> Doug, Anybody,
>
> Isn't 86 the year the Mac Plus came out? The original was 84, I know.
> There was a model ot two inbetween the original and the Plus, but I'm
> unsure the exact timing.
>
> If a Plus is the 86 computer, I do have an extra with addtional goodies.
> It does have a slight screen fussiness in one corner of the display,
> However.
Yup, 86 is right for the Plus.
And for Ethernet, you can get a box that hangs off the SCSI port
and provides the Ethernet ability.... The device in question seems
to have been made by one firm and rebadged and sold by others...
Seems like "Nova" is part of the name of the one I've got. Mine has
10-Base-2 (coax) and AUI ports, so it'd need a transceiver to do
10-Base T, I suppose....
-dq
-Douglas Hurst Quebbeman (DougQ at ixsnayamspayIgLou.com) [Call me "Doug"]
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Franchuk [mailto:bfranchuk@jetnet.ab.ca]
> Now do you one with or with out TUBES?
> Looking a list here http://members.iinet.net.au/~dgreen/timeline.html
> 1956 was a great year for TUBE computers.
> 1960 was a great year Transistor computers. ( Hmm I could get
> a PDP-1 )
I suppose to commemorate my birth, I'll need to get an S-100 box
of some sort, or possibly:
A "DECStation"
A PDP-11/60
A VAX-11/780 (...but what would I run on it? It would have to be
RSTS/E, since VMS 1.0 hadn't been released, probably.)
Chris
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ron Hudson [mailto:rhudson@cnonline.net]
> Anybody got a spare ENIAC ?
Not me...
> Perhaps an abacus?
Have one, also a small slide-rule but I'm kind of attached to them.
Chris
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I don't think the following post ever made it to the list, during
the time my office's domain cesed to exist for a short time...
> A friend was claiming that with the UCSD P-System, one could "compile once"
> and then "run anywhere" (where "anywhere" means different kinds of
> computers running the P-System, not different instances of
> the same computer).
>
> Was this true?
I've never seen it contradicted. [...until I saw some replies here...]
> Did users commonly compile on system A and then take the P-Code to
> system B and run it successfully?
It wasn't likely common. [..aforementioned media problems interfered?..]
> I'd have thought that media incompatibility would have tended to
> limit this capability.
Serial ports and modems would more or less get around this problem.
[..but it would appear that serial ports baffle quite a few many people..]
> Was any commerical P-System software sold that was a single binary,
> but the vendor expected the user to be able to install/run it on
> any brand/model of P-System? (Or, did vendors have to produce a version
> for every platform?)
The Smalltalk-80 System also used an interpreter, called the bytecode
interpreter, and it was in fact common to take an application compiled
on, say, a Xerox Dorado and run it on a Xerox Magnolia, or even a
Tektronix box. I've seen references recently to an Alto version of
Smalltalk-80 2.2, so the apps crafted at XSIS (Xerox Special Information
Systems) like The Analyst(tm), might have been worked out on Altos
then run at the The Company on Magnolias.
-dq
I know of at least 1 person who has a copy of The Analyst, which I almost
bought in 1987 (I was just going to buy ASP, the Analyst Spreadsheet)...
wish we could get him onboard in the preservationist movement
-Douglas Hurst Quebbeman (DougQ at ixsnayamspayIgLou.com) [Call me "Doug"]
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Franchuk [mailto:bfranchuk@jetnet.ab.ca]
> Andy Berg wrote:
> > COLOR COMPUTER 3 Tandy Radio Shack
> yep! This should have been upgraded with a real keyboard and
> 80 column
> characters
> and a HD and sold as real computer not a toy.
I'd forgotten the ridiculous keyboard. :) You're right, though.
512K wasn't far off from what other systems had, and the thing
certainly had nicer graphics and sound than most peesees of the
day. It wasn't hard, of course, to give it a hard drive, a real
keyboard, etc.
Chris
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I have the probe for an Applied MicroSystms Corp EP-68000 Emulator but I don't have the emulator so I'd like to trade it for the probe for an Applied MicroSystms Corp EM-180B Z-80 Emulator that I do have. The 68000 probe is about 8 x 5 x 1 1/2" inches in size and has two 68 pin ribbon cables on one end that connect to the emulator and two short cables on the other end that terminate with 64 pin DIP plug that replaces the CPU in the target system. The DIP plug is included. It is plugged into a machined pin socket in order to protect it's lead so the leads are all in perfect condition. If anyone has the Z-80 probe and wants to trade contact me directy other wise this goes to E-OverPay. I've posted pictures of the 68000 probe and Z-80 emulator at <http://www.classiccmp.org/hp/ams/ams-z80.jpg>
Joe
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Douglas H. Quebbeman [mailto:dquebbeman@acm.org]
> As before, no disagreement, I just think those things come built-in...
> except for the chant, and for that "down, not across" coupled with
> shaking an etherkiller at the thing, should be sufficient...
...but using the "built in" incense can have detrimental effects on
performance. :)
Chris
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