>it's a museum!!! Emulate hardware for display?
I agree, I?m running two 2883s on Access under simulation. I run a single
7900 on the TSB E version, and a single 2883 on the F version.
The largest real Access system I ever owned/ran had 1 7920 and 3 7900s. What
is that, about 47MB. So two 2883s at about 25 MB each would just over the
largest real system I ever ran.
If you want real drives, the most rugged of them was the 7900, IMHO. The
7920 was fine, but not as tough as the 7900. The 7905 was the one that
seemed to me to crash for no reason at all. I always held my breath when I
spun up one of those. It seemed as though every time I got one for my
inventory I would have one fail on a customer?s site. So I cursed that drive
so much that I would never even try to run one on my systems.
BTW
Jay, Al,
I have a set of 2100 Access micro-code. My brother has offered to take a
shot at making copies of the ROMs. He did it once before for me in the early
to mid 80s. Perhaps if he can make 2 copy sets, we could send one set to Al
to be read and archived, and when he?s done have him forward them to Jay to
test the copies in real hardware.
28. Started with a Tomy Tutor and then a Commodore 64, although I'd also been
exposed to TIs and Apple IIs by this point. Developed a taste for Unix during
college (naturally, as a University of California graduate, I prefer BSD).
Most of my technical background, besides medicine, is in database
administration.
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Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner wrote:
> Not when I first sent it in January of 1999, and certainly not this time
>
>(somewhere I have the code I wrote to generate this ... where that is, I
>have no idea ... )
>
> -spc (But hey! You inline replied!)
>
>
If you're on Linux/Unix, check '/usr/games/morse'.
Fair chance of something being there.
Where are the young people on the list ? ;-)
I'll turn 23 in a month and have been working on oldish and "cool" computers for approx. 7 years now.
Started with a Philips P3200 (286, heavy stuff) which infected me with the bug...
I can't talk of nostalgia as my machines are mostly from the time, I couldn't walk yet... DEC and CDC stuff,
but also some SUNs from the time I started going to college.
There's also stuff before I was born, like my PDP-8/a. It's funny to think about that.
As adrian said, nostalgia from my time would be 386 and 486 and so on, which obviously aren't very interesting to investigate time on. Moreover, there's nothing you can repair on these things by yourself...
Pierre
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>From: "Joe R." <rigdonj at cfl.rr.com>
>
> Does anyone have any information about this part? I've been told that
>it's a high performance microprocessor. I found it on what looks like a hex
>size DEC card made by Spectra Logic Corp. I found a picture of one on the
>net but it's not very good.
><http://www.cpushack.net/gallery/showimg.php?file=/chippics/AMD/29K/AMDAM291
>16DC.jpg>
>
> Joe
Hi
I might have a manual someplace that has it in it. It
was a single chip combination of a number of 2901's in one
package. I think it had a 2910 as well. I forget if it
was 4 or 16 2901's. Still, basically an extension of the
2900 bitslice family.
It will be some time before I can dig into my piles to find
a book on it. Anyway, it was still considered part of
the bitslice family and not a uP.
Dwight
> I suspect you may have to put the camera on a tripod (or equivalent
> means of keeping it fixed) and take something like a dozen
> pictures and
> then digitally average them, to get the equivalent of a long exposure
> with a slow film.
>
Little bit of a problem with that logic...you would want to "accumulate" or "sum" the light from shorter exposures to simulate a longer one, not "average". And if the light is low enough you could end up summing a bunch of "0"'s in any case....
OK, at a mere OCT 20 years I think I'm the youngest on the list - I
started out playing around with NIBBLES.BAS on my dad's business 286
Vectra laptop (he worked in Shipping at HP), I can't really remember
when, but I was young - around three years old. When dad got his 486, I
played extravagant amounts of Commander Keen 4. Started writing tiny
programs in the library at school on the 386 there when I turned 7.
I have fond memories of lending my dad's HP95LX and playing with it,
especially after he got his 100LX. The 95LX was confiscated by my school
and subsequently lost by the teacher, and the 100LX was broken by my
baby stepbrother who tripped over the charger... and gave me two
HP50LX'es...
