test-drb January 2002

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"The Home Computer Course" published by Orbis, 1983

by OMikeEdwardsO＠aol.com

Hello, I have the complete set (i think) in two grey binders. Does anybody know if it is of any value? Is it collectable? Thanks, Mike Edwards

22 years, 11 months

Bob Supnik is THE MAN!!!!

by vaxman＠earthlink.net

With only a single line patch, I've started the installation of Ultrix 4.4 under simH/VAX!!!! I wonder if anyone would notice if I called in sick tommorrow :) Clint

22 years, 11 months

More HP2000 trivia

by mgortych＠ntplx.com

Ok, here's another one....what did you have to do to direct output from your terminal to the system line printer? Also...where would be a good place to look to get an old ASR33 Teletype?

22 years, 11 months

VAX 11/780s - Masscomp - Valid equipment available

by mythtech＠Mac.com

>> Want some 8600's? I can get you a few. Where are you located? > > Yes! I'm in Austin, Texas. You mean, like, free? ;) Hey... if 8600's are up for grabs... I could use one (or two, or more if I can be greedy)... I'm in NJ (and willing to drive) -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

22 years, 11 months

Language and English

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Jan 4, 18:33, Hans Franke wrote: > > When I was in the 8th grade, one of the courses we were required to take was > > in typing. I've never gotten particularly good at it, but I did learn that > > a period at the end of a sentence is followed by two spaces, for example. > > Thank you very much. So it seams there is a 'school' forcing this in > the US .... and I always wondered why some people add two spaces after > a period. It's a recognised standard in English. The idea is to make sentence spaces larger than word spaces. Curiously, it's not common in the printing profession, and not at all in other languages. I imagine Hans was taught that it's "wrong", since I imagine he learned to type in German. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

22 years, 11 months

"Locking Connector Kits" for LocalTalk

by mythtech＠Mac.com

>All three of those places have the right part. You might want to double >check that the pinout is the same, but I imagine it is fairly standard. >Jameco has a 6 pin mini-din that is pc mount for around $0.60 in single >quantity, I think. Cool... thanks (and based on that price, looks to be cheaper than MCM... IIRC, I paid about $2 each for the mini-din 8 females that I bought) -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

22 years, 11 months

VTech Laser 50?

by doc＠mdrconsult.com

Does anybody know anything about this thing? The local thrift shop has one that they claim works (but they don't know how to work it), with everything but an AC power supply. It comes with a very broken box, or pieces of it, instruction manual and a Basic tutorial. The sticker on the back says 1985. The console itself is cosmetically perfect. I didn't get it yet, because there is a compartment at the back that appears to take some kind of cartridge. Is that part necessary for use? It also has a narrow male card-edge connector at the back, maybe 18 or 20 pins. What's that? Not surprisingly, there's not a lot of information about it on the web. Mostly Google turns up old posts to classiccmp mailing list.... Doc

22 years, 11 months

"Locking Connector Kits" for LocalTalk

by mythtech＠Mac.com

>> Not that it will matter, as you don't plan to build it anyway... but for >> reference... MCM Electronics (www.mcm-electronics.com) sells Female Din-8 >> (although, isn't that size really a mini-din?). Mini-Din, Din, either >> way, I know they sell them, as I bought a few a while back to replace the >> broken off serial ports on a PowerBook 160. The ones I bought were solder >> type, and meant to be used with a cable (so now my Powerbook has two >> short cables sticking out the back for the serial ports... no matter, it >> sits on a shelf acting as a nat router and backup mail server these days) > >If you ever decide to replace these with the right connector, Mouser >Electronics http://www.mouser.com/ or Digi-Key http://www.digikey.com/ >should have the correct part. You might also want to check Jameco >Electronics http://www.jameco.com/ They have the part that solders directly to a board? As far as the right SIZE, the ones I have are the correct part... I was just unable to find ones that connected directly to the logic board, so I put short pigtails on the ones I found, and connected that to the logic board. It doesn't really matter much to me for the Powerbook 160, as I am never going to bother replacing them (it is no longer used as a portable computer, so the pig tails don't matter to me)... but if they have the correct part, I will keep them in mind for future purchases (I am bound to have to replace another one some day... I can guarentee that my boss will break the serial port on his current powerbook... just as he did with the 160 that I already fixed... I swear that guy kicks connectors into place!) -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

22 years, 11 months

More stuff to liquidate...

by mythtech＠Mac.com

>1) A Wyse-50 terminal, green CRT IIRC. NIB - only removed for viewing. No >keyboard. Pre-packed in original box, so only shipping costs apply. DANG! I need a Wyse-60 on the cheap... SO close :-( -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

22 years, 11 months

Astronautics ZS-1

by auringer＠tds.net

Hi William, > What kind of window are we dealing with? A week? A month? I think I need a commitment this week or next at the latest. Our HQ is in a hurry to get this stuff taken care of. I found out this morning that they are sending maintenance people here tomorrow (tuesday) to pick some stuff up. I am in the process of stripping three "spare" ZS machines so they can take the chassis and power supplies. I know these three would never be viable as complete systems, so I want to get all the usable stuff out of them. > Quite interested, by the way. I think I know people that worked at > Astronautics. There were a bunch of them. When I started here in 1989, there were over 150 people in this facility. Two weeks after I started they shut down the computer group and most everyone left for new challenges. :( Are you in the Madison area? Do you want to come take a look at what we are dealing with? > William Donzelli > aw288(a)osfn.org Later, Jon Jon Auringer auringer(a)tds.net

22 years, 11 months

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test-drb January 2002