G'day,
I've recently been going through a few items I had tucked away & found a bunch
of IC's...
Now I'm going through them, one by one, & trying to find as much info I can
find.
So far, I've found nothing on the Motorola MCM6665BP20, a 16pin chip with a
secondary code of FQD8432.
I'm trying to find complete specs, any idea's?
Thanks in advance,
Tim.
Mike's fried mind came up with a *really* interesting juxtaposition:
>"I will sacrifice an Intel computer daily to purify myself"
>"I will never use WD40 as it contaminates all it touches."
Ah hah - the equivalent of molten iron for the wintel box?
Maybe better to just think of them (Wintel boxes and WD40) as offsetting
penalties - put them together and the world will be a safer place for
classics.
A pleasant image, anyway. Hee hee hee.
- Mark
Steve Jones said
>Looks like there's a DEC MINC-11 in good condition to be
>had for free in the North of England. Please, somebody go
>save this thing from the skip! Maybe Adrian "Two Sheds"
>Vickers can use it for a climate control system for his
>garage... ;^)
It's Friday and my mind is fried.
/begin humor
I think we need a travelling/flying squad of "rescuers" who can jet/travel
to the location of the systems and recover them. I'll volunteer to quit my
job, leave my family, and "save" lost computers. It's probably a calling,
just like the priesthood. ( I will ignore all religious flames!) "The
salvation army of computers". I will get a battered truck and travel the
countryside as a wandering saver of discarded computers.
Part of our oath will be
"I promise to save all computers lost or not, as long as they have never
been contaminated by the dreaded plague of Microsoft" (I will ignore all
Microsoft flames!)
"I will live in poverty surrounded by pieces of lost computers that I am
attempting to resurrect." ( I again will ignore all religious flames!)
"I will sacrifice an Intel computer daily to purify myself"
"I will never use WD40 as it contaminates all it touches."
"I will always search for the elusive Babbage Model 0100."
Or I could donate a large barn and some land, and we can set up a commune of
computer zealots.
Wait there are men in white coats coming to take me away, no it's my wife's
lawyer with papers for me to sign!!
I will nominate Sellam as high priest, Megan as high priestess, and tony as
hardware witchdoctor. .
/end humor
Mike
Forget mice -- get a good, large track ball. I use an 2.25" Atari arcade
trackball that I put in a custom cardboard and foamcore case, with two
arcade button switches. I got it from Happ Controls
(http://www.happcontrols.com/). Current price with USB or PS2 interface is
$145. When I got mine (almost 15 years ago, so it is on-topic), it did not
come with a PC interface, so I cannibalized a cheap serial mouse and made an
interface. I think I still have plans I made up for that. I have had to
clean and lube it only once in >10 years. I have it hooked to an IBM T20
laptop -- in its box, it's nearly as big as the laptop!
-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Richman [mailto:bill@timeguy.com]
Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 8:28 AM
To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: OT: Large, multi-button mouse recommendations?
I've been doing a lot of finicky CAD work recently, and my hand is really
starting to hurt from gripping the mouse tightly for fine control. I'm
looking for a larger mouse (according to one site that sells various sizes
of mouse, I'm between a "large" and an "x-large" hand size) that I can lay
my hand more or less flat on top of (maybe with a couple of finger loops,
so you don't have to grasp it constantly) and ideally with a small
multi-button keypad of some kind on top. Is there such an animal out
there (aside from the Space Mouse guys' $500 products) that might have
these features? Suggestions welcome.
Yes, I went through the exact same thing...
I couldn't find anything under MS-Windoze which would get the CD directly.
It helps to have a dual-bootable machine with MS-Windows and
Linux/NetBSD/FreeBSD/whatever
I rebooted my machine under Linux and just do the "dd" command
dd if=/dev/cdrom of=vms.img
(which you probably already know about).
Then I copied the resulting file to a FAT-mounted drive and after that,
I rebooted the machine under MS-Windows and the file was readable under
SIMH on Windows. That file can the be burned onto a regular CD-R,
shipped off to your friend (I'm assuming here that everybody has all
of the correct & legal software licenses), and your friend can use
the CD-R from Windows...they don't need to dual boot.
