test-drb March 2002

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Toilett processing (Was: ZX-TEAM meeting and Webcam)

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

> Rumor has it that Douglas Quebbeman may have mentioned these words: > > -- and I said originally -- > >> I remember seeing greenbar, pinfed *bedsheets* a long time > >> ago... I wonder if any company's still making them. ;-) > > >If not, someone has a lot of it in stock... > > > >I bought a brand new box of 20lb greenbar at Office Despot > >in June 2001 for $38.00. > > I was really talking about the bedsheets - I think they'd be a cool part of > 'retro dream-computing...' and might be quite rare nowadays... I *caught* the bedsheet reference, and took it for metaphor... metaphors be with you > I have a color lazer with serial/parallel/ethernet ports, full Postscript 2 > capability, 2G SCSI hard drive, and 112Meg RAM - I can print from most any > classic machine I have (some multiport, like my Tandy 200, can print on the > serial & parallel interfaces... ;-) so actual greenbar paper isn't ezactly > at the top of my list... But how do you get 8.5x11 paper to fit in your DECwriter LA-120? ;) -dq

23 years, 1 month

Toilett processing (Was: ZX-TEAM meeting and Webcam)

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

> >I like this. And, how about "classiccmp designer toilet paper" with > >ms , wicktel and other loathed entities' corporate imagery on > >it? :-) > > Nah... too obvious. Just make it look like greenbar - that > would be cool! > > I remember seeing greenbar, pinfed *bedsheets* a long time > ago... I wonder if any company's still making them. ;-) If not, someone has a lot of it in stock... I bought a brand new box of 20lb greenbar at Office Despot in June 2001 for $38.00. -dq

23 years, 1 month

MiniMINC

by ajp166＠bellatlantic.net

From: Tony Duell <ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk> >But the MiniMINC I came across looked just like a PDT11/150. >Approximately cubical, with 2 8" drives one on top of the other. I didn't >have a chance to dismantle it, so I have no idea what the internals were >like, but I'd be suprised if there were Qbus slots in it. It's a plain PDT11/150, as a MINC it's useless as there are none of the usual lab IO items that made the larger QBUS ones useful. One exception is if your systems talk via serial IO then it was a pretty useful box. Now the PDT11/130 (same thing with TU58 instead of RX01 similar) could be used the same way... I think not. Allison

23 years, 1 month

MiniMINC

by tim.myers＠sunplan.com

I've just got hold of a DEC MiniMINC - supposedly an LSI/11 woth 2 8" floppy drives (I've not had a good look at it yet as I've spent all day installing Solaris 8 on the SPARCstation 10 I picked up at the same time ;). Anyone have any more information about this beast? Tim.

23 years, 1 month

HP 3000 gear in Bristol, UK

by coredump＠gifford.co.uk

I've just been shown a load of HP 3000 and HP 1000 gear which is about to be thrown out, located in Bristol (UK). This list is approximately what's available: HP 3000 Series II 7970 B Digital Tape Unit 7970 E Digital Tape Unit Metier 50 Megabyte Data Storage Unit (disk) HP 3000 Series III 97935 top loading disk drive 7970 E Digital Tape Unit HP 1000 E-series computer "Artemis System" 12979 B I/O Extender 7906 Disk Drive 13037 Disk Controller 2648 A Graphics Terminal 2631 B Line Printer unknown modem 2392 Terminal (qty 3) Flexible disk drive for HP desktop calculator (qty 2) Falco Terminal 91148 Floppy Disk Drive Alignment packs for HP 7905/7906 disk drives They want to clear out the storage space quite soon, and if anybody wants any of it, we'll have to arrange something quite quickly. Most of the computers are in 19-inch racks of about 5-foot (1.8metre) height, but some of them are double-width racks. Basically, you'll need a van to move them! Any takers? -- John Honniball coredump(a)gifford.co.uk

