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by robert＠irrelevant.com

Hi All. I've been quiet for far too long on this list. Had set myself to no-mail because of lack of time.... back now. Recently, I've been setting up www.viewdata.org.uk to try and remember and resurrect as much of the old BT Prestel and other period viewdata systems as I can. (For those who don't know, viewdata was a 1970s British Post Office (Later British Telecom) invention that allowed subscribers to access news, information, email, downloadable software, chatlines, etc etc. All in a 40x25 display with colour and block graphics. It was big in the 1980s, and gone by 1994... Minitel in france was a derivation, and apart from some specialist closed-access applications, about the only example that survives.) anyway... I've found somebody that has an archive of their pages from Prestel, and we'd both liketo get them up on the site. The snag, for me, is that a lot of it is on 8" discs, from a Technologics(?) system. The photographs of the discs I have seen show them labelled as 48tpi, soft sectored. The positive point is that he still has the original computer, but "it's not been switched on for 20 years" so I'm hesitant on telling him to try it...! So. Is there anybody in the UK (Birmingham or Manchester areas) that has facilities to read 8" discs and drop the contents (straight sector by sector image would be fine if it's not in a common format) onto some more modern media? Or someone who knows about old Technologics machines (I'd not heard of it before.) and can check this one out.. Failing all that.. anybody got a spare drive that I might be able to link up to a machine I do have? (PCs and Acorn machines). Thanks in advance! Rob.

16 years, 2 months

Small C, was ... Re: Algol vs Fortran was RE: VHDL vs Verilog

by emu＠e-bbes.com

Ben wrote: > e.stiebler wrote: >> Ben wrote: >>> PS. The only small portable compiler I can find >>> is Small C - version 1.0. >> >> For the iapx432 ? >> > no... for a small machine Z80/6809 ect. Hmm time to change the subject > line. OK, I just did ;-) > How did that work back then to get software created for a new machine? > 8080's had PLM compiled on a VAX or something along the same lines. > Ben. Are you looking for a native or cross compiler ? native : z80 : use cp/m, 6809 cubix ? cross : to many to count ;-) But I remember our first z80 software was developed on a VAX ...

16 years, 2 months

6809 SBC

by mtapley＠swri.edu

At 4:59 -0600 1/31/10, CSquared wrote: > All this discussion is making me want a >CoCo unfortunately. Never had one when they were "new" but always >thought they would be a lot of fun - maybe a garage sale will turn one >up some day. If you don't mind spending a bit, http://www.cloud9tech.com/ might be a useful alternative to eBay. Refurbished CoCo3's are among the other goodies on the site. For the "power user", you can get 512k memory expansions, a serial link to your PC to use as disk storage ("Drivewire"), NitOS-9 in ROM, 6309 CPU upgrade, IDE or SCSI adaptors, etc. etc. No connection other than as a satisfied customer. Hope this helps ... >Just what I don't need of course - yet another project or >piece of hardware. ... Oops. ;-) -- - Mark 210-379-4635 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Large Asteroids headed toward planets inhabited by beings that don't have technology adequate to stop them: Think of it as Evolution in Fast-Forward.

16 years, 2 months

6809 SBC

by wbblair3＠yahoo.com

Having learned assembly language programming on the beautifully simple architecture and instruction set of the 6800, the Byte magazine article linked to below that I read when it was originally published really impressed me. In the 6809 they made one of the earliest efforts I know of to really tweak an already great uP instruction set based upon an analysis of existing software: http://tlindner.macmess.org/?page_id=119

16 years, 2 months

Available : VAX/VMS book

by quapla＠xs4all.nl

For $10 + postage VAX/ VMS Internals & Data structures by Ruth E. Goldberg & Lawrence J. Kenah. Note : item in in the Netherlands, book weights about 4 pounds. -- Dit is een HTML vrije email / This is an HTML free email.

16 years, 2 months

Looking for: Dauphin DTR-1 Floppy

by derschjo＠mail.msu.edu

A number of DTR-1s have been showing up on eBay recently (cheap) so I decided to snag one. (I really wanted one when they were new but my salary as a 15 year old prevented such a thing from happening...) As an additional aside, it's one of few devices that used the HP Kittyhawk drive (a 1.3" 40mb drive). Quite a marvel of engineering in 1993... Anyway, the specimen I obtained works fine (need to rebuild the battery) but lacks the external floppy drive. So my only real option for getting software on the machine is over the serial port, which is a a bit annoying (and also precludes installing a new OS on it..) Anyone have any spares? Thanks, Josh

16 years, 2 months

Vintage Pertec 10 data recorder tape drive - $50 (Graigslist Oxnard, CA)

by tosteve＠yahoo.com

Not mine: http://losangeles.craigslist.org/sfv/sys/1590090200.html

16 years, 2 months

Honeywell 316 on govliquidation

by pmille2＠cox.net

Got any info on the Honeywell 316 station ? Thanks E-mail message checked by Spyware Doctor (7.0.0.514) Database version: 6.14270 http://www.pctools.com/en/spyware-doctor/

16 years, 2 months

Moving "Sale". Lots of free stuff for pickup, SF Bay Area

by sethm＠loomcom.com

Folks, I'm moving in a month, and I desperately need to unload a lot of stuff. All items are located in Union City, California (Just north of Fremont, south of Hayward, in the San Francisco Bay Area). I'm very sorry, but I will not even *consider* shipping anything. I just don't have the time, I'm in full-on crunch mode at work as well as prepping for the move. All of this stuff is PICK-UP ONLY, first-come, first-serve. Most stuff is free, some things have a very small price. Prices are firm. All items are listed here: http://www.loomcom.com/movingsale/ If an item is claimed, I will remove it from the list as soon as I can get to it!! Quick-view list of what's on the page, for the impatient: * Macintosh IIsi * Apple CD 300 * PowerBook 1400c * Apple ImageWriter II * NeXTstation Turbo Color * DECwriter LA12 (Correspondant) Ribbons * DECstation 5000/240 * DECstation 5000/133 * DECstation 3100 * VAXstation 3100 m76 * SGI Indigo 2 Extreme * SGI Indy * AT&T Unix PC * TI 99/4a and box of software * TI Silent 700 Model 780 * TI Silent 700 Model 745 * Atari 800 * Panasonic KX-D4929 Printing Terminal * TRS-80 PT-210 Thermal Printing Terminal * TRS-80 Model 100 Laptop I may make another page for "Part II" if part 1 goes well. Whatever's not claimed will end up going to Weird Stuff Warehouse in Sunnyvale. -Seth

16 years, 2 months

PDF files for Matrox Qbus QRGB boards

by jhfinedp3k＠compsys.to

In case anyone is interested, I sent Al Kossow the (PDF) manuals for the Qbus Matrox QRGB-Alpha and QRGB-Graph boards. He did not respond to or acknowledge my e-mail. In addition, the PDF manuals are still not available at bitsavers. Al, if you are reading this, did you discard my e-mail? If you are interested, I can send the e-mail again. I have other manuals as well. If anyone needs these manuals immediately, I can e-mail them to you. They are 13 MB. If you can not accept an e-mail that size, I can break the e-mail into two parts. Evidently, Glen Herrmannsfeldt scanned these manuals. He also sent them to me. The e-mail from Glen with the manuals arrived after Lou Ernst mentioned that Glen probably had the manuals, but had not scanned them at the time (a few years) ago. After I reminded Glen, he sent to to me. THANK YOU to both Lou and Glen. Sincerely yours, Jerome Fine

16 years, 2 months

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