- test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org - classiccmp.org

by jwest＠classiccmp.org

I have an HP diagnostics pack on 7900 media that I would like to put on 1/2 bootable mag tape. According to the manuals on the diganostic configurator, going from 7900 to 7970 media isn't directly supported by the configurator diag initialization routine. It does say that the way to do it is to boot up DOS or RTE and copy the binary images from disk to tape. I know nothing about DOS or RTE. From what I can tell DOS should be much easier to set up quickly and require less knowledge/learning than RTE. I have no desire to learn DOS or RTE, I just want to get something up quickly and temporarily that will let me copy the diag suite from 7900 pack to 7970 mag tape. Does anyone here know how to install DOS on a 2100/7900/7906 system and what commands to use to copy the diag absolute binary images from disk to tape? I'd appreciate the quick "cheat sheet" version. Thanks! Jay West --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus]

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AMSTRAD PCW8256 systems & sw available

by jvansickler＠cox.net

I have 3 complete systems, all working. All upgraded to 512k. Two desktop cases, one w/single 5 1/4", one w/two 5 1/4" (PCW can be config'd to use both, instead of 3" A:, 5 1/4" B:) One contains a home-made (wire-wrapped) ser/par interface Two spare 5 1/4" drives Chips for 2 more memory upgrades A few printer ribbons Numerous Public Domain prog's, on 3" and 5 1/4" A couple of dozen 3" diskettes, all written to. A couple of year's worth of the PCW SIG Newsletters (Al Warsh's UG) Various PCW app's - Mini-Office Professional DBase II LocoScript II more - I can't recall exactly, but will look for it if you ask about it. Let me know if you're interested. Thanks, Jim

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Bruker Aspect 3000 computer and drives available

by brian＠quarterbyte.com

Wow -- these are funny computers. If I'm not mistaken the Aspect 3000 is a more modern looking machine than the Bruker/Nicolet one that Sellam has pictures of. I'd love to see a picture of it if you can get one. It has semiconductor memory. It uses some bit-slice ALU or other. The disk drive that's with it, if it's a removable type, is probably RK05 compatible, although I read that later models supported SCSI disks. I used one of these in graduate school that was part of an experimental NMR imager (this was before the marketing types came up with "MRI" to get rid of the word "nuclear"). It came with an assembler and Pascal compiler. If I'm not mistaken the OS was called Adakos. It was a two-task foreground/background thing. Our application program was called Tomikon, but I think the one used for analytical work was called DISNMR. Sad to say I can't remember the history of the Bruker/Nicolet link. It may be that Bruker started out making just spectrometers and originally bought their computers from Nicolet (or vice versa). But, I believe that the Aspect 3000 was entirely Bruker's creation. Back the mid to late 80's, they were making and selling these out of Karlsruhe, Germany, and had a sales/support office in Billerica, MA. I spent a week at the Karlesuhe factory for training. These machines are probably still in use in the basements of University chemistry departments and possibly in corporate labs. If the University that has it doesn't want it, they might find a taker by posting on one of the NMR newsgroups. Or, someone with a keen interest in bizarre Pascal implementations should rescue this. Brian =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _| _| _| Brian Knittel _| _| _| Quarterbyte Systems, Inc. _| _| _| Tel: 1-510-559-7930 _| _| _| Fax: 1-510-525-6889 _| _| _| Email: brian(a)quarterbyte.com _| _| _| http://www.quarterbyte.com

22 years, 10 months

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Geek Destinations in St. Louis?

by bill＠timeguy.com

We'll be in St. Louis this weekend. Any good museums, junk shops, or other recommended geek destinations in the area? GPS coordinates happily accepted. :-)

22 years, 10 months

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Pertec tape formatter manual

by aek＠spies.com

The Pertec 9 track PE formatter manual that is on loan from Joe is now scanned and on line at www.spies.com/aek/pdf/pertec/101399_F6X9_PEfmtr_Dec71.pdf It isn't going to be directly of use for 7 or 9 track NRZI though, since it appears to be PE only. It does describe the original PERTEC dual 100 pin interface cables, though. I've gotten about 2/3 of the way through scanning the material that arrived from him earlier this week. Things should start trickling onto the web site over the next few weeks.

22 years, 10 months

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2600 video touch pad

by liste＠artware.qc.ca

So I was poking around a brocante in Sherbrooke and I spied a bag with Star Raiders and a Video Touch Pad. SCORE! Also in the bag : a RCA RF cable. I got it all for 3 CAD. The place had a hugely inflated idea about what these were worth : they were selling what looked like a Coleco 2600 clone for 20 CAD! I'd never seen a video touch pad before and only vaguely heard it refered to. I've not tested it, but plan to soon. -Philip

22 years, 10 months

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Perkin Elmer 550 Terminal

by richardbrown＠testman.com

Hi, I noticed your email with comments about the 550 terminal. I have one that has no vertical and am trying to get info so I can use another terminal in its place. I'm trying to find out what the mode switch position 2 in the on position does to the settings. ANy chance you might be able to tell me that? That's the only MODE switch setting used. The BAUD rate is set at 9600. When I try another ASCII terminal, the characters come out incorrectly on the display of the equipment I'm trying to use the ASCII terminal with. WHere as the perkin elmer terminal gives the correct characters except there is no vertical on the display so I can't read it. Thanks for any help you can give me. Richard Brown 781 938 7033

22 years, 10 months

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stuff FA

by rigdonj＠cfl.rr.com

Just finished listing a Cablescan ET-1024 cable continuity tester, a couple of NICE Real Time Devices PC/104 Data Modules, a National Instruments GPIB card and a DDC Syncro to Digital or Resolver to Digital converter card on E-bay. See <http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewSellersOtherItems&userid=rigdonj> Joe

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parts

by P_tornatore＠westcomp.com

Im looking for about 60 of TIL308 ? would you know where I can get these ? thanks Paul

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386 motherbrds.

by MARKF＠LSI-MA.COM

Hello Chris, I would like to take those 386 motherboards off your hands if they're still available. Believe it or not we have a use for them. Thanks Mark F. Cell (603) 305-5124 markf(a)lsi-ma.com

22 years, 10 months

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Texas Instruments software on ebay...

by tothwolf＠concentric.net

Found this one on ebay (Not affiliated with seller, etc, etc): http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3048936176 Dunno if it is worth it or not, as I don't collect TI stuff myself...I also noticed a few other TI related auctions up as well, one of which is a complete setup. (Though it seems to be very misplaced in the category system.) -Toth

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Unwaged

by Robert_Feldman＠jdedwards.com

As Tony so interestingly put it, I have become "unwaged." The company I worked for -- J.D. Edwards -- was aquired by PeopleSoft. Part of the merger's "synergy" is a staff reduction :( . Anyway, I have a few odds and ends (OK, junk) at the office that I do not want to move. Free for postage from Chicago. Do not reply to the list, as it comes to my work email (soon to go away), but rather to r_a_feldman(a)hotmail.com. 1. Toshiba T3100e/40. Power light comes on, but goes no farther. At least the screen is not cracked. 2. Kenitec laptop (XT or AT??), probably non-functional. 3. HP Portable Vectra CS Model 20. Unknown condition (and heavy). 4. Apple IIGS (case, motherboard, Power supply). 5. Epson "Mars board" (an 80C88 motherboard) w/o CPU. Unknown condition. 6. Adaptec Microchannel card, AHA-1640. 7. Set of AT&T 6300 Plus (80386) manuals. Has diagnostic disks, IIRC, but not MS-DOS disks). 8. Borland C++ V3.1 manual set. 9. Borland C++ V4.5, unopened package of 28 floppy disks (no docs). Bob

22 years, 10 months

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Mac SE/30 revival

by cb＠mythtech.net

>However, when I turn it >on, the screen comes up 4 grey scan lines, then alternating 8 black scan >lines and 8 grey scan lines. A friend mentioned that this is normal boot >config, that it should then proceed to the happy mac icon and so on. He >asked if the ROM was still in it. Er... none of my healthy classic macs start like that. And if that WAS normal, then it indeed should proceed to either a Happy Mac, or a floppy with a blinking question mark, or a Sad Mac with a code number. Since you don't indicate that you get any of the above, I'd have to say something is wrong. If it was something internally testable, such as bad or missing ram, or a bad or missing ROM simm, then you should get a sad mac code (lots of other things are internally testable as well and would resuld in a sad mac code). Do you get any noises when it is on? Any squeels, or flupping noise, or anything? Is there a startup BONG when you power it up? Can you hear a hard drive spinning up inside? are the lines vertical or horizontal? Once it goes to the 8x8 pattern, does it just continue to repeat that? What happens if you leave it on for a while (5 minutes or so). -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

