test-drb September 2003

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YADA10YR (Yet Another Discussion About the 10 Year Rule)

by blstuart＠bellsouth.net

On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 Tony Duell wrote: > And of course the Sequent machines that were boxes of 386s running in > parallel IIRC. That's right. Their symmetry series were 386 based and the earlier balance series were based on the 32016 (or maybe the 32032). I'm not sure if there were any other OSs, but the ones we had at Purdue ran Dynix, their version of UNIX for these parallel machines. Now if I could just find one for my collection... Brian L. Stuart

22 years, 1 month

Another Apple 1 for sale

by rigdonj＠cfl.rr.com

At 05:30 AM 9/10/03 -0400, you wrote: >There are plenty of 1950's era computers which are one-of-a-kind. Sadly, >many of them went to the scrapper. The ironic thing is that the truely one of a kind (or very limited production) computers aren't very collectable since few people know of them. I'm sure the people on this list can name lots of computers that were had less than 200 produced. And none of them would command the kind of price thaat the Apple I's do. I ran into the same thing when collecting cars. I have a 1970 Dodge Challanger RT convertible. The Challangers were only built for 3 years, convertibles only built for 2 years, only 269 RT convertibles were ever built. It's a LOT rarer than the Mustangs but everyone knows about the Mustangs and that's what everyone wants so the Mustangs are worth more than the Challangers. Joe > >Peace... Sridhar > >On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, TeoZ wrote: > >> Compared to rare stamp and coin collecting its a drop in the bucket for >> something thats very rare (but not 1 of a kind) >> Since I am curious whats the rarest/most expensive computer? I assume its a >> one of a kind that has some major historical value. >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Vintage Computer Festival" <vcf(a)siconic.com> >> To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> >> Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 11:44 AM >> Subject: Re: Another Apple 1 for sale >> >> >> > On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 ghldbrd(a)ccp.com wrote: >> > >> > > He should sell it to those guys in Nigeria, the 419 boys. >> > > >> > > Let me know when the price drops to just ludicrous. >> > >> > On the contrary, $20K is the going rate for a typical Apple-1. With all >> > that he's offering, it's actually a good deal. >> > >> > -- >> > >> > Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer >> Festival >> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> ---- >> > International Man of Intrigue and Danger >> http://www.vintage.org >> > >> > [ Old computing resources for business || Buy/Sell/Trade Vintage >> mputers ] >> > [ and academia at www.VintageTech.com || at >> http://marketplace.vintage.org ]

22 years, 1 month

bugs!

by aek＠spies.com

> Surely better uses of Knuth remain today. He plays piano pretty well.

22 years, 1 month

Vintage Computer Marketplace gets WIRED!

by patrick＠evocative.com

Our first mention: http://wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,60349,00.html Thanks to everyone for your support! --Patrick

22 years, 1 month

Help with a eprom

by TRASH3＠splab.cas.neu.edu

Yes, I can also do it, either duplicate a current prom, or use a bin or hex file on a PC. Near Boston and Providence Joe Heck

22 years, 1 month

bugs!

by cb＠mythtech.net

>No, because as William said "assuming normal arrangement of the volumes on >a shelf", volume 1 is to the left of Volume 2, which is left of Volume 3. >So only the front cover of Volume 1, all of Volume 2, and the back cover >of Volume 3 need be traversed. Yeah, as soon as I read his post, I slapped my forehead for having over looked that fact. -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

22 years, 1 month

bugs!

by Robert_Feldman＠jdedwards.com

No, because as William said "assuming normal arrangement of the volumes on a shelf", volume 1 is to the left of Volume 2, which is left of Volume 3. So only the front cover of Volume 1, all of Volume 2, and the back cover of Volume 3 need be traversed. -----Original Message----- From: chris [mailto:cb@mythtech.net] Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 2:27 PM To: Classic Computer Subject: Re: bugs! >3 + 5/8 if you're going to start inside V1 and they're all 1" thick and 5 >covers to go through. wouldn't it be 3.5 inches? Starts page 1 vol 1, ends last page vol 3, so that's only 4 covers to go thru (back of vol 1, front of vol 2, back of vol 2, front vol 3). So that's 3 books of pages at 1 inch per book, 3 * 1 = 3 4 covers at 1/8 per cover is 4 * 1/8 = 4/8 = 1/2 3 inches of text + 1/2 inch of covers = 3.5 inches that the worm travels. -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

22 years, 1 month

Help with a eprom

by TRASH3＠splab.cas.neu.edu

O.K., I have the bin file in my briefcase. Tonight I will try to burn a 27c128 at home. I have the chips, I just don't know if they are verifiable. I'll post tomorrow. So, nobody else need kill time until I fail. I have 4 programmers, I suspect I won't have a problem, but who knows. Joe Heck

22 years, 1 month

PDP-11/83 Power Supply Wierdness

by cmcnabb＠4mcnabb.net

My PDP-11/83 has recently (past few weeks) been displaying some odd symptoms. The system is a PDP-11/83 in a "Corporate Cabinet". Most of the time, when the power switch is turned on, the "run", "halt", "ready" lights blink on then go off. Also, the Red light on the TK-50 will come on then go off. You also hear a relay closing and opening in the rack power supply. About every 10th try, the DC OK light will come on and the system will start to power up. Then all the lights go off after a couple of seconds and the rack power supply relay clunks. When the switch is turned off, "run", "ready", and the TK-50 light blink on and you hear what sounds like the relay in the rack power supply closing and opening. Kevin, do you remember it doing anything like this when it was yours? -- Christopher McNabb <cmcnabb(a)4mcnabb.net> The McNabb Family

22 years, 1 month

Another Apple 1 for sale

by Paul.HILLS＠uk.landisgyr.com

I liked the Steve Jobs quote from one of the links off that URL (http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,20271,00.html)... "It's the first Apple I built and sold by Apple," claims auctioneer Risley Sams, who will open the bidding on Tuesday 29 June at 11 a.m. "We offered it to Steve Jobs, but he said he had such a hard time selling it in the first place that he didn't really want it. Paul http://www.landisgyr.com/ This communication contains information which is confidential and may be privileged and is for the exclusive use of the addressee(s). If you are not a named addressee please contact the sender immediately, and delete/destroy this communication. You are hereby notified that any disclosure, distribution or copying of this communication, in whole or in part, is strictly prohibited. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the Company, its directors or officers unless otherwise specifically stated. The Company is not responsible for any reliance placed on the information contained herein and excludes all liability. (c)Copyright 2003 Landis+Gyr Ltd UK All Rights Reserved.

22 years, 1 month

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