test-drb July 2000

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by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

> In your house there is a path through the garage, a path through > the living room, a path through the dining room, and one bedroom > that I can just look into. My wife just wants a corner in the > dining room to set-up a trendmill. ^^^^^^^^^ ROFL! I vote that to be the best malapropism of the year 2000! 8D

23 years, 12 months

VT420 Keyboards in Kansas City

by mmcfadden＠cmh.edu

Our hospital surplussed all of our DEC terminals of which I "found" a few. Later I found the extra keyboard stash and they donated them to me. They appear to be in good shape if anybody wants one or two keyboards for personal use I'll send you one. We can work out shipping and payments methods. I'm not auctioning them just willing to donate them for shipping and a dollar or two. Mike mmcfadden(a)cmh.edu

23 years, 12 months

Using WD40 on a Remote Services Consoles

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

> Yank corporations (and citizens to a somewhat lesser extent) seem to live(?) in eternal > terror of being sued by someone for something they have done or not done. > This impedes the free distribution of much knowledge and hardware that has no > further commercial value. I'm on Shakespeares side. "First, lets kill > all the lawyers." Now, now... let's not attribute to Shakespeare every attitude contained in a remark made by one of his literary characters... we'd have to view him as a pretty schizoid individual if we did! > Just my 2c worth. If I was a lawyer, this opinion would probably have > cost you $100. ROFL! -dq

23 years, 12 months

VT420, only toasted

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

> Some of the units have a velcro attached glare screen, most have a short > dongle with a weird RJ11 socket. There were also a few VT320 displays, but > I haven't looked that closely at them (same burnin look though). This > Thursday will likely be my last chance at them, as a big load is coming in > that day, and I will be in Silly Con Valley (yes really) next week (8/1 to > 8/3). The "dongle" is most likely one of many RS_232-to-twisted_pair adapters that many sites use for connecting terminals to a comm system. I have a few that use RJ-45s instead of RJ-11s; one end plugs into a serial port on the comm system, then you run this preassembled phone-line-like cable >from there to an identical unit plugged into the back of the terminal. Drives my Wyse-50 very nicely on the Prime's ICS3 subsystem; at least, it did when the Prime's PSU was working. :-( -doug q

23 years, 12 months

Announcing... Rent a wreck

by dogas＠leading.net

Cool. I had a few encouraging replys. Here's the first list of available stuff... 1. SWTPC 6800, CT-64, AC-30, PR-40 2. SWTPc 6800 3. SWTPc 6809 4. SWTPC S/09 5. Imsai 8080 6. Imsai 8048 7. Imsai VDP-40 8. Imsai VDP-80 9. OSI 500 10. OSI 600 11. OSI CII, C2D 12. OSI CIIC12 13. OSI C2-OEM 14. OSI CIII 15. Northstar Horizon 16. Northstar Advantage 17. Exidy Sorcerer, S100 Expansion box, parts 18. Homebrew (Thinker Toys s1000), 2 8' drives 19. Homebrew 'The Puzzle' 20. Kim-1 21. Kim-1, Kim-4, TVT, etc... 22. Sym-1 23. Sym-1 24. Aim-65, Basic roms 25. Aim-65, assembler 26. Aim-65 37. HP-5036, logic probes 38. HP-5036 39. HP 5036 40 Amd 2900 EVB, 4-bit CPU 41. Motorola MEK-6800d2 42. Little Professor MPF-1 43. Cosmac ELF 44. Cosmac ELF-II 45. Cosmac SuperElf 46. MITS Altair 680 47 Apple Lisa 2 48. Apple Lisa 2 49. Apple /// 50. Apple Newton 2100, Keyboard 51. Canon Cat, Printer 52. Heathkit ET-3400, ET-3401 6800 Training courses 53. Heathkit ET-3400, ETA-3400 54. Heathkit H-8, H-17, H-19 55. Heathkit H-8, H-17 56. Heathkit H-11, H-27 57. Heathkit H-89 58. Heathkit H-89 59. Heathkit Z-100 60. Vector 3, HD 61. TRS-80 Model 1 and stuff 62. TRS-80 Model 1 63. TRS-80 Model 1. 64. TRS-80 Model 4p 65. TRS-80 Model II 66. TRS-80 Model 6000, 35mb HD, Xenix 67. Commodore PET 2001-8K 68. Commodore PET 4008 69. Commodore PET 4032 70. Commodore CBM 8032, 4040 Floppies 71. DEC PDP 11/05 mini 72. Honeywell 316 mini 73. S100 EPROM programmer 74. S100 Disk Jockey Let me know if you want to play. Thanks - Mike: dogas(a)leading.net

