test-drb March 2003

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by anheier＠owt.com

I have an Silicon Graphics Iris Indigo available. It just the cpu box, no hard disk, keyboard, monitor or mouse. I do have the video cable. Uses MIPS 79R4400MC-75 processor. Neat purple cube computer. Best offer. Thanks Norm

22 years, 1 month

Intel iSBC manuals available

by anheier＠owt.com

I had a lot of people interested in these manuals, but I still have them. They are iSBC 86/14 and iSBC 86/30 Single board computer hardware reference manual and iSBC 661 Chassis reference manual $7 each + shipping or they go the the recycler on Wednesday--I need the room! Thanks Norm

22 years, 1 month

Free DecServer 200 & 300's for local pickup in NH or Cambridge, MA

by mbg＠TheWorld.com

Fred wrote: >>On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Ethan Dicks wrote: > >> Being in Ohio, pickup is not an option, but if any list members who >> _do_ show up to collect them in person are willing to ship Ohio, please >> write me off-list and let's make arrangements. >Ethen (and everyone else who is interested), >I am securing the beasties, with the help from Megan, as she's >near there and can pick em up. From her's, I was planning on >shipping some of it to Europe (where I am right now) and store >the rest in my office in Calif. If anyone wants some of this, >lemme know off-list. Fred - I've asked him about 2 of the 200/MCs and 6 of the 300s. I have yet to hear back from him. Although I'm close to cambridge, I didn't know how many you wanted me to try for. I'm not sure my car or storage place (or my partner) is prepared to handle a great deal of them. I'll do what I can... Megan

22 years, 1 month

Info on Dataspeed's products

by apteconsulting＠attglobal.net

Happened to find this thread while searching for old colleagues; thought I would send you some info. I worked as an R&D Engineer at Dataspeed from during 1983-85, and was the principal developer of the Modio software. I left when Lotus purchased Dataspeed, and sadly, my stock options became worthless. With regards to the thread (included below), we were using the sideband on the PBS FM stations. At the time I left, we were airing stock, commodities, and futures data during "market hours", and sports during off-hours. The service was by subscription, and there was a hash algorithm which used the unit's serial number and the subscriber account number to generate the flags which activated various services. If memory serves, the flags were "splattered" across the memory map, e.g. bits in different locations together formed the service byte for a service. Lost contact with the other engineers and staff. One engineer is installing Internet in churches in Korea; one of the co-founders owned a sports bar in Pacifica, CA. But all this is old info. I still do have a framed Quotrek on my office wall ! Pass on this info as you deem fit. Gary Apte It's my understanding (infamously unreliable) that Lotus Signal was descended from DataSpeed's Modio which was descended from DataSpeed's Quotrek which dates back as far as 1981. - Jim Jim Keohane, Multi-Platforms, Inc. "It's not whether you win or lose. It's whether you win!" ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marvin Johnston" <marvin(a)rain.org> To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 01:35 Subject: Re: Lotus Signal Receiver, was Re: QUOTE or TICKER > I would be really curious to know how this thing works (or worked if the > service is no longer available.) The disks I have are for the PC or AT > and are on 5 1/4" floppies (probably 360K). I'll copy them onto a 3 1/2" > disk and bring it with me at the end of the month. If you have a power > supply with yours, what is the polarity (if not AC) and voltage? > > Has anyone on the list actually used one of these things? > > Mike Ford wrote: > > > > At 05:31 PM 1/29/03 -0800, Marvin Johnston wrote: > > >Mike, I have what I *think* is the same thing, and it is copyright 1986; > > >he was looking for pre 1984 or so. If you need copies of the software, > > >*assuming* the software I have is good, it won't be a problem. I can > > >bring it to TRW late this month. > > > > > >Anyone know what frequency this works on, and if the supporting > > >transmitter is still on the air? It indicated this was a subscription > > >service, and I would be most interested to know how they enforced that. > > > > > >Mike Ford wrote: > > > > > > > > At 11:46 PM 1/21/03 -0500, Jim Keohane wrote: > > > > > Looking for handheld quote device, ticker display or any peripheral > > > > > for IBM PC, Apple ][, etc. to pick up ticker broadcast via FM Broadcast > > > > > or geosynchronous satellite broadcast. Does not necessarilly have to be > > > > > functioning. User manual would be great. > > > > > > > > I have a Lotus box, but no software or paperwork. > > > > > > > > Lotus FM Receiver > > > > Mine has three ports on the back, antenna via coax F connector, serial DB25 > > thing, and BNC (data out, could ethernet maybe?). > > > > What platform do you have software for, and sure. ;) That will give me a > > good excuse to get my bones out to TRW. > > > > I think this type of device used sidebands of commercial broadcast > > frequencies, but I haven't looked inside, or hooked up an antenna to see > > what happens. > > > > No real guess on the pay/data controls, could be software, could be serial > > number related activation key broadcast in middle of data etc.

