test-drb July 2001

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NVRAM battery replacement (was Re: Thick Net Cable Terminator in Sydney Australia)

by ajp166＠bellatlantic.net

>was thinking about recycling one for a clock project (PIC or 8051 or mc68k >based, depending on which way I jump). Are there any components other than >the battery in the potted lid? i.e., can I just remove it entirely or >do I have to perform delicate surgery to seperate the front leads and solder >wires onto the front of the I.C. where the lid used to connect? Yes there are but finding the battery is easy with a small magnet as it's steel cased. then grind off the plastic in that area till you hit it. pry it out and add wires to another and your all set. I can do them in my sleep. Allison

24 years, 1 month

OT: Cheap cars (was: 1%...)

by rigdonj＠intellistar.net

At 06:49 PM 7/30/01 -0700, you wrote: > > > And where in the US (other than maybe a private track or open desert) > do you > > > do 190 mph? Lats time I bounced my speedo off the 150 peg in my 70 > > ...this country is full of egomaniacal cops who are too lazy, > > scared, or inexperienced to actually [gasp] CATCH CRIMINALS...so they > > bitch about how people drive instead. > >Don't they want to use molten iron for that? Never! They'd elimenate their source of revenue and they'd also run out of victums ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H er,ah offenders and then they'd have to go catch the violent criminals or find another line of work! Joe

24 years, 1 month

OT: Cheap cars (was: 1%...)

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

On July 30, Russ Blakeman wrote: > And where in the US (other than maybe a private track or open desert) do you > do 190 mph? Lats time I bounced my speedo off the 150 peg in my 70 Certain thinly-patrolled stretches of Route 95 between DC and Georgia. However I'll be the first to admit that I don't do that very often...this country is full of egomaniacal cops who are too lazy, scared, or inexperienced to actually [gasp] CATCH CRIMINALS...so they bitch about how people drive instead. > Roadrunner GTX in the way-out secluded desert (about 1978) I got nailed by a > state trooper and the fine kept me from buying gas for a few weeks. He > clocked me at 162 on radar, freshly cal'd. Nice to have that speed but it > really serves no purpose on the highways. "Serves no purpose" is an interesting concept. My grandmother (who was a VERY wise woman) taught me that the only NEEDS in life are to paying taxes and dying. Everything else is optional. -Dave -- Dave McGuire Laurel, MD

24 years, 1 month

Speech chips again

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

A few days ago there was some discussion of speech and sound chips, which prompted me to dig in the spares box and extract a TMS5220 speech processor and the ROM that goes with it, made by Texas Instruments. For those who don't know, this was a rather interesting speech processor: it worked by setting up digital filters to model certain characteristics of the human vocal tract, and then used those filters (dynamically adjusted) to turn white noise (simulating moving air) or other sounds into speech. The ROM didn't store digitised sound at all, instead it stored the information about what type of source to use and what filter parameters to set up. Hence it was not much use for anything except speech, but it did a pretty good job of that and used less memory than, say, a Digitalker did (I have a Digitalker chip set as well). The TMS5220 was most often used with special serial ROMs, and was used as the (optional) speech processor in the BBC Microcomputer -- that's why I have a couple of sets. It was also used in some arcade machines, in one if the Texas home micros (TI99/8?), one of the Coleco machines (I think), and an obscure British 68000-based machine called a uMicro 2000. Texas made a couple of standard vocabulary Phrase ROMs, and custom ones for particular pusposes. The arcade machines and BBC Micro used custom PHROMs, -- TMS6100NLL in the Beeb -- but one I have out of a uMicro 2000 has a generic part number: VM61002NL. I know that the first standard vocabulary ROM was type VM61001NL so I imagine what I have is another standard part. Alas, I can no longer find the data sheets for either the TMS5220 or the PHROMs, and a web search hasn't turned up anything useful. Texas' website no longer has any info on those devices, neither does the company who deal with their obsolete products. Does anyone have any information about these things? I'd like to see (or hear!) what's in the PHROM I've found. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

24 years, 1 month

Netscape Archive

by mjsnodgr＠rockwellcollins.com

Bill Pechter <pechter(a)bg-tc-ppp1287.monmouth.com>@classiccmp.org on 07/07/2001 06:52:50 AM Please respond to classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org Sent by: owner-classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org cc: Subject: Re: Ultrix Netscape? > There has been quite a lot of talk on the NetBSD/pmax list about an elusive > version of Netscape for Ultrix. Has anyone ever seen such a beast? All > indications I get from a Google search is that there never was an Ultrix port, > but people on the list claim otherwise. Any Ultrix gurus around here who know? > There probably was one in the Navigator 0.9 - 1.0 days... It appears, though that there's nothing older than 3.04 on the FTP site anymore... I'll have to check my old CD's and see if there was an Ultrix version. Meanwhile... why not compile mozilla? Bill --- Bill Gates is a Persian cat and a monocle away from being a villain in a James Bond movie -- Dennis Miller bpechter@shell.monmouth.com|pechter@pechter.dyndns.org ------------------------------------------------------------------ ftp://archive.netscape.com/pub/navigator (anonymous) has version 3.0. Last summer I was able to grab 2.x from here too. - M.S.

