test-drb April 2001

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by univac2＠earthlink.net

Does anyone have anything for this computer? It's sitting in our house collecting dust because I have no software for it, and it doesn't have a programmer's panel. I would at least like the full control panel so I could run machine language programs (assuming I can find out anything about it). Every couple of months I renew my interest in my Honeywell Level 6 minicomputer. Thanks, Owen

23 years, 9 months

Singer [TaDa!]

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

On April 16, Gene Buckle wrote: > Here's the last commercial simulator for the Lockheed L-188 (Electra). This > is the civilian version of the P-3 Orion. > http://deltasoft.fife.wa.us/BehindTheScenes/lockheed.html What a great set of pics! -Dave McGuire

23 years, 9 months

Technico (Re: TI Minicomputer?)

by ajp166＠bellatlantic.net

The F8 is one I skipped over by choice. I do have basic data on it though. The 8080/8085/z80/z180/z280 and Z800x are machines I'm also familiar with. The only SBC in the 8080 family is the STP cards from VT100s I have gobs of them and they make handy little controllers. Other chips level cpus I've played with include the 8008, 8048/8049 family, 8051, DEC T-11, NSC800, NEC D78xx series, many of the 4bit machines other than intel's. Allison ------Original Message------ From: Eric Chomko <chomko(a)greenbelt.com> To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org Sent: April 13, 2001 2:53:27 PM GMT Subject: Re: Technico (Re: TI Minicomputer?) ajp me wrote: > For me to build it as a class project I'd have been the professor. I'd been out of school for a while by then. > No, I wanted a 9900 based machine to see what was on the non intel track back then. My 9900, ELF, 6800d1 and SC/MP all came from that effort back then. I've had them since before 1979. > Whoa! The class I took in microcomputers (two actually) was once a week at 7:00pm. I was a regular full-time day student at that time. However, the class was populated with many over 30 types and in one class the Prof. was about 60 and the other class the Prof was 28! Interesting group of machines. Did the F8 have an eval kit?, as you mention the Ti-9900, RCA 1802, Mot 6800, and National's "Scamp". Fairchild's F8 seems to be the ONLY one you missed barring 6502 and Z-80, which became very popular anyway. I think I have the spec books for most of the chips you list above. Eric > > Allison > > ------Original Message------ > From: Eric Chomko <chomko(a)greenbelt.com> > To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org > Sent: April 13, 2001 4:07:02 AM GMT > Subject: Re: Technico (Re: TI Minicomputer?) > > Did you build it for a class project? Techinco was based out of Columbia, MD. > > Eric > > ajp166 wrote: > > > From: James B. DiGriz <jbdigriz(a)dragonsweb.org> > > > > >On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Eric Chomko wrote: > > > > > >> > > > >> > > >> A company called 'Technico' put out a TI 9900-based single board mirco > > back in > > >> the > > >> late 70s before TI had the 99/4. I rememebr building one for a class > > project in > > >> college. In fact, I got one in the attic that I need to frag out of of > > these days > > > > I have one and it's operational. Bought is back in '77. > > > > Allison

23 years, 9 months

Looking for Tek 545B manual for someone

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

On April 16, Jim Strickland wrote: > On this note, can someone recommend me a good 'scope for a beginner? > I'm looking to get into microcontroller programming and robotics and can see > a whole bunch of places where a scope is pretty much a necessity. > > inexpensive is good, and I'm not afraid to use vaccuum tube equipment so > long as it doesn't require too too much tweaking to produce useful results. Tek 465/475 scopes are compact, reliable, predictable, and old enough to be affordable. Those scopes are easily the most popular of that era, sorta the Fluke 77 or Simpson 260 of oscilloscopes. Solid, proven design, easy to use, predictable, smooth, bulletproof. If you have a bigger budget, a Tek 2445 is a *sweet* machine, as are its bigger brothers in the 2465 family. I paid about $1200.00 for my 2465A as a point of reference. But if money is a concern, if you can live without fancy on-screen digital parameter display and stuff like that, a 475 (or 475A) can be had for less than $300.00. There's one on eBay right now, two hours left, at $175.00. http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1229127837. -Dave McGuire

