I just registered TELETYPE.ORG, and will be putting up a web site with
info about the company and equipment and technology... any URLs of
info or pictures would be welcome (especially pictures). All I've
gotten right now is the thread from TELECOM DIGEST from a few years
back about AT&T's dropping of telegraph service..
Thanks.
Bill
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Hi:
Well, it's time for spring^H^H^H^H^H^Hfall cleaning, some for free, some not.
I have a Prowriter dot matrix printer in unknown condition (cosmetically
good). Free to the first person who picks it up. No, I will not ship it.
I'm in San Bernardino, Calif. area. It's too big for me to keep now that I
have a new Panasonic 24-pin printer for the C128. It will go to the dump
in a couple of weeks if unclaimed.
I also have two Apple monitors; one, a composite monitor designed for the
IIgs (but works with any Apple II), and a small RGB monitor that went with
my Mac IIsi (15-pin). Both work 100%. I'd like to trade for, in particular,
M100/NEC8201A RAM modules, but am asking $25 apiece or best offer plus
shipping. Priority goes to anyone who can pick them up, since it saves me
having to drive them to the post office. I have Commodore monitors coming
out my ears and since they can take S-video and analogue RGB, they're much
more useful to me than these Apple ones.
The monitors will go to eBay in a couple of weeks if unclaimed.
I'm also not taking any of this up to VCF since I'll be dragging enough
up with me (an SX-64, a Tomy Tutor, several Commodore monitors for them,
all the peripherals for the Tomy ...)
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Hi,
On Thu, 07 Sep 2000 Joe wrote:
> At 05:03 PM 9/7/00 -0700, you wrote:
> >
> >Anyone familiar with:
> >
> >Panasonic 8" optical Drive
> >Removeable Cartridges
> >Model DU-15LU
> >Manufactured 1987 by Mitsushita (sp?)
> >
> >Someone gave me a call today to see if I had one. I don't and told him I
> >would put it out to the listserver. Also, are there any other units by
other
> >companies that will read these cartridges? The main concern here is data
> >recovery. The second concern is that I will then see if I can obtain that
> >computer :)! My understanding is that only five of these units were sold in
> >the US and four were returned since they were not networkable (fact or
> >fiction?)
>
> Marvin,
>
> If it's what I think it is then I have two NIB optical disks for it.
> They're Panasonic part number TQ-FD22 and they're made by Matsushita
> Electric Industrial Co in Japan. Make an offer if you're interested in the
> disks. FWIW these are more surplus from NASA KSC.
These may not be compatible with the DU-15LU drive, assuming that drive is for
computer data storage and not video recording. Try to compare pictures of the
two types of disks.
Panasonic/Matsushita used to make optical disk video recorders for the
professional market that used 8" disks. The model numbers of the recorders
and players begin with TQ-, so I suspect the TQ-FD22 disks are for the video
recorders.
FWIW, going to eBay and searching for Panasonic TQ should bring up some
listings for the players/recorders. TQ-2026F is a player/recorder, and
TQ-2027F a player. The recording method used by these might be analogue given
their age.
-- Mark
I stopped by a recycling facility today that I had forgotten about as a
possible source. Here's some of the items they had, if anyone is interested
contact me off-list for particulars.
Amdahl - 9406, 6690, 6395. Many of each, about 12 cabinets altogether. The
cabinets were mostly gutted, but the panels were still there. Several
pallets of hard drives were removed but they still have those too.
IBM - 3088. Looks complete. They also had a 4300 that had been stripped to
virtually just the frame. Probably no interest there :)
DEC - a 11/73 chassis only w/power suppy and front panel. A microvax II. An
11/83 turbo. Plus, the following dec modules: M7516-YM, M7555, M7546,
M7606-AF, M7622-AE, M7625-BA, QBUSBEC37
Jay West
> Hopefully, in the next week or two, I'm going to be
> getting a SOL. In anticipation of this, I'm wondering
> what floppy interfaces one might expect to find in
> a SOL. The one I'm getting does not have a floppy card
> in it. Looking around, I see that some people have
> NorthStars in theirs. I have a spare N* floppy controller,
> but I'd rather not go this route as the hard sectored
> media is difficult to find. I'll have to inventory my
> S-100 cards... I know I have a couple of Cromemcos 4FDC
> and 16FDC cards. Would someone have put one of these in
> a SOL? I'm not asking if it can be made to work. I'm
> trying to get a sense of whether it's appropriate or if
> it would be like putting a SoundBlaster32 with 16 Megs
> of memory in an original 6MHz PC-AT with a 512K
> motherboard.
