test-drb January 2001

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415 discussions

by vcf＠siconic.com

In planning for a VCF East Coast, I wanted to take a poll from folks as to where the ideal location would be. I am currently thinking that somewhere in the New England area would work the best, but what do I know, since I've never been there (besides passing through the airports). In deciding on a locale, I'd like to keep these criteria in mind: 1) Availability of an affordable location suitable for the Festival 2) Geographical proximity to the most number of potential attendees 3) Proximity to major airports 4) Availability of decent accomodations 5) Weather 6) Historical relevance (i.e. near Route 128, as a parallel to doing the main Festival in the Silicon Valley) So if those who are entertaining the notion of going to a VCF East could mosey on over to the following URL and fill in the survey I'd be most appreciative. http://www.vintage.org/survey.html This will help me decide on a place to host the first VCF East. As far as timing, it will have to fall somewhere in between VCF Europa (April 28-29, 2001) and VCF 5.0 (Fall 2001). Basically, late Spring, early Fall. Thanks! Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org

23 years, 5 months

Want to scrap/salvage: hi-tech equipment (populated circuit boards & equipment racks, chassies, etc.)

by etanaka＠mlcp.com

Hello. We are looking to salvage a quantity of populated circuit boards, 19" equipment racks, smaller chassies and other various hi-tech equipment over the next couple of weeks and need a salvage company that can work with us -- Southern California. How do we proceed? Please advise. Thank you. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Eric A. Tanaka MLCP - Multi-Link Communications Products WAN/ LAN Equipment: ADC-Kentrox Adtran Ascend Bay Networks Cascade Cisco / StrataCom Larscom Micom Motorola N.E.T. Newbridge Nortel Networks Paradyne Racal 3Com / US Robotics Timeplex Verilink & others tel............800 TO MULTI (800 866 8584), ext. 14 tel............+1 310 320 1451 fax...........+1 310 320 1551 email...... etanaka(a)mlcp.com URL........ http://www.mlcp.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------

23 years, 5 months

Functional Archive?

by djg＠drs-esg.com

Is there currently any functional archive of this list? www.classiccmp.org doesn't seem to be updating any more. Thanks, David Gesswein http://www.pdp8.net/ -- Old computers with blinkenlights

23 years, 5 months

New finds

by rigdonj＠intellistar.net

In the last couple of days I hit a used book store, scrap yard and Skycraft (THE mother of all surplus stores!) and came away with a good pile of stuff. Motorola Exor-bus CPU card with 6809 CPU, a pile of 7 more Exor-bus cards (Mike, where are you?) and a Rockwell R6500 AIM computer built into some kind of an incomplete machine. It has a riser card on the expansion connector and a second circuit card plugged into the riser. The only name I can find on it is "Aeronca Electronics Inc - 1984". The card has three DataSentry NiCad batteries on it along with two R6522P ICs and two HM 6116 Static Rams. Anyone know what this might have been? Other hardware includes an OMTI bridge board. It's a model 5400. Does anyone know what it is? I haven't had time to research it. Other goodies include "Interfacing to S-100/IEEE696 Microcomputers" by Sol Libes and Mark Garetz, "Starting Forth", "Thinking Forth" and "Discover Forth". Also "Principles of Data Processing with BASIC" from 1970. It's not too exciting except for a section on the IBM 29 card punch in the appendix. Other bookies include "Assembly language for the IBM-PC" by Kip Irvine and "Fundamentals of Logic Design" by Roth. They both look like good books. Joe

23 years, 5 months

VGA card - 8 bit?

by donm＠cts.com

I guess that this is a rather naive question, but is there any such thing as an 8-bit VGA card? If not, is the 16-bits necessary or is it just because it came about after 16-bit ISA came along with the AT class computers? - don

23 years, 5 months

New finds

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

On January 9, Joe wrote: > Other goodies include "Interfacing to S-100/IEEE696 Microcomputers" by > Sol Libes and Mark Garetz, "Starting Forth", "Thinking Forth" and "Discover Wow, Sol Libes! Haven't seen THAT name in a while. I think I had that book at one point. Neat score! -Dave McGuire

23 years, 5 months

Found Apple II SCSI card

by SUPRDAVE＠aol.com

In a message dated 1/9/01 5:52:32 PM Eastern Standard Time, foo(a)siconic.com writes: << Yes! I finally found an Apple II SCSI card. It was inside a //gs I picked up at a thrift store (complete with the AppleColor RGB monitor for $20). Funny how you don't pay attention to certain messages until you get one of what's being discussed yourself :) But my questions is, I can use this in an Apple //e as well, right? >> yes, you can even use it in a ][+ although you have to have 64k so as to run prodos. It would probably even work in a laser128's expansion slot too.

23 years, 5 months

Found Apple II SCSI card

by foo＠siconic.com

Yes! I finally found an Apple II SCSI card. It was inside a //gs I picked up at a thrift store (complete with the AppleColor RGB monitor for $20). Funny how you don't pay attention to certain messages until you get one of what's being discussed yourself :) But my questions is, I can use this in an Apple //e as well, right? I also picked up a hard drive and some external floppies for the Mac that was there, but I'm wondering if maybe these were used on the GS? The one floppy is an Epson which I know is for the Mac, and the hard drive is a Data Frame DF20. I wonder if I can use this with the GS? Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org

23 years, 5 months

OT-ish : Centronics printer port timing

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Jan 9, 18:35, Tony Duell wrote: > I have a reasonable set of IBM Techrefs, and the timing for the 'IBM > Graphics Printer' (a rebadged Epson MX80 or something like that) is much > the same. In fact that's what I used as the 'standard' to design my > interface. Of course what I'll discover too late is that the Epson timing > (or that of other common printers like the Deskjet family) didn't > actually have to be anything like that and that the authors of various > OSes did something totally different that worked with common printers... FWIW, the two assembly-language routines I can think of that used 7-bit ASCII (one on a Z80 and one on a 6502) both did it by waiting for BUSY to go false, then wrote (char AND 7FH) to the port, wrote (char OR 80H), wrote (char AND 7FH) again, and exited. The eighth data bit was inverted and used as the strobe. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager Dept. of Computer Science University of York

23 years, 5 months

OT: Lightning vs Lightning Bug (Was: RE: Digital Ethernet Local N etwork Interconnect (DELNI)

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

> I recently came into possession of about half a dozen of the Digital > Ethernet Local Network Interconnect (DELNI). This is about 4 more than I > need. I am willing to trade them singularly for something anyone has that > can peek my interest. I am particularly interested in items that is ^^^^ > associated DEC, HP and IBM workstation The sought-after word there was "pique". ;-)

23 years, 5 months

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