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

by johnet＠ikansas.com

Hey, Did you ever get HD to respond? If so let me know. I've tried everything I know to get this 1520 up and running. I thought it would be cool to run it with windows 1.01. Thanks, John

23 years, 3 months

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Sierra Adventure Games

by cb＠mythtech.net

>I have a progam somewhere for 8 bit Ataris that strung >together a bunch of stills of a woman performing felatio, >which I found more humorous than erotic. Also some 8- >bit Demos by Michel Jarre and another even bigger >German demo programmer whose name escapes me . >Some of their sound-light programs are even now >astounding. I had something for the Apple II that was similar. Animated video like thing of two girls playing "hide the salami" with... well... a salami. I have NO idea what was called, or where the disk went, but I remember it because it was to me just incredible that a computer could turn something like that out. >This was on-the-edge shit and for the most >part seems to be dying (what do you do when not coding >boring stuff) in favor of repeating some hi-paying sort of >state propaganda shit based on GI-Joe. But I seem to recall the game "GI-Joe" was pretty cool. Although honestly I don't remember too much of it, and I know that I was way more easily amused back then than I am now (as testiment to watching Cartoon Network's "Boomerang" channel and wondering why on earth I loved some of those cartoons so much as a kid) -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

23 years, 3 months

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Bernoulli cartridges

by petejames＠hotpop.com

All, I've two disks from a friend who's looking to sell them. They are Bernoullli cartridges. The box and disk markings are as listed below. The cartridges are 5-1/4-in squared. Oh, yeah...there's either two 120's and six 230's, or vice versa. Anyone interested in the lot? Darren Peterson disk 1 (sealed in transparent plastic bag) ------------------------------------------------------ box: Double-Sided ESDI 525000-120 Information Storage, Inc. 2768 Janitell Rd. Colorado Springs, CO 80906 disk: Certified Optical Media Information Storage, Inc. 000024061 000024602 disk 2 (sealed in transparent plastic bag) ------------------------------------------------------ box: Double-Sided WC 230 99-1108-02 Literal / ISI 2180 Executive Circle Colorado Springs, CO 80906 disk: Certified Optical Media Information Storage, Inc. 000100356 000100357

23 years, 3 months

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TI Silent 700 paper

by RCTech＠cnri.us

I have several rolls of TI Silent 700 thermal paper in the original plastic wrapping. These date to approximately 1982. What are the chances that they are still good? And is anybody looking for some TI Silent 700 paper?

23 years, 3 months

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Columbia

by loedman1＠juno.com

>Alright all you tech heads, dust off your grade school prayers >and say a few for the Shuttle astronauts. No time like the >present to show some respect. >John A. >news: Columbia lost 16min before landing at ~40+mi. altitude I had the good fortune of being at Edwards AFB for the first landing of Columbia and will never forget the thrill of being one of 250,000 cheering witnesses to that unforgettable event. Over the years I acquired every piece of Columbia memorabilia I could locate, much of it through a friend who works for NASA, and have continued to follow the "career" of the first functional shuttle. Today has not been a good day in my house. Rich Stephenson Calif.

23 years, 3 months

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Any New Zealand DEC heads on the list?

by vaxzilla＠jarai.org

I've a friend there looking to get his hands on a VAX. -brian.

23 years, 3 months

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A really cool book find at the flea market today

by jrkeys＠concentric.net

After selling several boxes of books today at the flea market I started looking at them myself later in the day and fond this black book titled Dictionary of Computing Second Edition 1986. But the cool factor was that it was stamped apple computer inc. LIBRARY in several spots through out the book. The card pouch in the back covers has a stamp with APPLE COMPUTER, INC LIBRARY CUPERTINO, CA 95014 and a Apple Library bar code label with the number 22505 on it under the bar code. I started looking at the other boxes of books and could not find any other books from Apple and I'm not sure how many I may have sold earlier in the day. :-(

23 years, 3 months

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laptop

by paulm064＠icqmail.com

I have an old 286 laptop that i can't find any info about on the net. the only markings i have to go by are as follows: top markings - attache' bottom markings - FOREFRONT model: LV-286D 17V 12.7A

23 years, 3 months

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Help with two Classic tester's

by jrkeys＠concentric.net

I picked up two testers and need help finding info on them. One is a black UART tester made on metal and is 14"x10"x6". On the top panel are all the switches with large labels such as INTERRUPT INPUTS, DISCRETE INPUTS, and REU ANALOG INPUTS. These are the smaller labels under each switch D.GND, WRITE/READ UART A REGISTERS, PWB CONNECTOR, WRITE/READ UART B REGISTERS, VIDEO SELECT VSYNCA/VSYNCB ON, LOW VOLTAGE ALARM INPUT ON, WR/RD, EOC INTERRUPT, ACD INTERRUPT, UART B INTERRUPT ON, UART A INTERRUPT ON, PWB DC CURRENT (+5V), RESET, COMPANSATION DISABLE, SELF TEST REQUEST. REU/DU HOT, VREF/VS, and 0.012/0.25/0.50. On the front panel are a power switch with selects for INTERNAL or POWER SUPPLY SELECT, MAIN POWER ON switch with red light. On the back panel we have a 25 pin connector, External Power connectors +12, A.GND, -12, and +5, a Fuse, and plug for a power cord. There is no ID labels anywhere on this black box. Any leads? The second tester is a Field Test Unit for old tape drives made by Magnetic Peripherals Inc. part of Control Data. Has equipment ID of TB303A, Series code of 11, PN 75255003 and is this thing every heavy close to 50 pounds in a special carrying case. Any help on this one? Thanks in advance.

23 years, 3 months

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GRiDCase 3: Dead. (Was: GRiDCase 3: Help!)

by netsurfer_x1＠fastmailbox.net

Well, it seems that I have some bad news to pass on to the group. The GRiDCase 3 I just recently bought has bit the dust. Thanks for everyone's help, but it looks like it just wasn't meant to be. Sad to say, I'll have to confine this machine to he trashpile. -- David Vohs netsurfer_x1(a)fastmailbox.net -- http://fastmail.fm - Choose from over 50 domains or use your own

23 years, 3 months

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Fw: AS400 surplus

by rschaefe＠gcfn.org

Found on spamnet news, no relation, yadda yadda yadda... Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: "peter" <prymno(a)spamprym.nl> Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.as400.misc Sent: Saturday, February 01, 2003 12:35 PM Subject: AS400 surplus > Hi, > > At this moment I have a AS400/9404 model F25 and I am going to take it to > the junk yard. > If anyone is interested? It is here for you to pick it up. > > Machine is dated 940909. > It has (dutch) V3R1 with PDM, RPG compiler and TCP/IP. > It is possible to install the english version if you have the tapes. > 32Mb internal memory, 1.9Gb disk. > Ethernet (2617). Twinax and V24. > QIC1000 tape unit. UPS, key for keylock and LIC-tape. > I am not selling, just giving away. I hope that is not illegal. > > Mail me at prymxxx(a)prymxxx.nl (remove all the x's) > (I am in the Netherlands, 10 minutes drive from Amsterdam) > > Peter

23 years, 3 months

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Sierra Adventure Games

by drido＠optushome.com.au

>>On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Lawrence Walker wrote: >> >> I have a progam somewhere for 8 bit Ataris that strung together a bunch >> of stills of a woman performing felatio, which I found more humorous >> than erotic. Also some 8- bit Demos by Michel Jarre and another even >> bigger German demo programmer whose name escapes me . Some of their >> sound-light programs are even now astounding. This was on-the-edge shit >> and for the most part seems to be dying (what do you do when not coding >> boring stuff) in favor of repeating some hi-paying sort of state >> propaganda shit based on GI-Joe. Along those lines there was "Sex Cartoons" for the Commodore 64, a series black and white cartoons that looped. One high school I attended had a room full of Commodore 64s running from a shared 1541 via some peripheral sharing unit. At the start of class everyone would do LOAD"*",8,1 to boot >from whatever disk was in the drive. One day I replaced the typing tutor disk with a copy of "Sex Cartoons". At 13 years of age seeing that running on a room full of Commodore 64s was worth the week of detention I got for it. Then there was "Party Games" on the Amiga, imagine a Decathlon style joystick waggling game with somewhat different graphics.

