If anyone is interested, I have 2 RK07 drives, controller and packs I can
bring to VCFMW. Would prefer to sell as a package, but will consider
breaking up.
Any reasonable offer.
Thanks, Paul
Perhaps something of interest for people here:
http://www.styluslabs.com/
(source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17858641 )
I was a bit mixed about this until I read that single written page had
1.4 mbytes - after that I finally understood this "writing tool" is
worse than Word ever was (or is it?). So it is going to catch up with
people (or some derivation of idea).
So now I am destined to... defending MS Word?
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Regards,
Tomasz Rola
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** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home **
** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... **
** **
** Tomasz Rola mailto:tomasz_rola at bigfoot.com **
Data General made a nifty and flexible terminal called "Walkabout". It
had 32kb of internal memory one could use to take notes on the move. It
ran on a 12volt wall wart which charged an onboard nicad battery.
The lcd screen is not backlit but it was useable in most any light.
The sliders on the face note-book-like machine controlled contrast and
darkness. I used one as the head unit for my Data General MV4000/DC.
The battery is likely dead on any you'll find, but it is easily
accessible by a sliding cover on the side which when removed reveals a
pack you can unplug and replace without tools.
It supported a fair list of emulations selectable on-screen including
vt220 and vt100 plus various proprietary 'Dasher' emulations. The
keyboard is better than most modern-day notebooks, it is VERY light-
weight and pretty sturdy. Here's a link to a photo.
http://www.digibarn.com/collections/systems/dg-walkabout/DSC06218.JPG
Jeffrey S. Worley
I have a Zilog PDS8000 Model 20 with some disks and manuals. It has not
been powered up since I first got it some 20 or so years ago (total
guess.) It was previously owned by a software developer. The boot disks
are still in the 8" drives :).
The NCR 1102-6000 is another one that I picked up years ago (who knows
how many) and it has not been powered up in the time I've had it.
Includes keyboard and original disks/manuals. Has two cartridges... one
looks like a parallel printer and the other I didn't pull out (memory?).
These are things I won't bring unless they are sold before I bring them.
The operating condition is totally unknown. So if there is any interest,
please let me know with offer. My plan is to leave for Chicago on Tuesday.
Hello all,
The current discussion about why VT100?s are so popular got me to rethinking a related topic. I?ve been thinking about this in the back of my mind for quite some time.
First, what is the most faithful emulation software that runs on *nix systems? Or is it the case that if you are running, say, GNU/Linux in console mode, or xterm on X11, that you can get a fine emulator simply by having an accurate terminfo entry?
Second, does there exist anything like a ?VT100 operating system?, that emulates the VT100 directly on the bare metal of the machine? In this case you?d use the external serial port to connect to the target machine.
One example use case I have in mind here is connecting a serial cable to a server?s BMC serial port for maintenance purposes, if it supports the VT100 protocol, in crash cart scenarios. Is it possible to do something like this by using the server?s PS/2 keyboard port and VGA monitor port? So, essentially a KVM without the ?M?? Is there some obvious constraint that I?ve missed?
Kind regards,
Andrew
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On 09/08/2018 08:10 PM, Ed Sharpe wrote:
> Yepper?? the? material that holds all together...
> ?
> I? remember? back in the? first? year in? Computer? Biz? we? came across
> one of these and it was? fun? to watch it? run self? test.... fast!??
> sold it to someone that had one and interfaced it already...
> ?
> Always? wanted? later? a combo? for museum? display of the? CRT and the?
> Printer... There is a great? glossy that? shows up on ebay? time to time
> that was a press photo of a gal? with the combo at a desk...
It's a bit surprising to see how few pieces of old peripherals have
survived. Sometime around 1985, we had a VAX 11/750 driving two CDC
(MPI) big 1500 (IIRC) LPM printers. I don't know whatever became of
them, but we couldn't have been an isolated instance.
It seems that more CPUs have survived than the accompanying peripherals.
This, in spite of installations with oceans of disk and tape drives,
for example.
--Chuck
Hi,
I have an HP 260 that I'd like to find a new home for.
I'm currently thinking of taking it to the ham radio / antique-computer
swapmeet
(ASVARO, held at Fry's Sunnyvale, CA, tomorrow morning).
Thought I'd mention it here in case someone was interested in it.
For those unfamiliar with it, it's small enough to fit in a Contico.
https://www.facebook.com/hp260hp250preservationProject has a photo (in a
cabinet
with a disk drive) on the far left.
www.hp260.net has some info about them.
Stan
(Cupertino, CA, USA)
