Hello, all:
I'm looking for the following books:
"DOS Internals" by Geoff Chappell
"DOS and Windows Protected Mode Programming" by Al WIlliams
"Advanced MSDOS Programming" by Ray Duncan
If anyone has these, please let me know off-list so that we can work a
deal. Thanks.
Rich
Rich Cini
Collector of classic computers
Build Master for the Altair32 Emulation Project
Web site: http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/~rcini/classiccmp/
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Jim -
Ask and ye shall receive, knock and the Helios manual and disks shall be
made available...
I have the manual and lots of PT-DOS disks. I have never had the
opportunity to try them on my Helios. In fact a recent major
accomplishment has been getting the Helios out of storage for possible
display at VCF East. I am afraid all that my schedule will allow is
seeing if it works when connected to my Sol (and I may not have time to
do that for a few more weeks).
But you are certainly welcome to borrow the manual and disks - the
manual is about more than twice the size of the Sol manual. I could
have a copy shop do it here, but it would probably run into BIG BUCKS,
and I don't have the time to do it at work. But if you want to borrow
them, they are yours for the asking. With all your work on Solace, I
don't know anyone who would appreciate (or deserve) them more.
And, Doug, it was me who contacted Stan a year after he dumped his Sols
(and now he is S-O-L). About two years ago I did send out a mailing to
about 150 names and addresses I culled from the Proteus News and tried
to find via web-based phone directories. I eventually made contact via
email with 3 or 4 who still had their machines .... And promptly lost
their addresses after a major system crash and prior to a backup (been
there, done that).
Your Sol-brother,
Bob
Saver of Lost Sols
> >> >Do you *really* know people who keep mainframes rusting
> >> >in the yard? CDC Cybers, by any chance?
> >On June 11, Tom Uban wrote:
> >> Not too long ago (and perhaps still) the CDC Cyber 205 was complete and
> >> sitting in one of the Purdue University salvage buildings. This is a
*BIG*
> >> machine and would require some serious space, power, etc.
> >>
> >> The machine has a panel on it which there are the signatures of many
> >> people. I think they are the signatures of the installers, maintainers,
> >> etc.
> At 04:23 PM 6/11/01 -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:
> >
> > Uhhhh...ahhh....a Cyber205? 8-) That's a VERY historically important
> >machine in my opinion.
> >
> > I'd been deleting these messages as yet-another-ebay-related-flame
> >but this message caught my attention. If there's a complete Cyber 205
> >in existence anywhere, I'd sure like to know about it. What is the
> >status of this machine? Is it available? Anybody know?
>On June 11, Tom Uban wrote:
> Call Purdue salvage and ask. When I saw it, it wasn't in the area that
> would normally be seen, but it may be available. Call (765) 494-4600
> and ask for the number for Purdue salvage...
Ok, I'm Southern Indiana, I'll see if I can't get some initial
information about this machine. I could fit a Cyber 172 in
garage, but nothing this big, so I want to help get this
into the hands of a proper preservation organization.
If anyone has any advice, I'm all ears...
-dq
Thanks Mike...
Not a bad idea, using switches, but Godbout thought about that 23 years ago!
;o) This EconoROM board has 4 banks of chips already, switch selectable.
You can have any one or a combination enabled at once, and set the addresses
individually. So I could easily use four 2732's or whatever, one for each
bank. Though adding further switches would allow even larger chips to be
fully used.
Joel A. Weder
jweder(a)telusplanet.net
403-556-4020
At 03:03 PM 6/11/01 -0700, you wrote:
>
>I would like to be able to schedule a web browser to go to a site, capture
>the page,
>and save it to a file automatically once an hour. Off hand, I don't of
>anything that will do this; any ideas? Thanks.
unix: cron + wget
I've bought pieces of systems instead of entire
systems too, and I was happy to find the one or two
oddball pieces that I did find. (The most memorable
one was a 64KB L2 cache module for an older Compaq
desktop.)
However, the thing that bugs me about this particular
seller and this set of auctions is that I got the
impression that this was a perfectly working machine,
and that it was just cut up for parts because even if
only two parts are sold, that's worth more than entire
systems typically go for. What do you think happens
to the parts that don't sell? Maybe they'll wind up
on Ebay again, or more likely, they'll get junked.
