Actually in 1975 or 1976 one of my fellow graduate students, moving to
Beaverton Oregon to work for Tektronix, was trying to move some early
disk drives and was asked by the movers what they were. Home
furnishings were readily moveable but not office stuff. So he put them
in washer and dryer boxes and the movers were happy to move them. They
had been used as end tables in his living room up until them.
He also built the first Altair I ever saw.
Andy said
>
>My experience of early hard disks was with the ICT EDS-4 which stored
4M 6-bit characters (ie about 3 MB) - the >(exchangeable) disk pack was
close to the size of a complete PC ... the drives were referred to as
"washing machines" >because of their size and appearance. (and the
controller was about the same size also). The IBM equivalent was, I
>think, the 1311 ... the 2311 being equivalent to the ICT EDS-8 (which
had twice as many tracks as the eds4 but was >otherwise identical)
Mike
Here are a few Web links that talks about Tulip and the C64. Some are bit
old, but worth a read:
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,111556,00.asp
Article from 2003 that gives an overall look at the relationship.
http://www.tulip.com/news/article.asp?nid=109
This one raises as many questions as it answers. It only speaks to
enforcement for the unauthorized use of the Commodore name.
http://www.tulip.com/aboutus/corp_article.asp?nid=145
This is an interesting link, too. Although it's in Dutch, the product looks
remarkably similar to the one Jeri is holding in her hand.
Interestingly, in a note on Ruud Baltassen's site indicates that Tulip
doesn't mind people using the Commodore name in a non-commercial setting, I
guess acknowledging that in the time between when it purchased "the name and
other assets in 1997" and 2003 when they talk about developing game products
for the PC (like the Atari Anthology program, I'm guessing -- old games
running on a new machine using an emulator), a lot has happened.
The problem is that no one ever says what "other assets" is.
Rich
I just found and captured this programmable calculator. It still has a
roll of paper in the feed. I would like it to go to a good home. It is
heavy and big. I have not tried to power it up. Google search turned
up the following information.
Looks just like
http://www.oldcalculatormuseum.com/c-programma101.html
Any offers?
Mike McFadden
Ahhh...I thought I recognized the domain name from somewhere.
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk-bounces(a)classiccmp.org
[mailto:cctalk-bounces@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of John Foust
Sent: Monday, December 20, 2004 2:22 PM
To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: RE: Apollo Guidance Computer prototype replica
At 12:50 PM 12/20/2004, you wrote:
>Has anyone cached this yet? The bit rates are so low that it must be hosted
>on his machine at home.
>Heaven help him if this story gets posted to Slashdot :-)
Either there's a CCC Effect, or maybe whereever Sellam learned
about it, others learned too. I'm getting about 1-4K/sec, but
the first PDF is 8 meg. I can mirror when it's done.
If you look up one directory, you'll see he's mirroring
Carl Friend's site.
- John
Which HP 264x terminals used 8008 cpus? I know that the 2640 and 2644 did -
but did the 2648 or any others in the series also use it? What is the HP p/n
for the 8008 in this application?
Jack
I'm in the middle of some repair work on an older Heathkit O-Scope model
IO-102, the vertical board uses an N-Channel FET (Q1 - EL131 - Heathkit part
number 417-241) which has become very thermal. I picked up a replacement
>from a local electronics distributor however the crossed NTE part simply
doesn't work in the circuit. (NTE cross shows an NTE133 as the cross for the
EL131). I've tried a couple NTE133s and an MPF105 as well, all work the same
in the circuit but don't work correctly.
Does anyone know of an exact EL131 replacement, know if the ECG312 really is
a good replacement or even better know where I can get a Heathkit
replacement part. Digikey, Mouser etc. all don't recognize the EL131 part
number.
Thanks
-Neil
Michael..
You might try posting them in the both the "free" area and "computer" area
on Craigslist (www.craigslist.org); that might work. The IIsi has pretty
much no value - ie: I doubt anyone would pay anything for one beyond the
cost of shipping unless it has one or another of the more interesting PDS
cards or adapters (does it?). I have quite a few si's that I've picked up
at the local recycling depot. The 7200 is a more useful machine which is
still upgradable. What comes with them by way of peripherals/ keyboards/ old
sofware/ whatnot? I've been keeping a double handful of older Macs around
here and the software to run 'em just in case some day down the line when
I'm old and gray I suddenly have the urge to run PageMaker v. 2, or even
Excel 1.04 (all 170K of it)...or the original MacPaint.
Seth Lewin
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 13:18:55 -0500
> From: Michael <vaxlion(a)postal.lionsden.com>
> Subject: Macintosh collector groups?
> To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
> Message-ID: <41C4748F.6050100(a)postal.lionsden.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>
> Howdy all,
>
> I have two Macs, a Mac IIsi and 7200, I would like to get rid of. Does
> anyone have any recommendation for a Mac collectors group that might
> have some individuals interested in these machines? Listings for these
> machines on both Ebay and Vintage Marketplace have yeilded no takers.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -- Michael
I went to one of my favorite scrounging spots today and found an
interesting disk drive with a HP-IB inteface. The drive was made by IEM and
it has two 105Mb removable cartridge drives in it. It looks like it takes
Syquest disk cartridges. Does anyone have a couple of spare Syquest 105 mb
cartridges to spare so I can try it out?
Joe