24 years, 1 month

US Tour

by Hans.Franke＠mch20.sbs.de

Since I will spend the next 7 weeks in the US, on a cross coutry tour, starting in Baltimore in about a week (sorry, due circumstances I will miss VCF East by 5 days :(), I'd love to hear some hints about places to visit. The rough schedule will touch MD, NY, CT, RI, PA, OH, IN, IL, KA, CO, WY, MT, ID, WA, OR, CA - or so. Any Ham fests, swap meets, etc ? Gruss H. -- VCF Europa 3.0 am 27./28. April 2002 in Muenchen http://www.vcfe.org/

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OT: Cheap cars (was: 1%...)

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

On July 30, Russ Blakeman wrote: > Your Porsche with a 2.0L does that type of flat out speed - me thinks much > of it's abilities are in both the timing and gearing as my Ranger p/u has a > 2.0 and 90 is pretty much it on the open road, but I could probably put your > Porsche on the back and carry it without problem. Of course my Ranger is > basically a Mazda with a different trim and other parts. Actually it's a 3.6L with a LOT of torque. Though I'm no motorhead, I udnerstand that two spark plugs and two ignition coils per cylinder helps quite a bit, as does the very weird tuned-induction system in the intake manifold. I drove a 6.6L FireChicken for several years...this [stock] 911 will blow its doors clean off, above OR below 100MPH. -Dave -- Dave McGuire Laurel, MD

24 years, 1 month

VMS setup

by healyzh＠aracnet.com

> Besides the various 3xxx and 4xxx series machines mentioned a > MicroVax2000 > is also a possible machine and by far one of the smallest. It will run > V5.4 and > if you tailor it V7.2 (disk space is limited to a MFM rd54 of some > 159mb). > > Versions of VMS out there worth considering V5.4, 6.2 and 7.2 are common. I'm going to have to disagree with Allison on this one. I strongly believe that a VAXstation/MicroVAX 2000 is not a good system in this case. There are two major problems that I see, both related to the disk interface. You're stuck with a MFM disk, all of which are getting very old, and you can't connect a CD-ROM. If you're only going to have one OpenVMS system, do yourself a favor and get one with real SCSI! Also, why V5.4? The preferred landing zone for V5.x is V5.5-2. Zane

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Cheap cars (was: 1%...)

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

> If I remember correctly, in race ready trim, the Cosworth > engine based on the aluminum Vega engine was good for roughly 300hp. > I forget what the civilized production version in the Cosworth Vega > put out. Around 1980 or so I had one of the automotive magazines > with a big write up on what Cosworth did to it. Pretty interesting > stuff. Based on the Vega's tendancy to self destruct, I'd saw few > were manufctured and far fewer actually remain. I'm pretty sure the Cosworth's used the older iron 4cyl block, not the first-stab-at-the-Alcoa process, which Porsche used quite successfully in the 928... -dq

24 years, 1 month

Intersil PDP-8 prototyping kit

by ajp166＠bellatlantic.net

The intercept was not the only one offered by intersil. The intercept was an expandable system where the supersampler was a single board thing to play with. Allison -----Original Message----- From: Tony Eros <tony.eros(a)machm.org> To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org> Date: Monday, July 30, 2001 5:01 PM Subject: Re: Intersil PDP-8 prototyping kit >Ahh, I'll have to keep my eye out for one. > >-- Tony > >At 12:03 PM 7/30/2001 -0700, you wrote: >>On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, Tony Eros wrote: >> >> > I saw something a while back on eBay about which I'd like to get more >> > information or possibly track down. It was a set of boards and (I >> > think) a prototyping panel from Intersil based on their PDP8-on-a-chip >> > technology. I don't remember a lot about it, but I think it might >> > even have had a connection for running the whole thing off a set of >> > batteries. I'd really like to learn a little more about this and >> > maybe even snag one. >> >>It's called the Intercil Intercept Jr. I have one in my collection. >> >>Here is a picture: >> >>http://online.sfsu.edu/~hl/c.InterceptJr.html >> >>Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival >>----------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- >>International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org >

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