Our local club, MARCH, was recently contacted by some commercial producers
on behalf of the Bank of New York. They rented a vintage computer from us
for a commercial that should air next month.
I won't disclose what they rented (and to the rest of your MARCHians out
there, please keep the secret!)...
We'll see if anyone out there in cctalk-ville can figure out what it is!
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Evan Koblentz's personal homepage: http://www.snarc.net
Computer Collector Newsletter:
>> http://news.computercollector.com
Mid-Atlantic Retro Computing Hobbyists & Museum:
>> http://www.marchclub.org
>> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/midatlanticretro/
Was watching Stanley Kubrick's movie "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to
Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" (circa 1964) on the tube last night, and
noticed Peter Sellers sitting in front of a console of some mainframe computer.
It was a beautiful looking console, lots of switches, lights, mag tape
units in the background. A state-of-the-art-unit for the era, I'm sure.
Anyone who has seen it know what computer it was?
-Eric
>
> I have started making images of the Tandy 3.2 Xenix install
> disks. Right now
> the first two disks are in "catweasel" .dmk format on
> http://www.catcorner.org/Xenix
>
> If anyone needs them, download them and give them a try. Let
> me know which
> works. The second image of the second disk is a single sided
> image, which
> should be all you really need.
>
> Kelly
>
FWIW the complete OS install set is now uploaded. How long before M$ jumps
on me for this...
Remember when a base Xenix install took less than 6 meg!!!
Kelly
I have an old VCP200 voice recognition chip -- think I bought it at
Rat Shack a long time ago. It's been sitting in its original
antistatic foam in a pile of dust atop my monitor for several years.
I never tried using it and have no idea if it's good. The chip has
the Motorola logo and then says VCPI (c) 1988 VCP200 A61A8902. Anyone
want it? First person to send me their snail-mail address gets it.
-- Adam
Bob Shannon
<mailto:cctalk%40classiccmp.org?Subject=Hello%20classic%20computer%20fans...
&In-Reply-To=> bshannon at tiac.net
Hello!
Hope this email adress works!
I have two LMI CADR machines and I booted one as late as ten years ago 1995!
I saw this post:
http://classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctalk/2001-May/172026.html
and you said you had spare parts? I may need some as I am going to try to
get the machine to run again. I would be happy to try to create a boot disk
image for you if mine are still good so you can boot yours too.
do you have any tape drive interface for the CADR that could be used to get
the data off it?
Best regards,
/Peter
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I finally got a chance to try the Silicon Valley Computer ADP50L (an
8-bit ISA IDE controller) in my IBM 5160 and I have to say, I love the
thing and want to put it to full active use. My problem is, how do I
properly mount a "modern" (3.5" half-height) hard drive into the case?
Looking at the existing ST-225 that's currently in there, it has much
larger dimensions so that it not only reaches the screw holes on the
side of the case, but for additional stability has the front faceplate
directly screwed onto it as well. It's in there pretty tight. I can
remove it, but how do I put my 340MB smaller drive in it's place?
I know I could just lay it down gingerly and try not to move the case,
but I've got kids and wouldn't want an accident to damage the drive (or
worse, damage the innards if the drive goes flying into the center of
the machine).
Any ideas? Is there a safe, non-flammable, non-disintegrating material
I can use to wedge it in perhaps? (ick)
--
Jim Leonard (trixter at oldskool.org) http://www.oldskool.org/
Help our electronic games project: http://www.mobygames.com/
Or check out some trippy MindCandy at http://www.mindcandydvd.com/
A child borne of the home computer wars: http://trixter.wordpress.com/
Hi,
Just ran across you email from 4 years ago about your 'Latest S-100 Haul'.
Do you still have the DataStar manual? I worked at MicroPro in 1980-82 as the primary developer on DataStar after Diane Hajicek moved on to InfoStar.
I have a copy of DataStar release 1.1 that I can still run on my PC (W2K or XP) using a Z80 and CP/M emulator. But I can't find out where the patch area is for the terminal installation strings.
The DataStar manual should have an appendix that lists the terminal strings and patch areas.
Also, I found a site (http://www.triousa.com/) run by Gordon Jackson (formerly of MicroPro). His company can still do file conversions and things. Don't know if he can handle 8" disks but he might.
Thanks for any info or leads you can provide.
Rick
I have started making images of the Tandy 3.2 Xenix install disks. Right now
the first two disks are in "catweasel" .dmk format on
http://www.catcorner.org/Xenix
If anyone needs them, download them and give them a try. Let me know which
works. The second image of the second disk is a single sided image, which
should be all you really need.
Kelly
On Thursday 02 February 2006 08:48 am, Richard wrote:
> ebay item #8760295547, prototyping board
>
> Card edge connector with 44 contacts, 22 per side, 0.156" spacing
>
> Is this STD bus? I'm not planning on buying it, I was just
> curious :)
Oh, yes, the 44 pin cards. There were quite a few connectors that used the
.156
spacing for contacts (before everyone went to .1 centers). They still are
around
in lots of places. The "numbering" of the contacts was USUALLY one side with
numbers, and the other side with letters (missing G, I, O, Q). This means that
the 44 pin connector had letters from A to Z!
I designed a 6800 system using these cards (the prototyping cards were
available
where I worked at VERY low cost!), and it worked quite well. 8 data lines,
16 address lines, and 7 controls. I used 21 & Y for +5 volts and 22 & Z for
ground. Look, it was 1975, and only 1MHz!. It actually worked out quite
well, and I get a company going for around 4 years (it died of bad
management!).
Yes, there were LOTS of prototyping boards around for this from factor, and
I was thankful for that. One of the goodies that I did was a Centronics
interface using only a single 6821 (PIA) on the board. It worked quite
well (a slot select line was wired into the board which made it pretty
simple!).
Those were the days. Simple interfaces and all the source you could
see.
(*SIGH*)
Yes, STD bus is 56 pins at .150 spacing, but same form factor!
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