test-drb November 2006

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by Kevin＠RawFedDogs.net

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.net http://www.WacoAgilityGroup.org Bruceville, TX

17 years, 4 months

In response to overwhelming demand...

by evan＠snarc.net

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

17 years, 4 months

New bounty on manuals ($$$)

by sellam＠vintagetech.com

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! -- Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org [ Old computing resources for business || Buy/Sell/Trade Vintage Computers ] [ and academia at www.VintageTech.com || at http://marketplace.vintage.org ]

17 years, 4 months

UK PAL ==> US NTSC video convertor box?

by julesrichardsonuk＠yahoo.co.uk

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

17 years, 4 months

Nice System/36 5360 needs saving

by mross666＠hotmail.com

There's a nice, very complete, 5360 on ebay, starting at $0. Believe it's in ?Kansas?. Seller seems a good guy - hope someone saves this. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=130041937602 Mike http://www.corestore.org _________________________________________________________________ Try Search Survival Kits: Fix up your home and better handle your cash with Live Search! http://imagine-windowslive.com/search/kits/default.aspx?kit=improve&locale=…

17 years, 4 months

multiple cpu machines Re: rogues galleries

by aliensrcooluk＠yahoo.co.uk

--- 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

17 years, 4 months

Disk image conversions?

by rcini＠optonline.net

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/ /***************************************************/

17 years, 4 months

Documentation

by dm561＠torfree.net

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

17 years, 4 months

HP 9000s, Canon Cat, felines, etc. was Re: rogues galleries

by chrism3667＠yahoo.com

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 > > _________________________________________________________________ > MSN Shopping has everything on your holiday list. Get expert picks by style, > age, and price. Try it! > http://shopping.msn.com/content/shp/?ctId=8000,ptnrid=176,ptnrdata=200601&t… > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com

17 years, 4 months

Tentative early news of VCF East 4.0 date(s)

by jtp＠chinalake.com

Is not May 12-13 Mother's day (13th) weekend in the US? That might be more dangerous than Father's Day weekend. Cheers, Jim

17 years, 4 months

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test-drb November 2006