test-drb July 2004

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What is the foulest thing you have ever made a digitalker chipsetsay?!

by dwight.elvey＠amd.com

Hi When I was at Intel, years ago, Litrtronix just came out with one of those four letter LED display modules. At the time, I had a 8741 in my desk drawer. I decided to make a random four letter word display. Between me and another fellow, we had about 15 or so good ones. Then we got help from this lady that worked as a tech writer. She brought the list to over 50. She calimed it was because she majored in English. I used the minimum of parts. As I recall, the uP used a coil for the frequency reference, powersupply for 5v, the display, a couple of capacitors, the display and the uP. Dwight >From: "Fred Cisin" <cisin(a)xenosoft.com> > >I think that the syllables and phonemes that you would want >would be more like: >KOMM PYOO TURR >I don't remember the special alphabet that Votrax used >for their phonemes. (for example, "hello" was "H38L8^U") > > >On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, Dave Brown wrote: > >> Spell it rite- compewtor? >> > >> > Not foul, but, 20 years ago when I tried, I couldn't get the Votrax >> > to say "computer" instead it would say "compooter", for that >> > spelling. So, how do you have a Votrax type-n-talk say computer? >

20 years, 5 months

OSI 560Z: DEC PDP-8 clone using 6100 & 6502

by dfnr2＠yahoo.com

Hello, Having recently acquired some 6100's (I know they're lesser than the 6120), I thought I'd try a PDP-8 project (I remember seeing these, but never got to play with one.) Ohio Scientific had a board--the 560Z--which contained a 6100, a 6502, and a Z-80. The 6502 was "microprogrammed" to emulate the PDP-8 IOT codes, and OSI claimed that it was fully compatible. Has anyone played with one of these suckers? How good was the emulation? Does anyone have any info on the schematics of that board, or the 6502 firmware? Or, does anyone have an unused 560Z, working or not, they'd be willing to part with? I'm also aware of the SBC6120; I plan to order one of these soon. Thanks, Dave __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

20 years, 5 months

MI Property Depot Report

by jbmcb＠hotmail.com

Went to the U of M property disposition the other day, they had an SGI POWER series rackmount server (4G3XX something) for $1000, and an IBM S/390 Paralell Generation 4 mainframe with transaction processors (two racks of them) for $1500. I'd pick it up in a heartbeat if I had any way of lugging the beast back to Detroit. They also had a few Sparc 20's for $25, some Sony video editing equipment, a ton of DLT and CD-ROM autoloaders for fairly cheap, and a bunch of those Sparc IPX sized Sun hard drive cases for $10 (With HD's) I picked up a handful of PCI audio/SCSI/ethernet cards for $2 each, a Sony WebTV, and a couple of Cisco EISA FDDI cards to expand my tangled nest of network standards run through my home. Cheers! _________________________________________________________________ Planning a family vacation? Check out the MSN Family Travel guide! http://dollar.msn.com

20 years, 5 months

DARPA Grand Challenge Conference

by marvin＠rain.org

Anyone else going to the DARPA Grand Challenge Conference on Saturday, August 14th? Aside from the fact that a number of lightweights (including CMU Robotics) entered last year and are presumed to enter again this year, I think it would be totally cool to have a robotic vehicle powered by classic computers :)! A ton of information if you use Google, but the main site is: http://www.grandchallenge.org/ p.s. - The site doesn't work with Netscape 4.73 but works fine with (ugh) IE.

20 years, 5 months

Computer history -- visiting the UK

by wmaddox＠pacbell.net

I will be leaving at the end of the week for a couple of weeks in the UK, mostly London and surroundings, but with a few days planned in Manchester and York. I am planning to visit Bletchley Park and the Babbage exhibit at the London Science Museum. I have heard that the Manchester Baby replica at the Manchester Museum of Science and Industry is run weekly (or was at one time). I couldn't find any mention of it on the museum's website. Does anyone know the current status and schedule? Any pointers to other exhibits or locations that are a must-see? --Bill

20 years, 5 months

Processor Technology Software Wanted

by Watzman＠neo.rr.com

Does anybody, by any chance, have a copy of the processor technology "Simu-cisor" program? It is a program for testing a Persci drive that exactly simulated the Persci factory drive exerciser hardware using a PT Helios disk controller. It was distributed on audio cassette tape, not disk, and it's tape name was "SIMU". It was only a dealer/service center item, it was not normally distributed to end-users. If you have this, please contact me (Watzman(a)neo.rr.com). Thanks, Barry Watzman

20 years, 5 months

Unisys System 80 pictures available

by aek＠spies.com

In the upcoming days, I'll be able to send you a description of the hardware -- Is there any documentation with the system? The System 80 was the last descendent of the Univac 9000 series, a 360-ish 32 bit architecture. I had a little exposure to a 9300, which was very much like a 360 with the exception of I/O I'm sure all of this evolved as did the 360 to 370 over 20+ years.

20 years, 5 months

Unisys System 80 pictures available

by cheri-post＠web.de

Hi all ! Several of you were interested in pictures of the Unisys Mainframe. In the upcoming days, I'll be able to send you a description of the hardware (I don't have access to the descriptions at the moment). It would be nice, if somebody could put these pics online in a computer museum or so 'cause I haven't seen pictures of the System 80 on the internet so far. Greetings Pierre ____________________________________________________ Aufnehmen, abschicken, nah sein - So einfach ist WEB.DE Video-Mail: http://freemail.web.de/?mc=021200

20 years, 5 months

Why does my KDF11 cause spurious traps to 4??

by trash3＠splab.cas.neu.edu

My first guess is a bus error. Is it a real qbus with a terminator on the far end? Joe Heck

20 years, 5 months

MTI QTS30 SCSI QBUS module

by lbickley＠bickleywest.com

I have a MTI QTS30 SCSI QBUS module - but no docs. The port-vax list states the following: QTS30 -------- Type: disk controller Bus: Q-bus Bus protocol: E(?) Vendor: MTI Specification: SCSI disks Last updated: 1998-02-06 But has no information regarding jumper settings, capabilities, etc. Any help would be appreciated!!! Thanks, Lyle -- Lyle Bickley Bickley Consulting West Inc. http://bickleywest.com "Black holes are where God is dividing by zero"

20 years, 5 months

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