22 years, 10 months

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Looking for (Irwin) EZtape V1.0 for DOS

by waltje＠pdp11.nl

Hiyas, Dont laugh. Yes, I need that annoying program, so I can read some of my (very old) tapes which contain seemingly interesting stuff.. didnt know I still had those :) Cheers, Fred -- Fred N. van Kempen, DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation) Collector/Archivist Visit the VAXlab Project at http://www.pdp11.nl/VAXlab/ Visit the Archives at http://www.pdp11.nl/ Email: waltje(a)pdp11.nl BUSSUM, THE NETHERLANDS / Sunnyvale, CA, USA

22 years, 10 months

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CorelSCSI for Macintosh

by markk＠clara.co.uk

Hi, I recently picked up a copy of CorelSCSI v1.01 for Macintosh on eBay. What was the last/final version of CorelSCSI for the Mac? Does anyone have a version later than 1.01? I'd also like to get hold of earlier Corel SCSI-related Mac software. I think the product names were CorelDRIVER and Optistar. Some background: CorelSCSI allows SCSI devices to be used on (older) Mac computers. Apart from CD-ROM and direct-access devices, e.g. SyQuest drives and rewritable magneto-optical, it supports WORM drives and media. It may be the only Mac software which supports write-once media, with Mac applications seeing WORM disks as normal HFS volumes. It's no longer sold or supported by Corel. No more modern packages like FWB Hard Disk Toolkit and FormatterOne from Software Architects support write-once media. Regards, -- Mark

22 years, 10 months

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Garage sale, DEC 3000/500 $50, HSZ40 $25, ...

by gunther＠aurora.regenstrief.org

Am I crazy to sell a DEC 3000/500 server (desk side) for $50? I believe it's got all the RAM it can fit and disk in and lots SCSI plugs out. My HSZ40s go for $25 a piece. My HP9000K400 with 2xDDS2 drives and 30 GB (?) RAID array and HP Terminal all in one rack go for $100. Am I crazy or just fed up about stuff taking space in my garage? If you are in the Indianapolis area and want to get some stuff, go for it as long as supplies last. -Gunther

22 years, 10 months

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Quick Basic (Bob Mason): Zipping it

by r.mueller＠fz-juelich.de

I could ZIP the files, though not eagerly. QB 4.5 fits on two 3.5 inch diskettes, so it is not large by today's standards. I do not recall how large 7.x is. It always amazes me to look at modern bloatware and compare how little more USEFUL work it produces than earlier, much smaller programs. I happen to have Winword 2 and it meets most of my needs. In fact, except for Internet activities, I am not sure any program I need requires Windows past Windows for Workgroups=3.11. I find Quick Basic sufficient for most calculations and I doubt Visual Basic will do any more beyond filling a larger chunk of my hard disk and DRAM, unless it can handle a larger array (matrix), which is a real limitation in Quick Basic, which dates back to the time of 1 MB machines. Of course, if I loose my mind and decide to promote my image in the form of elaborate Web pages, or to write some parasites, I will find Visual Basic better, but I have not yet reached that stage. I suggest writing directly to me if you are requesting a copy of QB; it reduces the clutter on the newsgroup and it is doubtful others care whether I email one of you the program. And I will send 4.5 unless you really need 7.x (I am not sure where the diskettes are!). Bob

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Intel Above Board AT

by gesar＠tiscalinet.ch

Original Message: >well, I dug around some more and found a 5.25 inch disk "above board/at >version 1.1" and also a hand written label for intel above board at and >ps/at ver 2.4 > >contact me off list if you need some support or replacement files. > >Joe Heck trash3 at splab dot cas dot neu dot edu So, there may be some hope. In fact, I just have the bare board, no software, no manuals. I tried several installers I found for download, but none of them worked with the AB AT. I'm an absolute novice on old DOS-machines and I'm always glad if some installer does the configuration of CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT. You'd do me a great favor if you could send me this installer. Thanks. Steff

22 years, 10 months

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386 motherbrds.

by cb＠mythtech.net

>Hello Chris, > I would like to take those 386 motherboards off your hands if they're >still available. Believe it or not we have a use for them. Sorry, ALL PC's have been sent to the dump. Nothing left to give away in the 386/486/low Pentium level. I do have some IBM AT's, an XT, and a few PC's available however. They are on the junk list, just haven't made it that far yet. -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

22 years, 10 months

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8-inch floppy drives

by booned＠ccvalve.com

please get back asap if you have any available units left...my cell is 405-659-0494 or reply to this e-mail or fax me at 405-629-0470 thanks ken ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This e-mail is confidential, may contain proprietary information of the Cooper Cameron Corporation and its operating Divisions and may be confidential or privileged. This e-mail should be read, copied, disseminated and/or used only by the addressee. If you have received this message in error please delete it, together with any attachments, from your system. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

22 years, 10 months

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Intel Above Board AT

by TRASH3＠splab.cas.neu.edu

well, I dug around some more and found a 5.25 inch disk "above board/at version 1.1" and also a hand written label for intel above board at and ps/at ver 2.4 contact me off list if you need some support or replacement files. Joe Heck trash3 at splab dot cas dot neu dot edu

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Intel Above Board AT

by TRASH3＠splab.cas.neu.edu

According to the "Installing the Above Board/AT" manual, there really isn't much to the setup program. It is just a helper in that it will properly set up config.sys and autoexec.bat for the expanded memory manager, a print buffer and ramdisk. It does include the print buffer and ramdisk, but dos's ramdrive program (or shareware) should work. I haven't stumbled across the disks yet. Joe Heck

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Intel Above Board AT

by gesar＠tiscalinet.ch

Could somebody help me with the original software-installer for the Intel Above Board AT? I got such a board in a 286 AT and I were too keen to get it working, however all the installers I found were for some different type of AB. Thanks for caring! Steff

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9 track reel tapes

by cb＠mythtech.net

>If I were you,I would specificy the reel diameter and the certified >density. The tape I'm looking at at this instant, says on the label "3M >Scotch 777 6250 bpi", so in this case I would say "7 inch reel, 6250 bpi" I just pulled one out, and I rather assume all are the same. This one says Endura 800 BPI to 6250 CPI BASF It has an inner diameter of about 3.5" and an outer of about 7" A quick look on ebay last night turned up some disappointing results. It seems a bunch of 9 track reel tapes failed to sell in the last 30 days. Maybe I'll try them on the Vintage list instead. -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

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Picked Up An Mits Turnkey 8800b Today

by jrkeys＠concentric.net

Late this evening a long drive to get it, I picked up Mits Altair 8800b in great shape and the following manuals: altair 8800b Turnkey Computer Documentation 1st printing July 1977 Altair 88-MDS Minidisk Documentation Preliminary July 1977 altair Disk Operating System Documentation DOS June 1977 Dynabyte Operating Manual for 16k & 32k Fully Static Memory Modules October 1977 Mits Disk Extended BASIC Version Reference Manual July 1978 Now to have some fun getting it up and running. :-)

22 years, 10 months

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Bruker Aspect 3000 computer and drives available

by dancohoe＠oxford.net

Hello all, At my favorite salvage spot near Rochester the other day I noticed a Bruker rack with an ASPECT 3000 mini, two 8" floppy drives (FDD 280) and a hard drive (BDS 160). Lots of cables as well. It appears from Google that this would mostly be used for NMR Spectroscopy, but if anyone is interested, I expect its available for a quite reasonable price as long as you speak up quickly. Get back to me off-list if you want me to call them to save it. Dan Cohoe

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TI 990 minicomputer

by jwest＠classiccmp.org

Just obtained a complete TI 990/10A system including several period TI terminals, TI 810 printer, cpu, CDC 94xx drive, and some media. Most importantly, a virgin OS install pack and complete manuals/docs. Not sure if it was DNOS or DX10 though. Anyone in need of copies of anything? >From what I understand, one could get an optional programmers front panel for the TI990/10A, I would love to get one of those if anyone has one spare. Jay West --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus]

22 years, 10 months

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Digital Group ?

by waltje＠pdp11.nl

All, OK, so I just got bombed with requests for the Digital Group stuff. Which reminds me... what is/was so special about that company (from Colorado, I believe) or their systems? I used to have the whole nine yards of their stuff... about, oh, 8 or 10 2cuFt boxes or so. The only thing I liked in the system was that funky tape drive system... Phideck or something like that. Threw it all away (...) when I moved to the U.S. in '93, and had no more space in the shipping container :) These docs were strange leftovers from that.. must have forgotten to pack them at the time. Cheers, Fred -- Fred N. van Kempen, DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation) Collector/Archivist Visit the VAXlab Project at http://www.pdp11.nl/VAXlab/ Visit the Archives at http://www.pdp11.nl/ Email: waltje(a)pdp11.nl BUSSUM, THE NETHERLANDS / Sunnyvale, CA, USA

22 years, 10 months

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Lotus 1-2-3 v. 3.1 (DOS) copy protection ???

by gehrich＠tampabay.rr.com

Does anybody know or remember Are 5-1/4" original diskettes for Lotus 1-2-3 v. 3.1 (DOS) copy protected in such a way as to prevent the diskettes from being copied to produce usable 3.5" diskettes or a CD? I remember that the earliest versions of Lotus 1-2-3 required the diskette in the floppy drive as a "key" for the program to start-up. I'm not sure what measures were taken for version 3.1.

