At 05:22 PM 7/17/97 +0200, you wrote:
>does anyone know where to get a power supply and/or a battery pack
>for a ST Book???
No, but if you give up searching, I'd love to take it off your hands!
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<>Well, I had an idea, and it's just so crazy, it just might work. How
<>about <>contacting an art gallery, and see if they will lend you a
<>couple of ...
This is one I'd be interested in. Computers/terminals/printers etal
represent the art of engineering in many forms.
Mechanical, there were some inovative packages.
Conceptual, the packaged home computer like the PT SOL-20.
Electronics... afew were designwise ahead of the pack.
application... it wasn't the machine, it was it's useability.
Art both musical and visual. Some were interally well done and had order
and form like archectecture. Some like the cromemco dazzler were color
graphics back in 76! Or like the PIAA-8700 for music.
Ergonomics... the vt100 terminal was a standard for more than the terminal
operation it was an erogonomic advance over many with the seperate keyboard,
setup on screen and down to small things like the dull black bezel around
the crt!
Allison
At 03:09 PM 7/15/97 -0700, you wrote:
>I have been thinking, probably along with most everyone here, for the
>past couple of years about how to open a computer museum. The major
>stumbling block is, of course, funding. But that aside, what type of
>things does this group think a computer museum should consist of and
>what should it offer? I am talking here about a physical location as
>opposed to an online web site.
>
>The type of things I am currently considering are:
>
>What should be on display considering:
>1) space limitation
>2) Mainframes, minis, micros
>3) What would most attract visitors
>4) What would most attract funding :)
>
>Other activities to make the museum more than just a display of
>computers:
>1) Computer certification classes
>2) Availability of documentation for those doing historical computer
>research
>3) Newsletter
>4) Information on promoting computer collecting
>5) Being able to provide docs and software (subject to copyright
>restrictions of course)
>
>I am thinking of quite a few other things but this will do for a start.
>
>
We have a fellow in my area, Windsor Ontario, who has been trying to
start a science museum for years. You might consider broadening your area of
interest to get more public support.
Good luck
Charlie Fox
Rich Cini wrote:
> Thanks for the error codes. I have no manuals for the Datamaster, so I'm
> flying blind. The code "09" is inverse-blinking, so there is a real problem.
>
> I'll try to pull the chips and re-seat them. The machine worked last summer
> and wasn't used since then, so I can't imagine the chip going like that.
Yes. Definitely!
The diagram in my last post should tell you which chip it is.
Now I think of it, I had a problem with my Commodore PET in which chips
would ease their way out of the sockets on the motherboard. In the end
I bought some decent turned-pin sockets and soldered these in place of
the originals. Problem cured.
One of the PET ROM chips lost a pin in the course of all this.
(AAARGH!). Solution here was to take a staple from my stapler, open it
flat, insert into socket in place of missing pin, and solder to the stub
on the side of the chip. Wire cutters then trimmed both ends, and chip
was as good as new!
> Thanks again for the help. I'll let you know what I find. My company has a UK
> office (Burdale-Holdings, a trade finance company). If I do need a new chip,
> maybe we could arrange it so that you could drop it off at our London office
> (if you're near it) and they could send it to me.
Why did I open my big keyboard?
Yes, should it come to that I shall be happy to do something of the
sort, but I don't (a) know what kind of chips they are or (b) possess an
EPROM programmer (shock horror!). There is at least one other
Datamaster owner on this list, so if someone out there is better
equipped than I am to help Rich, please speak up now!
Philip.
Here's more information that someone requested on the HHCs. I will be
compiling a list of people who have requested to be in on the deal so
that everyone will know that their request was received.
Sam
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Date: Sun, 6 Jul 1997 13:39:13 -0400 (EDT)
From: Mikeooo1(a)aol.com
To: dastar(a)crl.com
Subject: Re: HHC
Hi Sam,
I can include as many ROM chips as you like,the width of the printer is
40 characters and thermal paper is available.Incidentally do you know someone
named BROSWELL ? He made me an offer for one of the Aim computers which I
accepted and that was the last I heard from him.
Regards,Mike
Howdy, guys & Gals!
