Hi,
I'm not sure if I've already asked this here, but does anyone
know anything about the Cifer T-5 terminal? Mine is missing the
keyboard so any info on that would help. Otherwise, assuming it's
a fairly typical serial type, it will be a matter of sorting out
the connections and the baud rate - not too difficult but easier
if you know what it _should_ be.
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On Sat, 2 Dec 2006 12:01:14 -0600 (CST), you wrote:
>>> Does anyone know of a source for these keyboards, or know of a
>>> company that could make them up?
> This is very true of course...but (apparently I missed Al
>Hartman's earlier message about this) I know of a company that can
>make these keyboards.
I have a ZX81 that needs a new keyboard too... the "tail" that
connects to the board is trashed. Put me down to buy one if this
should actually happen...
thanks
Charles
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
> Aren't the 9000-series Univacs not home-grown products, but rather
> the follow-on result of the RCA Spectra acquisition by Univac?
That is the Univac Series 80
The 9000 series is similar but not exactly the same as S360 (a few
instructions and the I/O differ).
There is a complete 9400 that is trying to be brought back to life in
Germany
http://www.technikum29.de/en/computer/univac9400.shtm
It would also be nice to know what ever happened to Bill Yakowenko's 9200
http://www.cs.unc.edu/~yakowenk/classiccmp/univac/news.html
A guy on ebay is selling something that looks suspiciously like the
monitor portion of a terminal, but he is calling it a Hazeltine
'computer'. I asked him if it was a terminal and he responded saying:
"Its a computer, not a monitor."
Either he didn't understand my question (I didn't ask if it was a
monitor, I asked if it was a terminal) or he had a brain-fart and
typed "monitor" instead of terminal in his reply.
The item is #300053801044 and has a detail photo of the model plate
where it says model 1DTD155463. On the lower left rear is what looks
suspiciously like two DB-25 style connectors, presumably one for the
host and one for a printer.
So, did Hazeltine ever make a computer or did they only make terminals?
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> Williams Defender uses two 6809 CPUs - one just for
sound, and one for
> everything else.
>
> Williams Joust is more complicated and uses four
> 6809s.
nope..
Defender and Joust both have a 6809 and a 6808 for sound
http://www.system16.com/hardware.php?id=598&gid=1044
> Maybe a better example would be something like reconstituting an
> application where the owners of the property rights are defunct (dead
> companies) or even the owners don't have the source anymore.
Another example I can think of is where you have a piece of test
equipment whose operation depends upon software for a computer that is
no longer generally available.
The Biomation CLAS 4000 logic analyzer, for example, is a SCSI device
whose user interface runs on a 68000 Macintosh.
Firmware/software for test equipment is one area in particular that
points out the problem of devices becoming boat anchors because the code
to control them wasn't preserved with the device.
The trend in the past 10 years to produce subscription devices that
depend on a host run by a company that no longer exists (Richochet,
Catapult, Kerbango, ...) is another annoyance.
Hi Henry,
I'm looking for Hardware documentation on rtVAX1000 and found your note on the net. Do you know where can I found such info?
Kind regards,
Izo Camacho.
