From: rhudson(a)cnonline.net <rhudson(a)cnonline.net>
>Are any of the 8 bit processors still available? I would like to scratch
build
>a z80 or 6502 or somthing board to hook up to my
Yes, you should not have much difficulty finding Z80, 8085, 6800 and
6502 (JDR catalog).
>vt220 (ob classic??)
Yes.
>I have **no** hardware experince (well I can solder, but beyond that...)
>
>Hints??
Learn. ;) Get a few books and read anything and everything.
Consider a kit or maybe a PIC.
Allison
David,
If nobody steps up to the plate I'd pick them up.
I work in Hudson NH so I'm maybe 20 minutes down the road.
We could meet.
Allison
------Original Message------
From: "David Betz" <dbetz(a)vmlabs.com>
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
Sent: May 23, 2001 4:49:32 PM GMT
Subject: VAX Equipment
I would like to find a good home for the following equipment. I'm not
interested in making money off of this equipment but I don't want to have to
pack it for shipping either. I would like someone to come by and pick it up
or arrange for a place to meet somewhere near where I live. I'm in southern
New Hampshire near Manchester.
1. VAXStation II/GPX (VS21W-K2)
2. VAXStation 2000 (VS410-AA)
3. External Hard Drive (RZ55-AA)
4. External Tape Drive (TK50Z-GA)
Anyone interested in this stuff?
In a message dated 5/23/01 12:47:24 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
dbetz(a)vmlabs.com writes:
> I would like to find a good home for the following equipment. I'm not
> interested in making money off of this equipment but I don't want to have
to
> pack it for shipping either. I would like someone to come by and pick it up
> or arrange for a place to meet somewhere near where I live. I'm in southern
> New Hampshire near Manchester.
>
> 1. VAXStation II/GPX (VS21W-K2)
>
> 2. VAXStation 2000 (VS410-AA)
>
> 3. External Hard Drive (RZ55-AA)
>
> 4. External Tape Drive (TK50Z-GA)
>
> Anyone interested in this stuff?
>
Me Absolutely! Just let me know! I have been looking for a bigger VAX for
months and couldn't seem to find any in the US on the east coast that I could
get to. I'll give 'em a nice home right next to my VS3100m38 :-) BTW, just
out of curiosity, what OS are they currently running?
-Linc Fessenden
In The Beginning there was nothing, which exploded - Yeah right...
Calculating in binary code is as easy as 01,10,11.
Besides, the UK doesn't seem all that well off according to what
I've read. UK
ground is not the same as continental earth. I think it's got to do
with the
lines being earthed at the station, whereas the continental earth
lead goes to
UK mains earth is bonded to the neutral and to the earth spike at the local
transformer.
It should also be bonded to earth at the property and, if the run from the
tramsformer to
the property is a long one, it will have more earth points along the way
(PME - protective
multiple earth).
A bit safer than a rod in the ground here and one way over there.
Lee.
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On Wed, 23 May 2001 08:23:36 -0400 "Jonathan Engdahl"
<engdahl(a)cle.ab.com> writes:
> I didn't realize that they had ever shipped the chip. I have a set of
> manuals, probably early. There seemed to be a lot of holes in the
> architecture -- things that weren't explained, or perhaps had not
> yet been figured out. I wanted to get my hands on one a long time ago,
> but they dropped it before I ever saw the possibility of geting a chip.
> I never did figure out how they implemented their garbage collection.
^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^
Well that certainly explains why the chip never saw the light of day;
Bill G. must have stomped all over this one. Porting Windows to it
would have proved impossible, since pretty much the entire Windows
system is 'garbage'. :^>
Sorry guys, couldn't resist . . .
Jeff
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This week had a fine start. I walked into a little computer shop which has
trays of old ISA cards and sometimes odd equipment which I can buy cheaply.
This monday, they had a slightly familiar-looking box on top of a large
shipment of PCs. A HP 9000/300! When I asked them what it would cost, they
were surprised that they could even charge money for it, and let me have it
for 50 crowns. My pleasure. Once I had bought it, though, I though that
9000/300 was a suspiciously low number. Wasn't that some kind of 68010 based
machine? And why would such a machine have two Ethernet NICs? It really semed
like a waste, but on the underground ride how, I pulled out the big board with
all the ports, which seemed notably shinier and newer than the NIC above, and
found that it had a 68040. I thus deducted that it must be a 9000/380. Has
this machine been upgraded, or did HP simply not bother to identify their
machines any closer than the series (in this case 9000/300)?