23 years, 3 months

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test -- ignore

by rigdonj＠cfl.rr.com

test

23 years, 3 months

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DEC VAX/VXT2000 and monitors

by Fred.van.Kempen＠microwalt.nl

Hi all, Trying to clean up the "inbound" queue of systems-to-check-and-fix, and here's a few boxes I cant seem to figure out. Heeeelp ! ;-) Basically, the monitor madness I guess. I have: - various VAXstation 3100-family systems with mono, GPX and SPX cards - various VXT2000 boxes with their SPX card - a VXT2000+ box with "SPX PLUS" card and, two monitors (only.. gave the rest away long time ago.), a VR19-D3 (seems to be a generic GDM1960 - it also has the HI-LO switch on the back) and a VRT320. The VRT320 is the one that actually seems to work on all the GPX cards, and on the SPX cards in the VXT2000's. It does NOT sync with the SPX cards in the -M38 and -M76's, and neither for the SPX PLUS card in the VXT2000+. Obviously, I would want the -M38 and -M76's SPX cards to be used, and the SPX PLUS in the VXT2000+. No specs on the latter can be found, though, although I did notice that there is a 74.3MHz xtal on it, rather than the 69.9 one on the regular card, so it might be doing the 1280x1024@74 rather than @70. Does anyone have info on this? Cheers, Fred

23 years, 3 months

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PDP-8: (and others) anyone tried NVRAM simulation of hard drives?

by xds_sigma7＠hotmail.com

I think Ethan's points are excellent; in fact, the main reason I had suggest an SSD in the first place was because the real drives used with the 8/i were not very large (by modern standards). I'd like to add that a major reason for my desire for such a beast is the fact that I have absolutely no peripherals for my 8/i, nor do I have the required boards to control them if I did have them. Heck, I don't even currently have a complete machine, but I'm working on it. I'll hopefully soon have a list of needed boards I can post to the list... Anyone have any REAL manuals for the thing that they'd part with? Or a paper tape reader? Please? *begs* Will J

23 years, 3 months

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PDP-8: anyone tried NVRAM simulation of hard drives?

by xds_sigma7＠hotmail.com

Omnibus or Posibus? Why not Negibus? Neither Omnibus nor Posibus would help me on my 8/i, since mine is Negibus... An SSD would be a Very Cool Thing to have though... Especially since it really wouldn't have to be very large in terms of capacity.. Will J _________________________________________________________________ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail

23 years, 3 months

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Laserjet IIIp in Ohio

by paulrsm＠buckeye-express.com

Robert, I think I still have a LaserJet IIIp paper tray. I will check my garage this weekend. Ethan, I offered but you said you already found one. -- Paul R. Santa-Maria Monroe, Michigan USA

23 years, 3 months

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The Fools Errand (Was: Sierra Adventure Games)

by sml49＠attbi.com

> From: cctalk-request(a)classiccmp.org > Reply-To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org > Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 12:00:01 -0600 > To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org > Subject: cctalk digest, Vol 1 #424 - 60 msgs > > Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 06:01:04 -0800 > Subject: The Fools Errand (Was: Sierra Adventure Games) > From: "tim lindner" <tlindner(a)ix.netcom.com> > To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org > Reply-To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org > Anybody have a copy of TFE that still contains sound? I have an ancient copy of this game on two 800K floppies - whether it has sound or not I'm not sure as I don't have a system 6 Mac handy to test with but it dates to maybe 1988 or 1989 - I have a note to myself on one disk that it's "not Multifinder compatible and needs to be run after restarting with the Command (Apple) key down", which locks out Multifinder. If you'd like a copy I'll make disk images and e-mail them... Seth Lewin

23 years, 3 months

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cool find.

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Jan 26, 7:34, Ian Primus wrote: > > On Saturday, January 25, 2003, at 10:26 PM, Jim Strickland wrote: > > > Can you ping your domain name server? > > > Yes, I can. I have also tried using both the DNS addresses provided by > the ISP, as well as the address of my router, which works for all of my > other machines. I can even access web servers if I manually punch in > the IP address. If you show us the contents of /etc/resolv.conf, /etc/nsswitch.conf, /etc/config/static-route.options (if you're going through a gateway like a local router) or if you're using PPP: /etc/ppp.conf (obscure the passwords!), and the output of netstat -ia, netstat -rn, and ifconfig -a, we might be able to figure it out. Is routed or gated running? yp/nis? named? You mentioned "your router". Does your router do DNS? If you have /etc/resolv.conf pointing to the same nameservers as your router is, and you also list the router itself, and the router is doing some form of NAT, chances are that replies to DNS requests from your machine will get lost. What happens if you use nslookup? Can you ping other local hosts by name? Remote hosts? -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

23 years, 3 months

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Another apology

by mhstein＠canada.com

To everyone who's waiting to hear from me about stuff I've offered, another apology! Been awfully busy with work & health matters and haven't had time to look at things in detail, but you'll all hear from me Real Soon Now... mike in Toronto

23 years, 3 months

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GRiDCase 3: Help!

by netsurfer_x1＠fastmailbox.net

I not too recenly picked up a GRiDCase 3 with 2 "GRiD Disc System 2204" external hard drives. Just yesterday they both started acting up on me. It would initially spin up when you turned it on, but after a few seconds they would just kick off. A few seconds later I get a "1702" message on my screen. I'm lead to believe that there could be a configuration problem somewhere, but I'm not 100% sure on this. My questions are: 1. What is going on here? 2. How do I fix this? -- David Vohs netsurfer_x1(a)fastmailbox.net -- http://fastmail.fm - Choose from over 50 domains or use your own

23 years, 3 months

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FA: Custom HP-41 ROMs, S-100 cards, Data I/O programmer parts, more

by rigdonj＠cfl.rr.com

I'm still putting stuff on E-bay. Today I added two custom ROMs for the HP-41 calculator, S-100 Stepper Motor Driver boards, 6U wire wrap cards, Omnibyte VME card manuals, HP 263x Printing Terminal manuals, Cisco manuals, sockets for the Data I/O Unipak 2B insert of the 19 and 29 EPROM programmers and more. Take a look at <http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewSellersOtherItems&userid=rigdonj>. Joe

23 years, 3 months

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Sierra Adventure Games

by cb＠mythtech.net

>So who remembers "The Fool's Errand" on the Mac---waaaay back! > Did it ever get ported eleswhere? I never quite got all the way through >it-IIRC. Do a google search... the author still has it and its mates for sale, and yes, I think he ported it to other platforms (I found his site thru a google search a few weeks ago). -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

23 years, 3 months

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The Fools Errand (Was: Sierra Adventure Games)

by cb＠mythtech.net

>Anybody have a copy of TFE that still contains sound? Yes. I was able to beat it without a solution guide... but I did make use of a pocket electronic spelling dictionary :-) -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

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HP 2100A

by geoffr＠zipcon.net

Oh, I am -NOT- going to power any of htis up, I don't want to chance blowing anything, this is a ca. ~ 1974 system so there's no knowing what condition the caps are in...

23 years, 3 months

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Ok, details.

by geoffr＠zipcon.net

I've got the 2100 now. no paper tape reader :( oh well.... it's a HP 2100A main chassis, i -THINK- it has it's full compliment of boards, I also have 2 HP 2640B terminals that went with it (according to the guy I got it from) he may also have 2 more of the terminals. one of the keyboards has some plastic damage but they -look- like they should be functional. unfortunately he doesn't have any of the cabling except the one connected to the terminal's keyboard.

23 years, 3 months

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Sun 3 Hardware available in the Portland Area

by healyzh＠aracnet.com

If anyone is interested in some Sun 3 stuff in the Portland, OR area, contact "rick at eaglet rain com". I'm not sure what he has, he contacted me, and since I wasn't interested, I offered to forward it to the mailing list. Zane -- | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator | | healyzh(a)aracnet.com (primary) | OpenVMS Enthusiast | | | Classic Computer Collector | +----------------------------------+----------------------------+ | Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, | | PDP-10 Emulation and Zane's Computer Museum. | | http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ |

23 years, 3 months

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Sierra Adventure Games

by drido＠optushome.com.au

>> Hey! I still have LSL1 1.0 - 5.25" original disks, not a copy (fished it >> out of a pile of debris left by a departing college student a number of >> years ago) >> > It's... um... a *classic*! >I have the original, text-based adventure game that Leisure Suit Larry is >based on. It's for the Apple ][ and is called "Softporn Adventure". I have the Atari 800 version, from memory there was also a TRS-80 version. I'm sure I have an ad for it in at least one of my old magazines. I know I remember ads for a series of porn themed text adventures, not sure if they are related. Some of them were simple black and white text ads, but at least one has a picture of a cheesecake model in a teddy sitting on a bed with a TRS-80 model 3.

