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

by franke＠sbs.de

>> Jim about his Intellec/Altair thing. For shure, the Intellec is a >> nice thing, but everybody just looks at the Altair. > Except me :-). As I've mentioned before, years ago I was offered the > choice between an Altair and an Intellec MCS8i (8080 CPU) and I picked > the Intellec. It looked to be the much more interesting machine. :) lucky one. I would love to get the Intellec, but I still have to work 9 to 5 for my money ... or better for tax paying :) So anything beside lets say 350 USD per month isn't possible for me. Gruss H. So, I hope I recive a lot of cheques from all of you, who are just cry about my bad situation and like to help a poor guy :)))))) Hey, at least I can try ! -- Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut HRK

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DOS disks?

by Marty＠itgonline.com

Any PC (IBM) or MS-DOS as far as I know, although I'd try MS-DOS 3.2 or 3.3.... ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: DOS disks? Author: classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu at internet Date: 10/27/98 1:51 PM Weeeeeeeell, I landed a Data General One laptop. Normally I eschew MS-DOS based machines, simply because I'm a racist pig etc., but this one has an interesting notebook mode and a built-in terminal program at 1200bps. Except that the screen is harder to read than James Joyce, it seems like a winner and it works great. Question. Anyone know what version of DOS this uses? Does someone have any boot disks out there, or at least have the system files available for download? The drives are 3.5" DD, right? Thanks much, -- -------------------------- personal page: http://calvin.ptloma.edu/~spectre/ -- Cameron Kaiser Information Technology Services Database Programmer Point Loma Nazarene University Fax: +1 619 849 2581 ckaiser(a)ptloma.edu Phone: +1 619 849 2539 -- TRUE HEADLINE: Police To Begin Campaign To Run Down Jaywalkers ------------- ------ Message Header Follows ------ Received: from lists2.u.washington.edu by smtp.itgonline.com (PostalUnion/SMTP(tm) v2.1.9i(b5) for Windows NT(tm)) id AA-1998Oct27.135124.1767.73039; Tue, 27 Oct 1998 13:51:25 -0500 Received: from host (lists.u.washington.edu [140.142.56.13]) by lists2.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with SMTP id KAA18163; Tue, 27 Oct 1998 10:49:02 -0800 Received: from mxu2.u.washington.edu (mxu2.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.9]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id KAA15072 for <classiccmp(a)lists.u.washington.edu>; Tue, 27 Oct 1998 10:48:57 -0800 Received: from oa.ptloma.edu (oa.ptloma.edu [192.147.249.102]) by mxu2.u.washington.edu (8.9.1+UW98.09/8.9.1+UW98.09) with ESMTP id KAA06 884 for <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>; Tue, 27 Oct 1998 10:47:47 -0800 Received: (from ckaiser@localhost) by oa.ptloma.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) id LAA13158 for classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu; Tue, 27 Oct 1998 11:52:23 -0700 Message-Id: <199810271852.LAA13158(a)oa.ptloma.edu> Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 10:52:23 -0800 (PST) Reply-To: classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu Sender: CLASSICCMP-owner(a)u.washington.edu Precedence: bulk From: Cameron Kaiser <ckaiser(a)oa.ptloma.edu> To: "Discussion re-collecting of classic computers" <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu> Subject: DOS disks? Content-Type: text X-Sender: ckaiser(a)ptloma.edu X-Sender: ckaiser(a)ptloma.edu X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.1 beta -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN

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by mtapley＠swri.edu

Tim wrote: >Hint for those who haven't done much dumpster diving: back your car >or truck up to the dumpster, climb into the dumpster via your rear >bumper, and start tossing :-). In addition to giving you an easier climb, that also blocks the dumpster so that the trash truck can't get to it. Y'all be *careful* out there. I do *not* want to read about a compacted classic computer collector with his compacted hands clenched around a compacted Altair. Or even a Rainbow. - Mark

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I hit the jackpot - if I can store the stuff

by mbg＠world.std.com

I found a person getting rid of a a couple of H960 tall cabs worth of DEC hardware -- and I'm the first one to have contacted him. I can take it all away... If I can find a place to store it (without having to completely reorganize the insides of my condo... I've got a call into RCS/RI for some space)... anyway, what I can get is an 11/34 (unknown condition) with a VT11, VR14 (and light pen) and an LPS11, as well as four (4) pdp-8s of various types with various media... !!! A pdp-8/a A pdp-8/e A pdp-8/f (the lab-8) another -8, I think it was an 8/m A couple of RL02s, Diablo style rk05s, rx01, dectapes... all in two tall cabs and a short cab. I don't want to let this one get away from me, so if I don't hear from RCS/RI, I may just have to compress (gzip) my condo... :-) 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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by franke＠sbs.de

> > > We disagree here, as I still think it is a lot of fun. As far as the chance > > > of ending up with it, it is exactly what you are willing to pay for it. > > Like that guy who just bought the 1200XL on eBay for $600... > Evolution works. Depending on his age, either his parents or his > wife will kill him, a drop of chlorine in the gene pool. BTW, has anybody still the URL ? Gruss H. -- Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut HRK

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Microvaxen bits etc.

by netcafe＠pirie.mtx.net.au

-----Original Message----- From: Daniel T. Burrows <dburrows(a)netpath.net> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu> Date: Tuesday, 27 October 1998 1:35 Subject: Re: Microvaxen bits etc. >For your ref. the delqa is a M7516 and add -YM for the "turbo" version. I >just checked the DDA for any listed in Australia and none are listed. If >you want I will go through the subscriber list and find some for you. DDA? Ok, thanks. Appreciated. >>While I'm at it, AUI-10Base2(or t) transceivers are also getting rare, >>(around here anyway) since I have a Vax 6220 in need as well, any good >>sources? >>S/H preferred. I'd like 2 or 3 if possible. > > >I know it doesn't help much for shipping concerns but Datacom Warehouse >carries them for about $25 either 10base2 or 10baset. www.warehouse.com Not much. That equates to about A$50 plus shipping across the Pacific. But if all else fails. I am led to believe I can get a new one for about A$75 or so, but I need to confirm this. That's more than I wanted to pay, but I may not have a choice. >>BTW, Huw, did you ever come across a source for a Vax 8530-Console cable? >>(With that subject line, I just know you'll read this!) > >Which console cable are you looking for? I may have one. The multiplex cable with 2 d connectors at each end that go from the DEC Pro380 Vaxconsole to the backplane of the VAX 85xx series of computers. (Nautilus I think is the processor family) Thanks Geoff Roberts Computer Room Internet Cafe Port Pirie South Australia. netcafe(a)pirie.mtx.net.au (my other life)

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by franke＠sbs.de

>>> We disagree here, as I still think it is a lot of fun. As far as the chance >>> of ending up with it, it is exactly what you are willing to pay for it. >> Like that guy who just bought the 1200XL on eBay for $600... > Evolution works. Depending on his age, either his parents or his > wife will kill him, a drop of chlorine in the gene pool. Maybe we could get a life transmission ? After all, its a real internet thing in the internet age, by internet stupidity. :) H. -- Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut HRK

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Washington DC area vintage sources (was RE:ebay)

by CLASSICCMP＠trailing-edge.com

>process. (except what you are willing to dumpster dive for) Not that I >would ever do such a thing.:) ( I have made several thousand from such dives >over the years) So have I - several of the RSX-11 DECUS tapes that are now available from ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/academic/computer-science/history/pdp-11 were rescued from TRIUMF when they dumped all the 9-tracks they had in the Chem Annex. Hint for those who haven't done much dumpster diving: back your car or truck up to the dumpster, climb into the dumpster via your rear bumper, and start tossing :-). Tim.

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by franke＠sbs.de

>>> 1. Bid more than anybody else through proxy bidding. This way when >>> somebody else bids, the system will bid you up (to your max) automatically >>> when someone else bids. If you want it bad enough, you can get it, but >>> it may cost you. >> Jep, but to be shure, it has to be high, real high :( > As high as $12,000? Only to have someone bid $12,100? Hey, if somebody outbids me that way on a KIM-1 - Gee, best wishes to the seller :) Gruss H. -- Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut HRK

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by franke＠sbs.de

> It isn't such a great price. HUD Economists really ought to study a > bit of economics (though I realize Economists don't set Economic > policy -- that's done by elected and appointed officials who wouldn't > know economics even when it bites them in the ass). Hey, whats this for a new kind of tecnology ? 'Elected officials' that are bitten by economy ? Get real, they have our taxes to avoide any complication with reality! They are so deeply pampered, they wouldn't even notice it if their campain manager wouldn't tell them that there is a thing calld bad economic situation. We had now for more almost 20 years a fat (right of the middle) gouvernment that cared a lot about the economy - especialy their personal one. Gruss H. (Do I get a bonus point for enhanced off topic rage ?) -- Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut HRK

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Dolphin (was Re: ebay)

by david_a._vandenbroucke＠hud.gov

>Dauphin ? You're not talkin about the Dolphin ? >A kit system from the late 70's from Swizzerland ? No, I'm talking about the Dauphin DTR-1, a cute little 486-powered, pen-and-keyboard-capable portable computer. The "DTR" stands for "desktop replacement," which was overpromising a bit. As far as I know, there was no "DTR-2." Dav Vandenbroucke Economist U.S. Dept. HUD david_a._vandenbroucke(a)hud.gov

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by david_a._vandenbroucke＠hud.gov

Bill Richman (bill_r(a)inetnebr.com) says >Yeah, but it's *such* a pisser when the sniping twit gets it for your maximum plus 50 >cents!! Like you'd say "Golly - I *really* want that Altair that's autographed by the >original designers, and I'll pay $5,550 for it, but not $5,550.50!" I know I'm *way* too >good at convincing myself that my original bid was too low... And then there's always the >"Oh yeah??? Well screw _you_ buddy - take THI$$$$$!" mindset that has led me to establish >new records for ridiculous prices on eBay... (But I _did_ get the item, dammit!! ;-) One must cultivate serenity and patience if one is to participate in auctions, oh Grasshopper. On the other hand, I just got a NEC 8201 (TRS-80 Model 100 clone) for only $36.00. (If this isn't such a great price, please dont' tell me. It will interfere with my serenity and patience.) Dav Vandenbroucke Economist U.S. Dept. HUD david_a._vandenbroucke(a)hud.gov

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Y2K and immortal executables

by maxeskin＠hotmail.com

But aren't there many machines that keep track of time and date? I've heard that credit cards are starting to fail if their expiration date is 2000. I don't know why all the fuss about the control tower computers or power plants (all scheduling should be doublechecked by humans anyway), but I'm sure there may be problems with checks/bills. >< >with in 1975, still running the same code. >< >< Sure, I can imagine that. But I can't imagine it will stop working >< on January 1, 2000, or that the clock couldn't be set back to 1975 >< without affecting the milling. > >Correction, what clock? Most control apps clocks are intervals, time >between events, maybe time of day or week for longer periods and its >rare that they even consider time of year. > >Keep in mind that until sometime past 1981ish clocks were not chips that >kept time of day/year. Of ten they were a periodic interrupt that was >totalized for time and date. So if the clock was broken it was software >not hardware. > >The one example where Y2K has hit a PDP-8 use was a nuke power plant >and the PDP-8 doing data logging had to print the right time date on >the page. If the time and date were wrong nothing stopped working >but the NRC would be upset with the dataing of the logs. FYI: Y2K >happens to hit every 7-8 years on PDP-8 OSs as they only use 3bits for >relative year. Bits used to be expensive! > >< If the source code has existed in some form since the late 50s or >< early 60s, no programmer since its creation has tinkered with it? >< I can imagine a slightly more plausible situation in which the source >< was written in 1961, recompiled and tweaked throughout the Sixties, >< and somehow the source was lost after recompilation in the Seventies >< so only the executable remains, and that it's been running in some > >This is likely the commonplace event and the machine by the 70s was >stable platform say like DG Nova, PDP-11 or other that has a lifespan >exceeding 10+ years or still being made. > >Lost in some cases means it exists and somewhere on a backup that is >in a room with 10,000 tapes of other backups that no one has looked >at for 7+ years. > >Heck my vax archive is over 7 years old and is more than 20 TK50s. I >don't recycle major backups as I've had tapes fail. So the deeper the >archive the less likely the loss and also harder to find a specific >item. This is only hobby use. business should do this far more often. > >< It's not that I'm denying Y2K - it's that I think it's overblown, >< especially when it comes to antique computers. > >Me too. Many system Y2K is a singular event or non event. The only >ones I even think about in relation to it are the PCs and maybe the >VAXen (I run VMS 5.3 to 5.5). The PDP-11s may not like the date but >most of the stuuff I do is not date centric so unless the OS breaks it >keeps cranking. The PC makes me worry as DOS/Win and internetorking >software may have bombs I don't know nor can fix myself. I've bumped the >clock and it seems to behave though. > >Allison > > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

