In a message dated 6/23/01 10:34:27 PM Pacific Daylight Time, donm(a)cts.com
writes:
> Anyone interested in a HP 97 Calculator for the price of shipping?
> Comes complete with wall-wart, and a (probably tired) but still usable
> battery.
>
> Can't tell you for sure how it works as my direct Polish notation
> doesn't seem to impress the reverse machine. I do think that the paper
> tape drive has problems, though.
>
> Email me of list if you are interested. First come first served.
>
> - don
>
Hi Don;
I am interested if it hasn't been spoken for. My off line email address is
Whoagiii(a)aol.com.
thanks for offering.
Paxton
Astoria, Oregon
Hey folks, I've come to the conclusion that I no longer have the time to
properly maintain the the retroarchive.org site. I need someone that's
willing to take it over and host it. The archive is roughly 650MB in
size.
If you're interested, please contact me off the list at
geneb(a)deltasoft.com
Thanks for your time.
g.
Anyone interested in a HP 97 Calculator for the price of shipping?
Comes complete with wall-wart, and a (probably tired) but still usable
battery.
Can't tell you for sure how it works as my direct Polish notation
doesn't seem to impress the reverse machine. I do think that the paper
tape drive has problems, though.
Email me of list if you are interested. First come first served.
- don
Picked up a LOBO systems MAX-80 today at a Goodwill for $3.99, no drives
or monitor was with it. I will be going back on Sunday to see if they
have more. Looked it up on the web using google and found that it is a
TRS-80 clone and runs CPM. If I can locate some drives and software I
hope can fire it up soon.
Bill Bradford <mrbill(a)mrbill.net> wrote:
> I'm scanning them in as 100dpi grayscale GIFs, then I will convert to
> other format(s) and eventually to PDF. Scanning directly to PDF with
> HP's software produces horrible output with compression artifacts.
HP's software? The stuff that came with my 6200 was disappointing: I
either got very lossy JPEGs or insufficiently-colorful GIFs out of it.
I installed FreeBSD, SANE, and the GIMP and was much happier.
-Frank McConnell
At the usergroup, there is a DECstation 3100 and a load of ULTRIX cartridges
(I presume these are TK50, they are of the very square kind), some of which
are marked "RISC". I'd like to install these onto the DECstation, but
unfortunately we no longer have a SCSI TK50 drive (what did they call it now,
a TZ30?), so I have no real idea as to how to install it. Not that I would
have any such idea if we had the drive still, either.
However, there is a MVAX IIGPX system there as well, running NetBSD, which has
got a TK50 (I think this is a real TK50, since it's connected to a QBUS card
of its own). Could the DECstation somehow be coerced into installing off of
the MicroVAX?
--
En ligne avec Thor 2.6a.
>BTW, MOST of the SPAM that I receive does NOT show more than one address
>in the header by the time that it gets here. Perhaps some of the SPAM is
>being done with a script just like the one that Richard would write?
>I think that we can assume that Richard has not been writing scripts for
>them.
The ones that really piss me off are the ones that arrive showing my
name in the FROM: block
Jeff
Ok, I'm a happy VAXherd. I scored a 4000/200 in a BA215 cabinet (baby
BA213) and it has the CQD-223/TM SCSI interface, 32MB of ram, and the
COOLEST little three drive storage works box with a flip up lid. Yummy!
--Chuck
Jeff Hellige and I just finished about a 5 hour working (playing?)
session on our
SWTPC 6809 systems. His system works great but lacked disk drives. We
did manage
to boot Smoke Signal Broadcasting DOS on his machine once we swapped
disk
controller cards and first properly set a couple of baud rate jumpers.
My system had problems booting DOS and then had trouble even running
until I swapped
out the 6809 CPU card with another. I still can't boot DOS however. Both
my CPU cards are missing a 74189 RAM chip, whereas Jeff's has it. It's
not clear that that is the problem,
but is a starting place. I have managed to boot DOS in the past with
this RAM-less scenario, but the system always seems to work sparingly.
Anyway that's a brief recap of today's fun and seemed to be list-worthy
to boot (ah-geez another bad pun :).
Next time we're planning on Osborne's and CP/M.
Eric
It just occurred to me that it should be possible to write OCR software
to read punchcards on your scanner. Not that I have any punchcards
mind you, more of an intellectual exercise, but has anyone written
such a thing?
Also, if you're desperate for a punchcard reader I suspect you could
make an acceptable one with Lego Mindstorms. You'd have to use
one of the popular input multiplexing schemes, and probably program it
in nqc or legos, but it should be possible. Using the RCX's motor
controllers and a couple motors and tires you should even be able to make it
automatic feed. In fact, come to think of it, you SHOULD be able to
build the thing with... lessee. two motors, a couple tires, and the
light sensor. 'course your software on the RCX would have to translate
awhat amounts to the scan of a card into data, but if the sensor is
precise enough to tell holes from chads, I can think of a couple ways to
do this.
--
Jim Strickland
jim(a)DIESPAMMERSCUMcalico.litterbox.com
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