This is a classic Xerox Word Processing system from the early 1980s. It
should be saved. It sounds like it is a great setup and complete with the
full page monitor and printer.
It would make a great museum exhibit. We were scrapping these in 1990. There
are few around. I may have some of the boot software disks in my storage
although this system is complete with software and extras.
Paxton
Astoria, OR
Dave,
I sent a reply to you but I'm getting an error. You may need to send me another address.
Joe
<dmabry(a)mich.com>... Deferred: 452 Can't connect to mich.com - psmtp
451 4.4.1 reply: read error from mich.com.bignet.mail2.psmtp.com.
On Dec 3, 11:46, Dwight K. Elvey wrote:
> >I don't know what exactly they did, but I do know that several people
who
> >have working laservision players offered to lend one. It's just a
Philips
> >laservision player, as still used by video buffs, but with a SCSI
> >interface.
> >
> >Of course, you'd need software to make sense of the directory
structure,
so
> >perhaps the "emulation" part was something to run the Video Filing
System
> >developed …
[View More]for the BBC Micro, or some equivalent.
> If they had the player, why not use an original BBC Micro to
> read things?
I have no idea. Unless they needed something more sophisticated or
powerful to extract all the data (a collection of still images, video,
sounds, cartographic data, geophysical data, text, etc) along with the
indexing, in such a way as to preserve the data, its layout, and the
cross-referencing. Normal use wouldn't do that.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
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> All I'm really interested in is getting the data (mostly ASM source)on the
> hard drive onto a PC. I also have boxes full (heaps!) of 8" floppies for
> this system that I'd like to get the data off and over to a PC
It would be helpful if you could identify the floppy interface in the
system. It's probably an IBX daughter card. They are probably 1024 byte
sectored MFM encoded, I assume for RMX ?
HD recovery, as people have said, is more difficult.
See below. Contact original sender.
Reply-to: <ggarber(a)tampabay.rr.com>
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Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 19:31:05 -0500
From: Greg Garber <ggarber(a)tampabay.rr.com>
Subject: old computer
Hi,
I found an old "Texas Instruments Home Computer 99/4A" in the attic of the
house I purchased two years ago. It seems to be in pretty good condition,
although I don't know if it works as I have not plugged it in. There is
one game in the box. Not sure if all …
[View More]the cords are there, but I know the
power cord is in the box. (Box is not in great shape). Anyway, if you tell
me it is junk, I'll trash it. I've had it for 2 years so I can wait for
you to respond.
thanks...greg garber
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Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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Does anyone have an address and some contacts at the computer museum
that NASA's Ames Research centre in California is putting together? There
was an article about it in the New Scientist Magazine.
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.
I will give them away, but I do want to do it on …
[View More]a wholesale basis
rather than piece by piece. Here's what I have:
Dec PDP 11/34, two RK06 drives (was working when retired). Drives are,
of course, the big washing machine ones. 11/34 is in an "executive" rack.
Dec PDP ll/23, two RL02 drives, in usual tall rack. Broken pin in
ribbon cable to the mini-drives used for booting and diagnosis. RL02s were
working when retired.
Lots of manuals and some spare platters for the drives.
Quick and Timely (Seattle company) CP/M box, S100 bus. Working when
last used.
Matrox (Montreal company) CP/M box, with old analog-digital conversion
attachment, used for scientific experiment data gathering when retired.
No documentation, but some boot floppies for the above.
Commodore 8296. Beautiful looks. Last Commodore entry into the 8-bit
business computer field. With dual floppy drive. Some software.
A few miscellaneous Atari STs. monitors, floppy drives.
Since I am in Ottawa, California might be a long way to transport the
stuff but since some of it seems rare now and the Ames Research centre
seems intent on collecting stuff, they might be willing to pay for a truck
>from here.
I would appreciate advice.
ahoj
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The -IP model has a full qwerty keyboard and 20 character alphanumeric
14-segment display instead of just a keypad and 7-segment LED displays so I
assume the monitor code would be significantly different.
>From: "John R. Keys Jr." <jrkeys(a)concentric.net>
>Reply-To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
>To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
>Subject: Re: Microprofessr MPF-1 Manuals?
>Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 17:07:39 -0600
>
>I have a new in the box MPF-IP not sure if it's close …
[View More]to your IB? But in
>the box is a new User's manual (170+ pages) and a Monitor Program Source
>Listing manual that's 69 pages long. Just looked again and there is a
>101 page Experiment manual (software/hardware) in the box also.
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Hi folks,
Hurrah for moderated mailing lists - I hope. This may be a brief visit but
since I got broadband at home it's not so much of an issue now.
Anyway, in June '00 Hans (if he's still here) posted questions about the
Semi-Tech Pied Piper and at the time I knew where there were some but hadn't
had a chance to go get 'em. Mark Gregory also had questions since he had one
but no docs.
In the last few weeks I've been able to pick them up and was most impressed
to find that one of them was an …
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38. At this point we won't go into the fact the keyboard connector is
missing a post - it has 23 instead of 24 which causes some strange but
expected issues when the keyboard is plugged in wrongly.
I'm now in a position to answer PP related questions since I've a) got the
technical manuals, b) spent a bit of time making 1 good machine (the
prototype) out of 2 bad ones and c) got a bundle of disks I can hopefully
make images out of if my PC's 5 1/4" drive is working.
Sellam wanted pictures (nothing like being over 2 years late) so go to
www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk, hit 'inhabitants' and go to the STM section.
cheers,
--
adrian/witchy
www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - the online computer museum
www.snakebiteandblack.co.uk - monthly gothic shenanigans
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I ran across an old XT clone with bus board in it instead of a true
motherboard. I have never seen an IBM PC compatible computer like this
before. Is this common? I have several XT's, but all the ones I have
ever seen had an actual motherboard. I just thought this was an
interesting machine. I have some pictures of it -
http://24.194.68.104/computerland_xt.html. Does anyone know anything
about this? Were there other PC's made like this?
BTW - I hope the page will work OK, it's on an old …
[View More]Pentium 166 running
Linux I use as a webserver.
Ian Primus
ian_pimus(a)yahoo.com
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