test-drb March 2006

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by rich_bramante＠yahoo.com

Yes, I found Dave's instructions for hooking the 8" drive to a PC to transfer the images awhile ago, and like you realized I would not be able to get to such a project anytime soon hence my short-circuit request. I hadn't thought about going in the other direction and hooking a 5.25" to the APC. Has anybody else tried this? rich >Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:08:26 -0800 (PST) >From: Chris M <chrism3667 at yahoo.com> >Subject: Re: NEC APC boot disks CP/M-86 and DOS >To: "General Discussion: On-Topic Posts Only" <cctech at classiccmp.org> >Message-ID: <20060316000826.89285.qmail at web61024.mail.yahoo.com> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > >if you get the little asterisk on yer screen there, >you're probably alright. I recently pulled the floppy >drives out of one of my APCs aiming to plug them into >a pc using Dave Dunfield's instructions (those NEC >drives use a 50pin plug, so I'm going to have to >either etch an adapter board or do something else >freaky). Once there, I presumably could not only image >the disks I do have (condition unknown) - Dos, DBase >II, and Autocad I think - but also create boot disks >from Dave's or my images. I don't put alot of stock in >old floppies, but when the golden day comes, I could >mail you a disk or two, don't know if they'd work or >not, but that's not going to be this week. Probably >not next or the week after either. The other option is >to set up a modern pc with a hd 1.2meg 5 1/4" drive, >burn images to that, then plug that into your APC. >Worth a try. > >--- Dave Dunfield <dave06a at dunfield.com> wrote: > >> Anybody out there willing to snail mail me a >> couple of 8" boot disks for the >> original APC? I've got 2 of these sitting around >> with no software, wanted to >> test them out. If so please contact me off-list. >> >> I have images of MS-DOS, CP/M-86 and UCSD Pascal >> boot disks for the >> APC posted to my site (ImageDisk format). >> >> -- >> dave06a (at) Dave Dunfield >> dunfield (dot) Firmware development services & >> tools: www.dunfield.com >> com Collector of vintage computing >> equipment: >> >> http://www.parse.com/~ddunfield/museum/index.html __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

18 years, 3 months

PDP8E on Ebay

by Bob.Adamson＠sli-institute.ac.uk

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

18 years, 3 months

PDP8e on Ebay

by Bob.Adamson＠sli-institute.ac.uk

See http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/RARE-EXEPTIONEL-UNIQUE-DEC-PDP8-E-accesoires_W0QQi temZ8779092789QQcategoryZ4193QQssPageNameZWD2VQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem In France unfortunately or I'd be tempted Bob

18 years, 3 months

offlist------Re: Z-100 (was Heathkit H8 (new unbuilt) on ebay)

by chrism3667＠yahoo.com

Hi...got a lead on a Z100. Any images you can provide would be greatly apprecited. I have other pseudo-compatible images (Tandy 2000, NEC APC III, etc.) if youre interested. --- cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org <acme_ent at bellsouth.net> wrote: > woodelf wrote: > > Well I did get one for a song as Z-100 seems to ring a bell,about 10 years > > ago but I had to toss it since it came with no DOS with it. It was a > > nice machine, but with no Internet to get a OS booted for it was useless. > > Ben, that's a shame :-((( When I got mine from Joe Rigdon a > few years back it had all of the OS disks except for CP/M-85, > which Don Maslin (MHRIP) was kind enough to provide. > > I partitioned the hard drive into thirds, and set it up for > dual-boot (ZDOS and CP/M-86). > > Unfortunately, the version of CP/M-85 Don sent me does not > support a hard drive. I've never taken the time to patch it > for hard drive support, since I really like CP/M-86. If I > ever do, I'll install it on the third partition. > > I made Teledisk images for all three of the Z-100 CP/M-86 > disks, so if anyone out there needs 'em I'll be glad to share. > > Glen > 0/0 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

