test-drb November 2001

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by ajp166＠bellatlantic.net

>-The first Z-80 micro Nope. >-The first micro with a Winchester HD Nope. >-The first micro color graphics system Yes and significant. >-The first micro implementation of I/O channel processors Nope, IMSAI had a 8080 in the FDC. >-The first micro to boot from ROM without front panel switches Nope, NS* and a slew of others. First was likely the Poly 88. >-The first micro with integrated floppy disks Not hardly. Nice claims, put dates and supporting evidence up. Cromemco is best known for The Dazzler color display, RF tight systems in solid boxes and generally good systems. Allison

22 years, 9 months

Cromemco landmarks

by mhstein＠usa.net

Forgot a couple: -First micro to implement auto-baud detection -First micro based on Unix System V -First micro with high-level language microprogrammable co-processor But they did eventually also offer a PC clone... Anybody got one of these BTW, the C-20? mike

22 years, 9 months

More Apple Pimpers

by clandrum＠monumental.com

Dick; Sorry about all the Apple brotherhood jumping on you with both feet. Having been beat up for so long, we're overly sensitive :-) Forgive us our CPU. We know not what we do. It wasn't clear to me in your original post that you were referring to the Apple II diskette drive, but I understand now. And yeah - the IWM (Incredible Woz Machine) diskette controller WAS fairly sensitive. I never owned an Apple II, but heard about them. Peace brother. Craig Landrum

22 years, 9 months

Stacking Apple ][ stuff

by acme_ent＠bellsouth.net

Richard Erlacher wrote: > if you > were foolish enough to set the Apple up as shown in numerous installations, with > the monitor atop the 2 FDD's and that pair atop the Apple box, your disk > subsystem gave you what they (Apple Computer Co) figured you deserved. Proud new owner of Apple ][e (my first Apple product) wants to know: what's wrong with stacking the drive unit and display on top of the box? Glen 0/0

22 years, 9 months

S100 stuff (was: Classic Gaming Collections)

by mhstein＠usa.net

--------------Original Message------------------- Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 17:08:34 -0600 From: "John R. Keys Jr." <jrkeys(a)concentric.net> Subject: Re: Classic Gaming Collections I for one have enlarged my gaming collection since it's getting harder to collect S100 and other older computer items. Every where I go now people tell me that they can get more on eBay than my offer. Some have called me back after trying to sell their items with no luck on eBay.<snip> ------------ Well John, don't say everywhere... I offered a bunch of Cromemco (the folks who named the S-100 bus) stuff here, 10 systems and probably about 100 cards, for next to nothing or pretty reasonable prices depending on the system/card, and to my surprise in the end I only got about 5 serious replies. I sure don't see a reply to my last email to you off-list... Granted, being in Toronto makes shipping of complete systems a bit expensive, but from my perspective it's getting harder to get rid of the stuff... mike

22 years, 9 months

Stacking Apple ][ stuff

by SUPRDAVE＠aol.com

In a message dated 11/6/2001 3:23:39 PM Central Standard Time, foo(a)siconic.com writes: > On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, Richard Erlacher wrote: > > <PARAGRAPH CONTAINING FALSE AND MISLEADING STATEMENTS> > > The monitor seems to interact with the drives when the monitor is > > turned on. It depends, I suppose, on the monitor, but I've got the > > IIe with the dual drive box between it and the color monitor and from > > time to time, e.g. when I turn on the monitor while the computer has > > been powered up but the monitor has been powered down, e.g. when I go > > upstairs to get a sandwich or answer the doorbell, the drive runs up > > and the diskette is partially unreadable afterward. > </PARAGRAPH CONTAINING FALSE AND MISLEADING STATEMENTS> > > Didn't you just get finished telling us in the last 10 messages on this > topic that you threw out all your Apple ]'s??? > hmmm, back in 1984 some of the apple //e's at skool had two disk drives, and those of us who copied warez made sure to get those for quick disk copying. (ahh, memories of disk muncher 1.1 -----) The monitor //e sat right on top of the two disk ]['s and never a problem. Some of them also had the monitor /// that sat on top of the //e and drives and never a problem. I also used, and always wished for one of those //e 'professional' systems; the enhanced //e, duodisk and colour display for the //e. The one I used never had a problem either. I know there is some kind of problem relating to the duodisk and disks getting trashed (anyone know details?) but nothing ever related to the display. clearing the HYPE about bioterrorism www.formatc.org/terrorism.htm

22 years, 9 months

Refilling Toner Carts (was RE: Rubber Restorer...)

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Nov 7, 18:06, Jim Davis wrote: > I've used it to clean print heads on epson printers. Works in most > cases. The complete rundown on 409 can be found at > http://www.biosci.ohio-state.edu/~jsmith/MSDS/FORMULA%20409%20CLEANER.htm > One possible problem, Sodium Hydroxide < .5% could be damaging and > corrosive > to metalic parts. About the only common material that sodium hydroxide will attack is aluminium, and then only when concentrated or exposure is reasonably long; it has no effect on copper, steel, etc. Unfortunately, the rundown you suggest only accounts for about 15% of the ingredients :-( -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

22 years, 9 months

More Apple Pimpers

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

> Forgive us our CPU. We know not what we do. > > It wasn't clear to me in your original post that you were > referring to the Apple II diskette drive, but I understand > now. And yeah - the IWM (Incredible Woz Machine) diskette > controller WAS fairly sensitive. I never owned an Apple II, > but heard about them. Craig- Macs up through at least the MacPlus have a single-chip implemntation of the IWM that they used for both the never-shipped Twiggy drives (never shipped in Macs) and the later 400k/800k 3.5" floppies. Just FYI... Regards, -dq

22 years, 9 months

Sun / CalComp Printer networking problems (was: Thick Ethernet/Sun networking problems)

by Arno_1983＠gmx.de

Hello Pete, at first: Is it okay to continue our mailing this way (directly mailing the messages, only CCing to Classiccmp.org? It's because I'm on the Digest and it has been arriving at about 4 P.M. local time the last few days, which is too late for me to stay in school and pick it up the same day (alas, don't have Internet at home yet). >Ah. It's quite likely there are some links on the card which have to be >set one way to use the 10baseT port, and the other way to use the >transceiver... Look for a set of 6 links. No, nothing on that board. There are only two 2pin jumpers, one for printing out the adapter's status page and one for resetting the NOVRAM contents to the factory defaults. I think I've already seen what you mean on other network devices (six or so 3-pin jumpers, the movable parts sometimes joined in a blue plastic tray). >>But no signs of overheating etc. on the PCB... OK, I admit that was only for VISIBLE SIGNS. The LM2577-T12 (switching voltage regulator in TO-220 package) next to the AUI port becomes TERRIBLY hot even after < 10 minutes of running the printer. I assume it's used to generate the voltage the Transceiver uses? But the power light (on the transceiver) is on as long as the printer is... And even worse...the DATA LED does no longer blink when there's traffic on the Ethernet... OK, I hope that helps Arno Kletzander Arno_1983(a)gmx.de -- GMX - Die Kommunikationsplattform im Internet. http://www.gmx.net

22 years, 9 months

Zenith Data Systems Z-386 SX/20 Free in NJ

by acme_ent＠bellsouth.net

> From: Chris <mythtech(a)Mac.com> > If anyone wants it, I have a Zenith Data Systems Z-386 SX/20 available > I can't figure out how to change the setup, so it is useless to me (if I > can't at least get it to accept a 3.5" drive, I can't use it). Umm, why? Glen 0/0

22 years, 9 months

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test-drb November 2001