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

by mbg＠world.std.com

>> Dallas Hinton is still trying to give away his 11/60. If you know of >> anyone then it'd be nice to save it from the crusher... > >A shame - probably the rarest of the production PDP-11s. I'd take it if I had a way to transport it and a place to put it... It is a somewhat significant machine... I think it was the second -11 to have a WCS (Writable Control Store)... the 11/03 had it as an option. Someone please save this machine... Megan Gentry Former RT-11 Developer +--------------------------------+-------------------------------------+ | Megan Gentry, EMT/B, PP-ASEL | Internet (work): gentry!zk3.dec.com | | Unix Support Engineering Group | (home): mbg!world.std.com | | Compaq Computer Corporation | addresses need '@' in place of '!' | | 110 Spitbrook Rd. ZK03-2/T43 | URL: http://world.std.com/~mbg/ | | Nashua, NH 03062 | "pdp-11 programmer - some assembler | | (603) 884 1055 | required." - mbg | +--------------------------------+-------------------------------------+

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Old video collectors?

by roblwill＠usaor.net

Why is all the good stuff always in California and Florida???? ///--->>> -Jason Willgruber (roblwill(a)usaor.net) ICQ#: 1730318 <http://members.tripod.com/general_1> -----Original Message----- From: Mike Ford <mikeford(a)netwiz.net> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu> Date: Friday, July 16, 1999 11:55 AM Subject: Old video collectors? >>> > >In fact, this is also why I don't like VHS - maybe good >>> > >enough compared to a noisy aired NTSC source, but just >>> > >crap, compared to an U-Max or V2000 (I still use V2000 > >Since this conversation has wandered in every other direction I thought I >would drop this info for consideration. The same place that has the HP >3000/series 950 about to head to the metal scrappers for lack of interest >has a fairly complete Umatic video editing rig (pair of decks, a couple >consoles, and 3 or so small monitors). Not too far from Disneyland in >SoCal, bring truck and a couple hundered bucks and maybe he will throw in >the effects boxes etc. Tripods and lights are gone already though. > >BTW I think the brand on one of the decks is Umax. > > >

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OSI jigxaw puzzle(s)

by dogas＠leading.net

From: Bill Sudbrink <bill(a)chipware.com> >> > Attached to that was an OSI 630 and attached to that was >> > an OSI A15..... >> >> Looking for docs on the 630... I've never seen one. > >By the way, if you could provide a closeup of the 630, >it would help. OK Bill... I added two more pictures to http://users.leading.net/~dogas/osi.html one shows how the 600, 630, and a15 went together. the other is a bigger (right side up) pic of the 630.. Hey, thanks for all that info... Have any docs for the Superboard II??? Thanks again! - Mike

27 years

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OSI jigxaw puzzle(s)

by dogas＠leading.net

Hi all, I've got a few Ohio Scientific pieces and would like to know what I have and also what I'm missing. ( pictures at: http://users.leading.net/~dogas/osi.html ) The first computer is a c4p. it has a keyboard, power, i/o board (with some db9 and db25 and 3 sockets) and something like a backplane (no cards) bus board... Please check out the page above. The second computer(?) is a OSI 600 cpu with keyboard onboard. Attached to that was an OSI 630 and attached to that was an OSI A15..... OK, where can I go from here? Thanks - Mike: dogas(a)leading.net

27 years

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TRS-80 Model III Programs?

by roblwill＠usaor.net

Does anyone have any Programs for the Model III on disk That they would either want to sell or cold email me a copy (teledisk)? I have some various old PC and a few old Mac programs that I'd be willing to trade (either through email or snail mail -email me for a list of what I have, or I could post it to the list). I'm mainly looking for word processing/spreadsheet software and maybe some games. ThAnX, -Jason

27 years

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Disk bits (Cambridge, UK) (fwd)

by jpl15＠netcom.com

U.K. ListMembers behold: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: 16 Jul 1999 10:47:42 GMT From: Tim Deegan <tjd21(a)cus.cam.ac.uk> To: Info-PDP11(a)transarc.com Subject: Disk bits (Cambridge, UK) Due to running out of space, I have to get rid of some bulky PDP bits, specifically two disks: One labelled RA80 on the front (and H7660D on the back) One labelled RL01-A on the side. I have no idea whether they work or not, as I have no controller cards for them, but I hope they might be some use to someone. Anyone who can collect from Cambridge (the one in England!) is welcome to them. Tim D.

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digital cameras

by Philip.Belben＠powertech.co.uk

> True. I thinking one thing and meaning another. What I meant to say was > that the 640 pixels (or whatever) compared very unfavourably with the > umber of 'pixels' on a 35mm frame. And that a medium format frame would > have even more pixels. Fair enough. > The cost of a reasonable 'consumer grade' digital camera is approaching > the cost of a second-hand medium format film camera (of a good make). I > know which will produce better images. I also realise the advantages of > digital cameras. Exactly. I would say it is possible to get a good secondhand medium format camera for less than the price of all but the yuckiest digital jobs. It depends what you want to do with it (sometimes I wish I could afford both). >> I think there are two independent viewpoints here. If you are taking pictures > > True enough. As I _don't_ have a graphics display on my main computer, > and as I use a text-based browser, I sometimes wonder about the _need_ > for digitial images on wab pages, but anyway.... Well, is there a _need_ for web pages at all? Digital images on web pages can be useful, as Sam pointed out. And digital images - of whatever sort - for display on a computer screen, don't need as much detail as those you would make int oreally nice prints. > If I ever try digital photography, it would be as a way to produce > digital image files for subsequent digital processing and printing. Not > for display on a normal resolution display. Yes, I intend to try that, too. Even there there is a use for the sort of images you get on a cheap digital camera - as a relatively small part of a montage, for example. >> On the subject of lines per mm, what is the resolution of a typical ccd per mm >> _at the surface of the chip_? > > Hmmm... Off the top of my head, perhaps 500 (or more likely 512, but > anyway) pixels in 1cm (so 50/mm) would be considered reasonable I would have guessed at more than that - I thought these 1.3 megapixel ccds (presumably 1280*1024) were quite small - not much bigger than say a 4Mbit RAM chip die... Philip. ********************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept for the presence of computer viruses. Power Technology Centre, Ratcliffe-on-Soar, Nottingham, NG11 0EE, UK Tel: +44 (0)115 936 2000 http://www.powertech.co.uk **********************************************************************

27 years

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Wanted: RK8E controller set...

by jimw＠agora.rdrop.com

Header says it all... Anyone got an RK-05 OMNIbus (PDP-8/e/f/m) controller board set that they could be parted from? -jim --- jimw(a)computergarage.org The Computer Garage - http://www.computergarage.org Computer Garage Fax - (503) 646-0174 >>> Coming soon to www.computergarage.org - the CBBS/NW on-line archives >>> Coming to VCF III (2-3 October 1999) - CBBS/NW live!

27 years

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OT: A call to arms (sort of)

by mark_k＠iname.com

On Wed, 7 Jul 1999 William Donzelli wrote: > Another thing found in service manuals are the tricks that allow > technicians and engineers to crack passwords and use backdoors. Imagine > the fun a company would have trying to patch a PR disaster because some > high school kid keeps fooling around with spanning trees and access lists > on switches and routers, with techniques available in the back of a manual. I guess that only applies to a relatively small proportion of all products out there (that is, networking-related). > There is a lot of sensitive information in these service manuals that can > really hurt a company if it falls into the wrong hands. The easiest > solution, and probably the best as well, is to restrict the manuals. > ... > No. Companies simply do not care about "non-official" service agents > anymore because there are not that many of them to worry about, and the > companies can always clobber these "non-officials" on replacement parts > costs, technical support, and the continuation of warranties. One thing I would like, is for companies to make (internal) service manuals & possibly other info too, available for old & obsolete products which they do not support any more. After five years say, the company may not even be supporting the product at all (i.e. not providing a repair service), so I can't see how releasing the info could harm them. Though the proportion of people interested in this info would be small, I'm sure some good publicity spin could be given to doing this. And it needn't be expensive at all; just converting the documentation to PDF format (or scanning it if only paper copies are available) and putting it on a web page would be enough. Does anyone know of any companies that have done something like this? -- Mark

27 years

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Video standards (was Re: digital cameras)

by roblwill＠usaor.net

Does anyone know if the U-Max or the V2000 were marketed in the US? I've never seen (or even heard of) anything like it. Does anyone know how much one might cost if I could find one? I like working with the older video equipment (mainly because I can fix the stuff) My only VCR is an 80's top-loading GE, complete with _wired_ remote :). The only reason that I bought the JVC VHS-C camera was because the heads went bad in my old camera (the kind with the separate camera that plugged into the 'VCR' that hung from a shoulder strap). ///--->>> -Jason Willgruber (roblwill(a)usaor.net) ICQ#: 1730318 <http://members.tripod.com/general_1> -----Original Message----- From: Tony Duell <ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu> Date: Thursday, July 15, 1999 8:09 PM Subject: Re: Video standards (was Re: digital cameras) >> >> On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Hans Franke wrote: >> >In fact, this is also why I don't like VHS - maybe good >> >enough compared to a noisy aired NTSC source, but just >> >crap, compared to an U-Max or V2000 (I still use V2000 >> >tape machines - still equal to any S-VHS stuff after more >> >than 10 years of development ...). And of course the same >> >for DVD vs. Laserdisk. >> >> What is U-Max and V2000? I know what a Laserdisk player is, but I wasn't > >U-max is possibly what we call U-matic, a Sony semi-professional video >system. I don't know any more as I've not obtained a machine (yet!). > >V2000 is/was a Philips (machines were also made by Grundig, but AFIAK the >standard was Philips) system. It was beautiful. For one thing tapes could >be turned over like audio cassettes. For another there was no control >track amd no tracking control. The video heads were mounted on >piezo-actuators and a fairly complex servo system caused them to follow >the video tracks on the tape, based on signals recorded on said tracks. >Since the heads can follow the tracks no matter what speed (within >reason) the tape is running at, you can have noise-free slow motion, fast >motion, still frame, etc. > >I can't remember the bandwidth, but I think it was better than normal VHS >(although probably not better than S-VHS). > >I have a pair of VR2022's (one UK-PAL, one SECAM) awaiting some bench >space. They look interesting to work on - mechanically there's almost >nothing - no belts, no idler, no mode switch, no back-tension band,etc. >Just 5 motors (one for each spool, one forthe capstan, one for the video >head, one for the loading mechanism), a few optoswtiches, a couple of >microswitches, and not a lot else. Backtension, for example, is provided >by applying a small current to the rwwind motor - something that's a lot >simpler/more reliable than the VHS-style tension band > >But it makes up for that simplicity in the electronics. There's a >dozen-or-so plug-in cards, 4 or 5 of them for the various servos. 2 >microcontrollers (at a time when microcontrollers were not common in >consumer stuff). Looks possible to repair, though, and I have the manual. > >-tony > >

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Help ID this RAM chip?

by edick＠idcomm.com

Well, this must be a stock number. My old AMD and National books, both of which have cross-references, which is why I still have them, don't have the number, nor does my '86 or '78 IC master. Looks like you've got your work cut out for you! Dick -----Original Message----- From: James Willing [SMTP:jimw@agora.rdrop.com] Sent: Friday, July 16, 1999 8:47 AM To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers Subject: RE: Help ID this RAM chip? On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, Richard Erlacher wrote: > Some indication as to which mfg might have made it would be helpful. The > number of package pins would help too. It could be a National part with > the prefix, though AMD used a set in that range also. If they're 18-pins, > they might be non-multiplexed dynamic rams, and if they're 16-pin 5980's > they might be 4k DRAMs ala 4027, with the terminal 4 meaning 450 ns access > cycle, i.e. 250ns access time + 200 ns RAS precharge. AMD logo, 16 pins... -jim --- jimw(a)computergarage.org The Computer Garage - http://www.computergarage.org Computer Garage Fax - (503) 646-0174 >>> Coming soon to www.computergarage.org - the CBBS/NW on-line archives >>> Coming to VCF III (2-3 October 1999) - CBBS/NW live!