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Noise levels increasing and have become deafening

by franke＠sbs.de

> Well this list used to be good, now it has degenerated into 80%+ noise. depends - I'll like it more every day. > I joined the list some time ago because it was a means to get information > about some of the old computers I have collected, hardware and software > wise. This list no longer serves that purpose. Depends waht you think information is - if it's just about some date, most searchbots will give you faster information (heaps). But if its about living knowledge the list is great. I'm talking to people, not a database - and the asociative search engine here delivers very interesting, related things beside just numbers. In fact, most of all questions I ever had to get information of a special kind from the listended up nowhere, but I recived _very_ interesting implications about the information I needed (And I'm still searching for a second Commodore B500 and who owns the ROM rights on the KIM-1). > What does a 64 bit Z80 have to do with old computers It's an idea with some relations to the past (you know, the good old times) wich imples a lot about fundamental things. And if People are arguing about, it can't be realy OT (even I belive it was just a troll). > What does gripes about EBay have to do about old computers Now come on - where you living ? eBay is a mayor place for trade of our old stuff. Hey, this is on topic as on topic can ever be. That are actual problems of collecting. > What does a modern college education have to do with old computers See the fist one - just a good old time thing - AND a never ending question if we are the last generation able to build a computer from scratch, even including the CPU. > I have been watching closely what has been comming though and I have found > that by just looking at the heading I trash 95% of all messages, spot > checks have shown me that there is nothing worth while reading. Reading just the headers is missleading - very missleading. I did it sometimes, especialy when they where talking about DEC stuff, where I have no personal link, even no information about, and before I even realized I passed some _very_ interesting themes - nobody can reflect complex things in just a header. I've learned my lesson - now I peek at least inside _every_ message. > Go back and re-read what this list was supposed to be about. Hmm ever noticed that the FAQ is very vague about it ? Maybe because a living list was intendet, not a list where no talks at all are happening, because nobody is able to say soooo important things that the holy charter will grant him the right to post ? > 99% of useful information I now get is off other peoples web sites. Good for you. Single source information is always bad. Gruss H. I beg for excuse for some cynic parts, but I cant withstand my nature, especialy when its abaut regualtions. -- Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut HRK

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Dolphin (was Re: ebay)

by franke＠sbs.de

>>Dauphin ? You're not talkin about the Dolphin ? >>A kit system from the late 70's from Swizzerland ? > No, I'm talking about the Dauphin DTR-1, a cute little 486-powered, > pen-and-keyboard-capable portable computer. The "DTR" stands for > "desktop replacement," which was overpromising a bit. As far as I > know, there was no "DTR-2." One more for the I-Want-Them-All list. :) H. -- Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut HRK

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Dumpster Diving was Re: Washington DC area vintage sources (was RE:ebay)

by Philip.Belben＠pgen.com

> At 10:00 AM 10/27/98 -0000, you wrote: >>Sam wrote: >>> But I ended up getting a visit from my friendly >>> neighborhood police. It seems some local concerned citizen saw me pulling >>> out all sorts of computer gear from the trash and decided something evil >>> was being perpetrated. Go figure. >> >>What did the police have to say about it? >> >>At what point does the contents of the dumpster become publicly available? >>I imagine that this might be a different point than the one at which police >>are aloud to search for evidence, but IANAL. > > I know a couple of guys that dumpster dive nearly every night. The > police have pulled them over numerous times. They usually check them and > their stuff then let them go. Sometimes they tell them to leave but that's > all. They've never been taken in or arrested. FWIW There was a court case > (supreme court?) some years ago that involved the police searching trash > cans for evidence. The court ruled that stuff thrown into the trash and and > placed on the public right of way (street) for pickup was publicly > available and no longer private property. Of course, many commercial trash > dumpsters are still located on company property so this may have no bearing. I don't know what the law is in the UK regarding dustbins (trashcans) but regarding skips (dumpsters) it is something like: Person X makes a contract with a waste disposal contractor Y. Y delivers a skip to X's premises, and probably leaves it in the road (at precisely the worst place for motorists trying to get around it :-) ). X throws stuff into the skip, but it remains X's property, and to pull it out is theft. Eventually X has thrown in all he wants and phones up Y to collect the skip. When Y does, the stuff in the skip becomes Y's property. At work, I used to skip-dive a lot. I was once told that I was breaking the law because I had removed a Superbrain from the skip. Not so - I am a PowerGen employee; the item was PowerGen property, and I hadn't removed it >from the PowerGen site; I actually offered L15 for it, since that is what I thought it was worth. However, skip-diving is now officially banned. I have been quite strongly warned off several times, once for just looking at the skip! The warnings came from quite high up, passed down through my boss. They claim there is a policy by which items are offered to staff before disposal. Some stuff (PCs etc.) is offered by competitive tender. Some stuff (Commodore 8296) is offered to me personally for L1. But a lot (incomplete Silicon Graphics Personal Iris) just goes in the skip anyway. I don't know how much goes in the skip - I don't go there very often now :-( - but I just happened to be walking past and saw the Iris :-( :-( Philip.

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64bit data 128Bit address...Re: Building a Z-80 (64bit!

by Philip.Belben＠pgen.com

>> I therefore see address buses growing at 16 bits every 30 years. That's >> just over a bit every 2 years - slower than I expected but not much. >> Someone (I forget who) said that memory chips double in capacity every 18 >> months. This would give 16 bits in 24 years. > > Interesting szenario, especialy when connected to the Mores Law > (didn't he tell this regarding integration ?). Thanks. That's the one I'm thinking of - the amount of memory you get on the same area of silicon doubles every 18 months. Apply it to the memory sizes of computers and it seems to work: in 1974 a small computer was a PDP-11/05 with perhaps 16 K bytes of memory (up to 56 K if you were lucky, IIRC). 24 years later = 16 * 18 months, a small computer is a pentiyuck PC with rather less than 2^^16 * 16 K = 1 gigabyte, but not that much less. A computer in the same market slot as the 11/05 is perhaps a Sparcstation, in which a gig of memory is by no means out of the question... > Hmm I will have my 88th by then - jets join :) Your place or mine? :-) :-) Philip.

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Commodore 128D

by maxeskin＠www.hotmail.com

Well, it's been about two months, and I still haven't started on the C128D that Hans gave me (sorry, Hans!). Could someone please post the PSU pinouts for it (this is the one with an internal PSU)? ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

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Dolphin (was Re: ebay)

by franke＠sbs.de

> Does Stephen own a Dauphin? I don't think they're quite old enough > for the "classic" definition. Dauphin ? You're not talkin about the Dolphin ? A kit system from the late 70's from Swizzerland ? Gruss H. -- Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut HRK

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Haggle Online (Was: ePay)

by franke＠sbs.de

>> Jep. If not eBay, maybe another system will pick up the idea. >> This could maybe give em the right difference for competition. > I wish it were this simple. eBay already has the reputation among > "collectors" (I use that term to include the speculators and idiots as > well) as being THE place to go to sell and buy vintage computers. I'd > much rather this place be Haggle Online since that site has a specific > "Antique Computers" listing (http://www.haggle.com/cache/cat43.html). > Someone has to come along and actively market their site as THE place to > buy/sell vintage computers, and then institute a good auction policy that > will cut down on the gripes we are hearing here. I don't think that 'marketing' is the most needed. It needs some different details to get more attention. The Antique Computer colume is one step - also keeping the theme (dash out OT). But there is still this anoying min bid thing and the sniper possibility (althrough I haven't seen any special Haggle sniping SW until now). Why I'm aginst min bids ? Now, first it prevents from giving a bin in an amount I think is reasonable. Second, thru canceling this maybe very low bid, it avoids any bidding competition wich eventualy will rise the price above ana limit. For an example there is an actual SX-64 on Haggle with an min bid of 75 USD and no bid from any of the more than 30 visitors. When comparing to eBay, where SXes are sold for something like 70 to 120 USD the price idea isn't wrong, but nobody jumps in. While on eBay such a SX starts at some 10 USD and rises. In fact, until now the minbid has disatracted me from at least 5 items. I maybe would have end at a price above the min bid, within the auction, but for shure to expensive to start with. The reserved price thing, where the seller reserves the richt to refuses if a specific price isn't reached is a lot more usefull. No seller will claim his reserved price if the auction ends just 5 USD below, but at least a price is negotiated. The only thing I dislike is the automatic lift to the reserve, if the _maximum_ bid is above. > I'm ready to start if someone is willing to follow my lead. Oh master, be my leader (Or was it Heil Salaam?). SCNR. For real, I look at Haggle Online at least twice a week, but as long as I cant't go for what I need, I have still to stay at eBay. Gruss Hans -- Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut HRK

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by franke＠sbs.de

> Rather than looking at sniping as a "bug", perhaps it should be > considered a "feature". There are scavengers in all ecosystems. I > guarantee you the powers at Ebay probably consider sniping to be an > asset. If they got rid of it, bid traffic would be 20 or 30% lower and > prices overall (complete total) might actually be lower. Perhaps sniping > is one of those key reasons why Ebay has grown so large. Please ? The whole idea of sniping is just to avoide a real competition situation. In fact, it may lower the price of all 'needed' goods, because nobody will get a chance to top the sniper. So a final price might have been higher. And bid traffic isn't a thing a auction system like eBay need - Traffic is just cost to pay and lowers profit. Gruss H. -- Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut HRK

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Microvaxen bits etc.

by dburrows＠netpath.net

>DDA? Ok, thanks. Appreciated. The DDA Trader is a monthly publication for used DEC dealers listing what parts they have and prices. I can't afford the approx.$100 per month but have some friends that send me their 1 or 2 month old ones. It also has about a 75 page section listing all the subscribers names and locations (30+ per page) sorted alphabetically by name of course not location. Let me know if you can't find something (I noticed a good response later in this tread) and I will see what I can find. Dan Burrows dburrows(a)netpath.net

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Dumpster Diving was Re: Washington DC area vintage sources (was RE:ebay)

by SUPRDAVE＠aol.com

you might want to ask the regulars over in alt.dumpster about this. seems some of them on that ng have gotten hassled by The Man when they were dd'ing and even charged with criminal mischief depending on the cop's mood. david In a message dated 10/27/98 7:41:29 AM US Eastern Standard Time, rigdonj(a)intellistar.net writes: > I know a couple of guys that dumpster dive nearly every night. The > police have pulled them over numerous times. They usually check them and > their stuff then let them go. Sometimes they tell them to leave but that's > all. They've never been taken in or arrested. FWIW There was a court case > (supreme court?) some years ago that involved the police searching trash > cans for evidence. The court ruled that stuff thrown into the trash and and > placed on the public right of way (street) for pickup was publicly > available and no longer private property. Of course, many commercial trash > dumpsters are still located on company property so this may have no bearing.

