I know that these are supposed to be quite common but there don't
seem to be any on eBay at the moment. I'm looking for an old 68k
Macintosh, preferably something like a Quadra 800, to use to run
Macintosh Common Lisp. I used to have a bunch of old Macs but I've
gotten rid of all of them except a Color Classic and I find its
screen too small to use for Lisp development. Anyone have a Quadra
800 with a 14/15" color monitor they want to get rid of? I would
prefer one with an internal CD-ROM drive. Other Macs (maybe the
LC475) might be okay too but I'd like one with a 68040 processor.
Thanks,
David Betz
Hi,
for historical reasons I am looking for an electronic copy of the
RA6800ML relocating assembler for the Motorola 6800 (surely one can find
and even write from scratch PC-based crossassemblers, and I do know of
several of them, but this is not interesting for me).
This was published by Byte Paperbooks in 1978, and its ISBN is still
listed at Amazon et al, but hasn't appeared for quite some time as a
used book. I have located the corresponding relocating linker (at least
it seems to be it) from Flex Usergroup downloads (where it is listed as
"unidentified/RA6800ML") but this linker is likely the code from another
Byte paperbook of that time. Or if someone has this book and could xerox
it for me, provided we can negotiate some method to transfer expenses -
I'd be willing to pay reasonably.
THX & Regards
Holger
I have some early DRAM chips, was wondering if any of you guys would be
interested? It's gonna take me some digging to get to where they are, so I
figure I'd ask first before doing that. :-)
If there's some interest I'll dig 'em out and post a list.
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ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
M Dakin
This subject comes up from time to time, and I ran across the following post to
the Heath Listserver that applies equally to classic computers. He makes some
very good points, and I too am becoming more and more aware of things that
should be done to preserve some of the less common stuff that I have.
**************
I've been following the recent thread on Boat Anchors regarding large
collections of ham radio equipment and the (eventual) problem of
disposing of them after the collector's eventual (and inevitable, I
might add) demise and exit from this world.
I, too, have accumulated my share of old radio's - both amateur radio
types and broadcast types. When I was younger, I frankly did not give
much thought to what a burden these might be to my family when I pass
away. But now I am older (just retired and a 'youngish' 65) and I have
certainly given the problem much more thought. Additionally I have
helped other's dispose of their collections and have, in some cases,
purchased collections of equipment for my own collection. Anyways here
are some serious thoughts for those of us who love our radio's.
1. Make a list of your radio's and keep it up to date. Include an
estimate of condition and what you would guesstimate the 'street value'
is. Make sure your wife and family know where this list is.
2. Make a list of people and organizations your wife and family can
turn to for help when the time comes to dispose of your equipment. In my
case, this includes a few local hams and the antique radio club that I
belong to.
3. Keep your collection honed down! Purge it on a regular basis. EBAY
and these lists are a great way to keep the surplus down I'm still
working on that part of it and, more or less constantly, I go though my
'stuff' (not just ham or radio gear either) and get it gone!
4. Buy with discrimination! It is easy to become a hoarder! I am
trying to be more discriminating now - in fact, I skipped the last
couple of hamfests. I only buy what really appeals to me and only at a
good 'value point'. I have plenty and plenty of radio's to work on. I do
enjoy the hunt for new and interesting radios (building an HBR is still
a dream) but I am more discriminating that before. Plus I try to sell
some for every one I buy (kind of spread the joy).
So it is serious - this 'obsession' that we have. It does behove us to
try to keep it in check and try to make things easier for your spouse
and your family when the big cleanup is needed. With any luck, I'll sell
my last radio just before you pass on and that will be one less burden
for my wife to cope with. Meanwhile I intent to have some fun with my
collection. But remember - the emphasis should be on the fun (and in
preserving old radios!).
73 de WA2CKY
Bob Groh
Hi, I've got an old C64 that I've been unable to make it work and
don't have time to play with it. Free to anyone that could use it for
parts or fix; has power supply (brick). If you could help me w/
shipping I'd appreciate it.
Please email me if interested. If there is no interest its going to
the trashbin.
L
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AIM: lflorit MSN:louis_florit at hotmail.com Y!: indygolunaria
GoogleTalk: florit at gmail.com
I just used this company to get Patrick's Megatek "Whizzer" graphics
terminal (1984) to my house in Salt Lake from Dallas. (Sweet unit
by the way!)
I selected their "cardboard crate" option and they prepared everything
for shipment and contracted with a freight carrier to have it
delivered to my house. (There was also a RSTS distribution on magtape
combined with this, thanks Patrick!) They did a very professional job
of wrapping and cushioning everything in the crate and it was
delivered in a timely manner with no damage.
Their home page <http://www.cratersandfreighters.com> has a photo
gallery of the various crates that they've built for items they've
shipped. The company history says that they started in Silicon Valley
in 1990 and that they specialize in the shipping of electronics, art
and antiques.
I would recommend anyone needing freight shipping to check them out.
They work directly with dovebid and govliquidation and are familiar
with those sorts of auction lots.
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<http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/>
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<http://pilgrimage.scene.org>
The 11/45 will boot xxdp+ v1, but won't boot RT11 v5.1.
Upon booting the RT11 v5.1 RL02 pack, the disk flashes for about 5-8
seconds, then the processor just halts.
First question which I didn't see in the RT11 5x docs... what exactly would
the hardware requirements be for RT11 5.1 on a 11/45? Is it expecting a
minimum of memory? Certain I/O devices at certain locations? I tried both a
real DEC RT11 v5.1 RL02 dist. pack, and also was able to gen one from a 5.1
image on a scratch pack with vtserver.
The only thing I can think of (and another listmember point to as well) is a
problem with interrupts. But I've no idea how exactly to go about
troubleshooting it, not being a DEC expert like others here :) I've gone
back and forth between using 8K core, 16K core, or 128k unibus memory.
Similar results. My copy of xxdp+ seems a bit old, so most diags I have seem
to have older names.
Any thoughts are most appreciated!
Jay West
I just have a question about Standby mode on an 11/34. I read it's
supposed to leave power applied to MOS, but do the fans and whatnot turn
off along with the CPU? Or are they supposed to stay on? My junk's in
a BA11-K box.
the manual for my T Personal Mini calls for a T 925 or
950 for the console. Floppies (bad) have emulator
software that makes a pc look like one of those. So
does anyone know of another way of emulating a T
terminal, or perhaps got one theyll let go cheapish?
This all assumes the hard drive even works, but what
have I got to lose.
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