test-drb August 2001

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by Lee.Davison＠merlincommunications.com

Hi Adrian, >> In order to stimulate conversation: Does anyone have a Commodore 8032 >> mainboard in known working condition that they'd be willing to part with? >> I don't have a mainboard but can probably fix yours for you. Where in the UK are you? I'm in Shropshire but travel a fair bit (if infrequently). >> I've recently acquired an 8032-SK, but the CPU is dead, two ROMs are >> missing, and even adding known working replacements is not enough to breath >> life back into this poor wee beastie. So it's got to be a heart/lung/brain >> transplant for it - for now, at least. > If you have a complete set of known good ROMs for this model it shouldn't be a problem to fix. Would it need to be fixed with NOS components or would you be willing to accept modern replacements for some parts? Cheers, Lee. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- This email is intended only for the above named addressee(s). The information contained in this email may contain information which is confidential. The views expressed in this email are personal to the sender and do not in any way reflect the views of the company. If you have received this email and you are not a named addressee please delete it from your system and contact Merlin Communications International IT Department on +44 20 7344 5888. _____________________________________________________________________ This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service. For further information visit http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp or alternatively call Star Internet for details on the Virus Scanning Service.

23 years, 4 months

Amiga 500 and stuff to good home

by Glenatacme＠aol.com

Hi Jim -- > I have an Amiga 500 with monitor, extra floppy drive, 500K memory card > and 4 boxes of software. Also have a Panasonic dot matrix printer - all > vintage 1985 - and all works. I have several of the kernel manuals too. >See the attached photos. Note the original boxes. Where? What photos?!? >I'm about to toss everything into the trash unless there is someone >interested in collecting it, or even using for spare parts. I'll pack >up and split the shipping cost (from Fairfax, VA) with anyone in the US > who wants it. > Please let me know if anyone's interested by September 8th. I'll take it, and put it to good use. Please DO NOT REPLY TO THE ABOVE ADDRESS. Reply to acme_ent(a)bellsouth.net Thanks -- Glen 0/0

23 years, 4 months

The subject at hand is Classic Computers

by Glenatacme＠aol.com

Hey Group -- I'm not entirely innocent when it comes to off topic posts, but I was flamed early and often and decided that the best course of action -- if I wanted to remain a list member -- was to keep 95% of my posts on-topic. 95% OFF-topic seems to be the ideal for some members of this list, which is to the detriment of the list in general. We're here to rag-chew old computers. More below: R.D. Davis wrote: > Hmmm... interesting how criticizing the Cheif Politicrat of the U.S. > triggered this. Surely a highy unlilely thing to happen, but I'll ask > anyway: did g. dubya bushbooger's SS troopers get to someone and > demand that we stop criticizing the pugnacious little prat? > Fortunately I don't have a soundcard in this system so I can't hear > "Hail to the Twit" being played... Dang, I thought algore was the one > who wanted censorship; apparently they're both controlled by the same > puppetmasters. Really, R.D., find yourself a newsgroup to sort this out in. You're sucking up (free!) bandwidth and taking up everyone's time with your OT posts. TANG. Sellam Ismail replied: > YOU ARE AN ASS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sellam, this may very well be true. I know I am frustrated with the way the list has been shanghied, but even asses have a right to post here AS LONG AS THEY STAY ON TOPIC! BTW I think your ideas -- 4 OT posts and kill the thread, etc. -- are very appropriate considering the gross number of OT posts during the last year. Just my 2 pesos worth -- Glen 0/0

23 years, 4 months

new find...

by healyzh＠aracnet.com

> > They're a sweet system, but for those of us that need a more expandable > > system the towers are still the only way to go. OTOH, the rumoured next > > generation iMac is supposed to have a LCD display. Now that sounds > > interesting! Hopefully they make it like the 20th (or was it 25th) > > Anniversary Mac. > > I hope you mean like the 20th Anniversary's case, not the system board > (which sucked serious eggs). Obviously like the case, the system board would be a seriuos step backwards :^) Zane

