VAX 4000, MicroVAX 3100, and all associated options are being retired.
Final order date is September 30,2000. The last ship date will be Dec 31,2000.
http://www.compaq.com/alphaserver/vax/vax_dates.html
The VAX is dead. Long Live the VAX!
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Thanks, Tim and Zane! I have never owned or seriously worked on a DEC
machine, so now I'll need to find one which can run RSTS!
Bob Stek
Saver of Lost Sols
OK, since I now have two pieces of equipment I need to get a decent
soldering iron to work on, I'm wondering if people could make any
recommendations. I'm needing it for my PDP-8/m front panel, and for the DEC
VR260 I want to revive. I'll probably pick it up from Fry's this weekend.
I'm thinking I want a WES50 Weller Soldering Station, as it looks like a
good balance between cheapness and high-end. Of course anything would be a
good replacement for the el'cheapo 20 year old Radio Shack Soldering Iron
I've currently got :^) I've got to admit that the WSD80 looks nice though.
Oh, in researching this I ran across this web page that might be of interest
to people, "Basic Soldering FAQ"
http://www.epemag.wimborne.co.uk/solderfaq.htm
Zane
I just picked up an Olivetti L1 Computer at Goodwill. The CPU, keyboard, and disk drives are in one unit, kind of like an Apple III. The monitor is seperate, and gets its power from the main unit. All the main keys have BASIC statement on them (PRINT, OPEN, INPUT, etc...). When it boots up, it says:
Bootstrap Loader Version 1.0
Insert Disk And Press Enter.
Does anyone know anything about it? I couldn't find any information on the internet. Does it have BASIC in ROM? If so, how do I get to it? If anyone has any disks or manuals, that would be great!
Thanks,
Owen
John Foust <jfoust(a)threedee.com
wrote about summer fun with food
Ralston Purina was one source of the famous 3' hard boiled egg. The big
feature was no shells and every slice looks like a perfect egg slice. Sold
in a tube for salad bars, easily sliced. They also sold wheat chex, rice
chex, and corn chex. They are also famous for selling monkey chow, whale
chow, shark chow, rat chow and the ever popular dog chow. I have a friend
who is/was the Ralston touring animal handler. She raises pigs in her
bathroom and shows them to grade school kids. I don't know if they can be
house trained. It could/would be "funny" to say that your roommate is a pig
and not be joking. Ralston used to own the St. Louis Blues hockey team and
the "Checkerdome".
Trivially yours
Mike
Hmmm... I think there is a similar machine in a junkyard near me... worth
getting? There is also a Ramtek system, a VAX 11/785, some big honkin' Tek
41xx series terms, etc.
Will J
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Does anyone remember Robotwars for the Apple ][? It was written by Silas
Warner and published by Muse.
This was a multi-player game. Did it by any chance allow two people on
separate computers to play against each other by any sort of link-up
between the machines?
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!
* Maybe I got a bargain, maybe I didn't. Help me decide. I won an auction
* for three paper tapes in excellent condition. All three are labeled with a
* DECUS sticker (and the main DECUS site is re-organizinf its software
* section, so there's no info there). All three have typewritten RSTS11-75 on
* them, then one has 8080.Bas 2/June/76, one has 8008.Bas 2/June/76, and the
* third has 8008.Doc 2/June/76. Supposedly these all came from MITS.
*
* Right now I don't have a paper tape reader (Doug Quebbeman has mine, and I
* haven't interfaced it to my Sol yet anyway).
* So, for starters, does anyone KNOW what these are? Any informed guesses
* beyond the obvious? Can anyone read them for me or make copies in a more
* "modern" format (i.e., CUTS cassette tape)?
What you have is one of 147 entries from the DECUS RSTS-11 library. They
are already available on-the-web through the collections at
http://pdp-11.trailing-edge.com/
just click on "RSTS-11 library entries" and go the the RSTS-11-75 entry,
specifically
RSTS-11-75
8008.BAS and 8080.BAS, Version: May 1975
_________________________________________________________________
Author: R. J. Tapp and G. D. Young, University of Victoria, Victoria,
B.C., Canada
Source Language: BASIC-PLUS, Memory Required: 8K
Abstract: These are cross-assemblers for the 8008 and 8080
microprocessors which use a language similar to Intel's standard
assembly language: instruction mnemonics are identical, but
pseudo-instructions and expression formats are slightly different.
