Summary: Dr David Link has won the Computer Conservation Society's
first Tony Sale Award for an art project that runs a program written
to generate love letters on one of the first commercial computers
http://www.zdnet.com/love-letters-from-a-1951-ferranti-wins-first-tony-sale…
Other projects nominated for the first Tony Sale Award, sponsored by
Google, were a DEC PDP1 restoration at the Computer History Museum in
California; the Time-Line Computer Archive being developed by Michael
Armstrong and Sandra Hodson, in Wigton, West Cumbria; and a
reconstruction of Konrad Zuse?s Z3 Computer (PDF) in Hunsfeld,
Germany.
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Just curious, did anyone ever do a Unibus->IDE, etc... anything to
interface a modern drive to unibus?
I see from googling that Brad Parker had an excellent concept &
initial design. Basically a unibus controller that could impersonate
several different controllers & disks... Anyone know if this project
(or a similar one) ever was completed? I'd be most interested in
keeping the RL02 on the 11/45, but would love to have something larger
for builds that could be easily removed and thus keep the system
"original".
J
After looking at the other photos of the internals, I don't think that
skid is up to the task. Since they cracked one of the
hatches for illustration, makes me wonder what sort of juice is inside
to cool it with. If freon is it still legal?
As to whether it is touchup paint, I would also suspect it might be some
sort of treatment for the coolant, but
not sure what that is. Certainly possible it is what you say.
that is a lot of aluminum though a wonder a crappy skid like that hasn't
given out.
The coolant is Fluorinert, a fluorinated hydrocarbon. It is not an
ozone-depleting
substance, as far as I know, but would still probably be considered
hazmat which
would complicate shipment. Probably the best thing would be to drain
it, and
ship separately in barrels.
Jon
Got this with a bunch of older DEC docs - digital MAXine 64-21325. I don't
know anything about it but it looks like it will fit in a USPS flat rate
box. Yours for shipping costs from 60091 (Wilmette IL USA).
Contact me directly if you want it.
Jack
So the HP65 that is on my desk needs repair :
- the gummy wheel thing is reasonably easy,
- I will be able to fix the charger / power supply issue ( doesn't run from a good battery, does run from charger )
- but is there any update on possible solutions for those broken keysprings ? The '5' and '.' are basically gone...
Jos
For free in Orange County, CA (92656):
I was given a whole stack of old "working" Macs:
IIci, IIsi, LC III, Performa 5200CD, PowerMac 5500, Quadra 610, Mac SE, etc.
Includes monitors, keyboards, mice, software.
If interested, please come and take them all away!
Thanks-
Steve.
For free in Orange County, CA (92656):
I was given a whole stack of old "working" Macs:
IIci, IIsi, LC III, Performa 5200CD, PowerMac 5500, Quadra 610, Mac SE, etc.
Includes monitors, keyboards, mice, software.
If interested, please come and take them all away!
Thanks-
Steve.
On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 2:05 PM, <cctalk-request at classiccmp.org> wrote:
On 13 October 2012 21:09, Toby Thain <toby at telegraphics.com.au> wrote:
>
> My livelihood is not impaired by using an 8 year old machine and if they
> stop to think, neither is most people's.
Delurking briefly, I just wanted to comment that I currently have as
my primary machine a 10 year old Dell C640 laptop with a P4M 1.8ghz
cpu, 1024x768, maxed out with 2 gb of ram & 2x120gb drives (bios max)
& an onboard wi-fi card. USB 1 is the only real annoyance.
No speed demon to be sure, but it runs Xubuntu 12.04 well 90% of what
I want to do runs fine - if nothing else, a CADR emulator, SIMH &
DOSBox all do what I want them to & I don't need to make a living on
it. It even can handle my photo negative scanner &, if a bit slowly
sometimes, GIMP to edit my photography.
There are very few who need a faster computer. Though I'll be the
first one to admit it would be nice to be able to afford something
newer.
William
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Live like you will never die, love like you've never been hurt, dance
like no-one is watching.
Alex White