22 years, 10 months

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Hayes S100 modem (80-103A) commands

by jack.rubin＠ameritech.net

Sorry - I wasn't paying too much attention to this thread, but I have the manual for the Hayes S100 modem (80-103A) which includes a short modem control program written in 1977 by Dale Heatherington (the co-founder of DC Hayes; guess who was the marketing guy and who was the engineer!). Control was by bit-setting a couple of control bytes to handle bit (baud) rate (high/low - typically 300/110 bps, but low rate could also be set to 75 or 134.5 bps). Other bits set transmit enable (on/off), mode select (answer/originate), break, self-test, ring indicator, and off hook. The manual includes a chapter on "Applications". Section 5.5 Telecommuting is reproduced here: "The energy situation being what it is, more and more people are seriously considering alternatives to commuting. If your job consists mostly of slaving over a hot computer terminal, the 80-103A may offer an economical way for your job to come to you instead of the other way around. Of course you would want to make an occasional trip to the office for meetings, but think how much pain and energy you could save. You might even be able to move to that beautiful valley 'way up there in the mountains..." Of course the hot setup was the PMMI modem which could be overclocked to 450 baud, but Don Brown died in the late '70s (?) and the company disappeared. But what the world was really waiting for was a good 1200 baud modem... Jack Rubin USRobotics 1984-95

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PDP 11/73 SLU

by cmcnabb＠4mcnabb.net

Our Physics Dept. recently decommissioned their old Bomem Interferometer computer, which was PDP-11/73 based. Somehow, when it got around to what to do with it, my name came up. The thing is now sitting in my cube. The only DEC cards in the box are the CPU and the disk controller. Everything else appears to be custom. One of the boards appears to be a custom multiport serial/EGA Video/PC Keyboard interface that wants the console to be on the PC Keyboard and EGA monitor. Unfortunately, none of the EGA monitors (NEC JC-1402P3A) that I got with the system will power-on. You plug them in, flip the switch, and nothing happens. Not even a power light. I really have no need for all the custom stuff and would just as soon remove it as use it. I do have a spare DHV11 here that I could put in the box, but I do not know if the DHV11 can be used as a standard serial console. The DHV11 tech manual does not seem to have any info on using the board as a console. Any help would be appreciated. -- Christopher McNabb <cmcnabb(a)4mcnabb.net> The McNabb Family

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[taken] Re: AVAIL: stuff

by waltje＠pdp11.nl

All, The MSX stuff has been claimed. Same for the DigGroup docs, and the Apple stuff. Cheers, Fred -- Fred N. van Kempen, DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation) Collector/Archivist Visit the VAXlab Project at http://www.pdp11.nl/VAXlab/ Visit the Archives at http://www.pdp11.nl/ Email: waltje(a)pdp11.nl BUSSUM, THE NETHERLANDS / Sunnyvale, CA, USA

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More Stuff available

by waltje＠pdp11.nl

Hiyas, See above. I found some stuff that I can safely let go, without too much heartache: - several binders with manuals and periodicals from systems from The DIGITAL Group, Inc. (*NOT* DEC !!) - an Apple II Technical Manual an unsoldered, virgin AppleII clone board, once sold by Eijlander Electronice in Ede, The Netherlands. I never got around to assembling it, so its still virgin. - several master tapes from Informix for SCO Xenix/UNIX - a whole bunch of silly 9600/14400/19200 voice-band modems designed for (analog) leased line operation, including the power supplies. The PSU's do +5V and +12V at 1A, so might also be useful in other apps. Cheers, Fred -- Fred N. van Kempen, DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation) Collector/Archivist Visit the VAXlab Project at http://www.pdp11.nl/VAXlab/ Visit the Archives at http://www.pdp11.nl/ Email: waltje(a)pdp11.nl BUSSUM, THE NETHERLANDS / Sunnyvale, CA, USA

22 years, 10 months

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Socal Swapmeets

by mikeford＠socal.rr.com

Here in Socal we have 5 going on 6 monthly or semimonthly old computer often containing swapmeets. The first two saturdays of the month are Santee and Fontana, which are either small or too far for me most of the time, but I did manage Pomona last weekend, and TRW and ACP this weekend, and plan to try for the new Chino Hills next weekend. The bad news is that space prices seem to have risen enough to drive away most of the small non regular sellers, and that most of the stuff is recent junk (Belkin is local and TONS of returns get dumped to swapmeet sellers). So what did I see, good stuff first, ACP had a pair of fresh from the shed Imsai something 40 boxes with like 9 in CRTS on the front, and dual 8" floppy box and a Selectric. I didn't buy or even offer on any of that, sticking to a mini R/C tank and some hifi cables. Pretty boring when the results of 3 swapmeets are just some cheap parts.

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Equipment Available

by jwest＠classiccmp.org

Yes, I have received everyones emails about this gear. I am still working out the particulars for who can get what, who responded first, etc.... I'll be in touch with all who expressed interest. Jay West

22 years, 10 months

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interesting finds: Matrox VME Video card, AST Advantage

by rigdonj＠cfl.rr.com

Stopped and looked through a bunch of scrap today. Found a Matrox VG-640 video card for the VME bus. Does anyone have any specs on this? Google didn't find ANY hits for it. Also picked up an AST Advantage card with the Advantage Pak daughterboard. Anyone need it? OT stuff: Also picked up a Beckman UV 5270 SpectroPhotometer. Man this thing is loaded! Will try to re-assemble it and get it working in a few days. Joe

22 years, 10 months

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Epson RC-20 : Looking for software and cable

by ss＠allegro.com

Hi, I just got an Epson RC-20 ... with no software and with no cable :( I'm looking for software, naturally :) And, if anyone has a cable or information about how to make a cable, I'd be interested! thanks, Stan sieler(a)allegro.com

22 years, 10 months

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HP stuff available

by jwest＠classiccmp.org

I have a couple 6 foot HP racks that will be available shortly. Pretty nice racks actually. They are not the really old brownish/green racks, they are the slightly less old cream colored racks. Nothing inside them :)

22 years, 10 months

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More HP Excitement

by jwest＠classiccmp.org

Finally got the system processor (TSB) back up to snuff with no parity problems. Looks like the upper 8K of core suddenly got bit 12 stuck on. That's easy enough to fix, barring a core plane failure there's only about 5 discrete components per bit on the card. More exciting though, I got a 7906 drive up and working on the system via a 13037 rackmount box. Woohoo! The good news is the fixed platter (head 2) formats fine and passes diagnostics. The removable platter (heads 0 & 1) I'm not so lucky. I am not sure if the problem is the removable media, or the upper two heads. I'll grab another piece of media shortly and find out. This means that shortly I should be able to supply anyone who wants one - a 7906 disc cartridge with a complete set of HP diagnostics! I really need to boot up DOS so I can dump the diagnostics library to bootable mag tape too. Jay West

