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
I have:
a set of Personal IRIS TFLU (totally front loading unit) skins
a Personal IRIS power supply
a GIO-64 (Indigo2) Extreme Graphics boardset
IRIS Indigo (CMNB003) drive sled, original SGI
Indy R5k/XL8
Indigo2 IMPACT R10000
all in the Renton/Seattle area. Let me know if interested
I have a Tek model 555 dual beam scope with 2 dual trace plugins (4 traces total).
Hasn't been used in a while, needs a cleaning. Includes manual, no probes.
Be nice to trade for something electronicsy or computerish, but will take
other offers, since it could use a home where it would be appreciated more.
Renton/Seattle area
Offiicially, the license does transfer with the machine, but is for a specific version (e.g. 6.2 or 4D1-2.0)
Perhaps current practice has changed at SGI, but one of my machines came with a license for MIPSpro C/C++ 7.2.1, and they told me so at SGI
(so it doesn't seem to expire). The problem is finding that version . . . you see more 7.3's around now.
> From: Sean Conner <spc at conman.org>
> But that
> aside, I can only think of a few that did not rely upon punctuation that
> much. COBOL is one (although I don't know it well enough to say).
When Grace Hopper spoke at one of the National Computer Conference
Founder's Days, she mentioned some things about COBOL syntax
that I thought were rather insightful. She said there are two kinds of
people in the world. There are those of us who are basically
mathematicians, and we like to replace words with symbols. Then
there are the non-mathematicians who want to describe symbols
in words. COBOL was created for the latter group.
BLS
Hans Franke asked questions about this early machine 3 years ago. (Okay!!!
I'm a little behind. Been going through the archives to catch up.)
Hans, if you are still interested, I can help you. I knew the designer,
have a lot of his other projects, such as a casette interface for the EBKA.
And if I can find it in the garage, I have a virgin PCB, the color layout,
the memory extension, the 1702 programmer and so on. Was a very interesting
project. I had mine running before I had a KIM, though I'm not certain who
was first. It was close.
Roger also designed the PAIA 8700, another sadly neglected early 650X
project.
Billy
I'm riding in with Jim Stephens to tomorrow's TRW swap meet. We plan on
meeting Marvin Johnson and talk about classic computers. Would love to meet
any list members or any other collectors who can make it. We will meet at
Marvin's site, and maybe go to lunch after the meeting.
If anyone else in the LA Basin or Orange County can make it, here is the
site url: http://www.fleamarketguide.com/ca.htm#Redondo%20Beach
And this is where Marvin will be parked:
Each row has a letter identification, and each space is numbered. G22/G24 is
in
the row labeled G, and there is usually a stand selling drinks/donuts/hot
dogs/etc. at the foot of row G. I'll either have a Dodge white van with a
lot of
paint missing or a blue Mazda van with "Schwendtner Piano" along with a
drawing
of a piano keyboard on the side.
Since it is open from 7:00 to 11:00 AM with no sales permitted after 11:30
AM,
we usually start packing up about 11 and leave about 11:15.
Hope to see you there.
Billy Pettit
> Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2006 10:15:50 -0500
> From: "Al Kossow" <aek at bitsavers.org>
> Subject: Versados 4.3 floppy images
> IMD images for Versados 4.3 are up now under bits/Motorola on bitsavers.
> The floppy in the VME/10 is 96TPI (TEAC 55F series)
Can IMD recreate these DSQD 720KB diskettes using a DSHD (1.2MB) drive?
If not, then I am willing to pay to have someone make these disks for me.
--
Paul R. Santa-Maria
Temperance, Michigan USA
Yeah, this is OT -- *except* in my hope that perhaps some
*vintage* language might fit the bill...
Most modern programming languages rely extensively on
punctuation in their syntax. Many older languages
weren't quite as aggressive -- or *expressive*. Or,
could shed the use of some punctuation for minor
tradeoffs in programming style. E.g., an explicit statement
delimiter can be "made redundant" by using an IMPLICIT
delimiter (like a newline).
If you accept *classic* operators represented by punctuation
(e.g., infix binary operators) as intuitive special cases,
it seems that many of the other operators could be done
away with in procedural languages...
*EXCEPT* parenthesis/brackets/braces (!) (ignoring, for
the time, the lisp dialects that are obsessed with them :> )
So, the question: are (were) there any useful languages
designed that did not rely heavily on punctuation in their
syntax? It almost seems an inconsistency -- older languages
tended to be skimpy in their syntax (e.g., short identifiers,
global scope, etc.) which would suggest that punctuation
exploits would be MORE valuable to them.
--don