Output is in the form of an assembly listing, alphabetical symbol
table and object code in standard Intel hex format. Note: See also
DECUS No. 11-113.
Documentation on Magnetic Media.
Media Price Codes: G26, H30, M50
_________________________________________________________________
Filename Size (kbytes)
8008.BAS 7.5
8008.DOC 13.5
8080.BAS 10.5
Other RSTS-11 entries available include
* RSTS-11-1 EDITOR.BAS (and EDITIN), Vervion: 6A, July 1973
* RSTS-11-2 Utilities, Editors and Hangman, Version: February 1973
* RSTS-11-3 Text Editor for RSTS, Version: February 1973
* RSTS-11-5 CREATE and CREAT1, Version: April 1973
* RSTS-11-6 RESEQ: Program Resequencing, Version: January 1974
* RSTS-11-7 Accounting Package, Version: March 1973
* RSTS-11-8 System Status Display -- Hazeltine 2000, Version: April
1973
* RSTS-11-10 Project DELTA Educational Package, Section B,
Statistics Programs, Version: June 1973
* RSTS-11-12 Project DELTA Educational PaduW, Section D, Electronics
and Production Oriented Programs, Version: June 1973
* RSTS-11-13 Games, Puzzles and Recreation--1, Version: August 1973
* RSTS-11-14 Games, Puzzles and Recreation--2, Version: September
1973
* RSTS-11-15 LSFORM: LS11 Centronix Line-Printer Driver for RSTS
V4A, Version: August 1973
* RSTS-11-16 TALK: Inter Terminal Communications Program, Version:
August 1973
* RSTS-11-17 TEXTED, Version: July 1973
* RSTS-11-18 GERMAN: Adjective Ending Game and Data File Editor,
Version: August 1973
* RSTS-11-19 FAST; ECONMY, ECON2; ONIONS, Version: August 1973
* RSTS-11-20 TREK: Star Trek Game, Version: October 1974
* RSTS-11-21 ROBOT and FIX, Version: August 1973
* RSTS-11-22 TUTR: BASIC Tutoring Programs, Version: November 1973
* RSTS-11-23 NAMES and CEMGEN: Computerized Question Generation,
Version: November 1973
* RSTS-11-24 BASIC-PLUS Demos, Version: July 1973
* RSTS-11-25 BRAVO, Version: September 1973
* RSTS-11-26 ROTATE, POLY, PLOTIO, XYPLOT, Version: June 1973
* RSTS-11-27 GENES, Version: August 1973
* RSTS-11-28 MODIFY: Line Editor for RSTS-BASIC, Version: October
1973
* RSTS-11-29 EDIT, Version: August 1973
* RSTS-11-30 COSAP: Conversationally Oriented Statistical Analysis
Package, Version: January 1974
* RSTS-11-31 INRAN, OUTRAN: Computerized Question Generation #2,
Version: January 1974
* RSTS-11-32 EDIT8, Version: January 1974
* RSTS-11-33 PAYROLL: Idaho Falls Payroll System
* RSTS-11-34 Wabash College Student Information System, Version:
December 1974
* RSTS-11-35 COMSYS: RSTS-11 Communications System, Version: June
1974
* RSTS-11-36 READID.MAC, Version: April 1974
* RSTS-11-37 SPRING THING, Version: January 1972
* RSTS-11-38 Analog Computer Simulator, Version: January 1974
* RSTS-11-39 YACHT: Yachting Championship Results, Version: February
1974
* RSTS-11-40 Management Case Studies, Version: March 1974
* RSTS-11-41 TYPIST, Version: March 1974
* RSTS-11-42 MIS: Management Information System, Version: June 1974
* RSTS-11-43 Elementary Instructional Programs, Volume 1, Version:
January 1975
* RSTS-11-44 Fractions Drill and Practice, Version: January 1975
* RSTS-11-45 Dartmouth Statistics Program, Version: April 1974
* RSTS-11-46 North Country Union High School Administrative
Programs, Version: September 1972
* RSTS-11-47 Project DELTA Educational Package, Section E Additional
Mathematics Program and Section F Teacher Assistance Programs,
Version: May 1974
* RSTS-11-48 Project DELTA Educational Package, Section G Business
Programs and Section H Data Processing Programs, Version: May 1974
* RSTS-11-49 SADSM, Version: January 1974
