test-drb February 2002

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Looking for a WD 1001 55 Disk controller

by Innfogra＠aol.com

In a message dated 2/7/02 9:00:05 AM Pacific Standard Time, marvin(a)rain.org writes: > Interesting, you are the only other person (besides myself) with a > Molecular that I've seen mentioned on this listserver! I got mine when > I had a Molecular at one time. It used a 8" floppy disk and a 5 1/4 HD. I think I still have some of the SW on floppies around I got mine from a school district office and passed it on when I closed my warehouse. Nice Machine. Paxton Astoria, OR

22 years, 5 months

IBM 8533 'PS/2 Note'

by ard＠p850ug1.demon.co.uk

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22 years, 5 months

What's your specialty?

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

Hmm... speciality. I collect all sorts of things, like beer bottle tops and teaspoons. As far as computers are concerned, I've started to weed out the less interesting (to me) from my fifty-something collection. I have quite a few Acorn machines from the '80s, because I worked for them or places that used/repaired their machines for most of that decade. I have a fair collection of Acorn-related software, lots of old price lists, sales brochures, etc, and a pretty good technical document collection. Also a few unusual items like a prototype BBC-ARM inteface card which was used when they were developing what became their first RISC-based machine, and (thanks, Kevan!) an ARM Development System which was a semi-commercial co-processor for the BBC Micro. Most of the rest are things I've collected because I lusted after them years ago when they were unaffordable, or they have some special significance, or they round out a family. An Exidy Sorcerer was the first machine I owned, so I have one of those, and the same monitor, printer, etc as I had originally (they're not all the same ones I originally owned, though). An Apple ][ was a machine I used at college, and a //e is a better version so I have both. To follow the line, I have a Mac Plus with some add-ons because it's cool as well as being the ]['s successor, a IIvx, and finally a NeXT slab -- another machine I lusted after at the time. Another line has to do with PETs. I have a 2001-8K, and to go before it a KIM-1, and to follow, a Vic 20 and a C128 (not interesting so relegated to an attic), and an Amiga 500 Plus. Contemporaneous with the Sorcerer, Apple ][, and PET is my Nascom, and a ZX81. I nearly had a ZX80 twice, but not quite. That's followed by a Sinclair Spectrum and a Spectrum II to contrast with the BBC Micros, and a Sinclair QL to contrast with slightly later machines. I have a few DEC machines. I got to know the QBus machines quite well when I worked for a third-party maintenance company, and I always wanted an 11/23. A few years later, I got one -- CPU box only, no storage, and that's really what started the collection about 15 years ago. I would go looking for some part or device, and when I found it there would inevitably be other parts too. The other parts wouldn't make a whole, so I'd collect still more. I've had at least three 11/23s, a couple of 11/73-S's, a few 11/03's, part of an 11/24, an 11/83, and a fairly good 11/34. I traded the 11/34 when I got an 11/40, and now I have a PDP-8/E (which was the first machine I used "hands on"). I also have two MicroVAXes which will run VMS "one day". My third 11/23 came with 7th Edition UNIX and a lot of disk and tapes, which is how I got into UNIX just before I went back to University. There I discovered SGIs, so I now have a collection of Indigos and Indys. And the inevitable Sparcstation and the like. There are a few others of course, which roughly fit in with the ones i've mentioned. There's even a PC (an early Intel model)! Networking equipment too, because that's what I do (and on a few occasions, my hobby helped get whatever the job was at the time: Acorn, UNIX, networking). What else do I want... Well, space is limited so an ASR33 that folds up and fits on a bookshelf would be good. More bookshelves, too. More DEC microfiche. An MMU for my 11/40. A copy of Spacewar to run on my 11/40 and VT11. More shelves. Dev Pak and manuals for my Sorcerer. I've asked for a 25th hour in the day for the last three Christmasses and four birthdays. ... not much, really ;-) -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

22 years, 5 months

What's your specialty?

by LFessen106＠aol.com

I like the Commodore and Apple 80's home computers and have multiples of most models therein along with software and whatever docs I can find. My real love at this point is older unix workstations - Sparcstations, Decstations, HP 9000 series workstations and the like. Although I might not have *quite* as many as most people on the list, I live in a 2 bdrm apt - and it's getting crowded :-) -Linc. In The Beginning there was nothing, which exploded - Yeah right... Calculating in binary code is as easy as 01,10,11.

