Hi, all:
Does someone on the list have documentation for the Remex "Director" paper
tape readers (model numbers RRS9000 or RRS9006)? I've read manuals for
other Remex models online, but not much of use for this one.
In particular I'm curious about what effect the "spool/loop" switch has
on operation, what kind of checking is done by the power-up self-check,
and if there's some good sensible way to test the stepper motor driving
the tape sprocket.
If I can get some more data, it may save at least _one_ paper tape reader
>from having a long and dusty servitude in a storage room. :)
-O.-
Hi,
I received the following two-part email this week...
A free 9835...
...
I moved up to an HP 9835.
[It's in Canada]
...
Now the good news, I still have the 9835 in my basement. I think it's
still close to being
functional, it turns on without clouds of blue smoke but the monitor
appears to have given up so no way of seeing if it is really booting
up. I'm not sure about the tape drive?
If you could locate a monitor, maybe you could get a functioning 9835.
It's free to a good home
And, the project:
I have been looking everywhere for anyone who might have a functioning
9835/45 because I still have about 10 tapes with thousands of pages of
HP BASIC that I would love to off load to some form of modern media in
ASCII and translate into modern BASIC. If you could help me with this
problem I would even pay the shipping of the 9835 to you, if you are
interested?
Anyone interested, reply (offline) to me, and I'll pass the contact info
on to you.
thanks,
Stan
--
Stan Sieler
sieler(a)allegro.com
www.allegro.com/sieler/wanted/index.html
I would like to get an old single floppy DOS laptop machine
on my local network. Anyone know how to get DOS to work with
a PCMCIA card (uh too new?)
It would be great to finally have this machine boot up as an
emulated apple or PDP-8 or Atari or something.
One of the floppyies makes it into a disk drive for my TRS-80 model
100 laptop.
Ron.
Hi Jos,
It was a pleasure to show you the Museum and the Kenbak :) I hope you had a
nice vacation in Nova Scotia.
I will eventually scan all the material and make them available for
everybody interested in the Kenbaks. It will most likely be published on
CD-Rom since it is a lot of material (especially the schematics).
It will take a bit time since I do all this in my spare time.
Greetings
Herbert
Hi all,
I finally have more news from the Kenbak-1 front. Earlier this year I posted
a message on this list that I discovered a Kenbak-1. Well as it turned out
the source I had the machine from had 7 (!) more Kenbak-1s. After long
negotiations we finally agreed on a price for the collection of 6 machines
and incredible paperwork. (The seller wanted to keep one machine) After some
more struggle to get the money together I finally purchased what I consider
the "find of my life". Here is what I could acquire:
- 6 Kenbak-1 computers
- the original schematics (a big folder!)
- original training films from 1974 and the early eighties.
- an original sales flyer from CTI, a company that tried to market the
Kenbak-1.
- programming manuals, flow charts etc.
I drove all from Nova Scotia, Canada to Charleston, South Carolina to pick
the lot up. (3000 miles)
More information about the computers, where they are from and most
importantly photos of the Kenbaks are on my website:
http://www.computermuseum.20m.com/kenbak.htm
I currently try to convert the original training films. I'm also in the
process of taking photos from the insides of all the machines. Those photos
will be online within the next days.
Four of the seven Computers have the original Kenbak-1 logo, the others the
CTI logo.
You will see that al of the computers have six holes drilled on the top
cover. It turned out that the Kenbak-1s had overheating problems and the
hole were the cure for that.
One of the Kenbaks is slightly modified and has toggle switches instead of
the push-button switches. This machine is the only one I have tested so far.
It works perfectly. All I can say is that the Kenbak-1 is fun to work with!
Greetings
Herbert
Computer Museum of Nova Scotia
Anyone have a manual for a Citizen's GSX-190 printer?
I'm trying to find out how many multi-copy pages it can support. I need a
dot matrix printer that supports AT LEAST five carbonless copies
(counting the original). Mac compatible is prefered, but I can deal with
Parallel.
I have an old Citizen GSX-190, and it supports underside paper feed,
which I have found is usually a good sign for a printer designed to use
multi-part forms... but I want to verify how many pages it is designed
for before I go thru the effort of trying to get it hooked up (only to
find that it looses grip on the pages just like my Imagewriters do, the
Imagewriter is only designed to handle 4 copies max)
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
Thomas Dzubin heeft op vrijdag, 26 sep 2003 om 18:57 (Europe/Zurich)
het volgende geschreven:
>
> I'd LOVE to to see those Kenbak-1s...but they'r too far away.
> Oh well...
What is too far away ?
I was able to seen the Nova Scotia Kenbak on a trip from
Switzerland....
Herbert was even kind enough to open in up for me. Thanks !
Jos Dreesen
( And Nova Scotia was not too bad either !)
I have two new Diablo 620 ribbons, and one new Printronix 300 ribbon.
Anyone want them, just send me a mailing address and they're yours.
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