23 years, 3 months

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Wanted: HP 9880 hard disk drive

by dan＠ekoan.com

Hello, I'm looking for an Hewlett-Packard 9880A/B hard disk drive to use with a 9830 desktop computer, either to buy or borrow. I've got half a dozen platters for this drive that I'd like to pull the data from. Does anyone have, or know where I could find such a drive? Or even borrow some time on someone's working drive? Any leads would be appreciated. If it's relevant, I'm located on the east coast of the United States. Cheers, Dan www.decodesystems.com/wanted.html

23 years, 3 months

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I opener hackable lcd pc $65

by cb＠mythtech.net

>One of the deal pages I haunt had this link, remember the I opener pc in a >lcd screen people were sticking in a laptop drive and making little linux >boxes etc.? > >Anyway this joint has refurbs for $65 shipped, >http://www.badflash.com/iopener.html I picked one up on eBay for just under that including shipping ($20 shipping, $35 win). That was with MUCH waiting and patience to get one that low... so personally, if anyone wants one, $65 including shipping is a pretty good deal. -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

23 years, 3 months

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Early Mac games, and SmoothTalker demo wanted (was Re: Sierra Adventure G...

by cb＠mythtech.net

>>Anyone know where to get a copy of Virtual Valerie? I >>remember hearing about it years ago. > >I might have a copy... I think I also have VV2. I'll take a look later >and let you know. Ok, I have Virtual Valerie, but now I have changed computers and your email address is on my other computer... so I'm letting you know via the list, sorry. I don't see Virtual Valerie 2 in my list of software, but I thought I had it as well... alas if it isn't in my database, then I can't say for sure where it would be (I do have a ton of software that hasn't made it into my database yet, so I can't rule it out... but I can say that it isn't something that will surface soon). -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

23 years, 3 months

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Removing duct tape residue.

by sml49＠attbi.com

> Message: 48 > Subject: Removing Duct Tape Residue > From: Christopher McNabb <cmcnabb(a)4mcnabb.net> > To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org > Organization: The McNabb Family > Date: 27 Jan 2003 22:28:26 -0500 > Reply-To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org > > While out in Idaho picking up a PDP-11/83 I also managed to pick up a > working LA-100 at a government surplus place. It had a piece of duct > tape stuck to the clear plastic cover with the word "Spare" written on > it. Anyone know of a good way to remove the remaining duct tape residue > from the cover? Try a product named "Goo-Gone" which is a citrus-oil based concoction meant to remove adhesive residues and whatnot from items on which you'd rather not use hydrocarbon-based solvents. Works well (though slowly) at removing adhesive labels so should probably work on duct tape residue, especially if you warm the residue up a bit. Full-service hardware stores should have the product. Seth Lewin

23 years, 3 months

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OT: the 1U system

by Robert_Feldman＠jdedwards.com

Folklore for PC's was that if you recorded data on a hard drive with the platters horizontal, remounting it vertically could cause read errors. Any truth to this? -----Original Message----- From: John Allain [mailto:allain@panix.com] Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 10:32 AM To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org Subject: Re: OT: the 1U system <snip> I wonder if disk drives fail at the same rates horizontally as they do vertically (an open question) ? John A.

23 years, 3 months

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Sierra Adventure Games

by ejchapel＠attbi.com

Remember the early Kings Quest series of adventure games? KQ1 has been remade for VGA graphics by a group called Tierra Entertainment. They are doing a terrific job of rebuilding the games. Same great gameplay. The remade version is a free download and works fine in Windows. KQ1 site: http://www.qknowledge.net/royalquest/KQ1index.htm Tierra main site: http://www.qknowledge.net/royalquest/index.html Ed Vancouver, WA

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The Fools Errand (Was: Sierra Adventure Games)

by tlindner＠ix.netcom.com

> So who remembers "The Fool's Errand" on the Mac---waaaay back! > Did it ever get ported eleswhere? I never quite got all the way through > it-IIRC. I just finished it yesterday. With much help from the solutions guide and an electronic spelling dictionary. :) http://www.fools-errand.com/ Cliff Johnson has downloads for Mac and Windows of various games. One sad thing about the version of _The_Fools_Errand_ he distributes it has no sound. He removed all of the sound from TFE becuase it caused any Mac newer than a MacPlus to crash. Anybody have a copy of TFE that still contains sound? -- tim lindner, sf, ca, us tlindner(a)ix.netcom.com We could use him as a footstool -- Or a table to play Scrabble on Then tie him up and beat him up -- And throw him out of Babylon!

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Early Mac games, and SmoothTalker demo wanted (was Re: Sierra Adventure G...

by cb＠mythtech.net

>Anyone know where to get a copy of Virtual Valerie? I >remember hearing about it years ago. I might have a copy... I think I also have VV2. I'll take a look later and let you know. -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

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Early Mac games, and SmoothTalker demo wanted (was Re: Sierra Adventure G...

by SUPRDAVE＠aol.com

In a message dated 1/31/2003 4:35:18 AM Eastern Standard Time, eric(a)brouhaha.com writes: > >So who remembers "The Fool's Errand" on the Mac---waaaay back! > > Speaking of *early* Mac games, does anyone remember "Alice" by Steve Capps? > That was the *first* commercially sold game for the Macintosh, and was > sold by Apple. > > Dark Castle and Beyond Dark Castle were also among my favorites. > Remember the "Nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah!" and "Mawk, mawk!" sounds of > the critters? > > And I'm looking for a copy of the *DEMO* version of SmoothTalker. > I'd be interested in the real thing as well, but I mainly want the demo. > I think Crystal Quest is one of the best early Mac games, and then Spectre for later models. Anyone know where to get a copy of Virtual Valerie? I remember hearing about it years ago. -- Antique Computer Virtual Museum www.nothingtodo.org

23 years, 3 months

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AS/400 OS/400 Hobbyists?

by msell＠ontimesupport.com

Guys, I'm intrigued by the availability of AS/400 machines ; the prices are within grasp of the typical mainframe/minicomputer enthusiast. However.... What are the licensing methods available for OS/400? I'd really love to get a PPC AS/400 and run Linux under control of OS/400 using the partitioning scheme. The idea of running several Linux instances on a nice cool-looking chunk of IBM hardware sounds really neat. (And yes, I have heard of and used User-Mode Linux on x86) I've seen a few messages regarding home users of AS/400, and the messages aren't very positive with respect to using one of these machines for home/hobbyist use. Does IBM have a hobbyist program similar to what is available for OpenVMS? Do licenses for OS/400 expire and start shutting down CPU availability in the machine? Are licenses applied to OS/400 such that you have to "plug in" licenses to enable certain hardware/software components? It think it would be really cool to work with an AS/400, but only if it doesn't start shutting down and beg for license renewals! Thanks for any insight that you IBM gurus have on this.... - Matt Matthew Sell Programmer On Time Support, Inc. www.ontimesupport.com (281) 296-6066 Join the Metrology Software discussion group METLIST! http://www.ontimesupport.com/subscribe_t&c.html. "One World, One Web, One Program" - Microsoft Promotional Ad "Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuhrer" - Adolf Hitler Many thanks for this tagline to a fellow RGVAC'er...

23 years, 3 months

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OT: Location

by francois＠auradon.com

Hi all, Sorry for the OT post but I think it is worth noting since it relates to the list. I seen a few post where people add their location after their name in the signature, I think this is way cool and give a perspective on the globalization of the list. I would like to strongly encourage everybody on theis list to do the same and add your location. Thank you for your attention Francois Minnesota USA

23 years, 3 months

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Lotus Signal Receiver, was Re: QUOTE or TICKER

by n8uhn＠yahoo.com

Most ticker stuff was feed via geo satellitte or fm broadcast band S.C.A. (subsidarary carrier authorization) there are four sca freqs that are on channel in band fm mono data or audio services. ibm and others used sca or sat for ticker and other audio/data services. i have a clearlink plus sat modem that did two way sat link for upi or aps. it's a ku band tranciever but i did not get the orignal dish with it. it still works - you can used a standard ku band feed horn for recieve. most of the sca fm suff is off the air. the rcvrs for sca and sat are eather one way (sca) or two way(sat) addressable. thats how they controled the subscription and auth'ed users. Bill Message: 7 Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 17:31:48 -0800 From: Marvin Johnston <marvin(a)rain.org> To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org Subject: Lotus Signal Receiver, was Re: QUOTE or TICKER Reply-To: cctech(a)classiccmp.org Mike, I have what I *think* is the same thing, and it is copyright 1986; he was looking for pre 1984 or so. If you need copies of the software, *assuming* the software I have is good, it won't be a problem. I can bring it to TRW late this month. Anyone know what frequency this works on, and if the supporting transmitter is still on the air? It indicated this was a subscription service, and I would be most interested to know how they enforced that. Mike Ford wrote: > > At 11:46 PM 1/21/03 -0500, Jim Keohane wrote: > > Looking for handheld quote device, ticker display or any peripheral > > for IBM PC, Apple ][, etc. to pick up ticker broadcast via FM Broadcast > > or geosynchronous satellite broadcast. Does not necessarilly have to be > > functioning. User manual would be great. > > I have a Lotus box, but no software or paperwork. > > Lotus FM Receiver > > Lotus Information Network Corp. > Burlingame, CA > Model No. 109-13011XX > FCC ID No. EVL5TTRABSTROPS > Serial No. M1300678 > > Beeps and lights blink when plugged in, so I suspect with the proper stuff > it still works, or would if the signal were still broadcast. --__--__--

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DEC M501 board

by djg＠drs-esg.com

From: "Will Jennings" <xds_sigma7(a)hotmail.com> > >Can anyone tell me if this board is supposed to have a crystal or something >plugged into it? It has this little 2-hole socket-type thing on it, but >without looking at others, I cannot tell if there is something that belongs >there... This is part of some variation of the KW8I clock, FYI. > The two pin connector on the edge goes to a transformer on the bottom of an 8/I to the left of the fans. It is a schmitt trigger to convert your line frequency into a clock pulse for the real time clock. If you need a picture I can take one. The schematic is in the 8/I maintenance manual I have online, pg II-57, volume II. David Gesswein http://www.pdp8.net/ -- Run an old computer with blinkenlights.