27 years

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source for VME chassis

by ryan＠inc.net

Anyone know of a really cheap source for a small VME chassis with power? Anyone happen to have something like this they may want to sell? Thanks! Ryan Brooks ryan(a)inc.net

27 years

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Lawrence LeMay: M7856

by mcquiggi＠sfu.ca

Hi Lawrence: Purged your message, so lost your email address. The M7856 is a Unibus card, a DL11-W serial communications board. Some had a realtime clock on them too. From the DEC Field Guide: M7856 DL11-W U SLU & realtime clock option M7856-YA DL11-W U M7856 with 110 to 19.2-Kbaud option Kevin -- Kevin McQuiggin VE7ZD mcquiggi(a)sfu.ca

27 years

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VAX 11/750 Help!!!

by vaxman＠uswest.net

Hi, I recently acquired a VAX 11/750 with a bad power supply (sigh)... Does anyone have schematics for the power supply (H7104-C) they would be willing to loan/sell/give to me? I have a schematics for several other parts that I can loan/trade for them (including the CPU boards). Alternatly, does someone have a part number list for the 750 documentation? I have pulled what I can off of DAS, but it is pretty slim pickings. Finally, I am considering purchasing the MDS set on microfiche, but I DEC isn't able to supply me with any information on what is in it, specifically whether or not the documentation for the 11/750 that they don't currently sell (as hardcopy) is in it or not. Or possibly the PDP fiche set. Anyone have suggestions? Someone posted a while ago they had a list of documents from DEC labelled 'internal use only', could you see if there is a part number for a 750 printset in it? Thanks, clint PS I am putting together a list of spare boards/documents. Anyone want a set of VT100 printsets?

27 years

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Help ID this RAM chip?

by edick＠idcomm.com

Some indication as to which mfg might have made it would be helpful. The number of package pins would help too. It could be a National part with the prefix, though AMD used a set in that range also. If they're 18-pins, they might be non-multiplexed dynamic rams, and if they're 16-pin 5980's they might be 4k DRAMs ala 4027, with the terminal 4 meaning 450 ns access cycle, i.e. 250ns access time + 200 ns RAS precharge. Dick -----Original Message----- From: James Willing [SMTP:jimw@agora.rdrop.com] Sent: Thursday, July 15, 1999 11:54 AM To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers Subject: Help ID this RAM chip? Have a bad one in an OMNIbus memory card. DS9804PC Got to love some of these numbers...? Figures as a 1Kx1 static(?) RAM part, but I have not been able to cross reference it in the couple of closest books I have at hand. Anyone have any clues on this one? (before I have to start signal chasing?) -jim --- jimw(a)computergarage.org The Computer Garage - http://www.computergarage.org Computer Garage Fax - (503) 646-0174 >>> Coming soon to www.computergarage.org - the CBBS/NW on-line archives >>> Coming to VCF III (2-3 October 1999) - CBBS/NW live!

27 years

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Argh!

by CLASSICCMP＠trailing-edge.com

>Someone tell me theres a different Smithsonian museum than the famous >one... maybe some other guy named Smithsonian, or something... > >Anyways, i'm looking at these photos from the smithsonian computers, and >I say, hey! At least theres ONE real valuable and significant computer >on display... and then i scroll down and the description (written >by someone at the U of California Davis computer museum no doubt) is >"some beige computer with a big ol' screen"... > >Eghads! > >Heres the web page: > > http://wwwcsif.cs.ucdavis.edu/~csclub/museum/items/smithsonian_overview.html > >Sigh. Keep in mind that you *aren't* looking at the Smithsonian's description of the computers, you're looking at what some student in the CD department at UC Davis thought the computers were, probably a month after he visited the Smithsonian and took the pictures. Incidentally, the last "some other computer" mentioned on the web page is Jerry Pournelle's "Zeke", with two 8" Qume drives and a Godbout S-100 mainframe. -- Tim Shoppa Email: shoppa(a)trailing-edge.com Trailing Edge Technology WWW: http://www.trailing-edge.com/ 7328 Bradley Blvd Voice: 301-767-5917 Bethesda, MD, USA 20817 Fax: 301-767-5927

27 years

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COnner specs

by jolminkh＠nsw.bigpond.net.au

"The Ref" ( http://theref.aquascape.com/hard_drives/mh__main.html ) usually has all this info but not for this model. Must be a Compaq OEM, which could spell problems. -----Original Message----- From: Russ Blakeman <rhblake(a)nospam.bigfoot.com> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu> Date: Friday, 16 July 1999 21:21 Subject: COnner specs >Need the specs (hds, cyls, spt, capacity) for a conner CP-3541, a Compaq >hard drive. It's an IDE drive, 3.5" and I believe it's a type 61 or 65 >for a Compaq machine. I plan on using it in another deserving machine. > >-- >Russ Blakeman >Clarkson, Ky USA > >Remove "nospam.' in email address to reply > >

27 years

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COnner specs

by rhblake＠nospam.bigfoot.com

Need the specs (hds, cyls, spt, capacity) for a conner CP-3541, a Compaq hard drive. It's an IDE drive, 3.5" and I believe it's a type 61 or 65 for a Compaq machine. I plan on using it in another deserving machine. -- Russ Blakeman Clarkson, Ky USA Remove "nospam.' in email address to reply

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Argh!

by lemay＠cs.umn.edu

Someone tell me theres a different Smithsonian museum than the famous one... maybe some other guy named Smithsonian, or something... Anyways, i'm looking at these photos from the smithsonian computers, and I say, hey! At least theres ONE real valuable and significant computer on display... and then i scroll down and the description (written by someone at the U of California Davis computer museum no doubt) is "some beige computer with a big ol' screen"... Eghads! Heres the web page: http://wwwcsif.cs.ucdavis.edu/~csclub/museum/items/smithsonian_overview.html Sigh. -Lawrence LeMay lemay(a)cs.umn.edu PS: They couldnt figure it out from the famous logo on the front??? PPS: and "some grey computer" ???? PPPS: SOME GREY COMPUTER?

27 years

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VCF on PBS

by lemay＠cs.umn.edu

Well, well... its an extremely boring night for TV, so i'm not only watching PBS, but i'm watching our secondary PBS station (which usually shows only weather photos :) Well, some show called the Net Cafe is on, and they're going to be talking about the Vintage Computer Festival site later in the show. Just thought I'd mention it, in case someone wanted to try and catch the show. The topic of the show is collecting collectable things on the internet. -Lawrence LeMay

27 years

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IBM 5051 ????

by rigdonj＠intellistar.net

What is it? I've never heard of one before. It looks kind of like a Lisa but has an attched keyboard and two 8" floppy drives. See "http://205.217.140.132/pcmuseum/default_page2.htm". This is one of the things from the guy that wants to sell his entire $25K collection. Joe

27 years

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New toy!!!

by jeff.kaneko＠juno.com

Joe: Whatta score, guy! Those are pretty rare, I don't think I've ever actually seen on of these . . . BTW, I'm sorry to have been out of communication with you-- I've been on the road for the past week, with at least one more to go! I've been trying to determine the interface of that 8" drive of yours, and I have no proof, but by elimination, it's gotta be an IPI-2 drive. Can't use it (dammit). These gigabyte+ SABER's are quite desirable; but I wouldn't be able to interface it to anything :^(. SO what have you been up to? I've been working 12hr days trying to re-code this application I'm working on. How about you? Jeff On Fri, 09 Jul 1999 21:57:53 Joe <rigdonj(a)intellistar.net> writes: > I got an e-mail recently from someone offering me an Esco 31 >survey >calculator. I'd never heard of one but I decided to take a chance and >bought it sight unseen. It came today. The seller forgot to mention >that >it said Tektronix on the back! Yeap, it's a rebadged Tektronix 31! >Does >anyone have some instructions for one? Does anyone know where to >find >tapes for these? > > Joe > ___________________________________________________________________ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj.

27 years

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Help ID this RAM chip?

by jimw＠agora.rdrop.com

Have a bad one in an OMNIbus memory card. DS9804PC Got to love some of these numbers...? Figures as a 1Kx1 static(?) RAM part, but I have not been able to cross reference it in the couple of closest books I have at hand. Anyone have any clues on this one? (before I have to start signal chasing?) -jim --- jimw(a)computergarage.org The Computer Garage - http://www.computergarage.org Computer Garage Fax - (503) 646-0174 >>> Coming soon to www.computergarage.org - the CBBS/NW on-line archives >>> Coming to VCF III (2-3 October 1999) - CBBS/NW live!

27 years

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Help ID this RAM chip?

by CLASSICCMP＠trailing-edge.com

>>Have a bad one in an OMNIbus memory card. DS9804PC Got to love some of >>these numbers...? >> >>Figures as a 1Kx1 static(?) RAM part, but I have not been able to cross >>reference it in the couple of closest books I have at hand. Anyone have >>any clues on this one? (before I have to start signal chasing?) >Well A few years ago I searched (with no results) for data on a (National >semi. type markings, but no logo.) DS9408 which was in a S-100 card and >apparently the same as a 2102. Sorry it doesn't match your number. I have to admit that the "DS" from the part number does make it sound like National Semiconductor stuff from the mid-late 70's, but I don't see it listed in any of the databooks here. Many "DSnnnn" series chips show up on DEC boards, and I think at least some of them denote hand-picked chips from a more "conventional" part number. -- Tim Shoppa Email: shoppa(a)trailing-edge.com Trailing Edge Technology WWW: http://www.trailing-edge.com/ 7328 Bradley Blvd Voice: 301-767-5917 Bethesda, MD, USA 20817 Fax: 301-767-5927

27 years

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digital cameras

by edick＠idcomm.com

Now compare that with the 330 lines per mm you get from a typical apo-lanthar or apo-tessar as were made back in the '30's . . . Dick -----Original Message----- From: Tony Duell <ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu> Date: Wednesday, July 14, 1999 3:53 PM Subject: Re: digital cameras >> Looking at a polaroid (I managed to get one within the last >> few minutes), I think the usable resolution is way more than >> 1200 pixles per row (say more than 200 lines per inch). > >I've just realised... > >If you have a 100mm wide print (normal sort of size) and 640 pixels, >that's only 3 or 6 lpm (depending on whether you think a line is 1 pixel >or 2). That's not a poor resolution, it's a non-existant resolution! > >Ouch!. Now I know why I can't stand those digital cameras. > >-tony >

27 years, 1 month

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Classics for sale!

by mfhoneycutt＠earthlink.net

Hi Ron, I checked your web page and didn't find anything on the cosmetic condition of the PC-2. Do you have any pics of it on your site? Thanks! Mark Honeycutt WA5YJI Baytown, Texas mfhoneycutt(a)earthlink.net -----Original Message----- From: Ronald Kneusel <rkneusel(a)post.its.mcw.edu> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu> Date: Monday, July 12, 1999 3:56 PM Subject: Classics for sale! > >Looking to clear some shelf space and don't like ebay so in classic >fashion I'm running my own. Take a look. Highlights include: > >TRS-80 pocket computer PC-2 > >all with various accessories and manuals. Also software and books, >including original muMATH/muSIMP for the Apple II. > > http://net-24-42.dhcp.mcw.edu/auction/auction.html > >is the URL. > >Ron Kneusel >rkneusel(a)mcw.edu > >

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(first CD-ROM) Re: IBM 5051 ????

by CLASSICCMP＠trailing-edge.com

>LMS stood for Laser/Magnetic Storage, Inc. which I think was part >of (or maybe spun out of) Phillips-Dupont Optical (PDO). As a matter of fact... $whois lms.com Registrant: Philips LMS (LMS-DOM) 4425 ArrowsWest Drive Colorado Springs, CO 80907 Domain Name: LMS.COM Tim.

27 years, 1 month

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Free non-working C-64s

by sring＠uslink.net

I will take them if still available. Can you ship USPS? Let me know cost. Stephanie Ring 3504 State 64 SW Staples, MN 56479 -----Original Message----- From: Marvin <marvin(a)rain.org> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu> Date: Wednesday, July 14, 1999 11:59 PM Subject: Free non-working C-64s > >In the continuing feeble attempts to make more room, I have a box of five >C-64 computers that for one reason or another do not work. These are free to >anyone wanting to pay the shipping on them from zip code 93105 for 25 >pounds. I keep them around in case (pun intended) I need the plastic parts >to repair another working one, but space is *really* becoming a premium. The >trash guy comes next Tuesday, so if anyone wants these, let me know. Thanks. >

27 years, 1 month

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(first CD-ROM) Re: IBM 5051 ????

by roblwill＠usaor.net

The CD-ROM on that page almost looks like the DAtext that I have. anyone know what year the first CD-ROM was?

27 years, 1 month

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Wanted

by black＠gco.apana.org.au

If anyone can help, I'm after DOS/utilities disks for the BBC Micro. Please reply to black(a)gco.apana.org.au thanks!

