test-drb January 2003

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by cb＠mythtech.net

>French Postcards! The way it worked was that there were two pictures, one >loaded into the first hi-res page and the other loaded into the second >hi-res page. The two pages were then alternated to produce "animation". >The obnoxious part was that it would play this loud trill between each >page flips, so if you were trying to be discrete there was no chance of >that. That might have been it, but I remembered it being more animated cartoonish video. Some kind of a story went with it (the two ladies came home from the store pulled the salami from their bag, and wondered what they could do with it). The art quality was around that of ArtWorx's Strip Poker game. And I don't recall their being sound with it, but I could be wrong. The whole thing only ran 30 seconds or so IIRC. I'll have to look thru one of the online A2 archives... someone must have it imaged somewhere. -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

21 years, 10 months

The H&H AoE book

by jss＠subatomix.com

Due to the recommendation of several on the list, I went to the local Barnes and Noble and picked up Horowitz & Hill's _The Art of Electronics_. You guys weren't fibbing: this thing's great! I've only read about 10 pages so far, but it already kicks the complete @#$% out of the book I previously had. I give many thanks to those who recommended this book. The other book I had was _Understanding Electronics_. I don't remember the author's name but the publisher was TAB Books. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone except maybe for use as a firestarter. That book sucks giant donkey balls (IMHO of course). -- Jeffrey Sharp

21 years, 10 months

Model 100 DVI drive

by RCini＠congressfinancial.com

Roger: This helps a lot. The CoCo drive I have is a single drive in a dual slimline case. I have to open it up to get the drive model numbers but at least now I have something to go on. On the cable, I would call Tandy National Parts. About 3 years ago, I ordered the DVI cable for the 102 and they had it. It was $30 or $40, but well worth it. They had bood disks too for $5. Rich ========================== Richard A. Cini, Jr. First Vice President Congress Financial Corporation 1133 Avenue of the Americas 30th Floor New York, NY 10036 (212) 545-4402 (212) 840-6259 (facsimile) -----Original Message----- From: Roger Merchberger [mailto:zmerch@30below.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 10:44 AM To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org Subject: Re: Model 100 DVI drive Rumor has it that M H Stein may have mentioned these words: >From: "Cini, Richard" <RCini(a)congressfinancial.com> > > Does anyone know if the specs on the Model 100 Disk-Video Interface >is the same as the CoCo disks? I have a single-drive DVI and a single >low-profile CoCo disk drive. They physically look to be the same but I >wanted to be sure before I lashed them together. Depends... ;-) The DVI wants a "standard" 34-pin interface MFM SSDD 40-track drive -- the original CoCo drives were 35-track SSDD drives. If you put one of *these* drives in the DVI, you will most surely hear bad clunking noises when you try to format your first disk. The CoCo slimline drives came in 3 flavors: The FD-500, which was 35-track SSDD (bad) the FD-501 which was 40 track SSDD (which is OK), and the FD-502 which was 40-track DSDD (which side 1 will go unused, but should work fine). I have a DVI as well, but I don't have a boot disk or interface cable for my Tandy 200... so I have yet to use it. Hope this helps! Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- sysadmin, Iceberg Computers zmerch(a)30below.com What do you do when Life gives you lemons, and you don't *like* lemonade?????????????

21 years, 10 months

SGI GIO64 FDDI card trade

by jkunz＠unixag-kl.fh-kl.de

Hi. I have a SGI Indigo2 [1] with a SGI GIO64 FDDI / CDDI SAS UTP card. I don't have copper ports on my concentrator, so I need the equivalent DAS fiber optic FDDI card. (SAS would do also, but DAS would better fit in my network topology.) I can trade the UTP SAS card and possibly soon a SGI Extreme GFX for the DAS fiber FDDI card. Alternative: A CDDI/copper to FDDI/fiber optic media converter or a CDDI/copper interface module for my Hirschmann MC 10-03 concentrator. If someone wants to get "rid" of this "obsolete" FDDI stuff, please drop me a mail. ;-) I am located in Germany. [1] The I2 was released 5/93, so it is nearly on topic. :-) -- tsch??, Jochen Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/

21 years, 10 months

PDP-8: (and others) anyone tried NVRAM simulation of hard drives?

by fm.arnold＠inn-salzach.de

>Message: 10 >From: "Will Jennings" <xds_sigma7(a)hotmail.com> >To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org >Subject: Re: PDP-8: anyone tried NVRAM simulation of hard drives? >Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 19:44:46 -0700 >Reply-To: cctech(a)classiccmp.org > >Omnibus or Posibus? Why not Negibus? Neither Omnibus nor Posibus would help >me on my 8/i, since mine is Negibus... An SSD would be a Very Cool Thing to >have though... Especially since it really wouldn't have to be very large in >terms of capacity.. > >Will J > > Hi, one way of doing this would be the use of a TU-58 tape drive. This device is internalley using a disc-like structure, and it will connect to any serial port. There should be a PDP8 OS8 driver for this. And with the RS-232 interface, this could be used for any other computer as well. The real TU58 is sweet, but terribly slow. On top of that, the tapes are expensive. But there are cool alternatives: You will find a semiconductor-emulated TU58 kit on: http://www.SpareTimeGizmos.com/Hardware/TU58_Emulator.htm Also there is a PC-Emulation on: http://www.not-compatible.org/PDP-11/programs/tu58sim.html I havn't yet used any of these, (have a real TU58), so see for yourself how useful this is in your system. Please post the results! Frank Arnold

