Many of you may recall The Great Trailer Incident (tm) of 2004, in which
cctalk owner Jay West ventured from St. Louis to Boston for VCF East 2.0,
only to encounter a flat tire, incompetent police dispatchers, poison ivy,
and -- according to rumor on the VCF show floow -- arrest, fire, crashing,
computer tragedy, possibly death, and/or an encounter with a
minicomputer-hating wild boar.
Okay, so the part about the minicomputer-hating wild board MIGHT not be
true, but personally I think that's what really happened. Jay's version of
the story is here:
http://www.classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctalk/2004-July/045851.html
I'm simultaneously proud (and fucking ASTOUNDED) to share the news tonight
that Vince Briel, this weekend at VCF East 5.0 in New Jersey, ** BEAT **
Jay's adventure!!!!!
Vince's weekend began ordinary enough. He packed his car and left Cleveland
on Friday morning for the 8-hour drive to central New Jersey. He arrived in
the late afternoon / early evening.
Just like the other exhibitors who arrived Friday for the Sat./Sun. event,
Vince unpacked his car and began setting up his table. Then he came to me
after an hour and said, "Evan, there is a problem." He looked extremely
distraught.
I know Vince pretty well, so I figured either there was a real problem, or
(more likely) there was a punchline to follow, perhaps at my expense.
Vince was scheduled to run a replica-building workshop this morning. What
he revealed Friday night was that he forgot to pack the replica kits.
No boggie. Just cancel the workshop, and people will understand that it was
a simple mistake, I told him .... but Vince would have none of that .... in
the dark and in the pouring rain and clearly tired, Vince decided to DRIVE
BACK TO CLEVELAND TO GET THEM. I and others tried to talk him out of it,
with no luck.
Vince got home to Cleveland, slept for just 2 hours, then made sure he had
the kits this time and DROVE BACK TO NEW JERSEY -- for a total of 24 hours
of highway driving in about a 35-hour span -- much of it in the dark and/or
rain, and much of it on increasingly little sleep! Quite frankly, I
wouldn't want to have been the cars near him, especially on the second trip
to Jersey yesterday morning.
His workshop this morning was a huge success. Then a few hours later, after
the show ended, he (of course) drove home (again) to Cleveland.
In total that's 32 hours of highway driving, much of it in the dark and/or
rain, much on little/no sleep, spending hundreds of dollars on gas, all a
three-day span, just because he's a dedicated, hard-core, loyal, and
(apparently) clinically insane VCF supporter.
THE GREAT TRAILER INCIDENT HAS BEEN BEAT.
Vince is god.
- Evan
Sun Sep 14 12:17:30 CDT 2008, Jason T said:
> First of all, way cool project. I'm in now with a couple different
> clients (Windows and PuTTY in raw mode, showing the echo you
> mentioned.) Is anyone unable to route to this IP? I'm on Comcast
> cable and in fine, but a local friend with AT&T DSL shows no route to
> that host, which is a bit odd. You're on Charter (cable, I think?) so
> it's not like you're some offshore spamhaus. Then again it could
> just be him. Weird.
I'm using Qwest DSL, and have no problems reaching The Mighty
Peanut. We tried a couple of WinXP telnet and PuTTY sessions. I
noticed that the WinXP telnet client was listed as "ANSI" and the PuTTY
client was listed as "XTERM". I had to use Shift-Backspace or CTRL-H
to backup on PuTTY. The Win client worked fine with the backspace key.
I don't have any way to really pound the little peanut, but I did just
sit on
my RETURN key for a while, and let the peanut try to send the HELP
message as fast as my RETURN key would repeat. Seemed to hold up
just fine. Well done, Mike!
- Jared
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 12:28:07 -0700
From: dave hunter <hunt_x at hotmail.com>
Subject: manual 4 A B&C Microsystems 1409 Prom Burner
>Hi mike I just found a post where you stated you had a manual
>for one of these beasts (B&C Microsystems 1409 Prom Burner)
>whats the chance i could get a copy I could shoot you cash via
>paypal asap thanks a million
>Dave Hunter
---------
I replied off-list; let me know if you got it and if it's what you need.
m
>
>Subject: Re: ISO: NEC UPD72070 IC
> From: "Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com>
> Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 08:36:26 -0700
> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
>
>On 12 Sep 2008 at 18:58, Allison wrote:
>
>> It in the intel data book page 3-32 (1988 volume2 peripheral with black cover).
