test-drb January 2009

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by msw＠orac.wickensonline.co.uk

I N T E R O F F I C E M E M O R A N D U M Date: 07-Jan-2009 02:35pm GMT From: Mark Wickens MSW Dept: Software Development Tel No: 01539 446851 TO: VMSmail User SMTP%"cctalk at clas ( _"SMTP%""cctalk at classiccmp.org""" ) Subject: RE: Source for SCART connectors in US? email me: mark at wickensonline.co.uk regards, mark

15 years, 11 months

Free Wang 2200 CS equipment near Detroit, Michigan

by frustum＠pacbell.net

I was contacted by Mr. Mike Sharl. He has a client that needs to dispose of some functioning Wang equipment, namely: > The Wang CS and SDS drive and 2236 monitors, cables, etc > at my client's office will be tossed by mid January. The Wang CS was a late 80s incarnation of the 2200 MVP. The MVP is a microcoded machine that runs the Wang BASIC-2 dialect. It is also a timeshared system, as you can connect up to 16 terminals (that is what the 2236 thing is -- intelligent terminals with 8080s in them). The SDS drive is a 3rd party hard disk made by Southern Data Systems. I would suspect a cache of manuals and software come with it. It is located in Southfield, Michigan. The owner doesn't want any cash, just wants it gone as they are moving locations. If nobody claims it in the next few weeks, it will be turned back into sand. Email me and I'll connect you with Mike.

15 years, 11 months

Ancient Mac file/disk preservation/archiving (was Re: Mac 400k floppy drive alignment?)

by ethan.dicks＠gmail.com

On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Rich Alderson <RichA at vulcan.com> wrote: > One of these days one of my tuits will be other than rhomboidal, and I'll put > System 7.5 on the 6100 in my storage locker (since that's the last version of > Mac OS that will deal with 400K disks)... Good to know... I have plenty of late 68K and early PPC Macs handy, but wasn't sure what could or could not read 400K disks. > I still have the original MacWrite and MacPaint floppies that came > with my 128K... I think I still have those from somewhere (I couldn't afford a Mac when they were *NEW*, but I did manage one eventually. >... along with a lot of other good stuff (like the Banana PC 6000 Jr. > emulator for the Finder, and a CLI that would only run on a 68000). Nice. Those sound like fun. I know I have plenty of old 400K disks because I have yet to go through the boxes of floppies from my mother's shop. She ran "Academic Typing and Typesetting" for years, a few blocks north of Ohio State; and for the longest time, she used Mac 512K and 512Ke machines (eventually with Dove Snap boards), a couple of Mac Pluses, then finally settled on Mac SEs which she stayed with until she died in 1997. I don't think she had a single machine that I didn't open up to either repair or upgrade (or both!) over the years, including loading a "Plus" ROM set into her $5,000 original Apple LaserWriter. She never could get over the fact that her laser printer was always her most powerful computer. It wasn't until late that she had a Mac over 2.5MB of RAM. She moved up from IBM Selectric II typewriters, and to her, the Mac was foremost a machine for processing text. She never outgrew System 5 and whatever version of Word for Macintosh that ran on a Mac Plus-equivalent box even when all new Macs had color and more memory and disk in one machine than all of hers combined. She wasn't much for games, unsurprisingly, but in amongst stacks of student papers and dissertations, I hope to find a few gems tucked here and there. Her entire collection of floppies plus images of all of her machines would scarcely make a dent in a CD-ROM, so it's more the time it's going to take to read things in than anything else. Presuming one has a few hundred floppies to read in, does anyone have any favorite apps to recommend? I presume, like for the Amiga, there are preferred floppy image formats that could be used to either reconstitute real media or to feed to an emulator. Obviously, any imaging program should be able to do that, but it doesn't hurt to specifically ask. Among the (not uncommon) things I recall from her machines in the 1980s are MacPuke, the "Jive Finder", and a variety of PICTs of various anti-DOS posters. What I'm looking forward to is finding things I've long forgotten were there. -ethan

15 years, 11 months

pdp 11/55 music LP on ebay (350143529632)

by stephane.tsacas＠gmail.com

http://cgi.ebay.fr/LP-KLARENZ-BARLOW-HERBERT-HENCK-PDP-11-55-WERGO_W0QQitem…<http://cgi.ebay.fr/LP-KLARENZ-BARLOW-HERBERT-HENCK-PDP-11-55-WERGO_W0QQitem…> >From the auction item description : *Klarenz Barlow, " ?o?luotob?si?letmesi* *"* ** *Herbert Henck, Klavier* *PDP 11/55 Computer, 4X Digital-Synthesizer* -- Stephane Paris, France.

