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by jim＠calico.litterbox.com

For anyone who was wondering, those RAM chips I was offering for free found a home in a computer at the Red Cross courtesy of Russ. Thanks. Beats the heck out of throwing them out. :) -- Jim Strickland jim(a)calico.litterbox.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Vote Meadocrat! Bill and Opus in 2000 - Who ELSE is there? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

28 years

WORLD OF ATARI '98...WALKING THROUGH THE PARK AND REMINISCING

by sinasohn＠ricochet.net

At 07:29 PM 8/25/98 -0700, you wrote: >You bet I was there...what an incredible time! It was a >fantastic event and well worth enduring the 110? heat! Cool! Next Saturday our local Atari club meeting will be centered around stories from the folks that went. >Don Thomas has posted an excellent account Saw that and a couple of others; it did sound like fun! >I myself will be posting pictures as soon as they are scanned... Excellent! Let us know when they're up! --------------------------------------------------------------------- O- Uncle Roger "There is pleasure pure in being mad roger(a)sinasohn.com that none but madmen know." Roger Louis Sinasohn & Associates San Francisco, California http://www.sinasohn.com/

28 years

KIM/MOS-Tech

by franke＠sbs.de

>>> (Caveat: until someone comes forward to claim legitimate ownership.) >> Jup, but acording to your ridiculous justice this means >> bancrupcy for the next 3 generation to anyon of 'Us'. > Not necessarily. I think some of this old technology could arguably be > considered in the public domain, with companies having folded, owners > having died, etc. Case in point: the IMSAI 8080. I think whatever > vestiges of ownership of the IMSAI 8080 have been lost to time after the > transformation into ComputerLand, the subsequent bankruptcy and then the > re-birth of ComputerLand as Vanguard. This is what I gather after having > read the book _Once Upon a Time in Computerland_. In terms of copyright there is no thing like 'lost ownership' Copyright (and other intelectual property) is always originated by natural persons, And if any kind of licencee (company, temopral owner) is closed and no legal successor is available the rights return to the original Author/Inventor. > Also, who owns the rights to the Altair 8800 now? Percom? ICOM? Ed > Roberts? WHat happened after all the buyouts and bakruptcies? Don't know, but they are not free. Sad but true. Gruss H. -- Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut HRK

28 years

KIM/MOS-Tech

by maxeskin＠hotmail.com

These days, but I think 1983 is a little different. And if a book is successfull, why wouldn't they think about a second edition. The compelling reason to save a floppy version is that they might want to go back and edit something. >>if an author is proud of his book, he won't trash the manuscripts. > >Such grave pronouncements. You might as well argue that they >shouldn't throw away their drafts. Fact is, they do. Once the >book is in print, they've got a real copy. What compelling >reason did he have to save the old floppy version? It's not >as if he thought there was any demand for a second edition. >Computer books come and go in six weeks these days. > >- John > > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

28 years

TI Compact Computer 40

by maxeskin＠hotmail.com

I said it was _like_ a model 100, not an actual 100. It's very different, but the idea is similar. >Yes the RS-232 is fully complient.. I use mine all the time.. >Goto www.TRS-80.com you will find out all you need there.. >Even a Model 100 user's club on the internet.. > >Phil... > >Max Eskin wrote: >> >> I was just given one. It's a little Tand Model 100-like thing, it >> came with a user's guide and some kind of book for learning BASIC. >> Unfortunately, the manual is rather selective. Could someone tell me >> if I can use the serial port on the back for RS-232 communications, >> and what are the pin equivalents? If not, is there any kind of >> modification that could be made? Also, does anyone have any software >> cartridges for it they would be willing to send me? What is assembly >> like for this processor? Does anyone have any comments about it? >> >> ______________________________________________________ >> Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

28 years

KIM/MOS-Tech

by maxeskin＠hotmail.com

if an author is proud of his book, he won't trash the manuscripts. > >On Wed, 2 Sep 1998, John Foust wrote: > >> who've since tossed their floppies with the original manuscript. >> Without this, we're back to scanning and OCR and proofreading. >> They'd thought that absolutely no one was interested. For example, >> Sheldon Leemon, author of "Mapping the C-64", tossed his old Atari >> floppies that had held his manuscript. > >This is something I hadn't considered. The authors of some of the most >classic of computer books (I could name a bunch of Apple ones, like >_Benath Apple DOS_ for one) should be contacted and asked to hold onto >their original manuscripts if they still have them. While it wouldn't be >a total loss if they are thrown out, since at least the book survives in >thousands of coipies, it would be nice to have the original manuscript >around in digital form to be preserved for millenia. > >I wonder if this is something we could turn into a concerted effort, a >drive to root out old computer book authors, or if anyone is really >interested. > >Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com >------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Ever onward. > > September 26 & 27...Vintage Computer Festival 2.0 > See http://www.siconic.com/vcf for details! > [Last web site update: 08/25/98] > > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

