test-drb March 2006

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by James＠jdfogg.com

> It seems that all kinds of special computing equipment was > made for airlines in the 60s, 70s and 80s. How would one go > about researching technical specifics on this equipment? > Like those funky reservation terminals with all the special > keys. Clearly these are not regular terminals. Research SABRE. It was a custom RTOS project that had the spec expand greatly to include just about everything the airlines did.

18 years, 10 months

FA: DEC RF-71 Disk Drive

by Useddec＠aol.com

I Think I have a few of these yet, if anyone is looking for them. Maybe a few 72's and 73's also. Paul

18 years, 10 months

TurboDOS

by kkafka＠earthlink.net

John, DO you still have the TurboDOS manuals? I found a set of messages between you and eric at brouhaha.com from October 1998. Thanks, Kris Kafka

18 years, 10 months

old 8088 system course++

by ericmac＠swissinfo.org

Thanks for the responses to my question. I was able to continue searching >from the tips and I'm pretty sure what I was asking about must have been >from NRI. From what I came up with it also looks like that is long gone. I am back to my original problem. How to learn the fundamentals of the 8088 or 8086 ... and then to continue from there to the larger chips. At the moment I'm concerned about the 8088 or 8086. I have found resources that introduce those chips in a very clear, step-by-step way and include the plans for building a trainer. But they all stop short of interfacing FDDs, HDDs, etc. Would anyone know how I could "learn-by-building" an 8088 or 8086 system complete with drive interfaces, etc., starting with the very elementary aspects of learning the chip architecture and hardware on through to systems with FDDs and HDs and video, etc.? Thanks again. Gary "I think it was about 15-20 years ago there was, I believe, a self-study course put out by some company for learning the hardware (and I think some aspects of software, i.e., DOS) of computing at that time. The course came with an 8088 computer that, if I recall correctly, one built and "learned by doing." I'm pretty sure it was not a Heathkit. I have searched everywhere and have not come up with anything. Does this sound familiar to anyone? Any information would be helpful. I'm trying to track one of these courses/computers down. Thanks!" _______________________________________________________________________ Your Site for Swiss Maps: http://www.swissinfo-geo.org/

18 years, 10 months

PDP8E on Ebay

by Useddec＠aol.com

I have several PDP8's and options here in the states if anyone is interested. I plan to start listing some of it on Ebay in the near future. Paul

18 years, 10 months

IBM Mainframe guy in Chile is selling of his entire stock (or offering it)

by jwstephens＠msm.umr.edu

The sad thing is that he had a 360/40 (2040) cpu which he now says is in bad shape that is for sale. $25,000 gets you a 40' container of really nice stuff though. i had asked him if he had a full mainframe at one time and he said he did not. now, if it is what remains after his ebay auctions, there won't be much left, sad to say. But a 360 would probably be a steal at 25K, unless someone knows where one is for less. Maybe dkdk will swoop in and buy the parts he does not already have of the 360, and it will end up complete somewhere. Hope he is acquiring for a museum somewhere, or his pile comes to view in public, it must be quite nice by now. jim seller: alejoelectronic specific auction: 8782204551

18 years, 10 months

modern media in vintage computers

by chrism3667＠yahoo.com

weve all seen the use of (typically) compact flash cards as mass storage in classic stuph. Are SD cards as adaptable for this purpose? I remember reading somewhere that the flash interface is essentially IDE in nature. Does this apply for all types of cards? And if anyone could point to an article/link/book on this type of crazy stuph, Id sore appreciate it. Nuts and Volts had an article on building a micro controller based mpeg player (with cflash storage) so maybe I should take a look at that. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

18 years, 10 months

PDP8E on Ebay

by cheri-post＠web.de

Don't worry Bob, this guy is just trying to make money. He didn't sell it the last *times* which is no wonder, as 3000 EUR and 2000 EUR seem a bit too much in my opinion. He said in french the he won't go below 1500 EUR. He kept on saying that for those who think that they should wait to get a cheaper price....he wouldn't do it. And as he said that he would put back his 8/e into his basement if nobody bids....not a problem for me as long as this 8 isn't being scrapped..... Regards, Pierre > http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/RARE-EXEPTIONEL-UNIQUE-DEC-PDP8-E-accesoires_W0QQi > temZ8779092789QQcategoryZ4193QQssPageNameZWD2VQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem > > > > In France unfortunately or I'd be tempted. > > Didn't sell last time around a few weeks ago so might take a lesser > offer. > > > > Bob > > > > > ______________________________________________________________ Verschicken Sie romantische, coole und witzige Bilder per SMS! Jetzt bei WEB.DE FreeMail: http://f.web.de/?mc=021193

18 years, 10 months

FA: DEC RF-71 Disk Drive

by a.carlini＠ntlworld.com

I wrote: >DSSI certainly supports SCA but if you look at the SII I'm >sure you'll find that it can do both SCSI and DSSI. I'd be >even more sure if I had an SII spec. I found a partial spec. It has this to say: > The second port is the SCSI/DSSI bus and the required > control signals. The outputs from the SII are designed to > interface directly with the NCR 8310 Receiver/Driver chip with > no glue elements. The SII will generate and check parity and > support both the initiator and target roles. Things may have changed by the time stuff shipped, and you certainly cannot put a SCSI drive on a DSSI bus (or vice versa) but clearly the two busses are fairly close at some level. Antonio -- Antonio carlini arcarlini at iee.org

18 years, 10 months

two piles of ASR 32/33 parts on ebay

by legalize＠xmission.com

Item name: Minicomputer Teletype Terminal ASR 32 33 Parts Pile 1 Price: $2.50 Bids: 0 End date: Mar-22-06 19:17:34 PST Distance: View item: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8781899953&ssPageName=AD… Item name: Minicomputer Teletype Terminal ASR 32 33 Parts Pile 2 Price: $2.50 Bids: 0 End date: Mar-22-06 19:14:35 PST Distance: View item: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8781897024&ssPageName=AD… -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline"-- code samples, sample chapter, FAQ: <http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/> Pilgrimage: Utah's annual demoparty <http://pilgrimage.scene.org>

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