27 years, 1 month

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digital cameras

by roblwill＠usaor.net

Did anyone ever try this: I have a JVC VHS-C camcorder that has full-auto settings (leveler, focus, lighting, etc.). It also has a snapshot feature, where it'll capture a frame. Use the video camera to take 'pictures', then connect the video output to a good quality video capture card, and 'capture' the still shots. Has anyone ever tried this? I was thinking this may be possible, since I already have the camera, and I can get a vid cap card for about $50 ///--->>> -Jason Willgruber (roblwill(a)usaor.net) ICQ#: 1730318 <http://members.tripod.com/general_1>

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IBM 5051 ????

by Philip.Belben＠pgen.com

> What is it? I've never heard of one before. It looks kind of like a Lisa > but has an attched keyboard and two 8" floppy drives. See > "http://205.217.140.132/pcmuseum/default_page2.htm". This is one of the > things from the guy that wants to sell his entire $25K collection. Looks like a Datamaster, but I don't think it is. Datamaster was 5322, FWIW. I looked further down the page and he is talking a lot of nonsense. Like the early Hayes modem, transmitting at 300k (k what? k millibaud?), as compared with modern modems transmitting at 5,600k (k what? 56 kilobaud seems to be fairly standard now...) Philip.

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digital cameras

by Philip.Belben＠pgen.com

>>> Of course, if you're using a camera better than a 35mm >>> (say, a Medium Format or Large Format camera) you just put >>> a polaroid back on your camera and you're there. > >>> At least here in the US, if you check out the swap meets and >>> flea markets it's easy to find an older 4x5 Crown Graphic with >>> good quality lens and 4x5 polaroid back for a few hundred $. >>> I got mine with a 127mm Ektar, a truly excellent lens from the >>> late 40's. > >>I've never seen that, but it's interesting - >>so how is the picture quality ? > > Top-notch. I regularly make 16" x 20" enlargements from the 4x5 negatives. If as is often said, a 35mm negative will blow up to around 12*8 inches without visible loss of detail, expect a medium format negative to blow up to 19 inches square (or 19 inches * whatever your other dimension is), and a large format negative to blow up to 42*34 inches. The exact size you can achieve will depend on your film and equipment, though. One of my favourite photos (that I've taken - it was on my Yashica with a 2.25 inch square negative) I have had made into some 20 inch square prints and they look stunning. >>And most important, where to look ? >>For this kind of stuff I'm a complete newbie. > > There's a web site just for folks like you: http://www.graflex.org/ > It includes the Speed/Crown Graphic FAQ, and pointers to where you > can buy these cameras and parts. > > Again, I don't know about Europe, but here in North America *every* > decent professional camera store will have large format stuff, including > at least some selection of Crown and Speed Graphics. The shop in London where I bought my Hasselblad is an excellent place, if you're ever near there. It is called "Teamwork" and it is in Foley Street, about 1/4 mile due west of Goodge Street tube station. It is packed full of 5*4 inch and larger format cameras - my Blad must have been the smallest in the place! (a map of the area can be seen at http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?grid2map?X=529250&Y=181750 if you have a graphical browser) Also in London is a shop called "Nicholas", quite close to Mornington Crescent tube station. I don't know how good it is - I gave up after waiting outside half an hour when the sign in the window said "Back in 20 minutes". Eventually I concluded that this was a typo for "Back 1h 20 minutes" ;-) The only good thing to happen that day was the girl I met, also waiting for the shop to re-open ;-) ;-) Philip.

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PDP-10's and Compuserve History

by CLASSICCMP＠trailing-edge.com

> Speaking of Compuserve, what is its history? I think this goes back earlier than you wanted (to a time before home micros), but here's an excerpt from a summary written by Sandy Trevor [70000,130] I found at http://www.inwap.com/pdp10/compuserve.txt **** This may not be exactly what you had in mind, but it is a pretty accurate summary of how 10's have been used at CompuServe over the past 17 years. I hope you can use it... anyway, please do keep me updated on your project. (If you want changes, or more material, just let me know). Also, if you do decide you want to use this, I'd like a chance to edit it a bit before giving you a "final" version. So please consider this a prelimary version... --Sandy We Call Them 10's - A Brief History of 36-bit Computing at CompuServe - Alexander B. Trevor August 31, 1988 CompuServe has one of the world's most powerful remaining thirty-six bit computing facilities, but got its first PDP-10 almost by accident. While I was a graduate student at the University of Arizona's Analog Hybrid Computer Lab (AHCL) in 1969, I discussed with two other students the idea of starting a time-sharing company after completing our degrees. We had all gotten to know a PDP-15 intimately at AHCL, so it was the obvious cpu of choice. But my choices in late 1969 were the Army or Canada. I chose the former, which put me behind a 360-40 in Saigon instead of a PDP-15 in Tucson. Meanwhile, my two AHCL friends, Dr. John Goltz and Jeff Wilkins, went to Columbus, Ohio, where they intended to computerize insurance processing for Golden United Life Insurance with (of course) a PDP-15. Before the 15 was delivered, however, DEC called up Dr. Goltz and told him that for only "a little more" he could have a KA-10. The prospect of having all this power was irresistible. Though he liked to distance himself from those of the sales persuasion, John skillfully sold the board of directors on the idea of spending the extra money to buy the PDP-10 and thereby gain the excess computer power to be able to launch into timesharing. Of course, it was a terrible time to get into this business. GE, Tymshare, Cyphernetics, and First Data (to name just a few) were already well established. The timesharing subsidiary of Golden United took the name "CompuServ Network, Incorporated" and started developing its first application, LIDIS (Life Insurance Data Information System). They had a KA-10 with all of 80K words of memory, two RP02 disk drives, and a few ASR-33 teletypes. The "C" series of TOPS-10 monitors that was available in 1970 supported disks, but as little more than circular DECtapes. Still, CompuServ made LIDIS work, and began attracting other clients. From the beginning, CompuServ tried to improve upon the standard DEC offerings. A first step was to hire two of the engineers who installed the machine: Bill Spellman and Tom Shelton. Tom would look at the the lights of an ailing KA for a minute or two (KA's had MANY lights), then go in back and change one or two boards. Usually, he fixed the machine on the first try this way, notwithstanding having been hauled out of bed at 3 a.m. A second step was to improve TOPS-10. At that time DEC included operating system sources with every machine. You needed them too: the early releases of TOPS-10 did not terminate a job if someone hung up without logging off. Thus, the next person calling in on that line found himself in the previous user's job, with access to all his files and privileges -- the infamous ghost port. Needless to say, customers got pretty upset when this occurred, so we fixed it quickly. Some monitor hazards took longer to surface. One morning, when the engineers looked at the KA, strange patterns were dancing across the console lights. Spellman was about to shut down the machine, when Steve Wilhite grabbed him and told him it was "just a little program I wrote." The next day, the LIGHTS UUO (CALLI -1) was disabled. Another motivation for modifying the operating system came with the first release of the "D" series monitor -- the first one with a real file system, including the beloved MFD, UFD's, RIB's, and SAT's. The first "D" monitor did not work for more than a hour at a time. John Goltz stayed up for three days patching the "D" monitor well enough so that calls from our customers no longer included threats of bodily injury. I seem to walk into things right after the fun. I went to Vietnam right after the great Tet Offensive of 1968. I joined CompuServe in 1971, right after the "D" monitor crisis. (It is still unclear to me which of these two events will turn out to be the most significant.) In any case, when I joined CompuServe in late 1971, they had two KA-10's, each with four RP02's. My first task was to write UNSPOL (DEC's spooling software was not yet available). Our machines were getting bogged down with jobs running "GLOM" - a little routine that continually tried to assign the line printer. We wrote most of our own utilities, either because we wanted features not yet available then from DEC, or because the DEC equivalents were not compatible with our monitor, which was rapidly diverging from standard TOPS-10. Or maybe we just liked to be different. Early on John had written a new EXECUTE that used sixbit command files instead of the DEC standard ASCII (to save disk space). Of course, this required changing all CUSPS (Commonly Used System ProgramS) and compilers. (Back then, programmers were cheaper than disks). The monitor's command decoder was another area of great change. We perceived GE as our prime competition, so many things were done to make former GE clients feel at home -- including the "OK" prompt, an imbedded line numbered editor in the monitor, and having Steve Wilhite write a Basic compiler in Macro-10 from scratch. At that point we didn't know that a compiler was too big a job for one programmer, and fortunately neither did Steve. Emerging from the dark back room we called the "cave" only to grab a line printer listing or an occasional sandwich, he got it done in ten months, using an ASR-33 and our FILGE editor. Everyone loved his Basic, but I'm not sure how many customers really switched from GE because of it. During this period we learned to get the most out of the KA -- doing things such as using MOVEI A,N(A) for addition because address arithmetic was faster than the regular adder on the KA. CompuServ's two KA-10's were each connected to 680i front-ends through DA-10 interfaces. The 680i was a PDP-8 that had been lobotomized to handle communications. UART chips were not yet in common use, so the 680i's had to handle asynchronous characters one bit at a time. One disadvantage of this configuration was that communications ports were tied to a single host KA. For example, the remote lines from Dayton and Cleveland were connected to System 1, while Columbus and Detroit were on System 2. So what did you do with a customer with offices in all four cities? My second major assignment at CompuServ was to solve this problem. Clearly, some kind of switch was needed so that a user coming in through either 680i could access either host. And what was Dr. Goltz's choice for the switching computer? Right, a PDP-15. It was an 18 bit machine (exactly half the PDP-10 word length), fast (1 MIP), and fortuitously, compatible with the DA-10. Now, this PDP-15 that I had to develop into an intelligent communications switch came with 8K of memory and an KSR-35. That was it -- no mass storage, not even a Dectape. Since I did not relish doing development on paper tape, I decided I had to use the 10 for development. Since there was no cross assembler for the PDP-15, I wrote macros for each of the PDP-15 instructions and used Macro-10 to generate PDP-15 object code... a use that probably even exceeded the wildest fantasies of Macro-10's developers. In 1973 CompuServ moved to a new custom building in Upper Arlington, Ohio, and upgraded the KA's to KI's. By July, 1974, we had seven KI's and were using them not only to support a thriving time sharing business, but also to heat our office buildings. The RP02'S and RP03's were all retired in favor of "huge" 200mb Ampex and Memorex 3330 disks connected through Systems Concepts SA-10's. John Goltz continued to develop his operating system (now called the "E" monitor), including a class scheduler. But by 1976 a more pressing problem arose. DEC had released the KL-10, but it seemed prone to overheating (ECL does generate a lot of heat). Dr. Goltz felt we needed a faster processor, but the KL was unsuitable. We looked at Foonly's F1, but were uneasy about their ability to actually produce machines. So, with two of our best engineers, Doug Chinnock and Wilson Mowbray, John Goltz set up an R&D center in Tucson, Arizona, to build a better 36-bit computer. In 18 months, they had several large boards, microcode that avoided all the DEC patents, but were still a good year from having a production machine. Jeff Wilkins was running short on enthusiasm (and cash) for the project, and it looked like DEC had really solved the KL-10 heat problem with the DEC-System 20 configuration. Not only that, but the price of the 2050 was at least $100K lower than the 1090. Internal memory and devices on RH-20's seemed not only more efficient, but saved us from having to add cache sweeps to our monitor. If we could run our operating system on this machine, it might make more sense than finishing the "JRG-1" processor. After several trips to Marlborough, I got DEC to agree to sell us DECSYSTEM-20's with TOPS-10 licenses and DX-20's. The licenses eliminated any question about running any of the TOPS-10 utilities, and the DX-20's let us connect the orange KL-10's to our STC tape pool. Our first 2050 worked beautifully, so the JRG-1 project was terminated. Sadly, not long afterwards, Dr. Goltz left CompuServe. We had been buying Ampex's ARM-10 memory for the KI's for years, so we asked them what they could do for the 20. Despite dire warnings from DEC engineers that the S-bus could not possibly support a physically external memory box, Jay Canel of Ampex came to CompuServe with the first ARM-20 box, plugged it in to our 2050, made one timing adjustment, then we watched it run for the next six months without a failure. Our next 2050 enhancement was to design a channel interface. Since the Massbus was patented, and DEC was not granting licenses, we built directly to the C and E busses. Our "MBX-20" let us connect 300 mb SMD disks to the 2050 using a Telefile controller, instead of being limited to the 200 mb RP06 (all that DEC offered then). By 1978 we had two computer centers - the one in Arlington full of KI's, and one in Dublin, Ohio, filling up with 2050's. We were not yet ready to abandon the KI's, but wanted some more horsepower out of them. Wilson Mowbray designed a hardware cache memory for the KI which yielded a 30% improvement in KI speed. Later, Wilson designed a switching regulator power supply for the KL, which halved it's power consumption. Roseann Giordano was so impressed that she sent some DEC engineers to look at it. They liked it, but the KL was too near the end of its product life cycle for DEC to make any changes, even though we offered to give them the design. By 1980 PC's were beginning to assume many of the tasks formerly done on timesharing systems. Many of our old timesharing competitors (Cyperhnetics, First Data, On-Line Systems) had been acquired or disappeared. CompuServe (which had added the "e" by this time) was acquired itself in 1980 by H&R Block. Block wisely let CompuServe continue with all its plans -- including rolling out a service for PC users modelled loosely after the European "videotex" services. Developed almost clandestinely shortly before the Block acquisition, it was called "schlock timesharing" by the "professional" commercial timesharing sales force. Initially released as "MicroNet" and later as "the CompuServe Information Service," it grew to be 50% of CompuServe revenues by 1987, while commercial timesharing evolved rapidly toward databases, email, and commercial videotex. With Block providing financial backing, ComuServe entered the acquisition business itself. It's first acquisition was Software House (the authors of 1022 and 1032 DBMS systems.) While solidifying our position in the 10 world with 1022, we also had taken a first step into the world of Vax with 1032. There was some pressure from various quarters to "upgrade" our hardware to something more modern -- like Vaxes, for instance. However, by 1986, KL's were less than $20,000; we had our own monitor and most systems software (except LINK-10 and BLISS-36); we were able to use current technology disk drives; and we had 100+ manyears of applications software in XF4 (our own ten-based extended Fortran) and Bliss-36 -- so how could we justify a change unless 36-bit cpu's became unavailable? To be sure that didn't happen, we ordered a Systems Concepts SC-30 from Mike Levitt. It arrived in late 1987 (a bit behind schedule), but came up and ran our operating system with no more than the expected number of microcode bugs. (We used Tops-10 paging, which Systems Concepts had not fully tested before). It worked well enough that we ordered a total of 10 SC-30's - four of which are up and running as of this writing; the remainder to be delivered next year. The venerable KI's (the last of the "lights mentality" machines) are being phased out to make room for the SC-30's... (and yes, a few Vax 8550's have snuck in too, for some new applications already written for Vax). New interfaces are being designed for both the KL's and the SC-30's to support faster disks, optical storage, and new archival storage devices. Applications development in Bliss-36 and XF4 continues unabated. At CompuServe, at least, 36-bit computing has a bright future.