* RSTS-11-50 MIGIT, Version: April 1974
* RSTS-11-51 ACCMAT: Account Maintenance File, Version: April 1974
* RSTS-11-52 Fiscal Accounting, Version: July 1974
* RSTS-11-53 Computer Dating, Version: October 1974
* RSTS-11-54 TAPFOR.MAC, Version: June 1974
* RSTS-11-55 XREF.BAS, Version: June 1974
* RSTS-11-56 The Timer Package, Version: June 1974
* RSTS-11-57 PACK.BAS, Version: May 1974
* RSTS-11-58 MOVERX.BAS, Version: December 1973
* RSTS-11-59 LISTAL.BAS, Version: February 1974
* RSTS-11-60 PUNCH.BAS, Version: March 1974
* RSTS-11-61 HELPER: Editing and Renumbering BASIC-PLUS Programs,
Version: June 1975
* RSTS-11-62 Bentley Variety Package, Version: June 1974
* RSTS-11-63 NORTON: Astronomical Ephemeris Program Package,
Version: August 1976
* RSTS-11-64 NMRSIM: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Simulation and
Plotting Progiram, Version: August 1974
* RSTS-11-65 SPPLT: Hybrid Orbital Contour Plotting Program,
Version: December 1974
* RSTS-11-66 Elementary Instructional Programs, Volume II, Version:
February 1974
* RSTS-11-67 HPPLOT.BAS: Hewlett-Packard 7202A Graphic Plotter
Program, Version: January 1975
* RSTS-11-68 SOLVE: Southeastern On-Line Version of Enrollinent,
Version: February 1975
* RSTS-11-69 INVSIM: Inventory Simulations, Version: February 1975
* RSTS-11-70 WRIST: Wabash Research Investigation Simulation
Teacher, Version: January 1976
* RSTS-11-71 Matrix Software Company Game and Demo PadaW, Version:
August 1974
* RSTS-11-72 1401 Simulator (RSTS Version), Version: January 1975
* RSTS-11-74 SYSELF: System Status-Self, Version: April 1975
* RSTS-11-75 8008.BAS and 8080.BAS, Version: May 1975
* RSTS-11-76 CYCLES, Version: June 1975
* RSTS-11-78 XREF: Cross-Referencer for BASIC-PLUS Programs,
Version: June 1975
* RSTS-11-79 RSTS Performance Measurement Package, Version: June
1975
* RSTS-11-80 TDL/SCRIPT, Version: June 1975
* RSTS-11-81 BATCH: Batch Programming for the PDP-11/20 with
RSTS-11, Version: June 1974
* RSTS-11-82 Laramie High ECMEP Math Programs, Version: August 1975
* RSTS-11-83 PAPTAP, NIAGTAP, LISTAC: Additional Cusps for RSTS-11,
Version: August 1975
* RSTS-11-84 OMSI PILOT-73, Version: April 1975
* RSTS-11-85 BRANCH: DECAL Branching Scheme for "N" Right Out of "T"
Tries, Version: September 1975
* RSTS-11-86 OS/8 to RSTS Interface, Version: January 1976
* RSTS-11-87 COPY03: Backup Program (To and From all Devices Except
DECtape), Version: January 1976
* RSTS-11-89 Floppy Disk Utility (RT-11 Compatible), Version: March
1976
* RSTS-11-90 DICE, Version: 1, April 1978
* RSTS-11-92 BASIC: Dartmouth BASIC to BASIC-PLUS Text Editor,
Version: June 1976
* RSTS-11-93 CHSBRD, Version: 1, December 1975
* RSTS-11-94 Compendium of (DECAL) CAI Programs, Version: October
1976
* RSTS-11-97 SHELF, Version: December 1976
* RSTS-11-98 CASANOVA Package, Version: December 1976
* RSTS-11-100 Computer-Oriented-Accounting Package, Version:
September 1976
* RSTS-11-101 DECUS-S.I.G. Seminar Programs and Documentation,
Version: March 1977
* RSTS-11-102 RINNY2, Version: B-2a, January 1977
* RSTS-11-103 CADA Monitor, Version: August 1976
* RSTS-11-104 VBFILE: Variable Record Random Acem File Handler
Routines, Version: April 1977
* RSTS-11-105 Text Editor and Corrector for RSTS/E, Version: May
1977
* RSTS-11-106 RTMAG: Utility to Read RT-11 Magtapes under RSTS/E,
Version: May 1977
* RSTS-11-108 SOS-11, Version: August 1977
* RSTS-11-109 Middlebury College Utilities and Plotting Package,
Version: August 1977
* RSTS-11-110 STAT-11: Statistical Package, Version: October 1977