Had a fascination with 1980s computers like the Commodore 64, sat in the
basement typing BASIC games off the "Learn BASIC" book when I was around
10-11. I think I was about 12 when a friend of my mom's lent me a
machine with Visual BASIC - and I did some very... BASIC stuff with that
too, but rapidly started getting a hold of things
At age 14 I sort-of got a job setting up Windows XP machines for a local
gaming place, where I met Bj?rn Vermo, investor, cctech mainframe guru
and list member, and his girlfriend, Debbie, who told me about the
Informatics library and the books there. I managed to navigate my way
there, and was shocked to find a PDP-7 in the atrium. I did not know
much about big iron back then, so it was a great opportunity to learn a
lot more. And learn I did - I subscribed to this list (first cctech
digest, then cctech, then the full cctalk - addictive :), started
getting into Linux, learning to code a Real Language, learning about
electronics, and classic computing, etc. I found it remarkable how much
one learns when one completely ignores school!
Now I just recently got my very own PDP-11, which I with the help of
gordonjcp over IRC fixed :)
My dream job is working at a museum, maybe even starting a separate
computer museum (which Norway, with a very interesting computer history,
IMHO really needs, but that's another thread :)
Hell, I'd be a building super if they let me use a 360/91 as the
furnace :)
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Tore S Bekkedal <toresbe at ifi.uio.no>
Before you guys start to laugh at me, I would like to itemize some.
1. The original IBM PC 5150/5160 MB
2. The HP 100LX, 200LX palm PC
3. The original Nexgen pentium class PC
4. The IBM "butterfly" 486 laptop
5. You name it
cheers,
vax, 9000
> Nico de Jong wrote:
> > It could be interesting to know the age"spread" of thist list
> > contributors, and how long we've had the computer virus under
> > our skin.
Born in 1966, started with 4K chicklet-keyboard PETs at the downtown
public library in 1977 (none of my schools to that point could ever
afford a computer). Had a friend with a Quest Elf around the same
time frame, so jumped from 100% BASIC to mixed assembler/BASIC pretty
early on. Saved up half the money for a PET 2001N-32K (still have it)
in 1979. Got first computer job at 15, programming a prototype C-64
(s/n P00002008) for Bruce & James Software, "Wordvision 64" demo.
They went on to release Wordvision for the PC before going bankrupt.
Wrote kids games published by Reader's Digest Software until that
company folded when Reader's Digest terminated their kids software
line. Picked up a PDP-8/L at the Dayton Hamvention, in the meantime,
starting a long association with DEC computers. Turned that
association into a career with Software Results Corp, making
HASP/3780/SNA COMBOARD protocol engines based on the MC68000, first as
hardware technician, later as System Manager, finally as lead
programmer. Got my first taste of UNIX there, in 1984. After a few
minutes on a VAX-11/750 w/2MB of RAM and 2xRK07 (28MB) running 4.1BSD
(that I now have in my quonset hut), I *knew* that UNIX had a future.
I've spent the past 20 years doing UNIX and VMS administration and
programming to different degrees at different places. Started
dabbling in Linux with the 0.9 kernels, whenever they added native
(non-patched) SCSI support. Did first Slackare install in mid-1992
>from a huge stack of numbered floppies.
Just got back from a year at the South Pole running a neutrino
telescope (AMANDA) for the University of Wisconsin, that depends on
two dozen Linux machines, and a dozen VME crates to collect, archive,
and forward gigs of data per hour. It's been one of my favorite jobs
of all time, not just because of the location, but because I got to
use all of my admin and electronics skills I've been building for my
entire career.
Jules Richardson declared on Saturday 26 February 2005 03:03 pm:
> On Sat, 2005-02-26 at 22:02 +0800, Wai-Sun Chia wrote:
> > Born 1966 (age 39).
>
> Most people start at zero ;-)
???
1966 + 39 = 2005. That's the current year, unless during my intoxication
last night, I built a time machine and sent myself back 1 year in
time. :) However, that seems somewhat unlikely.
Pat
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