Zane Healy wrote:
> Stuff I saw:
[...]
> A very interesting little Tek terminal on it's own stand
Get a better look at this. It could be any of the following (at least):
4006
4012
4014
4051
4052
4054
4052A
4054A
I'd guess it's not a 4014 or 4054 (A or otherwise), since these are not
in the least "little"
However 4052s of any flavour are EXTREMELY RARE. AFAIK, the only two
known still to exist are mine and the one in the computer museum in
Amsterdam, Netherlands. (If anyone knows of another 4052 or 4054 please
let me know!)
All the TEK terminals of this date are interesting, partly because of
the dead-end technology, viz. the storage tube.
If it is more recent than storage tube TEKs, it may still be
interesting...
BTW, the 4050 series had computers tucked in the bottom of the terminals
- a 6800 based micro in the 4051 and a 16 bit bitslice in the others.
To give you an idea of value, I paid roughly $200 for my 4052, and I
have been advised by Dr Dooijes at the Dutch museum to insure it for
$3000. (NB he paid nothing for his). It looks like insurance for the
VCF is going to cost another 100 pounds...
Philip.
All,
Thomas Pfaff picked out 3 of my top 4 NeXT sources. The 4th is:
http://206.67.57.106 Black Hole, Incorporated
(having problems with his USP pointing to
http://www.blackholeinc.com/ )
I have contacted them before, and they seemed nice, but I have not dealt
with them. (They didn't have the software I was looking for.)
- Mark
If it's for the 64, it could be a cartridge like Action Replay or
whatever was made for the 64. It usually has a pass-through on the
expansion bus and a button to activate the cart. These carts were used
to *freeze* the computer and allow you access to all the current memory
to examine, change, or save entire blocks to disk. The logic chips were
probably used to transfer control electrically from the Kernel to the
code stored in the EPROM upon the push of the button.
Jeff Salzman
>
>It's a white plastic cartridge with a 44-pin male card-edge connector and a
>light blue plastic female passthru for the same type of connector. It has a
>square black plastic button on top. It is (was) glued shut. Inside there is
>an 24-pin EEPROM (88251A+ MM2716Q) with a Mitsubish Electric sticker
>covering the window, a 14-pin IC (P234 DM7400N), and another 14-pin IC (EL
>SALVADOR 1820-0328 7936 <Texas Instruments Logo> SN7402N). And two small
>resistors and capacitors. On the circuitboard it says "NAVARONE (C)" and
>next to the contacts where the little carbon pad on the underside of the
>button makes contact, it says "TOP".
>
< > Can you guys ack this please?
< >
< > If it works, I've taught VAX/VMS to speak SMTP...
Whoa! You got my attention... as they say tell me more being I have a
upwards of 7 of them running here.
Allison
I've got an ex-Systems Industries 19" computer rack
available. It's got about 60" of vertical mounting space available
and a nice-built in surge protector and power distribution system.
Very, very heavy duty construction (weight empty is about 200 lbs.)
with big casters on the bottom. Sides and top are removable.
Terms: first person to show up with a vehicle capable of carrying
it away gets it - after they help me pull the Fuji 2444 currently
residing in it.
--
Tim Shoppa Email: shoppa(a)trailing-edge.com
Trailing Edge Technology Voice: 301-767-5917
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If anyone in the UK is interested contact the party below.
------- Forwarded Message Follows -------
From: kthacker(a)krisalis.co.uk
Date sent: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 13:57:32 +0100
Hi,
If you're interested I have a Amiga A500+ in bad condition which
you
could try to rehabilitate.
I've only got the casing (a bit dodgy), the main board (missing
Kickstart 2) - when you switch it
on it fails - might be problem with real time clock etc. It also has the
disc drive and keyboard.
I'm happy to send it to you, but you'd have to pay postage. I'm not
sure
if you are in the UK, but it would be better if you were.
I'd prefer for it not to go into a landfill site.
Kev
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dlw(a)trailingedge.com
http://www.trailingedge.com
At 09:43 PM 9/13/98 -0700, youthful photogenic Sam Ismail wrote:
>
>The lesson of this story is, you can have the best, most amazing product
>in the world, but "build it and they will come" does not apply. You've
>got to advertise. Apple was obviously more masterful at this.]
In my experience, when engineers and programmers say "best" they mean
technically pure, interesting, vibrant, and often cost-effective.
They always seem baffled by the marketplace when it decides that
"best" means something else and doesn't buy the coolest technology
as frequently as something seemingly second-best, and it only gets
worse when others begin to espouse the notion that "most popular"
equals "best" as well.
- John
The Atari 8-bit FAQ mentions something about the "Pill" cartridge
copying scheme.
http://www.cs.ruu.nl/wais/html/na-dir/atari-8-bit/faq.html
Jeff Salzman
>\I have a small (about 2"x2") box which has a 30 pin edge connector
>on one end and a switch on the other. There is a label on one side
>with says:
>
>ON OFF
> "THE PILL"
