test-drb January 2005

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[LONGISH] Beware: dealings with Bert Thomas

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Jan 27 2005, 0:10, Fred N. van Kempen wrote: > Anyway... when I heard that, I tried to contact Bert, and eventually > got a hold of him. And when asked about this, he indeed told me the > above - as far as he was concerned, it was now HIS system. That really sucks. Has he no ethics? Morals? -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

19 years, 10 months

AMS EPROM programmer driver?

by cctech＠retro.co.za

Hi all I have an "AMS inc PROM PROGRAMMER COPYRIGHT 1983". It's an ISA card, with a whole bunch of TTL, 37 pin connector, ribbon cable to box with ZIF socket. I see that AMS is still around, and their web site mentions that they started out making EPROM programmers way back around 1983, but an email to them went unanswered. I need the software that originally went with this thing. Or if anybody has technical info (long shot). Can't be difficult to reverse-engineer, but it would take time that I'd prefer to spend elsewhere. Where I eventually want to go: I was thinking I could program this thing to apply vectors to a PAL to tell me what the equations in the PAL are (I'm intrigued by what's inside the macintosh PALs...) Wouter

19 years, 10 months

Available:A Compaq Deskpro 386/20e Manuals/Diskette In-Reply-To=

by lazychris2000＠gmail.com

To whom it may regard, I know this was posted in 2003, but I was wondering if it was still possible to get some information about the manuals/diskette's for the Deskpro 386/20e. I was wondering what shipping would be to zip code 17003 and if they were still available. Thanks for your time, Chris Morgan

19 years, 10 months

VT320 Terminal RS232 Receiver

by list＠saracom.com

Hello, I managed to feed -48VDC into the data receive pin of my VT320 at work. So of course the magic smoke came out. Which chip is the receiver chip? Thanks Max

19 years, 10 months

HP battery eliminator plugs

by jwest＠classiccmp.org

I need some, time to make them. Want to be historically accurate, so... would anyone know exactly what AMP connector was used, or where there are pictures of lots of AMP connectors so I can identify the right one and order it? I'm hoping the connector is still made...no part number on it other than AMP Jay West

19 years, 10 months

Looking for 68010 CPU's

by CCTalk＠catcorner.org

I'm trying to locate 6 to 10 of these. 64 pin ceramic or plastic DIP. Anyone have a lead on these? Maybe I'm jst missing them at all the usual places. I'm located in the US (New Jersey). Thanks, Kelly

19 years, 10 months

Apple, Commodore, CP/M, Sun, misc. gear needs new home

by devin＠thecabal.org

I have a ton of classic and not-so-classic computers and accessories to find new homes for. Since I don't have the time or money to ship any of this, you need to be willing to pick up in the Seattle, WA area. Most of this stuff at least powered up the last time I was able to get to it, although there are likely some TLC issues on most or all of them that need to be attended to such as missing RAM or hard drives. One of the C-64s doesn't power up and a couple of the color NCD terminals don't have monitors or have monitors that are futzing, but all of the base units works. Some of this stuff I'm willing to let go for free, some of it I'd like to see at least $5 for. And there are a couple of items (the Auspex, the Sun Ultra 1 and disk pack, the Apple IIgs, the Cisco router) I would like to get a bit more than that from. Especially the Auspex and the Cisco router. Please e-mail me with what you're interested in, how much you'd be willing to pay, and what your schedule is like. I don't usually have any time during business hours to try to meet people places, unless it's at my home in Monroe on one of the days I'm working from home. Evenings and weekends are best bet if you're not willing to drive to Monroe. If I have to drive a load of equipment somewhere, I'm probably going to want to charge enough for it to make it worth my while. On with the list! CP/M x1 Northstar S-100 CP/M chassis, expansion cards, floppies Apple x1 Apple IIe system + accessories x1 Apple III system + accessories x1 Apple IIgs system + accessories x1 Mac 256 x1 PowerMac 7x00 system + accessories Commodore x1 Commodore printer x2 Commodore 64s + boxes of accessories x5 Commodore 1541 floppy drives Sun x3 Sun 3/60 pizzaboxes x2 Sun 3/80 pizzaboxes x2 Sun SPARCstation 2 pizzaboxes x1 Sun UltraSPARC 1 Creator 3D x1 Sun 6-disk external 68-pin SCSI disk pack, 6 18GB SCA drives Terminals x11 Wyse 30 dumb terminals x1 B&W 19" NCD X terminal x6 color NCD X terminals Routers, Network, Telco x1 Cisco 2516 router (48VDC telco power supply) x1 19" 1u serial/parallel print server x2 Fujitsu DSL modems x1 DirecTV DSL modem Specialty x1 Auspex NS 5500 (7' tall, 770 lbs!) This was a high-end server running a special form of SunOS 4.1 using Functional Multiprocessing (FMP). Auspex tells me it is the only one in private hands that hasn't been traded in or scrapped. True classic computing lovers only need apply. YOU MUST PICK UP THIS ITEM. I *cannot* transport it. Bring a big truck or van and suitable moving/tie-down equipment and padding. Misc. x1 ZIP SCSI external drive x1 HP parallel external CD burner Assorted A/V switchboxes Assorted TDMA cellphones + accessories -- Devin L. Ganger <devin(a)thecabal.org> "Aikido is based around the central precept of letting an attack take its natural course. You, of course, don't want to impede that natural flow by being in its way." -- overheard on the PyraMOO

