Hello all,
I'm not subscribed to the list, honestly I don't have time to fiddle with classic machines, and
I gave my uncle's Altair back to him...
But, I found something in my parents barn -- the loft was full of stuff, and a few strange items
a "friend" left when he skipped town. I've got a CPT-8100 with keyboard. The basic box
seems to all be there -- two 8" drives etc. I've got no use at all for such a thing. Does
anyone have any interest in this item? I know shipping will be painful, it's heavy! I really
haven't done anything other than search the web to figure out what it is.
I'm in Arkansas.
Thanks!
-Keith Wheeler
Hello again.
I managed to jury rig a null modem cable for my "new" VAX (using a
phone cable, some resources I found on Google, mere hours before Jochen
posted a link to the same Google search I did :) ), using a phone cable
and an old RS232 cable. It ain't pretty, but it works.
My next problem is how to get an OS onto this thing. I can easily
enough get the distribution CD from Encompass for Hobbyists, however, I
lack a means of getting VMS onto the machine, since it only has a TK70
drive, 3 DSSI hard disks, and no SCSI adaptor. I am quite comfortable
with setting up over a network (having done many installs of IRIX using
Linux as a server), however, I have not found any resources on how to
do this with VMS, only with NetBSD. So, what should I do? Has anybody
successfully installed VMS using Linux as a server? Or should I invest
in a KZQSA controller and use a SUN CD-ROM drive with it (can this be
done)? Or perhaps should I invest in a DSSI CD-ROM drive? Does such a
beast exist for the VAX 4000/300, even?
I'm relatively new to the VAX platform from an administrative
perspective, so please bear with me!
Thanks!
Phil.
It keeps my HP64000 company. Picked one of them up at the same time,
along with probably every bit of documentation, pods and software ever
made for it.
--
I've been trying to archive documentation and software for these.
www.bitsavers.org/pdf/hp/640000
would you be willing to loan the docs out that I don't already
have to be scanned, along w the discs to archive?
It's somewhat off-topic, but judging by the joy everyone got out of CD
destruction I thought it would go over well anyway. :) MPEGs of a pair
of pretty spectacular, somewhat-unintentional, power-line Jacobs Ladders
(one of them three-phase, the other producing a prolonged 50-foot arc)
and also a little movie about what happens when your neighborhood
transformer shorts to ground:
http://205.243.100.155/frames/longarc.htm
There's also a link at the bottom of the page to show how to shrink coins
using about 100,000 amps of pulsed magnetic field. It's nice to know
there are other people out there having fun too. :) :)
-O.-
Hello,
Found your site searching on Yahoo for IBM 5110 or 5120.
We have some equipment for sale maybe you might be interested in:
1 5120, IBM model 5110/3, 8" floppy drive, BASIC
1 5120 IBM model 5110/?, 8" floppy, BASIC/APL
1 5110 IBM model 5110A, internal tape drive, BASIC/APL
1 5114 IBM disk drive, 2 8" floppy drives
2 5103 printers
We are an accounting firm who used these computers a very long time ago. We are moving this month, these have been in our office in storage and I would like to sell these if possible.
If you are interested and would like any more detail, please contact us and I will try to provide any information needed. Some of this equipment worked when we quit using this but I do not know the condition since it has not been in use in many years.
Thank you,
Sharon Hamrick
Updates have (finally) been completed to the Little Orphan Tomy Tutor page.
This page is dedicated to the Tomy Tutor, an unusual brother of the Texas
Instruments 99/4A, and its Japanese and UK relatives, featuring pictures,
scans, documentation, programming information, cartridge lists, hardware
specifications and more.
The URL: http://www.floodgap.com/retrobits/tomy/
Updates this time around:
* A completely new and separate section for the Tomy Pyuuta series, with
complete photographs of the inside and out of the rare Japanese Pyuuta and
the even rarer Pyuuta Mk II, and screen shots and manual scans where
available. (Pyuuta Jr. section coming soon when I land one of them. ^^)
* Redone photographs of the main unit and motherboard, including how to take
apart the unit and identify major components, as well as new photographs
of packaging, ad copy and peripherals.
* Additional screenshots and cartridges in the Incomplete Catalogue, including
the "3-D" series.
* GPL LIVES! Raphael Nabet provides new information that an unusual variant
of GPL does indeed lurk within the Tomy (rats!) on the TI vs. Tomy section,
and also contributes large amounts of information to update the Memory Map.
* Hardware page updated with new information about Tutor hardware mappings
and ROM banking strategies.
* Various custodial updates.
Please let me know about any questions or inaccuracies. Have fun!
--
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Cameron Kaiser, Floodgap Systems Ltd * So. Calif., USA * ckaiser(a)floodgap.com
-- Birth, n.: The first and direst of all disasters. -- Ambrose Bierce --------
On Sep 4 2004, 15:29, Scarletdown wrote:
> On Saturday 04 September 2004 07:51, Ron Hudson wrote:
> > Too bad AOL doesn't put their stuff on CD-RW (??? CD re-write-able
> > right?)
> >
> > or can a CD-RW be read by a normal CD drive?
>
> Many CD-R drives can read CD-RW disks, provided you have UDF support.