15 years, 11 months

IBM 3532

by wdonzelli＠gmail.com

Does anyone know what the proper drive (as in down to an IBM FRU number) the 3532-023 SCSI tape box wants? It is a 2.3G 8mm of some sort. -- Will

15 years, 11 months

HP9836 hardware. software and manuals availability

by srp＠saslab.net

I have a large collection of hardware, software and manuals relating to the HP9836 computer. The following items are available to anyone who would like them and who could collect them from Buckinghamshire. I will only give an outline of the items available although \I can provide more detailed listings on request: 1. 5 Hp9836 computers of which 2 are fully functioning. The other 3 have various failed subsystems but they could easily be cannibalised into 2 working systems. 2. Approximately 8 5.25 disk drives, all failed and in need of repair. 3. Full manual sets for Basic and Pascal in t 2 versions of each. 4. A collection of memory cards and math coprocessor cards. 5. Both 3.5 and 5.25 original operating system disks. 6. A collection of 7470 and 7475 plotters most of which are working. 7. A collection of various Thinkjet printers and other HP printers, 8. Various HPIB cables 9. IEM Fortran77 compiler and manuals. Several 9122 3.25 disk drives I have been using these machines for 25 years and have recently changed to Windows based systems. I do not have the heart just to throw these items away so please let me know if you need further details or have any interest in these items. Marek Pawlik

15 years, 11 months

29F512 flash memory

by dpham＠americanalphainc.com

I'm using ChipMax programmer to flash EPROM 29F512 and for some reasons, it doesn't flash the program. Is there anything that you think I'm doing something wrong? Please give me some advises. Thank you! Best regards, Danny

15 years, 11 months

IOB6120

by drb＠msu.edu

Recent discussion of the SBC6120 and the IOB6120 reminded me that I've been wanting an IOB6120, so I spent a little time looking into having boards fabbed. I talked to Jim Kearney, who said he has no objections. It looks like 25 pre-sold boards at $28 is a workable price. Though less likely, 50 boards pre-sold would be make it $16. Issues: I'm not currently able to front the cost, so it would have to be a pre-pay deal. I'm willing to do the footwork to order boards, but I'm not ready to tackle kitting full parts sets. J.C. Wren said he believes that at one point there may have been issues sourcing flash chips. If original or compatible parts are no longer available, then there's no point. It'll take me approximately a dozen round-tuits to check all of these. Perhaps someone else is intimately familiar with the parts and could do it, or we could split them up among a group and each check a handful? According to Jim, this board is a non-trivial build. I think I can probably pull it off, but I'm not about to start building 25 of them for others. This may limit the number of folks interested in buying. So: Discussion of the above issues (or others)? How many would buy IOB6120 boards (I'll try to keep score)? Cheers, De

15 years, 11 months

Source for SCART connectors in US?

by msw＠orac.wickensonline.co.uk

I N T E R O F F I C E M E M O R A N D U M Date: 08-Jan-2009 08:49am GMT From: Mark Wickens MSW Dept: Software Development Tel No: 01539 446851 TO: VMSmail User SMTP%"cctalk at clas ( _"SMTP%""cctalk at classiccmp.org""" ) Subject: Re: Source for SCART connectors in US? Gordon, Sorry, I'm doing retrochallenge this year and sending all my emails through ALLIN1, the DIGITAL office automation product circa 80s-90s. I'll investigate how to change the standard email template. For anyone who's interested my challenge is using a VAX 4000/90 as my home computer during January and a couple of small programming challenges. My blog is at: http://www.wickensonline.co.uk/retro Regards, Mark.

15 years, 11 months

Fwd: [alt.folklore.compute...] Re: DECWriter APL Font

by legalize＠xmission.com

This message has been forwarded from Usenet. To reply to the original author, use the email address from the forwarded message. Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:28:29 -0600 Groups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.sys.dec,comp.lang.apl From: Charles Richmond <frizzle at tx.rr.com> Reply: frizzle at tx.rr.com Org: Canine Computer Center Subject: Re: DECWriter APL Font Re: <54e1908d-cb50-4371-9047-0239a4b25a33 at r37g2000prr.googlegroups.c om> Id: <gk140h$iq1$1 at reader.motzarella.org> ======== Quadibloc wrote: > On Dec 28, 5:54 am, Quadibloc <jsav... at ecn.ab.ca> wrote: > >> Before the fancy smaller Decwriter, there was a later model that still >> looked a lot like an LA36, though. > > Now I've sorted this out. The one you mentioned, the LA120 Decwriter > III, closely resembled the LA36 Decwriter II, except that it had a > modified keyboard arrangement; it was typewriter-pairing, but > {[ and }] keys replaced the {} and [] keys of the traditional > typewriter-pairing layout, following the precedent of the VT 100, > which later was also found on the IBM PC. > > The smaller one with the much nicer fonts was the Decwriter IV, or > LA38 (among other numbers...). > > While the Decwriter III had the same basic fonts as the Decwriter II, > it did have additional features such as condensed and expanded > printing, as I found out from here: > > http://vt100.net/docs/tp83/chapter14.html > I found some old papers from 30+ years ago with some APL functions printed out by an LA36 DECWriter (II?). I have posted them on a web page. I know the functions are *not* coded the best way, but I posted them as an example of the DECWriter APL font: http://www.aquaporin4.com/apl/ The noise in the background is caused by the *poor* quality paper. My college *never* intended these to be kept for 30+ years... -- +----------------------------------------------------------------+ | Charles and Francis Richmond richmond at plano dot net | +----------------------------------------------------------------+

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test-drb January 2009