21 years, 10 months

Was Removing duct tape residue, now guntalk

by loedman1＠juno.com

> I always find it interesting that computer types would also be gun >nuts. I've got a 1942 Soviet Musen Nagent (Spelling?) 7.62x54R, a 1970s >era Savage 30-06, and a .380 handgun. Cabela's has a good stock of >various odd ammunition sizes, including 7.62x54R. I believe that it has to do with "protecting" our precious computers, or maybe the family ? BTW, I prefer muzzle loaders (45 and 58 cal) and saddle guns Rich Stephenson Lake Berryessa, California

21 years, 10 months

DEC Rainbow monitor in picture

by mtapley＠swri.edu

Rainbow afficionadoes, at URL http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3204407169&category=21092 (auction title = "1985 DIGITAL AD/Rainbow Computer/DEC PC/Desq", ending Feb. 4) is a picture of an advertisement (apparently clipped from a period computer magazine, from the description). While I'm annoyed with the seller (starting bid = $7.98 for *one page* of one of his old magazines??!!??), more interesting to me is the content of the ad. It shows what looks like a VR201 monitor and LK201 keyboard (presumably hooked up to a Rainbow, which is not in view), running DESQ *with a color display*. The only color monitor that I knew of that worked with a Rainbow is a VR240, and the monitor in the picture does not look like one of those to me. Question: is there a monitor that looks like a VR201 and acts (ie displays in color if connected to a Rainbow) like a VR240, or is that advertising hyperbole? I have to say that the "color display" looks photo-retouched in - the upper border of the windows line up with the monitor screen edge but the lower borders do not. - Mark No connection to the auction.

21 years, 10 months

Fw: Spectrum Holobyte's "BreakThru!"

by ETILLMAN＠satx.rr.com

Thanks! Done. Ed San Antonio, Tx, USA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeffrey Sharp" <jss(a)subatomix.com> To: "Ed Tillman" <ETILLMAN(a)satx.rr.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 06:11 PM Subject: Re: Spectrum Holobyte's "BreakThru!" > You probably want to send this to the list instead of to me. The correct > address for posting is cctalk(a)classiccmp.org. > > On Wednesday, January 29, 2003, Ed Tillman wrote: > > Thanks to all, for all the input that helped me locate Spectum Holobyte's > > BreakThru! I did indeed find it on the referred abandonware page, and > > snatched while the gettin' was good. The actual file size was @ 1.2Mb > > zipped, and over 5Mb expanded, with over 4.5Mb being the wall patterns. I > > do remember it pushing Windows 3.1 and 4Mb of 30-pin RAM to its limits > > though... :) > > > > BTW: I thought I'd have to apologise for being OT about the game (still > > debatably fuzzy), but right on the splash screen - the earliest copyright > > listed was/is 1989. > > > > If I can help anyone in a like manner, please don't hesitate to holler! > > -- > Jeffrey Sharp

21 years, 10 months

more free stuff

by loedman1＠juno.com

Available cards (1) Genoa Systems Windows VGA Mod# 8500VL Rev:A " " Rev:G " " Phantom 32 Mod# 8900VL Rev:A (2) Audio PCI 9722 Sound Card (3) Creative Labs CT6030 Video Spigot for Windows (4) Media Vision Pro Graphics 1024 (5) BIBM-VIDE-500X Video DCI tv (6) Headland Technology VRAM 2 (1991) 650-0218-blank (7) Sigma Designs ReelMagic CD Rev:A1 (8) Spider Graphics Spider 64VLB (9) Seattle Computer Ram+(plus) SCP130C (four banks installed) Free to a good home ;-) More to follow, as I get the time Rich Stephenson loedman1(a)juno.com

21 years, 10 months

ADMIN: Demime is now active

by acme＠ao.net

> By popular demand, Jay and I have set up demime on the ClassicCmp server, > and all posts are being filtered through it. From here on out, all posts you > get from CC will be in plain text, with no attachments or HTML. If you send > file attachments, they will be removed from your post. If you post anything > other than plain text messages, plain text will be extracted or rendered as > appropriate. Even HTML-only or RTF-only mail is rendered into plain text. > Demime tries very hard to convert your post into plain text, but if it > simply cannot, it will bounce your post. *Sigh* Thank you! Glen 0/0

21 years, 10 months

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test-drb January 2003