test-drb November 2006

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by alhartman＠yahoo.com

What about an IBM XT with a Big Blue CP/M Card, AND a Trackstar 128 AND a Hydra (MacPlus) board? Wouldn't that give you 4 processors in one machine? One could also run an Amiga with an 8088 Bridge board for dual processors. Or, an Apple IIe, IIgs with a Transwarp card for two processors? Three if it has a Microsoft Softcard... Which makes me think of the Zip Chip and Rocket Chip for the Apple IIe/IIgs series. Did these chips also work in the C64 and other 6502 machines? I remember working with them, but don't have one for either of my IIgs machines... I *DO* have an Orange PC card that will turn a PCI Mac into a PC. But, I don't have the required cable or software for it. So, it's merely a curiosity at this time. That would make a Mac a Dual Processor machine, wouldn't it?

18 years, 1 month

AT&T 730 MGT graphic terminals

by ken＠seefried.com

From: Richard <legalize at xmission.com> > Anyone know anything about these? Google for AT&T 5620 and/or AT&T BLIT. The 730 is a descendant. > Apparently they could be used as X terminals and they are essentially > diskless workstations with a 68000 inside. They can be regular dumb terminals or "layers" terminals, which is a really rather interesting, pre-XTerminal remote windowing system worked on by, among other luminaries, Rob Pike. As I recall, they came out with an X cartridge for the 730 since layers never caught on. I only saw NCR rebadged X Terminals during my time at AT&T, so I assume the X cartridge didn't catch on either, even internally. > Any AT&T 3B2 owners out there have one of these in a working state? Don't think many of them ever made it out of AT&T...at least I've never seen one in the wild.

18 years, 1 month

rogues / Rare european machines

by ken＠seefried.com

From: Richard <legalize at xmission.com> > So I'm guessing that the hardware is pretty much a > straight clone. Apparently not, at least for some of the Eastern Bloc clones; see http://hampage.hu/tpa/e_index.html. For the Hungarian machines, cards were definitely physically different, I'm betting things like power supplies are local creations and anything using LSI (F-11 clones, for example) were undoubtedly somewhat original due to differences in the manufacturing processes the Soviets had access to (and DEC never made anything that looked like a K1801VM1). Very faithful clones as far as the software was concerned, though.

18 years, 1 month

Intel Magnetics BPK-72 Bubble memory Prototype Kit

by schultz＠impulse.net.au

Hello, This may be of interest: http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140058022601 regards Rob

18 years, 1 month

multiple cpu machines Re: rogues galleries

by ken＠seefried.com

If you can find a Hauppauge 4860, you get an i486 and an i860. Toss in a DAC960E EISA Raid controller and you get an i960. And an NE3200 EISA network card, and get an i80186. Add a National Instruments AT-DSP2200 EISA data acquisition card, and you get an AT&T DSP32C. Add a A Hercules Graphics Station card and get a ti34010. Add an Opus card or two and get more (mc88100? SPARC?). That's 8 processors, 6 of which are directly available for fiddling. I've had, at one time or another, all these cards, but since I never put them together, I guess I don't win.

18 years, 1 month

Test - do not read

by tosteve＠yahoo.com

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18 years, 1 month

NEC uPD 780c-1

by chrism3667＠yahoo.com

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18 years, 1 month

Hey, a new Altair kit ??

by evan＠snarc.net

http://www.altairkit.com/ Looks quite different from other modern Altair things.

18 years, 1 month

Various problems

by aliensrcooluk＠yahoo.co.uk

--- Tony Duell <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote: > > > > At 4:27 PM -0600 11/25/06, > aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk wrote: > > >Hi all, > > > > > >Just came across this page (well, someone > > >posted it to another email group) and thought > > >some of you might like to take a look at it. > > > > > > > > >http://www.science.uva.nl/museum/rampspoed.html > > > > > > > > >Among the usual rubber turning to liquid/sticky > > Interestingly, it shows a Vesatec V80. Exactly the > same thing has > happened to the platten roller in my V80 :-(, so > sometime I am going to > have to work out how to repair that,,, > oh dear :( > > >stuff are dirty keyboards (under the keys), > > Is this a real problem? I generally pull all the > keycaps (and clean those > with Maplin foam cleaner), then if possible take t he > rest of the keyboard > apart and clean all the bits spearately. Yes, it's > time-consuming (takes > an afternoon to do a keyboard), but it doesn't > involve making/obtaining > special parts, etc. How easy is it to take the plastic (?) keys off of a keyboard without damaging either the keys or the contacts underneath? I assume, if they are taken off without damage to them, they would simple clip back on? I have never taken a keyboard apart yet, and will no doubt need to someday. I probably won't bother until a keyboard, or keys, starts failing. Regards, Andrew B aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk

18 years, 1 month

Good home required for a set of HP 9000 model 375 manuals.

by andy.piercy＠gmail.com

If anyone would like a full set of HP 9000 manuals please contact this guy off list as they are heading for the skip! He has just posted to the UK a full set of Masscomp manuals so he is very helpful, he is located in the USA in Kingstowne VA. "I just wish I could find as good a home for our set of HP 9000 model 375 manuals. There was a guy in France, but he cannot afford the postage. Now even the janitorial staff won't take them out for me; the pile just sits there with the "Trash--please remove" sign on top. :-(" Please reply off list to: "Newquist, Jonathan D" <NewquistJ at state.gov>

18 years, 1 month

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test-drb November 2006