The old Sun kbd has been claimed.
Still have the type 4, 5, 5c, and 6.
Cindy Croxton
Electronics Plus
1613 Water Street
Kerrville, TX 78028
830-792-3400 phone
830-792-3404 fax
sales at elecplus.com
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Three new Sun binders scanned tonight with a pair of special docs this
time. It's all been software previous to these but tonight we have
the elusive (at least I couldn't find it) Sun PROM User's Manual (doc#
800-1736-10.) This one has lots of juicy info going back to the Sun-2
(including the LED flash codes I'll need to diagnose my -2 boards) up
through some of the Sun-4 series and the 386i. I'm sure a lot of that
info is out there in FAQs and Usenet posts but this may be the source
of that knowledge in one place (not to discount personal experience.)
There is also a system diags manual that spans a few platforms as
well. And riding along with these two is the "Editing Text Files"
tome, covering your favorite editors of the period.
The filenames are here:
800-1736-10_SunPROMUsersManual_RevA09May1988.pdf
800-1738-10_SunSystemDiagnosticsManual_RevA09May1988.pdf
800-1754-10_EditingTextFiles_RevA09May1988.pdf
and the files can be found here:
http://chiclassiccomp.org/docs/index.php?dir=%2Fcomputing/Sun
Enjoy!
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Hello ccmp'ers - July is almost here and that means it's time for me
to start making noise about our yearly Midwestern weekend-of-fun.
This year's Vintage Computer Festival Midwest will be held a bit
earlier than in previous years, owing to the usual scheduling
conflicts with holidays and other events. The weekend for 2014 is
September 13-14.
Those coming from out of town and staying over night should call the
hotel ASAP. Registration at the group rate has been open a few weeks
now but last I heard rooms are still available.
If you would like table space, please email me privately with your
requirements and what you'd like to display and or sell. Most of the
provided tables are 2'x5'. If you can bring your own folding table,
please do! We run out of tables before we run out of space to put
them.
We've got a new site up with actual content, including an
ever-expanding FAQ. Have a look and feel free to post about anything
not covered there:
http://vcfmw.org
See you in September!
-j
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> To the best of my recollection, the 5170 in its native form did not
> include a trim panel. However, it was included (ISTR anyway) with the
> "sit the box vertically on the floor" IBM kit.
>
>--Chuck
Those were actually two different options. The grey back panel came standard
with all 5170 AFAIK. Since they were only put on by Velcro most are lost
(like the front lock keys). The tower option (or as it is formally known:
Personal Computer AT Floor Standing Option 6450218) allowed you to stand up
the 5170 on its side. In fact you cannot use both the grey back panel and
the Floor Standing Option together. Check out VCF - I have pictures of both
of posted.
I am very pleased to announce, and be done with, the scanning of a
small stack of CompuServe Magazine, the magazine sent to subscribers
of the online service of the same name. There are 19 issues in all,
various months from 1990, 91 and 92. They're full of ads for "The
Mall," CompuServe's online shopping service, with a good sampling of
the products of the times. The articles cover a wide range of topics
(and how they're accessible on their service) as well as predictions
of CompuServe's existence for decades to come. Not much mention of
this "Internet" thing...
Due to the size of the files and the ease of reading documents in
their browser, I uploaded the scans to archive.org instead of our
usual docs site. All of the issues should be accessible with this
search:
https://archive.org/search.php?query=compuserve%20magazine
Enjoy!
- jht
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I have one of each in their original boxes, tested working, extra
books/manuals, programs, etc.
Also a number of C64 that have issues, and some untested TI99s.
LOTS of AC adapters for Atari, Commodore machines.
Cindy Croxton
Electronics Plus
1613 Water Street
Kerrville, TX 78028
830-792-3400 phone
830-792-3404 fax
sales at elecplus.com
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I might, but will be out of town until sept. I may even have that same tape - I have a drive and a number of tapes.
"E. Groenenberg" <quapla at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>
>I found a TU-60 tape with what is apparently CAPS-11.
>
>The tape label has the following texts :
>DEC-11-OTSYA-A-TC
>CAPS-11 V01-02
>SYSTEM CASSETTE
>
>A loose label lists the (apparent) contents date 09-aug-73 :
>
>CTLOAD SYS 08-aug-73
>CAPS11 S8K 09-AUG-73
>PIP SRU 09-AUG-73
>EDIT SLG 09-AUG-73
>LINK SRU 09-AUG-73
>ODT SLG 09-AUG-73
>PAL SRU 09-AUG-73
>DEMO PAL 09-AUG-73
>
>Is the anybody who is able to image this tape so the community
>can us it?
>
>Ed
>
>--
>Dit is een HTML vrije email / This is an HTML free email.
>Zeg NEE tegen de 'slimme' meter.
>
Hello, all,
I am in the midst of restoration of a very old (1964-ish) electronic calculator called the Wyle Laboratories Scientific Model WS-02. This is a transistorized electronic calculator that uses a magnetostrictive delay line for register storage, and a CRT display for showing the working registers and memory registers. The CRT is driven by sine/cosine signals to generate fully-formed stroke-style digits. I don't know if it's magnetically or electrostatically deflected...is there any easy way to tell? There are some coils around the neck of the CRT, but they are not as large as I'm used to seeing on CRT's of this size (8").
The question that I have is that I want to test out the power supply circuitry to make sure that all is healthy there. I have removed the logic module from the machine (the logic module contains all of the calculating and display generation logic, and comes out as a unit). I have also disconnected the video driver board. The connector at the back end of the CRT is unplugged. There are a couple of wires that go to the coils around the neck of the CRT, but they are connected to the video driver board, which is disconnected. The high voltage connector from the flyback is still connected to the CRT.
At this point, I've traced out the main logic voltages (+12, -12) and a -30V supply that are used throughout the machine.
I want to slowly bring up the power supply with a Variac and monitor the voltages and ripple to see if the power supply is still healthy. However, I'm concerned about having the high voltage supply connected to the CRT without any other connections on it? Could the high voltage supply be hurt because it may be missing signals it needs to oscillate properly? Could this hurt the CRT? I don't know enough about the way this kind of stuff works to know if I could cause any problems, either with the CRT, or the high voltage supply.
I'd appreciate any guidance that may be given prior to trying to light this thing up.
Thank you,
Rick Bensene
The Old Calculator Museum
http://oldcalculatormuseum.com
>
> From: Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org>
> Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 12:21:57 -0700
> Subject: Re: Tape Oven (was Re: An 8 Inch Disk Lathe)
> On 8/15/14 11:02 AM, Al Kossow wrote:
>
> Well, there is a new winner in the "most evil tape category" that makes
> MRX V look good in comparison.
>
> Wabash (who would have guessed..)
>
> The Wabash is BAD
>
I would think that 3M Blackwatch would be at the top of your list.
--
Michael Thompson
