This is a long shot, but what the hey...
I have a 10 or so year-old satellite clock that gets its time signals from
the GOES birds. It works very well indeed, but some of the display elements
are beginning to get dim. It uses seven-segment neon-discharge displays.
The first group of three is the day of the year. The next three pairs are
hours/mins/secs. The day of year and seconds are the ones that are going
dim. Does anyone know of a source for replacement displays of this type?
(Are these what Burroughs called 'Panaplex?')
Also, Daniel Seagraves has discovered that his RSTS 10.1 tape is trashed.
Does anyone else happen to have RSTS 10.x on 9-track that they'd be willing
to loan long enough for me to do a bit-copy of it?
Thanks in advance.
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(Hamateur: WD6EOS) (E-mail: kyrrin(a)jps.net)
"Our science can only describe an object, event, or living thing in our own
human terms. It cannot, in any way, define any of them..."
In a message dated 98-05-13 09:10:41 EDT, you write:
<< OK... remember that Arthur J. Carp fellow... well, I got a copy of Warp
3...
3.5" disks. (It's been a while...) Anyway, this is semi-on topic, as
OS/2's a pretty good story, and older versions are classic.
So here's the deal. I can get all the way to Disk 6, then I re-insert
the Install diskette. Then, it asks me to reboot. I reboot, and it's not
there. I also have Windows 95 on this system. So how do I: Get past that
2) Get to see the drive's contents (it's not the same C as FAT 32 sees >>
if youve got win95 on there, you'll need to setup boot manager. i have two
machines in a triple boot setup; pcdos7-win3.1/win95/warp and win95/nt/warp
message me privately if more details are needed.
david
<controller identification. OEM'd WD100x's like those in the Kaypro and
<Perkin-Elmer 7300/7350 Unix boxes do not have this feature (or
<the debug program to use it).
<
<Bill
<who owned a number of WD1001 and WD1002-HDO controllers.
Err Bill,
The kaypro had DDT (cpm debugger). ;) You are coorect in that the -HDO
and SCSI version did not have the rom that the XT had to have to over come
the limited bios in the machine that didn't know about the HD.
Allison
At 03:28 AM 5/13/98 -0500, Doug Yowza wrote:
>
>On Tue, 12 May 1998, The Adept wrote:
>
>> I almost choked on my Leinenkugel's when I saw the current bid on the
>> following:
>
>What's a Leinenkugel, and how much will you sell it to me for?
Wisconsin beer, see <http://www.leinie.com/>. Good stuff for $5.20
a six-pack of bottles. Just to keep it on topic, it's not far from
Cray Research in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. Cray's web site doesn't
advertise a real tour but there's a virtual one. Leinie's has a real
tour with free beer. And if you're touring, don't forget the pie at
the Norske Nook in Osseo.
>Is this the Commie holy grail or something? I've never seen an old
>Commodore go for over $500 before.
Perhaps Someone should make a web site with reports of classic
system sale prices, in order to balance the tales of $500 PETs
with $5 PETs. Like anything else, so many other factors must
be considered: rarity, condition, history, etc.
- John
"The value of a thing
Is what that thing will bring."
- Ancient Legal Maxim
Seriously, note that the last two bidders have a zero experience rating, and the high bidder is from AOL. We won't know what the third bid was until
after the auction, but he's the only bidder I'd take seriously.
By the bye, I recently bought a DEC terminal from this seller, and found them to be both conscientious and professional.
The Adept <adept(a)mcs.com> on 05/12/98 09:54:08 PM
Please respond to classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu
To: "Discussion re-collecting of classic computers" <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
cc: (bcc: Bill Sheehan/Corporate/SWEC)
Subject: Another EBay absurdity
I almost choked on my Leinenkugel's when I saw the current bid on the
following:
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=13839197
I'll save the surprise for you who want to check it out (it's a
Commodore Educator 64)
Cheers,
Dan
<c800:5) to make sure it contains a jmp instruction. Other locations
<that I've seen include c800:6 and cc00:5.
In an earlier mail the controller was moted as a WD1002HDO in a kaypro.
That tells me mountains, one there is no ISA, NOT PC. The HDO is a host
interface essentailly a gerneral interface like a PIO chip. Also the
wd1002HDO has no boot or bios roms. The K10 is a z80 machine so c800:5
is not relevent as it's 16bit address.
using VAX/VMS notation:
$user1:> set device/flame_thrower/temp=plasma
Most non-PC systems are _not_ PCs and applying PC part numbers, addresses
methods, installation tools, device notation, buses, and dos operating
system to the non PC results in confusion if not outright error.