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In a previous life the mircomputers I used to sell were the...

by cb＠mythtech.net

>Please add to the list your personal experience of computers sales. >If you didn't sell it don't add it. Do you want actual "sales" as in worked in a computer store and pushed the stuff on people, or do you count VAR sales. If you count VAR sales, then my company VAR'd the MacXL, Toshiba T1000 laptop (I think that was the model, I have one left somewhere), Apple II+, Corona luggable, IBM System 23, and I recently came across paperwork that indicates we did the IBM 5110 as well. There may be others, those are just the ones I remember/know of (I suspect we also did the Lisa 2, 128k Mac, and have a feeling on a TeleVideo, the all in one model that had the drives/CPU mounted on end next to the tiltable monitor) -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

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Laserjet IIIp in Ohio

by lwolfrum＠lucent.com

Paul, I am looking for a letter size paper tray for my LaserJet IIIP. Are any of these paper trays still available? Larry Wolfrum Naperville, Illinois ----- Original Message ----- Someone was asking about paper trays for a LaserJet IIIp in Ohio. I have a half-dozen broken LaserJet IIp's and one IIIp for parts, including the paper trays. I live just north of Toledo. Contact me if you still need it. -- Paul R. Santa-Maria Monroe, Michigan USA

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Applied Microsystems ICE

by RCini＠congressfinancial.com

Hello, all: I came across an Applied Microsystems in-circuit emulator on eBay and wondered if anyone on the list has any familiarity with it. It's model 627593, 750-03207-00 and comes with one pod, model 68360-33. Any idea how this is configured?. Google info is pretty limited except for the announcement that Applied went out of business and sold out to Metroworks. Thanks. Rich ========================== Richard A. Cini, Jr. First Vice President Congress Financial Corporation 1133 Avenue of the Americas 30th Floor New York, NY 10036 (212) 545-4402 (212) 840-6259 (facsimile)

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Sierra Adventure Games

by cb＠mythtech.net

>Yes, French Postcards is what it was called. The pictures were all >drawings. > >Another scenario featured a woman bumping into a guy working at the post >office licking envelopes that had a rather large tongue. Another was a >lady, her maid, and a bottle of champaign. I forgot what the last one >was. As I kind of figured, you are right. Those other scenarios sound familiar. >I've still got it on disk. I'm pulling what might be them off asimov as I type this. -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

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DEC M501 board

by xds_sigma7＠hotmail.com

Hi, Can anyone tell me if this board is supposed to have a crystal or something plugged into it? It has this little 2-hole socket-type thing on it, but without looking at others, I cannot tell if there is something that belongs there... This is part of some variation of the KW8I clock, FYI. Will J _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus

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Rare Commodore PET Prototype Strobe Plotter

by rigdonj＠cfl.rr.com

Did you guys see this? "http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=1247&item=2305106540" Joe

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[maybe OT]: WTD: ISA bus video card + 10baseT card

by philpem＠dsl.pipex.com

Hi all, This may be stretching the 10-year rule a bit, but... I've just bought a nice little 386 motherboard, real small thing, from one of my friends. Catch is, I thought I had a VGA card, but it's walked. Soo... Does anyone here have an ISA video card suitable for a 386-based computer? I'm also after an ISA-bus network card that can do 10BaseT - a 3com Etherlink III or something similar would be great. I'd prefer it if the video card could do at least 640x480x16 colours (VGA) and 320x200x256c (MCGA), so that kinda limits it to a VGA or SVGA card. 256k or more RAM. And it must have a standard 15-way VGA high-density D-sub connector for the video output. Thanks. -- Phil. philpem(a)dsl.pipex.com http://www.philpem.dsl.pipex.com/

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OT: the 1U system

by rigdonj＠cfl.rr.com

At 09:56 AM 1/30/03 -0700, you wrote: >Folklore for PC's was that if you recorded data on a hard drive with the >platters horizontal, remounting it vertically could cause read errors. Any >truth to this? I've turned a lot of drives on their side, upside down, etc etc while working on various computers and I've never had any problem with them. Joe

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Free IBM PC-XT available

by rigdonj＠cfl.rr.com

Spotted this in Melbourne Florida this morning. It's free for the taking. IBM PC-XT with original keyboard (and clear plastic cover) and IBM CGA monitor. It appears to be intact and in good condition. There are a couple of software packages with it but I grabbed the IBM packages (DOS, BASIC and Guide to Operation). It's located at Astro II "http://www.astrotoo.com/" in their free stuff pile. You need to pick up in person. Joe

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Sierra Adventure Games

by cb＠mythtech.net

>Low res monochrome porn, it doesn't get more pathetic. I just DLd the images and took a look... it was what I remembered. It should be noted that this was "Hi-Res" and there were versions in color... if you want to call it that >Best one I remember was called something like gogo, basically a topless >gogo dancer that looped endlessly in a corner of the mac screen. hehe... yeah, one of my favorite DA's of the time. When feeling stressed, you just pop it open and watch her wiggle for a moment. A sure way to lighten the mood. >More on topic would be the guy that did MacPlaymate, and then one of the >first CD games about some spaceship. Well, if you are going to get into the later stuff, I think Virtual Valerie should be mentioned. It might have actually beaten the spaceship one to market (but I'm not sure). -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

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Commodore & Kaypro

by bmachacek＠pcisys.net

I have a couple of more items that are looking for a good home. 1. A Commodore 1530 Datassette Unit (Casette Player), Model C2N-A, S/N 2267772. It is in its original box, but alas, I have no paperwork or manuals to go with it. I have not tested this item to see if it works but it looks complete and in good shape and even has a casette in it. 2. A KayPro memory card. It has both a 9 pin and a 25 pin female input connector. It has no identifying marks except the word "Kaypro" and a S/N of 2046. I can't guarantee anything about this board as I got it in a large box of mixed boards several years ago. This is not a motherboard. Please contact me if you are interested. Cost will be postage charges plus $1 for my packaging costs. Bill Machacek Colorado Springs, CO

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Contact will be a tad slow...

by jimw＠agora.rdrop.com

...for the near future... Lost my 'regular' internet link, so until I get something new in place I can only get to the net about once a day and for a limited amount of time. So if you are trying to contact me, be patient... I'm out here (somewhere), just slower than usual... -jim --- jimw(a)agora.rdrop.com The Computer Garage - http://www.rdrop.com/~jimw

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H-11A/H-27 (was ...couple of new items...)

by jimw＠agora.rdrop.com

Umm... EEK! Did not expect the 'feeding frenzy' that this would start, so a 'bulk' reply is going out for the moment. Short form: everyone who inquired about this system is getting this note, as well as the 'list' ofr anyone else interested... 'First Call' on this system is going out to the first response received (via a separate message). Should that person decide not to purchase the system I will move down the list as needed... Description: (so I don't have to do this multiple more times) <G> H-11A chassis and P/S, H-27 dual floppy drive unit, M7270 LSI-11 CPU, 64kb RAM (don't look like either DEC or Heath, but a nice board), (2) H-11-5 serial I/O, H27 Floppy I/O. No docs, unless I locate a spare set. No floppy based software, tho I do have the original paper tape based Heath software that was distributed with the unit. (so... if anyone has a copy of 'HT-11' tha tI could get... B^} ) Condition: decent. The 'usual' nick and ding for something of it's age. Should clean up rather nicely with a little TLC. No signs of notable 'abuse'. All for now on this topic. -jim --- jimw(a)agora.rdrop.com The Computer Garage - http://www.rdrop.com/~jimw

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Sierra Adventure Games

by cb＠mythtech.net

>French Postcards! The way it worked was that there were two pictures, one >loaded into the first hi-res page and the other loaded into the second >hi-res page. The two pages were then alternated to produce "animation". >The obnoxious part was that it would play this loud trill between each >page flips, so if you were trying to be discrete there was no chance of >that. That might have been it, but I remembered it being more animated cartoonish video. Some kind of a story went with it (the two ladies came home from the store pulled the salami from their bag, and wondered what they could do with it). The art quality was around that of ArtWorx's Strip Poker game. And I don't recall their being sound with it, but I could be wrong. The whole thing only ran 30 seconds or so IIRC. I'll have to look thru one of the online A2 archives... someone must have it imaged somewhere. -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

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The H&H AoE book

by jss＠subatomix.com

Due to the recommendation of several on the list, I went to the local Barnes and Noble and picked up Horowitz & Hill's _The Art of Electronics_. You guys weren't fibbing: this thing's great! I've only read about 10 pages so far, but it already kicks the complete @#$% out of the book I previously had. I give many thanks to those who recommended this book. The other book I had was _Understanding Electronics_. I don't remember the author's name but the publisher was TAB Books. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone except maybe for use as a firestarter. That book sucks giant donkey balls (IMHO of course). -- Jeffrey Sharp

