test-drb March 2003

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by edunn＠frontier.net

I have an Apple //e that I need to dispose of, but I hate to take it to the dump. Is anyone interested in it know of any place who would take it off my hands. It has a Cider hard drive and a 1 mb ram card and 2 printers. Any help would be appreciated Thanks Ed Dunn Cortez, CO

21 years, 9 months

Classic find at the Dayton Computerfest

by erd_6502＠yahoo.com

In addition to modern stuff I found, I picked up an Intel SDK-86 trainer - it has screwposts for +5VDC, -12VDC and GND, an unremarkable 8086, several peripheral chips, 8 x D2142 RAMs, 8 x MAN71A 7-segment LED displays and a pristine prototyping area. Since I have stack of +5VDC -> -12VDC DC-DC converters (from Qbus COMBOARDs), I was planning on attaching one to this board so I can run it off of +5VDC only. Now to find docs... -ethan

21 years, 9 months

Transistors (2 of 2)

by Edward.Tillman＠valero.com

Articles named as found on MSNBC website links to Newsweek. Thought you might like! [Article begins...] Newsweek Weblogs / The Practical Futurist Michael Rogers [...] March 14, 2003 / 1:16 PM ET THAT WAS THEN, THIS IS NOW I'm on vacation for a week in Death Valley (which is not, by the way, the new name for Silicon Valley), hoping to catch a bit of the springtime desert flower bloom. But before I sign off, here are a couple of interesting pieces from new magazines. IEEE Spectrum has a nostalgic story on early transistors, especially the classic CK722, the first such device widely sold to hobbyists. I still remember saving my allowance at age 10 to buy my first CK722; I wasn't quite sure what I was going to do with it, but you could just feel the magic in that tiny component. (In the end I decided to build an audio tone generator solely powered by copper and zinc electrodes stuck into a lemon, thus celebrating the fact that we were now liberated from the power requirements of vacuum tubes. Practicality was never a major factor in my early electronics work.) The CK722 came up again in my life. A little over a decade later, Esquire assigned me to profile the Nobel-prize winning inventor of my beloved transistor, William Shockley, who unfortunately by then had transferred his energies to pseudoscientific theories about race and intelligence. When the article came out, Shockley was shocked that a kid who could reminisce so fondly about the CK722 would turn around and call its inventor a deluded racist. When he called to complain, all I could tell him was that he should have stuck to semiconductors. [...Article Ends] Cheers! Ed Tillman Store Automation Tech Support Specialist Valero Energy Corporation San Antonio, Texas, USA Office: (210)592-3110, Fax (210)592-2048 Email: edward.tillman(a)valero.com <mailto:edward.tillman@valero.com> [demime 1.01a removed an attachment of type image/bmp which had a name of Valero5.bmp]

21 years, 9 months

Transistors (1 of 2)

by Edward.Tillman＠valero.com

Articles named as found on MSNBC newspage links to Newsweek. Still thought you might enjoy! [Article Begins...] The Irresistible Transistor Fifty years ago this month, a man embraced his inner hobbyist and gave thousands of engineers their first transistor By Harry Goldstein Is it possible to love a transistor? Certainly what Jack Ward feels for the Raytheon CK722, the first transistor sold to the general public, goes beyond casual affection. He's collected thousands of early transistor specimens, including dozens of CK722s. His stately yellow Victorian home on a quiet, tree-lined street in Brookline, Mass., has a basement crammed with enough code oscillators, Geiger counters, radios, hand- wrought circuit boards, transistorized hearing aids, subminiature vacuum tubes, diodes, resistors, and capacitors to make any collector of vintage electronic gear drool. He's written one book about the CK722 and has started another about early transistor history at RCA. When he's not working as associate director of quality for the Bedford, Mass., facility of gene-chip maker Affymetrix Inc., he's busy maintaining his virtual Transistor Museum on the Web and is widely acknowledged by fellow collectors as a techno- anthropologist par excellence. [...Article Ends] Cheers! Ed Tillman Store Automation Tech Support Specialist Valero Energy Corporation San Antonio, Texas, USA Office: (210)592-3110, Fax (210)592-2048 Email: edward.tillman(a)valero.com <mailto:edward.tillman@valero.com> [demime 1.01a removed an attachment of type image/bmp which had a name of Valero5.bmp]

21 years, 9 months

DEC InfoServer ?

by Fred.van.Kempen＠microwalt.nl

All, is anyone here familiar with installing and operating Info Servers? I got word that they are pretty much the same as a stripped-down MV3100, so installing the InfoServer CD on such a machine (equipped with CD drive) should get us the desired result... Pse contact me off-list if you can help, and I'll summarize here, later. Thx, Fred

