Anyone here have the speech module for an IBM PC Convertible
they want to get rid of?
I just got one of these laptops & was hoping to score one.
David M. Vohs
Digital Archaeologist & Computer Historian
Computer Collection:
"Triumph": Commodore 64, 1802, 1541, Indus GT, FDD-1, GeoRAM 512, MPS-801.
"Leela": Original Apple Macintosh, Imagewriter II.
"Delorean": TI-99/4A, TI Speech Synthesizer.
"Spectrum": Tandy Color Computer III.
"Monolith": Apple Macintosh Portable.
"Boombox": Sharp PC-7000.
"Butterfly": Tandy 200, PDD-2.
"Shapeshifter": Epson QX-10, Comrex HDD, Titan graphics/MS-DOS board.
"Scout": Otrona Attache.
(prospective) "Pioneer": Apple LISA II.
"TMA-1": Atari Portfolio, Memory Expander +
"Centaur": Commodore Amiga 2000.
"Neon": Zenith Minisport.
Probably a stretch but wondering if anyone has any info (manual, pinouts,
service documentation) for a GNT model 3601 8-bit (1") paper tape punch.
It was probably better known in the CNC / automated machining world than
in computing but my hope is to resurrect it as a backup punch for copying
tapes I use with my ASR-33 and thereby save wear on the -33's punch.
The unit has serial and parallel interfaces on DB25 connectors but I do
not have any pinout information for those. The serial one I can probably
figure out.
Unfortunately, the unit is a little more sick than "works OK" seemed
to imply from the eBay seller. It has what I believe to be a power
supply problem because as soon as you try to punch all eight holes with
the front panel test button, the power LED dims and the punch jams,
apparently from lack of umph to complete the mission. It could also be
jamming to start with and that causes the power drop I suppose.
In any case, looking for any docs before I open it up and start digging
around. I have written to GNT without a reply so far.
Chris
--
Chris Elmquist
mailto:chrise at pobox.com
> From: "Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com>
> Not all Northstar diskettes are HS. One of the models (Advantage?)
> isn't--and it's that format that the Microsolutions MatchPoint will
> read, not the others. It's been too long since I've seen the darned
> things...
I think the machine you are thinking of might be the N* Dimension. The Advantage
still uses 10-sector floppies.
I've never seen the Dimension but vintagemicros on Ebay was selling one a while
back and had a picture of it. Apparently it was MS-DOS compatible.
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
Al Kossow wrote:
>
> I annouced a few months ago that the agreement had been signed.
>
> I'm attaching a pdf. If the attachement gets eaten, i'll put it
> on bitsavers under http://bitsavers.org/bits/HP/
>
Looks like the message was eaten.
The pdf is on bitsavers for you to take a look at.
CHM hasn't issued a press release about it since we're still doing things
like trying to convert the interleaf formatted manuals to pdfs and are organizing
what we have.
What HP actually donated was materal from about the last 10 years of the product's
life (RTE-A, mostly). The earlier code is coming from other holdings.
Back in 1998 (actually more like from summer 1997 until summer 1998,
i.e., the 1997-98 school year), before I started Quasijarus Project,
I was searching the World high and low for a copy of the 4.3BSD tape
set. That was before PUPS got its momentum with getting the $100
"Ancient UNIX" license deal from SCO, and more importantly, getting
people interested in preserving and working with Original UNIX, and
at that time the entire world was basically in a conspiracy of
anathema against original Bell/Berkeley UNIX, everyone just wanted
it to stay buried in its grave and not come up.
Getting a copy of the 4.3BSD tape set seemed next to impossible.
www.berkeley.edu was shockingly silent about the fact that Berkeley
UNIX aka BSD, UC Berkeley's greatest accomplishment in all of its
history, ever existed, much less saying how to order a tape. Finally
I found a phone number and a couple of E-mail addresses for some
office at UCB that was apparently kept for sending out tapes after
CSRG itself was gutted. The office was basically a voice mailbox and
a couple of E-mail addresses, with the two people who were actually
supposed to get those E-mail and voice messages being away somewhere
in San Francisco and taking a few weeks to answer inquiries.
Finally they got back to me and told me to send a check for $2400 for
4.4BSD and $1000 for 4.3BSD. Ouch! And of course some murky business
about licenses.
At that time, however, I attended Case Western Reserve University (CWRU)
and had a semi-staff relationship with their computer science department.
I realised that the university must have had a UNIX source license from
back in The Days, and most probably had the actual 4.3BSD tapes at some
point as well, especially given that the old-timers told me that they
were indeed running 11/780s before. But again the conspiracy of anathema
was working: everyone had completely forgotten about it, and no one on
the entire campus even knew that the university had a UNIX source license
(and old-timers confirmed that indeed there was one).
