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by maxeskin＠hotmail.com

What was so "interesting" about it? Who made it, why, and when? > >>Don't forget Eunice! OK, maybe it's better that you forget. > >Sounds of VMS administrator running screaming around the office. I thought >I'd got over that "interesting" piece of software, but clearly not :-) > > Huw Davies | e-mail: Huw.Davies(a)latrobe.edu.au > Information Technology Services | Phone: +61 3 9479 1550 Fax: +61 3 9479 >1999 > La Trobe University | "If God had wanted soccer played in the > Melbourne Australia 3083 | air, the sky would be painted green" > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

28 years, 2 months

Inventory compaction

by COAKLEY＠AC.GRIN.EDU

> > 1. An Amdek color monitor, originally for use with Apples (I think). RCA > > video input, eighth-inch audio input. I've used this as a spare TV, but > > the screen has a strong green tint to it. It's heavy. > > This was typically used on the Apple ][ line. That's the way I remember it. There was one on the Apple ][+ in my second-grade classroom. > > Spammers: How can you be sure that I don't live in Washington State? > > Did something happen in Washington that I'd like to know about? I've seen > mention to this twice now. The Washington legislature passed anti-spam legislation, and the governor signed it. Here's one site a quick altavista search turned up: http://www.mcnichol.com/spam.htm -- Ben Coakley http://www.math.grin.edu/~coakley coakley(a)ac.grin.edu CMEL: Xavier CBEL: Xavier OH Spammers: How can you be sure that I don't live in Washington State?

28 years, 2 months

old mac cards

by pcoad＠wco.com

As part of a deal I got a small pile of Mac nubus cards. My goal is to identify them and find them new homes before I need to get them shots, fixed, or they start reproducing in my closet like the 1200 bps modem cards seem to be doing. Farallon PhoneNET Card It has AUI and 10BaseT connectors. This one looks like an ethernet card. Is it? Apple Ethernet? card Has what looks like an AUI connector (female 15 pin) but without the locking slide device. Also has female BNC connector. On solder side it has "APPLE COMPUTER (C) 1987 820-0207-A and the word "hoke" near the upper back edge. Apple Macintosh IIci Cache Card (nubus) Duh. I can make a good guess at this one. Unknown nubus board Has markings DRO1 DEMO PC 10-184464- SER. NO. AA on component side. Has several unmarked chips and empty sockets. There is also a good deal of loose blue wire running hither and yon. On the end is a female 37 pin connector. Obviously this is a prototype. Is there any way to find out for what? Make me an offer. I have no way to test these cards. They are offered as is. As always I am looking for cool/old/strange/small Sun stuff. Cash is good too. Thanks, --pec -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Antique Computer Collection: http://www.wco.com/~pcoad/machines.html

28 years, 2 months

Couldn't be more OT if it tried! Re: (OT, in a way...)

by maxeskin＠hotmail.com

Well, they had an MCA bus- clearly superior! In fact, they were the closest anyone had ever come to PnP on a Wintel before USB and PCI. Except, it worked much more reliably. And then, there was the issue of quality of case and PCB... Let's put it this way... the PS/2s were actually DESIGNED, unlike many clones, which were cheap junk. And even the ISA machines were quite a bit nicer... >> >>hey, Hey,HEY! ps2 machines were announced in 1987 so they should be talked >>about rather than destroyed. no matter what anyone says, they were state of >>the art. certainly way ahead for their time. > > You MUST be kidding! > > Joe > > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

28 years, 2 months

OT: PS/2 cannon fodder

by peacock＠simconv.com

><< [When I get out my cannon!] > > Do you mean shooting the PS/2 out of the cannon at someone, or > shooting the PS/2 with the cannon? >> > > What a coincidence! I'm going to be shooting a cannon in 2 weeks at a party in the desert. It's a 75mm muzzleloader, 12 lb iron ore crusher balls for ammo. Now, anyone want to donate a PS/2 to discover what kind of damage a 3" cannonball can do? Jack Peacock

28 years, 2 months

Big Iron Was:RE: Backwater areas Was: Re: Cross listing Ebay items

by higginbo＠netpath.net

At 10:25 AM 6/17/98 -0400, you wrote: >> Speaking of big iron, what's the best place to look for DEC10s or 20s? > >Most of us would like that answer. Speaking of big iron, if anyone runs across any arcade machines in my general area, like within 300-400 miles, I WILL pickup. Looking for mostly 80's era games, like the old Atari vectors (Tempest, Asteroids, Battlezone, etc.) but will take just about anything. ________________________________________ john higginbotham limbo.netpath.net - webmaster, http://www.pntprinting.com - "Teamwork is essential; it gives the - enemy other people to shoot at." -

28 years, 2 months

HP 9825B

by rigdonj＠intellistar.net

At 06:18 PM 6/17/98 -0500, you wrote: >On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, Joe wrote: > >> I also bid on it but I decided to let you have it since I have several of >> them already. > >Nice of you. I would have done the same. Maybe :-) Actually I think I bid on in it BEFORE you did. > >> There's at least three vesions, the A, the B and a T. The latter ones > >Mine is a B according the badge above the keyboard, but there's a sticker >on the printer paper cubby door that says 9825T. It also says something >about a plotter I don't have. Probably the 9862 or 9872. The are different ROMs for each. The plotters are the same except the 9872 can also digitize. I have a 9862. > > >I take it those are language extension ROMs. I've got Matrix. Yes, they add more functions similar to the plug in ROMs in the HP 41 or HP 71. > > >You have lots of docs? Can I take that as a subtle offer to copy >useful docs? :-) Er ahh no, they're are entirely too many of them! But I am going to thin them out as soon as I have time. > >> There are also two very different keybaords used on them. The 9825 at >> the bottom of your picture has the full travel keyboard. They're more >> desireable. > >More desirable to whom? To everyone but you I guess! >I like the odd-ball full qwerty calc-style >keyboard on mine much better than a normal keyboard! > Then you should be happy! I just posted a list of the configurations of my 9825s. About half of mine have the full travel keys. Joe >-- Doug > >

28 years, 2 months

CP/M

by allisonp＠world.std.com

<Most soft-sectored controllers (the LSI ones used in most other micros) <didn't use the index hole for very much, except during formatting. A <suprising number of machines will work quite happily with the index Try it you will find many cases where that is not totally true. <Hard sectored controllers (like the one in my Z-90) do need the sector <holes to find the start of a sector. Reason for that is by counting holes you don't have to look for marks on the disk. Allison

28 years, 2 months

CP/M

by allisonp＠world.std.com

<>OK, I know what a track and a sector is, but what is the difference <>between hardsector and softsector? < < Hard sectored disks have a sensor hole (or slot) for every sector. S <they will have one index hole and 16 sector holes for a 16 sector disk. 17! There is a intermediate hole to signal the start of track (rotation). Allison

28 years, 2 months

Couldn't be more OT if it tried! Re: (OT, in a way...)

by SUPRDAVE＠aol.com

In a message dated 98-06-17 13:08:49 EDT, Daniel Seagraves responded: << [When I get out my cannon!] Do you mean shooting the PS/2 out of the cannon at someone, or shooting the PS/2 with the cannon? >> hey, Hey,HEY! ps2 machines were announced in 1987 so they should be talked about rather than destroyed. no matter what anyone says, they were state of the art. certainly way ahead for their time. david

28 years, 2 months

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