Processor Technology had a HD system they called "Helios",
which used (IIRC) Micropolis hard-sectored disks (they
may have been "firm-sectored" tho). I think most went the
NorthStar route, tho.
I had intended (and still hope) to get a Morrow/ThinkerToys
Discus 2D system for my Sol.
hth,
-dq
"Kevin L. Anderson" <kla(a)helios.augustana.edu> wrote:
> My son was given an HP Portable Plus (Model 110 I believe).
> It looks good, complete with Word and Lotus in the software
> "drawer". Unfortunately it lacks the external power supply/
> recharger, so I don't know if it works.
Model 110 is the "HP Portable": 16-line screen, Bell 103 (300 bps)
modem, and no drawers (the RAM size and built-in application set are
fixed). The "Portable Plus" is usually called that, or "110 Plus",
although it has the unwieldy model number of 45711.
The power supply that you probably want (being in North America) is HP
p/n 82509D: it's the same thing as used for a lot of HP's portable
computers, and I think the 41C rechargable battery pack. (There are
other variants on this for places with other input voltages and/or
mechanical wall outlet configurations.) Output is 8VAC, 3A, which
should be applied to the two pins in the rectangular socket on the
back of the Plus (not the trapezoidal ones which are HP-IL
connectors).
If the Plus doesn't hold a charge, the battery is replaceable.
-Frank McConnell
Kevin,
The charger output is 8 VAC. I don't know the current rating but it's
probably about 100 or 200 Ma. HP uses the same charger for a lot of
different things and they can often be found in surplus stores. The part
number is HP 82059. It's a wall wart that's about 1 1/2" on each side.
Joe
At 09:49 AM 9/8/00 -0500, you wrote:
>My son was given an HP Portable Plus (Model 110 I believe).
>It looks good, complete with Word and Lotus in the software
>"drawer". Unfortunately it lacks the external power supply/
>recharger, so I don't know if it works.
>
>Can anyone tell me what power supply I need and/or the
>power requirements? The HP150faq does not give those
>types of specifics that I can see.
>
>Thanks.
>
>Kevin Anderson
>formerly of Augustana College, Rock Island IL
>now in Bismarck, ND
>home: K9IUA(a)juno.com (alternate kla(a)helios.augustana.edu)
>
>
>
Um, the 5081 isn't really meant as a general-purpose monitor to my
knowledge... its a part of the 5080 Graphics System, IBMs neato high-end CAD
stuff...
Will J
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Paul Brown wrote:
>Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 21:11:52 -0500
>Subject: Re: Windows CE and an OT rant
>
-snip-
>or
>take the long-respected brand name of Hewlett-Packard
>Instruments and start calling them "Agilent Technologies", a name
>that I haven't heard pronounced the same way twice, or again
The worse part is that "agilent" is a very dumb name in many
languages; agile on one hand, "lent" ("slow" in most languages)
on the other.
The measurement/instrumentation half should have kept the
HP name. The agilent oxymoron actually fits the other one.
Carlos.
At 03:47 PM 8/30/00 -0400, r. 'bear' stricklin wrote:
>I can't speak to that, but I have it on very good faith that a Hostess
>snack cake does not get baked. In fact, it never comes close to an
>oven; the cakes are "catalyzed".
A fun summer course I had in college dealt with various aspects
of agriculture and production of food: I learned how they
make the meat for McNugget-like products (cook the poultry,
blow/smash it hard against a screen to remove the meat)
and things like the pimientos in olives (grind actual peppers
into paste, add gel, pour into sheet, then slice 'n insert)
or the hardboiled eggs in the salad bar (separate eggs into
whites and yolks, cook in special machine that makes a "tube egg"
a yard long, slice), etc.
- John
