test-drb August 2016

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In search of: Fairlight CMI series I or II

by ian.finder＠gmail.com

I know, I know... But I figured I'd try here anyway. Any condition is okay with me. Willing to pay market rates. Cheers, - Ian -- Ian Finder (206) 395-MIPS ian.finder at gmail.com

9 years, 1 month

Bill Gates: Windows 95 Was 'A High Point'

by vintagecomputer＠bettercomputing.net

Never did try OS/2. ?I had friends who were fanatics about it. ?There was a big push back then to go to it. ?When that failed they rallied to Linux. ?Really should set up a box here with it and try it out. Sent from my Samsung device -------- Original message -------- From: Jerry Kemp <other at oryx.us> Date: 2016-08-01 8:26 PM (GMT-08:00) To: General at classiccmp.org, "Discussion at classiccmp.org:On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Subject: Re: Bill Gates: Windows 95 Was 'A High Point' Understood.?? That was OS/2 2.0 for me, after I had settled into OS/2 1.3 Unix took me longer to warm up to. Jerry On 08/ 1/16 07:29 PM, Brad H wrote: > > > I would call Win 95 a high point also. I lived near Toronto at the time and > remember the unfurling of a huge Win 95 banner down one side. There were events > everywhere. MS was really at their zenith. The excitement around that launch was > like nothing since. I believe I got swept up and installed it immediately but > shortly after removed it. Couldn't get used to the interface. Eventually for one > reason or another I had to and did go back to it. Wasn't the greatest or most > stable OS and was kind of a half breed at that, but man.. what I wouldn't give > to feel the anticipation again, the difference between it and DOS. Nothing > released on either PC or Mac has come close. > Brad >

9 years, 1 month

Midwest Scientific Instruments 6800

by vintagecomputer＠bettercomputing.net

Just thought I'd send out another shout out to anyone who might have one of these or is familiar with them. ?I've had this a while but have not really been able to use it, lacking a boot disk. ?It also doesn't have the standard MSIBUG ROM. ?I'm hoping maybe someone out there knows how I could procure the original ROMs and put this back to stock. I made a video showing the current 'WEEBUG' ROM in case any are curious or someone out there knows about it. Thanks! https://youtu.be/LY7yoAVxSrM Sent from my Samsung device

9 years, 1 month

MicroVax II (Doug)

by grahamcreid＠gmail.com

The company I worked for in 1989 had three hand-me-down MicroVax II from the US parent. They were originally a PDP11/73 box, which had been converted. They ran VMS 5.5-2, all had DEQNA, with no problems that I remember. They were just networked, it wasn't a cluster. The DEQNA may have been *unsupported* on 5.5, but it seeded to work OK. I still have one system, and bits of the others. Failing ESDI drives put them to the back of the garage. I do have a replacement ESDI drive, and a Q-bus SCSI controller, so when i get time (ha!), I'll resurrect it. Regards, Graham

9 years, 1 month

Bill Gates: Windows 95 Was 'A High Point'

by vintagecomputer＠bettercomputing.net

Er.. that was.. 'down one side of the CN tower'.. :) Sent from my Samsung device -------- Original message -------- From: Brad H <vintagecomputer at bettercomputing.net> Date: 2016-08-01 5:29 PM (GMT-08:00) To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Subject: Re: Bill Gates: Windows 95 Was 'A High Point' ??? I would call Win 95 a high point also. ?I lived near Toronto at the time and remember the unfurling of a huge Win 95 banner down one side. ?There were events everywhere. ?MS was really at their zenith. The excitement around that launch was like nothing since. ?I believe I got swept up and installed it immediately but shortly after removed it. ?Couldn't get used to the interface. ?Eventually for one reason or another I had to and did go back to it. ?Wasn't the greatest or most stable OS and was kind of a half breed at that, but man.. what I wouldn't give to feel the anticipation again, the difference between it and DOS. ?Nothing released on either PC or Mac has come close. Brad Sent from my Samsung device -------- Original message -------- From: Cameron Kaiser <spectre at floodgap.com> Date: 2016-08-01? 4:25 PM? (GMT-08:00) To: cctalk at classiccmp.org Subject: Re: Bill Gates: Windows 95 Was 'A High Point' > > <https://tech.slashdot.org/story/08/05/28/2214214/bill-gates-windows-95-was-…> > http://cdn.cultofmac.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/introducing.gif I have a "Windows '95 = Macintosh '89" pin on my iMac G4, as seen here: http://www.theapplecollection.com/Collection/pin/PinsBadges.html -- ------------------------------------ personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- ? Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckaiser at floodgap.com -- Business is war. -- Jack Tramiel -------------------------------------------

9 years, 1 month

Pictures per previous post

by COURYHOUSE＠aol.com

Doug we have a next cube, neat next monitor and NEXT laser printer at SMECC museum but alas no manuals Please advise Ed Sharpe archivist for SMECC ADDED NOTE need some great NEXT promo stuff to make the back drop for the display of this setup - - - -- - - - - -- - - In a message dated 8/1/2016 6:31:36 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, tmfdmike at gmail.com writes: Just to clarify did you 'rescue' these hoping to find good homes for them later - or to keep for yourself? If the former I would definitely be interested in the TI Explorer - and the RT. Mike On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 10:23 AM, Doug Fields <doug-cctalk at dpf.cc> wrote: > I took these things home with me: > > TI Explorer II > AT&T 3b2-1000-70 & BLIT monitor > Commodore 64 + disk drive > HP 85 (non-B, I think) > Bunch of NeXT manuals and PowerPC 601/603/604 manuals > > Cheers, > > Doug > >> On Aug 1, 2016, at 6:05 PM, Glen Slick <glen.slick at gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Aug 1, 2016 2:57 PM, "Doug Fields" <doug-cctalk at dpf.cc> wrote: >>> >>> Apparently the list strips HTML out, which I didn't know. >>> >>> https://www.icloud.com/sharedalbum/#B0ZGWZuqDGXYWQL < >> https://www.icloud.com/sharedalbum/#B0ZGWZuqDGXYWQL> >>> >>> Try that? >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Doug >> >> TI Explorer II - someone is probably interested in that one. >> > -- http://www.corestore.org 'No greater love hath a man than he lay down his life for his brother. Not for millions, not for glory, not for fame. For one person, in the dark, where no one will ever know or see.'

