Donzo quoth:
> WHACK!
>
> You should know better - put quotes around *your* first, mister.
Silly, of course you know I meant on The Internet :)
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Unless "First" (in quotes) signifies its node name was "First", I don't
know how it could be the first on the internet.
Year of first internet node connectivity: 1969
Year Sun SLC Workstation was brought to market: 1990
There's a 21 year gap there.
The first e-mail communications occured sometime in the 1970s.
What are we missing here?
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http://www.vintage.org/2008/east/exhibit.php
A few details (exact show schedule, lodging, etc.) are still being worked
out. But exhibit registration is now open. Please start using it and let
me know ASAP if you encounter any problems.
Hi there,
I am sorry I do not know your name and I came across your message while
browsing and I am hoping you can help. I have dusted down my old programmer
a Bytek 135H as I have a project I where I need to program an eprom. Have
not used it for some time now and have lost the manual and application used
to drive it. There was a floppy I used to insert into my PC, however it was
so long ago all is lost or misplaced it.
I am trying to find out some details on the unit. Did you ever locate a
copy of the application floppy and manual for the unit you acquired?
Regards,
Peter
Fingers crossed. Mylor Australia.
I'm working on a consulting project that is ballooning in terms of
equipment needed.
I am seeking the following computers:
Toshiba T1600/40
Macintosh IIx
IBM PS/2 Model 90
Any AST laptop that was brought to market prior to Fall of 1989 (must
include original power brick)
Atari STacy
Cosmetic condition is not a concern, but functionality is: they must work.
Please contact me at your earliest convenience if you have any of these
computers you'd like to sell. Time is of the essence, so please contact
me soon.
Thanks!
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I've more of these than anyone will need and they're all brand new.
3 packs of Bernoulli 5.25 44meg disks
KAO 5.25 88meg syquest disks. The label inside says they are formatted for
Macs but includes software for wintel machines also.
$1 each plus whatever for shipping and they're yours. Just say how many you
want.
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I am not willing to give up my privacy for the false promise of 'security'
Well, nice work on his part, but all he had to do was e-mail me and I
could've sent him a perfect copy, which I've had for years, and which I've
given out to several people.
Also, I simply read the program from a copy I have on tape into an Apple
][+. Once you get the volume levels correct on the cassette tape (not
trivial, but do-able after enough tries) then it's a no-brainer. No fancy
waveform graphs or C code required.
Finally, Apple-1 BASIC is simply "Integer BASIC", which came with the
Apple ][ and is pretty readily available itself.
Anyway, it was a nice intellectual exercise.
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My company had a cash flow problem and had to close the office. We
thought we might come out of it and saved our system in my garage. We did
not turn around and so I have a VAX with DecServers and a printer to
divest. I also included the VMS documents. Primarily I would be happy to
work with someone to relieve me of the hardware.
Jim Molloy
221 Howe Ave.
Passaic NJ 07055
973 778 1286
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> Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:25:51 -0500
> From: "joe lobocki" <jlobocki at gmail.com>
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 12:19 PM, Jeff Walther <trag at io.com> wrote:
>> <http://www.shrevesystems.com/drives.html>
>>
> well, i just looked, and they have 1.44m drives only, so that wont work.
> but, I have bought from shreve before in the past (although, over ebay)
> and
> found them to be reliable, but that was a while ago. thanks for the help
> though
>
My bad. I was thinking of "autoinject" and not 800K vs. 1.44MB.
However, unless you're a purist for collector's reasons, I think the 1.44
MB drive will work fine in the SE. It will read and write 800K and 400K
disks just as well as an 800K disk drive.
The only issue I can remember is that you might need a different floppy
drive cable (red stripe vs. yellow stripe) or was that an auto-inject vs
manual-inject cable issue? It's been so long since I've dealt with
floppy replacement that that old knowledge isn't terribly accessible any
more.
But I do know that the 1.44 MB auto-inject drive is a good functional
replacement for the 800KB auto-inject drive and the only reason not to do
it is if you're trying to keep the machine pristinely original.
Jeff Walther
>> Actually, I wrote some 6502 asm to bit bang out the game port
>> data, ttl rs232 ;-) . It isn't that hard.
> Did that to move Infocom game sectors from an Apple II to a C-64.
> It was a bit rough, but with both CPUs bit-banging away at 1200
> baud, it took a while. In the end, though, the operation was a success.
Likewise, once did a similar thing to transfer a particularly interesting textual adventure game from an Apple II to an Atari 800. Cobbled together a three-wire cable between game ports on each machine and used a very simplistic transfer method: Used one conductor as a single-bit DATA line, another for RCVR-READY, the last for signal ground. We sent just one bit at a time, with the RCVR-READY basically ACKing each bit. Certainly wasn't an efficient way to send data, but there was no reason to finesse it any more, since it was a one-time setup.
If I remember right, we figured that our 42KB transfer would take about 75 minutes. After a slightly extended lunch, the transfer was complete. I guess that works out to about 10 bytes per second! With a few more minutes to patch the 'TTY-IN' and 'TTY-OUT' entry points, we had a fully working app. If I remember correctly, we even figured out how to modify the game save functionality for the Atari, too.
- Jared
