test-drb July 2000

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by Marion.Bates＠dartmouth.edu

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23 years, 9 months

Apple Johnathon & Apple Macintosh II: Seperated at birth?

by netsurfer_x1＠hotmail.com

I have read something at applefritter that intrigued me: that Apple was thinking about marketing a system known as the "Johnathon" (Successor the the Mac, perhaps?). The basic design was very similar to that of an Acorn RISC PC: You bought the base "module" (What OS that run? Mac OS?) as it was called, & you could buy additional modules that would allow you to run other operating systems. Unfortunately, Apple canned this computer because they thought that everybody would just buy the MS-DOS module. My question is: Was this the original concept for the Mac II, or is this something completely diffrent. ____________________________________________________________ David Vohs, Digital Archaeologist & Computer Historian. Home page: http://www.geocities.com/netsurfer_x1/ Computer Collection: "Triumph": Commodore 64C, 1802, 1541, FSD-1, GeoRAM 512, MPS-801. "Leela": Macintosh 128 (Plus upgrade), Nova SCSI HDD, Imagewriter II. "Delorean": TI-99/4A, TI Speech Synthesizer. "Monolith": Apple Macintosh Portable. "Spectrum": Tandy Color Computer 3, Disto 512K RAM board. "Boombox": Sharp PC-7000. ____________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com

23 years, 9 months

Prime 2455 & Dead PSU Pictures

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

For any of those who have been following my thread on my Prime's dead PSU, or for anyone who might simply have an interest in seeing this machine, I've uploaded some pics taken with a digital camera to my web storage area. This link takes you to a page of thunbnails: http://members.iglou.com/dougq/p2455/p2455_index.html >From there, you can choose a photo and get a page showing a larger version of it, along with navigation aids. Thanks to Album Express and Thotor, easy-to-use tools to create quickie photo albums like this one. regards, -doug quebbeman

23 years, 9 months

Other SS-50 (and SS-64) machines?

by foo＠siconic.com

I'm curious if anyone has heard of (or has) any of the following machines: Helix - a 68000-based SS-64 bus system (SS-64 was apparently an extended version of SS-50). Thomas Instruments 6802- (and 6805-) based micro that used the SS-50 bus. Tano Outpost or Outpost II - an SS-50 machine used primarily in industrial applications (the same company that later manufactured the Dragon). Anyone? Sellam International Man of Intrigue and Danger ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Looking for a six in a pile of nines... VCF 4.0 is September 30-October 1 San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, California See http://www.vintage.org for details!

23 years, 9 months

Prime 2455 & Dead PSU Pictures

by steverob＠hotoffice.com

Doug, I assume from the subject line and pictures, that you haven't got the PSU to work yet? I'm sure it's exactly the same as the one I've got sitting here. I'll get it in the mail in the next couple of weeks. Sorry I can't do it sooner but, I'm drowning in other comittments. Steve Robertson <steverob(a)hotoffice.com> > -----Original Message----- > From: John Allain [mailto:John.Allain@donnelley.infousa.com] > Sent: Friday, July 28, 2000 1:28 PM > To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org > Subject: RE: Prime 2455 & Dead PSU Pictures > > > >> http://members.iglou.com/dougq/p2455/p2455_index.html > >> > >They all came up broken ... ? > > Not broken, but note that the fiilenames contain > embedded spaces. > > P.S. Don't scratch your nice woood floors > with all those metal parts! > > John A. >

23 years, 9 months

Prime 2455 & Dead PSU Pictures

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

> For any of those who have been following my thread on my > Prime's dead PSU, or for anyone who might simply have an > interest in seeing this machine, I've uploaded some pics > taken with a digital camera to my web storage area. > > This link takes you to a page of thunbnails: > > http://members.iglou.com/dougq/p2455/p2455_index.html Reports of broken links are pouring in... You guys really should upgrade from Mosaic to Internet Exploder 5, it handles those spaces pretty doggone well. Seriously, I did in fact test these once I got them uploaded, and I did have to edit a few links. Try refreshing the page; and I really would like a report of the browser being used. Thanks, -dq

23 years, 9 months

Prime 2455 & Dead PSU Pictures

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Jul 28, 11:42, Douglas Quebbeman wrote: > This link takes you to a page of thunbnails: > > http://members.iglou.com/dougq/p2455/p2455_index.html Except they're not visible on some systems :-) The URLs have spaces in them (not legal, only letters, digits and underscores are allowed unless encoded); you ought to convert the page source from (for example) <img src="http://members.iglou.com/dougq/p2455/thmb_PSU DigiDaughter.jpg" width=150 height=100 border=0> to <img src="http://members.iglou.com/dougq/p2455/thmb_PSU%20DigiDaughter.jpg" width=150 height=100 border=0> (or change the filenames to remove the spaces, if you prefer). The pictures are good, though. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Dept. of Computer Science University of York

23 years, 9 months

Calling Max Eskin

by foo＠siconic.com

Max Eskin just sent me an e-mail message today that was deleted on accident. Does someone have his current e-mail address? Sellam International Man of Intrigue and Danger ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Looking for a six in a pile of nines... VCF 4.0 is September 30-October 1 San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, California See http://www.vintage.org for details!

23 years, 9 months

Sorcerer Emulator goes freaking haywire

by foo＠siconic.com

I don't know if anyone else has experienced the same problem but I had a difficult time getting rid of the Sorcerer emulator (virus). I believe this was the Java emulator. I went to the website over a week ago and checked it out and then never went back again. However, today it popped up on it's own somehow (from one of my browser windows I think). I couldn't get rid of it. It seemed every window I clicked on, the emulator would try to establish a presence in that window. This included other programs, the toolbar, etc. I couldn't kill it from the program manager (CTRL-ALT-DEL) and closing all the browser windows didn't do any good either. I could still move my mouse but at that point nothing was responding. I did another CTRL-ALT-DEL and the window came up but I couldn't click any buttons. Finally I hit CAD a bunch of times in frustration and rebooted my machine. Someone ought to let the guy who wrote it know that he has a serious bug somewhere. Sellam International Man of Intrigue and Danger ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Looking for a six in a pile of nines... VCF 4.0 is September 30-October 1 San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, California See http://www.vintage.org for details!

23 years, 9 months

zenith minisport hd problems

by SUPRDAVE＠aol.com

I read some archived messages about this computer and seems to be the power board in the computer itself was/is dodgy so that's most likely the problem and i've not enough experience to diagnose and fix the problem. 8-( looks like this computer will go with the other nonworking machines like my kyotronic85 and ps2 model 90xp. In a message dated Thu, 27 Jul 2000 2:27:19 PM Eastern Daylight Time, "John Allain" <John.Allain(a)donnelley.infousa.com> writes: << This is the behavior of a machine with a dead battery. Some machines insist on sending the charger through the battery first and don't like operating with no battery or a dead one. Sometimes you can figure out how to get them to go directly off the charger. Not a definitive answer, but my $0.02. John A. -----Original Message----- From: owner-classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org [mailto:owner-classiccmp@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of SUPRDAVE(a)aol.com Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2000 2:04 PM To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org Subject: zenith minisport hd problems went on a thrift store run today and thought i was going to get skunked, but at the last store i found a zenith minisport laptop with power supply for $5. its dirty and yellowed and didnt get the floppy drive either. seems to be a turbo xt with cga graphics. anyway, when i power it on, it stays on momentarily then goes off. no post beep and lcd doesnt light either. any ideas? i downloaded some archived minisport archives but havent looked at it yet. >>

23 years, 9 months

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