Don't I need some DLLs or other proprietary software to be able t
communicate with it?
I can take this discussion over to the lego mail list where it will be more
appropriate.
Thanks
Francois
>The CD contains the tutorial, case-based programming tool and the firmware.
>The latest firmware can be downloaded from the mindstorms site.
>The case-based programming tool is quite weak. I would consider using NQC
>or legOS which is much more powerful and easier to use. Very C like for
NQC
>and legOS uses GCC...
>
>Ram
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Sue & Francois" <fauradon(a)mn.mediaone.net>
>To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
>Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2001 10:06 PM
>Subject: Re: OT: Lego Mindstorm
>
>
>> Nope gotta buy the upgrade version from 1.0 to 1.5 (includes 77 pieces).
I
>> already bought the thing... Just that the CD was missing. And It gonna be
>> impossible to return or exchange it.
>> Thanks
>> Francois
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Jim Strickland" <jim(a)calico.litterbox.com>
>> To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
>> Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2001 3:52 PM
>> Subject: Re: OT: Lego Mindstorm
>>
>>
>> > I have one. Have you checked the lego mindstorms website, they may
have
>> the
>> > newer version for sale.
>> >
>> > >
>> > > Hi all,
>> > > I just scored a Lego mindstorm 1.5 this week end unfortunately I am
>> missing
>> > > the CD any one around got one and can make a copy? Pleas contact me
>off
>> > > line.
>> > >
>> > > To bring it back to charter I also found an Atari Videon Touch Pad
for
>> the
>> > > 2600. Were there many games that made use of it?
>> > > Thanks
>> > > Francois
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Jim Strickland
>> > jim(a)DIESPAMMERSCUMcalico.litterbox.com
>> > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> > BeOS Powered!
>> > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
On January 21, Claude.W wrote:
> Anybody ever burn your own EPROM from a rom dump and just put it in a socket of a cartridge?
>
> I opened up a cart today to see a socketed ROM in there in only one of the 2 possible PCB locations for chips.
>
> I suspect 2 were used in some cartridges...not in the breakout game I opened today.
>
> Anybody know what eprom types are pin compatible for these if any?
I bet it's a relatively ordinary pinout...probably the ROM version
of a 2716 or 2732. I believe those chips have part numbers like
"2316" and such, if memory serves. There were lots of mask ROMs that
were pin-compatible with EPROMs in that era, before one-time
programmable EPROMs (plain EPROMs but in plastic packages with no
erasure window) became cost-effective.
Are the numbers on your chip readable? If so, what are they?
-Dave McGuire
From: Iggy Drougge <optimus(a)canit.se>
>ajp166 skrev:
>
>>>Can't the VAX netboot?
>
>>It can but you need a network partner that understands MOP boot such as
>>another VMS box.
>
>MOP d?mons are available for BSDs and Linux, too, IIRC. Have a look at
>http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/pmax for instructions.
I know about linux MOP. I suggested VMS box as they already know how.
Also for those that dont know or havent tried, the image the mop loader
sends
out does nto have to be VMS. We used it for ELN and other toys at DEC.
Allison
John:
> On Thu, 18 Jan 2001 10:13:30 +0000 Adrian Graham
> <agraham(a)ccat.co.uk> wrote:
> > Hehe - I found one yesterday in a thrift store along with
> another ebay
> > perennial, the Binatone TV Master MK10 pong, boxed :)
>
> Ah, Binatone, whatever happened to them?
I still see the name on telephones so either they're still going or someone
else has the name.
> So how come the charity shops in Bristol aren't full of
> Good Stuff like this??? They seem to be scared of anything
> with a mains plug on it!
They're not allowed to sell electrical items because they need to be fully
tested for electrical safety, and that testing costs money. The shops can't
afford to be sued by someone who gets zapped!
This place is a true junk shop so he can sell absolutely anything.....
I asked him how much he'd want for the machines he's got and he said a
tenner each (what's that, around $15?), so if any of you across the Pond
want an Archimedes or an Amstrad I don't mind parcelling one up on receipt
of the postage money.
> Having said that, I did find two Amstrad PCW8512s and an
> Acorn Electron in a junk shop the other day. Eight quid
> for the lot!
heh....
--
Adrian Graham MCSE/ASE/MCP
C CAT Limited
Gubbins: http://www.ccat.co.uk (work)
<http://www.snakebiteandblack.co.uk> (home)
<http://www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk> (The Online Computer Museum)
0/0
I have here a large hard disk drive which I know very little about. It is
very solidly built of what looks like thick aluminium castings (with lots
of fins) which has been anodised to a kind of light grey-gold colour.
