Found while scouring Usenet for something totally unrelated:
"Well, you never know what someone might be doing with old, but usable,
hardware. I have heard that there is a major bank in Great Britain
that keeps an IBM 360 running because its 1401 emulator emulates a 704
(as did the original 1401) for a program whose Autocoder source was
lost long ago. Also, don't underestimate the geek factor. Was
AlphaLISP ever ported to Alpha Micro's 680x0 line?
"Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first woman
she meets and then teams up with three complete strangers to kill
again." -- TV listing for "The Wizard of Oz" in a Marin County newspaper,"
Posted 2002-04-03 by one Michael Roach.
Apocryphal? Who knows. Might be worth following up one...
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I just downloaded an atari 800 emulator for my Ibook.
When I have written a basic program how do I save it to floppy?
How do I load it again?
Directory list?
the emulator has 8 diskette drives, how do I specify them in my
commands?
Any good sites on the Internet with simple stuff like that -
I can find basic sites, and Assembly language sites but I don't
see anything on DOS sites.
Thanks!
I just picked up an HP 97 at a church rummage sale. It was sold "tel
quel" ("as is"), so it was a bit of a gamble, but I figured if it was
broken it'd be even more fun 'cause then I would feel no compunction
about opening it up and Investigating.
The battery pack appears dead (based on a 1kohm/volt voltmeter, it's
producing about .1V) and it didn't come with a wall wart. But the
battery pack was visibly made up of four cells, so I figured four
rechargeable cells is probably about 5V - and the external power
connector is marked 5V. So I hooked it up to 5V from a peecee power
supply (peecees are good for _something_; they provide me with power
supplies :), and it seems to be in full working order. Even the
printer works (though the ribbon appears a little enfeebled).
All I need to do is find a manual for the thing. Anyone know of one?
Google found me a few places _selling_ scanned copies of the manual,
but none civilized enough to have it up for fetching.
The thing cost me all of five bucks. :) Maybe not quite on a par with
an ASR33, but it's also a lot easier for me to find space for. As yet
I may be but a dilettante when it comes to old computing gadgets, but
*I* think it has a healthy dose of gamish!
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I've set up a trade with another Listmember who needs a '3' as much as I
need a '1' - so Things have worked out well!
Thanks to all who have responded so far!
Cheers
John
Does the "gamer" lifestyle include classic computers or are we unlikely to
see Sellam on there again?
Comcast Agrees to Purchase TechTV
Thursday, March 25, 2004
Comcast recently announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire
TechTV, a cable network focused on cutting-edge technology and the impact of
technology on daily life, from Vulcan Programming Inc. When the deal
closes, Tech TV will be merged with G4, the Comcast-owned television network
devoted to video games and the "gamer" lifestyle.
Folks,
Spent a day troubleshooting this one so I'm wondering if any of you have
come across this before: 3100-95 with internal SCSI set at ID 7. Give it a
boot disk at any free ID and another device (doesn't matter what) at ID 6.
At the dead sergeant prompt all the devices are visible, but boot VMS 7.2
and whatever device you have at ID 6 is not seen unless it's the boot disk
itself in which case it shows up as DKA600.
Is there something hard-coded into VMS for MicroVAX 3100s that always
assumes the SCSI controller is at ID 6 no matter what? I know that older
3100s always had the controller at 6 and I don't remember it being
changeable....
Most odd :)
Cheers!
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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(
I have discovered a couple of RL02 (and other drives) 'READY' buttons,
which also determine the drive's 'number' in the system, 0-3. I would
like to trade a brand-new '3' button for a '1' button that is known good.
I have several RL02 drives, all of them '0' devices.
I'll pay shipping to you. Straight trade, no money involved.
Cheers
John
Does anyone know, or know of a reference to, the serial-line protocol
spoken by Summagraphics tablet digitizers (specifically, the MM1103)?
I have one. After a bit of detective work, I got it to at least
somewhat work. I now have it to the point where I can connect it up
and turn it on. When I do, I get nothing until one of the buttons on
the puck is pressed, at which point it starts generating a stream of
samples, continuing for as long as some button is pressed. The format
is fairly easy, just %04d,%04d,%1d\n sent with the 0x80 bits set to
provide even parity, where the four-digit numbers are the location
(based on an 8.5" edge of a piece of paper and some arithmetic, it
appears to be 200dpi) and the last indicates what button is pressed.
This makes it all at least somewhat usable. But I'd really like to be
able to get samples back even when no buttons are pressed, whence my
question.
The back does include a sticker saying, among other things, "BIT PAD
FORMAT", which may or may not mean anything useful. I did go
a-googling, but either there's nothing to be found or I didn't guess
the right incantation to find it. `Summagraphics MM1103 serial
protocol' turns up no hits - though it probably will once this message
gets archived and googled :) - and neither did `"bit pad format"'.
It _is_ on-topic; there's a sticker on the back with a Date: field
containing a handwritten date that is clearly in 1984 (it appears to
read "10/17/84"), which contains other text implying it was added by a
leasing/service organization.
Thoughts?
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On May 8, 8:09, Joe R. wrote:
> I think I have a couple of Exabyte 8200 drives laying around if
you want
> one and are willing to pay shipping from the US.
> At 12:05 AM 5/8/04 +0100, you wrote:
> >Slightly off topic: I need to recover some data (about 500MB) from a
> >tape written 8 years ago on an 8mm ExaByte 8200.
Thanks for the offer. I think I'll pass on that, though (unless things
change) as I've had a couple of offers in private email.
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Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
Hello,
I'm working on an old Bering 8020RM HP-IB disk drive that uses a
removable disk cartridge. I found that it uses a Bernoulli drive and it
uses a 8" cartridge. I THINK the disk is 20Mb but I'm not sure. Does anyone
have an old 8" Bernoulli disk that I can try in it?
Joe
