Would anyone be interested in the first four years issues of Kilobaud
Microcomputing magazine. These are in good condition and cover the period
>from January 1977 to December 1980, with February 1981 thrown in as a bonus!
If so, make me an offer!
Bruce Michael
Here is a message that came over the Flex Users Group mailing list recently.
Though you all might be interested.
Cross posted with permission.
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Subject: 68 Micro Journal
From: Mickey Ferguson <mickey_wa4kdc(a)yahoo.com>
To: Multiple recipients of fufulist <fufulist(a)X.net>
Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2002 10:38:25 -0700 (PDT)
For a couple of old retired guys, Ron Anderson & I have been busy! :)
Back in the spring I made a trip up to Chattanooga & spent the better part of a
day with Larry Williams. We discussed everything under the sun, but mostly 68
Micro. I told him that Ron & I were planning on scanning 68 Micro and putting
it on CD-R for our own use & maybe sell a few sets to recover our costs [tho
not our time. You can't imagine the hundreds of hours we have invested!]
Larry & Tom are all for the idea but technically cannot give permission for
several reasons, mostly because Don left 68MJ equally to all 5 of his children.
And like any family of that size, they can't agree on what day of the week it
is! :) Larry has discussed this with his attorney and is of the opinion it is
covered by the "fair use" clause of the copyright law. His only stipulation was
that he get a copy of the original scans, plus a copy of the distribution disks
for himself and each of his siblings. [Believe it or not, but that is 105
CD's!]
At any rate, we've finished! Each page of the magazine is a 1024 pixel width
JPG file that is easier to read than the pages we started with! I did the
scanning and Ron did the adjusting. He did a masterful job! He thinks I had the
hard job, but I think he did! You wouldn't believe the differance in the before
& after images!
Ron has written a viewer program especially for viewing 68MJ files. It runs
under Win9x or ME [I'm not sure about XP.] If you are running Linux [or Windoze
for that matter] Compupic available from photodex.com also does an excellent
job. Ron's viewer program is included on the CD's.
This is a 5 CD set and is the complete 68 Micro. Every page from the first
issue thru the last all 8105 pages.
If you want a copy, you can order it from either Ron or me. But I would suggest
ordering from me unless you want to wait til October to order because Ron is
about to depart on an extended vacation. We are asking $25 for the set
including postage. If you are outside the U.S.A., better make that $30 if you
want air mail instead of slow boat! If you want a set send a check, money
order, or even cash [as Yogi Berra said "that's almost like money"] to:
Mickey Ferguson
P.O. Box 520
Wausau
FL 32463-0520
or
Ron Anderson
1107 Citation Circle
Hendersonville
NC 28739
NOTE: U.S. Funds only, please.
Mickey
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tim lindner tlindner(a)ix.netcom.com
>From: "Dwight K. Elvey" <dwightk.elvey(a)amd.com>
>
>>From: Joe <rigdonj(a)cfl.rr.com>
>>
>>At 10:07 AM 9/18/02 -0700, you wrote:
>>>>From: MTPro(a)aol.com
>>>
>>>>One more time. Anyone?! Would anyone please have an extra power plug
they
>>>could sell me for my generic S-100 computer? Somehow mine must have
gotten
>>>given away with other misc. cords. It's the kind with two sort of oval
>>>female prong inputs on the computer end. Anyway, I'd be happy to furnish
a
>>>picture to anyone who needs to verify. I haven't had it up and running
for
>a
>>>couple of years now, and I would like to. Thank you, David
>>>>
>>>
>>>Hi
>>> I have an Allied catalog that is a couple of years
>>>old. They call these SVT cords.
>>
>> Are you sure? I looked up SVT pwer cords on the net and every site
that
>I looked at said that SVT was some kind of plastic and not a plug
>configuration.
>>
>> I'm trying to figure out what David is looking for but I don't remember
>ever seeing a power cord with oval prongs.
>
> It looks like I may have been looking at the wrong thing. I thought
>he was looking for the older type of HP instrument cord. I don't
>know of anything that has oval prongs. I thought he meant oval
>housing.
> SVT is the power cord style, not the material.
I'd like to modify that. I found a specific page that defines
it as 18 guage stranded (S) vacuum cleaner (V) cord with plastic
outsides (T). I see on closer looks, they are refering to the
cable used. The only mention of the connector type is in
one place, they call it a PH-163 which I think is a NEMA number.
Dwight
> Maybe he needs to be a little clearer. Is this an AC power
>connector we are talking about?
>Dwight
>
>>
>> Joe
>>
>>
>> They have several
>>>listed:
>>>
>>>manuf Manuf# Allied# Length Price
>>>Alpha 543 663-7082 7'6" 4.62
>>>Belden 17952 612-3569 8' 5.38
>>>Belden 17280 612-3677 7'6" 4.84
>>>
>>>Hope this helps
>>>Dwight
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
Howdy.
