test-drb December 2002

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by Robert_Feldman＠jdedwards.com

(I tried replying to this on Friday, but was at home, accessing work email with Outlook Web Access, which my company requires. The reply didn't make it.) There were 3 Poqet models, referred to as the "Classic" (PQ-0164), "Prime" (PQ-0181) and "Plus". My information comes from Brian Mason's Poqet PC Web site http://www.bmason.com/PoqetPC/index.shtml, an excellent source. The last one is the Fujitsu model that California Digital sells. It has backlighting, built-in rechargable NiCads (which often are dead by now), 2MB RAM, and Type I/II PCMCIA slots. It is the only model that can use Flash RAM (up to 32MB, reports to the contrary notwithstanding) and modem cards (only certain ones). The first model had 512KB RAM, and the second 640KB, as well as better built-in programs. Both use two AA batteries for power. There is no backup battery -- you have about 30 seconds to change AA's before the internal RAM disk goes blank. (I asume Steve is refering to the backup batteriues in his SRAM cards.) Both can only use Type I PCMCIA SRAM cards or small linear Flash cards (as ROM cards). The expansion connector on the back is a female 80-pin edge connector. It brings out most of the PC bus, as well as the serial lines. Pinouts are in Brian Mason's FAQ and in the Fujitsu technical manual, which Brian has on his web site (http://www.bmason.com/PoqetPC/techref/toc.html). The Poqet serial adaptor is rather bulky, so I created a bitmap for etching a small PC board to use as a serial connector. I can email the bmp file to anyone who is interested. The Poqet PC web site also has archives of a mailing list, with lots of useful info. The list has been dead for about 2 years now. There was an attempt to revive a list, but it is only sporadically active. Used Poqets are popular with QRP radio fans. The New Jersey QRP web site has info on replacing dead Nicads in the Plus model. BTW, the spelling of the name is "Poqet". It is pronounced as "pocket", I believe, although I pronounce it "PO-ket". All-in-all, I think the HP LX palmtops are better and more useful computers. (I have a Poqet PQ-0181, HP 95LX and HP 200LX.) <plug> I also have two early PQ-0164's, both with broken LCD's, missing keys, opened cases, etc. (this is the way they were when I got them). The newer is serial number 5224, with PC boards made in Japan. The earlier is Poqet Computer Corp Asset #02778, with boards made in the US. This one also has a "US Govt. Prop. DOE" sticker on the screen. I'm willing to part with either or both of these. Contact me offline.</plug> -----Original Message----- From: Steve Jones [mailto:classiccmp@crash.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 8:43 PM To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org Subject: Re: Poqet PC I've muddied the waters a bit... The link I included was for the later Fujitsu Poqet PC Plus. Fujitsi bought out the original company before or while the second generation product was being offered. CA Digital is giving specs for the Plus model, which is what I believe they're selling. Gee, I wonder if this is covered on one of the timelines people have been discussing... The original Poqet PC has _no_ backlight, uses 2 std AA cells, and MS-DOS 3.3 in ROM. Not sure how much memory is in there, ISTR at least 512K and maybe more. There's a small ramdisk on D: for AUTOEXEC/CONFIG.SYS, and the DOS ROM is C:. The two PCMCIA slots at A:/B: are nice, especially with the 2MB SRAM cards - however I appear to have forgotten to refresh the lithium backup batteries in mine :^} Fred's right, the original Poqet brings pretty much the whole XT bus out to a connector on the back. I like the idea of hooking this up to a backplane... B^P Somewhere I have the docs from when I bought the thing, but it may be years before they surface again. --S.