9 years, 1 month

How to get a Heathkit H8 to work with a serial terminal

by vintagecomputer＠bettercomputing.net

I posted this on vcfed and thought I'd ask here too. I have a working H8. ?It has the basics plus a 64k ram card and serial/cassette card. ?I have been looking and looking for info on what program to enter or rom change you have to make to get the machine to operate with a terminal. ?Surprisingly, I can't find any info on this at all. ?The H9 terminal guide describes general assembly and operation but does not say specifically how you use it in conjunction with an H8. Per others it sounds like you'd need to enter a program on the front panel to get the machine talking to the terminal. ?Or change ROMs. ?Does anyone have any info on how that all works? ?Can you actually redirect the front panel input/output to terminal? ? B Sent from my Samsung device

9 years, 1 month

"non-polar" capacitor?

by radiotest＠juno.com

At 04:03 AM 8/1/2016, drlegendre wrote: >Non-polar caps are used in locations where they must pass AC. Conventional polarized aluminum and tantalum capacitors are also used in locations where they must pass AC, such as interstage coupling capacitors and bypass capacitors, not to mention electrolytics as power supply filter capacitors. Any capacitor that could not pass AC would not be a capacitor. There are two principal situations where non-polar electrolytics are used: 1) When there is no constant DC offset to the applied voltage - if the voltage applied to an electrolytic capacitor reverses the capacitor can be damaged. When there is no constant DC offset the second reason can come into play: 2) When a large value non-polarized electrolytic can, as previously noted, cost less than a large film, oil-filled, or other non-polar capacitor. Some of us still deal daily with analog circuitry at work. Dale H. Cook, Radio Contract Engineer, Roanoke/Lynchburg, VA http://plymouthcolony.net/starcityeng/index.html

9 years, 1 month

Straight 8 up on Ebay just now

by COURYHOUSE＠aol.com

there is an 8i with similar crazy price but different user id.... hmmm.... beware? also a Rare Digital DEC H-500 Computer Lab, 1960s, Same Switches as PDP-8/I, Vintage for 700+ ( we have an extra one of these Computer Lab, if anyone here is interested) Ed# _www.smecc.org_ (http://www.smecc.org) In a message dated 7/19/2016 12:07:02 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time, jwsmail at jwsss.com writes: On 7/18/2016 10:23 PM, Sam O'nella wrote: > There may be some archives here or vcf with enough prices. Iirc i thought i remember one selling for something pretty high (8000/12000?) X years ago although i think like this it's a calculated price of doubling the last sale they saw. Although apple 1s seem to accomplish whatever that law is called :-) I think Straight 8's are nearly to the point that other systems which have published tracking inventories. There are very few, this one looks complete, or near complete. That said I'd figure though some of the higher prices such as the current PDP8/I and GT40 are setting for want of bids, they aren't that far from what you have to pay to get said systems on demand. This one may go for around the opportunistic price, and be lower, but $10 to $12k isn't going to be surprising.

9 years, 1 month

Bill Gates: Windows 95 Was 'A High Point'

by vintagecomputer＠bettercomputing.net

Here's some shots of it. ?I forgot about the guy rappelling down the tower. ?Don't think anyone rappelled for Windows 10! http://motherboard.vice.com/read/this-guy-rappelled-down-the-cn-tower-for-t… Sent from my Samsung device -------- Original message -------- From: Brad H <vintagecomputer at bettercomputing.net> Date: 2016-08-01 5:33 PM (GMT-08:00) To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Subject: Re: Bill Gates: Windows 95 Was 'A High Point' ??? Er.. that was.. 'down one side of the CN tower'.. :) Sent from my Samsung device -------- Original message -------- From: Brad H <vintagecomputer at bettercomputing.net> Date: 2016-08-01? 5:29 PM? (GMT-08:00) To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Subject: Re: Bill Gates: Windows 95 Was 'A High Point' ??? I would call Win 95 a high point also. ?I lived near Toronto at the time and remember the unfurling of a huge Win 95 banner down one side. ?There were events everywhere. ?MS was really at their zenith. The excitement around that launch was like nothing since. ?I believe I got swept up and installed it immediately but shortly after removed it. ?Couldn't get used to the interface. ?Eventually for one reason or another I had to and did go back to it. ?Wasn't the greatest or most stable OS and was kind of a half breed at that, but man.. what I wouldn't give to feel the anticipation again, the difference between it and DOS. ?Nothing released on either PC or Mac has come close. Brad Sent from my Samsung device -------- Original message -------- From: Cameron Kaiser <spectre at floodgap.com> Date: 2016-08-01? 4:25 PM? (GMT-08:00) To: cctalk at classiccmp.org Subject: Re: Bill Gates: Windows 95 Was 'A High Point' > > <https://tech.slashdot.org/story/08/05/28/2214214/bill-gates-windows-95-was-…> > http://cdn.cultofmac.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/introducing.gif I have a "Windows '95 = Macintosh '89" pin on my iMac G4, as seen here: http://www.theapplecollection.com/Collection/pin/PinsBadges.html -- ------------------------------------ personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- ? Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckaiser at floodgap.com -- Business is war. -- Jack Tramiel -------------------------------------------

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