This is interesting.
Cracking Open Vintage Computers Photo Galleries...
As giant lizards once roamed our planet, so did mammoth machines once
balance our checkbooks.
Come along as we take a look back the some of the earliest and most unique
personal computers - the Kenbak-1, Altair 8800, and Pet 2001.
-- Bill Detwiler, TechRepublic Content Development Manager
Kenbak-1
http://content.techrepublic.com.com/2346-10877_11-15160-1.html
Altair 8800
http://content.techrepublic.com.com/2346-10877_11-1453.html?tag=nl.e099.dl0…
PET 2001
http://content.techrepublic.com.com/2346-10877_11-1477.html?tag=nl.e099.dl0…
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237. [Philosophy] "Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to
add
but when there is nothing more to take out." --Antoine St Exupery
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tpeters at nospam.mixcom.com (remove "nospam") N9QQB (amateur radio)
"HEY YOU" (loud shouting) WEB: http://www.mixweb.com/tpeters
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WAN/LAN/Telcom Analyst, Tech Writer, MCP, CCNA, Registered Linux User 385531
I am working on a software project (GPL v2) to make the Catweasel make
images of NorthStar hard sector disks based on the Tim Mann cw2dmk code.
I have some mostly working code which can make disk images of 10 sector
5.25" hard sector floppy disks. It is not ready for public release. I am
looking for some brave person(s) who:
1) own a Catweasel
2) have access to a Horizon or Advantage or S-100 bus computer with MDS
controller, and
3) are willing and able to do some testing/debugging/fixing of some rough
code.
Please contact me offline if interested. The code is not available publicly
at this time.
Thanks
Andrew Lynch
I have the 4002A drawer unit and keyboard maintenance manual. I don't
have the monitor manual. I also have the 611 monitor manual. Not sure
how close either will be to your unit. The 4002A looks similar to the
picture online. It will be a couple weeks before I can scan them if they
are useful.
David Gesswein
http://www.pdp8online.com/ -- Run an old computer with blinkenlights
Hi,
> I used one of those both at JPL and Caltech in the '70s.
>Worked quite well.
Yes, from the pictures it looks rather like the Tektronix terminal I used
while at Leicester Polytechnic from 1983 - 1985.
It was located in the miniscule "Graphics Lab" alongside a DEC "GiGi" (wish
I'd kept mine) and another graphic terminal the model of which I forget now.
Anyone else attend Leicester Poly around that time?
TTFN - Pete.
Hi,
While searching for something else (AMOS Jotre extension to play THX files) I stumbled across this page.
It seems to be a huge file extension database. It's not all modern stuff (AMOS .ABK extension is there) so it does qualify as retro :)
http://www.attingo.com/software.php
I don't suppose anyone here has the Jotre extension?
Regards,
Andrew B
aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk
All:
I had some time today so I started scanning a few random articles I had
lying around. Back in 1988, Ed Roberts published a series of articles in
Radio-Electronics for a stackable Z80-based industrial-like computer system
called REACTS 7000.
I seem to have most of the articles but I wondered if anyone on the list
maybe has the original design packet you could order from Ed?s company, or
any other info on it. As I find these random kind of systems, I?m putting
together resource pages on my Web site for them (The Hawthorne 68k and the
LittleBoard/186 are recent examples). So, if anyone has any info on this
system, let me know.
Thanks.
Rich
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Rich Cini
Collector of Classic Computers
Build Master and lead engineer, Altair32 Emulator
http://www.altair32.comhttp://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/~rcini/classiccmp
Craigslist San Francisco has an "HP 250 vintage computer" listed for
$150 Post ID is 401790216.
Is anyone on-list familiar with this? Worth acquiring? or is it
fairly common gear?
Doesn't seem to be in bad shape, claims to be bootable and even has
some manuals but clearly missing the worktable and monitor.
I'm a newbie here so opinions welcome
s shumaker
I gott an M8549 Universal Substitute Board off the 'bay recently,
but it's not what I was expecting, which was a blank board with
lots of places to mount DIPs.
The board does have 27 pads for 16-pin DIPS, but also three
"DEC10101" and one "DEC10110" chips on it (are those ECL?), many
traces on the lower half of the board coming from the Omnibus
fingers, and a couple of dozen 0-ohm jumpers.
Is there a schematic anywhere? I can't find it on bitsavers... So
what exactly did I buy??
-Charles
Nothing great here, but I thought I'd check before they get pulped.
Will send for cost of postage from 60074:
Introducing dBase II by Lan Barnes
Introducing dBase III by Lan Barnes
Mastering VisiCalc by Douglas Hergert
Lotus 1-2-3 for the IBM PC by Lon Ingalsbe
The Power of VisiCalc Volume 1/Volume 2 by Robert E. Williams and some
other guys
All are discards from Valparaiso, IN library.
