test-drb February 2009

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Awfully Quiet out There

by martinm＠allwest.net

Anyone about? It's been very quiet since 2/14 - any list problems? Martin

15 years, 4 months

Fwd: [alt.sys.pdp8] LA-36 Free to a Good Home

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, 17 Feb 2009 11:00:28 -0600 Groups: alt.sys.pdp8 From: John Everett <jeverett3 at sbcglobal.DEFEAT.UCE.BOTS.net> Org: at&t http://my.att.net/ Subject: LA-36 Free to a Good Home Id: <08rlp45lofocavjg9oumacf50dt428t6b9 at 4ax.com> ======== I have an LA-36 DECwriter that was working last time I plugged it in. It's free to the first person who wants to pick it up in the western suburbs of Chicago. Just email. -- jeverett3<AT>sbcglobal<DOT>net (John V. Everett)

15 years, 4 months

BLINKENLIGHTS! Rare Hewlett Packard HP1000 1000F

by julianskidmore＠yahoo.com

Hi folks, HP1000 F-series available from Ebay UK. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BLINKENLIGHTS-Rare-Hewlett-Packard-HP1000-1000F_W0QQi… The seller even includes the classic Blinkenlights text! -cheers from julz @P.

15 years, 4 months

No adjective for this ebay item

by evan＠snarc.net

Kaypro II. Buy it now price: $35,000. 300039229895 http://tinyurl.com/dykuue

15 years, 4 months

Source for 12.44Mhz crystals?

by derschjo＠mail.msu.edu

Hey all -- While I'm waiting for other parts to arrive for my Tek project... anyone know where to find 12.44Mhz crystals? I acquired an old SSM VB1B video card (with an amazing 64 cols by 16 rows display capability!) that was only mostly-assembled, and the crystal is missing. According to the manual (http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/s100c/ssm/vb1b.pdf), it's a 12.44 Mhz part but I can't for the life of me find one anywhere -- even my Google searches mostly return links to the VB1B manual :). (And while we're at it -- my Tek project needs a pair of 39M-ohm resistors... anyone know where to find _these_? I know I can hack one up by putting a few others in series, but it's quite a mess...) Thanks, Josh

15 years, 5 months

Free for the cost of shipping DEC HSJ memory card (I believe)

by jtp＠chinalake.com

I was cleaning out a box of PCMCIA cards and found a gray thin pcmcia memory card with no markings on it. I believe it was used to load some of the HSJs when we got updates. If anyone wants it, I'll drop it in the post (US or Int'l) for the cost of shipping.

15 years, 5 months

Datasheet for ICT 27CX321 EPROM?

by ian_primus＠yahoo.com

I've got a handfull of these things that I've been trying to use. My programmer supports them, and I was hoping that they would have the same pinout as a 2732. At the moment, I'm not so sure. So far, I've had three of these chips in the eraser for a good 45 minutes total. If I set the programmer to the ICT 27CX321, it won't blank check - although reading it in and examining the data produces something composed mostly FF's - though not entirely. If I set the programmer to a generic 2732, it passes blank check. I haven't tried programming one yet - although I suppose I could try to fill one with zeroes. So, I take it that these things have a different pinout? I can't find any data on these. Any help would be appreciated. -Ian

15 years, 5 months

8088 vs. 80c88

by ajp166＠bellatlantic.net

> >Subject: Re: 8088 vs. 80c88 > From: Chris M <chrism3667 at yahoo.com> > Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 08:10:34 -0800 (PST) > To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org> > >regardless, and be sure I am no expert on semiconductor manufacturing, I'd be surprised to find out that all 8088's were CMOS after a certain date. The 80c88's were used mostly in small laptops, no? No they wer eused in many stationary apps wherelow power was desired. (small being anything smaller then that Zenith big honker, w/the shocking blue display. It used a *real* 8088 IINM). A CMOS version would be slower and more prone to damage from static electricity. And it would require less power. Off the top of my head I can't think of any desktops that used them, but I may have actually ran into 1 or 2 in my travels. They were not slower, most were as fast or faster. I have a few here. 10mhz and 12mhz parts along with 80C188s (12 and 16mhz). Allison >?But I am glad you managed to answer your own question Jimbo :) > >--- On Thu, 2/12/09, Jim Leonard <trixter at oldskool.org> wrote: > >From: Jim Leonard <trixter at oldskool.org> >Subject: Re: 8088 vs. 80c88 >To: General at mail.mobygames.com, "On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org> >Date: Thursday, February 12, 2009, 2:49 PM > >Jim Leonard wrote: >> So a simple routine to try to identify the 8088 vs. the 80c88 would look something like: >> >>???mov? ???cx,2? ? ? ? ? ? ; test if following instruction will be >>? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ???; repeated twice. >>???db? ? ? 0F3h,26h,0ACh???; rep es: lodsb >>???jcxz? ? Yes? ? ? ? ? ???; intel non-CMOS chips do not care of rep >>???jmp? ???Nope? ? ? ? ? ? ; before segment prefix override, NEC and >>? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ???; CMOS-tech ones does. > >It turns out my information is bad.? The bug only asserts itself when an interrupt occurs during the REP.? Buggy CPUs don't continue; later ones do.? So to fix my detection code, I will increase the count in cx to something much longer, probably f000. >-- Jim Leonard (trixter at oldskool.org)? ? ? ? ? ? http://www.oldskool.org/ >Help our electronic games project:? ? ? ? ???http://www.mobygames.com/ >Or check out some trippy MindCandy at? ???http://www.mindcandydvd.com/ >A child borne of the home computer wars: http://trixter.wordpress.com/ >=0A=0A=0A

15 years, 5 months

Can anyone identify these "multipage" terminals?

by tshoppa＠wmata.com

> Anyone recognize these? I've never seen or heard of them before. > <http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/vintage/multipage.jpg> I don't recognize multipage as a brand name, but those sure look a lot like the generic 3270 clones that were everywhere in the 80's and 90's. A picture of a keyboard or the connections on the back of a terminal would confirm my guess. Tim.

15 years, 5 months

Bletchley Park fires up Big Green-Eyed Monster • The Register

by woyciesjes＠sbcglobal.net

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/12/iris/ -- --- Dave Woyciesjes --- ICQ# 905818 --- AIM - woyciesjes --- CompTIA A+ Certified IT Tech - http://certification.comptia.org/ --- HDI Certified Support Center Analyst - http://www.ThinkHDI.com/ "From there to here, From here to there, Funny things are everywhere." --- Dr. Seuss

15 years, 5 months

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test-drb February 2009