On Mar 28, 17:22, John Honniball wrote:
> Well, I can remember the days of 405-line TV here in
> England. We watched it on a valve set made by Pye (now
> part of Philips). By the time of the Moon landings we had
> dual-standard 405/625 and VHF/UHF sets. Oh, and BBC 2 was
> a new channel on UHF, 625-line only!
I had a collection of Ferguson 405-line sets. They all seemed to be
remarkably similar inside, and by the time I was about 14 I got to be
reasonably good at fixing them. My first "video monitor" was a cast-off
405-line 14" 'portable'. I stripped out the tuner (it was a turret tuner
and almost every segment was broken) and some of the RF valves. It had a
series heater chain so I added a few high-wattage resistors to make up for
that, and tweaked the circuit a bit to handle the video from my first Exidy
Sorcerer.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
From: Jeffrey S. Sharp <jss(a)ou.edu>
>I'm 22. These were cool when I was in early grade school. If you
wanted to
>be the coolest kid, your boombox had a TV and detachable speakers.
I'm old, dirts older. When I was in school you were really cool of your
radio
had six transistors, cooler if it had FM and rich if your portable tape
could take
5 or 7" reels.
Allison
On Mar 28, 21:43, Peter Joules wrote:
> I remember my prep school trying to raise funds to buy a reel to reel
video
> recorder (1969). My dad said that it was a ridiculous idea - "no one
will
> ever want to record TV programmes"
The school I worked in around 1981 was still using B/W reel-to-reel video.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
On Mar 28, 19:18, Tony Duell wrote:
> > I do remember my father buying a Philips Compact Cassette recorder when
> > they were new and even cooler than my 7-transistor radio finished in
red
>
> Cassette? Heck, I've got a portable reel-to-reel audio recorder here.
> I've even got a portable reel-to-reel _video_ recorder and camera that is
> still operational. And a portable U-matic recorder in need of a little
TLC...
Well, he already had a Ferrograph reel-to-reel, to replace the old Grundig
reel-to-reel he had before :-) He was into gadgets. I had a little
portable reel-to-reel, it took 3" reels.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
In a message dated 3/26/01 3:07:26 PM Central Standard Time, azog(a)azog.org
writes:
<< I think I recall seeing somewhere that you can bypass extensions on bootup
by pressing a shift key, but that didn't work, so I assume that this isn't
an extension, but something intergral into the OS itself... >>
no password schemes are in the os itself. try holding down the left shift key
again as soon as you see the happy mac. if its system 7 or higher, it will
say extensions disabled. if that don't work, you'll need to find a system
floppy to boot from so you can mount the hard drive and take a look around.
Such as http://members.aol.com/djadamson7/articles/foxhole.html
-----Original Message-----
From: Lawrence LeMay [mailto:lemay@cs.umn.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 2:38 PM
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: Crystal Radios (was Re: List spammer ID'd)
They are known as Foxhole Radios, and you can find more information by
using a web search engine.
-Lawrence LeMay
Woah, just stepped over the threshold from reading to contributing - even if
it's only a question :-)
I've a TK50 drive that I'm trying to get to work with my Vax.
After discovering that it didn't work (the tape never wound itself out into
the drive) I took off the cover.
There appears to be a piece of stiffish tape connected to the central spinny
bit (okay, I know stiffish, and spinny bit aren't the most technical of
words! :-), but the other end appears to have been chewed off. I presume
this would have the task of extracting the tape from the cartridge.
Is there anyplace I can get spares for this part (in the UK), or
instructions for constructing something similar myself (I've got a few
sacrifical tapes while I experiment).
I'd be grateful for any ideas. In fact I'm intrigued how the things meant to
work!
Cheers,
Duncan.
Hi,
I'm new to the group. Does anyone have any information on the old HP
9845 desktop computers, specifically, if any working units still exist?
I have manuals and a bunch of old software, including some extremely
high-end games, both on 8" floppy and on tape. I'd love to at least be
able to pull off some listings or get some of the data transferred to a
current medium.
Thanks.
RT
Hi, I have a 'Morse Technologies KP 286HF' mainboard with
an AMD-Processor - the board works, but I don't have the slightest
idea about the jumper settings ... I put 4 MB in it, but it only
recognizes 640Kb and I assume, that for clocking it to 12Mhz the
(not available) Turbo-Button should be pressed ?!?
For any hints or links to manuals I would be very glad ...
Cheers,
Mario
At 12:21 AM 3/27/01 -0800, you wrote:
>> > There I found and passed up a HP 9000 835 and a HP 9836A. BUT I did
>> > bring home a HP 9000 520 (aka HP 9020). :-)
>
>Can a 9000-520 read 9845 disks/tapes?
I don't know but the drive on the 520 is 5 1/4" and I think you said
that your disks were 8" so that won't work. Besides my 520 seems to have
problems.
What kind of drive were your 8" disks recorded on? The HP 9885 and
9895 are very different. FWIW I have both. I'd guessing that the best way
to read your disk would be an one of the NEWER 9000 series 200 or 300
machines such as a 9836. How many disk do you have that need to be
transferred anyway?
Joe
>
>I'll ask my ex-NASA buddies if they still have any 9000 stuff. (They
>replaced our 9845 with those right after I left.)
>
>RT
>
