test-drb August 2012

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247 discussions

by nick.allen＠comcast.net

Thanks everyone (especially Bear) for the wonderful help in reviving my Sun 1 Computer (100u to be exact). After extensive CRT repairs, a EPROM reprogram (from Rev N to V100), my Sun is now booting via the Sun2 CPU card and the bwone video board. Will upload screenshots tomorrow! Next step is to acquire a keyboard and mouse. Anyone have a series 1 Parallel Keyboard and mouse? Or have any ideas on what type of keyboard or mouse would be compatible (if I was able to rewire to DB25). It appears to be a serial protocol, are the old RJ45 keyboards of the same format? Other ideas? Thanks a million, you are the best! -Nick

12 years, 11 months

Can a Selectric from 1961 converted in one Terminal Typewriter

by saquinn624＠aol.com

Message: 18 Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 22:01:09 -0400 From: Paul Anderson <wackyvorlon at me.com> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Subject: Re: Can a Selectric from 1961 converted in one Terminal Typewriter Message-ID: <60923E11-6481-4A2C-91FA-FCCFDAF18AA0 at me.com> Content-Type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII I'd keep it as a typewriter. They're great machines. Seconded. The Selectric (Correcting Selectric II) is my favorite typewriter. A bit too heavy to be considered portable, but solid and great feel. You'd need to recreate all of the drive and decode mechanism - it wouldn't be worth it unless you were very interested in recreating a Selectric Terminal Typewriter rather than just having a printing terminal.

12 years, 11 months

pdp-11/70 front panel bezel

by dgriffi＠cs.csubak.edu

I'm still searching for a pdp-11/70 front panel bezel. Does anyone have a spare? Does anyone know what the part number is for this thing? That would be very helpful. -- David Griffith dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?

12 years, 11 months

hp 9000/300-320 68K, Questions

by rampaginggreenhulk＠yahoo.com

anyone have a spare processor card, 68k or other

12 years, 11 months

Hans Camenzind, Inventor of the 555, dies.

by paco.linux＠gmail.com

Bad year : http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2012/08/16/hans-camenzind-inventor-of-the-555-… Paco -- |_|0|_| |_|_|0| ??? |0|0|0|

12 years, 11 months

Tek oscilliscopes

by rampaginggreenhulk＠yahoo.com

I want one of the HP color crt scopes I used when they were released circa 1989. I think I'm getting closer to owning one.

12 years, 11 months

IBM 5151

by mbouhoum＠hotmail.com

Hi Ismail; I'm interesed by a monitor for vintage IBM 5150, do you still have 1 unit of ibm 5151 ? Thanks Mohammed

12 years, 11 months

Summer Searchings

by spedraja＠ono.com

Hi. I've reviewed one VT220, one DEC Letterwriter and my PDP8-E. Status: - VT220 terminal - dead (in appeareance, the tube). - Letterwriter: PS or/and some circuitry, - PDP-8E: working. I should like to get one Teletype for it. If someone has some ot these items to get rid or trade, let me know off-list. Destination, south of Europe (Spain). Regards Sergio

12 years, 11 months

Local repair service wanted for BBC B micro/Master

by j.terry＠btinternet.com

Hi Does anyone have a contact within 5-10 miles of Purley, Surrey who can repair BBC computers at reasonable cost please? Thanks John

12 years, 11 months

Sun 1 Keyboard

by nick.allen＠comcast.net

Looks like the 50pin connection (J1) on the SUN2 CPU has 2 serial ports, found a pinout: The two serial ports on J1 are usually labelled SIO-A and SIO-B on the back of the machine and appear as /dev/ttya and /dev/ttyb under SunOS. The documented maximum output speed is 19200 bps. All ports are wired DTE and are compatible with both RS-232C and RS-423, using Zilog Z8530A dual UART chips. The pinout of J1 is: 3 TxD-A 14 DTR-A 33 DD-B 4 DB-A 15 DCD-A 34 CTS-B 5 RxD-A 22 DA-A 36 DSR-B 7 RTS-A 24 BSY-A 38 GND-B 8 DD-A 28 TxD-B 39 DTR-B 9 CTS-A 29 DB-B 40 DCD-B 11 DSR-A 30 RxD-B 47 DA-B 13 GND-A 32 RTS-B 49 BSY-B Is the Sun 2 Keyboard a serial keyboard? If not, any ideas on where to get a serial keyboard. Thanks everyone! -Nick

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test-drb August 2012