test-drb November 2019

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137 discussions

by cube1＠charter.net

After months of procrastination and work, my new website has gone live at: https://www.computercollection.net/ It is a nearly complete makeover. The home page also has a link to what my site used to look like. (Context: The website used to be at webpages.charter.net/thecomptuercollection . However Charter/Spectrum dropped support of subscriber home pages, so I had to move it to a hosting service, which I did last year - pretty much intact as it had been. That then opened up the opportunity for the website to have a lot more images and capabilities - the new website is the result. JRJ

5 years, 1 month

Anyone have docs/jumper settings for Tecmar "PC 500K/1MEG FLOPPY CONTROLLER" ISA card ?

by rescue＠hawkmountain.net

I have one of these, it has 2 jumper blocks, JPR2 (4 3 pin jumper 'settings'... looks to probably latch each of the 4 high or low) and JPR3 (12 on/off jumper positions). It also has a JPR1 which would be a 3 pin header and it is strapped by wire to position 1-2. Would love to figure out how the IO port and IRQs are configured. Card has no BIOS, so unlike a WD1002A-FOX there won't likely be any jumpers to set drive type. (I'm not having much luck with that card in a Tandy 2500 SX... but that's a completely different issue). Hopefully someone has or knows where there are some docs on the jumper settings. I'd imagine I could figure out some by probing which ISA pins various jumpers connect to..... but any jumper settings that control chips for decoding logic will be far more difficult to determine. Thanks, -- Curt

5 years, 1 month

swtpc.com expired???

by wh.sudbrink＠verizon.net

Domain has been down for 7 days now. No reply to emails. Does anyone know anything? -----Original Message----- From: William Sudbrink [mailto:wh.sudbrink at verizon.net] Sent: Monday, November 04, 2019 12:29 PM To: 'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts' Subject: swtpc.com expired??? Anybody know if Mike Holley is OK? Bill S. -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

5 years, 1 month

SUN Diagnostic Executive

by cc＠informatik.uni-stuttgart.de

I'm encountering some strange and severe failures on our 4/260 and therefore I'm looking for a dump/tape image of the Sun-4 Diagnostic Executive. The manuals are online but not the tape, so I hope someone has made a dump. Thanks, Christian

5 years, 1 month

Classic equipment available & my bad year.

by dave.dunfield＠gmail.com

Hello Everyone. I have had a major health incident which means that I have been unresponsive for several months. As I need to move in closer to town, I will be disposing of what remains of my collection (Things like: Altairs, Imsa, PET 2001, Apple II, TRS-80s, lots of S100 carts etc.) I have posted some preliminary information at: http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/sale.txt This will be updated on a regular basis. If you are interested in what happened to me, I have posted some details at: http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/2019.txt Dave Dunfield

5 years, 1 month

[Cadetwriter] Announcements

by dave＠babcock-family.org

To all, The Computer History Museum's IBM 1620 Jr. project team has several announcements about Cadetwriter: 1)? Congratulations to Paul Williamson as the first person, besides our project team, to successfully build his own Cadetwriter.? We know that a number of people are building or planning to build one, but Paul is the first person we've heard from that has completed it. ??? If you are building, or planning to build, a Cadetwriter, please let us know about it. ??? Paul's WheelWriter 1000 seems to have a different version of the logic board and/or its firmware than the CHM WheelWriters. This exposed several issues that Paul diagnosed which led to changes in the Cadetwriter firmware that make it more robust. 2)? A new version (5R5) of the firmware is available with these important changes: ??? -? Added support for semi-automatic paper loading. ??? -? Increased the Interrupt Service Routine delay time to deal with overlapping column scans. ??? -? Adjusted the timing of unshifted, shifted, and code characters. ??? This firmware is available at: https://github.com/IBM-1620/Cadetwriter 3)? There is a new Cadetwriter message board at: https://cadetwriter.slack.com ??? There are actually 5 channels available: ??? -? Cadetwriter/announcements - for announcements of new versions of the firmware, documentation, hardware, etc. ??? -? Cadetwriter/description - for a general description of Cadetwriter and links to resources. ??? -? Cadetwriter/building - a discussion forum for those building a Cadetwriter. ??? -? Cadetwriter/operating - a discussion forum for those using a Cadetwriter. ??? -? Cadetwriter/suggestions - a discussion forum for proposed additions/changes to Cadetwriter. ??? If you have interest in Cadetwriter, please register and participate in the discussion. Thanks, IBM 1620 Jr. Team

