Re:
It's another triumph of crapitalism ...
I really don't understand how they can manufacture these, ship them
across the ocean to a distributor, the distributor ships them to a
dealer, and the dealer sells them to me for $10, and someone makes
a profit at each step. Making a floppy drive (even not a very good
one) still requires some precision manufacturing. If all they had to
do was pick them up off the ground (like a rock), put it in a box, ship
it across the ocean, to the distributor, to the dealer, and finally to
me, I'd have expected to have to pay more than $10 for it.
......
It's only by the virtues of "capitalism" that you can buy a working floppy
drive for $10.
------------------Original Message:
Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 09:03:52 +0100
From: Philip Pemberton <philpem at dsl.pipex.com>
Subject: Re: AIM 65 lives
<snip>
Have you got any other AIM-65 or 6502 appnotes lying around anywhere? I've
been trying to track down some of the old Rockwell ANs (IIRC one covered CRT
controllers, another one covered DMA) but haven't had much luck. Datasheets
are easy to find, but ANs seem to be the equivalent of gold dust :-/
Thanks,
--
Phil.
-------------------Reply:
Phil,
I have about a dozen, but not the two you're looking for. One day Real Soon Now
I'll scan & send them to Rich Cini for inclusion in his most excellent AIM65
Web site section; I started to scan them but wasn't happy with the fine print detail.
Meanwhile, I'll send you a list of what I've got, off-list.
mike
I guess I speak Dutch :~)
Actually a dialect, I live in the southern part.
I found this link that allows you to enter the last name:
http://www.uu.nl/uupublish/homeuu/deuniversiteit/wiewatwaar/solisugids/24594
main.html
"leeuw" are a few, but none has as first name Karl ...
It would help if you can tell in what department / study detail he works,
perhaps I can do a better search ...
- Henk, PA8PDP.
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
Sent: 5-5-2005 19:08
Subject: OT: Need some research help -- anyone speak Dutch?
Hi, I need to find an email address for Karl de Leeuw, a professor at
the University of Utrecht. I tried to explore the university's site but
most of it isn't in English. Can anyone help?
We've just been contacted by a film company who are interested in hiring
a Hollerith D11 - anyone in the UK happen to have one or know where
there is one?
We (as in the computer museum side of things) don't have one, and I
gather that the Park Trust don't think that they own one either.
Anyone have one in private hands or knows of a museum that owns one?
cheers
Jules
>
>Subject: Re: OT Don't read this (was Re: Altair MBL source)
> From: Brad Parker <brad at heeltoe.com>
> Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 11:14:48 -0400
> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
>
>
>woodelf wrote:
>>>
>>>If you inhale a gas which is heavier than air, what happens?
>>>
>>>-brad
>>>
>>You die rather quickly as you can't get the BAD air out of your lungs.
>
>That's what I always thought, but it seemed like people were refuting
>that. I thought the heavier gas sank into your lungs and displaced the
>air, which made you suffocate, effectively.
Exactly. You feel like your getting foggy(near drunk feeling) as
your breathing but not ridding oneself of CO2 and your getting
no O2, hypoxia sets in fast under a minute. If you don't know
the signs you will pass out before you even have a clue.
Allison
Folks,
Had a mail from one Rudy Koopman who said:
"rudy koopman (koopman365 at hotmail.com) on May 1st, 2005 at 11:09AM (BST).
Goodmoring
I found your site because I've got a book called "How to do it on the
trs-80"
written by William Barden Jr.
ISBN 0 936200 08 1"
It's free for the cost of shipping so contact Rudy directly if you're
interested.
Ta :)
--
Adrian/Witchy
Creator/Curator of Binary Dinosaurs, quite probably the UK's biggest private
home computer collection.
www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - the online museum
www.aaghverts.co.uk - *the* site for letting you moan about adverts!
www.snakebiteandblack.co.uk - former gothic shenanigans :(
I finally picked up the load of Pet items given to me last week and here
some of what was in the load.
Commodore PET 64 model 4064, 2-PET model 4032-12, 2-CBM 2001 Series
Professional Computer, CBM 2001 Series model 2001-32B, PET 2001 Series
Personal Computer model PET 2001-8, and PET model 4016-12 for a total of 8
Pet's. Also 6-C2N Cassette units, PET model 4010 Voice Response unit,
4-Tandy 1500 HD laptops, Tandy 3800 Notebook, GRID model 1660 notebook, CBM
2040 Dual Disk Drive, CBM 4040 Dual Disk Drive unit, CBM 2022 Tractor
Printer, and two large boxes full of parts (motherboards (PET), keyboards,
cables, and other items).
I had not seen the PET 64 before and it still works.
Dudez & Dudettez!
Otay, I got everything I need..... Almost. :-/
I have an (apparently) functional Chipmunk drive, an (apparently)
functional interface board for it, and now the cable as well.
I have a computer with SuperROM in it, which seems to have no clue what the
heck a Chipmunk drive is... <sniff> So much for the "easy way out"...
In what little I can find on the InterWeb there was a DOS boot disk for the
'munks, and IIRC it was called CDOS (bookmarks at home, /me at work right
now)...
*Anyone* out there have a copy of the boot disk for a Chipmunk drive? Will
paypal or trade whatever necessary...[1]
[[ My apologies to those who may be subbed to both lists -- It's ontopic
for both, and I wanted to reach the widest audience possible. ]]
BTW, Anyone know of a good US supplier for NiCd (or NiMH would work too, I
suppose) battery packs, or at least soldertab AA, C and/or D cells? I have
battery packs to rebuild for the following equipment:
3 chipmunk drives
Tandy Model 600
Panasonic HHC
Panasonic HHC Printer
and offtopically, whist I'm at it I could "more easily" power 4 homebrew
AVR boards I'm building...
And that's just off the top of my head...
I could possibly build soldertab batteries, I have some silver epoxy
available, but it would be a fair amount of work to do... I'd much prefer
to just buy the things.
Thanks!
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
[1] I have a few spare Model T's available, I'll have 2 chipmunk drives
available after the battery rebuilds, a couple of kids, maybe the wife,
whaddya want? ;-P
--
Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- SysAdmin, Iceberg Computers
zmerch at 30below.com
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