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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)
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
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.
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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
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.
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
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
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
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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