test-drb April 2004

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481 discussions

by keith＠saracom.com

Hello all, I have a question or 2 to ask on the HP9826. I am now the proud owner of the labs old system. Now I have several issues to resolve. The first is the reason I have and the lab does not. The display is out of focus and not too bright. I have tried to adjust using the pots inside labeled focus brightness. It helped alittle but not much. Any ideas? Also its no fun without an OS. Now we have BASIC Ver 5.12 at the lab. Unfortunately its on 3 1/2 inch diskettes and the HP9826 has a 5 1/4 diskette drive. Hence short of using a mallet that won't help. So is there a method of using a PC to make 5 1/4s for it since I do have the 3 1/2s? Thanks Max

20 years, 1 month

Diskette drives available

by acme＠gbronline.com

A friend has some diskette drives available. Please contact Jack Boatwright directly jboatno4(a)outlawnet.com if you're interested. He probably doesn't want much for them. 13 - 3.5" floppies (all 720K) 04 - 5.25" half-height floppies (size unknown, 360K?) 02 - 5.25" full-height floppies (size unknown, 360K?) 01 - 5.25 full-height floppy (DSQD) Additionally, he is selling off some very unusual Timex Sinclair clones on eBay (Jack most likely has the largest collection of Timex Sinclair related items on Earth). Search for seller jboatno4. Later -- Glen 0/0

20 years, 1 month

Amarillo auction

by tponsford＠theriver.com

I only got this auction email today, and hopefulltythis will be posted to the list before Sat morn. I hate when they send me the notice the day before the auction. Anybody in the Amarillo, Tx area? Amarillo by morning? The auction list shows a vt102 and a micro-pdp among hundreds of lots of peecee stuff. The stuff goes to the dumpster if not sold. list: http://www.bentleysauction.com/misc/catalogs/ama040304.txt -- --- Please do not read this sig. If you have read this far, please unread back to the beginning.

20 years, 1 month

OT: One for the Good Guys

by dwight.elvey＠amd.com

Hi All I love it. There is nothing worse than getting hundreds of incorrect address notices from people you know you never sent anything to. I just wonder if they can catch them all. Many are outside of the country. Dwight >From: Patrick <patrick(a)vintagecomputermarketplace.com> >Headline: "JURY FINDS BUFFALO SPAMMER GUILTY OF IDENTITY THEFT AND FORGERY" > >>From the text: "He was also found guilty of falsifying business records of >EarthLink, when he forged the headers of email sent from the EarthLink >accounts." > >Hmmm... if this is upheld, it has the beginnings of a major blow to that >"industry", perhaps. --Patrick > >http://www.oag.state.ny.us/press/2004/apr/apr1b_04.html > > >

20 years, 1 month

OT: One for the Good Guys

by patrick＠VintageComputerMarketplace.com

Headline: "JURY FINDS BUFFALO SPAMMER GUILTY OF IDENTITY THEFT AND FORGERY" >From the text: "He was also found guilty of falsifying business records of EarthLink, when he forged the headers of email sent from the EarthLink accounts." Hmmm... if this is upheld, it has the beginnings of a major blow to that "industry", perhaps. --Patrick http://www.oag.state.ny.us/press/2004/apr/apr1b_04.html

20 years, 1 month

Mattel intellivision

by witchy＠binarydinosaurs.co.uk

Hi folks, Anyone have any troubleshooting expertise on these things? Got one of my spares out for sale and typically the bloody thing is pretty dead. I say *pretty* dead 'cos I get the cart intro screen on power up, but with the computer module attached I get nothing. I've left it powered up for 15 minutes in case it's a warm up problem but that makes matters worse :) According to the service manual I have to replace either the RAM or CPU in that order, but since spares for those will come from working intellivisions I don't want to do that! Also, off the top of my head I can't think of any other videogames that use the General Instruments GI1610 CPU, assuming it's that that's croaked. The RAM is a GI-specific chip too. Spares, anyone? TIA :) -- Adrian/Witchy Owner & Webmaster, Binary Dinosaurs www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - possibly the UK's biggest online computer museum www.snakebiteandblack.co.uk - ex-monthly gothic shenanigans :o(

20 years, 1 month

Help with early Mac serial numbers

by jrkeys＠concentric.net

I pulled one of my early 128k Mac's from storage for part of a Apple display I'm doing on the 17th and was trying to find out the breakdown of the serial number. The number on the unit is F40220FM0001 and I'm guessing that the two F's are just there for show and that 40220 is the serial number and M0001 is the model number? Is this correct?

20 years, 1 month

Paging Gary Hildebrand...

by dvcorbin＠optonline.net

Gary I sent you a private e-mail yesterday. Please let me know if you did/did not recieve it. Thanks David david(a)dynamicconcepts.us

20 years, 1 month

ASCII Art (Was Re: FCC Licensing of Personal Computers)

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Apr 1, 20:16, Christopher McNabb wrote: > Well, it's not strictly porno, but I do have the Mona Lisa printed out > on nice wide green-bar paper hanging in my cube. I also have the Basic > Plus program and data file. Could I get a copy of that? > I think that www.textfiles.com might have a bunch of ASCII art, if they > are still around. I have a collection rescued from a few tapes about 10-15 years ago, which I can put on my website if anyone wants them. Some of it is very small simple files, some are fairly ambitious and run to a few 100K bytes, and I have some VT100 display hacks as well, about 12MB in all. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

20 years, 1 month

Heathkit et-1000

by DFoster＠aol.com

Dear Kevin: I've been browsing the web for a schematic for the Heathkit ET-1000 digital trainer and I saw your posting. The unit has been fully repaired, but I'm still worried about future repairs. By any chance or design, do you have a schematic you could fax or email me? It would even be helpful (and perhaps sufficient) if you could identify the DIP chip on the Main Board (not the Power Supply board) that is labeled "2206CP 8271". Might it be a function generator chip? NTE and other sources do not list what this chip is or what it does. Anyway, if you still have data on the ET-1000 help would be very much appreciated! Thanks, Dave (DFoster(a)aol.com)

20 years, 1 month

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test-drb April 2004