The second or third weekend in Sep;t. I might be going on a trip whhich will
take me thru N IL, parts of WI, and close to Minn/St. Paul, MN. If you have
any interest in any DEC equipment, including cabinets, disk drives, and PDP
8's, ll's or anything else, I may be able to bring it and eitaher drop off
or meet you at a mutual meeting area.
Please feel free to contact me off list
Thanks,
Paul Anderson
(217) 586-5361)
>
I have a Compaq Portable III here, worked the last time it was powered
(years ago), may or may not still work. I also have a file called
"SP0316.ZIP" that contains "SP0316.exe" which, I THINK, is a utility
(service pack) that makes the setup disk for the Portable III. However, it
needs to run on a PC with a 360k 5.25" floppy drive.
I THINK.
Just a thought on this subject -- do pretty many of these boxes have that
_fuse_ that I've seen mention of in some contexts, which would kill the +5V
to the keyboard if the old one had that bad of a cable?
Something that may end up needing to consider here, depending o how bad that
original cable was.
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ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can
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I think this one is on-topic. I got a Compaq Portable III dumped on my
doorstep (more or less literally, actually), and while I don't really
collect PCs, this one's form factor fascinated me. However, it seems like
it's failing POST or its equivalent -- when I turn it on, the caps lock
light on the keyboard (literally hanging on by a few threads) blinks, then
the three lights on the front bezel and the 5.25" floppy light blink three
times accompanied by three beeps from what appears to be the …
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and it just sits there, doing three beeps pause three beeps pause ..., until
I turn it off.
Nothing else spins up and nothing shows on the screen, even with me messing
with the contrast. Any suggestions, or is there a troubleshooting manual to
give me some starting points to see if I can refurbish this? Is the fact that
the keyboard is probably incompletely connected to blame?
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Ray,
There is a good list of AT commands at
http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kdenetwork/kppp/appendix-hayes-commands.html
The ATI9 will return the Apple product code and firmware version of the
modem.
Check out http://www.tidbits.com/iskm/modems.html#aa7 for the Apple/Hayes AT
commands.
-Darin
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 13:15:16 -0400
From: Ray Arachelian <ray at arachelian.com>
Subject: Anyone have an Apple Modem 1200 or 300 manual?
To: cctech at classiccmp.org
Message-ID: <44E74724.…
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I'm wondering if this was a Hayes compatible modem, and if so what the
result strings were for various commands such as just "AT" by itself,
and "ATI", "ATI0" and so on.
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I'm hoping someone can ID this interesting board (sorry, no pix avail).
16Bit ISA (full-length)
DB25S Connector
20pin header socket
10 pos DIP SW
10 seg green LED bar graph
3 sets of jumper pins
80186 CPU
2 x XC2064 XILINX FPGAs
Pair of IDC 7130/7140 (1Kx16 dual-port memory)
2 x 256x8 SIPPs
C8208 DRAM controller
2 x 27256 EPROMs
2 x DS1225Y BBU SRAM
2 x LH0033 Fast FET buffers (12 pin metal cans)
Misc 74LS & F glue chips
Nothing recognizable in the EPROMS or SRAMS; 1 EPROM
is blank (…
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Ring any bells with anyone, or time to scrap for parts?
mike
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On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 17:22:43 -0700, jim stephens
<jwstephens at msm.umr.edu> wrote:
> William Donzelli wrote:
>
>>> There were a lot of good ideas in the iAPX432, anybody knows, if
>>> they
>>> actually were used on any OS ?
>>
>>
>> AS/400. Properly.
>>
> can you elaborate, or point to a web page? thanks
I wasn't aware that Intel had anything to do with the AS/400
architecture :-)
The iAPX432 was an interesting Intel …
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provided the tools to layout subsequent Intel devices.
<http://www.brouhaha.com/~eric/retrocomputing/intel/iapx432/> is a
good read on the beast.
An detailed overview of the architecture: <http://
www.cs.washington.edu/homes/levy/capabook/Chapter9.pdf>
(Part of an interesting book on Capability-Based Computer Systems - a
whole other thread... <http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/levy/
capabook/>)
I remember salivating over the chip system when it came out until I
got sticker shock.
CRC
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I'm wondering if this was a Hayes compatible modem, and if so what the
result strings were for various commands such as just "AT" by itself,
and "ATI", "ATI0" and so on.
>
>Subject: data sheet for com5025
> From: "dwight elvey" <dkelvey at hotmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 07:45:45 -0700
> To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
>
>
>Hi
>Does anyone have a pointer to a data sheet for a com5025? I believe
>it to be a synchronous serial chip but I've not found much on the web.
>I think it is compatable with a 2652 but the only thing I can find on that
>is a 16 bit part from Philips. I don't think this is a 16 bit …
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>Thanks
>Dwight
>
It's a multiprotocal universal synchronous reciever/tranmitter [USYNR/T]
and it's wade by SMC and show in their 82/83 databook and later. It's
an 8/16 bit bus device, selectable.
Allison
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