I got this thing (Dolch Logic Instruments 8086 Trace Module) along with a
bunch of other stuff at auction. If it is of any use to anybody, let me know
right away. Otherwise it will soon get scrapped or trashed or binned or
skipped, and it looks too nice a piece of work for that.
Best regards,
Dan McDonald
Bellows Falls, Vermont
USA
>>But DEC as a company is long gone. I am *well* aware of what happened
>>with the DEC -> Compaq -> HP thing.
>
>I don't know. A friend of mine still has his DEC e-mail address.
That doesn't mean anything... up until I was layed off from HP, my
DEC email address (@zk3.dec.com) still worked, though that domain
is scheduled to go away at some point. They've been working site
by site to remove the old dec stuff and replace it with @hp.com.
Megan
The gentleman below is looking for a replacement video card for his DEC
Pro-350. I don't have anything for him, but I was hoping someone on the
list might be able to help him out.
Please contact him at the email address shown below if you can do
anything for him.
Thank you,
Erik
-----Original Message-----
From: michael allegretta [mailto:mikeallegretta@worldnet.att.net]
Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 2:13 PM
To: webmaster(a)vintage-computer.com
Subject: DEC Pro 350
I have a DEC Pro 350 that I value for running Fortran programs. The
monochrome video generator board is on its way out. Is it possible to
get a replacement?
Regards,
Mike
>> Actually, DEC is still somewhat around -- it was absorbed into Compaq
in
>> 1997, and, of course, Compaq was absorbed into HP last year. As such,
>> HP now holds all the rights and histories to everything DEC and
Compaq.
>> DEC/Compaq provided contract on-site tech support to my current and
past
>> two retail firms. HP provides those services now, with the same (if
>> older) DEC and Compaq field techs. I still work with many of them in
my
>> current tech support position.
>
>But DEC as a company is long gone. I am *well* aware of what happened
>with the DEC -> Compaq -> HP thing.
I don't know. A friend of mine still has his DEC e-mail address.
>> And, while we're asking, does anyone know what happened to Burroughs?
>> As I left the Air Force in 1991, I was working with a cantankerous,
>> already jurassic, cobbled-together system produced by "Convergent
>> Technologies -- an abortive fusion of Burroughs and NCR. It's
"banded"
>> 512K memory board nearly neasured a square foot by 1.5" thick, and was
>> banded to *prevent* it from accessing a full 1Mb of memory.
>Burroughs and Sperry merged to form Unisys.
OK, what happened to the things that made Burroughs Burroughs? I worked
there from 1986 to 1989. The B1000 machines were EOL'ed when I got
there and I pretty much had the B1965 at Lake Forest (Orange Co., CA) to
myself doing support for HOSTLINK and GEMCOS. I think Art Sorkin (Mr.
B1000 MCP) had one in Mission Viejo doing MCP support. I never cared
much for the Pasadena machines (the V-Series or Medium systems) and I
don't know when they were EOL'ed. There was a lot of B5000/Large
System/A-Series hardware development after I left, but I don't know what
happened to those machines. Is anyone still commercially running any of
this hardware?
I am not sure which CT machines you are talking about or if you have the
full story on CT. When I joined Burroughs, they were selling a line of
desktop computer called B20 (even though there were B3x machines).
These machines were made by CT and ran an OS called BTOS (a variant on
CT's own CTOS). They were kinda cool because the form factor for each
component was something like a 10" tall by 10" deep by 4" wide box
(called a 'slice') and you added slices together (say, a CPU slice, a
display slice and a disk slice) to make a working computer.
alan
"Computermuseum" <computermuseum(a)pandora.be> wrote:
> I think that you all didn't saw that i was forgotten to put an 's' inbetween
> the b and the c of unsub(s)cribe.
Didn't really care either, just trying to be helpful (and yank Fred's
chain about forgetting the molten iron).
I see you claim to be leaving for real now, so mind the door/bottom
interface!
-Frank McConnell
I have some 82S153s which I would like to read. What I'm wondering
is, can I tell my PLD-reader (a Data I/O 29A w/LogicPak and 303A-001
p/t head) that what I'm reading is a PHL (presumably Philips, who
owned Signetics at the time) PLS153, and successfully (and
non-destructively read) the parts?
