Hi
I don't normally post links like this, but this machine deserves a good
home:
http://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/zip/2493135053.html
I'd take it myself.. but you know... shipping and all that.
Regards,
Pontus.
I recently acquired a PDP-8/L system with BM08 memory expansion and Computer
Operations CO-600 LINC tape drive.
Does anybody have documentation on the BM08 (preferably the 8K additional
core model) or the LINC tape drive? I looked in the normal spots and didn't
find any. The closest was the MC8/L 4K memory option on bitsavers.
If interested pictures are here until I create a real page:
http://www.pdp8online.com/ftp/misc/pdp8l/
> I know the feeling. If I ever learn to drive, I want a DS (an original
> oen, not the modern cars that share the name but don't even have
> hydraulic suspsension :-().
>
> -tony
My motorcycle mechanic has at least 3 DSes, 2 XMs and a Xantia, and a garage filled with spare parts. At least one of the DSes and one of the XMs runs.
I drove a DS once, on a gravel road full of potholes in the south-west of France. Absolutely amazing, it just floated along, one hardly felt the potholes...
OTOH on another holiday in France we were overtaken by one with a whole family in it. A little while later there had been an accident, the DS that had passed us had collided with a lorry. It had been literally flattened, it looked like it had been squashed with a rolling-pin. Very tragic :-(
It would have been nice if they were still made, but with more crash-proof bodywork.
/Jonas
>>The "real" car is called the Cooper Mini. The "fake" car is called the
>> Mini Cooper.:) (I_think_)
> Is it? I am sure we had a car over here called a 'Mini Cooper' that was
> based on the original Mini.
>
> -tony
Mini Cooper was derived from the original Mini by John Cooper and Alec Issigonis and first appeared in 1961. The BMW Mini also exists in a Mini Cooper version, tuned by John Cooper's company, now owned by BMW.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini_Cooperhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cooper_Works
/Jonas
> Watch "The Italian Job" (The REAL original, not the American remake that
> uses the MAXI-cooper). The original "Italian Job" had a lot of England's
> best actors, and the most fantastic stunt driving footage of any movie.
> To get back closer to topic: the movie has a theme of extreme UK V Italy
> nationalism, with a group of Brits tampering with the traffic control
> computers to pull off a robbery.
Now *that* was a *brilliant* movie. Benny Hill as the mad computer scientist...
I have managed to see it once only :-( the American remake has been on TV several times, not worth watching if you've seen the real one. Like a BMW-"Mini" versus the real Mini...
/Jonas
>
>A year or two back, I had several VT220s available in
>dirty-but-confirmed-working shape from an auto dealer's parts counter,
>and I couldn't generate any interest. These were at FreeGeek
>Columbus, so when they didn't sell intact, they were scrapped out.
>
Are the bits still around? I am looking for a flyback transformer
for a VT220. There are at least two different types but I suspect
the differences are physical only and I could use either type.
Regards,
Peter Coghlan.
>
>From the day I saw the first complete VT100 prototype sitting on the bench
>at the Digital Terminals Product Line offices in Marlboro Mass. I have
>always considered the VT100 to be the classic terminal. It led the way for
>many years and VT100 compatibility was universal.
>
>No other terminal had the impact VT100 did. I can't remember how many
>thousand I sold in the UK whilst at DEC but it was lots.
>
>You cannot get a more classic icon in computing than the DEC VT100.
>
I have kinda mixed feelings about the VT100, possibly coloured by
having to deal with a large batch of secondhand, secondgrade examples
at college. The cases were fragile and yellowed and the keyboards
often could not cope with student use. There were a lot of minor
video faults, typically vertical linearity. Older and grottier ADM5
terminals seemed to be built like tanks in comparison.
The thing that irritated me the most was the loud and grating beep.
They seemed slow for a given bitrate compared to other terminals,
even after turning off the smooth scroll (which was quite cool if
you ever had time to wait for it which noone ever did).
The VT100 protocol was a great step forward but it seemed slightly
over-complicated and bloated. A pity that many writers of terminal
emulators and terminal driver software failed to grasp the point
of it and came up with broken implementations.
I was much happier with the VT220 which seemed to solve a lot of the
version 1.0 issues of the VT100. However, it didn't really look like
a terminal. Maybe a VT220 in a Commodore PET case would better fit
the bill :-)
I have an ADM5 and a VT220 but I would not be interested in having
a VT100.
Regards,
Peter Coghlan.
Hi guys,
Does anyone have a copy of the floppy disc (or possibly CD) which
accompanies the Second Edition of "The SCSI Bus and IDE Interface" by
Friedhelm Schmidt?
I just bought an ex-library copy of this, and the disc is naturally missing.
The local library is showing their copy as "Sold/disposed, content no
longer relevant"...
Thanks,
--
Phil.
philpem at philpem.me.uk
http://www.philpem.me.uk/
