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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>Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 2:49 PM
>Subject: Re: vintage computers and lead poisoning?
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>> Relax, don't panic. Realize that they'll get more lead exposure from
>> soldering or from pencils and don't waste your time worrying about it.
>>
>
>Pencils?
JOE> Pencils used lead in the time of the Romans. Some people haven't caught
JOE> onto the fact that pencils now use graphite and have for the last 200 years
JOE> or more.
JOE> Joe
Boy that puts a different spin having "no Lead in you pencil".
- Jerry
Philip Pemberton <philpem(a)dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
> Sure, but C64s, VAXen and such never had any viruses written specifically for
> them, IIRC. [...]
VAXen? How about the Morris worm that flooded the Internet back in 86?
It had a specific buffer overflow (for fingerd) that injected vax
machine code onto the stack.
**vp
I'm looking for a source for several three lead neon lamps. I purchased
a Sgi Galileo video analog breakout box and two neon lamps on the PC
board are broken. There are no makings on the lamps. I assume they are
some kind of protective device.
I've been browsing several lamps sites and have only seen two lead lamps.
James
"Computers have traces of deadly toxic dust"
http://theinquirer.net/?article=16393
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I'm looking to buy (or at least get a chance to look at) an original
Mandala virtual reality system for the Atari - the one that was sold by
Vivid beginning in around late 1989 or so. Basically works like the
Playstation Eye Toy.
Anybody have one or know who does?
-W
I went to a little hamfest today. Brought back another SWTPC Function
Generator and two OLD or homemade (or both?) vacuum tubes. These things are
weird! Other finds include the main unit for a Pace MBT desoldering station
(no handpiece or tips :-(. Also a HP 12C calculator and NOS military lead
acid battery from 1953. It's about 2" square and about 5" tall and is made
of clear plastic so everything is readily visible. It's never had acid put
into it and has never been used. It's sort of cute and it makes an
interesting show and tell piece. Pictures later.
Joe
On Jun 5, 21:28, William Donzelli wrote:
> Most of these batteries were made in World War 2, many by a company
called
> Willard. They pretty much fell out of fashion roight after the war in
new
> designs, but probably were still produced for all of the existing
radios
> (mainly) that used them.
Actually, small transparent lead-acid batteries (usually with the three
balls in a column) were still made up to the 1980s. Professional
flashguns and some "portable" phones used them.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
I've been getting interested in printing terminals.
(I am seeking professional help for this, but meanwhile...).
Is there a device which is a good modern (correcting) typewriter,
true letter-quality (daisy, thimble, golfball) printer, and also
a terminal?
Plenty of typewriters were made with serial or parallel ports,
but I don't know of anything with both correction tape and a control key...
Correcting Selectric II's came out around 1973, and the LA36 Decwriter
II in 1974, with the Selectric III and LA100 still being available at
least into the mid-eighties... was there really no perceived market
for a product that combined the strengths of both?
--akb
Hey, saw this PC-380-AA on ebay, which I believe is a Professional 380
turned into a VAX console:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=1479&item=5702711003…
No idea if these are rare, iirc it's basically a pdp-11/73 type box. Is
anybody going to die and go to heaven because one is available?
Must.. refrain... fromacquiring... more... stuff... spock, turn off ebay!
Jeff
