test-drb July 2000

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by rcini＠optonline.net

Hello, all: I just got the latest issue of the Jameco catalog, and they've discontinued (at $5.95 no less), the stock 6502 processor. Is this the beginning of the end of the '02s availability? I know that CMD produces a C02 version (available in 100's quantities), but it's just not the same... Rich [ Rich Cini [ ClubWin!/CW1 [ MCP Windows 95/Windows Networking [ Collector of "classic" computers [ <http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/~rcini/classiccmp/> <================ reply separator =================>

24 years, 4 months

Macintosh 1984 Commercial

by djenner＠halcyon.com

Anyone know where I can find a (probably QuickTime) file containing the entire 60-second version of the "Big Brother" commercial for the Macintosh that played during the 1984 Super Bowl? Thanks, Dave

24 years, 4 months

VAX?PDP cab kit bonanza

by cmcmanis＠mcmanis.com

I was at a store today wading through a relatively large box of cab kits to find one for a VCB-03 and the owner made me an offer I couldn't refuse. I bought the whole box. However, not too suprisingly most of them are for DHV-11's (4 RS-232 ports and a ribbon cable). So I've got quite a few and willing to offer them for cost+ shipping. As follows: $6 gets two DHQ11 cab kits (8 ports total, two groups of 4) postage paid anywhere in the continental US. (Priority mail) $15 gets two cab kits *AND* a DHV-11 (8 port Q-bus board, quad wide) anywhere in the US. $15 get you two cab kits *AND* a UNIBUS DHU-11 (hex wide) (limited qty, I've got 3) If you want to add 8 serial ports to your Q-bus based vax or pdp this is a good deal. --Chuck

24 years, 4 months

Macintosh 1984 Commercial

by SUPRDAVE＠aol.com

In a message dated 7/28/00 5:00:32 PM Eastern Daylight Time, foo(a)siconic.com writes: > On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, David C. Jenner wrote: > > > Anyone know where I can find a (probably QuickTime) file > > containing the entire 60-second version of the "Big Brother" > > commercial for the Macintosh that played during the 1984 > > Super Bowl? > > Ditto. i have it on a mac advocate cd from 1997. i could probably be convinced to dig it up sometime. DB Young ICQ: 29427634 hurry, hurry, step right up! see the computers you used as a kid! -> www.nothingtodo.org

24 years, 4 months

CBM 8032 and 8035

by ethan_dicks＠yahoo.com

> > > I left behind (2) Commodor CBM 8032 systems both with the huge external > > > dual floppy drives. Units were intact, but what I would call average > > > dirty storage shape. If somebody in Socal wants the units let me know, \ > > > no way do I ship the monsters. How about the guts? Leave behind the iron frames and the massive transformers but box up the floppy drives and motherboards? I'd consider paying a few bucks over shipping for the active parts. I have several PETs that I'm restoring and I understand not wanting to mess with those heavy, bulky enclosures. I just had a PET 4016 (9" screen) shipped from SoCal. It was $35, but considering it was from the Physics Department at the college in Santa Barbara, it has this neat Lab I/O device plugged into the expansion bus and Katakana charaters on the keyboard next to the graphics symbols. I've never even seen a picture of one like this, but I digress. How much would you want to pull the good stuff out? Most important are the mainboards. Of secondary importance are the keyboards, and of minimal but some remnant of importance are the floppy drives. The entire lot should fit in a xerox paper box (if there's room to pad the 8032 boards. If it's too much hassle, I understand, but I have to ask. I'd rather see something survive than nothing. Of course, if anyone wants to get them, intact, they should receive preference. I'm only trying to save the good bits. Thanks, -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!? Kick off your party with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com/

24 years, 4 months

the other side of the equation - your SO/spouse

by mbg＠world.std.com

>> We had an agreement that if anything new came in, >> something had to go out. This has limited my collecting for a little >> while. >I had the same agreement... Some new "stuff" came in so, I tossed the old >"stuff" out. Now I live alone :-) Whoops... :-) Megan