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Model 100 DVI drive

by RCini＠congressfinancial.com

Roger: This helps a lot. The CoCo drive I have is a single drive in a dual slimline case. I have to open it up to get the drive model numbers but at least now I have something to go on. On the cable, I would call Tandy National Parts. About 3 years ago, I ordered the DVI cable for the 102 and they had it. It was $30 or $40, but well worth it. They had bood disks too for $5. Rich ========================== Richard A. Cini, Jr. First Vice President Congress Financial Corporation 1133 Avenue of the Americas 30th Floor New York, NY 10036 (212) 545-4402 (212) 840-6259 (facsimile) -----Original Message----- From: Roger Merchberger [mailto:zmerch@30below.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 10:44 AM To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org Subject: Re: Model 100 DVI drive Rumor has it that M H Stein may have mentioned these words: >From: "Cini, Richard" <RCini(a)congressfinancial.com> > > Does anyone know if the specs on the Model 100 Disk-Video Interface >is the same as the CoCo disks? I have a single-drive DVI and a single >low-profile CoCo disk drive. They physically look to be the same but I >wanted to be sure before I lashed them together. Depends... ;-) The DVI wants a "standard" 34-pin interface MFM SSDD 40-track drive -- the original CoCo drives were 35-track SSDD drives. If you put one of *these* drives in the DVI, you will most surely hear bad clunking noises when you try to format your first disk. The CoCo slimline drives came in 3 flavors: The FD-500, which was 35-track SSDD (bad) the FD-501 which was 40 track SSDD (which is OK), and the FD-502 which was 40-track DSDD (which side 1 will go unused, but should work fine). I have a DVI as well, but I don't have a boot disk or interface cable for my Tandy 200... so I have yet to use it. Hope this helps! Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- sysadmin, Iceberg Computers zmerch(a)30below.com What do you do when Life gives you lemons, and you don't *like* lemonade?????????????

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SGI GIO64 FDDI card trade

by jkunz＠unixag-kl.fh-kl.de

Hi. I have a SGI Indigo2 [1] with a SGI GIO64 FDDI / CDDI SAS UTP card. I don't have copper ports on my concentrator, so I need the equivalent DAS fiber optic FDDI card. (SAS would do also, but DAS would better fit in my network topology.) I can trade the UTP SAS card and possibly soon a SGI Extreme GFX for the DAS fiber FDDI card. Alternative: A CDDI/copper to FDDI/fiber optic media converter or a CDDI/copper interface module for my Hirschmann MC 10-03 concentrator. If someone wants to get "rid" of this "obsolete" FDDI stuff, please drop me a mail. ;-) I am located in Germany. [1] The I2 was released 5/93, so it is nearly on topic. :-) -- tsch??, Jochen Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/

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PDP-8: (and others) anyone tried NVRAM simulation of hard drives?

by fm.arnold＠inn-salzach.de

>Message: 10 >From: "Will Jennings" <xds_sigma7(a)hotmail.com> >To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org >Subject: Re: PDP-8: anyone tried NVRAM simulation of hard drives? >Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 19:44:46 -0700 >Reply-To: cctech(a)classiccmp.org > >Omnibus or Posibus? Why not Negibus? Neither Omnibus nor Posibus would help >me on my 8/i, since mine is Negibus... An SSD would be a Very Cool Thing to >have though... Especially since it really wouldn't have to be very large in >terms of capacity.. > >Will J > > Hi, one way of doing this would be the use of a TU-58 tape drive. This device is internalley using a disc-like structure, and it will connect to any serial port. There should be a PDP8 OS8 driver for this. And with the RS-232 interface, this could be used for any other computer as well. The real TU58 is sweet, but terribly slow. On top of that, the tapes are expensive. But there are cool alternatives: You will find a semiconductor-emulated TU58 kit on: http://www.SpareTimeGizmos.com/Hardware/TU58_Emulator.htm Also there is a PC-Emulation on: http://www.not-compatible.org/PDP-11/programs/tu58sim.html I havn't yet used any of these, (have a real TU58), so see for yourself how useful this is in your system. Please post the results! Frank Arnold

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Was Removing duct tape residue, now guntalk

by loedman1＠juno.com

> I always find it interesting that computer types would also be gun >nuts. I've got a 1942 Soviet Musen Nagent (Spelling?) 7.62x54R, a 1970s >era Savage 30-06, and a .380 handgun. Cabela's has a good stock of >various odd ammunition sizes, including 7.62x54R. I believe that it has to do with "protecting" our precious computers, or maybe the family ? BTW, I prefer muzzle loaders (45 and 58 cal) and saddle guns Rich Stephenson Lake Berryessa, California

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DEC Rainbow monitor in picture

by mtapley＠swri.edu

Rainbow afficionadoes, at URL http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3204407169&category=21092 (auction title = "1985 DIGITAL AD/Rainbow Computer/DEC PC/Desq", ending Feb. 4) is a picture of an advertisement (apparently clipped from a period computer magazine, from the description). While I'm annoyed with the seller (starting bid = $7.98 for *one page* of one of his old magazines??!!??), more interesting to me is the content of the ad. It shows what looks like a VR201 monitor and LK201 keyboard (presumably hooked up to a Rainbow, which is not in view), running DESQ *with a color display*. The only color monitor that I knew of that worked with a Rainbow is a VR240, and the monitor in the picture does not look like one of those to me. Question: is there a monitor that looks like a VR201 and acts (ie displays in color if connected to a Rainbow) like a VR240, or is that advertising hyperbole? I have to say that the "color display" looks photo-retouched in - the upper border of the windows line up with the monitor screen edge but the lower borders do not. - Mark No connection to the auction.

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Fw: Spectrum Holobyte's "BreakThru!"

by ETILLMAN＠satx.rr.com

Thanks! Done. Ed San Antonio, Tx, USA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeffrey Sharp" <jss(a)subatomix.com> To: "Ed Tillman" <ETILLMAN(a)satx.rr.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 06:11 PM Subject: Re: Spectrum Holobyte's "BreakThru!" > You probably want to send this to the list instead of to me. The correct > address for posting is cctalk(a)classiccmp.org. > > On Wednesday, January 29, 2003, Ed Tillman wrote: > > Thanks to all, for all the input that helped me locate Spectum Holobyte's > > BreakThru! I did indeed find it on the referred abandonware page, and > > snatched while the gettin' was good. The actual file size was @ 1.2Mb > > zipped, and over 5Mb expanded, with over 4.5Mb being the wall patterns. I > > do remember it pushing Windows 3.1 and 4Mb of 30-pin RAM to its limits > > though... :) > > > > BTW: I thought I'd have to apologise for being OT about the game (still > > debatably fuzzy), but right on the splash screen - the earliest copyright > > listed was/is 1989. > > > > If I can help anyone in a like manner, please don't hesitate to holler! > > -- > Jeffrey Sharp

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more free stuff

by loedman1＠juno.com

Available cards (1) Genoa Systems Windows VGA Mod# 8500VL Rev:A " " Rev:G " " Phantom 32 Mod# 8900VL Rev:A (2) Audio PCI 9722 Sound Card (3) Creative Labs CT6030 Video Spigot for Windows (4) Media Vision Pro Graphics 1024 (5) BIBM-VIDE-500X Video DCI tv (6) Headland Technology VRAM 2 (1991) 650-0218-blank (7) Sigma Designs ReelMagic CD Rev:A1 (8) Spider Graphics Spider 64VLB (9) Seattle Computer Ram+(plus) SCP130C (four banks installed) Free to a good home ;-) More to follow, as I get the time Rich Stephenson loedman1(a)juno.com

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ADMIN: Demime is now active

by acme＠ao.net

> By popular demand, Jay and I have set up demime on the ClassicCmp server, > and all posts are being filtered through it. From here on out, all posts you > get from CC will be in plain text, with no attachments or HTML. If you send > file attachments, they will be removed from your post. If you post anything > other than plain text messages, plain text will be extracted or rendered as > appropriate. Even HTML-only or RTF-only mail is rendered into plain text. > Demime tries very hard to convert your post into plain text, but if it > simply cannot, it will bounce your post. *Sigh* Thank you! Glen 0/0

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...couple of new items...

by jimw＠agora.rdrop.com

for the 'Garage' Garage sale... (regular internet connection is down, so have to live with text for now...) Heath H-11A + H27 --- $300.00 Altos 586 --- $40.00 Altos 580 --- $40.00 Commodore VIC-20 in original box with docs and cables - $40.00 Items are untested and as such are offered AS-IS. Shipping/packing charges additional. Offers/interesting trades considered. Thanks; -jim --- jimw(a)agora.rdrop.com The Computer Garage - http://www.rdrop.com/~jimw

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Macintosh II up for grabs in New York City

by vcf＠siconic.com

Contact original sender. Reply-to: silvernails(a)mindspring.com ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 23:30:09 -0500 From: Tim <silvernails(a)mindspring.com> To: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf(a)siconic.com> Subject: Re: Mac II to donate I have a Mac II (still working!) to donate. It is from 1987. Please advise if you are looking for such things. -- Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org * Old computing resources for business and academia at www.VintageTech.com *

