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Computer Shopper scans: definitely worthy

by jeffj＠panix.com

> From: "William Donzelli" <wdonzelli at gmail.com> > Subject: Re: Computer Shopper scans? > No, not that newsprint crap. It will start disintegrating within 50 > years, and the costs associated with acid paper stabilization are very > high. I see how the hobby publications of the 1940s are falling apart > now, and Computer Shopper is in the same danger. And thus all my friends' paperback collections literally turning to dust. > Like it, or (mostly) not, Computer Shopper > is a very important slice of computing history. I'm not so sure of that. It's not a scholarly journal such as the Journal of the ACM, but it shows the state of the art for hobbyist & business machines, such as price & capacity of hard drives, CPU, RAM, when certain peripherals were ubiquitious, etc. Some of the ads were memorable, particularly for things that didn't happen as anticipated. It also listed BBSs, which was the only way for online/virtual communities before the Internet and well-connected services such as GEnie, Prodigy, Delphi, BIX, ...

17 years, 6 months

Kontron EPP-80 EPROM Burner

by msalay＠one.net

Hello, Sometime back you posted looking for info on the Kontron EPP-80 EPROM programmer. I have such a unit, but need to find a manual and fellow users. I'd appreciate if you can drop me a quick note with anything you know. thanks, Mike

17 years, 6 months

DECmateIII (was Re: PDP-8/e and terminals in West Sussex, UK)

by jason＠havnet.com

Hi Paul, Sorry for the direct email, but I have missed the beginning of your thread regarding the PDP-8/e and terminals in West Sussex. Is any of the equipment available? I ask on behalf of the Centre for Computing History in Suffolk. See : www.computinghistory.org.uk Sorry if this email is out of place. Kind Regards Jason Fitzpatrick -----Original Message----- From: paul at frixxon.co.uk Sent: Sat, 8 Nov 2008 11:00:35 -0000 (UTC) To: cctalk at classiccmp.org Subject: Re: DECmateIII (was Re: PDP-8/e and terminals in West Sussex, UK) > Ethan Dicks wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 05:53:03AM -0800, Julian Skidmore wrote: >>> >>> You also have what looks very much like a DecMate in the bottom, left >>> of: >>> http://hisdeedsaredust.com/pdp/04112008377.jpg > > The grey box there ? It looks like a tk50, or just scsi drive enclosure. > There is an SCSI terminator on it ... You're right, it is a TK50. I accidentally responded off-list to Julian.

17 years, 6 months

PDP-8/e and terminals in West Sussex, UK

by julianskidmore＠yahoo.com

Hi Paul, You also have what looks very much like a DecMate in the bottom, left of: http://hisdeedsaredust.com/pdp/04112008377.jpg Of course, that's another pdp-8! I have a DecMate III which I picked up at a Radio Rally, but it doesn't have an RX50, so I can't get it to do anything, apart from display its bios screen. -cheers from julz @P

17 years, 6 months

VT terminal emulator suggestions

by mark＠wickensonline.co.uk

Thanks for the replies. I have a VT520 that I use as much as possible! However, sitting in front of the TV of an evening I was looking for an emulator capable of accessing some of the forms related software on my DEC Alpha 3000/600 such as DECforms and All-in-1. Both use double wide/high fonts which don't work well with most terminal emulators. I did have a serial connection to the attic at one time and used a VT terminal for a while, but having a VT terminal in the lounge is maybe taking the 'hobby' a little too far in my wife's eyes! Anyway, I have answered my own question: IVT. Available free at http://www.softwarevoordelig.nl/en/ I was amazed at (a) how well it worked and (b) what a quality piece of software it is. I recommend it. Regards, Mark.

17 years, 6 months

PDP-8/e and terminals in West Sussex, UK

by bqt＠softjar.se

Julian Skidmore <julianskidmore at yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi folks, > > So who's taking the populated pdp8/m? > > Since Peter Turnbull is taking the pdp8/e and a pdp8/m is only an > OEM pdp8/e with less slots; I'm wondering if the pdp8/m should go > to another University. Actually, the 8/m is the OEM of the 8/f. There are more differences between the 8/e and 8/m and 8/f than just less slots, but the differences aren't normally that relevant. I think I still have both an 8/m and an 8/f around in my basement. Johnny

17 years, 6 months

PDP-8/e and terminals in West Sussex, UK

by paul＠frixxon.co.uk

It appears that I'm the only person on this list who doesn't want a PDP-8/E! Thanks for all the responses -- too many to respond to individually. I managed to get the PDP-8/E in my car yesterday, with a bit of huffing and puffing. A new home has now been found for it, where I am told it will be put on display at least annually. I was surprised that I didn't know that we had one on site before it was disposed of because I'm always hunting around the labs for interesting kit. It appears to have been part of some automated test equipment made by GenRad. There were GenRad boxes in the skip and the 8/E has some "General Radio" stickers on it. This morning, I've found two PDP-8/M boxes. One of them is populated, and the other one appears to be almost empty (so it's now just a pretty front panel, or a source of switches for repairing the other one). I've put some photos of the 8/E and the two 8/Ms on a web site. I was going to do the flickr thing but I'm trying to do real work as well, so I apologise for the pics being uncropped and rather large. http://hisdeedsaredust.com/pdp/ You'll see two pictures of my storage unit as it was at lunchtime. This needs to be clear by the end of the month. Eek! If you'd like either or both of the 8/Ms (bearing in mind, as I said, that only one of them has any boards in), make me an offer. You will have to come and collect them from Crawley, so please don't ask me to ship them.

17 years, 6 months

Aesthedes graphic design workstation on eBay

by quapla＠xs4all.nl

> At 06:24 AM 10/8/2008, William Maddox wrote: >>This isn't my auction, and I don't know the seller. This thing >>is totally over the top, however, for lots of screens and buttons. >>Looks like the helmsman's station for a starship. It's in >>Mineapolis, and, as of this writing, its $9.99 with no bids. > > Dutch! > > http://www.science.uva.nl/museum/aesthedes.html > > - John > > > Haha, that's interesting, the middle & right monitor shows (at least for us here in NL) a very familiar logo, the one from Heineken Beer. Ed

17 years, 6 months

[personal] Poll (was Re: PDP-8/e and terminals in West Sussex, UK)

by roger.holmes＠microspot.co.uk

> From: "Mike Hatch" <mike at brickfieldspark.org> > Subject: Re: [personal] Poll (was Re: PDP-8/e and terminals in West > Sussex, UK) > > >> 1962 ICT 1301 (includes CR,CP and LP) + 5 off TM4 Ampex tape >> transport + >> paper tape used once a fortnight for a day except in winter >> (Germanium >> hates cold) > Ampex TM4's seems to be used by a lot of systems, we had them on the > SDS9300, ICL gave me a job purely to repair TM4's on their > contracted LEO > III's. > >> c1963 ICT 1301 (includes CR,CP and LP) + 5 off TM4 Ampex tape >> transport. >> Dismantled 30 years ago. Sold and will be picked up for a new >> computer >> museum's centrepiece on Tuesday. > Which museum ? Its not open yet but it is in the far north west of England, I don't think I can say much more than that, I don't want to steal their thunder. Roger.

17 years, 6 months

Systems based on Fairchild 9440 / 9445

by rborsuk＠colourfull.com

Does anyone know of any computers based on the Fairchild 9440 / 9445 cpu? Rob ps. Google wasn't being my friend. Rob Borsuk email: rborsuk at colourfull.com Colourfull Creations Web: http://www.colourfull.com

17 years, 6 months

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