Does anyone have a base for an ASR-33 that they want to get rid of?
Alternatively, is anyone willing to take some photographs of the base so
that I can make a reasonably accurate facsimile? I would need 3 images:
front, side, rear taken from about the middle of the base from the floor
to make scaling easy.
-chuck
A different interpretation on the 10 Yr. 'Rule'. Many experts, CPU mag
being one, say that we shouldn't store info on CDs, DVDs, etc. as they
may be unreadable in less than 10 yrs. Wouldn't it be sad if we lost
valuable information on the classic computing era? I guess
old-fashioned paper is the best way after all! Let's hope these
technologies last longer than my Zip-drive and disks that can't be
read because the drive died and I can't get it fixed or at the very
least at a decent price. So Sad!
Murray--
On 5 Dec 2009 at 10:41, Fred Cisin wrote:
> Machines were designed to perform to certain benchmarks. Anyone
> remember Saxpy (the company, not the LINPACK deck)? Anyone have one
> of their machines?
Ah, I remember Saxpy Computer Corporation to be in the same vein
as Alliant and Sequent etc. A little different than the SEL/Gould
processors but not too much (somewhere I have a "Firebreathers from Gould"
button, must be 1986? 87?), and probably closer to the bolt-on vector
coprocessors. But no, other than hearing their sales pitches never saw one.
I'm not sure I knew any labs that bought one. OTOH Alliant and Sequent
got into lots of engineering labs and even schools in that time frame.
Tim.
I'm looking for one or two NCR/AMD 5380 SCSI chips (40 pin DIP) to restore
an Ampro Little Board Plus. Will pay a reasonable price or trade a couple of
motley Xerox I mobos + docs (one has a Ferguson RAM enhancement daughter
board).
Please reply to me directly.
Thanks,
Jack
Anyone know much about Transdata teletypes from the early/mid-1970s?
Google doesn't show much. I'm interested in the company itself. What's
the story of Transdata, and what became of the company? Links /
articles / etc. would be appreciated.
Thanks.
- Evan
Mosaic-CK is a fork of NCSA Mosaic I maintain as a "Lynx with graphics" for
various older operating systems, including Power MachTen, but also as a
historical simulation of the early days of the World Wide Web that can run
on modern operating systems as well. It currently builds on Mac OS X and
Power MachTen, and there is now experimental support for Linux once again.
This current version adds:
- Split rendering: (default) alternative renderer with
- UTF-8 and Unicode translation (partial)
- Larger HTML subset support
versus the classic renderer, toggleable on the fly
- Progressive rendering, to ameliorate page loads
- Bug fixes, custodial cleanup, etc.
A Universal Binary is available for Mac OS X 10.4+. It requires X11 and
(free) OpenMotif.
http://www.floodgap.com/retrotech/machten/mosaic/
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Word has come down the line to me that six people showed up during
registration hours and only three people actually registered. Unfortunately
a minimum of 12 people were needed for the auction to go ahead and thus it
has unfortunately been cancelled.
>From what I have heard, what has already been consolidated will be
consolidated again into a single skid and put into storage until another
date. Anything that does not make it onto that skid will end up being
recycled and it has to be out of the warehouse by Monday so it will be
vanishing pretty quickly.
Too bad. There was some pretty nice stuff there too.