When spring 1998 came around, PUPS was making its debut with the $100
license deal from SCO. I didn't care so much about license stuff, but
it meant a resurgence of interest in Original UNIX and a community of
people involved with it, something that was completely lacking only a
few months prior. I wanted access to the PUPS archive, and I wanted to
use the university's license rather than fork over $100 for a personal
one. The only issue was *finding* that license. Then I got a bright
idea: since the license agreement was between CWRU and AT&T, there must
have been copies of it on both sides. If CWRU had chosen to forget
about the license they once paid big money for, how about if I dig up a
copy of the license agreement from AT&T side? So I asked SCO's Dion
Johnson about it, and lo and behold, a few days later a copy of CWRU's
original UNIX license agreement shows up in my box in the computer science
department mail room! Warren Toomey got another copy and soon I got an
overseas fax from him with passwords for his PUPS Archive! Whoo-hoo!
But I still needed 4.3BSD. It wasn't in Warren's archive since they
were still PDP-only at that time, and me holding a copy of my school's
AT&T UNIX license agreement didn't help convince anyone I knew who
might have had 4.3BSD tapes to share them with me.
In late 1997 I got myself an office at CWRU, it was the CES department's
computer junkyard room. I was quite happy, a room full of classic
computers was the best office I could get. It was actually two rooms,
411 and 412. Only 411 was accessible from the hallway, the entrance to
412 was inside 411. Both rooms were filled with classic computer gear,
but 411 was a little less full and actually had some room for a desk and
was usable as an office. 412, on the other hand, was *completely* filled
with classic computer gear (mostly Sun 3) and it was difficult for a
person to make it through to the end of the room. At the very end of
room 412 (the end opposite the entrance door from 411) there was
something that looked like a plastic curtain or plastic window blinds.
The architecture of that building was really intriguing, the kind one
finds only on good old university campuses, and I couldn't really tell
if there was supposed to be a window there or not. I just never gave
it much thought, and it was too difficult to climb over all that Sun 3
gear in the way to see exactly what it was.
On a shelf in room 411 there were some magtape reels, and I thought
that if they ever had 4.3BSD tapes, they ought to be there. But I
looked through all the tapes I could see and 4.3BSD wasn't there. Bummer.
Then one day in summer 1998 I came to work in the morning, went up
the stairs to my beloved Computer Engineering and Science department
4th floor, went to the end of the hallway to my office, and got in.
I turned on the lights and per my usual habit, peeked all over the
room to make sure all the fun classic computers were still there.
And lo and behold, at the very end of room 412, where I previously
saw those plastic curtains or window blinds or whatever, I now saw
two racks full of magtapes! It turned out that the plastic "curtains"
were actually vertically sliding doors (kinda like garage doors) of
two huge magtape cabinets! Another staff member must have had a need
to get some old magtape and didn't close the cabinet after he was done.
With trembling hands, I raced there and started looking through all
the tapes. And sure enough, in a few minutes I found all 3 tapes of
the 4.3BSD 1600 BPI distribution.
I spent pretty much the whole year prior to that moment searching the
World high and low for 4.3BSD tapes when they were sitting the whole
time in my own office! Now that's a "Duh!" moment.
MS
many types of course. Generally speaking do the materials used in pc's from
the 80s fall into a single category? Everything is injected into a mold for
sure, from largish cases to tiny keytops. Would all this qualify as
polystyrene? Whatever the case, what's a good solvent (not necessarily glue)
that's useful for repairing big cracks or splits, to tiny hairline cracks. I
say solvent, and some glues can fall into this category, because it makes
more sense to reinforce the materials from behind to effect a strong bond,
and for cosmetic sake meld the item from the front, to obscure the defect
itself.
Many surfaces are anything but smooth. Has anyone tried, given they were
successful in melding the surface, in reproducing the look of the surface
surrounding it? Smooth surfaces can be melded then touched up lightly
w/ultra fine emery cloth and some sort of lubricant I would guess. But the
rough textures are a different story.
Hey all --
Got myself an HP 7980S 9-track drive (always wanted a 9-track drive...)
and accidentally mangled my one and only 9-track tape just after the BOT
marker (not sure what caused it, maybe the drive needs a bit of
adjustment...). So I have two questions: Where can I find a reasonable
replacement for the marker, and where does it go? I see the sense foil
on the part of the tape that got mangled, but I don't know what side of
the tape it was originally on...
Thanks!
Josh
P.S. The magical tape autoloading thing this drive does is the coolest
thing I've seen in a long time :).
I was chatting with a DEC broker recently regarding SCSI controllers for
DEC gear - when he mentioned that he had a quantity of Emulex UC07's
available.
UC07's are QBUS cards which have a single SCSI port and support either MSCP
or TMSCP (in RT land, that would be either DU or MU devices). The manual
states that the UC07 is compatible with RT, RSX, RSTS/E and Ultrix
versions which support MSCP or TMSCP.
