I have a DEC BA23 expansion chassis available to anyone who wants it. It
has an 8-slot QBus backplane and power supply. I believe it to be
working. To use it you'd need whatever cards were used to hook it to
another backplane since I don't have those. It's one of the ones that
doesn't have its own power switch, it powers up when you power up the main
unit I believe. Oh, and it was rack-mounted.
If anyone wants it I'll even deliver it anywhere in AZ (if you're
patient). If you are really patient I could take it to southern CA next
time I go that way.
Gordon Zaft
> >You do have an option today. Buy a nice looking car and put an Edelbrock
> >engine, four-barrel, intakes, etc. in it.
>
> Four barrel ???? That would be a step backwards. I'm currently
> running 3x 2 barrels on an Edelbrock designed intake. (original 1970 Dodge
> Challanger RT convertible with 440 six-pack)
Anyone here old enough to remember this:
Well, I stepped off the pavement into my cut-down-short...
Cat in the next lane, says, "Man, you look like a real sport."
He said "when that light turns green, I'm gonna dig out ahead of you."
Well, I answered him back, like about the, only way I could... <-
wrong lyric
.......vvvvvVVVVVVRRRROOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMM!!!!!!!!!
I got three carburetors....
...twin pipes...
I got three carburetors....
...milled heads...
I got three carburetors and no-body's passin' me...
<insert walking saxomophone bridge>
So, I pulled up to the stoplight, just my baby and me.
Same cat pulled upside, he was GREEN with N-V.
He said "man, what you got under that crazy, fat hood"
Well, I answered him back, like about the, only way I could...
.......vvvvvVVVVVVRRRROOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMM!!!!!!!!!
...
Well, I wheeled off of the highway, and down under the underpass,
when all of a sudden, I was like Ooo, out of gas!
dah-dah-dah-dah-dom-dom
dom-dom
"Well, man, what happened?" dom-dom
"I don't know, I can't dig this scene, something's gotta give"
dom-dom
"Well, fella, I dig on your predicment. You got
...three carburetors....
...twin pipes...
I got three carburetors....
...milled heads...
I got three carburetors and no-body's passin' me...
> Gas mileage? What's that? Actually it's not too bad. I get
> about 15-16 MPG on the highway. But you should see what the gas gauge does
> when I put my foot to it and the second and third of carbs kick in!
I still get chills when I hear the blower on the 327 on Mad Max's
car in the first movie... didn't that have an Edelbrock manifold?
-dq
> >: Re: Newsweek mentions VCFe and Sellam
> > http://www.msnbc.com/news/606595.asp?0nw=n18#hobby
>
> Hey. Very Nice, and well deserved I should add.
>
> The quiz asks "When was Windows first announced"
> the missing punch-line is When was it delivered? Wasn't
> this one of the most aggregious examples of vaporware,
> where the product didn't ship for -Years-?
In December 1983, I took a recent issue of some PC magazine
into a Radio Shack, and showed them the Radio Shack ad with
a picture of Windows 1.0 (or 0.75?) running on a Tandy 2000.
I said this is what I want. They said we have the computer
but we've never seen or heard of Windows. What's that?
I do recall when I finally got a copy to play with, late
'86 or early '87, but ISTR that Windows 2.0 shipped in '87.
-dq
Hello, all:
I've reached a major milestone in this project. The telnet console
emulation code works, courtesy of my telnet guru Theo Pozzi. Right now, I'm
using a small 8080 echo program (written by Theo) to read a character from
telnet and echo it back out. Terminal output proves that it works. Whoo,
hoo!
Now, I'm going to work on getting Altair 4k BASIC running. I might
have to do some tinkering to get the LOAD and SAVE functions working
properly, but that should be a snap.
Now the fun begins. I'll post the new code shortly.
Rich
> DQ wrote:
>
> [Memory lane, snipped]
>
> Thanks for that ;-)
>
> > I still get chills when I hear the blower on the 327 on Mad Max's
> > car in the first movie... didn't that have an Edelbrock manifold?
