In a message dated 98-07-18 21:53:03 EDT, you write:
<< A friend of mine called me today and told me that he stopped at a garage
sale and that they had some kind of large Apple laptop computer for sale.
The owner claimed it was some sort of prototype and was asking $100 for it.
Do this sound like anything that you're interested in? >>
i dunno. ive heard that "its a prototype" line before so unless they have
incontrovertible evidence, they are probably lying. it's probably just a mac
portable. i'll pass.
> I was just pointing at that in the US, the telcos have far
>less ability to control how many phones you have the house than in
other
>parts of the world.
>
>Anyway, point taken.
>
Is there any reason for a telco to worry about the number of phones in a
house besides for purely financial concerns? Of course, if you have 100
phones all plugged in, it's possible there won't be enough power for all
of them, and certainly not enough to make them all ring. I believe the
FCC controls stuff about the amount of power a phone can use for
ringing.
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< > TRS80 model II with 3 physically huge 8 meg HDDs
<
< 8 meg ? not five ? Whats the type and manufacturer ?
< Do you have an online picture ?
Back then SA4000, Memorex M101s were as common as the new ST506/412
drives. I have a M101 here operational on a CCS s100 crate big and
like most of the 8"s clear plastc cover to watch the goings on.
Allison
Looking for a good source of info, parts, specs, etc. for the Atari 1040
ST. Haven't found much yet out in netspace.
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i've got just about every compact mac model made except for a 128. while
selling some things at a radio rally today, i came across a guy who said he
had a complete working one for sale. turns out this guy even works in the same
facility i do! here's what i got for $10
imagewriter // in original box.
mac128 in its original box with manuals and system disks. also has keyboard
and mouse in their boxes also along with the purchase list and other
literature. machine is dirty and will have to be disassembled and cleaned. one
thing he told me is that it has some sort of scsi upgrade. the battery door
has been replaced with a db25 connector so im not sure if it has a genuine 128
board in there. nonetheless, i will keep it in its current modified status
because the upgrade it's had is almost as "rare" as the machine itself. i also
have a lead on another guy that has about 30 compact macs in several designs:
512, plus,se and probably some more 128 models which i might also get. for
some reason, i couldnt sell all the plus and 512k models i had...
>Standard paper tape stores 10 characters/inch. Each row of holes across
>the tape is an 8-bit character, with a small 'sprocket' hole which is
>either used to drag the tape through the reader, or to provide a strobe
>pulse.
Is that enough to actually do some decent stuff with the PDP-8.
>A full reel of tape was 1000' I think. That's about 100K of data (to give
>an order of magnitude). A full box of fanfold tape would be about the same.
I also have some reels of film-like tape. What's the proper name for it?
How does it compare to the paper tape?
Thanks.
Tom Owad
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Do those panels have any circuitry in the back? Switches that are
stamped with the date? Could you make pictures of the back as well?
>A bit ago, I posted a request to help identify some old front-panels
>that have been in my collection for about 20 years. I didn't get a
>single response! With all of the wise guys (sorry - smart folks ;-)
>in this group, I'm disappointed! Somebody has to recognize them!
>Allison? Anyone? Anyone? (The pictures are on my web page at
>http://incolor.inetnebr.com/bill_r. Just click on the "Classic
>Computers" link, then "Unidentified Technological Artifacts".) Your
>help would be appreciated?
>
>
> -Bill Richman
> bill_r(a)inetnebr.com
> http://incolor.inetnebr.com/bill_r
> (Home of the COSMAC Elf Simulator!)
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On Fri, 17 Jul 1998 14:45:11 +1 "Hans Franke" <franke(a)sbs.de> wrote:
> Anyway, this plus a message from one of our own, results in an
> interesting question. How, in 1982 (or in 1980-81, when Project Acorn was
in
> beta), would Microsoft have written and compiled DOS 1?
>>86-DOS (the base of MS-DOS 1.0) at least was developed on
>>a DEC 2020 station and transfered via serial line to an
>>INTEL ISIS system for writing Disks, or to the SCP 8086
>>S100 system for runntime tests.
What is a DEC 2020?
Rich Cini/WUGNET <nospam_rcini(a)msn.com>
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I picked up a PDP-8, 8L, 11/20, and a bunch of accessories this week.
That PDP-8 is one cool looking computer.
Of interest in the lot was a "high speed paper tape reader" and quite a
bit of tape. The tape, one inch thick, looks to be of incredibly low
density. Just how much does this stuff hold?
More questions to come as I learn more about the PDP's. Thanks in
advance.
Tom Owad
P.S. I'm looking for an inexpensive Mac Classic or SE, 4/40
configuration, w/kb & mouse. Anybody?
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On Jul 16, 19:28, Tony Duell wrote:
> > I suspect it used the same ROM as the Z80. A colleague used to have a
> > Graduate, so I'll ask him today.
>
> Please do. I've got the Z-80 host ROM (and know of a few more if this one
is
> dead), but I don't have any other Torch ROMs.
My friend reports that the Graduate doesn't have a BBC ROM, and indeed
doesn't use the Tube. It uses the 1MHz bus to access BBC I/O, apparently.
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Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
