test-drb June 2009

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Computer Graphics History Museum Release 0.1: Visible Storage

by legalize＠xmission.com

Opening of The Computer Graphics History Museum Release 0.1: Visible Storage When: Friday, June 19th, 2009 9pm - 10:30pm Where: BFS Warehouse 555 South 400 West Salt Lake City, UT 84101 I am pleased to announce the first public opening of the Computer Graphics History Museum in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah. The collection of artifacts has moved to a location large enough to permit public viewing. The collection has been accumulated over the past 5 years, with a focus on graphics hardware. Please join us for an opening reception and walk through of the collection in visible storage. Refreshments will be served. Some highlights of the collection: - a wide range of SGI workstations and servers from the Personal Iris 4D/25 through a 4 rack SGI Reality Monster - Tektronix graphics terminals from storage scope terminals like the 4010 and 4014 to raster terminals like the 4105 and 4205. - Evans & Sutherland products: ESV workstations with CDRS 6.0 and Advanced Rendering System, Freedom series graphics accelerators Digistar II Picture System PS/390 ESIG image generator - Aesthedes graphic design system - Control Data Corporation CC545 Console - Megatek graphics terminal with the coolest keyboard you've ever seen -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 draft available for download <http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/download/index.html> Legalize Adulthood! <http://blogs.xmission.com/legalize/>

15 years, 6 months

Computer Graphics History Museum Release 0.1: Visible Storage

by mross666＠hotmail.com

> Wow, sounds cool. Is the PS390 a raster display? One piece of > hardware I'd really enjoy seeing again is the PS300. This was a > really high-end vector display for CAD work. The best configurations > had knob boxes and keyboards with alphanumeric LED legends you could > set. The quality of the display is something I've never seen > duplicated, even on modern LCD panels. > > Do any of these still exist? SLC would seem like a better than > average place to find one I have a PS300, possibly two, with all the displays, keyboards, dials and buttons, manuals, and software for the host system. I gave an additional unit to Jim Austin in the UK. Later this year I hope to start playing with it, will get material online in my copious free time. Mike http://www.corestore.org _________________________________________________________________ Bing? brings you maps, menus, and reviews organized in one place. Try it now. http://www.bing.com/search?q=restaurants&form=MLOGEN&publ=WLHMTAG&crea=TEXT…

15 years, 6 months

How much would you pay for a working VT05?

by legalize＠xmission.com

...would you pay US$3900? Ebay item # 300323705513 Too rich for my blood. Lots of nice photos though. -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 draft available for download <http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/download/index.html> Legalize Adulthood! <http://blogs.xmission.com/legalize/>

15 years, 6 months

Hardware Hobbyists vs. Emulator Jockeys

by bqt＠softjar.se

Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote: > On Jun 18, 2009, at 5:30 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote: >>>>> >>> > But I don't lioke changing the classic machine. Not even >>>> >>> replacing > PSUs >>>>> >>> > with switchers. The original PSU is part of the design, and I >>>> >>> want to >>>>> >>> > keep it that way. >>> >> While I agree with you here, I have to admit that, if my >>> >> PDP-11/70 had switching power supplies, I'd probably run it a lot >>> >> more often. I'd *never* make it an irreversible modification, >>> >> though. >> > >> > Um. An 11/70 have switched power supplies normally. Did you remove >> > them and install large transformers? That would become a very heavy >> > machine in that case. :-) > > Nope, see my other message...it already has large transformers, > and it is definitely a very heavy machine! ;) An 11/70 is a heavy machine, indeed. But if you were to have transformers to supply all the power needed, you'd increase the weight significantly... I have removed the power supply for the memory of a KL10, and that is really a linear supply. The weight, and power consumption of that is on a totally different scale to anything switching... Where have you seen any large transformers in an 11/70 by the way? Johnny -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol

