test-drb August 2001

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by mcguire＠neurotica.com

On August 26, Wayne M. Smith wrote: > I was looking inside my ProLog M-900 and noticed a gold and > ceramic chip labeled "INS4004D" socketed next to two i4002s. > Does anyone know if National Semi second sourced the i4004? > It also has the number "530" on the bottom which I suppose > is a lot no. > > For those with GUI browsers, here is the best I could do > with my camera: > > http://home.earthlink.net/~wmsmith/ProLog4004.jpg Hmm, it sure looks like it! -Dave -- Dave McGuire Laurel, MD

22 years, 7 months

Central Florida Computer Junk Fest !

by steven_j_robertson＠hotmail.com

Louis, Welcome aboard. Joe's and several other collectors are in Orlando. I live in the Ft. Lauderdale area but will be in Orlando that weekend. Once we get a little feedback, we'll set a time and place. Is Saturday September 8th OK for you? Steverob >From: "Louis Schulman" <louiss(a)gate.net> >Reply-To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org >To: "classiccmp-classiccmp.org" <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>, "joe" ><rigdonj(a)intellistar.net> >CC: "Glenatacme-aol.com" <Glenatacme(a)aol.com>, >"musicman38-mindspring.com" <musicman38(a)mindspring.com> >Subject: Re: Central Florida Computer Junk Fest ! >Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2001 13:25:03 -0400 (EDT) > >Hey! I am in Tampa! My wife says: You have way too much computer >junk! Get rid of it! > >So, count me in! You guys are in Orlando? > >Louis Schulman > >On Wed, 08 Aug 2001 09:15:11 -0400, joe wrote: > ># ># Steve Robertson said "Why don't you send out an invitation to the >#"Central Florida Computer Junk Fest". _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp

22 years, 7 months

Curricula (was: Assembly vs. Everything Else

by ken＠seefried.com

Jumping in late, I know, but when I was at Georgia Tech (mid- to late-80s), we were taught x86 assembly. There was a real focus on the concept that "look folks, there's an awful lot going on under the hood that you might want to be aware of when you write that Pascal (or C, or Lisp, or whatever) program and the details matter". For that lesson, x86 asm is a pretty good, if painful, object lesson. Much of GaTech was like that. Oh, yeah...and we learned Modula-2 from Kim Kings book for undergrad OS. Ken

22 years, 7 months

terminal inventiveness (was Re: an odd question

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

> Fairly early examples are: > > 2/70 TEC inc. model 410/415, 420/425, 430/435 > > 4/70 Applied Digital Data Systems (ADDS) Consul 920 My old friend Ray Borrill's first company... > 5/70 Univac Uniscope 100 > > 10/70 Hazeltine 2000 Ah, one of my favorites, used magnetic core for the memory; however, it would usually lose a byte or two on either powering down or back on again... -dq

22 years, 7 months

Zenith

by awc＠dryden.lakeheadu.ca

Hi All, I have a Zenith H-89 based computer control system which needs few ICs. Any body know place to buy these? D765AC C8208 - CPU? C8087-1 WD2123-PL - I guess western digital disk controller. Thanks for any info. anil

22 years, 7 months

8" Floppies

by vance＠ikickass.org

For those who asked, I need DSDD 8" Soft-Sectored Disks. Peace... Sridhar

22 years, 7 months

symphony for dot matrix printers

by acme_ent＠bellsouth.net

This is fantastic -- thanks for sharing. Being a musician, this conjures up all sorts of ideas for using computer sounds to make music. I have a recording studio hung off my main non-classic box, so I can add this to my List of Unfinished Projects. Some useable sounds might be: (printers, of course) hard drive spinup & chatter crt charge & discharge floppy drive stepper motors ps fans cpu cooling fans cd drives (opening, closing, and spinning) scanner sounds tape drives ASR 33s PAC readers card readers So what did I miss (classic or non)? Glen 0/0 ---------- > From: James Carter <james(a)cs.york.ac.uk> > > i don't know whether this has been sent to the list before, but it > tickled me. most of the "performers" appear to be classic, so it is on > topic. > > http://www.sat.qc.ca/the_user/dotmatrix/en/intro.html

22 years, 7 months

Nabu Computers Available...

by hardwire＠ptd.net

This might be of interest to somebody here (hopefully)... Surplus Traders (www.73.com) currently has 35 Nabu computers for $29.00 a pop, plus shipping. Normally they do bulk sales, but they will sell the Nabu individually. (Search for item CR356.) I picked one up a while ago, and mine was still 'new', in the box, with a factory seal. Then again, since this surplus, it might be best to verify that the units are 'new' if that's important to you. Unfortunately, I haven't really toyed with the Nabu hardware too much (yet), and if anyone else has, I'd love to hear about it. Either way, these machines are certainly an interesting part of computing history. Here's a small blurb about the Nabu: http://ieee.ca/millennium/telidon/telidon_nabu.html

22 years, 7 months

PDP 11/34 work party

by KenzieM＠sympatico.ca

Well this is the weekend that I'll try and get the PDP 11/34 running as well as the AS400's in the garage. Anyone who will be in the Ottawa area is welcome to come and help. I'd like to see some signs of life before packing the magnetic media into the basement for the winter. Mike Collector of Vintage Computers (www.ncf.ca/~ba600)

22 years, 7 months

DEC rack header plates

by mrbill＠mrbill.net

Anybody know a source of DEC rack header panels (the maroon/red ones) with or without logo, or for the black "cover panels"? I've got a maroon/red pdp11 header panel, and a "blank" maroon/red one, but not the black panels to cover the rest of the cabinet.. Bill -- Bill Bradford mrbill(a)mrbill.net Austin, TX

22 years, 7 months

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test-drb August 2001