While cleaning up the shop, I found a stockpile (qty: 85) of brand new, in the plastic wrap,
Carlisle DC300XL/P-600 QIC tapes. They're arranged in one complete case of 50 (subdivided into
boxes of 10, each of which has two smaller boxes of 5). The boss wants something for them, but
didn't say how much. I'm asking $0.50 per tape, in lots of 10. $20 for the full case. You pay
shipping from Wichita, Ks 67213.
--Shaun
Hi Guys,
I have finally decided to restore my original Altair 8800 which has been in
storage for over 30 years. Does anyone have a copy of Microsoft's Multiuser
Disk Extended Basic for the Altair 8800? When I was in college in '79 to
'81, in the computer room was an ASR-33 Teletype and 3 Learseigler terminals
connected to an Altair 8800B. An IMSAI was also there connected to one
ASR-33 Teletype. I'd like to resurrect this multiuser Basic software
environment on my Altair someday once the restoration is complete. Any help
in securing a copy of all the necessary software would be most appreciated.
Thanks a bunch in advance. Take care my friends.
Kip Koon
<mailto:computerdoc at sc.rr.com> computerdoc at sc.rr.com
<http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Kip_Koon>
http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Kip_Koon
On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 11:58:36AM -0400, Noel Chiappa wrote:
>Saw this auction for a pair of H960 blank front panel clips:
>
> http://www.ebay.com/itm/391207099375
>
>and though I'd pick them up... until they went for $30 (including shipping),at
>which point I decided I'd go back to my previous plan to fabricate some out of
>some scrap wood, and a pair of screws.
>
>Time to find someone who can do injection molding... (I don't think these
>could be 3D printed, the necks of the bulb-heads are under a lot of stress
>when removing panels, they often snap off; will 3D printed parts be that
>strong?)
John Wilson <wilson at dbit.com> wrote:
> So I'd be inclined to do a better design where
> the posts are made of metal (or at least have a screw or stud through them
> for extra strength).
Hello,
metal ball heads with a hex base on threaded posts are available as spares
for R/C cars and similar, see e.g. ebay auction 161768309137 (10 for less than
EUR 4,-- + S/H). You could probably just screw them into a suitably-sized hole
in a plastic body like a self-tapping screw, or glue them in.
Hope that helps,
Arno
We heard back from Uncle Sam @ the IRS: MARCH is finally a federal 501(c)3 non-profit charity.
It took 9 years of prognosticating and 1 year of actual work. :)
We needed to file using a different name than "Mid-Atlantic Retro Computing Hobbyists" so that's the other big piece of news here. Our charity's official name is:
Wait for it .........
"Vintage Computer Federation".
We'll continue to do business as MARCH. The new name, which happens to have the abbreviation "VCF" (get it? -- and yes we got permission from Sellam and from Erik K.), allows us to potentially expand beyond just being a regional computer club. Stay tuned for more announcements about this. :)
March can now compete with chm ?for the larger cash donations and grants now I would assume!
Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone
-------- Original message --------
From: Jason Scott <jason at textfiles.com>
Date: 07/27/2015 1:06 PM (GMT-07:00)
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Subject: Re: Huge news! MARCH's 501c3
Congratulations to MARCH on the new phase of existence!
On Jul 27, 2015 2:06 PM, "geneb" <geneb at deltasoft.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Jul 2015, Al Kossow wrote:
>
>? On 7/27/15 10:54 AM, Evan Koblentz wrote:
>>
>>? "Vintage Computer Federation".
>>>
>>>
>> Great
>>
>> I hope Sellam gets on your ass over that.
>>
>
> Al, don't be a dick.
>
> Evan clearly mentioned that he got Sellam's and Erik Klein's(sp?) OK on
> the name.
>
> g.
>
> --
> Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007
> http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind.
> http://www.diy-cockpits.org/coll - Go Collimated or Go Home.
> Some people collect things for a hobby.? Geeks collect hobbies.
>
> ScarletDME - The red hot Data Management Environment
> A Multi-Value database for the masses, not the classes.
> http://scarlet.deltasoft.com - Get it _today_!
>
Thought id share what I picked up about 2 hours north of me
Pet 8032 with 8050 Drive and Matching Printer
Amiga 500 with 590 HDD- Needs some work
Brand new in Box C16
Brand New in Box Plus 4
Commodore Colt PC
2 VIC 20s. Ones an early one with silver label
Lots of Disks for the A500
All in all not a bad haul for a 2 hour drive. The only thing im
keeping is the Amiga 500, and maybe the colt PC the rest is up for
grabs. If your interested in it let me know. I can deliver to VCFMW if
its prepaid.
Heres pics for you all to look at
https://www.flickr.com/photos/67970316 at N08/sets/72157656357657105
Steve
I need to pick the brains of some PDP-8 experts. According to
the references I can find, especially the Small Computer Handbook,
the GTF instruction should include the M837 interrupt inhibit bit
in AC3. However, maindec 8E-D1HA test 05 seems to depend
on this not being true. Running the GTF instruction on my 8/M
when the inhibit FF is set results in a 0 in AC3. Furthermore,
both simh and Doug Jones' emulator omit the interrupt inhibit
bit in the GTF instruction. In fact Dr Jones' emulator has a /*?*/
comment in the code. Does anyone know the origin of this
discrepancy? Was the behavior the same on pre-Omnibus
versions of the 8, or did earlier address extensions include
that bit in the GTF result?
I came across this oddity in the course of writing an emulator
of my own, and I'd like understand what's going on here a little
deeper than "ignore the documentation, and make it work like
the real hardware."
Thanks in advance,
BLS
I find USB useful and with USB 3 pretty darn quick!
only downside it does not like to run 45.5 baud to run our 60 wpm UPI
Teletype machine
in the Journalism Display. Hey anyone have a AP Teletype we need one
in AP dress too!
Ed# _www.smecc.org_ (http://www.smecc.org)
In a message dated 7/26/2015 6:14:58 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk writes:
>
> Remember when USB was referred to as the Useless Serial Bus after it was
introduced? I think it was a solid 1-2
> years after it was introduced that I began to notice peripherals
designed for it.
I still call it 'Useless Serial Botch' most of the time. It's not a bus,
after all.
-tony
=
A momentus event happened 40 years ago around this time, July 1975,
the world's first computer store opened in West Los Angeles, called
Arrow Head Computer Store, tag-lined, 'The Computer Store'. It was
opened by Dick Heiser. How time has flown by!
Murray :)
I have the following Sun hardware which I?d like to find a good home for:
Sparc 2
Sparc Classic
An Ultra 10 tower
CRT
A couple of external hard disks, CD drives, and tape drive
A Sun motherboard of unknown type
A few mice/keyboards
A box of software
The Sparc 2, classic, and Ultra 10 towers all worked the last time I used them.
Any interested takers, please let me know. I?d prefer that someone take it all.
I live in Hillsboro, OR and would prefer not to ship anything.
Thanks,
Corey J. Anderson
