Hello all. I just got a wonderful book, that anyone who is interested in Apple machines should look at. It's called Apple Design (ISBN 1-888001-25-9), and it has some great pictures and information about Apple products. It especially has lots of pictures of Apple prototypes that never made it (Jonathan, Apple IISI, Snow White Project...). It talks about Apple's beginnings, and I have found it really interesting. Those guys had some really weird ideas of what a Mac should look like.
Owen
> I hate to burst anyone's bubble with this project, but most of these
> magazines are already being archived by probably more than 100 of the
> large libraries (in large citys and universities) scattered around the
> country. You might want to check with some of them first before
> undertaking such a huge project - you may be reinventing the wheel.
I've always wanted to get some of those magazines on microfiche from
UMI (University Microfilms Incorporated?), the folks who supply a lot
of the microfiche and microfilm archives to libraries.
Paul R. Santa-Maria
Ann Arbor, Michigan USA
paulrsm(a)ameritech.net
Hey guys,
I'm trying to download MESS (using wget), but it looks like the site
doesn't support resuming, and it keeps disconnecting me, does somebody
know of an alternative site?
Ciao,
Lionel
>Emulation of the IBM ROM BASIC, and IBM ROM BIOS, is also greatly desired,
>although, I am not sure whether these can be legally copied :-). Emulation
If you need rom dump of those rom, I can help you as I still have my Ibm pc.
Regards Jacob Dahl Pind
Public Pgp key available on request
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I need to double check a diagnostic I'm making. I have a board that fried
the a 1/2W ceramic resitor (in the -12V section of the PS). It also took
out a tant cap and the fuses for the +/- 12v (between the MB and the PS).
I suspect the RS232 driver chips but I need to know if the ethernet nic
(aui & bnc) use -12v. Anyone?
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Jim Oaks wrote:
> Hello everyone, id like to announce a new project im starting, The
> ClassicMag project. The goal of this project is to preserve classic
> computing and gaming magazines for extinction. Most of us classic collectors
> love to have magazines for the systems we collect as, in the past the
> provided an immense resource for reviews, news, insights and programs. The
> goal of this project will be to preserve old out of print magazine issues in
> a PDF format. These will be scanned complete issues with advertisements let
Worthwhile project! I have several boxes of mags lying around at home. At
present I have no access to a scanner, but I'll send them to you if you want the
task. Off the top of my head:
Microcomputer Printout, 1980 until bought by Computnig Toady (as they had
previously called it!)
PC Magazine - about three years in the mid '80s
Computer and Video Games - The year I won a free subscription. Probably
1988+/-1
Some Acorn specific ones that I haven't sorted.
Let me know if you're interested, and I can see exactly what I have.
> in, as they are as interesting and have just as much nostalgia value. Our
I agree totally. Unfortunately you lose this if you get electronic copies of
articles from contributors, as someone suggested.
> web site is currently up at http://www.classicmag.net there's not a lot
I'm still getting Hostname Unknown, I'm afraid. I'll try again another day...
> small list of magazines on the site now for some different systems, if you
> know of any I don't have listed please email with the details. I want this
Are you grouping by system covered? Could be difficult - Microcomputer Printout
started as PET only, and went through Commie only to practically everything in
the space of a few years.
> before 1995. I don't want to run into a lot of copyright issues. As always
> if a mag is on our site and the publisher, if there still around, wishes it
> not be there we will take it down, but hope they consider this project
> worthwhile and let us keep them there.
I really do think you ought to ask publishers' permission _first_. To say that
you will remove anything on encountering objections is all very well, but
probably won't satisfy the lawyers!
Philip.
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Hey guys,
Does somebody here know about a program I can use to emulate the original
8086-based computers? What I'm looking for is a program that can emulate
(on either Dos, Windows or Linux):
- The Intel 8086 processor
- 640KB RAM
- 360KB Floppy drive
- Small hard drive (optional)
- CGA graphics card
Emulation of the IBM ROM BASIC, and IBM ROM BIOS, is also greatly desired,
although, I am not sure whether these can be legally copied :-). Emulation
of the IBM PC-DOS would also be helpful, but, yet again, I think this
would result in copyright violation. I am pretty sure that emulating the
CGA graphics card, a hard drive, a floppy drive or memory should not be a
problem. Although, I'm not THAT sure about Intel's processor, but I think
on Intel-based systems, this would only mean disabling certain newer
instructions on the 80486/Pentium/whatever.
Can somebody help me out here? Also, if there isn't something like this,
how much trouble would it be to write one myself?
Ciao,
Lionel
Yesterday found a Heathkit Plotter that uses 3 vacuum tubes and paper
roll. The model number on it is EUW-20A, have not tested it yet.
Picked up a FLUKE 2969 - 8300A Digital Voltmeter not tested yet; a Video
Data Systems T1000 Character generator; and HP 5258A Sensitive
Prescaler.
There were boxes and boxes of old test equipment at the scrape yard
yesterday, too much for me to get it all and most looked to need work
done them.
John Keys
That was a rare couple of weekends, I have to say (*WOW*RARE*L@@K*SINCLAIR
ERA* etc ;o)
Normally all I'll see are C64s, Amigas, Speccies, Amstrads and the
occasional Atari. It DOES help to have contacts running 2nd hand shops who
get stuff for me though.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Honniball [mailto:John.Honniball@uwe.ac.uk]
> Sent: 14 August 2000 15:57
> To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
> Subject: Re: RE: Weekend Finds
>
>
>
> On Mon, 14 Aug 2000 12:59:03 +0100 Adrian Graham
> <agraham(a)ccat.co.uk> wrote:
> > I had an absolute blinder of a weekend. Total finds from
> one market and one
> > boot sale were:
>
> ...long list of fine old computers omitted...
>
> So what am I doing wrong? All I spotted at two boot sales
> and several charity shops were an Amstrad 9512 and a C64.
> I have to say, I didn't take either of them. Maybe I just
> need to get up earlier in the morning at weekends!
>
> Having said that I did find not one but two, leather-clad
> Trimphones in a charity shop. They're called Deltaphones:
>
> http://ds.dial.pipex.com/town/plaza/ah91/photos.htm?delta.htm
>
> --
> John Honniball
> Email: John.Honniball(a)uwe.ac.uk
> University of the West of England
>
Fujitsu document scanner in Kansas City.
I hava an old Fujitsu document scanner, it has an automatic document feeder
(ADF) and will scan 22 pages per minute . It scans at 400 DPI with 256 gray
scale levels.
It's a M3096. It can scan up to 11" X 17".
More info about it is at
http://www.fcpa.com/support/su_support_frame.html
I haven't got the correct interface for it. If someone wants to attempt to
scan documents for archival with it I will loan it to them for some testing.
If it works for this task maybe we can work out a trade. I may have a shot
at 1-2 more of them if they are usable.
Mike
mmcfadden(a)cmh.edu
