test-drb November 2004

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cool - Classic Computers 2005 Calendar

by tosteve＠yahoo.com

I always wanted to do this, but now it is too late! Looks like a nice calendar featuring home computers >from the 70's and 80's (No PDPs) - $12.99. I have no affiliation with this website. http://www.digicraft.com.au/calendars/ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - Get yours free! http://my.yahoo.com

19 years, 3 months

Convex SPP(3?) .... Worth saving?

by CordaAJ＠NSWC.NAVY.MIL

Hey guys... I have a line on a Convex machine. The current owner is a guy who attends Govt. auctions and buys bulk, then scraps out stuff for gold/parts/etc... He calls me when he finds anything interesting, so... He says this is a Convex SPP3. (it's _heavy_... around 400 Lbs.) I haven't seen it yet, so I don't know anything more right now. Unfortunately, I have no knowledge of Convex stuff, and a web search turned up some Convex SPP stuff, but not much, and _nothing_ on an "SPP3". Can anyone enlighten me further? (Yep, I know it's an SMP architecture of some sort, but little more than that). A couple of questions... Is this machine historically significant? (I.e. worth saving?) Does anyone know of a source for documentation? (I've done a prelim. web/newsgroup search, but haven't turned anything up) Does anyone have (or know where I can find) a copy of an OS for it (apparently it's a unix variant. He told me that the disks were missing... not unusual for an auction item) 400 lbs is a bit large for me, but if there is a remote chance I can bring this critter back to life (and it's worth saving) it's probably worth the effort. I'll going to try to take a look at it and try to get some sort of model#/ident. Anything I should be looking out for or wary of? -al- -acorda(a)1bigred.com

19 years, 3 months

Anyone have a Seagate ST01 or 2 ?

by aek＠spies.com

>from Fred van Kempen Al, Can you ask the list, or anyone, if anyone has an old Seagate ST01 and/or ST02 controller available? I cant post to the list from my biz address.. -- I think these were PC scsi cards.

19 years, 3 months

Survived another one!

by rigdonj＠cfl.rr.com

Well Hurricane Jeanne has come and gone. This is the fourth hurricane in 6 weeks and the third that's gone through my area. The DEC and intel stuff sitting outside STILL hasn't blown away! Not too much damage this time, for the most part everything that could be torn up was destroyed in the previous storms. However my roof shingles are finally starting to go. The power companies are getting GOOD at this. This time they had the power back on the same day! I think there's going to be lots of houses (or vacant lots!) for sale in Florida real soon. I went to Home Depot this morning and it was packed with people buying roofing materials and other repair items. A lot of them also had "Home for Sale" signs in their carts! I haven't heard from Glen. I know he was without power for five then seven days from the two previous storms and I think he's about ready to leave the state. Joe

19 years, 3 months

Semi-OT: Acard LVD-to-IDE Bridge

by healyzh＠aracnet.com

Has anyone played with the LVD SCSI to IDE bridges that Acard is selling now? I'm trying to figure out if they'll sync down to the speed of the SCSI bus that they're plugged into. I'm thinking about getting a SCSI-to-IDE bridge for my VMS system which currently uses UW-SCSI. If it will work, I'd just as soon buy a LVD bridge, as they're cheaper and will be better when I finally upgrade my VMS system. I'm tending to suspect they don't sync down, as they sell U-SCSI, UW-SCSI and U160 LVD SCSI models. Zane

19 years, 3 months

Old Dos Programs

by ron.hudson＠sbcglobal.net

anyone have the DOS version of Empire, Nethack (an older version that does not need dpmi), I had a DOS version of tetris too (using regular characters in 40 char mode) so I am looking for that too. Any websites that provide old DOS programs for download? Thanks!

19 years, 4 months

ZX81 denigrated! (was Re: Approaches to projects)

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Nov 29 2004, 0:18, Tony Duell wrote: > Pete Turnbull wrote: > > Sounds like mine. The one I have is a replacement, but almost > > identical to the one my Dad bought in the mid-60s. It's about 115mm > > wide x 55mm thick x 200mm long; it has three DIN sockets on the > > > panel. It takes five C-size cells. It originally came with a slightly > > Yes. You could also feed in 7.5V through one of the sockets -- it was a > '240 degree' DIN socket used for external power, remote control, and > monitoring earphone. One thing I must do is make a little adapter with a > power connector and a remote control socket wired to a suitable plug. That's the one. I use that for power and remote from the Beeb. > Ah, I was wondering if it would work with a Beeb... Mine alsoe needs new > drive belts, but otherwise is still operational. I have the schematic > from the appropriate year of 'Radio and Television Servicing', although > sometimes oen was folded up inside the machine anyway. I had to replace the drive belt in mine a few years back. I got a belt >from CPC for a few pence. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

19 years, 4 months

Making CP/M disk images

by GFisher＠tristonecapital.com

I'm trying to do the same thing with some (downloaded) Teledisk images for an Altos 580 server which has a similar 96tpi floppy with no luck (a plea for help here). My limited understanding is that these drives use double density media and that a standard 1.2 mb drives don't work too well with that (the manuals all say that writing out 360k AKA 40 track disks on a 1.2mb is a bad thing). Did you take the drive in the SB180 and put it in the Compaq, still calling it a 1.2, 360k or even a 720k 3.5? I tried that with a different (SA-465) 96tpi drive jumpered as drive 1 and it seemed to write disks with no reported problems on the Teledisk write. The Altos still didn't like the disk though but that might be a function of the original files (or something else I forgot to do). Gary F. ------Oiginal below edited for brevity.----- Message: 6 Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 19:48:18 -0500 From: "Richard A. Cini" <rcini(a)optonline.net> Subject: RE: Making CP/M disk images To: "'Dwight K. Elvey'" <dwight.elvey(a)amd.com>, "'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts'" <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> Message-ID: <000801c4d288$74daad50$6501a8c0@bbrk0oksry5qza> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Dwight: Interestingly, Teledisk did skip every other track. These are DSDD disks formatted on the SB180 machine using the "40 track" option. The drive in the SB180 is a 96TPI drive (HD) and the disk on the PC side is a standard 1.2mb. I'll have to see if Teledisk has any options that may address this. As I recall, the number of configurable options was sparse, though. This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential and privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, delete this e-mail and destroy any copies. Any dissemination or use of this information by a person other than the intended recipient is unauthorized and may be illegal. Unless otherwise stated, opinions expressed in this e-mail are those of the author and are not endorsed by the author's employer.

19 years, 4 months

test

by waltje＠pdp11.nl

test, pse ignore -- Fred N. van Kempen, DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation) Collector/Archivist Visit the VAXlab Project at http://VAXlab.pdp11.nl/ Visit the Archives at http://www.pdp11.nl/ Email: waltje(a)pdp11.nl BUSSUM, THE NETHERLANDS / Mountain View, CA, USA

19 years, 4 months

VAX 11/725

by msokolov＠ivan.Harhan.ORG

Brad Parker <brad(a)heeltoe.com> wrote: > You can boot bsd43 in 2mb of ram on a 730. Thanks for checking this, it's good to hear that this is still the case with current 4.3BSD-Quasijarus. MS

19 years, 4 months

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