test-drb October 2001

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Punch cards, punch & mag tapes (Toronto)

by mhstein＠usa.net

Anybody interested in 1 or 2 boxes of 80 col cards and a manual punch to punch them with (Made by/for Wright Line, sort of like a big Dymo writer: dial your character and punch the holes)? Also have 4 or 5 reels of mag tape, new and used. mike

23 years, 6 months

Unknown IC

by ajp166＠bellatlantic.net

The '582 is carry lookahead generator if memory serves. Used to speed up addition of long words. Allison -----Original Message----- From: Dave McGuire <mcguire(a)neurotica.com> To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org> Date: Sunday, October 14, 2001 7:05 PM Subject: Re: Unknown IC >On October 14, Jim Donoghue wrote: >> Anybody know what a 74F582 is? 24-pin DIP, it's on a processor board along >> with several 74LS181's and various others. Thanks. > > Ahh, the 74LS181s are ALUs, as is the 'F582. Interesting that they >used both. I'm curious...what kind of processor is this? > > -Dave > >-- >Dave McGuire >Laurel, MD

23 years, 6 months

ASR 33 Emulation - help!

by mythtech＠Mac.com

>Nobody on this list likes KERMIT anymore ? well... ever since Jim Henson died and his voice changed... he hasn't been as cool. I guess it really isn't easy being green. ;-) -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

23 years, 6 months

Rescue Needed: SGI PowerSeries III 4d/48VGX FREE!!

by mgoodman＠hms.harvard.edu

Please help find a home for this system: This is one unique system giveaway...last of the dinosaurs wants a good home; and we want the space it occupies. The SGI PowerSeries III 4d/48VGX is a beast of an IRIX system (or was in it's day). This system was a graphics workhorse that ruled the world of high-end Structural Biology Molecular Modeling; chewing up other systems in its wake. Today it is a fossil that could have high appeal to a computer archeologist. This system is about the size of a LARGE refrigerator, runs on 220V power (and knows how to USE IT!!). The system is currently not in operation; but for those that know how, or want a unique project, it can be a serviceable working unit. Expensive to purchase originally; reputedly around $250K, This is a classic system that is destined as a museum piece...it would be a real shame if this ends up in the being discarded. Here's a couple of links on this unit and its family, for those with interest: http://www.reputable.com/~skywriter/pstech/index.html http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Pines/2258/4dfaq.html You must be able to remove the system via your own transportation. The system is located on the Harvard Medical School campus in Boston, Massachusetts. Please: Serious Inquires only...remember you must truck this system out on your own; and removal in a timely fashion would be appreciated. Michael -- - Michael Goodman Unix Systems Administrator Harvard Medical School West Quad Computing Group Seely G. Mudd Building/Room 204D 250 Longwood Avenue Boston, MA 02115-5731 Tel: 617-432-4588 Fax: 617-738-0516 Email: mgoodman(a)hms.harvard.edu Web: http://sbweb.med.harvard.edu/mjg/

23 years, 6 months

ASR 33 Emulation - help!

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

> Doug, > > From Black Box's website; > > * 10/3/01?EUR"Black Box Corporation Announces Merger with > Di.el. Distribuzioni Elettroniche S.r.l. > * 9/25/01?EUR"Black Box Corporation Announces Merger with GCS > Network Services Ltd. > * 8/27/2001?EUR"Black Box Corporation Announces Merger With > Optech Fibres Ltd. > > So what are we supposed to cal them now? Bigger Black Box? ;) -dq

23 years, 6 months

ASR 33 Emulation - help!

