> From:?Richard <legalize at xmission.com>
> Date:?Sat, 24 Mar 2012 13:21:06 -0600
> Subject:?Re: Computer Graphics Museum collection pics
>> > From: Richard <legalize at xmission.com>
>> > Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 10:24:15 -0600
>>
>> > however. ?Do you have documentation on them? ?User manuals? Service
>> > manuals?
>>
>> We have boxes and boxes and boxes of documentation and spares.
>
> Any chance those can be scanned and put online for me to look at?
We know where the boxes of documentation are so we can look for
manuals that describe the capabilities of the systems. If we have
duplicate manuals we could send them to Al to be scanned.
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Michael Thompson
> From:?Nick Allen <nick.allen at comcast.net>
> Date:?Sat, 24 Mar 2012 10:15:02 -0500
> Subject:?PIXAR Image Computer Panel Museum Display on Ebay
> PIXAR's first computer used to make portions of the 3d short (Red's Dream) is now on Ebay (wife refuses to let me keep it and hang it on our wall).
>
> Thought you might be interested in it, here is the link:
>
> http://www.ebay.com/itm/PIXAR-Image-Computer-Panel-Framed-Museum-Piece-RARE… <http://www.ebay.com/itm/PIXAR-Image-Computer-Panel-Framed-Museum-Piece-RARE…>
We have a system with what I think is the same from panel at the RICM.
I will take some pictures next weekend and put them on the RICM WWW
page.
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Michael Thompson
----- Original Message:
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 00:42:15 -0400
From: Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com>
>> Of course, nowadays well whales are very nearly extinct...
> This is one of the most bizarrely obscure tidbits of information I've
> ever seen come across this list. How do you come to know about this? I
> am just curious.
-Dave
-----
So am I, and also pleasantly surprised; I was under the impression that well
whales had been completely extinct for at least thirty years.
m
Hi,
at the Weekend I've got an Vaxstation 4000/90 with 64MB RAM and a
2,1GB Disc from a friend.
Powered it up today and found a Problem.
The Machine doesn't start properly if it is switched on, the LEDs are all
stuck on (0xff). If I switch it off then and on again in a short time, it
starts up properly, is doing the diagnostics and tries to boot an
(defective?) NetBSD 1.1 that is loading the kernel but is getting then in a
?54 RETRY loop.
Pressing the HALT Switch brings up the chevron... havn't tried to install
something jet...
Is that Error with the Reset/Startup known to someone here? I think it
could be an dead capacitor in the PSU...
Kind Regards,
Holm
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> JC White <jcw1231 at pacbell.net> wrote:
>
>>Until a few years ago I had a Wang 2200 MVP.? When I was using it in my high school classroom an administrator had the room cleaned and moved the system outside.? A sudden storm destroyed the CPU and drives.? I have several working Wang 2236 terminals if somebody has a need for one.? Also, I would like to locate a 2200 MVP to play with again.? I am also looking for homes for a pair of Wang PCs from about 1990, two different models, one set up for networking.
>>
>>John
We have a Wang 2200 VP, and another 2200 that I don't know the the
version. Unfortunately, one of our members is always looking for more
Wang equipment so we have lots of Wang equipment.
http://www.ricomputermuseum.org/wang-computer-gallery-2/wang-gallery-models
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Michael Thompson
After a lot of aggravation trying to get one working TRS-80 Model II, by
cobbling together parts from three other machines, I've finally got one
mostly working.
I wanted to get my own programs running on it, cross-developed on a
Linux system. Model II TRSDOS 2.0 and later have a built-in "receive"
command that can receive Intel hex format from the serial port, which
can then be saved to a disk file with the "dump" command. The serial
port on my CPU card was broken. After swapping that card, which I intend
to troubleshoot later, I found that the receive command won't work
reliably above 2400 bps. (Maybe it would work at higher bit rates if
the sending computer used a long inter-character delay.)
I packaged up z80asm and z80dasm for Fedora Linux and Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 6, and submitted them to the repositories. After verifying that I
can get cross-assembled code to run, I set my sights on cross-compiling
C code.
I had to hack up crt0.s, putchar.s, and a linker script to work for the
Model II TRSDOS environment (which is almost entirely unlike TRSDOS for
the Model I/III/4), but it is finally working.
The machine I've got working is actually a Model 16, but I don't yet
have the 68K subsystem working. When I try to load TRSDOS16, it says
that it has loaded, but immediately gets an exception at address 0.
Xenix just hangs with no output.
I've got a diagnostic disk that purports to be for the Model II and 16,
but it has a lot of bad tracks, so I can't actually run the Model 16
diagnostics. Does anyone have a good copy of the Model 16 diagnostic disk?
The disk drives in the Model 16 don't work. The spindle speed of drive
0 seems to be way off, and I'm not sure what's wrong with drive 1.
Right now I'm using two other drives sitting outside the case, because I
haven't figured out how to get the drives out of the Model 16. It
appears that the machine has to be taken apart much further than I'd
hoped in order to remove the drives. :-(
Eric
I recently picked up an RX50 for my MicroVAX II. It does not have the cable
with it to connect to the BA123 distribution board, however it seems to fit
a traditional PC floppy disk cable, is that all it needs?
Thanks
Rob
Hi all --
Acquired a Terak 8510/a today in pieces, sans Keyboard and Monitor (but
with external 8512 drive). Anyone have spares for this system that
they'd be willing to part with?
Thanks as always,
Josh