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Spare Chips

by dougdu＠microsoft.com

The EPP-2 software is available on the Art website. http://www.artbv.nl - Doug -----Original Message----- From: Paul Arts [mailto:paularts@home.nl] Sent: Tue 1/29/2013 1:17 PM To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org Cc: Subject: Re: Spare Chips I want to work my Art EPP-2 programmer but i lost the software google doesn't have what i'm looking for any of you pherhaps (its for the 27 and 28 series) Paul [demime 1.01a removed an attachment of type application/ms-tnef which had a name of winmail.dat]

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Looking for MBasic for Tandy 68000 Xenix

by kelly＠catcorner.org

Subject says it all. dd image, tar file, 8" or 5.25" floppy. Anyone have a copy laying around? Thanks, Kelly

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Ebay: Mark 1 Computer Cards

by drido＠optushome.com.au

>Message: 45 >Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 10:03:44 -0800 >From: Marvin Johnston <marvin(a)rain.org> >To: ClassicCmp <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> >Subject: Ebay: Mark 1 Computer Cards >Reply-To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org > >The pictures didn't load for me right now, but if these truely are the >Mark 1 cards, it sounds like a neat collection! > >http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2303799002&category=1247 Most of the cards pictures are small cards with 1 or more transistors on them. Theres a couple of other parts that I can't identify from the pictures, and and 8 bit ISA card that obviously doesn't belong. Not Mark 1 parts, at least not Manchester Mark 1 parts. Could be from some other machine called Mark 1 that I don't know of.

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Tamper proof tools

by classiccmp＠vulcanjedi.com

Greetings programs. I must de-lurk here for a video game related item :) The security bits used to open Sega and Nintendo items are 4.5mm and 3.8mm inverted torx bits. www.mcmelectronics.com part numbers 22-1150 and 22-1145 and they are listed at $1.99 each. They also have the tri wing bits that open gamecube and gameboy stuff. They are also a source for replacement cartridge edge connectors and other video game hardware. I promise my next post will be about free CBM and PET computers in the Philadelphia PA USA area. :) Mark webmaster www.vulcanjedi.com 30 years of game history! Message: 19 From: "Sue & Francois" <fauradon(a)frontiernet.net> To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> Subject: Re: Tamper proof tools Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 06:00:23 -0800 Reply-To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org Yep there they are again :) Now that I have a few names to search with I can find exactly what I need. But at $15 a piece that makes it spendy at the moment. But hey it's for the nomad after all... :) Thank you Francois Minnesota

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I am not dead!

by mhstein＠canada.com

Same here! If anyone finds pieces of mine, let me know; being Canadian, they'll be wearing little toques with red maple leaves on them... mike in Toronto ---------------Original message------------------ From: "Jeffrey S. Worley" <Technoid(a)30below.com> Subject: I am not dead! Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 15:27:03 -0500 There are very few things of which I certain these days, but one thing I am sure of is that I am not dead. I'm sorry for making such a mess of the list and of my dealings with Curt. He deserved better. I just lost my mind. Plain and simple. I have some of it back now and am hunting for more. If any of you find some, please let me know so I can put it back. Regards, Jeff

23 years, 3 months

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Decserver 700-16 firmware

by doug_jackson＠citadel.com.au

Hi, I have got my hands on a couple of old dec terminal servers, and am having trouble finding the firmware to make them work. These devices do not have flash, and are attempting to boot from a bootp server, so I guess that they need an image. Does anybody on the list still have an image for these boxes. Unfortunately, without software, the boxes appear to be junk, and it would be really great to get these boxes going, so that I could connect to various systems (including my SBC6120) from my pc (via TCP!) regards Doug Jackson Director, Managed Security Services Citadel Securix +61 (0)2 6290 9011 (Ph) +61 (0)2 6262 6152 (Fax) +61 (0)414 986 878 (Mobile) Web: <www.citadel.com.au> Offices in Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra, Hong Kong, Boston CAUTION - The information in this message may be of a privileged or confidential nature intended only for the use of the addressee or someone authorised to receive the addressee's e-mail. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error please notify postmaster(a)citadel.com.au. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of Citadel Securix. Feel free to visit the Citadel Securix website! Click below. http://www.citadel.com.au

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Free stuff

by Edward.Tillman＠valero.com

Hmm... Could you please list the dimensions/size/capacity of these drives? I'm trying to cobble together an authentic late-XT or early-AT clone system, and would like to get hold of one or two fairly early (as authentic as possible) 1/2- or 1/4- height hard drives. Note: If there are any serious cc history buffs out there, I'm curious when the first CDs and or sound cards were installed in marketed XT/AT systems. Ed Tillman Store Automation Tech Support Specialist Valero Energy Corporation San Antonio, TX; USA Phone (210) 592-3110, Fax (210) 592-2048 edward.tillman(a)valero.com <mailto:edward.tillman@valero.com> > -----Original Message----- > From: cctalk-admin@classiccmp.org@PEUSA On Behalf Of > loedman1(a)juno.com > Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 7:23 PM > To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org > Subject: Free stuff > > The following hard drives were delivered to me yesterday > > (1) Conner CP3000 > (2) Seagate ST-125 > (3) Maxtor 7213AT > (4) Maxtor 7245AT > (5) Maxtor LXT340A > (6) Maxtor MXT540A (3) > (7) Conner CFA340A > (8) Seagate ST-225 (2) > (9) Seagate ST-238R > > Also received a bunch of miscellaneous chips and cards that I need to > sort and identify that will be available > > Rich Stephenson > >

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Removing Duct Tape Residue

by cmcnabb＠4mcnabb.net

While out in Idaho picking up a PDP-11/83 I also managed to pick up a working LA-100 at a government surplus place. It had a piece of duct tape stuck to the clear plastic cover with the word "Spare" written on it. Anyone know of a good way to remove the remaining duct tape residue >from the cover? -- Christopher L McNabb Operating Systems Analyst Email: cmcnabb(a)4mcnabb.net Virginia Tech ICBM: 37.1356N 80.4272N GMRS: WPSR255 ARS: N2UX Grid Sq: EM97SD

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TI 99/4A Power Supply

by ygehrich＠yahoo.com

I have a number of TI power supplies Texas Instruments Power Supply - Model AC 9131 IP 120va 60hz 6 watts OP 3.3vac 500ma Texas Instruments Power Supply - Model AC 9132 IP 120va 60hz 6 watts OP 5.7vac 240ma Texas Instrument Power Supply Model AC 9180 IP 120vac 50/60hz 5w OP 9.5vdc 50ma Which is the correct Power Supply for the TI 99/4A What TI machines are the others for?

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ADMIN: Demime is now active

by loedman1＠juno.com

>Jeffrey Sharp <jss(a)subatomix.com> >By popular demand, Jay and I have set up demime on the ClassicCmp server, >and all posts are being filtered through it. From here on out, all posts you >get from CC will be in plain text, with no attachments or HTML. If you send Thank You, you have no idea how much I appreciate this !!!!!!! Rich Stephenson Lake Berryessa, California

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ADMIN: Demime is now active

by jss＠subatomix.com

By popular demand, Jay and I have set up demime on the ClassicCmp server, and all posts are being filtered through it. From here on out, all posts you get from CC will be in plain text, with no attachments or HTML. If you send file attachments, they will be removed from your post. If you post anything other than plain text messages, plain text will be extracted or rendered as appropriate. Even HTML-only or RTF-only mail is rendered into plain text. Demime tries very hard to convert your post into plain text, but if it simply cannot, it will bounce your post. You don't need to change anything. This change should be totally transparent to all subscribers. Just keep posting or lurking as you always have. A round of thanks goes out to all who suggested the use of a tool like demime. For more information about demime, you may wish to visit its web site: http://scifi.squawk.com/demime.html -- Jeffrey Sharp

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ADMIN: Demime is now active

by doug_jackson＠citadel.com.au

testing Doug Jackson Director, Managed Security Services Citadel Securix +61 (0)2 6290 9011 (Ph) +61 (0)2 6262 6152 (Fax) +61 (0)414 986 878 (Mobile) Web: <www.citadel.com.au> Offices in Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra, Hong Kong, Boston CAUTION - The information in this message may be of a privileged or confidential nature intended only for the use of the addressee or someone authorised to receive the addressee's e-mail. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error please notify postmaster(a)citadel.com.au. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of Citadel Securix. Feel free to visit the Citadel Securix website! Click below. http://www.citadel.com.au

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ARM Evaluation Kit discs

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

The saga of the ARM Evaluation Kit discs continues... I still don't have a complete uncorrupted Disc 1, which is the disc containing the editors and assembler for the ARM. Rob, who hoped to make a copy for me has found that his Disc 1 also has a corrupt track in exactly the same place as mine and Kevan's. Perhaps there was a batch of corrput discs from Acorn's disc duplicators. Can I ask anyone who thinks they have Disc 1 for the ARM Evaluation Kit to *please* make an effort to dig it out, and either copy it for me, or lend it? I now know of at least four or five people who would be very grateful. I'll pay for postage etc, of course, by recorded delivery if necessary. I've worked out at least one way to make disc images that should be accessible to a BBC Micro, so if I can get Disc 1 sorted out, I can not only make copies for those who I know want them, but make the images available on a website. Thanks to those who've already made helpful suggestions about disc images. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

