Who was it that started the "Want list for VCF" thread? I forget.
At any rate, thanks for sparking the idea to finally create a VCF message
board.
The VCF Message Board is now up at:
http://www.vintage.org/2000/messages.html
Post your buy/sell/trade or want lists for VCF 4.0 there. You can also
use it to make shared travel arrangements, see who else is coming and what
they're bringing, etc. Use it and abuse it.
It's not very rich, but it's functional. If you find any bugs, or have
any suggestions for improving it, please e-mail me. I will continue to
develop the message board over time to make it easier to navigate
messages, as well as provide multiple discussion areas.
Before you suggest using <insert some webtool for doing messaging here>
please know that I prefer to host all my services myself, as well as
program them, mostly for the experience of programming this stuff (it's
done with very straight-forward Perl scripts on the back end).
Enjoy!
Sellam International Man of Intrigue and Danger
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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!
Can anyone help this guy?
Reply-to: blingvall(a)swipnet.se
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 19:16:00 +0200
From: "[iso-8859-1] Björn Lingvall" <blingvall(a)swipnet.se>
To: vcf(a)vintage.org
Subject: driver-request
Hi!
I´ve have an old Fujitsu matrix-printer model M3349B, but I can´t find any driver.
My question is, do you know anyone who`ve got drivers for that printer?
I would be very happy.
blingvall(a)swipnet.se
Sellam International Man of Intrigue and Danger
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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!
--- Tony Duell <ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> The P500 has a real serial port (6551, RS232 level shifters, DB25
> connector), but few other CBM machines do :-(
I've got a PET internal serial port... it sits in a ROM socket with some
clip leads to pick up missing signals (Phi/2 and R/W, I expect) Got it in
a box and have never had the opportunity to use it (no, it's not for
sale/trade)
-ethan
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--- Gary Hildebrand <ghldbrd(a)ccp.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Finally found a good Commodore 128 for yours truly there. Is there in our
> midst a person who might have the cp/m boot disk for one? Or point me in
> the right direction?
I have an original C-128 CP/M boot disk in a box somewhere. How would I
go about making an image with it? I've never had a working C-128, nor
have I ever run CP/M from a Commodore (Kaypros, mostly), so I don't know
what the low-level format of the disk is. If it's a standard format,
something like 22DISK should be able to digest it, yes?
Is there already a copy of this on funet?
-ethan
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I picked up one of these in apparently decent condition - needs a few new
switches whose handles got broken off. At the end of a cable is a spring
loaded clip which attaches to an in-circuit 8080 (as in my beloved Sol <g>).
It appears that you can read the status, data, etc. and even single-step
through programs. But without a manual I am not sure. Jim Willing has one
on his website, but email to him has gone unanswered for the past few days.
Anyone out there have a manual (or really good recall)?
Bob Stek
Saver of Lost Sols
bit banging was most common to the 6502 world, most of the other
systems used real UART/USARTs. I think it was the idea of software
was cheaper than hardware. Most of the bit bashers seems to live on the
low end of the performance spectrum for their time.
Allison
-----Original Message-----
From: Cameron Kaiser <spectre(a)stockholm.ptloma.edu>
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Date: Thursday, August 24, 2000 1:04 PM
Subject: Re: Original Apple II (not + or e or other)
>> > Believe me, after you've tried to use this card seriously you (a)
wish
>> > for a real serial card with a 6850 or 6551 on it and (b) want to do
>> > unprintable things to the designers...
>>
>> The C-64 comes with 1200-baud bit-banging in ROM. That's why we did
it
>> that way. UARTS are much nicer (having later aquired a Super Serial
Card),
>> but not all micros had them.
>
>I always found that one of the dumbest ideas Commodore came up with
>(emulating the 6551 in software). It's not like it couldn't have been
>built into the computer; the Plus/4 has a real live 6551 driving its
>user port and it does fabulously well.
>
>--
>----------------------------- personal page:
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> Cameron Kaiser, Point Loma Nazarene University *
ckaiser(a)stockholm.ptloma.edu
>-- Those are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others. -- G.
Marx -
> Picked this up for $10. No monitor or keyboard. 2 Floppies. No cracks or
> scratches but "yellowed" case. Very little info on net about this one.
> Seems that was one of the rare computers to use an actual 80186 chip.
At the time this came out, Microsoft was flying ads in magazines showing
a Windows alpha (i.e. pre-1.0) on Tandy 2000s, and I was in the market
for a system to replace the Sol, and the CP/M-based systems looked like
their days were numbered.