I don't think there is any way for SIMH on Windows to read the CD
directly, you need the intermediate image file first.
Thomas Dzubin
Anyone know of a source for PDP-11/R20 bulbs? I have a few
burnt out ones...
See www.parse.com/~pdp11/
Thanks in advance!
Cheers,
-RK
--
Looking for Digital Equipment Corp. PDP-1 through PDP-15 minicomputers!
Robert Krten, PARSE Software Devices +1 613 599 8316.
Realtime Systems Architecture, Consulting and Training at www.parse.com
I've been doing a lot of finicky CAD work recently, and my hand is really
starting to hurt from gripping the mouse tightly for fine control. I'm
looking for a larger mouse (according to one site that sells various sizes
of mouse, I'm between a "large" and an "x-large" hand size) that I can lay
my hand more or less flat on top of (maybe with a couple of finger loops,
so you don't have to grasp it constantly) and ideally with a small
multi-button keypad of some kind on top. Is there such an animal out
there (aside from the Space Mouse guys' $500 products) that might have
these features? Suggestions welcome.
Hello All,
I am trying to put together a bio of the Visual 1050 for old-computers.com
and I need a couple of photos of the system for them to accept submission.
Can anyone help me out? I've googled myself out with no luck.
This is the info I've been able to compile so far. Any additions
appreciated. Thanks.
> - Model Name: 1050
> - Brand : Visual Technology
> - Manufacturer: Visual Technology, Incorporated 540 Main Street,
Tewksbury, MA 01876
> - Country: USA
> - Announce date: July 1983
> - Release date: 1984
> - End of production date: 1987?
> - Built-in software or language: Visual 1050 Utility Manager, DR C-Basic,
DR-CP/M MAC & SID, DR-GSX (graphics extensions), DR-Graph, Wordstar with
mailmerge, Multiplan (spreadsheet), TTY-1050 (communications).
> - Keyboard: Keytronic 65-02335 93-key ASCII (incl. numeric key pad & 17
function keys)
> - CPU: Z80A
> - CPU speed: 4mhz
> - Coprocessors: none
> - RAM: 128Kb (bank-switched)
> - Video Processor: 6502-2
> - Video RAM: 320Kb (32Kb x 10)
> - ROM: 8Kb
> - Text resolutions: 640x300 (80 x 25)
> - Graphical resolutions: 640x300
> - Number of colours: mono
> - Monitor: Tatung MN1213P31AU, 12" hi-res, green phosphor
> - Sound: none
> - Size: CPU - 5"h x 17"w x 17"d Monitor - 12"h x 12"w x 13"d (all
approx. dim)
> - Weight: CPU - 15 lbs Monitor - 10 lbs (all approx. weight)
> - Connectors: video, keyboard, serial, parallel & winchester ports
> - Built-in storage media: 2 - 400Kb, 5 1/4", SSDD, 96tpi, floppy disk
drives (TEAC FD-55E) with optional 10Mb external Winchester hard disk drive.
> - Operating system: Digital Research (DR) CP/M Plus (CP/M, Version 3)
> - Power supply: 75 watt, switching @115/230 VAC
> - Extensions:
> - Price: $2700
> Sho 'nuff, but don't feel bad; lots of people
> only think of 64K Z80 CP/M systems like the
> classic Z-2 when they think of Cromemco
I was aware Cromemco had some sort of 68000-based systems with "real"
Unix later in the game. But having only heard rumors I never guessed
they used an '020, and didn't realize they had System V and all those
goodies. Glad to learn of it, and all those firsts.
By contrast, I was well aware of the many CPU options from CompuPro
(Godbout) including the CPU-68k, which I used, and the 32016, which
I'd still like to find someday...
Somewhere around here I have some S-100 Journals (I think that's the
name) that I found on the newsstand in the late 80's. Be interesting
to see what was being listed besides 386s and Concurrent DOS.
--Steve.
I have an ODEC line printer ( I think a 300 LPM ). I received it in 1985 but
never used it. I think it has been used very little. I would like to sell
it. Is there any market for such a printer?