by knightstalkerbob＠netscape.net

Doug, >From Black Box's website; * 10/3/01???Black Box Corporation Announces Merger with Di.el. Distribuzioni Elettroniche S.r.l. * 9/25/01???Black Box Corporation Announces Merger with GCS Network Services Ltd. * 8/27/2001???Black Box Corporation Announces Merger With Optech Fibres Ltd. So what are we supposed to cal them now? Bob Mason Douglas Quebbeman <dhquebbeman(a)theestopinalgroup.com> wrote: <snip> > >BlackBox used to have both of these, but they got acquired, IIRC, and >I can't recall the new firm's name... > <snip> > >hth, >-doug q > -- Bob Mason 2x Amiga 500's, GVP A530 (40mhz 68030/68882, 8meg Fast, SCSI), 1.3/3.1, 2meg Chip, full ECS chipset, EZ135, 1084S, big harddrives, 2.2xCD Gateway Performance 500 Piece 'o Crap, 'ME, 128meg, 20Gig, flatbed. Heathkit H-89A, 64K RAM, hard and soft-sectored floppies, SigmaSoft and Systems 256K RAM Drive/Print Spooler/Graphics board HDOS 2 & CP/M 2.2.03/2.2.04 __________________________________________________________________ Your favorite stores, helpful shopping tools and great gift ideas. Experience the convenience of buying online with Shop@Netscape! http://shopnow.netscape.com/ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/

23 years, 6 months

Are office people really that, umm shall we say...slow?

by fernande＠internet1.net

I just went to a local computer show today. I was happy to find that a few vendors had components available from disassembled computers or whatever. I picked up a 3com 3C905-TX PCI ethernet card, an ATI Mach64 video card, and a very nice Sound Blaster 16, all used of course. The Mach64 had "Monitor" written in marker on the slot cover. Do office people really need to remind themselves where to plug the monitor in? I have also seen a 3.5" floppy drives marked "hard drive a:" and the 5.25" floppy, marked, "floppy drive b:". What's the deal? I also picked up a new AMD K6-II 500 to replace my IBM 6x86 233, and a nice new heatsink/fan for it too. Hopefully I'll have my re-made socket 7 setup, up and running Linux soon :-) Chad Fernandez Michigan, USA

23 years, 6 months

Falco Terminals, ADM11

by mhstein＠usa.net

Anybody need parts or info for a Falco TS-1 intelligent terminal? Also a few of the 2624 HP emulator model and the MAI 4309 Basic Four version, but no docs on these. And last but not least, a Lear Siegler ADM-11 And of course some Cromemco 3101(?)'s (unknown condition), and a C5, although if I ever do get rid of a Cromemco system, the C5 might have to go with it. Did I mention that I have some Cromemco stuff ? :) Toronto area as always

23 years, 6 months

Armatron

by lgwalker＠mts.net

There was a thread on the Armatron recently. I just found an Atari site with the mechanical drawings scanned in to build one as well as some old articles from Compute! and other 8-bit Atari stuff. Its at http://cerebro.cs.xu.edu/~ryanr/atari/armatron/ Lawrence Reply to: lgwalker(a)mts.net

23 years, 6 months

IBM Keypunches

by brian＠quarterbyte.com

Hi all, Is anyone interested (seriously interested) in obtaining an IBM 029 keypunch machine? There may be four or five becoming available soon, and I'd like get together with other interested folks to share the wealth (and costs!). Please write to me directly and we'll if we can work together to make this happen. Thanks! Brian =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _| _| _| Brian Knittel / Quarterbyte Systems, Inc. _| _| _| Tel: 1-510-559-7930 Fax: 1-510-525-6889 _| _| _| Email: brian(a)quarterbyte.com _| _| _| http://www.quarterbyte.com

23 years, 6 months

Redactron WP

by jeff.kaneko＠juno.com

Having had some actual hands-on experience with these beasts (I used to be a service droid for a Redactron Dealer), I say deep-six the mutha'. They're pigs to work on, and utterly useless without the 'printer' (actually, it's an IBM Selectric I typewriter mechanism, with a belly plate *packed* with solenoids). Electrically, not very interesting; most of the space in the cabinet is taken up by the powersupply (ya gotta source enuf current to actuate all them solenoids). The 'brain' (if ya wanna call it that) of the thing is just a 12" square board, packed with custom ceramic SSI or MSI chips. There was another board with all of the SCR's (I think, geez, that was like, twenty years ago). ANyways, one of my fondest memories was the day I had to service on one of these puppies at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland. Those GI's schlocked so much wax on the floor in that office, the damned umbilical from the cabinet to the selectric was *stuck* to the floor! I gave it a good yank, and the wax flaked off the umbilical like so much dandruff. Yeek. The later Burroughs Redactor II's and III's were 8085 based, and are of more interest . . . On Wed, 17 Oct 2001 02:42:40 -0400 M H Stein <mhstein(a)usa.net> writes: > Redactron dual mag card WP (with one card), schematic, no printer. > Can I assume there's no interest and I can finally toss something > without feeling guilty? > > mike ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/.

