After VCFMW this year, I've been looking at old projects I have and
was wondering if anyone has any leads on TeleVideo systems.
I'm looking for TS-800 terminals/systems, and interested in probably
any 1980s Televideo terminals, depending on price, especially the 950,
and 965s... and keyboards for them.
I'd also like to find a TPC-II (the 8088-based portable computer). I
used to have one growing up, and there's a bit of nostalgia there.
It seems like there's more Televideo stuff lately than I remember
being on eBay before, but it's all fairly expensive, especially the
computers. I have picked up a few affordable things (970 & 965
terminals missing some keyboards and a TS-803 that I'm still waiting
on). I have a couple of TS-801's, TS-806C and a TS-816 that are in
various states of repair, that I've been poking at.
I also have various Qbus era DEC stuff that I could probably trade for it.
Any leads would be appreciated!
Thanks,
Pat
Folks,
A neglected Apple IIe showed up in my life, and now I find myself needing a
few parts. Specifically:
- AY-5-3600 keyboard encoder IC
- Several key studs, maybe a couple of keys
Anyone have a donor machine?
Bill
The short story: we need exhibitors, speakers and volunteers to have an
event. We are off to a good start but we all know time flies when you are
having fun, and March isn't that far away.
When: Saturday and Sunday, March 23rd-24th 2019
Where: Seattle, WA at Living Computers:museum+labs
Event page: http://vcfed.org/vcf-pnw
Pictures from 2018: https://photos.app.goo.gl/QPfZ4WXPdIdUo5gn2
Exhibitor registration: http://vcfed.org/wp/vcf-pnw-exhibitor-registration/
Have a question? Nervous about being a first time exhibitor? Want to help
but don't know how? Send me an email ... I'd be happy to talk to you.
-Mike
mbbrutman at brutman.com or michael at vcfed.org
Hi:
I'm looking for maintenance manuals for old Univac tape and printers. I've
already mined Bitsavers and done some fairly extensive Google searches but
would like manuals on:
Tapes: Uniservo IIA, IIIA or IIIC, VIC, VIIIC, 12, 16 or 20
Printers: 0751, 0755 (used on 1108), 0758 (used on 1108 and 494), 0768 (used
on 92/9300) or 0770 series (used on 1100)
Pointers to on line versions would be appreciated. If you have hardcopies
I'll be happy to buy them and give back a scan, or pay for the scan.
Tom
Long shot, but you never know...
I recently obtained an Altos 386/1000 system (80386 + 4GB RAM in a tower
case with tape drive and floppy)
After a quick clean and check it powered up, gave a whinge about a flat
battery (which I'm told is to be expected), and then booted SysV r3 Unix
OK.
After an hour or so poking about, I shut it down then powered it up again
a short time later...
Now, it starts up, does the power on checks (including the battery
whinge), loads Unix, prints some information about memory and a 16 user
license then stops. No more messages, no keyboard input, nothing.
So I'm a bit stuck. I've found some manuals online but they're not really
helping - I'll take it to bits later and see if I can read the internal
SCSI drive on another system but I'm not convinced there is an issue with
the drive though.
So wondering if anyone knows of any installation (or diagnostic) images
for these machines? It has a SCSI tape drive and I have some tapes for it,
so with some SCSI shenanigans I'm fairly sure I can write a boot tape on a
Linux system, or maybe even the floppy - but I need the images... Any
clues?
Thanks,
Gordon
Does anyone know of any more downloadable VT320 fonts and glyphs? This is
about all I could find at the moment.
https://vt100.net/dec/vt320/fonts
Trying to find some Cyrillic fonts so that Tetris looks right. I suppose I
can try to write my own, but that would take a good bit of effort to get it
looking right.
Also, is there a way to dump the existing font on a VT320 in the DRCS
format?
Thanks,
Kyle
On Wed, 10 Oct 2018, it was written
> Did you contact the guy with the drawings?
Yes but I haven't heard back from him, yet. At least the mail hasn't
bounced. Does anyone know the person who runs vintage-icl-computers.com ?
There is no name, address or anything there, and I wonder if the site is
still alive.
Christian
Currently working on restoring some bubble memories and I'm looking for
some modules originally included in Intel's BPK-72 development kit,
specifically the Dummy Load module and the Seed module.
http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/still-image/Intel/intel.dummy_…
These are used for testing a bubble memory system as well as repairing
bubble modules which have had some sort of failure which requires manually
re-seeding them.
I have all the parts I need to work with the modules, I'm just missing
these parts. The manual shows the schematics, component values, and layouts
of both of these modules, so I can fabricate them myself if need be, but
wanted to see if anyone had them handy first.
Thank you again!
Josh
Hi, All,
I asked a version of this question earlier this year. I have not been
able to find any vintage machines that used these 16Kx1 55ns SRAMs.
Anyone recognize them? Lots of them for sale on eBay. Probably few
buyers. One would want to know which systems used them, thus my
question.
They probably would have been excellent in a DEC MOS memory board but
I have no evidence they were used thusly. Contemporary DRAMs were
cheap and 64Kx1 so that's what was in consumer gear.
Anyone? Fast SRAM? Anywhere?
There's little point in wiring 8 of them up into a byte vs using a
62256 except for speed. 55ns is faster than any 8MHz machine really
needs (100ns-150ns was typical for those depending on bus
architecture). I could see these being cache RAM for a minicomputer
vs primary RAM.
-ethan
