To the Administrator
I have given the equipment, tapes and paper documentation to Scott Kevill ( scott at kevill.com ) because he lives in Perth and was able to come pick it up.
he has told me he plans to scan the paper material and put it on the web somewhere so others can see it.
I was amazed to have 4 people contact me with a couple of days.
thank you for spreading the word thru your mailing list - can you now notify all that the machine has gone to a better place :) ,
with an enthusiast.
Cheers...
Keith
>>>> On Thu, 18 Apr 2013, Cory Smelosky wrote:
>>>>> Btw, anyone have any blank 5.25" floppies kicking around? ;)
For another source of diskettes, I've had good luck recently (end of
last year) ordering from http://floppydisk.com/. It was a test buy of
ten 5.25-inch hubless diskettes for $10 + s&h to format for use with
DECmates by using a mix of old software, PCs, & TEAC drives. Health
issues put that project on hold unfortunately. :(
Floppydisk.com has 3.5-, 5.25-, and (at the time and maybe still)
8-inch diskettes with all of the standard storage capacities. Bulk
purchases, obviously, reduce the cost per diskette.
[I have no business relationship with them -- I'm just a happy customer.]
Bob
I figured I'd share the progress I've made so far with my bus interface
project. I've got the Arduino able to program the cartridge EEPROM.
I'm going to start sorting out the Coco to Arduino communications next.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3vHKKITAlk.
If you have any suggestions, let me know...
-Matt
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 09:33:58 -0700
From: Glen Slick <glen.slick at gmail.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Subject: What are these Tektronix paper rolls? (8.5-inch wide,
3.25-inch diameter)
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I have some boxes of Tektronix paper rolls and I have no idea where
they were used. The rolls are 8.5-inches wide and have a diameter of
3.25-inches. They are packed 6 to a box and I have around six boxes
of these which are all sealed except for one. I can't find any
obvious part numbers anywhere. The boxes say Made in Japan and have
JAL Cargo stickers on them and were shipped to PDX. These might date
back to somewhere in the 1980's. They came along with some Tektronix
4170 systems I picked up a while back.
Tektronix made a fiber-faceplate optical printer for the
4010-series storage tube graphics terminals. They were hideous,
and made horrible brown copies that smelled bad, and the
printer would sometimes give off ammonia fumes so bad that
your eyes would tear. This sounds exactly like the paper
for that.
Jon
Hi, an update on available S-100 board PCBs
Good news!? There are several new and reordered S-100 PCBs available!
The S-100 68K CPU boards finally came in so there are about 5 available.
There are 25 of the S-100 IDE V2 reorder PCBs and 6 of the new S-100 bus
terminator/prototyping board PCBs.
There are 4 of the S-100 LAVA PCBs available.
http://s100computers.com/My%20System%20Pages/68000%20Board/68K%20CPU%20Board
.htm
http://s100computers.com/My%20System%20Pages/IDE%20Board/My%20IDE%20Card.htmhttp://n8vem-sbc.pbworks.com/w/browse/#view=ViewFolder¶m=S-100%20bus%20t
erminator
http://s100computers.com/My%20System%20Pages/Lava-10%20Board/LAVA-10%20Board
.htm
The S-100 PCBs cost the same as before ($20 each).? However due to
unforeseen extreme price increases in shipping by USPS I am forced to change
shipping costs.
Shipping in the US will be $3 for a single PCB and $2 for each additional
PCB.? Shipping internationally will be $10 for a single PCB and $3 for each
additional PCB.? This is for the bare basics USPS first class postage with
no tracking or insurance.? The builder assumes all risk of delivery as per
usual arrangement.
I apologize for the large price increase on shipping but this is out of my
hands.? The USPS is in dire financial trouble and is raising prices on
shipping.? It affects us all and is most unfortunate.? These boards are
provided "at cost" so there is no margin to absorb any shipping price
increases.? I have to pass them along.
If you would like one or more S-100 PCBs please send a PayPal to
LYNCHAJ at YAHOO.COM
Thanks and have a nice day!
Andrew Lynch
PS, if you would like to help out this all-volunteer project please get one
or more of the S-100 LAVA PCBs. These PCBs are the oldest ones and them
sitting around on a shelf does no one any good. I?d like these to go to a
hobbyist who would get some enjoyment from these fun to build and use
boards. Thanks in advance. I truly appreciate everyone's support in moving
these remaining boards. You make this hobbyist home brew project possible.
I just sold a gent an old combo card, and he needed me to send him
DOS/Novell drivers. I found this page, and thought it might be of interest
to some.
http://www.veder.com/nwdsk/
Cindy Croxton
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I had to check my calendar to make sure I didn't go back in time
Here's a job advertisement for a "Senior PDP-11 Software Designer"
http://jobs.itworldcanada.com/Jobs/Ggnt_nt-yM0A2pqNiGCgnQ==/Senior-PDP-11-S…
This would be my dream job if I was single and unattached... I'd move
to Peterborough in a heartbeat.
...sigh...
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Thomas PDP-11 Dzubin
Calgary, Saskatoon, or Vancouver CANADA
For anybody within driving distance of Atlanta this weekend, we have the
first VCF Southeast this weekend.
You can get info via http://vintage.org/2013/southeast/ or via the Atlanta
Historic Computing Society site (http://atlhcs.org/) Directions, etc. are
all there.
We have a pretty impressive Apple Pop-Up Museum that you begin with (Pop-Up
doesn't mean it's made of paper and pops up when you turn the page, but
rather that it's here for this weekend, and may "Pop-Up" somewhere else
later on..)
A chance to see some fairly historic pieces of computer history and hear
some interesting speakers...
Earl Baugh (AHCS member)
In this modern day of pushing for everything to be web based, I am SO
frustrated by my hosting company being down for the last 9.5 hours due to a
DNS resolving issue. The old methods would never have had these problems..
Cindy Croxton
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