22 years, 10 months

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IIGs Vulcan & RAmKeeper

by Ksessions＠TroyCable.net

Can you supply any info on these two? Any info APPRECIATED! Thanks,Kenny

22 years, 10 months

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AVAIL: MSX stuff

by waltje＠pdp11.nl

Hiyas, While going through Many Boxes (tm) of old stuff (yes, I finally found the PC I was looking for ;-) I also bumped into some old MSX home cputer stuff. Any takes for this, before I make it fly straight into a dumpster? Cheers, Fred -- Fred N. van Kempen, DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation) Collector/Archivist Visit the VAXlab Project at http://www.pdp11.nl/VAXlab/ Visit the Archives at http://www.pdp11.nl/ Email: waltje(a)pdp11.nl BUSSUM, THE NETHERLANDS / Sunnyvale, CA, USA

22 years, 10 months

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ADMIN: filtering for spam + other stuff

by jwest＠classiccmp.org

Just wanted to let folks on the list know.... 1) I am putting some spam-related keyword searches on posts to both lists. This is an effort to make my pseudo-daily moderation of posts easier, because the lists get a LOT of spam I have to filter out manually. 2) I would rather not post the specific rules I am putting in place in case a spammer has subbed to the list. Be just be advised that I would recommend that everyone be a little cognizant of the subject line of the message that they post. Messages which trigger the spam list will be rejected. 3) To my knowledge, all reported bugs/issues since the switchover to the upgraded mailman software have been addressed. If anyone feels there are still outstanding issues please email me directly. There is still some tweaking to sendmail to be done, and I need to regen the archives after getting rid of some posts and including some missing posts, that I am already aware of. Now, back to old computers :) --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus]

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Kaypro II boot disk

by ko6jt＠comser.com

Hello I have a Kaypro II computer in need of a boot disk CP/M what is the price for this item thanks Bob -- ARS KO6JT Bob Hutcherson 7330 White House Dr. #8 Anderson, Calif. 96007-9422 Ph. 530-241-0771 pager. 530-224-3691 Only in Shasta County. Cel Phone. ------------ Email. ko6jt(a)comser.com Webpage. http://www.qsl.net/ko6jt

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V5.01A Distribution of RT-11

by jhfinexgs2＠compsys.to

Does anyone have access to V5.01A of RT-11? I would prefer the RL02 image which has a Volume ID / Owner of: BC-P607C-BC RL2 1/1 However, any other media would be great if the RL02 image is not available! I already have V5.00, V5.01, V5.01C (V5.01B does not exist) and V5.02 of RT-11. So it is ONLY V5.01A of RT-11 that I do not have. All of these distributions (any prior to V5.03) are allowed to be used under the Supnik emulator by hobby users of RT-11, so It would be "nice" to be able to have all of the versions that are allowed and make them available to other hobby users. Sincerely yours, Jerome Fine -- If you attempted to send a reply and the original e-mail address has been discontinued due a high volume of junk e-mail, then the semi-permanent e-mail address can be obtained by replacing the four characters preceding the 'at' with the four digits of the current year.

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9 track reel tapes

by Innfogra＠aol.com

Data General also had a delightful small two reel 7" tape drive also. Used with the Nova series of computers BASF Endura is good tape. It shouldn't delaminate. When I got boxes of new tape I looked for a reseller in the back of Processor Magazine that specializes in tape. Shipping is a killer though. I was never able to sell a box of 7" reels of tape (1200') though. No one wanted them.

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Fw: CCDP / Soviet computing

by nico＠farumdata.dk

From: "Nico de Jong" <nico(a)farumdata.dk> To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 5:05 PM Subject: CCDP / Soviet computing > The document has now been completed. > > Fred has converted the Word document to PDF format. > Because of the scanned figures, the filesize is rather big : about 10 MB > You can find the overview of Soviet computing at http://www.microwalt.nl/fred/soviet.zip > > The zip file contains a PDF version as well as a .DOC version > > Again, it would be informative if some of the guys involved in parts of this project, could comment on the accuracy. > > Nico A slip of my mind, I'm sorry to say. I forgot to ask Fred if he could host the document. It is there for the time being, but as it probably is going to be around for a long time, we need someone who can have this document on-line. The document is at present on my FTP server, but I would prefer a more "regular" archival function Nico > >

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9 track reel tapes

by GOOI＠oce.nl

The small rack-mount tape drive from DEC is the TS03. By joke, the "TS" was for "Tape Stretcher" as the TS03 did not have a sort of vacuum column, but just a roller with a spring to keep the tape tensioned. - Henk. > -----Original Message----- > From: Eric Smith [mailto:eric@brouhaha.com] > Sent: dinsdag 30 september 2003 8:20 > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > Subject: Re: 9 track reel tapes > > > "Nico de Jong" <nico(a)farumdata.dk> > > I've never had problems with BASF tapes, so that would be > ok. 800 to 6250 > > means in fact that they can be used on all 9 track drives. > > However, I dont think you can sell 7" tapes. The capacity > is too limited, > > There exist some small rack-mount 9-track drives that will > not work with full-size reels. I'm not talking about front > (slot) load units, but rather units that had two small reels > side by side. DEC made one, but it wasn't very popular. > I don't recall the model number. > And no, I'm not talking about DECtape, which used even smaller > reels of 3/4 inch tape. > > Anyhow, 7-inch reels are useful to people with those drives.

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CCDP / Soviet computing

by nico＠farumdata.dk

The document has now been completed. Fred has converted the Word document to PDF format. Because of the scanned figures, the filesize is rather big : about 10 MB You can find the overview of Soviet computing at http://www.microwalt.nl/fred/soviet.zip The zip file contains a PDF version as well as a .DOC version Again, it would be informative if some of the guys involved in parts of this project, could comment on the accuracy. Nico

22 years, 10 months

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Quick Basic ( a bit of detail)

by knightstalkerbob＠netscape.net

Could you zip the files? This will "hide" the exe. By the way, what is the size of the archive? Bob Mason "R. Mueller" <r.mueller(a)fz-juelich.de> wrote: >If you should ask me to send a copy of Quick Basic, please be sure you can >receive it. I once sent it to a fellow behind a firewall and the firewall >bounced it. The set contains executable files and they could be >dangerous (Indeed, you have to trust ME not to insert a virus, but then >again, I don't know how! Don't even want to know how.) > >Bob > > -- Bob Mason 2x Amiga 500's, GVP A530 (40mhz 68030/68882, 8meg Fast, SCSI), 1.3/3.1, 2meg Chip, full ECS chipset, EZ135, 1084S, big harddrives, 2.2xCD Homebrew AMD Athlon 2400+, 512MB, etc. Heathkit H-89A, 64K RAM, hard and soft-sectored floppies, SigmaSoft and Systems 256K RAM Drive/Print Spooler/Graphics board HDOS 2 & CP/M 2.2.03/2.2.04 __________________________________________________________________ McAfee VirusScan Online from the Netscape Network. Comprehensive protection for your entire computer. Get your free trial today! http://channels.netscape.com/ns/computing/mcafee/index.jsp?promo=393397 Get AOL Instant Messenger 5.1 free of charge. Download Now! http://aim.aol.com/aimnew/Aim/register.adp?promo=380455

22 years, 10 months

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SGI Indigo/Crimson - PS/2 to SGI adaptors found

by jplist＠kiwigeek.com

Greetings; I don't know if its any form of blasphemy to do this. But for only $40, you can get a prebuilt convertor of standard PS/2 keyboard + mouse to proprietary SGI keyb/mouse bus for Indigo/Crimson. (The dude says Onyx uses them too, but I was kinda sure that was PS/2 like Indy. No matter) The adaptor guarantees an endless supply of working Granite keyboards and mice from Indys and upwards. I'm not a representative of the guy at all, but I think its damned useful and I figure some of you might too: chris 'at' ckcomputersystems 'dot' com Enjoy folks; JP

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WangEmu 1.1 released

by frustum＠pacbell.net

I've updated my Wang 2200 emulator to version 1.1. It has been about six months since the last update. This release adds two signficant features: 1) disk support. You can now plug in disk controllers, each of which can control two drives. Drives can be any legal size, and the timing can model that of 5.25" or 8" floppies, or hard disks (even the interleave factor is modelled). You can optionally turn of the emulated timing and make it run as fast as possible. 2) when an error message is displayed on the screen (which are just two digit codes), double click on that line and a detailed explanation will pop up. the explanations come directly from the Wang BASIC manual. Adding the first feature was a lot of work. I started with the microcode dump from the disk controller and a document describing the microarchitecture (believe it or not, the 2200 has a 4b ALU and the disk controller has an 8B ALU). From there, I wrote a disassembler and studied the listing until I thought I understood the protocol. I implemented it and ironed the wrinkles out of my assumptions. Please have a look if you are interested. Web site: http://www.thebattles.net/wang/wang.html The emulator: http://www.thebattles.net/wang/emu.html Cool error message feature, in relaxing Wang green: http://www.thebattles.net/wang/emu/html/error_help.gif Release notes: http://www.thebattles.net/wang/emu/relnotes.txt The program is a Win32 executable. Source code is online.

