test-drb August 2008

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by aek＠bitsavers.org

http://www.schrotthal.de/motorola/ also, the docs are still on line, if you can figure out what the file names are under https://mcg.motorola.com/us/products/docs/pdf/ The product line has been taken over by Emerson

16 years, 1 month

M88k info

by aek＠bitsavers.org

http://badabada.org/ has a nice overview

16 years, 1 month

What font is the DEC logo?

by evan＠snarc.net

Does anyone happen to know which font(s) best replicate the DEC logo, such as this: http://www.vaxination.ca/vms/alpha/digital_556.jpg ...? I thought Arial Narrow might be correct, but things like the bottom of the lowercase "a" are different. We're looking to make a DEC banner for an exhibit in our museum here in New Jersey. (Or, does anyone have an existing DEC banner to loan / donate inexpensively sell to us?) - Evan

16 years, 1 month

Power control connectors for BA4xx boxes??

by bob＠jfcl.com

Can anyone identify the power control connectors used on the H7874 power supplies in the DEC BA4xx boxes? They look a lot like RJ-45s, but there are some extra ridges in them so that an RJ style plug won't fit. And the contact arrangement is different, so it probably wouldn't work even if it did fit. I'm trying find a cable so I can daisy chain the power control on a couple of cabinets, or matching connectors so that I can make my own. Thanks, Bob Armstrong

16 years, 1 month

hp85 belts : any source in Europe ?

by jos.mar＠bluewin.ch

A local auctionsite yielded me a dead hp85 for 1$. The error was quickly identified : the internal flatcables were badly aligned and shorted out several lines. The machine is now functional, but still suffers from bad contacts. I might resolve to soldering some wires instead of the offending flatcables. Of course tapedrive and printer need to be rebuild : any source for small quantities of these belts in Europe ? Jos Dreesen

16 years, 1 month

OT: Pushing pins

by aek＠bitsavers.org

> Just wondering if anyone's found a decent tool for pushing wire-wrap > socket pins out of (thick) 1/8" prototyping board. I made something a LONG time ago by drilling a hole into the end of a center punch.

16 years, 1 month

Who is vintagecomputermuseum?

by jeff.kaneko＠juno.com

-- Jim Battle <frustum at pacbell.net> wrote: Dave McGuire wrote: > On Aug 17, 2008, at 10:20 AM, Steven Hirsch wrote: >> Just curious if the person who owns this eBay store is a list regular? >> And, more the the point, do they actually get anyone to pay nearly >> $500 for an AT&T PC7300? > > I sold one for $300 last summer. Remember, this whole notion of > classic computers never being worth any actual money is pretty much > restricted to this mailing list. Yeah, and I guess the whole notion of the classic computers hobby being a level playing field was also restricted to this list. Ooops, I guess not even that is true anymore, huh? ____________________________________________________________ Click for online loan, fast & no lender fee, approval today http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/fc/Ioyw6i3m3WL623vT1MXViOvoiNjovS5…

16 years, 1 month

Mac unices manuals

by mtapley＠swri.edu

All, A couple of things I have but don't have time to fool with: User's Reference Manual only :-( for Tenon Mach-Ten Unix for Macintosh. also the box for the media, but *no media*. A/UX Essentials Manual only for Apple A/UX X/11 Reference for A/UX X/11 User's Guide for A/UX Apple MacX (User's Guide Supplement for A/UX (2 copies) X-11 for A/UX and MacX install disks (3.5" floppies) I'd like to get shipping + 25% or so; I'm in Zip 78254. Also still looking to divest myself of many many reels of 9-track tape. Suggestions welcome as to a better venue for this kind of announcement, but I'm not a big fan of eBay. Contact by email preferred, cellphone below is also OK. -- - Mark 210-379-4635 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.

16 years, 1 month

looking for Motorola PowerStack manuals, info, Any model

by jeff.kaneko＠juno.com

-- Steven M Jones <classiccmp at crash.com> wrote: jeff.kaneko at juno.com wrote: >> You'd probably have better luck locating an 88k AViiON. >> Many more were produced, with similar (VME) architecture. >> Documentation is scarce, but if you get the right model, >> there's some good info available. > >Appreciate the suggestion. I already have a few deskside >88k AViiONs buried in storage, Cool! Which model(s)? > several Moto MVME 88100/88110 modules and a chassis >or two, Yep, standard issue . . . >an ADP-badged M8120, The Shoebox! Looks like OpenBSD kinda-sorta works on this one . . . >and one of the OMRON Luna 88k SMP workstations. That last just >popped up on eBay one day so I grabbed it You lucky dog! These are the rarest of the 88k systems (unless you also consider the nearly-mythical 88k NextStation). ISTR a LUNA appeared or E-bay a couple of years ago. Was yours that one? The price was quite high IIRC. . . >-- say, wonder if I can dig that out in time for VCF... Maybe there should be an 88k contingent this go around? Maybe I can bring my 412. . . . Jeff ____________________________________________________________ Live your dreams. Click here to find information on becoming a lawyer. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/fc/Ioyw6i3oFGmeTdIHkCRO7tYZ1uPzwsM…

16 years, 1 month

OT-ish? McIlroy's "Synthetic English Speech by Rule"

by jzg22＠drexel.edu

I know this is a 'blast from the past', but did anyone ever find the McIlroy paper? The McIlroy algorithm both inspired and was in direct competition with the NRL algorithm. The NRL algorithm was developed by Votrax and the Naval Research Laboratory, details of which are discussed in another paper (NTIS ADA0121 929, NRL report 7948) which is available >from the national archives in college park, MD. (I'm planning to get a copy of the latter, but have no idea how to get a copy of the M. D. McIlroy paper. the version in the journal of the acoustical society of america is not the complete paper, but a citation of it for a conference, afaict) * * -- Jonathan Gevaryahu jgevaryahu(@t)hotmail(d0t)com jzg22(@t)drexel(d0t)edu * Don Y* dgy at DakotaCom.Net <mailto:cctech%40classiccmp.org?Subject=OT-ish%3F%20%20McIlroy%27s%20%22Synthetic%20English%20Speech%20by%20Rule%22&In-Reply-To=> /Wed Jul 19 21:37:44 CDT 2006 / My only claim to being *possibly* on-topic is the age of the article (1974) and the fact that it inspired many of the early phoneme-driven speech synthesizers (Votrax, etc.). Does anyone have access to a suitably good engineering library with a copy of: McIlroy, M D, "Synthetic English Speech by Rule", Bell Telephone Labs, CSTR #14, 1973 (though I have also seen it referenced as 1974!) or: Ainsworth, W A, "A System for Converting English Text to Speech", IEEE Trans Audio & Electroacoustics AU-21 #3 pp 288-290, 1973 The former is far more interesting to me than the latter :-( (sigh) There are *some* advantages to being a student (though those days are long past, in my case!) I can try my local public library to see if it is available via ILL. I guess I could also try the local university's engineering library. Thanks! --don

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