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by dgriffi＠cs.csubak.edu

Does anyone know where one may find material from the band Deth Specula? Yes, this is relevant to cctalk. -- David Griffith dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?

16 years, 4 months

by quapla＠xs4all.nl

Although several hours to go, I would like to wish everybody a HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Ed -- Certified : VCP 3.x, SCSI 3.x SCSA S10, SCNA S10

16 years, 4 months

HeathKit microcomputer learning posted on Montreal CL

by joachim.thiemann＠gmail.com

I have no connection to the seller, etc. I'd be interested in it myself but it's a bit too high a price for me - I think the seller is a bit over-optimistic, but if someone is interested, that's not my problem :-) http://montreal.en.craigslist.ca/ele/1531374606.html -- Joachim Thiemann :: http://www.tsp.ece.mcgill.ca/~jthiem

16 years, 4 months

MICROCORNUCOPIA ISSUES

by elazzerini＠interfree.it

Hi, i want to remember my webpage http://elazzerini.interfree.it <http://elazzerini.interfree.it/> on which i collected all i can about the SBC Ferguson BIGBOARD 1 i have. I wish to buy almost the issues 1-20 of the magazine on object. Is there anybody who wish to sell or donate it? This request is ALWAYS valid without expiration date. Thanks Enrico - Pisa (ITALY)

16 years, 4 months

Terminal servers (was Re: DEC Server 200/MC)

by ethan.dicks＠gmail.com

On 12/13/09, Pete Turnbull <pete at dunnington.plus.com> wrote: > On 13/12/2009 18:45, Al Kossow wrote: >> Livingston Portmaster or Encore Annex/Microannex were commonly used >> TCP/IP milking machines. > > I still use an Annex for consoles on a few of my machines (like some of > the PDP-11s). They were made by Xylogics, later bought by Bay Networks > => Nortel and are sometimes to be found rebadged by Sun. They're very > versatile, and you can use the ports in all sorts of ways. I am familiar with Annex terminal servers, but only from a user standpoint. I've never owned one nor set one up (in the day these were popular, we had large amounts of real ports on our boxes (16-56 each) and no TCP/IP). Is there an annex model with 8-16 ports I should look for? I really don't need to keep something with 48 ports powered up. Thanks, -ethan

16 years, 4 months

An introduction to microcomputers books serie

by dm561＠torfree.net

Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 14:06:50 -0800 From: Brent Hilpert <hilpert at cs.ubc.ca> Subject: Re: An introduction to microcomputers books serie St?phane Tsacas wrote: > > Does anyone has the ISBN of the latest edition of these 4 books by any > chance ? I think I found the first two, but I'm not sure they refer to the > latest edition: > > Author: Adam Osborne > > An introduction to microcomputers : > Vol.0: The Beginner's Book - 093198808X > Vol.1: Basic concepts - 0931988349 > Vol.2: Some real microprocessors - ? I don't know when the latest edition was, but the 1976 edition has: Volume II - Some Real Products Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number 76-374891 I don't see any other catalog numbers anywhere, other than Osborne's own series number of 3001. There is little in the way of publishing information. > Vol.3: Some real support devices - ? > > If you want to sell me your copy, drop me a mail. ---------REPLY:---------------------------------------------------------------------------- I've got Volume 0, The Beginner's Book (c) 1977 (#6001) and it doesn't have an ISBN or Library of Congress numbers either. Lots of pictures of an IMSAI 8080 though, with "the luxury of a Teletype"... FWIW, I also have a copy of #4001, 8080 Programming for Logic Design, (c) 1976, which does have a Library of Congress number, 77-670032. mike

