Hi folks:
I am curious about early PCs with lcd screens. Something from the early
dos days, in a flip-up or clamshell design.
Anyone have any favorites?
gil
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I've got an MCA SVGA-NI Display Adaptor/A sitting here that I'd like to
find display drivers for some OS. Does anyone know where I can find some?
I've found the ADF files, but no drivers for any version of Winderz, or
OS/2 (or XFree86 on linux, but I'm doubtful I'll find anything to work
there).
It's FRU number is 71G4877.
Pat
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Information Technology at Purdue
Research Computing and Storage
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*snip*
> Here's the reason: some time ago a museum allegedly building in
>Colorado approached me about taking away some old machines I have... I
>promised them, but nothing every came of it and the storage bills are
>killing me now that I am retired.
*snip*
I just want to take the time to make it clear that I am NOT, repeat, NOT the
person in Colorado with the museum building that he is speaking of... I'd be
willing to be that I know the person who doesn't have their act together who
is, though...
Will J
(including prior text to appease Sellam)
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I just picked up a manual for Michael Shrayer's Electric Pencil
- the first WP I had on my Sol-20. But this manual is for the
IBM PC version! I don't recall reading about this at all. Has
anyone else come across this, and does anyone actually have a
copy of the program? I'd love to be able to run it.
(forgive me if I seem lax in responding to any replies - I get
the digest version and and am "time-shifted" usually by several
days)
Bob Stek
Saver of Lost Sols
>Does anyone have information on this keyboard? It seems like the RCA
>model is being dumped by Circuit City, but It doesn't appear MS is
>closing down the service... Any hardware info on the keyboard would
>be appreciated!
I have one of these... came from a Sony branded WebTV unit I got at a
garage sale. I use the keyboard with my DishNetwork satallite decoder
(their Dish Player 7000 model... their original PVR model... it has a
webTV unit built in along with the ability to pause and record TV... and
no, I don't use the webTV features... I wanted the keyboard to make my
life easier in spelling out TV shows I was searching for, so when I saw a
webTV for sale for $5 I grabbed it).
Since I think my decoder is made by JVC, that should tell you that at
least all the webTV keyboards are cross compatible and not manufacturer
or model specific.
Beyond that tiny tidbit of info, I can't help much more until monday. I
don't have a little screwdriver at home right now that can open it up to
see if there is any better info inside.
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
I recently picked up a couple of ICM-3216s and am hoping the
following might make sense to someone more familiar with them.
There are two systems comprised of a CPU board, one 4MB memory
board, and an ICM-SIO-M-08 board with its own 32016, 32201, and
four 2681 DUARTs for 8 serial ports. The SIO board in front of me
is a 980600014-001 Rev D (the 001 and D are hand written) The
EPROMs in U5 and U6 show Rev B on their labels, and I can give
the full P/N if it will help.
When retired from service several-many years ago, these machines
were timesharing hosts and used all these serial ports. Now when
I try to power up either system with the SIO board in the stack,
the system won't initialize. If I remove the SIO from the stack
the system will initialize and I can boot Unix on one box, or
talk to the monitor on the other (disk won't spin).
Does this make sense to anyone familiar with these systems? I
suspect someone else has seen this, given the way it's impacting
both systems... I suppose I'll start checking out the third box,
which lacks an SIO, and see what it does with it.
Thanks for any thoughts, or even unrelated reminisences about the
ICMs or the 32k in general.
--Steve.
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As most of you don't know, I work for Cirrus Logic, developing channels
and controllers for DVD drives. I am currently working on some test
software to run on a DVD player (developed by a group in Fremont and
Fort Wayne), and I want to hook a keyboard to it.
After much pondering, it seems the IR interface might be configured to
talk to an IR keyboard, and the only 'standard' keyboard seems to be
the WebTV keyboard.
Does anyone have information on this keyboard? It seems like the RCA
model is being dumped by Circuit City, but It doesn't appear MS is
closing down the service... Any hardware info on the keyboard would
be appreciated!
Thanks,
Clint
Before I got my VAX, it went down because the power supply went out. I
have the print set and the 'Technical Description' document for the
power supply and I am fairly comfortable dealing with this stuff, but I
am not an expert.
If I attempt to repair the power supply myself, is there anything that I
should avoid doing so I don't kill myself?
alan
Hi All,
I found some old computer book during our spring clean (I'm in the southern hemisphere) and I got all nostalgic for the first computer I ever programmed a PDP-11/0?. The reason for the question mark is I cannot definitely remember if it was an 03, 04, or 05. So I was hoping I might fire off a bit of my remembered details, and someone here could help me definitively identify the machine. I have done some web searching and I have not been able to sort it out yet.
The system comprised a CPU and dual 8" floppy in a half height rack, on top of which sat a marked sense card reader, and in the corner was a DEC line printer. My memory of the CPU front panel is that it looks somewhat like an 11/34 picture I found in the user manual PDF with the programmers console. But I definitely remember it as an "slash zero" something model, so I believe that it was an 04. However the only picture of an 04 I have found to date has a rather basic looking programmers panel, by basic I mean as it is simple white text on black panel and buttons. I seem to remember the octal keypad had a border drawn on the pane and was a little bit smarter looking, maybe there were updated cosmetic version of the panel. The system booted straight to a local derivative of FORTRAN (MONECS FORTRAN), so we were insulated from the hardware and I therefore have no memory or interface card details.
Any help in IDing the machine would be greatly appreciated.
Now this leads me to the second reason for this message. I would like to collect a sample of the machine in question, but I am unsure of how to proceed. What are your tried and tested ways of locating such antique hardware? Also I saw an ebay auction for two RK05 disk packs today. Would these be usable with an 11/0? system? And if so what would be a reasonable price to pay?
I have lurked on the list for a few weeks now, and think that I shall stick around and get into the classic computer collecting myself (time and wife permitting).
OH BTW, I contacted Charles L. regarding his Zilog 8000 system (the Z8000 being another chip I found interesting when it came out). He is unsure if he actually wants to part with the machine at the present time. That might just be my first dead end lead in this new hobby of mine.
Thanks in advance,
David Kane
Today I spent the day setting up our little 100 square meter exhibition
tracing 50 years of computing in Grenoble, France.
For anyone in the area from tomorrow til December 2 the exhibition will
be open from 10:00 till 18:30 each day except Tuesday at the Grenoble
Museum, Place Lavalette (Tram B , Notre Dame stop)
Among the classic machine on exhibit are a Bull Gamma 3, the panel from
an IBM 360/67, a (working) 1130, a (working) PDP-8/m, a Telemechanique
1600, a Micral N, a Thomson MO5, a Goupil 2.
Hopefully we can get pictures on the web over the next week for those
unable to attend.
-- hbp
