The Pertec 9 track PE formatter manual that is on loan from Joe
is now scanned and on line at
www.spies.com/aek/pdf/pertec/101399_F6X9_PEfmtr_Dec71.pdf
It isn't going to be directly of use for 7 or 9 track NRZI
though, since it appears to be PE only. It does describe the
original PERTEC dual 100 pin interface cables, though.
I've gotten about 2/3 of the way through scanning the material
that arrived from him earlier this week. Things should start
trickling onto the web site over the next few weeks.
So I was poking around a brocante in Sherbrooke and I spied a bag with
Star Raiders and a Video Touch Pad. SCORE! Also in the bag : a RCA RF
cable. I got it all for 3 CAD. The place had a hugely inflated idea
about what these were worth : they were selling what looked like a Coleco
2600 clone for 20 CAD!
I'd never seen a video touch pad before and only vaguely heard it refered
to. I've not tested it, but plan to soon.
-Philip
Hi,
I noticed your email with comments about the 550 terminal. I have one that
has no vertical and am trying to get info so I can use another terminal in
its place. I'm trying to find out what the mode switch position 2 in the
on position does to the settings. ANy chance you might be able to tell me
that? That's the only MODE switch setting used. The BAUD rate is set at
9600. When I try another ASCII terminal, the characters come out
incorrectly on the display of the equipment I'm trying to use the ASCII
terminal with. WHere as the perkin elmer terminal gives the correct
characters except there is no vertical on the display so I can't read it.
Thanks for any help you can give me.
Richard Brown
781 938 7033
Just finished listing a Cablescan ET-1024 cable continuity tester, a couple
of NICE Real Time Devices PC/104 Data Modules, a National Instruments GPIB
card and a DDC Syncro to Digital or Resolver to Digital converter card on
E-bay. See
<http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewSellersOtherItems&userid=rigdonj>
Joe
Hello Chris,
I would like to take those 386 motherboards off your hands if they're
still available. Believe it or not we have a use for them.
Thanks
Mark F.
Cell (603) 305-5124
markf(a)lsi-ma.com
Found this one on ebay (Not affiliated with seller, etc, etc):
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3048936176
Dunno if it is worth it or not, as I don't collect TI stuff myself...I
also noticed a few other TI related auctions up as well, one of which is a
complete setup. (Though it seems to be very misplaced in the category
system.)
-Toth
As Tony so interestingly put it, I have become "unwaged." The company I worked for -- J.D. Edwards -- was aquired by PeopleSoft. Part of the merger's "synergy" is a staff reduction :( .
Anyway, I have a few odds and ends (OK, junk) at the office that I do not want to move. Free for postage from Chicago. Do not reply to the list, as it comes to my work email (soon to go away), but rather to r_a_feldman(a)hotmail.com.
1. Toshiba T3100e/40. Power light comes on, but goes no farther. At least the screen is not cracked.
2. Kenitec laptop (XT or AT??), probably non-functional.
3. HP Portable Vectra CS Model 20. Unknown condition (and heavy).
4. Apple IIGS (case, motherboard, Power supply).
5. Epson "Mars board" (an 80C88 motherboard) w/o CPU. Unknown condition.
6. Adaptec Microchannel card, AHA-1640.
7. Set of AT&T 6300 Plus (80386) manuals. Has diagnostic disks, IIRC, but not MS-DOS disks).
8. Borland C++ V3.1 manual set.
9. Borland C++ V4.5, unopened package of 28 floppy disks (no docs).
Bob
>However, when I turn it
>on, the screen comes up 4 grey scan lines, then alternating 8 black scan
>lines and 8 grey scan lines. A friend mentioned that this is normal boot
>config, that it should then proceed to the happy mac icon and so on. He
>asked if the ROM was still in it.
Er... none of my healthy classic macs start like that. And if that WAS
normal, then it indeed should proceed to either a Happy Mac, or a floppy
with a blinking question mark, or a Sad Mac with a code number.
Since you don't indicate that you get any of the above, I'd have to say
something is wrong.
If it was something internally testable, such as bad or missing ram, or a
bad or missing ROM simm, then you should get a sad mac code (lots of
other things are internally testable as well and would resuld in a sad
mac code).
Do you get any noises when it is on? Any squeels, or flupping noise, or
anything? Is there a startup BONG when you power it up? Can you hear a
hard drive spinning up inside?
are the lines vertical or horizontal? Once it goes to the 8x8 pattern,
does it just continue to repeat that? What happens if you leave it on for
a while (5 minutes or so).
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
Hiyas,
Dont laugh. Yes, I need that annoying program, so I can read some
of my (very old) tapes which contain seemingly interesting stuff..
didnt know I still had those :)
Cheers,
Fred
--
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