18 years, 3 months

Old computer advertising

by spc＠conman.org

If you don't mind the snarky comments, James Lileks has posted a series of computer ads from the 60s and 70s: http://www.lileks.com/institute/compupromo/ I also found a link to a BBC commercial for a Prime Computer from the late 70s/early 80s (it needs RealPlayer) that features a rather famous scarf wearing time traveller: http://plorkwort.livejournal.com/120042.html -spc (I found them interesting ... )

18 years, 3 months

Slightly OT: Bastard plagiarists

by news＠computercollector.com

Someone copied almost my ENTIRE pda history site onto the web forum at http://tinyurl.com/bhvpv ... Does anyone know what the deal is with this "britishinformation.com" site anyway? The thief who stole my work even included the hyperlinks but they don't work. The site includes a web form for contacting them so I sent a not-so-nice message, but I'm not optimistic about hearing back. Unfortunately I don't see any way to contact the user who posted this. ----------------------------------------- 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/

18 years, 3 months

Blower/airflow sensor needed for BA32

by bob＠jfcl.com

The BA32 is the baby VAX BI chassis used in the 8200/8250/8300/8350 systems - I have an 8250 (it'd be an 8350 if I could find another CPU :-) that has some problem with the cooling. The blower speed seems to vary all the time it's running, and it's constantly speeding up and slowing down. The system wil run for about an hour and then trips itself off, presumably either because of airflow or overtemp. Can anybody tell me if the blower speed is supposed to vary like that? Does anybody have any maintenance prints for the BA32 blower control? Anybody got any spare parts they're willing to sell? I spent a long time putting it back together after it'd been stripped by a scrap yard, and I've actually got it to the point where it will boot VMS now, so I'd really like to fix this last problem. Besides, it's a really cute little system - I believe it's the smallest VAX BI box around. Thanks, Bob Armstrong

18 years, 3 months

old 8088 system course++

by acme_ent＠bellsouth.net

Joe R. wrote: > I agree. Go find a copy of Inside the IBM PC and the other books > (Assembly Language Programming??) by Peter Norton. They explain the insides > of the PC very well. > > Joe Ya know, I found the Norton book to be really disjointed -- it didn't present the information in an A to Z sort of way. IIRC he didn't write it but lent his name to a previously published book ("Assembly Language Safari on the IBM PC" by mumble and mumble). I'll check my copy tonight & verify that. OTOH, "Inside the IBM PC" is a *really* valuable tool, as well as a historical resource, and you'd have to pry my first edition copy from my cold, dead hands ;-) Glen 0/0

18 years, 3 months

old 8088 system course++

by chrism3667＠yahoo.com

I found most books on assembly confusing. The 8088 architecture with regards to assembly programming is not exactly trivial stuph, so if yer learning on yer own, a thorough structured text is essential. The only thing I personally have seen that did the trick is the first edition of IBM PC Assembler Language and Programming by Peter Abel. --- cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org <acme_ent at bellsouth.net> wrote: > Joe R. wrote: > > > I agree. Go find a copy of Inside the IBM PC and the other books > > (Assembly Language Programming??) by Peter Norton. They explain the > insides > > of the PC very well. > > > > Joe > > > Ya know, I found the Norton book to be really disjointed -- > it didn't present the information in an A to Z sort of way. > IIRC he didn't write it but lent his name to a previously > published book ("Assembly Language Safari on the IBM PC" by > mumble and mumble). I'll check my copy tonight & verify that. > > OTOH, "Inside the IBM PC" is a *really* valuable tool, > as well as a historical resource, and you'd have to pry my > first edition copy from my cold, dead hands ;-) > > Glen > 0/0 > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

18 years, 3 months

FA: DEC RF-71 Disk Drive

by compoobah＠valleyimplants.com

Yikes- I need to remember to hit return- also forgot the Moeller patch URL: http://ftp2.de.freebsd.org/pub/vms/ka420/README.txt

18 years, 3 months

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