28 years

LCD woes

by maxeskin＠hotmail.com

HGC _could_ stand for Hercules Graphics Controller. I don't know. The display... are you sure you haven't shorted anything with solder? Have you tried using a VOM in O mode to directly stimulate the display? Touching it to various pins should get various lines to appear. >'fixing' my portable '286 box with LCD display (which I think is _barely_ >classic). > >The cable leading to the display had had three of its wires pulled out, >and I figured that this was the reason for the very weak and grungy >display. > >I managed to solder little bits of wire into the holes and solder the >stray wires from the cable onto those, but then I realized that I couldn't >plug the thing in anymore as the holes (from the underside) had filled >with solder. :/ > >And I also realized that my solution was a bad one because the protruding >wires would short against the metal frame that holds the LCD panel in >place. > >So I used the connector from the C64 keyboard instead. > >Anyway, I got the cable rebuilt. I've tested it with the multimeter and >all the wires make contact and go to the right places. > >But now I can't get any kind of display from the LCD panel. It doesn't >light up at all. It looks like it's totally dead. > >I put a monochrome display adapter card in the machine, and it will boot >up with that and display fine on a monochrome monitor. So the machine is >_mostly_ OK. > >I'm not sure the power supply is OK, though. It squeals now. > >So basically, I've turned an ill-looking display into a dead display, and >for some reason a healthy power supply is now sounding sick. > >Bleah! > >Anyway, the machine has a special card in it for driving the LCD panel. >It is labeled "LCD & HGC CARD". What is "HGC"? It has an external 9-pin >port on it and I tried plugging the monochrome display into it, but the >picture was all distorted so I figured it was using a different frequency >or something. The cursor comes out about an inch wide, and none of the >craracters are recognizable, possibly just from overwritten numerous times >in the same scanline. > >I don't know where I'll go from here. I'm just taking a breather >before continuing. I wanted to be rebuilding the TS1016 RAM pack by now >instead of still messing with this damn PC. <s> > >Oh, and BTW, I electrocuted myself last night when I touched some exposed >wiring going to the LCD panel. It surprised me that there was that much >juice going through there. My thumb and forefinger are still tender. But >the display was still working at that point, and looking much sharper than >it had been. But the machine wouldn't close up properly because the >connector was too thick and that's why I went back in today, just to >reverse the cable so that the big fat Commodore connector was on the >inside instead of on the LCD panel end. (Which meant pulling the connector >apart and rebuilding it the other way, just so it would fit in.) > >I haven't crossed any wires, I haven't plugged anything in backwards, and >I haven't dropped anything into the machine, so I don't know what I've >done wrong. > ><s> > > >Doug Spence >ds_spenc(a)alcor.concordia.ca >http://alcor.concordia.ca/~ds_spenc/ > > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

28 years

KIM/MOS-Tech

by CLASSICCMP＠trailing-edge.com

>Also, who owns the rights to the Altair 8800 now? Percom? ICOM? Ed >Roberts? WHat happened after all the buyouts and bakruptcies? Which rights? The name? The design? The PC board layouts? The documentation? I would think the only things left to worry about are the name and any copyrights that might exist on the PC artwork. I doubt the actual design is protected at all - it's almost exactly what you'd get if you just took one of the Intel 8080A databooks and copied the CPU implementation. Why would anybody want to make an exact clone of the original design anyway? A couple months after the introduction of the Altair there were hundreds of garage-based businesses selling much better designed S-100 CPU's and peripherals! ----- Tim Shoppa Email: shoppa(a)trailing-edge.com Trailing Edge Technology Voice: 301-767-5917 7328 Bradley Blvd Fax: 301-767-5927 Bethesda, MD, USA 2081

28 years

TI-74 / PC-234 Problem

by mbg＠world.std.com

I also have a TI-74, with all of the rom cartridges, and the PC interface... I have not yet bought the printer for it... If you use AltaVista search for "TI-74", you should get the TI web site, which will point you to another site, which is where I actually purchased the stuff from. I also got some manuals on the TI-74... they have RAM cartridges, ROM cartridges, the printer, the TI->PC interface (and software) and some other stuff as well. They also have stuff for the TI-95 (ProCalc) Megan Gentry Former RT-11 Developer +--------------------------------+-------------------------------------+ | Megan Gentry, EMT/B, PP-ASEL | Internet (work): gentry!zk3.dec.com | | Unix Support Engineering Group | (home): mbg!world.std.com | | Compaq Computer Corporation | addresses need '@' in place of '!' | | 110 Spitbrook Rd. ZK03-2/T43 | URL: http://world.std.com/~mbg/ | | Nashua, NH 03062 | "pdp-11 programmer - some assembler | | (603) 884 1055 | required." - mbg | +--------------------------------+-------------------------------------+

28 years

KIM/MOS-Tech

by franke＠sbs.de

>>>Us. >>>(Caveat: until someone comes forward to claim legitimate ownership.) > There are one possible way, but it isn't very safe - see below. Addendum: I'm not a lawyer - just some publishing knowledge. -- Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut HRK

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