Fellow Classic Computer Enthusiasts,
I was rewatching "30 Years in the Tardis" last night and came across an item
on the tape I had forgotten about. It's been years since I watched it, and
the last time was long before I started tinkering with classic computer
emulators. Anyway, while rewatching it I was thrilled to come across a
commercial with the Doctor and Romana advertising a Prime computer. I found
some info on the net on the Prime computer line, such as:
http://www.malch.com/prime/
on the net but no mention of an emulator. I also found some manuals on
BitSavers.org. Having been a Doctor Who fan for years, and with Tom Baker
being my favorite Doctor, I'd love to have the opportunity to experience a
computer system he endorsed.
Kevin
http://www.RawFedDogs.nethttp://www.WacoAgilityGroup.org
Bruceville, TX
Regarding my switch from an email newsletter to a weblog, there's been a
tremendous about of feedback in support of the old format. Unfortunately
the old format was just too much work for me to keep up with. I would keep
doing it if I had unlimited time and money, but obviously no one does
(except maybe Bill Gates on the money side.)
The good news: I finally got an Atom feed working. The address is
http://www.technologyrewind.com/atom.xml.
Would those of you who prefer email updates be willing to pay a modest fee?
I haven't worked out what technology I will need, but as I said before, I'd
be happy to keep doing an email feed if it were easy and not terribly
time-consuming. This isn't for profit, it's too avoid losing money when I'm
formatting newsletter emails instead of doing real work. (This also is not
any plan to contradict earlier statements about keeping the main product
free -- you have my promise on that.)
Of course, if someone points me to an automated blog-to-email conversion
technology that is SO simple and takes no time at all, then I'll just do it
without any premiums. Or maybe someone can write a cross-platform feed
reader for vintage computers. :)
- Evan
I'm offering a bounty on the following manuals:
Convex Architecture Reference Manual
Fujitsu VP200 (any)
If you have any of these manuals please contact me directly with
specifics.
Thanks!
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Has anyone here built a gadget to take a UK PAL RF signal as input and output
a US NTSC RF signal (or output something else like composite, which can be
converted fairly easily)? I suspect that a few of the US crowd own UK machines
and may have needed to do this...
I'm thinking that the quickest way might be to homebrew something using a
scrap PC with a UK-spec TV capture card and some sort of video display card
that'll output either composite or to a US TV, but even then I suspect that
there are a few gotchas lurking!
cheers
Jules
--- Jim Leonard <trixter at oldskool.org> wrote:
> arcarlini at iee.org wrote:
> >>> How about the Sega MegaDrive/Genesis? That ran
a
> 68000 and Z80.
>
> There have been many multi-cpu consoles; the Sega
> Saturn had two Hitachi
> RISC CPUs for core processing, plus a host of othe
r
> stuff for CDROM,
> display, sound... The PlayStation 2 is also
> dual-CPU. The PlayStation 3
> is a Cell monster, 7 cores you can play with,
wrong!!! Some places state 9, but the last
*official* CPU diagram I saw has 8 cores.
One main core (slightly larger than the others)
and 7 co-cores. (Does that make sense?)
> although I think that's
> been discussed here already by Mr. Brutman.
>
> My favorite was the Atari Jaguar, which had no les
s
> than:
>
> - a 32-bit RISC GPU
> - a 64-bit RISC "object processor"
> - a 64-bit RISC blitter
> - a 64-bit general purpose DSP for audio and other
> functions
> - a 68000 for general-purpose helper functions
>
> And to shuffle memory around, a 64-bit DRAM
> controller.
>
> The Atari Jaguar *should* have been the most
> kick-ass console of its
> generation (the blitter in particular was certainl
y
> the most powerful of
> all the 5th-generation consoles). But it was so
> complex that nobody
> could figure out how to program it properly.
> Coupled with legendary
> Atari marketing fumbles, it died a quick death
> before a suitable "killer
> app" could be developed for it.
>
> Most coders unfamiliar with the system would treat
> the Jaguar as a
> 68000-based machine with a giant framebuffer, like
> an Atari ST on
> steroids. This was clearly not the best use of th
e
> machine.
The Atari Jaguar is basically a Super Spectrum
(SS).
No I'm not kidding (surely someone here can
back me up?). There is a page on the web
somewhere explaining how the guys that were
designing the SS ended up working for Atari.
The SS evolved into the Atari Jaguar.
Also, with the CD unit fitted into the Jaguar
cartridge slot (so it could play Jaguar CD
games - of which there must be about 6!)
that add's yet another processor or two
possibly.
Regards,
Andrew B
aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk
All:
Here's an interesting one. I have several disk images for the
Tandy 2000 that had been made with TeleDisk. One of the images is bad for
some reason (must be truncated; won't get past track 30; complains that
target disk drive is not ready when it reaches T30). The original disk is
not available.
I've done the basic troubleshooting on the drive and media
(other images made with same new floppy diskette and drive work fine;
swapped drive and media) to eliminate them from the failure tree.
Even though TeleDisk seems to write to track 30 just fine, the
disk is unusable. This is odd because it's an MS-DOS format (although 80T
9S) so all of the directory and media parameter info is at the front of the
disk rather than the back.
Is there anything I can do with this partial disk image to
retrieve at least some of the info?
Rich
Rich Cini
Collector of classic computers
Lead engineer, Altair32 Emulator
Web site: <http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/~rcini/classiccmp/>
http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/~rcini/classiccmp/
Web site: http://www.altair32.com/
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My recent post re BBM manuals has left me with a bit of a
dilemma; I've got several more boxes of various manuals etc.
to dispose of and I'm not sure what's the best way.
On the one hand, it benefits everyone to have them in Al's
hands, who has the means, time and willingness (thanks, Al)
to make them available to us all.
On the other hand, anyone who actually owns the relevant
equipment would probably like to have original documentation.
When I put them up on the list, I'm inevitably going to disappoint
someone; should I just offer it privately to Al and rely on him, or?
Comments?
mike
you can do very well copying manuals and such with a
mini digital cam, if its allowed. Id loan you mine if
interested, no problem.
--- cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org
<dkelvey at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> ---snip---
> >
> > > A Cat is a machine I would also like, but I am
not
> > > going to find one at a
> > > price I can afford...
> >
> > Mine...$20 US. Plus shipping. Hope is not lost...
> >
>
> Hi
> I've been having fun hacking my Cat ( Canon ). It
was intended
> to be only an appliance machine but one can program
with it as well.
> There is a page on the web that says one can just
use the word
> "see" to decompile words but he must have had a disk
that someone
> typed that definition in with.
> I've been slowly hacking how to decompile and I've
made good
> progress. Still, there is so much to dig into. My
main reason is
> to make a printer driver for my HP 3si.
> I was just doing some searches on Jef Raskin and the
Cat and found
> that the Standford Library has manuals on the Forth
in the Cat.
> Too bad I can't just photo copy them. I do plan on
taking a
> day off soon and sit in their viewing room with a
lot of note paper.
> They also have a lot of information from Jef's
records on the Mac
> and Apple in general. Jef was an interesting fellow.
> The Cat is one of my favorite machines.
> Dwight
>
>
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