test-drb January 2007

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by rick＠companje.nl

Hello Don, I just read your forum post from 2002 regarding a bootdisk image (MS-DOS v2.11) for the Sanyo MBC 555. Can you please send me a copy by email? I'm running 1.25. Do you know what kind of software is available for this machine besides Basic, Wordstar and Calcstar? Regards, Rick Companje

17 years, 11 months

eBay idiocy

by sellam＠vintagetech.com

M H Stein said: > I suspect that if he really did give eBay a run for its money and > someone offered him a bag full of money (not so ridiculous these days), > he just might say yes. Yeah, you know what? Under the right conditions I probably would, because I just can't see myself still running something like that when I'm your age. -- Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org [ Old computing resources for business || Buy/Sell/Trade Vintage Computers ] [ and academia at www.VintageTech.com || at http://marketplace.vintage.org ]

17 years, 11 months

Jules Richardson wrote on "Digital Archaeology of the Microcomputer, 1974-1994

by Billy.Pettit＠wdc.com

William Donzelli wrote: OK, Mr. Curmudgeon, what can you tell us kids about the CDC Mass Store System? I got a couple of cartridges in the mail today from a buddy that used to be in the supercomputer business. Nearly everything on the web is about the IBM noodlepicker. -- Will ------------------------ Sorry, but I never worked on it. Saw it in action a few times and was fascinated with the picker arm moving so fast over the honeycomb. I don't believe a lot were sold. I saw one status report that only had 18 of them world wide. There may have been more sold, but I doubt it. The lack of compatibility with legacy tapes was a huge detractor. Pople who needed big tape libraries already had thousands of tapes and didn't want to convert them one by one. I do know that they were great job security. It required a full time field engineer. Don't think I have a manual on it, though I may have some Sales literature. I'll check the controlfreaks twiki and see if any info is there. Billy

17 years, 11 months

VCM idiocy

by sellam＠vintagetech.com

> Ooh, good one. I'll bet he STILL feels that. Oh jeez, shut up already. > Starting a business is hard work, and success is difficult. Right, but what would you know about this, Donald Trump? > (By the way, while I feel it inappropriate for the list, or any other > civilized or pseudo-civilized discussion, anyone who wishes to see the > e-mail exchange between Sellam and myself should e-mail me off-list, and > I will be happy to send them a copy.) By all means, please do. But why not just post it here for all to see? It doesn't fall below the level of your Tourettes-induced outburst. -- Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org [ Old computing resources for business || Buy/Sell/Trade Vintage Computers ] [ and academia at www.VintageTech.com || at http://marketplace.vintage.org ]

17 years, 11 months

dovebid is a good source for wire racks/shelving

by legalize＠xmission.com

FYI, There are scads of lots up there right now... dunno what they will sell for, but I'm guessing lots cheaper than the several hundred you would have to pay for these new. If you're not local to the sale location, you'll have to add shipping, but they are light and when disassembled can be shipped rather easily by a company like Craters & Freighters. -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 draft available for download <http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/download/index.html> Legalize Adulthood! <http://blogs.xmission.com/legalize/>

17 years, 11 months

Need help Imsai Floppy disk system

by keith＠harrells.net

I now have a working Imsai now need to try to get the 8" Imsai floppy sub system working. I have a number of floppy disk controller but no Imsai FD controller. I have Cromemco 4fdc, Cromemco 64fdcCromemco 16fdc, dual systems FDC and some CCS fdc. I'm not sure of the cable connection from the Imsai disk to the controllers. I had heard the Caldisk pin out is not the same as the Shugart I do have CP/M working on another 64k Imsai using the CCS controller for 8" shugart and a Northstar controller for 5 1/4". Has anyone gotten the old Imsai drive working using CP/M? Thanks.

17 years, 11 months

Lilith (was Archiving workstation hard drives)

by aek＠bitsavers.org

> Early Liliths use a 10MB Cartridge drive from Honeywell/Bull ( Mididisk > D120) I did not find any info on this drive Are copies of the hardware documentation around anywhere that could be copied/scanned for the system? I've searched the CHM archives, and we don't appear to have anything other than the user's manual (which I've put up on bitsavers) It would be nice to find this, since we have a Lilith.

17 years, 11 months

Looking for OS/278 to boot up a DECmate I

by ethan.dicks＠gmail.com

Hello, fellow 12-bitters, I know this has been discussed recently (as in, "how can I boot my DECmate?"), but IIRC, the "easiest" way to get OS/278 to a DECmate I is by copying a boot floppy and putting it in the mail. Can anyone on the list assist me with this? I have NOS blank RX01s, so I can do a diskette swap, or a mail-and-return, or whatever arrangement is required; but at the moment, I have no way to hang an 8" floppy off of modern hardware, so I'm pretty much limited to solutions that are based on 100% DEC and DEC-compatible hardware. All I have for my DECmate I is WPS-8, not all that interesting, frankly. One of my goals, BTW, is to snarfle off images of my PDP-8 RX01 and RX02 disks for preservation and sharing. I have a few boxes of disks from the 1978-1985 timeframe, up to the time I stopped using a PDP-8 on a daily/weekly basis. Thanks for any assistance, -ethan

17 years, 11 months

Archiving workstation hard drives

by legalize＠xmission.com

OK, suppose you have a workstation and it has stuff installed on its drives. You don't have the original distribution media for the OS and any installed applications and you don't have a spare system with the same stuff installed. What's the best way to make a backup of the entire hard drive so that the essential software doesn't get lost? The drives are SCSI. -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 draft available for download <http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/download/index.html> Legalize Adulthood! <http://blogs.xmission.com/legalize/>

17 years, 11 months

eBay idiocy

by dm561＠torfree.net

Sellam: I'm sorry you took my reply (and others) as a "personal assault" and yes, perhaps I should have prefaced them with a paean to your indeed considerable contributions to the CC community; I did NOT say that you are "only" in it for the money, nor do I see any problem with your generating income that helps defray your costs and/or puts $$s in your pocket. More power to ya! I was just reminding Evan ("The man just wants some reassurance that his time and hard work will be appreciated. What's wrong with that? More people in our hobby should be that devoted!") that money was also a factor: >But first I want to take the time to congratulate the community for the >big fuck you they gave to the VCM. It has always been the intention that >we would start charging at some point for using it, but we never got to >that point. I wasn't offended by your language per se, but by the contempt and lack of consideration it expresses for the members of this list and the fact that you are blaming us for the VCM not becoming a viable revenue generator. I thought I was also offering you what I thought was constructive criticism, that perhaps your time and energy might be better spent in promoting VCM instead of alienating at least some of your potential customers by ranting at us for not beating a path to your door . FWIW, the same thing happened between you and me back when we were talking about some things I was going to send you; your talking to me in the same manner made me decide that I didn't really care to deal with you. But if it works for you to alienate people, good luck to ya. mike cc: Sellam

17 years, 11 months

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