> For example, on the couple Windows-98 systems I've set up for others,
Almost any CD-ROM or CD-R drive should be able to physically read a
CD-RW, without any special support. Those that can't are mostly old
CD-ROM drives that can't handle the lower levels of light reflected
>from a CD-RW.
However, UDF is a type of file system that's used mainly by some DVDs,
video CDs, and some consumer-electronics recorders, and whether that
can be read depends on support in your OS, not the type of drive.
Unfortunately there are several flavours of UDF, and a lot of
vendor-specific extensions, some of which are used by drag-and-drool
software for Windows. The other problem often seen with CD-RW disks,
even when they have a more ordinary filesystem on them, is that they're
not "fixated" or "closed" -- the last session is left open so it can be
added to. The usual reason is that someone has treated the CD-RW as a
big floppy, rather than a write-once (and perhaps later erase
completely) medium. Lots of software (and CD players) can't handle
unfixated disks.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
actually software for it would not be a problem if I can ever get my hands on a MDS800 or MDS230 series II. I have all the ISIS software that Intel produced for the machines, BUT I can't duplicate the disks yet. I am working on a MDS225 that I have - part here in Virginia and the keyboard and display subsystems back in Washington state. I still have a standing request to anyone that has one of these machines that would like to part with it for cash or other items.
For the record, my first commercial development system was the MDS 800 doing 8080, 8048, and 8085 assembly and using Intel's ICE systems.
best regards, Steve Thatcher
-----Original Message-----
From: Barry Watzman <Watzman(a)neo.rr.com>
Sent: Sep 4, 2004 12:17 PM
To: cctech(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: Intellec-mds 800
The MDS-800 was an Intel development system using multibus cards. It's not
a typical "hobbyist" system, although it's a very high quality computer. It
normally ran Intel ISIS operating system, but CP/M is available for it.
You will have a very difficult time finding multibus boards or ISIS software
for this machine, although, again, it will run CP/M as well.
As to the terminal, my suggestion would be: None of the above.
What I use as terminals for old PCs is a PC running terminal emulation
program. Often, the best thing to do is to get an old, working, monochrome
laptop, usually a 386 or 486, you can buy these for $5 on E-Bay. My "main"
terminal for one of my systems, is an old Zenith Z-Note 386 laptop, running
DOS and Windows 3.1, I use the "terminal" program from Windows 3.1. For one
of my other computers, and IMSAI, I use a serial port on my "main" computer
(this one, a Pentium 4 3.06GHz), and Hyperterm under XP. That's all that
you need, really. You don't need a "real" terminal, although you can
certainly buy one if you wish, and if weight and size are not an issue. But
if weight and size are any issue at all, it's hard to go wrong with a $5 to
$10 386 or 486 laptop.
***********
From: "Andy Allaway" <aaallaway(a)hotmail.com>
Subject: Intellec-mds 800
To: cctech(a)classiccmp.org
Message-ID: <BAY22-F32lfF3NixvGv000a3c51(a)hotmail.com>
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I am considering buying a classic pc. The one I might buy is the intellec
mds 800. It comes with a drive also. I dont know much about vintage pc's
but would love to be like you all. I thought starting with one of the best
pc's would be good. So my question is, if I were to buy this pc, what type
of monitor/keyboard do I hook up to it? Where can I get one?
I think I need a tty serial monitor/keyboard. (Thats what I read online,
what does that mean?) Is the ebay below a terminal that will work on the
this intellec?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=170&item=5117243715&r
d=1&ssPageName=WDVW
Or do I have to buy a vintage one like this:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=1247&item=5118745209&
rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW
I want to test this intellec before I buy it and want a monitor/keyboard to
hook up to it before I buy it.
I also dont want to spend alot for the monitor/keyboard since the pc is
quite costly.
Thanks for your advice,
Andy
ps, if I buy this intellec, what can I do with it?
I've noticed a few spots of rust on some TU55 tape heads that
I have. I'm wondering what I should do about it in the short
term -- I've had an idea of putting something on the heads
and then cleaning it off later, like oil or vaseline or... ?
Any suggestions?
Is there anything I can do with the heads later to clean the
rust off? Are they totally hosed, or will they still work?
This is on my "todo list" as far as restoration goes, just
haven't gotten to it yet, but wanted to prevent any further
damage if possible...
Thanks in advance,
-RK
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On Sep 2 2004, 11:27, Jules Richardson wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 23:53 -0400, Teo Zenios wrote:
>
> > What's wrong with just breaking the cd in 2 and tossing it in
> > the trash?
>
> If you've got a large room and a chair on wheels, put the CD on the
> floor and then charge at the CD from across the room on the chair.
> Great in an office environment where you can take turns. Bonus
> points for not only destroying the CD but crashing through the
> partition wall at the far end...
Completely off topic, but if you're into that sort of thing, you'll
enjoy "Things To Do When The Boss Is Out" at
http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~pnt1/things/THINGS2.MPE
After seeing it, my wife (yeah, the boss, she who is the very serious
and relatively senior manager of 21 staff in a certain local government
department) started a new craze. THINGS1.MPE has a more Olympic
flavour, at least if you can imagine the 100 metre hurdles translated
to an office environment.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
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Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