24 years, 4 months

Prime 2455 & Dead PSU Pictures

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Jul 28, 15:33, Douglas Quebbeman wrote: > They look like: > > [Image] > > Very helpful... :-) Well, you could always follow the W3C recommendations and add ALT= captions to all of them and upload the page yet again at 33.6. Captions like "Pr1me PSU", "Part of Pr1me PSU", "Pr1me PSU and its environs", etc would be so much more helpful ;-) > -----Original Message----- > From: Steve Robertson [mailto:steverob@hotoffice.com] > > So... Just what do the graphics look like in Lynx :-) -- Pete Peter Turnbull Dept. of Computer Science University of York

24 years, 4 months

Catastrophic PSU failure (was Re: Apple IIGS for parts)

by ethan_dicks＠yahoo.com

--- John Honniball <John.Honniball(a)uwe.ac.uk> wrote: > I think the easiest-to-find fault I've ever seen was in an > ICL One-Per-Desk, where a transistor in the driver circuit > blew up. It made a loud bang, leaving the plastic body of > the transistor in two pieces, one having two legs, and the > other having just one. I fixed a keyboard/monitor switch at work that a cow-orker had damaged by plugging in the wrong wall wart into - 48VDC (phone) instead of 9VDC. I opened the lid and saw the gaping hole in the 7805 and the mess made when the filter cap ruptured and vented its electrolyte. <$4 at Rat-Shack prices and it was back in business. The best part was the look on my boss' face when I told him we didn't need to buy a new one. He couldn't fathom how I could open up the box, look inside and figure out what was wrong without the aid of mechanical assistance. It seemed obvious to _me_ what was wrong. -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!? Kick off your party with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com/

24 years, 4 months

PDP 8/e memory boards

by djg＠drs-esg.com

>I also have a 16K core set, does anyone have any information on that >board? The highgate docs appear to be for a hex wide 16k board. > My scan on highgate is the 8/A version. I didn't know a DEC 16k was available for the 8/E, was this third party?. What are the board numbers? I think I have the 8k prints but they weren't where I though they should so will look further this weekend. Digital numbered the MSB (high) 0 always so EMA 0 is the 0/16k field select bit. On the 4k core when the link is in it selects a 0 for that line. Chapter 9 in the 8/E handbook on highgate documents the omnibus signals and section 4 pg 3-60 of the mantenance manual vol I documents the memory. Section 5 pg 3-93/3-96 documents the front panel. Several front panel schematics are also there. David Gesswein http://www.pdp8.net/ -- Old computers with blinkenlights

24 years, 4 months

PDP 8/e memory boards

by ethan_dicks＠yahoo.com

--- Lawrence LeMay <lemay(a)cs.umn.edu> wrote: > Its a Dataram Corporation DR-118. 16K x 12. Its a 3 board stack, plugs into > only one quad slot, but the thickness prevents use of a second quad slot > in the 8/E omnibus. Nice. Good luck on docs, though. > ...16K using only 2 slots instead of 6, and not needing 8 of those 'top' > connectors Speaking of those top connectors (H7-something-something-something), does anyone have a supply of those available? I'm about to start making them myself - I have enough to interconnect my -8/e CPU but not any of the core. I've been working with a PDP-8/a hex MOS board (16K and 32K), but I'm not sure if the rev of the timing module I have generates the right signals to work with hex memory (there's an issue with CPU boards with three digits in the handle numbers vs. four; I have some of each from two CPUs) I'd love to remove one odd variable from the mix before I start to component-level debug my -8/e CPU boards. At least I have this late-1970s HP logic analyzer... I can attempt to set up stuff so it looks like the pretty pictures in the three-volume maintenance set. I may just order a bunch of connectors from DigiKey and make some new interconnects. A wad of work to be sure, but at least I'll never run out again. -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!? Kick off your party with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com/

24 years, 4 months

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test-drb July 2000