23 years, 4 months

Commodore Stuff For Sale

by r_beaudry＠hotmail.com

>>One important note is that this is NOT a "first come, first served" sale. >>In order to have some fairness to the international and digest members of >>the list, if I get more people interested in an item than I have on hand, I >>will throw names into a hat and pick randomly. > >Have one of our distinguished assembly programmers write you a program to >randomly pick names. <grin> > Actually, isn't there some Apple II BASIC program running about that was recently used to pick some obscure contest winner?? :-) :-) Perhaps I could use that?? <heh heh heh ...>

23 years, 4 months

"hello world program"

by west＠tseinc.com

The "hello world" discussion got me thinking... how short could it be in Assembler... Here's an example in Pick assembler (aka reality/microdata, general automation zebra, adds mentor, Ultimate, etc.).... FRAME 504 SRA R14,MSG LOOP WRITE R14 INC R14 BCU R14,X'FF',LOOP HALT MSG EQU * TEXT C'HELLO WORLD',X'FF' It's been YEARS since I worked with this instruction set, but I believe that the above would turn into 11 words or 22 bytes total. In practice, HALT would be inconsiderate to other users, I seem to recall the gracefull termination back to the TCL-I processor was "ENT MD999" but that's not a primitive and takes more instructions ;) If memory serves, none of the above are macros, they are all actual instructions. Of course, if you're allowed to use system routines, then it can be done in significantly less instructions (in userland at least) with FRAME 504 BSL PRINT MSG EQU * TEXT C'HELLO WORLD',X'FF' HALT Of course, this example isn't indicative of the number of instructions executed because it calls system services to do it's job (like dos's INT 21H I believe it is). Jay West

23 years, 4 months

new find...

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

On August 21, Zane H. Healy wrote: > > I want a G4 cube, just can't justify the expense right now....maybe in a > > few months, probably be hard to find then. > > They're a sweet system, but for those of us that need a more expandable > system the towers are still the only way to go. OTOH, the rumoured next > generation iMac is supposed to have a LCD display. Now that sounds > interesting! Hopefully they make it like the 20th (or was it 25th) > Anniversary Mac. 20th. And hopefully it'll be more of a NEW design. The 20th anniversary Mac is mostly Powerbook 5300 hardware. -Dave -- Dave McGuire Laurel, MD

23 years, 4 months

Room for Collections

by vance＠ikickass.org

Alrighty then. How I define "plenty" in this context is my warehouse space. It has an industrial service, at 416V three-phase. The industrial complex has it's own dedicated tap to a substation transformer. I am not sure how big my service is, but it's *B*I*G*. Of course, I pay an arm and a leg. Peace... Sridhar On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, James Rice wrote: > I have two receptacles (duplex) on each of the three walls that have > computers. Each is served by it's own dedicated 20a 120vac circuit. So > I could draw 120 amps at 127v (our transformer is tapped a little high) > in that room. If I needed 240v, I could drop a circuit. My room is > directly over the garage where the breaker panel is located. I was an > electrican for 23 years in my previous life. > > James

23 years, 4 months

MuMath/MuSimp (was: non HP RPN calculators (was: Re: SemiOT: Mourning for

by dittman＠dittman.net

The first advanced math package I remember using on a microcomputer was MuMath/MuSimp. Whatever happened to it? -- Eric Dittman dittman(a)dittman.net School Zones: Man's attempt to thwart natural selection.

23 years, 4 months

DECstation 3100 up for grabs in Los Angeles area (fwd)

by vcf＠siconic.com

Please reply to original sender. Reply-to: pavlin <pavlin(a)usc.edu> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 16:03:40 -0700 From: pavlin <pavlin(a)usc.edu> Cc: pavlin(a)aludra.usc.edu Subject: Looking to donate DECstation 3100 Hello, I have a working DECstation 3100. It has a color monitor (17" visual area I think), hard disk, keyboard, mouse, some cables and manuals (I can send you more detailed information if you need it). FYI, I live in Downtown Los Angeles, CA. However, I am not willing to ship the computer. Please let me know if you are interested in it, and if you have someone to pick-it-up >from my place. Thanks, Pavlin Radoslavov pavlin(a)usc.edu -- Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org

23 years, 4 months

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