test-drb November 2008

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235 discussions

by tshoppa＠wmata.com

Chuck asks: > Anyone remember the > Fairchild F8? Around the same time as the 9440, the F8 was hugely > popular in embedded type applications. Mostek's 3870, a derivative of the F8, was popular throughout all sorts of mass-produced products in the late 70's and through the 80's. STMicro had a chip that was very similar (clone? derivative?) of the 3870 that appeared in consumer products in the 90's. General Instruments certainly took a very similar microcontroller (now known as the PIC) and built it up and out in several directions. Tim.

15 years, 8 months

Systems based on Fairchild 9440 / 9445

by kahrs＠caip.rutgers.edu

As I recall, the 944x series did away with the high order indirect bit just as the Xerox Alto did, thereby permitting full 16 bit addresses. I wonder what became of my data sheet...

15 years, 8 months

Fairchild 944x

by cclist＠sydex.com

On 4 Nov 2008 at 5:51, Robert Borsuk wrote: > Don't know if you guys found this but I did find one computer reference. > > http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=196 > > and the data sheet on bit savers for the chips(thank you Al). 1983? I was trying to get the attention of the Fairchild sales department around 1978. You'd have thought with DG not selling the MicroNova CPU to outside customers and the 9440 being a Nova-like chip that Fairchild could have cleaned up. There weren't many other 16-bit chips at the time (e.g. NS PACE, GI CP1600, TI TMS9900). But Fairchild seemed not to be interested in selling the stuff. My understanding is that the 9440 is an "almost" Nova in that it lacks certain features needed to run Nova software. Can anyone verify this? Cheers, Chuck

15 years, 8 months

Systems based on Fairchild 9440 / 9445

by aek＠bitsavers.org

> A very puzzling company, Fairchild. And the Clipper.. They waited too long to get into CMOS, since they were making tons of money on ECL and bipolar. AMD also blew it in waiting too long to convert the 2900 product line to CMOS.

15 years, 8 months

Amiga 1000, Atari 520 ST, TRS-80 & Timex 1000 in NY

by christian_liendo＠yahoo.com

I am not selling, I found and am posting. I figured someone would be interested http://newyork.craigslist.org/que/sys/905721821.html For sale: Vintage computers.. (Ditmars/Astoria) Reply to: sale-905721821 at craigslist.org [?] Date: 2008-11-04, 2:57PM EST For sale I have the following computers.. -Amiga 1000 with mouse, monitor and kickstart/workbench disks (A1000 is refurbished to a nice white, but monitor is aged/yellowed) 100$ -Amiga software packages (Comic Setter, Professional Draw, TV Text) 30$ -Atari 520 STFM (Desert Camouflage custom painted, 360kb internal drive, 1/2 mb ram, no mouse) 45$ -TRS-80 Color Computer 2 (16kb ram) 35$ -TRS-80 Color Computer 2 (64kb ram) 35$ -Timex 1000 with manual in its original box (has a problem at display - probably a bad capacitor or a loose connection) 30$. Pickup only in Ditmars/Astoria.

15 years, 8 months

Wanted: Epox EP-9NPA+SLI MB manual

by woyciesjes＠sbcglobal.net

If anyone has the user manual for the Epox EP-9NPA+SLI motherboard, could you do me a small favor and email it to me? Searching around with Google is of no help, and the Epox websites don't seem to have it. Trying to resusitate my Ubuntu 8.04 box with this MB. The caps on the old board leaked.... The zip archive of it in archive.org appears to be corrupted... Thanks in advance... -- --- Dave Woyciesjes --- ICQ# 905818 --- AIM - woyciesjes "From there to here, From here to there, Funny things are everywhere." --- Dr. Seuss

15 years, 8 months

Space Invaders

by pete＠dunnington.plus.com

Does anybody in the UK have a classic Space Invaders console? I'm looking for one to borrow for a short while for a TV program. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

15 years, 8 months

Vaxstation 3100 M76 Parts request

by dsnyder＠corefurnace.com

I recently acquired a Vaxstation 3100 M76, it's missing a few parts. Does anyone have a couple of drive brackets, 4M simms (x4) and maybe a GPX or SPX card? I am willing to pay. TIA, Dan Snyder

15 years, 8 months

PDP-8/e and terminals in West Sussex, UK

by paul＠frixxon.co.uk

Thanks to Martin for grabbing 14 DEC terminals from me last week -- very pleasant to meet someone who is still working with PDPs and real terminals in the wild! I've just passed our waste electrical skip at work and noticed that someone has dumped a PDP-8/e box in there. I'm being imprecise about this because I've never seen one before. This isn't a big rack, just a single heavy box fronted by an orange and brown PDP-8/e front panel. I assume it's the processor itself. If I can chuck this in my car this evening, would anyone here be able to pick it up from me by the end of this month? And here's a reminder that I still have a bunch of terminals left; see my previous email for details. The later DEC ones have gone but there are at least 20 Wyse WY-420 terminals available, which have (I believe) a competent VT320 emulation. These are for pickup only from here in Crawley, West Sussex.

15 years, 8 months

Looking for a front panel fastener for a DEC SA482 rack

by alanp＠snowmoose.com

As the subject says ... I am looking for one of the fasteners that holds on the front panel of a DEC SA482 rack. It is a Dzus-like head stud, except that it is turned with a 4mm hex key. Anyone have one or know where I can get one? alan

15 years, 8 months

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test-drb November 2008