23 years, 9 months

My collection

by blacklord＠telstra.com

Oh well, while we're at it : CBM PET 2001 CBM PET 4032 VIC20 (several) C64 (several & variations) C128, 128D & 128DCR Plus/4 (2) C16 Amiga 1000 (several) Amiga 500 Amiga CDTV Amiga CD32 (several) Commodore PC10-II Commodore PC40 Commodore SLC Hewlett Packard HP85 (2) Spectravideo SV318 Spectravideo SV328 Triumph Adler Alphatronics PC Various pre-1980 video games consoles (too numerous to tally). Cheers, BL ---------------- Powered by telstra.com

23 years, 9 months

50 pin SCSI to 50 pin centronics

by azog＠azog.org

does anyone have a cable that has 50 pin SCSI on one side and a 50 pin male centronics on the other side? I need to connect an alternate boot disk to my VS 4000/60, and I don't want to mess with the existing drives, and it'll only be temporary while I try to fix my mistake in VMS, so it won't be in a box or anything...

23 years, 9 months

Kim / Commie keypads

by ajp166＠bellatlantic.net

From: Richard Erlacher <edick(a)idcomm.com> > >This RS pad must have a catalog number, though, Allison. Since you've seen it, >perhaps you could provide the catalog number, as the RS meatheads wouldn't know >what a keypad kit was if you asked them. Well while picking up a barrel connector I noticed the Nashua store had it on the wall. I think 270-015 is the catalog number. Sheesh, if I do that might as well sent it to me for installation and labeling. Is it possible to read a catalog these days or has the "go ask the web, thin I don't have to work" mentality taken over? Allison

23 years, 9 months

Looking for PDP-8..12 in Ottawa/ON/Canada area

by root＠parse.com

Hi folks, I was referred to this list be a gentleman from Ottawa, and he suggested that there might be some PDP-8..12 computers floating around that you folks might know of? I've managed to get a line on 20 X PDP-11/70's in Seattle/WA, but then I looked at how much it would cost to ship :-) Basically, in order of priority, I'm looking for the following: PDP-8/I PDP-8/L PDP-8/S PDP-12 PDP-11/20 Also, I'm looking for schematics, docs, etc... Thanks in advance for your help! Cheers, -RK -- Robert Krten, PARSE Software Devices +1 613 599 8316. Realtime Systems Architecture, Consulting and Training at www.parse.com

23 years, 9 months

Rescue a system 36

by steve_moser＠parmalat.ca

We have a system 36 #5360, printer 3262-BI and 3 3476 terminals that I would like to get rid of to free up some space. The system was here when I started so I don't know a lot about it, but have found some old documentation. CPU 512K MAG 716MB, it was purchased in June 1986. There is also a bunch of disk and cartridges that I don't have a clue what they are for, but I'm sure anyone interested would know. I am just looking for someone to take it away from our office in Cincinnati, OH. Please e-mail me with any additional questions. Thanks Steve

23 years, 9 months

Photo equimpent for hardware web pics (Re: Technico (Re: TI Minicomputer?))

by cmcmanis＠mcmanis.com

There were a couple of video capture systems for the PDP-11 series, at USC in the image processing lab we built one that digitized a monochrome camera signal. It worked ok, but even better was the Micron drum scanner (boy I wish I had that puppy hooked up to my 11/34!) You can of course get a cheap digital camera (about $500 will get you one that does 80% of what you need) or you can spend $49 on a scanner and using a regular process camera get nice high resolution pictures of your equipment. Further you can hook some scanners up to classic computers to keep it "all in the family" so to speak, take pictures on a classic camera (I love the Leica) and be even better. --Chuck At 12:36 PM 4/13/2001 -0400, anonymous wrote: >Indeed. I have some machines I want to put up pics of here. All I have is >an inexpensive Sony CCD camera that only does NTSC video, however. My TV >tuner card has a capture function, but the camera has low resolution >and limited dynamic range, and is not very well suited for >detailed pictures of hardware, circuit boards, etc. > >I'm getting a better card, probably an ATI AIW, and I'm open to >recoomendations on a better camera that isn't too expensive. I could go >with a digital camera and a card reader, but I also have a security >application here that requires video capture. > >jbdigriz

23 years, 9 months

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test-drb April 2001