test-drb March 2001

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Old complete terminal in a keyboard found...Synertek System Corp KTM-3..odd?

by claudew＠videotron.ca

Hi Well for me too things have been pretty slow my collection is growing and it is now tougher and tougher to find new stuff... I found an older terminal in a keyboard from a company called: KTM-3/80 from Synertek Systems Corporation Production date : 3/24/81 Looks like a self-contained terminal in a keyboard with a composite video out (or rf?). Very odd looking for me and I dont recall seeing a lot of these things way back. I have not tested it yet but if anybody is interested, Ill take a picture and post the link here. The thing has a flat cable with a db25 sticking out from it. Its just slightly thicker than an "ordinary" keyboard... On/Off switch, P.S. jack, RCA jack and someone (thanks!) stuck a piece of paper that gives the DIP SW settings for the baud rate etc under the keyboard... Ill check the P.S. requirements and test the thing eventually. If anybody collects terminals, I might be tempted to trade or giveaway this thing...After all original collecting was supposed to be Apple computers only...now includes all micros 197x-198x...I dont wanna start collecting terminals... Oh yes, I am still hunting for these things : Next box, LC575 or Color Classic board (my color classic is missing one), anything micros 197x-198x...Always interested in trades (I dont sell stuff) see my site... Claude -- The Canuck Computer Collector http://computer_collector.tripod.com

23 years, 4 months

And someone has one... Re: Virus Alert !!!

by steven_j_robertson＠hotmail.com

>You wouldn't see change over night, but within a year (probably less) >reports would come out of people finding and fixing numerous major bugs in >all sorts of MS offerings, the first probably being the MS kernel. Bugs >that MS staff either wouldn't acknowledge were there or probably didn't >KNOW were there. > >And who the hell needs managers to code anyway? Pfah! > >Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer >Festival >------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >International Man of Intrigue and Danger >http://www.vintage.org > Oh yeah... That would work out. Hundreds of freelance developers working independently with no coordinated (managed) efforts. Steve Robertson _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

23 years, 4 months

Us vs. Museums

by jerryjh＠imt.net

On 2001-03-06 classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org said: >>What would you suggest is the foremost reason for >>"seeing" them? >Well in my case, I find them pleasing to look at. I >like seeing, and being able to touch, systems that I >have heard about or know about, butI do not own. That sounds very much like an individual seeking out autographs in person from celebrities. I don't sense anything particularly educational about that type of experience with computers. >>Would you suppose that there are other causes even >>more significant than encouraging computers as a hobby >>through museum displays? >Of course, but that doesn't mean that there's anything >wrong with it. Neither did I say there was. I asked whether you might suggest "other causes even more significant" than a personal hobby. >>>The Computer Museum History Center located at >>>Moffett Airfield. >>Is there a URL for it? >http://www.computerhistory.org/ Thank you! Jerry... on his IBM PC/AT 5170 Model 339 | My laptop computer's a ***** 9600kbps/30MB HD/512k RAM/8 MHz | Tandy TRS-80 Model 100 Net-Tamer V 1.11.2X - Registered

23 years, 4 months

New here :-)

by fernande＠internet1.net

Hello Everyone, I am not really sure what kinds or types of computers are represented here. I have an Apple //e, an IBM Model 80 with Reply Powerboard, a Unisys 486 server, an IBM XT, my main Pentium based system (socket7) and various other PCs that need work. I sort of assume that many people here have much larger computers and older computers than myself.... how true is that? I am looking to thin my collection..... and and to it :-) I may be getting a PDP11/53 ..... probably my first "real" computer by some standards :-) I am looking to get rid of a Texas Instruments Professional Computer (TI PC) immediately if anyone is interested. It is in great shape, but unfortunately needs a proprietary keyboard, and I don't know what exactly for a monitor. It also used a custom version of Microsoft DOS, that I don't have.... it won't boot from a regular DOS boot disk. It has two 360K full height floppy drives, and no HD. It will cost only the price of shipping, plus maybe a little extra, if I have to buy more bubble wrap, or a box, or whatever. Chad Fernandez Michigan, USA

