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by plamenspam＠afterpeople.com

Hello, Does anyone has TP-IX/68k or TP-IX/88k tapes or preinstalled disk? I have a bunch of 68k based TP32, found the documentation and original EPROM. And another board TP-880 which can run even more exotic release TP-IX/88k. Thanks, Plamen

11 years, 2 months

Convergent board is claimed

by sales＠elecplus.com

Thanks for the fast responses J I will let the list know if more interesting stuff pops up. Cindy Croxton Electronics Plus 1613 Water Street Kerrville, TX 78028 830-792-3400 phone sales at elecplus.com AOL IM elcpls

11 years, 2 months

IBM 5110 Emulator in JavaScript

by norbert_kehrer＠yahoo.de

I ported Christian Corti's great IBM 5110 emulator to JavaScript, so you can work with an emulated IBM 5110 directly in your (HTML5-capable) web browser. There are still some bugs in it, disk and tape support are still missing, and I could not test it with a non-German keyboard layout. I nonetheless wanted to share the WIP version to give you a first impression. You can try it out and write some small BASIC or APL programs at http://members.aon.at/nkehrer Greetings Norbert

11 years, 2 months

Convergent Mighty 2 CPU board

by sales＠elecplus.com

PN 60-00694, date code 8908. Does this interest anyone? About 16 inches by 22 inches, looks to be in good shape. Cindy Croxton Electronics Plus 1613 Water Street Kerrville, TX 78028 830-792-3400 phone sales at elecplus.com AOL IM elcpls

11 years, 2 months

Framebuffer driver for RDI BriteLite IPX?

by michael.99.thompson＠gmail.com

> > Date: Sun, 24 May 2015 19:16:53 -0700 > From: Josh Dersch <derschjo at gmail.com> > Subject: Framebuffer driver for RDI BriteLite IPX? > > Hi all -- > > Sent this query to the Rescue list last week, no bites. Any Sun > fanatics here have any ideas? (Linux/OpenBSD appear to support it, but > I'd rather keep the OS vintage-appropriate. For some reason...) > > Got myself an RDI BriteLite IPX; a "laptop" (a generous description) > based around a stock SPARCStation IPX motherboard with a very large > laptop-style enclosure around it, a 640x480 active-matrix LCD (very > pretty) and a gigantic lead-acid battery. It has a handle, so it's > portable! > > Anyway -- I have it up and running and I have SunOS 4.1.4 installed on a > fresh hard disk (the original drive was long gone when I got it). > Unfortunately, the LCD framebuffer is unrecognized by SunOS; it > identifies itself as cgRDI and it's a custom SBUS board that drives the > 640x480 LCD. > > From what I've been able to dig up this driver was packaged as "RDIlcd" > by RDI but I can't find it, of course. Anyone happen to have this > archived somewhere? Any other ideas? > > Thanks, > Josh > I have IPC, IPX, and LX based BriteLites. I believe that I have the SunOS driver files, I just need to find them.

11 years, 2 months

GE disk drives on ebay, one badged Datacraft

by jws＠jwsss.com

GE-14-Hawk-Drive-23991-47d266933G3 http://www.ebay.com/itm/261895292646 One of these systems really appears to be a CDC drive, but the other one is badged Datacraft 5208, and doesn't look familiar. Any idea on what it is? Looks like something that would fit a collection of storage devices as a unique item, given that it is 14" removable. This page implies it is a CDC drive, but I've not seen one with the front this one has. http://www.mfarris.com/pack/datacraft.html thanks Jim

11 years, 2 months

Framebuffer driver for RDI BriteLite IPX?

