test-drb April 2005

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by williams.dan＠gmail.com

Whilst we are on the subject of vax media does anyone have disk 4 of June 1997's vax spl. I seem to have misplaced it. Thanks Dan

19 years, 5 months

Original IBM 64K Memory Kit in original box on ebay....

by richard.beaudry＠gmail.com

> Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 09:45:49 -0400 > From: Ram Meenakshisundaram <RMeenaks at OLF.COM> > > Apparently, Rich has some other original stuff on ebay as well: > Yup ... It's me ... I try not to advertise on the list because: 1) It's a bit self-serving ... People know I'm on eBay, so they can check up on me :-) 2) It's PC-related, and even though *most* agree a 5150 is on-topic, it's still a bit Controversial 3) It's eBay ... around here, that's inviting a flamewar... I actually ended the 64KB listing, as I forgot to note some of the packaging was missing. Maybe no big deal to us, but if looking for a pure original package, it can be significant. Anyway, it is me, and thanks to Witchy for noticing, and Ram for the ad! :-) I'm still around, though my collection is less classic. I did however recently acquire some neat Apple IIgs stuff (TransWarp GS, 2 High-Speed SCSI Cards, 2 4MB AppleSauce RAM cards), but I pray to the gods that I could get the luck of Jules and his Horizons, or Dave and his S100 haul :-) YIKES! Although, truth to tell, they are better archivists than I... So, I still lurk, and may yet have another Sping cleaning :-) Later, Rich B.

19 years, 5 months

TRS-80 without floppy drive

by cb＠mythtech.net

My wife has declared that I must remove all my toys from the living room floor. She is tired of it looking like an "electronics graveyard" as she has been calling it for the last week. And it isn't even that bad, I just have two laser disc players with a small stack of discs, two surround sound amps, a VCR, a Video Conference terminal, two NeXT slabs, my PowerBook 1400, a TRS-80, and a Tandy 1000 with monitor and printer... there is still a path to get thru the room, so I don't understand what the problem is. But I know if I don't appease her, she will move onto the garage and/or basement... THEN I'm in trouble! :-) Regarding the TRS-80. It has no floppy drives. I haven't really looked at it yet, but I presume it can be connected to a standard tape recorder to use cassettes (it came with the case pre-markered saying "No floppy drives, use cassettes"... that will be a different project to scrub that off). What is the easiest way for me to obtain software and transfer to cassette? I have no other machines currently setup to read/write to cassette. However, I do have Windows and Mac setups that I can capture an audio stream to cassette if there is some repository of WAV files or similar archives of software. Anyone want to point me in the right direction? -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

19 years, 5 months

Apple Pascal

by h.otten＠chello.nl

Apple Pascal disk images (most versions) can be found on the ftp.apple.asimov.com ftp server. Pascal 1.3 runs fine on the Apple IIGS, withsuppport for 3 1/5 inch disk format. Hans

19 years, 5 months

PC/Apple/etc. Cards Worth Keeping/Storing

by dwight.elvey＠amd.com

>From: "Fred Cisin" <cisin at xenosoft.com> > >Check what FDC chip and or/ additional circuitry is used on the floppy >controllers; boards that can handle FM ("Single Density") are handy. > >Any board that has discrete ICs is a lot more fun to hack than one with >VLSI. >If you are new to hardware, look at Bruce Eckel's book on parallel >port interfacing. > Hi When I wanted to add a floppy disk to my NC4000 processor board, I just patched in an old XT floppy controller board. It worked just fine once I realized that the NC4000 could write to it faster than it was ready to respond. Dwight

19 years, 5 months

DECmate 1 (VT278) docs?

by waisun.chia＠gmail.com

Quick one: Anybody has the prints for a DECmate 1 (VT278) or the tech manual? All I have is the architectural guide... /wai-sun

19 years, 5 months

S100 haul

by dave04a＠dunfield.com

> I wonder if the disk are all hard sectored or if they >are soft sectored. Dave Dunfield has been working on >methods to transfer disk images over serial lines >from the N*. It would be a massive job to filter through >all those disk. Who knows, one might find a jewel for Jules >in the lot :) Hi Dwight, I've recently acquired a box of at least 1000 N* disks, and have been slowly going through them and transferring the material to image files. Most of it is rather boring business software, however I have found original copies of several different versions of various operating systems that I did not have before, as well as some utility and language disks ... It's going to take quite a while, but I'll make any non-personal/confidential material available once I'm done. Hey Jules - if you want to part with one or two of those Horizons, it would make the job far faster to have multiple machines running in parallel... Also, if you are interested in my transfer utilities and a simulator which can boot up and use the images, I have all of the material available on my site. Regards, Dave -- dave04a (at) Dave Dunfield dunfield (dot) Firmware development services & tools: www.dunfield.com com Collector of vintage computing equipment: http://www.parse.com/~ddunfield/museum/index.html

19 years, 5 months

Apple Pascal

by spedraja＠ono.com

Hello. Can be possible to obtain in some place image disks of the Apple II Pascal or UCSD Pascal por the Apple II ? I'm searching a copy to play a little in the Apple II Oasis Emulator. Thanks in advance Sergio

19 years, 5 months

NorthStar Advantage diagnostic disk wanted

by ajp166＠bellatlantic.net

> >Subject: NorthStar Advantage diagnostic disk wanted > From: "John" <john_a_s2004 at hotmail.com> > Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 09:43:03 +0100 > To: <cctech at classiccmp.org> > >Unfortunately GBASIC often crashes with a 'RAM Parity Error' message, I >guess most of the RAM is OK else it wouldn't boot. The Technical Manual >refers to the dealers Diagnostic Diskette, and shows a series of tests to >identify faulty RAM chip. I don't wish to try and re-seat all the chips as >when I tried this on my Pet it has failed to display anything since (another >pending repair project). Ther is an easy way. The NS*dos has a monitor and a memory test. If the memory test isnt there use the monitor. from the monitor Fill ram with a constant of Zeros and display it looking for non zero values. Do it again with ones (FFh) and again display if and look for NON FFh values. It's not exhaustive but I've found all bad ram that way in the past. The alternate is that there isn't that much ram and in mine it's socketed. So shotgunning though not pretty is possible. Allison

19 years, 5 months

Original IBM 64K Memory Kit in original box on ebay....

by RMeenaks＠OLF.COM

Apparently, Rich has some other original stuff on ebay as well: Game Controller in orig box: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=74946&item=5190497267 &rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW Printer Adapter in orig box: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=74946&item=5190496497 &rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW So for the purest, its not too bad... Cheers, Ram (c) 2005 OpenLink Financial Copyright in this message and any attachments remains with us. It is confidential and may be legally privileged. If this message is not intended for you it must not be read, copied or used by you or disclosed to anyone else. Please advise the sender immediately if you have received this message in error. Although this message and any attachments are believed to be free of any virus or other defect that might affect any computer system into which it is received and opened, it is the responsibility of the recipient to ensure that it is virus free and no responsibility is accepted by Open Link Financial, Inc. for any loss or damage in any way arising from its use.

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