The dealers initial price was high (as expected). However, he then
added - "I'd be willing to do better for hobbyists - as long as they
commit that the boards will only be used for hobby purposes - and not for
commercial use".
So here's the "deal": $235 per UC07 plus shipping from Mountain View, CA
(FedEx Ground).
I've paid MUCH more for SCSI interfaces for my DEC QBUS and UNIBUS
systems - so IMHO, this is a great deal.
The broker said he did not want to deal "individually with a bunch of
hobbyists" - so he asked if I would be willing to consolodate a single
order of UC07's to him. I reluctantly said "yes", as this is not my
business and I'm not interested in making money on this deal - only
covering costs.
To get a sense of interest, please reply to me privately if you'd like one
or more if these "critters".
The manual for the UC07 is available on bitsavers. A link to a bitsavers
mirror is below:
http://bitsavers.vt100.net/pdf/emulex/UC0751001-F_UC07_Feb90.pdf
Regards,
Lyle
--
Lyle Bickley
Bickley Consulting West Inc.
http://bickleywest.com
"Black holes are where God is dividing by zero"
If you need access to one of these, contact me an urge me to make a
deal. Keep pushing, as pushing raises priority with me.
Books:
NOTIS-BG User Guide
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NOTIS-DS User's guide
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SINTRAN III Real Time Loader
Dialogue-UNIQUE-II User Guide
Operator Environment User Guide
NOTIS-WP Brief Introduction
User Environment Reference Manual
NOTIS-WP Reference Manual
COSMOS User Guide
User Environment Reference Manual
SINTRAN III Utilities Manual (3x)
ND-110 Instruction Set
The Database System SIBAS II ND User Manual
SIBAS II Operator Manual
NOTIS-DS Introduction (2x)
Sintran III Real Time Guide
NOTIS-DS Supervisor Guide (2x)
ACCESS User Guide
File Manager Introduction (2x, one in shrink-wrap)
NOMIS Norwegian Medical Information System
SINTRAN III COMMANDS Reference Manual
SINTRAN III Monitor Calls (2x)
Symbolic Debugger User Guide
Examples for NOTIS-RG Version B
SINTRAN-III Release Information K-version
NOTIS-TF Macro Guide (new in shrink wrap)
BACKUP User Guide (3x)
SINTRAN III System Supervisor
Operator Environment User Guide
ND-110 COMPACT Operator Guide (contains several quick reference cards)
SINTRAN III User Guide
BRF-Linker User Manual
NOTIS-TF User Guide
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Test Program Description for ND-100/ND-110
ordner with following description:
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Handbook of Useful information
examples of LOAD-MODE etc.
telefix customer information
miscellaneous materials
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bunch of unknown listings
a document with information on SCSI on ND
ACCESS DBA manual
NOTIS-TF text formatter reference manual
partly dutch presentation with general user info
SINTRAN III Timesharing/Batch guide
some dutch documentation on MEDITEBS
datasheets of several ND products, such as software packages, computers
and accessoiries
Floppies:
(each floppy or set of floppies contains a few pages of information)
SINTRAN III K GENERATION 312 CONF.D VSX, 2 disks (2 sets)
PATCH-SIN-K-5400 (2 sets)
SINTRAN III Configuration Program
SUBSYSTEM PACKAGE 32 BITS FLOATING FORMAT
SINTRAN III VSE/VSX Utility Programs
ACCOUNTING System for SINTRAN III
BACKUP-SYSTEM
X-MESSAGE
TELEFIX FILES FOR USER SITES
SUBSYSTEM PACKAGE II
VTM terminal tables
USER ENVIRONMENT (3 disks)
TEST PROGRAMS FOR ND-100/110
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JEC job execution control
ND-10634A MEMORY TO FLOPPY
NOTIS-WP FOR ND-100 (4 disks)
SIBAS-II for ND-100 (2 disks with pretty much the same label)
ACCESS FOR ND-100 (dito)
NOTIS-RG for ND-100 norwegian
NOTIS-DS for ND-100 (3 disks)
NOTIS-DS for ND-100 48-bit floating point (3 disks with pretty much the
same label)
NOTIS-BG-for ND-100 norwegian version 32 bits fl
NOTIS-BG-for ND-100 32 bits fl
NOTIS-BG-for ND-100 (business grafics) 32 bits fl
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BRF-Linker for ND-100
SINTRAN III MONITOR CALL Pack.
SPRINT Spooling System (3 disks)
MEDITEBS specials
Mass Storage Utilities
OPERATOR ENVIRONMENT (4 disks)
Disk Restore (3 disks)
TESTPROGRAMS FOR ND-100/110/120 (2 disks, both labeled PART 1 OF 2)
UNIQUE-II SIBAS for ND-100
UNIQUE TEXT SYSTEM
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