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by simski＠dds.nl

Hello all, in out previous big haul there is a Apollo DN560 computer, with huge monitor, mouse and keyboard. unfortunately it is missing its video cable. computer side is a 13w3, splitting in (i think) a db9 and three bnc's. is this a straight through cable or is the db9 mapped out differently? I would love to boot the machine. -- Met vriendelijke Groet, Simon Claessen drukknop.nl

11 years, 11 months

VCFMW9 Post-Show

by silent700＠gmail.com

Hello ccmp'ers - I have compiled photo galleries, videos, presentations and other media from VCF Midwest 9.0 on our web page here: http://vcfmw.org/past.html If anyone attended has anything I missed that should be linked there, please post it in this thread and I'll put it up. It was a great show this year, with record [1] attendance and some really impressive displays. We can count Texas, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Toronto, Portland OR amongst the places people travelled >from to see our little Party in the Basement. As happens every year, I am seeing things in the pics that I didn't even know were there, under my nose. Big thanks to all who showed, sold, spoke or just attended - it would be just another handful of nerds in a hotel without you. Until next year... - jht [1] Based on not much more than shirt sales, missing badges and the general buzz about the place.

11 years, 11 months

Sun Microsystems Model/Price Lists? (and Sun 1 research)

by earl＠baugh.org

From: Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> Subject: Re: Sun Microsystems Model/Price Lists? (and Sun 1 research) On 9/18/14 11:03 AM, Earl Baugh wrote: > It was a good source which lead me to send an updated 3Com doc that I had > to bhtooefr at gmail.com > What was different about it? Different revisions. I've kept copies of both... Earl

11 years, 11 months

Digiac 5502 and 5503 Exercisers

by radiotest＠plymouthcolony.net

A couple of interesting items followed me home recently - a Digiac Model 5502 Monochrome Monitor Exerciser and a Digiac Model 5503 Dot Matrix Printer Exerciser. The 5502 seems complete. The 5503 is missing the (presumed) DB-25 and Centronics cables, but I can replace those using old printer cables on hand. In addition to the models that I own I have also seen references online to a Model 5501 Power Supply Test Load Unit and a Model 5504 Floppy Disk Drive Exerciser. I have no manuals - does anyone on the list have scans of any of the manuals for the Digiac 55nn series that they would care to share? Dale H. Cook, Roanoke/Lynchburg, VA Osborne 1 / Kaypro 4-84 / Kaypro 1 / Amstrad PPC-640 http://plymouthcolony.net/starcity/radios/index.html

11 years, 11 months

CARDIAC simulator

by mtapley＠swri.edu

On Sep 17, 2014, at 12:00 PM, Brian wrote: > In case anyone is interested, I whipped up a little CARDIAC > simulator as a JavaScript exercise last night. You can find > it at: > > http://cs.drexel.edu/~bls96/museum/cardsim.html > > If you were at VCFSE this past May, you may have seen a > short presentation I gave on the CARDIAC. If you're not > familiar with it, it was an educational tool developed at > Bell Labs back in the '60s to teach how a computer operated. > CARDIAC stands for CARDboard Illustrative Aid to Computation. > > Enjoy, > BLS This is fun! Summation program: 00: 090 Read input into location 90 01: 190 Clear and add first addend into accumulator 02: 691 store first addend into running sum LP 03: 712 Subtract 1 from current addend to get next added 04: 310 Test, branch to 10: if subtraction result < 0 05: 690 store current added to location 90 06: 291 Add running sum into accumulator 07: 691 store running sum back into location 91 08: 190 clear accumulator and place current addend 09: 803 branch to LP 03: 10: 591 Output running sum 11: 900 Reset and halt 12: 001 Constant #1 used for decrement Uses locations 90 (input, decremented addend) and 91 (running sum), overwriting previous contents Input N Output result is Summation (N) Is that exercise somewhere in the instruction manual? I have not read that... Brian, thank you! - Mark

