Dear List
Not through any sense of nationality and being a collector of
an American brand anyway. The other day I was pondering life, the
universe and other trivia (programmers do a lot of pondering). When it
crossed the empty acres of my mind that there was very little discussion
of UK designed and manufactured computers. If we exclude ICL -> Fujitsu
and other main frames for now I can only think of a few:
RAIR Black box (I knew them very well as they were a
customer of mine whilst I was at DEC)
Research Machines
Acorn
Atom
Newbrain (When I said "What I need is a
NewBrain" everybody agreed )
Digico (I worked on those) Had a hand
operated paper tape reader. You pulled the tape through the reader.
Does anybody have examples of these and any I may have missed?
Rod Smallwood
Interesting bit of trivia I discovered today.
I was digitizing an oral history recorded in Mar 1988 with
Arnie Spielberg today, and it turns out he was the architect
of the 1800/1130 at IBM San Jose before becoming VP of Engineering
at SDS in 1965.
A transcript will be up on the CHM web site eventually, and will
post a URL when it's available.
> From: lproven at gmail.com> > Er. I found this difficult to follow...> > On 09/09/2007, dwight elvey <dkelvey at hotmail.com> wrote:> > > I had a chance to ask Faggin why he did finish the math coprocessor> > You mean, "didn't"?> > > for the Z8000's. He stated that the handwriting was quite clear.> > (Z8000s. No apostrophes on plurals. Not even on numbers. None, ever.)> > > The 8086 would soon dominate. I wasn't worth the effort to get the> > "It wasn't"?> > > math coprocessor working.> > Other than the addressing, the Z8000 had a nice register arangement.> > ("arrangement")> > > It was much closer to a RISC than the 8086 ever was.> > > I still have a couple of NA2000 series boards. This was another National> > start and drop.> > These has the 800 processor as dies on a PC board with other components.> > ("These have".)> > I don't meant to nitpick - the corrections in parentheses did not> impede my comprehension. The ones outside them, though, *did*. I> suggest taking just a few more seconds over a post?>
Hi
Sorry about that. I usually read before sending. Some is my dyslexia while
the rest was my rushing. I'm also typing on a keyboard that tends to
drop characters.
Dwight
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> I just found a hige supply of drives, and have to move them before the C-4
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> Thanks, Paul
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Does someone here have the driver disk for a Maccon MC+30IET64 ethernet
board? I would very much like to have an image of this disk so I can get
my Mac SE/30 networked.
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David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu
>Subject: Re: Does anyone use RT-11?
Yes, I have at this time four Qbus systems from 11/03 through 11/73
and run RT-11 on them. Rarely games but usually for hacking around
and good OS fun. Often to just get away from M$!
One day I plan to get a T11 up and running wtih RT but with non-DEC
drivers for terminal and storage as a small toteable -11.
Alllison
I am helping to liquidate a collection of stuff belonging to a guy near
Pasadena California. Among the items is a Data General Nova 4 and related
peripherals. It includes the Nova 4 itself, a 25 megabyte hard drive,
magtape drive, paper tape (I think), and assorted other fiddly bits. The
whole thing is in a 6-foot-tall rack, so you'll need to pick it up
yourself and get a couple friends to help. It also includes a decent
amount of documentation and paper-tape software.
This fellow got caught in the recent storm of mortgage forclosures and
needs to clean out all the stuff he's not keeping (which is most of it) by
the end of September: this month. So, this thing needs to go NOW. No
reasonable offer refused.
If you're interested, please email me at the below address or my yahoo
address (cupricus) if that doesn't work for you.
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David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu
Or more to the point, it won't *stay* off -- I type Fn-O and it blinks off
for a second or two, then comes right back on. Anyone have an easy fix for
this? Warm and cold resetting the unit didn't work.
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> From: lproven at gmail.com
---snip---> > Icons, pictograms and so on need no translation and little literacy.> > This concept is elaborated well in Neal Stephenson's /The Diamond Age/.>
The problem is that even pictorial icons require context. They are
as useless as another language if the user can't determine what the
symbol refers to.
I'm entering on a Windows Live mail tool. About the only symbol that
makes any sense is the closed envelope. Others I recognize because
I use them often. I could just as easily have learned Chinese symbols
for these functions.
As reference, read Jef Raskin's ( note: proper use this time ) book.
Making universal symbols is just as limiting and using language. In many
cases worse. It was a nice idea that just wasn't based on fact. Now
we are all stuck with it.
Dwight
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Under the heading of "where did *that* come from?", I've stumbled on
a loose leaf binder from Motorola titled "MVME121 System Hardware
Manual". There are several publications within, but the bulk of the
binder's taken up by a document called "MVME319 Intelligent Disk/Tape
Controller User's Manual", which contains all sorts of detail,
including principles of operation, command layouts and schematics.
Circa 1986.
A customer must've sent it to me; I have no use for it. Anyone want
it for the cost of shipping?
Cheers,
Chuck