According to the bathroom scales it weighs about 37.5Kg or 85lb, and is
about 40 * 27 * 34 cm or 1'4" * 11" * 1'1" in size. There is no control
circuitry in or on the drive itself as far as I can see. The heads are
connected to two 40 pin IDC connectors on top of the unit marked CN91 and
CN92, the head motor is connected to a two pin plug marked CN93 underneath
the unit, and the platter motor (which drives the spindle directly) is
connected to a 5 pin plug marked CN94 to the left of CN93. There is an
empty space for a CN95 connector next to CN94, and there is also a
connector marked CN95 on the main drive motor itself (it looks like a
position sensor). The mounting frame is shock mounted to the base via four
rubber bushes. On the mounting frame is a label which says
"B030-4840-T031A". On the top cover panel next to the head connectors is a
label with two barcodes on it, one above the other. Below the top barcode
it says "S/N A43396 REV B0". Below the bottom barcode it says
"C/N 1A9840". On the casing above the head drive motor is another barcode
label which says "S/N 3A43396". The main drive motor has a label that says:
UGBT1D-TP0FU11
B90L-1560-0101A
24V 4A
701297-2
YASKAWA ELECTRIC JAPAN
I don't have a digital camera, so no pictures I'm afraid.
Does anybody know what this drive is, how old it is, what type of machine
it was used with, what capacity it is, how much it cost when new, etc.
Also, does anyone have a use for it? I'm willing to give it away to a good
home, though I'd rather it was collected in person (from Burnley, in the
NW of England). Failing that, I'd be willing to accept the cost of the
postage (bearing in mind that it won't be cheap due to the weight) and a
reasonable contribution towards the cost of packing materials and the
effort involved in lugging the thing to the post office.
--
------- Alex Holden -------
http://www.linuxhacker.org/http://www.robogeeks.org/
Is there anybody out there, preferably in the UK, that wants a couple of
Bondwell model 2 laptops. They both work, I have floppies for CPM and
various other bits of software. I have currently found one of the power
bricks, but I am sure I have another somewhere.
--
Kevan
Collector of old computers: http://www.heydon.org/kevan/collection/
larry:
I've got a couple of these units too. It records about 20 seconds of sound
(at least mine do, I believe there were other models) and plays it back in
a loop at the desired FM frequency. The input power is a 5 pin male DIN
rated 22VAC and 20VA (reads on supply).
Looking at the the plug, from left to right the pinout is as follows 1 4 2
5 3 (with standard DIN numbering, measured with multimeter): (1) 23V
[between 1&2] (4) n/c (2)common (5) n/c (3) -11V [between 1&3 or 2&3]
1 3
4 5
2
I believe this unit only requires 22VAC between 1&2. These units were used
in realestate to give a short blurb about a house. Apparently they
retailed for $11 000 (?) back when the previous owner bought them.
Devon
> I have a box in a nice well padded soft-case called a Compu-Voxx.
>It was manufactured by Manutronics. It has a removable antenna.
>It appears to be some sort of transmitting device for sending
>messages. Based on the instructions on the face you record a
>message (to a chip I imagine) and then send if the selectable
>digital readout frequency is between 88.1 and 107.9.
> That sounds like the AM band to me. Could this be some sort of
>civil defense emergency device ?
> It has a 5-pin DIN plug for power which unfortunately didn't come
>with it which is not an unsurmountable problem.
> Anyone know what this might be.
>
>ciao larry
>
>Reply to:
>lgwalker(a)look.ca
If there's a listmember or two that are running NetBSD on an Apple
quadra, or knows their way around BSD, could you please p-mail me?
<mailto:jrasite@eoni.com> I'm having a bit of a problem getting it to
come up.
Thx.
Jim
Hi, gang.
I'm going through boxes of stuff, and came across a pile of ribbons
and several daisy wheels for a S-C printer that came with the one
Kaypro II I was given. I'll never use all of these ribbons or even the
alternate wheels....if someone can use them, mail me off-list and
we'll work out the details. I'd hate to pitch 'em, but I need the room.
Thanks.
Paul Braun WD9GCO
Cygnus Productions
nerdware_nospam(a)laidbak.com
"A computer without a Microsoft operating system is like a dog without a bunch of bricks tied to its head."
Hello, all:
The Altair32 project is progressing nicely. I've completed the coding, so
it's feature complete *except* for the Telnet server code. The emulator now
can load and save files, accept disk images (the "controller" is the
standard MITS 88DSK), and produce printer output. I also modularized it a
bit so that it's easier to add devices to it in the future.
