I hooked up with Bill P this week and picked up the
VT180 he was offering on this list and on the MARCH
list. It's in my kitchen right now awaiting check-in.
I seem to remember that a few weeks back some kind
soul had offered to provide software for the machine.
Does that offer still hold good and can I ask whoever
it was to contact me please ?
Thanks,
-Dave
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hi Dan
It has two DB9 connectors.
regards
Henry
---- On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, Dan Williams (williams.dan at gmail.com)
wrote:
> On 19/06/06, Henry Ji <ying6926 at ureach.com> wrote:
> > I have a
> > DEC microvax 1000 with
> >
> > Matrox QG-640 card (1985). Does anyone know what matching
monitor it would work with? I tried
> Matrox but no luck. VGA came out around 1987. Could this be a
EGA card? Does G-640 means monochrom
> 640 resolution? I googled internet and I see QRGB card. Analog
VGA graphics card?
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > Henry
> >
> >
> >
> Is it the one with just a phono socket. I think this just
connects to
> a video monitor. Should work if you plug in to your tv. If
it's the
> one I'm thinking of it is monochrome.
>
> Dan
>
>
Top posting makes sense in a number of instances, and just because something is
the "norm" does not make it appropriate in all cases. When responding to a
number of issues in a single post, top posting may be considered dumb, but when
basically responding to one issue, top posting is appropriate.
Top posting does NOT foul up the order people normally read text since prior
messages have all the details and makes it far easier to follow the flow of an
online conversation. If someone has a faulty memory, then the memory joggers can
be found in the text below the post.
I get far more annoyed at:
1) long posts with one liners inserted someplace.
2) not trimming out parts of a message not being responded to.
3) not changing the subject line to reflect the content.
4) not putting a space between the portion of the message being responded to,
and the comments.
The whole object of posting is communication, and the form used should be in a
manner best suited to promote that communication.
> From: David Griffith <dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu>
> I'm not an old fart and I consider top posting a Rude Thing...
>
> A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text.
> Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
> A: Top-posting.
> Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
Hi there - someone suggested your group might be able to help with the
following:
Based on the fact that my www.DIYCalculator.com
<http://www.diycalculator.com/> website has a paper on the history of paper
tapes and punched cards, someone just sent me an email asking if I knew
where they could purchase a paper tape punch/reader with the following
specs:
Punching Speeds up to 75 char/sec
Reading speeds up to 400 char/sec
LAN Interface
Power 220 VAC +- 20%, 50 +- 10 Hz
The LAN interface requirement would indicate a modern product (I'm assuming
that these little rascals may still occasionally be found in some "noisy"
industrial settings). If not, someone suggested interfacing it to a PC and
linking the PC to the LAN.
But more to the point, I'd quite like one myself for nostalgia's sake (I
know, I know, "nostalgia isn't what it used to be" -- these are the jokes
the Muppet Show refused).
But we digress ... do you have any ideas?
Cheers -- Max
======================================
Clive "Max" Maxfield
495 Production Ave, Suite A
Madison, Al 35758, USA
Tel: +1-256-319-0257 (or 0255 or 0258)
======================================
urgh, a software question :-) I need to write some X Windows code (X11R5, so
it makes the ten year rule!). Nothing fancy - no GUI needed, just pixel ops on
the root window.
Does anyone have any pointers to good online tutorials / other resources?
I think the last time I coded anything specifically for X was around the time
R5 was released, so memory is rather hazy, and I don't think I've got any
paper-based info here at home.
cheers!
Jules
I'm trying to pare down the junkpile (cf. other recent posts), and I've come across the scanner cache.
I have a Umax Astra 2400 and a HP ScanJet 6100c, both SCSI. I'm not sure which one to keep.
Originally, the Umax had the (infinitely) better Macintosh interface, but the HP spoke to
SGI Impressario software. Now with SANE et al (and USB on modern Macs) I don't need both.
Which would be the better to keep?
footnote: I got the ComputerVision manual scanned (the CV specific one, the other two were just
standard SunOS manuals. I gave up after the second one started jamming in the copier.)
> I just got an older Mac Powerbook (540c) and I'm trying to get
>some basic stuff on it (Iomega ZIP, various expander programs, Netscape,
>System 7.5.3, etc.) and frequently I'm getting errors from the installer
>programs that there is no floating point coprocessor installed.
SANE should trap these and route them to emulator routines for most programs. For the remainder, see below.
I'd question your SSW installation if you're getting errors often for "standard" stuff. Mathematica and raytrace programs yes
(A/UX definitely- but that won't run on a PB anyway) Netscape, StuffIt, etc. shoud not need one.
7.5.5 or (even better) 7.6.1 would be a better choice for SSW. In my dim recollection, 7.5.3 was a buggy release.
7.1 was pretty good if you wanted to go older.
> OK, that's fine, but has anyone run through these traps before?
>What software can I not install on a 68k Mac (68LC040) with no FPU?
get SoftwareFPU and try it. Some LC040s have a bug that interferes with its operation, some do not.
A quick trick to see if there should be a problem is to try to run the software on a PPC Mac - the 68k emulation
is LC040 (no FPU). I'm not sure how the PB540 does the CPU - desktop Macs had them socketed, so you could drop in
a full 040
Just wondering if anyone on the list was able to rescue the DG Eclipse and
Tape Drive on Government Liquidation, I didn't want a scrapper to get it?
,George Wiegand
ICS65 at SBCglobal.net
All:
I just got an older Mac Powerbook (540c) and I'm trying to get
some basic stuff on it (Iomega ZIP, various expander programs, Netscape,
System 7.5.3, etc.) and frequently I'm getting errors from the installer
programs that there is no floating point coprocessor installed.
OK, that's fine, but has anyone run through these traps before?
What software can I not install on a 68k Mac (68LC040) with no FPU?
Rich
Rich Cini
Collector of classic computers
Lead engineer, Altair32 Emulator
Web site: <http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/~rcini/classiccmp/>
http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/~rcini/classiccmp/
Web site: http://www.altair32.com/
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