test-drb May 2007

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by roger.holmes＠microspot.co.uk

> > I hope everyone came through alright. Is anyone on the list from > Folkestone? Not Folkestone but I felt it just West of Ashford. The joints in the timber framed upper floor made a lot of noise, but nobody downstairs (which is brick built) noticed anything. I had to turn the TV on to confirm it was an earthquake. I'd felt one or two when I was in Cupertino years ago but never expected to feel one in Kent. I think the same 'quake in California would not even get a mention in the news, but our buildings are not designed for them here.

17 years, 7 months

Nice ad

by grant＠stockly.com

190107136286 Told him about the timeline of CP/M and DOS and he gave me a very rude response. So he got a "Inappropriate or excessive use of terms not relevant to the item " from me. Maybe otheres should point out the facts. : ) It really ticks me off when people try to take advantage of others... Grant

17 years, 7 months

Offer: old Linpack manual

by silent700＠gmail.com

Need to start paring down my book collection/pile! Will send this to whoever wants it for the cost of shipping. "Linpack Users' Guide" from 1979. ISBN 0-89871-172-X. Authors Dongarra, Bunch, Moler, Stewart. It's in good shape but has some writing on the first page. Appears to be a second printing. Preface contains a nice list of Linpack test sites and the machines in use, including the CDC Cyber 175 at NASA, and a Honeywell 6080 at Bell Labs. I'm in 60074 zip, will send book rate or whatever you like. -- jht

17 years, 7 months

TNIX

by aek＠bitsavers.org

> There are quite a number of versions of Utek (@&^!&^ Outlook won't let > me capitalize the "t"). The first versions were for the National 320xx > CPUs. This ran on the 6205's, 6130, and 4132. Later, a Motorola > 68000-based verson was released. FWIW, there was a V7 based system called TNIX which shipped on the 8560 development systems (11/23 and 11/73 based). Would be nice to find the 8" diag and release floppies for this (I have a couple of them).

17 years, 7 months

Lack of 8-bit threads (was Re: Linux question)

by classiccmp＠memory-alpha.org.uk

Hi, > I 'only' have the HP150-II. It's in a larger case, with a 12" >CRT, an optional touchscreen (which is fitted on mine).... I have one of these too, though without the touchscreen or any expansion cards (it's even missing the rear plastic cover). Seems like an interesting machine, one of these days I must get it set up; I've only had it 9 years, LOL! How difficult are HP/IB hard drives to come by for them (I've got the dual floppy drive unit)? Always hankered after an original 150 though, it's a really cool shape! :-) TTFN - Pete.

17 years, 7 months

Texas Instruments 960B

by cc＠corti-net.de

Hi, we've cleaned and powered up our TI 960B at our museum, it seems to be working fine. I've entered a small test program to test the basic parts: 1000 7007 0000 NOP 1002 7007 0000 NOP 1004 7082 1000 B @1000 Both single step and run mode work. But that's all we are able to do at the moment because there is no documentation available for the 960B. The machine (from 1975) has 8k of MOS memory, and only few CRU interfaces, one TT/EIA (TT), one data interface (DI) (I think it's a digital I/O board) and one timer interface (TI). So we need at least the programmer's guides for the TT and DI, maybe the service manuals for the entire machine. Is there a chance to find them somewhere? Christian

17 years, 7 months

PDP8/E schematics

by hachti＠hachti.de

Hi folks, I am looking for docs about my PDP8/E CPU. I found a maintainance manual ("volume 1" of ???) on bitsavers. But no schematic. So, who knows what documents I need and where to get them? Best wishes, Philipp :-)

17 years, 7 months

Bandai Pippin aka Atmark

by wayne.smith＠charter.net

Does anyone on the list own a Bandai Pippin - marketed in the UK and Japan as the "Atmark"? As owners of this Apple Power PC-powered box are well aware, software (mostly games and edutainment stuff) is difficult to come by, and when it appears on Ebay, often goes for stratospheric prices. For example: http://cgi.ebay.com/Bungie-Super-Marathon-for-Pippin-world-mark_W0QQitem Z150114489326QQihZ005QQcategoryZ62053QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem So, I am looking for Pippin owners who might have software to exchange. Here is a list of what I have: @World TV Works @World Basics @World Registration @World Browser Compton's Encyclopedia Racing Days Mr. Potato Head ("award winning") Home Improvement 1-2-3 (Home Depot) Ugoku Burotsuku (Japanese - "moving blocks") Fortullia (Japanese - "fortune teller") Victorian Park (Japanese) -W

17 years, 7 months

test - ignore

by evan＠snarc.net

Just a test.

17 years, 7 months

Goofy question about "industrial" archiving

by Billy.Pettit＠wdc.com

Chuck Guzis wrote: On 1 May 2007 at 9:09, Billy Pettit wrote: > The Cricket was the first 1.6 inch hard drive. Never made it to market > though a few samples exist. It was 20 years before the 1.8 inch which did > get to market. Didn't HP roll out a very small hard drive before that? I seem to recall that there was something about the head suspension that would enable it to withstand very high G-forces. Cheers, Chuck --------------------- Billy wrote: HP rolled out the Kittyhawk in the mid-'80s. It had reasonable success in some printers and copiers, as well as a few other applications. They are fun little drives to play with. The Cricket was about 8 years earlier and had no success - the technology wasn't there. There were many other experiments in small factor over the last 30 years. I remember a Comdex in the late '80s where IBM showed off a 7/8" drive. They were going to mount 32 of them on both sides of PC card and have a plug in RAID system. Like all multiple drive applications, the vibration from drive working gave errors to the rest. Conner made a 1.3 inch drive in the early '90s. I see them on eBay a few times a year. I have one that is still operational. There have been numerous attempts at the small form factor. The iPod was the first practical application so it drove the 1.8" development and production. It also drove the 1" development. That turned out to be a disaster for everyone involved when the Price War on NAND Flash destroyed the 1" market. It didn't help the Flash people either. (So far this year, NAND prices have dropped 65%!) There must have been other small drives. It's an idea that looks great until you try to do execute. I've only mentioned the ones that I worked on or have samples to study. Billy

17 years, 7 months

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