Does anyone know if the 5161 uses a special pinout or if it's simply a
straight-through cable (i.e. pin 1 to pin 1)? I've been searching but
haven't found any answers.
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I have binders full of pages that give complete info on everything from
identifying floppy drives, cross reference of old memory, pin outs for
single board 486 computers, etc.
Am willing to scan into PDF or OCR, if someone will keep track of all this
stuff?
Cindy Croxton
Electronics Plus
1613 Water Street
Kerrville, TX 78028
(830)792-3400 phone (830)792-3404 fax
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Hi, everyone. I've been following the S-100 community for quite a while
now, especially the newer boards created by Andrew, John, and others.
Last year, I was lucky enough to meet with Dr. Wilcox and receive
numerous bits of computing history, especially the notes and the 68000
S-100 board that he designed. He was gracious enough to permit me to
scan and post the notes, which I've been planning to do and still will
accomplish at some point. I have posted photos of the front and back of
his 68000 board (wire-wrapped, no less) on my web site
http://marstella.net/?p=245. I also have his only copy of the 68000 book
he wrote containing all of his errata. I'm planning to get that
information compiled first as that book still appears to be very popular
on eBay, when a copy shows up. I'll post more as I gather and organize
information and will try to post summaries of each journal as there are
many of them. There are also numerous schematics and code listings
spread across dozens of manila folders.
Regards, Brian.
I have a list from the 1990s that gives the IBM PN for lots of replacement
parts for OLD IBM machines that a company near me used to have on
maintenance.
If anyone is interested in this 15 or so pages, I can scan them into PDF.
For instance,
1495730 is a clamp that goes into a 5210
1495733 is a print wheel hub for a 5219
1619618 is a 1.44 floppy for 8525, sub = 33G4343
Cindy Croxton
Electronics Plus
1613 Water Street
Kerrville, TX 78028
(830)792-3400 phone (830)792-3404 fax
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During the ongoing clearout, I've found some full-length EISA
controller cards. By the look of it, there are some SCSI 2 host
adaptors - they have high-density 50-pin connectors on their
backplates - and what might be ESDI controllers.
I don't own any EISA machines any more and am not expecting to, so if
nobody wants these, I will send them to recycling.
Free for the cost of postage. Surface post to the USA/Canada/south
America would not be /too/ prohibitive. They're currently in London.
I've never had any interest in anything on the Vintage Computer boards
& I don't think these are worth eBaying, but if anyone wants to
disseminate this offer, please feel free - including my email and
other contact details in the .sig.
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I'm working on creating a static display of storage types/media for use in schools and such.
Anybody spare some dead pieces?
I'm not sure I want to make it a detailed survey, probably more of an overview. Although I could have the first panel being general and add-on panels with more detail.
I'm interested in
Core memory
1/4 tape cart
21" fixed disk platter & head (NCR 656/CDC Hawk if I can ask (kick myself for trashing my stack of them))
Various memory chips
Bernoulli carts
Syquest carts
WORM disc cart
What ever you think is interesting.
Thanks,
Brad Arnold
President & Cofounder, Atlanta Historical Computing Society
http://www.ATLHCS.org
I scored a reasonably good condition KII on eBay last week, which booted
but looked like it just needed some CRT adjustment (screen was garbled,
but in a small line at center, which suggest a simple pot tweak). Sure
enough, got it home, plugged it in, popped the lid, adjusted the pot,
and intro text.
Used teledisk to make a boot disk, and the machine booted!
Since I had it open and I was trying to check on the drives in the 4, I
disconnected the internal drives in the II and connected a K4 drive. On
power on, the drive did not even spin up, and so I pulled another Kaypro
to test. Does the Tandon use different voltages?
Now, tonight, I boot the unit, and the drives spin up but the activity
LEDs won't light up on init, and it obviously won't boot. A spare tandon
SSDD behaves the same. It appears the drive logic on the main PCB is
not operational now, though I can't imagine plugging a DSDD from a K4
would mess things up that much. Any ideas on where to start looking?
Jim
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Jim Brain
brain at jbrain.comwww.jbrain.com
Hello,
please excuse this little plug for gear on ebay from a friend of mine. He just told me he put what pretty much amounts to two Systron Donner analogue computers from 1954 on ebay and asked me to spread the word where I think it might be heard; I'm not involved with the transaction in any other way.
http://www.ebay.de/itm/251273118755
Computer Module, Initial Condition Modul and a custom Function Generator module are present twice, Cyclic Reset Generator just once.
Several patch panels and potentiometer modules, documentation and schematics included, but no cables.
Will _NOT_ work "out of the box", restoration required. Freight shipping from or pickup in Northern Germany.
He states the gear was shown in the German computer documentation "WDR Computernacht" as opener on the 8th episode "Artificial Intelligence".
Thanks for putting up with the occasional ad.
So long,
Arno
Does anyone have a list of control codes for the Osborne Vixen (OCC4)?
Cursor addressing, video attributes, graphics mode, etc. Thanks.
Mike Loewen mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us
Old Technology http://sturgeon.css.psu.edu/~mloewen/Oldtech/
