Someone on comp.os.cpm pointed this out. I don't recall anyone doing so
here. http://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/. Mmm... Fond memories of when
Radio Shack didn't stink.
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> The earliest I have seen so far is a
> Sherwood FM tuner ca. 1977 that uses an RCA 1802 (e.g.
> http://atlanta.craigslist.org/ele/927622156.html).
Bit of trivia. That tuner was designed and built in Milwaukee by a
company that a friend of mine worked for. At the time, several of
his friends built units up from leftovers from the production run.
The TrackStar has been claimed. I working out who's on first.
Thanks,
Martin
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin Marshall [mailto:martinm at allwest.net]
> Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 9:48 PM
> To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts; The Rescue List
> Subject: Free for Cost of Shipping: Diamond TrackStar 128K - Apple II
>
>
> Here's one that I'll never get around to:
>
> Diamond TrackStar 128K board for PC, PC/XT, Tandy 1000 SX.
> This is an add-in board to run Apple II, etc software on a
> PC. In original box with original 5 1/4" disk and everything
> that I could scarf off the net in 2001 - 2002. Has cables, etc.
>
> Free for shipping. Please reply off-list to user "martinm"
> at domain "allwest.net".
>
> Thank you,
> Martin Marshall
>
I co-manage a gaming center in the mall up here in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
I've started setting up a couple older computers around the store as
some sort of mini-museum, to try teach the kids that there was indeed
something before Halo and WoW.
My latest setup is a Power Mac 5500/225, with copies of the old Carmen
Sandiego games, and Oregon Trail, and all those other fun things I
grew up on. Only problem is that the computer has 48MB of RAM, when it
could take up to 128MB, assuming I can lay my hands on the right
sticks of RAM.
Which is the point of this message! If anyone has a couple of 64MB
DIMMs (LowEndMac says the computer wants it in a 60ns EDO flavor), I'd
be much obliged if we could work out some sort of deal. If there's
something one of you are looking for, I'm sure we could figure out
something. I'm sure I have at least a gigabyte of the stuff somewhere
in St. Louis, but that's enough hours away that it's not worth it at
the moment. Thanks, folks!
~Matt
Here's one that I'll never get around to:
Diamond TrackStar 128K board for PC, PC/XT, Tandy 1000 SX. This is an
add-in board to run Apple II, etc software on a PC. In original box with
original 5 1/4" disk and everything that I could scarf off the net in 2001 -
2002. Has cables, etc.
Free for shipping. Please reply off-list to user "martinm" at domain
"allwest.net".
Thank you,
Martin Marshall
What type of 3.5" floppies are people using in their Cats? Would off-the-shelf
double-density suffice? Any special preparation required?
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Hi all --
Got myself a Seiko UC-2000 ("Wrist Information System") w/UC-2200
keyboard/terminal. The UC-2000 is a souped-up digital watch with a
dot-matrix display, and the Keyboard unit is basically a computer that
uses the watch as a display. (So it's more or less like the old
Sharp/Casio BASIC programmables, only it uses a watch for a display
instead of something built-in...)
But the watch itself is _also_ a small computer -- one can upload small
binary programs from the Keyboard unit to the watch. From the little
information I've been able to find, it has 2k of RAM, 7k of ROM, and a
4-bit CPU running at 32kHz (yes, kHz). Does anyone know anything about
the CPU? It'd be fun to write some little programs for this (assuming I
can work out how to get them transferred over...)
(See http://www.pocketcalculatorshow.com/nerdwatch/fun2.html for a brief
description of the UC-2000 and others in the same family...)
Josh
Hi,
as someone might remember, I've got some Zilog System 8000 equipment and
over the last days I've started resurrecting it.
I thought - maybe someone feels interested in the story as well ;)
2 days ago I've built my "custom" frontpanel (just a transition solution)
with the remaining stuff I had at home. The "original-like" push button I
tried to get in my local electronic distributor was out of stock. So I
reused an old circuit board, 11+40 ohm resisitor to get the needed 51 ohm
and so on... ;-) The final version will contain the "original-like" push
buttons, the LED banks and so on. It will be mounted then at the same
position where the original panel sits. When it is then hidden behind the
front door it will look nearly like the original one. At least, thats the
plan. Until then:
http://pics.pofo.de/gallery/v/S8000/Repair/P1070180.JPG.htmlhttp://pics.pofo.de/gallery/v/S8000/Repair/P1070181.JPG.html
After this was done, I've used an old PC-AT PSU for supplying the
required power to the backplane ("POWERFAIL" cable ignored):
http://pics.pofo.de/gallery/v/S8000/Repair/P1070182.JPG.html
And then put back all together, huck up a nulmodem cable to my PC and -
yeah The firmware got loaded and the usual START message was printed:
http://pics.pofo.de/gallery/v/S8000/Repair/P1070183.JPG.htmlhttp://pics.pofo.de/gallery/v/S8000/Repair/P1070186.JPG.html
Pressing the NMI/START switch on my glamorous frontpanel brings up an
immediate FATAL ERROR:
S8000 Monitor 1.2 - Press START to Load System
P
*** ERROR #0000
*** FATAL ERROR
[
Reading the hardware ref. manual - this means no external RAM - of
course, I still don't have the 1MB dynamic memory board. :(
Connecting the WDC board to the bus leads to a non-startable system
having the BUSACK LED on the CPU board permanently on - probably the WDC
is broken and spams the system BUS... But at least this was my first step
which was done OK I guess ;)
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Oliver Lehmann
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