Hi,
I've got a PS/2 keyboard (IBM keyboards were the best thing to happen to
PC keyboard IMHO, apart from the first one) but unfortunatly the cable is
going on this one. I was wondering if anyone would have such a thing as a
replacement cable (silly flat connector at one end to PS2 at the
other) :&)
-- Matt
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Heh.. I once personally passed 7,000 sheets per day through a
III for four days straight. One jam, one swap of the cartridge, and
a quick swipe with a cleaning cloth to kill the dust.
Greatest, most bullet-proof printer I've ever used, with a slight
exception for an old Pitney Bowes laser.. I still prefer them, to the
point of refusing a HP4 in trade for it..
Jim
On Wednesday, August 15, 2001 11:14 PM, Richard Erlacher
[SMTP:edick@idcomm.com] wrote:
>
> passes self
> test and also prints cleanly. It has 85k sheets through it, though.
> My two
> 10-year old (got 'em new) LJIII's have about 15k sheets through them,
> combined.
> > > Most assemblers haven't got a PRINT statement, so, no, I don't think so.
>
> > Depends upon the environment. Under AmigaOS you have RawDoFmt(), which
is
> > part of Exec and available to Assembly language programmers (and it works
> > similar to C's printf()). Under MS-DOS you have INT 21h, funtion 9, which
> > prints a text string (ended by a `$'). But all you really need is a way
to
> > print out characters, leaving printing of numeric values as a programming
> > exercise.
>
> Besides, why not steal such stuff from BASIC ROM? On the C64, print a string
> from memory by setting A/Y to the localtion and jsr $ab1e, and use the
routine
> at $bdcd that LIST uses to print line numbers for 16-bit unsigned int.
This is the kind of thing on the PC that I was ranting about...
C64, my dog ain't in that fight...
Oh well...
-dq
One PC to fill the buffer, print bridge from a pair of AS/400.
One secretary watching over it, then the night IS guy.
Y2K BS, we were printing every line of in-house code on
the machines.
Really got off on telling the IS veep we had three million lines
of legacy code tho.. Thought he was about to soil his Brooks
Brothers..
Jim
On Thursday, August 16, 2001 12:27 AM, Richard Erlacher
[SMTP:edick@idcomm.com] wrote:
> It's good to know that some LJ3's hold up that well. If you pass the
> rated 8
> ppm through them you only have time time for 11520 sheets in 24
hours.
>
> 7000/11520 is pretty busy, representing over 14.5 hours of constantly
> full
> utilization. Somebody must have stood there to refill the tray while
> 3-4
> computers kept the buffer full. I'd say you were geting your money's
> worth
> during that timespan.
>
> I don't like the later laser printers either, though they don't cost
> as much as
> they once did. I have an Okidata OL-1200 which emulates an HP4
pretty
> well, and
> prints a genuine 12 ppm at 600 DPI, and somewhat faster in text-only.
> It has
> the advantage that you can refill the toner reservoir yourself.
>
> Dick
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jim Tuck" <technos(a)crosswinds.net>
> To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 9:55 PM
> Subject: RE: ancient laserjets
>
>
> > Heh.. I once personally passed 7,000 sheets per day through a
> > III for four days straight. One jam, one swap of the cartridge, and
> > a quick swipe with a cleaning cloth to kill the dust.
> >
> > Greatest, most bullet-proof printer I've ever used, with a slight
> > exception for an old Pitney Bowes laser.. I still prefer them, to
> > the
> > point of refusing a HP4 in trade for it..
> >
> > Jim
On August 15, Bob Stek wrote:
> If it's a Calera board, it was designed by our own Jim Battle (come on
> out and take a bow, Jim!).
Kick ass! Great job, Jim! I was really impressed with that board.
It did a wonderful job, and seemed very well-designed.
> Semi-OT Small World Dept. - In 1987 I used a Palantir OCR unit (5 68000
> CPU's and 2MB ROM code) to convert all 60 Sherlock Holmes stories into
> machine readable ASCII format (sold several hundred copies of 'An
> Electronic Holmes Companion.') Soon after, Palantir was bought by
> Calera, and Jim Battle designed the ASIC for their board. Nearly 10
> years later I hook up with Jim Battle when I send him a copy of the Sol
> User's Manual, and he remembers having heard about this guy who used the
> Palantir to scan the Holmes stories!
Interesting...the Calera board and software that I used created
".pda" files...for "Palantir Document Architecture".
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Laurel, MD
Gee, I dunno-- From the archetecture, it looks like it was built in the
early 20th
century, but that's just a guess.
