I?m not trying to date myself but have things truly sped up? In 1970?s
Toronto I had a classic computer, sorry can?t recall what it was, connected
to a 300 baud modem; by early 80?s had ?zoomed? to 9600 baud. Oh, my! [ A
typical file size to download was probably 1 MB. ] Speed indeed! Yet now,
here in rural Ontario, Canada, I?m at 5MB/s. Yikes! (Friends in Toronto are
at 50MB/s.) We can do the math but content, particularly multimedia, has
swollen in size.[ 1 GB is not unheard of. ] Were classic computing days
that much slower? Happy computing. Murray -:)
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As mentioned before , i made a functional copy of the Tektronix 4052 Diagnostic Rom Pack .
PCB's are back, units do work ( minus a small issue with the wrong orientation of the LED's )
Go to
ftp://ftp.dreesen.ch/TEK_DRP
?and find my dokumentation DiagPack_Manual.pdf , decide if this is what you want, and order ( or not...)
Also please read the original TEK doku TEK4052_4054_Diagnostic_Rom_Pack.pdf in order to understand what this unit can and cannot do.
Prices, in short : PCB only 20 Euro/25 USD, populated and tested 60/75, add 20/25 for a fitting 3D printed casing.
And do feel free to construct your own with the data from my FTP site.
This pack should also work on the 4054, but since I do not have such a machine this feature is untested.
Jos, now wondering whether I will ever sell the 20 PCB's I have...
I've found a couple more documents lurking in my desk that I've
completely forgotten about.
The first is a UniSoft Uniplus+ System V User Guide. Circa 1984.
Basically a SysV Unix user's guide. I have no idea what platform this
was intended for, as it's pretty much a generic document. A couple
hundred pages.
The second is a sales kit for CMS Enhancements. Nice slick brochures
for PC, Apple and Sun. No technical documentation, per se--just
something you'd pass out at a trade show (which is probably where I got
it). Circa 1990. Includes the brochure for the CMS 386 PC.
It'll all fit in a USPS PM envelope, I'm guessing.
I want postage only.
--Chuck
Someone in Barnet, North London, post code is EN5 1RJ has two DEC DS-32
drives and IBM Series/1 computer and some drives.
Last wording was Sale or swap.
You may contact them at stuff at pdp8online.com.
Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at gmail.com> wrote:
> There are times when video instruction makes sense - describing, for
> example, a chemical reaction that produces major visible change in a
> few moments is better to watch than to try to describe. The vast
> majority of stuff? Teaching programming? I don't want to watch 2
> hours of someone editing text... give me words and perhaps a
> screenshot or two if there's something too complicated to simply write
> about.
How about language courses on audio cassettes?
For instance a course on Macro-10, over several of them?
Yes, it does (or at least did) exist.
> -ethan
--Johnny
Very nice presentation by Frank Griesshammer on the subject of the Hershey Fonts: https://vimeo.com/153653610
He does a superb job explaining how a font invented in 1967 by a mathematical physicist at a US Weapons Lab became essential for the last 40 years of technical writing. And is also an interesting font for actual font designers today :-)
Tim N3QE
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Well, I don't know what happened to everybody who wanted it
but that Unix-PC is still sitting here and it needs to go.? One more
offer before I scrap it.? Needs to be someone who can pick it up
real soon.
bill
All,
in San Antonio (Texas), I have a Toshiba Satellite 2065CDS/4.3 laptop, Model number PRS206U-A, whose owner wants to give or throw it away (preferred give).
It has a 16-bit ethernet card including dongle and driver floppy, annoying eraser-head cursor control with replacement eraser heads, USB port, 3.5? floppy, CD drive. Starts up to Toshiba screen and shows 160 MBytes of RAM. I watched it boot to Win98 once and fail to boot many times. I think the owner had it dual-booting to Linux as well, but he is having the disk wiped to make sure no personal information goes with it. The battery kept it running for only about 15 seconds on power-disconnect after being plugged in (running) for an hour or two, so probably not much battery life available. I think the freshly-cleaned hard drive has ~ 4 GB of space, don?t know for sure about that.
Let me know if you are interested; I?ll forward inquiries to the owner as I get them.
- Mark
210-522-6025 office 210-379-4635 cell