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Fairchild Channel F

by fauradon＠pclink.com

Hi all, It's been claimed.... Francois ------------------------------------------------------------- Visit the desperately in need of update Sanctuary at: http://www.pclink.com/fauradon/ -----Original Message----- From: Francois <fauradon(a)pclink.com> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu> Date: Saturday, October 24, 1998 5:46 PM Subject: Fairchild Channel F >Hi, >I finally got around to going to the thrift store and picked up that Channel >F. >It cost me $10 and has Carts number 12 Baseball and 16 Dodge it. >Whoever wanted it please respond to fauradon(a)pclink.com > > >Francois >------------------------------------------------------------- >Visit the desperately in need of update >Sanctuary at: http://www.pclink.com/fauradon/ >

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Now quite OT: Re: ePay

by franke＠sbs.de

>> I would prefere the last one, because it would reflect the >> idea of proxy bidding - bid once and let the eBay do its job. > I personally *hate* the proxy bid idea. At least how it works on eBay. > There's not many things as demoralizing than seeing something nifty with a > bid of $2.00 on it and someone has put a maximum bid of $50.00 on it. The > whole fun of an incremental auction is the small jumps in bidding and that > soul-searching question you have to ask yourself each time you're outbid: > "Do I really want to go a buck higher on that [insert item here]?" Shure, real auctions are real fun, but a proxy auction is the closest thing possible without going for a sealed bid auction, since it combines both for the well of the buyer. > What I'd love to see is a live auction site, where the auctions for each > item don't last more than 10 minutes or so. Descriptions/pictures for the > items could be on a separate server a week in advance (like the preview > for a real auction) and an item catalog that people could print out. Just for my information - are you willing to put up an pay my private line to this auction centre ? At the usual afternoon to midnight traffic jam on the trans atlantic conections, I sometines need four or five minutes to reload an eBay page. Gruss H. Kai mentioned Haggle online (I still laugh at the lit'l characters:), but as long as they still only do the same (including suporting this stupid minimum bid thing - where is the sense of a min bid beside avoide getting sold?) as eBay, I belive they woun't go for number one. Just putting up a good category isn't enough (even if he would enshure that less noise is inside Antique Computers). -- Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut HRK

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by david_a._vandenbroucke＠hud.gov

Stephen Dauphin >There was a recent discussion on the list of being dropped on a desert island and >establishing civilization. I say we parachute Sam in his underpants with a knife and a >compass into some podunk in the Midwest, and see how fast he comes up with a Vintage >Computer Festival, even the size of the first, from scratch. Podunk Junction happens to be in central Iowa. I could steer Sam to someone I know near there who has two Kaypro 10s and a Kaypro letter quality printer, which will get him started. Does Stephen own a Dauphin? I don't think they're quite old enough for the "classic" definition. --Dav david_a._vandenbroucke(a)hud.gov

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by fauradon＠pclink.com

Hi, Have you ever seen those shipping cardboard floppy mockup that you usually get with a new drive? That would be the ideal. Short of that you could probably make your own with rigid but non-abrasive carboard, use a floppy as a template and off you go... Francois ------------------------------------------------------------- Visit the desperately in need of update Sanctuary at: http://www.pclink.com/fauradon/ -----Original Message----- From: SUPRDAVE(a)aol.com <SUPRDAVE(a)aol.com> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu> Date: Monday, October 26, 1998 9:15 PM Subject: floppy drive storage >I have about 27 apple floppy drives as well as other floppy based machines and >am wondering about their long term storage. is it better to close the drive's >latch or leave it unlatched? i would think that having the drive latched/door >closed would keep the drive from possibly getting misaligned if it got moved >or bumped around but on the other hand, having the drive closed for long >periods of time could possibly deform the head load pad. comments? > >david >

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I hit the jackpot - if I can store the stuff

by mbg＠world.std.com

>I'd be happy to store the 8/e for you, you could visit it any time you >were in California! Yeah, right... :-) Thanks for the offer... 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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16 Exabytes storrage (was: 64bit data 128Bit address...Re: Build

by franke＠sbs.de

>> The size isn't the real problem - you already get 16 Gig in less >> than 320 cm^3 (using hard disk technology) which is more than >> 100 Meg per cm^3, which gives us 100x100x100x100 Meg or 100 Tera >> per m^3 (Only heat will be a problem, but if we assume that this >> will shrink by the factor 2 within the next few years, we get >> enough space for cooling without developing a new technology). >> 100 Tera are 100x2^40 Bytes so, for 16 exabytes you need >> 10x2^18 m^3 or 64x64x64x10 m^3 - just the size of a ordinary >> 160 store skyscraper. Nothing real big - isn't it? - and especialy >> not a mountain. and if we assume a increasing density by 10 within >> the next years, it is less than a warehouse. >> (I just left the disc acces time out of calculation, but acording >> to any information availabel from disk manufacturers the internal >> caches will eliminate this almost to zero :) > Not so... > We can have 1 Terabytes now. > Seagate just announced their new drives in 3.5" I think in 50GB. > Use 20 of them and still fit in 1 minicomputer box. Just anounced ... hmm ok, will be availabel next year. So lets see 1 Tera in a minicomputer box ? Lets take the size of my minitower beside my desk (latest series SIEMENS Pro M7) its 20x46x44cm or 40.480 cm^3 (I cut off some plastic parts and the sidedes to lower the size and we ignore the need of power cables) lets say 40.000 cm^3 that gives us 25 units per m^3 (1 m^3 = 1.000.000 cm^3) - still four times more tan in my last experiment. Remember I never said 1 Tera is out of reach the mainframe I'm working on has a bit more than just a Tera as disk storrage. It's just about how to get 16 Exas of address space filled with minimum size requirements. Ok, but we can continue to use the Barracuda 50 as a known base for calculation. It will be a full height 3 1/2" drive thats 42x102x147 mm^3 or 629,748 cm^3. since this drive still radiates some 20W of heat, we still need cooling, but as in my first example we just double the space to add high eficient cooling (and cables and montage space) so we get some 1260 cm^3 now again packing it to the m^3 gives us 793 units - lets say 800 for easy calculation which gives us exactly 50x800 = 40.000 Meg or 40 Tera. I think we have still two years or so to wait before geting our 100 Tera per m^3... And for the price, the Baracuda 50 is anounced at USD 2.100, so 800 drives are just USD 1.620.000. Well I think we could get som off from Segate, if we sell more of our Storrage Meters ((c) ClassicCmp) :))) > And can be run > off the 15A 115VAC or two plus the computer iteslf. :) Didn't I say anything about power requirements ? And please just show me one drive (from today!) that is just connected to 115V (or 230V). We need a 5/12V DC supply with about 20W per drive (~6W at 5V and 14W at 12V with 30W peak). So 800 drives are somewhat like 16 kW so lets get 20 kW and regarding this, we just cant use 115 V even 400 V 3L~ will be kind of stressed :). And at our 12V line we get a current up to 1800 A peak or 700 A idle wich leads us to a copper rail of some 20 cm^2 to get a load of less than 100A per cm^2 (for US imaginations thats 3x1" solid copper) for the main supply line. And a second one will be needed for 5V and ground. Maybe we take silver (real cheap right now) so we could halve the size :) Oh, and a power supply of this capacity would be almost the same size than our Storage Meter (c), so we have to half the capacity, or just don't tell te customers that we need dubble the proposed space just to fire it up. All calculations ar rough estimation based on actual 10 Gig drives. Real proportions are not used to simplify calcualtion. Servus hans P.S.: it feels good to think of copper in cm^2 instead of fine line wire... -- Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut HRK

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by david_a._vandenbroucke＠hud.gov

I've taken the position that I'm going to deliberately ignore the snipers. I usually bid on the first day listed. I ask myself, "What is the maximum I'm _really_ willing to pay for this?" and that's what I bid. I get outbid on the last day (I don't track it more closely than that) fairly often, but it means that the high bidder is paying more than I would, and I can't argue with that. As often as not, when I'm outbid, my disappointment is tinged with relief: "Did I really bid _that_ much? What was I thinking of?" On the whole, I find it liberating to just bid my maximum and let the chips fall where they may. Dav Vandenbroucke Economist U.S. Dept. HUD david_a._vandenbroucke(a)hud.gov

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by tomowad＠earthlink.net

>Anyway, this isn't hard. Its just a matter of moving all the action off >of eBay to somewhere more worthy. If everyone here (I know a lot of >you are still foolish enough to play eBay) would agree to an alternate >location that is perhaps built BY us, then we could lure away all the >other people who aren't on this list eventually and create the premier >vintage computer auction house on the web. Eventually, when this stuff >REALLY becomes valuable, we'll have a virtual stranglehold on the vintage >computer auction market. Wow. Perhaps its time to incorporate ClassicCmp. ;-) Kai just mentioned the owner of Haggle is a member of ClassicCmp (who?). And his creation of an "Antique Computer" section obviously shows he's interested. I'd also be willing to wager there isn't a larger, better organized group of computer collectors than on ClassicCmp. With some active endorsement from ClassicCmp members, and increased support for classic computers by Haggle, I think we'd be off to an excellent start. Tom -- Sysop of Caesarville Online Client software at: <http://home.earthlink.net/~tomowad/>

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Microvaxen bits etc.

by geoffrob＠stmarks.pp.catholic.edu.au

-----Original Message----- From: Huw Davies <H.Davies(a)latrobe.edu.au> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu> Date: Tuesday, 27 October 1998 18:05 Subject: Re: Microvaxen bits etc. >I think this is just off topic (less than 10 years) but.... Hmmm, well, the date on the 2nd 6310 is 1989, so I guess it's a couple months early. >We have a 6530 with the same problem. I just ignore the errors and boot the >system anyway. The only drawback is that the system will not autorestart >from a power failure. Hmm, I wondered about that, I rather thought the o/s might not care, I'll have a look at that approach and see what happens. I don't have any TK70 cartridges at the moment anyway.... (Been having a ball getting ready to transfer all my VMS binary installs >from 1/2" R/R tape to 4mm dat on a Vaxstation in the cluster now that I have a working 1/2" R/R tape system.) The TA78/TU78 that came with the original cluster has a couple of U/S PSU's, so I couldn't even re-install the O/S. Fortunately, I haven't needed to. Come to think of it, I don't actually know how to do an install of VMS to a bare system. Hmm, I wonder where in the grey wall THAT's documented. >I believe the correct approach is what you outlined above. If necessary I >can dig out the appropriate manual. If you mean the Vax 6000 owners manual, I did already. It implies that it does so from the console error messages in Appendix B-9, although the SAVE and RESTORE EEPROM command sections don't actually SAY that it does. Quote from VAX 6000-400 Owners Manual Console 5-37: "Saved information includes: Systemwide console parmeters (baud rate, interleave, terminal characteristics) Saved boot specifications Diagnostic patches Console patches Boot primitives" End Quote I'll give it a go as soon as I get some TK70's. Thanks for that. Cheers Geoff Roberts Computer Systems Manager Saint Marks College Port Pirie South Australia. My ICQ# is 1970476 Ph. 61-411-623-978 (Mobile) 61-8-8633-0619 (Home) 61-8-8633-8834 (Work-Direct) 61-8-8633-0104 (Fax)

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by H.Davies＠latrobe.edu.au

At 04:43 PM 27-10-98 +1030, Geoff Roberts wrote: >Hmm, you'd know the answer to this, I'm sure. >Mission: >To make our existing 6310 into a 6320 by adding a cpu card from the other >machine. > >Problem: >The ROM is the same (4.1) but the s/n etc have to match for it to >be useable as a 2nd cpu. Will a save of the most recent of the cpu cards >EEPROM data >to the console TK70 and a restore to the other cpu duplicate the serial no? >Or is their some darker art required? I think this is just off topic (less than 10 years) but.... We have a 6530 with the same problem. I just ignore the errors and boot the system anyway. The only drawback is that the system will not autorestart >from a power failure. I believe the correct approach is what you outlined above. If necessary I can dig out the appropriate manual. Huw Davies | e-mail: Huw.Davies(a)latrobe.edu.au Information Technology Services | Phone: +61 3 9479 1550 Fax: +61 3 9479 1999 La Trobe University | "If God had wanted soccer played in the Melbourne Australia 3083 | air, the sky would be painted green"

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by geoffrob＠stmarks.pp.catholic.edu.au