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Fwd: Canadian Collection

by dzubint＠vcn.bc.ca

*sigh* I wish there were more collectors out in Western Canada (I'm in Calgary at this moment...occasionally in Vancouver & Saskatoon) Whenever I search for old stuff (even just to look at and admire such as in a museum it's always in Ontario (or further east) which ends up being a two-day drive for me. There's been lots of PDP-11 stuff recently on ebay.ca, but it too is all in Ontario I'd LOVE to to see those Kenbak-1s...but they'r too far away. Oh well...

22 years, 10 months

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RCA Appnotes

by bkherbert＠adelphia.net

Dear Bob; I am puting together a history of low power systems and came across the RCA 1802 as maybe the earliest single chip CMOS processor (along with Intersil 6100). I am trying to figure out when the RCA ICAN-7029 appnote was written and wonder if it is in your Microsystems Manual or if you have other databooks.Thank you. Best Regards, Brian

22 years, 10 months

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Casio CFX-40 available - *brand new* or used

by scottmueller＠compuserve.com

Fred, Thanks for the heads-up. I do in fact still have a couple of *brand new* CFX-40s left for sale at $500 each. They are absolutely brand new, unused, never worn, in the original box, with manual and hang-tag. I also have *one* used CFX-40 in very good condition (it has a crack in the side of the case which has been repaired with cyanoacrylate glue), which is fully functional (everything works properly, including the light), has the original band, and which also includes the original box, manual and hang-tag for $300. For either new or used, add $10 S&H (incl. insurance). Email me directly if interested, I can send pictures and references if necessary, Scott.

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Tape for HP 5423A

by lbickley＠bickleywest.com

The HP 5423A is a vintage piece of test equipment with an embedded HP-MX processor. If you happen to have a master or copy of the "control" tape (system tape) for the critter, I'd really appreciate borrowing one so I can make a copy. Thanks, Lyle -- Lyle Bickley Bickley Consulting West Inc. Mountain View, CA 94040 "Black holes are where God is dividing by zero"

22 years, 10 months

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9 track reel tapes

by cb＠mythtech.net

I came across a decent stash of 9 track reel tapes during my clean out. (4 cases, so maybe 50 or so of them) A while ago, I sold or gave away (don't remember) a whole bunch of the write protect rings for them. So I'm wondering, do those rings stop you >from writing, or enable you to write when installed? I want to try selling the 9 track tapes on ebay, but I want to make sure I specify the correct status of the rings (that don't exist). Also, are these safe to bulk erase with an electromagnet? So far none of them have any data on them that I am worried about erasing, so I'm not planning to bother... but I want to know if it is safe or not in case I find one I need to. And finally, are all 9 track tapes the same? These were used on our General Automation Zebra machine. So will they work on any machine that needs 9 track, or only on other Zebras? -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

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Casio CFX-400 LCD

by brian＠projectsst.com

Robbie, >From your e-mail reply to Stan (included below), you apparently have some knowledge of Casio CFX-400 watches. The display on my CFX-400 got wet and isn't displaying all the numbers correctly. I would appreciate it if you could e-mail me the contact info you have for Casio so I can get a new LCD for my watch. If you know anyone that has a CFX-400, I'd be willing to pay up to US$500 for a CFX-400 in good condition and up to US$200 for one that's not in working condition. Brian Scura... Scura Speed & Technology Inc. 23011 Alcalde Dr., Unit A Laguna Hills, CA 92653 Tel: (949) 462-9995 ext. 11 Fax: (949) 462-3957 E-mail: brian(a)projectsst.com <mailto:brian@projectsst.com> Stan, I've done some calling around and emailing. Casio has four distributors that they send replacement parts to. None of them have the case in stock. The last time a case was sold from Casio was on April 30, 1996. It was to an individual, not a distributor. The CFX-400 case with key pad has two part numbers. The first is 73081910. It was later changed to 73081928, but it is the same part and description. There are two parts still in production and available from Casio that you may want to consider buying. They are the rubber backing seal and the LCD (not the module, just the screen). Good Luck.

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hard drive advice requested

by jwest＠classiccmp.org

I finally started refurb on a drive rack, a nice low-boy HP 29425 with wood top. It's my first HP drive project that uses the 13037 subsystem, with a 7906 drive. This is so I can finally start going through all the 7905/7906 drives I have and figure out what works and what doesn't. After going over the drive very carefully with a fine tooth comb, checking all the power supply voltages, test point voltages, etc... the moment of truth - hit the load switch, then turned it off just before the heads loaded. Did this a few times to make sure the blowers sucked any stray particles up and to the filter before letting the heads load. Finally I let them load and got a nice clean (fortunately quiet) "drive ready". Which leads me to my question... In testing unknown drives and cartridges... one never knows if the heads will come out the first time and shred against the platter. I've never been standing around when a head crashes, but I envision horrible grinding noise as metal shards shoot everywhere inside the drive. Is there anything I can do other than visual inspection, before spinning up an unknown drive and letting the heads load, to help alleviate the bad possibility of a crash on a drive that probably hasn't been used in 25+ years? Jay West

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PS/1 computer

by gschil＠orthomed.org

Hi, I was wondering if you still had that PS/1 computer for sale. Our PS/1 died at work and we need to replace the monitor which has the power supply. Please drop me a line and let me know Greg Schilhab Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine. 16 Florence Avenue, Toronto, ON, Canada. M2N 1E9. Tel. (416)733-2117 Fax (416) 733-2352 E-mail centre(a)orthomed.org

22 years, 10 months

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HP 9835 avail; and: HP 9835 tape conversion reques

by sieler＠allegro.com

The user with the HP 9835 tapes is now talking with a local (to him) CCTALK/CCTECH subscriber. thanks! -- Stan Sieler sieler(a)allegro.com www.allegro.com/sieler/wanted/index.html

22 years, 10 months

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TRS-80 printer cable length?

by tothwolf＠concentric.net

Does anyone know what the length of the original TRS-80 model 1/3/4 printer cable was? I am considering making some (some for my own systems, and a few to sell), but I don't know what the original length was. I'm also curious about the length of the model 2/12/16 printer cable, though I'd imagine it was the same length. -Toth

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*****hayes modem history.....

by esharpe＠uswest.net

question: was the s100 board the first version of the Hayes micromodem with the at command set or was the standalone first? I also remember they made one for the apple too... came across the s100 and a standalone version and need to label up for one of the displays.... I should know the answer to this but alas the cob webs grow deep in my brain! Thanks Ed Sharpe archivist for SMECC Please check our web site at http://www.smecc.org to see other engineering fields, communications and computation stuff we buy, and by all means when in Arizona drop in and see us. address: coury house / smecc 5802 w palmaire ave glendale az 85301

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Equipment Available

by jwest＠classiccmp.org

The following equipment is in New York (Buffalo area). Free for the effort to go pick it up. Anyone interested? If so, I'd like just the RX02 and controller out of the deal. > The following 2 DEC systems are available: > > System 1 > PDP11/44 Processor (RSX11M+) > Cipher M890340 Mag Tape Drive > RX02 Floppy Drive > RA82 Hard Drive > 2- RL01 > Monitors: VT240, VT125, ADM5 > Decwriter III > Documentation > Spare Boards > System Tapes > > > System 2 > MINC-23/ RT11 > Documentation > System Software --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus]

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Teletype 33 engineering drawings?

by waltje＠pdp11.nl

Hiya, While going through (some more) Old Stuff, I found the drawings for the ASR33. They look quite delicate, so probably should be scanned asap. Is anyone else in for a copy of these? Cheers, Fred -- Fred N. van Kempen, DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation) Collector/Archivist Visit the VAXlab Project at http://www.pdp11.nl/VAXlab/ Visit the Archives at http://www.pdp11.nl/ Email: waltje(a)pdp11.nl BUSSUM, THE NETHERLANDS / Sunnyvale, CA, USA

