O.K. All the manuals went out Friday to Al to scan. With the exception of
the heathkit manuals, a clearpoint manual and the vt103 configuration guide,
each of the manuals were requested specifically by only one person, so we
can send them out right after scanning. I have to go through my email, but
I think that for the clearpoint and vt103 manuals, the second person said
the electronic version would be o.k., so no copies are needed there either,
unless somebody wants to make a paper copy. and finally, there was an offer
to make 5 copies of all the heathkit stuff, so at least everybody will have
a copy, and the first person on my list will get the original.
I'll contact the interested people offline with the latest updates on where
we stand on distribution.
thanks
joe heck
> Or how about "My other computer was made in 1978" or "My other computer
>cost $4,000... in 1978"?
"I've got Lisa at home with a mouse in her ass"?
:-)
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
WOOHOOO!!!
I just aquired two Apple Lisa 2 units. Both are complete with Profile
drives and printers (as well as keyboard and mouse).
Plus a spare Profile drive, and an assortment of software.
I think this makes up for the otherwise crappy year I've been having!!!
WOOHOO!!!
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
In the great HP2000 rebuild project, thanks to a huge bevy of spare parts
>from Bill, the IOP is now again singing with 32Kw! Yes, a happy snoopy dance
was performed :)
Now it's on to resurrecting a 7905 in a lowboy cabinet. Can't decide if I
will use only 13037 style drives, or stick with multiple 7900's (or both).
That should pretty much finish the runnable system restoration. Then the
only thing left will be the refurb of the 2610 printer, and the 7261 mark
sense card reader, but those certainly aren't required to run the system.
Thanks Bill!!!
Jay West
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Hi, folks. I just bought an IBM System/34 that's currently in
Pennsylvania, and I need to move it to the Bay Area. Finding an
appropriate shipper is not my problem (I've been through *that* enough).
However, does anyone know what steps I should take to secure this system
for shipping? I'm worried in particular about its hard disks -- it would
seem very IBM-ish to have a manual way to park and secure the heads.
I appreciate any help!
Norm
>Started up the collection again huh
Never really stopped collecting, just refocused by force (being evicted
>from your storage area tends to do that)
I've abonded pretty much all non Apple stuff (except my IBM 5110), and in
the Mac front, I'm going only with certain machines (rare, or interesting
to me). Although even in the Apple end of things, I unloaded stuff that I
figure will be a long time if ever before I can put them to use (like my
Apple III software since I have no Apple III)
I also couldn't pass up a deal on a Lisa... I've been after one for
years, and now I have two! (no idea where I'm going to put them
however... but I'll find somewhere)
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
Hi all,
Thanks to all who sent me their Complete Archives(tm) of whatever
brand of PC DOS memory manager they were once using... I now have
a fair selection of Qemm, 386MAX and whatnot :)
The bad news was... it didn't work. Qemm6 would work, but make
the box unstable. MAX and Qemm7 didnt work at all, they froze
as soon as they were loaded. Not good.
At some point I also noticed the box was acting strangely when
heavy network traffic ocurred, *and* that it never showed me the
Adaptec's BIOS banner.
So... I decided to swap the (DOS) disk into another PC, and try
again. Lo and behold... it works. Both Qemm7 and MAX work, and
the network card behaves, AND the Adaptec lives :) Looks like I
had a sick PC to work with...
Said PC is now running DOS 6.22 with the memory manager, MS LANMAN
client (using NDIS 2.0 driver and packet driver stub), with a full
(licensed) copy of Ersatz-11 on top of that, emulating:
- PDP-11/83, 4MB RAM
- RQDX3 disk controller
- 2x RD54 (160MB) disk
- 1x RX50 diskette (emulated to 5.25" HD disk drive)
- 1x RX33 diskette (emulated to same)
- 1x TQK50 controller with TK50 drive, emulated to TZ30 drive on
the Adaptec 1542CP.