22 years, 5 months

Duct Tape repairs [was:: What's your specialty?]

by DAW＠yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu

> ---------- > From: Chris > > >> >Now, what about the face plate? > >> > >> More Duct Tape? > >> > >You forgot the cardboard... > > I was thinking... remove the front plastic from the CD tray, then stretch > duct tape across the opening for the CD bay. Cut a slit into the tape > that lines up with the CD tray. Let it eject thru the slit in the tape... > you've got a "poor man's slot loading CD". :-) > > -chris > Chris, are you feeling okay? A little tired, and getting punchy, are we? --- David A Woyciesjes --- C & IS Support Specialist --- Yale University Press --- mailto:david.woyciesjes@yale.edu --- (203) 432-0953 --- ICQ # - 90581 Mac OS X 10.1.2 - Darwin Kernel Version 5.2: Fri Dec 7 21:39:35 PST 2001 Running since 01/22/2002 without a crash

22 years, 5 months

What's your specialty?

by DAW＠yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu

> ---------- > From: Doc > > On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, David Woyciesjes wrote: > > > ---------- > > > From: Doc > > > You mean Apple shipped those boxes with *face-plates*??? > > > > > > Doc > > > > > Eh, face plate, trim piece, bezel, whatever you call it... Yer pickin' > on > > me, aren't ya? > > No, I meant I hardly ever see a machine with the bezel intact. Or > even present. I thought they were *born* with the gaps there. > > Doc > Ahh, okay. Hmmm, must a phenomena that happens only around you... --- David A Woyciesjes --- C & IS Support Specialist --- Yale University Press --- mailto:david.woyciesjes@yale.edu --- (203) 432-0953 --- ICQ # - 90581 Mac OS X 10.1.2 - Darwin Kernel Version 5.2: Fri Dec 7 21:39:35 PST 2001 Running since 01/22/2002 without a crash

22 years, 5 months

Computer Museum of America on Tuesday night's PBS NOVA (fwd)

by vcf＠vintage.org

FYI... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 09:46:19 -0800 From: David Weil <dweil(a)computer-museum.org> Subject: Computer Museum of America on Tuesday night's PBS NOVA Last April, a film crew from Boston came to Computer Museum of America at Coleman College to film the staff operating several machines in the Museum collection. See the results this coming TUESDAY night on PBS NOVA at 8pm. -- Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org * Old computing resources for business and academia at www.VintageTech.com *

22 years, 5 months

What's your specialty?

by healyzh＠aracnet.com

> HP Unix Lunch Box (sorry, can't think of the number right now) I think you mean the HP Intergral PC aka HP IPC. It's got the printer on top, has a Gas Plasma display, IIRC, and can run HP-UX V5 off of Floppy, and it can also have stuff like BASIC in ROM packs that plug into the back. Zane

22 years, 5 months

What's your specialty?

by erd_6502＠yahoo.com

--- Huw Davies <Huw.Davies(a)kerberos.davies.net.au> wrote: > I think I'm trying to collect all of those computers I wanted to buy new > when I was younger but didn't have the money. You, too? I think that is a factor for lots of us. > On the list of things to buy: > > PDP-8 (I think I want an original but might take an -8S) They don't cost more now than they do when they were new (few things we collect do), but they are closer to the old prices than they used to be ($15,000 USD and $9,995 USD, respectively). I was offered $1,500 USD for one of my Straight-8s (Classic-8 or "original") many years ago (before the .com boom), and it doesn't even have console TTY interface. I do not know what one would sell for now. I don't really want to know; it is not for sale. > PDP-11 (A QBUS version with enough disk to run 2.11BSD) You'll want a board with a KDJ11 CPU like an 11/53 or 11/73 or newer. 2.11BSD requires a CPU that supports split I&D space, IIRC. The KDF11 (PDP-11/23, Pro350, et al.) does not. 2.9BSD runs on lots more CPUs, but doesn't support as many disk devices (like MSCP controllers) as originally shipped. Recently, I've heard about support for more modern disks for 2.9BSD, but I haven't played with them myself. My personal experiences are limited to a real 11/24 and multiple RL02 drives and an emulated -11 of various configurations (under simh 2.4) and a variety of emulated drives (RL02, RK05, RP03, etc.). -ethan __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE Valentine eCards with Yahoo! Greetings! http://greetings.yahoo.com

22 years, 5 months

RAM for Mac IIfx

by pb＠Colorado.EDU

There's been a bunch of discussion lately on Macs (mostly relating to first computers), and it reminded me to ask if anyone knows of a source of RAM for the IIfx. I'm looking for SIMMs larger than 4MB, but I'm not looking for them all that hard. Thanks in advance. PB Schechter

22 years, 5 months

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test-drb February 2002