I have an old Canon BJ-10e bubblejet printer. I bought it new back in
1990 or so. I have the printer, an ink cartridge, a printer cable, a
power adapter, a user's manual, and a programmer's manual.
If you want it, you just need to pay shipping.
alan
On Mar 9 2005, 11:26, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, David H. Barr wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 12:53:19 -0600, Jim Isbell, W5JAI
> > <jim.isbell at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > At that point I began wondeering about a steam powered computer.
> > > Actualy I guess this laptop is actually a steam powered computer
by
> > > that historians definition. BUT..what about a steam powered
computer
> > > using steam valves and pistons. That could give you great
gain!!!
> >
> > Wasn't Babbage's original design to be steam powered?
>
> Yes.
The Difference Engine isn't, it's hand-cranked. The Analytical Engine
would have been steam-driven.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
On Mar 9 2005, 12:53, Jim Isbell, W5JAI wrote:
> At that point I began wondeering about a steam powered computer.
> Actualy I guess this laptop is actually a steam powered computer by
> that historians definition. BUT..what about a steam powered
computer
> using steam valves and pistons. That could give you great gain!!!
Different method, but Babbage's Analytical Engine was to have been
steam-powered, using a steam engine to drive the mechanism.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
I'm building my personal library for vintage computing. I need to
probe the collective wisdom of the list in what books must a "wannabe"
collector (like me) should have on his/her bookshelf.
Although I collect primarily DEC stuff, I don't want my knowledge to
be just restricted to what DEC had to offer.
p.s. Don Lancaster's books are the first on my list. :-)
/wai-sun
Can anyone tell me what kind of DSD device a DSD 804432-02 card connects
to? I've got a DSD 880 that it'd be really *swell* if I could get a
QBUS interface card for (so I can read in some RX01s for the 11/780
emulator that Bob Supnik is working on, and hopefully help to get my
11/780 running).
Or, if anyone has an appropriate spare card for not too many $$$, I'd be
happier to do that than to buy a card off of eBay.
Pat
--
Purdue University ITAP/RCS --- http://www.itap.purdue.edu/rcs/
The Computer Refuge --- http://computer-refuge.org
Hi
I constantly see on ebay sales that say they are
auctioning a 1702. Closer looks show them to be
1702A's. The 1702/1701/1602/1601 were the first
EPROM, not the 1702A. Still, they state that these
were the first EPROM. You can't even program them
with the same algorithm.
Just an observation.
Dwight
I wanted to try out my VC8/I Point-Plot Display with PDP8 spacewar.
I added support to SPCWR3.PA for the VC8/I.
http://www.chd.dyndns.org/pdp8/VC8/SPCWR3_vc8i.PA
This requires an EAE and now I find out that my untested EAE does not work.
The first sign of problems was that the processor paused while running
and the only way to stop it was to turn off power. The HALT switch did
nothing.
I got a copy of MAINDEC-8E-D0LB-D which is EAE test 1 and it locked up
pretty much the same way. I removed the EAE and the diagnostic halted at
a reasonable place insteading of locking up.
The EAE stops the main processor sequencer and then does it's thing and
when it is finished, restarts the processor sequencer. I seems to me
that this handoff is not occuring properly. The front panel shows that
the processor is stuck in Execute (E) State with a 7 in the IR and the
PC within one of an EAE instruction.
This not gonna be easy to fix. The over-the-top connectors prevent the
use of an extender card, so I can't probe anything easily.
Since the MAINDEC tests won't run, I will try to figure out which if any
of the EAE instructions function and which to not. Since, so far,
everything seems to hang, it might be something fundamental, and that
might be easier to find.
Suggestions, comments please.
-chuck
If this is an extra post, my apologies.
The rules have changed, and I respect that.
The saga continues...
After doing a conversational boot:
>>>b/1
2...1...0...
SYSBOOT> SET STARTUP_P2 "TRUE"
SYSBOOT> CONTINUE
the system begins its startup procedure, yet it freezes at this:
$if startup$autoconfigure_all .and. .not. f$getsyi("NOAUTOCONFIG") then -
sysgen autoconfigure all
Any pointers??
Thanks much,
John
FedEx dropped off another 100+ books today and there many in the cases that
I want to read but I pulled these three for now. "Heathkit Manual for the
MICODER II" model HD-1984, "Charles Babbage Father of the Computer" by Dan
Halacy, and "Introduction to Computer Systems Using the PDP-11 and Pascal"
by Glenn H. MacEwen.
>From: "Jim Leonard" <trixter at oldskool.org>
---snip---
>I should note that, since FDI images are 100% exact bitwise dumps, they aren't
>exactly easy to read (they're not nice clean formatted-track-and-sector images)
>so getting them translated back to an actual floppy diskette is not currently
>possible (since nobody has written the software to do so yet).
---snip---
It is not a matter of software. It is a matter of hardware. Unless
someone can comes up with a trick, the controller won't do it.
Dwight
