test-drb August 2001

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by technos＠nerdland.org

On Wednesday, August 29, 2001 3:09 PM, Sellam Ismail [SMTP:foo@siconic.com] wrote: > > On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Tony Duell wrote: > > > Sounds like a surplus shop called 'Display Electronics' over here. > > The > > last advert I saw from them (a couple of months ago) listed 8" > > floppy > > drives for close to \pounds 500 (no, not \pounds 5.00, which is > > what > > they tend to sell for at rallies) > > Believe it or not, due to their general scarcity from normal market > channels, 8" floppy drives can demand a high price from those who > really > need it to keep some old gear that uses one for storage alive. When > you've got an operation that can break down completely due to a single > 8" > floppy drive going bad, UKP500 is a small price to pay. > There are companies that make them *new*. They're used in some applications where radioactivity is a concern. I remember seeing an invoice for one (went in some medical equipment) that priced them at $170. Jim

22 years, 8 months

Looking of Digital Alpha CPU/Motherboard

by workstations＠poczta.onet.pl

Hi all, I acquired a small lot of Alpha 166 and 233MHz CPUs. Unfortunately, the AXPpci 33 motherboard I have does not work with the Alpha 21164-AA CPU I found in the box of Alpha CPUs sent to me. Does anyone know which DEC motherboards work with the Digital Alpha 233MHz 21164-AA CPU? I tried looking for information on the net, but found very few pointers. Jacek Artymiak -- OnetKomunikator - porozumiesz sie z innymi [ http://ok.onet.pl/instaluj.html ]

22 years, 8 months

TMS7040

by Antonio.Carlini＠riverstonenet.com

> > How can I dump the ROM inside a TMS7040? > > Does anyone know where I could obtain enough information to emulate a > TMS7040? www.freetradezone.com has some information but it seems to start at section 4 of the manual and the instruction set is in section 3. Antonio

22 years, 8 months

SemiOT: Mourning for Classic Computing

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

> Douglas Quebbeman skrev: > > >> There are parties in all of Scandinavia each year, as well as Poland and > >> France. Don't know about the scene beyond there. > > >Ok... what was throwing me for a loop here, was that you seemed surprised > >that I was unaware of them, but they turn out to be something we don't > >have around here, so my absence of familiarity shouldn't be such a > >surprise... > > Are you certain? It might just be a PAL/NTSC thing. No, we know about PAL, we just choose not to use it.... ;-) -dq

22 years, 8 months

Just curious about injection molding or casting

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

> On Sat, 25 Aug 2001, Tony Duell wrote: > > > > Yes, I know it's nice to be able to make replacement parts (one day > > there will be no more spares), which is why I intend to investigate > > injection moulding at home. > > If only we had Star Trek's replicators! > > I'd say that personal manufacturing is bound only to get easier and less > expensive. Some day, even before the advent of replicators, it will be > feasible and cheap to build most any replacement part. I would expect > that to have a revolutionary effect on many fields of old stuff > collecting. Within another ten years, surplus stereolithography machines (and other "Santa Claus" machines) will be available to us. Good ones go for $250k, but a friend of mine and I thought we could engineer one to sell for about $25k, and others are likely having the same idea... For those you you who aren't familiar with these, think of them as "3d plotters". Some carve away at a block of material until the object of desire remains; others deposit tiny beads of metal that are sintered (?) together; my favorite uses a polymer fluid and a UV laser; the laser draws a cross-section on the fluid, which hardens the polymer; a tray under the first cross-section lowers slightly, the laser draws the next cross-section, and so on, until you have The Object. I think another spews plastic beads in a fashion similar to the sintered metal. Anyone have any hands-on experience with them? I could watch, but they wouldn't let me touch... ;-) -dq

22 years, 8 months

Wanted: TeleVideo CP/M machine(s)

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

I used to use these at a former orkplace... a cow-orker ended up with a few, and is down to the last one, which he's kindly holding for me... -dq -----Original Message----- From: StormErage(a)aol.com [mailto:StormErage@aol.com] Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 3:06 AM To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org Subject: Re: Wanted: TeleVideo CP/M machine(s) I own a Televideo 803 system (not a portable). I have the complete system with manuals, power cords, software, etc - even one OLD game called "mortar". I bought the system when it was new back in the early 1980's. Still runs like it always did - I have it in an air conditioned storage unit.

22 years, 8 months

Wanted: TeleVideo CP/M machine(s)

by StormErage＠aol.com

I own a Televideo 803 system (not a portable). I have the complete system with manuals, power cords, software, etc - even one OLD game called "mortar". I bought the system when it was new back in the early 1980's. Still runs like it always did - I have it in an air conditioned storage unit.

22 years, 8 months

Sorry

by Antonio.Carlini＠riverstonenet.com

> If you have any VAX 11/7xx documentation, I'm interested in buying it. > Let me know what you have and how much you want for it... Over at http://208.190.133.201/decimages/moremanuals.htm you will eventually find about six or so of the VAX-11/780 related technical manuals. (They have them already, you just need to wait until they get around to putting them online). Antonio

22 years, 8 months

PC/AT memory boards

by zaft＠azstarnet.com

I've got an old genuine IBM AT (8 MHz) that has a couple of 16bit mystery boards in it... 1) Marked 55x3543, google says 0.5 to 3 MB board. It has a 16450 on it, a total of 12 30 pin simms, a male DB9 (okay, I guess it's a DE9) and a female DB25. I assumed it was a serial port and parallel port but it doesn't show up as such in the machine. Also since these appear to be 256K simms I expected the machine to boot with 2MB of RAM or more but it only came up as 1 MB. I'm suspecting it's configured wrong or there's a conflict but of course I don't have any docs... anyone? 2) Another memory board, 18 256Kbit chips, marked EV159 and has a big EVEREX chip on it. Google says 3 MB expansion board, same questions. I assume this motherboard has 512K on it, so... this board might be okay but I'd like to know what the switch settings are in case I decide to add memory to it (anyone know a cheap source of 41256s? Any help (docs especially) would be appreciated.... Gordon Zaft zaft(a)azstarnet.com

22 years, 8 months

Sorry

by lgwalker＠mts.net

Sorry about this, list, but I've just moved out to my retirement home and I really need every cent I can gather, so I sold a Borsky S1000 handbook and a PDP8 maintenance manual without offering it to the list. Once I get some of my multitude of boxes unpacked, I will be offering many other duplicates and non-essential things. I'm sure there is much that would not excite much interest on EPay but would be of interest to the list. I'll keep you posted. ciao Lawrence Reply to: lgwalker(a)mts.net

22 years, 8 months

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test-drb August 2001