* RSTS-11-111 RSTS with PAMILA, Version: August 1977
* RSTS-11-112 72PLOT: HP 7202A Plotter Package, Version: January
1978
* RSTS-11-113 MICRO.BAS: 8080 Based Microcomputer Simulator,
Version: March 1978
* RSTS-11-114 GRAPH PACKAGE, Version: September 1977
* RSTS-11-115 HELP COMMAND, Version: March 1978
* RSTS-11-116 Xavier Library Support and Conversion Program
Packages, Version: May 1978
* RSTS-11-117 FORMAT, Version: 03 - 20-Apr-78
* RSTS-11-118 LEADS: An Interadive Daft Base NIaMement System for
Education, Version: 1, May 1978
* RSTS-11-119 FREQ, VIDEO, and GRADS, Version: July 1978
* RSTS-11-120 Card Reader Batch Monitor Program, Version: 1.4,
December 1978
* RSTS-11-121 DISASM.BAS: MACRO Disassembler, Version: 1, April 1978
* RSTS-11-123 Wittenberg University Utility Package, Version: 6C-03,
October 1978
* RSTS-11-124 Creating Printed (Hard Copy) Tests, Version: 1, April
1978
* RSTS-11-125 PREX: RSTS Disk Directory Pre-extender, Version: May
1979
* RSTS-11-126 Dynamic System Account Manager, Version: 3, June 1980
* RSTS-11-128 CURSOR Programs In Chemistry, Version: July 1979
* RSTS-11-129 BMDP Control File Writer, Version: July 1979
* RSTS-11-130 SETDEC: DECAL Lesson Wiriter, Version: 2, January 1980
* RSTS-11-131 FLASH: Version: 1, September 1979
* RSTS-11-132 Central State University Drill and Practice CAI
System, Version: October 1979
* RSTS-11-133 Picture Generator and Multi-terminal Quiz, Version:
April 1979
* RSTS-11-134 MAIL: Mail/Message System, Version: January 1980
* RSTS-11-135 ASCII to EBCDIC or EBCDIC to ASCII String Translation
RSTS-11-135 (FNEBCASC), Version: January 1980FNEBCASC: Convert
ASCII to EBCDIC and reverse
* RSTS-11-136 MAIL Package, Version: V06A-02, June 1980
* RSTS-11-137 3277 Display Emulator for RSTS/E, Version: 1.0,
February 1980
* RSTS-11-138 Frequency Package, Version: January 1980
* RSTS-11-139 CTS-11 Software Driver for RSTS/F, Version: 1.0, May
1980
* RSTS-11-140 The Nassau College Utility Package, Version: 1.0,
August 1980
* RSTS-11-141 MAGINT: MAGnetic tape INTerchange program, Version:
02A-02, August 1980
* RSTS-11-142 ACTNAM.BAS, Version: October 1980
* RSTS-11-143 UNITAP/UNIWRI, Version: January 1981
* RSTS-11-144 COMPUTER DATING
* RSTS-11-145 NDTRAN Notre Dame Simulation Program, Version: 2
* RSTS-11-146 ROLL MANAGER PROGRAM, Version: 2
* RSTS-11-147 LISP
--
Tim Shoppa Email: shoppa(a)trailing-edge.com
Trailing Edge Technology WWW: http://www.trailing-edge.com/
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Hi,
I picked up a couple of Epson PX-4 handheld/laptop computers a few weeks ago.
Have not got around to testing them yet. Any identifying text which used to
be on the rear labels is no longer there.
There is space for a plug-in device/cartridge on the righthand side above the
keyboard. Both computers have what appears to be a 1 megabyte static RAM
cartridge (possibly battery-backed) in this space. These must have been quite
expensive when new. I opened up one of the cartridges. Text on one of the
PCBs inside mentioned (from memory) POCKET COMPUTERS LTD 1993, so these are
quite recent.
In the EPROM sockets underneath the computer is some kind of auditing program;
the label read
Pocket Computers Ltd
AUDITOR V5.2
The labels also mention CP/M 2.2.
A web search for "Pocket Computers" Auditor didn't turn up anything. Does
anyone have any information on this company?
-- Mark
I found a manual for the Link MC70 terminal. Apparently its 4014 compatible
so all I need to draw on it are some routines that know how to talk to a
4014 :-)
--Chuck
