test-drb March 2006

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Help with VT320 - Is there a line 25 used as status?

by jhfinedp3k＠compsys.to

Hi All, I seem to remember that when I used a VT320 under VMS and EVE/TPU (or at least one of the DEC editors), there was status information on line 25 for the user. I think the file name under edit was displayed and perhaps even the line number and column number, although I really am doubtful about the latter. BUT I do seem to remember the file name being available on line 25. Am I correct? Please help! The VT220 was not able to support line 25 as far as I know, and certainly the VT100 was not able. What about the VT410 and VT520 terminals? Sincerely yours, Jerome Fine -- If you attempted to send a reply and the original e-mail address has been discontinued due a high volume of junk e-mail, then the semi-permanent e-mail address can be obtained by replacing the four characters preceding the 'at' with the four digits of the current year.

18 years, 3 months

In need of Televideo 910 terminal case

by rcini＠optonline.net

All: I recently received from a friend a Televideo 910 terminal that seems to have been drop-kicked off of the back of the mail truck. It was dropped keyboard first, so the entire front broke off. So far, gluing the case isn't working well, and I'm not optimistic about the ultimate success. So, I'm looking for someone with a bad terminal with a good case so I can make a Frankenstein terminal. Please contact me off-list. Thanks. Rich Rich Cini Collector of classic computers Build Master for the Altair32 Emulation Project Web site: <http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/~rcini/classiccmp/> http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/~rcini/classiccmp/ /************************************************************/

18 years, 3 months

Details of old HP Stuff Available (act now!)

by andrew.f.brunet＠lmco.com

Hi, I'm looking of an HP monitor that you may have. HP35741A. Do you still have it ? Thx Andy

18 years, 3 months

Commodore 64 story

by jwstephens＠msm.umr.edu

Those who haven't read the computerworld Sharktank for today, might want to. Funny as usual for that column, but more interesting here than usual. Jim

18 years, 3 months

History Check -- First CMOS mainframe

by aek＠bitsavers.org

I'm not an expert >in the MCP O/S so have been in lurkmode on this for a >longnow while. >From what I've been able to tell, the thing executes a superset of the old 1107 instruction set. --- Wrong side of the merger. MCP was from the Burroughs side. Descendent of the 5500 family. Clearpath/OS2000 are the ones-compliment 11xx family.

18 years, 3 months

looking to buy/swap/extort PC Tech Journal magazines

by chrism3667＠yahoo.com

what a boring magazine. It really is a dull read. Not sure why I want to add to my accumulation (have 16 between 1/85 - 12/87). But alas I am. Let me know even if yer just looking for an article or two. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

18 years, 3 months

an odd PC seen in a thrift store (?)

by chrism3667＠yahoo.com

the 9801 was not an all in one though. I cant imagine myself confusing NEC and NCR actually, just that I was somewhat familiar with their PC4s, and it seemed a tad different IIRC. It could have been the Decision Mate, which doesnt look any different, and would also boot to a cpm a> prompt (Im thinking so anyway). The thing just somehow looked different...(I was hoping some nerd who also used to shop their might subscribe to this list). --- cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org <Tim at Rikers.org> wrote: > Chris M wrote: > > the talk of a peculiar USR pc made me remember this. > > There used to be a (primarily) electronic junk store > > in LI called Eldies (Edlies?) on Hempstead Tnpk in > > Levittown I guess. Sitting there one day was an all in > > one, IIRC, NCR unit that booted up to an a:> prompt. > > It struck me as a weirdish dos semi compatible. It > > didnt strike me as a PC4 or the nearly identical > > Decision Mate (cpm). Pretty sure it was NCR, but eh > > maybe it was NEC (definately NOT an APC, not quite > > that big and heavy). Anyone have a clue? > > The Japanese NEC PC-9800 series booted with A: as the boot drive even if > it booted off a hard disk. the floppies would become the next drives. > > Was the text in japanese? > > I did software development on some of these models back around 1990. All > the M$ tools were available for them, but only from Japanese dealers and > only in Japanese. > > -- > Tim Riker - http://Rikers.org/ - TimR at Debian.org > Embedded Linux Technologist - http://eLinux.org/ > BZFlag maintainer - http://BZFlag.org/ - for fun! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

18 years, 3 months

Heath ET-3400 Trainer Simulator SW

by cleve_001＠yahoo.com

Hi, Did you every find Trainer.zip? If not I have attached it. Cleve __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

18 years, 3 months

TF20 Notes

by fjkraan＠xs4all.nl

> made. One other thing that might be of interest : The 34 pin connector on > the back of the TF20 is not some kind of parallel host interface. It's > exactly what you'd expect a 34 pin connector on a disk controller to be > -- namely a SA400-compatible disk drive bus. The hardware can handle up > If the processor board is left out of the TF-20 you could use the drives as extra drives on a QX-10. Some more info on the TF-20 and HX-20 Disk basic can be learned from the User manual: http://electrickery.xs4all.nl/comp/tf20/doc/tf-20_manual.pdf or http://oldcomputers.dyndns.org/public/pub/rechner/epson/~fjkraan/comp/tf20/…. The CP/M like OS in the TF-20 probably doesn't support the extra drives as the official way to connect more drives is daisy chaining another TF-20 to the first one. Fred Jan

18 years, 3 months

OT Tom Swift (was: Re: Where's this from?)

by stimpy.u.idiot＠gmail.com

On 05/03/06, Zane H. Healy <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote: > > At 12:31 PM +0000 3/5/06, Philip Pemberton wrote: > >In message <20060304205928.017C8BA48B5 at mini-me.trailing-edge.com> > > shoppa_classiccmp at trailing-edge.com (Tim Shoppa) wrote: > > >Tom Swift? Never heard of 'em... It's either way before my time, or one > of > >the many things that never managed to get across the Atlantic... > > It probably never made it across the Atlantic. They did, I remember reading several of them from our primary school library in the mid 70's, I suppose I would have been 8 or 9. All I can remember now is he had a very cool submarine/helicopter contraption that could fly at humoungous speed and that the style, with hindsight, was E.E Smith gung-ho for a junior audience. -- Pete Edwards "Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future" - Niels Bohr

18 years, 3 months

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