>Chris M
> Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 6:28 PM
> To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
> Subject: RE: Targa/TIGA/??? was Re: TMS340x0
>
>
>
> > I remeber the AT&T TARGA. Output was to a RGB
> > monitor. Input via tablet with a puck and a wand.
> > They had it running on a Wyse PC/286. I wrote a
> > converter to the Amiga IFF and PC GIF, but I can't
> > find the source any more.
>
> to convert .tga to those formats?
>
Yes. They were pretty much raw RGB data if I recall.
> > I worked at the video lab for the County College of
> > Morris (in New Jersey) back in 90-92. They also had
> > some SGI stuff and some film printers for the PC.
> > All networked via ethernet. Pretty advanced for a
> > community college.
>
> But am I correct in asserting that *somehow* this
> device could control the individual micro-dots (not
> the Berkeley kind LOL LOL) that make up a pixel? Prior
> to VGA, and although the ability wasn't altogether
> absent from the computer world then, photorealistic
> imagery was possible, IIRC, on a stock digital
> monitor???
They talked to an analog video monitor in TV or Laser Disc resolutions. The ones we had had two video cards. I think one was a Herc mono compatible for the DOS stuff. I think the one connected to the TGA was analog inputs with seperate sync. Until you activated the TARGA card, the screen was blank. I think in later versions we could load a graphic onto the video card for static display until you loaded the TARGA software.
I don't recall the term micro-dots, but everything was anti-aliased. I was the technoid that connected the devices, made them all talk, and cobbled together software for moving the images. I also learned a lot about video production. I think their character cenerators were originally Sony MBC-55s. They then moved to Chimera or something similar. I just remember replacing the ROMs and software on these units all the time for upgrades.
I was lucky enough to have dinner with her when she visited our student
ACM chapter in the mid-1970s. Remember her smoking (several) unfiltered
Camels that evening.
Great speaker. Told a very funny story about being mistaken for a flight
attendant (stewardess in those days) when walking thru the airport in
her naval uniform.
Lee Courtney
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org
> [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Brad Parker
> Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 9:09 AM
> To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
> Subject: Re: Dr. Hopper's 100 birthday
>
>
> Colin Eby wrote:
> >All --
> >
> >Saw this blurb on BBC News and thought I'd flag it to the
> rest of you.
> >9 December was the 100th anniversary of Dr. Grace Hopper's
> birthday.
> >All hail Mother COBOL:
> >http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6168489.stm
>
> I saw her speak once, where she handed out "nanoseconds" and
> talked with people afterward. It was very memorable. She
> was quite inspirational.
>
> I'll never forget her talking about just doing things rather
> than asking for permission, and her (now) famous quote on
> that. She had great stories about the military and computing.
>
> She also (if I remember correctly) had some interesting
> anecdotes about drum memory and code timing - I've seen other
> people comment on that here.
>
> -brad
>
Day late and a dollar short....
As Tony Duell said, DEC Rainbow, 2 CPU's, Z-80 + 8088, possibly count
the 7220 graphics processor, so 2 or maybe 3 CPU's.
(hangs head in shame)
Oh yeah! (head comes back up)
AlphaServer 2100, 3 CPU cards ... but all three the same Alpha 4/275 CPU. Sigh.
NeXT cube, 68040 + DSP56000 + i860 (on NeXTDimension card) ....
... but then it's not supported to get the i860 to do anything but
drive graphics, so that doesn't count - back to 2 CPU's. (head hangs
again) oh well.
--
Mark Tapley, Dwarf Engineer
(I haven't cleared my neighborhood)
210-379-4635 Dwarf Phone, 210-522-6025 Office Phone
http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-1983-Aussie-luggable-Portapak-Z80B-Cpu_W0QQitem…
don't mean to push loads of eBay stuff, and believe me
I have no relation to the seller. But history is just
that, and eBay is often a source of it.
Rugged looking little piece of work. Well suited for
the Outback LOL
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All,
At 12:00 -0600 12/10/06, Jack wrote:
>I've got about a dozen Sony Trinitron PVM-1380 color video monitors
>available. These are dual-channel composite video/mono audio - great for
>use with your Apple ][, Atari 800, Commodore 64, etc. Very nice
>commercial grade in very good condition. Removed from our school
>language lab, so may be "personalized" cosmetically but nothing
>objectionable.
>
>Free for pickup - I will not ship but I can store them through January.
>Any remainder will be scrapped in February.
>
>Located in Evanston, Illinois.
>
>Jack
>847.424.7320 work
Sigh. I have a Co-Co 3 and an Apple][. Using TV's so far, better
resolution would be nice. I'm in San Antonio, TX, 78254, and will not
be able to pick up a monitor.
a) Anybody near Evanston planning to talk to Jack about one of these?
b) Anybody in category a) willing to pak/n/ship one for me, for 1.2 *
packing and shipping cost or similar?
c) any idea what shipping will run? I'm guessing order of $40 or so?
--
Mark Tapley, Dwarf Engineer
(I haven't cleared my neighborhood)
210-379-4635 Dwarf Phone, 210-522-6025 Office Phone
>> Really?! What's that look like? How did you come across one?
>> Do you have photos? :-)
>
>I've seen a few go through ebay. They do show up from time to time and
>aren't terribly uncommon.
Nor are they particularly useful.
They are better at contaminating packs than cleaning them.
Visual inspection and cleaning is absolutely essential when working with
20+ year old unknown media.
While going through my dustpile, I came across this communications
receiver front end:
http://www.sydex.com/images/fe.jpg
I vaguely remember picking it up in the 60's on Chicago's S. Michigan
Ave. "Radio Row" (as boxed new surplus) and that I hooked it up long
enough to determine that the IF output is 1600 KHz (or should I say
KC?). It's undoubtedly part of some dual-conversion receiver--I
suspect something like a Heathkit, but that's just a guess.
Tube lineup is 12AT7, 6CS6 and 6BZ6.
My question is if this is something worth selling or if I'm likely to
lose my 65 cents eBay listing fee. Any additional information from
someone who recognizes this would be welcome.
Cheers,
Chuck
> If you put
> "magna-view" on those platters, you could probably read off the
> data just using your eyeballs, or maybe a cheap magnifing glass
The bit density of an RK05 is 2200 bpi.
Know what you are talking about before saying something stupid like
this.
Well, I finally got around to prowling through the 5.25" floppy
archives for the so-called "Hazeltine" computer diskettes. I found
'em--in the last 10 diskettes in the file(!). In the meantime, I ran
across all sorts of names of systems not heard recently, such as
"Peoples World" and "Pan Asia".
The diskettes contain only the legend "Hazeltine CP/M" and date from
about 1982 or so. The bad news is that the boot tracks contain a
CP/M system image, along with CBIOS, but no clue is given as to the
system name. Looking at the directory, there was a disk utility to
format and surface copy, but no identification there either. There
was also a copy of Spellguard and Wordstar--aha! Wordstar almost
always contains the name of at the least the terminal, if not the
system.
Well, it does--but the terminal listed is an ADDS Viewpoint--and no
system named. :(
Bottom line is that I have nothing to contribute to the "Hazeltime
Computer" legend--and, with the discovery of the ADDS terminal code,
don't even know why the customer insisted on calling it a Hazeltine
(but he did--I found the letter in my files.
So--shrug! My guess is that the "computer, given the date" may have
been housed in the same box as the floppy drives.--and that a
Hazeltine terminal was connected to it.
But I didn't think that a Hazeltine had cotnrol sequences anything
like an ADDS Viewpoint.
Cheers,
Chuck