-----Original Message----- From: Huw Davies <H.Davies(a)latrobe.edu.au> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu> Date: Tuesday, 27 October 1998 15:38 Subject: Re: Microvaxen bits etc. >At 06:53 PM 26-10-98 +1030, Geoff Roberts wrote: >My spares cupboard is a good place to start :-) LOL. I should have known. >>BTW, Huw, did you ever come across a source for a Vax 8530-Console cable? > >I think it's in another cupboard in my spares room. It's just behind four >or five 6000 series cabinets, three HSC70s and a few other bits..... Name your price for a DELQA or DELQA-YM and the 8530 console cable. I'd swap you something, but you probably have 3 of everything I have already....:^) Hmm, you'd know the answer to this, I'm sure. Situation: We bought a complete system as spares, a 6310 with DMB-32, KDB-50 & 64mb plus a KLESI-B & TU81+ and 3 x RA90's. Very cheap, from a scrapyard. (I'm currently negotiating for the card fit from a couple of 6440's that turned up at the same place) Mission: To make our existing 6310 into a 6320 by adding a cpu card from the other machine. Problem: The ROM is the same (4.1) but the s/n etc have to match for it to be useable as a 2nd cpu. Will a save of the most recent of the cpu cards EEPROM data to the console TK70 and a restore to the other cpu duplicate the serial no? Or is their some darker art required? TIA. Cheers Geoff Roberts Computer Systems Manager Saint Marks College Port Pirie South Australia. My ICQ# is 1970476 Ph. 61-411-623-978 (Mobile) 61-8-8633-0619 (Home) 61-8-8633-8834 (Work-Direct) 61-8-8633-0104 (Fax)

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by H.Davies＠latrobe.edu.au

At 06:53 PM 26-10-98 +1030, Geoff Roberts wrote: >Hi all, > >Any Aussies out there know a good place to look for an ethernet adapter >that will fit a Microvax II? I have a nice machine, complete with VMS 5.4, >freshly rescued from a scrap metal yard, but it has no network adapter. My spares cupboard is a good place to start :-) >BTW, Huw, did you ever come across a source for a Vax 8530-Console cable? I think it's in another cupboard in my spares room. It's just behind four or five 6000 series cabinets, three HSC70s and a few other bits..... Huw Davies | e-mail: Huw.Davies(a)latrobe.edu.au Information Technology Services | Phone: +61 3 9479 1550 Fax: +61 3 9479 1999 La Trobe University | "If God had wanted soccer played in the Melbourne Australia 3083 | air, the sky would be painted green"

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by SUPRDAVE＠aol.com

I have about 27 apple floppy drives as well as other floppy based machines and am wondering about their long term storage. is it better to close the drive's latch or leave it unlatched? i would think that having the drive latched/door closed would keep the drive from possibly getting misaligned if it got moved or bumped around but on the other hand, having the drive closed for long periods of time could possibly deform the head load pad. comments? david

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eBay (aka: ePay, eVay, oyVay, etc...)

by yakowenk＠cs.unc.edu

On Sun, 25 Oct 1998, Chuck McManis <cmcmanis(a)freegate.com> wrote: ] I'll admit that I am confused about the subtext in Jim's message where he ] writes: ] ] At 10:02 PM 10/25/98 -0800, you wrote: ] >Starting Saturday (perhaps earlier, but the first that I noticed) eBay has ] >been running radio spots on the national syndicate program feeds. ] > ... ] ] It sounds like this is a "bad" thing. Is it? If so why? It would seem that ] eBay is making a market for older computers that before didn't exist. Now ] is it that the 'old timers' who were used to picking up C64's at a garage ] sale for $1 will now have to pay $25 are grumbling? Doesn't this ] potentially increase the value of your own collection many fold? Isn't that ] a good thing? ] ... This is a good thing if you are collecting computers just so that you can sell them later at a profit. For those of us collecting to keep, it means higher expenses and/or fewer acquisitions. Of course, the unhappiness in my acquisitions department is eased by the knowledge that a few machines may be saved from the scrap heap by their sudden increase in value to the guy on the street. So the machines may be more expensive, but in the end there may be more of them available. Win some, lose some. ] --Chuck ] (Who is waiting for his Korg M1 synthesizer to become 'collectible' because ] he gave away an Arp Odessey when he was still clueless...) Bill.

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Computer History

by rax＠warbaby.com

Hi Kiddos - I just finished writing the first draft of the Computer History chapter of the book I'm working on. I've put it up on my site at http://www.warbaby.com/FG_test/comp_history.html - If any of you have the time and are so inclined (it's about 12,000 words), I'd be grateful if you'd take a look at it and let me know if you spot any errors or obvious omissions. It's written for people who know little or nothing about computers, so don't be too harsh with its lack of technical stuff. OTOH, let me know if you think it's readable by the technologically challenged. I'll have the Internet History up by tomorrow, if you're a glutton for punishment. TIA, R. -- Warbaby The WebSite. The Domain. The Empire. http://www.warbaby.com The MonkeyPool WebSite Content Development http://www.monkeypool.com Once you get the nose on, the rest is just makeup.

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Beginning to post "Altair Scans" and PDP-11 docs

by rcini＠email.msn.com

Hello, all: I began posting my "Altair Scans" to: http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/~rcini/classiccmp/altair_scans.htm You can see from the overall list that there is a lot of info there. Also, I posted some PDP-11 stuff to: http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/~rcini/pdp11/ If anyone has any information to add to the list, let me know. I still have to take an inventory of my docs, but it's about several Xerox boxes worth. Rich Cini/WUGNET - ClubWin!/CW7 - MCP Windows 95/Windows Networking - Collector of "classic" computers <========= reply separator ==========>

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Noise levels increasing and have become deafening

by roblwill＠usaor.net

I agree. I think sometimes, it's good to get a bit off-topic. Even WAY off topic (sometimes) isn't bad. Just as long as it's not spam, like on the OCH. A break from the ordinary is good. -Jason *********************************************** * Jason Willgruber * * (roblwill(a)usaor.net) * * * * http://members.tripod.com/general_1 * * ICQ#-1730318 * * /0\/0\ * * > Long Live the 5170! * * \___/ * ************************************************ ---------- > From: Bill Richman <bill_r(a)inetnebr.com> > To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu> > Subject: Re: Noise levels increasing and have become deafening > Date: Monday, October 26, 1998 8:04 PM > > Boo hoo. Personally, I *enjoy* some "chatter" in the group, as long as > it's from people who are into classic computers and the like. As often > as not, I will read a message and think "Y'know - that's exactly what > happened to me/how I feel about that/where I'm at in life," and it feels > good. I hang out in the rec.crafts.metalworking newsgroup a lot, and > you'll never find a group lower in spam or more willing to help anyone > who wanders in, whether it's a question about how to best move a 3,000 > lb lathe or the best snow tires for a Volkswagen. It's like the old > guys who sat by the wood stove playing checkers in old-time hardware > stores, except there are about 500 of them. I've seen this group giving > each other some (occasionally much needed) "attaboys!" and general moral > support, and it's kind of neat. If I want cold, hard facts, I generally > look elsewhere, but if I want to read some personal anecdotes about > classic computers and the lives of those who collect them, I come here. > Relax, have a cup of coffee, and slow down a little. People with tunnel > who demand instant gratification are most of what's wrong with the world > today! >

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by roblwill＠usaor.net

Oh yeah - I forgot about that one. -Jason *********************************************** * Jason Willgruber * * (roblwill(a)usaor.net) * * * * http://members.tripod.com/general_1 * * ICQ#-1730318 * * /0\/0\ * * > Long Live the 5170! * * \___/ * ************************************************ ---------- > From: SUPRDAVE(a)aol.com > To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu> > Subject: Re: Noise levels increasing and have become deafening > Date: Monday, October 26, 1998 7:47 PM > > no, i think the one about firearms outdid the throwing up thread... > > In a message dated 10/26/98 7:35:55 PM US Eastern Standard Time, > roblwill(a)usaor.net writes: > > > Or the one about the drinking Hydrochloric acid and throwing up. Although > > -- that may have been a bit *too* far off-topic.... > > --

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by SUPRDAVE＠aol.com

no, i think the one about firearms outdid the throwing up thread... In a message dated 10/26/98 7:35:55 PM US Eastern Standard Time, roblwill(a)usaor.net writes: > Or the one about the drinking Hydrochloric acid and throwing up. Although > -- that may have been a bit *too* far off-topic.... > --

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by franke＠sbs.de

Sigh. I hate it. Sniped just seconds before the end. They should realy change their policy about ending time - these (automatic) snipers are realy not the way it should be. Waaaaaaaaah. Gruss H. sorry to use the list, but I had to cry ... I was happy until 5 minutes ago ... -- Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut HRK

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by roblwill＠usaor.net

Or the one about the drinking Hydrochloric acid and throwing up. Although -- that may have been a bit *too* far off-topic.... -- -Jason (roblwill(a)usaor.net) ICQ#-1730318 ---------- > From: Max Eskin <maxeskin(a)hotmail.com> > To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu> > Subject: Re: Noise levels increasing and have become deafening > Date: Monday, October 26, 1998 6:33 PM > > > I just want to say that the sort of people that assemble on this list > make almost every discussion interesting _for me_, even if off-topic. > Like the discussion we had way back about telephones. Sure, it's not > on topic, but I think this list is more of a meeting place for old > computer collectors than a natural-language-queryable encyclopedia.

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Washington DC area vintage sources (was RE:ebay)

by dburrows＠netpath.net

So I corrupted you? I have just learned to keep my eyes open for all University surplus stores. You just are lucky enough to have them sell over the counter. Down here everything has to go through the state sealed bid process. (except what you are willing to dumpster dive for) Not that I would ever do such a thing.:) ( I have made several thousand from such dives over the years) Also Tim be sure to check their dumpsters routinely. They are very bad about dumping good stuff. Dan > http://www.inform.umd.edu/PURCHASE/terptrad/ > >They usually have a good assortment of workstations and PC's >in the showroom, and they often have some interesting >scientific and test equipment as well. (Thanks to Dan Burrows >for taking me to this place the first time!) >

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BOFH

by roblwill＠usaor.net

O.K. After 5:00, it started working. must have just been a loaded server or something. -- -Jason (roblwill(a)usaor.net) ICQ#-1730318 ---------- > From: Marvin <marvin(a)rain.org> > To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu> > Subject: BOFH > Date: Monday, October 26, 1998 11:23 AM > > For sysadmins and everyone with a perverted sense of humor, you might enjoy > this site. A friend of mine turned me onto it a year or so ago, and almost > always puts a smile on my face! The URL is > http://www.networkweek.com/bofh.shtml.

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Noise levels increasing and have become deafening

by maxeskin＠hotmail.com

I just want to say that the sort of people that assemble on this list make almost every discussion interesting _for me_, even if off-topic. Like the discussion we had way back about telephones. Sure, it's not on topic, but I think this list is more of a meeting place for old computer collectors than a natural-language-queryable encyclopedia. >> What does a 64 bit Z80 have to do with old computers > >Not a helluvabunch. I have to agree with you there... > >> What does gripes about EBay have to do about old computers > >Lots. Many of the rare (and not so rare) machines are being valued out of >our hands. > >> What does a modern college education have to do with old computers > >OK, again, not much. > >> I have been watching closely what has been comming though and I have found >> that by just looking at the heading I trash 95% of all messages, spot >> checks have shown me that there is nothing worth while reading. > >That sounds about right. Horrible s/n on this list, but at least no porn. > >William Donzelli >william(a)ans.net > > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

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Washington DC area vintage sources (was RE:ebay)

by CLASSICCMP＠trailing-edge.com

>Tim Shoppa seems to do pretty well based out of Bethesda (I have been >tempted >to get up early some Saturday morning and see if I couldn't shadow him >around >and discover his "sources" ;) ). I may be based in Bethesda, but haven't acquired an awful lot from the immediate area - most all the equipment that I use to make my living was acquired on the Left Coast. Of course, I've also been trying to cast off what I don't need, too! Do any of us truly have the problem of "not enough stuff"??? :-). One decent source in the area is the Terrapin Trader, the University of Maryland's surplus outlet in College Park. For more info, see http://www.inform.umd.edu/PURCHASE/terptrad/ They usually have a good assortment of workstations and PC's in the showroom, and they often have some interesting scientific and test equipment as well. (Thanks to Dan Burrows for taking me to this place the first time!) There are some pretty decent "full-line" electronics shops in Beltsville, just a little bit further out than College Park. -- Tim Shoppa Email: shoppa(a)trailing-edge.com Trailing Edge Technology Voice: 301-767-5917 7328 Bradley Blvd Fax: 301-767-5927 Bethesda, MD, USA 20817

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by maxeskin＠hotmail.com

No, the most off-topic thread is 'why dogs lick their balls/Linux', which culminated in the venerable 'irreverence to irrelevance' flamewar to a couple of weeks later. >Some cheese is good hard, but not those that are supposed to be soft. > >Could this be leading to the most off-topic thread this list has ever >seen? > >> eBay is different - a real auctioneer always gives the same >> amount of additional time after teh last Bid - ePay just cuts. > >Not always, especially if there are a great deal of lots. I think Ebay is >half way between an open and sealed auction. > >William Donzelli >william(a)ans.net > > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

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Sony SMC-70

by g＠kurico.com

Recently acquired a Sony SMC-70 (Z-80 based CP/M). At least I think that what it is (was on the bike so I couldn't bring it home today). It is just the unit itself, no docs and _no_ cables. So in general any info about this system would be great. Specifically, I need pinouts for the video (has both db25 B/W and color connectors). Or better yet the actual cable(s) themselves. TIA George P.S. I still have a decwriter III that anyone can have if you come pick it up.

