test-drb October 2011

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RIP Steve Jobs

by stephane.tsacas＠gmail.com

http://www.apple.com/stevejobs/ -- Stephane http://kiva.org/team/kathleen

13 years, 2 months

How very meta: the classic computing experience

by joachim.thiemann＠gmail.com

Wow! classiccmp is now recreating the USENET experience of the mid-90s! Pass the popcorn! -- Joachim Thiemann :: http://www.tsp.ece.mcgill.ca/~jthiem1

13 years, 2 months

New color plastic filament for 3D printing: "TRS-80 Battleship Grey"

by eric＠brouhaha.com

They call the color "silver", but now you can print your own objects to match the early TRS-80 cases: http://www.makerbot.com/blog/2011/10/05/just-in-for-fall-abs-in-brown-tan-e… http://store.makerbot.com/metallic-silver-abs-1kg-spool-1-75mm-filament.html

13 years, 2 months

how much current does a G3 iMac pull?

by technobug＠comcast.net

OnWed, 5 Oct 2011 01:46:20 -0400, Joe Giliberti <starbase89 at gmail.com> wrote: > > Does anyone know about how many amps a G3 CRT iMac draws? More specifically, > I am talking about a 600MHz G3 model with Airport. MacTracker indicates that the iMac (Early 2001) and the iMac (Summer 2001) both pull a maximum of 150 watts. These two models were the last two iMac beasts of the G3 ilk and had a 600 MHz processor as an option. MacTracker <http://mactracker.ca/> is a great little application that covers all the Macintosh models to date and includes information on configurations, graphics, software, connections and expansion, and history. -> CRC

13 years, 2 months

Dissolving a collection: bits for sale, including books

by joachim.thiemann＠gmail.com

Hello everyone, anticipating a move across the Atlantic in the near future, I decided to start selling a large part of my collection. I'm still adding things on occasion, but I would guess that mostly the books might be of interest to folks here. I've put the list(s) up here: http://sites.google.com/site/oldcomputerbitsforsale/home I would of course prefer is someone local can grab the stuff, but I am willing to mail things. Joe. -- Joachim Thiemann :: http://www.tsp.ece.mcgill.ca/~jthiem1

13 years, 2 months

Machine code riddle

by cclist＠sydex.com

I'm working with an old data sample (ca. 1979) to a piece of equipment that I do not have access to. I've identified some bits and pieces of code and am trying to identify the processor. Here's what I know. The processor is big-endian and appears to be byte-addressable. The opcode for CALL appears to be D3 xx xx, where xxxx is the address of the destination. 2C appears to be load immediate instruction and is also 3 bytes long. The code doesn't look tight enough to be a p-code implementation of any sort. Does this ring any bells to anyone? --Chuck

13 years, 2 months

TRS-80 Model I Power Brick

by alhartman＠yahoo.com

You can indeed open up the Model I bricks and repair them. A frequent failure mode is a fuse inside the case that blows out. My friend had one blow out, and he cracked it open, drilled a hole for a fuse holder and replaced the fuse. It's a pretty simple power supply to build a replacement for. There's a schematic on the Yahoo! TRS-80 group files section for an Australian 240v version which could be adapted to make a 110v version. The service manual is out there (Tandy and SAMS) which should have schematic as well.

13 years, 2 months

Sr. Server Engineer (Vintage Systems) at Living Computer, Museum,

by mtapley＠swri.edu

At 17:47 -0500 10/4/11, Tony wrote: >In the case of Word, I can understnad that alas we've got in a situation >whete propriatry programs are used and where you van't correctly generate >or interpet the docuemtnes without using that progam. Not entirely true. In my case (Mac OS X.4 on a PowerPC laptop), OpenOffice actually does a better job opening new .docx files than MicroSoft's own OpenXML converter and Word X (as in, doesn't crash). That still may not help you out, Tony. I think OpenOffice has reasonably steep platform requirements too, but at least it is open source and does a reasonable job untangling Word's formats. At 17:47 -0500 10/4/11, Alexandre wrote: > (anyone remember eudora? :D) Love it! Using it to write this. I'm somewhat worried about consequently falling into the "asshole" category, but not enough so to change... -- - Mark 210-379-4635 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Large Asteroids headed toward planets inhabited by beings that don't have technology adequate to stop them: Think of it as Evolution in Fast-Forward.

13 years, 2 months

facit n4000 service manual?

by stevensaliterman＠comcast.net

Hi Jay, I am restoring an Altair computer and plan to use paper tapes. I have a Facit N4000 and operating manual. I was wondering if you have the service manual? Steve www.tc.umn.edu/~drsteve

13 years, 2 months

Repair Culture

by pontus＠Update.UU.SE

Hi Just read this article from "bunnie". It gives a, to me, appealing vision of a return to what I think is quality: http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=1863 I hope at least some of what he says is true, although it might preclude the singularity, which sounds fun :) regards, Pontus

13 years, 2 months

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