<short digression>
But one day, I was on my way to buy tickets at the local Ticketron
for some concert, and the Ticketron was was in a local department
store (Lazarus? No, L.S. Ayres, I think), and that store also had
a computer department. While walking by, I saw a Macintosh. The shirts
who were selling them were talking to each other and ignoring me, so
I spent some time drawing in MacPaint, ending up painting a picture
that as best as I could reproduce from memory was "There's a hole
in the bottom of the sea, there's a hole in the bottom of the sea".
Anyway, it came down to decision time, and I decided that the Tandy
2000 was too geeky, and too much like the CP/M systems at work. I
was sure I would bring work home with me, while if I bought the Mac,
I'd have a computer to use for the things *normal* people use them
for.
Anyway, I too, just acquired a Tandy 2000, from a co-worker who
used it in his architectural firm years ago. It didn't look like
it had yellowed, he must have kept it out of the sun. It has a
10MB hard drive in a thematically-same-styled case, connected
by a ribbon cable.
Since he didn't deliver it to me with the original software
(DOS & BASIC), I was happy to pick these up cheap on E-Bay
the other day.
haven't fired it up yet, and in factm it may go into storage for
a while before I do so. But I recall liking the specs, the
graphics resolution was higher than most PC-alikes at the time
(IIRC).
regards,
-doug quebbeman
To repeat my previous message:
I just got a call from a gentleman I spoke to some time back who works
at a public television station. They have two PDP 11/23 CPU cards in
chassis, plus a full set of peripheral cards (not sure of details),
and two RL02 drives, probably with several disk packs. This is
basically one operational system plus a spare CPU and chassis. They
would like to get them out of there sometime this week. If you're
interested, let me know and I'll get you in touch with the right
person.
---
Located in South Dakota, 2 or 3 hours drive from me, I believe. These
are probably going to hit the dumpster unless someone rescues them.
I'm not into PDP stuff, but will do what I can to help if someone
wants these items. Act now - time is running out!
Bill Richman
bill_r(a)inetnebr.com
http://incolor.inetnebr.com
Home of Fun with Molten Metal, technological
oddities, and the original COSMAC Elf
computer simulator!
Whoops! Premature ejection there...
It's not a PDP-10 or a PDP-6 or anything that cool, but some of you may
remember my mentioning a while back of some DEC equipment at a local Lucent
facility. I just got the word that they turned it off last week. I'm in
contact with a responsible party and he is talking with his boss about if
and how it's possible to keep them from exiting wheels up, bound for a
metals reclamation facility in Canton, OH.
We are talking about 6+ DEC racks, two or three PDP-11/44s, two or three
TC-11 controllers and between three and five TU-56 drives. Unless the media
police get there first, there are also several cabinet drawers full of tapes.
Fortunately, my boss at work (who is younger than much of my collection)
thinks this stuff is cool and is willing to help muscle it around. He'd
love to get a machine up against our glass wall at the data center, just to
watch the DECtape spin!
More news as the saga unfolds. Honestly, though, I'm not confident there's
a way to navigate the bureaucracy at this place. I worked there for three
years and unless people are personally vested in something, they point to
published procedures and sit on their hands. It's a 35-year-old factory
environment with lots of the original folks still there. Flexible thinking
is not rewarded.
-ethan
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--- Gary Hildebrand <ghldbrd(a)ccp.com> wrote:
> Hello Bill
>
> On 23-Aug-00, you wrote:
>
> > To repeat my previous message:
> >
> > I just got a call from a gentleman I spoke to some time back who works
> > at a public television station. They have two PDP 11/23 CPU cards in
> > chassis, plus a full set of peripheral cards (not sure of details),
> > and two RL02 drives, probably with several disk packs. This is
> > basically one operational system plus a spare CPU and chassis. They
> > would like to get them out of there sometime this week. If you're
> > interested, let me know and I'll get you in touch with the right
> > person.
> >
> > ---
> >
> > Located in South Dakota, 2 or 3 hours drive from me, I believe. These
> > are probably going to hit the dumpster unless someone rescues them.
> > I'm not into PDP stuff, but will do what I can to help if someone
> > wants these items. Act now - time is running out!
> >
> >
> > Bill Richman
>
> I know exactly what you are talking about -- 'cuz I used to work there.
>
> Vermillion, South Dakota, about 35 miles from Sioux City, IA.
>
> Regards
> --
> Gary Hildebrand
> Box 6184
> St. Joseph, MO 64506-0184
>
> 816-662-2612
> or
>
> ghldbrd(a)ccp.com
>
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