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by Marty＠itgonline.com

_____________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: Re: ebay Author: classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu at internet Date: 10/26/98 3:54 PM On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Hans Franke wrote: > > 1. Bid more than anybody else through proxy bidding. This way when > > somebody else bids, the system will bid you up (to your max) automatically > > when someone else bids. If you want it bad enough, you can get it, but > > it may cost you. > > Jep, but to be shure, it has to be high, real high :( As high as $12,000? Only to have someone bid $12,100? > > 2. Learn the fine art of sniping. I live with a longtime e-bay user (my wife) > > who has the distinction of a 0 second snipe - it came in and was recognised > > some fraction of a second before the auction closed. She did it manually > > too. :) There IS sniping software, apparently, too. > > Just a NO. Maybe I'm stupid and old fashionated, > but sniping is just not possible. I stopped using eBay simply for this reason. The format makes it impossible to carry on a fair bid process and weed out the weenies. > > 3. My wife assures me that EVERYTHING comes around again, btw. Especially > > computers. She suggests patience. > > Jep, but this lot was real neat. > (And the next will be the one with the SC/MPs .. sigh). > I don't know if this will be around again, so nicly bundled >>If you look hard enough, you can ALWAYS find something around you, >>cheaper, and it won't cost you shipping. This is of course more true >>for some people than others (like a poor slob in Alaska trying to >>collect computers) but I've learned this lesson many times. Everything >>I've ever bought off eBay has turned up locally for a fraction of the >>price. Sometimes only a week later. Aren't you located in 'Silicon Valley?' You are located in an unusally fertile area for the old computer devotee. I live in the Washington, D.C. metro area which isn't bad but must pale in comparison to your locale. *sniff* **sob** Marty An alternate to eBay is needed. Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ever onward. Coming in 1999: Vintage Computer Festival 3.0 See http://www.vintage.org/vcf for details! [Last web site update: 09/21/98] ------ Message Header Follows ------ Received: from lists3.u.washington.edu by smtp.itgonline.com (PostalUnion/SMTP(tm) v2.1.9i(b5) for Windows NT(tm)) id AA-1998Oct26.155454.1767.72657; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 15:54:55 -0500 Received: from host (lists.u.washington.edu [140.142.56.13]) by lists3.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with SMTP id MAA14085; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 12:52:33 -0800 Received: from mxu1.u.washington.edu (mxu1.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id MAA19614 for <classiccmp(a)lists.u.washington.edu>; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 12:51:41 -0800 Received: from mailhub2.ncal.verio.com (mailhub2.ncal.verio.com [204.247.247.54]) by mxu1.u.washington.edu (8.9.1+UW98.09/8.9.1+UW98.09) with ESMTP id MAA32 588 for <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 12:51:40 -0800 Received: from shell1.ncal.verio.com (dastar(a)shell1.ncal.verio.com [204.247.248.254]) by mailhub2.ncal.verio.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id MAA06918 for <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 12:51:40 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <Pine.GSO.3.96.981026124842.13135B-100000(a)shell1.ncal.verio.com> Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 12:51:39 -0800 (PST) Reply-To: classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu Sender: CLASSICCMP-owner(a)u.washington.edu Precedence: bulk From: Sam Ismail <dastar(a)ncal.verio.com> To: "Discussion re-collecting of classic computers" <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu> Subject: Re: ebay In-Reply-To: <199810261856.TAA25057(a)marina.fth.sbs.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu> X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.1 beta -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN

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by franke＠sbs.de

> 1. Bid more than anybody else through proxy bidding. This way when > somebody else bids, the system will bid you up (to your max) automatically > when someone else bids. If you want it bad enough, you can get it, but > it may cost you. Jep, but to be shure, it has to be high, real high :( > 2. Learn the fine art of sniping. I live with a longtime e-bay user (my wife) > who has the distinction of a 0 second snipe - it came in and was recognised > some fraction of a second before the auction closed. She did it manually > too. :) There IS sniping software, apparently, too. Just a NO. Maybe I'm stupid and old fashionated, but sniping is just not possible. > 3. My wife assures me that EVERYTHING comes around again, btw. Especially > computers. She suggests patience. Jep, but this lot was real neat. (And the next will be the one with the SC/MPs .. sigh). I don't know if this will be around again, so nicly bundled > 4. Finally, to avoid heartache from being sniped, don't assume you have > a thing until you get the notification you won. Until you get that, > the thing isn't yours. Sag but true. Ciao hans -- Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut HRK

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AY 3500

by CLASSICCMP＠trailing-edge.com

>Anyone know anything about the famous AY-3500 chip, manufactured by >General Instruments, heart of a zillion Pong clones? What do you want to know? For pinouts and examples of use, you would find construction articles in then mid-late 70's issues of _Radio-Electronics_ and _Popular Electronics_ quite useful. Tim.

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Haggle Online (RE: ePay)

by kaikal＠MICROSOFT.com

> I'd > much rather this place be Haggle Online since that site has a specific > "Antique Computers" listing (http://www.haggle.com/cache/cat43.html). Since Haggle is actually owned by a member of this list, I wonder if we get to see all of the _really_ good stuff :) Kai

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AY 3500

by CLASSICCMP＠trailing-edge.com

>examples of this. The AY-3-8500 was developed in the Scottish labs of >General Instruments in 1975. Magnavox was somewhat involved in the It's not nearly the same as the AY-3-8500, but I just dug up my copy of _How To Design & Build Your Own Custom TV Games_ by David L Heiserman (1978). He describes systems based around TTL and linear IC's, some of them rather involved (over 100 SSI/MSI packages, in some cases!) Of course, there are no microprocessors involved... :-) Tim.

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by franke＠sbs.de

>> I could imagine two possible ways - first add 1 hour after every >> (successful) bid. Or, second just state the ending day and put >> the ending time on a random moment. >> I would prefere the last one, because it would reflect the >> idea of proxy bidding - bid once and let the eBay do its job. > Ooh, I like that second idea! > For a long time, I've been advocating the first idea (automatic extension), > but it does have some drawbacks: > - Still requires that e-mail to the person outbid be faster than > the time remaining in the auction (a big problem now). > - Potential for the "never-ending auction". > - Offerer requirements that an auction *must* end by a certain time. Jep. If not eBay, maybe another system will pick up the idea. This could maybe give em the right difference for competition. The whole computer bidding idea is to save nerves. > As you can tell, I've bee sniped too. This is the first time I realy likes a thing so much, that I had put up a real high bid - and every thing seamed to work out well :( Gruss H. -- Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut HRK

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TRS-80 Model I

by allisonp＠world.std.com

< I know that towards the end of the Model I production run most of my fri < interested in buying were totally avoiding the basic 4k units. They end < up with level II machines and never saw the unit before modification. I < would be kinduv interesting to know if these units were built as level I < machines or modified at the factory, or at the store. By late '79 the LII machines were the rule. Lower cost of rams and roms plus competitive drive. Also most were factory LII using the two chip LII roms or leftover three chip version. Allison

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BOFH

by roblwill＠usaor.net

um... it dosen't work. ---------- > From: Marvin <marvin(a)rain.org> > To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu> > Subject: BOFH > Date: Monday, October 26, 1998 11:23 AM > > For sysadmins and everyone with a perverted sense of humor, you might enjoy > this site. A friend of mine turned me onto it a year or so ago, and almost > always puts a smile on my face! The URL is > http://www.networkweek.com/bofh.shtml.

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by franke＠sbs.de

>> Sigh. >> I hate it. >> Sniped just seconds before the end. >> They should realy change their policy about >> ending time - these (automatic) snipers are >> realy not the way it should be. > Hard cheese! ??? I like hard cheese - hmm but I cant get the idea :=) > Snipers, shills, and all of the other nasty things, some legally shakey, > have been around since auctions were invented. Ebay is no different. eBay is different - a real auctioneer always gives the same amount of additional time after teh last Bid - ePay just cuts. I could imagine two possible ways - first add 1 hour after every (successful) bid. Or, second just state the ending day and put the ending time on a random moment. I would prefere the last one, because it would reflect the idea of proxy bidding - bid once and let the eBay do its job. > At > least there is no annoying auctioneer (actually an American thing - the > European auctioneers do not talk at several hundered words per minute). Funny to listen. > I have been in the same situation quite a few times with Ebay, and now I > must just live with bidding ONCE, and if I am outbid, then I do not win. > None of this high-stress, keep-hitting-the-reload-button, waiting for me. Ja- especialy when the ending time is something like noon EST (6PM MEZ) - that's the heavyest trafic time across the pond. My line was so slow, I needed some 5 Minutes for reloading :( Gruss H. -- Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut HRK

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Noise levels increasing and have become deafening

by CLASSICCMP＠trailing-edge.com

>I joined the list some time ago because it was a means to get information >about some of the old computers I have collected, hardware and software >wise. This list no longer serves that purpose. To tell you the truth, I'm not sure it ever really served the purpose of "getting information". There have always been better ways of obtaining the information you're after. >99% of useful information I now get is off other peoples web sites. I'd estimate that of the technical questions asked here, 95% of them have easily found answers at a web site or a Usenet FAQ. Strangely enough, though, few folks responding ever list these sources of information, so the cycle of "ask question with well-known answer/receive 20 followups containing the information" continues. Tim.

