test-drb February 2003

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A really cool book find at the flea market today

by jrkeys＠concentric.net

After selling several boxes of books today at the flea market I started looking at them myself later in the day and fond this black book titled Dictionary of Computing Second Edition 1986. But the cool factor was that it was stamped apple computer inc. LIBRARY in several spots through out the book. The card pouch in the back covers has a stamp with APPLE COMPUTER, INC LIBRARY CUPERTINO, CA 95014 and a Apple Library bar code label with the number 22505 on it under the bar code. I started looking at the other boxes of books and could not find any other books from Apple and I'm not sure how many I may have sold earlier in the day. :-(

22 years, 2 months

laptop

by paulm064＠icqmail.com

I have an old 286 laptop that i can't find any info about on the net. the only markings i have to go by are as follows: top markings - attache' bottom markings - FOREFRONT model: LV-286D 17V 12.7A

22 years, 2 months

Help with two Classic tester's

by jrkeys＠concentric.net

I picked up two testers and need help finding info on them. One is a black UART tester made on metal and is 14"x10"x6". On the top panel are all the switches with large labels such as INTERRUPT INPUTS, DISCRETE INPUTS, and REU ANALOG INPUTS. These are the smaller labels under each switch D.GND, WRITE/READ UART A REGISTERS, PWB CONNECTOR, WRITE/READ UART B REGISTERS, VIDEO SELECT VSYNCA/VSYNCB ON, LOW VOLTAGE ALARM INPUT ON, WR/RD, EOC INTERRUPT, ACD INTERRUPT, UART B INTERRUPT ON, UART A INTERRUPT ON, PWB DC CURRENT (+5V), RESET, COMPANSATION DISABLE, SELF TEST REQUEST. REU/DU HOT, VREF/VS, and 0.012/0.25/0.50. On the front panel are a power switch with selects for INTERNAL or POWER SUPPLY SELECT, MAIN POWER ON switch with red light. On the back panel we have a 25 pin connector, External Power connectors +12, A.GND, -12, and +5, a Fuse, and plug for a power cord. There is no ID labels anywhere on this black box. Any leads? The second tester is a Field Test Unit for old tape drives made by Magnetic Peripherals Inc. part of Control Data. Has equipment ID of TB303A, Series code of 11, PN 75255003 and is this thing every heavy close to 50 pounds in a special carrying case. Any help on this one? Thanks in advance.

22 years, 2 months

GRiDCase 3: Dead. (Was: GRiDCase 3: Help!)

by netsurfer_x1＠fastmailbox.net

Well, it seems that I have some bad news to pass on to the group. The GRiDCase 3 I just recently bought has bit the dust. Thanks for everyone's help, but it looks like it just wasn't meant to be. Sad to say, I'll have to confine this machine to he trashpile. -- David Vohs netsurfer_x1(a)fastmailbox.net -- http://fastmail.fm - Choose from over 50 domains or use your own

22 years, 2 months

Fw: AS400 surplus

by rschaefe＠gcfn.org

Found on spamnet news, no relation, yadda yadda yadda... Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: "peter" <prymno(a)spamprym.nl> Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.as400.misc Sent: Saturday, February 01, 2003 12:35 PM Subject: AS400 surplus > Hi, > > At this moment I have a AS400/9404 model F25 and I am going to take it to > the junk yard. > If anyone is interested? It is here for you to pick it up. > > Machine is dated 940909. > It has (dutch) V3R1 with PDM, RPG compiler and TCP/IP. > It is possible to install the english version if you have the tapes. > 32Mb internal memory, 1.9Gb disk. > Ethernet (2617). Twinax and V24. > QIC1000 tape unit. UPS, key for keylock and LIC-tape. > I am not selling, just giving away. I hope that is not illegal. > > Mail me at prymxxx(a)prymxxx.nl (remove all the x's) > (I am in the Netherlands, 10 minutes drive from Amsterdam) > > Peter

22 years, 2 months

Sierra Adventure Games

by drido＠optushome.com.au

>>On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Lawrence Walker wrote: >> >> I have a progam somewhere for 8 bit Ataris that strung together a bunch >> of stills of a woman performing felatio, which I found more humorous >> than erotic. Also some 8- bit Demos by Michel Jarre and another even >> bigger German demo programmer whose name escapes me . Some of their >> sound-light programs are even now astounding. This was on-the-edge shit >> and for the most part seems to be dying (what do you do when not coding >> boring stuff) in favor of repeating some hi-paying sort of state >> propaganda shit based on GI-Joe. Along those lines there was "Sex Cartoons" for the Commodore 64, a series black and white cartoons that looped. One high school I attended had a room full of Commodore 64s running from a shared 1541 via some peripheral sharing unit. At the start of class everyone would do LOAD"*",8,1 to boot >from whatever disk was in the drive. One day I replaced the typing tutor disk with a copy of "Sex Cartoons". At 13 years of age seeing that running on a room full of Commodore 64s was worth the week of detention I got for it. Then there was "Party Games" on the Amiga, imagine a Decathlon style joystick waggling game with somewhat different graphics.

22 years, 2 months

test -- ignore

by rigdonj＠cfl.rr.com

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22 years, 2 months

DEC VAX/VXT2000 and monitors

by Fred.van.Kempen＠microwalt.nl

Hi all, Trying to clean up the "inbound" queue of systems-to-check-and-fix, and here's a few boxes I cant seem to figure out. Heeeelp ! ;-) Basically, the monitor madness I guess. I have: - various VAXstation 3100-family systems with mono, GPX and SPX cards - various VXT2000 boxes with their SPX card - a VXT2000+ box with "SPX PLUS" card and, two monitors (only.. gave the rest away long time ago.), a VR19-D3 (seems to be a generic GDM1960 - it also has the HI-LO switch on the back) and a VRT320. The VRT320 is the one that actually seems to work on all the GPX cards, and on the SPX cards in the VXT2000's. It does NOT sync with the SPX cards in the -M38 and -M76's, and neither for the SPX PLUS card in the VXT2000+. Obviously, I would want the -M38 and -M76's SPX cards to be used, and the SPX PLUS in the VXT2000+. No specs on the latter can be found, though, although I did notice that there is a 74.3MHz xtal on it, rather than the 69.9 one on the regular card, so it might be doing the 1280x1024@74 rather than @70. Does anyone have info on this? Cheers, Fred

22 years, 2 months

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

by xds_sigma7＠hotmail.com

I think Ethan's points are excellent; in fact, the main reason I had suggest an SSD in the first place was because the real drives used with the 8/i were not very large (by modern standards). I'd like to add that a major reason for my desire for such a beast is the fact that I have absolutely no peripherals for my 8/i, nor do I have the required boards to control them if I did have them. Heck, I don't even currently have a complete machine, but I'm working on it. I'll hopefully soon have a list of needed boards I can post to the list... Anyone have any REAL manuals for the thing that they'd part with? Or a paper tape reader? Please? *begs* Will J

22 years, 2 months

PDP-8: anyone tried NVRAM simulation of hard drives?

by xds_sigma7＠hotmail.com

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 _________________________________________________________________ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail

22 years, 2 months

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