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digital cameras

by lemay＠cs.umn.edu

I've been seriously considering buying a digital camera for some time now. I assume others on this list already have these in order to photograph some of their computer items, so i thought I would ask which features are most important. And which features you really wish you'd spent extra money for. It seems to me that a macro-focusing feature, which allows you to manually focus at very close range would be very useful. Or can you get by with a 3X optical zoom in order to get detailed shots of computer boards, or the insides of a computer, etc? How important is high resolution? Is a 640x480 camera with 10X zoom much more useful than a 1280x960 with 3X zoom and no macro focusing? I'm really only interested in photographing computers and circuit boards, I assume anything that can handle that to my satisfaction will be able to handle the occasional photo of my niece and nephews, etc. -Lawrence LeMay lemay(a)cs.umn.edu

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VMS 5.0 & stand alone backup

by wrking＠tsoft.com

I just aquired a uVAXII with a RD54 and a TK50 drive and I'm trying to load VMS. I don't remember the stand-alone backup command to issue. I'm hoping that someone can help. I have two TK50 tapes that came with it. They are labeled: VMS V5.0 BIN TK50 BINARY and VMS V5.0 BIN TK50 MANDATORY UPDATE I can probably handle the update after I install VMS (something like @SYS$UPDATE:something-or-other). The first tape boots and takes me into stand-alone backup. At that point I'm lost. Any ideas? Thanks, Bill

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Highgate's pdp-8 Info Updated

by mcquiggi＠sfu.ca

Hi All: For your info, I've just completed an update of http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/pdp8. The following documents were added: PDP-8/i Hardware Maintenance Manual (July, 1969), Volumes I and II; PDP-8/e/f/m Processor Maintenance Manual (January, 1974), Chapters 1 through 4. Thanks to David Gesswein, as usual, for the scanning of this material! Feedback and suggestions for the web site are always appreciated, Kevin --- Kevin McQuiggin VE7ZD mcquiggi(a)sfu.ca

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E-bay stupidity! was Re: height of folly

by kaikal＠MICROSOFT.com

Yeah, the Voyager used three RCA 1802s (the CPU used in the Elf, SuperElf, COSMAC computers), because they used a SOS process (Semiconductor On Sapphire) which was extremely resistant to electromagnetics, radiation, etc. I think about that every time I see the silly original Star Trek: The Motion Picture (for those who haven't seen this masterpiece, the RCA 1802-powered Voyager runs into an alien civilization who accelerates it to about the level of HAL with a learning disorder, then gives it a big EMP gun and points it back towards Earth - gee, thanks) Kai -----Original Message----- From: Max Eskin [mailto:max82@surfree.com] Sent: Saturday, July 03, 1999 2:25 PM To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers Subject: Re: E-bay stupidity! was Re: height of folly On Sat, 3 Jul 1999 jpero(a)cgocable.net wrote: >Bogus! I knew Voyager doesn't use this '4004, I think cpu is 1801 >or something like that made for space applications. So, where _did_ the story about the Voyager using a 4004 come from? I've seen it in a variety of places, and never questioned it. As it happens, I think that this is a fairly valuable item, though perhaps not worth $600. Although it's not the _first_ microprocessor (as we learned a year ago), it's definitely the first commercial one. --Max Eskin (max82(a)surfree.com) http://scivault.hypermart.net: Ignorance is Impotence - Knowledge is Power

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Can anyone tell me what is a DECset 8000 is?

by mbg＠world.std.com

>There is this minicomputer I was given by a process control >engineering firm. It resembles a PDP-8/e, but it is blue like a >PDP-15 or PDP-10, and it has the name DECset 8000 >printed on the upper right corner of the control panel. I have a pdp-8/e with a blue/green color scheme -- it is a lab-8/e. Your system may be a derivative system... Megan Gentry Former RT-11 Developer +--------------------------------+-------------------------------------+ | Megan Gentry, EMT/B, PP-ASEL | Internet (work): gentry!zk3.dec.com | | Unix Support Engineering Group | (home): mbg!world.std.com | | Compaq Computer Corporation | addresses need '@' in place of '!' | | 110 Spitbrook Rd. ZK03-2/T43 | URL: http://world.std.com/~mbg/ | | Nashua, NH 03062 | "pdp-11 programmer - some assembler | | (603) 884 1055 | required." - mbg | +--------------------------------+-------------------------------------+

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Landed me a great machine

by rmeenaks＠olf.com

Hi, I just got myself a really cool machine. It is a Parsytec Xplorer. It contains 16 T805-30Mhz transputers with 4Megs of memory for each node. This is something to gloat about! I am planning on running PVM, MPI, COSY, and PARIX on this baby. Ram -- ,,,, /'^'\ ( o o ) -oOOO--(_)--OOOo------------------------------------- | Ram Meenakshisundaram | Senior Software Engineer | OpenLink Financial Inc | .oooO Phone: (516) 227-6600 x267 | ( ) Oooo. Email: rmeenaks(a)olf.com ---\ (----( )-------------------------------------- \_) ) / (_/

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VCF Re: TEK 31 was: Re: New toy!!!

by owad＠applefritter.com

>Yes, this is exactly the point that should have been raised first. We are >spread far and wide it seems. Kevin Stumf is about the closest to me as far >as the folks on this list whom I know their hometowns. He's over in >Kitchener, ON and that's about 3 hours drive. Another fellow on the list >(who's a relatively infrequent poster here and forgot his name [sorry!!]) >lives east of here in Ithaca and that's about 3.5 hours away. Pittsburgh is >3 hours too. There're several close together around Boston region though. >Everybody else of us Easterners are farther yet from me so it truly is more >difficult to keep personal contact unlike some of you Westerners who seem >to be pocketed in SoCal, NoCal, OR, WA. This is a big continent for sure. I'm in York County, PA. Anybody else from Pennsylvania or Maryland? How about New Jersey? I get the impression there aren't many computer collectors there as I've gotten more (and better) computers from Jersey than from here in Pennsylvania. Tom Owad Applefritter - Apple prototypes, Apple II & Early Mac clones, and the Compubrick. <http://www.applefritter.com/>

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Cables 'n More

by jim＠calico.litterbox.com

Slightly off topic, but if you're looking for cables for some wierd application (IE a classic computer?) I'd suggest looking at Cables 'n Mor at www.cablesnmor.com. I've dealt with them twice, including one return and been amazed with their service. Their prices (at least for Scsi stuff, which is what I've bought from them) are quite good too. -- Jim Strickland jim(a)DIESPAMMERSCUMcalico.litterbox.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- BeOS Powered! -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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OS/2 v1.x

by jolminkh＠nsw.bigpond.net.au

Every old copy of OS/2 (versions 1.1 and 1.2) I have found and tried to set up seems to have the same problem. The setup disk can't read or can't see the country.sys file even though it is there. A chkdsk with version 2.1 can't find any problems. Could the original setup operation have disabled the disk set? I have tried all reasonable country/keyboard combinations. Anybody have any leads? (v1.1 is on-topic. v1.2 will be on-topic in September)

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Can anyone tell me what is a DECset 8000 is?

by kstumpf＠unusual.on.ca

There is this minicomputer I was given by a process control engineering firm. It resembles a PDP-8/e, but it is blue like a PDP-15 or PDP-10, and it has the name DECset 8000 printed on the upper right corner of the control panel. Please respond privately and only if you know for sure. I am picking up other DEC gear this weekend and will post photographs of everything, on my web site, next week. Thank you. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------- Kevin Stumpf * Unusual systems * www.unusual.on.ca +1.519.744.2900 * EST/EDT GMT - 5 Collector - Commercial Mainframes & Minicomputers from the 50s, 60s, & 70s and control panels and consoles. Author & Publisher - A Guide to Collecting Computers & Computer Collectibles * ISBN 0-9684244-0-6 .

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digital cameras

by edick＠idcomm.com

Building one shouldn't bee too difficult. I learned years ago, that building two with interchangeable parts is what's a challenge. Dick -----Original Message----- From: Tony Duell <ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu> Date: Wednesday, July 14, 1999 3:53 PM Subject: Re: digital cameras >> I do see real ratty ones for $10-$20 at flea markets, >> with almost certain holes in the bellows and gummy shutters on the lenses, >> and usually with visibly broken rangefinders. These are things that can >> be patched up, certainly, but I wouldn't turn an absolute beginner onto >> such a fixer-upper when for a very reasonable price you can get a clean >> one. > >Sounds like quite a fun project, though. I don't subscribe to the myth >that cameras can't be fixed at home, and that parts for them can't be >made. I do both when I need to. Maybe I'm not an 'absolute beginner' :-) > >A large format camera is something that I want to have a go at making >sometime. It doesn't look _too_ hard - certainly no worse than the sorts >of things that model engineers routinely make. I'll not know until I try, >I guess... > > >-tony

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System Industries?

by cmcmanis＠mcmanis.com

What ever happened to these guys? --Chuck

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digital cameras

by CLASSICCMP＠trailing-edge.com

>> And on the digital camera topic, can anyone recommend a make/model of >> digital back for a 4x5? I've been following with interest, since I've been >I've not looked into the price of digital backs, but I did once (about 8 >years ago) price some _large_ CCDs. The prices were (IIRC) many 10's of >thousands of pounds. OK, so those were high-speed multiple port devices, >but... > >I doubt you'll get a 5*4 CCD for the sort of price any of us could afford >:-(. I would love to be proved wrong, BTW. Prices are still high, but it's entirely possible to rent a 4x5 CCD back >from a professional camera shop for a reasonable amount. Of course, you get almost instant feedback about detailed camera movements, so this sort of setup is extremely popular among advertising/product photographers. -- Tim Shoppa Email: shoppa(a)trailing-edge.com Trailing Edge Technology WWW: http://www.trailing-edge.com/ 7328 Bradley Blvd Voice: 301-767-5917 Bethesda, MD, USA 20817 Fax: 301-767-5927

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digital cameras

by Glenatacme＠aol.com

Hello Dick: In a message dated 7/14/99 11:04:46 AM EST, edick(a)idcomm.com writes: << What really puzzles me is whether it can process and render a photo as black and white line-art. Anyone have experience with this? >> It's possible, but not much fun. We used to use rasterization software to convert TIFF files from scanned photos into DesignCad 2D images. Using a dig. tablet we cleaned up the images, which were then suitable for printing (or engraving, in our case). A tremendous, time-consuming hassle which requires a thorough knowledge of the CAD software, as well as a certain "knack" -- which my wife has, but I never quite got the hang of it :>( Glen Goodwin 0/0

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digital cameras

by CLASSICCMP＠trailing-edge.com

> Are there any > polaroids out there with interchangeable lenses ? Not in their current lineup. > If not, one of the mayor advantages from using > 35mm cameras is cone. Of course, if you're using a camera better than a 35mm (say, a Medium Format or Large Format camera) you just put a polaroid back on your camera and you're there. At least here in the US, if you check out the swap meets and flea markets it's easy to find an older 4x5 Crown Graphic with good quality lens and 4x5 polaroid back for a few hundred $. I got mine with a 127mm Ektar, a truly excellent lens from the late 40's. -- Tim Shoppa Email: shoppa(a)trailing-edge.com Trailing Edge Technology WWW: http://www.trailing-edge.com/ 7328 Bradley Blvd Voice: 301-767-5917 Bethesda, MD, USA 20817 Fax: 301-767-5927

