Anyone here have the speech module for an IBM PC Convertible
they want to get rid of?
I just got one of these laptops & was hoping to score one.
David M. Vohs
Digital Archaeologist & Computer Historian
Computer Collection:
"Triumph": Commodore 64, 1802, 1541, Indus GT, FDD-1, GeoRAM 512, MPS-801.
"Leela": Original Apple Macintosh, Imagewriter II.
"Delorean": TI-99/4A, TI Speech Synthesizer.
"Spectrum": Tandy Color Computer III.
"Monolith": Apple Macintosh Portable.
"Boombox": Sharp PC-7000.
"Butterfly": Tandy 200, PDD-2.
"Shapeshifter": Epson QX-10, Comrex HDD, Titan graphics/MS-DOS board.
"Scout": Otrona Attache.
(prospective) "Pioneer": Apple LISA II.
"TMA-1": Atari Portfolio, Memory Expander +
"Centaur": Commodore Amiga 2000.
"Neon": Zenith Minisport.
> From: "Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com>
> Not all Northstar diskettes are HS. One of the models (Advantage?)
> isn't--and it's that format that the Microsolutions MatchPoint will
> read, not the others. It's been too long since I've seen the darned
> things...
I think the machine you are thinking of might be the N* Dimension. The Advantage
still uses 10-sector floppies.
I've never seen the Dimension but vintagemicros on Ebay was selling one a while
back and had a picture of it. Apparently it was MS-DOS compatible.
Hey all --
Picked up an HP Integral PC. Probably paid too much for it but
something about a luggable HP machine with a plasma display running
HP-UX from ROM seemed irresistible. But I digress.
Has anyone archived the manuals for this thing? I've been unable to
find anything in my searches on the internet. Found some software
archives (and after lubricating the floppy mechanism I've been able to
make use of it...) but not much documentation. Docs for the HP BASIC
for this machine would be nice, too.
I've only played with it for a little while, but it seems like a really
neat machine. (Though it seems like this thing is just begging for some
sort of mass-storage other than the internal floppy and RAM. Anyone
have an HPIB hard disk for sale? :)
Thanks,
Josh
Al Kossow wrote:
>
> I annouced a few months ago that the agreement had been signed.
>
> I'm attaching a pdf. If the attachement gets eaten, i'll put it
> on bitsavers under http://bitsavers.org/bits/HP/
>
Looks like the message was eaten.
The pdf is on bitsavers for you to take a look at.
CHM hasn't issued a press release about it since we're still doing things
like trying to convert the interleaf formatted manuals to pdfs and are organizing
what we have.
What HP actually donated was materal from about the last 10 years of the product's
life (RTE-A, mostly). The earlier code is coming from other holdings.
Back in 1998 (actually more like from summer 1997 until summer 1998,
i.e., the 1997-98 school year), before I started Quasijarus Project,
I was searching the World high and low for a copy of the 4.3BSD tape
set. That was before PUPS got its momentum with getting the $100
"Ancient UNIX" license deal from SCO, and more importantly, getting
people interested in preserving and working with Original UNIX, and
at that time the entire world was basically in a conspiracy of
anathema against original Bell/Berkeley UNIX, everyone just wanted
it to stay buried in its grave and not come up.
Getting a copy of the 4.3BSD tape set seemed next to impossible.
www.berkeley.edu was shockingly silent about the fact that Berkeley
UNIX aka BSD, UC Berkeley's greatest accomplishment in all of its
history, ever existed, much less saying how to order a tape. Finally
I found a phone number and a couple of E-mail addresses for some
office at UCB that was apparently kept for sending out tapes after
CSRG itself was gutted. The office was basically a voice mailbox and
a couple of E-mail addresses, with the two people who were actually
supposed to get those E-mail and voice messages being away somewhere
in San Francisco and taking a few weeks to answer inquiries.
Finally they got back to me and told me to send a check for $2400 for
4.4BSD and $1000 for 4.3BSD. Ouch! And of course some murky business
about licenses.
At that time, however, I attended Case Western Reserve University (CWRU)
and had a semi-staff relationship with their computer science department.
I realised that the university must have had a UNIX source license from
back in The Days, and most probably had the actual 4.3BSD tapes at some
point as well, especially given that the old-timers told me that they
were indeed running 11/780s before. But again the conspiracy of anathema
was working: everyone had completely forgotten about it, and no one on
the entire campus even knew that the university had a UNIX source license
(and old-timers confirmed that indeed there was one).
When spring 1998 came around, PUPS was making its debut with the $100
license deal from SCO. I didn't care so much about license stuff, but
it meant a resurgence of interest in Original UNIX and a community of
people involved with it, something that was completely lacking only a
few months prior. I wanted access to the PUPS archive, and I wanted to
use the university's license rather than fork over $100 for a personal
one. The only issue was *finding* that license. Then I got a bright
idea: since the license agreement was between CWRU and AT&T, there must
have been copies of it on both sides. If CWRU had chosen to forget
about the license they once paid big money for, how about if I dig up a
copy of the license agreement from AT&T side? So I asked SCO's Dion
Johnson about it, and lo and behold, a few days later a copy of CWRU's
original UNIX license agreement shows up in my box in the computer science
department mail room! Warren Toomey got another copy and soon I got an
overseas fax from him with passwords for his PUPS Archive! Whoo-hoo!
But I still needed 4.3BSD. It wasn't in Warren's archive since they
were still PDP-only at that time, and me holding a copy of my school's
AT&T UNIX license agreement didn't help convince anyone I knew who
might have had 4.3BSD tapes to share them with me.
