Not sure if this is OT or not but my folks still use a 23 year old Color Computer Portrait system at fairs and we need ink and wax thermal Paper for our Shinko CHC 545 or Shinko CHC 445?we also have an old Panasonic Omniflex EPL-RAT unit and a Tektronix 4696 which I consider RIP.? If anyone here knows of anyone with old supplies laying around or where I might ask it would be appreciated.? I need both photo paper and T-shirt paper. (tektronix wax thermal supplies also seem to work, if they are for the ROLL wax thermal not stick)? Oddly enough our system was supported by Casi then QLT up until April 2000 (a long time I know) they released an HP 2000c printer driver for the unit and gave up.? Sadly the driver is crap, slow, inaccurate color,?unreliable and very low resolution compared to the Shinko 545 driver.? I often wondered if anyone could reprogram the 2000c driver with the Shinko dot pattern for better accuracy and speed?? The system is a
Motorolla 68010 with 2mb system memory and 1mb video memory and Uses Innovion IDOS as the OS.? I can read and image the 720k floppies but don't have proper resources to know how to edit them effectively.? I had a little programming in high school and college but I would need a systematic method to approach this unit, I would love to be able to program it myself but never got to the point I could.
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Also the system saves photos to a floppy disk in 16bit targa format (not a dos disk though)? I can using a imaging program take the photo off, but sadly the pallette is completely wrong, I can tell who the people are but they are in psuido colors.? I often thought that might be a way for my folks to continue using their simple system then simply print the photo on a normal PC.
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http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=130698
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Anyone want a free unit to play with to write a driver?
I am located in central Wisconsin.
Thanx
Ryan May
Folks;
The 5V rail in my Sun 2/120's PSU recently failed suddenly while the
system was running. No pop, but the rail measures out around 2.5VDC. I
believe I have tracked the fault down to one of a pair of 26000uF
electrolytics which are in parallel across the 5V output studs. These
are screw-lead, rated for 7.5V (12V surge), 85 deg. C, -10 +75% tol.
They are 1.375" dia, and 2.125" tall. Mechanically, there is no room
for anything even slighlty larger.
Mouser stocks a part which is physically too tall---at 3.125", too
tall by an inch. This is a 10V (12V surge) part. They also stock a 50V
part from a different manufacturer which is even taller (>4"). There
are 10V (12V surge) parts that fit, but have too low a capacitance
(18000uF). There are 7.5V (9V surge) parts which will fit, but have
too high a capacitance (49000uF), and I'm not totally sure how to be
certain that a 9V surge rating is adequate in this application.
Digi-key stocks nothing even close.
Any suggestions?
ok
bear
Hi folks,
anybody interested in buying the following?
- Omnibus core memories (tested good)
- M8350 TTY interfaces (tested good)
- RK05 disks for pdp11 (12 sectors) (used, new, tested, untested)
- RK05/RK05J/RK05F disk drive (untested, tested good, broken)
- RK05x spares
- TU56 DECTape (tested working, untested, broken)
- TU56H single DECTape
- PC05 paper tape reader/punch
- Some other Omnibus cards
PDP8/M
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A PDP8/M computer. Very nice (near perfect!) condition front panel. Chassis condition lower medium
condition. Backplane and PSU (220V) ok. No top cover. System configuration to be discussed. First
guess would be 12K core, TTY, CPU - all tested stuff.
PDP8/L
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PDP8/L minicomputer, untested, keys bleached out by sun. Untested (really untested, currently don't
have the time to repair the machine) but complete with the 4K core stack. 110V
Keys kan be used from a pdp8/e - they're the same. But not from pdp8/m. Those have the wrong colour.
The PC05 is a strange machine: The reader portion of it was used on a pdp8/e (PC8E interface).
Normally you use PC04 for pdp8 computers. The reader part seems to be compatible. The punch part is
untested. Mechanics look fine. I guess that there are also missing boards on the punch side. Nice
condition though. No cover, 110V.
Location: Northern Germany (Hannover, Kiel).
Open for reasonable offers. Can send packages up to 30kg. TU56 can be shipped in two packages.
pdp8/m fits a package. 8/L cannot be shipped internationally.
Kind regards,
Philipp
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http://www.hachti.de
Hi,
Are you still there in 2010? :-)
I need to read data from my friend's old Toshiba PC with HDD 26 pin
connector. I would need to know what are the signals, or what is the
adapter.
Could you provide some schematics?
thanx
martin stransky | UPS engineer | Nove Mesto nad Vahom
Emerson Network Power | Piestanska 1202/44 | 91528 NOve mesto nad Vahom
T +421 32 7700 423
www.EmersonNetworkPower.com <http://www.emersonnetworkpower.com/>
I just found a couple of standard bus cards marked "CDP 18S 604B" and no
real idea what they are. A Google search gave 3 results, all in German
>from their edition of Computer Weekly dated 1981.
One looks to be in the original packaging, and the other looks used with
an expansion PROM board. Unfortunately, no docs although I'll be trying
to see if the person who had them has any docs left.
Anyone have any idea what these things are?
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 9:10 PM, Eric Smith <eric at brouhaha.com> wrote:
> ... the caddy would keep the CD from being scratched in handling.
>
> Eric
>
> Which seems reasonable and obvious...
The RRD40 that I have was given to me so that I could learn the way of the
VAX and VMS. I have since found other CD drives that understand the special
way of reading the short CD sectors.
Today I am reminded of it, I am bound by honor to pass this drive on to
another VAX/VMS kinder. I will send this drive to someone that wants to
learn VAX/VMS and needs it to boot the OS.
-chuck
I'm so excited... I won a copy of the August 1981 issue of Byte (the
infamous Smalltalk issue) on Ebay for $4. It arrived while I was away
this weekend, so that was an awesome way to end my Labor Day weekend.
Mark
Anyone have a copy of or know the location of the DEC RRD50 maintenance
manual, specification, etc.? I'm interested in the interface for historical
curiosity only.
I'm pretty sure the DEC drive was an OEM Philips CM100.
Tom
On 7 Sep 2010 16:59:16 +0100 Adrian Graham wrote:
> On 7 September 2010 02:31, Steven Hirsch <snhirsch at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 6 Sep 2010, Tom Gardner wrote:
> >
> >> Anyone have a copy of or know the location of the DEC RRD50 maintenance
> >> manual, specification, etc.? ?I'm interested in the interface for
> >> historical
> >> curiosity only.
<snip>
> Yep. I'm not in the workshop so can't easily check, but I know we have
> one on the 'someone might need one one day' floor, and I'm fairly sure
> I've got the manual at home. It's SCSI-1 AFAIK.
> --
> adrian/witchy
> Owner of Binary Dinosaurs, the UK's biggest home? computer collection?
> www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk <http://www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk/>
AFAIK the Philips CM100 inside the RRD50 used a proprietary interface,
possibly a variant on ESDI - that's one of the things I'm trying to figure
out. It maybe that DEC put a SCSI-1 bridge controller inside the RRD50 box
so it presented that interface to the world.
If possible a scan of the manual would be greatly appreciated. U can
contact me off line to figure out how to do it.
Tom
t<dot>gardner<at>computer<dot>org