test-drb May 2007

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by sethm＠loomcom.com

Hello folks, Yesterday I drove down to Glendale California to pick up my Friden Flexowriter. It's in fairly good shape, but will definitely need some serious TLC before I even think about plugging it in. I've put up some initial photos here (caution: the thumbnails link to very large files). http://www.loomcom.com/junk/friden/friden.html It's a model SPS-C. I'll need to do some digging to find the serial number and determine when it was built. This appears to be an upper-case only model. The printable character set on the type heads can be seen here: http://www.loomcom.com/junk/ friden/friden-Pages/Image7.html (around 2.5MB) The upper-case letters all print "~", apparently. The upper case numbers print the corresponding typewriter characters. I'm sure I'll have more once I open it up and start poking around at the internals. In the meantime, if you have a Flexowriter, would you mind letting me know what your model number is? Thanks! -Seth

16 years, 11 months

Columbia Data Products VP portable free for cost of shipping

by legalize＠xmission.com

It has no keyboard, dual floppy diskettes, power cable, 7" monitor. It has not been powered up. It is slightly dusty from having been stored in a garage. Cosmetically it looks in good conition. It was reported working the last time it was used. You can see pictures of this model of computer here: <http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=889&st=1> Shipping is from US ZIP 84106 (Salt Lake City, UT) -- "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/>

16 years, 11 months

MS-DOS question

by cclist＠sydex.com

I've got a few nested (via CALL) batch files that create different files via the > and >> redirection operators under MS-DOS 7.01. Everything seems to work fine until I've created more than the number of files on my CONFIG.SYS FILES= statement--whereupon I get a "File creation error" message and DOS hangs, necessitating a reboot. It seems as if COMMAND.COM is keeping open any file created within a batch script by redirection. Is this really so--or is it the case that DOS isn't closing each batch file invoked with a CALL statement? Assuming that this is a real stinker of a DOS bug, how does one get around it? Cheers, Chuck

16 years, 11 months

DLT 80 Tapes

by silvercreekvalley＠yahoo.com

Hi, does anyone have any DLT 80 tapes the 40GB (80GB compressed) version. I have a HP Storedge backup unit I'd like to start using, having some trouble finding reasonably priced tapes. Thanks. Ian. ____________________________________________________________________________________Got a little couch potato? Check out fun summer activities for kids. http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=oni_on_mail&p=summer+activities+for+kids&…

16 years, 11 months

DLT 80 tapes

by silvercreekvalley＠yahoo.com

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16 years, 11 months

Complete success, OS/8 is up and running :) not so fast...

by charlesmorris＠hughes.net

It's an M8315 card. I agree, the zero-page logic also does things with the bit 4 line. I'm looking into it. Whenever address bit 4 is "1", on the next increment it always clears to a "0" even though there is no carry that should cause that. I suspect the middle 7483 adder has an internal fault. On Sun, 27 May 2007 02:09:49 -0500 (CDT), you wrote: >From: ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell) >> However, a little investigating quickly showed that even the most >> basic ten-word TTY check program would not deposit or run. In >> fact, when depositing or examining sequential locations I found >> the address display would increment from 0200 to 0001. 0577 would >> increment to 0400, etc. So something is wrong with address bit 4. >> I pulled all the boards from the backplane except the CPU set and >> it still does it. Now I've got to fix the hardware! Sigh. >> > >I am wondering if this has anyhting to do with the 'address in current >page / address in zero page' logic. > >Remind me as to which CPU you have. > >-tony

16 years, 11 months

The Last of The Line

by RodSmallwood＠mail.ediconsulting.co.uk

Thanks Apart from my systems being 11/94's (Which I am not sure matters) That looks good. Rod -----Original Message----- From: cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Doc Shipley Sent: 26 May 2007 22:03 To: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: The Last of The Line Rod Smallwood wrote: > So Slot one: > M8190 > Or > M8190-AB 15Mhz > Or > M8190-AE 18Mhz > > Slot two/three > > MSV11-JD (1Mb) x 2 > or > > MSV11-JE (2Mb) x 2 > > So can we get to a consensus as to which boards in what order are > known to work? Empirical evidence, from visual inspection of the 11/84 I use for media transcription. Considering where I got it, this is almost certainly not factory configuration, but was almost certainly configured under DEC maintenance. Slot 1: M8190-AE KDJ11-BF Slot 2: M8637-BC MSV11-JB Slot 3: M8637-DF MSV11-JD Point of interest: I got this system when it was decommissioned from production work, in 2004. The other /84 is sitting behind some of my Spousal Equivalent's craft stuff, so I couldn't check. I do not move her toys uninvited. :^) Doc

16 years, 11 months

freebie score

by legalize＠xmission.com

Someone in Ogden contacted me out of the blue and gave me: - Commodore C=64 - Commodore 1541 floppy drive - Commodore MPS801 printer - Texas Instruments color monitor - TRS-80 Model III computer - IBM 5150 w/1 floppy - IBM 5151 monitor - Apple ][e w/2 DISK ][ - Apple Macintosh Model M0001 - Columbia Data Products VP - Some diskettes, but nothing out of the ordinary Of these, if anyone is interested in the Columbia Data Products VP <http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=889&st=1>, let me know. It has just CGA graphics and isn't particularly interesting to me graphics-wise, but someone who collects IBM clone portables would find it interesting. -- "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/>

16 years, 11 months

WTB: MicroVAX II SCSI

by compoobah＠valleyimplants.com

> Heh....before I learned more about this board I made a "best offer" > for it for $25, thinking he'd never take it. Well, he took it. So > now I've got a tape-only quadbus scsi board on the way that may not > fit in my case. > > I read on one page that it may recognize CD-Rom drives, however. So I > guess that's something. KZQSA does more in real life than it's supposed to. I have one in a VAX 4000/200 that I use to run CD-ROMs (the VAX wouldn't start up from a Plextor 12x, but a Toshiba 4x is fine), and prior to my HSD05-AA hack it was running a Seagate 4GB disk. Not fast, but it worked. Not worth $100, but since you have it it will most likely function. Was it der Mouse or VAX9000 who has the Qbus MSCP SCSI card kit in beta?

16 years, 11 months

Intel 8086 Design Kit x10

by chrism3667＠yahoo.com

http://cgi.ebay.com/8086-System-Design-Kit-intel_ W0QQitemZ150126261352QQihZ005QQcategoryZ1247QQrdZ 1QQcmdZViewItem ____________________________________________________________________________________ Expecting? Get great news right away with email Auto-Check. Try the Yahoo! Mail Beta. http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta/newmail_tools.html

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test-drb May 2007