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Small document haul

by rcini＠email.msn.com

Hello, all: I just got a bunch of interesting documents and related items. The drafting and flowcharting templates are especially interesting :-). (1) "1.1.84-1.1.89: Five Years That Changed the Way the World Communicates" (InformationWeek special issue, 114 pp). (2) "Standard Specification for S-100 Bus Interface Devices" (IEEE, 1979). (3) "Microprocessor Assembly Language Draft Standard" (IEEE, 1979). (4) "Cybernation: The Silent Conquest", by Donald N. Michael (Report to the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, 1962.) (5) "8080 Microcomputer Systems User's Manual" (Intel, 1975, ca. 200 pp). (6) "8080 Microcomputer Peripherals User's Manual" (Intel, 1976, ca. 90 pp). (7) "Selected Examples of Possible Approaches to Electronic Communication Interception Operations" (Mitre Corporation, 1977). (8) "Computers, Spies, and Private Lives" (Nova/PBS, 1981). (9) "IBM System/370 References Summary" (Fifth edition, 1981). (10) "IBM Operator's Library: JES2 Command Language Reference Summary" (1983) (11) "If you can point, you can use a Macintosh." (Original Apple color brochure announcing the Macintosh, 1984). (12) "CP/M Programmer's Reference Guide" (Sol Libes, 1982). (13) "8080 Assembly Language Reference Card" (Intel, March 1976). (14) "AIM 65 Summary Card" (Rockwell, March 1979). (15) "IBM Flowcharting Template" (reflecting ISO 1028 and ANSI X3.5-1970). (16) "Standard Logic Symbols Template #1219" (Pickett, MIL.STD. 806 ASA Y32.14) [ Rich Cini/WUGNET [ ClubWin!/CW7 [ MCP Windows 95/Windows Networking [ Collector of "classic" computers [ http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/~rcini/classiccmp/ <---------------------------- reply separator

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by CLASSICCMP＠trailing-edge.com

>> I do see real ratty ones for $10-$20 at flea markets, >> with almost certain holes in the bellows and gummy shutters on the lenses, >> and usually with visibly broken rangefinders. These are things that can >> be patched up, certainly, but I wouldn't turn an absolute beginner onto >> such a fixer-upper when for a very reasonable price you can get a clean >> one. >Sounds like quite a fun project, though. I don't subscribe to the myth >that cameras can't be fixed at home, and that parts for them can't be >made. I do both when I need to. Maybe I'm not an 'absolute beginner' :-) No, you aren't :-). There's nothing incredibly complicated about getting a fixer-upper back into reasonable shape. If a shutter is truly worn out (not impossible for something that's been in professional service for several decades!) entirely new shutters/apertures are still available. See, for example, http://www.skgrimes.com/ . And new bellows, ground glass, etc., are all available for a price. It certainly is cheaper to get a "clean" used camera than a really ratty one where all the parts need to be replaced, but there are ones "in-between" where a little bit of TLC is all it needs to become usable. >A large format camera is something that I want to have a go at making >sometime. It doesn't look _too_ hard - certainly no worse than the sorts >of things that model engineers routinely make. I'll not know until I try, >I guess... Take a serious look at the Bender view camera kit, http://www.benderphoto.com/ I'm certain it can be improved on :-). Personally, I prefer metal-bodied view cameras for their durability. -- Tim Shoppa Email: shoppa(a)trailing-edge.com Trailing Edge Technology WWW: http://www.trailing-edge.com/ 7328 Bradley Blvd Voice: 301-767-5917 Bethesda, MD, USA 20817 Fax: 301-767-5927

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by CLASSICCMP＠trailing-edge.com

>On Wed, 14 Jul 1999 CLASSICCMP(a)trailing-edge.com wrote: >> > Are there any >> > polaroids out there with interchangeable lenses ? >> Not in their current lineup. >?? the backs for REAL cameras are no longer available?? No, I was simply remarking about the Polaroid-brand cameras. >> Of course, if you're using a camera better than a 35mm >> (say, a Medium Format or Large Format camera) you just put >> a polaroid back on your camera and you're there. >Thus having interchangable lenses. >In addition, is the "Speed Magny"? still around? That was a Polaroid >back for a Nikon F! It wrapped around the bottom with mirrors or prisms, >so that the back was actually facing the subject. Never *ever* saw one of those. How big was the resulting polaroid exposure (i.e. was there optics in there to make it larger than 24mm x 36mm?) >> At least here in the US, if you check out the swap meets and >> flea markets it's easy to find an older 4x5 Crown Graphic with >> good quality lens and 4x5 polaroid back for a few hundred $. >> I got mine with a 127mm Ektar, a truly excellent lens from the >> late 40's. >Arrrgggh! "a few hundred $"?!? What are they on E-BAY?!? I got my >cameras back when prices were reasonable (60s,70s), as in $20 for Graflex. Well, my introduction came in the late 80's and early 90's, when I started getting into cameras and darkroom stuff. A few hundred dollars will still (my prices are based on what I see at Camera shows and dealers, not from E-bay) buy you a clean Crown Graphic with a perfectly operating lens, some film holders, and a roll-film or polaroid back. I do see real ratty ones for $10-$20 at flea markets, with almost certain holes in the bellows and gummy shutters on the lenses, and usually with visibly broken rangefinders. These are things that can be patched up, certainly, but I wouldn't turn an absolute beginner onto such a fixer-upper when for a very reasonable price you can get a clean one. As a step up from the Crown Graphic, you can get an excellent used monorail view camera with full movements for just a little more money. I got my Calumet 4x5, 20" bellows extension monorail with a bunch of film holders and a not-so-bad 210mm Japanese process lens from the mid-70's for $250. The process lens, not surprisingly, is *excellent* for macro work. Brand new setups are available from Calumet photo today (see http://www.calumetphoto.com/ ) for not a lot more money. >I got my Linhof Technica III from one of the largest camera stores, but it >was in a paper bag labelled "most of a Linhof $20", and I had to make some >parts. If someone wants to make a camera, the Bender view camera kits are an excellent project. See http://www.benderphoto.com/ . I wouldn't trade my Crown Graphic or my Calumet for one, but I could see how someone would prefer one they built themselves. The Bender camera kits are *real* pretty when you're done, much nicer looking than my gunmetal grey Calumet or heavily used Crown Graphic. But I'm sure my Crown Graphic and Calumet have stood up to abuse that would've turned the Bender into splinters. -- Tim Shoppa Email: shoppa(a)trailing-edge.com Trailing Edge Technology WWW: http://www.trailing-edge.com/ 7328 Bradley Blvd Voice: 301-767-5917 Bethesda, MD, USA 20817 Fax: 301-767-5927

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[Fwd: [Fwd: T'was The Night Before Y2K]]

by charlesII＠nwonline.net

I received this in my bloated in box and thought that I should share this with the rest of you. Charles. Carol Catchings wrote: > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: T'was The Night Before Y2K > Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 14:37:39 -0700 > From: Ada Jane Cowper <ajcowper(a)juno.com> > To: bobalbert(a)juno.com, barrett5(a)uswest.net, JIMJOANNE(a)WORLDNET.ATT.NET, > Eybraddy(a)aol.com, hummingbird78(a)juno.com, jespooh(a)webtv.net, > jhaumann(a)juno.com, arhering(a)juno.com, jeanlen(a)juno.com, > loisjew(a)aol.com, dgkhoops(a)uswest.net, MISTERRJL(a)aol.com, > dmiller6(a)cwix.com, jimimiller(a)tyler.net, murpheyr(a)goodnet.com, > radie_luv.mau(a)juno.com, AudreyNovell(a)webtv.net, biged20(a)juno.com, > jackscorner(a)juno.com, Dhvining(a)aol.com, marnwilson(a)aol.com, > ACW24kt(a)aol.com, ccatchings(a)cap-az.com, lwmaple(a)uslink.net, > JHStphnson(a)aol.com, j_alenskis(a)juno.com, maltshoppe(a)hotmail.com, > AZ2gems(a)aol.com, hopinka(a)chavin.rcp.net.pe, RRVASQUE(a)logicnet.com.mx, > milesbar(a)aol.com > > T'WAS THE NIGHT BEFORE Y2K > > Twas the night before Y2K, > And all through the nation > We'd soon see the bug that > Caused such a sensation. > > The chips were replaced > In computers with care, > In hopes that ol' Bugsy > Wouldn't stop there. > > While some folks could think > They were snug in their beds > Others had visions > Of dread in their heads. > > And Ma with her PC, > And I with my Mac > Had just logged on the Net > And kicked back with a snack. > > When over the server, > There arose such a clatter > I called Mister Gates > To see what was the matter. > > But he was away, > So I flew like a flash > Off to my bank > To withdraw all my cash. > > Then word of the shortage, > Caused such a demand > That the money was gone, > And the streets were all jammed. > > When what with my wandering eyes > Should I see on my screen > But Millennium Bugsy, > This must be a dream!. > > The hack of all hackers, > Was looking so smug, > I knew that it must be > The Y2K bug! > > His image downloaded, > In no time at all, > He whistled and shouted, > In a loud download drawl. > > "Go Intel! Go Gateway! > Now HP! Big Blue! > Everything Compac, > And Pentium too! > > All processors big, > All processors small, > Crash away! Crash away! > Crash away all! > > Ada Jane Cowper > ajcowper(a)juno.com > 520-477-2474

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by CLASSICCMP＠trailing-edge.com

>> > If not, one of the mayor advantages from using >> > 35mm cameras is cone. >> Of course, if you're using a camera better than a 35mm >> (say, a Medium Format or Large Format camera) you just put >> a polaroid back on your camera and you're there. >> At least here in the US, if you check out the swap meets and >> flea markets it's easy to find an older 4x5 Crown Graphic with >> good quality lens and 4x5 polaroid back for a few hundred $. >> I got mine with a 127mm Ektar, a truly excellent lens from the >> late 40's. >I've never seen that, but it's interesting - >so how is the picture quality ? Top-notch. I regularly make 16" x 20" enlargements from the 4x5 negatives. >And most important, where to look ? >For this kind of stuff I'm a complete newbie. There's a web site just for folks like you: http://www.graflex.org/ It includes the Speed/Crown Graphic FAQ, and pointers to where you can buy these cameras and parts. Again, I don't know about Europe, but here in North America *every* decent professional camera store will have large format stuff, including at least some selection of Crown and Speed Graphics. -- Tim Shoppa Email: shoppa(a)trailing-edge.com Trailing Edge Technology WWW: http://www.trailing-edge.com/ 7328 Bradley Blvd Voice: 301-767-5917 Bethesda, MD, USA 20817 Fax: 301-767-5927

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New toy!!!

by rigdonj＠intellistar.net

I got an e-mail recently from someone offering me an Esco 31 survey calculator. I'd never heard of one but I decided to take a chance and bought it sight unseen. It came today. The seller forgot to mention that it said Tektronix on the back! Yeap, it's a rebadged Tektronix 31! Does anyone have some instructions for one? Does anyone know where to find tapes for these? Joe

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'Gloat list'

by kyrrin＠bluefeathertech.com

Ok... you can blame John Lawson for reminding me about this. I just got back from my annual scrounge trip to the Bay Area. Said trip netted me a good-sized pile. While not all of it is "classic," I figure it's worth posting. * Upgrade components for my own system to K6-2/400, etc. * A Digilog 300 datascope. Haven't fired that one up yet. * My very first DEC Alpha system -- specifically, a 3000/600. * Two Wellfleet routers. * A Livingston 'Portmaster' IRX/Firewall router. * A stack of DEC'ish boards, including a pair of Dilog DQ132's, a DQ686, and a pair of Sigma RQD11E QBus ESDI controllers. * A collection of pre-divestiture Bell System technical manuals (Station Services, Key System Services, and Data Services). These are the white paperbacks with the yellow/blue skunk stripes and the pre-breakup Bell logo. * A Sorensen 0-40V/25A power supply (Heavy!) * A nice tabletop VME chassis that still had a Force Computers 68040 CPU board installed. * A big Cabletron network hub chassis with 60(!) 10Base-T ports in the form of five 12-port cards. I got it 'cause the backplane is rated for FDDI, and I figure that means I can also use 100Base-T on it if I can find the appropriate card. * A pair of Sun SPARCStation IPC's. * Keyboard/Video/Mouse extender for PCs. * Adobe Acrobat 4.0 for around $80. That's all I can think of at the moment. Some of it is for future projects, and some for current ones. All I can say is I'm glad to be back. That was a long trip! 'Til later... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Bruce Lane, Owner and head honcho, Blue Feather Technologies http://www.bluefeathertech.com Amateur Radio:(WD6EOS) E-mail: kyrrin(a)bluefeathertech.com SysOp: The Dragon's Cave (Fido 1:343/272, 253-639-9905) "Our science can only describe an object, event, or living thing in our own human terms. It cannot, in any way, define any of them..."

