>An IBM (no model number) two internal side-by-side black 3.5" floppies,
>non-standard monitor connector, PS/2 style mouse & k/brd connectors,
>small grey box, about the width of a normal keyboard, 5" high, about 12"
>deep. On the rear "Manufactured by IBM Japan 1987" nothing else.
Sounds like an IBM PC JX.
Apparently when the IBM PC JR failed in the US market, they sold the design
to IBM Japan who revamped it, called it the JX and sold it in places like
Australia.
ACONIT recently acquired an Apple Lisa. It appears to be fully
functional except that the video signnal is shited right horizontally
about an inch or two. Doeas anyone know of an adjustment for this?
Regards
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Lawrence Walker wrote:
> Yeah, but the last time I looked they wanted something like $500 for
Executor.
The demo version is free and can read Mac disks.
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Hi Zane:
Here are XT-4380 jumper settings, from the functional drive sitting here
in front of me:
DS1 jumpered
JP42 on
JP30 on
JP31 on
JP25 on
JP6 on
JP17 on
JP19-22 on
4 bottom jumpers to the right of JP24 also on. This set of jumpers is
bordered on both sides by 10 pin terminators.
JP1 on
5 by 2 pin jumper block at the rear of the drive: nothing installed here.
This works for me, on an Emulex QD21.
Hope this helps,
Kevin
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In a message dated 3/3/99 5:30:04 PM Eastern Standard Time, mbg(a)world.std.com
writes:
> >What movie featured a group of kids who traveled into space with a ship
> >they built controlled by an Apple //c?
>
> I think it was 'Explorers', starring a very young River Phoenix as
> the computer nerd... all the schematics for the devices which
> produced oxygen for them, surrounded them with a force field,
> and allowed them to translate from position to position all came
> to them in dreams...
>
> I loved the space aliens in it (obviously brother and sister)
> who had stolen their parent's space vehicle... the brother talked
> in sound bites from old tv shows...
>
> It comes on once in awhile on HBO (or can be rented)...
>
it was a neat movie especially since it showed the //c but i always thought it
was stupid that they made the apple continually make disk drive access noises
to make people think it was "working"
david
Originally, the SIPP was considered much more reliable than the SIMM. The
SIMM sockets were a new product at that time and failure rates were pretty
high, and it was easy to package a system more densely with SIPPs than with
SIMM's. It was easy to bend the pins on the SIPP's, though, and retailers
soon tired of having to hand-hold customers whose problems were simply bent
pins, as, once bent, the pins tended to bend again and again until they
were broken and repair was improbably if at all possible. Consequently,
SIMMs, though less reliable but easier to install, and less likely, in
either event, to sustain long-term damage took over the market.
Ultimately, socket problems were defeated by persistence, educating the
user public, and improved socketing technology.
Dick
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> From: Max Eskin <max82(a)surfree.com>
> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
> Subject: Re: 30-pin SIMMS
> Date: Saturday, February 27, 1999 9:10 PM
>
> On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, Tony Duell wrote:
> >A SIPP is exactly a SIMM with pins soldered on - even the pinouts are
the
> >same. And thus SIPPs suffer from bent pins, just like individual chips
> >do. That's why they went out of fashion.
>
> But why did anyone attach the pins in the first place?
>
> --Max Eskin (max82(a)surfree.com)
I bought an S-100 card today at a hamfest for $1.00, now can someone tell me what it is ?
It's a "65k byte SupeRam 2" P65D2 Rev. C by PIICEON, Inc.
It has 64k of DRAM on it, 4 rows of 8 4116's, but the rest of the board does not look very "Ram-like", AND it has a 34-pin board edge connector at the top of the board. I realize that this suggests a 5" floppy drive interface, but a combined RAM and FDC card ????? Plus, the edge connector is VERY un-floppy like, normally a floppy connector would have half of the pins being ground, this clearly looks like it has active signals on almost all 34 lines.
Anyone who has information, it would be appreciated. I'd most like to get a manual and switch settings [there are FOUR dip switches on this thing], also the IC at 9B is missing and the board screening does not identify what should go there.
Regards,
Barry Watzman
>What movie featured a group of kids who traveled into space with a ship
>they built controlled by an Apple //c?
I think it was 'Explorers', starring a very young River Phoenix as
the computer nerd... all the schematics for the devices which
produced oxygen for them, surrounded them with a force field,
and allowed them to translate from position to position all came
to them in dreams...
I loved the space aliens in it (obviously brother and sister)
who had stolen their parent's space vehicle... the brother talked
in sound bites from old tv shows...
It comes on once in awhile on HBO (or can be rented)...
Megan Gentry
Former RT-11 Developer
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On Wednesday, March 03, 1999 3:35 PM, Sellam Ismail [SMTP:dastar@ncal.verio.com] wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, James Willing wrote:
>
> > Trivia Question: (Compu-Nerd time - practice for the Nerd Trivia Contest
> > at VCF III!) What movie had a scene with the lead character sitting on a
> > beach with their trusty (?) Apple ][c complete with LCD display panel???
>
> I think this is either a question we came up with for the Nerd Trivia
> Challenge last year or someone already posted this (I know I've seen it
> before). At any rate, it was Roy Scheider in 2010.
>
> What movie featured a group of kids who traveled into space with a ship
> they built controlled by an Apple //c?
>
> (I hope someone knows...I know the movie but not the name :)
>
> Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Don't rub the lamp if you don't want the genie to come out.
>
> Coming in 1999: Vintage Computer Festival 3.0
> See http://www.vintage.org/vcf for details!
> [Last web site update: 02/15/99]
>
>
EXPLORERS
I'll donate the prize to VCF III ;-)
Steve Robertson - <steverob(a)hotoffice.com>
<I guess we'll have to see what information is available on the net about
<that January 1986 event. I do seem to recall that the flight was about 2
<minutes 10+ seconds underway when the ship hit the fan, so to speak. The
<entire trip into orbit only required about 8.5 minutes, so they were a fai
<piece of the way along.
It was exactly at T+73 seconds and Christa's mother is my next door neighbor
then and now. It was post max-Q transistion at main engine power up. Every
time I see a launch I get a knot at that time. FYI the speed attained at
that point is some 3600mph far from orbital velocity.
FYI: TLC had a special on space flight just that last week and that footage
was part of it. It's a reminder that I didn't need.
Allison
