test-drb May 2018

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Eudora email client source code released

by wrm＠dW.co.za

> >For the last five years I've been working with Qualcomm and others to >allow the Computer History Museum to release the source code of what >was, in my opinion, the finest email client ever written: Eudora. >It's finally done! Yay! Now someone can fix the bugs :-) (6.2 here. Massive archive of emails. The search function is superb). W

6 years, 7 months

WTB: Solbourne computer

by kevin.bowling＠kev009.com

Looks neat, anyone have one of these things they'd sell me? I'm in the US Southwest, can ship or travel a bit. Regards, Kevin

6 years, 7 months

HP 9000-236 (9836CU) video cable.

by robert626001＠gmail.com

My latest score is an HP 9836CU (so, color with a 68010 CPU and HP-UX support) with a 98625A disk interface. I got the matching monitor, but I didn't get the video cable. Googling turns up that it's a very proprietary interface, but I could find nothing about the cable. It's a 15 pin D-sub at each end and I'm hoping that it's just straight through, but have been unable to verify that. Does anybody know? Or Is there anybody that has a 9836C or CU and would be willing to examine the video cable, please? Thanks Robert

6 years, 7 months

Original CAD code in the wild?

by rdawson16＠hotmail.com

For a while I have collected bits of legacy CAD, most recently Martin Hepperle sent me what I believe is the last version of Hank Christianson's MOVIE.BYU, a FORTRAN based 3D modeling and animation system. I also have experimented with the original Berkley SPICE, also written in FORTRAN. This weekend, I am reading "the Engineering Design Revolution", a 650 page history of the CAD industry by David Weisberg, who was there and worked for many of the companies in the beginning of the industry, I highly recommend this for anyone interested in CAD: www.cadhistory.net<http://www.cadhistory.net> The Engineering Design Revolution<http://www.cadhistory.net/> www.cadhistory.net The Engineering Design Revolution. The People, Companies and Computer Systems That Changed Forever the Practice of Engineering. By. David E. Weisberg My question is, did any of the source code for these systems, Applicon, Auto-Trol, Calma, ComputerVision, thousands of lines of primarily FORTRAN ever make it out, where we could read and study this original body of mathematical geometry done on computers? I know we are primarily a hardware group here, but where is the interest in the software discussed? Randy

6 years, 7 months

Digital VT420 repair?

by mail＠waldemar-brodkorb.de

Hi, after my Micro PDP11/83 boots up, I like to connect a Digital VT420 to the console port. This worked approx. 10 years ago. Now when I poweron the VT420 I get no message on the screen. The f3 key doesn't give me the configuration menu. Is it broken? Does it have some invalid configuration in NVRAM and can be resetted? I tried changing brightness and contrast, no change. Is it normal that the right LED is always on? See the picture. https://debug.openadk.org/pdp11/vt420.jpg I tried with and without serial connection to another system. Thanks for any advice, Waldemar

6 years, 7 months

I ran across this strange modernistic? Data General ...odd? computer?

by michael.99.thompson＠gmail.com

> > Date: Sun, 20 May 2018 18:04:00 -0400 > From: Ed Sharpe <couryhouse at aol.com> > To: cctalk at classiccmp.org > Subject: I ran across this strange modernistic? Data General ...odd? > computer? > > While? in the warehouse I ran across this strange modernistic? Data > General ...odd? computer? > I do not remember buying it!? ?Ed# > ? > ? > "https://www.smythretail.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/DG10_1-300x227.jpg > " > > The RICM has one, but it is not on the WWW site. Michael Thompson

6 years, 7 months

SMECC Museum PROJECT needs to buy or trade for or beg for the HP hand Held (700 series? help?) that was phone and a computer.... the early ones and also the later Win CE ones.... also need ad materials promo videos... anything related to spice display up... please drop note off list to us. thanks Ed#

by couryhouse＠aol.com

Sent SMECC Museum PROJECT needs to buy or trade for or beg for the HP hand Held (700 series? help?) that was phone and a computer.... the early ones and also the later Win CE ones.... also need ad materials promo videos... anything related to spice display up... please drop note off list to us. thanks Ed# AOL Mobile Mail

6 years, 7 months

Looking for a VALinux console adapter, for model 1000

by bobsmithofd＠gmail.com

Console Adapter 102267-00 VA 1000 THanks for any hints or leads! i have one stashed and can't find it of course. bb

6 years, 7 months

Re: I ran across this strange modernistic Data General ...odd computer

by Bruce＠Wild-Hare.com

G'day Zane - Like every other computer system created, the Desktop Generation has its own set of quirks and wonders. It was an interesting evolutionary repackage of the microEclipse processor, but I never saw a customer or user site actually using the Model 10's MS-DOS "compatibility feature". The hardware consisted of modular metal frame chassis with snap-on plastic covers. While great for manufacturing and cost control, the delicate plastic cover retaining tabs were always breaking and the covers would pull away from the chassis or just fall off. Only an annoying cosmetic problem until you find that a "dead man's switch" interlock was maintained by the power supply chassis front cover. Yes, the power supply would always be cut off whenever the plastic cover shifted, vibrated or fell off the chassis. Which happened often. (The cheapest solution was the unintended, creative use of a ball point pen combined with nerd engineering.) Many OEMS delivered DG/RDOS- or AOS-based applications written in ICOBOL or Business BASIC (i.e. NAPA). These were good systems for OEMs who had previously developed software for DG - providing their application was not disk-bound. DG eventually was forced to design and sell a parallel I/O bus option to help improve disk performance... to the confusion of customers previously told of the benefits of a serial I/O bus design. The system was followed by the DG/500, which had a similar hardware functional microEclipse-based design but enclosed in a then-familiar IBM PC AT (desktop) form factor. This was the final unsuccessful attempt to defend the low-end 16-bit Eclipse line from the PC onslaught. ----- Bruce Ray Wild Hare Computer Systems, Inc. Boulder, Colorado USA bkr at WildHareComputers.com ...preserving the Data General legacy: www.NovasAreForever.org

6 years, 7 months

I ran across this strange modernistic Data General ...odd computer

by couryhouse＠aol.com

While? in the warehouse I ran across this strange modernistic? Data General ...odd? computer? I do not remember buying it!? ?Ed# ? ? "https://www.smythretail.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/DG10_1-300x227.jpg" take the quotes away and put in browser see photo ? ? There are? 2 only I find on net... correct me? if there are more please especially? if there are manual links... the only? ?one physically? is? one at? chm that? is not as? wide. ( maybe no hard drive or less i/o options?) Any other? sites? with info?? 1981 and? multi? user? micro... cool!? ? link to smyth retail site that? ?used these? ? https://www.smythretail.com/our-team/smyth-history-a-tradition-in-automatio… ? link to photo only ? "https://www.smythretail.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/DG10_1-300x227.jpg" take the quotes away and put in browser see photo

6 years, 7 months

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