>So how many people collect gaming environments?
I can't say I "collect" them, but more I have a collection of them (and
more units gravitate to me from time to time).
I have things like an Odessey (the original one with the littel card edge
cartridges, and the screen overlays), Atari 2600 (one market one, one
prerelease prototype), Intellivision, Stunt Cycle, Odessey 500(? the
newer one), NES, Playstation (1001 model with mod chip, and a 9000
without), and an assortment of stand-alone non TV interface things (like
a Donkey Kong, Tron, Crazy Climber, and a heap of space war or driving
things). I HAD a colecovision (prerelease prototype unit) and an ADAM
add-on (also prerelease), but a friend "borrowed" it many years ago, and
it never came back (along with half my atari 2600 carts, the prick!).
I was supposed to get a Turbo-Graphix 16 and a Turbo Express, but both
fell thru (the 16, the owner forgot and threw it out, and the Express, I
turned down because it was a Japanese prototype so I couldn't play it,
hind sight I have kicked myself ever since, it HAD been one of 3 in the
US at the time, and one of 10 in existance! ARGHH!!)
I have not yet begun to aquire Arcade Machines, as I just don't have the
room, but I did go half on a Tron with my sister (she stores it at her
house).
-chris
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! >NAOA - Not An Official Acronym
! >TTBOMK - to the best of my knowledge
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! In no time somebody is bound to post the URL to some master list.
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You mean like this? :-)
http://www.acronymfinder.com/
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I thought this was " I Seem To Recall(Remember)"
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Wrapping up a few things here...
> <Re: 100Mb ISA cards>
3Com 3C515. Of course, you don't get full bandwidth out of it, but if you
really, really have to get an ISA-only box on a 100Mb network, it does work
quite well. And there's a Linux driver :-).
FWIW...the HP ISA 100Mb card is probably a 100baseVG card, which requires a
special hub.
> A typical example is the 64-bit PCI. I've seen several desirable
> cards offered for the 64-bit PCI, yet I've not seen even ONE advertised
> motherboard that actually supports 64-bit PCI.
Hmm...there are a bunch, actually. As far as motherboards (as in, not
systems) that you can run out to web sites and buy:
- Intel boards based on ServerWorks and i860 have them, and they showed up
occasionally on earlier Xeon boards
- Sun ATX form factor UltraSPARC boards have them
- Later Alpha ATX form factor boards have them
- At least one version of the Motorola MTX PowerPC ATX motherboard has them
(well...okay...this one is pretty obscure)
- Finally...my odd/rare Galileo MIPS-based system has them...:-)
> From what I've read, 32-bit PCI boards work in a
> 64-bit slot, yet nobody seems to be offering that feature in their
> advertisement. I'd guess that's because it's cheaper/easier to
> diverge slightly from the published standard in making these products,
> hence they don't make claims about compatibility.
Umm...not sure what you are trying to say. As far as I know 32-bit & 64-bit
interoperability *is* part of the the PCI standard, and works vice versa.
In fact, I'm pretty sure per the standard, there is interoperability between
33MHz and 66MHz cards. You really only get locked out with 5v v. 3.3v
issues. In other works, a card that claims PCI 2.1 compliance will
interoperate.
Ken
I know I've seen many things on this in th epast but wasn't paying
attention. I have some free time now and want to do some tinkering. Are
there browsers and email agents for the Commodore 64/128 series and DOS
(2.11 through 6.22). I prefer a free or shareware one to be able to test it
to see if it's a POS or not. I want to use the DOS version on a few
platforms from an 8086/8088 to a 386. I have a 286 portable NEC that I'd
like to try it out on first.
Thanks in advance.
>can anyone fill in the blanks here ...
<snip>
>FA -
I've seen (and used) "FA" and "FS" in USENET posting subjects to warn the
reader that an item is about to be advertised "For Auction" or "For
Sale"....
Rich B.
"They that can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety deserve
neither liberty nor safety." -- Ben Franklin
>This wouldn't happen to have been the Bergen Record...