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Starting from Scratch (was Re: OT: Modern college educa

by franke＠sbs.de

>>> Where is my copy of '101 basic games' ? >>Probably same place mine went: loaned, not returned. I still have ":More >>BASIC Computer Games: 84 Fabulous Games for Your Personal Computer", >>though. > Small world. One summer home from college, I loaned mine to the > kid brother of a girl I liked. A few weeks later I saw their > step-father who told me his wife had just left him and taken > the kids with her. Never saw any of them (the kid, the girl > or the book) again. Hard to loose a beloved one - and always about girls :) SCNR Hans -- Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut HRK

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More thoughts on building a Z-80 (64bit!!!)

by allisonp＠world.std.com

< > I know that Track get very touchy at 900Mcyc speeds but, I also knew t I've done RF, at that very touchy part starts at around 50MHz, by 100-200MHz coils are simple lengths and at 470mhz anything longer than 1/4" becomes significant. I did a power amp at 512mhz and the whole tuning and interconnect was all carefully calculated lengths of tracks. Even the board material and thickness was critical! I was lucky with the RF I could use one whole side as a ground plane! Oh, and quarter wave lines at operating clock speeds is a real nasty. < It helps to have some idea of RF and microwave design before attempting < to build a 1GHz circuit. Otherwise you are wasting your time. This is no < something you can fiddle with until it works unless the underlying < design and layout is sound. Like Tony said, guessing will have you making whole new baords for small changes. Allison

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eBay (aka: ePay, eVay, oyVay, etc...)

by franke＠sbs.de

> It sounds like this is a "bad" thing. Is it? If so why? It would seem that > eBay is making a market for older computers that before didn't exist. Now > is it that the 'old timers' who were used to picking up C64's at a garage > sale for $1 will now have to pay $25 are grumbling? Doesn't this > potentially increase the value of your own collection many fold? Isn't that > a good thing? As a matter of nature, I don't care for the monetary value of my collection. What I care is to get new exciteing finds. > Traditionally there is a rush of "collectible fever" (if > you've ever dealt with collectibles, and my Dad has for many more years > than I) where lots of people rush in an buy anything that may be > collectible hoping to get in at the bottom of the next "beanie" craze, then > there is a rush of junk dealers who prey on those bozos and come in and > sell them a bunch of "L@@K! R@RE!" Commodore 64's or 486SL machines for > over market prices, and then there is a general "crash" of the market as > the bozo's leave and prices go back to more rational levels (but usually > higher than they were before the "collectible" craze hit) and then, if they > are truely collectable (and there are many properties of things that make > them so) then the price begins to reflect actual rarity, condition, and > that imponderable "desirability." Actual rarity ? Hmm so lets see - a PET is more rare than a KIM ? Or a Apple I five hundret times rarer than a NASCOM-I ? Come real prices beside the usual 1 to 100 USD are just rubbisch. Just follow Jim about his Intellec/Altair thing. For shure, the Intellec is a nice thing, but everybody just looks at the Altair. I have to stay on swap meets and garage sales - and maybe I find an Apple 1 :))) Gruss H. -- Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut HRK

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by franke＠sbs.de

>>As long as there are people willing to shell out the bucks for the item >>they "demand" there will be someone else there to "supply." > Correct, in the USA the 'worth' of something is what some buyer somewhere > will pay for it, assuming you can notify said buyer that it is available > for sale. What's it worth to me to buy a poorly made bean bag animal? Not > even a dollar, but said animals sell at auction regularly for over $50 each. Short note - there's a quote in Germany: Jeden Tag steht ein Dummer auf, Du musst ihn nur finden. Literaly: Every day a dump person gets up, you just have to find him. > Hans made some comments on 'rare' versus 'desirable' too. The fact is that > 'desirable' often translates to those items that were perceived as being > significant in the history of the discipline in question. The Intellec > isn't percieved as being as historically significant as the Altair, hence > the price difference. The Apple 1 is seen as being the birth of a company > that is still significant today, VIC20's are seen less so. TRS-80's are > often seen as the first 'computer for the masses' (even though I would > argue the Apple ][ fit that role as well). Same with me. I realy would like ti get the Intellec, especialy see him running, but Jim has a price in mind, witch is (maybe cut by half) possible to get via eBay, but way out of my reach. The sad thing is that the buyer might only want parts for display, ("look what a nice old machine I have there in my hall" - "Oh, "what is is?" - "Just read, ts written there: Intellec" - "God help, how could they compute with only some lamps and switches?") and will eventualy take the whole configuration apart. > The education process will happen, and probably several people on this list > are in a position to write the books that appraisers and future shoppers > will live by. Consider the person who is born today, and will be in their > 30's in 2033. They get the urge to collect 'historical pre-millenium > computers.' and they will need help. They didn't "live the revolution" as > many of us have, so we have yet another chance to influence things in a > positive way. How could you just sound so positiv ? :) Gruss H. P.S.: I orderes a nice acrylic case this morning. -- Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut HRK

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eVay

by dogas＠leading.net

A broken IMSAI 8080 has shown up on eBay in case anyone is interested... Mike:-dogas@leading.net

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Now quite OT: Re: ePay

by david_a._vandenbroucke＠hud.gov

Aaron says: >>I personally *hate* the proxy bid idea. At least how it works on eBay....The whole fun of an incremental auction is the small jumps in bidding and that soul-searching question you have to ask yourself each time you're outbid: "Do I really want to go a buck higher on that [insert item here]?" << Ah, well, there you go. I don't see auctions as something fun, particularly. I see them as a way to buy things, either things that I can't easily get any other way (such as old computers), or at a price below what I'd pay if I bought it retail. The process isn't a form of recreation for me. I'd prefer that eBay was either sealed auction or restricted to one bid per person, with the high bid being set as now, at an increment over the second highest. --Dav david_a._vandenbroucke(a)hud.gov

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64bit data 128Bit address...Re: Building a Z-80 (64bit!

by franke＠sbs.de

>> "Max Eskin" <maxeskin(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >>> No application _requires_ any number of bits > 1. It's a question of >>> performance. After all, a Z80 could have 512M RAM, just not >>> contiguously (and would probably require a lot of hardware to access >>> it). >> >> OK, then the Z80 system will require 19 bits of address. Sure, >> some of those bits aren't coming directly out of the CPU, but >> they're coming from somewhere. > Actually the figure is 29 bits (it was 512M not 512K) but I agree with you > 100% in principle. > The way I look at it is this: [...] > I therefore see address buses growing at 16 bits every 30 years. That's > just over a bit every 2 years - slower than I expected but not much. > Someone (I forget who) said that memory chips double in capacity every 18 > months. This would give 16 bits in 24 years. Interesting szenario, especialy when connected to the Mores Law (didn't he tell this regarding integration ?). > I claim that the assertion that we'll see even 64-bit address spaces being > used anything like up by 2003 is unfounded. According to that growth rate > above, we will start hitting the limit of 48-bit addressing - 256 TWord - > in the '20s, and the limit of 64-bit addressing, 16 exawords (or exabytes, > possibly), in the '50s (or '40s at 1 bit per 18 months). Many of us will > probably still be alive then (I shall be celebrating my 83rd birthday in > March of 2050 ) Hmm I will have my 88th by then - jets join :) > - and I for one would like to see what sort of technology > will be used to store 16 exabytes in a space smaller than a mountain! The size isn't the real problem - you already get 16 Gig in less than 320 cm^3 (using hard disk technology) which is more than 100 Meg per cm^3, which gives us 100x100x100x100 Meg or 100 Tera per m^3 (Only heat will be a problem, but if we assume that this will shrink by the factor 2 within the next few years, we get enough space for cooling without developing a new technology). 100 Tera are 100x2^40 Bytes so, for 16 exabytes you need 10x2^18 m^3 or 64x64x64x10 m^3 - just the size of a ordinary 160 store skyscraper. Nothing real big - isn't it? - and especialy not a mountain. and if we assume a increasing density by 10 within the next years, it is less than a warehouse. This is all just (near) todays technology - the real problem is the access time .... A wire could come up to 100m between a starage device at the perhipherieal area and a 64 Bit computer in the middle - 100m thats just 1/3.000.000s or 333ns traveling time ... seams we have created some kind of piplineing prior to the CPU :) So, calulating a 1 us round trip time, we just could runn a 4 MHz Z80 ... hmm didn't he ask for 64 Bit Z80 ? (I just left the disc acces time out of calculation, but acording to any information availabel from disk manufacturers the internal caches will eliminate this almost to zero :) Gruss Hans P.S.: for 128 Bit address range we just have to enhance the building by a bit more than 1.000.000 in each direction. Giving a size of 5x128.000.000x128.000.000x128.000.000 m^3 or 5x128.000x128.000x128.000 km^3 compared to volume of earth 20.000x 20.000x 20.000 km^3 (just my memory) And dont forget the traveling time of signals of something like .6 seconds across the cube. -- Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut HRK

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by franke＠sbs.de

> Aw, that guy on the single board computers was slow... he bid a whole 11 > seconds before the end! Yesterday, I had somebody come in 6 seconds before > the end (luckily he didn't outbid, but he cost me money, dammit). Hey, do you want to get a laughter on me ... grrr. :) > We have a saying here in America... "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em". Now, > I never enter a bid until the last possible moment. Not possible at high traffic times over here. Also, I don't need this kind of auctions - eBay would be a real nice idea without snipeing. Gruss H. -- Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut HRK

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Heathkit Advanced weather station backlight problem?

by jimw＠agora.rdrop.com

Greetings all; I've got the Heathkit 'Advanced Weather Station' (it fits the charter: its old and has a Z-80 running it! B^} ) which (still) seems to have the classic problem of blowing fuses (and other things) once or twice a year as the fluorescent tube used for the LCD backlighting ages. There was a rumour that Heath had developed a mod for the power supply to deal with this, but this was also right around the time that Heath was bailing out of the kit business and closing their retail outlets so the staff at the time was much less than interested in trying to track down this information. I've finally got annoyed enough at this recurring ritual, that it is either time to find a fix, or off the thing in favour of a 'Davis' unit (or similar) Anyone out there have the information on this mod? (or can confirm that it never existed?) Thanks; -jim --- jimw(a)agora.rdrop.com The Computer Garage - http://www.rdrop.com/~jimw Computer Garage Fax - (503) 646-0174

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ebay

by jim＠calico.litterbox.com

How to get what you want on e-bay 1. Bid more than anybody else through proxy bidding. This way when somebody else bids, the system will bid you up (to your max) automatically when someone else bids. If you want it bad enough, you can get it, but it may cost you. 2. Learn the fine art of sniping. I live with a longtime e-bay user (my wife) who has the distinction of a 0 second snipe - it came in and was recognised some fraction of a second before the auction closed. She did it manually too. :) There IS sniping software, apparently, too. 3. My wife assures me that EVERYTHING comes around again, btw. Especially computers. She suggests patience. 4. Finally, to avoid heartache from being sniped, don't assume you have a thing until you get the notification you won. Until you get that, the thing isn't yours. -- Jim Strickland jim(a)DIESPAMMERSCUMcalico.litterbox.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Vote Meadocrat! Bill and Opus in 2000 - Who ELSE is there? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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by david_a._vandenbroucke＠hud.gov

I also play and collect board wargames, and for those a major trading center is rec.games.board.marketplace, although eBay is important too. In non-eBay auctions, it's common to use a going, going, gone format, with each step occuring after a couple of _days_ of no bids. That seems a much more reasonable way to make sure that everybody who wants to be heard from has the chance. I do like eBay's system of paying just over the second highest bid, as it lets you bid once and then wait until the end. --Dav david_a._vandenbroucke(a)hud.gov

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TRS-80 Model I

by dogas＠leading.net

I've seen a VOXBOX on eBay (already priced out of my range....alas) Anyone familiar with this equipment? Any anecdotes? -Mike dogas(a)leading.net

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ePay

by kaikal＠MICROSOFT.com

Aw, that guy on the single board computers was slow... he bid a whole 11 seconds before the end! Yesterday, I had somebody come in 6 seconds before the end (luckily he didn't outbid, but he cost me money, dammit). We have a saying here in America... "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em". Now, I never enter a bid until the last possible moment. Kai -----Original Message----- From: Hans Franke [mailto:franke@sbs.de] Sent: Monday, October 26, 1998 10:32 AM To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers Subject: ePay Sigh. I hate it. Sniped just seconds before the end. They should realy change their policy about ending time - these (automatic) snipers are realy not the way it should be. Waaaaaaaaah. Gruss H. sorry to use the list, but I had to cry ... I was happy until 5 minutes ago ... -- Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut HRK

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eBay (aka: ePay, eVay, oyVay, etc...)

by jimw＠agora.rdrop.com

In the catagory of: "it must get worse before it gets better" Starting Saturday (perhaps earlier, but the first that I noticed) eBay has been running radio spots on the national syndicate program feeds. As if there are not already enough (far too many) people out there with excessive $$ to throw around... -jim --- jimw(a)agora.rdrop.com The Computer Garage - http://www.rdrop.com/~jimw Computer Garage Fax - (503) 646-0174

