I've finally gotten around to photographing a poster I've had for a
number of years. Hoping it triggers some memories for at least one
person here. I'd love to know who made it, when and most of all
*why*:
http://flickr.com/photos/chiclassiccomp/3037313448/in/photostream/
It's fairly large, maybe 3'x5'. It's actually textured - all the
white areas are printed with some sort of coarse sand or grit. Right
above the lower brown bar is written in pencil "A New Language" and
signed, as far as I can tell "D. Meeny." Googling this info has
turned up nothing for me.
This was some serious work. I'm not one to question an artist's muse
- but someone, somewhere, at some time, sure loved them some COBOL.
Anybody know where you can purchase the white plastic grommets used with
the push pins to hold the VT100 case together or a suitable replacement?
Enough are broken my case doesn't want to stay together. DEC parts # was
90-09966-02 or 90-09966-00
It's the end of my fall clean-up, and I've decided to discontinue "collecting" VGA video cards any more; though the proper term might be "accumulate"... I did find it fascinating to note these were state-of-the-art in their (brief) day, we spent upwards of $300-400 on some of these and they are now boards I pull to scrap... Roughly 1990-1999, ISA, PCI and AGP.
Been doing this for the last 10 years or so. I have a list of brands and models, please email me off-list request a copy. Anybody else 'collecting' VGA cards? I don't have a price, is there a market?
I also have a list of Creative Labs Sound Blaster cards...Bill KA3AIS
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Hi,
does someone know which tape drive model was used in a Zilog System 8000?
Bade on the Hardware Ref. Manual some characteristics:
Storage Capacity (Unformatted) 17.2 Mbytes max.
Read/Write speed 30 inches per second
Rewrind/Search speed 90 inches per second
Tracks 4
Recording density 6400 BPI
Data Transfer Rate 192,00 Bits/sec
Error Rates <1 Error in 10^8 Bits
>From the Connector point of views it looks like there are 25 different
signals (no idea how much pins):
SLD, RDY, WND, FLG, LPS, FUP, BSY, EWS, RWD, REV, FWD, HSP, WEN, SL1,
SL2, SL4, SLG, RNZ, RDS, DAD, WDE, WNZ, TR2, WDS, TR1
Does this sound familiar to someone?
--
Oliver Lehmann
http://www.pofo.de/http://wishlist.ans-netz.de/
Hi All,
Attached is a link to some photos of the N8VEM ECB bus monitor I just built.
http://groups.google.com/group/n8vem/msg/2fe8df76d05be1d5?hl=en
The design is pretty general as a Z80 bus monitor and the original C'T
Projekt article mentions you can build an adapter to convert the ECB
interface directly into a Z80 40 pin DIP socket. Although I haven't made
the adapter socket myself, it makes perfect sense to me since the ECB bus is
essentially just buffered Z80 bus signals and the bus monitor should not
notice the difference.
If you have any questions, just let me know. I have several of the PCBs
left if you'd like to build your own ECB bus monitor. The parts are fairly
inexpensive items and the PCB is only $20 plus shipping.
Clive and Rolf posted a bunch of videos of the ECB bus monitor in action so
you can see those to if you'd like. They are on the N8VEM website and on
Rolf's ECB pages.
Thanks and have a nice day!
Andrew Lynch
Another NASA recovery story:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-10097025-52.html?part=rss
1,500 Lunary Orbiter tapes, converting analog to digital, and
"the time frame to complete the project is very short as there
is only one person on Earth who has the expertise to work with
the playback heads needed to process the original tapes.
And at 68 years old, he wants to retire in just 14 months."
- John
Steve:
Cool; so now I know someone besides myself that has one of these
beasties. So, what was the model of that Dell monitor you're
using?
Jeff
-- Steven M Jones <classiccmp at crash.com> wrote:
Steven M Jones wrote:
> I just received what I believe is an HP 9000/380 (thanks Stan!), details
> below.
I've since powered up the machine and it appears to be working just
fine. I believe I skipped over that in responding to a thread about LCD
monitors and output from late 80's and early 90's workstation
framebuffers, but the 380 displays just fine on a 20" Dell LCD monitor
using a HD15 to 3-BNC cable off of eBay.
The current color framebuffer offers 6 bit planes. I'm assuming that
were I to load NetBSD on it, X would immediately fall over. My
experience a few years ago was that dependencies on greater than 8-bit
color had crept into much of the standard distributions...
I haven't secured a disk for it yet, but expect to use a bog standard
SCSI drive. I'd love to find a matching enclosure, but no clue as to
availability. Something that looks similar to the following would do
nicely: http://60.43.170.188/~handf/picture/hp/hp3801.jpg
Here's the boot screen, just for kicks:
Copyright 1990,
Hewlett-Packard Company.
All Rights Reserved.
BOOTROM Rev. 2.0 29 NOV 90
Bit Mapped Video
MC68040 Processor
Configuration EEPROM
HP-HIL.Keyboard
HP-IB
DMA-C0
RAM 8388292 Bytes
HP98644 (RS-232) at 9
HP98265 (SCSI S 32) at 16
HP98643 (LAN) at 21, AUI, 08:00:09:14:7A:8A
HP PARALLEL at 23
System Search Mode
RESET To Restart
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