23 years, 4 months

Great new finds for the musuem

by jrkeys＠concentric.net

The last couple weeks have been a little slim but I got the following items: A Mac IIvi (needs work damaged in shipping) been looking for one of these for a long time. A Mac Plus with lots of extras donated by a nice older lady. Has a trackball called Quad LYNX by Honeywell, a pretty odd looking item. A fan unit called 'cool-it' also odd looking. And several other items, books, software and mics came with it. A Mac TAM, I know not 10 years yet but I'm looking for a couple items to make it a complete unit. Does anyone have a original CD case and TV Antenna that came with it ? I'm also looking for the original boxes that the TAM and it's parts came in, this seller had tossed them long ago. Mac Performa 476 needs some work. A U.K. Sinclair Microvision battery charger. A Commodore model 1802 monitor. Apple IIe joystick. Several unique mousepads and coffee cups. Radio Electronics MAR 1986 issue with a really good article on personal robots and robotics. They compare 20 different robots, all the HERO models, Maxx Steele, XR, Scorpion, and others. I also picked up 9 other issues at 25 cents each. Something called a HEARSAY 100 no other information written on the item. Anyone know something about it ?. Lots of Sega 16-Bit cartridges at 60 cents each. Some IBM AIX 4.3 cd's for $2.80 each. Hero 2000 disk manual. AMDEK Color-I monitor works great. A digital DECmate model VT278-AH and the rolling ROX02 8" drive unit, cables and manuals. I will stop as the list is too long and alot the items do not meet the 10 year rule. Keep on computing John Keys

23 years, 4 months

RFC: ROM dump archive

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

Yes, bad practice to follow-up your own posts, but I should have mentioned that Craig Dewick keeps an archive of Sun boot ROMs at http://lios.apana.org.au/~cdewick/data/bootroms.html which has saved my skin at least once. And on the subject of permissions, I know that several companies have consented to letting the BBC site provide images of software that hasn't been available for retail sale or as official spares for years, and only one or two have ever objected. One of the Sun sites that holds images had a note saying the owner had never got permission, but if anyone from Sun objected he'd remove them (a site for Motorola stuff had a similar notice) but the notice has gone so presumably no-one ever did. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager Dept. of Computer Science University of York

23 years, 4 months

Blinkenlights Posters (fwd)

by doug＠blinkenlights.com

FYI ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 16:55:21 -0600 From: James Thornton <james(a)unifiedmind.com> To: doug(a)blinkenlights.com Subject: Blinkenlights Posters Your organization might find interesting this 24x36 inch blinkenlights poster: http://jamesthornton.com/blinkenlights.html James Thornton __________________________________________________________ MIT Web Curriculum Free Online (NexusWatch, October 2000) --> http://www.jamesthornton.com/nexuswatch/20001018.html

