test-drb November 2008

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by silvercreekvalley＠yahoo.com

With all this talk on PDP 8's thought I'd throw my hat in the ring :) If anyone has a working PDP 8 system for sale, either in the UK/Europe or USA (West Coast) let me know. Preferably this would have a disk unit of some kind, and must be known working with terminal access. Good price paid and will collect. Thanks Ian.

16 years

Interdata Model 74

by toby＠coreware.co.uk

Hi, A couple of years ago I bought an Interdata Model 74 CPU and I'm pondering what to do with it. I'm leaning towards rebuilding it to working condition next year and I was wondering if there are any other Interdata owners out there? The machine is in generally good condition, although I have has no power supply with it so will need to find or build something suitable. Unfortunately I have no documentation and so if anyone has any engineering documentation for these machines it would be a great help. Bitsavers has some details on the Model 70. Does anyone know how similar the Model 74 is to the 70? Thanks, Toby -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

16 years

MTPUG

by dgriffi＠cs.csubak.edu

I found a business card in a package of Pascal / MT+ for CP/M-86: MTPUG Pascal/MT Users Group Quarterly Newsletter with fixes, hints, programs, reviews. User contributed program disks in 5" and 8" formats. Below that are two addresses. One for a Guenter Musstopf in Ahrensburg in West Germany and for Henry Lucas in Westmont, IL in the USA. Does anyone know anything interesting about this newsletter? -- David Griffith dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?

16 years, 1 month

looking for a few items

by generalordertwentyfour＠gmail.com

old IBM terminals. Instead of me being very specific, just tell me what you have. I don't come by that many, neither do you probably. 2 (at least) full height IBM floppy drives. Atari ST equipment. Non working considered. interested in a nice IBM 5151 monochrome monitor. Have one, but it has considerable screen burn. Thanks.

16 years, 1 month

substitute for TI TIL306/307 Display?

by mfontes＠charter.net

Joe, I was just looking up the TIL306 part and found your question. I know it is old but thought I would respond. I actually have 9 in original condition. They have never been installed in anything. If you need them let me know. Sincerely, Mike Fontes mfontes at charter.net

16 years, 1 month

keypunch equip on govliquidation

by aek＠bitsavers.org

> What avionics? picture #34

16 years, 1 month

keypunch equip on govliquidation

by roger.holmes＠microspot.co.uk

> From: "Brian Knittel" <brian at quarterbyte.com> > > Looks like the lot has 4 brand new 029s and two used machines, at > least > one of which is an 026. Somebody go get these! Or, do what I did in > 2001 when a lot came up, and get a group together to buy them and > divvy > them up. These don't come along that often. > > Looks like there is some interesting old radar display gear in there > too, which some military buffs would probably want. Are those > scope hoods made of Bakelite? > > http://cgi.govliquidation.com/auction/view?id=2037010&categoryId=c7149 > > There's a whole bunch of other stuff in the lot, but you can call the > DRMO staff and see if they can either keep and relist the remainder, > or > give it to a surplus dealer. There are usually surplus dealers hanging > around happy to haul off whatever doesn't sell or what gets abandoned. > > It's the logistics of shipping and dispersing the stuff that's > painful. > Looks like the four new 029s are crated, the 026(s) are sitting on > pallets, and they'll have to be padded and strapped. > > In the 2001, I used freightquote.com and scheduled a pickup & had the > units sent to the people in the group. FYI I just looked at the bills > of lading, we listed the factory-crated 029's as 520 lbs each, and the > 029s on pallets as 310 lbs each. At today's rates, you should be able > to ship a palletized unit from Ohio to, say, California, with a > liftgate delivery, for about $250, and a crated unit for about $350. > > I'd be interested to know on or off list what happens with these, > punched card stuff is one of my areas of interest. > > Brian If by chance you get a group together who want to do a group purchase with a scrap dealer, I would be very interested. I'm not likely to ever find another .029 in as new condition, presumably with the program drum which I've been outbid at silly money on eBay. Ohio to California is quite a long way, so maybe 2 or three times as much for shipping across the Atlantic, would be worthwhile for an AS NEW one, but not for spares. As long as it can work on 50Hz mains frequency, voltage no problem. I would also be very interested in an old control drum if there's one in the .026 and it gets scrapped. The printing mechanism too maybe if its not too difficult to remove. My alternatives are to restore my IBM 836 keypunch (like an 026 but with more bells and whistles) or to resurrect a spare online punch and interface it to my Mac. This will take many hours of effort, though it would also get me a fairly slow card reader. The mechanism is an IBM design made under licence by British Tabulating Machine Co (BTM) and its successor company, International Computers and Tabulators (ICT), the main mechanism of which seems identical to the one on the IBM 1401 restoration web site. Old keypunches just don't seem to come up any more in the UK.

16 years, 1 month

FFS: UniPlus UNIX manual set

by dgriffi＠cs.csubak.edu

The person who previously claimed the UniPlus UNIX manual set can't be reached. Next person who emails me on this gets it for postage. -- David Griffith dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?

16 years, 1 month

keypunch equip on govliquidation

by aek＠bitsavers.org

The avionics in there is probably enough to get the lot recalled.

16 years, 1 month

Wanted: Tektronix 401x keycaps/keyboard (+ 4051 keycap)

by legalize＠xmission.com

I have a 4010 that is missing the keys '1', '3' and 'ESC'. The '1' key has a chipped mounting post for the keycap as well. I'm looking for replacement keycaps and/or a replacement keyboard. I also have a 4051 that is missing a single key off the numeric keypad on the right. It is labelled 'ENTER EXP'. -- "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, 1 month

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test-drb November 2008