Subject: Re: COSMAC 1802 Simulator > >-----Original Message----- >From: Kirk Davis <kbd(a)ndx.net> > > >>Ugh - I spent some time writing a 1802 simulator >>and wanted to get Tiny Basic going on it. I just went > > >That was poor planning. ;) > >>though my manuals and I have the Basic manual, but have >>seemed to lost the hex dump for the Basic Interpreter itself. > > >Well if someone else doesn't drop a box of stuff on you I have >Quest TB for the 1802 somewhere safe. I can zap a copy of >the dump. But you can't have the paper tape! > > >Allison >

24 years, 7 months

IBM MT/ST Commercial "The Paperwork Explosion"

by af-list＠wfi-inc.com

Hi all, Just received my previously-mentioned Raymond Scott "Manhattan Research" CD-Set/Book and it's incredible. Wow. On-topic, it has the soundtrack to an industrial film for the MT/ST from 1967. In there is Jim Henson's voice announcing, "Used systematically throughout an office, these two pieces of IBM equipment alone have increased people's productivity by 50%." If anyone is interested in hearing it, maybe I could post a couple of snippets as mp3 files or something...just let me know. Cheers, Aaron

24 years, 7 months

FREE: Sun 3/280 chassis+rack AND 2 Fuji Eagle N2361's

by mid＠auk.cx

Real Sun 3/280 rack. Its probably more useful as a generic 19in rack than it is as a Sun3/280. Complete with fans and power distribution center (not real useful either -- requires 30A outlet). Also includes the 3/280 chassis/cardcage. Also, you get two Fuji Eagles (SMD). You must take these with the rack since 1) I have no where else to put them and 2) I have no where else to put them. (And don't forget 3) They're damned hard to lift straight off the floor.) I'll throw in the SMD controllers if you like. I'm not sure if I still have the original /280 boards, but I could probably find a /260 system board (same exact things) for you if you really really want to bring up the system. (Yes, it does boot off the Eagles. I don't recommend it. Especially in the Arizona summer.) SMD cables included (but you get to figure out the proper way to connect them). All this for free (or best offer!). The condition is that you get to pick them up from my home in Peoria, Arizona. And you have to have a truck thats big enough to haul them. (I hauled it home in a 1979 Chevy Suburban. Its not _too_ bad. Not a job for the for the small and weak, though.) Dimensions for reference: 24in x 36in x 78in. I'm not even going to guess on the weight. You probably want to haul the Eagles in the proper way if you want them to work when you're done. I even have pictures, for the patient: http://www.auk.cx/sun3/pics/280/ (Monitor and keyboard not included.) Please forward this to whoever you think might be interested. I don't want to keep it in my garage over the summer. It gets into and beyond the 120s out there. af --- Adam Fritzler { mid(a)auk.cx } http://www.auk.cx/~mid/

24 years, 7 months

Thinkpad 720 AC adapter

by mrbill＠mrbill.net

Anybody know where I can find an AC adapter for a Thinkpad 720, or alternately, anyone who has older 486 Thinkpad(s) for sale *cheap* ? Thanks. Bill -- +--------------------+-------------------+ | Bill Bradford | Austin, Texas | +--------------------+-------------------+ | mrbill(a)sunhelp.org | mrbill(a)mrbill.net | +--------------------+-------------------+

24 years, 7 months

COSMAC 1802 Simulator

by allisonp＠world.std.com

-----Original Message----- From: Kirk Davis <kbd(a)ndx.net> >Ugh - I spent some time writing a 1802 simulator >and wanted to get Tiny Basic going on it. I just went That was poor planning. ;) >though my manuals and I have the Basic manual, but have >seemed to lost the hex dump for the Basic Interpreter itself. Well if someone else doesn't drop a box of stuff on you I have Quest TB for the 1802 somewhere safe. I can zap a copy of the dump. But you can't have the paper tape! Allison

24 years, 7 months

Personal App Kit: Claimed!

by kyrrin＠bluefeathertech.com

George Currie was the lucky(?) claimant, though Doug Salot came in a close second. Thanks, folks! -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Bruce Lane, Owner and head honcho, Blue Feather Technologies http://www.bluefeathertech.com // E-mail: kyrrin(a)bluefeathertech.com Amateur Radio: WD6EOS since Dec. '77 "Our science can only describe an object, event, or living thing in our own human terms. It cannot, in any way, define any of them..."

24 years, 7 months

Weird question, VAX VS4000/VLC

by allisonp＠world.std.com

>Now for my wierd VLC question. DKA700 ?!?!? Shouldn't a disk set to SCSI >ID #7 cause problems? VAXen with SCSI seem for reasons I've forgotten to be always set as host at 6 so a device at 0-5 and 7 are ok. It wasn't until I'd seen PC SCSI that i'd ever seen a host at 7! >step will be adding a 2GB HD (what the hey, it's the only thing bigger than >the RZ23L in it that will fit that I don't currently have in use), and >loading out VMS. I'm dying to see how DECwindows performs on this sucker! It hauls! Check on this, I think that machime may not have the problem but older SCSI vaxen have a limit of 1.07gb for the boot disk. Has to do with how VMS uses the boot rom driver if it has to do a core dump on crash. I run a VS3100M76 (7.8vup) and DW runs really well on it. Allison

24 years, 7 months

Weird question, VAX VS4000/VLC

by cmcmanis＠mcmanis.com

I've got two VAX VS4000/VLC workstations, both with 24MB, one with a disk and one without. One takes two or three minutes to perform the memory test at power on and the other takes maybe 20 - 30 seconds. Any idea what could cause this descrepancy? --Chuck

24 years, 7 months

Followup to: Can a Mac Portable battery be "trickle charged"?

by mgregory＠vantageresearch.com

Thanks to everyone for the interesting discussion on lead-acid batteries. I seem to have gotten lucky with my new Portable. After two days of charging at 300 mA, the Portable fires right up, and loads System 7.5 from the 40 meg internal HD. The system also has the Apple 3 MB RAM expansion installed, for a total of 4 MB RAM. No backlighting, though. The only side effect of being long-dead seems to be a fairly fast drain on the battery when the system is off and not plugged in to the adapter; I'll have to experiment to see if this is due to the system going into sleep mode rather than powering down completely, or whether the battery isn't holding it's charge. I'm still hunting for a Portable AC adapter and/or replacement battery locally; if I can't find one, I may contact one of the list members who indicated they may have one for sale or trade. Thanks to all. Regards, Mark Gregory

24 years, 7 months

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