22 years, 1 month

Tandy 1000 EX; Commodore 64 + 1541? floppy

by root＠parse.com

Saw these at the local junkyard; any interest? Tandy 1000 EX Commodore 64 with 1541(?) 5.25" floppy drive Condition unknown. If there's anyone who's interested, please let me know and I'll be happy to pick them up for you. Let me know what your maximum price is (there was no price marked). + S/H (VISA/MC through my consulting company just to keep things simple). 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

22 years, 1 month

Using a PS/2 Mouse on the GRiD 1755 Keyboard Port

by rpb＠rpb.com

Greetings everyone, Does anybody know how to use a PS/2 mouse on the keyboard port of a GRiD 1755/486 SLC Laptop? The manual says that the port will not support a PS/2 mouse, but I figure someone has developed a driver by now. Any clues? Thanks. Richard P. Burke Portland OR

22 years, 1 month

Free DEC MINC-11 in NW England

by classiccmp＠crash.com

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... ;^) Here's the post: ======== From: eclunan1(a)aol.comnotanysp (Eclunan1) Newsgroups: alt.sys.pdp11 Date: 28 Feb 2003 10:07:37 GMT Organization: AOL, http://www.aol.co.uk Subject: MINC 11 free in north west England Message-ID: <20030228050737.11472.00000175(a)mb-fx.aol.com> For anyone interested, I have a Digital Minc-11, type RX02M-MD, serial number WS1840, with clock and d/a plug-in modules, and Digital RX02 twin 10" floppy disk drive unit. Also two keyboard/printer units, Digital Decwriter II and III. Also one unopened and a part box of 8" floppies, and a box of manuals. In south Cumbria, England. Free to take away. You will need a decent sized estate car or a trailer. Otherwise going to skip. Cheers Eddie ======== Ade: I'm jealous is all. I get to go drive on the track every now and again with a car club, but no racing. Oh, and that you can get to this MINC and I can't of course... ;^) Good luck all, --Steve.

22 years, 1 month

first photo's

by kenziem＠sympatico.ca

The first photo's of my basement have made it to the web. http://vic.dyndns.org/pics/2003-01-25/LG-2003-01-25-032.jpg http://vic.dyndns.org/pics/2003-01-25/LG-2003-01-25-033.jpg These are taken just before the Open Source Weekend Demo. I'm still learning how to use my camera. So my shots will be a bit longer before they see the light of day.

22 years, 1 month

HP 2100A hardware reference docs?

by glenslick＠hotmail.com

Cool. Thanks a lot. I just downloaded these and that should be a big help in checking out the 2100A and hopefully getting it running. > > I looked around at http://www.spies.com/~aek/pdf/hp/ and found most of >the > > hardware docs I would want for my 2113E and 2117F, but didn't really see >any > > hardware reference docs for a 2100A CPU. > >The maint manuals are up now under hp/21xx _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail

22 years, 1 month

Collecting silicon wafers

by classiccmp＠crash.com

Dave Wilson writes: . > My interest is in collecting whole, undiced silicon wafers. These > are much more accessible for research and the interest does not > conflict with those of other people. I think they're interesting, and have considered picking some up when I've seen them. Of course I've only seen them on eBay, and living near Boston I guess my only local source might conceivably be the DEC fab out in (I think) Hudson that got sold to Intel when Palmer gutted the company. Oops, didn't mean to start that thread again! ;^) > Are there other interested people out there? If this site is not > the best for this sort of discussion can you recommend a better > one? I haven't run across anyone systematically collecting wafers. The main question I'd have is, where's the supply? If there's not a large supply of available wafers, how many collectors can there be? Having opened my mouth and said that, someone will probably tell me that fab-rich places in Arizona, California, Oregon, and Texas are using them as wall decorations or something...

22 years, 1 month

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test-drb March 2003