My community is having a mass tag sale around me so
kinda getting into the spirit.
Free for Postage else TOSS!
Bubbl-tec Bubbl-Machine literature pack.
Sheets for DEC LSI-11, SBC-80, Multibus Bubble memory
Wyse Literature
Pages on the WY-30,50,60,85,99GT terminals
AT&T 6386 WGS sales specifications card.
Four Best offers takes:
DEC "Microcomputer Processors" 1978-79
Reference manual on the LSI-11. Softbound, 250 or so pages.
John A.
There's a few computer related items
on my lawn too to test the waters.
On Friday, September 07, 2001 11:19 PM, Megan [SMTP:mbg@world.std.com]
wrote:
>
> If this goes through, it means I will have worked for three
> separate companies in five years time, and not had to move
> my office once...
>
> Megan Gentry
I've worked for five in just over three. Granted, I've moved my cube,
but that was
solely motivated by my ambition to gradually get
1) Closer to a coffee pot
2) A window
3) A convenient exit for those 'late days'.
through exploiting my co-workers temporary vacancies, and not because I
had to.
Jim
Well several of my replys were rejected by classicomp email system
so here they all are together... :^)
Ethan Dicks wrote:
> --- Ron Hudson <rhudson(a)cnonline.net> wrote:
>
>> I was going to write a simulator for Bell Labs "Cardiac" (cardboard
>> slide the slides and move bits be the cpu your self) computer, but
>> all I
>> can find is the Instruction Set...
>
>
> Do you _have_ a CARDIAC? Do you want one?
>
> -ethan
>
>
>
> __________________________________________________
I don't have one, but the instruction set was listed
on the Internet once or twice, 0,input ... What I
don't have is the "Wireing" that graphic on the "cpu" side
that controlls operation, and there are part that change
with the instructions. Yes I would like a cardiac, any
donations? (will trade for C coded emulator :^)
[ will code for toys?? ] )
I went on to "design" the 8 bit machine described because
cardiac won't handle character data, only 3 digit numbers.
I also wanted to make use of the a whole 8 bits, and have
each instruction use only 8 bits (well some of them do read
the next byte via indirect of the PC) Also I think the flag
testing at for each instruction is um clever, what do you
think.
will repost instruction set if desired.
I really wanted some of you to look over the instruction
set and theory to see if I was obvously missing somthing.
Reply to Zane... Thanks for the pointer to the TOPS-10 emulator
I will see what I can do with it...
I've got some copies of DOS. I know, I know. Does anyone want them?
I've got PC-DOS 3.0 in the original IBM slipcase
I've got two copies of MS-DOS 5, one is still shrinkwrapped
I think I have PC-DOS 3.2
anyway they are available for postage or free if you come to sunnyvale to
get them.
--Chuck
For those of you in Portland, OR, the Wacky Willy's on NW Vaughn St.
has a LOT of cool stuff. A bunch of Macs and PC's(including several
large Compaq servers with either 486 or 586 and lots of HD's... Might
go back and get one myself for $100) and TONS of furniture of the odd
kind. Seems that OHSU has turned the place into their new dumping
grounds. Sadly, the Macs were all missing the hard drive, and most of
the PC's have either been wiped or stripped of drives also. Lots of
Compaqs!
Anyway, I picked up some odd parts as well as an Epson HX-20 with an
expansion unit and micro-cassette drive cartridge and a cute plastic
carrying case. I should be able to figure it out easily, and my PX-8
finally has a companion!
The item that really stumps me appears to be a terminal of some sort.
It's in a very small box (6x8x1) and has a Z180 in it, next to a
large(160 pin) unmarked chip. It has VGA video, DIN-5 keyboard,
parallel printer, and two RJ-style(6 pins, and an offset clip) COM
ports. It needs a small headphone plug for power with 12v, so I need
to dig out my crappy universal power supply and see what blows
up(I've noticed that it tends to put out a few extra volts... 12v
setting is usually 18v with no load and closer to 13-15 with small
loads) The only markings are on the edge of the board and on the
EPROMs. The board says "01000117 REV.01 MAGPIE SSPC" and the EPROMs
say "6086 7/6 1600 EL 0" and "EL 1" for the next chip. As soon as I
can find my power wart I'll post an update about the size of the
flames spitting out of it ;-) (NOOooooo! Come back magic smoke!!!)
