I have a simple question,
is a word processor a vintage computer or typewriter?
I am on digest and will be reading your replies and shall thank you now,
Isa
Hey folks... just happened to come across some pictures of HP2000 systems
that I have never come across before. Shows some really nice configurations.
http://www.entrix.co.uk/nostalgia.html
Jay West
>I was talking to a friend who got one of those "your credit card
>information is invalid" type emails. Since he didn't have a credit card,
>it was rather obvious is was fraudulent :).
I get those from time to time, but unfortunatly, having been the victim
of ID theft once already, I take each of them a little more seriously and
investigate to make sure it isn't legit.
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
Hello,
Thanks to the help of several of you, I have, after
reparing the power supply, been able to verify that
the CPU is running, and using the .PDF service manual,
am able to get a signal on the video pin (8) after
replacing the contrast pot. However, the monitor
still produces no output. I have a couple of
questions:
1) Is there a SAMS or some other document that
discusses the monitor operation?
2) What's the simplest way to use an external monitor
for testing?
3) Does the monitor use the +12V line on the connector
>from the CPU board for all its power, including the HV
converter?
Unfortunately I don't have an HV probe at the moment,
so I'm being cautious about poking around the CRT.
Thanks,
David.
A similar scam was attempted on me about a month ago regarding my Paypal account. The *first* hint that it wasn't legit' was that it came to an email account other than the one Paypal knows me at.
Dale (the DECdude)
Jay West <jwest(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
> I recently got an email from the "Ebay security audit team" or something to
> that affect. Says they periodically verify contact information, and couldn't
> verify mine, asking me to follow a link to update my account or it would be
> disabled in 5 days.
>
> I followed the link, noticed it wasn't in secure mode, and wondered why EBAY
> would need my bank account number, routing/ABA numbers, not to mention SSN and
> home address and credit card numbers, etc. The form asked for everything
> imaginable. Yikes!
>
> Upon getting suspicious I checked the headers and html links in the message -
> needless to say - NOT ebay. Watch out for this one! I did report it to the
> spoof team at Ebay.
>
> Jay West
I also have been meaning to resurrect my 7 track drives and an 800
bpi 9 track, for the purpose of reading a couple of dozen useless tapes.
I have at least 12 drives, from 7 track up to 9 track 6250 bpi, a couple
of dilog and emulex qbus tape controllers, and two or three external
formatters (for the older drives) I have some manuals from datum, pertec,
kennedy, digi and maybe others, BUT I just don't have the time or
inclination to start putting these together.
A cooperative venture maybe?
Joe Heck
The IBM 360/60 was never really a product.. try again.
--
> BTW, weren't the 360/60 and 360/62 as evanescent as the 64 and 66? And wasn't there
> a 360/70 that also quickly disappeared?
The original lineup was the 30, 40, 50, 60, 62, and 70, with a vague promise of a 92.
The 60 and 62 were the same CPU (2060), but different core-memory units (2360 and
2362). The 70 used hardware similar to the 60 and 62, but was all hard-wired, with no
microprogramming, and used the superior 2362 core.
The original S/360's took a long time to be delivered, and, a year later, some of the
hardware specs were no longer competitive. The 60 was dropped altogether, and the 62
and 70 were replaced by the 65 and
75. Out of them all, only one 62 was ever shipped to a customer. At the same time,
the 92 was dropped, to be replaced by a vague promise of a "90 series", later
realized in the 91, 95, and 195. It was also about this time that the original
2.0-microsecond 30, with lights in the front like the other 360's, was largely
superseded by the 1.5-microsecond
75(1), with lights behind a flat panel like a 1401; though the
76.-microsecond version was never officially discontinued, and was shipped in large
enough numbers that there were 2.0-microsecond 22's offered (the 22's were
reconditioned 30's, offered while the 370/115 and
77/125 were not yet ready), it was rare (I never saw one).
But in the meantime, the need for large-scale timesharing had resulted in the
announcement of virtual-memory versions of the 60 and 62, to be called the 64 and 66.
As part of the same restructuring, these were withdrawn a month after they were
announced, to be replaced with the 67.
Of the original April, 1964, 360's, only the 40 and 50 ended up being shipped in
large numbers.
> I just pulled a really interesting-looking expansion board from a dead
> Heathkit H-89 I acquired a few months ago, and I was wondering if anyone
> knew anything about it, and/or had documentation and software to support it.
http://www.spies.com/~aek/pdf/nogds/HA-89-3_graphicsBoard_1982.pdf
