test-drb January 2002

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by mcguire＠neurotica.com

On January 28, Bruce Lane wrote: > Ok, I admit it's a shameless ad. I'm sending it here because I know some of you are into the older HP calculators. > > I've put the magnetic card reader (Can it write as well?) for an HP-41C up on Ebay. Link here if you're interested. Yes, it can indeed write cards as well. I really like these little buggers. An especially neat feature is the program translation trick they can do whilst reading HP67/HP97 program cards. :-) -Dave -- Dave McGuire St. Petersburg, FL "Less talk. More synthohol." --Lt. Worf

22 years, 5 months

FA: George Philbrick tube type Op-Amp for analog "computors".

by rigdonj＠cfl.rr.com

See <http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1329047917>.

22 years, 5 months

Need source for high current HP type (with dimple) 14 or 16AWG 110vac power cord

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

On January 27, Gary Hildebrand wrote: > Wonder what the dimple is for? should be able to use a standard IEC > connector cord with heay gauge wire. Can't believe that thing is that > big of a juice hog. Electric heaters draw about that much power. There are three "standard" IEC power connectors...there's the one we're all used to, the one with the dimple (higher current) and a larger square one (still higher current). -Dave -- Dave McGuire St. Petersburg, FL "Less talk. More synthohol." --Lt. Worf

22 years, 5 months

'70s microcomputer video connectors (was Re: Bell & Howell Apple II update II)

by fmc＠reanimators.org

Sellam Ismail <foo(a)siconic.com> wrote: > I skipped over this thread because I saw Richard's name all over it, but > had I know this is what the argument was about, I could have pointed to > maybe 3 or 4 S-100 machines circa the late 1970's in my collection that > use BNC for video. Yeah. If only folks would keep the subject line in sync with what they're arguing about, scorefiles would work a whole lot better. I'm certain I've seen Processor Technology SOLs with SO-259 connectors. I think I've seen at least one with a BNC connector (and recall being surprised to find that it wasn't an adapter), but even if I have I'm not sure what this proves, SOLs and other '70s micros being purchasable as kits, and I'm sure at least some of the pre-assembled ones were owned by people of soldering skill who would change the connector if it suited them to do so. -Frank McConnell

22 years, 5 months

a VAX 11/780 in my garage ...

by gunther＠aurora.regenstrief.org

Hi I am happy to announce my new baby: thanks to Jon Auringer of Astronautics and Merle Pierce of RICM, I have now a VAX 11/780 in my garage. Nice cabinet, with UNIBUS extension and a TE16 drive (looks nice but will I ever sacrifice a 25A circuit just for it?). Inside the VAX are KA780, UBA, MS780 (8 MB) and 2 MBAs. In the UNIBUS cabinet are two DZ-11, an INTERLAN BD-NI 1010, an M8716 (general purpose parallel), and a "CBV inc" (?) "MODEL-215 DMA Option" (two 4-wide boards with additional cable between them, to a 3-row D connector that looks a bit like my KLESI connector ... any idea what that might be?). More UNIBUS stuff: Datasystems LP 11/32 (parallel printer) a few grants (I need to learn UNIBUSology to understand how this can work.) I have spare DZ-11, just in case someone is in need. The last board is a 919 UNIBUS connector with long cable connecting into another drawer. That one is a backplane of unknown nature. It has one card to play the UNIBUS adapter, then a whole bunch of MEGATEK cards all together making up a frame-buffer and digitizer assembly that was used for a SCICARDS circuit layout system. Any shred of information about this would be appreciated. I don't think its UNIBUS or QBUS (no grants between the two clusters of cards.) Now, since I want to use this VAX to upgrade to an 11/785, I still need a KA785 CPU backplane. The worst beaten-up machine that you see in your neighbor's dumpster will do for screwing those pieces off. Unfortunately they are all too often forgotten. But I will first go with the 11/780 setup to gain the feeling for this class of machine. I have some documentation and probably a full set of diagnostics floppies. If anyone needs, I'll be happy to help out ... of course I first need to get the machine going to read the floppies. I am looking for info on the CI installation. I have the CI boards but no clue about cab-kit stuff. Was hoping to use parts of the CIBCA cab kit stuff to build one. I am also looking for a source of FP780 boards, mine had no floating poing option installed. I have the additional PSU, but no cabling for the PSU to the backplane and of course no FP780 cards. (I have FP785 cards, but they don't mix.) Finally I'm contemplating to build a dual processor machine if I can gather the parts for it. All I need is a CPU extension cabinet, a second KA780 or 785 CPU set and bits and pieces from other VAX 11/78x backplanes (SBI cabling, mounting stuff etc.) Apparently the Purdue guys have done that very successfully in 1981, and the only reason this wasn't an SMP setup appears to be that 4.1 BSD didn't do SMP. I would imagine that one could hack NetBSD to run a dual 11/78x. (That's not an 11/782 or /787, DEC did that differently.) So, if you have a spare extension cabinet, backplane, CPU boards, PSUs, card cage, card rails, cables, even the meanest nag, let me know. I am slowly switching from an ackquisition frenzie to maintenance mode. I seem to have most of what I can reasonably want and fit into my house. Now it's time to get it all going well. If I have things running by Summer, I'm thinking of throwing a VAX-Party. But it may take me until next year. I have given my 6000-520 and second SA600 and second HSC90 to Merle from RICM. I still have a TU81PLUS and a Dataproducts printer to give away. Probably also two terminals (VT 420 or so). regards, -Gunther -- Gunther Schadow, M.D., Ph.D. gschadow(a)regenstrief.org Medical Information Scientist Regenstrief Institute for Health Care Adjunct Assistant Professor Indiana University School of Medicine tel:1(317)630-7960 http://aurora.regenstrief.org

