I won the prime computer, I paid more then I really wanted, but there
you go. I was expecting it to go out of my reach though.
I will pick it up sometime this week. Watch this space for info...
Dan
Hi
I worked on British (Strowger Type) automatic telephone exchanges in
the 1960's. The guy I worked for (then 60+) told me they first made
racks 19" to hold a given number of standard relays in a row. (Circa
1920)
Rod
-----Original Message-----
From: cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org
[mailto:cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Chuck Guzis
Sent: 01 May 2006 16:49
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: 19" Rack History
IIRC, 19" racks go back before WWII. I'll have to check one or two of
my
old electronics books, but my guess is that the size originiated in the
1920's.
Cheers,
Chuck
> From: Marvin Johnston
> Subject: MS-DOS 1.0/1.1
>
> I was just reading through the MSJ (May 1987) and it has an interesting
> article
> called "Evolution and History of MS-DOS" and some of it is quoted below.
> Does
> anyone know whatever happened to Tim Patterson? I never hear his name
> mentioned,
> and am just curious.
Tim has a web site with more information on MS-DOS
http://www.patersontech.com/
Michael Holley
www.swtpc.com/mholey
Okay, I'm hoping someone who knows a little more about dot matrix printers
than I can shed some light on this issue:
I have a LA50 printer that has a problem where when it prints, it shifts the
text about half a character too far to the right on the left-to-right pass,
and the same on the right-to-left pass. I tried adjusting the "align"
trimmer, but that didn't help.
Has anyone else seen this problem on an LA50, and is there a workable
solution to the problem?
Thanks
Julian
Hi,
Can anyone verify that this box (1976 vintage) also handles
8080's? I'm *sure* I had an 8080 "personality module" for
mine but I can't seem to find it (nor the overlay or the
pod).
(sigh) I've got to get this mess sorted out so finding
things is easier!
--don
Answer: Darned near everyone.
I'm trying to locate a game I used to play on my cousin's computer back in
the early 90s. The game is most likely older than this, but I can't say
how much. (The only other games on this machine was Test Drive (#1) and
some horrendous ASCII golf game)
The game was a top-down dungeon style game (As in the location, rather
than D&D or Zork association). The game used ASCII characters to build out
the 'map' that you walked through using the arrow guys to guide your
character, if memory serves an *, running into monsters and treasure and
the like.
I -think- the dungeon view only took up a portion of the screen, perhaps
the right-half only, and your view was fairly limited to a "if you were in
the dungeon this would be the extent of your eye line" sort of thing.
Pretty nifty.
Does this sound famaliar to anyone? A name would be great, a link would be
disco, and source code would be fascinating.
Thanks all for your hive-mind;
JP
"Gooijen, Henk" <henk.gooijen at oce.com> wrote:
>Ok, I will get to it right away, Johnny!
Good.
>I will see if you changed the hex numbers (back) to octal numbers :-)
Oops. No. I should do that... :-)
>Can somebody explain te difference between
>"VBGEXE ZEMU" and "VBGEXE" and then enter on the VBGEXE
>prompt the file name (ZEMU.SAV) ?
>Hi Johnny,
>
>I can not get access to ftp://ftp.update.uu.se/pub/pdp11/ ...
>anonymous is not accepting my e-mail addresses
>(gooiAToceDOTnl or henkDOTgooijenAToceDOTcom)
>and I do not know the guest account password ...
Weird. Hmm. There is no guest account. The anonymous account should
accept pretty much anything you throw at it as a password.
Try again?
Johnny
--
Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus
|| on a psychedelic trip
email: bqt at update.uu.se || Reading murder books
pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol
Oh, what the hell! I sent outside and dug the rest of the stuff out of
the car. Here's what I have:
6800/02/08, 65xx, 8085, Z-80 and 27xx (programmer?). Looks like a nice
collection of vintage stuff!
I have both pods and interface cards for each of them. In fact, this
stuff looks NEW! Most of it is still wrapped in foam plastic sheeting and
it's VERY clean.
Joe
At 05:06 PM 4/26/06 -0700, you wrote:
>Joe R. wrote:
>
>> Is anyone familar with this stuff? I picked up a pile of it a week or
>>two back. The pod that I'm looking at right now if for the 6800/02/08 but I
>>think the others are for other CPUs. Anyone know what system it's for? The
>>interface board uses the same type female connectors as the ss-50 stuff but
>>many more pins and much larger circuit card. I found some mentions on the
>>net but nothing useful.
>>
>> Joe
>>
>>
>>
>>
>I work for arium. What do you have? We are now American Arium, and
>I can at least find out what you have it you send photos or descriptions.
>
>I suspect maybe you either have an analyzer with some trace pods, or
>if you have run control, you may have an EZ/Pro system.
>
>Jim
>
I think the standard probably had its origins a bit further: My 1919
Westinghouse Catalogue lists control desks that have sections of 16,
20, 24, and 32" wide. The section was covered by a panel that spanned
the width of the cabinet - the equipment was intended to be mounted
on this panel. From the drawings it looks like the actual space
within the sections would be an inch or so less - the specifications
are a bit lacking. A 3'x20" rack with side panels ran $817.50!
