On Mon, 7 Dec 1998, "Barry A. Watzman" <Watzman(a)ibm.net> wrote:
> Myself and another individual are trying to find the source of a =
> magazine article which describes a modification to the IMSAI CP-A front =
> panel.
>
> The title of the article is "The Slow-Stepping Debugger" by Howard =
> Bendrot.
>
> We believe that it was published between 1976 and 1979, probably in =
> 1977. We believe it is likely that it was published in Kilobaud =
> Microcomputing magazine, and there is some suspicion that it may have =
> been on Page 60. But none of this is confirmed, and we don't have these =
> magazines to verify this.
>
> Can anyone identify the Magazine, issue and page number of this article =
> for certain ?
>
> Thanks,
> Barry Watzman
>
I have the article in front of me. It is indeed on p. 60 of Kilobaud,
issue #4, April 1977. It's a one-page description of how to alter the
single-step mode to add a slow-step capability (so you don't have to keep
pounding on the step switch).
Arlen
--
Arlen Michaels amichael(a)nortelnetworks.com
< Don't forget the S-100 bus was really invented at MITS on the Altair.
The mits version of it was not the most compatable version and by 79
it was the most incompatable version. It was a poorly conceived bus
and badly organized. The fact that systems worked using it was a result
of other vendors efforts to clean it up. Even MITS had to toss in the
towel and do an 8800B.
The signals on the 100 pin connector are identical to the intellec8I.
Allison
< Hell, Allison, your Horizon should be about old enough to drink.
< Legally, if silicon-based lifeforms had rights, and could get ID.
Officially the CPU and MDS disk are 21 as they were assembled in early
1977. The s100 crate was an early '78 assembly so that's only 20. It
turns 21 in two months. It's still in use.
Allison
< Us: Auntie Allison, tell us about the early days of microcomputing.
By then I was an Aunt...
< Allison: Well, in my day, we didn't have these fancy GUIs and Plug n Pla
Well we did, they were funny to look at so we didn't bother being learned
to read write and cypher.
< We had to write our own operating systems! And we had to haul ASR-33
Yes and it was fun to do. Even if we didn't have and assembler yet.
< terminals across bridges just so we could type in our programs. That is
It was only the boardwalk. But it was the pre-betting era so thre were
few profitiable things there.
< if you were lucky enough to find a terminal!
They abounded... uppercase only 1200 baud and expensive!!!!
< Usually we had to build our own from lights & switches...
Lots of lights... well they were leds and only red ones.
Of course that was when homebrewed was self assembled and not referring
to a microbrew. The latter was called programming fluid (coffee, beer
or Coke).
Allison
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< Of course, to tie in the other Altair thread, the Intellec, for all it
< was the first CP/M machine, is nowhere near as valuable as an Altair...
Actually the altair disk system was rather hard to adapt to CPM and most
people used a non altair system for that.
Allison
At 01:50 PM 06-12-98 +1030, Geoff Roberts wrote:
I wrote:
>>Excuse me, I've still got one in production and a couple of spares in my
>>"spares" room....
>
>
>I think you should open your spares room to the public and charge admission.
>:^)
Well, anyone passing is more than welcome to drop in and I'll provide a
guided tour for free. In the near future I'm going to have the Fifth Annual
Junk Room Clearance. I guess this will only be of interest to local readers
but I'll attempt to provide a list of what we plan to junk.
Huw Davies | e-mail: Huw.Davies(a)latrobe.edu.au
Information Technology Services | Phone: +61 3 9479 1550 Fax: +61 3 9479 1999
La Trobe University | "If God had wanted soccer played in the
Melbourne Australia 3083 | air, the sky would be painted green"
On Tue, 8 Dec 1998 gram(a)cnct.com wrote:
> Yup. Linux Ain't Unix. It Ain't Minix. It ain't GNU, though it uses
> Stallman's Copyleft. Yes, every Linux distribution uses gagloads of
> GNU material, properly attributed, all source available, and Stallman
> has nothing to complain about except that people have been making
> money selling free software. (That's free as in something other than
> the price -- Open Source).
Why would he complain about that? I understand it may be against his
philosophy, and RedHat-like products may not be the best examples of Linux
(KDE is probably the worst example of Linux though it's getting shipped
with every major distribution...) but how does he expect GNU software to
get distributed? Someone has to make money along the line...what we need
is to get back to the old days when people shared tips on how to speed up
their computers by soldering in a couple of diodes. In those days, it
wasn't as necessary to ruin software in order to distribute it. I got to
use dial-up bulletin board systems for about three years, and I liked them
more than the commercial internet, which killed these off, and harmed the
sort of scientific-academic-university spirit that was previously more
common among computer users.
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Max Eskin | kurtkilgor(a)bigfoot.com | AOL: kurtkilgor
a PCjr version of a scsi card? if so, that's certainly a rarity! there wont be
much you can do with a cdrom on a jr unless you're reading your own cds. what
kind of write errors are you getting? have you tried clean booting using F5?
partition size <32meg?
In a message dated 12/7/98 10:25:44 PM EST, amirault(a)epix.net writes:
<< > I have one of the old IBM Edsels and I am currently trying to get the
> TMC850jr SCSI card I have to get a CDROM to work on it. Can anyone give me
> any
> clues as to how to do this? Can it be done at all?
>
> I also have the combo cartridge V3.0 in this machine and upgraded the
> harddrive from DOS 5.0 to DOS 6.22 and now I keep getting write errors when
> I
> try to install programs onto the harddrive. Any help here?
>
> Thanks everyone.
>
> John Amirault >>
