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by ds_spenc＠alcor.concordia.ca

Greetings, I saw a very large Wang box at a thrift store yesterday, I *think* the little sticker on it said "PC-002". I didn't see the keyboard, but I didn't look. The machine was really big, I think about twice the height of an old IBM-PC and about the same width. It was longer than it was wide. It had two full-height 5.25" floppy drives.

28 years, 2 months

Early Mac Clones

by desieh＠southcom.com.au

-----Original Message----- From: Tom Owad <tomowad(a)earthlink.net> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu> Date: Tuesday, June 09, 1998 6:09 Subject: Re: Early Mac Clones >>I made a timely find today of the first edition of _Build Your Own >>Macintosh and Save a Bundle_. In Chapter 2 it has a price comparison >>between the clone "Cat" Mac and the real Mac. The computers it lists are: >> >>Cat Mac SE >>Cat Mac SE 30 >>Cat Mac II >>Cat Mac IIfx >>Cat Mac IIcx >>Cat Mac IIci > >I was referring to the actual clones. I'm not sure where it is in your >book, but in my 2nd edition, if you look at Chapter 11, Cat Mac builder >alternatives, you will see mention of the Mac clones Zane listed. > >Tom Owad > email: desieh(a)southcom.com.au desieh(a)bigfoot.com museum_curator(a)hotmail.com Apple Lisa Web Page: http://www.southcom.com.au/~desieh/index.htm So it seems that no one has been able to reverse engineer Mac roms? Is it just that no one cares or is Apples legal department much tighter than IBMs

28 years, 2 months

Clueless Field Service

by jeff.kaneko＠ifrsys.com

At 09:59 PM 6/8/98 -0500, Allison wrote: >I earned my keep fixing commercial VHF and UHF radios which from call to >call could be dynamotor and tubes or the lastest IC and solid state >usually no prints and under time pressure. It paid for college. > >FYI I was at DEC from 83->93 CSSE ML0 Printing systems along with >Pattenden, Howard, Preece and Paul Nelsons merry crew. > > >Allison > > > I know this isn't a 'vintage radio' list, but . . . So, were you in the Motorola camp (Twin-V, T-Power, Motrac, Motran) or were you GE (Prog Line, TPL, Mastr? Or possibly one of the few in the RCA arena (CarFone, SuperCarfone, etc.)? I was Motorola, in the Mid 80's myself . . . Jeff

28 years, 2 months

Homebrew computer

by desieh＠southcom.com.au

email: desieh(a)southcom.com.au desieh(a)bigfoot.com museum_curator(a)hotmail.com Apple Lisa Web Page: http://www.southcom.com.au/~desieh/index.htm Some of you guys might find this quite interesting............. http://www.users.interport.net/~zebra/ts2/index.html

28 years, 2 months

Clueless Museums (was: Final Xerox Star demo)

by allisonp＠world.std.com

<I make things less original in one way, but easier to spot as well. I put <the replacement chip in a socket (a good turned-pin socket). IMHO a board <of TTL with one odd chip in a socket that looks to have been <hand-soldered is likely to suggest that the chip has been replaced at <some point, even if the notes documenting the repair are missing. I'm one to both restore and modify. I ahve two CCS s100 systems one is stock and the other is in the proces of recieving some mods like a IDE adaptor. Why? The second is sans hard disk and for what I do it would be a nice box with a hard disk as it's small. it's also reversable as the front pannel that will also be modified will really be a new one and not the original one. If I had a PDP-8 and no disks I'd likely make a IO interface for a modern drive becuase PDP-8s are easy to hack that way and it's also reversable. The real trick would be using whatever micros so that the new disk interfaced and behaved like an older one so I could run old code as is. Allison

28 years, 2 months

Early Mac Clones

by allisonp＠world.std.com

<I read about a multitasking kernel for the Microchip PIC microcontroller. <I think it used the counter/timer as a heartbeat, and could also do task <switched on the port change-of-state interrupt. No idea how big it is, <but I guess it's pretty small. It can be done on most CPUs no matter how small. Dynamic multitasking like Unix or VMS does is far more complex. The basic principles are the same. Allison

28 years, 2 months

Clueless Field Service

by allisonp＠world.std.com

<I watched them swap memory, power supply, motherboard, hard disk controll <and such for an hour. LN01 training, I goosed the trainer that I could create a fault he couldn't find in excange for one. I found mine in and he was still going later. the bug, lead pulled off the fuse holder in the main PSU. I earned my keep fixing commercial VHF and UHF radios which from call to call could be dynamotor and tubes or the lastest IC and solid state usually no prints and under time pressure. It paid for college. FYI I was at DEC from 83->93 CSSE ML0 Printing systems along with Pattenden, Howard, Preece and Paul Nelsons merry crew. Allison

28 years, 2 months

Former Disk Costs (was: 32 bit Macs (was Atari hard ))

by allisonp＠world.std.com

<OK, I'll give you that it's possible. But it would be very slow (TeX <contains a lot of routines that are executed when it sees keywords in <the input file, so you'd be for ever swapping things in), and I doubt it <would be practical on a floppy-disk only system. Considering the size of the data file and the DVI result... floppy? Nope. Hard disk or large ram disk(1mb better). Allison

28 years, 2 months

Packing RL02's

by healyzh＠ix.netcom.com

Bit of a different note here. I've got someone that is interested in shipping me some RL02 packs for my systems, but is concerned about packing. Does anyone have any advice on the subject.

28 years, 2 months

Final Xerox Star demo

by desieh＠southcom.com.au

Well if they arent keeping it, it should go to a museum like the one at Boston..... One question though, wasent the Xerox 820 basically the same as the Alto? -----Original Message----- From: Max Eskin <maxeskin(a)hotmail.com> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu> Date: Tuesday, June 02, 1998 8:53 Subject: Re: Final Xerox Star demo > > > > >What processor did it use? >Also, what will be done to the machine after the "last run"? >>On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, Larry Groebe wrote: >> >>> >Is there someone to contact by phone to see if there will be >videotapes >>> >available? >>> > >>> >thanks >>> > >>> >Kai >>> > >>> >-----Original Message----- >>> >From: Doug Yowza [mailto:yowza@yowza.com] >>> >Sent: Monday, June 01, 1998 3:17 PM >>> >To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers >>> >Subject: Final Xerox Star demo >>> > >>> > >>> >>Xerox PARC is giving one final demonstration of the original Xerox >Star >>> >>workstation built in 1981. This may be the last time it gets >>> >>demoed, as the hardware has begun failing due to its age. Don't >miss >>> >>this opportunity to witness one of the most important steps ever >taken in >>> >>the history of computing and user interface design. >>> >>> >>> Better yet, has anyone given thought to the viability of building a >Star >>> emulator? How fast could those things have been? >> >>Not terribly. IIRC, there was a discernable lag between keystroke and >>the appearance of the character on the monitor screen! >> >> - don >>> --Larry >>> >> >> donm(a)cts.com >>*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* >> Don Maslin - Keeper of the Dina-SIG CP/M System Disk Archives >> Chairman, Dina-SIG of the San Diego Computer Society >> Clinging tenaciously to the trailing edge of technology. >> Sysop - Elephant's Graveyard (CP/M) - 619-454-8412 >>*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--* >> see old system support at http://www.psyber.com/~tcj >> visit the "Unofficial" CP/M Web site at http://cdl.uta.edu/cpm >> with Mirror at http://www.mathcs.emory.edu/~cfs/cpm >> >> >> > >______________________________________________________ >Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com >

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