In any case, it came without keyboard, and I read that in order to switch it
over to serial terminal mode, one would have to perform a certain manoeuvre
via the keyboard. Bloody well thought out, HP! Is there no way to use a serial
terminal without any HIL keyboard involved?
The machine starts up and beeps a little. It's got not drives installed, but
there's a 50-pin "Centronics" connector marked SCSI/FS-HPIB. What is FS-HPIB?
Doesn't sound like anything I'd like to feed into my SCSI devices.
--
En ligne avec Thor 2.6a.
A Spanish MSX Group "Matra" visited to this Fair. I lent Spanish stand to
them. They showed and did Promotion play of SEX BOMB BUNNY. And this Game has
tema song of Majingar-Z! Why they know Japanese TV animation?
K. Ikeda, MSX-Print
Hi,
I picked up an Acorn RiscPC 600 base unit the other day, my first Archimedes-
type Acorn machine.
Anyway, I have a few questions. Perhaps someone can point me to a decent web
site about the Acorn machines?
- I'm assuming the RiscPC 600 uses an Archimedes-type mouse. This should not
be a major problem, as a simple pin-to-pin adapter should allow a three-
button Amiga mouse to be connected.
- Can I use a PS/2 type PC keyboard, or is a custom Acorn keyboard needed?
- Before powering it up, I want to remove the hard disk and create an image
file of its contents. The CD-ROM drive needs to be removed in order to get
to the hard disk. I can't see how to do that. Any ideas?
-- Mark
From: Cameron Kaiser <spectre(a)stockholm.ptloma.edu>
>The stack is truly a bummer, but there's software ways around that.
As a return address stack it was adaquate. I like to pass parameters
on the stack with 8080/z80 and even PDP-11 and the 6502 stack is
not up to that.
>FWIW, the later 65CE02 deals with both these issues. You can "move" zero
page
>anywhere in memory you want on the fly (so that you can pick a memory
page
>and optimize access to it), and the stack pointer is now 16-bit. The
65CE02's
>most well-known usage was in its guise as the CSG 4510 in the mythical
>Commodore 65 (see
Yes but can you push parameters onto the stack prior to the call?
Allison
Over the last few weeks it's been slow but I got few goodies that I an
tell you about and some that I can't (not 10 years old yet).
1>Sharp PC-4600 laptop not able to test yet, need charger or new
batteries for it.
2>Clear see-thru Milton Bradley SIMON
3>Sun Sparcstation 1+
4>Epson Geneva PX-8
5>Telex 1174 Prodtype 1174-90R computer with a 079 Telex display
terminal, and Telex KB. Not tested yet.
6>SEGA Genesis power base converter model 1620
7>Vintage IBM wiring programmer tool with collator programming manual
That's it for now. Keep Computing
Hi --
I'm cleaning out closets here, and I've come across a copy of SCO
Open Desktop 1.0.0 (!) on 5.25" disks. I've no idea where it came
from, but that's the case with a *lot* of the stuff in this
closet. :-)
Anyhow, if someone would find this interesting/useful, it's yours. I'd
prefer you pay shipping, just so I'm not actually *losing* money on
it. :-) It's a 9 x 9 x 6 1/2" box, weighs five lbs or so (75% manuals,
25% floppies, in three still-sealed floppy-boxes!).
"System requirements:
For 386 or 486 computers based on Industry Standard Architechture
or Extended Industry Standard Architecture.
Minimum requirements include: 6.0 MB of memory; 100 MB of disk
space; EGA, VGA, Extended VGA, Herculese Monochrome, or selected
high-performance adapter; Bus or serial mouse (recommended); and,
3C501, 3C503, 3C523 or WD8003E Network Card (optional)."
It's never been used, so you get the license and activation keys as
well. It's marked "FOR SHIPMENT WITHIN THE U.S. AND CANADA ONLY", so I
can't guarantee you'll have a legal license if youre not there.
Quickly reading over the blurb, it's got LAN Manager and MS-DOS
support, X11, and an unknown DBMS includeed, and "unleashes the full
power of 386 and 486 machines". Zowie!
Anyhow, drop me a line if you want it. It'll go to the first person to
offer to pay shipping, or, if no-one does, to the first person that's
not too expensive to send to. :-)
SKILL-TESTING QUESTION: I'm not on the list anymore -- please reply
directly to me. (On the off chance the address above fails (brand
new!), try <rich(a)alcor.concordia.ca>.)
Cheers,
-Rich
