In a message dated 9/17/00 8:43:07 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
rcini(a)optonline.net writes:
>
> A friend of my sister-in-law gave me the original IBM portable (well,
> lugable) Model 5155 and RGB monitor. It's the dual drive model. There's a
> 37-pin DB connector on the back. External floppy??
yup 256k, and external drive connector. are you saying you got an external
display? the 5155 had a 5inch CGA mono CGA display of course.
i scored this weekend. got a mac 512k complete in box. even got the cassette
tape and apple stickers that came with it. might go back to get the boxed
imagewriter and floppy drive.
DB Young ICQ: 29427634
hurry, hurry, step right up! see the computers you used as a kid!
-> www.nothingtodo.org
Hello,
I am wondering how i become a member of this "group".
I am 52 years of age, and interested in microcomputer hardware and
software from the 1970's and early 1980's. I built a digital group
z80 computer back in 1977...
Thanks - Bob Forslund
I've got one for a Compaticard II which would do - IIRC the major difference
is an additional connector. Do you just need jumper settings or would you
like a copy - it's pretty short.
Bob Stek
Saver of Lost Sols
I have someone looking for help in converting TRS80 model files written
using a wordprocessor named allwrite. Any one know of a way to move
these files to a new format for use today ? Thanks
John Keys
I've been digging around at work and have found two Series 80 ring
binders, but no HP85B. I'll keep one of the binders, but the other is
available for the cost of postage in the UK.
The binder is labelled "Series 80", and contains the following manuals:
"HP-85B Owner's Manual and Programming Guide"
"I/O ROM Owner's Manual"
"HP82939A Serial Interface Owner's Manual"
"HP-IB Interface Owner's Manual"
The binder weighs nearly 3.5kg, which makes the cost of posting it ?6.30
at Parcelforce Standard rate. Or you could pick it up from me in
Crawley, W.Sussex. Email me off list if you're interested.
At 19:12 14-09-2000 -0500, Anthony Eros wrote:
>I have an opportunity to get up to a dozen DEC Computer Lab units. The DEC
>Computer Lab was a tabletop digital logic trainer (see attached picture)
<snip>
And you also posted a binary file to the entire mailing list, regardless
of whether or not everyone would be interested in such a unit (I would be,
but at nowhere near the price you're asking. If you or Compaq really wants
that much for them, then you'd probably do better taking them to E-[over]pay).
A better way to make an image file available is to put it on a web site,
and simply post a link to it to the list.
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Bruce Lane, Owner and head honcho, Blue Feather Technologies
http://www.bluefeathertech.com // E-mail: kyrrin(a)bluefeathertech.com
Amateur Radio: WD6EOS since Dec. '77 (Extra class as of June-2K)
"Our science can only describe an object, event, or living thing in our
own human terms. It cannot, in any way, define any of them..."
From: Paul Williams <celigne(a)tinyworld.co.uk>
>I was reassembling the terminal when an odd rattling and whistling sound
>made me dive for cover. This noise went on for about 15 seconds and then
>all went quiet. I very nervously approached the terminal and finished
>snapping the case together. I've not attempted to power it up since.
My guess:
Sounds like the little tit on the end of the tube (middle of socket)
was broken off by rough handling. What you heard was the vacuum
becomming unso.
The "implosion protection device" is heavy glass and think screen
for the case of if there was damage done the tube would not let fly
with a field of flying glass possibly doing injury.
Allison
Hi all,
I think FDDI becomes more and more vintage, so I decided to ask here:
Does anyone have a spare DEF?A Available? I mean a DEFQA, DEFTA, DEFPA,...
If yes, I'll be willing to buy it (if it's not too expensive, of course).
