PDF creation
I think there is a tool under imagemagick called convert
that can take a TIFF and create PDF.
I think there are both Unix and Windows versions available.
Mike
Has anybody ever seen a special Tymshare model ASR-33? It's more or less
a standard ASR-33, except that it has a three button CCU and the silver
plate on the front (the one which would ordinarily have the Teletype name
and logo) is painted blue (DECsystem-10 blue, I would imagine!) and lettered
"Tymshare | Time Sharing Terminal."
The CCU has three rectangular buttons marked "COMP", "LCL" and "OFF".
Any data on what this CCU does? I'd like to modify the ASR for DEC compatible
service (which should be easy enough), but I'd like to keep as much of this
CCU as I can.
It also doesn't have the reader power supply that's usually clipped on
inside the pedestal, so I'd guess that it's part of the CCU. Another reason
to keep the CCU if I can.
Oh - and it also has the cutest little 4W fluorescent tube inside the
paper cover to illuminate the printout. There's a ballast and a standard
glow type starter inside the CCU.
Thanks,
Bob Armstrong
Sellam wrote:
>
>In the late 1970s, AT&T's Bell Labs invented the "electronic blackboard".
>It was basically a digitizing tablet that allowed one to draw and transmit
>images.
>Might anyone know where one exists? How about similar products prior to
>December 1979? When was the first digitizing tablet invented?
>This is research I'm conducting for a client, so any useful leads will be
>compensated.
>Thanks!
I know we had a graphics tablet at the Bioengineering Program at the University
of Missouri in 1975. It was a GrafPen Model (SP?). It consisted of two arrays of
microphones along the x and y axis of a plexiglas tablet.
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There was a spark gap pen that generated a click and the microphones could locate the
point on the tablet. It could be flipped right or left handed because your hand/arm
could block the sound from the microphones. It had a digital readout of the x and y coordinates.
There was also a serial interface which we connected to our PDP-11/20. We placed the
tablet over a illuminated light box with a chest radiograph on it and then we able to outline the
margins of the human heart on the film. The data was used in a project to compute the
shape of the heart and attempt to catagorize the type of congenital heart defect.
I used it to place boxes on the film to look at pulmonary vascularity.
You could imput points in a point by point mode or constant input mode. You could then
scale the points to be displayed on a graphics display such as a RAMTEK system. We normally
would draw and display on top of the digitized film image to make sure we were registered correctly.
There were lots of work related and fun related stuff the Grad students used to system for.
There was a 3-dimensional model available later.
References found online:
Grafpen GP-7 sonic digitiser, manufactured by Science Accessory Corporation.
1968 - Science Accessories Corporation (later SAC) releases sonic digitizer.
GSIZE/SIZE documentation <http://biochem.otago.ac.nz/resource/gsize_doc.html>
... SIZE has been written to work with a GP-7 Grafbar Sonic Digitizer, manufactured
by Science Accessories Corporation, 970 Kings Highway West, Southport ...
biochem.otago.ac.nz/resource/gsize_doc.html - 33k - Cached <http://216.239.51.104/search?q=cache:xcKrL5E0pMAJ:biochem.otago.ac.nz/resou…> - Similar pages </search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=related:biochem.otago.ac.nz/resource/gsize_doc.html>
Mike
I have examined the drive both internally and externally and it is in great shape. From external inspection, it appears to operate properly. It makes the right sounds, it's spinning in there, the light blinks then goes steady, etc. My Lisa has a bad floppy drive and the internal hard drive does not boot it. This Profile would not boot it either. This could be that it is empty, or it could be formatted to Apple ][, Apple ///, etc. Anyway, I think it works, but I can't guarantee it. Comes with power cord and original data cable. $60 plus shipping with insurance please. Best, David
>I recently got a machine (that is the same or looks similar to
>http://www.ac-scanmac.dk/apple_museum/1995/histo_powermac5200.html ), and
>I wanted to get it up on the internet. I have both a Sportster 28.8 with
>mac adapter and an original GeoPort.