$user1:> set device/noflame
Allison
Grant Zozman wrote:
> Is the case white?
> Is there a red power switch surrounded by black plastic at the lower
> right corner on the front?
> Do the drives close using levers which twist 90
> degrees? Is the keyboard also built into the case?
> Does the screen blink off and on when the drives are being accessed?
> Weighs as much as a pallette of bricks?
>
> If so, I believe you have a 5120 (or possibly a 5110). These were
> produced around 1979-1980 just prior to the introduction of the PC.
> They would run either BASIC or APL, and could be equipped with an
> external disk drive module which was the size of a small filing
> cabinet, rolled on casters, and housed two additional 8" drives. A
> wide carriage dot matrix printer was also available. If I remember
> correctly there are three connectors on the back of the case of the
> computer in a triangular shape, with a threaded hole for a bolt in the
> middle. This is where the printer & drive unit connected.
>
> You might want to look for a silver tag on the back of the machine; I
> always thought IBM was pretty adament about putting a model number on
> anything they produced, but I don't remember there being any tags on the
> front of the machine I worked on years ago.
>
> Hope this helps! If you find out what you have, I would be
> interested in knowing the final outcome; I have heard others refer to
> a machine which fits this description as a "Datamaster", but have no
> idea what would make it different from a 5110/5120.
That mostly tallies with my memory of my Datamaster (which I haven't
powered up in ages). Mine is a 5322, and calls itself System/23
I've never met the 5110 or 5120, I'm afraid.
Word of warning: If you have a Datamaster and power it up without the
printer it fails diagnostics. However, if you then press the Error
Reset (or some such name) key, it goes on booting (into ROM BASIC) quite
happily.
But what's this in the subject line? IBM never made a Z80 CP/M box that
I know of. The Datamaster had an 8085, but didn't run CPM AFAIK; the
Displaywriter had an 8088 and ran CP/M86 as an option.
(Displaywriter: Much more modern styling. Tilt and swivel screen,
separate dual 8" disk unit, separate keyboard. Looked not unlike a PET
8032SK.)
Philip.
Here's the last of the old and new terminal units I have - I have one
remaining Hewlett Packard 700/44 with amber video. Has a current loop
and rs-232 connector and comes with a like new keyboard. Works great,
looks lke new.
$15 plus shipping (22 lbs) or I may trade for a few odds-n-ends that
equate to the cost. Of course the buyer pays the shipping unless a trade
is worked out at an equivelant rate.
Thanks to everyone for allowing me to put these up which also kept them
out of the landfill. Many people out my way would have no idea what they
are and they'd become dumpster filler if I hadn't found homes for items
such asd the VT 100 and 131.
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Hi. This is semi-off topic, but I'm sure that if any replies are made,
it'll eventually spin off to someone's tales of their PDP-8 in high school,
or their first VIC-20...
Anyway, as much as I can complain that I'm not getting a decent
computer-education in school, I owe a lot to them.
My first year here in Bahrain, I had just got my computer (a blasing
fast 486 33!!!), running (what else) Windows 3.1 and DOS 6.22. I didn't
know how to type, just use basic functions. I could get on CompuServe (at
least in the US), etc. but not do anything "powerfull" I could launch
CD-ROMS, install programs since I was 8, in 3rd grade. Then, in school that
year, I learned to type. A significant 40WAM. (I thought this was
miserrable, but now in typing, many 7th graders got like 19's, 25's...)
Anyway, that gave me my basic computer skills. Now, in 6th grade, when
I next did serious typing (4th grade was a mess, I skipped 5th grade), I
found that my typing increased to 80WAM. (WPM??) Now, I find it's at
100-140. I owe all that to the school. Without learning how to type, I
would never have gotten interested in e-mail, programming, computer science,
CAD, grapics, number crunching, UN*X, or hardware stuff.
Then, earlier on this year, I was asked to help make a computer couse
for my grade at school. For the first couple weeks we wouldn't have a
computer lab. So I did what I thought would work: Talked about the workings
of a computer. Terms like OS, HDD, RAM, CPU, bus, HTML, web, modem, etc.
Since then, I've been working to set up a browser-based Intranet. It's
been a heck of a lot of fun, if not educatonal.
Just my $0.02...
Tim D. Hotze