5 years, 1 month

SOT - Grab first and ask questions later

by trash80＠internode.on.net

I suspect a number of members are like me - when there's salvage or rescue stuff on the radar you grab first and ask question later otherwise tomorrow it might not be there. I quite like those picker shows and subscribe to their philosophy "buy (or grab) it when you see it". I'm still ruing the day I let a TRS-80 Model II with a full set of floppy drives go by procrastinating as I haven't seen one since. Anyway a little while ago someone I know was quitting their business and gave me all their office salvage - laptops, PC's, printers, KVMs, routers, monitors etc etc. As before I did not ask any questions and did not look the gift horse in the mouth. The other day I needed a CD drive for a little project and went through the stuff , found something promising and opened it up. Anyway they'd been doing all their "business" in there (number ones and twos amongst many other things I suspect) and the machine was a write off. I suspect finds by other list members have been even more "interesting" http://koken.advancedimaging.com.au/index.php?/albums/interesting-finds/ Kevin Parker

5 years, 1 month

ISO: Monochrome monitor suitable for use with VAXStation 2000

by derschjo＠gmail.com

I'm looking for a VR260, VR262, VR150, or similar. Working or not, as long as it's complete and not falling apart. Thanks in advance! Josh

5 years, 1 month

SpaceWar without needing an EAE for PDP8 /E /F /M /A

by roelof_klaas＠yahoo.com

Hello everyone, I've been playing with SpaceWar for my PDP8 Omnibus machines. Since I don'thave the EAE option I've made the LAB8 / AX08 version work on the VC8E. So now you can run Evan Suits SpaceWar version on an Omnibus machine and you don't need an EAE.? https://github.com/Roland-Huisman/SpaceWar And for those who might not have the VC8E graphics boards I've designed74xx clone boards. These are my VC8E (M869 / M855) clone boards: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Roland-Huisman/Digital_VC8E_M885R_Digital… And this is the DK8E RTC clone (M882) which I'm using. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Roland-Huisman/Digital_DK8E_M882R_Mains_R… There are a few more board clones on my GitHub like the RX8E (M8357) for the RX01/RX02 or TA8E (M8331) for the TU60 if anyone would be interested. With the gerber files andpart lists you should be able to make your own boards. They are all 74xx clones sono hard to find DEC chips on it... I'm not very active on cctech and I guess some people on cctech are maybe not active on vcfed.So I thought it is nice to mention it here too... Regards, Roland

5 years, 1 month

Classic equipment available & my bad year.

by marvin＠west.net

Dave, sorry to hear about your situation. Regarding system/parts/etc. selling prices, I use something called TeraPeak. It is available on a subscription basis with the downside that it is now part of Ebay... I quit them in 2015 with no current plans of ever having anything to do with them, but is still the best way I've found to get pricing on what sells and how much. It normally has the actual selling price as opposed to the "asking" price on the main listing. Because the prices on TeraPeak are the actual selling prices inflated by the eBay fees and "free" shipping, I generally reduce them by around 20% - 30% to get realistic pricing (rare items excepted.) Another what appears to be similar service is Worthpoint. Although I've looked at it, I have never actually used it. Like you, I had plans of starting a museum and thus have stuff that I haven't been able to find pricing information using either TeraPeak or Google. That would include rare terminals (i.e. Hazeltone, ), some computers (Philips word processors, Wang, etc.), documentation (IBM, Burroughs, a variety of printers, etc.) and a lot of other "stuff" (including some of the stuff you have listed.) How many people have heard of DMA Systems? Since I live in Santa Barbara where a number of computer, software, peripheral were made, I decided to keep anything made in the Santa Barbara and still have plans for a museum dedicated to what was made here. That is something you might find possible in your area. Another thing I'm "collecting" is anecdotes about computer collecting in the Santa Barbara area. Two examples are where how the name Pickles and Trout came about, and Lobo drives being named after Roger Billings (formerly Production manager at Polymorphic) pet wolf, etc. You might also consider writing a book documenting some of the knowledge you acquired about computers, etc. In any case, it sounds like you are well on your way to recovery. So my best to you and your family during this recovery period! Marvin > Thanks to everyone for the kind words on my situation. > > Had lots of correspondence from various people interested in > certain systems, but no offers, and very little information on > what people think they are worth. Many of these systems are > very old, very rare and nearly impossible to acquire. As I am no > longer working I want to maximize what I receive from them. > I will be researching this over the next year and will add prices > if/when I work them out. If price is unknown I will take the highest > reasonable offer, so I cannot offer systems now without an idea > of what they are worth to you.

5 years, 1 month

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