test-drb August 2001

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SemiOT: Mourning for Classic Computing (Was: RE: PeeCee turn s 20) [longish]

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

> And I'll bet you they could do it cheaper with a single IBM mainframe than > thousands of PCs. The power savings alone would be tremendous. A 9672 G7 > xSeries can run hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of Linux images in > LPARs or under VM, all at speeds comparable to quick PCs. Sadly, and many years after I left the local public school corp that brought me together with my first Prime, they replaced a power-hungry Prime 9950 with a *much* (read: no more dedicated transformer outside) less hungry model 4450. Which, I understand, they kept for two years before succumbing to the PeeCee disease.... oh sh*t, new lyrics for Dire Straights' Industrial Disease are coming to mind ***ClassicCmp SONG LYRIC FILTER INVOKED***

22 years, 11 months

Commodore Stuff For Sale

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

"I took the shot, there was no danger..." -Dave On August 14, mjsnodgr(a)rockwellcollins.com wrote: > > Have one of our distinguished assembly programmers write you a program to > randomly pick names. <grin> > > - M.S. > > > > > > > "Rich Beaudry" <r_beaudry(a)hotmail.com>@classiccmp.org on 08/14/2001 > 08:24:38 AM > > Please respond to classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org > > Sent by: owner-classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org > > > To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org> > cc: > > Subject: Commodore Stuff For Sale > > > Hello all, > > I posted some Commodore stuff to my website, for sale. 99% of the items > are > $2.00 or $5.00, so no outrageous pricing (you also pay shipping, of > course). > > http://members.tripod.com/glhturbo/commo.html (Apologies for the annoying > Tripod banner). > > All the details are there... > > 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. > > Thanks! > > Rich B. > > > -- Dave McGuire Laurel, MD

22 years, 11 months

68020 ISA card

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

On August 14, Richard Erlacher wrote: > IIRC, it's possible it's associated with scanner/OCR processes. One of my > colleagues had a set of three or four ISA cards, each of which had four 68030's > on it, each with what I then saw as a significant amount of RAM for its task. > He was using that together with a pretty fancy set of software for a MAJOR > automatic transcription task, and, from what I gathered, it did a good job. > > I don't know about your board, but the ones I saw were fully packed on both > sides. It was, for the time, VERY impressive to see. The results were pretty > impressive, too, as he'd converted about 6000 pages of text into a searchable > document on a set of CD's. This sounds like some boards made by Calera that I used back in '90 or so. They were pretty impressive. -Dave -- Dave McGuire Laurel, MD

22 years, 11 months

68020 ISA card

by optimus＠canit.se

Found an interesting card in the trays of a small computer shop. It's an 8-bit card with a 68020 on it. The card is full-length, with a piece sandwiched onto it at one end. It's by a Xerox company with a German name; Kurzweil? Any leads as to what this might be? -- En ligne avec Thor 2.6a. [E]xcept in the works of Gunnar Asplund, architect of the Stockholm Exhibition of 1930 and the Stockholm crematorium, Sweden has never contributed much to the revolutionary developments through which modern architecture made its initial impact on the world. J.M. Richards, Modern Architecture

22 years, 11 months

68020 ISA card

by jfoust＠threedee.com

At 10:40 AM 8/14/01 -0500, Messick, Gary wrote: >I think Xerox bought Kurzweil's speech recognition unit. So it might be >some sort of speech recognition board (probably coupled with other software >of course!) See http://www.kurzweiltech.com/aboutray.html . They made a number of other unique products, hardware and software. - John

22 years, 11 months

Data I/O programmers (was Re: EPROM sideline)

by mlps＠together.net

Support and information for the older Data I/O programmers is available from Memory & Logic Programming Services. Data I/O sold the rights to this equipment to so they could direct all there support to there newer products. You can contact them via email at mlps(a)together.net. Promlink & Device lists are available for free but copies of the manuals are available for sale. Service, calibration and updates are also available. Al Marin.

22 years, 11 months

68020 ISA card

by Gary.Messick＠itt.com

I think Xerox bought Kurzweil's speech recognition unit. So it might be some sort of speech recognition board (probably coupled with other software of course!) Gary > -----Original Message----- > From: Iggy Drougge [mailto:optimus@canit.se] > Sent: Monday, August 13, 2001 7:45 PM > To: Classic computing > Subject: 68020 ISA card > > > Found an interesting card in the trays of a small computer > shop. It's an 8-bit > card with a 68020 on it. The card is full-length, with a > piece sandwiched onto > it at one end. It's by a Xerox company with a German name; Kurzweil? > Any leads as to what this might be? > > -- > En ligne avec Thor 2.6a. > > [E]xcept in the works of Gunnar Asplund, architect of the > Stockholm Exhibition > of 1930 and the Stockholm crematorium, Sweden has never > contributed much to > the revolutionary developments through which modern > architecture made its > initial impact on the world. > J.M. Richards, Modern Architecture >

22 years, 11 months

Commodore Stuff For Sale

by mjsnodgr＠rockwellcollins.com

Have one of our distinguished assembly programmers write you a program to randomly pick names. <grin> - M.S. "Rich Beaudry" <r_beaudry(a)hotmail.com>@classiccmp.org on 08/14/2001 08:24:38 AM Please respond to classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org Sent by: owner-classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org> cc: Subject: Commodore Stuff For Sale Hello all, I posted some Commodore stuff to my website, for sale. 99% of the items are $2.00 or $5.00, so no outrageous pricing (you also pay shipping, of course). http://members.tripod.com/glhturbo/commo.html (Apologies for the annoying Tripod banner). All the details are there... 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. Thanks! Rich B.

22 years, 11 months

Commodore Stuff For Sale

by r_beaudry＠hotmail.com

Hello all, I posted some Commodore stuff to my website, for sale. 99% of the items are $2.00 or $5.00, so no outrageous pricing (you also pay shipping, of course). http://members.tripod.com/glhturbo/commo.html (Apologies for the annoying Tripod banner). All the details are there... 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. Thanks! Rich B.

22 years, 11 months

What's your coolest ISA card?( was Re: IBM 5150 PC)

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

> On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Gene Buckle wrote: > > > > how about SILLIEST?? IBM professional debug facility. An entire half > > > > length card for the sole purpose of bringing two pins of the ISA bus to a > > > > pushbutton. It made the front cover of PC Tech Journal. > > That sounds a LOT like the Periscope debugger board. Is it? > > NO! > > Periscope (by Brett Salter) had several different versions, ranging from > little clips to go into an ISA slot alongside a board, to a full lenghth > board with "write-protectable RAM" that the debugger could be loaded into. Did anyone here ever get to use an ATRON debugger board? This was a full-length card that, as best as I can determine from my poor recollection, contained a discrete-IC implemnetation of the 8088 processor, which gave the debugger software the ability to get to signals that would otherwise have required a "bond-out" version of the 8088 (which I have no idea whether such beats existed or not). The software let you step though a program cycle-by-cycle, so you could *really* watch as a low level. It was essential in my work at the time, developing process control software for warehouses and distribution centers, all done the the Zenith Z-151 that now resides at home in the collection. Regards, -dq

22 years, 11 months

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