test-drb August 2001

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by ip500＠home.com

Anyone interested in a TI Explorer II machine? It's complete and running .. includes the keyboard [marked as a special LISP model], monitor and two outboard disk drives. Way to heavy to ship at a reasonable price [but it is probably shippable] .. pickup strongly prefered in the Roanoke, VA area. It came as part of a sealed bid lot ..I figure I've got about $100 in it. Craig Smith

22 years, 11 months

Central Florida Computer Junk Fest !

by ken＠seefried.com

It's a bit of a drive, but I'm in Atlanta. That might be fun. Ken

22 years, 11 months

What's your coolest ISA card?

by jeff.kaneko＠juno.com

On Wed, 08 Aug 2001 14:51:02 GMT "Ken Seefried" <ken(a)seefried.com> writes: > A company called Opus made a number of ISA cards with interesting > coprocessors. I used to have an Opus 32000 ISA card, a National > Semi 32016 coprocessor. It unfortunately got tossed out by a careless > girlfriend a decade ago Stoppit! Stoppit! I can't take this anymore!! I'm gonna absolutely *die* if I hear about another 32k system *tossed*! There was another 32k coprocessor effort featured in the Micro Cornucopia in 1986. I *so* wanted one of these, but the project died on the vine . . . > (along with my unbuilt PC532 kit...sigh). AHHHGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.

22 years, 11 months

Unix Quote (was: Re: building a PDP11 from the things you find at home)

by ken＠seefried.com

From: Carlos Murillo <cmurillo(a)emtelsa.multi.net.co> > "He who doesn't comprehend UNIX is destined to redesign it poorly." > Does anybody know the origin of this quote? Henry Spencer. He also said "If you lie to the compiler, it will get its revenge", which I think is pretty funny, too. Oh, yeah...and his 10 Commandments of C Programmers is gospel. Helluva guy. Ken

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What's your coolest ISA card?

by fmc＠reanimators.org

joe <rigdonj(a)intellistar.net> wrote (after someone else): > > > Stoppit! Stoppit! I can't take this anymore!! I'm gonna absolutely *die* > > > if I hear about another 32k system *tossed*! > > Rumor has it that Steve is going to bring his AT&T 3B2s to the junk > fest in Orlando. I think they have 32k CPUs. No, they have Western Electric...umm, 32100? processors. Not National Semi. -Frank McConnell

22 years, 11 months

DOS for S-100?

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

> >There was a Zenith MS-DOS 3.31+ that ran on the Z-150/Z-151; > >I can probably scare it up... > > > Thanks for the offer but the 150 and higher models are completely > different machines from the Z-100. They use the ISA buss and are 100% IBM > compatible so the OS is basicly PC DOS. They're not *quite* 100% IBM compatible, e.g. power supply, and non- Zenith keyboard use eventually causes the CPU board to no longer recognize a Zenith keyboard. But that would be picking nits... -dq

22 years, 11 months

IBM SIMMS question

by csclement＠mediaone.net

p/n 68x6356 is a 32mbsimm that is all i know it isnot 4mb according to where i confirmed

22 years, 11 months

3270 emulation hardware

by red＠bears.org

Hi; I have a few IBM 3270 emulation cards which sport BNC cable attachments. What cabling standard does this describe, and how can I connect it to my existing twinaxial cable plant? ok r.

22 years, 11 months

DOS for S-100?

by rigdonj＠intellistar.net

At 07:02 PM 8/8/01 -0400, you wrote: > > At 01:10 PM 8/7/01 -0700, you wrote: > > >On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, joe wrote: > > > > FWIW You could get MS-DOS versions 1.25, 2.1(something) and 3.1 >for > > > > the Zenith Z-100. There's also a guy out there that wrote a program to > > > > patch PC-DOS 4.0 to run on the Z-100. > > > > > >Is there a 3.31 available for it? > > > > > > Not that I know of. MS-DOS 3.1 was the highest version that Zenith > > released for it. The PC-DOs 4 is a private effort by John Beyers > > <http://members.home.net/johnbeyers/hz100.htm>. > > > >There was a Zenith MS-DOS 3.31+ that ran on the Z-150/Z-151; >I can probably scare it up... Thanks for the offer but the 150 and higher models are completely different machines from the Z-100. They use the ISA buss and are 100% IBM compatible so the OS is basicly PC DOS. Joe >-dq

22 years, 11 months

an odd question

by kapteynr＠cboe.com

I don't have the detailed history available to me now, but -- didn't WordStar run under CP/M long before MS-DOS was created ? -----Original Message----- From: Master of all that Sucks [SMTP:vance@ikickass.org] Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 9:56 AM To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org Subject: Re: an odd question Well, MS-DOS 1.0 was doing it long before WordStar. Peace... Sridhar On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, Jeff Hellige wrote: > on 8/9/01 9:47 AM, Dan Wright at dtwright(a)uiuc.edu wrote: > > not sure if this is exactly on-topic, but I figure if anyone would know, it > > would be this bunch... where did the convention of using "^x" to represent > > "Ctrl-x" come from? I wonder because you see that convention everywhere, but > > it's totally non-intuitave -- i.e. why does the carat symbol mean "hold > > control > > while pressing the following key"? I think this came up because someone > > pointed out that using pine the first time was really hard until they figured > > out what "^" meant. so, anyone know where that convention came from? > > I believe Wordstar used to display the control sequences for cut and > pasting and other block move type commands in that format in it's menus. > I'm almost positive that versions of Worstar I was using on XT-clones in the > mid-80's were like that. At the time, quite a large number of text editors, > including those included with programs such as TurboBasic, used the Wordstar > commands and conventions as well. > > Jeff >

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test-drb August 2001