I am surprised this has not made list news yet.
Claude Kagan had a terrible fire yesterday morning that completely
destroyed his barn. The barn was fairly well known to many East coast
collectors, as it was the home of the RESISTORS, a group of 1970s
teenage hackers, as well as being the home of his collection of
interesting technological items, including quite a few computers.
Claude is unharmed and in decent spirits, and his house is unharmed,
except for lack of electricity.
The barn held many interesting machines over the years. Every so often
Claude would let one go - sometimes to individuals, other times to
museums. At the time of the fire, he still had some AT&T 3B2s, a
Teletype 37, a Symbolics 3670, a more or less complete small town
Central Office complex, and most importantly, the legendary Burroughs
B205.
Claude and I had just started to clean up the barn three weeks ago,
and while I pulled out a good pile of very good documentation, much
was lost. It is likely that there is little or nothing that can be
saved.
I made an emergency side trip today to help out, as I was down in New
Jersey anyway. The destruction is total. The Burroughs is sticking out
of the rubble, gutted and stripped of paint. The Burroughs is dead.
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Will
I've found this little board, similar to a processor board: the chip
with heathsink can be the microprocessor and the other cache ... but I'm
not sure
I've search information, with the codes in the label, but no answer.
Can someone help me ?
These are the pictures (big, 500K each)
Front
http://www.retrocomputing.net/parts/varie/chippone/modulo_sconosciuto_dr
itto.gif
and rear
http://www.retrocomputing.net/parts/varie/chippone/modulo_sconosciuto_di
etro.gif
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As it says, I've two Fluke 9000A available for a little beer money or trade
for HP stuff..
Located in the Netherlands but int' shipping is no problem and should be not
to expensive (flat rate envelope)
Please contact off-list
-Rik
Yesterday, here in New Jersey, a Burroughs B-205 tube computer was
destroyed when the barn containing it burned down. It belonged to
85-year-old Claude Kagan who is a legend out here. Among other things,
he formed the student computer club called the "RESISTORS" in the 1960s,
and he wrote the SAM-76 programming language.
The good news is that Claude was not harmed, and his main house is okay.
But it's a good reminder, if anybody needs one, to save vintage
computers while we can -- and to ensure the integrity of our storage areas.
On Fri, December 4, 2009 5:52 pm, Pontus wrote:
>> Then, assuming the cable really is correct (have you tried swapping Tx
>> and Rx?), is plugged in to the correct
> This was the somewhat obvious error I missed when checking the cable. I
> discovered it by trying another cable which isn't keyed. So I
> accidentally put it in upside down, which incidentally flips Tx and Rx.
> Thanks for putting up with me :)
>
> So now I get this:
>
> 28
> START?
>
> Which confuses me, I have a 32kB (or is it kW ?) worth of memory
> installed (M8044-DD) configured to start at address 0. Shouldn't it say
> 32 instead of 28? How does the memory detection work anyway?
4K for the I/O page..
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
Despite their crappy products, IOmega did leave behind one good legacy. Cheap 5/12v DC regulated wall warts. Perfect for the VFD clocks that I'm working on. 5v for the logic and 12v for the display. And thanks to the throwaway nature of their products these can be found pretty cheap at local flea markets.
Regards, Jim
Hey all --
Picked up an HP Integral PC. Probably paid too much for it but
something about a luggable HP machine with a plasma display running
HP-UX from ROM seemed irresistible. But I digress.
Has anyone archived the manuals for this thing? I've been unable to
find anything in my searches on the internet. Found some software
archives (and after lubricating the floppy mechanism I've been able to
make use of it...) but not much documentation. Docs for the HP BASIC
for this machine would be nice, too.
I've only played with it for a little while, but it seems like a really
neat machine. (Though it seems like this thing is just begging for some
sort of mass-storage other than the internal floppy and RAM. Anyone
have an HPIB hard disk for sale? :)
Thanks,
Josh