In late 1997 I got myself an office at CWRU, it was the CES department's
computer junkyard room. I was quite happy, a room full of classic
computers was the best office I could get. It was actually two rooms,
411 and 412. Only 411 was accessible from the hallway, the entrance to
412 was inside 411. Both rooms were filled with classic computer gear,
but 411 was a little less full and actually had some room for a desk and
was usable as an office. 412, on the other hand, was *completely* filled
with classic computer gear (mostly Sun 3) and it was difficult for a
person to make it through to the end of the room. At the very end of
room 412 (the end opposite the entrance door from 411) there was
something that looked like a plastic curtain or plastic window blinds.
The architecture of that building was really intriguing, the kind one
finds only on good old university campuses, and I couldn't really tell
if there was supposed to be a window there or not. I just never gave
it much thought, and it was too difficult to climb over all that Sun 3
gear in the way to see exactly what it was.
On a shelf in room 411 there were some magtape reels, and I thought
that if they ever had 4.3BSD tapes, they ought to be there. But I
looked through all the tapes I could see and 4.3BSD wasn't there. Bummer.
Then one day in summer 1998 I came to work in the morning, went up
the stairs to my beloved Computer Engineering and Science department
4th floor, went to the end of the hallway to my office, and got in.
I turned on the lights and per my usual habit, peeked all over the
room to make sure all the fun classic computers were still there.
And lo and behold, at the very end of room 412, where I previously
saw those plastic curtains or window blinds or whatever, I now saw
two racks full of magtapes! It turned out that the plastic "curtains"
were actually vertically sliding doors (kinda like garage doors) of
two huge magtape cabinets! Another staff member must have had a need
to get some old magtape and didn't close the cabinet after he was done.
With trembling hands, I raced there and started looking through all
the tapes. And sure enough, in a few minutes I found all 3 tapes of
the 4.3BSD 1600 BPI distribution.
I spent pretty much the whole year prior to that moment searching the
World high and low for 4.3BSD tapes when they were sitting the whole
time in my own office! Now that's a "Duh!" moment.
MS
Hey all --
Got myself an HP 7980S 9-track drive (always wanted a 9-track drive...)
and accidentally mangled my one and only 9-track tape just after the BOT
marker (not sure what caused it, maybe the drive needs a bit of
adjustment...). So I have two questions: Where can I find a reasonable
replacement for the marker, and where does it go? I see the sense foil
on the part of the tape that got mangled, but I don't know what side of
the tape it was originally on...
Thanks!
Josh
P.S. The magical tape autoloading thing this drive does is the coolest
thing I've seen in a long time :).
Hi,
I haven't got ULTRIX/VAX V3.0C, but:
V2.0
V3.1 (disk image only)
V4.2
V4.4
V4.5
I'd like to have the missing versions, too.
More ULTRIX-Manuals would be VERY interesting as well.
(I scanned the ones at bitsavers.com)
What type of VAX do you want to run ULTRIX on?
Regards,
Ulli
Hi,
I was able to acquire 4 Zilog S8000 boards lately.
- S8000 Central Processing Unit
- S8000 Winchester Disk Controller
- S8000 Cartridge Tape Controller
- S8000 ECC Controller
I'm trying to get my hands on the Case and the 1MB memory card, but I was
wondering if someone has still pieces of the S8000 at hand? What about
tape images of ZEUS? I mean - when I'm getting the minimum required
hardware sooner or later - without an installation tape I'm a bit lost -
right? ;)
I've tried to put all the information I was able to found about the S8000
together at http://pofo.de/S8000/ I've scanned the boards I got and put
all the EPROM images online.
COPYRIGHT, ZILOG, INC. 1980
S8000 Monitor 1.2 - Press START to Load System
;)
--
Oliver Lehmann
http://www.pofo.de/http://wishlist.ans-netz.de/
I was printing on my IIISi tonight and, between jobs, it switched from
working normally to displaying "50 SERVICE" (with the "50" flashing)
and not accepting print jobs.
Power cycling doesn't help.
I've done a little poking around, but haven't managed to find a service
manual for the silly thing. Bitsavers has only one file under
hp/printers/, and that one doesn't cover the IIISi. Google finds
another file which covers a few III printers, but not the IIISi.
Anyone have the manual, or at least have some idea what "50 SERVICE"
means I need to do?
(What is it with this week and hardware? I'm beginning to feel as
though any hardware I try to use this week breaks.)
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> I assume he means the "Tek Country Store" which has operated in various
> locations since at least the early 70's. Last I heard it is somewhere on
> the Beaverton Tek Campus (is that the only one left?), and is only open once
> a month. I for one would love to know the current info on it.
It is the Tektronix surplus store, generally selling surplus of what
they use not what they make.
Sounds like I have to go back also. I used to enjoy the store, the
wait before the door opens, the polite run and exploring the stuff.
A quick google search brought up this on the Portland robotics web site.
Tektronix Country Store
Beaverton Campus Building 38 Loading Dock (East side of building).
503-627-6769
Public Hours: 1st and 3rd Thursday of the month from 2-4pm
www.tek.com/ir/bv_map.html
People start lining up before opening to get the best stuff (including
the commercial surplus store owners). Now including Tek equipment for
sale, too!
When I did it I was one of those commercial surplus store
owners..........And they mention test equipment has been added.
Another store on the Robotics list is:
SurplusGizmos
5797 NW Cornelius Pass Road
Hillsboro Oregon 97124
Warehouse: 503-439-1249
Mobile: 503-345-9187
Hours:
Wednesday and Friday 11am to 6pm
Saturday 11am to 5pm
surplusgizmos.com
Surplus stuff with an online store.
Anyone been there? I have yet to make it.
Paxton
--
Paxton Hoag
Astoria, OR
USA