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museum needs a documation reader that interfaces to a pc

by esharpe＠uswest.net

need a documation reader or other that will interface to a pc so that we can archive card data... need something that is ready to go as with all the projects we have here on the table currently we would not have the time to enjoy doing a conversion ourselves... please advise Thanks! Ed Sharpe Archivist for SMECC See the Southwest Museum of Engineering, Communications and Computation online at: http://www.smecc.org

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Les Objets book free for shipping

by vcf＠siconic.com

I ended up with a book in French that is of no use to me. The title is Les Objets and it's a book on object-oriented design. It seems to be the second edition and is copyright 1997. The ISBN is 2-212-08957-0. It's in near new condition. If any French-speaking (or otherwise) person wants it then it's your for the cost of shipping. Otherwise I guess I'll just leave it in my archive and wait for some French-speaking dude to come by my office who I can dump it on. -- Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org [ Old computing resources for business || Buy/Sell/Trade Vintage Computers ] [ and academia at www.VintageTech.com || at http://marketplace.vintage.org ]

22 years, 11 months

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RCA Appnotes

by Robert_Feldman＠jdedwards.com

As an aside, a version of the 1802 was the main processor on the Galileo space probe, which recently ended its mission by being crashed into Jupiter. (There's a nice, general article about Galileo in the September 8 issue of "The New Yorker" magazine, starting on p. 38.) -----Original Message----- From: Brian Herbert [mailto:bkherbert@adelphia.net] Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 8:03 PM To: cctech(a)classiccmp.org Subject: RCA Appnotes Dear Bob; I am puting together a history of low power systems and came across the RCA 1802 as maybe the earliest single chip CMOS processor (along with Intersil 6100). I am trying to figure out when the RCA ICAN-7029 appnote was written and wonder if it is in your Microsystems Manual or if you have other databooks.Thank you. Best Regards, Brian

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PDP11/84 continued

by doc＠mdrconsult.com

After several hours with the 11/84 last night, it appears that I'm in the same boat as Gunther with respect to the Unibus terminator. First off, in *any* configuration with an M9302 Terminator in A-B of the last slot, the CPU hangs at boot at LED 77. I have plenty of G7273 NPG-grant continuity cards, as well as non-NPG knuckle-busters. Which they are. I'm pretty sure my configuration of the card cage isn't right. Here's the original layout (forgive any misalignment in the drawing - Mozilla apparently translates tabs to whitespace, and not correctly): A B C D E F || M7677 - 11/84 Monitor || || M8190-AE - CPU || || M8637-BC - 1MB || || M8637-DF - 1MB || || M8191 - Unibus PMI || || G7273 - NBPG || || M7860 General Dev Interface? || || M7860 General Dev Int. || || M7819 - 8-Line Async || || M7819 - 8-Line Async || || TCU-150 - Custom serial splitter, NPG unkn. || || M8526 - RX211 || || UniB OUT || M7258 - LP11 Printer Int. || The TCU-150 is entirely undocumented except for a couple of invoices for etching and assembly. It's supposed to be part of a system of splitting an available serial line into multiple comm channels, but that's all I know. For whatever it's worth, the original configuration map on the lid of the system unit is accurate, and appears not to have been altered, so I'd guess that the backplane is in its original state, too. What I want is some variation of this: A B C D E F || M7677 - 11/84 Monitor || || M8190-AE - CPU || || M8637-BC - 1MB || || M8637-DF - 1MB || || M8191 - Unibus PMI || || M7486 - UDA50-A || || M7485 - UDA52 || || M7521 - DELUA ethernet || || M8526 - RX211 || ...although the DELUA isn't strictly needed. Even without the DELUA, with the last 5 C slots populated with non-NPG grants or with G7273 NPG grants, I don't get a reasonable response from the RX02. And as I said, with the terminator installed, the box just hangs at powerup. Can anybody tell me what I'm doing wrong? Doc

22 years, 11 months

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Persci 299

by cmellink＠xs4all.nl

Hallo Peter, Yes, I have the wanted service manual of the Persci 299 drive somewhere in a carton box. Let me know if you still needed! I used to repair these drives, and have some spareparts left like heads, bulbs for the sector indicator (plastic black box) and some very hard to find driverchips for the voice-coil wich I found in Bangkok. Best regards, Kees Th Netherlands

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Quick Basic ( a bit of detail)

by r.mueller＠fz-juelich.de

If you should ask me to send a copy of Quick Basic, please be sure you can receive it. I once sent it to a fellow behind a firewall and the firewall bounced it. The set contains executable files and they could be dangerous (Indeed, you have to trust ME not to insert a virus, but then again, I don't know how! Don't even want to know how.) Bob

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Quick Basic

by r.mueller＠fz-juelich.de

When I wanted a copy of QuickBasic, not yesterday, but not so long ago, I was able to download it from the Internet. As far as I know Microsoft has released it for all to use. It is, however, not supported in any way. You can find the interpreted version on some versions of MSDOS; I believe DOS 5 contains it. What I got from the Internet was QB4.5 and a professional version 7.X. If it has ceased to be available I can send a copy if it has really been opened to public distribution. I must just find a set of diskettes. I know I have 4.5 but I am not so sure I can locate QB 7. If I get too many requests, I will ask those getting it from me to fulfill the condition of passing it on to others asking!!! Shareware=share the responsibility! Bob PS Warning; stay away from those versions of Visual Basic offered as free on CDs. I loaded one of these, it gave me NO WARNING as it told me I needed some components it would have to download from the Internet and then it dumped a bunch of junk on my hard disk, including substituting a new and unwanted "Desktop" and changed my Internet browser to something else, even less wanted than the new Desktop. Windows was never normal after that.

22 years, 11 months

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Sellar won't Take $100 for mag

by jrkeys＠concentric.net

Here's a Popular Electronics that went to $100 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2753642221

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TDX Format Tapes?

by curt＠atarimuseum.com

Eric, You hit the head right on the nail ;-) All kidding aside, that is exactly it! thanks to all for your input. Curt > > Anyone familiar with this format, I've got about 200 6" tapes that all say > > TDX Format or TDX Tape. > > > > I've found nothing about it through Google, these were used on a Vax 11/780 > > under either VMS or UCB Unix 4.1, unclear as to which OS. Standard TU78 > > was used. This is all I know so far... > > > > Is this some kind of compression format or something? Any help on this > > would be greatly appreciated, thanks. > > They may be tapes for a Sentry tester. A development system was available > for VMS and there was a program to read and write TDX tapes for exchanging > data and programs with the tester. If I remember correctly TDX stood for > Tester Data eXchange. > > This may be a completely different TDX format. Is there any other information > on the labels? > -- > Eric Dittman > dittman(a)dittman.net

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HP-85: Pictures of the PCB of the programmable ROM drawer

by vp＠mcs.drexel.edu

After popular demand :-) I am posting the URLs for said PCB: Top View (with ICs): http://www.series80.org/Pictures/HP-Prog-ROM-Top.jpg Bottom view: http://www.series80.org/Pictures/HP-Prog-ROM-Bottom.jpg Installation Note for the programmable ROM drawer: http://www.series80.org/Manuals/HP82929A.pdf Notice the custom ICs between the TTL components and the bus. Since the HP-85 bus uses 12V clocks and +6V logic, and that the bus is bidirectional (thanks Tony), does anybody have suggestions on how we can construct a replacement of the custom ICs? Thanks **vp

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hardware problems

by al_macdonaldjw＠milchstrasse.de

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CCCP

by nico＠farumdata.dk

I have now retyped everyting from this document (24 pages in Courier 10 pkt) and scanned the tables etc, in total 7 MB after ZIP. The material is now on its way to Fred, so he can convert it to PDF format. It could be interesting to hear the comments of someone involved in the original ES project, so we can see how close the CIA was with regard to the project. Nico -- It has been noticed, that hackers and other lowlifes use my e-mail address as a hiding place. I regret the inconvenience these pirates give you

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PDP11/84 continued

by bqt＠update.uu.se

On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 Doc Shipley <doc(a)mdrconsult.com> wrote: > After several hours with the 11/84 last night, it appears that I'm in > the same boat as Gunther with respect to the Unibus terminator. What's the problem with you guys??? The Unibus is really simple to get right. :-) One thing you should know about the 11/84 is that you don't use wire wraps on the backplane for the NPG slots in the CPU box. The M7677 (MDM) have NPG switches for all card slots instead. Go to that card and check it out... Second. The 11/84 must have a minimum load on both the PMI and Unibus. The minimum load module (MLM) is M7556. Since you have two memory cards, that MLM is not in. But depending on the configuration of the Unibus, you might want to have the MLM in there. However, I don't think you have a problem here, since I suspect that if the machine powers up, that aspect is ok. It would be nice to hear how Gunther is doing. I'm very sporadic on classiccmp though. If you need help on pdp-11 stuff, I'd recommend you post to info-pdp11, or alt.sys.pdp-11 (or whatever it's called). Johnny Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: bqt(a)update.uu.se || Reading murder books pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol

