test-drb April 2002

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by dquebbeman＠acm.org

Good Morning... I used to have a copy of: PASCAL User Manual and Report Authors: Jensen & Wirth Pub: Springer-Verlag It had a silver cover with red & black printing. I loaned it out, it never came back. If anyone has a copy they'd part with, or finds one, please contact me. Thanks, -doug quebbeman -Douglas Hurst Quebbeman (DougQ at ixsnayamspayIgLou.com) [Call me "Doug"] Surgically excise the pig-latin from my e-mail address in order to reply "The large print giveth, and the small print taketh away." -Tom Waits

22 years, 4 months

Computers Manufactured in 1986^H^H56

by ajp166＠bellatlantic.net

From: Ethan Dicks <erd_6502(a)yahoo.com> >> My birth-year is 1972, in that era what typical 'puter small enough >> to fit on desk or on floor (tower) and easy to ship? > >PDP-8/M? Some early PDP-11 (/05?) Too early for the i4004. I do have 4004 was there, and the 8008 was just about there (sept 82 intro). PDP-8e of various forms, Cincinattai Millichron CM2000/2100/2200 to name an oddball. Allison

22 years, 4 months

PCB vs perfboard construction economics (was Re: "New" PDP-8)

by ajp166＠bellatlantic.net

From: Ethan Dicks <erd_6502(a)yahoo.com> >> I like the PDP-8 but am unhappy that a 12/24 cpu never hit the >> monolithic chip market. > >That would have been fun. > >> Well I don't but remember with out the proper I/O a pdp-8 is NO FUN. Yes, and the big highlight of the PDP-8 (omnibus) was the relative ease of doing one off IO. It was truly easy to WW a quad card to do most anything. Allison

22 years, 4 months

"New" PDP-8

by ajp166＠bellatlantic.net

From: Ethan Dicks <erd_6502(a)yahoo.com> >The EPROMs themselves are not worth recycling (from the standpoint that >they are more valuable with DM firmware than as ordinary blanks). The >contents might be worth archving (not that they aren't already). I was.... SNIP>>> I wasn't suggesting they had significant value but did point out they were at least removeable and therefor usable. >The UARTs are 6402s, right? Not an uncommon chip outside of the Wintel >world. Still available in quantity, AFAIK. Correct but, if your building it's nice to not have to buy if you have! >Would the 6121 have any application outside of a DECmate? It's part of >the wierd console emulation on the DM, isn't it? It's the IO port device (decode and register control). It's not quite standard PDP-8 but it is generally useful. >> The DMIII it will be the 6120 and maybe a 6121 plus 2882 and the eproms, >> though I'm less sure as it's been a long time since I've had to open one. > >What's the 2882 do? UART. The DMIII had D7201 {intel 8274} dual USARTs, not common but useful as it's nearly identical to the Z80 SIO but, intended for 8080/8085/8088/8086 style busses. Allison

22 years, 4 months

Computers Manufactured in 1986

by ajp166＠bellatlantic.net

From: Ethan Dicks <erd_6502(a)yahoo.com> > >DECmate? I think the DM-III(+) was sold until 1994. I'd have to look up >what model was contemporary to 1986; I'd guess the DECmate-II. DMII was maybe 83ish. >The question is, though, is this thread about computers you could >walk down the street and _buy_ in 1986, or ones that were _introduced_ >in 1986? The second is a much smaller list, naturally. That would generally exclude much with 386 or higher. '86 was the Z100 series, last of the CP/M-80 machines like Kaypros and Compupro S100 crates. Microvax-I was there and VAXMATE was just around the corner (integrated 286 boxen). It was also a point on the broad 286 peak. The Workstation wars were warming up around then as well, this would lead to Sun, Apollo, DECstations{mips} and later VAXstations. Biggest impression of '86, WYSIWYG printing and Graphical screens making a big surge. Allison

22 years, 4 months

OT: hp doc request

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

Hey folks...I know there are a lot of HP calc people here; a friend of mine is looking for an HP48G manual, the "HP 48G Series Advanced User's Reference Manual"...no luck with either HP or eBay; does anyone have a copy of this that they might wanna turn loose of, or maybe do some scanning from? Thanks, -Dave -- Dave McGuire "...it's leaving me this unpleasant, St. Petersburg, FL damp feeling on my shorts..." -Sridhar

22 years, 4 months

FA another Tek 31 brochure also 909 and 911

by rigdonj＠cfl.rr.com

<http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2012892631> Check his other auctions too. There's also articles about the Tek 909 and 911 calcualtors. Joe

22 years, 4 months

FA Tektronix 21/31 calculator brochure

by rigdonj＠cfl.rr.com

See <http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2012891096>

22 years, 4 months

FA GE analog computer kit manual 1961!!!

by rigdonj＠cfl.rr.com

See <http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2014121210>

22 years, 4 months

Televideo 950 terminal with manual FA

by rigdonj＠cfl.rr.com

See <http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2013594433>

22 years, 4 months

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test-drb April 2002