23 years, 12 months

Dinner Table Diagnostics (Was: RE: OSI model 600 find)

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

> All in all it looks to be in very good condition, > but powering this up is going to have to wait. My > wife wants my current projects off the dinner table > and the analog flight simulator and the paper tape > punches out of the dining room. I'm glad someone else does this; well, I used to use the dining table in my mother's home (which is now mine, but I don't currently have a dining table in or any other in the dining area)... these days any level surface is fair game, even the bed (which is where part of my PSU is currently residing). -dq

23 years, 12 months

OSI model 600 find

by dogas＠leading.net

From: Doug Coward <dcoward(a)pressstart.com> Subject: OSI model 600 find > It's been a while since I have picked-up any _digital_ >computers, but I just could not resist this. I found >someone selling a Ohio Scientific Model 600 on eBay, >and when I went to check was it sold for, I discovered >that no one wanted to bid the $20 minimum bid. > >http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?MfcISAPICommand=ViewItem&item=3758 5 >7886 > >So I asked for a picture of the computer to make sure it >wasn't just a baggie full of spare parts. > >http://www.best.com/~dcoward/osi600.jpg Nice find on the 600 (the Superboard II or naked C1P.) Cool Aardvark card too! Maybe its a 3'd party 630 clone, the backright lookes like a whipped up A15. Congrats. - Mike: dogas(a)leading.net

23 years, 12 months

VT420, burned

by ethan_dicks＠yahoo.com

--- Mike Ford <mikeford(a)socal.rr.com> wrote: > >Picture tubes can be replaced, so hang on to the VT420's! > > There is a good pallet load of them, and so far ZERO interest from this > list... I would love a VT420; I would not love to pay to ship one across the U.S. If I found a pallet of them locally, I'd grab it. -ethan ===== Even though my old e-mail address is no longer going to vanish, please note my new public address: erd(a)iname.com The original webpage address is still going away. The permanent home is: http://penguincentral.com/ See http://ohio.voyager.net/ for details. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail – Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/

23 years, 12 months

pardon

by dogas＠leading.net

Although I didn't intend it that way, my last post sounded kinda spammy when I received it, and I apologize if it did to you too. Cheers - Mike: dogas(a)leading.net

23 years, 12 months

PDP-11/34A

by xds_sigma7＠hotmail.com

Hi, I have an 11/34A, and I'm also trying to help a friend (who is out of state) put his back together, since its totallly dismantled. Unfortunately, neither of us has any manuals for it... But more importantly, we're not sure how the PSU is supposed to be set up.. here's a little cruddy drawing of how it is on mine: i-----i i-----i i------------i i i-----i i-----i i P16 i i P15 i i Big conn. i i i P14 i i P13 i i----i i----i i---i i---i----i i----i i i i i Big ol' i i i i H745 i H744 i Transformer, etc. i H7441 i EMPTY i i -15V i +5V i i +5V i i i 10A i 25A i i 32A i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i__________i__________i____________________i__________i__________i Key: The P numbers are the connectors where the power supply meets the wiring harness, so the diagram is viewed from the top, with the P connectors on the front. Left is left, and right is right. Anyway, please let me know ASAP! Also wouldn't mind the printset ;p or the FPP manual... Will J ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com

23 years, 12 months

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