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Tamper proof tools

by truthanl＠oclc.org

http://www.mcmelectronics.com/Home/level_5.jhtml?PRODID=9629&SKUID=8874 Above is a set of tamper proof bits At MCM electronics. Dayton OH USA web-store. SECURITY SD2519 BIT SET 30 PC W/ SCREWDRIVER 30 Piece Security Screwdriver Insert Bit Kit This is a complete set of security bits for all of those difficult service applications, such as IBM PS/2 monitors, cable boxes, telephone equipment and many others. Kit contains: 5/64", 3/32", 7/64", 1/8", 9/64", 5/32" security hex keys; T8, T10, T15, T20, T25, T27, T30, T35, T40 security torx bits; #6, #8, #10 torx set bits; #4, #6, #8, #10 spanners; #1, #2, #3, #4 tri-wings, bit holder, 1/4" socket adaptor, 7-1/2" magnetic handle and plastic carrying case. Larry Truthan Digest subscriber Dublin OH USA

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ibm sys/36 5360 basic needed

by xds_sigma7＠hotmail.com

(posting to list because I'm not sure my first try went through) Colin, I'd be very interested in the 5360.. Where is it? I have a full set of S/36 software on 5.25" disks... Will J

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Problem with 9836C floppy drive--resolved, but I'm not sure why!

by swperk＠earthlink.net

Hi Tony and everyone, Thanks for the suggestions. All of the floppies that I substituted looked absolutely identical to the one that wasn't working. The last thing that I did was to try another floppy drive data cable (it's the standard PC-style dual floppy cable with the 34-pin IDC connector on the controller end and the card edge connector on the other end). When I simply replaced the original cable on the left-hand drive with the new one, the problem remained. When I swapped the cables to each drive (right going to left and left going to right), it worked perfectly! I assume that there must be some sort of drive select or other difference between the two floppy drives, but why the right one works in either location, and the left one works only as the primary (right-hand) drive is beyond me. After I convinced myself that everything was now okay, I physically interchanged the floppies (left to right and right to left) and took the opportunity to examine them very carefully to look for differences. I saw none. Even the date codes were identical! I'm not saying that there aren't any differences--in fact, there must be--but there wasn't anything obvious to me. The only difference with the 9836C that I notice now (besides the obvious lack of an error message at startup) is that the LED on the floppy controller board labeled "TR00" (those are zeroes) is no longer illuminated after the POST. I assume that is a Track 0 seek failure indicator, but I'm just speculating. Whatever the case, I'm delighted that it's fixed! Thanks to everyone for their help and suggestions! Regards, Stan From: ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell) Subject: Re: Problem with 9836C floppy drive To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 19:06:48 +0000 (GMT) Reply-To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org > series of high and low pitched beeps (low, low, high, low, high, high, low). I assume that's some kind of error code, which would be useful if the video side was malfunctioning. Anyone have a table of them? > After that, it is able to load an OS (HP BASIC) and run fine, with the > exception that the left-hand floppy drive is inaccessible. > > I've taken a known good floppy drive, floppy controller, and even the CPU I assume you checked that the replacement drive was configured the same way (link settings, termination resistor pack) as the old one? What about the cables to this drive? Have you checked it's getting power (IIRC there's a conventional 4 pin power connector in there). Have you tested/swapped the data cable? -tony

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ADMIN: Demime is now active

by julesrichardsonuk＠yahoo.co.uk

> By popular demand, Jay and I have set up demime on the ClassicCmp server, absolutely brilliant!! Can you set something up to automatically strip off my yahoo .sig too? ;-) cheers! Jules Everything you'll ever need on one web page >from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com

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Model 100 DVI drive

by RCini＠congressfinancial.com

Bill: I don't have a CoCo, but I do have a DVI. So I was going to raid the drive from an external CoCo drive that I somehow got and use it in the DVI. I was concerned more with electrical compatibility than software compatibility. I didn't realize that in those machines Tandy used standard floppy drives. I guess by that point in time, many manufacturers (except Apple and Commodore) standardized on an IBM-style drives rather than proprietary setups. I'm sure I'm over-generalizing and will start a sprightly discussion on disk formats :-) Thanks to all who responded. Rich -----Original Message----- From: Bill Allen Jr [mailto:n8uhn@yahoo.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 12:14 AM To: cctech(a)classiccmp.org Subject: Re: Model 100 DVI drive I cannot remember what the model 100 used for a drive. the coco and coco 2/3 both used standard (ibm compatable) mfm, 5 1/4 in, single sided, low density floppy drives. the card edge connector for the coco cable between the interface cart and floppy was a streight thru cable - (pin 1 went to pin 1 etc). i have used standard 360k floppys on the coco - it only uses one side of the diskette for 180k. if the model 100 has the same pinout and uses a standard mfm dirve it should work. btw the coco drive case did have a power supply in it for the drive - power did not come from the cart. Bill Message: 36 From: "Cini, Richard" <RCini(a)congressfinancial.com> To: "CCTech (E-mail)" <cctech(a)classiccmp.org> Subject: Model 100 DVI drive Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 10:55:53 -0500 Reply-To: cctech(a)classiccmp.org Hello, all: Does anyone know if the specs on the Model 100 Disk-Video Interface is the same as the CoCo disks? I have a single-drive DVI and a single low-profile CoCo disk drive. They physically look to be the same but I wanted to be sure before I lashed them together. Thanks. Rich ========================== Richard A. Cini, Jr. First Vice President Congress Financial Corporation 1133 Avenue of the Americas 30th Floor New York, NY 10036 (212) 545-4402 (212) 840-6259 (facsimile) End of cctech Digest

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To: TONY DUELL

by pchalloffame＠ameritech.net

What undocumented instructions in HP calculators... Got an example Yours Truly Dean Lampman

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Great Finds Today

by jrkeys＠concentric.net

A friend gave me a LM-2 Logic monitor from Global Specialties Corp. It has a button called the Family Threshold Select with 5 settings: RTL, DTL, TTL, HTL, and CMOS. Did a google search trying to find a manual but no luck so far. Got a brand new unopened 500+ piece puzzle called MICROCHIP and it's dated 1983the cover of the box is a huge picture of a microchip circuit design. Not sure if I should break the seal and put it together or just leave it untouched for now? Data General walkabout computers (3) not tested yet. Need power adapters.

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New finds... information wanted

by pat＠purdueriots.com

I've managed to pick up a pair of "Atomic Instrument Company" Model 1091's from Purdue yesterday. They were manufactured in 1962, and the reason that I claim that they're on-topic is because they 'count'. Googling for "Atomic Instrument Company" brings back a grand total of three results... nothing that looks useful. Does anyone know anything about the company or where a schematic could be found? These are the first things i've brought home that use a set of vacuum tubes (thermionic valves for those on the other side of the pond) to count. Really neat. I've put up a pair of blurry pictures of its front (I don't have access to good lighting at the moment...) on my web site: http://purdueriots.com/mr-atomic/ Warning: the pictures have a large resolution, but are only about 80kB in size. Pat -- Purdue Universtiy ITAP/RCS Information Technology at Purdue Research Computing and Storage http://www-rcd.cc.purdue.edu

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Free to a good home - will be skipped next week.

by tim.myers＠sunplan.com

IBM PS/2 model 35SX - HDD of some description, 1920Kb RAM. Also with Proprinter XL, and IBM Monitor (heavy burnin). This is going in the skip next week, if anyone wants to rescue it from Ellesmere Port (UK) then let me know and I'll rescue it. Tim.

