Late this evening a long drive to get it, I picked up Mits Altair 8800b in
great shape and the following manuals:
altair 8800b Turnkey Computer Documentation 1st printing July 1977
Altair 88-MDS Minidisk Documentation Preliminary July 1977
altair Disk Operating System Documentation DOS June 1977
Dynabyte Operating Manual for 16k & 32k Fully Static Memory Modules October
1977
Mits Disk Extended BASIC Version Reference Manual July 1978
Now to have some fun getting it up and running. :-)
Hello all,
At my favorite salvage spot near Rochester the other day I noticed a Bruker
rack with an ASPECT 3000 mini, two 8" floppy drives (FDD 280) and a hard
drive (BDS 160). Lots of cables as well.
It appears from Google that this would mostly be used for NMR Spectroscopy,
but if anyone is interested, I expect its available for a quite reasonable
price as long as you speak up quickly.
Get back to me off-list if you want me to call them to save it.
Dan Cohoe
Just obtained a complete TI 990/10A system including several period TI
terminals, TI 810 printer, cpu, CDC 94xx drive, and some media. Most
importantly, a virgin OS install pack and complete manuals/docs. Not sure if
it was DNOS or DX10 though.
Anyone in need of copies of anything?
>From what I understand, one could get an optional programmers front panel
for the TI990/10A, I would love to get one of those if anyone has one spare.
Jay West
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All,
OK, so I just got bombed with requests for the Digital Group
stuff. Which reminds me... what is/was so special about that
company (from Colorado, I believe) or their systems?
I used to have the whole nine yards of their stuff... about,
oh, 8 or 10 2cuFt boxes or so. The only thing I liked in the
system was that funky tape drive system... Phideck or something
like that. Threw it all away (...) when I moved to the U.S. in
'93, and had no more space in the shipping container :)
These docs were strange leftovers from that.. must have forgotten
to pack them at the time.
Cheers,
Fred
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Does anybody know or remember
Are 5-1/4" original diskettes for Lotus 1-2-3 v. 3.1 (DOS) copy protected
in such a way as to prevent the diskettes from being copied to produce usable
3.5" diskettes or a CD? I remember that the earliest versions of Lotus
1-2-3 required the diskette in the floppy drive as a "key" for the program
to start-up. I'm not sure what measures were taken for version 3.1.
Sorry - I wasn't paying too much attention to this thread, but I have
the manual for the Hayes S100 modem (80-103A) which includes a short
modem control program written in 1977 by Dale Heatherington (the
co-founder of DC Hayes; guess who was the marketing guy and who was the
engineer!). Control was by bit-setting a couple of control bytes to
handle bit (baud) rate (high/low - typically 300/110 bps, but low rate
could also be set to 75 or 134.5 bps). Other bits set transmit enable
(on/off), mode select (answer/originate), break, self-test, ring
indicator, and off hook.
The manual includes a chapter on "Applications". Section 5.5
Telecommuting is reproduced here: "The energy situation being what it
is, more and more people are seriously considering alternatives to
commuting. If your job consists mostly of slaving over a hot computer
terminal, the 80-103A may offer an economical way for your job to come
to you instead of the other way around. Of course you would want to make
an occasional trip to the office for meetings, but think how much pain
and energy you could save. You might even be able to move to that
beautiful valley 'way up there in the mountains..."
Of course the hot setup was the PMMI modem which could be overclocked to
450 baud, but Don Brown died in the late '70s (?) and the company
disappeared.
But what the world was really waiting for was a good 1200 baud modem...
Jack Rubin
USRobotics 1984-95
Our Physics Dept. recently decommissioned their old Bomem Interferometer
computer, which was PDP-11/73 based. Somehow, when it got around to
what to do with it, my name came up. The thing is now sitting in my
cube. The only DEC cards in the box are the CPU and the disk
controller. Everything else appears to be custom.
One of the boards appears to be a custom multiport serial/EGA Video/PC
Keyboard interface that wants the console to be on the PC Keyboard and
EGA monitor. Unfortunately, none of the EGA monitors (NEC JC-1402P3A)
that I got with the system will power-on. You plug them in, flip the
switch, and nothing happens. Not even a power light.
I really have no need for all the custom stuff and would just as soon
remove it as use it. I do have a spare DHV11 here that I could put in
the box, but I do not know if the DHV11 can be used as a standard serial
console.
The DHV11 tech manual does not seem to have any info on using the board
as a console.
Any help would be appreciated.
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Christopher McNabb <cmcnabb(a)4mcnabb.net>
The McNabb Family
All,
The MSX stuff has been claimed.
Same for the DigGroup docs, and the Apple stuff.
Cheers,
Fred
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Hiyas,
See above. I found some stuff that I can safely let go,
without too much heartache:
- several binders with manuals and periodicals from systems
from The DIGITAL Group, Inc. (*NOT* DEC !!)
- an Apple II Technical Manual
an unsoldered, virgin AppleII clone board, once sold by
Eijlander Electronice in Ede, The Netherlands. I never
got around to assembling it, so its still virgin.
- several master tapes from Informix for SCO Xenix/UNIX
- a whole bunch of silly 9600/14400/19200 voice-band modems
designed for (analog) leased line operation, including the
power supplies. The PSU's do +5V and +12V at 1A, so might
also be useful in other apps.
Cheers,
Fred
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Here in Socal we have 5 going on 6 monthly or semimonthly old computer
often containing swapmeets. The first two saturdays of the month are Santee
and Fontana, which are either small or too far for me most of the time, but
I did manage Pomona last weekend, and TRW and ACP this weekend, and plan to
try for the new Chino Hills next weekend. The bad news is that space prices
seem to have risen enough to drive away most of the small non regular
sellers, and that most of the stuff is recent junk (Belkin is local and
TONS of returns get dumped to swapmeet sellers).
So what did I see, good stuff first, ACP had a pair of fresh from the shed
Imsai something 40 boxes with like 9 in CRTS on the front, and dual 8"
floppy box and a Selectric.
I didn't buy or even offer on any of that, sticking to a mini R/C tank and
some hifi cables. Pretty boring when the results of 3 swapmeets are just
some cheap parts.
