test-drb October 2001

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by mythtech＠Mac.com

> What exactly IS Dark Tower? I've heard of Dork Tower (a comic book) but >not Dark Tower. If you prefer to answer off list, that would be fine too >8-) Well, if the original poster was refering to what I had, then Dark Tower is a board game (circa late 70's early 80's). The board was this roundish board that you moved all over, and there was a dark brown plastic castle thing that sat in the middle. The object was, you were an adventurer, and you had to move about getting things (treasures?) from each land (4 lands, 4 players IIRC). When it was your turn, you would press a button on the tower (I think there was "pass" for do nothing, "move" to go somewhere). It would then spin (well, the inside would spin, the tower stayed still), and eventually stop, telling you if you ran into enemy's, or treasures, or whatever. If it was an enemy, you had to fight them, and it would track your possestions and army strength, and would tell you how you did (how many people died, how many of the enemy joined your ranks, if you got new possestions) Basically, it was a 4 player, board game version along the lines of D&D (and was out when D&D was in its hayday, something else I am afraid to admit I was in to.). I would be happy to pull mine out (I am sure it is in my parents basement still, I have to go over there today anyway to fix my mother's computer), and I can take some pics of it, and scan the directions if people want. Of course, maybe the original poster was refering to some other Dark Tower game, and I now look like a total ass (but the one I know of was really cool, so even if I just get to tell others about it, it was worth the typing). -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

24 years, 1 month

Sigma Designs OneReel Tape

by DAW＠yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu

! Forgot to mention... ! ! There were SCSI-interfaced Ethernet adapters for ! SCSI-equipped Macs... got one of those, too... I would like to get my hands on one, maybe 2 or 3 of these. Anyone got spares? --- David A Woyciesjes --- C & IS Support Specialist --- Yale University Press --- mailto:david.woyciesjes@yale.edu --- (203) 432-0953 --- ICQ # - 905818

24 years, 1 month

Semi-OT : 4063 pinout

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

On October 14, Tony Duell wrote: > This is semi-off-topic (but only 'semi' as I repairing a computer > peripheral that's over 10 years old...) > > I have come across a chip that I don't have the pinout of. It's a 4063, > presumably 4000-series CMOS. The one in the device is made by RCA. > > >From the function in the circuit, I would guess it's some kind of 4 bit > comparator. > > Does anybody have the pinouts (16 pin DIL). It's not in any of my CMOS > databooks that I can find. If you do, could you please type them as a > simple text file (as in It is indeed a 4-bit comparator. Here is the pinout: 1 B3 2 IA<B 3 IA=B 4 IA>B 5 OA>B 6 OA=B 7 OA<B 8 gnd 9 B0 10 A0 11 B1 12 A1 13 A2 14 B2 15 A3 16 Vcc Good luck, -Dave -- Dave McGuire Laurel, MD

24 years, 1 month

Unknown IC

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

On October 15, Iggy Drougge wrote: > Am I the only one who finds it a bit perverse that there are 74xxx standard > TTL circuits for such complex functions as ALUs? I thought that the way to go > would be to construct it out of simpler TTL circuits, such as all the 740x > gates, not buying it as a package. I suppose I'm not used to the concept of > single 74xxx circuits carrying out such complex tasks. An ALU isn't that complex, really. Find a TTL databook and look at the logic diagram of a '181. There's not that much to it. More complex and less "generic" than a 7400 quad NAND gate, sure... -Dave -- Dave McGuire Laurel, MD

24 years, 1 month

Semi-OT : 4063 pinout

by r_beaudry＠hotmail.com

Tony, According to a datasheet downloaded from www.freetradezone.com (free registration, and supposedly 12 million component datasheets -- I believe it, as there's yet to be a part I haven't found).... It's a CMOS 4-bit magnitude comparator... 1: B3 2: (A < B) IN 3: (A = B) IN 4: (A > B) IN 5: (A > B) OUT 6: (A = B) OUT 7: (A < B) OUT 8: VSS 9: B0 10: A0 11: B1 12: A1 13: A2 14: B2 15: A3 16: VDD I can email the datasheet if you'd like.... It's a 220KB .PDF file... Rich B. "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Ben Franklin

24 years, 1 month

ArcNet and the Pursuit of Multiple Topologies

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

> Jan Koller <vze2mnvr(a)verizon.net>: > > > Ahhhh, What are Chinese whispers? > > It's a game where you set up a chain of people, and > whisper some message in the ear of the first one, who > whispers it to the next one, etc. When it gets to the > far end you compare it with the original message, > usually with amusing results due to accumulation of > errors along the way. In Cub Scouts, we called this "The Telephone Game". -dq

24 years, 1 month

CompuPro and 86-DOS

by mranalog＠home.com

This last weekend I pulled my old rack mount CompuPro system out of storage and cleaned it up. The last time I used this system was about 15 years ago and I only used it to edit my resume in Wordstar. The system consists of: a "CPU 8085/88" a "DISK 1" controller a "SYSTEM SUPPORT 1" for the console two "RAM 16" boards for a total of 128K and two Qume 842 8" floppy drives After one small capacitor fire I had the system up and running. I went through all of the 8" diskettes I could find to determine what would boot. So far, I have bootable disks for CP/M 2.2, CP/M 86, and CP/M 8-16. But the disks that I really want to read are in 86-DOS format according to the label. I have disks that claim to be 86-DOS boot disks but they wouldn't boot. Some of these disks I'm having problems with appear to be SSSD 26 sectors/ 128 bytes if that helps. Can anyone point me in the direction I need to go in order to be able to boot 86-DOS? Regards, --Doug ========================================= Doug Coward @ home in Poulsbo, WA Analog Computer Online Museum and History Center http://www.best.com/~dcoward/analog =========================================

24 years, 1 month

RetroX computer shop in London...

by Antonio.Carlini＠riverstonenet.com

>> It's mostly lower end 8-bit software, but it might be worth a peek...they're > >Sure, it's not 100% my main interest, but they might have something that >I need. Anyway, it can't hurt to look :-) Is this the shop that has the owner's Altair in some basement or other? Or am I misremembering some other snippet? Antonio

24 years, 1 month

problems generating OS8 system tape.

by jos.mar＠bluewin.ch

After finally getting my TU56/TD8E setup operational, I now run into problems generating an OS/8 system tape. The system keeps insisting that "TAPE #2 is not an original dec tape", although i know for a fact that it is. I have 3 sets of system tapes and all generate the same error. Tape #1 is never asked for, the resulting tape is of course not usable. Any clues what I'm doing wrong ? Jos Dreesen

24 years, 1 month

Data storage and transmission (was Re: ArcNet)

by mythtech＠Mac.com

>Data encoded in the hand gestures of a person depicted in a video tape made >available to the world. This has been done. US military hostages and POWs have done this in the past when being forced to give statements on behalf of their captors. And I am sure US solders are not the only ones trained to do something like this. -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

24 years, 1 month

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test-drb October 2001