23 years, 4 months

RFC: ROM dump archive

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Mar 9, 11:40, Iggy Drougge wrote: > Since I've got myself a pretty little EPROM burner, and seem to have a lot of > ROMs and ROM sockets around, I thought that it should be worthwhile to create > a central repository for all those ROMs which are so difficult to get > nowadays. Is this a good idea, or has somebody already done it? I agree, it's a very good idea, so good in fact, that it's been done :-) http://www.armory.com/~rstevew/Public/Roms/ Which reminds me that I promised Steve to send my collection. There's also a site for Acorn/BBC Micro/Archimedes ROMs at http://www.nvg.ntnu.no/bbc/rom/ and there's one for Commodore ROMs though I've misplaced the URL, and some Exidy Sorcerer images at http://www.trailingedge.com/exidy/ I started collecting ROM images about 15 years ago, when additional "sideways ROM" software for BBC Micros was in vogue. For those who don't know, that machine had sockets for four ROMs, typically filing systems (disk, net, teletext, etc), languages (BASIC, Pascal, Forth, ...), or utilities/applications (terminal emulators by the dozen, word processors, spreadsheets, ...) which shared the same address space and were mapped in and out by the O.S. Actually, the O.S. supported 16 sideways ROMs but you needed extra hardware to fit that many. Anyway, at that time I repaired lots of BBC machines, and a common(ish) problem was that people swapped ROMs around when they had more ROMs than sockets, and inevitably broke a pin or plugged one in backewards from time to time. Since in most cases the only official way to replace one was to pay the full price for the software, I (and others) made a habit of copying any ROMs we came across, in order to be able to blow replacement EPROMs for a more cost-effective repair later. I must have megabytes of the stuff here. I kept this up when I started collecting other machines, and I have quite a number of DEC ROM images (a very few of which are at http://www.dunnington.u-net.com/public/) and some Exidy Sorcerer ones, along with Apple, PET, Sirius, etc images. Even a couple from car engine management systems! Sadly I didn't copy my original Exidy WP or DevPac ROMs (anybody able to give me a copy?) and I've not always had the right equipment to read some TTL PROMs, so my collection of images isn't complete even with respect to the machines I own. I also think it's worthwhile keeping images (or JEDEC files) for PALs where possible, but I don't have a PAL programmer of my own so I've not got round to doing that. If anyone needs a ROM image to make a repair, and they think I might have it, I'm happy to provide it. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager Dept. of Computer Science University of York

23 years, 4 months

DEC KS-10 Emulator Now Available

by healyzh＠aracnet.com

I figured this would be of interest to people here, especially with a good rundown of where to go and what to get. Timothy Stark has released his TS10 Emulator which emulates a DEC KS-10 and will at least run TOPS-10 V7.03. Emulator (in CVS): http://sourceforge.net/projects/ts10/ Software: http://pdp-10.trailing-edge.com/ Here is some info from Timothy Stark on the tapes: > Well, you need a listing of packages to install TOPS-10 v7.03 system on > my TS10 emulator. > BB-X138B-BB KS Bootable TOPS-10 v7.03 tape > BB-X140B-SB TOPS-10 v7.03 Monitor sources > BB-X128B-SB TOPS-10 v7.03 w/sources #1 > BB-FP63A-SB TOPS-10 v7.03 w/sources #2 > BB-FP64A-SB TOPS-10 v7.03 Tools w/sources > BB-X130B-SB CUSP w/sources > They are in .TAP files that you can get them from Tim's archive. I thank > to Tim Shoppa for makeing .tap files on your archives. > To boot TOPS-10 operating system. You need KS10 Bootable tape first > (BB-X138B-BB) and type 'boot mta0:' to load and run BOOTM program. > Then, type '/tm02' to execute it. It will load and run Monitor. > Following instructions that Monitor ask you for. First time, use > 'DESTROY' to initialize emulated RP06 disk file. When you answer > 'Y' to start system up, you should see a dot prompt. > I will write installation how to install other tapes into system. TOPS-10 Operators Guide: http://www.36bit.org/dec/manual/ So far everyones experience is showing that you need an x86 box running Linux to run this (and not every version of Linux). Work is going on to get this running on other OS's right now. Right now there is no installation guide for installing TOPS-10 v7.0x. Zane -- | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator | | healyzh(a)aracnet.com (primary) | OpenVMS Enthusiast | | healyzh(a)holonet.net (alternate) | Classic Computer Collector | +----------------------------------+----------------------------+ | Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, | | and Zane's Computer Museum. | | http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ |

23 years, 4 months

Commodore 64 system needs new home

by vcf＠siconic.com

Please reply to original sender. Reply-to: BVallone(a)APTEGRITY.com ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 16:11:51 -0500 From: "Vallone, Brett" <BVallone(a)APTEGRITY.com> Subject: commodore 64 donation Hi. I have a Commodore 64 set-up (ps, manuals, monitor, 1541 drive, Epson printer, programming manual) in fine working condition that I have no use for, and it would be sacrilegious to just throw it away. I am trying desperately to avoid that. Thanks. Brett Vallone Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org

23 years, 4 months

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