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FA: DEC paper tapes, more

by rigdonj＠cfl.rr.com

As promised I just put more stuff on E-bay; GenRad 1657 RLC meter, extender cable for same, 23 rolls of paper tapes for DEC PDP-8 (I think!), Anzac RF power divider, etc. <http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewSellersOtherItems&userid=rigdonj> if interested. Joe

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Y2K/Y10K for V5.03 of RT-11

by mtapley＠swri.edu

>Anyone who likes a different expression other than >"NEWFIX" that is 6 letters or less - please suggest. Y2KFIX or Y10KFX (as appropriate)? That seems more specific. - Mark

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Model 100 DVI drive

by n8uhn＠yahoo.com

I cannot remember what the model 100 used for a drive. the coco and coco 2/3 both used standard (ibm compatable) mfm, 5 1/4 in, single sided, low density floppy drives. the card edge connector for the coco cable between the interface cart and floppy was a streight thru cable - (pin 1 went to pin 1 etc). i have used standard 360k floppys on the coco - it only uses one side of the diskette for 180k. if the model 100 has the same pinout and uses a standard mfm dirve it should work. btw the coco drive case did have a power supply in it for the drive - power did not come from the cart. Bill Message: 36 From: "Cini, Richard" <RCini(a)congressfinancial.com> To: "CCTech (E-mail)" <cctech(a)classiccmp.org> Subject: Model 100 DVI drive Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 10:55:53 -0500 Reply-To: cctech(a)classiccmp.org Hello, all: Does anyone know if the specs on the Model 100 Disk-Video Interface is the same as the CoCo disks? I have a single-drive DVI and a single low-profile CoCo disk drive. They physically look to be the same but I wanted to be sure before I lashed them together. Thanks. Rich ========================== Richard A. Cini, Jr. First Vice President Congress Financial Corporation 1133 Avenue of the Americas 30th Floor New York, NY 10036 (212) 545-4402 (212) 840-6259 (facsimile) End of cctech Digest

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looking for DEC parts

by alderney＠telusplanet.net

It would be easier if you specified what these parts were - a lot of us don't have manuals etc, so we end up looking at the numbers on the boards or other components. Don W > Message: 26 > Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 09:30:31 +0100 > From: ANTIK <antikgmbh(a)compuserve.com> > Organization: ANTIK > To: cctech(a)classiccmp.org > Subject: Looking for DEC parts > Reply-To: cctech(a)classiccmp.org > > Hello, > > I found your e-mail address after searching for the DEC part# > 21-15542-01 on the "googles" platform. > > We are a German independent distributor and looking for several DEC > parts for our customer. > May you can help ??? > > These are the parts we are looking for: > > 5 pcs. DEC 21-17311-01 or 21-17311-02 > 2 pcs. DEC 21-17312-00 or 21-17312-01 > 2 pcs. DEC 57-00001-01 > 2 pcs. DEC 57-00000-01 > 2 pcs. DEC 21-15542-01 > > Any luck for us ?? > > Thank you for a short notice. > Best regards > Erika > Antik Elektronik-Vertriebs-GmbH > Tel: +49 4191 89441 > Fax: +49 4191 89337 > > --__--__--

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Sharp PC 3100 w/ fdd on UK Epay

by lgwalker＠mts.net

For those in Europe there's a Sharp 3100 with the very rare floppy dd on UK EPay. Has display problems but likely not hard to fix. They are similiar to the HP 100s handhelds and take the same memory card. Also seems to have the proprietory laplink cable and the manual. 2Megs memory on board. Has DOS 3 in ram. I'd kill to find one this side of the pond but overall cost would likely be too pricey for me. It's presently at 16 lbs with 8 days to go. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&categor y=3728&item=3003997495 I have no connection with the seller. Lawrence lgwalker@ mts.net

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TAMPER PROOF TOOLS

by jrice54＠charter.net

During my electrican days, we used screw heads like that to secure light fixture covers in jail cells. They were the standard screw on jail rate fixtures. Those fixtures used a welded frame with 1" thick lexan lenses. James >>I've also seen some screw heads that have three tiny round holes, arranged >>>in a triangular pattern. > > > I've never seen those or the tools to R/R them (and I have a BOX full of bits). I'm guessing that they're proprietary to one company. > > > Joe > `

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Model 100 DVI drive

by mhstein＠canada.com

-------------------Original Message---------------- From: "Cini, Richard" <RCini(a)congressfinancial.com> Subject: Model 100 DVI drive Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 10:55:53 -0500 Hello, all: Does anyone know if the specs on the Model 100 Disk-Video Interface is the same as the CoCo disks? I have a single-drive DVI and a single low-profile CoCo disk drive. They physically look to be the same but I wanted to be sure before I lashed them together. Thanks. Rich ---------------------------------------------------------- Hi Rich: I can't answer your question, but I do have a DVI and the manual and s/w, if that can help you in any way. It runs CP/M IIRC. And if anybody's interested, make me an offer... mike in Toronto, Can.

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Pinout for HP 2629b terminal?

by fmc＠reanimators.org

Jim Willing wrote: > Well... eight 'arrow' keys (I think, I'm not in front of it at the > moment) with the 'usual' up, down, left, right... then diagonal (???) > keys, and some have the legend 'roll' on them as well... > I think it has its proper keyboard, but it has no numeric pad. Did note > an alternate numeric set in the alpha keys similar to some keypunch > machines... These make me think that it is a 2621-style keyboard. Sorry, like I wrote before, the 2621 wasn't capable of running VPLUS applications and so it was sort of shunned at the PPOE where we had one. But I remember it had a single group of keys with the cursor keys right above the numeric keys (and I think doing double duty as function keys, albeit non-programmable function keys). -Frank McConnell

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Digital AXPpci33 "noname" questions

by erd_6502＠yahoo.com

I'm dusting off this old AXPpci33 motherboard of mine and ran into a few issues... I'm attempting to upgrade the firmware and I have the file >from the Digital/Compaq/HP web site (Dec 2002 version), but the instructions don't match my situation. I don't have the ability to cobble up a boot floppy with OpenVMS (my DEC 4000 has no RX33 or equivalent), I don't seem to have a compatible network card to BOOTP it in, and the FAT floppy technique doesn't work with the firmware I have in there now. So... does anyone know where I can find a reference to which network cards are supported for network boot? I have all the common cards like NE2000s, 3C509s, 8013s, etc., and a few PCI cards. I even have a card in there now with a DEC 21143-PA chip, but the ROMs don't seem to like it. Alternatively, in a similar vein to what someone else recently requested for their Multia, can someone on the list make a raw disk image I can "dd" onto a blank floppy? The Unix technique on the HP webpage requires a Digital Unix binary program to convert the firmare utility file to some other format and I can't do it from Linux or Solaris. Thanks, -ethan P.S. - I also can't find any reference to the supported memory configurations of the AXPpci33 board - I have some parity 16MB SIMMs, giving me 64MB, but I'd like to use some of these parity 64MB SIMMs I have here from AIR motherboards (formerly CompuServe "CompuHosts"). Got a set of 4 ready to go, but it seems that few boards ever supported 64MB 72-pin memory. :-( __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com

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slightly newer Apple stuff...

by julesrichardsonuk＠yahoo.co.uk

thanks to everyone for the website pointers! I've just tried the three systems and they all seem to work; unfortunately the LC and the Performa have been cleared of application software, but the Mac II stil has Word on it. Word feels faster to use on that than the modern version on my 1GHz PC - progress, huh!? :-) > The Mac II has a port for a second (external) floppy. yes, this one has both an 800K and 1.4MB drive installed. Not sure what speed the CPU is yet, I haven't dug around inside too much. > These machines can run up to MacOS 7.6.1 but > are quicker and more at home with 7.5.3 or even 6.0.8, which is quite speedy > on even machines as slow as these. Do you plan to display them, actually > use 'em or what? I have a slew of parts and old drives and whatnot for these > machines - the drive's usually what goes on them. well I'm not short of spare SCSI drives if you mean the hard disc, but floppies are another matter. I put SCSI in any PCs that I build so I have a stack of older drives spare as a result of upgrades. What I don't have is any OS or application software for these critters, so when the disks fail I'm currently stuffed. I haven't tried any of the floppy drives yet to see if they work... I'll probably pass a couple of the machines on to a good home in a few weeks as I don't really have space for everything; I was just curious about them as I haven't used macs for about ten years now. Strangely enough, I used to live around here and I've just found at that the mac II is the very same machine that I used to use at college! Funny seeing it again - I bet it's changed hands a few times in the meantime... Not sure which system I'll hang on to yet... the II has the advantage of having ethernet and the twin drives, plus the application software - but the LC III is perhaps the more usable machine if I can get software for it and get it on the ethernet LAN somehow. With a copy of Word on it I'd probably use it now and then; I'd forgotten how nice those keyboards were and it certainly feels like a quick machine for its age. > By the way: check the motherboard battery to make sure it's live (3.6v > lithium). I noticed those on the boards. They seem to be OK, at least no complaints on startup... cheers Jules Everything you'll ever need on one web page >from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com

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DEC card handles

by charlesmorris＠direcway.com

On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 23:14:12 -0600, you wrote: >It would be nice to find a source of the DEC plastic module handles, >and the metal stiffener/ejector handles used on DEC hex-height modules. >But I'm not holding my breath for those, either. Have you tried Douglas Electronics? They have handles (not original DEC colors but a strange whitish color) and prototyping cards of all sizes. http://www.douglas.com/hardware/pcbs/breadboards/digital.html -Charles

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Removing duct tape residue.

by rigdonj＠cfl.rr.com

At 05:06 AM 1/29/03 -0600, Toth wrote: > >> For cleaning computer plastics, the absolute best product I've found (in >> the US) is Hoppe's No. 9 Powder Solvent. Found at your local sporting >> goods store. Even removes PERMANENT Sharpie. > >Has anyone tried removing Sharpie from a chassis with textured paint? I >have a couple of items that were marked up with a Sharpie, and short of >paint thinner (which seems to dilute and bury the ink in the paint while >damaging the texture), I've found nothing that seems to work. I've used alcohol on that stuff and it seems to remove some but not all of it. I've never found anything that would remove it completely. Joe

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