Folks,
Just collected a Mac XL (Lisa 2/10) that annoyingly was upgraded from a Lisa
1 then the back and top panels were stolen at a trade fair! This means I've
got Lisa 1 internals (R41 and R47 cut from the IO board, new ROMs etc),
keyboard, mouse but no twiggys or front panel, AND it has the screen kit
fitted. Oh, no widget either....the hard drive is a Seagate ST225 connected
to a parallel card in one of the 3 slots.
Anyone know if this kit is reversible? Anyone have any spare twiggys? :o)
This is as close as I'm going to get to a real Lisa 1 for the forseeable
future!
I also got Lisa 7/7 V3 docs and floppies, Macworks Plus box and floppies,
Lisa screws/fixings kit and a Stylewriter II with a Localtalk card fitted.
I haven't dared power it up yet! The Lisa is one of those beasts that's all
or nothing 'cos the PSU does more than convert 240V to 5 and 12 volts.
So, to recap, I'd like to get my paws on the following:
2 twiggys (possibly with the LisaLite board)
Lisa 1 front panel, top panel and back cover
Lisa 7/7 on twiggys (at least I know THAT's available)
the moon on a stick
a winning lottery ticket
:oD
--
Adrian/Witchy
Owner/Curator of Binary Dinosaurs, quite probably the UK's biggest private
home computer collection
www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - the online museum
www.aaghverts.co.uk - *the* site for advert whinges!
www.snakebiteandblack.co.uk - former gothic shenanigans :(
Hi Guys,
I was recently given a Commmodore MODEM Model 8010 - this is
a Bell 103 (300 bps) acoustic coupler, which has an IEEE-488
connection for use with Commodore PET computers.
I am looking for:
- Information on the power supply - I did not get a power supply
with the modem - it has a 5-pin DIN type connector. Can anyone
give me the pinout and power requirements?
- Documentation? Anyone have a scan of the manual?
- Information on how it is used ... What sort of IEEE device does it
show up as? Is there "special software" that is used with it? etc.?
Regards,
Dave
--
dave04a (at) Dave Dunfield
dunfield (dot) Firmware development services & tools: www.dunfield.com
com Vintage computing equipment collector.
http://www.parse.com/~ddunfield/museum/index.html
Hope someone can help... I'd like to buy or trade 3 x BC08J DEC positive bus
cables... Berg connector one end, single-sided backplane plug card the other
end......... I'd like to hook my TC08 ( http://www.corestore.org/tc08.htm )
up to the positive bus / data break Omnibus cards in one of my pdp-8e boxes.
Takes five cables, I can only find two in my cable pile :-(
Thanks
Mike
http://www.corestore.org
I apologize again for cutting you off during our phone
conversation... I was expecting someone and they'd arrived.
And googling about my PC-1201 helped me remember that
it had two button batteries for backup of the memory...
and I remembered that I hadn't removed them in 15 years
or so. They were a bit corroded but no damage was done.
- John
>Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 09:37:57 -0500
>To: news(a)computercollector.com
>From: John Foust <jfoust(a)threedee.com>
>Subject: Re: museum phone number?
>
>At 08:39 PM 10/16/2004, you wrote:
>>What is the phone number for the Jefferson Computer Museum?
>>I'm the editor of Computer Collector Newsletter, a weekly(-ish) e-mail
>>publication for the hobby. In preparation for next month's Vintage Computer
>>Festival 7.0, I'm putting together a directory of computer museums across the
>>country.
>
>I'm at (920) 674-5200.
>
>The Jefferson Computer Museum isn't a real place for tourists.
>It's more of a virtual museum on the web.
>
>- John
I wonder how long it will be before some fool donates a PDP or some
other piece of kit we hold near and dear to our hearts, to these miscreants.
Sure, it's amusing when it's a 286 being pipe-bombed, but probably not
so much fun (for me, anyway) when they get their hands on an Amiga or a Sol.
It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye...
http://www.letsblowitup.com/default.shtml
Thanks Dan,
I feel a bit silly, but it was late last night is my excuse.
"DECpc 320P" in Google gave a link to floppy images on a COMPAQ site.
I will try them this evening, but it is good to know that the DECpc
"knows" a limited number of hard disks. If I can 'upgrade' to some
300 Mb of the 420 Mb capacity it is still better than the 40 Mb that
I have available at this point.
- Henk, PA8PDP.
> I know these machines only have 46 or so built in geometries of disk
> type. If your hard drive doesn't match these then I think your out of
> luck. But you still need the setup program. Have you tried
> ftp.digital.com ?
>
> Dan
Hi all,
I have this DECpc 320P which has a 40 Mb hard disk in it.
I installed a 420 Mb hard disk, but it keeps being recognized as 40 Mb.
I can not find a way to get into the BIOS, and those old PC's normally
had a "utility floppy" to get access to the BIOS ... fdisk says 40 Mb.
I guess it is OT as it is a PCP11-CA notebook computer from DIGITAL
with a 386 CPU and a sticker on it from DECcare (valid to Jun 1994),
so it must be at least 10 years old :-)
This beastie has a black&white screen (no colors), but the name is just
perfect (PCP*11*) and I would like to run E11/SIMH on it, but 40 Mb is
a little small and I have this 420 Mb disk ...
Who can tell me how to get into the BIOS (assuming that I can from there
change the hard disk drive parameters) ; a ZIP-file with the utility disk
would also be very welcome!
TIA,
- Henk, PA8PDP.
Hello,
I am the happy recipient of an Altos 586 system that was listed available
here a few weeks ago. I have the machine safe and up and running now. I
apparently was the only person who replied to the offer of the machine, but
am hoping there may be others here who have this system. Mine arrived with
Xenix 3.0 installed on the drive, but I have no installation media. I had
one of these systems years ago with the installation media but passed the
machine and diskettes on with the machine.
The Altos 586 is actually a rather interesting machine. It runs Microsoft
('pre SCO') Xenix, based on System 3 UNIX. This particular machine
supports five users on it's row of serial ports, all connected on dumb
terminals or terminal emulators. It's not a very robust UNIX but it is
interesting to note that Microsoft sold a UNIX capable of supporting 5
users on an 8086 processor in 512K of RAM (classic UNIX, of course, could
support many more on less RAM, but this is still a pretty cool machine).
Any help or leads people can offer for this machine would be greatly
appreciated.