For those of you I've been speaking with about Data General AViiON NVRAM
backups, I've written a procedure and published it on the web.
For those of you with AViiONs whom I have NOT yet spoken to, please check
the page out and consider sending me backups.
I'm in the middle of dissasembling the NVRAM contents so those with failed
NVRAMs can restore their systems, and I'm in need of additional data
points to complete my research.
http://www.bears.org/~red/museum/aviion-nvram.html
Thanks for your support.
ok
r.
>From: "Fred Cisin (XenoSoft)" <cisin(a)xenosoft.com>
>
>> >>>given away with other misc. cords. It's the kind with two sort of oval
>> >>>female prong inputs on the computer end. Anyway, I'd be happy to
furnish a
>> >
>> > It looks like I may have been looking at the wrong thing. I thought
>> >he was looking for the older type of HP instrument cord. I don't
>> >know of anything that has oval prongs. I thought he meant oval
>> >housing.
>>
>> That's what I thought too until I read it closer.
>
>The "old" version of "modern" power cords, before the current "IEC" cords,
>had a oval plastic outer shell, and had either two or three ROUND
>pins. But sometimes the sockets (holes) in the end of the cord were oval
>in order to get a better grip on the round pins.
>
>--
>Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com
>
>
Hi
So it might be that my suggested cords was right.
Dwight
On Sep 18, 9:36, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Pete Turnbull wrote:
>
> > My example is a bit contrived; that's not really how I'd do it.
Instead,
> > I'd write a subroutine that wrote out a whole string, the string being
> > stored immediately after the JSR, and returning to the word after the
> > string. But that's another story.
>
> FYI, I was trying to use that as an example to try and learn MACRO-11
(fun
> stuff, eh?). I've made myself a subroutine version of the code also, I'm
> not yet trying for reusable or well-written code, just something I can
> quickly enter into ODT and see if what I did worked.
I didn't mean to denigrate your code :-) I guessed you might just be
learing about MACRO-11 and the PDP-11 instruction set. I learned by
writing short toggle-in programs, mostly hand-assembled, mostly to test
hardware, and some of them are much more embarrassing than your effort :-)
Yes, it is fun, and I offered the examples purely in the spirit of
contrasting two types of addressing modes, whose syntax isn't always
immediately obvious to a beginner.
Now you can write subroutines, have you tried a little fun with
co-routines?
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
>From: Joe <rigdonj(a)cfl.rr.com>
>
>At 10:07 AM 9/18/02 -0700, you wrote:
>>>From: MTPro(a)aol.com
>>
>>>One more time. Anyone?! Would anyone please have an extra power plug they
>>could sell me for my generic S-100 computer? Somehow mine must have gotten
>>given away with other misc. cords. It's the kind with two sort of oval
>>female prong inputs on the computer end. Anyway, I'd be happy to furnish a
>>picture to anyone who needs to verify. I haven't had it up and running for
a
>>couple of years now, and I would like to. Thank you, David
>>>
>>
>>Hi
>> I have an Allied catalog that is a couple of years
>>old. They call these SVT cords.
>
> Are you sure? I looked up SVT pwer cords on the net and every site that
I looked at said that SVT was some kind of plastic and not a plug
configuration.
>
> I'm trying to figure out what David is looking for but I don't remember
ever seeing a power cord with oval prongs.
It looks like I may have been looking at the wrong thing. I thought
he was looking for the older type of HP instrument cord. I don't
know of anything that has oval prongs. I thought he meant oval
housing.
SVT is the power cord style, not the material.
Maybe he needs to be a little clearer. Is this an AC power
connector we are talking about?
Dwight
>
> Joe
>
>
> They have several
>>listed:
>>
>>manuf Manuf# Allied# Length Price
>>Alpha 543 663-7082 7'6" 4.62
>>Belden 17952 612-3569 8' 5.38
>>Belden 17280 612-3677 7'6" 4.84
>>
>>Hope this helps
>>Dwight
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
I've just picked up a nearly-free NCR model 2119 (class 3400-MSTD). It
appears to be almost exactly the same (probably somewhat newer version) as
the Unisys U5000 I once had. Of course, there's no information available
on the web, and it didn't come with any documentation. However, I do
still have the old Unisys manuals for the moment so I can figure out what
is what (Will: email me if you still want those, I've not heard back from
you in a while).
I've got to get the thing cleaned off outside, and then moved upstairs...
that will be not-so-fun. It's about 30"x30"x8" deep (guestimate
dimensions) and weighs in excess of 100LBS. It has a pair of MFM hard
drives (full height 5.25") a streaming tape drive, and a 5.25" floppy
drive mounted in it. Also has 8 RS-232 DA-15 serial ports, a parallel (?)
printer port, and some sort of other, possibly serial, DB-25 port.
I'm hoping that it still has an OS on it, I might be able to figure out
how to get around and root password it has...
Anyone have more info on the system? I'm gonna get some picture up as
soon as I can drag it up here.
-- Pat