>
>Does anyone have OS installation disks for this beauty? I think it ran
>7.5.5 or something, but OS8 disks are welcome (If they run on it that is -
>- do they?)
>
>It has 32 MB ram, and a 1,6GB HD.
You can get System 7.5.3 and the 7.5.5 updater for free from Apple's web
site. I recommend going to at least 7.5.5 (don't stop at .3 as it is
buggy)
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
I have three most excellent copies of Digital Research's superior windowing environment, GEM. Very cool, these are the original disks, though I don't know if they were OEM or commercial ones. I installed the 2.1 and 2.2 versions on my original Compaq Portable - with 640K RAM and a 32MB internal HardCard hard drive. The disks are in excellent condition and GEM installed easily. I am not able to do much to check it out though, as I don't have a mouse for the machine. I have not tried the 3.0 version, but can if someone has an interest. How about $15 each set plus shipping? I need to sell off some stuff, so please reply directly to me. I also have a copy of GEM Paint and GEM Publisher. Oh, anyone need Windows 286? Thanks, David Greelish
GEM was Digital Research's GUI (or a WIMP in the original), written in the 1980s. It stands for Graphical Environment Manager, and was written by Lee Lorenzen who had just left Xerox PARC.
Some GEM history: http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=1187
Hey all!
I recently got a machine (that is the same or looks similar to
http://www.ac-scanmac.dk/apple_museum/1995/histo_powermac5200.html ), and
I wanted to get it up on the internet. I have both a Sportster 28.8 with
mac adapter and an original GeoPort.
Does anyone have OS installation disks for this beauty? I think it ran
7.5.5 or something, but OS8 disks are welcome (If they run on it that is -
- do they?)
It has 32 MB ram, and a 1,6GB HD.
Thanks in advance!
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I can still remember screaming at my father (I must have been 13 at time
time) "it's CTRL-S to save, and CTRL-L to load. How could they make it
simpler for you?" when he was trying to use Applewriter //e, a very nice,
full featured, non-WYSIWYG word processor. Good old . formatting commands.
At 09:21 11/07/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi guys....
>I like that reference to edlin by Joe....
>Now that was some pain in the ass WP.... 8*)
>How about Multimate for DOS....
>I used it for years, it was great!
>
>I think I'm getting OLD 8*)
>
>Doug Taylor
>
>PS: Hey Joe I still got my MDS 825 in the basement 8*)
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Jim Battle <frustum(a)pacbell.net> wrote:
> I also know that some months back Eric Smith of this list was working on
> something much more flexible than c42pdf, but I don't know where it
> stands. You can check for yourself:
>
> http://tumble.brouhaha.com/
Tumble thinks all the world is a little-endian Linux box. I've hacked
on it to make it build and run for FreeBSD/i386 4.8-STABLE, and yes it
does need some changes, one being a kludge to deal with the absence of
<stdint.h> on FreeBSD 4.x, and another because of some expectations of
the relationship between <stdio.h> open streams and the underlying
file descriptors which I suppose are true under Linux but not under
FreeBSD.
Oh yes, and you will need Bison -- there are some yacc bits that don't
build under Berkeley yacc.
I have told Eric about my experiences with making it work. He's been
traveling so I expect it's buried in his in-box. I'll remind him
about it next time I see him.
-Frank McConnell
hey gang - i hope exeryones doing well -- im in need of some next stuff
to get a couple systems running -
1 - a video/sound y cable to connect a color nextstation to a soundbox
and a color monitor
2 - the 3-bnc adaptor that goes on the monitor end of the y cable if
youre not using a next monitor
3 - a mono video cable to connect a mono nextstation to a mono monitor
4 - also i need 2 next keyboards (non adb)
5 - ??? - i would really like to find a copy of openstep 4,2 mach or
nextstep 3.3
------- thanks a bunch and please reply off list --- billp
