After hearing about the big earthquake and tsunamis that pounded the Far
East, I found myself wondering about one of my all-time favorite sci-fi
authors, Arthur C. Clarke. He lives in Sri Lanka, one of the areas that
was hit hardest, so I was snooping around the Web to see if I could find
any info as to whether or not he is okay. During my search, I came
across this real cool pic of him working hard on 2010: Odyssey 2. The
copyright date on the picture is 1984, so it is no surprise that a
couple cool classics would be involved. Check it out...
http://www.lsi.usp.br/~rbianchi/clarke/ACC.Kaypro.gif
>I'm not usually the paranoid type, but the seller has been a member for
>all of eight hours, has a baker's dozen high-priced items with
>"reasonable" starting and buy bids all ending within minutes of each
>other. . .
>
>As much as I'd like a Lisa 1, this doesn't feel right.
Uh, yeah, and none of his stuff has photos. You would think, if you plan
to get 4 grand for a computer that clearly condition makes a difference
in the price, you would post some photos. Ditto for some of his other
items.
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
A COMPLETE (including the manual, brochures, quick reference sheet, power
supply, and parallel cable) Votrax Personal Sound System is available on
eBay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=162&item=5151487740&…
(I *WISH* I had all the peripherals that one comes with, with mine... It
even includes the custom parallel Y cable, which I still need to find the
wire mapping for and build... Speaking of which, I should get off my lazy
rear and finish building the power supply for mine first so I can see if it
even WORKS...)
Jonathan Gevaryahu
lord_nightmare_(a)t_users.sf.net
jgevaryahu_(a)t_hotmail.com
P.S. sorry for the multi-send, comcast's mailserver seems to have some sort
of a rate limit against it by whatever isp classiccmp runs behind, so the
original message will probably arrive after the auction is over.
A few weeks ago someone (Sorry, I forgot who) pointed out a DSSI tape unit
available on ebay.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5144248734
I bid on it, thinking that it would be phun to play with at a low price.
I won, and the unit contains a couple of old DDS SCSI tapes but more
importantly a CMD CDI-4000 SCSI/DSSI converter which appears from the SET
HOST/DUP firmware to be identical to my other CDI-4000 which does either
SCSI disks or tapes just fine.
Woo hoo! Score.
Thanks
Paul
I got this via email late yesterday:
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"Would you know of anyone that would be interested in a DEC PDP11-34? We
just got one in stock and I can provide you with pix and a list of the
boards inside if you need."
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So, if you might be interested in the 11/34 please let me know and I'll
put you in touch with the seller.
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Email me webmasterNOSPAM(a)vintage-computer.com
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Happy Holidays!
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?? Erik Klein
?? www.vintage-computer.com
?? www.vintage-computer.com/vcforum
?? The Vintage Computer Forum
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If you still have the manuals for loan, I'd be more then happy to scan them
in the mornings before school, I'd love to get copies of them and to do that
I'd be more then willing to scan them up. Comp teacher has a scanner I can
use in the mornings, so that's good! Heh, if you can, I'd love to, just laid
hands on a trainer that seems fully functional, and I'm looking about for
manuals, hard to come by on the 'net though ! :/
Hi, I know you were looking for these over a year ago. I have a source. Do you have a source for the small gear thats on the motor piston of a pc-2 printer ? I need about a dozen...Joe
Hello guys,
> > Can I use these boards in my PDP 11/24, too ?
> Nope, not if they're 7xx boards. If these are standard UNIBUS boards,
> you should be able to use them in both the 7xx and a PDP-11.
>
That's the info I found on the net from a 11/750 FAQ:
"National Semiconductor Memory Systems: 1Mb memory boards. These boards have
PWB 551109464-002 B
PWA 980109464-001 D
etched on them. They have a push-button switch for disabling the board, and a spare memory chip in a socket on the board. Board has green and yellow LEDS, which should normally both be on. Disabling the board causes the yellow LED to go out, and the red LED on the L0016 to come on, indicating bad memory configuration."
Fred, what do you mean with "very wide boards" exactly ?
These boards do have 6 fingers (hex wide) and fit into a usual UNIBUS slot.
What are the differences between the VAX11 bus and the ordinary UNIBUS ?
Can I find that out with a closer look to the pins ?
Pierre
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Hi I am very interested in your 2 digital digital RF35/RZ35 HDD
I live in Peru ,Latin America and I want to know some details about your
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I have a S-100 based system that seems to mostly run, but I have some
questions on the video card.
It is a Polymorphic Systems card, but looks different from all the examples I
could find on the internet
Markings are: Polymorphic Systems (c) 1976 I.P.C VIDEO? rev 0.0, with most
chips aligned vertically
The keyboard? port is a 14 pin DIP socket in the upper R.H. corner, next to a
8212 I/O chip.
Between this and the VIDEO marking, there are some pads with heat damage that
have the symbol for Zener diode across one of them. I have no idea what the
component specs are for these pads.
Also, 2 questions: does anyone have the DIP switch settings table for this
card? 7 switches, currently set at 1 1 1 1 0 0 0
and (2) the 8212 interface makes me think that the keyboard is some sort of
parallel interface, but the computer came with a DIP header connected to 3
wires
(bonus question: this card has some jumper wires and a resistor soldered on
the trace side of the PCB, is this official, or is this a hack? the joints look
sort of "hacky" the resistor goes between +Vcc and pin 20 of the 6571AL, the
jumpers are between some of the 74XXX gates on the L.H. side of the card
[where the 7805 V.R. is])
found it at my church garage sale several years ago, so I can't "ask the
owner"
Scott Quinn