23 years, 1 month

HP-IB <something>

by doc＠mdrconsult.com

I grabbed this yesterday at goodwill. It looks like an HP-IB/floppy-IDE interface, but I can't find any references. HP model appears to be: 09L Rev C 09153-66511 or 2815 or 0TF0C07 or RSWKC3 The card has a bulkhead plate w/ HP-IB connector, address dial switch 0-9, and configuration dial switch 0-9. PCB itself is about 10" by 3" with a 1.5" by 3" cutout. There is a 34-pin male and a 40-pin male header and dip switches: TEST <--> NORM B <--> C 30/40 <--> 10/20 BOTH < 10/30 <--> 20/40 NO FLOPPY <--> FLOPPY What is it? Doc

23 years, 1 month

MiniMINC

by ajp166＠bellatlantic.net

From: Tony Duell <ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk> >> >> I've just got hold of a DEC MiniMINC - supposedly an LSI/11 woth 2 8" >> floppy drives (I've not had a good look at it yet as I've spent all day >> installing Solaris 8 on the SPARCstation 10 I picked up at the same time >> ;). Anyone have any more information about this beast? > >If it's the machine I think it is, it's closely related to the PDT11/150. >There is an LSI11 in there, but with some odd (by PDP11 standards) >peripherals. Nope, It's an LSI-11/02 Qbus machine woith a small cage and rack and RX01(maybe an 02). You need Qbus for the varions analog IO and digitial IO cards. >I am not sure how the miniMINC differes from a PDT11/150. By rights, the >miniMINC should have some kind of 'lab' I/O (ADC, etc), but I have no >details of that. The PDT11/150 has no user bus and the oly IO is serial. It is however the same LSI-11 chip set but no provision for the EIS/FIS. Yes, I know you can piggy back one of the microms to do that but the board only has 4 40 pin sockets that are filled where the LSI-11/03 Qbus board has 5. Allison

23 years, 1 month

ZX-TEAM meeting and Webcam

by acme_ent＠bellsouth.net

> From: Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) <cisin(a)xenosoft.com> > Is there a Linux port for the ZX81? No, it doesn't even have a serial port (yuk yuk). If you'd like to turn your favorite 486 into a ZX81 there are ZX81 emulators for Linux, but to my knowledge no one has even entertained the idea of doing some flavor of Unix on ZX81 hardware. Hmm, now thatcha mention it, Linux makes more sense than Windows or GEM, CP/M's already been done, VMS ain't happening here, and I *really* don't want to port MS-DOS ;>) Glen 0/0

23 years, 1 month

ZX-TEAM meeting and Webcam

by acme_ent＠bellsouth.net

> From: Joe <rigdonj(a)cfl.rr.com> > That's true but I think they just enjoy seeing who can hang the most > stuff off of a ZX81. Sort of like the guys that see who can put the biggest > engine inside a Chevy Vega! After considering this, I think you've hit the nail on the head, Joe, except that the only thing we don't change is the engine! The Z80, ROM and ULA *have* to be present! Our goals seem to be: 1 -- Build an interface for every device under the sun, including the toilet seat. 2 -- Write software to perform every task ever performed by any computer anywhere. The software should be 100% Z80 machine code and should push the ZX81 as hard as possible. 3 -- Do all of the above for US $25 or less. I hope everyone has as much fun with their old computers as I have with mine! Glen 0/0

23 years, 1 month

Destruction of DEC

by rdd＠rddavis.org

Quothe Joseph.Pollizzi(a)encompassus.org, from writings of Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 03:45:49PM -0600: > Hewlett-Packard and Compaq Computer Corporation have announced that they > both believe that they have enough shareholder votes to approve the merger. DEC's destruction began when DEC was palmerized into a ghost of it's former self and sold into slavery to Microsoft. Then much damage to this once great computer company, DEC, was done by Compaq (a wannabe computer company that never made real computers, and destroyed an acquisition, DEC, that did), and, now, this appears to be little more than the nails being hammered into the coffin of what was once Digital Equipment Corporation. R.D.D. -- Copyright (C) 2001 R. D. Davis The difference between humans & other animals: All Rights Reserved an unnatural belief that we're above Nature & rdd(a)rddavis.org 410-744-4900 her other creatures, using dogma to justify such http://www.rddavis.org beliefs and to justify much human cruelty.

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test-drb March 2002