On Jun 16, 2011 1:11 PM, "Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
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> On 16 Jun 2011 at 11:56, Ethan Dicks wrote:
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> > Bronze vs Iron.
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> Analog vs. digital...
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Floating Point vs. Fixed Point
Running pdp 11/40 power ok. Power on...freezes with proc and bus lights on and no front panel response. Working to resolve any off the cuff ideas? Will post details if anyone interested to help.
Bill
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Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
Got an Esprit keyboard today and was wondering if it is a normal PS/2 type keyboard? It looks kind of like the Esprit 125c terminal keyboard but with a PS/2 plug instead of rj11.
> http://www.transduction.com/pdf/NuPDPq_brochure_Transduction.pdf
Interesting. If you look at the daughtercard on the PDQ-1000 (next to
the probably-a-pentium-ish-CPU-fan), it looks pretty much like a PC/104
connector (upside down, of course) and the back panel port config is
oh-so familiar. I'm betting a bog-standard embedded X86 system (new
enough to have PCI) with a QBus interface running an emulator.
As to the PDQ-2000 and -3200, I bet those are just Intel motherboards in
a rackmount case. Chris Elmquist pointed out the CCI1016 looks (to me
as well) to be a Comtrol RocketPort. The CEI-1000 is pretty clearly one
of the myriad of Intel desktop Ethernet adapters. Their DQP-1100, -1300
and -1500 are DRV11 work-alikes made by Logical.
I received this and as I am not in the UK, I'm passing it along. Contact them
directly if you can help them out.
David Williams
http://www.trailingedge.com
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Commodore CBM Pet 8032
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 16:47:17 +0100
From: 0 <brutus504bc at googlemail.com>
Hello there,
I live in England and own an old Commodore CBM Pet 8032 computer. Ten
years ago it was working fine and today I was clearing house and decided
to turn it on before trashing it.
It did come to life but has lots of unrecognized characters at bottom
half of screen, and when I type anything on keyboard it mostly replies
with "?SyntaxC13" or something of this nature.
Is there anywhere in the UK you know of where people will be interested
in this machine ? As it doesnt appear to be working correctly, I have
no real wish to "Ebay" the item.
It would be a shame to throw this out.
Thanks,
Paul.
> Message: 19
> Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 15:58:25 -0400
> From: William Donzelli <wdonzelli at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Useless thread, RE:Religion, Re: Nazi System 360/370
> book...
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> Who is the knob that started this holy war thread anyway? We should be
> arguing about which brand of cement we will pour down his throat.
> __
> Will
Oh now, I don't think it would be nice to call anyone out ... Evan Koblentz! ...
Now on to some nice political discussion. Evan, you want to start that one off?!
; )
Best,
David Greelish, Computer Historian
President, Atlanta Historical Computing Society
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I know someone who developed a pc emulator for the PDP-11 back in the
late 80's or early 90's and had it approved by the FAA to replace
11/55's used in older flight simulators.
Paul
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 5:13 PM, Zane H. Healy <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
> At 4:55 PM -0400 6/16/11, Diane Bruce wrote:
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>> You lot seen this?
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>> http://www.transduction.com/pdf/NuPDPq_brochure_Transduction.pdf
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> That's the most interesting bit of computer gear I've seen in a long time!
> ?Up there with Chameleon 64.
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> Zane
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