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by binarydinosaurs＠gmail.com

Hi folks, An interesting article on adafruit about the digitalisation (hem) of the original hand drawn DEC logo, including the PS file itself - https://blog.adafruit.com/2019/10/28/the-digital-equipment-corporation-dec-… <https://blog.adafruit.com/2019/10/28/the-digital-equipment-corporation-dec-…> This news must have done the rounds back in 2007 though, because I have the file in question (declogo17.ps) on my Mac already?hmm... Cheers, -- Adrian Graham Owner of Binary Dinosaurs, the UK's biggest private home computer collection? t: @binarydinosaurs f: facebook.com/binarydinosaurs w: www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk

6 years, 9 months

OT(?): Emulation XKCD

by mark.tapley＠swri.org

All, my daughter is well aware of my affinity for old computers and software, and, as usual, she pointed out that there?s an XKCD for that: https://xkcd.com/2221/ I found this remarkably accurate. - Mark

6 years, 9 months

50 yrs. ago today

by c.murray.mccullough＠gmail.com

The first inter-computer communication happened 50 years ago today. L. Kleinrock part of that historic moment, said, and I paraphrase here, ARPANET was the instrument that was to enable computers to talk to each other remotely. He sent ?LO? because the system crashed(how surprising was that!) This was the precursor to the inter-net, moving from the intra-net. Happy computing all! Murray ? <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_cam…> Virus-free. www.avg.com <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_cam…> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2>

6 years, 9 months

Best email to reach a human at the centre for computing history (computinghistory.org.uk)

by aek＠bitsavers.org

I've tried several times to email them, and never received a reply. Could someone send me an email adr for a human who might be able to answer if they could scan something which is in their catalog but isn't available on line there?

6 years, 9 months

Estate sale

by technoid6502＠gmail.com

This link was posted on an Atari forum. I noticed a PDP 8 faceplate, a UNIVAC keyboard, and some other seriously retro parts. Might want to Hit this link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-n9AUXZAiVw0nvht-JhD4IN8DMZWrAW7YCsS7gv… Jeff

6 years, 9 months

cctalk Digest, Vol 61, Issue 27

by oltmansg＠gmail.com

> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: "Ethan O'Toole" <ethan at 757.org> > To: Murray McCullough <c.murray.mccullough at gmail.com>, "General > Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org> > Cc: > Bcc: > Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2019 11:11:49 -0400 (EDT) > Subject: Re: Coleco & Atari > > old? 1983. Coleco ADAM, my favourite, and Atari 600XL, not so much. I > still > > have my ADAM. No not why. But isn?t this why we all belong to > classiccomp. And > > $600. How quaint! BTW(sorry), it had an update on CP/M called CP/M Plus. > > Gosh, I miss those old days. > > Oh man, the Atari 8bit is second to the Adam? IIRC the 800XL and Floppy > Drive cost less than the Coleco Adam kit. You didn't get a daisy wheel > printer, but you got better sound and a much larger library. > > I grew up on the ColecoVision, neighbor had the Atari 5200. I used to say > the ColecoVision was better when younger but now I have to say I think the > Atari 5200 is better. > > Have yet to own an Adam, but I always thought of the Adam as something of > a failure? There was a large number of them that shipped DOA or close to > DOA as well due to power supply issue (in the printer) ? > > > The ADAM was a well-designed system with a great set of launch software hobbled by a rollout/gamble for the Christmas buying season that didn't pay off. If they had a proper release to work out the manufacturing issues they would have been a lot more successful I think. Nevertheless, any system in the wild you come across should work just as well as any other vintage machine by this time. It's my favorite machine pre-Amiga/ST/IIgs/Mac.

6 years, 9 months

And yet another batch of IBM big iron one Ebay Germany..

by jos.dreesen＠greenmail.ch

an IBM 4331 for 1000 Euro b.i.n. seems OK to me, if I was in that sort of thing ! See? https://www.ebay.de/itm/IBM-grosrechner/184010116585 and his other offerings... Jos

6 years, 9 months

[cctalk] First transistors

by w9gb＠icloud.com

Jack Ward would be happy to include in the museum collection. http://semiconductormuseum.com/Museum_Index.htm Helped Jack over a decade ago, to document the usage of transistors in Explorer I. He did oral history interview with Dr. George Ludwig before he passed in 2013. http://semiconductormuseum.com/Museum_Index.htm#ORAL_HISTORIES gb

6 years, 9 months

IBM 1500 [was RE: Vintage Computer Warehouse Liquidation]

by RichA＠livingcomputers.org

From: William Donzelli Sent: Saturday, October 26, 2019 6:45 PM > PICTURES! PICTURES! PICTURES! >> I have been unable to find anything about the 4505 display station. Does >> anyone know any details about this item? It resembles an IBM 2260, but the >> keyboard is not built-in, as in the 2260. > I think it may be for an IBM 1500, the educational system based on an 1130. The 1500 I worked with at the University of Texas School of Education was based on an 1800 (which is of course the same architecture as the 1130, but in highboy industrial cabinetry rather than a desk. Coursewriter II and APL\1500 for the educational software, FORTRAN II and assembler for background tasks. Rich

6 years, 9 months

a bunch of decus pdp-8 writups

by aek＠bitsavers.org

https://archive.org/details/manuals_hack42?and%5B%5D=addeddate%3A2019-10%2A… who knows if they've already been scanned

6 years, 9 months

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