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Top 150 Collectible Microcomputers

by robert.edis＠creatcomp.com

I'm sorry, I didn't this was a USA 'only' listserv. Excuse me while I take my dirty foreign hands to remove myself from the list! Great computers did and do exist outside of the USA. Blue PowerHouse consultant Rhode Island, USA Disclaimer: The opinions and ideas expressed in this message are my own and have no relationship to my current employer, Initial Technical Staffing, its client CCI, or any of CCI's clients. -----Original Message----- From: Kai Kaltenbach [mailto:kaikal@MICROSOFT.com] Sent: Friday, June 18, 1999 5:12 PM To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers Subject: Top 150 Collectible Microcomputers Here's the first draft at a list of the Top 150 Collectible Microcomputers (from the U.S.A.). I would have gone for Top 100 but there are just too many great machines, and 200 is too many. It's currently at 133 items. Some related models are combined as one, even though they are rather different... other similar models are kept separate. This is basically just because I personally feel they rate their own separate listing, feel free to disagree. Please add items! Items on the list should meet the following categories: 1) Collectible Microcomputer (yes, I know the H-11 is on here as an "honorary" micro) 3) Sold in the USA 4) Available from a manufacturer (not just plans in a magazine) The list: Altos 586 Altos ACS 8000 APF MP1000 Apple I Apple II Apple II+ Apple II+ Bell & Howell "Black Apple" Apple IIc / IIc Plus Apple IIe / IIe Platinum Apple IIgs / IIgs Woz Limited Edition Apple III Apple III+ Apple Lisa / Macintosh XL Apple Macintosh 128 Apple Macintosh 512K Through SE Apple Macintosh Portable AT&T Unix PC / 3B2 / 7300 Atari 400 Atari 800 Atari XL Series Atari 520ST / 1040ST Atari Portfolio Byte Computers Byt-8 California Computer Systems (CCS) S-100 Coleco ADAM Commodore/MOS Technologies KIM-1 Commodore PET 2001-8 Commodore PET 4032 / 8032 Commodore SuperPET SP9000 Commodore VIC-20 Commodore 64 / 65 Commodore 128 / 128D Commodore C16 / Plus 4 Commodore SX64 Commodore Amiga 1000 Commodore Amiga 500 Compaq Portable PC / Plus / II / III CompuColor II CompuPro S-100 / 8-16 Convergent Technologies WorkSlate Corvus Concept Cromemco C-10 Cromemco System One Cromemco System Three Cromemco Z Series Data General One DEC Rainbow 100 Digital Group Systems Dynalogic Hyperion Epson HX-20 Epson PX-8 Geneva Epson QX-10 & QX-16 Exidy Sorcerer Gimix Franklin ACE 1000 / 1200 Hewlett-Packard HP85 Hewlett-Packard HP150 Heathkit H-8 Heathkit H-11 Heath-Zenith H88/H89 IBM 5100 Personal Computer IBM 5140 PC Convertible IBM 5150 Personal Computer IBM 5160 PC-XT IBM 5170 AT IBM 5155 Portable PC IBM PCjr IBM PS/2 Model 80 IMSAI 8080 IMSAI PCS-80 IMSAI VDP-80 Ithaca Audio InterSystems DPS-1 Intertec SuperBrain Kaypro II Kaypro 4 / 10 Lobo PMC-80 Mattel Aquarius Mindset PC MITS Altair 680 MITS Altair 8800 MITS Altair 8800a MITS Altair 8800b MITS Altair 8800b Turnkey Morrow Decision 1 Morrow Micro Decision Morrow Pivot NEC PC-6001A NEC PC-8001A NEC PC-8201A / PC-5000 North Star Advantage North Star Horizon Ohio Scientific Challenger C1P Ohio Scientific Challenger C4P Ohio Scientific Challenger C3D Osborne 1 Osborne Executive Osborne Vixen Otrona Attache Polymorphic Systems POLY-88 Processor Technology SOL Quasar/Panasonic HK2600TE Hand Held Computer Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 1 Radio Shack TRS-80 Color Computers 1-3 Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 2 Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 3/4 Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 4P Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 12 / 16 / 6000 Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 100 / 102 / 200 Radio Shack TRS-80 Micro Color Computer MC-10 Radio Shack TRS-80 Pocket Computers RCA COSMAC 1802 / ELF / Super ELF Rockwell AIM-65 Sanyo MBC-1000 Seattle Computer Products 8086 Sharp Pocket Computers PC-1500 / PC-1500A Sinclair ZX80 Sinclair ZX81 / Timex-Sinclair ZX1000 Smoke Signal Broadcasting Chieftain Spectravideo SV-318 / SV-328 Sphere SWTPC (SouthWest Technical Products) 6800 SWTPC (SouthWest Technical Products) 6809 Synertek SYM-1 Texas Instruments TI 99/4A Timex-Sinclair 1500 Timex-Sinclair 2068 Tomy Tutor Vector Graphic Vector-1 Vector Graphic Vector-4 VideoBrain Vtech Laser 128 Xerox 820 Zenith Z-110 / Z-120

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Data General/NeXT/Philips

by peter.pachla＠vectrex.freeserve.co.uk

Hi Tony, >I can tell you a little about some of the Philips P800 machines.... >....Feel free to ask specific questions on the P850 or P851. I have the >manuals, and I think I know where I put them :-) Thanks very much for the reply, that's increased my knowledge of these machines by at least 100%!!!! I'd forgotten that they existed at all until I spotted a message from you mentioning them. ISTR seeing one sometime around 1978 when I visited a computer installation as part of my computers course at school, but that's pretty much all the contact I've ever had with them. My main questions at the moment are, where should I start looking to acquire one and (if I had a choice) which machine would you recommend to try and get hold of? TTFN - Pete. -- Hardware & Software Engineer. Sound Engineer. Collector of Arcade Machines, Games Consoles & Obsolete Computers (esp DEC) peter.pachla(a)virgin.net | peter.pachla(a)vectrex.freeserve.co.uk | peter.pachla(a)wintermute.free-online.co.uk | www.wintermute.free-online.co.uk --

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Data General/NeXT/Philips

by peter.pachla＠vectrex.freeserve.co.uk

Hi William, >microNovas are hind to find these days, unlike microVAXen or the >"micro"PDP-11s.... I feared this might be the case, I've never actually come across a DG machine of any kind here in the UK during the 12 years or so that I've been collecting. >If size is an issue, get yourself a real Nova, like a 4, or maybe an >Eclipse.... Roughly how big are they? BTW Do you know of any sites on the web where I could get some information on DG machines? TTFN - Pete. -- Hardware & Software Engineer. Sound Engineer. Collector of Arcade Machines, Games Consoles & Obsolete Computers (esp DEC) peter.pachla(a)virgin.net | peter.pachla(a)vectrex.freeserve.co.uk | peter.pachla(a)wintermute.free-online.co.uk | www.wintermute.free-online.co.uk --

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by peter.pachla＠vectrex.freeserve.co.uk

Hi Jeff, >....that the DG AViiON would be a great addition to any >collection. >....1. The ultimate Orphan. One of a small handfull of machines > to use Moto's 88000 CPU chipset. VERY interesting, I've never managed to find a machine which uses that chipset. What other machines came out using the 88000? >3. Runs DG/UX (subspecies of UNIX). Can't get much cooler > than that. Good point. >....1. Make sure you get the software with it, as replacements > are hard to come by, and ludicrously expensive. Sounds rather like my AS/400.... :-( >3. No free operating system available for it (no LINUX or *BSD). Is this because the technical info required for such a project isn't available, or hasn't anyone gotten around to it yet? It seems the former is true in the case of the AS/400. :-( TTFN - Pete. -- Hardware & Software Engineer. Sound Engineer. Collector of Arcade Machines, Games Consoles & Obsolete Computers (esp DEC) peter.pachla(a)virgin.net | peter.pachla(a)vectrex.freeserve.co.uk | peter.pachla(a)wintermute.free-online.co.uk | www.wintermute.free-online.co.uk --

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digital cameras

by peter.pachla＠vectrex.freeserve.co.uk

Hi James, >....There is a GPL'd utility for Linux that will download from many >of the popular cameras, with more being added rapidly..... Do you know if this utility supports the Mustek VDC-100? What's the name of the software? TTFN - Pete. -- Hardware & Software Engineer. Sound Engineer. Collector of Arcade Machines, Games Consoles & Obsolete Computers (esp DEC) peter.pachla(a)virgin.net | peter.pachla(a)vectrex.freeserve.co.uk | peter.pachla(a)wintermute.free-online.co.uk | www.wintermute.free-online.co.uk --

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Classics for sale! (muMATH)

by rkneusel＠post.its.mcw.edu

>Just yesterday I handled a copy of the doc's for the CP/M version. This >implies that it was a CP/M program. I doubt that MuMath/MuSimp was >generated as an apple version as well, though stranger things have >happened. muMATH on the Apple II is not CP/M, nor is it DOS 3.3 or ProDOS. It uses its own disk operating system which is a bit of a pain if one wanted to extract files from the system disks. However, the disks are still 16-sector and can be made into images for emulators or backed up easily. This was done so that the system would run on an Apple II+. DOS 3.3 used too much memory so something simpler had to be found and it predates ProDOS. I still find it amazing that muSIMP could run at all on such a small system. Was muSIMP ever ported to anything "larger"? Ron Kneusel rkneusel(a)mcw.edu Auction is still on, some good systems still not spoken for: http://net-24-42.dhcp.mcw.edu/auction/auction.html

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Shipping..... Oopsy....

by roblwill＠usaor.net

Hello everyone.... I was just going through some old boxes in my basement, and found some stuff that I was supposed to pay shipping on. I know that there was someone from this list that sent me 3 IBM 4869 floppy drives... I think that was all from the list (I hope) Could you please contact me with your address and the amount of shipping (I think it was somewhere around $10?)? ThAnX (I've gotta keep better track of this stuff...) ///--->>> -Jason Willgruber (roblwill(a)usaor.net) ICQ#: 1730318 <http://members.tripod.com/general_1>

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Heart of TEXAS (actually DFW)

by jeff.kaneko＠juno.com

Guys: I'm working on a job here in the Dallas-Ft worth area; anybody know of any good surplus places, or scrapyards around here? There ain't nuthin' where I live, there's gotta be some gold in these thar hills! :^) Jeff ___________________________________________________________________ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj.

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digital cameras

by allisonp＠world.std.com

<What is the approximate resolution of a 35mm frame? Good enough that you can project it to greater than 8 foot by 8 foot image and still not see the grain with reasonable film. For printing you get smooth images at greater than 1000 dots per inch and photo typsetters are around 2500 DPI. digital cameras at 1024x768 are better video camaras (400 V by ~250H <~500 with interlace>). When you take 1024x768 and stretch it to 10.24"x7.68" the image is only resolved to 100 DPI and image smoothing may help but only to a point. Allison

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by elvey＠hal.com

Max Eskin <max82(a)surfree.com> wrote: > On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Chuck McManis wrote: > >That question will fry your brain. It depends on what film you use, what > >speed you shoot it at, and what process you use to develop it. > > But, isn't there a maximum resolution? > > --Max Eskin (max82(a)surfree.com) > http://scivault.hypermart.net: Ignorance is Impotence - Knowledge is Power Hi It is determined by the f/ratio and the color that you are trying to focus. It is a wave property of light. A point sourse of light can only be focused to certain disk size. The Airy disk is defined as 1.22 * wave_length * f_ratio. The smallest distance that one can call two disk as being separate is call Dawes criteria and is when the two spots are 1 Airy disk apart. Other shapes of objects will have sightly worse problems of separation but this is a good rule of thumb for light. It is interesting that stopping a lens down, makes a higher f/ratio and makes the spot size smaller. Stopping the lens down also improves depth of field. Exposure time also goes up. You just can win. Dwight

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by CLASSICCMP＠trailing-edge.com