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FW: [HeathKit] HERO Robots for sale

by kaikal＠MICROSOFT.com

Semi-on-topic forward... -----Original Message----- From: John Hagle [mailto:jhagle@netsync.net] Sent: Friday, October 23, 1998 9:43 PM To: heathkit(a)qth.net Subject: [HeathKit] HERO Robots for sale Hi all. I have eight of the robots and an assortment of parts. Some manuals. In fact, at this point I am not sure of what I actually do have. If there is sufficient genuine interest in someone purchasing it all, I will inventory the collection and forward the info so we can negotiate a price that is mutually fair. Reason for sale is that I have insufficient time to do the needed work and programming etc. The joys and perils of being self employed, I guess. Date: 10/23/98 Time: 9:43:17 PM John R. Hagle N2JH ex - AA2GV and WA2SXH 6534 Klondyke Road Ripley, New York 14775 phone: (716) 736-2932 grid - FN02dg Western New York 6 meters thru 1296 --- Submissions heathkit(a)qth.net

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EDSAC celebration?

by franke＠sbs.de

> P.S. IMO history shows that British computer designs are often MUCH more > sensible than their American contemporaries. They treat the computer as a > tool to be used rather than a hunk of hardware with software slapped on later. > Too bad history shows that British computer *sales* are LESS successful than > their American counterparts. Thats not only about the Brits. When it's up for sales, the Americans are just numer 1 (maybe they had just absorbed to many magrebinian shopkeppers/merchants :) I heared a nice quote some time ago: When it comes for a new product, on should place development in Europe, production in Japan and sales in the US. Not so wrong at all Gruss H. -- Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut HRK

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by yakowenk＠cs.unc.edu

] From: Sam Ismail <dastar(a)ncal.verio.com> ] ] SO how long is it before some really enthusiastic hacker creates a 3D ] emulator using a graphics engine like that in DOOM, that allows you to pop ] ... And how long before the machine on which that emulator runs is no longer supported by its manufacturer, and starts breaking down? Well, I suppose by then, state-of-the-art systems will be able to emulate *that* thing faster than the original. Prediction: 100 years from now, pick any random business, and dig into their computer system. You will find that at least some of their software is "legacy code" running under an emulator for some long-forgotten machine. And if you dig further, you will find that at least one such emulator is itself being emulated. Don't be too surprised if the legacy app is IBM 360 code running under an emulator written for a Wintel x86 box, and the x86 box is being emulated by... maybe a Java (non-virtual) machine? Cheerful thought for the day: someday the Wintel x86 platform will be long-forgotten. :-) My $0.02, the original hardware pushes all of my motivation buttons harder than an emulator could. Nostalgia, Revenge, Education, Preservationism, Usability, Money; only usability *might* be completely satisfied by an emulator. Of course, the emulator pushes those buttons harder than a complete void would. In an odd way, an emulator could hit the Money button better than the original hardware: although it doesn't have higher resale value, it should be cheaper to obtain. But this was about which you'd rather have, not which you were more likely to succeed in getting, right? So maybe the real thing wins on the Money button as well. Hmm. It seems the emulator would push the motivation buttons for when NOT to collect, better than the real hardware would: Cost, Space, Noise, Breakdowns (for us software geeks, those are not exactly fun), Transportation, and Spousal discord; all the things associated with having physical STUFF. Bill.

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by JRichardson＠softwright.co.uk

>> What the heck are you compiling that requires over 500M of RAM during the >> compilation step? Netscape? I can't even conceive of something that >>large. well we had a Java application that ran to 1.5 million lines of code (OK, the definition of a 'line of code' is somewhat flexible, but you get my point), and that would chew up somewhere around 500MB in order to build (this was about 16 months ago; my memory's hazy on the exact amount). luckily only about 30,000 lines of that were hand-written, we built a code generator to do the rest :) cheers Jules

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by roblwill＠usaor.net

I found that out. I was talking to the comp.tech guy at my school last week about getting a copy. He told me he'd be able to get me the new version for $50. Shows just how full of bull @#$% he is. Although he's the same guy that gave me a Tandy 1000TL because the "hard drive was shot". The power cable wasn't connected to it <g> -- -Jason (roblwill(a)usaor.net) ICQ#-1730318 ---------- > From: Sam Ismail <dastar(a)ncal.verio.com> > To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu> > Subject: Re: TRS-80 emulators > Date: Thursday, October 22, 1998 9:14 PM > > On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, Jason Willgruber wrote: > > > Actually, Tim Mann's TRS-80 page is where I got the disk images. I was > > going to get xtrs, but I don't have Linux (nor do I have the money to get > > it). I have an emulator that'll run in DOS, but won't recognise the file > > Linux? Money? Heheheh. What stone have you've been hiding under junior? > > LINUX IS FREEE, MAN! > > Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- > Ever onward. > > Coming in 1999: Vintage Computer Festival 3.0 > See http://www.vintage.org/vcf for details! > [Last web site update: 09/21/98] >

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by Philip.Belben＠pgen.com

> Speaking of A-F keys, does anyone here use any of the alternative > keyboards available for PC XTs and ATs? I'm curious if anyone has > ever seen the IrmaKey/3270 (IIRC) keyboards. They must have something > like 130 keys, but I have no idea how to program the macro keys. > Anyone know? I never saw a special keyboard for Irma. The IBM 3270-PC had a special cable with 3 connectors. One for the 3270 card, one for the keyboard port on the motherboard and one for the keyboard itself. The 3270 card trapped most of the extra keys. ISTR that Autocad had extra keypads and things that you could get for use alongside the PC keyboard, but I have no idea how they worked. Extra port I imagine. Philip.

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64bit data 128Bit address...Re: Building a Z-80 (64bit!!!)

by Philip.Belben＠pgen.com

> "Max Eskin" <maxeskin(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >> No application _requires_ any number of bits > 1. It's a question of >> performance. After all, a Z80 could have 512M RAM, just not >> contiguously (and would probably require a lot of hardware to access >> it). > > OK, then the Z80 system will require 19 bits of address. Sure, some of those > bits aren't coming directly out of the CPU, but they're coming from > somewhere. Actually the figure is 29 bits (it was 512M not 512K) but I agree with you 100% in principle. The way I look at it is this: Memory sizes are growing exponentially. So address bus widths can be expected to grow linearly. It has taken roughly 30 years between 64K words or bytes getting tight (early '70s, DEC up the Unibus from 16 bit addressing to 18 bit, but there's probably an example >from the late '60s) and now, when the 4 GWord or GByte address space of 32 bit addressing looks like it might get tight. (Note this is on small computers. On large computers, I'd estimate 10 years earlier in each case.) I therefore see address buses growing at 16 bits every 30 years. That's just over a bit every 2 years - slower than I expected but not much. Someone (I forget who) said that memory chips double in capacity every 18 months. This would give 16 bits in 24 years. I claim that the assertion that we'll see even 64-bit address spaces being used anything like up by 2003 is unfounded. According to that growth rate above, we will start hitting the limit of 48-bit addressing - 256 TWord - in the '20s, and the limit of 64-bit addressing, 16 exawords (or exabytes, possibly), in the '50s (or '40s at 1 bit per 18 months). Many of us will probably still be alive then (I shall be celebrating my 83rd birthday in March of 2050) - and I for one would like to see what sort of technology will be used to store 16 exabytes in a space smaller than a mountain! Philip.

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Analog computer manuals available

by dcoward＠pressstart.com

Someone a while back mention that Heath's manual replacement service no longer carries manuals for the EC-1 computer. On a lark I decided to check if they carry manuals for Heath's original analog computer, the ES-400, introduced in 1956. They do! Here's a picture to refresh your memory. http://www.sou.edu/biology/analog.html#EAC If you went to VCF 2 and joined the tour of the Computer History Center's visual storage, you would have been able to touch one. I got these model numbers out of the 1959 catalog. So here are the model numbers and prices of the manuals that I know that Heathkit has: $35 ES-400 Cabinet and Front Panel $25 ES-201 DC Amplifier (the op-amps on top of the cabinet) $25 ES-100 Initial Condition Power Supply $25 ES-2 Amplifier Power Supply $20 ES-50 Reference Power Supply $20 ES-151 Relay Power Supply I received the last three, a week ago, and was extremely surprised to find that they had sent me original manuals and not copies. They told me that it was not a mistake, they had extra manuals. These 3 1960 manuals look just like new. I'm still searching for the Operations Manual for this computer. ========================================= Doug Coward Press Start Inc. Sunnyvale,CA =========================================

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Acron (was:Re: Educational subsidies)

by franke＠sbs.de

>> Slashdot.org has a story explaining that the UK school system can't >> afford NT 5 and are considering another OS. In light of this, people >> were bringing up Apple's success in schools in contrast to the current >> situation. > I thought that Acorn dominated the UK school system? Perhaps I heard > wrong. And speaking of Acorn - If I'm right informed they have just descided to stop building RISC-PCs - end of one more independant line of computers. I belive the last with roots in the 80s, and the last beside Apple. Or is there any other non Win/Intel/IBM manufacturer (beside Apple) for the consumer/non niche market manufacturer left ? Gruss H. -- Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut HRK

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eVay

by franke＠sbs.de

>> There's also an Altair case (supposed to be like new) starting at $100 on there > I have been curious about what the January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics > would bring on ebay, and now we can all find out. Current price is $40.61 > and it will close at 21:20 PDT. The URL for anyone interested is > http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=37472905. I would > think that the Jan and Feb issues would be a bit more desireable, or for > that matter, all of the 1975, 1976, 1977, and maybe later volumes. Geeeee - I should sell any of my old issues on eVay - and some I even have tripple. Gruss H. (future millionaire) -- Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut HRK

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Microvaxen bits etc.

by dburrows＠netpath.net

>Any Aussies out there know a good place to look for an ethernet adapter >that will fit a Microvax II? I have a nice machine, complete with VMS 5.4, >freshly rescued from a scrap metal yard, but it has no network adapter. For your ref. the delqa is a M7516 and add -YM for the "turbo" version. I just checked the DDA for any listed in Australia and none are listed. If you want I will go through the subscriber list and find some for you. >While I'm at it, AUI-10Base2(or t) transceivers are also getting rare, >(around here anyway) since I have a Vax 6220 in need as well, any good >sources? >S/H preferred. I'd like 2 or 3 if possible. I know it doesn't help much for shipping concerns but Datacom Warehouse carries them for about $25 either 10base2 or 10baset. www.warehouse.com >BTW, Huw, did you ever come across a source for a Vax 8530-Console cable? >(With that subject line, I just know you'll read this!) Which console cable are you looking for? I may have one. Dan Burrows 336-376-0468 dburrows(a)netpath.net

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bit addressing, alignment, bus errors, and VM (was Re: PDP-10 arch question)

by Philip.Belben＠pgen.com

> Incidentally, a quick quiz. Assuming all the virtual address space was > physical memory and you wanted to make a copy onto a disk drive > (32 Trillion Bytes - we didn't even have GigaBytes back in 1972, let alone > TeraBytes), how long would a sustained WRITE at 1 MByte/second take? > Hint: Answer should be in ONE digit of precision along with a time interval. > Eager beavers who want to give us 8 significant figures of precision > are disqualified. Just over 1 year Just under 400 days Quite a bit under 60 weeks Just under 13 months ... oops, that was 2 sig. figs. Rather more than 10 months then. If you want even sillier units, and at the risk of reviving an off-topic debate, rather more than 30 megaseconds. Could these disks do a megabyte per second in 1972? Sounds rather fast to me... Philip.

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11/70 front panel

by CLASSICCMP＠trailing-edge.com

> > What you probably have is the 11/70 Remote Diagnostic Console > > which allowed DEC to remotely diagnose the 11/70 (even when hung > > in a microcode loop or power fail routine) from Colorado. >Yes. It's the RDC console. I forgot the term. They both still have >their modems in the racks (but the yahoos from maintenance cut the lines >going in :-P ) Technically, the modem and the certain bits of the RDC could never be owned by the customer; these were always the property of Digital and the customer was forced to lease (well, the number was rolled into the field service contract.) When the field service contract ended, Digital was supposed to come remove these bits and reinstall the "real" front panel, but often neglected to do so. Tim.

