I found a keyboard-less Spectrum at the salvation army, and I got it at only
15 SEK. Great price, that's about one GBP.
So I proceeded to mix and match a working Spectrum out of one and the one I
already own.
The keyboard ribbons on my old one were really beat up, so I took the matrix
(and ribbons) off the one without a keyboard and transplanted it into the old
one, which turned out to work this time. It was probably just a disagreement
with an AC-DC adaptor or the tuner in the TV.
So now I've got a working Speccy, with a luxurious on/off switch and all.
The keyboard is... interesting.
So far I've worked out how to generate all characters on the keytops (letters,
keywords and symbols) using CAPS SHIFT or SYMBOL SHIFT. I've also discovered
how to print the keywords listed above each key, by pressing both SHIFT keys
in order to enter the "E" input mode. But I'm lost as to how to print the
keywords and characters listed below the keys. No combinations of SHIFT keys
seem to work out.
--
En ligne avec Thor 2.6a.
Iggy tipsar: Vill du l?sa en PDF-fil, men saknar l?sare, skicka den till
pdf2txt(a)adobe.com, du f?r den tillbaka som ren ASCII till din epostadress.
On Oct 21, 9:41, Bob Shannon wrote:
> Ah, you have a VT-11!
>
> Very collectable!
Not to say "spacewar-capable" :-) Providing I can find some PDP-11 code
-- I don't fancy recoding it, given only the PDP-1 assembly listing.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
Yep. The only restriction on Linus's final blessed tarball is a MMU. ELKS
(and several other embedded/handheld ports) don't. ELKS will run on MMU
less 'Intel' systems. I had it going on an overclocked V20 for a while.
Jim
On Monday, October 22, 2001 3:13 PM, Tony Duell [SMTP:ard@p850ug1.demon.co.uk]
wrote:
> > > Given enough RAM (640K?), is there any good reason why ELKS couldn't be
> > > ported to the PCjr?
> > >
> > > No, I am not volunteering to try it....
> > >
> > > -tony
> >
> >
> > I believe that all versions of Linux require a 32+ bit processor to run.
>
> I thought the whole point of ELKS was that it didn't need the MMU of the
> 386+ (it's that, rather than the 32 bit operations, that is the real
> reason that full linux won't run on a 286 or below, I think).
>
> One problem with running ELKS (or Minix) on the PCjr is the keyboard.
> It's very software-intensive -- the IR datastream goes to the NMI pin on
> the CPU (and maybe to an input port, I would have to check the techref).
> It's up to the CPU to work out the timing of the pulses and decode it.
> This could be 'interesting' if running a multitasking OS :-)...
>
> -tony
Mike,
I had to abandon the former world.std.com account as I was getting
between
55-60 UCE/SPAM a day. After a while even wholesale deletes take too
long.
Whats this address your babbleling about as this address is getting on
average
3-5 UCE/SPAM a day. This bugs me as I've taken pains to keep it out of
circulation.
Allison
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Ford <mikeford(a)socal.rr.com>
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Date: Sunday, October 21, 2001 4:20 PM
Subject: Re: List Maintenance
>>Some time ago, there was a discussion about address munging. I've
noticed
>>recently (ie the last few months) a large increase in spam arriving
here,
>>possibly correlated to my postings to the list. It not a really big
deal,
>>but I wondered if it's possible to anti-spamify my email address in
list
>>postings?
>
>This fear of spam always amazes me. I sign up at every idiot contest
site I
>find on the web (I won $3 of gas from Havoline), and I never get more
than
>half a dozen spam emails a day out of a hundred or so real emails on
>important topics like replaceing the cord vs connector. Just hit delete,
or
>in the case of "real" spam drop the email into one of the antispam sites
>and let the software go after the sender.
>
>
I have two Genrad Futuredata 2300 systems and accompanying software and
am hunting for other owners. Specifically, I am looking for a 2716 or
2732 EPROM burner that these units supported. This was a small box with
a ZIF socket that conected to a Microkit board on the Futuredata S100
bus.
I have software for these machines and can exchange for leads on an
EPROM box.
-
Craig Landrum
CTO
Mindwrap, Inc.
home: clandrum(a)monumental.com
work: craigl(a)mindwrap.com
540-675-3015 x 229
Gang,
Sorry for the offtopic post, but I need y'alls expertise...
I've got a wirewrap SBC that I'm working on (6502-based system). I've got
my wirewrapping skills down pretty well and that part is not a problem.
For the power and ground connections for each chip, a friend suggested I
should solder 16-gauge wire from a tie point or the power connector
straight to each chip and/or its bypass cap. The only 16-gauge wire I have
is stranded, and it's a mess to work with -- too large to work with easily
and the strands mean it won't really bend and stay on the tie point or pin.
Can someone who's done this successfully tell me how I should do this?
Thanks!
Gordon
Does anyone have any recommendations on software (preferably free) for
archiving old DOS floppies? What I'd like to do is to be able to make disk
images of all (okay, maybe just 'many') of the old DOS floppies I have so
that if they disks get trashed or the bits fall off I can remake 'em. I'm
assuming I'd probably be making these archives from a Windoze box although
DOS or even FreeBSD or Linux is a possibility.
Thanks in advance.
GZ
> 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?
Yes... they really are that dumb... at least the ones that I have to
support here are. I regularly have to mark cables and drives, or they
screw things up. It seems to most staff here, if it doesn't fit, force
it... so the fact that most cables only fit in one place doesn't stop
them (I have found VGA monitors plugged into MALE 9 pin serial ports...
yes, it can be done... lots and lots of force, but it can be done!).
Of course, sometimes labeling everything can backfire... thanks to my
efforts to make my offices idiot proof (make something idiot proof, and
they'll build a bigger idiot)... my boss now thinks EVERYTHING can be
made that way... he routinely complains that he needs written directions
on how to fix problems with the WIndows NT network... so in case
something unexpected goes wrong while I am out of the office, they can
fix it. He doesn't grasp the difference between looking for a port marked
"Mouse" and diagnosing Win NT problems.
So yes, office people CAN be that dumb.
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
Those of you I've been communicating with, my email is having
problems due to my new ISP (GTE/Verizon) having messed up my
DNS entries and not having any weekend DNS support (that sure
surprised me!). If you need to contact me and mail to my
usual email fails, try dittman(a)directlink.net.
Thanks.
--
Eric Dittman
dittman(a)dittman.net
Check out the DEC Enthusiasts Club at http://www.dittman.net/
Picked one of these up today, didn't know what it was so figured it had to
be good. Looks like that was a good bet. If anyone has carts, power supply,
or joysticks for this that they'd like to sell, please contact me. If anyone
want to place an offer for it, please send them to ebay(a)gowebway.com. I will
be placing this item on ebay once I am certain it works. I will let you know
when I list it if you send me an email. Thanks for any info.