23 years, 1 month

Microprofessr MPF-1 Manuals?

by Lee.Davison＠merlincommunications.com

Glen, > Does anyone have manuals for the MultiTech Microprofessor MPF-1B? I have the manauals and listings but not online. Diagrams ar available at http://members.lycos.co.uk/leeedavison/z80/mpf1/ . If the machine you have is the 1B then it should have the BASIC EPROM in the second socket (U7). Cheers, Lee. ________________________________________________________________________ This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star Internet. The service is powered by MessageLabs. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit: http://www.star.net.uk ________________________________________________________________________

23 years, 1 month

Fwd: newbrain schematics

by jss＠subatomix.com

Here's a person in need of newbrain schematics. Please reply to him, not me. ---------- Begin forwarded message ---------- From: George Tsiros <george(a)tsiros.net> To: cctech-admin(a)classiccmp.org Date: Sunday, December 1, 2002, 10:09:31 AM Subject: newbrain schematics Hello I have a newbrain. It has some problem with display circuits. It shows a different area of memory on screen. please tell me if you can where i can find them. thank you. ---------- End forwarded message ---------- -- Jeffrey Sharp

23 years, 1 month

PDP-11 Freeware CDs (Originally Produced by Tim Shoppa)

by jhfinepw4z＠compsys.to

In regard to the Freeware CDs for RSX-11 and RT-11 If you are not receiving this paragraph as part of a group message, then you are not on my list of individuals who may wish to receive their own copies of the CDs. In that case, please reply so that you can be placed on my list when I send out an e-mail with my address. The first batch of the 3 CDs were sent out and have been received. Although there were not a large number of people who were interested, at least a few more people now have copies. The CDs were produced from images obtained from the following two sites: ftp://ftp.trailing-edge.com/pub/cd-images/ and http://www.classiccmp.org/PDP-11/RT-11/ http://www.classiccmp.org/PDP-11/RSX-11/ Since there might be a number of individuals who can't download at a reasonable speed (even with DSL it takes about 3 hours each at about 30 KBytes per second as compared with about 3 KBytes per second on a dial up line), I am prepared to make additional copies (Tim Shoppa no longer seems to have the time to do so) and make them available at my cost (for media, label, envelope and shipping carton plus postage to the US) and make them available at my cost of $ 5 / $ 9 / $ 12 for 1 / 2 / 3 CDs. If you prefer to have me use Memorex Black brand CDs which I have been told last about twice as long, the cost will be $ 1 more per CD. Note that all the prices are in US dollars for destinations in the US and postage from Canada. If you are in a different country, the postage will be different. All funds received will be considered to be a gift. Note that the images at Tim's site are ".bz2" files while the images at classiccmp are ".gz" images. For myself (Windows 98 and Netscape 4.78) DOES NOT WORK with the ".gz" images (since the file is automatically expanded - and the result is incorrect), but Carlos Murillo sent me a Windows 98 version of wget which does work, I suppose on any file. If you need help and are running Windows 98 or a compatible OS, I can send you copies of both "bzip2.exe" and "MD5.exe", but not for others OSs. For other OSs (and Windows 98) for bzip2 programs, see: http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2/ and click on either: PC, Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP PC, Windows 95/98/NT/2000. for bzip2.exe - I was advised to use the second older version and did - it worked fine under Windows 98. For MD5 programs, see either: ftp://ftp.cerias.purdue.edu/pub/tools/unix/crypto/md5/ http://www.fourmilab.ch/md5/ I obtained my MD5 programs at the first site. By the way, for myself, I would VERY much appreciate being in touch with all individuals who have a copy of the RT-11 Freeware CD V2.0 so that we might exchange information about RT-11. Tim Shoppa felt that he might be violating privacy concerns if he made the names, of those who ordered the CD, available. I don't see it that way, so if you want your name to be known along with the other individuals (or not as the case may be - i.e. restrict that you have a copy of the RT-11 CD to ONLY specified individuals such as possibly just myself) so that you can receive interesting information about new developments in RT-11 and the status of the operating system, then PLEASE contact me so that we can share information. Also state if you want to be known to the entire group of just to specified individuals such as myself. Some of you have already expressed an interest in the CDs. I hope that I have sent a personal copy of this post. If you sent a request for my snail mail address and I somehow missed you, please send me your request again. I am now ready to burn a second batch of the CDs. If you wish to have a set, please reply and I will send you my snail mail address if you are interested. Sincerely yours, Jerome Fine -- If you attempted to send a reply and the original e-mail address has been discontinued due a high volume of junk e-mail, then the semi-permanent e-mail address can be obtained by replacing the four characters preceding the 'at' with the four digits of the current year.