Obviously, the Telnet server code is key since that's what will serve as
the attached terminal. So, we are unfortunately still restricted to using
the FP.
I have a few bells and whistles I like to add. For example, I'd like to add
real Altair fan noise. Spin up. Run. Shutdown. I'd also like to change the
FP to the original 8800 instead of the 8800b that was originally used. What
I'd want to do is superimpose the graphic switches and LEDs over a picture
of an actual 8800. The existing graphics size is 600x320, but I can make it
larger if need be.
I haven't posted the code to my Web site yet because I'd like to first
offer it up for "beta testing" to the ClassCmp group. If anyone is
interested in seeing the full source distribution including bitmaps and VC6
project files, please email me off-list and I'll send you a zip file.
Just a personal reflection. Before this project, I never programmed in C,
much less in "Windows." What a learning experience. I do have to say,
though, that C is fairly easy to learn and use, but I'm sure that I'm only
using about 20% of what C offers. And even at the end of the project, I
still have trouble with pointers :-).
Rich
ClubWin! Group 1
Collector of Classic Computers
Web site: http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/~rcini/classiccmp/
/*****************************************/
On January 21, Claude.W wrote:
> They arent anything obvious, thats the deal...
>
> AMI 8147BXW (date code...8147...?)
> CO12406-01 (your guess...)
> (c) 1980 Atari
> Korea
Hmm...nonsensical numbers... :-(
Hey, you could look at the board and see how many address lines are
wired up...
-Dave McGuire
Can anybody please tell me or point me to a diagram explaining which
connectors on the back of this disk are for what?
In addition, an explanation of how to interpret the diagnostic LEDs on the
top panel would be most helpful.
Tony, thanks for your information. It was a good start for me, but I
need some drive-specific information now. Seagate's web pages are worse
than useless for this.
ok
r.
From: Tony Duell <ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
>> I am suspecting a 2716 or 2732 too but...
>> ...
>
>I'd be suprised if you could fit a reasonable BASIC interpretter into 2K
>or even 4K of 6502 code....
Bizzare statement from you. The 6502 was fairly code efficient and there
were
basics that easily fit in both 2k (integer) and 4k (with floats).
>There is/was an 8K*8 mask-programmed ROM in a 24 pin DIL package (one of
>the versions of the 2364 IIRC), and I wonder if that's what you have. I
>can find pinouts of that ROM in the Rockwell databook if you need them.
Yes there was Mask roms were available in both larger and less costly
for before the Eprom versions.
Allison
On Jan 21, 20:14, Alex Holden wrote:
> Hi, does anyone know where I can get hold of Sun monitor cables (ideally
> in the UK)?
[...]
> They use 13W3 D type connectors, and I
> did actually manage to get hold of the connector shells from Farnell, but
> they don't seem to be able to get hold of the signal pins for them.
Farnell do list the coax inserts (they also stock the high-current power
plugs that can be used in other 13W3 appications), and IIRC they list the
13W3 shells in two places in the catalogue (which I don't have handy).
They might be out of stock, I suppose. If so, you can also get them from
Electrospeed (www.electrospeed.com):
169.23.1415.421 50 ohm straight plug 252-38733D ?4.08
23.2415.421 50 ohm straight socket 252-38734A ?6.17
FMX 003 P102 75 ohm straight socket 252-3104J ?3.05
FMX 003 S102 75 ohm straight plug 252-3106A ?2.36
(I'd check those part numbers; S102 sounds like it should be a socket and
P102 sounds like it should be a plug!)
Electrospeed also sell Siemens inserts for DIN 41612 mixed-body connectors,
which AFAIK are interchangable -- but the Siemens ones are (even) more
expensive.
You can also get them from RS (rswww.com) or Electromail:
485-164 RG178B/U straight plug ?4.16
485-170 RG174A/U straight plug ?4.57
485-186 RG178B/U straight socket ?4.84
485-192 RG174A/U straight socket ?3.89
You can get the cheap version from CPC (www.cpc.co.uk):
CN04661 RG179B/U 75 ohm plug ?1.43
CN04662 RG178B/U 50 ohm plug ?1.43
CN04663 RG179B/U 75 ohm socket ?1.52
CN04664 RG178B/U 50 ohm socket ?1.52
You can get Sun-to-VGA adaptors (both genders), half-pitch 50 D plug
(SCSI-2) to 50-pin 3-row D (which is probably what you called "weird
oversized-D"), and 50-pin D to 50-pin D from Videk (www.videk.co.uk).
