> I'm using a Belkin that was given to me and it's fairly nice, but
> sometimes it doesn't register the keystrokes to switch screens (Scroll-lock
> twice, then it beeps, then another key sequence to select the machine).
> Also, there seems to be some problems using the mouse and Linux (but you may
> have to play around with that).
>
> -spc (The Belkins can also be chained together, which is nice if you
> have an insane number of machines 8-)
The Belkin I have seems to have had the ability to switch screens from the
keyboard 'burned out'. It quite working after I tried mulitiple times to
switch to a nonexistant system (oops).
Other than that I really like mine. I've used it with PC's and DEC Alpha's,
and the only problem I've had is with having the Alpha's keyboard plugged
in, the KVM would forget that there is a keyboard on the KVM, not just for
the Alpha, but for everything.
Still as nice as it is, it's even nicer to have multiple monitors (of course
that requires you to have the desktop realestate and the monitors.
Just stay away from the mechanical switches if you're going to be running
anything modernish. They seem to ghost unless you've a very slow refresh.
Zane
HI ,
Do anyone know where I can find an IBM 5150 pc for sale.
thanks rami.
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I have just been given a Model One (which I haven't got into yet,)
and a Model 4, along with some manuals and drives.
One of the external drives is a BASF Model 6106, would this by
chance be an early hard drive? It is built like a full height floppy, but
there is no place to put one! Any information on it would be much appreciated.
The Model 4 is suffering from a bad keyboard, (dead except for
reset button,) and is working with one borrowed from another Model 4. Does
anyone have information on it? It is not covered in the 4 technical
reference manual.
I haven't been able to get the 4 to recognize drive "1". I have
five full height floppies on hand, and all will work OK as drive "0", but
not as drive "1". I have checked the cable and it has the required missing
contacts, "12, 14, 32" for "0" and "10, 14, 32" for "1", but still no action.
I can't find any jumpers on the Texas Peripherals drives, am I
missing something?
Thanks
Charlie Fox
Chas E. Fox Video Productions
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With the new genetic engineering maybe we should genetically engineer and
breed programmers in categories.
1. Fast twitch, code before they think
2. Slow twitch, think then code
A. Accurate code on first try
B. Approximate code on first try
y. Mission critical code is goal
z. entertainment quality code is goal
I think I'll order a 2Az for my next child.
Intended to be humor, but I get acknowledgement, patent rights and a Nobel
Prize if it actually comes to pass.
Mike
Hey gang,
I recently found a small computer in a junkyard and was wondering if anyone
can help to identify it. All I got was the backplane and a handful of cards.
No disks, no cabinent, no power supply, and no markings on any of the cards.
The cards are approximately 4" x 5" and have a 56 pin edge connector with
.156" spacing. At first I thought it might be STD bus but, STD uses .125"
spacing so, that's not correct. Also the cards are smaller than STD and are
mounted "sideways" (long side has the edge connector).
The CPU card has a RCA 1802ACE processor, a 2M crystal oscillator, and some
glue. There are a couple of I/O cards, identifiable by the existance of
optoisolators on the cards. There's a ROM card populated with 8 x 2764's.
Not sure but, that seems like a *lot* of ROM for this system. There's also a
RAM card with a minimal amount of RAM and another card with a MC14034B
keyboard encoder.
I don't have any other 1802 stuff and would like to see if I could get it to
do anything. If anyone has any ideas as to what this might be, I'd
appreciate some info.
SteveRob
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> [[ and I doubt I could do it anymore, but I could *whistle* the characters
> Q & R into the handset while the modem was connected... Needless to say,
> back then that "talent" still didn't attract the chicks! ;-) ]]
I can still whistle a carrier into an acoustic coupler, and get it
to hold until my breath runs out... this is with an Anderson-
Jacobsen model...
BTW: the breath *does* run out faster now, than it used to...
-dq
Another request for help - contact him directly if you can assist.
Bill
----- Forwarded message from jjc(a)mac.com -----
From: jjc(a)mac.com
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 15:17:16 -0300
To: mrbill(a)pdp11.org
Subject: pdp11 stuff
Hi,
I have some RK05 and RL02 media that I need data from. I would be
glad to donate it to anyone who could retrieve the data. In addition, I
believe that I may have some original PDP 11/23 (and 03) manuals, and
miscellaneous non working parts. Please put me in contact with someone
who I can trust to retrieve my data.
John Christie
(Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS)
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Bill Bradford
mrbill(a)mrbill.net
Austin, TX
Can someone help this guy? Needs some 5.25" or 8" floppies formatted,
and is willing to pay... Mail him directly.
Bill
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From: "Eric Gilbert" <eric(a)gts-i.com>
To: "Bill Bradford" <mrbill(a)mrbill.net>
Subject: RE: pdp11
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 11:23:10 -0700
Hello Bill,
Thanks again for the help.
I have a business client that needs formated disks for a DEC machine used in
a production environment. He can't/won't use this machine for formating
disks, and I don't have a system. So I either need to buy a cheap machine
to format disks or pay someone to do it. My preferance is to send some
boxes of disks and money to somebody who can do it.
Eric Gilbert
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mrbill(a)mrbill.net
Austin, TX
Postscript
I seem to remember that the different things you could do with postscript
and display postscript were both very very CPU intensive. You needed to
have the full page in memory to manipulate the bitmap. Most laser printers
had so many milliseconds for the page commands to be interpreted, rasterized
and produced before timeout. We used Xerox 2700 and 3700's and found that
the with the timeout we ended up with 2 pages each with 1/2 of the image.
All of the connections were either parallel or serial and that was also a
limitation.
We tried early non-storage Tektronix terminals did graphics list processing.
Lots of primitives, simple fonts.
Later ones the memory prices were cheap enough to have an entire page.
Gordon Zaft wrote:
> Isn't that basically the idea of display Postscript? Whatever
>happened to that?
>
>GZ
>
>Gordon Zaft
>zaft(a)azstarnet.com
Mike
Hey,
I've recently come across a Rockwell AIM 65/40, which
is not the original AIM 65. This is a newer version
that came out a few years later, it seems.
Here are some pictures:
http://members.home.net/obsoletetechnology/AIM-65-40.html
Anyway, I can't find any information what-so-ever on
the web, and it comes without a user manual.
If anyone has any good information that I can add to
my website, please let me know!
Thanks!
Steve.
tosteve(a)yahoo.com
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