test-drb January 2007

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by sellam＠vintagetech.com

Does anyone have a Nokia 9000 (not 9000i) or HP OmniGo 700? Oh yeah? Want to sell them? ;) Please reply directly to me as I am not subscribed to the list. sellam at vintagetech.com Thanks! Happy New Year all! -- 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 ]

18 years, 2 months

Old DEC Software and Hardware Manuals

by frajkp＠netscape.net

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18 years, 2 months

wtd: Televideo TS-1603 (TS-803 lookalike)

by chrism3667＠yahoo.com

but has an 8088 instead of the z80. Preferably the color model, but monochrome is nice too. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

18 years, 2 months

Manchester Baby.

by austin＠ozpass.co.uk

Hello all! I?m a long time ?list lurker? but felt it was perhaps time to contribute. I?ve just spent the morning being shown a working replica of the Manchester Small-Scale Experimantal Machine (SSEM), also commonly referred to as the ?Manchester Baby?. It?s located in the ?1830 Warehouse? at the Manchester Museum of Science and Industry. One of the curators is (by lucky chance) my Uncle Michael and he?s personally written a number of programs for this old beast. The replica is fantastic, with incredible attention to period detail. For example, the switchgear is proper 1940?s vintage (salvaged from RAF aircraft) and the frames upon which the replica is built are from former GPO telecoms exchanges. Apparently the donor of said frames was using them to prevent his garden subsiding into a nearby river! The computer itself, for anyone unaware of it is regarded as the world?s first stored program computer. It ran its first program on June 21st 1948, jointly designed by Frederic C. Williams and Tom Kilburn at the University of Manchester, UK. The stored memory is in the form of a ?Williams Tube? - a cathode ray tube capable of storing 32 X 32bit words. It?s an extremely limited bit of kit (as one might imagine!) with an instruction set of only 7, and no adder (addition achieved by negating numbers during their move to the accumulator). It?s a great exhibit if anyone?s in this part of the world on a Tuesday with nothing to do. No charge for entry into the museum. Here are some informative links, including a beautifully crafted ?Manchester Baby Emulator? (in Java). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Baby http://www.computer50.org/ http://www.davidsharp.com/baby/index.html Regards, Austin. P.S. The guys at the museum have hooked it up to a PC, so that programs written on the emulator can be loaded into the baby to be run. Does this qualify it as the world?s most ancient add-on / peripheral / co-processor? ;-)

18 years, 2 months

rt-11 Documentation

by williams.dan＠gmail.com

I'm sure someone on the list asked a while back, but I couldn't find it. I have the complete rt-11 docs printed out. They are too heavy to post but can be picked up from here (Soho UK). Dan

18 years, 2 months

HP 2100A vs. 2100S

by jdbryan＠acm.org

Would anyone know the difference between a 2100A and a 2100S? Is it just packaging (such as, e.g., the "13246A Printer Subsystem," which was simply a 9866A printer and a 2640A terminal duplex card that were sold together)? Or is there something fundamentally different in the hardware? -- Dave

18 years, 2 months

USB 5.25" floppy (was: laptops and 5.25 inch floppy drives?)

by aek＠bitsavers.org

> Essentially a USB version of the Catweasel??? That's exactly what it is. A flux-tranistion interface daughter card for a fpga4fun SAXO board (USB2 chip and Altera FPGA). http://www.fpga4fun.com/board_Xylo.html This is probably similar to what the Device Side Data board is, but the intention that I have is to make the entire design, including the tool chain and host/device side code freely available. The tape wizl is a multichannel preamp and A/D converter attached to the same board. Cost could be driven down by designing a single board, but right now I'm only worrying about the boards needed for tape/disc interfacing.

18 years, 2 months

USB 5.25" floppy (was: laptops and 5.25 inch floppy drives?)

by aek＠bitsavers.org

Link to a possible USB 5.25" floppy drive: http://silme.pair.com/~goldman/deviceside/ -- I spoke to him at VCF, and was unimpressed by how closed he intends to keep the HW/SW. A USB floppy interface will be part of the fallout from the 'wizl' development that I'm doing, though the hardware is going to be in the $100+ range. http://bitsavers.org/tools/wizl/diskwizl/ I'm going to spend this next quarter concentrating on developing the wizl. Was looking back and it's been six years since I started looking at getting an analog 7-track tape reader running, and I need to get this project finished.

18 years, 2 months

Yet another bounty: CompuServe software ($$$)

by sellam＠vintagetech.com

Hey All. Does anyone have this software by chance? Compuserv professional connection plus. Message management with forms. Compuserv, Inc. 1988 (PC3-Mail System) If so, it's worth some bucks to you. Please contact me directly (I'm not subscribed and won't get replies here). Thanks! -- 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 ]

18 years, 2 months

USB 5.25" floppy (was: laptops and 5.25 inch floppy drives?)

by Watzman＠neo.rr.com

Link to a possible USB 5.25" floppy drive: http://silme.pair.com/~goldman/deviceside/

18 years, 2 months

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