>What is the approximate resolution of a 35mm frame? A typical film has a resolution of 50 to 200 lines per millimeter (films intended specifically for high resolution technical use may get twice this, at significant loss in tonality). A 35mm full frame is 36 mm wide by 24 mm long, or 3600 x 2400 pixels assuming a "pixel" is a "line" and 100 lpmm resolution. But as pointed out, it could be twice that resolution or half that resolution depending on the film. The better lenses, when properly focused and used on a tripod, can resolve better than 100 lines per millimeter. Your typical point and shoot lens will be lucky if it can resolve 50. Now compare this to what a 4 in x 5 in "large format" camera can get: assuming only 50 lines/mm (something easily done with an 60 year old lens), you get 6250 x 5000 resolution. Not bad for technology that was mature over a half century ago. -- Tim Shoppa Email: shoppa(a)trailing-edge.com Trailing Edge Technology WWW: http://www.trailing-edge.com/ 7328 Bradley Blvd Voice: 301-767-5917 Bethesda, MD, USA 20817 Fax: 301-767-5927

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8080A I/O Pin?

by allisonp＠world.std.com

<What pin does the 8080A (raise/lower?) to indicate <that it is doing an I/O read/write instead of a memory <read/write? Also, does anyone have a copy of the IMSAI <MPU-A Rev-4 schematics that they could scan and send me? Your thinking 8085... 8080 is very different. There are two pins on the CPU: WR/ (pin 18) indicates precessor write (memory or IO). PDBIN (pin 17) indicates a IOREAD, MEMORY READ, INSTRUCTION FETCH The latched 8bits from the data bus at Sync(pin 19) time tell if the operation is D0 SINTA Status interrupt acknowledge D1 SWO Status write out D2 SSTACK Status Stack operation D3 Shlta Status Halt acknowledge D4 Sout Statue output (IO output operation commences) D5 SM1 Status M1 state (instuction fetch) D6 SINP Status input (IO input operation commences) D7 Smemr Status memory read Those status signals only indicate the next bus cycle activity and must be cates with Sync (psync on the bus), PDBIN, WR/ before the whole mess makes sense. Intel later created the 8228/38 chips to do this. Otherwise it takes a good handful of gates to sort it out. I have the Bursky book, no scanning ability. if you can altair docs the 8080 and 8212 status latch portion of the altair CPU are the same. Allison

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8080A I/O Pin?

by bill＠chipware.com

What pin does the 8080A (raise/lower?) to indicate that it is doing an I/O read/write instead of a memory read/write? Also, does anyone have a copy of the IMSAI MPU-A Rev-4 schematics that they could scan and send me? Thanks, Bill

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Sun 3/50

by lemay＠cs.umn.edu

Who was the person from, I think Duluth, who wanted the Sun 3/50? I have it now, without the keyboard which I need for my 3/60 system. If you're still interested in it, just let me know and we can arrange a time for you to come pick it up. -Lawrence LeMay lemay(a)cs.umn.edu

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looking for G111 & G233

by jlwest＠tseinc.com

I'll have to check tonight, but I'm 99.9% sure that I have several spare G111 and G233 boards. Got anything particular on your trade list? Jay West -----Original Message----- From: Lawrence LeMay <lemay(a)cs.umn.edu> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu> Date: Monday, July 12, 1999 9:03 PM Subject: looking for G111 & G233 >Well, I went and purchased a 8K core memory board on ebay, mainly >because I recognized it as a G646C core memory plane from a >pdp8/e or /f. > >If someone has the G111 and G233 boards that should go with this, >but not the core memory, then perhaps i can trade you something >for them. > >-Lawrence (That core plane will work in a Muniac computer too???) LeMay >

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New drive belts for 3" floppy drive?

by mark_k＠iname.com

Hi, Can anyone confirm that the Spectrum +3 (I have a couple with "broken" floppy drives) uses the same drive mechanisms as the Amstrad CPC6128? If so, I will order some replacement drive belts for my +3s, since the belt perishing is almost certainly the problem. With this in mind, does anyone else need some replacement drive belts? The price is about 1.75 pounds each (I'm in the UK) if I order five or more. If so, please let me know. -- Mark

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Classics for sale!

by therunk17＠earthlink.net

I don't know how this message got to me. As you can see it got sent to the wrong address. ron fraser ---------- >From: Derek Peschel <dpeschel(a)u.washington.edu> >To: "Discussion re-collecting of classic computers" <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu> >Subject: Re: Classics for sale! >Date: Mon, Jul 12, 1999, 3:45 PM > > This relates to Ron Kneusel's auction. > > Ron, I couldn't reply to you -- your rkneusel(a)mcw.edu address didn't work. > > Does the Apple version of muMath require the native Apple DOS or is it a CP/M > program? > > Do you have a list of the Kaypro original software and the manuals? (It > would probably be too much work to list the unoriginal software you're also > selling.) > > Thanks, > > -- Derek > > > >

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TRS-80 Model III Programs?

by wsmith＠gj.com

I have: Hard Disk Operating System Hard Disk Initialization System ST80/III Scripsit Blackjack Taipan ExtBal Host 480 Combat Delay TRSDOS 1.3 General Ledger I also have DBASE II, that I think will run on a III. All I have now is a model 4P, and I don't know whether I can format a disk that will work on a III. Any ideas? My 4P manual is no help on this one. Do you know whether I can use the 22Disk utility to read these files on my PC and mail them to you? This has worked well for me on certain formats (Osborne, Kaypro, etc.). Wayne >>> "Jason <the GeNeRaL>" <roblwill(a)usaor.net> 07/13 1:08 PM >>> Does anyone have any Programs for the Model III on disk That they would either want to sell or cold email me a copy (teledisk)? I have some various old PC and a few old Mac programs that I'd be willing to trade (either through email or snail mail -email me for a list of what I have, or I could post it to the list). I'm mainly looking for word processing/spreadsheet software and maybe some games. ThAnX, -Jason ! ! !

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Sun

by rhblake＠nospam.bigfoot.com

I have in my possession a Sun 4/110 main unit in unknown operating condition. It appears to be made as a desktop unit but has a factory set of pieces that make it stand upright on the floor. As far as I can tell it was pulled directly from service but has no mouse, keyboard, monitor, etc. it doesn't appear as if anyone has gotten inside either so i'm assuming it's a complete unit. Anyone want to make me an offer on this? I am always in need of common PC hardware that I could trade for the thing, especially SCSI cdroms and hard drives (preferably 1gb or bigger). Remember that you'd be getting basically a "pig in a poke" as I have no equipment to use to set it up or test it with so it's strictly on a chance that it might be fully operational. The unit is fairly heavy but probabl not more than 45 lbs. -- Russ Blakeman Clarkson, Ky USA Remove "nospam.' in email address to reply

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Classics for sale!

by edick＠idcomm.com

Just yesterday I handled a copy of the doc's for the CP/M version. This implies that it was a CP/M program. I doubt that MuMath/MuSimp was generated as an apple version as well, though stranger things have happened. It wouldn't surprise me to find a version of Apple diskettes for use with Apple CP/M. Dick -----Original Message----- From: Ronald Fraser <therunk17(a)earthlink.net> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu> Date: Tuesday, July 13, 1999 8:29 AM Subject: Re: Classics for sale! >I don't know how this message got to me. As you can see it got sent to the >wrong address. >ron fraser > >---------- >>From: Derek Peschel <dpeschel(a)u.washington.edu> >>To: "Discussion re-collecting of classic computers" ><classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu> >>Subject: Re: Classics for sale! >>Date: Mon, Jul 12, 1999, 3:45 PM >> > >> This relates to Ron Kneusel's auction. >> >> Ron, I couldn't reply to you -- your rkneusel(a)mcw.edu address didn't work. >> >> Does the Apple version of muMath require the native Apple DOS or is it a CP/M >> program? >> >> Do you have a list of the Kaypro original software and the manuals? (It >> would probably be too much work to list the unoriginal software you're also >> selling.) >> >> Thanks, >> >> -- Derek >> >> >> >>

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Other Bazaar Boards

by amichael＠nortelnetworks.com

The John Bell 6502 board used to be advertised in the back pages of pre-1980 Byte magazines, along with a selection of other JB cards. I seem to recall the 6502 card was minimal-chip system essentially aimed at "embedded processor" type applications. So I don't think it came with a preprogrammed EPROM; you were expected to develop your own firmware for it. They had another bare board for a video display terminal based on an Intel 8085 (basically an implementation of the circuit in an Intel application note) and they also sold some low-cost interface cards for Apple II parallel interfacing using the 6522 VIA chips that were then popular in Commodore Pets. I remember building a couple of those JB interfaces for lab experiments. I wonder who "John Bell" was and whatever happened to him? Arlen Michaels > -----Original Message----- > From: Marvin [SMTP:marvin@rain.org] > Sent: Sunday, July 11, 1999 9:40 PM > To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers > Subject: Other Bazaar Boards > <snip> > Another board that I picked up is a John Bell Engineering 6502 > Microcomputer. At this point, I don't know if it works, and a couple of > the > chips are missing including the EPROM. I have the docs for the 2716 EPROM > programmer, but didn't find the board. > <snip> -- Arlen Michaels amichael(a)nortelnetworks.com Nortel Networks, Ottawa, Canada

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Can anyone ID these SEMI chips?

by edick＠idcomm.com

I had one in my possession back in the days when it might have been of use, but since it wasn't at that moment, I didn't pursue it. It's not the SRAM I wanted that week, but I remember it was an odd DRAM or shift register or some such. 22 pins was not a popular package. Dick -----Original Message----- From: Dave Dameron <ddameron(a)earthlink.net> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu> Date: Monday, July 12, 1999 7:25 PM Subject: Re: Can anyone ID these SEMI chips? >At 11:24 PM 7/11/99 -0700, Doug wrote: >>Hi everyone, > >> These are 22 pin chips, made in 1977, but I can't >>seem to find any chip manufacturer named SEMI or >>any reference to this 4200 number. >> >> Can anyone identify these chip? >> >I don't know that part number (a 4k dynamic ram like Intel 2107??), but the >company was "EMM Semi", a part of >Electronic Memories & Magnetics. They were in Phoenix, AZ. >-Dave >

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DEC H7861 Power Supply Question

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Jul 12, 20:51, Zane H. Healy wrote: > Subject: Re: DEC H7861 Power Supply Question > >Does anyone know the +5V and +12V current ratings of a DEC H7861 (Rev B, ECO > >1) power supply? > > > >Thanks, > >Bill > > Erm, might help if you mentioned WHAT it came out of, so we know if we've > got doc's on it :^) It's the PSU from a BA-11S, as in a PDP-11/23plus. 5V @ 36A (min load 2A) and 12V @ 5A. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Dept. of Computer Science University of York

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DEC H7861 Power Supply Question

by wrking＠tsoft.com

Does anyone know the +5V and +12V current ratings of a DEC H7861 (Rev B, ECO 1) power supply? Thanks, Bill

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looking for G111 & G233

by lemay＠cs.umn.edu

Well, I went and purchased a 8K core memory board on ebay, mainly because I recognized it as a G646C core memory plane from a pdp8/e or /f. If someone has the G111 and G233 boards that should go with this, but not the core memory, then perhaps i can trade you something for them. -Lawrence (That core plane will work in a Muniac computer too???) LeMay

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Daisy computer ?????????

by rigdonj＠intellistar.net

This is another oddity that I spotted Friday. It's a black box about 3 feet high by 1 x 2 feet with 2 chrome legs that stick out to one side with castors on the end of them. It has an 8" floppy drive near the top and a FH 5 1/4" hard drive inside. There were several WIDE ( 60 pin?) ribbon cables hanging out of it. Inside at the bottom it has a card rack with about 6 or 8 Multi-bus cards in it. The label on the outside says that it was made by Daisy. Any one have any idea what it is? Joe

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Can anyone ID these SEMI chips?

by Mzthompson＠aol.com

On Sun, 11 Jul 1999 Doug Coward <mranalog(a)home.com> wrote: >I have was appears to be a memory board made by "EMM". >It also appears to be Q-bus, at least the power and >ground seem to be in the right places to be Q-bus. >Anyway, the board has 64 of these chips, and looking >at the interconnection between chips, they appear to >be arranged in 2 groups of 32. The chips are labeled: > > SEMI > 4200ACC > 7733 > > These are 22 pin chips, made in 1977, but I can't >seem to find any chip manufacturer named SEMI or >any reference to this 4200 number. > > Can anyone identify these chip? I had almost forgot about having a copy of the 1980 IC Master. Anyway, you have a 4096x1 Static Ram chip The book lists it as a 4200A made by EMM/Semi: 4096x1 200ns access NMOS Tri-State output 22 pins +/- 5v & 12v supply If they still exist: EMM/Semi 2000 W. 14th St. Tempe, AZ (602) 968-4431 (800) 528-6050 HTH, Mike

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CogWheels

by a2k＠one.net

Hello, I have two binders full of every CogWheels newsletter ever printed (Cincinnati, OH Osborne user's group). Does anyone have any interest in me scanning them and putting them on the web? Or does anyone need any photocopies? An old senile man from the group handed me the two binders and told me to look at them ... I have no idea if this mean they're mine or he wants them back... same thing with an Osborne I I'm working on. Oh well. Kevin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "It's you isn't it? THE BASTARD OPERATOR FROM HELL!" "In the flesh, on the phone and in your account..." -- BOFH #3

