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Tips needed to repair Apple color composite monitor

by dastar＠ncal.verio.com

I just bought an Apple color composite monitor that needs some work. It comes on fine, and the screen goes to a bright white if I turn up the brightness. When I plug it into the computer the picture doesn't change a lick. I tried messing with all the settings to no avail. The picture stays a field of white. Any tips on how to proceed diagnosing this thing? I've got it opened up, the digital VOM is on and the soldering iron is hot. 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: 08/09/98]

28 years

by pjoules＠joules.enterprise-plc.com

Found these amongst Linux 'fortunes': PIC Punch Invalid Card POPI Punch Operator Immediately PVLC Punch Variable Length Card RASC Read And Shred Card RPM Read Programmers Mind RSSC Reduce Speed, Step Carefully (for improved accuracy) RTAB Rewind Tape And Break RWDSK Rewind Disk RWOC Read Writing On Card SCRBL Scribble to disk (faster than a write) SLC Search for Lost Card SPSW Scramble Program Status Word SRSD Seek Record and Scar Disk STROM Store in Read Only Memory TDB Transfer and Drop Bit WBT Water Binary Tree

28 years

Cheap Computing

by jfoust＠threedee.com

I'm not sure if he falls under the ten-year rule, but here's a link to a columnist preaching the usefulness of "junk" computers on a regular basis: <http://www.andovernews.com/cgi-bin/news_column.pl?123> - John

28 years

Shame, shame, shame

by fauradon＠pclink.com

Seen at: http://www.amnewsabuse.com/aafamily.htm -Quote Honey Sit On This For A Second So I Can Adjust It: - Corvallis OR is hosting Da Vinci Days beginning Friday - a three day festival featuring a contest to see how far you can hurl an obsolete personal computer with a big wooden medieval catapult. (Jul 15 '96) -End quote I think we should massively e-mail their chamber of commerce about the enormous stupidity of that event, this is an event supposed to celebrate technology not destroy it! Francois

28 years

Name this chip

by jeff.kaneko＠ifrsys.com

At 09:12 PM 8/24/98 -0500, you wrote: > >< Oh, you mean like a National 8X300? > >No national 8x300 was the second source. ;) OIC. Hm, up to this point I thought it was all National's idea. Did the 8X305 belong to SMS also? Or was the enhanced chip a National invention? >SMS was the creator. An 8bitter design for DSP at better than 6mhz >throughput. Very non-Von machine with very seperate instruction and >data paths. That's a Harvard archetcture, right? Jeff

28 years

UNSUBSCRIBE

by dastar＠ncal.verio.com

The correct way to unsubscribe is to send a message to listproc(a)u.washington.edu with the line below being the only one in the message: unsubscribe classiccmp Posted publicly for the benefit of all. See end of post for better instructions I got back from the listproc after my failed first attempt to explain this. On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, C. Boyer wrote: > Must unsubscribe for a week or so while my > wife & I move into our new home. > > Has a nice BIG basement....unfinished....1950sq ft.......hmmm! > > Cliff Boyer > Computer collector with small but growing collection! > 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: 08/09/98] ---- Dear user, every time you send email to list CLASSICCMP the system analyzes the first line of your message in order to catch misdirected requests. It appears that the first line in your message may have been such a request: UNSUBSCRIBE CLASSICCMP The first word, "UNSUBSCRIBE", matches one of ListProc's command words, and as a result your mail was not distributed to the list. If your intent was to send a request please resend it to the command processor listproc(a)u.washington.edu (not classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu). If your intent was to post a message to this list please rephrase the first line of your message so that it does not look like a request and resubmit it to classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu, and please accept our apologies for the inconvenience. If you need further assistance please contact the owner(s) bcw(a)u.washington.edu .

28 years

Anybody want this stuff?

by museum＠techniche.com

Hi Scott, I think I'd be interested in the xerox and the Amstrad. Are they spoken for yet? Where are you located? I'm in NH. Thanks, Jon ================== >Hello All: > >I was lucky enough to buy the old building downtown where I have stored >and worked on all my old machines over the past three years, but >renovation is starting soon and some of this stuff has to GO! I wondered >if any of you are interested in any of this stuff: > >LOTS of PCJr parts (most new in the box) >Several complete working Juniors, one with expanded RAM, 2nd story 3.5" >720K floppy, and Ramdrive. Some really interesting software for these, >original M'soft Flight Simulator, Lotus 123 (on cartridge rom for pete's >sake), even an accounting software package. and others! > >1 Amstrad PC640 w/software (and a lot of spare parts and monitors for >same). > >1 Apple IIe ( w/ 2 floppies, monitor, just a few pieces of software, a >couple of original manuals w/disks) >1 Amdek Apple color monitor (one RCA Video-in jack) > >LOTS of PC XT's (doesn't everyone want one of these?) > >1 Xerox 16/4 with COMPLETE documentation, machine boots and runs fine >from floppy, but HDD fails to pass initialization (think it needs a new >controller card). > >MUCHOS basic Commodore stuff, no fancy REU's or anything, but several >complete working systems with matching floppy drives, C64, C64c, Vic20. >Also C128, C16, piece of a Colt 286. Also 1 non-working PET 2001. >Printer interface for C64. > >2 Hewlett Packard things (I think I promised these to a listmember in >Florida, if you are reading this, please get in touch, as I have >forgotten your name!) > >Anyway, if you can use any of this stuff, please contact me. I don't >expect to get rich off the sales and I'd rather another collector get it >than dumpsterize it. I live in Eastern NC so factor that into the >shipping. I will try to make a more complete inventory of this stuff and >put it on my website if there is enough interest in it. > >Kirk Scott >scottk5(a)ibm.net >

28 years

Name this chip

by allisonp＠world.std.com

Hm, up to this point I thought it was all National's idea. < Did the 8X305 belong to SMS also? Or was the enhanced < chip a National invention? Nope, Signetics improved it under cross license to SMS. < That's a Harvard archetcture, right? To the rest of us up here it's Hahvad. ;) Allison

28 years

Ataris

by Anthony.Dellett＠Staples.com

> On 24 Aug 98 at 21:02, Uncle Roger wrote: > > > At 11:45 AM 8/24/98 PDT, you wrote: > > >Today I saw an Atari 5?0ST and an 800XL. As I understand, > the ST ran > > >GEM. Is this an interesting computer at all? What about the XL? Was > > >this one of the BASIC computers? > > > > 520ST does indeed run GEM; it's about equivalent to a Mac > Plus or so. > > Not to start a flame-war or anything but I have a 4 meg Mac+ > and there's no > way it is the equivalent of an ST. The only thing they had in > common was the > 68000 processor. In productivity applications, games, music > programs, graphics, > and ease of use it is vastly superior. The proper comparison > would be the > Amiga, which excelled in graphics versus the ST which > excelled in music. Their > capabilities IMHO exceeded the later 386 and with the various > add-ons is > still my machine of choice when not on the net. It's just a > pleasure to use. I'd like to chime in here. The Amiga was a great machine for Graphics, Video, AND music during it's time (which is still ongoing). It was very easy to attach a midi interface and there were alot of really killer sequencers available. Plus, the Amiga bore the MOD music file format!

28 years

UNSUBSCRIBE

by homeline＠ezl.com

Must unsubscribe for a week or so while my wife & I move into our new home. Has a nice BIG basement....unfinished....1950sq ft.......hmmm! Cliff Boyer Computer collector with small but growing collection!

28 years

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