>
>Subject: Re: Interesting Epson memory card
> From: Cameron Kaiser <spectre at floodgap.com>
> Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 20:06:25 -0700 (PDT)
> To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
>
>> Ok along the same line I have a KINGSTON KTT-4500/4 4MB card that
>> may fit older laptops.
>
>Might be for Toshiba Satellite systems. I have a 16MB "credit card" RAM
>module in my Satellite T1950.
>
Ah, I have no toshiba laptops. Sounds like it's a unusalumpa. ;)
Allison
I was contacted by a student who is writing an essay on computer bus structure, comparing intel PCI bus to PDP-11 unibus.
I'm certainly not qualified to give detailed information on this... so I'm passing it on here. If anyone cares to take a stab at this, you can contact her at: cqfranks at yahoo.com Caroline
Jay West
Drat, didn't mean to reply to the list. Sorry!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org
> [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Julian Wolfe
> Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 12:57 AM
> To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
> Subject: Re: Free 8088 Zenith laptop
>
> If the laptop isn't claimed yet, how much is it for shipping to 60031?
> On May 18, 2005, at 8:44 PM, Erik Klein wrote:
>
> >
> > Absolutely free (you pay the shipping):
> >
> > I have a Zenith Data Systems ZWL-184-97. It looks a lot like a
> > SuperSport but it isn't. . . see
> > http://www.obsoletecomputermuseum.org/zenith_l/
> > for
> > a look at one in much better shape then this.
> >
> > Mine is yellowed and has a crack on the front left but it
> does work!
> > It
> > has an internal 3.5" floppy as well as a 20 MB HD. Given
> enough time
> > (it's SLOW) it will boot to the HD which has WordPerfect
> and DOS 5.0
> > installed.
> >
> > The machine comes with a battery pack (dead) and a power
> brick as well
> > as a spare 3.5" drive.
> >
> > All yours for absolutely nothing if you come pick it up in
> San Jose or
> > for the cost of shipping if you want it anywhere else.
> >
> > It's gone by the end of the weekend, one way or the other. . .
> >
> > --
> > Erik Klein
> > www.vintage-computer.com
> > www.vintage-computer.com/vcforum
> > The Vintage Computer Forum
> >
>
--- shoppa_classiccmp at trailing-edge.com wrote:
>
> In the 60's and 70's, there was an outfit called
> "American Used Computer"
I have a copy of their Winter 1978 catalog that I
bought from William Donzelli a few months ago. I've
been meaning to scan it...
--Bill
>> Doesn't this sort of imply that PDF is the wrong choice of format for
>> jobs like these? PDF is terrible way to package the documents.
>It's just better than any other practical method ;-)
>So many talk about ASCII being the only "right way", as Al can attest to
>time and accuracy makes image oriented PDF's the way to go.
I'm pragmatic. I have hundreds of thousands (probably millions now..) of
pages of paper. I wanted easy access to all of it. Eric also had a lot of
stuff that I didn't have. The machines I use are Macs and Linux boxes.
There are PDF viewers for both of those platforms that had page indexing.
The level of PDF used is the minimum to support wrapping collections of
scans together with very simple metadata (the page number). That's all
of PDF that I use. The overhead is minimal, it can be read across most
computers currently in use, and if it's working with the right sort of
browsers will only transfer the page being viewed instead of the whole
document.
If something different comes around, the PDF spec is public, and by using
such a small subset it should be simple to translate.
I've never found much use for the fancier scripting stuff in tumble. It
takes long enough to just do the minimal post-processing of the scans that
I do now to think about writing a script for each document to do any sort
of fancier indexing.
Absolutely free (you pay the shipping):
I have a Zenith Data Systems ZWL-184-97. It looks a lot like a SuperSport
but it isn't. . . see http://www.obsoletecomputermuseum.org/zenith_l/ for
a look at one in much better shape then this.
Mine is yellowed and has a crack on the front left but it does work! It
has an internal 3.5" floppy as well as a 20 MB HD. Given enough time
(it's SLOW) it will boot to the HD which has WordPerfect and DOS 5.0
installed.
The machine comes with a battery pack (dead) and a power brick as well as
a spare 3.5" drive.
All yours for absolutely nothing if you come pick it up in San Jose or for
the cost of shipping if you want it anywhere else.
It's gone by the end of the weekend, one way or the other. . .
--
Erik Klein
www.vintage-computer.comwww.vintage-computer.com/vcforum
The Vintage Computer Forum
Look up a company called "Star-Glo", at
2 Carlton Ave., E. Rutherford, NJ. I pass their building often,
but I don't have a phone # or email. I'd think a web search
would locate them.
They fabricate dozens of compounds, and rubber seals and gaskets for everything from glass jars to submarine hatches.
They also fabricate such parts as the rods in printers that have the molded-on rubber (or whatever) rollers.
Good luck!
-John
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>From: "Randy McLaughlin" <cctalk at randy482.com>
>
>
>In the 1940's how many people were able to build a radio reciever with what
>they found in the battle field (razor blade, safety pin, knife, wire,
>headset), how many could today? The same applies to computer technology.
>
Hi
I could. Junk today has more useable parts than the
junk they had then. Making a AM radio is quite easy today.
Dwight
>
>Subject: Re: Interesting Epson memory card
> From: William Donzelli <aw288 at osfn.org>
> Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 20:45:59 -0400 (EDT)
> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
>
>> Has anyone ever seen one of these?
>>
>> http://www.siconic.com/computers/epson/
>>
>> It's a credit card sized memory device made by Epson.
>>
>> Allegedly stored anywhere from 16 - 128K per card. Used some sort of
>> backup battery for the memory. I don't believe this was flash.
>> Apparently Epson OEM'd them to various companies for use in various
>> devices, presumably including laptops.
>
>Roland synths use these (some of them anyway).
>
>Did I not sent a reader to you at one point?
>
>William Donzelli
>aw288 at osfn.org
Ok along the same line I have a KINGSTON KTT-4500/4 4MB card that
may fit older laptops. I wonder if there is data to use it for
a CP/M system (pinouts and the like).
Allison
"photo is scanned in from the October 1982 issue of National Geographic magazine"
Unfortunately, the classiccmp links no longer match what Google thinks
they should be. (Jay???)
Here is what is in Google's cache:
From: David Forbes <>
To: Tom Jennings <tomj at wps.com>
Subject: Re: Would you buy a used PDP-8 from this man?
Date: 14 Jan 2004 13:37:17 -0700
Tom,
This photo is scanned in from the October 1982 issue of National
Geographic magazine, which I just found at the thrift store. It has
an article about The Chip, and another about Silicon Valley. Humorous
reading.
The guy with the bowtie is Sonny Monosson of American Used Computer
in Boston MA. I remember you saying that you used to go there now and
then in your youth.
I remember getting their ads in the late seventies, when I was using
PDP-11s in high school and college. I would drool over the
possibility of getting an obsolete 11 for home use, but the shipping
was so expensive back then. I imagine the power bill would be
something to behold also.
All I remember about the Heathkit LSI-11 I used at Optical Sciences
is that it was slower, instruction for instruction, than the Z-80 I
also used.
