I was just contacted by a company that is replacing their Wang computer
system. They are looking for someone that would be interested in it.
However they want to strip the data on it first. I know nothing about
the Wang system, so I would have to strip the hard drive. However if it
was to be used by another, the operating system would be of value to be
left. Do you know anyone that may be interested in the Wang system and
that would know how to remove the data without a strip.
Thank you
Mary Christensen
mary(a)sys4.com
Hello, all:
Well, I'm bored again and am looking at the Altair emulator code.
There's room for enhancement in the line printer support code to support
control characters of certain printers.
So, here's the question. If I were a purchaser of an Altair in 1977,
which printer would I have purchased? What control code would it have
interpreted? Were the early printers sophisticated enough to recognize
"bold", "underline" or "italic"?
Maybe instead of sending the printer output to a text file, I can
create an HTML file on the fly that supports the formatting codes with tags.
Rich
I've been tinkering with the Digilog computer that I found a while back.
I found out that the CPU and memory cards are made by Gespac and that the
cards (3U form factor) meet the G-96 bus spcification. Is anyone familar
with the Gespac stuff or the G-96 bus spec? (FWIW I also found that the
hard drive in the Digilog won't spin up so that means I probably won't be
able to recover the OS :-(
Joe
Ethan Dicks wrote:
>Has anyone here successfully done this? I have the VAXen, I have a
ROM
>burner, I have the patches and I have a complete 32-bit file with
the
>patches applied. My uVAX-2000s are so old that I cannot apply the
patch
>to what I have. My problem is that I have four ROMs and am not
sure which
>ROM goes in which socket. Does anyone have a map of which sockets
>correspond to which bytes?
The ROMs go like this:
31...24 23...16 15...8 7...0
--- jump code --------------- 2004.0000
SYS_TYPE (0400.0000) 2004.0004
VERS VERS VERS VERS 2004.0008 (same in each EPROM)
0x03 0x02 0x01 0x00 2004.000C
Sadly I don't have a printset so I cannot pin
it down much better than this. The chances are
high that the ROMs go in order with the Exx numbers
assigned to each slot, so you only have to
decide increasing or decreasing order.
Normally I would whip the top off a machine
and just tell you which ones go where but this
is a uv2000 we are talking about here ... :-)
Antonio
Here are a few links for those who may need to brush up on their Apple IIc
Applesoft Basic programming skills... ;-D
You know who you are!!
http://www.apple2.org/faq/FAQ.applesoft.html
It will even show you how to access text files from within Basic!
Cool beans, eh?!! :)
Enjoy!
Bryan Pope
Lucky person! I only ever "rented" a Veccy from a local electronics shop for a few days at a time, me being a devout G7000/Odyssey owner at the time (and heavily into LCD handhelds/tabletops - as am I still!).
Keeping your original machine is SO much more rewarding I think - getting something back that you loved as a kid but sold is cool, but digging your ACTUAL machine from the loft is way better. I still kept my original "Ball" Nintendo Game n Watch (the first on out of the series) so thats pretty special to me. And my first ever Pong!
The Lightpen and Imager (and the art cart) are really sought after - look after and enjoy!!!
Shaun
>
> On Thu, 26 Jul 2001 19:38:34 0100 Shaun Stephenson
> <marino13(a)btinternet.com> wrote:
> > > I'm not normally interested in games, but the Vectrex is one console I
> > > spent real money on. Reason ? It's got the right CPU (68A09) and a vector
> > > display. Vector displays are fun...
> >
> > Bloody great machine and in good nick the screen is incredible.
> > Wish I had one boxed
> > :(
>
> I have a boxed Vectrex that I bought from Hamleys (big
> London toy-shop, in Regents Street) in 1984 for 50 quid.
> I went down there on the back of a friend's motorbike, and
> carried the Vectrex home the same way. Still works, and I
> have the light pen and most of the games and overlays. I
> know someone who has the 3D Imager, too!
>
> --
> John Honniball
> Email: John.Honniball(a)uwe.ac.uk
> University of the West of England
>
Greetings,
Yesterday, thanks to Tim Shoppa, I collected some 8" SMD drives: a
couple of Fujitsu M2333 (337MB) and M2382 (1GB each!) drives and an
Emulex SC03 controller. Its my understanding that I might not be able
to use these large drives with an SCO2 or SC03 controller, so, I'm
wondering what I need in order to use them with a PDP-11/73.
--
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All Rights Reserved an unnatural belief that we're above Nature &
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http://www.rddavis.net beliefs and to justify much human cruelty.
I'm looking around for a VMS setup at the moment, but space is tight(as
always!). Can anyone offer suggestions for a smallish (desktop/under desk)
machine that's suitable for running VMS on? My only experience with VMS is
10+ years ago, version 4.something I think. It ran on an 11/780 cluster,
kind of out of my league :-) Any suggestions, pointers to websites etc?
TIA
Al.
In a message dated 7/29/2001 11:46:32 PM Central Daylight Time,
ljcst18+(a)pitt.edu writes:
> Hello All,
>
> I was just curious to know what was the oldest computer any of you
> own. The oldest one I actually own is an apple II+ (1978?) and the oldest
> one I am restoring is a HP 2114B circa 1969.
>
>
Let's see. I've got an OSI C1P, an H-89A and TRS80 model 1 with and without
built in keypad. I don't know which one is the oldest though.
Depending on your definitions, the oldest computer I have
is a Mathatronics Mathatron model 4-24, serial number 00133,
circa 1964. While this machine only deals with numbers, it
has multiple storage registers, is programmable, and can do decision-based branching. It also had Input/Output capability.
I also have a Mathatron model 8-48, which dates from 1965
(it has more memory). I've been in touch with one of the
designers and the design dates from 1963. Unfortunately,
neither of my machines is functional.
Read all about it on the Desktop Calculators section of
my webiste at http://www.calcmuseum.com
The oldest full-blown computer I have is a HP2100S.
classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org wrote:
> Hello All,
I was just curious to know what was the oldest computer any of you
own.
