test-drb November 2007

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by aek＠bitsavers.org

> We've got a Tektronix 4051 with the optional Data Comms Interface and tons > of tape cartridges. As the belts in the Scotch/3M DC300 tapes are worn out > or torn I need to copy the contents 1:1 to other media. But how? I have a box of tapes from Jim Willing that I need to deal with as well. There was a GPIB version of the drive used in the 405x that I have. The service manual goes into more detail than the service manual for the main unit. I also have a couple of the bare drives and had intended to hook them up to the same sort of interface that I've been using to deal with other cassette media.

17 years, 4 months

Visual Technologies X terminal

by john＠guntersville.net

Is anyone on the list familiar with a Visual Technologies Xbase12 Xterminal? I have two base units but no documentation or software for them. John

17 years, 4 months

Commodore PET

by dm561＠torfree.net

Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2007 10:22:41 +0100 From: Jos Dreesen / Marian Capel <jos.mar at bluewin.ch> Subject: Re: Commodore PET <snip> >To think I left a chicklet keyboard pet in a dumpster, just a few years >ago. "Too much stuff, it's just a PET, I can always get another.." >Jos ------------ I probably put it there ;-) Just one of many things I dumpstered before I saw the light; the North Star and CDC terminal I tossed because I only wanted the desks, the Cromemco Z-2 because I only wanted the PS, the calcs I wanted the Nixies and core out of, the Selectric and Diablo printers, Burroughs L, F and E stuff because I figured no one would ever 'collect' one, etc. etc. Regrets, I've had a few... Fortunately I kept my original PET 'cause I was (and still am) using it occasionally. m

17 years, 4 months

Commodore PET

by dm561＠torfree.net

Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2007 20:24:38 +1300 From: Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at usap.gov> <snip> If someone tried to hack DRAMs in place on a static board, I'll bet that's a mess. I have a 2001-16N board with factory perforations on the high 16K RAM pads that I'd like to eventually reburbish to a full 32K. If you really are interested in finding someone who is willing/able to make that one live once again, I am entirely willing to give it a go. I don't have a shell here, but I already have a 3032 board on the way here >from Sweden, so I was planning on trying to build a keyboard adapter of some kind and an XOR-based composite-out adapter with a closed-circuit TV monitor to get it all working. Doing the same for an old PET wouldn't be that much of a stretch (I was planning on using a C2N232 adapter for mass storage, eliminating the need to send down a real floppy drive). -ethan --------Reply: I was going to do the same thing, sort of a PET in an AppleII-type case, but it'll never happen so you're welcome to it. I've also got a keyboard for it (the later version) and video's a no-brainer. I also have a case (no monitor) but I think I'll keep that in case I _do_ decide to do this one day with another less needy mobo. Mind you, the plug-in chips are missing, so by the time you've hacked in a 32K RAM chip and EPROM there wouldn't be much left of the original PET... We'll talk off-list. m

17 years, 4 months

Commodore PET

by dm561＠torfree.net

Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 22:36:27 -0800 (PST) From: Cameron Kaiser <spectre at floodgap.com> Subject: Re: Commodore PET >>> The last PET 2001 with the chiclet keyboard I bought cost me $35. >>> Clearly, there are bargains to be had. $150 is a fair price though. > >> Shhhh! >> I wanna find another Cameron that'll give me $900! >In all seriousness, I think it was worth it and I'm happy to have it. >Wouldn't drop that kind of coin on just anything. More power to ya, I say. The value of this kind of thing is purely subjective, depending solely on what it (and $900) are worth to *you*, and I too feel that there's something very special about that model and the community that grew up around it (especially here in Toronto, Commodore's birthplace and home of Jim Butterfield, TPUG, The Transactor, Batteries Included etc), as opposed to AppleIIs & R-S M1s. Remarkable that TPUG (Toronto PET Users' Group) is still around, and even with some of the original members (although scaled down somewhat from its glory days). Of course it was my 'first' and I have many warm memories and pictures of me and family playing with it, not to mention all the doodads & mods I made for it, so I'm somewhat biased. Then again, from the point of view of the 'collectors' on this list, it should be worth $0... m

17 years, 4 months

the Alpha Micro Phun Machine

by spectre＠floodgap.com

One line of systems I see very little about on the web or in vintage computing circles are the Alpha Microsystems units (not! DEC! Alpha!~). Now that I have my own Alpha Micro Eagle 300, I've compiled together most of my notes on various models, a primer to AMOS, some software and a link library and put the E300 into the server rack so that a real AMOS/AlphaTCP system can serve it itself. Hopefully this will be useful to other people who have been curious about Alpha Micro boxes. http://ampm.floodgap.com/ -- ------------------------------------ personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckaiser at floodgap.com -- I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph. -- Ken Kesey -------------

17 years, 4 months

HP Key Notes Available

by billdeg＠degnanco.com

The following items are outside of my sphere of interest, but I bet some on this list would be interested, so here goes... I have available for trade a complete set of the first few years of the HP Key Notes magazine: HP Key Notes 1977 Vol 1; numbers 1,2 (featuring the HP-01), and 3 HP Key Notes 1978 Vol 2; numbers 1,2,3,4 HP Key Notes 1979 Vol 3; numbers 1,2,3 Plus HP Key Notes 1981 Vol 5; numbers 1, 3 and "The Hewlett-Packard Personal Calculator Digest" magazine Volume Three 1977. Cover HP-19C and HP 67/97 User's Library Catalog of contributed programs (not the programs themselves) with program submittal worksheets If interested, contact me via billdeg at aol dot com or my web site, vintagecomputer.net. I would consider almost any reasonable trade

17 years, 4 months

Commodore PET

by doc＠mdrconsult.com

Is it worth $150? Just curious, since I saw one today with that price tag on it. Looked to be complete, at least. Doc

17 years, 4 months

[personal] cctalk Digest, Vol 51, Issue 25 message 28

by mike＠brickfieldspark.org

> My PET 2001-32N (badged as a 3032 in Europe) was $1195 with a C2N and no > disk... > > I got a lot of miles out of that PET. I still have it and it still > fires up (but I think I have an IEEE problem that may turn out to be > cruddy 40-pin sockets on the VLSI I/O chips). > Way back when, the company bought a 2032 for stock control and invoicing, used for 5 years or so. After about a year it continually needed opening up and the chips reseating, got so frustrated with this that we replaced ALL the Ic sockets with "turned pin" types and never had anymore problems with that machine ever again. Mike

17 years, 4 months

Televideo Terminals TS-800A??? (UK)

by james＠attfield.co.uk

> From: "Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com> > Subject: Re: Televideo Terminals TS-800A (UK) > To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" > <cctalk at classiccmp.org> > Message-ID: <47323EAB.24181.81E5663 at cclist.sydex.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > > On 7 Nov 2007 at 21:25, Roger Ivie wrote: > > > I've not encountered a TS-800, but I was under the impression > that they were > > diskless workstations for use with something like a TS-806 MMMOST > > server. > > According to the Russian televideo.ru site, the TS-800 is a sump > pump: > > http://www.televideo.ru/product.asp?idDepartament=216&idProduct=11357& > cas=9 > > My recollection of the TS-800A was a diskless Z80 workstation, > interfaced via RS-422 (IIRC). > > Cheers, :) > Chuck Hehe - nice pump lol. I have asked for confirmation of the exact model number so we can be sure. Apologies for any confusion. Herewith a link to an image which may help to identify same. http://www.attfield.co.uk/gallery/tv.jpg Jim

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test-drb November 2007