16 years, 4 months

Ferguson Big Board question

by hilpert＠cs.ubc.ca

Enrico Lazzerini wrote: > Hi, > i collected all i can in this last 2 years on the mine BigBoard1 at my web site http://elazzerini.interfree.it > Please excuse me for my not perfect English. On the website I left some URL from where you can download other information like its schematic and so on. > What you mean saying: ?I am just considering divesting myself of a Ferguson Big Board system that I have never played with.? > You wish to play with it now or you wish to sell it? Let me know pls. elazzeriniATinterfree.it (substitute AT with @) I've been going through a few systems I have here, collecting photos and info, assessing which ones I wish to let go / get rid of / let somebody else play with / etc. The FBB system is one of them. As far as FBB systems go, I also have a homebrew Xerox-820-based portable (Xerox-820 is an FBB derivative). Some photos and info, so far; including the FBB and Xerox-820 systems: http://www3.telus.net/~bhilpert/tmp/ctg/index.html Two or three list members have expressed some interest in some of these already. I'm somewhat reluctant to ship this stuff, however; some of it would require crates or good double boxes. I had been collecting these, in part, as representative examples in the span of computer technology developments. I guess a lot of us here have a little fantasy of having a computer museum, and I would have liked the radio museum here to expand it's mandate to stay relevant, but most of these systems have been sitting in my house for some years now. I just powered up the FBB system and got it to boot to the monitor. I also just fixed a video problem with the homebrew Xerox-820, a problem that had been there since I received it about 9 years ago. The problem was failing 2114 RAM chips, as was just being discussed on the list, had to replace 2 of them. It now boots into CP/M from disk. Thanks (Enrico) for the pages and links about the FBB, the info was helpful in getting these going. Of course, once you start playing with them it becomes more difficult to let them go, damn it. I have enough projects to work on however.

16 years, 4 months

Symbolics.com sold

by sethm＠loomcom.com

This is old news, but I only just found out about it and I haven't seen it mentioned here. Apparently back in August, the symbolics.com domain was sold to a seedy looking investment company that's turned it into a blog about domain squatting. I guess it's kind of crazy to have an emotional attachment to a domain name, but I have to admit I'm a little bummed about it. Symbolics.com was Symbolics for as long as I've been aware of the Internet, even right up to the end when it was just David Schmidt doing a bit of support and offering a handful of spare parts. It's still around at symbolics-dks.com, but it's just not quite the same, y'know? And what an ignominious ending... -Seth

16 years, 4 months

An introduction to microcomputers books serie

by stephane.tsacas＠gmail.com

Hi Does anyone has the ISBN of the latest edition of these 4 books by any chance ? I think I found the first two, but I'm not sure they refer to the latest edition: Author: Adam Osborne An introduction to microcomputers : Vol.0: The Beginner's Book - 093198808X Vol.1: Basic concepts - 0931988349 Vol.2: Some real microprocessors - ? Vol.3: Some real support devices - ? If you want to sell me your copy, drop me a mail. Thank you -- Stephane http://updatedoften.blogspot.com

16 years, 4 months

the venerable 80186 (and 80188)

by chrism3667＠yahoo.com

off the top of my head, these computers sported the '186: Tandy TRS-80 model 2000 the Mindset Burroughs ICON Televideo Personal Mini Altos 586 (not sure if *that* one did, but one Altos model did regardless) Research Machines Nimbus (UK) odd but still interesting categories: original Ampro Little Board PC (single board computer) Radio Electronics RE Robot (could be bought ready built from Vesta Technologies - they kindly provided ROM images) - 80188 AST and Orchid 4-port cards (not really *computers*, yet they are) Vermont Microsystems PGC clone graphics card (80188) let me see if I remember this one correctly - Advanced Computer Products of Anaheim, CA produced a box w/a fully compatible 80186 mobo probably dozens and dozens if not hundreds of industrial embedded systems ********************************************************* likely there are other worthy additions to this list. But the very last entry is what I'd like to touch on. Where are all these blooming things? I even remember a company in Long Island (can't remember the name, off of Vets highway) that made one. The ability to enumerate every one is a task likely to be carried out as naming all the bizarre and perverse specialty software that (truly) was available for the Tandy 2000 at one time (bizarro scientific apps mostly, but some off the wall accounting packages and whatnot also). But give it a go gurus. Lessee what you can come up with - oh, hope you all had a Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukah, joyous Kwanzaa. But that's it. The pagans and atheists can go scratch LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL

16 years, 4 months

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