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
Well, this is more a brag than something constructive, but I wrote my first
automatic Commodore 1541 disk drive re-aligner out of desperation this
weekend. I couldn't get it to read any disks and since this drive was the
internal 5.25" in the 128DCR, I couldn't just replace it. So I wrote a program
that commanded the FDC to whack the head into the restraining rail until it
could read the disk again. Voila. ;-)
The things you do when you're desperate ...
--
----------------------------- personal page: http://www.armory.com/~spectre/ --
Cameron Kaiser, Point Loma Nazarene University * ckaiser(a)stockholm.ptloma.edu
-- Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. -- Salvor Hardin -----------
From: Jeff Hellige <jhellige(a)earthlink.net>
> Where can PC/GEOS, aka New Deal, be found? It sounds pretty
>interesting and something I'd like to check out.
>
> Jeff
Uh try www.newdeal.com I posted it earlier in the string.
Allison
Hi
Anybody ever burn your own EPROM from a rom dump and just put it in a socket of a cartridge?
I opened up a cart today to see a socketed ROM in there in only one of the 2 possible PCB locations for chips.
I suspect 2 were used in some cartridges...not in the breakout game I opened today.
Anybody know what eprom types are pin compatible for these if any?
Claude
From: Cameron Kaiser <spectre(a)stockholm.ptloma.edu>
>> FYI: it's only 2mb! Even the dos 6.22kit is larger and
>> www.newdealinc.com
>
>That's PC/GEOS. Trust me, it works. I was a PC/GEOS believer back in the
>early days and I think it's one fabulous GUI.
Dont have to trust you, I've got it and it does work very well.
Allison
Derek Peschel and I are sitting here scratching our heads making confused
noises trying to figure out why my Symbolics is broken.
It worked (to a point) before I moved to this new house. Now it's not
working even tot hat point.
Power good. We can't get the FEP booted.
I wonder if I haven't gotten the SMD disk hooked up correctly?
At the drive end, there ar four possibilities for where to connect the
60-pin A cable, and two possibilities for where to connect the B cable. I
have a terminator. We have wasted lots of time searching the web for this
informaiton.
How do I hook up the drive so I know it's connected properly? It's a 760
MB CDC Sabre 9720.
Help!
ok
r.
ps. Does anybody know enough about these machines to help me troubleshoot
it? I think the basic parts all work, but just not yet together. It's a
Symbolics 3650.
I found this in a news group, If anyone is interested reply directly
to the originator.
Joe
In comp.sys.intel.ipsc310, <dkitchen(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>Anyone interested in a possible donation of an Intel IPSC 860 SuperComputer,
>a spare chassis, and many, many related spare parts & boards, along with a
>ton of software and manuals please contact me. We used these for digital
>video processing but the nature of digital video has changed along with the
>ease of processing with modern computing systems has made this obsolete for
>digital video applications.
>
>Again, we are willing to donate this to the organization the will give it
>proper care and feeding. Otherwise it will be in a landfill in the near
>future. Yes, you have to pay all shipping and transport costs or pick it up
>in Southern California.
>
>Please contact me at dkitchen(a)hotmail.com
>
>
>
From: Richard Erlacher <edick(a)idcomm.com>
>Has anybody got good logic analyzer pictures of the signals on the S-100
>driven by the really early 8080 CPU cards? I'm looking to get a
reference
Real simple start with a schematic of the MITS 8080 or IMSAI 8080 CPU
card
so you get to see how much buffering (mostly and only) and combinational
logic applied to some signals (nearly none). Then get an 8080 datasheet,
that IS THE TIMING for early S100.
All of the later Z80, 6502, 6800, LSI-11, TI9900, COSMAC, 8085 and
808X to name a few boards tried to approximate that timing (before it
morphed to IEE696) with combinational logic.
Allison
--- John Lawson <jpl15(a)panix.com> wrote:
> Basically, the yoke coil is calculated to 'ring' at a certain frequency...
> ...The circuit is designed so that at that freq, the yoke is in resonance,
> and therefore uses less current to get the job done; hence less wire and
> lighter, cheaper parts... it begins to draw large amounts of power trying to
> do the same work, and, in a lot of the 'cheap' monitors, the whole thing
> actually overheats and burns up while you are looking at the jagged lines
> and trying to figure out what to do next.
We lost a 19" Dell monitor (not cheap) at work last year when our Webguy
punched in an unfortunate refresh rate and didn't hit test first. I wasn't
there at the time, but my two buddies in IT who were in his cube (but facing
away at the time) said the flash was impressive.