by derschjo＠gmail.com

Hi all -- Sent this query to the Rescue list last week, no bites. Any Sun fanatics here have any ideas? (Linux/OpenBSD appear to support it, but I'd rather keep the OS vintage-appropriate. For some reason...) Got myself an RDI BriteLite IPX; a "laptop" (a generous description) based around a stock SPARCStation IPX motherboard with a very large laptop-style enclosure around it, a 640x480 active-matrix LCD (very pretty) and a gigantic lead-acid battery. It has a handle, so it's portable! Anyway -- I have it up and running and I have SunOS 4.1.4 installed on a fresh hard disk (the original drive was long gone when I got it). Unfortunately, the LCD framebuffer is unrecognized by SunOS; it identifies itself as cgRDI and it's a custom SBUS board that drives the 640x480 LCD. From what I've been able to dig up this driver was packaged as "RDIlcd" by RDI but I can't find it, of course. Anyone happen to have this archived somewhere? Any other ideas? Thanks, Josh

11 years, 2 months

Online Access to Running AOS/VS Offered

by steve＠stephenmerrony.co.uk

I've had a lot of help from all over the world getting my Data General MV/2500 up and running, so it's time to give a little back... I am now able to provide on-line access to my operational MV/2500 DC to individuals who make reasonable requests for it. Currently the machine is running AOS/VS 7.70 and has little other than the base software installed, although most of the NADGUG library contents is available. I am not willing to run the MV/2500 24x7, so operational times will be by mutual agreement. I strongly suggest using DasherQ to connect. Access is via telnet provided by a Raspberry Pi acting as a serial-to-network gateway to real serial ports (I don't have TCP/IP on the machine yet). If anyone would like access to the machine please email me stating why you would like access (even if it is just for nostalgia!) and what time zone you are in. Steve -- /Stephen Merrony Email: steve at stephenmerrony.co.uk http://www.stephenmerrony.co.uk/dg/

11 years, 2 months

Memory options for an HP 1000 (HP 21MX / 2112A)

by marc.verdiell＠gmail.com

Yes I was asking myself the same question, and your answers continue to help a lot. I think I should retrace the path of technology evolution. Start getting it up with paper tape tests and BCS. That probably means working mostly in assembly and getting to know the most basic level of the machine. Which is just about what the doctor prescribed. Then add the mag tape for which I have the tape and the cards. I got a 7900 disk though (with cables and power supply, but no interface cards to go with it!). I'd love to get that one going later on. Then it would make sense to have the bigger memory to run disk based OS systems. So 7900 interface card and memory are definitely on my hunt list... By the way I also have a punched card reader which I just restored. Documation ML600, but the exact same model that HP re-branded I believe. Do you know which interface cards I need to connect it to the HP-1000? I suppose one of the 16 bit IO ones with a driver to go with it? Sorry to keep picking your brain, but that is so much more efficient than trying to piece it together (usually wrong at first) from an disorganized pile of documentation! Marc From: "J. David Bryan" <jdbryan at acm.org> >> So I might be in the hunt for the cards or alternate solutions you >> mentioned. >I'd suggest that the question to answer first is whether you want to expend >the effort and expense to gather the moderate amount of additional hardware >necessary to run one of the more advanced disc-based OS versions that can >use DMS. Note that the design of the memory mapping hardware in the 1000 >requires explicit software support (i.e., programming of the DMS hardware) >in order to use more than 32KW of memory. Earlier OSes that did not >support DMS will simply ignore all memory in the machine over 32K, even >when DMS is present. >With the hardware you have, you can run a paper-tape based OS, such as BCS >(the Basic Control System) in 24K. BCS is fairly primitive, but it does >offer an assembler, FORTRAN IV, and ALGOL compilers, and paper-tape BASIC >interpreters were also available (from the user contributed library). >The hardware requirements for running the disc-based RTEs are listed on >these HP Computer Museum pages: > http://www.hpmuseum.net/display_item.php?sw=565 > http://www.hpmuseum.net/display_item.php?sw=566 > -- Dave

11 years, 2 months

Monitor wanted (was Re: 8-bit Computer TV Channel Use)

by spacewar＠gmail.com

On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 9:36 AM, Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote: > Would you like some of the REAL monitors? They will do all sorts of bizarre I'd like some of the REAL monitors, such as an NEC Multisync 3, that can do VGA *and* NTSC-rate analog RGB. At some point the monitor companies stopped bothering to make them handle horizontal scan rates below 30 kHz.

11 years, 2 months

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