test-drb September 2004

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by wpileggi＠juno.com

I have a copy of the "WYSE 286" setup disk. At least that's how I marked it. 5 1/4 floppy - should still be good. ANybody want it? I liked those WYSE pizza boxes, they were pretty neat. Had 1 in service until 1995 or 96. Bill ________________________________________________________________ Get your name as your email address. Includes spam protection, 1GB storage, no ads and more Only $1.99/ month - visit http://www.mysite.com/name today!

21 years, 1 month

IBM PC/XT/AT, etc. material for sale/give-away/etc.

by wpileggi＠juno.com

Sadly, lost storage area(s) and forced to sell off PC related collection late spring. Thankfully went to appreciative guys around the world. Now finishing up, have a few items left of possible interest: IBM PC mfr. Early 1982, 2nd BIOS ver. BLACK power supply, all original. Manual. IBM XT mfr. January, 1984 (64-256). CGA/MONO/Floppy/20MB HDD/AST/640KB. Manual. IBM PC "B", mfr. May 1985. Case/Mobo/Power supply. Can stick in cards from list below. IBM CGA monitor, good. IBM Mono. monitor, decent/for test purposes. 2 83 key keyboards. Misc. Display Cards for PC/XT/AT - Paradise, Hercules, IBM. CGA to composite video breakout connector. Some other misc cards, drives. 2 IBM half-height 360Kb floppy drives in stack, as seen in late XT's. IBM PC DOS 2.1. IBM PC DOS 3.3 (multiple media formats AND versions). IBM BASIC 3.0 Reference manual with slipcase. IBM Service Information Manual. 3rd Edition, November, 1987. Very Cool. NORTON UTILITIES 6.01 (1992). Full boxed edition. NO floppy disks. DESQVIEW 386. Full boxed edition. 2 copies. +Additional Reference material. Hardware Maintenance and Service - (IBM) Proprinter X24E and Proprinter XL24E. Guide to Operations - Personal Computer - AT. (IBM) Technical Reference - Personal Computer - AT. (IBM) Binder/slipcase only. IBM clear vinyl floppy holder pages for manuals - IBM logo'd. A big thick handful of 5 1/4 inch floppies with misc. software/copies. Some NOS. Any interest - Please contact off list for details, photos. Insulting offers considered, rebuttals possibly offered. Conditions usually VG or better, and always working. Have experience and material to ship worldwide if so desired. Books can go media rate. My zip is 19001. Fedex usually cheapest for heavy/long distances. Bill ________________________________________________________________ Get your name as your email address. Includes spam protection, 1GB storage, no ads and more Only $1.99/ month - visit http://www.mysite.com/name today!

21 years, 1 month

Decimal V Binary??

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Sep 23 2004, 7:37, Doc Shipley wrote: > The dual-height 11/03 processor allows a CIS as well. I have a > couple that have that chip. As far as I can determine, both those > machines were used to sort, analyse, and archive incoming raw data. I've never seen one of those. What's it like? Are you sure you're not thinking of the EIS/FIS chip? -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

21 years, 1 month

OSI info pages

by aek＠spies.com

http://my.execpc.com/~mspankus/osi/osi.html#Links is a good place to start.

21 years, 1 month

PeeCee Text

by aw288＠osfn.org

In the old days of the XT and CGA, what text modes were supported? I have a Wyse PC+ - an oddball XT class machine - that could run DOS in several weird text modes (96 and 132 column, I think). I remember using it this way for some stuff, but often certain programs would barf (Norton Commander being one of them). Were these modes standard? I still have the PC+, and I doubt I will ever get rid of it for some reason. It is a pretty weird machine, and I don't think many were made. William Donzelli aw288(a)osfn.org

21 years, 1 month

bit-widths, was Re: HP Laserjet ..again....

by swtpc6800＠comcast.net

Don Lancaster's Decimal Counting Unit (1968) also used a bi-quinary circuit. http://www.swtpc.com/mholley/PopularElectronics/Feb1968/Feb_1968_PE.htm Michael (top post) Holley www.swtpc.com/mholley > On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 07:26, Paul Koning wrote: > > > That doesn't sound right; a Nixie has 10 wires, one per digit, plus a > > common wire. > > See below, scroll down to the bottom! > > http://wps.com/archives/tube-datasheets/Datasheets/Burroughs-catalog-918A/8… >

21 years, 1 month

Just curious how many of you still uses good-ole classic analog >> modem technology daily

by sml49＠comcast.net

How about this: I work as an in-house medical consultant to the health-fraud operation of a major US computer-services company (no names but Ross Perot used to own it...) and because I'm a consultant and not an employee (one day a week for three years now) I am refused access to the company network - so I work on an old iMac I restored and leave at that location, and I access the web via dialup using my daughter's Earthlink account. The internal phone network there must be noisy; all I can get is maybe 24K. Not fun. Used to do it on a PB 3400 but someone tossed the iMac at the local town dump and I adopted it - so now I can leave the even-older PB at home where it runs a SCSI scanner. Seth Lewin > To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org > Message-ID: <a05210610bd78b4ee37c0(a)[129.162.152.69]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" > > At 12:00 -0500 9/11/04, cctalk-request(a)classiccmp.org wrote: >> p.s. Just curious how many of you still uses good-ole classic analog >> modem technology daily? > > Yo. (And that has nothing to do with how late this response is :-) .) > > Ethernet at the office, but analog modem at home. Not audio, the > phone cable plugs straight into the modem board on the PowerBook > 3400, which admittedly isn't on topic...

