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by teoz＠neo.rr.com

I hit the recycler today and found some cool looking old circuit boards from an old oscilloscope. One has Copyright 1969 Tektronix, inc and is a readout system board and a smaller board with just a part number. What caught my eye was the hand laid traces (curvy pre CAD), and the chips on it all had gold/copper leads and were socketed. Most of the chips are Tektronics made (there is a ti sn7402n), I assume the chips are just logic chips. Are they worth anything?

16 years, 3 months

HP Connect Membership for Hobbyist VMS Licence

by drb＠msu.edu

> A while back I joined at the most basic membership level of Encompass > just to get access to VMS hobbyist licences as I was not really > interested in any other benefits. This used to be a free > membership. Am I right that now you need to pay $50 a year to be able > to get a hobbyist licence? Is there some way to avoid this charge? DECUServe is a chapter now, and registration is free. De

16 years, 3 months

HP Connect Membership for Hobbyist VMS Licence

by robert.jarratt＠ntlworld.com

A while back I joined at the most basic membership level of Encompass just to get access to VMS hobbyist licences as I was not really interested in any other benefits. This used to be a free membership. Am I right that now you need to pay $50 a year to be able to get a hobbyist licence? Is there some way to avoid this charge? Regards Rob

16 years, 3 months

Part Number for a MicroVAX II Fan

by bfranchuk＠jetnet.ab.ca

Rob Jarratt wrote: > I agree, I thought 30A was a bit ridiculous, but I typed what I saw, and > with the noise it makes 30A might not be too far out :-). > > It is back in the machine now so I can't check at the moment to see if there > was actually a faint decimal point before the "3", but I am sure there must > be. In fact someone sent me a picture of a similar one which does show a > clear leading decimal point. No you have wrong! 1 amp fans when you have a 30 amp CPU. 30 amp fan when have a 1 amp micro-chip! > Regards > > Rob > In any case use a bigger fan. :) Ben.

16 years, 3 months

Free systems in Archorage, Alaska

by tosteve＠yahoo.com

William, (not I), has a few systems to give away: TRS-80 Coco Zenith Data Systems portable from 1987 - a ZFL-161-93 Zenith Data Systems Z-Sport from 1990. Zenith Data Systems Z-Noteflex, complete with port replicator from 1994. PCMCIA-based ZPlayer (CD Player) from Zenith Data System from 1994. Contact *him* for more info! William Lidster williamlidster at gmail.com Anchorage, Alaska

16 years, 3 months

Acorn vs Sinclair (was Re: Editor Religious wars)

by julianskidmore＠yahoo.com

Of course, everyone knows the most important computer war was between Acorn and Sinclair. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00n5b92 Thanks to pompous Sir Clive's fallout with his ex-sidekick, the cigarette-chuffing Chris Curry, the UK got to enjoy a continual dust-up between the two biggest home computer companies of the early 80s. Acorn vs Sinclair had the lot: 6502 vs Z80; elistism vs affordability; skunk-works development vs glossy buildings; establishmentism vs the underdog. And into the bargain they introduced not only the earliest home computers using gate array chips; a generation of UK games programmers, but also the preeminent mobile RISC cpu: the Advanced Risc Machine. In comparison, Commodore vs Atari are just tiffs between best buddies ;-) -cheers from julz @P

16 years, 3 months

Amiga Slingshot

by brianlanning＠gmail.com

In short, I'd really like to have one of these: http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/search.pl?product=slingshot&company= It's an adapter that turns the expansion port on an amiga 500 into a zorro 2 slot like those in the amiga 2000. They're rare enough to almost never show up on ebay. But they look really easy to construct. Assuming the card edge connectors were available, I bet someone with more hardware knowledge than me could make a batch of these for cheap. While you're at it, there's a few designs floating around for IDE adapters for amigas that wedge between the 68000 and the motherboard. A batch of those would sell out quickly as well. brian

16 years, 3 months

Tricord Servers

by billdeg＠degnanco.com

Curt, I don't know if "collect" is the proper term, but I have an untested, M 40-50C. I use it as a table, it looks to have been stripped of the drives and such. http://www.vintagecomputer.net/tricord/ Bill > > Hi, > > Anyone out there collect Tricord Servers? I used to install and > work on these back around 95', did work on a couple of ES7000 and ES8000 > systems at Newsday and Scherring-Plough. I was just remembering them > today, and figured I'd see if anyone had any of them. They are fairly > big sized units, about 3-4' tall, 19" wide styled cabinet, their > motherboards were rather unique and in a sense, weird too, like how the > card cage was accessed via the back and underneath the mainboard and such... > > Let me know if anyone collects these, thanks. > > > > Curt >

16 years, 3 months

Boomerang decompiler

by legalize＠xmission.com

Anyone using the Boomerang decompiler to recover vintage source from vintage binaries? <http://boomerang.sourceforge.net/> -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 draft available for download <http://legalizeadulthood.wordpress.com/the-direct3d-graphics-pipeline/> Legalize Adulthood! <http://legalizeadulthood.wordpress.com>

16 years, 3 months

Solaris manuals

by bob＠copenhagen.cuug.ab.ca

Recently a friend of mine in Calgary (Canada) fell heir to a 13Kg box of Solaris manuals. He says that they are still in their original plastic wrappers and that most of them have "5.1" and "x86" on the spines. There are a few which appear to relate to Solaris 2.5.1 for Sparc. If anyone is interested please get in touch with him directly: rick at hartmantech.com Bob Bramwell | The birds have vanished into the sky, | and now the last cloud drains away. +1 902 531 2289 | We sit together, the mountain and I, | until only the mountain remains. | - Li Po, 8th Century Chinese poet

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