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Picked up job at electronic recycling center

by lyokoboy0＠gmail.com

I recently picked up a job at an electronic recycling center. Harris is right around the corner from us, as well as a bunch of technical schools and aerospace related businesses. All of thier old stuff ends up at the shop to be resold as surplus or broken down and scrapped. There tends to be to much to process, and inside space is limited. Excess equipment is stored outside in tents, and it goes to crap quite quickly unfortunately. The humidity and rain destroys stuff outside quickly. I am uncertain of how many requests I will get, but if anyone is looking for something in particular, please send me an email and I will keep an eye out for you. The place is a goldmine, and a lot of nice older gear is going to waste because the store owners do not know what it is. Examples of stuff that comes in are old microcomputers like the c64, nice 486 like machines with good isa cards in them, TONS of HP and tectronics test equipment, ham radio gear, you name it. There is a ton of good stuff here, i am trying to find some a good home before it gets stripped out. Some of this stuff works fine, the tandy 1000 computer I picked up this weekend works flawlessly for example. Other things are in a broken or parts state, but within reach of repair. There is a lot of new gear there as well, not many machines come in with nice graphics cards in them, but tons of workstations with lots of ram and hard drives are common. We get so many servers they are broken down almost immediately unless they are particularly new or unique in some way. Lets see how busy my inbox gets, if you are in need of something, please send me an email, i can keep an eye out for it and hopefully be of service.I work on Saturdays, that is the day i will be on site to look for things. Stuff will be priced as surplus/used. Hopefully i can be of use and keep some of this stuff out of the scrap pile. --Devin

8 years, 3 months

HPGL plotter art files

by curiousmarc3＠gmail.com

And I found the Columbia.plt HPGL I believe I generated using the method below. Sending directly to Mike. Marc -----Original Message----- From: CuriousMarc [mailto:curiousmarc3 at gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2017 6:16 PM To: 'Mike Stein'; 'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts' Subject: RE: HPGL plotter art files The space shuttle comes from a .dwg that was included in an version of AutoCAD, the file is named Columbia.dwg if you want to search it on Google. I can send you the original .dwg file if you want. Then you need to use AutoCAD to print out an HPGL file. I used Autodesk DWG TrueView which is free. You'll need to spin it around in 3D until you get a top view, then zoom to it. Then I printed it from TrueView using Roland DXY 880 output with the following options: A4 paper, landscape orientation, print to file, center, print extent. Out will come an HPGL file that you might want to further massage depending how early or late your plotter is, as was said by Brent. Marc -----Original Message----- From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of tom sparks via cctalk Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2017 11:36 PM To: cctalk at classiccmp.org Subject: Re: HPGL plotter art files On 16/10/17 15:07, David Collins via cctalk wrote: > Brent could you send it to curator at hpmuseum.net as well? > > Thanks! > > David Collins > >> On 16 Oct 2017, at 2:32 pm, Brent Hilpert via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote: >> >>> On 2017-Oct-15, at 4:20 PM, Mike Stein via cctalk wrote: >>> Can anybody direct me to some interesting HPGL plotter files for a display at the upcoming World of Commodore show? >> >> I'm sending (in a separate, direct message with attachment) the semi-famous / once ubiquitous Space Shuttle plot from the 1980s. >> >> I received it from someone after making a similar request to the list 10 years ago. >> >> Some things to note though: this plot uses multiple colored pens and was scaled to some (largish, IIRC) size of paper. >> I was targetting a HP 9872 plotter which was too early to understand some of the more complex HPGL directives present in the SS plot, such as drawing arcs. >> I wrote a language filter/converter that will optionally scale the image, offset it relative to the plotter bed, converts certain directives e.g. arcs to a series of line-segment directives, reduces the number of pens, etc. >> >> I'll send the original SS plot, if you figure you could use the filter program, I can send it along, or a modified plot, upon request. >> inkscape has hpgl export support [Chiplotle](http://cmc.music.columbia.edu/chiplotle/) gives you a python API these is also [tsp art](http://wiki.evilmadscientist.com/TSP_art) witch can drawn on plotter tom

