I have a Pro380 and I'm having trouble finding
floppies to use with it. Does anyone know of
a source for cheap 5.25" DSDD floppies (I doubt
DSQD are available any more)?
--
Eric Dittman
dittman(a)dittman.net
From: Brian Chase <bdc(a)world.std.com>
>Does anyone know how many transistors made up the 6502? These days with
>Intel's boasting of the number of transistors their latest processors
use,
>it'd be interesting to know what we used to get by using. What, it
can't
>have been more than a few thousand, right?
Memory says it was one of the lower transistor count cpus, very efficient
design.
>And then it'd be rather fun to implement your very own 6502 using 74*
>series logic chips.
I'd bet it would be fairly high chip count. IT would be interesting to
see how fast
you cound make it go.
Allison
On May 8, Jeffrey l Kaneko wrote:
> I grabbed a couple of DSSI controllers thinking
> they were SCSI (silly me). Anyone have drives
> for these things smaller than a bar fridge?
I think you're confusing DSSI with SDI. I've never seen a DSSI
drive larger than 5.25" FH.
-Dave McGuire
On May 7, 15:26, James B. DiGriz wrote:
> Trying to get in something at least a little on-topic, I've heard of
> people being killed accidently by industrial robots and such, or the
> prospect of the imminent demise of hospital patients due to script
> kiddies screwing around with medical records databases or life support
> equipment, but does anyone know of an instance where a computer was used
> to kill someone? Including military or intelligence cases?
My favorite software disclaimer is with Windows95 (the original is in all
caps). I wonder if the text is from Sun or Microsoft?:
"Note on Java support. The software may contain support for programs written
in Java. Java technology is not fault tolerant and is not designed,
manufactured, or intended for use or resale as on-line control equipment in
hazardous environments requiring fail-safe performance, such as in the
operation of nuclear facilities, aircraft navigation or communication
systems, air traffic control, direct life support machines, or weapons
systems, in which the failure of Java technology could lead directly to
death, personal injury, or severe physical or environmental damage."
I grabbed a couple of DSSI controllers thinking
they were SCSI (silly me). Anyone have drives
for these things smaller than a bar fridge?
Anybody *need* one?
Jeff
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Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 08:27:53 -0400
From: Eric Chomko <chomko(a)greenbelt.com>
Subject: D-116 Digital Computer Controls - minicomputer
Has anyone ever heard of such a thing. I dug out a manual and a book on
the system, and remember
working on one years ago. The books are dated 1972-3. The company is out
of New Jersey. Anyone one know anything about the D-116 system or about
the fate of the company: DCC?
Eric
Yes Eric, I have a D-116 in my Garage!. It has a a full flank of front
panel switches, a tty port and a paper tape machine Mounted in a 5 foot
vertical Bud Cabinet. I have a shoebox full of tapes including some
Diagnostics. I also have an IBM PC with a 20MB filecard which was used
instead of the paper tape as an excerciser/ development program loader.
OCLC the online Computer Library Center, where I work, used these as front
end processors, to a bank of Tandem Computers. They were the units that ran
the polling protocol similar to IBM Bi - Sync, I would e interested in your
literature.
Could you Scan the Manual or give me some description of it?
Sincerely
Larry Truthan
truthanl(a)oclc.org.
I am a "digest subscriber" on classiccmp.org, Please respond to my Email
for most direct correspondence.
Does anybody know where I could find the programming
image for the address decode PLA for the 11/21 FALCON
SBC?
I need tomake sure that the one I have is original;
if not, I'll have to make a new one.
ALso, anybody got a boot rom image for this?
Thanks--
Jeff
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I have a simple way of dealing with off-topic items that usually don't
interest me (like musings about eBay or gun control)...it's called the <DEL>
key.
I don't let these tangents concern me as they eventually burn themselves out
like an LED that one has connected directly to a 12v power supply. I've been
on this list for, what, 4 years now. Everyone will have an opinion on any
given topic. It's what gives the list some personality at the expense of
some bandwidth.
Time for a diversion. OK, let's bash Microsoft...
Rich
-----Original Message-----
From: Ken Seefried [mailto:ken@seefried.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2001 10:53 AM
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: > Subject: Re: Serious Request For Moderation (On Topic)
> From: "Sipke de Wal" <sipke(a)wxs.nl>
>
> I'll turn to all of you my other cheek while thinking
> that this list is in serious need of a MODERATOR
>
Here, here. Two months on the list, and from what I can see one third of
the postings have consisted of rude, ignorant, childish, self-righteous
people flaming (pro & con) about eBay, and one third of rude, ignorant,
childish, self-righteous people flaming about gun control (pro & con).
Barely a quarter of any of the traffic is actaully about classic computers.
I might point out for those on the list that clearly enjoy that type of
signal-noise ratio, there are *other* places where you can go to vent your
spleen dedicated to the topics.
Of course, now we'll get two weeks of the same people going back and forth
about moderation, and how vitally important and relevant to the classic
computer world their opinions about eBay & gun control are, with the
associated escalation of insults and derision...
Nevermind...
Ken
> From: "Sipke de Wal" <sipke(a)wxs.nl>
>
> I'll turn to all of you my other cheek while thinking
> that this list is in serious need of a MODERATOR
>
Here, here. Two months on the list, and from what I can see one third of
the postings have consisted of rude, ignorant, childish, self-righteous
people flaming (pro & con) about eBay, and one third of rude, ignorant,
childish, self-righteous people flaming about gun control (pro & con).
Barely a quarter of any of the traffic is actaully about classic computers.
I might point out for those on the list that clearly enjoy that type of
signal-noise ratio, there are *other* places where you can go to vent your
spleen dedicated to the topics.
Of course, now we'll get two weeks of the same people going back and forth
about moderation, and how vitally important and relevant to the classic
computer world their opinions about eBay & gun control are, with the
associated escalation of insults and derision...
Nevermind...
Ken
The great irony is that you can't display this video on anything but the
modern OSes that the video alleges "suck" (viz., you need Real-ly Bad Player
and/or Windows World Media Domination Player).
http://cramsession.brainbuzz.com/video/everyossucks/default.asp?OSsucks=Open
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