----------Original message
From: Don <THX1138 at dakotacom.net>
Subject: Votrax TNT, PSS, et al. "bricks"
Hi,
Has anyone reverse engineered any of these products
requiring *external* power supplies (bricks)? E.g.,
*not* the VS6.x devices but, rather, the "consumer-ish"
devices mentioned in the subject line?
I have several and wonder if the different models share
a common power supply design. Or, if I'll have to
disembowel a few of them to sort it all out.
Thanks!
--don
----------Reply:
Coincidentally, I've got a VSS on the desk in front of me
without a PS and was just investigating the same thing.
There was a post here a while back very helpfully listing
the pins & voltages (20VDC & 28VAC IIRC); I believe it also
said that the PSs were _not_ the same for various different
models.
Let me know what you find pls.
TNX,
mike
I have to crow a little about this... There was an auction last
week of Ohio Scientific literature on ebay. I looked at it and,
at first, I thought I had everything in the lot. Then I looked
again and realized that I didn't recognize the little (difficult
to see) pamphlet in the upper right corner of the lot photo. I
thought about it for a few days and wondered whether it could be
one of their first pamphlets. I decided "what the heck" I'll
bid if it doesn't get too expensive. Well, I won the lot. It
just arrived today and sure enough that little pamphlet is one of
the first (if not the first) ad pamphlets from OSI. It introduces
the original Challenger (no 1, 2, etc.) available with 6502 or 6800
processors, the original Superboard (Model 400, not the SuperboardII
Model 600) and the Model 300 6502 trainer with the Superboard
upgrade program (buy a fully assembled Model 300, keep it for up
to two months and then trade it in for a Model 400 kit).
Happy, happy, happy!
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I have not looked into these, but AEA makes packet stuff for ham
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small.
--
Will
--- William Donzelli <wdonzelli at gmail.com> wrote:
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re
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> people here that like to post off topic threads, o
r
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ne
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> --
> Will
>
Sheesh.
All you had to do was say a line or two, but no
you had to write several paragraphs rambling
on.
Also, the main point of me posting, this IS
CCtalk, that is designed to cover *on topic*
AND *off topic* posts, so why all this fuss.
If you wanted *on topic* posts ONLY then why
didn't you sign up for CCtech, which only
deals with *on topic* posts.
If his reply was to cctech and was sent to us
cctalk members, then I apologise. If that was
the case then perhaps cctech members should
be asked (or nudged) onto the cctalk list?
Regards,
Andrew B
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Hi,
Has anyone reverse engineered any of these products
requiring *external* power supplies (bricks)? E.g.,
*not* the VS6.x devices but, rather, the "consumer-ish"
devices mentioned in the subject line?
I have several and wonder if the different models share
a common power supply design. Or, if I'll have to
disembowel a few of them to sort it all out.
Thanks!
--don
---------Original message:
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 13:32:30 -0400
From: "Evan Koblentz" <evan at snarc.net>
Subject: RE: Age cutoff, was: Recommendations for operating system
But communities like the web forum at www.vintage-computer.com/vcforum
and the group blog at http://community.livejournal.com/vintagecomputer/ are growing faster than classiccmp, at least to my perception. Why?
---------Reply:
The elitism and inflexibility seen in the current discussion perhaps?
More dross on the pile...
m
> A Google
> search for a specific item will show hits on the vcforum and most likely the
> livejournal site you listed, but nothing would come up for an email list.
classiccmp.org archives all of the mail through a web interface (which is
how I QUICKLY scan over all the drek, I NEVER actually receive it as mail)
and Google picks posting here just fine, thank you.
At 7:25 -0500 8/28/06, cctalk-request at classiccmp.org wrote:
>I am looking for suggestions for an operating system for a PC, specs 75
>MHZ Pentium, 16 MB Ram, 4 GB HD, currently running PC-DOS Ver 7.
Depending very heavily on what motherboard, video card, etc. you
have, NeXTStep 3.3. 16MB is thinner than what you'd like, but 4 G
hard drive is fine and if the disk is fast enough, swap should not be
a horrible problem.
--
- Mark
Cell Phone: 210-379-4635
office: 210-522-6025
Look at BeOS Max or BeOS DevEd. Good, fast OSes, and downloadable freely. Application availability is somewhat on
the spotty end, though.
OS/2 (not sure about the UNIX environment) doesn't come with headers/compilers, and IBM doesn't sell the devel
kit anymore (and it was very pricy when they did). I think you can get StarOffice, though.