I just came back from our local [p]university's junk-sale and I did find a
couple of interesting things:
they had all their equipment for sale: $5 per item. I left all the 8088 /
monochrome clone junk (I remember when these were bought... most *were*
junk).. I found an Epson LQ-500 with tractor feed -- $5. I picked up a Mac
IIsi ?/40 (nice Quantum 40Megger in it :-) for -- $5.00
[Drum roll, please]
And I found a Commie B-128. I've heard of the C-128... are these similar,
or is this actually the same thing, or what? I'm not big on Commie stuff
(goofiest basic I've ever played with... and slooooo disk drives) but I
collect for uniqueness, and this seemed rather unique.
It has a card-edge IEEE-488 port, card-edge cassette, cartridge, "normal"
RS-232 and other ports (that I don't remember... I just got a quick look at
it), the Serial number is 0025xx (don't remember last two digits, but it
seems early) and IIRC (but I haven't seen a C-128 in nearly a decade -- and
that was only at K-mart) it looks different from a C-128.
Did I do good?
Also, they had a PET-style CBM-8050 (or was that 5080...) dual garage-door
style disk drives, and a printer that hooked up thru a funky
Centronics-like cable. Interested in those? I could go back tomorrow.
Here's a question: Who's interested in typesetting equipment? They had a
Compugraphic machine with 8" drives there... dunno price. But it had
several font carts with it, and I do know this baby's classic. (The stuff I
used to work on was at least 10 years old, and this is older.)
Maybe I'll go back and get that tomorrow as well... if my wife doesn't kill
me first!
If anyone's interested in the other commie stuff lemme know today and I'll
snag it tomorrow. (E-mail's best... see below.)
Anywho, any info on the B-128 would be most appreciated!
Thanks one and all!
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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<reliable, they are not, as I bought a Conner CFS-850A 850 meg, and it worke
<nicely for a year, then one day I am greeted with this error:
<
<BOOT DISK FAILURE, SYSTEM HALTED.
Never confuse reliability with quality. the 3.5" drive have inherant
reliability over the larger ones but crap is still crap.
<no tape drive). fortunately the drive did have a 3 year warrenty, and a
<replacement was shipped, a 1.2 gig seagate ST-31276A. and here is another
<question:
<Is this going to last me more than a year? If Seagate made good drives in
<the past, will this new one live up to this, or is this drive chock full o
<corner cutting?
Unknown ask others. I have a fujitsu with no complaints but I know others
that see nothing but failures of the next larger and smaller model. I will
say I've seen models where vendor xx is the one to have and two years later
that vendor is producing duds. The MTBF for these drives is so high that
they should last for many years of you believe specs and all the parts are
up to quality. However a head crash suggests a defect or handling problems
(dropped) maybe before you even got it. I cringe when people ship hard
disks without major padding.
FYI I have at least three 3.5" drives with good media and dead boards! if
anyone has a wd-AC160 or wd-caviar2340 that's dead I'd love the board from
them. I have stuff on those that should have been backed up.
Allison
Ok, just spoke to Mike. Here's the deal:
Haven't gotten a price yet. He's concerned about shipping since these
units will be coming from Canada. Each unit weighs a little over 5 pounds
with the cpu, printer, tray and power supply. This is a little more than
I expected. He's going to try to have the units shipped in bulk directly
to the volunteer distributors. (So far Kirk (dynasoar) has volunteered to
be an east coast distributor. We need a mid-west, southwest and possibly
southern distributor. Please e-mail me if you wish to volunteer.) Shipped
in bulk, the shipping per unit on the first leg will not be that
significant. Its when you only have 1 or 2 coming to you on the 2nd leg
of shipping that will be significant with relation to the price of each
unit. I would say expect to pay upwards of $15 per each unit after
shipping. Again, if you did not anticipate this and want to or need to
back out, please do so soon.
Mike said it will take him a week to coordinate everything with the
company that has the units, so no new news until late next week...sorry.
Sam
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At 08:49 AM 7/14/97 BST, you wrote:
>> (But I always was, and always will be, a Robotron man...)
>Do you mean the East German Robotron Elektronik, or is this another
Robotron 2084 was a video game (put out by Williams, I think). The story
was that robots had taken over and were killing off mankind. You were man's
last hope as a super-ized human, you could shoot the robots and save the
people. You ran around doing just that. There were various types of
naughty robots and a family (mom, dad, son, daughter) that you ran over
(picked up?) to save.
What made Robotron different from most games was that it used 2 joysticks,
one for movement and one for firing. To be any good at the game, you had to
be able to work them independently of each other. Spent a lot of quarters
on that game.
There were other 2-joystick games, including Sinistar (mine bombs to blow up
Sinistar before it's completely built) and a spiderweb game which I forget
the name of.
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