On Nov 3 2004, 23:37, Fred N. van Kempen wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Nov 2004, Christopher McNabb wrote:
>
> > Well, it looks like I won't be able to accept bids from the EU
anymore:
> >
> > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11/03/ebay_catalogue/
> Correct, this has been a known law. It's a good law in general,
> but can be "wierd" when it comes to border-crossing situations
> such as ePay.
I'm not sure the regulations apply to most eBay transactions though.
In the UK, at least, I understand they only apply to *business* to
consumer transactions, not sales by private individuals. And I can't
see how they can be enforced against a seller outside the EU.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
9U. Do you got a picture of this? Never seen a 9U Eurocard transputer
board. Who made it? Whats wrong with that Museum???
Cheers,
Ram
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From: ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk [mailto:ard@p850ug1.demon.co.uk]
Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 7:24 PM
To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: Surviving UK Transputer systems...
>
>
> Ram's message prompted me to post this, although it's been on my mind
> for a while.
>
> Does anyone know of any complete Transputer systems (i.e. several
> processors, cabinet, front-end control system etc.) from the '90's
> that still survive within the UK?
I have here :
The boards I did for my Ph.D. (which are very non-standard, but which
have a couple of T425s on them)
A complete Inmos ITEM (3U rack version)
Quite a few ISA cards, both the B004 type (one transputer + RAM +
external link access) and the B008 (TRAM motherboard) type
A 9U SUN Eurocard with lots of TRAM sockets (and some TRAMs in them)
A small assrotmet of TRAMs.
> I'd like to get one for the museum sometime as we don't have any
Alas you know my views on giveing stuff to that museum :-(
-tony
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That's what I thought. But wanted to make sure. The AUI port of the
IMSB300 is actually an IMSB431 which used a 5V transiever, so I am assuming
the transiver on the IMS300 needs to be 5V as well. Got to look for one as
most transievers are 12V....
Thanks,
Ram
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From: ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk [mailto:ard@p850ug1.demon.co.uk]
Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 7:18 PM
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Subject: Re: A new transputer toy....
> cables etc. The links are differential, so I guess I can just connect
> this to a differential tram, right??
I would guess so. The differential links are just the result of feeding
normal links through 'RS422' bufferes (26LS31 transmitter, 26LS32
receiver). If you don't hve the official Inmos converter TRAM (which is
not really a TRAM as it doesn't contain a transputer IIRC), you can
easily wire up said chips. I've done it several times.
-tony
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Digging through what I thought was just another giant box 0' cables from the
UA auction, I got to the bottom and there were 2 NEC PC-8201A and 2 NEC
PC-8300 all in working order.
sometimes ya just gotta keep diggin'
Cheers
Tom
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I have a Friden Flexowriter somewhere that I adapted for use with my Altair when I was a teenager.
Herbach&Rademan Surplus out of Philadelphia used to sell them.
They come with a huge box full of DTL electronics that provide some sort of telecomm interface.
We found instructions in one of the Hobbyist magazines (Byte?) on how to connect that box to the Altair serial port.
Later we found other instructions on how to eliminate the need for the box.
(It is huge -- I'd guess 12" x 24" x 36")
-Rob
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[mailto:cctalk-bounces@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Joe R.
Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 3:04 PM
To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: New finds: Some days you win, other days you WIN!
I got a call yesterday from one of my steady sources. He finally got in
the load of Intel Multibus manuals that I'd been waiting for. Went down
there this morning and spend about 4 hours digging thru a pallet load of
manuals. Found about 50 Multibus manuals. But only three different manuals.
Yeah. About 15 copies of each one! While I was there, they were sorting
out another load of OLD stuff that they'd just gotten. There was a lot of
'40s, 50s and '60s electronics in it as well as a lot of typrewriters,
checkwriters and mechanical adders. while I was there I went over and
looked in the scrap basket where they were tossing out stuff and in the
bottom I spotted something that said "Flexowriter". I really didn't want
to have to pull out all the junk that had been thrown in on top of it but
decided to find out more first. A quick call to Alex Knight (aren't cell
phones great?) and he confirmed that I SHOULD dig it out. So into the
basket I went. An hour later and I was the proud owner of not one but TWO
Frieden Flexowriters! Anyone have a manual or more information about these?
Also found some OLD modules that are marked Digital Logic Modules.
They're made of black plastic and about 1 1/8 square and 1/4" thick and
have ten pins on the bottom. The pins aren't round but are blade shaped
like those used on Jones plugs. There's no name on them but they have a
symbol of a capital R with the electrical symbol for a resistor
superimposed on it. I think I remember seeing that symbol a long time ago
but I can't remember who used it. Does anyone remember it.
Joe
All this talk of DNS makes me hungry.
The Dead Media site (http://www.deadmedia.org) is in need of
a new owner. I nominally ran it for a few years, cleaned it
up somewhat, then I passed it on to a new volunteer last year
who ultimately flaked on me. There is sits with no change for
probably two years.
If anyone is interested in reviving it, preferably on another
host, let me know. It's mainly a bunch of text. I have
low-quality perl scripts that actually generate the HTML,
the content is in a trivially simple flat "database" easily
converted to anything else.
There's a lot of room for work in categorization and such.
There is also a mailing list, somewhat cobwebby, that was on
old smartlist software, archives are around somewhere, plus the
last-used list of participants if you want to poke them all in
their virtual ribs.
> Anyone have a manual or more information about these?
Tom should for his LGP. I have some information as well that I'll get scanned and
on line.
Any IBM Executive model 'C' typewriters are worth digging out.
> So what OS's DID use the timesharing extension board?
Edusystem 50 (TSS/8)
> does anyone have a installable copy of Edusystem-50??
There is a bootable image in the SIMH distribution
The problem with all but the last versions of TSS/8 was
it assumes you have a DF32 or RF08 for swapping.
Hi all,
See... now I remember why I should not dive into yet another
restoration project (such as my AT). It only causes me to
need even MORE stuff :)
My system came with one of the last NEAT-based mainboard, which
did support both the 1Mbit DRAM chips, as well as those funky
"SIPP" modules. It had 2 banks of those chips installed, and,
at the time, I also had two banks of SIPPs in it, for a total
of 4MB. For some reason, the SIPPs have been pulled, so I am
now looking for a bunch of either SIPP modules, and/or about
18 of the 1Mbit chips to "fill the board." A 80286-12 copro
would be fun, too.
If anyone has something laying around they'd part with, pse
contact me off-list !
Thankee,
Fred
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Charlie Root <root(a)huey.classiccmp.org> wrote:
|I would be very interested in running Edusystem-20 on my 8e. I also have
|a good paper tape reader/punch combo hooked up to my pc and would be
|happy to make copies of this tape.
|
|Are full installation and user guides for Edusystem-20 around?
I'm pretty sure I still have the Edusystem Handbook around somewhere. I
think that has all the necessary information because I was able to use it
to start from scratch (toggle in the initial loader, etc.) a couple of times
in high school. Didn't the Edusystem tapes modify the RIM loader to start
themselves or such? Once they started the interactive configuration dialog
really didn't need any extra documentation.
Dan Lanciani
ddl(a)danlan.*com