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Hi!
Thanks to the generosity of one list member, I now have a VCB02 boardset
to play around with. Unfortunately, I don't have the bulkhead panel for
it. Does anyone know what the connector and pinout was for this?
On a related note, can the cable used to hook up a
keyboard/mouse/monitor on a VAXstation 2000 also be used to connect a
keyboard/mouse/monitor to the VCB02 subsystem? It sounds like they're
pretty much identical.
Thanks,
Sean
--
Sean Caron http://www.diablonet.net
scaron(a)engin.umich.edu root(a)diablonet.net
On Friday, September 07, 2001 7:04 PM, Jeff Hellige
[SMTP:jhellige@earthlink.net] wrote:
> saving stuff from the slave machines. It worked pretty well though.
> Anyone know just what additional stuff was needed to do it?
>
> Jeff
I played with one of these early on.
To load and save files from the slaves? There was just a little
third-party bit of 'repeater'
software that tried to emulate a CLOAD. Couldn't do anything other than
save, tho.
The hardware itself was just a pair of RC pairs and a single transistor
amp. Think there
was some TTL glue, but I can't see it as being terribly important.
D'ya know if they ever fixed the mid-bitstream problem that was common
early with the
Trash and later with the Atari and their MPI over cassette interface? I
had one of the
Atari setups, nice so long as you were only using it like a multi-cable
PtP setup.
Jim.
> From: Russ Blakeman <rhblakeman(a)kih.net>
> I never have a problem with the business line of HP PCs' (Kayak, Brio and
> Vectra) - the Pavilion line keeps me going with warranty repairs at $65
per
> inshop repair and $30 per "exchange unit".
I was specifically referring to the Pavilions. The Vectras were especially
well-made.
> I only get one of every 50 or 60
> owners that have the Compaq owner's attitude about HP's machines.
Not too sure what you're saying here.
> If you contact customer support at HP they can either ship a free restore
> set if it's under warranty and you tell them it's there but not loading.
If
> you've lost it, in or out of warranty, they can sell you a replacemant if
> you supply the unit serial number.
Problem is the customers often won't wait. We're famous for <=
2-day-turnaround ;>)
> Packard Bell wasn't bad near the end of their reign of terror. They got
real
> too late and were already on a downward spiral fast towards earth.
Yeah, their P-II boxes were *almost* standard ATX.
> I don't know why anyone feels the HP restore is bloated...it's all
> MicroSteal for the most part. All windows 98, NT, ME and 2k stuff is huge
> and you need a broadband connection to download it. I just popped $20 for
> the Win NT 4.0 service pack 6.0a rather than sit for 2 days downloading
it.
I never download any MS stuff.
I'm referring to the device drivers for goodies like the Riptide
sound/modem combo. The drivers posted at hp.com are > 9MB. The *real* fun
begins when, after the download, the installation program pukes up a
message: "Cannot find original driver files -- update terminated" or
something to that effect. Why aren't the originals available on their
site??? And what sort of code, exactly, is in a > 14 MB video driver???
When I was writing C for a living, if I had ever produced an executable --
never mind a device driver -- which occupied 14 MB of disk space I would
have been sent packing. Sheesh.
Glen
0/0
I have an HP EISA network card (10BaseT + AUI), it came out of a 486/66ST
server. I believe the model # is 27248.
For trade (I'm looking for 41256-100 RAM) or free for cost o' shipping.
Gordon
Gordon Zaft
zaft(a)azstarnet.com
On Sep 7, 14:02, Mike Ford wrote:
> >It would have helped if the installers (before my time)
> >hadn't wire-tied the cat 5 runs to the nearest 110v A/C
> >lines... three-foot parallel runs, in fact...
>
> My house is done is untwisted bellwire, any kind of cat5 sounds like
> nirvana to me.
>
> CAT5 is shielded twisted pairs isn't it? Why would proximity to 60 hz ac
be
> a problem, or are the network cards just REALLY poorly designed
(rejection
> of common mode noise)?
Nope, Cat 5 is UTP -- UNshielded twisted pair. It has reasonable
common-mode rejection, but nothing is perfect. In long runs, such as you'd
find in a typical commercial building infrastructure, you'd notice quite a
difference if the UTP was too close to power cables. They're notoriously
noisy.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