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Free DEC LA-36 (Boston Area)

by patrick＠evocative.com

Recently posted on the Vintage Computer Marketplace, check it out... http://marketplace.vintage.org/view.cfm?ad=192 --Patrick

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PDP-11/84 continued

by tradde＠excite.com

>What's the problem with you guys??? The Unibus is really simple to get >right. :-) >One thing you should know about the 11/84 is that you don't use wire >wraps >on the backplane for the NPG slots in the CPU box. >The M7677 (MDM) have NPG switches for all card slots instead. Go to >that >card and check it out... --------------------------------- I am having a similar problem, but my system does not have an M7677. Mine is an 11/84E. The CPU is in slot 1, memory cards in slots 2 and 3, and the Unibus adaptor in slot 4. 5 and 6 are empty, 7 and 8 have the UDA50, and 9 has a printer card of some sort. For mine the NPG grant jumpers are actually on the bottom of the backplane. I have set them for where the boards are not. I had believed this system to be configured as working, but it is not. It has a second backplane but had no M9202. If I put the terminator in slot 9 of the primary backplane it hangs. I know the UDA50 needs the NPG out. I will have to examine to see if the printer card needs it or not. I would guess the Unibus adaptor would not? Tim Radde _______________________________________________ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web!

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HP 9835 avail; and: HP 9835 tape conversion request

by m351super＠netscape.net

Hello i am interested in the HP 9835 for my collection.I live in PA 19007. Thanks Chris

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Tektronix 4054

by montym＠swbell.net

Wolfgang, try contacting Richard Heming also in Germany <heming(a)muenster.de>, who has a Tek museum with a 4054 on the web at http://www.tekscope-museum.de monty Tektronix 4054 cctalk(a)classiccmp.org cctalk(a)classiccmp.org Tue Sep 2 19:45:15 2003 a.. Previous message: PDP-11/73 or 11/83's in the US for sale? b.. Next message: Looking for HP 10342B Bus Preprocessor software c.. Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi Monty, I'm from Germany and I also have a 4054. My problem is, that I can get no doks for the system - can you help? Wolfgang -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- a.. Previous message: PDP-11/73 or 11/83's in the US for sale? b.. Next message: Looking for HP 10342B Bus Preprocessor software c.. Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]

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HP 7914, HP 7908, HP 7911 for sale in Atascadero, CA

by ss＠allegro.com

Hi, I spotted three old HP disk (and disk/tape) drives indoors at a salvage yard (Heillman Salvage) in Atascadero, California(about 170 miles south of the SF Bay Area): HP 7914 HP 7908 HP 7911 They didn't look like they're in immediate danger of destruction (they're currently working on breaking up a Cray 2 ... no, they didn't have the entire machine ... apparently, the Computer History Museum got the CPU, and Heillman got most of the rest). The HP drives were a bit dirty, and I have no idea of the price. The phone number is 1-805-466-4893. Also spotted (outside): carcass of a Lisa (3.5" drive, no faceplate), a badly burned HP 9845, a probably stripped CE control panel for some 12 bit computer (no brand name visible, had a rotary dial with a semi-transparent plastic disk in lower-left corner of panel ... couldn't get close enough to read anything). Stan

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DC-100 tape cartridges.

by netsurfer_x1＠fastmailbox.net

Anyone know if anyone still makes DC-100 tape cartridges any more? I'll be getting an HP-85 soon & I want to find a source for blank DC-100 tape cartridges. My searching so far has turned up nil, but maybe I'm just looking in the wrong places. Any help is more than welcome. -- David Vohs netsurfer_x1(a)fastmailbox.net -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Sent 0.000002 seconds ago

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HP 9835 avail; and: HP 9835 tape conversion request

by ss＠allegro.com

Hi, I received the following two-part email this week... A free 9835... ... I moved up to an HP 9835. [It's in Canada] ... Now the good news, I still have the 9835 in my basement. I think it's still close to being functional, it turns on without clouds of blue smoke but the monitor appears to have given up so no way of seeing if it is really booting up. I'm not sure about the tape drive? If you could locate a monitor, maybe you could get a functioning 9835. It's free to a good home And, the project: I have been looking everywhere for anyone who might have a functioning 9835/45 because I still have about 10 tapes with thousands of pages of HP BASIC that I would love to off load to some form of modern media in ASCII and translate into modern BASIC. If you could help me with this problem I would even pay the shipping of the 9835 to you, if you are interested? Anyone interested, reply (offline) to me, and I'll pass the contact info on to you. thanks, Stan

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VAX 11/780 progress ... just a little

by gunther＠aurora.regenstrief.org

Hi, I'm still wondering if I'm left the only one actively messing around with a VAX 11/780, because all the help I get comes >from PDP-11 people ... but that's adequate since I am still debugging the UNIBUS. I now made sure the NPG line is interrupted under the M7486 part of the UDA50 adapter set. Now I no longer get a 3 on the M7485's LEDs but it properly goes up to the 4/5 blink. Even the port light on my RA90 lights up so that it feels like it's going to come up any minute. But it doesn't. The VAX console never shows any sign of life, the RUN light goes off and the M7485's LEDs show a constant 5 (no more blinking 4/5). Then the drive's port light goes off too. When I interrupt the console and UNJAM it says "HALTED AT 000007B7" The interesting thing is that I can set the R3 register (that indicates the device unit on the UDA50) to a different value (my drive is set as unit 0) and indeed the drive's port light never lights up, as it should. However, the machine hangs in the exact same way and when I interrupt it, it comes up at the exact same address 000007B7. Would that mean that we get stuck even before the boot sector is loaded from the disk? I have two straws of hope to hold on. One is that the basic diagnostics tells me that KA780 module M8230 fails. So I can replace that once I have a spare. The other hope is that my UNIBUS isn't properly terminated. I have what looks like a UNIBUS terminator card but whenever I plug that in, the UDA50 acts strangely and effectively never reacts to the host at all, just constant cycling pattern as if nothing ever happened. Also, my level 2 diagnostics fails when this terminator card in is. When I remove that terminator I see at least the UDA50 and host communicating a little as described above. And without terminator the diagnostics level 2 finishes flawlessly. How essential is the UNIBUS terminator? Does the missing terminator explain why the host hangs and silently stops during boot? I never get a machine check or anything. Or, am I just impatient??????? I do know from my other VAXen (6400) that they turn on all fail lights and make the drive's port LED go off during the first phase of the booting activity. Could it be that the VAX 11/780 just needs several minutes for this job? I don't think so... Who knows what the address 7B7 in Thanks, -Gunther PS: this is what the DUABOO.CMD does: EXAMINE SP ! SHOW ADDRESS OF WORKING MEMORY+^X200 G 0000000E 00000200 LOAD VMB.EXE/START:@ ! LOAD PRIMARY BOOTSTRAP LOAD DONE, 00004800 BYTES LOADED START @ ! AND START IT does that mean the VMB.EXE is loaded at 00000200, so that 00000747 is relative address 547 in VMB.EXE? Is there a commented disassembly listing for VMB.EXE somewhere?

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A russian pdp-11??

by tponsford＠theriver.com

Hi All !! A good haul at the local University auction has netted me a coupla Sun Ulta2's, a few vt420 monitors an IBM3151 terminal and the neatest find in the last few months.... A russian pdp-11. It appears to be an exact replica of a dec professional 350. It has the same case as the decmate/ rainbow/professional series. All the labels, everything, is in cyrillic, but it is an exact replica of my 350, the only difference is that instead of the funky dec dual RX50, it has two ordinary looking 51/4 floppies, and the color is what my friend calls a soyuz silver or moscow gray, as opposed to the dec beige/sand. It has what appears to be a RD50/52 but it is all labeled in russian. It even has the CTI bus cage with the cards for the drives. On sliding the mainboard out, it is identical to my 350, except for a few oddities, and all the chips are labeled in cyrillic!. It dates from 1988 and seems to be in excellent condition, except for the upper plastic cover is missing the front plate. I was really tempted to fire it up, as it appears to have, an US style 110 power receptical. But second thoughts, made me cautious as I'm not sure of its electrical requirements and would hate to toast the power supply or boards as it is a bit different from the 350 in size and various connectors. If anybody has seen one of these or has info, I'd apreciate a little help!! In the mean time I'll did up my russian-english dictionary and maybe try to trans-literate the cyrillic characters. Cheers Tom Ponsford

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by acme＠gbronline.com

sorry for the intrusion . . . new ISP . . .