19 years, 10 months

2.5" floppy -- from what gear?

by classiccmp＠crash.com

There's a 2.5" Panasonic floppy drive that's popped up on ePay today. What commercial gear shipped with 2.5" floppies? Ignoring the question of media, do these things have standard connections for the interface? --S. eBay item #5158689326 http://tinyurl.com/4abck

19 years, 10 months

Computer Products Inc analog data wide-range analog I/O -- free

by tomj＠wps.com

I will eventually post it to VCF website, but if anyone wants this it's FREE, you come get. I will NOT ship this item. It doesn't seem to have great value so it will eventually become landfill if no one claims it. It comes complete, in excellent condition, with manuals, schematics, programmers reference, cables, connectors, and even drivers for Data General NOVA machines (via thr 4300). It contains a 240 channel (two hundred forty!) analog input -- a big MUX. Some amplification. Nice power supply, nice card cage, lots of (probably Hg wetted) small-signal relays. Made in the mid 1980's. I find no google hits, and unfortunately the manufacturer name is too generic ("Computer Products Inc" yeah right). There's enough documentation to probably hook it up to anything. This is a rugged A/D subsystem that was wired to some smokestack in an oilfield, so it's not delicate (electrically). Not extraordinarily large or heavy, I'd estimate 50 lbs. http://wps.com/NOVA4/images/compprod1.jpg http://wps.com/NOVA4/images/compprod2.jpg

19 years, 11 months

Data General NOVA4 status

by tomj＠wps.com

Well things are moving along very nicely, I'm going to power up in the next few days. I've been picking on it each night (30 min - 2 hrs) and it's pretty much ready to begin power-up. I took another look at the DG LP2 that "faulted". With a dry paintbrush and vacuum cleaned out the dustbunnies and a few spiders, esp. attention to the photo-interruptor. Loaded paper into it, powered up. This time carriage zeroing worked, everything behaved including self-test printing out the charset onto greenbar. The "new" ribbons seem dried out and the print is yellow-gray (likely from Bakersfield heat) but I'll try another or WD40 the ink ribbon. Washed it all down, other than a couple of scuffs it looks like new. Completed all the rack wiring, made a terminal (console) cable up >from the stub that got cut off for transport. Fan filter, rack panel fillers all in. Took a look at the other chassis; one now empty (DG salesmammals talked customer into too many (profitable) racks, as Bruce suspected :-) one's got the big analog mux thing (more, next message), the remaining has the second tape drive (6023) and the 4300 expansion chassis. Which I might keep -- ask me in a month -- it contains a 16 in/16 out digital interface and I think a one-channel A/D and D/A. Nice. Big though, we're talking 14" rack space but it's mostly air (lots of slots). Laid out all the docs, culled more dupes, which Bruce will get (hi Bruce :-) Bought binders on the way into work today for never-used docs. My lab, quickly outfit last fall (moved out of my nice, purpose-built lab, which we turned into a rent-generating apartment -- when I get sad, I think of the income :-) has crappy power. I'm not sure it's got enough amps to run the CPU, tape and disk. Umm, we'll see, the obvious way.

19 years, 11 months

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test-drb January 2005