"Advanced Micro Computers Inc Microprocessor
Development System 29/05"
It is a multibus CP/M system for development of 2900
microcode. There were cards available for downloading
of microcode to a target system, and a microassembler.
docs under
http://bitsavers.org/pdf/amd/amsys29
I have a bunch of docs scanned for this system, and the
software.
You're the first person I've heard about coming across one
of these in a long time.
There are apparently some ex-Sikorsky Gould Concept superminis as a
recycler in the Northeast available. The total weight of the few
(three?) systems could be a ton and a half. Is there any interest?
RCS/RI is going to pull the VAX 11/785 out of the pile.
--
Will
It's the end of my fall clean-up, and I've decided to discontinue "collecting" Creative Labs Sound Blaster Cards any more; though the proper term might be "accumulate"... Roughly 1991-1997, ISA. [I have a bunch of PCI cards if you need them...]
Been doing this for the last 10 years or so. I have a list of models and part numbers, please email me off-list request a copy. Anybody else 'collecting' Sound cards? I don't have a price, is there a market?
I also have a list of VGA Video Cards/ISA/PCI/AGP...Bill KA3AIS
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At 20:05 -0500 8/17/08, Dave wrote:
> I have to agree there. And $500 for a 7300 is a tad on the high
>side. I had three of them (two 3B1s and a 7300) and reluctantly
>parted with one. I became much less reluctant when the guy offered
>me $300. The first machine is one I will keep even if the prices go
>sky high, as it was given to me years ago by a classiccmp member (hi
>Mark!), although for the life of me I have no clue where the mouse went.
>
> Does anyone have disk images of the 7300/3B1 OS distribution?
Hi Dave, but IIRC, I just put you in contact with Robert, who gave
you one of his. Though he got some of his from me, so it may have
been indirectly one of my machines...
If it were mine, and I'd given it to you, I'd have no objection to
your selling it for as much as you can possibly get for it. My theory
is, the more value it acquires (by somebody paying for it) the less
likely it will be to get scrapped, hence the more likely it'll be to
be preserved. On the other hand, I *know* you are a knowledgeable
collector and know which end of the soldering iron gets hot without
having to grab it, so I'm happy it's in your hands.
One reason for me to take this philosophy is that I don't have time
to do myself the things I'd really like to do with my collection -
like imaging floppies! I have 'em, but not imaged. They are in
climate-controlled storage - that's the best I can say for myself.
I'll hunt for mice. I don't think I kept a spare, but if I did, I'll
let you know.
--
- Mark 210-379-4635
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Large Asteroids headed toward planets
inhabited by beings that don't have
technology adequate to stop them:
Think of it as Evolution in Fast-Forward.
Hi,
I wonder if a ST506 drive can be used without problems on a SA1000
interface controller. The signals seems to be the same, but ST506 is
working on a slightly higher transfer rate. Would it work with a 50 -> 34
pin adapter cable?
Did even someone has experience in it? Seems hard to find SA1000 disk
drives nowadays...
--
Oliver Lehmann
http://www.pofo.de/http://wishlist.ans-netz.de/
Now I have more space in my computer room my elder brother offered me
two systems he picked up some years ago.
I don't know much about either, but bitsavers has references to one,
which is a Texas Instruments 990 with twin 8 inch floppies and a
terminal. I have not tried powering it up yet and I dont have any boot
disks but it looks interesting. It has a 12 or 13 slot chassis with
most of the standard cards present except no printer card. Is this
rare, can I get boot disks, would anyone want to buy it, what can I do
with it?
Much the same questions for the second system but also, what is it. It
too has two 8 inch floppy drives, two volumes of manuals for Xenix but
no floppies. It is marked "Advanced Micro Computers Inc Microprocessor
Development System 29/05". There is a sticker saying Memec Systems
Ltd. The front panel is divided into two, one says "Support processor"
and the other "Microprogrammed system". Could this really be a proper
microprogrammable system or is it just system using a microprocessor.
Either way, which programming/microprogramming architecture is it? Any
relation to the AMD 2900 bit slice chips? For a couple of months I
wrote microcode back in about 1974 but not on this system.
Would anyone here be interested in rallying for a ruggedised Type 7
keyboard? I'm thinking of something built like a Model M.
--
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?
js at cimmeri.com wrote:
> *You've got a bare BA23 that you're looking to trade for the BA23's pedestal enclosure?
> *
No.
I have a BA123 that I'm looking to trade for 'skins'? for a BA23.
I have basically an 11/83 as removed from a 'small' rack such as
this:
http://hampage.hu/dr/kepek/H96XX.jpg
And want to have it be like:
http://hampage.hu/dr/kepek/ba23mvII.gif
I'd imagine the BA23 as removed from the rack is what is at the
core of the deskside/desktop BA23....
So, I'm looking to trade the BA123 for skins, or an empty
desktop/deskside BA23.
-- Curt
> *
> Is your 11/83 in a BA23 also?
>
> *Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 01:03:29 -0500
> From: "Curtis H. Wilbar Jr." <rescue at hawkmountain.net>
> Subject: Microvax II chassis for trade
> To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
> <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
> Message-ID: <49225AB1.6060007 at hawkmountain.net>
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>
>
> I have a Microvax II chassis (no qbus boards installed) that I've
> decided I am not going to use.
>
> Would like to trade it for the plastic? deskside enclosure for
> my PDP-11/83 (which came out of a rack).
>
> Anyone local to Sharon, MA (or Cambridge, MA) interested in
> trading ?
>
> -- Curt
bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca wrote:
> > And what was NASA doing for the last 30 years ???.
Hubble. Galileo. Cassini. Chandra. Deep Impact.
Swift. MRO. Spirit. Opportunity. Pheonix. Viking.
Messenger. Lunar Prospector. NEAR. Spitzer. ISS.
Ulysses. Voyager. Terra.
> > It seems once MAN landed on the moon, NASA has been a complete
> > flop
Obviously.
KJ
