Several Qualstar 1054s that I have used an OEM bridge
board from NCR. Later drives used a Qualstar design.
Does anyone have the manual for the NCR board? No obvious
part number on them..
>
>
> Message: 5
> Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 10:12:03 -0700
> From: Richard <legalize at xmission.com>
> Subject: Re: Strange things found in a free SPARC 20
> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
> <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
> Message-ID: <E1H92iB-0006EE-00 at xmission.xmission.com>
>
>
> In article <45B4DDBC.5080303 at gmail.com>,
> Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> [...] Did Sun ever make an
>> accelerated 24-bit card?
>
> Yes, they made a bunch of different 3D accelerators during the 90s
> (and most likely beyond, but I haven't been attending SIGGRAPH often
> enough to say for sure). Ironically, they didn't start making good 3D
> accelerators until they hired ex-Evans & Sutherland engineers. I can
> concur that working at E&S was good training in 3D! They really knew
> their engineering, its such a shame that marketing and management were
> utter failures.
> --
> "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 draft available for
> download
> <http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/download/index.html>
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There was, I believe, something that could be paired with a CG9 in the
Sun-3/early Sun-4 days. Ah yes, here it is: the GP2 graphics processor.
VME based, with Weitek engines.
Then there was the Leo/ZX option for SBUS.
Can't tell you anything about performance of either of these two.
With the introduction of the UPA bus things got better: Sun introduced
Creator/Creator3d and Elite3d. Of course, none of these graphics could
touch what SGI was putting out, but it was a valiant attempt. Creator3d
used the SPARC for geometry but had onboard Z-buffer calculations,
Elite3d had a full graphics pipeline but not much texture cache.
Can't say anything about the really off-topic stuff for the current
machines.
MSX machines were mainly home machines, no? I doubt
too many homies were buying 286s in 85-6. And is
MSX-dos? kinda like c/pm?
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In the summer of 1961, I worked on a computer made by CCC (California
Computer Co. ?) It used a magneto-resistive delay line for main memory.
The model number was SPEC, which stood for Special Purpose Educational
Computer. It was aimed at computer training in the military (I was in the
Army at the time). It was a small sub-desk size computer, certainly not a
mini. Only had 128 words of meory.
I thought my memory was betraying me until I recently found a brochure that
has a poor picture of it. And I found one of my coding sheets from the
class. But that's all.
Does any one on the list have anything else? Would love to see more
pictures or a schematic. How about a manual?
Or even more basic - has anyone else even heard of it?
Billy
William Maddox wrote:
3C must have made several kinds of trainers. I have
a brochure for a large trainer with an oversized
front panel, as if it were deliberately enlarged to
allow a lecturer to present it to a classroom.
Unfortunately, it is only a brochure -- no manual
or schematics. I can scan it and send you a copy,
though.
--Bill
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I'd love to have a scan of it. Even if it is a different model, it helps
bring back memories. after years of looking, I was beginning to doubt my
memories.
Billy
> Hi Robo,
>
> I saw an old email from you, do you still have any of the VLS96 emulators for sale? I want to
> start learning about this chip.
Could we change the list such that the replies to emails older than a year
don't get reposted to the list?
Clearly people don't realize that they are not replying to an individual when
they come upon some ancient message (ex. the recent posting directed to Don Maslin).
One of them is a Quantum Q280 and a couple of the other drives are
also made by Quantum.
These are drives that were accompanying the Eves but not attached
internally.
Doesn't that imply that these Eves have been upgraded to a SCSI bus
>from what the Lilith had?
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Dear All,
I have a Epson Tractor Unit #8304 V that I would like to lose. It is
currently in Swindon UK. However it can be in Bristol, Bath, Oxford,
Cheltenham, Bletchley or London if required.
Unit is free. I am happy to put it in the post providing I get
reimbursed postage.
Thanks.
Simon
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philosophers and theologians: the prime concern of an engineer is
the utility of the final product."
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