It would appear that Data I/O changed the firmware, and the
family/pinout codes, between what they were when they supported the
82S153 and the PLS153, and I don't know the history or differences
between the parts. So I'm a little bit nervous about just popping
parts in and trying it.
-Frank McConnell
After getting a number of "Are you still alive?" messages from various
friends on the web, and having sent similar messages to them when I
received no response to other e-mails, I made an infuriating discovery.
RoadRunner is listed in several blacklists (dsbl.org for one), and a
number of ISPs are blocking e-mail from their domain (at least from
RoadRunner Nebraska - nebr.rr.com). RoadRunner's response was to fix the
open relay and get delisted, right? Nope. Their response was to state
that they "don't negotiate with blacklists" and promptly _blocked_ all
mail from dsbl.org to RoadRunner users. Hence, I would send e-mails to my
friends, they would be bounced due to the blacklisting, and I would have
no indication of a problem because RR's block would prevent the "bounce"
message from getting back to me. Bastards. At least one person I was
corresponding with is no longer speaking to me because they thought I was
ignoring them. I'm about ready to start a class action suit, although
they probably have something in the fine print that prevents that. GRRR!
Some of us are using very slow dial-up connections with even
more cumbersome web interfaces. The occasional off-topic post
is OK but this has gone way too far. I've gotten three additional
"pages"
of mail headers due to this thread-just today.
-----Original Message-----
From: Sellam Ismail
Sent: Sun 2/2/2003 10:42 PM
To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
Cc:
Subject: Re: Columbia
On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, Eric Dittman wrote:
> > > ...for that matter, only 2 complete craft/crew losses for the
shuttle
> > > program in over 20 years; and including these, only *3* complete
craft/crew
> > > losses in a space program that's run for nearly 35 years? That's
still a
> > > damned good record in anyone's book, regardless of what the
detractors may
> > > say... Name me an aircraft or series of aircraft who can make
the same
> > > claim. (Noogies for the person who can name the *1* airliner that
comes
> > > closest to beating this record...)
> >
> > Southwest Airlines.
>
> Southwest Airlines is an airline, not airliner. He was asking
> for a model of passenger airplane.
Got it. But they still have the best commercial record of any (US-based
at least) airline ;)
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer
Festival
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Ethan wrote:
> If I were more comfortable with FPGA/CPLD design, I would probably go
> that route. My expertise is more in microprocessors; I was contemplating
> throwing an MC68000 on the other end of the bus..........................
> I was thinking of recycling the COMBOARD design - 1/4 of the memory
> map is "shared memory" - there is a circuit between the 68000 and
> the host bus that initiates DMA cycles when the 68000 reads/writes
> to it. I have used a COMBOARD to test the RAM in a PDP-11/03 via
> this shared memory interface.
I got a 4 Mpixel camera for Christmas that came
with a 16 Mbyte Compact Flash Card. After Christmas
I picked up a 64 Mbyte CFC to use with the camera
just so I would have the storage for about 50 pictures
instead of just 12. I also picked up a Dazzle USB
Compact Flash Card Reader/Writer for $20 for my
sneaker net needs. So now when I'm around computers
I carry the CFC reader and the CD with the USB drivers
and I basically have a removable hard drive that I
can carry in my pocket.
So now I'm thinking about how hard it would be to
create a cartridge for say - the C64 that has a USB
port and an EPROM on it. The EPROM would have routines
that wedge into the Kernal disk routines on boot. (And
of course they would bypassing the serial routines) Plus
routines to translate disk commands to read and write
files.
Imagine a hot swapable 512 MB hard drive on the
C64 with an access time of RAM.
Regards,
--Doug
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Doug Coward
@ home in Poulsbo, WA
Analog Computer Online Museum and History Center
http://dcoward.best.vwh.net/analog
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Perhaps someone on the list can help this fellow? Found in one of the ham radio groups on Usenet.
Please respond directly to the original message author. I am not them. They are not me. I'm one of The Other Guys instead. ;-)
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Subject: WTB: 300 BAUD S-100 bus modem
I'm looking for any brand of S-100 bus modem, circa 1970'ish. If you have
one, send me an email. Thanks. Alan
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