ben franchuk <bfranchuk(a)jetnet.ab.ca> wrote:
> I tend to favor the idea that humanity made a wrong turn somewhere about
> the breakup of the last ice Age.
No, you've got the timing slightly off. The end of the last ice age was around
13000 y BP (before present) and the big wrong turn in the history of this planet
was in the year 2024 BCE (i.e., about 4027 y BP) as explained in my very
important work on the subject:
http://ivan.Harhan.ORG/documents/2003-05-briefing-doc.txt
Now this is really OT for this list, for please follow up off-list.
MS
Does anyone know the magic numbers to enter into Test 70 on a
uVax-2000 to properly format an RD-54 and an RD-52 that are not
recognized as being such due to being formatted by some other (PC)
system?
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>From: "Witchy" <witchy(a)binarydinosaurs.co.uk>
>Subject: Bloody newbies
>
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>
>Gaah!
Gaah is about right... I have one in better nick, like the day it was made,
with software including system/finder 1.0 etc. Bought it 5 years ago in a
secondhand/pawn shop in Colchester.
Price? UKP 10.00
Mike
http://www.corestore.org
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Hi Folks,
I'm looking for information on the E&L Instruments Fox Trainer (MT-80Z) which is a Z80 based teaching tool.
I'd like to know what the power supply specifications are for the unit, is there documentation on the trainer and the embedded firmware (Eprom) on board ?
In looking through your archives I came across a post from John R. Keys Jr. (December 1, 2002) stating that he had a MultiTech Microprofessor MPF-1B which was part of the E&L Instrument Fox trainer. I don't know if John is still on this list and if he still has that information.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks Robo
Scott, I am a longtime member of MWFOG - FOG#12 - Though our name has
changed, now, to the Central Iowa Computer User Group, we have an almost complete
set of the FOG CP/M disks. It might take me a week or two, or longer to
get through these but I'll try to get them copied, zipped, and emailed to you.
I'll try to get you #35 first, but will try to get you all of them over
time. Or perhaps, I could get them burned on a CD???? Not sure about this.
I'm not near the expert, that most on the list are!
BTW, I have so many involvements you might have to reach out with a brick bat
to keep me on top of this! Please feel free to use, gently.
BTW, we have a computer recycling project in our computer user group. ROCK -
Recycling Old Computers Kindly. We have quite a number of old things that
we have scrapped and sent to recycling hell. Maybe ought to let folk in here
have crack at some of them....
We have things like ESDI drives, a number of HP 9000's of a couple
varieties, lots of old MFM drives, as well as smaller IDE drives. CGA monitors, mono
monitors, video cards, lots of cables, etc, etc, etc, Since we do have to
pay rent for our recycling project we would need a small donation plus shipping
costs for most of these items. Some of the newer items like the HP's, or the
scarce items llike the CGA monitors we might want a bit more.
If anyone is interested in other stuff, let me know, we have number of
companies donating to us and might stumble across a bunch of older items. No we do
not major in big iron.
To find out more about CIACUG and the ROCK project visit www.ciacug.org.
Dan
FidoNetDan(a)aol.com or
dbuda(a)ankeny.k12.ia.us
>My Apple II clones website is live now, if anyone wants to take a look.
>
>http://www.apple2clones.com
I did a package on my Franklin Ace 100 earlier this year, which consists of
lots of detailed photos (inside and out) including Franklin labled Monitor and
Disk drive, scan of the manual (if you haven't seen the FA100 manual - it's
an interesting read), as well as other reference documentation. I also included
a Franklin Simulator (which is really just an Apple2 simulator with the Ace100
ROM image) - You are welcome to this material if you want it for your site.
Btw, are you aware of any Unitron models in a single-piece case (not separate
keyboard) with the numeric pad? I've got one which I'm trying to identify,
however my searches have turned up either machines without the numeric pad,
or machines with separate keyboard. - Ever seen one like this?
Regards,
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com Vintage computing equipment collector.
>From: "ben franchuk" <bfranchuk(a)jetnet.ab.ca>
>
>Antonio Carlini wrote:
>
>> I think you've missed what AXE does.
>>
>> I give you a spec for the chip (in this case DEC STD 032, the
>> VAX Architetcure Manual). You build the chip.
>
>I did miss that point that it is a pre-production rather than
>a post-production test.
>
>> I want to know if you've built a chip that meets
>> the spec or just one that "almost" meets the spec.
>
>Don't look at me , my CPU's never meet the spec,
>but then again I am not doing a commerical product.
Hi
We make CPU chips and I can tell you that they are so complex
that I doubt that we or anyone else in the world has ever tested
one completely enough to say that there isn't still a bug in
it someplace. It isn't that we and our customers don't try.
We throw everything we can at them. It is just that the number
of combination of events is so astronomical that it truly
can't be full tested for bugs within the time of the remaining
life of the universe. We do test them to see that they act
as designed but that doesn't expose bugs. That is a completely
different problem.
Dwight
>Like who would invest in a NEW LS-TTL computer?
>I tend to be over 20 ns my clock period or way too
>many chips but I have fun unlike people in the real
>world desiging CPU's.
>
>
>
>> CPU diags are there to check that the chip was stamped properly
>> at the factory and still works after you spurt coke all over it.
>
>Umm what about the cold pizza too?
>
>> That's not AXE's job.
>Thank you for the insight.
>Ben.
>
>
>
>
>
Hell - I've got one of these in pristine condition with a you beaut Apple,
padded carry bag. Could be good source of revenue :-)
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Hi Dave
When you guys get this code on CD, let me know as well.
I've been planning on getting my H8 up and running. I've
already written code to transfer disk image data from the
H89 to a PC and back. It shouldn't take much to adapt it
to work for cassette or even just a memory block.
I have a H27 that I've not tested yet, being that I've not
powered up the H8 yet. On the H89, I just used the line
printer port, since it used a straight cable to a PC
serial port. The code is bootstrapped from about 50
bytes that are entered from the monitor.
Dwight
>To: jack.rubin(a)ameritech.net, cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
>From: "Dave Dunfield" <dave04a(a)dunfield.com>
>
>>Dave,
>>
>>I've got all these tapes, but I'm not sure how well they still work. I'm
>>planning to convert them to .wav files and save them to CD Real Soon
>>Now.
>>
>>Stay in touch,
>>Jack
>
>Hi Jack,
>
>Thanks for the response. I would appreciate it very much if you could contact
>me when you have the files converted.
>
>I've been thinking about what would be the best way to "transport" this code.
>A CD recorded at 44khz 16-bit should work OK - another option would be to load
>the tapes into the machine and then dump the binary over the serial port -
thats
>what I want to ultimately do as I want to be able to load the software into a
>PC based simulator (yet to be written unless someone knows of an existing one).
>
>Regards,
>
>Dave
>
>
>>> Hi, I've recently acquired a Heathkit H8, however I did not
>>> receive the original software. I do have documentation for
>>> the following packages, which all appear to be original
>>> Heathkit distributions on cassette tape:
>>>
>>> BUG-8 Console Debugger
>>> TED-8 Text Editor
>>> HASL-8 Assembly Language package
>>> Benton Harbor BASIC / Extended Benton Harbor BASIC
>>>
>>> I'm looking for copies of the software. I'd love to obtain
>>> original Heathkit tapes, however I would be happy just to
>>> obtain the binaries or even audio recordings of the tapes.
>--
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>dunfield (dot) Firmware development services & tools: www.dunfield.com
>com Vintage computing equipment collector.
>
>