21 years, 1 month

archiving as opposed to backing up

by dwight.elvey＠amd.com

>From: "Gene Buckle" <geneb(a)deltasoft.com> > >On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Vintage Computer Festival wrote: > >> On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Michael Sokolov wrote: >> >> > Teo Zenios <teoz(a)neo.rr.com> wrote: >> > >> > > Scientists think an asteroid, comet, or meteorite cause the Tunguska >> > > explosion in Russia in the early 20th century that behaved just like a >> > > nuclear bomb does today (intense energy, heatwave, shockwave, radiation). >> > >> > This is not what happened. Lyn Buchanan, a very good remote viewer >> > whom I know fairly well, has told the real story in his book The Seventh >> > Sense: >> >> That's total and complete bullshit. I know this for a fact because it was >> *I* who caused the explosion, not a silly spaceship! >> >> I hate people trying to take credit for my deeds. Pfeh! >> > >Hey Sellam, where's your monocle and white persian cat? You can't take >over the world without 'em ya know. > >g. > > > Hi A famous man once said, "Your out on the plains of Wyoming and you hear hoof sounds. You probably shouldn't think zebras." ( I may have got the quote a little off but the sentiment is correct. ) Dwight

21 years, 1 month

archiving as opposed to backing up

by msokolov＠ivan.Harhan.ORG

Teo Zenios <teoz(a)neo.rr.com> wrote: > Scientists think an asteroid, comet, or meteorite cause the Tunguska > explosion in Russia in the early 20th century that behaved just like a > nuclear bomb does today (intense energy, heatwave, shockwave, radiation). This is not what happened. Lyn Buchanan, a very good remote viewer whom I know fairly well, has told the real story in his book The Seventh Sense: -- quote from the book: -- Once I was given a set of coordinates by Ted, who has been mentioned before in this book. Ted is a rabid UFO fanatic, and liked to sneak UFO targets into our tasking now and then. This was forbidden, but he sometimes did it anyway. I thought that the target on this particular day was an operational target and was not expecting an ET target. I accessed the site and found a pilot flying an aircraft. I saw that he was worried about something. Still a fairly novice viewer at the time, I rushed in and accessed the pilot's mind to find out what was worrying him. The pilot and all his passengers had been members of an extremely oppressive culture. They had rebelled against their government, but to no avail. The political leaders of that culture had given them the choice of dying or being allowed to leave and never return. They had elected to leave. They had been provided with the aircraft and allowed to leave without incident. But now that the pilot had found a place to land so they could start a new home for themselves, he realized that something was wrong with the aircraft. It had been fixed to self-destruct as soon as it tried to land anywhere. Someone in the oppressive regime had not been satisfied just to let them go. He wanted to kill them all. The pilot realized the problem, but could find nothing to do about it. He had called his wife and children into the cockpit to watch the landing, fully aware that they would probably die before the aircraft could land. I gave myself a move command to the problem, and found that it was a device that the saboteur had placed within the pilot's range of sight, but out of the pilot's reach. He sadistically wanted the pilot to know and understand before death what had been done to these freedom-seeking refugees and their families. The pilot tried everything he could think of to procure a safe landing. He went around the world several times (this was my first in-session clue that it was possibly an ET target). Going back up was out of the question, for some reason that I did not investigate because I was getting so sucked into the pilot and his panic. Now, every life on the ship depended on our skill and our creative ability to solve the problem. We finally figured out a way to bring the ship in for a landing. We hoped to be able to land on a mountain top that would be high enough to keep the explosive device from detonating. As we made final preparations for the landing, we turned to our family and assured them of our love, then got back to the job at hand. A moment later, the ship exploded in a great ball of fiery debris. Once I had gotten sucked into him, it was my family, too. I loved them and ached for them. I felt responsible for their lives and knew that my political actions and beliefs and my desire that they have freedom had caused this situation to exist. In the last moments of their lives, I realized how much they had suffered for my beliefs, and I blamed myself for their dying. Everyone I loved and cared about was to die, and it was my fault. When the ship exploded, I was thrown violently out of the session, and even fell out of the chair in which I had been sitting to do the viewing. I found out later that my task had been to find out what caused the Tunguska explosion, which flattened thousands of acres of land in southeastern Siberia, on June 30, 1908. [...] But, at the time of that particular session, I had no way of detoxing >from the target. For almost two months after that session, no one in the office or at home dared to talk to me about any political subject or anything the government was doing. I became so violently opposed to any form of organized government and the oppression it wields that several times I became physically violent, just at the mention of any political subject. I could not listen to the news on the way to work or back home. I could not watch the news on TV for fear of getting so enraged that I was ready to yell and scream and throw things. Over the next two months or so, it slowly wore off, and I could again function normally. But to be totally honest, I found out about two years later, after I had developed the protocols for detoxification, that I still needed to detoxify from that session. I was still harboring very deep and angry resentment toward organized governments of any form, all because of the evil that had been done to the people and family "we" (the pilot and I) loved and cared about so dearly. -- end of quote -- To add a personal note to this story, even though I'm not a remote viewer (yet) and I have never accessed anyone else's mind, that is exactly how *I* feel about the government. Maybe I was that pilot in my previous life? Death in 1908, a little break, reincarnation in 1979, who knows, might be. MS

21 years, 1 month

PeeCee Text

by cb＠mythtech.net

>So in the event that I decide to keep it as >part of the odd dead PC group, I'd like to trade you for the keyboard >adaptor and setup disk (if you have it). I have pinouts for the adaptor on my web site (<http://www.mythtech.net/WyseKey.jpg>). Pretty trivial to make. I have no idea if the one I have is a real Wyse adaptor, or just something a previous owner built. It looks a little amature to be a real Wyse part and has no part numbers on it. Next time I am at my storage garage, I'll take a look for the setup disk. Or, if you need/want it sooner, just pester me to go look for it. If I find it, I can send you an image of it (the one I have is also not a Wyse original). -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

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test-drb September 2004