evan <evan947(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi, I'm looking to help finance a GPS by selling my laser printer. It's a
> DEClaser 3500 with FIVE extra cartridges.
Hmm, I'm not familiar with DEClaser 3500 as it's newer than my most recent
DECdirect catalog (1993). Is it PostScript or not? What interface(s)?
Has to be PostScript with EIA-232 or DEC-423 interface for me to consider
buying.
MS
just to keep terminology correct... the 8" inch came as single
or double density - high density entered the marketplace with
the introduction of the IBM AT in 1985 that had 5 1/4" high density
disk drives.
Maybe internationally things were referred to as low and high
density, but not to my recollection in the States or in any drive
datasheets I have seen.
best regards, Steve Thatcher
Hi, I'm looking to help finance a GPS by selling my laser printer. It's a
DEClaser 3500 with FIVE extra cartridges. Location is central New Jersey. The
printer works well.
- Evan Koblentz
Hi Bob
I told you to be patient. I found the stuff over the weekend.
Email me directly so that I can send the stuff to you that
won't overflow your inbox. I have what looks like an original
tape dump, the same code done in Intel HEX and a disassembly
of the code. It has a small chunk of code to the console I/O
for a KIM but I'm sure one can reconfigure it to work under
most any environment.
The disassembly only has the address table at the end done
as DB's. His code did an address interpreter, similar to
how Forth traditionally did things. I'd ment to replace these
with address pointers but I've been to lazy.
If you send this to Tom, make sure that he gets the credit
right this time. It is "Dwight Elvey" ( the second time I've
sent it ).
Dwight
>From: "Bob Applegate" <bob(a)applegate.org>
>
>Tom offered to send me a paper tape if I could read it. I asked on this list
and
>got a lot of offers to help... thanks to everyone who wanted to help!
>
>Today I got email from Tom again. He moved several years ago, and just went
>to look for the tapes. The box labeled TINY BASIC had paper tapes, but not
>for Tiny. He's optimistic that he might still have the original tapes
somewhere
>and he plans on looking for them. The only version he found so far has been
>for the 1802.
>
>In the mean time, if anyone on the list has any version of Tom's TB, he might
>appreciate getting copies, even if it's just the binaries. I'm desperately
seeking
>the 6502 version, so hopefully someone can get a copy to Tom.
>
>He must have sold quite a few copies, considering they were originally $5 each
>($5 for software? Amazing!). Hopefully someone has some old copies laying
>around.
>
>Bob
>
>From: "dave04a(a)dunfield.com" <dave04a(a)dunfield.com>
>
>Hi Bob,
>
>I would be interested in this - I Am located in Ottawa, and am planning to
>be in Toronto later this month or early next month - where exactly are you
>located?
>
>And I have a pair of TM100-2 drives sitting on the shelf!
>
>The Horizon is a nice machine - used to have one years ago, and have not
>been
>able to find another... I have a NorthStar disk controller installed in my
>Altair, which runs NorthStar DOS as well as my own DMF system.
>
>There's a simulator for this machine on my "museum" page:
> http://www.dunfield.com/~ddunfield/museum/index.html
Hi Dave
You mean:
http://www.parse.com/~ddunfield/museum/index.html
Anyway, great stuff Dave.
Dwight
>
>This will let you boot up NorthStar DOS on your PC!
>Also have most of the NorthStar manuals and a lot of other reference info.
>scanned and posted there, which may be of use to you.
>
>Regards,
>Dave Dunfield
>
>[posting from web client - so sig is not attached]
>
>Original Message:
>-----------------
>From: RMaxwell(a)atlantissi.com
>Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 09:49:20 -0400
>To: cctech(a)classiccmp.org
>Subject: IBM 5150 and Full-height 5.25" Floppy Drives
>
>
> I've been restoring a NorthStar Horizon that had its 5.25" full-height
>double-sided floppy drives removed long ago. A friend has given me another
>computer with those drives, but when I inspected it, I realized that it's a
>true-blue IBM 5150 PC in very good condition! The 5.25" drives' front
>panels are marked with the "IBM" logo, which makes them less-than-genuine
>for installation into a pre-IBM microcomputer.
>
> There may be parties that would protest stripping one "classic" to restore
>another: I'm hoping if there might be someone interested in both/either:
>
> - acquiring the 5150 as is (256K RAM [4 rows of 64K] on motherboard, plus
>256K more on expansion card, no monitor);
> - supplying (Tandon TM100-2?) full-height DS 5.25" drives for the Horizon.
>
> The big hole in the Horizon's front panel really calls out for full-height
>drives. Any help/ideas/suggestions? I'm located in Southern Ontario,
>Canada and am contemplating attending VCF East.
>
>Bob Maxwell
>rmaxwell(a)atlantissi.com
>
>
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>
>My Portable has a weird interface connected to the Conner, though. I think
>it's a 40-pin variety.
Humm... ok, then maybe it isn't a simple swap. I don't have a portable,
so I have to go off the PDF tech guide I have. It doesn't indicate
anything special about the drive, so I made what must be a wrong
assumption that it was the standard SCSI drive Apple used in everything
else of that era.
