test-drb August 2001

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by mranalog＠home.com

Bill said: > Anybody out there have a paper tape reader, and would be willing to > run these through and produce some kind of binary file that would be > usable with various software emulators (or useful to someone who > wanted to punch their own copies of these tapes)? I dont want them > to languish around in my garage when someone somewhere could be putting > them to use. > Bill I can also read paper tapes into my PC. The files would be raw dumps of the tapes, handy for punching copies. One of these days I'm going to sit down and write a converter that detects the file format and extracts the data, but I'm not there yet. My setup is a DATA I/O paper tape reader (fairly new compared to most paper tape readers), a DATA I/O Series 22 PROM Programmer, and the PC. Normally, using the paper tape reader with the prom programmer you have to tell the programmer what format the tape is in before it can read it into memory. I made a special 'Y' cable so that the paper tape reader can get the 24 volts it needs from the prom programmer, but the serial lines from reader goto the PC. If the tape is fan folded (and it sounds like it is) I like to stretch it out down the hallway making sure it flat before it zips through the reader, just in case.... Let me know if I can help. --Doug ========================================= Doug Coward @ home in Poulsbo, WA Analog Computer Online Museum and History Center http://www.best.com/~dcoward/analog =========================================

25 years, 1 month

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

by amichael＠nortelnetworks.com

Does anyone know where I could find software for the Periscope card? Arlen Michaels > -----Original Message----- Fred Cisin wrote: > 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. > >

25 years, 1 month

Central Florida Computer Junk Fest !

by rigdonj＠intellistar.net

Steve Robertson said "Why don't you send out an invitation to the "Central Florida Computer Junk Fest". OK. How many of you live within driving distance of central Florida? Steve and I want to have a junk fest and clear out some of our unused junk ^H^H^H^H er, ah, hidden treasures. Steve suggested that we have it on Sept 8th. Interested? Joe >See ya, SteveRob X-Originating-IP: [63.68.245.221] From: "Steve Robertson" <steven_j_robertson(a)hotmail.com> To: rigdonj(a)intellistar.net Bcc: Subject: Re: Hey Dude! Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 16:46:55 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: <F89i67EKRuYDlrjbudz0000104e(a)hotmail.com> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 07 Aug 2001 20:46:56.0050 (UTC) FILETIME=[18828120:01C11F82] Joe, > Let me know what you're getting rid of. You may have something that I > can't live without! > Don't pitch the Kaypros. I gave away all the ones that I had but now > I've picked up a Kaypro 2 and I'm sort of attached to it. Do >you have > any docs or anything for them? Actually the KPs are pretty neat little boxes and I really didn't want to toss them. Just want to get some of them outta my way. I do have some of the original DOCs. Nothing technical though. Basic operators manuals, wordstar manuals, CPM manuals, Cbasic manuals, etc... I'll throw 'em in the truck when I come up. I've got some software here... Somewhere... It may take me a while to drag up it up. I'm sure if nothing else, Don Maslin or someone else on the CC list could provide a boot disk. Everything else can be downloaded from the CC archives. >Mike, Bob or Glen might want it, Bob and Glen are here in town. Hmm. I >was just thinking, we should try to get everyone together and >have a mini-swap meet. Besides you and me, Bob and Glen live here in town >and Mike lives in S. Georgia and Phil lives near Naples and I think >there's at least one other guy that lives near Tampa. I think that would be great. Maybe we could do it on Saturday Sept 8th. Everyone can throw their junk in their vehicles and we'll fight over it. Anything that doesn't get claimed, can live with you :-) > Can you tell me more about the 6800 box? > >Well... Put it this way... It's got Dual 8" floppies and total of 4K RAM. >The OS is just a "monitor" program. I also have a complete accounting >package with it but never really tried to make it do anything... It was >interfaced to antique DIABLO keyboard / printer. Let me tell you, this SOB >is primitive! It's probably worth something. I'm just tired of tripping >over it. > >I could also bring a couple of ATT UNIX boxes (wonder where they came >from) with all the docs, an ATT 6300, and some other stuff. > >Why don't you send out an invitation to the "Central Florida Computer Junk >Fest". > >See ya, SteveRob