> ALSO: Long ago in the Big Iron days... the were some machines in the
> Philco line whose power supplies in some configs were marginally
> inadequate. It was possible to load the machine (with programs and data)
> and trip (or burn) the power units...
I heard about someone who disassembled a "worst-case" memory diagnostic for
some DEC machine with core, perhaps the PDP-8, perhaps some other 1960's
model. He calculated that the program did not, in fact, perform a worst-
case test for memory access/data loss. He described his ideas to improve
the program to a Digit (DEC employee) who was familiar with the hardware
and software in question. The curious customer was warned against implementing
his idea because it was already known that a true worst-case scenario would
result in too much current being drawn through the core stack, causing
serious thermal problems if left to run for extended periods of time.
Also, there were programs in the days if Big Iron to abuse hardware built
with a particular duty cycle in mind, print hammers coming to mind. One
I was told about by the perpetrator was simple and fiendish - he analyzed
the pattern of letters on the band and devised a print line that caused all
the hammers to trip at once, rather than the usual 10%-20% that fired when
ordinary text was printed. The resulting current drain from a relatively
small number of lines of this, fried the power supply.
Then there's the practice of writing disk diagnostics that take advantage
of harmonic oscillations when the drive's voice coil is slammed from inner
to outer track, causing the drive to walk across the room. There are stories
of this happening entirely due to heavy usage and disk thrashing, not just
college pranksters seeing what the limits of physics are.
Disks that weight one kg. and inkjet printers just aren't as much fun as the
older stuff, one might think.
-ethan
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The original webpage address is still going away. The
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See http://ohio.voyager.net/ for details.
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I'm using a Toshiba and works great. Tried several sanyos, and even
a Cdburner (scsi) all worked.
Allison
-----Original Message-----
From: THETechnoid(a)home.com <THETechnoid(a)home.com>
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Date: Sunday, January 21, 2001 11:17 AM
Subject: Re: CD-ROM drive for VAXstation 3100 Model 76
>I tried several drives from different makers. All were 512byte
jumperable
>and would boot backup from the cd, but when you try to perform the
>restore, the system bombs.
>
>After about a week of diddling, I went and got an RRD40. Slower than
>molassis in January, but it works and the others didn't.
>
>Regards,
>
>Jeff
>
>P.S. From experience, you don't NEED a caddy for an RRD40. I don't
have
>one either. I just opened the drive and replaced the disk already
inside
>it with my VMS install cd. You need at least the horseshoe part of the
>caddy, but not the whole thing.
>
>
>Regards,
>
>Jeff
>
>In <20010119.235201.307.0.william.webb(a)juno.com>, on 01/21/01
> at 11:01 AM, William W Webb <william.webb(a)juno.com> said:
>
>>Fred, do a search for RRD40/42/43. These are the original DEC CD-ROM
>>drives that I absolutely positively know will work with these boxes-
they
>>are jumperable to do 512 or 2048 byte sectors. (VMS requires drives
that
>>do 512.)
>
>>RRD40s are really old and need a caddy.
>
>>You might be interested to know that I've got the Owner's Guide for the
>>VAXstation 3100 Model 76 online at:
>
>>http://www.whiteice.com/~williamwebb/intro/DOC-i.html
>
>>I'm considering doing the VAXstation 4000 VLC manual next, but only if
>>there's a demand for it since that much HTML pretty much by hand is a
>>real bitch.
>
>>William W. Webb
>
>>I don't know if it's outside of the scope of this mailing list to talk
>>about things for sale, but I've got hold of some old 64 x 64 bit core
>>frames that would look really nice in a shadowbox or under glass as a
>>desktop doodad.
>>Mfr. Lockheed Electronics Corp.
>
>>I can also lay my hands on a 4K module (9 frames with diode arrray
>>connector cards)
>
>>If anybody's interested, drop me an email and we'll talk about price.
>
>>Apologies in advance if I've transgressed.
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Hi
I dont collect DEC/VAX stuff but I have one of these here.
Cant tell ya if it works. But takes the CD in and ejects, led seems to behave normally.
I dont have the original caddy.
Someone told me to keep it for him but have not heard from him in a very long time...I cant recall who, perhaps he will read this and put his hand up...
I picked it up when I had the opportunity to empty out a VAX8350 of all its 13 boards (free for cost of shipping given away here on mailing list)
Would love to make someone happy. I have no use for this. Most probably will go into garbage soon if no takers...I have idea of its value.
Would accept a trade for anything micro 8-16 bits 197x-198x early 1990s that I could add to my collection.
See my current list at : http://computer_collector.tripod.com
Claude
Canuk Computer Collector