23 years, 1 month

Fw: Tell your friends: Free hardware

by rschaefe＠gcfn.org

Culled from c.s.s.h... No affiliation, replys to author, yadda yadda yadda... Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: "bolt thrower" <tucansam(a)whodis.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.sgi.hardware,misc.forsale.computers.workstati on Sent: Sunday, December 01, 2002 8:18 PM Subject: Tell your friends: Free hardware > i have a bunch of free sun, sgi, cisco, and other gear that i need to get > rid of. you have to come get it. i'm not going to reserve anything, you > show up here first, you get to take whatever you want. bring a truck -- > hell, bring two! i am in petaluma, california, 70 minutes north of san > fran, in sonoma county. i'm home in the evenings. next sunday, anything > that is left is going to the dump, so please, PLEASE come and take this > stuff away. > > * one sgi 20" monitor, granite, with cable and remote, works perfectly. i > was using it on my indigo. i am keeping my indigo boxed up for use later, > but can't really see keeping this giant monitor around. > > * one same as above with a little blur in one of the corners. i don't > know which of the two monitors it is (i am dumb and didn't mark the bad > one) and i don't have an sgi readily available to test it. come and take > your chances, or just grab both. please? > > * one sun 16" monitor with cable. had it on my ultra2. works fine. a > little small by today's standards, and just a tad on the dim side, works > great. > > * sun a1000 disk array. with three trays, a gang of 2gb disks in sleds, > some extra controller parts, some cables, and whatever else i can come up > with. it powers up. lots of drives spin and it sounds cool. that's all > i know. > > * a bunch of SPARC stuff. keyboards, mice, whatever. I have a SPARCcard > somewhere. I'm not sure if it works, but it sure looks cool. ome and > get it and hang it in your cube. you boss will give you a raise for being > such a geek. > > * some token ring and fddi stuff. concentrators and cables and nics and > what not. > > * whatever ethernet stuff i can find (little netgear type hubs, swithces, > blah blah) > > i have a whole closet full of stuff that i am cleaning out so i may post a > follow up to this message if i find more big stuff. otherwise basically > you can expect to find a large pile of crap sitting in the middle of my > living room, and you and some pals can come and get whatever you want. > the more you take the happier you'll be, i promise. if you come and take > _all_ of it, you will be destined to live a long life, and beautiful women > will want to be with you. > > its all free, but if you feel compelled to give me something in return, i > am looking for reloading equipment and 9mm and .40 S&W ammo. beer is > always good, too. > > yay! > > email me at jmw _at_ panix _dot_ com to arrange for you to come up here. > if you don't live in the bay area but know someone who does, send this to > them, ok? > > thanks.

23 years, 1 month

Beehive Terminal Manuals (SYM-1 Power Connector)

by glenslick＠hotmail.com

23 years, 1 month

Intel RMX 86/330 system & 380 startup questions

by Innfogra＠aol.com

I have a Intel RMX 330 that was working last I ran it (about 1992). I also have a 380 in two cabinets that worked also. I just moved my stuff in the storage locker and ran across them. I have docs and maybe disks. I also have lots of parts for 310s. Any suggestions for starting up the 3450 Priam Hard drives that haven't run in 10 years. I would love to fire both the 330 and the 380 up. They are fully equiped. I think the 380 has a 80286 Multibus card in it. Not sure what format the floppys are. I will see if I can find the information. Who else in the group is into Multibus I? Paxton Astoria, Oregon USA

23 years, 1 month

XT Clone with a bus board?

by rigdonj＠cfl.rr.com

At 12:38 PM 12/1/02 -0500, Pat wrote: >On Sat, 30 Nov 2002, Chad Fernandez wrote: > >> Hmm, my Zenith XT wasn't as wide as an IBM XT but was taller. I >> wouldn't compare it to an AT, although the later 386 Zeniths I saw had a >> csse comparable in size to IBM AT. It was the later 386's that were >> supposed to be able to fall off of a moving truck, as I was told. >> >> My Zenith XT has 3 drive bays, one on top of the other. I can't tell if >> Sarks computer does or not. > >Never mind, you're right. I've only seen one with a 'narrow but tall' >case before, and it was laying in pieces at the time. > >> > >> > Of course, there are also newer machines with passive backplanes, I think >> > JDR microdevices has sold 'the parts' for ISA and PCI (PIC/MG?) passive >> > backplane machines. >> >> Do you mean those rack mount multiple computers in one case type things? > >No, just a single ISA or PCI backplane (or both) that had a single >processor card and several slots for I/O cards. I'm not sure if JDR still >carries the, I haven't seen their catalog in at least 5 years. Yes, you could mount more than one system in those cases. I had about 30 Advantech rackmount systems that had 15(?) slot backplanes and the backplanes were divided into two sections. You could run a separate CPU and I/O cards in each section. The power supply was common as I recall. Several of these system had HP-IB cards and each computer was linked to the other one in the same case by HP-IB! Joe

