test-drb July 2001

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by vcf＠siconic.com

I'm working on retrieving a large haul of Osborne stuff from the wife of a former Osborne engineer who passed away earlier this year. Among his stuff is included the following radio gear, and I was wondering if anyone here was interested in any of it. The lady lives a good 4-5 hours from me and I plan to make the trip sometime in the next couple of weekends. I can bring back whatever radio gear anyone expresses an interest in and have it shipped out to them. I don't know what the lady wants for this stuff, so include an offer. She justs wants it to be out of her garage as she is moving, so any reasonable offer will probably be fine. Because of the long drive and my shortage of time these days, I'll want 1.5 * shipping for my trouble on top of your offer. The descriptions are terse so if you have any questions about any of the gear, let me know and I'll try to get answers for you. I don't think she will be able to answer any heavily technical questions. Here is what's available: Navy ships transmitter/receiver put in service in 1944 made by Stromberg in England Navy amplifier same era WWII Tank Receiver/transmitter made by Weston Navy Signal corp freq meter with last calibration manual 8' Altec cabinet with tube type modules I have no idea what this stuff is beyond what the descriptions say. Please get questions to me within the next couple days so I can send them out to her all at once. Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org

23 years, 5 months

DEC$WINDOWS and VCB-02 ..

by cmcmanis＠mcmanis.com

I thought that if I put a VCB-02 into my VAX that DEC$WINDOWS would automatically start up when it booted (when it recognized the console was a frame buffer). Unfortunately that is not the case. What is the secret here? Does anyone reading need a VCB-02 ? (less cab kit and cables?) --Chuck (who is working his way through his Q-bus board stash)

23 years, 5 months

IBM 604

by ecloud＠bigfoot.com

Interesting article here: http://www.ddj.com/columns/history/2001/0106hc/0106hc001.htm -- _______ Shawn T. Rutledge / KB7PWD ecloud(a)bigfoot.com (_ | |_) http://www.bigfoot.com/~ecloud kb7pwd(a)kb7pwd.ampr.org __) | | \________________________________________________________________

23 years, 5 months

may have found our friend shridar ayengar

by rhblake＠bigfoot.com

Saw a post from 7/6 on the PS/2 newsgroup and have sent a message to him. If anyone else is looking for him try this email address: sridhar(a)cloud9.net

23 years, 5 months

OT Celebration (Not intended to be offensive, possible humor)

by SUPRDAVE＠aol.com

WTF? can we get back on topic here? this is stupid. anyway, in my attempt to bring this back ontopic, I found a compaq portable II. other than the floppy drives, is there any difference between the II and III models? In a message dated 7/7/01 12:12:08 PM Eastern Daylight Time, edick(a)idcomm.com writes: << It's like recommending that a 120 TTon nuke on TelAviv or Damascus as a solution to middle-east strife. It would solve a number of problems. The bones of contention there, including the bulk of the world's oil supply would be essentially gone, (everything from Tehran to well past Cairo, including parts of Turkey, etc, would be under about a km of glass), thereby reducing the air pollution attributable to petroleum use, and it wouldn't be safe to go there for a couple of thousand years, so folks lucky enough to survive here on Earth would probably forget about that stuff. It's possible someone might come up with a solution more compatible with the interests of the folks who are central to the mid-east struggle, however, but this would certainly end the fighting. Dick ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sellam Ismail" <foo(a)siconic.com> To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org> Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2001 8:15 AM Subject: Re: OT Celebration (Not intended to be offensive, possible humor) > On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, R. D. Davis wrote: > > > Why aren't the citizens in the U.K. up in arms over this and bashing > > the cameras with rocks and doing other things to render them > > ineffective? Why aren't effigies of the politicians who caused this > > to happen being burned in the streets? Anyone with a few functional > > brain cells should realize that such a system can easily cause many > > problems for innocent people. > > They should get guns and shoot them down! Oops, Englanders aren't allowed > to own guns. > > Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org > > >> -- DB Young Team OS/2 old computers, hot rod pinto and more at: www.nothingtodo.org

23 years, 5 months

Need manual for DCS FDK2 floppy controller

by vcf＠siconic.com

I need the documentation for a Distributed Computer Systems FDK2 8" floppy disk controller (multi-bus). Might anyone here have this? If so, please reply to me directly. Thanks!! Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org

23 years, 5 months

Mannesmann Tally printer

by rigdonj＠intellistar.net

Does anyone have a manual for the MannesMann Tally MT 730 MobileWriter printer? I picked up a pile of them at a hamfest and they look like nice little printers but I have no instructions for them what so ever. Joe

23 years, 5 months

How much is a partial Lisa worth?

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

> > The former; these things are being bought up by Mac fans as > > part of the Mac's heritage. > > That's the only reason I'd have any interest in it. I remember playing > with a Lisa right about the time the 128K Mac showed up. My oldest Mac > is a 512Ke that my mother bought new, full-price as a 512K and paid to > upgrade (new ROMs, double-sided drive). My same exact experience... > I'm also a big Motorola 68K fan. One of my favorite jobs ever was hacking > COMBOARDs in assembly and C (8Mhz 68000 w/32K SRAM up to 2Mb DRAM). I'd worked with the IBM ARTIC card; it was 80186-based, but it would have been so much cooler and easier to program for had it been a 68k- based board. > > Honestly, in better times, I'd probably pay up to $250. These aren't > > those times... > > No kidding. The seller is a Mac shop that's closing its doors. Most of his > stuff is overpriced, so I assumed that this was too - he's asking $300. I > did pick up a couple of Asante boxy SCSI<->Ethernet adapters, complete with > docs, cables and software for $8, bare box only, $5. I want to turn an SE > or Plus into a localtalk gateway with that software from Apple's ftp site > that has been mentioned here once or twice. I've got one of those from another manufacturer; Nova or something similar. > I'll go back to the sale on Sunday and see what hasn't moved and offer the > guy about 20% of his asking prices on some stuff and see how bad he wants > to sell it. Sounds like a plan. Regards, -dq

23 years, 5 months

digital vax3300

by kees.stravers＠iae.nl

On 2001-07-07 robwill2(a)wxs.nl said to classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org >Hi, >Does anyone know where in the net I can see a picture of >this computer?? >Thanks, >Robert I've got a MicroVAX 3300 in my living room, here it is: http://home.iae.nl/users/pb0aia/cm/lroom.html Kees. -- Kees Stravers - Geldrop, The Netherlands - kees.stravers(a)iae.nl http://www.iae.nl/users/pb0aia/ My home page (old computers,music,photography) http://www.vaxarchive.org/ Info on old DEC VAX computers (Mirrors: http://vaxarchive.khubla.com/ and http://vaxarchive.sevensages.org/) Net-Tamer V 1.08.1 - Registered

23 years, 5 months

How much is a partial Lisa worth?

by ethan_dicks＠yahoo.com

I have the chance to pick up a Lisa CPU unit only. It has a 3.5" drive visible from the front, no cards visible from the outside (couldn't open the back to look in), and does not come with keyboard or mouse. On the back are a video out jack, two 25-pin serial connections, a reset button and an interrupt button. The power switch lights up and is next to the 1/4" keyboard jack. When I turn it on, the screen looks good and I can see it going through its paces. It complains that there is no keyboard. I have no idea how much one would cost, but I expect it's >$50. I do not know how to tell if has been "upgraded" to a Mac/XL or if it is original. What's a good price for most of a Lisa? -ethan ===== Visit "The Seventh Continent" http://penguincentral.com/penguincentral.html __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/

23 years, 5 months

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test-drb July 2001