15 years, 6 months

PCjr Telnet BBS Test

by aliensrcooluk＠yahoo.co.uk

Yeah, I dropped by and had a blast (I'm Lonewolf10). A neat all round experience. Just hope I don't get hooked on BBS's now! :) Regards, Andrew B aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk --- On Sat, 20/6/09, Michael B. Brutman <mbbrutman-cctalk at brutman.com> wrote: From: Michael B. Brutman <mbbrutman-cctalk at brutman.com> Subject: PCjr Telnet BBS Test To: "CCTalk_list" <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Date: Saturday, 20 June, 2009, 5:19 AM It's running again! Please drop in and help me test it ... For those of you who are new, it is a Telnet BBS that I am writing running on an IBM PCjr. I have written all of the TCP/IP code and the BBS code from scratch. The only thing I didn't write was the packet driver for the Ethernet adapter and the version of DOS it is running. The IP address is 96.42.239.42 . That goes to my cable modem - the router port forwards telnet traffic directly to the PCjr. Pretty much any telnet client will do including the one built into Windows. Since the last round of testing I have added the following: * A forum area with threads * A private message area * Bulletins (read only files that are longer in length) * Basic user profile editing functions * Better telnet protocol support with performance improvements It is a pretty big set of changes. I am hoping there are no bugs, but having a few people on at the same time will help flush them out and give me an idea on if the machine is capable of servicing multiple users doing real BBS functions. (My previous tests were pretty limited.) The machine is setup to handle 6 online users at the same time. I am also looking for feedback on the user interface .. if it is not usable, then there isn't much point. I am limited with what I can do given the hardware, but let me know what you think would be neat and I'll add it to the todo list. (ANSI graphics isn't there, but I know how to get it done.) I will leave the machine running for about a week. If it falls over before then I will fix the bug and restart it as quickly as I can. If it makes it a week with no serious problems I'll be pretty happy. Thanks, Mike

15 years, 6 months

ISA MFM disk controllers

by tiggerlasv＠aim.com

"Back in the day" (which, some days, doesn't seem THAT long ago) there was a handy DOS utility called CALIBRAT.EXE, which would go out and do some read/writes, to determine the optimum interleave for your disk / controller combination, and even make the conversion for you, if desired. T

15 years, 6 months

IBM Thinkpad 600e can't get past password prompt...

by alhartman＠yahoo.com

I bought a thinkpad 600e for a friend several years ago on eBay. She put it in storage for a year, and when she pulled it out the backup battery has died. I replaced it, but now the unit is asking for a password. We never set a CMOS password, the eBay seller's email no longer works and I need to get to her data on the HDD which is also locked. Everything I searched tells how to wipe the HDD, but not how to recover the data without shipping the drive to someone who will do it for much more than the laptop and drive is worth. Anyone have a way I can get into the unit and unlock it? I can buy another unit cheap, but that doesn't get me into the HD. Al

15 years, 6 months

Who can tell me more about this really weird Z80 Canadian

by thomsondrp1＠rogers.com

If you still have it, or know who has, I might be interested in taking it off your/their hands - one way or another! For more than a decade I've kept 2 of them operating daily - one has double-sided drives, the other single. Over the years I've had to do without either printer, the monitor on the single, and now one of the double drives decided to destroy diskettes, which themselves are almost impossible to get. Usually I can run a Recovery program and regain all, or almost all, the data, but with only one drive the Recovery process can't be used - it reads from the damaged diskette in the lower drive and writes to a blank one in the upper. So, if you have a complete machine, or printer, working monitor, diskettes, or ESPECIALLY a double-sided drive (could be Tandon, Micropolis, Mitsubishi or other) I'd be interested in acquiring any or all. Anticipating your response, Doug Thomson

15 years, 6 months

HP2000/Access BASIC (and Star Trek)

by pete＠dunnington.plus.com

I'm not very knowledgeable about HP BASIC but I recall some discussions a few years ago about emulators and running Access BASIC or TSB. Sadly I didn't keep all the emails where I thought. Today I've been asked a (serious) question about actually running TREK73 from my collection of Star Trek programs at http://www.dunnington.u-net.com/public/startrek What's the easiest way to get an emulator to run a suitable HP BASIC? (by the way, the researcher who asked, spotted a typo in my TREK73 listing so I've updated it -- and yes, he does have a serious reason for running this in an emulator) -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

15 years, 6 months

The Commodore 64 has a Twitter Client

by marvin＠west.net

I just saw this, and got a kick out it! http://gizmodo.com/5296046/good-god-even-the-commodore-64-has-a-twitter-cli…

15 years, 6 months

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