Gone are three 486 clones that have been languishing in my garage for
nearly a year. They were traded for: an Apple Lisa 2, an Osborne
Executive, and a Northstar Horizon. The Lisa and Osborne have boot
disks and other software, and so far seem to work well. I also got a
Profile hard drive with the Lisa, but I haven't tried to hook it up
yet... I haven't messed with the Horizon at all, but it looks to be in
good shape, with CPU, ram, disk and i/o cards installed, along with a
couple of diskettes in the drives that might boot it, not sure yet.
I'll holler for help if this gives me trouble whenever I get to it,
though I do have huge collection of manuals for it that I had picked up
in anticipation of this day ;) Additionally, the guy I got all this
stuff from tossed in about a dozen cartridges for the TI-99 and Coco3
that I didn't already have. Happy happy joy joy.
--
mor(a)crl.com
http://www.crl.com/~mor/
At 10:04 PM 3/18/98 -0800, you wrote:
>The SyJet is very nice, but runs VERY Hot.
Mine is warm, but definitely not what I'd call hot.
>guess would be the Publishing industry still uses them quite a bit since
>it's usually in Mac catalogs and stores I see the carts for sale. Of
About 10 years ago, I too invested heavily in 44mb Syquest carts. The
reason I did, is because one of my clients at the time (a major graphics
arts firm (logos for the Olympics, Microslut, etc.)) was buying them the
way most high-tech companies buy diskettes: buy a couple of cases of them
and put them on the shelf for employees to come and grab a handful. And
they *used* them. All day long, and often all night too.
The syquests were also very popular with the Atari ST crowd too. Somewhere
around here (in *that* pile, I think) is an Atari branded cartridge.
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"James Redin" <jredin(a)earthlink.net> wrote:
> I've found that the ANITA from Sumlock Comptometer of England (1963) is
> usually regarded as the first electronic calculator [1]. However, recently
> I found an article about Heinz Nixdorf of Germany in the LEXICON's History
> of Computing (CD-ROM) which indicates that he built several models of
> electronic calculators back in 1954 (Models ES12 and ES24).
At the risk of suggesting the obvious, have you contacted
the Heinz Nixdorf Museumforum? They have a web site at
http://www.hnf.de/ and one of the pages contains a list of
contact addresses. However, you will either need to read
German or have good luck with the translator at
http://www.altavista.digital.com/ (which is of limited use
on HNF's site because some of the text is embedded in images).
-Frank McConnell
At 04:14 AM 3/21/98 -0600, you wrote:
>On Sat, 21 Mar 1998, Benjamin M Coakley wrote:
>
>> Speaking of which, there's an HP41C at a thrift store near me. Anyone
>> want it? Is it at all interesting?
>
>It's only the best calculator ever made. Grab it quick, you won't regret
>it. It's programmable, can be expanded with RAM and ROM cartridges, and
>there's a whole bunch of cool little peripherals you can hook up to it.
>And I think it even does arithmetic.
Only Reverse Polish Arithmetic! :-)
Joe
all 80286 ps2 models ran at 10mhz. wait states differed.
david
In a message dated 98-03-21 13:42:20 EST, you write:
<< <Let me think... The 286 chip was available in 10MHz and 12MHz IIRC, mayb
<another speed too. I can't remember which speed the 50/50Z was.
The installed chips are 10mhz but that does not mean it ran that fast.
<Don't you love the way the case comes apart, and that little tool
<underneath the speaker to help take the rest of it apart? Defintley my
They do come apart nice.
But everything is oddball compared to the rest of my systems (s100, CPM
and DEC based).
Allison
>>
In a message dated 98-03-21 12:45:44 EST, you write:
<< Someone was throwing away a box of five shrinkwrapped ones like this.
I grabbed one and opened it, the rest I gently obsucred but they
might be gone. As I understand, this is an emulator for a 3270
terminal. Is it of any use to me without a System/370? Also, there
was a box with four or five shrinkwrapped apckages of IBM DOS 3.30.
Assuming anything is still there, does anyone want any of this?
>>
i might have something similar. i was given 5 shrinkwrap copies of ibm pc
3270 emulation program version 1.22
i opened one to see what it's like and the rest are upopened. not much use
though. i wouldnt mind a never opened package of dos3.3 to add to my
collection of never-used ibm software.
david
In a message dated 98-03-21 12:30:13 EST, you write:
<< Personally, I dislike PS/2s because they are almost impossible to
upgrade due to the weird specs. But, there was a time when I would do
almost anything for one. By the way, I found two weird systems at my
school. One is the "Writing System" which looks like a PS/2, and we
have a bunch of "Eduquest" systems, which are now all in the supply
room. >>
ps2 models arent really that hard to upgrade. the difficulty only comes when
someone attempts to upgrade it way beyond its capabilites. certain 95xx models
have used dx4/100 cpu also. eduquest systems are/were one piece mac-like
systems designed for school use. proprietary design, but so easy to work on.
some even had dos in rom.
david
In a message dated 98-03-21 11:33:13 EST, you write:
<< OK... could it allow for me to write in C? (Or any other languages in
particular) What are the chances of finding another 64K RAM upgrade to
boost it to the max 128KB?
Thanks again, >>
there were certain 128k ram cards for the ][+ and similar but i dont think
programs could use the extra memory. early versions of appleworks could be
patched to use it and dos 3.3 could use the mem as a virtual disk. the pocket
rocket's memory cannot be upgraded.
At 01:21 AM 3/21/98 -0600, you wrote:
>
>I know people collect calculators, but I just can't imagine how it can
>bring the same kind of satisfaction as computer collecting. You can't
>really hack a calculator. They don't lend themselves very well to
>restoration efforts. They can't do many tricks. And few of them have any
>sort of personality
Have you ever tried a HP 41? How does up to 961 external devices of
nearly every descrptions grab you? That's just one of the capabilities of
the HP-41 using the HP-IL interface. I currently have a 41 running a HP
logic analyzer!
(OK, I'll admit that HP tries pretty hard in this
>area).
They did a good job too :-)
>
>Has anybody ventured a definition of computer that allows us to weed out
>mere calculators? How about:
>
>* must be programmable
>* must be general purpose
>* must have alphanumeric input capabilites
>* must have alphanumeric display capabilites
The HP-41, 71, 75 and all the newer ones fit this description.
>
>Unfortunately, this would mean that an Altair isn't a computer until you
>add a terminal, but it keeps those pesky HP-65's out of the group.
>
>-- Doug
Joe