23 years, 1 month

FS/FF More clearing out and sorting

by fernande＠internet1.net

All items $1.00 plus shipping unless otherwise specified. -Aldus Photostlyer Special Edition 2.0 for Windows (on 3.5" floppies) -Risk World Conquest Game (like the board game) for the IBM PC, XT, AT (on 5.25" floppy with a copy on 1.44) -PW2 Unisys Multiple Port Board, has two 16C452 serial ports and 1 parallel port, with driver disk, cable, and manual -Diamond SpeedStar Pro VLB -3Com Etherlink III 3C509TP (ISA) -Gateway ISA video card with docs and drivers (5.25" HD), ATI Ultra/A, ATI 38800-1 -Digi AccelePort 16-bit ISA dual serial port board 16C650 uarts, may not be function, with docs -486 AT motherboard model 486-PVT, I think it is a FIC, 7 slots, 2 with VLB extensions, socket 3 -generic PC plastic adjustable sidestand -1/2 a check box full of XT type memory -13 CD/DVD/etc. jewl cases (the kind that break easily) -decently built 5.25" bay to 3.5" floppy converter from old Gateway 386..... much better than the little flimsy things at the computer shows. -Dual EISA ISA (takes two slot) video card from Matrox, video out is 13w3, video in is db9. Matrox doesn't know what I have...... "Impress/Ultra", doesn't match any name on there web site exactly, and doesn't match description on the "Impress". It is very impressive looking :-) I do have one lead on drivers for it, but I don't have an EISA system anymore, to try it. $5 -Teac 32x cd-rom model CD-532-E (IDE, barely used) $15 -"The Longest Day" on RCA Selectavision Video Disk (CED) (2 disk set) -"Tora Tora Tora" on RCA Selectavision Video Disk (CED) (2 disk set) -Paradise/WD 16 bit or 8 bit ISA 256K VGA card -Alaska by James A. Michener, hard cover, a bit musty smelling, but not too bad. -Compaq AGP 3DFX card -IBM XT motherboard, supposed to be last bios revison, and was purchased by me as such. $10 For pick up only: -large AT server case built by Tandy, for Grid, for the Government. This case will hold a fullsize AT MB without it being underneath any drive bays or the power supply. Power supply has temp sensor and will adjust fan speed. Many drive bays. Very Nice case, I just don't need it anymore. Originally housed a EISA bussed 486. $10 Please reply off list Chad Fernandez Michigan, USA

23 years, 1 month

What is the Q/UniBus board set?

by jkunz＠unixag-kl.fh-kl.de

Hi. I got this Q/UniBus board set: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/qbus_1.jpg (105 kB) http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/qbus_2.jpg (128 kB) The first is the top card (towards CPU). I think it is QBus, as I got it together with some other QBus / MicroVAX stuff. On these cards are: lots of TTL ICs and PALs 4 x TS2901 (=AMD 2901 bit slice?) 1 x 2910 1 x DEC 010B 19-14038 I 8415 (The DIP 20 with golden heat spreader) 10 x AM27S35 (Microcode PROM?) 2 x Harris D1-15530-9 2 x "Transceiver" 1 x DC/DC converter. 2 x 82S09N 8039 2 x V61C16P16 1 x 10 pin IDC connector (upper left on bottom card) There is a cabinet kit with two BNC connectos and two blue koax cables, labled A and B that connects to the 10 pin IDC connector. The two cards are interconnected with two 40 pin ribbon cables. This numbers are on the PCB: 5079322-001E 5079312-001F 5079310-001 5079320-001 What is this? -- tsch??, Jochen Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/

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