23 years, 6 months

looking for documentation for 1963 minuteman missile computer

by ken＠seefried.com

From: Gene Buckle <geneb(a)deltasoft.com> >You're right. I was thinking "Kryton", but that's a neurotic robot on Red >Dwarf. :) Or a character from the SciFi channel series Farscape, depending on your generation. Coincidence? I don't think so... Ken

23 years, 6 months

IBM Punched Card equipment docs

by mhstein＠usa.net

<snip>...What I'd like to do to save time & trouble ...<snip> Meant to add, "and make everyone happy"... (well, within my rather limited power to do so...) mike

23 years, 6 months

Way OT: Photon gas (was RE: looking for documentation for 1963 minuteman missile computer)

by ajp166＠bellatlantic.net

-----Original Message----- From: Chris Kennedy <chris(a)mainecoon.com> To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org> Date: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 6:55 PM Subject: Way OT: Photon gas (was RE: looking for documentation for 1963 minuteman missile computer) >much snippage... So what you said was reaction A is used to trigger chain reaction B that finally trips C with a whopping big bang. That about it? Allison

23 years, 6 months

AIM65 items in Toronto

by mhstein＠usa.net

Sorry Paul, got a little overwhelmed by replies to my various posts and did indeed miss you somehow. Yup, except for some manuals (but there are lots more), everything's still here; just haven't found it all or sorted through it yet after my recent move. No 68000 stuff though, just AIM and S100 stuff (except for the oddball items and of course CBM and PC stuff, but I don't dare mention that here - but just in case anyone wants an original cassette PC MB or some of the interesting add-on cards from that era.... :-) Will be in touch. (And the same to everyone else waiting to hear from me) Are there really NO collectors here in the Toronto area (other than the three I've heard from)? mike ------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 20:58:54 -0400 (EDT) From: "Paul R. Santa-Maria" <paul(a)orchard.wccnet.org> Subject: AIM65 items in Toronto M H Stein: I asked about possible 6502 and 68000 items you mentioned on this list, but I never heard a reply from you. Is the AIM65 stuff still available? Paul R. Santa-Maria Monroe, Michigan USA

23 years, 6 months

New aquisitions: PCjr (minus power supply) and Amstrad PC 6400

by mythtech＠Mac.com

>Download the serial pinouts at. >http://members.home.net/swtpc6800/PC_JR/ Hey, thanks! >The manual has the technical descriptions of base system and options, >schematics and the BIOS listing. It is over 500 pages long. I'll have to keep an eye out for this book. -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

23 years, 6 months

New aquisitions: PCjr (minus power supply) and Amstrad PC 6400

by mythtech＠Mac.com

>I have a copy of the PCjr Technical Reference Manual. Does that book give the pinout for the serial port? The dang PCjr uses screwy IBM square connectors. I had a need at one point to connect my PCjr to a serial terminal server, but I didn't have the pinouts to make an adaptor. Any other goodies in that book? (It was probably the book used when a guy built a few PCjr monitor adaptors to hook them up to CGA cards... I still have a few of the adaptors... someday I should right down their config in case I have to make a new one) -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

23 years, 6 months

looking for documentation for 1963 minuteman missile compute r

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

> On October 17, Gene Buckle wrote: > > > Two stage weapons physics is really weird. The first time I read > > > the phrase "photon gas" my head spun. > > > > Photon gas. Say WHAT? :) > > I get that when I eat too much Mexican food. Photon gas also correlates with the comsumption of beer with less than 5% alcohol ("lite beer")...