- 1x TSV05 tape drive, emuated to HP 7980S drive on Adaptec.
- 1x DELQA ethernet controller, emulated to E100B through packet
driver on top of NDIS stub (yay! ;-)
- 1x DZV11 4-port async contr emulated by AST FourPort/XM ISA
controller which I re-found in a box of crap ;-)
The "machine" is now happily installing Ultrix-11 V3.2 from tape.
Real tape, even. Yaaaay!
Soon to be online as eagle.pdp11.nl.
Cheers, and thanks to all who helped,
Fred
--
Fred N. van Kempen, DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation) Collector/Archivist
Visit the VAXlab Project at http://www.pdp11.nl/VAXlab/
Visit the Archives at http://www.pdp11.nl/
Email: waltje(a)pdp11.nl BUSSUM, THE NETHERLANDS / Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Does anyone have the cable that goes from an Indy Presenter Adapter or an
Octane Presenter Adapter to a Presenter 1280? [Technically it's an LVDS
video cable, 68 pin, MDR to LDI, OEM'ed for SGI by a company called "SMS"].
I'd be glad to pay a modest sum and shipping for the critter.
Thanks,
Lyle
--
Lyle Bickley
Mountain View, CA 94040
"Black holes are where God is dividing by zero"
SmartPort 3.5" drives aren't too hard to come by, but I believe the IIe
can't use them, and requires UniDisk 3.5" drives instead.
For technical information I would start with Apple's old Tech Notes,
which are now available on the web. Some of Apple's Technical Reference
Manuals might also help.
Although DOS 3.3 can't support 3.5" drives out of the box, there are a
number of hacks to add this capability (I think one of them was called
Diversi-DOS?)
To use a standard Shugart-interface 3.5" drive to read and write GCR
format floppies on the Apple, you'd need to implement the whole disk
controller from scratch. The Apple 3.5" drives had the controller inside
the drive, like an IDE or SCSI hard drive does; you'd need to reimplement
it. Much easier to just buy one :-). It _is_ possible to use a standard
drive mech, though. To deal with the fact that the mech isn't designed
for ZBR, you simply change the controller's clock speed as you seek.
The next step down in terms of difficulty is to take an off-the-shelf
NEC 765 based floppy controller, interface it to the Apple with a bit of
glue logic, and write a ROM that talks to it. This means you'd be
writing in MFM format, incompatible with real Apple drives.
If you want to be really nasty, you could consider that the Apple 5.25"
disk interface and the Shugart interface both are at the level of flux
transitions and motor steps... The circuitry to make a Shugart interface
3.5" drive look like an Apple 5.25" drive would not be too complicated.
You'd get 280K per 3.5" disk and the disks would be in a format totally
incompatible with everything.
Or you could just buy some 5.25" disks.
-- Adam
Stopped in Tulsa Saturday for their first annual Gamer show and it was small
but fun. Picked up a few items for the gaming collection. Also Sunday as we
were leaving we stopped at 2 flea markets and a thrift store there in Tulsa.
Here's a short list:
2- Neo Geo's one black and one blue, I left a silver one as it was damaged.
Got one game cartridge.
A new still sealed copy of Custer's Revenge by Mystique.
A Timex Sinclair 1500.
A handheld game called baseball2 by Entex from 1979.
A Sears electronic Basketball handheld from 1980.
A MERLIN handheld.
Many cartridges for various machines like the Vic 20, 2600, Atari 400, N64,
Talking Whiz-Kid, NES, PSOne, and others.
A Compaq C120+ PDA with everything.
Many more items then can be listed for now as I have still not unpacked
everything.
While in St. Louis at a thrift there I got a new in the box Cisco 1700
router for $24.95 ( I did a Google and it goes from $600 to $950 used and
$900+ to $1200+ new). Sorry off topic but it was a sweet deal. Picked up a
few other items while in St. Louis also.