OB Classic:
WHen I lived in Baltimore (in 1980), I used to be a field service droid
for a local
business machine company (now defunct). We were totally floored when
we unpacked the first 'Winchester' drive we ever sold to one of our CADO
customers.
A whopping 10Mb on an 18-inch platter. "Ten MILLION bytes!" by boss
exclaimed,
in sheer disbelief.
Those *were* the days . . . .
On Wed, 15 Aug 2001 15:19:35 -0400 Eric Chomko <chomko(a)greenbelt.com>
writes:
Yes, yes, you can see the Bromo Seltzer tower from Camden Yards as well.
But what year was it built?
Eric
Hello, all:
Does anyone have a pointer to an on-line version of the Intel 8080
datasheet? Before I begin to scan mine for posting, I thought that I'd
check. Thanks.
Rich
Rich Cini
Collector of classic computers
Build Master for the Altair32 Emulation Project
Web site: http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/~rcini/classiccmp/
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If it's a Calera board, it was designed by our own Jim Battle (come on
out and take a bow, Jim!).
Semi-OT Small World Dept. - In 1987 I used a Palantir OCR unit (5 68000
CPU's and 2MB ROM code) to convert all 60 Sherlock Holmes stories into
machine readable ASCII format (sold several hundred copies of 'An
Electronic Holmes Companion.') Soon after, Palantir was bought by
Calera, and Jim Battle designed the ASIC for their board. Nearly 10
years later I hook up with Jim Battle when I send him a copy of the Sol
User's Manual, and he remembers having heard about this guy who used the
Palantir to scan the Holmes stories!
Bob Stek
Saver of Lost Sols
> Douglas Quebbeman skrev:
>
> >Seriously, what's a demo programmer? A programmer who writes
> >only demo software? As in mock-ups? Prototypes?
>
> A demo is a demonstration, showing off your programming/gfx/music talent.
> The demo crews arrange demo parties where they display their demos and win
> prices. It's all about pushing the limits of what's possible on a computer.
> Still, I doubt that Doug would like demo programmers. They're usually all
> quick'n'dirty, not a trace of the kind of academic programming practices
which
> Doug seems to prefer.
What I don't like is dog-and-pony shows, too much sturm und drang.
I *have* developed prototypes, and told the boss to keep the client
as far away from seeing it as humanly possible. Let the marketing
people suck the money out of the vulture capitalists, no felching for me.
Maybe you're talking about programming contests? If so, you're right,
I never liked them; and like multiple-choice tests, which basically
test your ability to take tests, programming contests basically
demonstrate your ability to demonstrate and to participate in contests,
neither of which interest me.
Regards,
-doug q
My First 'Nix box was a 16..... :)
At 12:27 PM 8/15/01 -0400, you wrote:
>On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Claude.W wrote:
>
> > I have fanilly gotten around to checking this model II/expansion box that
> > was saved from garbage truck.
> >
> > Very clean, no crt burn and a missing keyboard problem that was solved by
> > Hans Franke sending one he had all the way from Germany!
> >
> > Id like to show this thing off a bit more then just turning it on and
> seeing
> > ask for a disk....I dont think Ill be able to boot this from 5.25" 1.2M
> > drives connected to this...
> >
> > The unit came with a single 8" diskette that does not boot (written
> > "accounts receivable"). I dont know if its the floppy drive that is bad or
> > its not a bootable diskette or....internal 8" floppy drive looks "alive"
> > anyways...
> >
> > So I am asking if anyone as a easy way of making an 8" boot disk in this
> > situation or would be nice enough to provide me with one.
> >
> > Id like to get at least one. Better would be one of each OS this thing ran
> > and a few softs.
> >
> > I have a fairly large "for trade/giveaway" list of witch you could pick
> > something to thank you for the troubles...
> >
> > Thanks
> > Claude
> > http://www.members.tripod.com/computer_collector
>
>Well, I'm hurt. :-)
>
>You should have come to me first. I have a Model 16 (two actually, but
>one is jsut for parts.) I have TRSDOS, TRSDOS-II, TRSDOS-16 (which you
>can't run) and both the Z80 and 68K versions of UCSDPascal. Come to
>think of it, I also have Pickles & Trout CPM around here somewhere.
>Oh wait, I also have Xenix for the Model-16. What a collection.
>
>So, you want a couple of Model-16's with all the stuff that goes with them??
>One of these days the list will get big enough for you to make the trip
>down here to pick this stuff up. :-)
>
>bill
>
>--
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