21 years, 9 months

IBM 4331 in MA

by r_beaudry＠hotmail.com

Hello all, Thanks for all of the responses. It appears that there are several parties interested in this, so I am withdrawing my hat from the ring. I have neither the floor space nor the domain knowledge to make it all work. However, I only live about an hour away from this system, so if the lucky new owner wants help loading/hauling it, I will be glad to offer any assistance I can, including space in my pickup truck (Dodge Dakota) for smaller items... Rich B. _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail

21 years, 9 months

Programmer's Utilities Guide for the CP/M Family of Operating Systems

by melamy＠earthlink.net

you can find all the cp/m 3 docs here... (as well as 2.2, etc) best regards, Steve Thatcher http://www.cpm.z80.de/drilib.html >--- Original Message --- >From: "Damien Cymbal" <d_cymbal(a)hotmail.com> >To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> >Date: 3/16/03 10:36:28 AM > Hello All, > >I recently inherited a Visual 1050 that I am attemping to resurrect. > >The docs I got include _CP/M Plus (CP/M Version 3) Operating SystemUser's >Guide_ from Digital Research. > >In its forward, this manual mentions that the doc set should also >include: > >_CP/M Plus (CP/M Version 3) Operating System Programmer's Guide_ > >and > >_Programmer's Utilities Guide for the CP/M Family of Operating Systems_ > >I've found online copies of OSPG via google, but haven't found anything >concerning the utils guide. Did such it actually exist? Does it exists by >some other name? > >Thanks. > >dc

21 years, 9 months

Complete AS400 9406 for sale

by rick＠holygrail.com

I have the following AS400 system for sale. It was up and running prior to me rescuing it from a dead dot com auction. Please email me for more information. Rick Rack 1 Contents: - 9309-2 rack - Power Supply: 21F9008 - Case containing 26 slots: o 59X4819 FN2615 (Has 2 EIA I/O cards + Floppy Controller) o 86G8303 SCSI Controller o 85F9041 FC 6112 (RL) o 74F1455 o 85F8935 FC 6501 (RL) o 85F9107 Ethernet o 85F8909 6500 IOP o 16G7241 FC 2592 (RL) o 56F0269 o 17G2598 FC 2700 (RL) IO Regulator o 17G2598 FC 2700 (RL) IO Regulator o 21F9209 - RAID Array 9337 o 8 1g drives (55F9818) - Tape drive 9337 - Control panel 21F5769 Rack 2 Contents: - 9309-2 rack - Power Supply: 10F9298 - IO Card unit feature 5010/5030 03F8338 o 76X4669 FC 6019 (RL) o 46F5467 FC 6130 (RL) o 46F5467 FC 6130 (RL) o 46F5467 FC 6130 (RL) o 68F7321 FC 6134 (RL) o 26F5028 FC 6031 (RL) o 26F5028 FC 6031 (RL) o 08F5361 FC 6130(RL) o 59X4270 Token ring - RAID Array 9337 o 8 1g drives 55F9818 Lots of cables & Parts Three manuals Several tapes

21 years, 9 months

Amiga Term Softs needed

by mcb242＠psu.edu

Hello, I am currently resurrecting an Amiga 2000, but I have neither an Ethernet card or Terminal software. There are tons of programs on the net, but getting them from the net to the Amiga is proving difficult. If anyone can help me in this chicken/egg scenario, I would REALLY appreciate it. Thanks -Marlin

21 years, 9 months

anyone working with IBM PC-RTs?

by brendle＠ems.psu.edu

Just a quick "ping" to see if there any any people out there who are working with the old IBM PC/RT platform. Had a request from a friend to get my two old 6150s up and running so he could have access to them since he wants to work on the port of 4.4BSD (these are currently running "AOS" which is a 4.3), but seem to have a toasted monitor & might need to track down another of them (with the funky square connector) or maybe someone with the cable that connects to the also-strange serial so I could try a Teleray/HDS/DEC terminal or some such thing (think I might be able to locate an old one). Thought that before I go too far, it might be worth my while to see if any folks here are doing the platform (I fear these are going to be too rare to find much, but where better to check? =-)). thanks! -j Jeff Brendle Office: 248A Deike Bldg./(814)865-3257/fax 863-7708 Desktop Support Spv. Home: #210 Parkgate 349 Toftrees Ave. Penn State - Coll. of E&MS State College, PA / (814)861-8180 Mailto:bli@psu.edu AOL/MSN/Yahoo! IM - JSBrendle

21 years, 9 months

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test-drb March 2003