test-drb December 2017

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by lyokoboy0＠gmail.com

Someone just dropped off a mac g3 at the scrapyard I work at and I picked it up. It has a failing hard drive. Replaced the drive, downloaded and burned a disk with mac os 8 on it, but it refuses to boot to it. How do I go about installing the software on this machine? Not sure if this is the place to ask, but figured it would be worth a shot. Thanks.

6 years, 7 months

FS: Tektronix 4051, Signetics Instructor 50, Tempest ThinkJet & more!

by sellam.ismail＠gmail.com

I've just listed more items for sale in the VCFed forums. The following is a summary: Tektronix 4051 complete working system http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?61006-Tektronix-40 51-complete-system Signetics Instructor 50 http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?61031-Signetics-Instructor-50-in-… Homebrew Data Terminal http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?61009-Homebrew-Data-Terminal Apple Mouse //c http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?61010-Apple-Mouse- c-in-original-box-with-software DSP225 Tempest InkJet Printer (HP 2225A) http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?61011-DSP225-Tempe st-InkJet-Printer-(HP-ThinkJet-2225A) I have also posted the following items to my growing sale inventory: Commodore 128 - in original box (decent shape); computer is yellowed; includes power supply, Commodore 128 Introductory Guide, 2-button Commodore mouse - $100 Commodore 1571 - in original box (water damage and dents on top); typical yellowing; includes data and power cables - $40 Buy both of the above together - $125 AppleCD SC - excellent condition, in original box (nice condition, fairly clean) - $100 IBM 1501492 MFM hard disk controller - $15 IBM 1501486 Color Graphics adaptor - $25 NEC PC-8201A User's Guide, N82-BASIC Reference Manual, Personal Application Kit Guide - sell as set for $20 Additional information and prior unsold inventory lists are here: http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?58709-New-Items-For-Sale-Check-th… As always, please send inquiries to me directly via e-mail at < sellam.ismail at gmail.com>. Counteroffers welcome. Thanks! Sellam

6 years, 7 months

Cleaning out a desk drawer

by cclist＠sydex.com

The MCUs devkits have been claimed, with backups. Thanks all for your interest. --Chuck

6 years, 7 months

Revive 11/34

by jcwelch＠hal-pc.org

I am reviving an 11/34. Cards are: Back/Fans [M8266--------]? Front of machine where keypad is. ????????? [M8265--------] ????????? [M9312] [M7859] ????????? [M7762--------] ????????? [OPEN]? [M7860] ????????? [M7840--------] ????????? Bus grant in third from front slot ????????? [M9302] [M7856] The 7856 is hooked to a cable/null modem (i think)/PC running XP&Hyperterminal When I first powered on the programmers console said '7' and I powered off, then back on, and now it says '5' Any suggestions as to what to try first?? I may have the bus grant in backwards.? I have other boards I can try. Sincerely, John Welch :qw

6 years, 7 months

DR-DOS

by lproven＠gmail.com

I hope this is vintage enough. I've been playing around some more with my projects to create VMs / bootable USB keys with PC DOS 7.1 and DR-DOS. Right now I'm focusing on DR-DOS 7.1 and the DR OpenDOS Enhancement Project, because that's FOSS and AFAICS it can be redistributed, which I can't with DR-DOS 7.02/7.03/7.04/7.05 or DR-DOS 8/8.1, which were commercially licensed. I found a download of the last build released: https://archiveos.org/drdos/ First, it's the wrong size. VirtualBox can't mount it. VMware can. I truncated it to exactly 2880 sectors using the advice from ``jleg094'' here: https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=39141 VBox mounts that. But it won't boot, nor in VMware -- it just displays 2 dots and freezes. Embarrassingly late in the troubleshooting process, I've found why. I didn't think to check what was on the image! Foolish of me. I mounted it on a pre-booted VM and looked, and it's blank! There's nothing in the image at all. So, I mounted the empty image file as a loop device, copied the boot files in there and then the rest of the files in the distro archive. And lo, it works! It boots my VM just fine, and it's now running 7.01-08. All I need to do now is work out how to make the hard disk bootable, and I'm in business. The DR-DOS 7 SYS command won't do it, as the files aren't named IBMBIOS.COM and IBMSYS.COM -- they're DRBIO.SYS and DRSYS.SYS. I copied them to the expected names. SYS completes but the disk won't boot. Next step will be to try with Norton Disk Doctor. Anyway, if anyone wants a bootable diskette image with DR-DOS 7.01-08, complete with FAT32 support -- apparently it can even boot from it -- let me know. -- Liam Proven ? Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lproven at cix.co.uk ? Google Mail/Talk/Plus: lproven at gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/Flickr: lproven ? Skype/LinkedIn/AIM/Yahoo: liamproven UK: +44 7939-087884 ? ?R/WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal: +420 702 829 053

