test-drb August 2001

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

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

> On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Eric Chomko wrote: [..snip..] > Probably the two most interesting ISA cards I own are an Iterated Systems > fractal compression accelerator, and a 3-board, 2-slot graphics card by > Matrox which I haven't identified yet. I had no idea that IFS ever did board-level products. Of course, it ticks me off no end that they don't have *any* end-user products anymore. I had an application that I believe would have benefited greatly from using their compression algorithm (storing scanned census microfilms on CD, which are now available from Broderbund). -dq

23 years, 4 months

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

by SUPRDAVE＠aol.com

In a message dated 8/7/2001 10:09:42 AM Central Daylight Time, chomko(a)greenbelt.com writes: > I have a 16 bit ISA card that is a Motorola 68020 with 68881 (or is it the > 68882?). Anyway the card > is a complete single board computer that plugs into your AT system. It is > made > by a company called > DSI and came with C and FORTRAN, I believe. > > I actually collect ISA cards that have interesting processors on them (i.e. > 80186, 68000, 68020, 386 > 486, etc.) > > Eric > I've an IBM blank prototype board still in its box and somewhere else I've a ISA card that allows backups to be made to a VCR tape.

23 years, 4 months

what the hell.

by dtwright＠uiuc.edu

Well, even though I've already posted a couple times, I too am new to the list and thought I'd chime in. I live and work in champaign-urbana, IL, and mostly collect old UNIX machines -- I have a couple HP 735's, an HP 425/t, HP 300, sun sparc 2, 5, and 20, an RS/6000, and some other crap. Oooo yeah, I got a textronix model 31 electronic calculator recently, but haven't done anything interesting with it yet -- I just know that it works. If anyone has tapes for it, let me know, that would be fun to mess around with... I've known about this list for a while, and just finally got around to signing up a few days ago -- damn laziness :) Later, - Dan Wright (dtwright(a)uiuc.edu) (http://www.uiuc.edu/~dtwright) -] ------------------------------ [-] -------------------------------- [- ``Weave a circle round him thrice, / And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honeydew hath fed, / and drunk the milk of Paradise.'' Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan

23 years, 4 months

Sparc2...FAILURE: No Trap Taken, Exp Trap Type - 00000009...Solved...simms in wrong banks...now more questions...

by ssouchek＠cfa.harvard.edu

I have a question. I have a Sparc2, 64mb mem, 2x4gb barracuda's. I got a hold of a sbus 10-100/scsi card and tried to install it. When it comes up, no beep, no screen. I'm figuring that it's not compatable but i would like to have someone tell me for sure. Is there anything I can do? I've unhooked everything. No Joy. Please let me know. -- Steven Souchek Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 60 Garden Street Cambridge MA 02138 (617)384-7568

23 years, 4 months

Personal Computer World magazine: an 8080 puzzle and "Z80 is dead"

by celigne＠tinyworld.co.uk

The Letters page of these magazines are as interesting as some of the articles. Of course, when we're talking about over 20 years ago in a hobbyist magazine, the letter-writers of one issue were quite likely to write articles in the next. Two extracts for you. >From David C. Broughton of Northwood, Middlesex, in the November 1978 issue: Here is a little puzzle to test your readers' 8080 machine ingenuity: "Imagine you possess an 8080 with 64K bytes of read/write memory which you want to clear. Write a program that sets all 65536 bytes to zero." >From P.F.T. Tilsley of Loughborough, Leics., in the May 1979 issue: The choice of the Z80 for a home system at this time is perhaps a little rash because of the choice of 16 bit processors making their appearance. A better choice would probably be the Z8000 which is due to be available in the next few months. Three years later, I still bought a Z80 system. Ho hum. Regards, Paul