23 years, 6 months

IIgs using hard disk 20

by mythtech＠Mac.com

> I forget the name and manufacturer at the moment, but there >was also a 'hardcard' that put both the drive and controller inside >the IIgs in, I believe, the slot closest to the PSU. It's been a >while since I saw one of these though. Maybe the name escapes you, because it might have been "HardCard". I have two hard drives on a card. I know one is called "HardCard", I am not sure what the other is called. I have never been able to get them to work (but I didn't throw them out cause they were too cool). Interesting thought... I always tried to get them to work in PCs (ISA slot)... humm... I wonder if they went to my old Apple II+'s (is the slot the same? Although, I don't think they would have, as IIRC, they would be too tall, and they have the dust cover plate for a PC on the back, which just would have made no sense in an Apple II) -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

23 years, 6 months

looking for documentation for 1963 minuteman missile compute r

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

> > (does the trick involve Tritium, or is that just a yield enhancer for > > implosion types?) > > The tricks usually involve things like surrounding the implosion core > with a neutron reflector which can reduce the critical mass by a factor > of two (from 11 kg to 5 kg or so for Pu). > > For some reason I don't understand and haven't looked into, it's possible > to get a critical mass as low as 1 kg using plutonium nitrate solution > in a stainless steel implosion sphere. Yield would probably be a few kilotons. > > Tritium is a yeild enhancer. Turns your A bomb into an H bomb. I assume the tritium component is a modular part of the device, as it has a rather short half-life (and IIRC, the last production facility was closed down). -dq

23 years, 6 months

Data Books - Toronto area

by mhstein＠usa.net

Several boxes of miscellaneous data books headed for landfill if nobody around here wants to pick them up; I definitely ain't shipping these anywhere :-) mike

23 years, 6 months

Dark Tower Pics

by mythtech＠Mac.com

>For the benefit of people like me with a text-only display, could you >post the markings on the ICs here, please... Sure thing... Largest (28 pin): MP7332-N1LL D 8131 4149 PHILIPPINES Medium (16 pin): TAIWAN 8114XM SN79910N SN75494N Small (8 pin): AC TL496CP MALAYSIA (and has 140 verticle down the pin 1 edge) I wrote everything on them, including country of origin, because I have NO idea what is important and what isn't (for all I know, different country origin chips have different designs). -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

23 years, 6 months

Redactron WP

by mhstein＠usa.net

Right you are, Don; later became Burroughs. Picture at: http://communities.msn.com/TeachingComputerUseandProgramming/teaching.msnw?… And another buenas dias, Sergio, but even without the printer I don't think you'd want to ship this baby to Spain... I'll keep the mag card & schematic though, JIC mike --------------- Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 10:52:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Don Maslin <donm(a)cts.com> Subject: RE: Redactron WP On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Sergio Pedraja Cabo wrote: > > Ahem... What is this thing ? :-) > > Sergio IIRC, it is a clone of the IBM MagCard word processor.

23 years, 6 months

AHA-1542's

by vze2mnvr＠verizon.net

> There are two flavors, though - 1542C and 1542CF - F for Fast. There was also a 1542-CP ISA Plug and Play version.

23 years, 6 months

looking for documentation for 1963 minuteman missile compute r

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

References: <7A9BACCEF0171D4FB77019F5104CDD372257F7(a)jeffserver.tegjeff.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.96 under 21.1 (patch 8) "Bryce Canyon" XEmacs Lucid FCC: ~/Mail/sent-mail On October 17, Douglas Quebbeman wrote: > > > > Two stage weapons physics is really weird. The first time I read > > > > the phrase "photon gas" my head spun. > > > > > > Photon gas. Say WHAT? :) > > > > I get that when I eat too much Mexican food. > > Photon gas also correlates with the comsumption of beer > with less than 5% alcohol ("lite beer")... Ahh, pseudo-beer. :) -- Dave McGuire Laurel, MD

23 years, 6 months

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