25 years, 1 month

VAX 8700 in Madison, WI

by Antonio.Carlini＠riverstonenet.com

>If I guess right this machine used to be named "speedy". (Or was >speedy an 8600?) Anyone know how many VAX MIPS this guy cranked? A VAX 8700 was rated at 6 VUPS. A VAX 8800 (dual processor variant) came in at 12 VUPs. (I just quote 'em, I don't write 'em!) A VAX 8600 came in at about 4 VUPs. The follow on VAX 8650 came in at 6 VUPs. These are all physically large machines. There is also a VAX 8650 available on ebay at the moment (in Memphis IIRC) Antonio

25 years, 1 month

PeeCee turns 20

by RCini＠congressfinancial.com

Hello, all: I know that the PC turns 20 this month, but does anyone know the actual date of introduction? It's tough going through August without a holiday, so I'm looking for something to celebrate :-) Rich ========================== Richard A. Cini, Jr. Congress Financial Corporation 1133 Avenue of the Americas 30th Floor New York, NY 10036 (212) 545-4402 (212) 840-6259 (facsimile)

25 years, 1 month

Now *this* is cool

by mrbill＠mrbill.net

http://surfin.spies.com/~dgc/pdp8x/ I just wish someone had a project like this that could be produced in quantity. Bill -- Bill Bradford mrbill(a)mrbill.net Austin, TX

25 years, 1 month

[80sBBS] Another Sub-Site, Another Plea for Assistance (fwd)

by jbdigriz＠dragonsweb.org

Thought I'd pass along this request for a worthy cause. How is the UUCP revival project progressing, by the way? This might be a good way to get the word out about it. If that's desired right now. The full url is http://www.textfiles.com, which is a Wiretap type archive, except more specifically BBS oriented. Scott's email is jason(a)textfiles.com jbdigriz ********************************************************************** I've started work on the other vital site needed for the documentary: A complete and total list of every BBS software package ever made for any computer. I'm already aware this task is impossible; but the least I can do is take a good shot at it so I can look at different sets of packages for a computer and do the Right Things. The Right Things, in this case, are to try and contact the original authors of the software, and reach out to any underlying communities still using the software. I'd like it if people could start taking a look at the list and let me know about gaps, or point me to locations where there's more information about the software. No sense plugging up this mailing list with those; just mail them to me. "0A- Jason Scott TEXTFILES.COM

25 years, 1 month

Unix Quote (was: Re: building a PDP11 from the things you

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

On August 9, Carlos Murillo wrote: > >DCL is a very complete command language. There's a lot that can be > >done directly that require external programs in Unix shells. ... > By the way, I think that requiring external programs in Unix isn't > necessarily a disadvantage, as long as such programs are standard in > every U'x. And many are, thanks to POSIX. You're not familiar with the overhead associated with fork()/vfork(), are you Carlos. -Dave -- Dave McGuire Laurel, MD

25 years, 1 month

^X (was: an odd question

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Aug 10, 19:10, Tony Duell wrote: > ^Q (Xon), ^R (Yon), ^S (Xoff), ^T (Yoff). > > Am I the only person here who instinctively uses ^S to halt screen output > and ^Q to restart it? Certainly not: I do it all the time :-) -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

25 years, 1 month

osborne display driver

by mcgazza7＠bigpond.com

i have recently aquired an osborne monitor. when win 95 boots up, the win95 logo with the clouds looks like it is in at least 16 bit colour mode, but after that, the screen resets back to 16 colour mode. i can't change the colour mode to more than 16 colours when using the standard display driver that comes with win 95, and i can't find an osborne display driver on the net. Does anyone know where i can find an osborne driver or what other drivers would be compatible with osborne.

25 years, 1 month

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test-drb August 2001