In a message dated 3/14/01 12:28:48 PM Central Standard Time,
jhellige(a)earthlink.net writes:
<< Also, I've been told that the Portfolio is what was
used by John Conner in 'Terminator 2' when he broke into the ATM and the
Cyberdine vault...is this true? >>
yup, it is. That's what I tell people when they see mine in my collection.
Does anyone have a copy of an MP/M, CP/M, or XENIX boot disk for the
Altos model 8600-12A?
Don Maslin doesn't have what I need. Maybe the archivists at
Trailing-edge, or Sellam's VCF archive has something.
It has an 8" 20 MB HD and an 8" 512 K FD (SSDD Shugart 80?).
Unfortunately it is unable to boot off the HD. I receive a 'record not
found' error. I verified that the FD works by borrowing a friend's
IMSAI-DOS disk and attempting to boot from it. After reseting and entering
the ROM monitor, I found 'IMSAI' in the RAM. I have some 8" SSSD disks I
can send to copy the software on. Any other Altos 8600 - related software,
such as diagnostics and client software would be much appreciated.
This computer, built in 1983 as a server, was much more powerful than
the PC or the XT. It has 1 MB of ECC RAM (11 bits per byte), an 8086 CPU,
memory protection, 3 - 8089s for interrupts, and several Z-80s for serial
I/O. It has expansion ports for 8 serial devices, a parallel device, 2
Multibus units, a tape drive and a hard drive. Damn, this must have cost a
lot at the time! I'd like to see how this performs compared to other
micros I have.
Thanks in advance for your help,
Edwin
Davis, CA
>> parallel interface. Also, I've been told that the Portfolio is what was
>> used by John Conner in 'Terminator 2' when he broke into the ATM and the
>> Cyberdine vault...is this true?
>
>Yes, but you also need the Hollywood Credit Card O' Magic peripheral that
>it was interfaced to that actually allows one to crack the PIN codes.
I didn't say I was actually going to try and use it for that! I just
thought it was one of those interesting footnotes. The scene wouldn't have
been quite as effective if he had had to lug a <insert your favorite
desktop> along. It was pretty cool. Of course, it didin't provide all the
blinking lights to look at that the IMSAI in 'Wargames' had <g>
Jeff
I have an AVIV TFC-825 UNIBUS board, which I believe is a Pertec
formatted TS11 interface.
I also have an ABLE 10412-0 QBUS board, which I believe is some
kind of UNIBUS->QBUS bridge.
Naturally I've got absolutely no documentation on either. I've sent
email to both AVIV and ABLE but haven't heard anything back.
I'd like to use one or the other to help bootstrap a PDP-11/44
that I just got running last night.
Plan 1 is to use the AVIV to interface to my existing DigiData
9-track drive. However, the DigiData uses 49-pin ribbon cables while
the AVIV seems to want 59-pin cables.
Plan 2 is to use the ABLE board to bridge the 11/44s UNIBUS to
a QBUS backplane and then use a DigiData QBUS controller to
connect to the tape drive.
I've got all the hardware, cables, etc. to do this but I'm
a little gunshy of just plowing ahead lest I end up letting the
smoke out.
Thanks,
greg
Gregory Travis
Cornerstone Information Systems ATS
greg(a)ciswired.com
812 330 4361 ext. 18
Saturday, March 17th the garage of wonders* opens it door to the public.
I live in the Old Chapman Townhomes in Orange, CA and about once a year
they let us have a garage sale, and This Saturday at 7AM til noon or so is
IT.
My garage is FULL of neat mac stuff, with a couple 578 all in ones just
added today. If you are within driving distance, and need a monitor or any
kind of mac netorking or goodie, email me or stop by. I'll will be posting
more completely soon, but I wanted to let people know its coming asap.
Before I bid on some of these PDP-11 manuals on eBay, I thought it would
be prudent to inquire about them here. These ones that have initial
bids of $15, $19, or more -- is that a good price, or would I be getting
ripped off?
--
Jeffrey S. Sharp
jss(a)ou.edu
"One World, One Web, One Program" - Microsoft advertisement
"Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuhrer" - Adolf Hitler
Well, I got the CC40 RS-232 adaptor and "solid state" cartridges in. Fun
stuff, I'm going to write some interfacing stuff between the C128 and the
CC40 this evening so the C128 can be its "network file server".
--
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From: Sellam Ismail <foo(a)siconic.com>
>You can drive an old car really fast (perhaps even faster than more
modern
>cars). Old computers are slow-assed beasts.
I'm surprized at you. Many of those old slow machines were faster if byy
virtue
of not having four tonnes of nastiness grafted to them.
Then again, a NS* horizon with static ram and a 10mhz Z80 does get out of
its way.
>I don't know that you'd necessarily be hot-rodding them, unless of
course
>you'd be boosting their abilities for better graphics, sound, nice
>joysticks, bigger displays, etc.
Feh, PCs are good gamers and all but if I want a good solid machine for
real work it may be far from my first choice. Better is relative. ;)
Allison
I am attempting to compile a list of the Txxx cards commonly found in
6000 class machines.
I have info on quite a few, but either sketchy or meaningless
descriptions of some and a cryptic name or even nothing for others.
I seem to recall an online database of these, but I am unable to find it
in any of my bookmarks or even in my email archive.
I am currently searching the Digital/Compaq sites, but not finding much
of use so far.
Several resellers list the cards by number and some even have
descriptions, but I was hoping for something more complete.
For instance, an XMI 32Mb ram card is a T2014XX where XX is a 2 letter
suffix detailing (I think) the speed of the ram and
therefore it's suitability for a particular model. A full explanation
of what these mean would be good.
Any help appreciated, acknowledgements given etc.
Cheers
Geoff Roberts
Computer Systems Manager
Saint Mark's College
Port Pirie,
South Australia
geoffrob(a)stmarks.pp.catholic.edu.au
netcafe(a)tell.net.au
ICQ: 1970476
