While out diggin around the local surplus electronics place, I came across
what appears to be a set of VAX Field Service Diags on 8" floppy. Does
anyone have any use for them? I have mostly PDP-11 stuff myself, but could
use the media. They look like they're in fine shape, with coprights from
1978-86. These I picked up.
Also other interesting finds: A couple of TRS-80 cassette tape games
(titles I can't remember, a TK50 cart, a cipher cart tape drive (don't
remember model number), and a hacked up (user wired a fuse into it) Atari
power cube for 400/800 machine. These I didn't pick up. If anyone is
interested, let me know, and I'll see what he wants for them.
My email address is: Gary.Messick(a)itt.com
More housecleaning, free for pickup in the Houston area:
- DEC chassis BA213 'skunkbox', badged DECsystem5400,
unpopulated. VG condition.
- MAC LC475, working
- MAC IIsi
- MAC Centris 610, complete, non-working
- box full of '80s pc-related manuals, software
- for any broadcast band dxers: box of DX News (NRC Journal)'91-'97
... nick 0
281-516-1308
On August 3, Russ Blakeman wrote:
> I can't see an 8088, even pre-MSDOS/IBM, going for over $150 regardless. I
> felt good about getting $25 for mine considering the markup from what I paid
> for it.
It's an 8080, not an 8088...and WAY pre-MSDOS.
Tell you what...next time you one, I'll give you $300 for it. :-)
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Laurel, MD
I've written a telnet interface to simh, so you can use your
telnet client as a VT100 emulator for whatever you have running
under simh. It is described on this page:
http://users.safeaccess.com/engdahl/software.htm
--
Jonathan Engdahl Rockwell Automation
Principal Research Engineer 24800 Tungsten Road
Advanced Technology Euclid, OH 44117 USA
Euclid Labs http://users.safeaccess.com/engdahl
I've figured out most of what you need to know to get an M7554
board working as a PDP-11/53 CPU, including the console pinout,
most of the jumpers, and how to burn ROMs for the M7554-SD. It's
all written down here:
http://users.safeaccess.com/engdahl/KDJ11.htm
--
Jonathan Engdahl Rockwell Automation
Principal Research Engineer 24800 Tungsten Road
Advanced Technology Euclid, OH 44117 USA
Euclid Labs http://users.safeaccess.com/engdahl
Hello:
I am new to this list, so let me introduce myself. I am interested in early
scientific and computing history. As such, I collect early computing
literature and scientific letters. I am also interested in scientific and
engineering Instruments, original and patent models, literature and
illustrations prior to the 19th century. The first computer I learned to
program was a DIGIAC 3080, followed by an early WANG (I'd love to find them
again), and then 360 assembler and PL/1. I am interested in purchasing early
scientific equipment, advertising literature, electromechanical calculators,
vintage computers (Imsai, Altair, TRS80, SOL, Digiac, Scelbi, SWTPC, PET,
and many, many others) and associated literature. I prefer working examples,
but please contact me with a description of what you have available. I'll
pay shipping costs for items of interest or pick up from most areas in the
eastern U.S. I look forward to participating on this list. Thank you for
reading this.
Just in case you have a TU78, have fun:
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:sNZF1nPeHg8:www.mit.edu/afs/sipb/user/…
-Gunther
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Index of /afs/sipb/user/jtkohl/hacks/makesong
Name Last modified Size Description
Parent Directory 11-Jun-91 14:25 -
NOTES 07-Sep-89 17:39 1k
Songs/ 07-Sep-89 17:39 -
makesong 07-Sep-89 17:39 1k
"Makesong"* is a shell script which turns your TU78 tape-drive into
a musical marvel... It is just a quick hack, so do not expect
anything close to perfection. The numbers found in the "NOTES" file
are approximate and could be a lot better, but I don't have the
time to do it.
See the example songs in the Songs/ directory... Format for a song file
should be obvious from the examples... Songfiles are run through the
C Preprocessor (/lib/cpp), so feel free to include comments, #defines,
#includes, etc.
Improvements/Bugs
- the values for the notes should be tuned
- more notes should be added
- rests should be implemented a different way
- as it stands, higher-pitched notes are shorter in duration
than lower notes - the correct value for DURATION (now
a constant 1000) should be a function of pitch.
- different length notes (whole, half, quarter, etc.) should
also be added
- something other than /etc/termcap should be used as dd's if=,
preferably something with unlimited size -- maybe
/usr/ucb/yes "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"
or a variant
- due to the implementation of the MUSIC variable, there is
probably a sh-imposed limit on the number of notes
in a Songfile
Interesting effects may be achieved by combining 'mt fsf' with 'mt bsf'
commands - 'bsf' produces a richer "timber" of sound than does 'fsf'.
Please let me know about changes and improvements you make -- also
any songs you teach your TU78 to play! :-)
[* Note, "makesong" works the tape drive pretty hard, so be nice. . .]
Enjoy!
Craig Fri Aug 25 11:12:17 CDT 1989
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Craig D. Rice UNIX Systems Specialist
cdr(a)stolaf.edu Academic Computer Center, St. Olaf College
+1 507 663-3631 Northfield, MN 55057 USA
Does anybody in the Washington DC area have an HVD SCSI setup
that I could test some drives on before I spend money on a
controller?
Alternatively, does anybody have a PCI HVD SCSI controller
that they would sell cheap (_really_ cheap) or trade for
some vintage stuff?
Thanks,
Bill
First I'd like to publicly thank Sellam for putting on VCF East. I
had a blast, met many great people and played with some truly cool
machines. I took a few photos which I've posted on a new web-site-
in-progress:
http://d116.com/vcf/east/1.0/
Now that I've got lots of web space, I installed scans of the GT-40,
GT-42, and GT-62 brochures I have:
http://d116.com/dec/gt/
Also, I made a directory with the Nova/DCC software I have on disk at
the moment, including the buggy spacewar I was running at VCF:
http://d116.com/dcc/sw/
I just brought this site up a few hours ago. My first visitor? The
code red worm!
66.25.24.156 - - [03/Aug/2001:22:56:29 -0400] "GET /default.ida?NNNNN...
Fredric