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Check the sidebar: Fwd: [AWA] A little off the Old Radio topic, but -- snip --

by cfandt＠netsync.net

Well, whadayaknow! Could it be our James Willing referred to as "Jim Willing" in the sidebar of the referenced "Computerworld" flashback article below? I thought I was going to just see a reference to my AWA colleague, but lo!, Jim's in there too! >Reply-To: antiquewirelessassociation(a)egroups.com >Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 19:24:29 -0400 >From: "John Dilks, K2TQN" <oldradio(a)worldnet.att.net> >Organization: NJARC and the OldRadio Museum >To: list >Subject: [AWA] A little off the Old Radio topic, but if you're interested: >I'm in Computerworld this week, July 12. > >To my Radio friends, > > There is a write-up about me and the 1976 Personal Computing(R) Show >in "Computerworld" this week, July 12. The on-line version is at the >following URL: > > http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/990712B38A > > (Over half of the attendees to the 1976 show were radio hams.) >-- >73' John Dilks, K2TQN > > Webmaster for Antique Wireless Information ** New ** > http://www.eht.com/oldradio/awa >-=and=- > for the New Jersey Antique Radio Club > http://www.eht.com/oldradio > > Please visit my OldRadio Museum > http://www.eht.com/oldradio/museum >- Looks like Jim and J. Dilks are but two of the players, albeit minor, of the just launched revolution in personal computing and in there shoulder-to-shoulder with some of the pioneering manufacturers and marketers. Kinda neat! Regards, Chris -- -- Christian Fandt, Electronic/Electrical Historian Jamestown, NY USA cfandt(a)netsync.net Member of Antique Wireless Association Check our redesigned website! URL: http://www.antiquewireless.org/

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(fwd) PERQ 2 requires new home

by ard＠p850ug1.demon.co.uk

This appeared on alt.sys.perq today - is anyone here interested? If anyone in the UK does rescue this machine (and I hope they do), I'd be happy to give some advice on sorting it out. Please reply to the poster below and not to me. -tony ---------------------------------------------------- I am the proud(?) owner of a Perq 2 system. Unfortunately it has come to pass that my house is not big enough for the both of us. It hasn't been booted for some years but made it all the way to 15 on the diagnostic counter when I tried the other day. I believe that spells hard drive trouble, which may or may not be fixable. As far as transport is concerned, I live about 30 miles SW of Cambridge, UK and it will be the responsibility of the new owner to transposrt it from there to wherever. Anyone who is interested mail me at graham(a)muscat.com. Graham.

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Paging Bill Yakowenko!

by jlwest＠tseinc.com

Sorry to all on the list for this personal traffic; I don't have an email address handy for Mr. Bill Yakowenko. Bill; I'm getting the eproms you wanted from overseas. Send me your mailing address so I can forward them to you. Thanks! Jay West

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Interesting online computer museum site

by af-list＠lafleur.wfi-inc.com

In one of my rambling, random searches I came across an interesting site chock-full of pictures and history. For those who haven't see it: http://www.wins.uva.nl/faculteit/museum/ Kept me busy for a couple of hours... Aaron

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Can anyone ID these SEMI chips?

by mranalog＠home.com

Hi everyone, I'm curious about identifing some chips. I have was appears to be a memory board made by "EMM". It also appears to be Q-bus, at least the power and ground seem to be in the right places to be Q-bus. Anyway, the board has 64 of these chips, and looking at the interconnection between chips, they appear to be arranged in 2 groups of 32. The chips are labeled: SEMI 4200ACC 7733 These are 22 pin chips, made in 1977, but I can't seem to find any chip manufacturer named SEMI or any reference to this 4200 number. Can anyone identify these chip? Thanks in advance, --Doug ==================================================== Doug Coward dcoward(a)pressstart.com (work) Sr. Software Eng. mranalog(a)home.com (home) Press Start Inc. http://www.pressstart.com Sunnyvale,CA Curator Analog Computer Museum and History Center http://www.best.com/~dcoward/analog ====================================================

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Vector Graphic Vector 4

by g＠kurico.com

I just picked one of these up and have been able to find precious little info on it. Mainly, it doesn't have a keyboard, can anyone help me out (either with a keyboard, how to rig one up, what other keyboards may work, etc). Any other info would be great. TIA George

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Last call on MassPar, HP3000, etc.

by Anthony.Eros＠COMPAQ.com

I have a call into the contact person regarding the MassPar system. -- Tony > ---------- > From: William Donzelli[SMTP:aw288@osfn.org] > Reply To: classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu > Sent: Monday, July 12, 1999 4:21 PM > To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers > Subject: Re: Last call on MassPar, HP3000, etc. > > > A couple of people have talked to me about the MassPar and HP3000, but > so > > far nobody has taken any steps to acquire them. If they last another 10 > > days "intact" I will be surprized. Both are located in the SoCal area, > and > > both could be removed with a small truck (with a lift gate) and a couple > > hundred (or so) bucks. The HP though has a good twenty 18" cube boxes of > > manuals which will be a load in themselves. > > Is there any chance someone could save at least some of the MassPas > boards? > > William Donzelli > aw288(a)osfn.org >

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Daisy computer ?????????

by rigdonj＠intellistar.net

At 09:25 AM 7/12/99 -0700, Aaron wrote: > > > >I'm not *totally* against cannibalizing machines for donor parts, but in >this case... > >I guess it depends how much weight you give to the rarity factor when you >calculate the value/collectability of old machines, but Cadnetix and older >Daisy CAD stations are virtually extinct. I've spent about two years >trying, unsuccessfully, to find *any* other information about the one I >have. I finally tracked down one of the original engineers, a Mr. Wolfgang >Moritz, who was trying (again unsuccessfully) to put me in touch with some >of the people involved in the design of the system I own. I consider the >system I have, non-operational and all, to be the most interesting system >I own simply for the fact that it is the only one I've ever seen or even >heard about! > >As someone just pointed out, these machines were really the pinacle of CAD >technology at the time of their release. Within the paperwork I got with >mine are several invoices for the original lease; the system cost tens of >thousands of dollars in the mid 80's. I'm not sure if you could get it to >do anything without a monitor/kbd/etc, but I think it's worth a few >dollars and the trouble to haul it home simply for the history and rarity >of the machine. > >Just my .02, > >Aaron Aaron, In an ideal world you'd be completely right about not scrapping old machines but it's simply not practical to rescue every odd machine out there. I see HUNDREDS of machine being scrapped every week and a fair number of them are unique. It's impossible to save any significant number of them. For example, just at that one place on that one day I found the Daisy, three HP 7906 drives, a HP 9830, a HP 9866 and a pile of Hetra machines, a complete Sun 4/260 and two stacks of smaller Sun computers. We got the stacks of Suns and we're trying to get the 260 and HPs. At least if they have to go it's better that their parts be saved to repair the ones that are left instead of being sent to the land fill. Joe > >

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Some qbus scores...

by ethan_dicks＠yahoo.com

--- Megan <mbg(a)world.std.com> wrote: > > This weekend, I scored a couple of boards in the Qbus space... > o An ABLE corp QNIverter > I think RM03s are supported by the KS10, and I *think* I have > an RM03-look-similar somewhere in my apartment (warehouse). > If this is true (and if I can find the controller), I might just > be able to get a less-power-hungry -10 system going in the > near future. Since you seem to have gotten the answer to the Qniverter question, let me mention that if you are looking for _real_ RM03's, I have access to a couple of them in Dayton, Ohio. I grabbed the 15Mb 11/750 that was once attached to them, but I haven't gone on a last scrounging run (my friend's trailer is still under repair). (There's also a short rack with Fuji Eagles and an SI9900 and taller rack with a TS11). If anyone really needs one or two RM03's, I am fairly sure I can still get them. If I go get them for myself, I'm likely to part them out. -ethan === Infinet has been sold. The domain is going away. Please send all replies to erd(a)iname.com _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

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Classics for sale!

by dpeschel＠u.washington.edu

This relates to Ron Kneusel's auction. Ron, I couldn't reply to you -- your rkneusel(a)mcw.edu address didn't work. Does the Apple version of muMath require the native Apple DOS or is it a CP/M program? Do you have a list of the Kaypro original software and the manuals? (It would probably be too much work to list the unoriginal software you're also selling.) Thanks, -- Derek

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Thinkpad 850

by red＠bears.org

Hi; this is not strictly covered by the charter of the list, but someone on it mentioned running across them with some frequency, or at least once. As it turns out the 850 I paid a fair amount of money for with the intention of actually using it is a "pre--General-Announcement" unit---essentially a hardware prototype. This isn't that big of a deal, but there are some unresolved hardware issues with respect to AIX support which make the laptop difficult to work with. Can I ask the person who saw these units at auction to contact me off-list, please, with regard to acquiring another 850? ok r.

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Classics for sale!

by rkneusel＠post.its.mcw.edu

Looking to clear some shelf space and don't like ebay so in classic fashion I'm running my own. Take a look. Highlights include: TI-99/4 (not 4A!) TS-2068 TS-1000 Kaypro 10 Kaypro 4 Kaypro 2 Kaypro II TRS-80 Coco 1 TRS-80 pocket computer PC-2 Coleco ADAM SWTPc S/09 System all with various accessories and manuals. Also software and books, including original muMATH/muSIMP for the Apple II. http://net-24-42.dhcp.mcw.edu/auction/auction.html is the URL. Ron Kneusel rkneusel(a)mcw.edu

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Daisy computer ?????????

by rigdonj＠intellistar.net

Aaron, At 09:13 AM 7/12/99 -0700, you wrote: > > >On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Joe wrote: > >> >As far as the cables, could they be 50-pin scsi cables? >> >> They might be but I *thought* they were larger. They are shielded so >> maybe they just looked that way. They're LONG and seem to be made to go to >> something outside of the cabinet. > >Aha...female edge connectors? That would make sense if the systems are >similar; my Cadnetix system has long, shielded, external cables for a >Pertec-interface tape drive. I think they were card edge connectors but I didn't pay attention to them. > >> Mine has an >> >Adaptec scsi card and two enormous HD's in it (I think 10 meg apiece). >> >> It has a large card mounted next to the hard drive. The card looks like >> it converts SCSI to MFM for the hard drive and an interface for the 8" >> floppy drive. There is a FH 5 1/4" hard drive in it that appears to have a >> MFM interface. No idea what size drive it is. > >Hmmm. I forget, where are you located? From the dimensions you described, >and from my experience with my Cadnetix unit (similar size), I'd guess the >weight of the cabinet to be between 75 and 100 lbs (i.e. cost-prohibitive >to ship). Otherwise, I'd be really interested to see how close the systems >were before the companies merged... I'm in Orlando Florida. You'd probably have to ship it by truck. I don't think it would cost too much. I think you're right about the weight. > >As far as peripherals, I can only tell you how my system is set up: the >monitor has a long ribbon cable that connects to the rear of the cpu >cabinet. The keyboard has a modular plug which connects to the monitor, >and the mouse-systems mouse (identical to Sun3) plugs into the keyboard. >With mine, I also got a couple of hundred feet of thick-coax ethernet >cable and a Sperry 286 workstation with a high-end graphics card, optical >mouse, and 20meg HD. Someday maybe I'll have the time and energy to get it >working again, hopefully before the components turn to dust... Hmmm, I didn't see the peripherals but if you you wnat them and can give me a good description then I may be able to find them. Joe > >Aaron > >

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MicroVAX 3100 Problem

by CLASSICCMP＠trailing-edge.com

>Some questions for TK50 folks... > 1) Can you operate a TK50 when it is _only_ connected to power? Pretty much true. There are some states, where if you operate the load solenoid by hand, you can remove a 99%-already-unloaded cartridge. > 2) Which is load, button pressed or button out? Pressed in. > 3) What are the status modes on the light? Red light blinking fast = failure. Red light blinking slowly = rewind. Green light solid = tape loaded and ready. Green light blinking = tape moving. -- Tim Shoppa Email: shoppa(a)trailing-edge.com Trailing Edge Technology WWW: http://www.trailing-edge.com/ 7328 Bradley Blvd Voice: 301-767-5917 Bethesda, MD, USA 20817 Fax: 301-767-5927

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Common Eprom data formats?

by mikeford＠netwiz.net

Normally I don't pass on ads I see, but this guy has some unusual old stuff, some Apple oriented, some just old computer (magazine collections etc.) http://bytehead.com/~lnewby/sale/APPLE.txt

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Kalok drives, and the answer...

by aw288＠osfn.org

The drives are spoken for, and the answer is Memorex. William Donzelli aw288(a)osfn.org

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