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Anyone interested in IBM PC/RT gear? (located in PA USA)

by vintagecoder＠aol.com

WOW! You guys sure have a lot of cool stuff!

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Anyone interested in IBM PC/RT gear? (located in PA USA)

by bli＠psu.edu

I wasn't sure if there might be any parties on the list who would be interested in old (late 80s/early 90s) vintage IBM PC/RT gear. Also of potential interest to collectors of the later PowerPC gear as this was the predecessor. I have several items that may be of interest to hobbyist/collectors and I really do not have the space for them but also have no desire to see things end up in the dump if they can find a good home. Any interest at all? I do not have a current inventory but I know I have ... a couple PC/RT 6150 server towers (worked after Y2K, haven't run them much since) a couple PC/RT 6152 minitowers (based on a PS/2 Mod 60 w/ add-on RISC cpu card, think I have one or two that work & another "shell" for parts) a pair of streaming tape drives (one working, one I don't remember trying recently) various monitors, keyboards, mice, tablets, & cards and so forth (some working, some may need repair) documentation/software binders for AIX and AOS (BSD) ... if anyone is interested, I can get you an inventory in a few days' time with more details. I would be looking for someone to take the whole lot I think, rather than unload some things & still be faced with the prospect of sending these off to the dump for lack of space anyway. And ideally someone who would try to get the old parts back into a functional state or as a "museum piece" or something like that rather than melting it down for gold. Not looking for any money, my monetary investment was paid off by several good years of use over a decade ago. Definitely a "come and get it" as these are old, heavy and I doubt that they'd be worth while to ship. If you are at all interested, let me know -- Thanks! -j Jeff Brendle Office: 243 Deike/(814)865-3257/fax 865-3191 Desktop Support Spv. Home: 146 Haverford Circle Penn State - Coll. of E&MS State College, PA / (814)238-8811 Mailto:bli at psu.edu AOL/MSN/Yahoo! IM - JSBrendle

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My book project at kickstarter.com

by david＠classiccomputing.com

Hi everyone, Please consider checking out the book publication funding at - http://t.co/8iSzNKF Please help spread the word, "like" it on Facebook and tweet it. Oh, um, maybe even buy a book? Thanks! Best, David Greelish, Computer Historian President, Atlanta Historical Computing Society Classic Computing The Home of Computer History Nostalgia http://www.classiccomputing.com Classic Computing Blog Classic Computing Show video podcast "Stan Veit's History of the Personal Computer" audiobook podcast Retro Computing Roundtable podcast

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h11 manuals

by michael.99.thompson＠gmail.com

> On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 7:23 AM, Michael Thompson < > michael.99.thompson at gmail.com> wrote: > >> Thanks for scanning the manuals. The RICM has an H-11 in the restoration >> queue. >> >> Any chance you have the H-11 schematics? >> > Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 09:55:10 -0500 > Subject: Re: h11 manuals > prolly Any chance you could scan and post them? -- Michael Thompson

13 years, 5 months

HP disk power unit

by wdonzelli＠gmail.com

Today I scored an obscene collection of TTL and ECL chips, in a weird sight unseen sale (the guy was selling the parts drawers as drawers, and would NOT let buyers see what parts were inside!), but that is not the point of this post. Well, maybe I am yanking the chains of all those people that say TTL and ECL is getting hard to find. ANYWAY... Also scored was a power unit to an HP 7900A disk - the 14 inch unit >from the 2100A and friends. Very nice condition, and heavy as sin. I do not need it, but it was sitting there so forgotten and lonely. Does anyone need one of these supplies? Very nice condition. I forget the HP number - 13mumblefooA. I really do not want to ship it, but could deliver it to MIT or any of the other area hamfests. -- Will, in 10512

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Unibus Framebuffer information needed (DDS)

by ball.of.john＠gmail.com

By luck I stumbled across what may or may not be a complete hex-width Unibus framebuffer board set made by Dynamic Digital Displays. Now that would be cool in the PDP-11/84. :) I can identify three of the boards but not all of them: -FB1000FBL001 Serial 55 Rev. 2 (looks to be the main memory as well as the D/A logic to output to RGB) -1000VB-001 Serial 35 (calls itself the "Voxel Buffer") -1000CTD001 Serial 47 (calls itself the "CTU Board") These boards can be seen at the following link: http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a166/ballsandy/Computer%20related/100_206… Then there were two other boards that the seller had as well. They may be related to the previous three and they also might not be. -1000HIL001 Serial 45 (board calls itself "HI") - http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a166/ballsandy/Computer%20related/100_206… -1000DTD001 Serial 54 (calls itself "DOTS") - http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a166/ballsandy/Computer%20related/100_206… Unlike the first three boards, these ones have "Dynamic Digital Displays" on them, however the model numbers are similar on their structure. The unfortunate part is that these boards have connectors on them ("HI" board has three 40-pin ribbon cable headers, "DOTS" has two 50-pin ribbon cable headers) so either I'm missing more boards that that talked through their own bus and not the Unibus, these connectors are for options, or there is additional hardware/cards I am missing. I have no way to read the two TMS27C512 EPROM chips and Google has pretty much nothing about these boards that I can locate and their hand written serial numbers mean these are something special. Might anyone have further information on this?

13 years, 5 months

Microprocessor simulators

by CCTECH＠beyondthepale.ie

A while back, there was a brief discussion on the list about microprocessor simulators running on larger systems. Some interest was expressed in the simulators I was involved with some years ago. I've put together some details and some code here: Z80 simulator in FORTRAN IV for the MUSIC/SP IBM mainframe operating system http://software.beyondthepale.ie/music/z80/ 6502 / BBC Microcomputer simulator in FORTRAN and 370 assembly for MUSIC/SP http://software.beyondthepale.ie/music/y6502/ 6502 / BBC Microcomputer simulator in FORTRAN and VAX assembly for VAX/VMS http://software.beyondthepale.ie/vms/y6502/ All the bits and pieces are provided to run the first two simulators on the freely available "MUSIC/SP Demo system" running on Sim390 or Hercules and the latter one on any reasonable VAX/VMS platform or simulator. The original unmodified code is also there. With the addition of a BBC Micro BASIC ROM, it is possible to run text based BASIC programs such as http://software.beyondthepale.ie/bbcmicro/survival/ (an adventure game) on the latter two simulators. Regards, Peter Coghlan.

13 years, 5 months

h11 manuals

by michael.99.thompson＠gmail.com

> From:?Adrian Stoness <tdk.knight at gmail.com> > Date:?Fri, 8 Jul 2011 12:11:57 -0500 > Subject:?h11 manuals > curently spending an hr a day scanning heathkit h11 manuals so far scaned 4 > seconds of the software referance manual if anyones interested > > http://pointdouglas.com/SEBHC/H11/?M=A Thanks for scanning the manuals. The RICM has an H-11 in the restoration queue. Any chance you have the H-11 schematics? -- Michael Thompson

13 years, 5 months

available M9404 / M9405

by quapla＠xs4all.nl

Found during sorting out some boxes, a M9404 (Q22 cable connector) and a M9405 (Q22 cable connector mirror image). Both are in good nick (no broken of latches) and each card has 2 50pin berg connector sockets on them. I would like to get Eur 20 + postage for it. I'm in the Netherlands btw. -- Dit is een HTML vrije email / This is an HTML free email.

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[OT (WAY!)] First flight...

by geneb＠deltasoft.com

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx5eb5yTDQw g. -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007 http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind. http://www.simpits.org/geneb - The Me-109F/X Project 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.

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test-drb July 2011