Can anyone give me the pinout and details of the power
supply used on the Dragon32 (have a machine with no
supply) - It has a 9-pin 'D' connector on the back of
the machine for the power input!
Searched and found some hardware info, but not the power
information...
Regards,
Dave
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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
Why not just make a paddle card with one of the USB
parallel bit wigglers, and have the thing totally virtual
on a laptop? You could even line a bunch of them up on
the screen if you want to probe more than one device at
a time, or rearrage the bits so they make more sense
logically?
Bound to happen! A few odd charges showed up on my business
credit card. I caught it quickly, then went into gumshoe mode.
The largest charge was to Staples.com. Someone knew all my info:
name, address, credit card number, three-digit code from the back,
so Staples processed the order. They had the new iPod sent to a
fellow in Los Angeles.
Said fellow was surprised to hear my card had been used:
Why, he'd recently bought an iPod on eBay at a great price.
The seller wanted to be paid via eGold.com, and had sent detailed
instructions as how to send money to an exchange company that
would convert dollars to eGold, which could be used to pay him.
I tracked down several other eBay buyers who had the same
experience with the seller. In three of four cases, the buyers
somehow screwed up the payment process, yet had received their
goods (directly from Staples or BestBuy) in the same fashion.
Meanwhile the seller has disappeared: Yahoo email unanswered,
fake phones and addresses.
This may never happen with classic goods, of course, but you
can see how the scam will work with new goods. It also makes
me wonder if some of the "how to get stuff for free" packages
on eBay aren't promoting this sort of scam. You can see how
thieves could make a lot of money, converting credit card
info to cash.
- John
Hi:
A gentleman in Arizona contacted me about divesting himself of his
S100 stuff, including most of my missing BYTE magazines (and 2 copies of
Issue #1), the entire run of Micro Cornucopia (which I haven't received
yet), a few Kilobauds and Interface Ages. He has also sent me a SSM VB1B
video board, a Computer Systems Inc. Clock/Calendar board, an IMS PIC-8 Rev
3 interface board and a Cromemco Dazzler board set. Supposedly there's lots
more, including tons of software on 8" disks and two complete S100 systems.
Back to the Micro Cornucopia. I've heard of the name, but what was
the focus of it?
Regarding my BYTE collection, with these additional issues, I have
nearly a complete set from 9/75 through 1/88. So far, my "interesting
article" database has about 700 entries. At some point, I will make this
available on my Web site and if someone needs an article reprint, I can do
that.
I thought I'd mention the issues of BYTE I'm still missing in case
anyone has dupes: most of 1976 (except 1, 3, 4), 7/77, 6/80, 2/82, 1/86, and
3/86.
Rich
Rich Cini
Collector of classic computers
Build Master for the Altair32 Emulation Project
Web site: http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/~rcini/classiccmp/
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Does anyone know anything about the protocol that the IBM 3270 terminals
uses on the BNC ports labelled I/O? Is there any possibility of hooking
this up to anything modern?
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Tore S Bekkedal <toresbe(a)ifi.uio.no>
Hello all,
Recently I got a VAX 11/725, a small model VAX that was produced around 1983.
I intend to try to boot this machine again after many years.
- Does anyone have a 11/725?
- Does anyone have 11/725 related documentation?
- How do you check in a few steps with this computer whether it is still functioning properly?
Thanks,
Jeroen
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Wired is running an article that might be of interest to SGI enthusiasts.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,65834,00.html
They even had a couple links in there that I'm pretty I've never seen before.
Zane
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| Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator |
| healyzh(a)aracnet.com (primary) | OpenVMS Enthusiast |
| | Classic Computer Collector |
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| Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, |
| PDP-10 Emulation and Zane's Computer Museum. |
| http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ |
Perhaps even cooler than a CADR emulator, a PDP-1 emulator which runs
the original PDP-1 spacewar code:
http://lcs.www.media.mit.edu/groups/el/projects/spacewar/
Very cool. Apparently the java code is an PDP-1 emulator. They wrote a
PDP-1 assembler in perl. You have to smile.
I think the screen should be round, however :-)
-brad
Not that I have any spare ones, but look at this site for a description
of a IDE to Profile/widget translator.
http://john.ccac.rwth-aachen.de:8000/patrick/idefile.htm
The website does not (yet) give full details.
Please note that the project is not mine, we are just looking how much
interest there is, therefore raise hands if interested in a PCB.
Jos Dreesen