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Microvaxen bits etc.

by geoffrob＠stmarks.pp.catholic.edu.au

-----Original Message----- From: Jim Strickland <jim(a)calico.litterbox.com> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu> Date: Monday, 26 October 1998 20:07 Subject: Re: Microvaxen bits etc. >When last I looked - and this was 1993 or so - you could still buy the ethernet >interfaces for uVAX IIs from used system dealers. Dealers in things Digital are scarce around here. That's part of the problem. > Whatever you do, don't get stuck with a deqna board. Nothing after VMS 5.3 supports them. Ah. Ok, thanks for that. >You want a delqa or delqa YM board. The YM is the high performance version of >the delqa. In 1993 they cost about 300 bucks(US) a whack Ok, I'll try for one of those. Thank you. >They're probably more or less worthless now. *sigh* :) A$400 a tonne. At selected "Hi-Tech" scrap yards. FWIW, I got the MVII, plus 2 VS4000's, (a 90 & a 60), a swag of RZ55's, couple TK50's, couple VT220 & 320 terms a DS3100, a VS3100/M38, 2 Data General 88000 based Aviions running DGUX 5.4 V3.10 (Sys 5 R4 + bits of BSD) and 2 Interpro 19" Colour RGBHV monitors for $160. Plus sundry keyboards etc. The MVII and a couple of the VS still have VMS 5.4 or 5.5 on them. (A small cluster is in the works :^) Cheers Geoff Roberts Computer Systems Manager Saint Marks College Port Pirie South Australia. My ICQ# is 1970476 Ph. 61-411-623-978 (Mobile) 61-8-8633-0619 (Home) 61-8-8633-8834 (Work-Direct) 61-8-8633-0104 (Fax)

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by geoffrob＠stmarks.pp.catholic.edu.au

Hi all, Any Aussies out there know a good place to look for an ethernet adapter that will fit a Microvax II? I have a nice machine, complete with VMS 5.4, freshly rescued from a scrap metal yard, but it has no network adapter. While I'm at it, AUI-10Base2(or t) transceivers are also getting rare, (around here anyway) since I have a Vax 6220 in need as well, any good sources? S/H preferred. I'd like 2 or 3 if possible. BTW, Huw, did you ever come across a source for a Vax 8530-Console cable? (With that subject line, I just know you'll read this!) You mentioned some time back that you might know where one was. The Pro380 console for it now has a new hard disk, with the console software successfully installed, it just needs a cable to make the poor old beast functional. (Backplane permitting) I see what you mean about the backplane too. Geoff Roberts Computer Systems Manager Saint Marks College Port Pirie South Australia. My ICQ# is 1970476 Ph. 61-411-623-978 (Mobile) 61-8-8633-0619 (Home) 61-8-8633-8834 (Work-Direct) 61-8-8633-0104 (Fax)

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Emulation or the real thing?

by H.Davies＠latrobe.edu.au

At 12:14 PM 21-10-98 -0700, Sam Ismail wrote: >On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, John Foust wrote: > >> This reminds me of a claim I hear in Y2K discussions, but can hardly >> believe: that businesses are running the same *executables* since >> the 1950s/60s/70s, and that they don't have the source code to fix it. Well, here is an edited directory listing from our main VMS cluster: MPCASM.DOC;1 24-NOV-1980 16:33:05.00 MPCASM.EXE;1 24-NOV-1980 16:33:06.00 TEKLIB.OLB;1 24-NOV-1980 16:33:14.66 Now the hardware is considerably newer than the files, but I can guarantee that I don't have the sources for these. (MPCASM is an assembler for a 6800 and TEKLIB is a library for Tektronix 4010 terminals...). Huw Davies | e-mail: Huw.Davies(a)latrobe.edu.au Information Technology Services | Phone: +61 3 9479 1550 Fax: +61 3 9479 1999 La Trobe University | "If God had wanted soccer played in the Melbourne Australia 3083 | air, the sky would be painted green"

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discrete transistors

by allisonp＠world.std.com

< As far as I know, no x86 or 68xxx processor has ever had any degree of < fault tolerance withing the chip, where it is needed. Getting it externa Big time problem. Fault detection and instruction resequencing arent there. That makes even a simple parity error in ram unmanageable. < Most mainframes, even ones from the 1960s, have error checking throughou < the entire system - even in the paths between the registers and ALU. If I was told a story about an old 700 series where the cooling water for the rooms chiller found a leak. The leak was in the hundreds of gallons a minute rate. Oh, the 700 series is a vacuum tube machine so the under floor cable troughs have data and power cables galore. Seems the machine was still running fine when water started gushing out the bottom pannels of the racks. All the interconnection cables and PS units were soaked and it still ran! They shut down, fixed the pipe and dried the room and fired everything back up no problem. It was a general presumption that the machines due to the large number of parts would be unreliable. The designs were robust to say the least and in practice they were reliable, often far better than predicted. < something goes wrong, like a gate goes into a "stuck at" condition, the < redundant circuits and error correctors will jump into action and < processing will not stop. Most machines will call home and have Fault tolerence is an art in itself. Allison

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11/70 front panel

by pechter＠shell.monmouth.com

> Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 09:15:43 -0400 (EDT) > From: Ethan Dicks <erd(a)infinet.com> > To: classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu > Subject: PDP-11/70 rescued! > Message-ID: <199810231315.JAA24826(a)user2.infinet.com> > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > > The Computer Quonset Hut has its first aquisition - a pair of PDP-11/70's > with peripherals. Lucky guy. > My biggest disappointment is that the CPUs have the corporate front panel, > not the programmer's front panel. Anyone have a spare front panel they > want to trade? ;-) Actually the panel is better in some ways (except looks) than the 11/70 front panel. I do prefer the DECdatasystem 570 (I think) 11/70 blue corporate cabinet front panel for style. (The 11/74 used almost the same front panel -- YES I did work with an 11/74 in DEC Princeton... They did exist... The "programmer's" front panel doesn't exist for the PDP11/70. What you probably have is the 11/70 Remote Diagnostic Console which allowed DEC to remotely diagnose the 11/70 (even when hung in a microcode loop or power fail routine) from Colorado. The front panel hooks to a microprocessor controlled card which interfaced to a 300 or 1200/300 baud DEC or Racal Vadic modem (in auto answer mode) when the key is in remote. Colorado would run a diagnostic chain, examine the bus, read error logs etc. > > -ethan > > P.S. ISTR that PDP-11/70's and VAX-11/750's use the same hex-height 39-bit > ECC memory boards. Is this true? I know that 750's had 256K and 1Mb > boards (and eventually 4Mb boards), but every jump up required a new > memory controller (and backplane wires ;-) What's the scoop on the 11/70? They do use the same ones... I don't think the 11/70 supported more than the 256k MS-11K boards, though. Bill ex-DEC Field Service...

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Bid list

by dburrows＠netpath.net

If anyone else wants to bid on the list please get them to by 9:00 in the morning (EST). I will respond with a copy of what I have to submit with everyone's name on their group of items. Please check your section and part # to be sure they are correct. To keep peace with the family I can't respond anymore tonight. Thanks Dan

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TRS-80 Model I

by maxeskin＠hotmail.com

>Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 23:33:33 +0000 (GMT) >Reply-To: classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu >From: ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell) >To: "Discussion re-collecting of classic computers" <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu> >Subject: Re: TRS-80 Model I > >> When I was a kid I tho't that the keypad was incredibly lame because it >> didn't have a comma key. The only thing I would ever use it for would have > >And I didn't like it because it didn't have A-F on it. Once a machine >code programmer, always a machine code programmer and all that :-) > >That's why I never bought the keypad for my original Model 1. > >-tony > > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

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TRS-80 Model I

by maxeskin＠hotmail.com

Speaking of A-F keys, does anyone here use any of the alternative keyboards available for PC XTs and ATs? I'm curious if anyone has ever seen the IrmaKey/3270 (IIRC) keyboards. They must have something like 130 keys, but I have no idea how to program the macro keys. Anyone know? > >> When I was a kid I tho't that the keypad was incredibly lame because it >> didn't have a comma key. The only thing I would ever use it for would have > >And I didn't like it because it didn't have A-F on it. Once a machine >code programmer, always a machine code programmer and all that :-) > >That's why I never bought the keypad for my original Model 1. > >-tony > > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

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TRS-80 emulators

by fauradon＠pclink.com

There are some distributions that are sold for $50 but they usually include book and phone support plus some sort of installation program Francois ------------------------------------------------------------- Visit the desperately in need of update Sanctuary at: http://www.pclink.com/fauradon -----Original Message----- From: Jason Willgruber <roblwill(a)usaor.net> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu> Date: Thursday, October 22, 1998 9:11 PM Subject: Re: TRS-80 emulators >I found that out. I was talking to the comp.tech guy at my school last >week about getting a copy. He told me he'd be able to get me the new >version for $50. > >Shows just how full of bull @#$% he is. > >Although he's the same guy that gave me a Tandy 1000TL because the "hard >drive was shot". The power cable wasn't connected to it <g> >-- > -Jason >(roblwill(a)usaor.net) > ICQ#-1730318 > >---------- >> From: Sam Ismail <dastar(a)ncal.verio.com> >> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers ><classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu> >> Subject: Re: TRS-80 emulators >> Date: Thursday, October 22, 1998 9:14 PM >> >> On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, Jason Willgruber wrote: >> >> > Actually, Tim Mann's TRS-80 page is where I got the disk images. I was >> > going to get xtrs, but I don't have Linux (nor do I have the money to >get >> > it). I have an emulator that'll run in DOS, but won't recognise the >file >> >> Linux? Money? Heheheh. What stone have you've been hiding under >junior? >> >> LINUX IS FREEE, MAN! >> >> Sellam Alternate e-mail: >dastar(a)siconic.com >> >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- - >--- >> Ever onward. >> >> Coming in 1999: Vintage Computer Festival 3.0 >> See http://www.vintage.org/vcf for details! >> [Last web site update: 09/21/98] >> >

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TRS-80 Model I

by allisonp＠world.std.com

< Anyone know how many of the TRS-80 model I computers were made without t < numeric keypad? I remember a discussion a year or so ago where someone < the UK was looking specifically for one without the keypad. In checkin < through my collection, I only found one without the keypad, and am just < curious. Quite a few, I'd speculate over 50,000 for sure. The keypad was an option that was very frequently added though so many originals were keypadded, LII'd and 16k'd. It's rare to see a stock TRS80 that hasn't had factory and customer mods. Other common mods to the base console: * Lovercase chars, (add a 2102 and a jumper, etch cut). +++started as customer mod, then DEPOT repair mod.+++ * ^(CTRL) key so ^C and other characters could be done. ===Customer mod. * Cassette load mod, small board with 4040 counter and a gate to prevent cload hang under LII. +++Depot repair, factory LII mod+++ * CPU clock speed up (bump the clock from 1.7mhz to 3.4mhz). ===customer mod. Some companies also sold some of these mods as kits. Allison

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DEC VAX 6220

by mbg＠world.std.com

Folks - apparently this unit (may or may not have disks - the person who posted about it is unsure) may be trashed if not spoken for by monday... 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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wanted: sheet feeder for HP ScanJet 3c

by eric＠brouhaha.com

OK, so it's not ten years old and therefore it isn't a classic. But I use my ScanJet 3C to scan documents *about* classic computers, and make them available on the web. For instance, the PDP-10 documentation at http://www.36bit.org/ So if anyone has an ADF (sheet feeder) that they're willing to sell, please let me know. The one HP intended for it was the C2525A, but I think the C2525B (for ScanJet 4C) and C6265A (for ScanJet 6100C) will work as well. Also, the C1751A (for the ScanJet IIc & IIcx) might work. Thanks! Eric

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TRS-80 Model I

by CLASSICCMP＠trailing-edge.com

> Gradually I learned to use the pesky number keys at the top of the keyboard > and ignored the numeric pad completely. Even today I ignore the numeric pads > because they don't have comma keys on them. What happens when you come across the One True Keyboard (VT100) or its descendants, which do have a comma on the keyboard like god intended? There's even a DEC keyboard - the LK250 - which has a comma on the keypad and works on PC-clones. Tim.

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