The only picture of the drive in the PDF doesn't show enough detail to
know what the connector is like. And Seagate doesn't seem to admit the
CP-3045 (taken from the pic on ebay) exists.
I did however locate a page on lowendmac.com that shows how to build a 50
pin to 34 pin converter cable to replace the Portable's drive with a more
standard 50 pin SCSI drive. It was listed under the pages for the Mac
Portable.
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
>From: "Joe R." <rigdonj(a)cfl.rr.com>
>>
---snip---
>
> You're probably right about them being only slightly valuable but it's
>still interesting to look at. Most people today have nver seen the inside
>of a battery and have no idea what they look like. This battery was built
>by Willard. I took a picture today and posted it at
><http://www.classiccmp.org/hp/battery/willard.jpg>.
Hi
Seems to be a standard Lead Acid cell. I have some Silver Zinc
cells that are dry stored that look similar. These use
an alkali unlike the lead acid cells.
>
> I forgot to mention yesterday that I also picked up a battery for a
>radiosonde. It's still sealed in it's orginal can so I don't know what it
>looks like but the guy that I got it from says that he thinks it's a
>Lithium battery. The date on the can is Sept 12, 1982 and it was made by
>VIZ. I don't know exactly who VIZ is/was but they seemed to have taken over
>production of cheap test equipment from RCA. I've seen their name along
>with RCA's on a lot of educational grade electrical equipment. I've posted
>a picture of this one too. it's at
><http://www.classiccmp.org/hp/battery/radiosonde.jpg>. FWIW I used to have
>a radiosonde but the battery for it was MUCH larger than this.
Most likely for a transistor unit, being from the 80's. I have
two old tube radiosondes that I've collected.
>
> Finally, I took pictures of the two odd tubes that I got. They're at
><http://www.classiccmp.org/hp/battery/tube1.jpg> and
><http://www.classiccmp.org/hp/battery/tube2.jpg>. The filament is in the
>large bulb at the side of the main tube. Only the first tube is marked.
>"73" has been painted near the center of it. The can see it in the photo
>but it's upside down. It was not printed but instead it looks like it was
>painted on with a small brash. Only the first tube has the silver getter
>material in it. Anyone have any idea what these might be for?
I'll bet it is some kind of arc lamp.
Dwight
>
> Joe
>
Hi Bob,
I would be interested in this - I Am located in Ottawa, and am planning to
be in Toronto later this month or early next month - where exactly are you
located?
And I have a pair of TM100-2 drives sitting on the shelf!
The Horizon is a nice machine - used to have one years ago, and have not
been
able to find another... I have a NorthStar disk controller installed in my
Altair, which runs NorthStar DOS as well as my own DMF system.
There's a simulator for this machine on my "museum" page:
http://www.dunfield.com/~ddunfield/museum/index.html
This will let you boot up NorthStar DOS on your PC!
Also have most of the NorthStar manuals and a lot of other reference info.
scanned and posted there, which may be of use to you.
Regards,
Dave Dunfield
[posting from web client - so sig is not attached]
Original Message:
-----------------
From: RMaxwell(a)atlantissi.com
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 09:49:20 -0400
To: cctech(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: IBM 5150 and Full-height 5.25" Floppy Drives
I've been restoring a NorthStar Horizon that had its 5.25" full-height
double-sided floppy drives removed long ago. A friend has given me another
computer with those drives, but when I inspected it, I realized that it's a
true-blue IBM 5150 PC in very good condition! The 5.25" drives' front
panels are marked with the "IBM" logo, which makes them less-than-genuine
for installation into a pre-IBM microcomputer.
There may be parties that would protest stripping one "classic" to restore
another: I'm hoping if there might be someone interested in both/either:
- acquiring the 5150 as is (256K RAM [4 rows of 64K] on motherboard, plus
256K more on expansion card, no monitor);
- supplying (Tandon TM100-2?) full-height DS 5.25" drives for the Horizon.
The big hole in the Horizon's front panel really calls out for full-height
drives. Any help/ideas/suggestions? I'm located in Southern Ontario,
Canada and am contemplating attending VCF East.
Bob Maxwell
rmaxwell(a)atlantissi.com
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Anyone by any chance got a manual for a Spectron D-586 datascope?
I've (somehow) managed to kick the thing into 'menu mode' precisely *once*!
TIA
Mike
http://www.corestore.org
>Maybe not -- it's apparently not bootable. Dead disk, it seems.
>From the description, it sounds like it is just another dead Apple SCSI
drive. I have gone thru stacks of these 40 and 80 MB drives from Apple
(all Conner I believe, just like the one pictured). They seem to have
motor failures and stop spinning.
But the Portable uses a standard 3.5" SCSI drive, so it is fairly trivial
to swap the drive. Granted it lessens the "value" if it carries a
different drive, but since I've already been outbid, I'll stick with the
idea that it will exceed my price threshold before it sells. :-)
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