6 years, 7 months

All I want for Christmas is an RK8E

by chd＠chdickman.com

About 15 years ago I told my girlfriend I wanted an RX8E controller board for Christmas. I was curious how far she might go to get it for me. I ended up with two packages: one from her 8 year old daughter with a bit of 1x8 pine plank (If he wants a board, I'll get him a board!), the other package was an M8357 that she probably paid way to much for... Now the girlfriend is my wife and the daughter is getting married. This Christmas I am asking for an RK8E. I doubt it can be found at a reseller. So does anyone have or know of an OMNIBUS RK8E boardset they are willing to part with? This is an M7104, M7105, and M7106 along with 4 over-the-top edge connector blocks. I have two RK05 drives for a PDP-11, but my goal is to build an RK05 emulator based on Dave Gesswein's ST506 disk emulator. Merry Christmas, -chuck

6 years, 7 months

TI 99/4a It Lives! but extended basic? acts bizzare...Help?

by COURYHOUSE＠aol.com

TI 99/4a It Lives! but extended basic? acts bizarre... Great got the video cable 5 bucks from the UK - -SOLVED! Works and fires up with out the extended basic plugged in but when I pluged it in and selected the option for extended basic at book up just hangs no prompt on screen etc. I have the screed that TI had that was more of an industrial display rather than the screen that was converted TV that may have been earlier.. Heavy little monitor! It has a strong mesh looking internal mask on the screen compared to modern color CRTS/ We also have a Epson looking printer with TI logo to pair up The goal of course is to set up as a display at SMECC Museum with some of the other micros where it can be demo'ed I have the speech module too but have no idea what to do with that. Have a disc with cable but need some sort of an expansion to plug it in. The adventure continues... as always drop any ideas hits etc to us/// Learning as we go As I never used or sold any of these when in the biz back then! Ed Sharpe Archivist for SMECC _www.smecc.org_ (http://www.smecc.org)

6 years, 7 months

Canon BN22 Laptop manual, anyone?

by binarydinosaurs＠gmail.com

Hi folks, I?ve been contacted by someone looking for the user guide for this particular beast, an early 90s mono laptop with built-in printer. The usual searches turn up nothing other than pictures and she says she?s found a PDF but in German. Any clues? ? Adrian/Witchy Binary Dinosaurs - Celebrating Computing History from 1972 onwards

6 years, 7 months

Dec-10 Day announcement from Living Computers: Museum + Labs

by jnc＠mercury.lcs.mit.edu

> From: Ethan Dicks > I look forward to taking a stab at this. I suspect there are a number of people who'd be interested in MASSBUS storage devices (e.g. me - suddenly all those RH11's I've got are no longer boat- anchors :-). We should try and organize an group build, to share the load. Anyone else interested? Oh, one detail I didn't look at: what's the physical interface this uses? Hopefully three of the Berg/DuPont connectors (i.e. what's on the RHxx boards, with flat cables going to the adapter to the standard MASSBUS connector, a device rejoicing in the name 'Receptacle Housing Assembly'); the original MASSBUS cables (along with the 'Receptacle Housing Assembly' are now rare as hen's teeth). And there's also the MASSBUS termination... Noel

6 years, 7 months

LA30 restore complete

by fritzm＠fritzm.org

Got the last replacement components I needed for my LA30 restore today, and finished it up! Here's a short video of the LA30 connected as console to my restored PDP-11/45: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMIL2bvUYIs

6 years, 7 months

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test-drb December 2017