test-drb January 2013

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Totally shameless plug - Atari Book now available for immediate purchase...

by curt＠atarimuseum.com

Well, after 7 years of research and over a year of writing and editing the book - Atari Inc. Business is Fun is now available for immediate purchase. https://www.createspace.com/3928085 800 Pages in total with nearly 300 pages of just memo's, court documents as well as rare and never before seen photo's and sketches. Told by the employees who worked there and cross checked by others as well as with supporting document evidence, this is a true recounting of Atari from its inception in the halls of AMPEX in 1969 by an engineer and a visionary that turn their efforts in a $2 billion juggernaut that then implodes into a $538 million death spiral by June 1984. Lots of detailed side stories such as "Rick Rats Big Cheese Restaurants" which would become the famous Chuck E Cheese franchise. How Atari had its own "Xerox PARC" in the Sierra Foothills and one of their first projects was a wireless version of arcade PONG to a much more detailed recounting of Steve Jobs time while at Atari, with far better details than what is told in Walter Isaacson's book, plus the true and accurate recounting of the creation of Breakout with input from Steve Wozniak who contributor to the chapter. Also the full story of the dealings and double-dealings between Atari and Amiga from November 1983 through June 1984 before Jack Tramiel even steps into the picture, including never before seen photo's, documents and court records. If you're looking for a gift for yourself or someone you know, you can order now for immediate shipment, or if your not in a rush and just want something to kick back and enjoy during the winter, order for January 2013 delivery and receive a $5.00 discount when you purchase: http://tinyurl.com/bs7kor8 Coming this time next year will be book #2 - Atari Corp. Business is War which will detail Atari from June 1984 through 1998... Curt

11 years, 1 month

Need Kermit for Xerox 820-II in .IMD format

by xmechanic＠landcomp.net

(Think I may have goofed on my earlier post (excess formatting)) Hiya, Just wondering if anyone has a Xerox 820-II with CP/M 2.2C that already has Kermit installed, that could make a Image Disk of it and upload it someplace? I have Dave Dunfield's Image Disk program, and I've successfully transferred several programs to the machine this way, but I'd like to have a comm program to transfer stuff, as I'm using a modified cable from the existing 8" floppy drive to an old win98/DOS PC for transfers, and I don't like to disconnect and connect those 50 pin edge connectors on and off the boards too many times. I actually have the .HEX files for the machine, but I tried to get them transferred with 22disk, and it doesn't seem to like 8" drives too much (ver. 1.42 or 1.44). I also tried the host terminal transfer, but hex files seem to wreak havoc and don't transfer properly. So I'm kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place. If anyone can help out, it would be greatly appreciated! Thanks. Dave Land Land Computer Service

11 years, 1 month

RGB analog, sync on G to VGA or HDMI?

by chrise＠pobox.com

Are there any recomendations for a converter that can take RGB with sync on GREEN as input and produce a VGA (or HDMI) output suitable for driving a modern LCD? I seem to be accumulating numerous older pieces of gear that produce RGB output and space and reliability of the old tubes to which they connect is becoming more and more premium. Would like to be able to use an LCD as an alternative. A couple DEC VT240 came my way this weekend and they will need some TLC to restore but the VR240 that came along with them is in even worse shape. I'll give it my best shot but ability to use an LCD as Plan B would be nice. Any recomendations from success? Chris -- Chris Elmquist

11 years, 2 months

VCF East pictures

by mloewen＠cpumagic.scol.pa.us

http://sturgeon.css.psu.edu/~mloewen/Oldtech/VCF-East2012/ Mike Loewen mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us Old Technology http://sturgeon.css.psu.edu/~mloewen/Oldtech/

11 years, 2 months

any interest in an IBM Displaywriter

by rampaginggreenhulk＠yahoo.com

I payed 100$, and had to pick it up in Queens/Nassau. I'll take 50$ plus shipping, from 08758. It works, but there is noticeable screen burn even when off. I have some disks, and the 8" drive cabinet.

11 years, 2 months

System/36 manuals

by aek＠bitsavers.org

I've been working on getting my S36 maint drawing set uploaded, and realized that I don't have very many manuals for the system. Does anyone have any that they'd be willing to have scanned?

11 years, 2 months

USB trace analysis

by aek＠bitsavers.org

I was trying to find the old Macintosh software SCSI analyzer program, and came across this (unrelated other than they were analyzing USB SCSI traffic) http://vusb-analyzer.sourceforge.net/ Looks pretty cool for analyzing USB traffic.

11 years, 2 months

ADM-3A reminiscences - was Re: more shameless classic trafficking (NOT Sellam's stuff)

by dm561＠torfree.net

----- Original Message ----- Message: 13 Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2013 22:28:26 -0800 From: Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> On 01/27/2013 09:46 PM, Richard wrote: >> Come on guys... the Terminals wiki is almost a year old now. You >> should always earch there first :) > ... You don't even list Fujitsu. > --Chuck ----- Reply: Nary a mention of Falco either, for that matter... mike

11 years, 2 months

IBM Series/1 documentation upload

by aek＠bitsavers.org

http://bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/series1 more that you ever wanted to know. there's a bit more yet being pushed out to the mirrors.

11 years, 2 months

Commodore Superpet video problem -- ideas?

by rob＠bitscience.ca

Hi folks, I'm having intermittent problems with my Superpet. It will run fine for some time, but then will "glitch" for a couple of seconds (including video distortion), and then hang. Having done a bit of digging, I suspect that the flyback transformer is arcing internally. The video board is the one in this schematic (http://zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/s...032/321448.gif). I can hear the arcing sound from area of the transformer when the glitch occurs, and I see no obvious external indications of anything sparking or shorting. I have looked at the voltages at the various test points noted on the video board schematic during normal operation, and they all appear OK. I'm sort of stuck at this point. Should I replace the flyback? The part number is 2432641AL 25M, and it's T721 on the board; does anyone know of an available equivalent? Alternatively, could this behaviour be caused by a bad electrolytic capacitor? I'm specifically suspicious of C754 (47uF/250V), but my knowledge of CRT theory is not deep, and I lack a good way to test the capacitor in circuit. Thanks for any help anyone can provide. Rob Ferguson

11 years, 2 months

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test-drb January 2013