Awaiting offers and thanks in advance
--
Best Regards,
Freddy
=====================================================================
Frederik Meerwaldt ICQ: 83045387 Homepage: http://www.freddym.org
Bavaria/Germany OpenVMS and Unix Howtos and much more
FREEBSD, NETBSD, OPENBSD, TRU64, OPENVMS, ULTRIX, BEOS, LINUX
While more or less off-topic I figure I'm not the only one that finds this
to be of interest. Or am I the only one around here that actually is using
all those DECserver's we've all got laying around? Also considering how
easy it is to pickup a DECserver 200MC this might be of interest to people
that don't even have any terminal servers at this time.
Of course my DECserver 90L+ is currently the only thing I have on the
10Base2 segment of my network :^)
Zane
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>08:01:31 2000
>Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 16:00:52 +0100
>From: Patrick Caulfield <patrick(a)pandh.demon.co.uk>
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>
>This is it, the moment you've all been waiting for...
>
>latd has reached 1.0. All bugs have been quashed, all features have been
>perfected, just download and enjoy !
>
>I know I said 0.8 was feature-complete but several weeks of heavy use
>convinced
>me to add a couple more at the last minute.
>
>^@ in a reverse-LAT connection will send a BREAK to the terminal server or
>host.
>Useful for VAX consoles that one, and
>You can define a group called "lat" in your /etc/groups file and all
>reverse-LAT
>ports will then have that as their groups along with 0660 permission so you
>don't have to be root to use reverse-LAT any more.
>
>And there are binaries. Only Intel at the moment but that *may* change.
>
>Here's the full NEWS page:
>
>
>- Support BREAK character
>- Added support for a group (gid) called "lat". If you have one of these
> in /etc/groups then users with that group can connect to reverse-LAT
> ports with no other privileges
>- Added startup script
>- Remove "LAT started", "LAT stopped" messages from latcp as they interfere
> with the startup script and it's "not the Unix way"
>- Added RPM build target
>- Added DEB build target
>- Forced all node names & service names to be uppercase in latcp
>- Split -DOLDSTUFF into two bits: -DUSE_OPENPTY and -DSETLOGIN_HOST. The
> second option doesn't work on SuSE 6.4, but does on Debian 2.2 and RedHat
> 6.2, the first should be fine on anything later than RedHat 5.2 (libc 2.0
> I think that means)
>
>BTW: I haven't forgotten dnprogs. There will be a 0.6 release in the middle of
>October soon after I return from holiday. For the impatient, it's all in CVS!
>
>patrick
>
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--- Chuck McManis <cmcmanis(a)mcmanis.com> wrote:
> At 11:44 PM 9/13/00 -0400, you wrote:
> >I've heard that Freon...isn't nearly as dangerous as it's made out to
> >be, and that the recent legislation to have it banned came about just after
> >the patents expired
>
> It isn't patents, it is the CFC treaty (Osaks?) that bans the production
> (first) and then use (second) of CFCs based on their alleged, but unproven,
> impact on the ozone layer surrounding the earth. Note that I do not dispute
> that there is a gap in the ozone layer around the earth, only that no one
> has yet given anything more than conjecture on why it exists, and since we
> don't have historical data on its existence (or lack thereof) we don't yet
> have anyway of proving or disproving said conjectures, but something that
> _was_ a provable way of saving _actual human lives_ was banned because of
> it. </soapbox>
I have personally worked with scientists from the University of Wyoming and
technicians from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center who directly and indirectly
measure the ozone hole and the chemicals that are harmful to ozone (CFCs,
Bromine compounds, etc.) I have helped launch balloons and collect telemetry
data. No doubt that I'm not an unbiased source, but even though I think CFCs
are nifty compounds at ground level for lots of tasks (cooling, cleaning,
etc.),
at 30,000m, they are not a) natural and b) harmless.
At McMurdo, in spaces with electrical equipment, rather than Halon, there are
built-in C02 fire-supression systems. They are much larger physically, and
harmful to humans, but CO2 poisoning vs. Halon suffocation leave you just as
dead.
-ethan
http://penguincentral.com/ozone.html
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