OK, out of the two Cyber 910's I picked up the other day, I have one
good machine
that is now booting up to Iris. The problem is getting past the root
password. Is
ther any way of bypassing it or a hack to gain root access from the
console monitor?
It does have a 150 Mb Archive tape drive but I have no system software
for it.
Thanks,
Brian.
Better late than never...
Apple II+
Apple IIe
Apple IIc
Apple III mono monitor
Apple Lisa XL - dealer demo in orig. packing
Mac Plus
Mac SE 30
Mac LC III
Mac Color Classic
Coco
Coco II
Coco III
Model 100 portable
Vic-20, boxed
C-64
PC 5150
PC XT 5160
PC AT
PC Jr. - dealer demo in carrying case
Portable PC 5155
Datavue 8088 laptop
HP 85
ProcTech Sol-20's, 1 w/ Helios II
NorthStar Horizon - 2 360k floppies
NorthStar Horizon - 5 MB HD
IMSAI 8080 w/ NorthStar dual floppies
Morrow Decision I w/ HD
Godbout CompuPro - Z80
Godbout CompuPro - dual 8085 + 8088
Ithaca InterSystems
Timex Sinclair 1000
Sinclair ZX-81
Ohio Scientific Challenger
Lobo Max w/ 10 MB HD
Epson PX-8
Sinclair Z88
Osborne Executive
KayPro II
KayPro 10
KIM-1
Synertek SYM-1
TI 99/4
and others I've forgotten about...
Most are in storage and haven't seen daylight in 2 years, unfortunately.
Bob Stek
Saver of Lost Sols
From: Sipke de Wal <sipke(a)wxs.nl>
>> And in the UK version IIRC. The version I remember had a PCB with the
>> SC/MP (the origial PMOS version) and IIRC the crystal on it, linked by
>> ribbon cables (with individual socket contacts on each wire -- no IDC
>> connectors :-() to another board with the memory and DIP switches, etc
on it.
>>
>Yep that's the one !
Mine is the original NS design. The NS design used a 110baud TTY no
switches save for reset.
Allison
From: Richard Erlacher <edick(a)idcomm.com>
>> To start with the switcher in question is 1987 design maybe earlier.
>> The MV2000 was available in 87 or 88 if memory
>> serves. And even if I'm wrong it's very definitely pre1990.
>>
>AND there's no reason to believe that because it behaves as I described,
it's
>because of an obsolete design. It's quite likely that they didn't want
the
>supply kicking on unless there was a load. PC supplies were designed
that way
>... of course that was in 1980 ...
PC supplies would overvoltage and crowbar there was no intelligence in
their design or applied to it.
>From what I observed, the DEC rotatin memory subsystems were
>ALWAYS of old technology, i.e. used SMD after nobody else
>would ship SMD devices, and didn't start to use SCSI until forced
>to do so by market demand and not until long after third-party
>competitors had been beating them in the marketplace.
Whats wrong with SMD? It was better than SCSI-1, and SCSI-2.
And there was no third party standard for SCSI at all until the late
80s.
Even then DEC had far faster technologies and regarded it for low
end slower systems.
>It was EMULEX, IIRC, that forced them out of the '70's with their
>disk drive subsystems. I wasn't aware that DEC ever built a disk
>drive. Their products seemed to me to be rebadged and
Then you arent aware. All the RA8x and 9x were DEC as were the
initial RZ2x series and a long list of others. They did off the shelf
stuff
too but then that was usually for the smaller packaged systems
or where time was a market driver.
>repackaged drives from other makers, only at 10x the current
>price. Those DEC labels were surely expensive.
Much of it markup but also a fair amount getting the vendor to fix
errors spotted by DEC, getting it to comply to spec and in many cases
getting it to pass FCC.
Allison
I have recently found an Apple II that is a bit interesting. Its
color is very dark gray, almost black, and so is the color of the
matching Disk II. The labels on both the Apple II and Disk II say
"Made for Belle & Howell by Apple Computer, Inc" and have the logos
of both companies. Is this a special machine in any way?
I don't have it currently. I found it yesterday and have not yet
contacted the institiution that owns it to see if is available
(though it most likely is).
--
Jeffrey S. Sharp
jss(a)ou.edu
I just found several boxes of "Verbatim DC 30 Data Cassette" tapes. I've
never seen these before. Does anyone knwo what they're for? In their
boxes, they measure 4 3/8" x 2 7/8" x 5/8". The look like an over-sized
audio cassette tape. They're driven by the tape hubs and the case does not
have a metalbase plate like that found on most data cassettes. There is a
note on the back of the tape saying "Do not to record on this side. Side B
has a 1600 FCI Pre-recorded clock track for tape speed control".
Joe
Just picked up a neat looking HP 6947A "Raster Display" .. looks like a
rack mountable monitor to me or ... is it some sort of X/Y plotter/graph
display w/o video capabilities? Manual copy would be great too.
Any info appreciated, Craig
Eric Chomko <chomko(a)greenbelt.com> wrote:
> Is the Apple Z-80 coprocessor boards the so-called "CP/M boards"?
Some, like the PCPI Applicard, may have more claim to SBCness than
others; the Applicard doesn't rely on the Apple for much other than
power (unlike the Softcard-alikes which used the Apple's RAM) and I
think I remember PCPI demoing one at Applefest in Boston in 1982 by
way of having the card out on the table with a 9V battery hooked up to
it via clip-leads. Mind, I can't remember what it was actually doing
(if anything) without any I/O hooked up to it.
-Frank McConnell