8 years, 3 months

looking at buying a pocket PC / PDA

by barythrin＠gmail.com

I'll add a few more problem specs than answers but the down side of a lot of devices is lack of backlit screen so working in a dark space can be a problem, and I'd be quite interested to see real battery life reviews.? ?So many devices that can work only last a few hours on battery. Could be age issues but that's what I've accepted as a reason not to collect too many handheld devices. Proprietary batteries and most are dead. Do you want keyboard or is palm like writing acceptable? On the bright side, despite battery age palms are easy to find and relatively cheap. Most are at goodwill because of obsolescence not because theyre broken.? I find them all the time for $10. null

8 years, 3 months

PowerPrint 2.5.2 for the classic Mac

by curiousmarc3＠gmail.com

Anyone in the list has a copy of PowerPrint 2.5.2 from GDT Software? It's a collection of printer drivers for the Mac for non-Apple printers that works under System 6.0.7. I am particularly looking at a driver for an HP 2225D (the serial version of the ThinkJet). It is said that GDT had a one. Marc

8 years, 3 months

Picked up tandy 1000 TX

by lyokoboy0＠gmail.com

I picked up a tandy 1000 TX with a color CM 11 monitor. Both are in the original boxes with keyboard,monitor and the printer cable. It powers on but i can not seem to get it to boot from the floppy drive. Ive tried writing 720K boot disks from my windows computer but it is still not booting. Some better pictures to follow soon. I do not particularly need such a machine, and am open to trade or offers. If no one wants it perhaps it can be put to use as a BBS or something packet radio related over here. Also, the boxes both had us goverment stickers on them, kinda intersting. https://s20.postimg.org/fr7iox7kt/image3.jpg --Devin

8 years, 3 months

Looking for Dr. Dobb's Developer Library DVD 6

by jseiwert07＠berkeley.columbia.edu

Hello Steve, Found ur post re: a copy DDJ DVD 6. Wondering if u ever got a response. Also, I'm looking for an archive of Computer Language. If u know where one is at be greatful if u can pass along the info. -- Joe Seiwert III jseiwert07 at berkeley.columbia.edu http://www.linkedin.com/in/jseiwert

8 years, 3 months

VR150

by emu＠e-bbes.com

Anybody looking for one? Free for pickup, 80433 colorado

8 years, 3 months

looking at buying a pocket PC / PDA

by mark＠wickensonline.co.uk

I'd second the Z88. A lot of people get put off by the keyboard but it actually works really well, and I'm a proper mechanical keyboard snob. You get can a proper turn of speed up on it. Mark On 29 Oct 2017 4:04 p.m., "Lawrence Woodman via cctalk" < cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote: On 29/10/17 15:22, Mike Stein via cctalk wrote: > Radio Shack M100 (if you've got a large pocket); still used by some > writers for the very reason you mention. > > m > > On 29/10/17 06:01, Evan Koblentz wrote: > >> I am looking at buying a pocket PC / PDA, so I can write idea/notes >>>>> when I >>>>> am away from my computer >>>>> >>>> >>> I was also thinking of something a little bit bigger, such as the M100. The Cambridge Z88 is an excellent machine and they are still being sold new in box. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Z88 Lorry

8 years, 3 months

NEC 4164-12

by ethan.dicks＠gmail.com

Hi, Emanuel, I have a quantity of 4164 DRAM from the Comboard days, new in tube. It is likely to mostly be 150ns and I don't know the brands until I dig it out, but I will check when I get home. If it matches what you need, I'm happy to send some to you. -ethan On Oct 28, 2017 12:32, "emanuel stiebler via cctalk" <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote: Hi all, anybody has some spare in the bin, he doesn't need? Looking for 18 pieces, preferably NEC, -12. Thanks!

8 years, 3 months

TVTropes mention of a certain computer magazine

by echristopherson＠gmail.com

I was just wasting time with TVTropes and, on the page http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FandomBerserkButton, came across this quote: The editor of one early (late 1970s) British computer magazine persistently claimed that the difference between compilers and interpreters was "academic", even in the face of corrections from knowledgeable readers, until one month he learned the hard way just how wrong he was, by wasting three pages of the mag on a worthless hex-dump of the workspace of a BASIC interpreter. The mag didn't last very much longer after that issue. Does anyone know what magazine this was? I'm not sure I understand what the hex dump thing is all about. -- Eric Christopherson

8 years, 3 months

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