test-drb October 2011

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by cclist＠sydex.com

A fellow's posting over at Erik's VC Forum that he's got a good load of Tek 4170 stuff looking for a home: http://www.vintage-computer.com/vcforum/showthread.php?27400- Tektronix-4170-CAD-systems-for-sale-trade

12 years, 7 months

Apple //c power brick failure

by nigel.d.williams＠gmail.com

On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 5:08 PM, Nigel Williams <nigel.d.williams at gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 4:46 PM, Geoffrey Reed <geoffr at zipcon.net> wrote: >> Some of them were able to be opened, there were hidden screws in the bottom >> of some, ?there were also some that were 2 piece plastic heat-fused? Or >> glued together. > > Does anyone know if the technique of tapping along the seam will work > with the Apple //c brick power supply? which to me shows no sign of > hidden screws and looks to me "almost" seamless. As no one jumped in regarding my query, I thought I would venture out along and try the tapping-along-the-seam technique previously described and see if I could break into the dead Apple //c power brick. The tapping technique worked very nicely, although I had to apply leverage with a screwdriver hammered into the seam to really crack the two halves apart. The scene of desolation inside revealed why it is dead-dead-dead, see pictures here: https://picasaweb.google.com/118247290269860741639/AppleCPowerSupplyBrickFa… The smell is interesting too, it was nicely bottled up inside the sealed PSU until I opened it...

12 years, 7 months

Steve Jobs 1955-2011

by alanp＠snowmoose.com

On 10/9/11 10:00 AM, cctech-request at classiccmp.org wrote: >>> > > >>> > > I have no liking of Apple products : >>> > > >>> > > I regard them as being difficult to do anything useful with (my esperience >>> > > is that they make easy jobs trivial and diffiuclt jobs impossible). >>> > > >> > I find that hard to believe. These beasties run Unix, you can script >> > almost anything. Even the GUI is scriptable. I prefer OS X or Linux >> > over the evil OS from Redmond. >> > Or are you talking about pre-OS X? > Yes, I was thinking about pre-OSX for desktop Apple machines. I am told > that OSX does have an accessible unix shell:-). However, their portable > devices don't seem to have any such shell, they don't seem to have > anything that makes them useful for difficult tasks. Why do some people feel the need to be so self-righteous about products that they don't use? You don't like Apple products because of attributes of a product that hasn't shipped in almost a decade? How close-minded is that? FWIW, I use that accessible unix shell under MacOS X to do my job as a Solaris kernel developer. Most of the machines that I use for work (and their consoles and service processors) are network accessible and I have no problem debugging kernel bugs and developing new Solaris features from my MacBook. I don't buy your claim that Apple's portable devices (I presume that you mean iOS devices like iPod touch, iPhone and iPad because my Mac laptops are portable) "don't have anything that makes them useful for difficult tasks" because they don't have a shell. They are devices where the primary input method is touch gestures. "Boy, my TV (or set-top box) is useless because it doesn't have a shell." "Why didn't put a shell interface on this microwave? Worthless!" I am an iOS app developer in my spare time. There are plenty of apps that do difficult things. And iOS devices even have consoles and crash dumps if you are into that. alan

12 years, 7 months

original WOZ monitor running on S-100 6502 CPU board homebrew system

by lynchaj＠yahoo.com

Hi, Neil just posted an update on his project to get the original WOZ monitor running on the S-100 6502 CPU board. Very nice! http://groups.google.com/group/n8vem/browse_thread/thread/9f02290a7c4c6328# Thanks and have a nice day! Andrew Lynch

12 years, 7 months

Kanbak-uino Arduino-based KENBAK-1 Recreation

by christian_liendo＠yahoo.com

Link to site: http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2011/09/arduino-based-kenbak-1-recreation.… Now we need the scelbi-uino

12 years, 7 months

Anyone have an IBM N40 RS/6000 laptop?

by derschjo＠mail.msu.edu

Anyone out there have one of these things? It's an oddball, made for IBM by Tadpole (same guys who made the Sparcbook). I'm trying to identify a scorched component in the battery compartment of mine in the hopes that I can get it running again. It's next to the memory, on the right hand side (with the front of the laptop facing toward you) labeled as "TR35" on the PCB. It's an 8-pin surface-mount component, but the one in mine is scorched so badly it's unidentifiable. And I somehow doubt i'll find a schematic :). Thanks, Josh

12 years, 7 months

Free for shipping (from Seattle)

by derschjo＠mail.msu.edu

Still cleaning house. Came across the following things I have no need for, if you want them let me know. Free for the cost of shipping. - 2x Intel Pentium II Overdrive chips for Pentium Pro systems. These were working when I pulled them from a system about 5 years ago. If you have a Dual PPro system you're looking to upgrade a bit, here's your ticket. - Tandy Professional Deskmate & MS-DOS/GWBASIC. Binders (in boxes) with manuals and software (5.25" floppy). Looks like they went with a Tandy 3000/4000 originally. I've never owned such a system so I have no idea how I ended up with these. Or why I've kept them for so long. - TRS-80 Model 16 Owner's Manuals (Model 16 and Model II modes). Anything not claimed by 10/15 is getting donated to RE-PC in Tukwila... Thanks, Josh

12 years, 7 months

Has anyone heard from Mike Ross?

by james.w.stephens＠gmail.com

He went to Iceland On Oct 8, 2011 6:34 PM, "Al Kossow" <aek at bitsavers.org> wrote: I tried emailing him yesterday, and didn't hear anything back. Not sure if it is related to corestore.org being down, through.

12 years, 7 months

Has anyone heard from Mike Ross?

by aek＠bitsavers.org

I tried emailing him yesterday, and didn't hear anything back. Not sure if it is related to corestore.org being down, through.

12 years, 7 months

Found a Bondwell 12...

by geneb＠deltasoft.com

Anyone on the list have disks or disk images for this beastie? It's lurking quietly at the local thrift shop and has no docs/media. They probably think it's a DOS machine of some kind. :) (it's a CP/M portable) tnx all! g. -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007 http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind. http://www.diy-cockpits.org/coll - Go Collimated or Go Home. Some people collect things for a hobby. Geeks collect hobbies. ScarletDME - The red hot Data Management Environment A Multi-Value database for the masses, not the classes. http://www.scarletdme.org - Get it _today_! Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.

12 years, 7 months

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test-drb October 2011