22 years, 5 months

Netscape (was Re: PayPal = payola?)

by DAW＠yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu

! From: Doc [mailto:doc@mdrconsult.com] ! ! ! On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, David Woyciesjes wrote: ! ! > Doc --- ! > Well, if I have my way, my Gateway Handbook will be a ! > smaller Unix box... 10" x 6" x 1.5" ;-) ! > And it just squeaks by 10 years old too ( I think, maybe 9...) ! ! Funny you should mention that. I'm supposed to pick up a Handbook ! this weekend, to see about installing Linux without removing ! the drive.... I wonder, what kind/size drive is in there? Can it be upgraded? ! I'd *really* like to have a Handbook of my own. Classic or not, ! they're Way Too Cool (tm). Hopefully, by the time I'm done ! with John's, I'll be affluent again. It is a Neat Thing, isn' tit? Let me know if I can be of help. I have the null modem cable, floppy drive, 2 power supplies... --- David A Woyciesjes --- C & IS Support Specialist --- Yale University Press --- mailto:david.woyciesjes@yale.edu --- (203) 432-0953 --- ICQ # - 905818

22 years, 5 months

TV tuner cards... [was: RE: hey"!]

by DAW＠yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu

! -----Original Message----- ! From: Gareth Knight [mailto:gknight@emugaming.com] ! ! Simon wrote: ! > Please say me, how it works! I want to convert my VHS into ! > mpg-Files, but it ! > doesn't work, only the Convertion of mpg to VHS works. ! ! For low-end conversion from VHS to MPG you can use a cheap TV ! card, such as ! those made by Pinaccle or Hauppage. This will allow you to ! view the analog ! signal of your video and record it as an AVI or MPG. I recommend ! http://www.tv-cards.com/ for more information ! -- ! Gareth Knight You know, I should pick up one of those, so I can have a display for my C128 (and Atari800) on my Win98 box. Finally put it to something useful... Seriously, is anyone else doing that? --- David A Woyciesjes --- C & IS Support Specialist --- Yale University Press --- mailto:david.woyciesjes@yale.edu --- (203) 432-0953 --- ICQ # - 905818

22 years, 5 months

VHS to mpg, how does it work????

by csmith＠amdocs.com

-----Original Message----- From: Darthsimon(a)aol.com [mailto:Darthsimon@aol.com] > VHS to mpg, how does it work???? By converting the analog signal of the VHS recorder to a digital interleaved audio/video signal, and applying one of the MPEG compression algorithms. :) Regards, Chris Christopher Smith, Perl Developer Amdocs - Champaign, IL /usr/bin/perl -e ' print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n"); '

22 years, 5 months

TV tuner cards... [was: RE: hey"!]

by PasserM＠umkc.edu

I've done it with an Atari 2600. Works great (this was with a Gateway OEM Bt848 card.) --Michael -----Original Message----- From: David Woyciesjes [mailto:DAW@yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu] Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 12:41 PM To: 'classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org' Subject: TV tuner cards... [was: RE: hey"!] ! -----Original Message----- ! From: Gareth Knight [mailto:gknight@emugaming.com] ! ! Simon wrote: ! > Please say me, how it works! I want to convert my VHS into ! > mpg-Files, but it ! > doesn't work, only the Convertion of mpg to VHS works. ! ! For low-end conversion from VHS to MPG you can use a cheap TV ! card, such as ! those made by Pinaccle or Hauppage. This will allow you to ! view the analog ! signal of your video and record it as an AVI or MPG. I recommend ! http://www.tv-cards.com/ for more information ! -- ! Gareth Knight You know, I should pick up one of those, so I can have a display for my C128 (and Atari800) on my Win98 box. Finally put it to something useful... Seriously, is anyone else doing that? --- David A Woyciesjes --- C & IS Support Specialist --- Yale University Press --- mailto:david.woyciesjes@yale.edu --- (203) 432-0953 --- ICQ # - 905818

22 years, 5 months

hey"!

by Darthsimon＠aol.com

Please say me, how it works! I want to convert my VHS into mpg-Files, but it doesn't work, only the Convertion of mpg to VHS works. Thank you for your answer, Roman (please not so hard english because I'm from germany....)

22 years, 5 months

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test-drb January 2002