test-drb February 2008

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by gavon.balharry＠idi-middleware.com

Hi Bill, I am Gavon Balharry. I was at a customer site in Switzerland, where we took delivery of a Varisystems 16K system in 1974. In May 1976 we bought two 32K Varicomposers. I dumped out the program and decoded it (P16 assembler language) - managed to fix various problems it had and extended the system with some new functionality. Bob Shevlin, who had created it, and was the only one really able to program it hired me in September 1996. I worked for 13 months full time for him at Shefra Graphics out of Slough in the UK. I travelled all over Europe, and even to NZ, Australia, Singapore, Thailand and Hawaii - customizing systems wherever I went. I returned to work with Bobst Graphics in USA starting 4th July 1979. There I wrote the Arabic/English or French version. I was one of three who remained with Bobst Graphics when they closed the American plant at the end of February 1981. I stayed on with Bobst Graphics at Mex, near Lausanne in Switzerland. Before long we were taken over by Autologic from California. I lasted till May 1984, having written front-end systems for typesetting most of the languages of India - using the 1200 system, programming in Z80. I guess I know about as much as anyone could (after Bob Shevlin) about the system, its programs, and all. I even have quite a library of program listings. Just that it has been a while ago. Please contact me, and I can fill you in with whatever details you may need. Best regards, Gavon Balharry Managing director Information Design Ltd Liab Co (registered in Switzerland)

16 years, 10 months

Yamaha CX5 stash on eBay

by chrism3667＠yahoo.com

you won't have any competition from me at least :( http://cgi.ebay.com/Yamaha-MSX-CX5M-FD-05-Drives-Discs-in-Original-Box_W0QQ… ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping

16 years, 10 months

Yamaha MSX CX5M Mouse

by sbolton＠bfree.on.ca

All this talk about the floppy drives for the Yamaha made me wonder--has anyone out there plugged anything other than an official MU-01 mouse or joystick into this device? I see the pinouts online but haven't checked to see if it's compatible with a standard Atari type joystick. Anybody had any luck or even attempt this? We have one of these at the Personal Computer Museum (www.pcmuseum.ca) but we do not have the drives or a mouse. No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.20.4/1275 - Release Date: 2/12/2008 3:20 PM

16 years, 10 months

tape drives

by rtellason＠verizon.net

I've been contacted by a guy who has some stuff to get rid of, he'd rather see it put to good use than end up in a landfill. Of the gear he's mentioned, a couple of things might be of interest to the folks here. I've put two pics online: http://mysite.verizon.net/rtellason/HP%20tape%20transport_2.JPG http://mysite.verizon.net/rtellason/six%20ft%20rack%205.jpg (I hope I got these right, if they don't work please let me know!) The equipment is located in northern Wisconsin. There's more to come, and I'll be hearing about it in email sometime soon, but I'm not hurrying him as he said something about it being -22F there the morning he sent me the first set of pics. Yikes! :-) -- Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can be killed but can't be tamed. ?--Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters" - Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James M Dakin

16 years, 10 months

MSX stuff, the Yeno, etc.

by chrism3667＠yahoo.com

Are MSX computes standard w/regards to their floppy interface? Are they interchangeable I guess is what I'm asking. There are more Yenos in Australia, from the same guy who sold me mine. Just do a search, you'll find them. He gives you a BASIC cartridge, and 2 *blanks* (ram carts, I don't know what else they could be, (4) 4116-15s, (2)74LS157s or -257 (man my memory), and a 74LS32). I haven't had the opportunity to fire one up, so I don't know what kind of rom is onboard, but there's got to be something. Maybe these ram carts are meant to be used with a disk subsystem. Otherwise it doesn't make much sense. I'm looking around for info... Nope, said to be inoperable w/o a cartridge. So what good do ram carts do ya? ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping

16 years, 10 months

WTB External 8inch floppy

by silvercreekvalley＠yahoo.com

Does anyone have an external (boxed) 8 inch floppy drive for sale. I'd prefer DSDD but wont get too choosy. This can be US or Europe. Pretty much anything considered. Please contact off list. Thanks Ian. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ

16 years, 10 months

Victor 9000 (Sirius 1) Computer Collection - $40 - in Fayetteville, NC

by tosteve＠yahoo.com

Saw this in Craigslist: http://fayetteville.craigslist.org/sys/541401232.html ------------- Date: 2008-01-16, 5:13PM EST (two weeks ago...) 2 Victor 9000 machines, one in pieces but complete, one has hard drive and touch screen (super rare), other is dual floppy. This is the same computer that was marketed in europe as the Sirius 1. I have a ton of books and software for them. MUST GO SOON! --------------------------------- Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search.

16 years, 10 months

MFM drive rescue

by compoobah＠valleyimplants.com

If it's one of the Tantalum-type "blasting caps" then there isn't much of an issue, provided that the board isn't damaged. It's probably a bypass cap, so the drive might even run without it, and there is quite a range of things that will work just fine. Pull one that's close (and meets the voltage ratings) off of one of your scrap boards (don't worry, Tony - nothing too nice in mine, mostly PC stuff).

16 years, 10 months

Syquest/Iomega removable cartridge drive interfaces

by cclist＠sydex.com

> Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:59:28 -0500 > From: "Roy J. Tellason" > Unreliable? Hmm. Very. I had a couple and tossed the drives, but kept the drive boxes- with-PSU. As someone has mentioned, the drive had an odd form factor, but the boxes could hold a 3.5" drive if you didn't mind a few gaps. OTOH, the Bernoulli boxes were very reliable. I fired up a dual 90MB unit here the other day--worked just fine. Heavy bugger, though. Cheers, Chuck

16 years, 10 months

error with tapecopy writing, buffer to small ???

by g-wright＠att.net

I have been playing with Eric Smith "TapeCopy" and some cartridge tapes.After reading them, when I try to write them, I get an error message that the tape image is too long for the for the 32768 byte buffer . I'm running it on a linux machine ver is RedHat 7.2. Not to sure why ??? tapes where DC600 (60 Meg). - jerry Jerry Wright JLC inc g-wright at att.net

16 years, 10 months

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test-drb February 2008