The seller made their money on the first overpriced
part they sold, so there is no incentive to take care
of the rest of the parts that don't sell.
Think about entropy for a minute .. once the discrete
pieces are split, it's harder to re-aquire them and
reassemble the machine.
So anyway, as a collector I'm a little miffed by it.
The seller's response wasn't rude - or at least is was
a rude as my unsolicited advice. ;-) As a capitalist,
it's the best route. I tend to side with the
collectors more, so I'm a little sad to see a machine
cut up for parts like this. The motherboard really
should have been kept with the keyboard I/R receiver -
they're not really discrete parts. That just shows me
the person doesn't know about the machine, nor cares.
And pity the buyer that doesn't know the going price
for a standard PCjr is about $10. This guy is selling
indivual pieces for $6.99 or so.
I'll crawl back to my hole now. ;-)
Mike
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On Fri, 8 Jun 2001 12:26:09 -0400 "John Allain" <allain(a)panix.com>
writes:
> there. I dropped a Cipher880MTU from 6' once. It did a China
> syndrome through the table below it down to the concrete.
> This computer stuff is pretty dangerous.
> (At least in Earth's gravity <g>)
Or in California where the damned ground won't hold still . . .:^)
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> The cool games mainly came out of Minnesota, especially from the state
> high school cyber mainframe (MECC, Minnesota Educational Computer
Consortium).
> Empire, Sceptre of Goth, many combat games, etc, etc. On the University
> cybers, we had Karnath, and other similar multi-user mazes of monsters.
> And of course if you could wrangle access to the real CDC systems downtown
> at the corporate headquarters, you could play Avatar.
My first exposure to MECC was post-college; MECC had converted a huge
base of BASIC programs to run on one of those Wang suitcase-portable
BASIC systems; I had to convert the programs to run under Primos'
BASIC/VM.
> The university wrote some really nice compilers. MNF (Minnesota Fortran)
> and a really nice Pascal compiler, both with Post-Mortem Dump facilties
> that made debugging code very easy. When the program aborted, it would
> print a table explaining what function/subroutine name it aborted on,
> what line number, and a printout of variable names and values. If i recall,
> it would also print the source code line as well. The Pascal came with a
> very extensive set of library routines, I even convinced em to add some
> functions to allow me to properly manipulate direct-access files for
> a communication system I wrote for a game i never completed, though it
> was later added to someone elses game.
Yeah, MNF was pretty cool, I wish I still had my manual!
However, I didn't know they spun a Pascal compiler; strange, I was a
PUG Charter member...
Regards,
-doug q
Dear All
Hello,
I am based in Namibia and work for the Southern African Development
Community (SADC) through UK based development aid to assist in data
Management.
I seek your advice in rescuing some data which is important for World
Climate studies and Namibia's economy.
I will try to keep this concise- the details are all through 2nd/3rd hand
contact and sketchy:
In 1990 Namibia gained independance from South Africa.
A group of inexperienced Namibians inherited 8 cartridge tapes, allegedly
for a DG30 which have subsequently been lost (many have tried to find them,
they are gone). A copy of the tapes exists in South Africa. There are 8
tapes and no machines to run them on either in SA or here. Attempts have
been made to read them by fisheries scientists in France which failed (I do
not know the details).
As far as I can ascertain a DG30 is a Data General Desktop model DG
014-000767-01 (???) I know nothing about these machines and would appreciate
some links.
The tapes were written in 1988. They contain data in a 'datasensitive file'
(whatever that means) with 80 characters per record and fixed record length
files.
Why are they impt? They contain data from fisheries activities in the
environmentally chaotic Benguela current region for between 1950-1987 for
impt pelagic fish species (sardine). Getting this data into a more usable
format will enable;
1. A better understanding of fish-environmental interactions in the face of
global climate change and human impacts.
2. Provide an increased time series for fisheries modelling, thereby
assisting in developing Namibias economy (of which Fisheries is the 2nd most
impt). The sardine stock is currently at an all time low and employment has
suffered.
3. could potentially improve protein supply to central africa.
If anyone knows how this v.impt data could be rescued I would be grateful.
Please contact me below.
Richard
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