>Used to work for one of their papers as a reporter back before I got into
>PDP11's at DEC.
Why yes, yes it is the Bergen Record.
Right now my project has been put on hold. My friend asked the IT staff
about a manual this morning, and they swore up and down that it doesn't
matter, the newer version of ATEX will be going online in January. He
doubts it, as it seems EVERYTHING they promise is about a year late
before it actually gets in place. But until he can find a better person
to talk to, there isn't much more I can do.
However, I will keep my ears open, if I understand the Atex systems from
their web site, the new system will no longer use the PDP-11 that the
current one is based off. So one (or more? Atex implies that there may be
multiples chained together) may be available soon. I don't have any pull
down there to get them, but maybe I can get my friend to find someone I
can talk to that does have some say in their disposal.
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
Hi again all
Tony asks:
>Why suspect the FDC? This soulds like nothing more than a shorted or
>leaky keyswitch. Have yoy taken the keyboard apart to check for this yet.
When I unplug the keyboard and short out what I think is
Enter (OK, maybe it's something else) the screen still
refreshes, no lights on the floppy drives.
>leaky (about 100k between the pins when the key is not pressed). This
>will confuse some keyboard controller circuits.
At least 3 of the switches seem to be dead shorts. And it's an
assemble-once keyboard, the keys have little plastic pins that
are melted to keep the whole affair together.
Wouter
ZS1KE for anyone interested
www.retro.co.za
From: Derek Peschel <dpeschel(a)eskimo.com>
>What I didn't know (until a Canadian guy at my ex-workplace explained
>it to me) was that many of these abbreviations are French in origin.
>("DE") That especially applies to the combined letter groups ("AR" with
>no space in between = "end of message" = "arret", for example).
>
>This is not true of all abbreviations, of course. "FB" = "fine
business"
>(I know that only because I was looking for info on printing telegraphs
>and stock tickers and found an old ARRL Handbook).
There are plenty of others like...
BT or break
AR end of message
SK end of work
KN invitation to named station
CL Closing station
All of those are sent as one character.
If you want to see a lot of abbreveated text read a sequence report
as given for the aviation community.
FCST CLDY TO BKN CLNG TO 10K.... Of course this would have been
sent using ASR33 with 45 or 75 speed gears.
Allison
KB1GMX 6m-2m&70cm
Howdy to a fellow Canuck no doubt digging the long underwear out of the closet in preparation for winter...
Might have something for ya; was just having one last look through some old Byte mags pulling out Cromemco ads before tossing 'em, and in July '76 there is a construction article for a fast cassette interface. Can scan it for ya if you're interested. Might also be able to find some others, was a popular project in those days. Can also ship you a Burroughs L series digital cassette drive (with some docs) if you're up to the challenge of interfacing it :) Also have tech info on some old computers (e.g. RS M100, AIM65) using cassette I/O.
See on your web site you're also looking for PPT stuff; might even have something for ya in that department (Toronto area, though).
While on the subject, anybody interested in an SwTPc AC-30 cassette interface? Just happen to have one; in fact, the reason I remembered that issue of Byte is 'cause the AC-30 is advertised on the inside front cover.
mike
---------------Original Message------------------
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 11:58:38 -0700
From: Ben Franchuk <bfranchuk(a)jetnet.ab.ca>
Subject: Almost on topic - Cassette I/O
I am building a FPGA ( Field programmable gate array ) computer
in the style of the early computers that had a front panel and
TTY for I/O. While I don't have have a front panel working the
Hardware serial bootstrap does work on my prototype. Since I
have a few LOGIC cells left in my FPGA to play with I was
thinking adding a cassette interface. Does anybody know of
schematics on the web that I can get ideas from.
Ben Franchuk.
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Standard Disclaimer : 97% speculation 2% bad grammar 1% facts.
"Pre-historic Cpu's" http://www.jetnet.ab.ca/users/bfranchuk
Now with schematics.
