I know these were made for early Mac's, I have used one on my Mac
SE/30. In the years since I lost mine in storage I've seen
information about using them on other classic hardware. ISTR that at
a minimum people have used them on Atari TOS systems. I finally
found mine last night while working some more on the garage. Does
anyone know what non-Mac systems these can be used on?
Now to find the powersupply, that's with the Ethertalk to Localtalk
converter I no longer use, as I've switched to an HP Jetdirect box.
Zane
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| healyzh at aracnet.com | OpenVMS Enthusiast |
| | Classic Computer Collector |
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| Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, |
| PDP-10 Emulation and Zane's Computer Museum. |
| http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ |
I found this at Breezeshooter's Hamfest last wknd in the Pittsburgh area.
This is a PAL programmer made by Structured Design, SD 30/24
It even includes a Stringy Floppy cassette player, plus a spare
cassette--I hope I can find these too.
This is supposed to be a standalone programmer with just a serial port
for console input and display.
Would someone know where I can find a manual for this PAL Programmer ?
I tried the usual websites, starting with bitsavers, but no luck so far.
http://tinyurl.com/2fxwb26
thanks
=Dan
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Those who might know Len Levine, this was forwarded to me by Dave Rasmussen.
>Hi Everyone:
>
>I regret to inform you that Marilyn Levine ( Len's wife) passed away
>last saturday. She had been hospitalized for about a week. As you know,
>both Len and Marilyn were associated with UWM for a long time.
>
>Best,
>kv
>
>PS; Please share this with your friends you think may know Marilyn.
I was a volunteer operator on the TSS/8 system at UWM from the summer
before my fresheman year in 1978 until they replaced it with a Vax. Len
spotted me in his intro comp sci class on the first day of my freshman year
and grabbed my schedule, wrote a course number on it, signed it, and said,
"You don't need to be here- go take the languages class." And the rest is
history. I continued to interact with him in various ways for the next 15
years, well beyond my college days. I still hear from, or about, him. I owe
a lot to him and I'm very sorry his life-long companion has been taken from
him.
-T
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Hi folks,
as some of you might know I'm dealing with quite a lot of documentation
in paper form. From time to time I scan some docs that cannot yet be
found on the web (i.e. Al's bitsavers.org).
A few month ago I posted some notifications about having uploaded stuff
to a temporary folder on my website. But I have no clue if it has been
taken by anyone or Al Kossow. This feels a bit complicated to me.
So I'd like to suggest some possibility to upload stuff to bitsavers
directly. Or to a special "incoming" folder or something like that. I'd
like to have an easy and reliable way to offload my stuff. Without
writing emails, asking for acknowledge and all that hassle.
For me personally having some kind of access via scp would be perfect.
Some people might prefer ftp/sftp.
I could have written this in a private email to Al but I assume that it
might be sensible to have some kind of discussion around the topic.
Hope you're all fine!
Kind regards,
Philipp
Hi folks,
does anybody have a reasonable electronic form of the unit number stickers used on RK05 disk drives?
I want to renumber some drives but don't have the numbers. So I decided to just print them onto
labels and then add some glossy film. Will look quite original - if I have the right design. So if
anybody has something useful that saves me some work, please answer!
Best wishes,
Philipp
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http://www.hachti.de
I have an IBM model M2 here which when plugged in, the Num lock and
scroll lock leds go on, and the keyboard refuses to do anything. I
notice that SOMETIMES the Model M I have here does the same thing
(num+scroll on, no response) for a few seconds, and I'm GUESSING it
might be something like the 5v line can't supply enough current to run
it properly at startup, but it usually starts working after about 3 or 4
seconds; the M2 does not.
Any idea what causes this, or whether it is fixable?
Jonathan Gevaryahu
jzg22 at drexel.edu
Ok, I found it on EBay, but I consider it a rescue. :)
This is an HP 9836 Model 200, a machine I've been looking to find for
quite some time. It's a Motorola 68k-based workstation that was
targeted (I believe) at the scientific market. It runs a proprietary
OS and has several languages available for it. My next goal is to try
and generate diskettes for it, which is not going to be easy until I
finish getting my IBM PC set up for use at home.
There's more information available at
http://www.hpmuseum.net/display_item.php?hw=3 and I have a photo
posted at http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=4243664&l=a9af6169d9&id=734972117
I don't know if anyone would be interested in something like this, but
the seller has several more of these (they were apparently in a
warehouse he was asked to liquidate) and he's had some trouble finding
buyers. The biggest issue is shipping them. This is an 85 pound
machine and it cost about $80 to ship it to me UPS Ground (I didn't
get the chance to ask him to use a different shipper).
If anyone is interested in one, I can collect email addresses and send
them to him. I believe he is willing to let each one go for $25 plus
shipping.
Mark Davidson
mdavidson1963 at gmail.com
http://losangeles.craigslist.org/sfv/sys/1777867686.html PDP 11/23+ - $1
(Sherman Oaks )
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Western Digital , PDP 11/23+ , Brand New , Never Used , RLO2 , Kenedy Tape
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Stephane
http://DECpicted.blogspot.com
I have (2) Black Box Modular Statistical Stat-24 Multiplexer's (MX868A)
that are destined for the recycler at the end of this week unless
someone on this list wants them. I may be able to locate line drivers
that can be used with these units as well. Please contact me off list
if you are interested in them.
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 5:56 PM, Zane H. Healy <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
> It's probably just as well I'm no where near close, but I have to question
> the description. What is the odds of a 20-30 year old system being "brand
> new", and where do the Western Digital and Kennedy Tape Drive come into play
> based on the photo. ?I see a /23+ and two RL02's. ?A rather nice config. ?I
> have a /23 like that, though lack the rack.
Pretty sure that's a stock/Googled photo. I think I've even seen it
before. If it's real, whoever gets it might check the recent archives
as I recall someone looking for the 1U "DEC Datasystem" strip.