23 years, 5 months

Vintage Computer Festival 5.0 - Sept. 15-16 in San Jose, California

by vcf＠siconic.com

VCF 5.0 is a little over a month away! Are you getting your exhibits ready? Vintage Computer Festival 5.0 September 15th and 16th, 2001 Parkside Hall - San Jose Convention Center San Jose, California http://www.vintage.org/2001/main/ Mark your calendar! The fifth annual Vintage Computer Festival is scheduled for the weekend of September 15th and 16th at Parkside Hall in San Jose, California. The Vintage Computer Festival is a celebration of computers and their history. The event features speakers, a vintage computer exhibition, and a vintage computer marketplace. We showcase all different types of computers for all differents kinds of platforms in all different shapes and sizes. EXHIBIT YOUR VINTAGE COMPUTER Vintage Computer Collectors: we want you! Exhibit your favorite computer in the Vintage Computer Exhibition. First, Second and Third place prizes will be awarded in 13 categories, including the coveted Best of Show. For complete details on the VCF 5.0 Exhibition, visit: http://www.vintage.org/2001/main/exhibit.php BUY/SELL/TRADE AT THE VINTAGE COMPUTER MARKETPLACE Do you have some vintage computer items you'd like to sell? Whether you rent a booth or sell on consignment, the Vintage Computer Festival Marketplace is the premier venue for selling old computers and related items. If you would like to rent a booth or inquire about consignment rates, please send e-mail to <vendor(a)vintage.org> for more information or visit: http://www.vintage.org/2001/main/vendor.php TELL A FRIEND! TELL A FRIEND! TELL A FRIEND! We really hope to see you at the VCF 5.0! And remember, tell your friends!! A printable flyer in Word format can be downloaded here: http://www.vintage.org/2001/main/vcf50.doc Vintage Computer Festival 5.0 September 15th and 16th, 2001 Parkside Hall - San Jose Convention Center San Jose, California http://www.vintage.org/2001/main/ Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org

23 years, 5 months

MCA systems

by SUPRDAVE＠aol.com

In a message dated 8/6/01 9:08:43 PM Eastern Daylight Time, optimus(a)canit.se writes: << Russ Blakeman skrev: >Heavy is putting it lightly on the 9595's - my 9595-OPT has a 4.3 3.5" boot >drive and two seagate FH 5.25" 9 gb drives besides the 1.2mb floppy and the >included 2.88 3.5" floppy and all the cards that go in it, including 2 >ethernet cards, XGA-2 card, 2 SCSI/2 F/W controllers, etc. It's a hernia in >the making. My 8595 has got a yellow warning label in the back stating that it weighs 18 kg+. I wonder if that's before or after adding full-height drives (only one in mine =). >> heh, if you're talking about heavy IBM PC's, I got everyone beat. How about my PCRT or S/36 PC? those are heavy beasts! -- DB Young Team OS/2 old computers, hot rod pinto and more at: www.nothingtodo.org

23 years, 5 months

DOS for S-100?

by fmc＠reanimators.org

Marvin <marvin(a)rain.org> wrote: > Has anyone heard of DOS being available for the S-100 platform? Yes. Seattle Computer Products sold 86-DOS (with their 8086 processor card?). As Chuck mentioned, Godbout/CompuPro/Viasyn and/or Gifford Computer Systems sold a pre-customized version of DR's Concurrent DOS. This could support multiple users on different terminals, as well as one user on a CompuPro PC VIDEO card that provided a CGA-flavor display and IBM PC keyboard interface. There was an article in Micro Cornucopia describing the author's customization of MS-DOS for his S-100 system. -Frank McConnell

23 years, 5 months

Datasystems Design Board + RX33 floppies

by xds_sigma7＠hotmail.com

For what it's worth, I have the manual for the DSD880... I can say for a fact that it is like Jerome described, a big honkin' box with an 8 inch floppy and a Shugart 10MB 8" disk drive, as well as custom microcoded logic... The DSD440 is similar, but the one I had contained 2 8" FDD's and a board covered in Intel 3000 series bitslice logic... So I do indeed doubt that it could control anything else.. I do have another board that I want to get rid of, with manual, that I seem to recall will control 5.25" floppies, e-mail me if you might be interested, Sergio. I don't mind shipping it across the water ;p Will J _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp

23 years, 5 months

MCA systems

by technos＠crosswinds.net

Of the original lot of eight systems I bought, one was lost, crushed to less than half the original height in most places by a moron forklift operator. Seems he was trying to stack a frame from an IBM 982 on it. Really comic. The faceplate snapped into fifty bits, the cdrom collapsed, the floppy was flat. Plugged it in, straightened the VGA connector with a screwdriver, kicked it a few times (memory had become unseated) and it booted DOS. Jim On Monday, August 06, 2001 5:27 PM, Master of all that Sucks [SMTP:vance@ikickass.org] wrote: > > But you can't run over a G4 with a truck. I once ran over a 9595 with > a > 1979 Dodge Power Ram with a three-axle conversion and a Cummins > engine. Didn't even crash the disks. > > Peace... Sridhar >

23 years, 5 months

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