11 years, 11 months

Sun Microsystems Model/Price Lists? (and Sun 1 research)

by earl＠baugh.org

Thanks Jerry, I'm on sunrescue at sunhelp and dug around there because of that. It was a good source which lead me to send an updated 3Com doc that I had to bhtooefr at gmail.com I didn't hear back, and the dates of these are 2010, so not sure if he's keeping things updated... Do appreciate you forwarding the info... you never know who knows what, etc. And this wasn't something that I found on sunhelp initially... Earl Message: 21 Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 15:49:13 -0500 From: Jerry Kemp <other at oryx.cc> To: General Discussion: On-Topic Posts Only <cctech at classiccmp.org>, cctalk at classiccmp.org Subject: Re: Sun Microsystems Model/Price Lists? (and Sun 1 research) Message-ID: <5419F3C9.7050406 at oryx.cc> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Hello Earl, I don't have any direct answers to your question, but I wanted to make sure that you were aware of the Sun-1 resources here: http://sun1.sunhelp.org/ Hope this helps, Jerry On 09/16/14 08:55 AM, Earl Baugh wrote: > Howdy, > > As part of my Sun 1 research I'm trying to identify some of the model > numbers that existed for Sun 1's. > I've got the original Sun description doc that has most of the "initial" > sun 1 part numbers. However, > I'm missing some info from between this initial list in 1982 and the 1988 > price list which has the Sun 3 > items. > > So later Sun 1 info, and all of the Sun 2 price/model info I don't have. > Anybody seen any docs from this > period? > > Al, is this perhaps on your queue to scan? > > Also, just FYI, as of right now I have hard evidence of 13 machines (11 Sun > 1/100 or 100U models, > 2 Sun 1/150U models) with some fairly strong but tentative info on 5 > others (4 100's, 1 150) > And as of right now, I only know of 1 that definitely boots (and 2 that did > "recently", but haven't > been tested again...) > > > Earl > > (BTW, the first post of my rescue story got posted to my > http://www.vintagecomputerexpo.com blog) >

11 years, 11 months

Wanted: MMJ cable for a VT420

by slandon110＠gmail.com

Just looking for an MMJ Cable so i can hook up my VT420 to my server Im paypal ready Thanks Steve

11 years, 11 months

Sun Microsystems Model/Price Lists? (and Sun 1 research)

by earl＠baugh.org

Howdy, As part of my Sun 1 research I'm trying to identify some of the model numbers that existed for Sun 1's. I've got the original Sun description doc that has most of the "initial" sun 1 part numbers. However, I'm missing some info from between this initial list in 1982 and the 1988 price list which has the Sun 3 items. So later Sun 1 info, and all of the Sun 2 price/model info I don't have. Anybody seen any docs from this period? Al, is this perhaps on your queue to scan? Also, just FYI, as of right now I have hard evidence of 13 machines (11 Sun 1/100 or 100U models, 2 Sun 1/150U models) with some fairly strong but tentative info on 5 others (4 100's, 1 150) And as of right now, I only know of 1 that definitely boots (and 2 that did "recently", but haven't been tested again...) Earl (BTW, the first post of my rescue story got posted to my http://www.vintagecomputerexpo.com blog)

11 years, 11 months

CARDIAC simulator

by mtapley＠swri.edu

On Sep 18, 2014, at 1:28 AM, Brian wrote: > There's another fun aspect that you might > want to play with. It's talked about in the manual a bit. You can > bootstrap your program on cards. ?answering my one slightly niggling worry - how do I ?save? programs to permanent storage? Yup, cut/n/paste into a text file is pretty easy. Very slick! And thanks once more! - Mark

11 years, 11 months

: My Rainbow diagrams

by mtapley＠swri.edu

On Sep 18, 2014, at 1:28 AM, Tony wrote: > Chris Elmquist has kindly put my hand-drawn reverse-engineered schemtatics for the DEC Rainbow on his > 'google drive'. You should be able to download them from the link below (I have checked, I can access them) Many thanks to you and Chris both! - Mark

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