>
> I remember thinking that it looked like it had a 6-71 on it, and
> Edelbrock certainly makes (or at least made) manifolds for suck-through
> applications of the 6-71. However I also remember the blower being
> clutched, which made little sense -- unless it was a blow-through
> application with some sort of bypass for when the blower was shut
> down.
>
> Whatever. It had that nice 6-71 whine, which is what _really_ matters :-)
Brrr..!
:-)
OOooopsie. Guess we would have had to issue a formal posthumous apology.
But it was an honest mistake, Dick, it sure *sounded* like an unprompted
admission of guilt. The important thing, though, is it would serve as a
strong disincentive to future illegal dumpster-divers.
:-)
>From: "Richard Erlacher" <edick(a)idcomm.com>
>
>...What's lying in the alley NEXT TO the dumpster because you or someone else
>failed to put it in the dumpster is another matter. It is, after all, in the
>public right-of-way....
>
>Dick
>
>- ----- Original Message -----
>From: "Sellam Ismail" <foo(a)siconic.com>
>
>> On Sat, 28 Jul 2001, Richard Erlacher wrote:
>>
>> > No, though I've put a few in there. I have gotten some pretty good bridge
>> > controllers, etc, from the dumpster's overflow.
>>
>> GUILTY!!!
>>
>> Send him to the molten iron vat!
OB cars: 68 Plymouth Sport Suburban (think Fury III wagon). 5.2L (318 cu.
in.). 100 mph on 280, in Sunnyvale. Not smart, but got away with it. 120
mph on 290 west of Dripping Springs, Texas. Got away with that too, of
course. (Wups! Molten iron vat, here I come.) 220,000 mi, same engine but
one rebuild. I'll take on *any* of you guys in a passenger-miles per hour
contest - I have seat belts for 8 and have put 11 in the car at one time.
Wife's car is a 2000 Dodge Sport Caravan. 3.3L, will burn E85 ethanol but
they don't *&$& sell it in Texas! Sigh. Yes it has the spoiler on the back
end, and no it's not useless - it provides some shade for the back window.
Sigh. 1.5 years old, only been in the shop for recommended oil changes. One
of the stereo speakers is out, but that's the only problem so far.
I'll be good - next post will be about computers. I promise.
- Mark
on 01-Aug-01 15:27:10, Iggy Drougge wrote:
>Isn't Regnecentralen still in business? Or am I thinking about another line
>of Danish computers?
I think they went bankrupt and some parts of it got restructured, its now a
software only firm. You might be thinking of superMax machines ? They are
still in business, atleast they seems to support those unix machines.
Regards Jacob Dahl Pind
--
CBM, Amiga,Vintage hardware collector
Email: Rachael_(a)gmx.net
url: http://rachael.dyndns.org
On August 2, Bill Bradford wrote:
> I've got a stack of 11/03 / 11/23 qbus enclosures on my workbench
> out in my garage, and I've *never* seen hardware so *dirty* - this
> has a good 10-15 years worth of dust and dirt on it.
>
> Any suggestions/tips for cleaning and reassembling older equipment?
> Is there a FAQ anywhere? I know Dave M. mentioned using some kind of
> alcohol to clean backplane slots on his -8E...
I had to use alcohol to dissolve the goo that 30-year-old insulative
foam turns into when touched. You likely won't need that for Qbus
stuff. For the first step I would suggest compressed air. Then use a
clean paint brush (I have one that I keep around just for dusting
things off). On the metal and plastic surfaces I tend to use glass
cleaner. Some people look at me funny when I do that, but it works
very well.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Laurel, MD
I just picked up a DEC VT180 that seems to work except that it came with no
software. Does anyone know where I can get a CP/M boot disk for it and/or
the diagnostic disk?
Thanks,
David Betz
dbetz(a)xlisper.mv.com
