> Once upon a time in the early 80's a man named
>Bill von Meister started a company called Control
>Video Corporation. (Bill von Meister had been one
>of the founders of The Source which was bought by
>Readers Digest)
What ever happened to The Source? When did they shut down and why?
> CVC started a service for Atari
>2600 users called GameLine. Users would plug a
>large modem cartridge into their 2600 and could
>download a game and play it until they turned
>their 2600 off. This service was kill by the Video
>game crash of '83.
Video game crash of '83? Would you please explain?
Thanks,
Tom
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I have an unused and unregistered copy, complete, of Zenith Data
Systems/Heath Company's "Breakthrough Timeline" which appears to be a
timeline creator/project manager. It has the original box, manuals, key
template, registration certificate and the original 5.25" 360k floppies
(still in the envelope). From scanning the manual it's roughly 1986/87
vintage and should run on most any machine from 8086/8088 up through our
present array of hardware.
Really good condition visually too, might be good as part of a
collection.
Need $12 for it which includes mailing in the 48 CONUS states. First
come, first serve. Email me direct for info.
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This fellow wants to sell a DECStation 3100. If interested, please
contact him directly.
Have a great holiday! Attachment follows.
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On Thu, 02 Jul 1998 10:19:53 -0400, in comp.sys.dec you wrote:
>>From: "a.banerjee" <a.banerjee(a)larc.nasa.gov>
>>Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
>>Subject: FS or trade: Digital Vaxstation 3100
>>Date: Thu, 02 Jul 1998 10:19:53 -0400
>>Organization: NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, USA
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>>Message-ID: <359B9709.99D5E77F(a)larc.nasa.gov>
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>>not a dec person so any help identifying would be appreciated.
>>
>>digital vaxstation 3100 (no keyboard, mouse, disk or monitor)
>>back has model # vs42a-bc
>>
>>make an offer or trade.
>>
>>please reply to bigshoe(a)erols.com
>>thanks
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I aquired HPscanjet 9190A.
I have the flatbed scanner and the cable but, I do not know if there is
an additional interface needed for PC or? use. the cable looks like
parallel printer cable. Any info may help.
Allison
I recently found a large number of hard sectored 8" disks and
I was hoping some one might knows what computers would use
these disks.
* Dysan 3740/2D, Double sided, Double density, format:
128 bytes/26 sectors, index 1 & 2. (I don't know if these are hard
sectored. There is just one index hole in the disk but two index
holes in the jacket)
* Memorex 3201-3015, Compatibility: Shugart, Write protect,
Single sided, Single density, Sectoring: 32 hard
(Just regular 32 sector hard sectored disks)
* Memorex 3071-2003, Single sided, Single density, Sectoring: hard
* Verbatim FD 65-9000-HR, Single side, Single density, Vydec/
Memorex compatible.
(These have 33 index holes in the disk, but they are
arranged around the out side edge of the disk. Also there is
a 1 1/2" x 1/2" notch cut out one of the corners of the jacket.)
I could not find a web page for Dysan, I searched Memorex's and
Verbatim's pages and I emailed Memorex and got no reply.
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Senior Software Engineer
Press Start Inc.
Sunnyvale,CA
Curator
Museum of Personal Computing Machinery
http://www.best.com/~dcoward/museum
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Hi.
I just picked up a ROM v01 //gs at a thrift shop.
The colour composite video it generates is very badly artifacted. On my
][plus, there is a 'colour trim' adjustment which I would expect to
correct this on the mainboard, but I didn't see anything like this on the
//gs.
Also, the colours are pale and incorrect when I use my Apple // RGB
monitor (the one with the electric tilt) on the RGB port. This monitor
doesn't work on the RGB port of my //c at all, so I'm wondering if it's
just a matter of not being quite the right monitor for the //gs (which
has, if I recall, a monitor more closely styled along Mac lines).
Thoughts or hints?
ok
r.
< * Dysan 3740/2D, Double sided, Double density, format:
< 128 bytes/26 sectors, index 1 & 2. (I don't know if these are hard
< sectored. There is just one index hole in the disk but two index
< holes in the jacket)
These are flippies, you turn the over to use the other side. Hence two
index openings.
< * Memorex 3201-3015, Compatibility: Shugart, Write protect,
< Single sided, Single density, Sectoring: 32 hard
< (Just regular 32 sector hard sectored disks)
Exactly.
< * Memorex 3071-2003, Single sided, Single density, Sectoring: hard
< * Verbatim FD 65-9000-HR, Single side, Single density, Vydec/
< Memorex compatible.
< (These have 33 index holes in the disk, but they are
< arranged around the out side edge of the disk. Also there is
< a 1 1/2" x 1/2" notch cut out one of the corners of the jacket.)
old style hardsector Ony a few drives used that style.
Allison
What happened to wall sockets?
>Power for the Compaq Mono monitor.
>
>ok
>r.
>
>
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> Hint: Windows98 is Windows95 with the '5' replaced with an '8'.
It should be only a minor correction - just adding a 2^1 bit to
get Win97, but due a litte mathematical problem they realy inverted
the lower nibble before inverting the 2^1 .... :)
The rest is history:)
Grins
H.
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