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Available: DEC LA120 printer

by wrking＠dadaboom.com

I have a fair condition DEC LA-120 printer available for free. It needs a bit of cleanup, but it does work just fine. Available for pickup in the S.F. Bay area. Otherwise you need to pay for the shipping. First come, first serve. Let me know. Thanks, Bill

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TRS-80 rescue - help needed in RI

by classiccmp＠vintage-computer.com

I've been working on trying to get a pair of TRS-80 systems transferred >from Southern RI to sunny NorCal but I'm finding that the extent of the collection makes it prohibitively expensive to pack and ship (5 boxes of stuff from what I'm told). Is there anyone in the RI area interested in rescuing a TRS-80 Model III and a TRS-80 Model 1000SX (Early PC Clone)? There are peripherals (at least one printer, for instance) and lots of docs and software for these. I'm just trying to back gracefully out of the deal without leaving the donor hanging. I've belatedly realized that I can't justify the expense of shipping these relatively common systems from coast to coast. Please contact me if you've got an interest and I'll do what I can to set you up. Erik Klein www.vintage-computer.com/vcforum The Vintage Computer Forum

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TDX Format Tapes?

by curt＠atarimuseum.com

Hi Nico, Yes, they are 9 track reel to reels. Curt > The name as such doesnt mean much to me, but I've seen many identical formats but with different names. > What physical format are those tapes ? 9 track reel to reel ? > > Nico > -- It has been noticed, that hackers and other lowlifes use my e-mail address as a hiding place. > I regret the inconvenience these pirates give you > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Curt vendel" <curt(a)atarimuseum.com> > To: <ClassicCmp(a)vintage-computer.com>; "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> > Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2003 6:44 AM > Subject: TDX Format Tapes? > > > > Anyone familiar with this format, I've got about 200 6" tapes that all say > > TDX Format or TDX Tape. > > > > I've found nothing about it through Google, these were used on a Vax 11/780 > > under either VMS or UCB Unix 4.1, unclear as to which OS. Standard TU78 > > was used. This is all I know so far... > > > > Is this some kind of compression format or something? Any help on this > > would be greatly appreciated, thanks. > > > > > > > > Curt > > > > > > > > >

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QuickBASIC

by geoffr＠zipcon.net

>(I also have PowerBASIC 7, the "Enterprise" version of QB4.5 if you'd >like) do you mean Microsoft Basic Professional development system version 7 and 7.1? there's also Visual basic for dos Version 1.0 which came after QB 4.5

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QuickBASIC

by vance＠neurotica.com

Does anyone have a copy of the last version of Microsoft QuickBASIC for DOS? I think it's version 4.5, but I'm not absolutely sure. Peace... Sridhar

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Remex Director Tape Reader Docs?

by ohh＠drizzle.com

Hi, all: Does someone on the list have documentation for the Remex "Director" paper tape readers (model numbers RRS9000 or RRS9006)? I've read manuals for other Remex models online, but not much of use for this one. In particular I'm curious about what effect the "spool/loop" switch has on operation, what kind of checking is done by the power-up self-check, and if there's some good sensible way to test the stepper motor driving the tape sprocket. If I can get some more data, it may save at least _one_ paper tape reader >from having a long and dusty servitude in a storage room. :) -O.-

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HP 9835 avail; and: HP 9835 tape conversion request

by sieler＠allegro.com

Hi, I received the following two-part email this week... A free 9835... ... I moved up to an HP 9835. [It's in Canada] ... Now the good news, I still have the 9835 in my basement. I think it's still close to being functional, it turns on without clouds of blue smoke but the monitor appears to have given up so no way of seeing if it is really booting up. I'm not sure about the tape drive? If you could locate a monitor, maybe you could get a functioning 9835. It's free to a good home And, the project: I have been looking everywhere for anyone who might have a functioning 9835/45 because I still have about 10 tapes with thousands of pages of HP BASIC that I would love to off load to some form of modern media in ASCII and translate into modern BASIC. If you could help me with this problem I would even pay the shipping of the 9835 to you, if you are interested? Anyone interested, reply (offline) to me, and I'll pass the contact info on to you. thanks, Stan -- Stan Sieler sieler(a)allegro.com www.allegro.com/sieler/wanted/index.html

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Old DOS on topic yet?

by rhudson＠cnonline.net

I would like to get an old single floppy DOS laptop machine on my local network. Anyone know how to get DOS to work with a PCMCIA card (uh too new?) It would be great to finally have this machine boot up as an emulated apple or PDP-8 or Atari or something. One of the floppyies makes it into a disk drive for my TRS-80 model 100 laptop. Ron.

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Kenbak discoveries

by design.fort＠ns.sympatico.ca

Hi Jos, It was a pleasure to show you the Museum and the Kenbak :) I hope you had a nice vacation in Nova Scotia. I will eventually scan all the material and make them available for everybody interested in the Kenbaks. It will most likely be published on CD-Rom since it is a lot of material (especially the schematics). It will take a bit time since I do all this in my spare time. Greetings Herbert

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Kenbak-1 discoveries

by design.fort＠ns.sympatico.ca

Hi all, I finally have more news from the Kenbak-1 front. Earlier this year I posted a message on this list that I discovered a Kenbak-1. Well as it turned out the source I had the machine from had 7 (!) more Kenbak-1s. After long negotiations we finally agreed on a price for the collection of 6 machines and incredible paperwork. (The seller wanted to keep one machine) After some more struggle to get the money together I finally purchased what I consider the "find of my life". Here is what I could acquire: - 6 Kenbak-1 computers - the original schematics (a big folder!) - original training films from 1974 and the early eighties. - an original sales flyer from CTI, a company that tried to market the Kenbak-1. - programming manuals, flow charts etc. I drove all from Nova Scotia, Canada to Charleston, South Carolina to pick the lot up. (3000 miles) More information about the computers, where they are from and most importantly photos of the Kenbaks are on my website: http://www.computermuseum.20m.com/kenbak.htm I currently try to convert the original training films. I'm also in the process of taking photos from the insides of all the machines. Those photos will be online within the next days. Four of the seven Computers have the original Kenbak-1 logo, the others the CTI logo. You will see that al of the computers have six holes drilled on the top cover. It turned out that the Kenbak-1s had overheating problems and the hole were the cure for that. One of the Kenbaks is slightly modified and has toggle switches instead of the push-button switches. This machine is the only one I have tested so far. It works perfectly. All I can say is that the Kenbak-1 is fun to work with! Greetings Herbert Computer Museum of Nova Scotia

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Citizen's GSX-190 dot matrix printer

by cb＠mythtech.net

Anyone have a manual for a Citizen's GSX-190 printer? I'm trying to find out how many multi-copy pages it can support. I need a dot matrix printer that supports AT LEAST five carbonless copies (counting the original). Mac compatible is prefered, but I can deal with Parallel. I have an old Citizen GSX-190, and it supports underside paper feed, which I have found is usually a good sign for a printer designed to use multi-part forms... but I want to verify how many pages it is designed for before I go thru the effort of trying to get it hooked up (only to find that it looses grip on the pages just like my Imagewriters do, the Imagewriter is only designed to handle 4 copies max) -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

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9915A without tape drive

by vp＠mcs.drexel.edu

For those that have been claiming that HP always sold 9915s with a the tape drive installed, here is a picture of a 9915A WITHOUT a tape drive. Notice that it has a blank faceplate, not covers over the tapedrive slot. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3049594024&category=11175 **vp

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Canadian Collection

by jos.mar＠bluewin.ch

Thomas Dzubin heeft op vrijdag, 26 sep 2003 om 18:57 (Europe/Zurich) het volgende geschreven: > > I'd LOVE to to see those Kenbak-1s...but they'r too far away. > Oh well... What is too far away ? I was able to seen the Nova Scotia Kenbak on a trip from Switzerland.... Herbert was even kind enough to open in up for me. Thanks ! Jos Dreesen ( And Nova Scotia was not too bad either !)

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