>> I have that datasheet but the scanner is down.
>
>You're not thinking of the 82078 are you? 64 pin, but very different
>chip, both in pinout and command set. If you've got a part number,
>I'll go digging for it, but AFAIK, the NEC part was a special for
>Apple--I've never seen it anywhere else.
>
>Cheers,
>Chuck
Oops, intel 82070 a reall oddball as well but not the same part.
Allison
I have an HDS10 in a BA350 I'd like to try attaching to a VAX 4000 but
I'm missing an appropriate external interconnect cable. It appears
that what I need is a BC29R (p/n 17-03855-xx) or equivalent cable with
a PS connector on the VAX end and a MR connector on the HSD10 end.
Anyone have some extra of these that they don't need and are willing
to part with them for a reasonable amount plus postage in the US?
-Glen
http://h71000.www7.hp.com/wizard/cable-guide.html
BC29R DSSI Cable for HSD.
Description: DSSI cable to connect the VAX/DEC 4000 system to the
HSD05 or HSD30 DSSI to SCSI adapter/controller.
Specification:
Connectors: One 50-way MR (micro-ribbon) right-angled connector for
the HSD, and one 50-way PS (pin socket or tab) right-angled connector
for the system end.
Ordering Information:
BC29R-06, -09, -16, -30, 45, -60.
p/n 17-03855-04, -05, -06, -07, -08, -09.
>
>Subject: Re: ISO: NEC UPD72070 IC
> From: "Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com>
> Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 12:21:20 -0700
> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
>
>On 12 Sep 2008 at 11:34, Al Kossow wrote:
>
>> Very unusual part. It was the only externally developed floppy controller
>> Apple ever used that supported GCR. Were you able to find data on it?
>
>In Japanese, a datasheet along with an app note on NEC's website
>(http://www.necel.com). Easy enough to suss out in spite of the
>chicken scratches. Basically a uPD765 controller with a bunch of add-
>ons for the GCR stuff.
>
>> I doubt you will be able to find one w/o unsoldering it from an AV board.
>
>I suspect as much. Maybe there's someone out there with a junker...
>
>Cheers,
>Chuck
It in the intel data book page 3-32 (1988 volume2 peripheral with black cover).
I have that datasheet but the scanner is down.
Allison
>
Waaaaaaaay too cool . . . .
-- "Michael B. Brutman" <mbbrutman-cctalk at brutman.com> wrote:
It's running! Telnet to 97.86.233.68 to take a look and help me test it.
You can use the standard Windows telnet program, Putty, Linux, or
whatever you have handy.
Around 10 users can be on at the same time. When you sign on (no
password required) there will be a little menu to help you waste some
time. Some things you can do are see who else is on the server, view the
machine type, ROM BIOS date and DOS version, check the TCP/IP statistics
to see how much traffic it is handling, etc.
There are some upgrades since the last time I ran this test (in Dec 2007):
- The TCP/IP stack is much better
- I'm doing 'telnet' negotiation to figure out the terminal type, turn
echoing on, etc
- Crude line editing has been added
Right now it is running on my PCjr using a Xircom PE3 10BT. I plan to
leave it up as long as it runs, or three days, whichever comes first. It
is a PCjr so if there is a momentary delay, don't panic - it's probably
just doing disk I/O.
Backspace is a little dodgy .. it really wants ASCII 8 and a lot of
terminals and emulators do ASCII 127 instead. Try variations with the
shift and control keys if it doesn't work.
Thanks,
Mike
____________________________________________________________
Save hundreds on an Unsecured Loan - Click here.
http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/fc/Ioyw6i3m3iTRdQUEvUXDmbZcm2uAgLT…
Hi mike I just found a post where you stated you had a manual for one of these beasts (B&C Microsystems 1409 Prom Burner) whats the chance i could get a copy I could shoot you cash via paypal asap thanks a million
Dave Hunter
_________________________________________________________________
> Anyone have a spare one of these chips? This was used as the floppy
> controller on the AV Macs.
Very unusual part. It was the only externally developed floppy controller
Apple ever used that supported GCR. Were you able to find data on it?
I doubt you will be able to find one w/o unsoldering it from an AV board.